Equiniti to raise £390m in flotation

British technology firm Equiniti Group, which provides share registration and investor services to companies, said it planned to raise £390m by listing on the London stock market this month.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Oct 2015, 16:09 BST

Equiniti said gross proceeds from the initial public offering (IPO) would be used to repay part of its bank debt and pay for certain transaction, tax and other financing related costs arising as a result of the listing. It did not say how much of the company it planned to float.

The firm provides share registration services to about 70 of the companies in the FTSE 100 and also administration of employee share plans, pensions administration and software.

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It said it made adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of £82m in the year to the end of June, on revenue of £350m.

It said it would target having net debt of about 3.25 times its 2015 earnings by the end of this year.

The company was formed as a stand-alone group in 2007 after being carved out from Lloyds TSB – now part of Lloyds Banking Group, and is about 85 per cent owned by private equity firm Advent International.

Equiniti said Advent could sell shares in the offer, as could directors of the company and other investors.

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