Samvardhana Motherson International Limited (SAMIL) priced its First Dual Investment Grade USD bonds at $350 million in a Debt-Neutral Transaction.
"Samvardhana Motherson International Limited (SAMIL) priced its First Dual Investment Grade USD bonds at $350 million in a Debt-Neutral Transaction. The fund raised through the issuance of Notes marks the Motherson Group's return to the US$ bond market after eight years and the first time it has received a dual investment grade rating from two reputed international credit rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch.
The issue garnered very strong interest from a diverse set of global marquee investors with a peak order book in excess of US$2.2 billion, demonstrating an oversubscription of 6 times the issue size. This reflects the confidence of the global investor community in the credit profile and strength of the underlying business of the Motherson Group.
The issue resulted in diversification of the debt investor base, with over 96% allocations made to asset managers, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds and the balance to banks / private banks / other accounts. The transaction saw balanced participation from investors across regions—Asia 40%, EMEA 38%, and North America 22%.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to our investors and rating agencies for their trust in us. We also deeply appreciate the hard work of our teams: Kunal Malani, Rahul Saini, Aman S.Chawla, Ankur Bansal, Shreya Somani, CFA, Dhwani Bheda, Divyam Sharma, Dilip Jain, Nitasha Sharma, Anubhav Kapoor, Vipin Jain, Akshay Gupta, Rajan Batra, Gaurav Arora, Sanjay Aggarwal, Barrie Painter, Rahul Deep, Gaurav Gulati, Akriti Pahuja, Arpana Vishwakarma, Piyush Tulsian, Jitender Mahajan, Alok Goel, Arjun Bhattacharya, Patrick Rehlein, Ajaya Chetri. We thank the banks and lawyers, without whom this success would not have been possible: BNP Paribas, Citi, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, MUFG, DBS Bank, Standard Chartered"