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Under the government’s successful, ‘Privatisation for the People’ program, the
Privatisation Commission is offering 21,505,000 shares in Oil and Gas
Development Company Limited (“OGDCL”) to Pakistani citizens. This offer will
constitute the retail tranche of the Government of Pakistan’s (“GoP”) sale of
OGDCL shares, following the sale of 408,588,000 shares to foreign and domestic
institutions. The retail offer will be on a fixed price subscription basis,
with the offer price set at Rs. 110/- per share, including a premium of Rs.
100/- per share. The retail offer price represents an effective discount of
almost 3% to the institutional offer price (Rs. 115/- per share) after
adjusting for the Company’s first quarter dividend payment of Rs. 1.75 per
share, which will not be available to participants in the retail offering. The
subscription for the retail offering will occur during banking hours starting
from January 11, 2007 and ending on January 13, 2007. If required, balloting
to determine successful applicants will take place on January 23, 2007, with
final allocations announced soon thereafter.
Full details of the application process can be obtained from the Offer For
Sale Document (OFSD), all potential investors should scrutinise this closely
before deciding to invest. A summary of the subscription guidelines has been
outlined below:
The Retail Offer is open for Pakistani citizens resident in Pakistan,
Companies, bodies corporate or other legal entities incorporated or
established in Pakistan (to the extent permitted by their constitutive
documents and existing regulations as the case may be),
Provident/pension/gratuity funds/trusts (subject to the terms of their Trust
Deed and existing regulations) and Branches in Pakistan of companies and
bodies corporate incorporated outside Pakistan
Copies of the OFSD and application forms can be obtained from members of the
Karachi Stock Exchange, Lahore Stock Exchange and Islamabad Stock Exchange,
BMA Capital, the registered office of OGDCL, and the any branch of 12 banks
i.e. Allied Bank Limited, MCB Bank Limited, Askari Commercial Bank limited,
National Bank of Pakistan Limited, Bank Alfalah Limited, PICIC Commercial Bank
Limited, Bank Al-Habib Limited, Standard Chartered Bank, Faysal Bank Limited,
The Bank of Punjab Limited, Habib Bank Limited and United Bank Limited. The
Offer for Sale and application forms can also be downloaded from the websites
of www.privatisation.gov.pk , www.ogdcl.com and www.bmacapital.com/ogdcl/ .
The application forms can also be obtained from issues of the leading Urdu and
English national dailies published on December 30, 2006.
In the case of individual investors, an attested copy of Computerised National
Identity Card (CNIC) should be enclosed and the NIC number indicated against
the name of applicant. Copies of CNIC can be attested by any
Federal/Provincial Government gazetted officer, Councillor, Bank Manager, Oath
Commissioner or Head Master of High School etc. Original CNIC, along with one
attested photocopy, must be produced for verification to the bank at the time
of presenting an application. The attested photocopy will, after verification,
be retained by the bank branch along with the application.
Only one application will be accepted against each account. In case of joint
accounts, one application will be accepted in the name of each of the joint
account holders. Joint applications by more than four persons shall not be
accepted. Subscription money must be paid by cheque drawn on the applicant's
own account payable to one of the bankers to the offer “A/c Offer for sale of
OGDCL’s shares by Government of Pakistan” and crossed “A/c Payee only” and
must be drawn on a bank in the same town as the bank through which the
application has been made.
All applications must bear the signature and address corresponding with that
recorded with the bank in the applicant's account. Applicants should ensure
that the bank branch, on which their payment is made, completes the relevant
portion on the application form.
This offer is being made at a price of Rs. 110/- per ordinary share of Rs.
10/- each, inclusive of a premium of Rs. 100/- per share, but excluding the
share transfer fee, which is to be borne by the applicant at 15 paisa per
share in case of physical transfer and 1 paisa per share in the case of
transfer under book entry system. Application for shares must be made for 500
shares or in multiples of 500 shares only. Applications, which are neither for
500 shares nor for multiples of 500 shares, shall be rejected.
The minimum amount of application for subscription of 500 shares is Rs.
55,075/- in case of physical transfer and Rs. 55,005/- in case of transfer
under book entry system. Applications below the value of Rs. 55,075/- in case
of physical transfer and Rs. 55,005/- in case of transfer under book entry
system shall not be entertained. Allotment of shares shall be subject to
scrutiny of applications for subscription. Applications, which do not meet
with the above requirements, or applications which are incomplete, will be
rejected. Fictitious and multiple applications are prohibited and such
application money shall be liable to confiscation under Section 18-A of the
Securities and Exchange Ordinance, 1969.