IPO

Source Money Control

 

• Abridged Prospectus
• Add on offering
• Aftermarket
• Annual General Meeting (AGM)
• Auditor
• Authorised Capital
• Bankers to the Issue
• Basis of Allocation/Basis of Allotment
• Bonus Issues
• Book Building
• Book Running Lead Manager (BRLM)
• Bought Out Deal
• Brokerage
• Brokers
• Calendar
• Cancellation
• Co-Manager
• Conditional Offer
• Cut off Price
• Differential pricing
• Direct Public Offerings
• Draft Offer document
• Effective Date
• External Risk Factors
• Filing
• Firm Allotment
• Flipping
• Follow on public offering (FPO)
• Go Public
• Green Shoe
• Hard underwriting
• Holding Company
• IPO
• Issue Price

• Issuer
• Joint Applications
• Lead Underwriter
• Listing
• Lock-in
• Minimum Subscription
• National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL)
• Net Offer
• New Issue
• Offer Date
• Offer document
• Offering Price
• Overallotment
• Oversubscribed
• Oversubscription
• Paid Up capital
• Pipeline
• Preferential Shares
• Price Range
• Red Herring
• Registrar
• Retail Individual Investor
• Rights Issue
• Risk Factors
• Road Show
• Secondary Offering
• Selling Group
• Shareholder
• Treasury Stock
• Underwriter
• Underwriting Commission
• Venture Capital
• Withdrawal

 

FAQs:

• Can a retail investor also bid in a book-built issue?
• Can I apply for the IPO online?
• Can I change/revise my bid?
• Can I know the number of shares that would be allotted to me?
• Does it mean that SEBI recommends an issue?
• Does SEBI approve the contents of the issue?
• Does SEBI tag make my money safe?
• Does SEBI tag make my money safe?
• Having applied for an IPO how can I know my allotment status?
• How do I interpret the IPO Grades?
• How do I know if I am allotted the shares? And by what timeframe will I get a refund if I am not allotted?
• How does Book Building work?
• How does one come to know about the issues on offer? And from where can I get copies of the draft offer document?
• How does SEBI ensure compliance with Disclosures and Investor protection?
• How is the Retail Investor defined as?
• How long will it take after the issue for the shares to get listed?
• How many days is the issue open?
• How the word Promoter has been defined?
• Is grading optional?
• Is it compulsory for me to fill up the registration form?
• Is it compulsory for me to have a Demat Account?
• Is it possible to enter bids less than floor price?
• Is the issue price for placement portion and net offer to public the same?
• Is there any preference while doing the allotment?
• What are Disclosures and Investor protection guidelines?
• What are Legal and other information?
• What are Risk Factors?
• What are the dos and don’ts for bidding / applying in the issue?
• What are the relevant regulations and where do I find them?
• What does one mean by Lock-in?
• What does “price discovery through book building process” mean?
• What is a Cut Off Price?
• What is a draft prospectus?
• What is a Financial Statements?
• What is a Follow on Public Offering?
• What is a Green-shoe Option?
• What is a Preferential Issue?
• What is a price band?
• What is a Red Herring Prospectus?
• What is a Rights Issue?
• What is About us?
• What is an Abridged Prospectus?
• What is an e-IPO?
• What is an Initial Public Offering?
• What is an Introduction?
• What is an IPO?
• What is Basis of Allocation/Basis of Allotment?
• What is Differential pricing?
• What is firm allotment?
• What is Fixed Price offers?
• What is Hard underwriting?
• What is minimum number of days for which bid should remain open in book building?
• What is Open book/closed book?
• What is reservation on competitive basis?
• What is Safety Net?
• What is SEBI’s Role in an Issue?
• What is Soft underwriting?
• What is the amount of faith that I can lay on the contents of the documents? And whom should I approach if there are any lacunae?
• What is the difference between an offer document, Red Herring Prospectus, a prospectus and an abridged prospectus? What does it mean when someone says “draft offer doc”?
• What is the difference between ”Block deal’ and ‘Bulk deal’?
• What is the main difference between offer of shares through book building and offer of shares through normal public issue?
• What is the minimum application money I need to pay?
• What is the procedure for getting a demat account?
• What is the recourse available to the investor in case of issue complaints?
• What is the role of a Lead Manager? (pre and post issue)
• What is the role of a registrar?
• What is the role of bankers to the issue?
• What is the role of SEBI in IPO grading exercise?
• What is ‘IPO Grading’?
• What proof can bidder request from a trading member or a syndicate member for entering bids?
• Where can I get a form for applying/ bidding for the shares?
• Where do I get data on primary issues? (issuer, total issues, issue size, the intermediaries, etc., during a given period)
• Which are the reliable sources for me to get information about response to issues?
• Which members will be allowed to participate in book building of issue?
• Who are the intermediaries in an issue?
• Who decides the price band?
• Who decides the price of an issue?
• Who is a Syndicate Member?
• Who is eligible for reservation and how much? (QIBs, NIIs, etc.,)
• Who is eligible to be a BRLM?
• Who is Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIBs)?
• With the presence of the Central Listing Authority, what would be the role of SEBI in the processing of Offer documents for an issue?