Shares in technology firm Silex Microsystems begin trading today, May 7, on Nasdaq Stockholm. The offering attracted significant interest from Swedish and international institutional investors, as well as the general public in Sweden and Finland. The offering was oversubscribed several times over.
The subscription price was set in advance at SEK 81 per share, corresponding to a post-money valuation of SEK 8.9 billion for all shares in the company.
The offering comprised 24.60 million shares, consisting of 12.35 million newly issued shares and 12.25 million existing shares.
The new share issue provides Silex with gross proceeds of SEK 1.0 billion before transaction costs of SEK 65 million.
The total value of the offering amounted to SEK 2.0 billion. In connection with the IPO, Silex welcomes 14,000 new shareholders to the company.
Cornerstone investors include Creades, AFA Försäkring, AP3, Capital Research Global Investors, Swedbank Robur Fonder, AP4, AP2, Fidelity International, and Carnegie Fonder, who together subscribed for shares totaling SEK 1.5 billion.
Creades publ AB is a Sweden-based investment company. The Company invests in small and medium-sized Swedish companies with objective to create value through development and restructuring. As of February 22, 2012, the Company’s portfolio consisted primarily of listed shares (60%) and unlisted shares (30%). As of February 21, 2012, the Company’s portfolio included shares of such listed companies, as Avanza Bank (29%), Concentric (8%), Haldex (7%), Bilia (6%), Lindab International (4%), eWork Scandinavia (3%), as well as such unlisted companies, as Carnegie (12%), Klarna (6%), GLOBAL Betterier (3%) and Acne Jeans (3%), among others. As of December 31, 2011, the Company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Investment AB Oresund. In July 2013, 30% of the Company's net asset value was transferred to Sedarec AB.
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