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Aramco pursues IPO with local listing plan as lines up banks — sources
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 09 - 09 - 2019

Saudi Arabia plans a gradual listing of Aramco on its domestic market, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, as it finalizes the roles banks will play in the initial public offering (IPO) of the world's biggest oil company.
The Kingdom intends to list 1% of the state oil giant on the Riyadh stock exchange before the end of this year and another 1% in 2020, the sources said, as initial steps ahead of a public sale of around 5% of Aramco.
Based on the indicated $2 trillion valuation that Saudi Aramco had hoped to achieve, a 1% float would be worth $20 billion, a huge milestone for the local stock market.
Aramco's flotation, which could be the world's biggest IPO, is key to raise money for Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman's plans to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil revenues and has rapidly regained momentum over the past few days.
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said on Monday Saudi Arabia was aiming for the Aramco IPO "as soon as possible", speaking on the issue for the first time since replacing Khalid Al-Falih at the ministry.
The Kingdom has geared up to fast-track the IPO by bringing in the head of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Yassir Al-Rumayyan, who was recently named Aramco chairman and leads an executive committee overseeing the plans.
Aramco is finalizing the list of banks that will manage the deal, with mandates expected in the coming days, sources said.
JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and National Commercial Bank are expected to have lead roles and Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and Samba Financial Bank will likely be added to the list of banks managing the transaction, one of the sources said.
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and HSBC were chosen to play a leading role before the process was halted last year.
Aramco, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and JPMorgan declined to comment, while Citi, Samba, Morgan Stanley and National Commercial Bank did not respond to requests for comment.
Should Aramco's local listing plans proceed, international banks would be tasked with promoting it to international investors looking to buy shares on the Saudi exchange Tadawul, the Middle East's largest bourse.
The exact timing of the listing on Tadawul has not yet been decided, the sources said, although one added that it might be announced at a major annual investment conference in Riyadh scheduled for the end of October.
It is also not clear yet on which international exchange Aramco would list. Aramco raised $12 billion this year in its first international bond, gaining more than $100 billion in demand. Many saw that deal as a pre-IPO relationship-building exercise with international investors.
The debt sale was expected to help fund Aramco's $69.1 billion acquisition of a 70% stake in petrochemicals firm Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, a deal that many saw as a transfer of government funds aimed at boosting the Saudi Crown Prince's economic agenda. — Reuters


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