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Sebi proposes new norms for public issue of REITs

The final norms will be put in place after taking into account public comments till 15 January

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has proposed fresh norms for public issue of real estate investment trusts, including cap of 75% allocation to institutional buyers. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/MintPremium
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has proposed fresh norms for public issue of real estate investment trusts, including cap of 75% allocation to institutional buyers. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

New Delhi: To provide new avenues for raising funds, capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday proposed fresh norms for the public issue of real estate investment trusts (REITs), including cap of 75% allocation to institutional buyers. Sebi said the proposed norms for the public issuance of REITs relate to appointment of merchant bankers, disclosures in the offer documents and filing of draft papers, keeping them in the public domain for at least 21 days.

For an issue made through the book building process or otherwise, the allocation in the public issue should be maximum 75% to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) and at least 25% to other investors, Sebi said. The investment manager can allocate up to 60% of the portion available for allocation to QIBs to anchor investors, subject to certain conditions. An anchor investor should make an application for at least 10 crore in the public issue and allocation to such investors should be on a discretionary basis, and subject to the minimum of two investors for allocation up to 250 crore and five such investors for over 250 crore.

Issuing the draft paper, Sebi said that REITs will need to deposit, before the opening of subscription, and keep deposited with the stock exchange, an amount calculated at the rate of 0.5% of the amount of units offered for subscription to the public. The issue would need to be opened after at least three working days from the date of filing the offer document with Sebi. Besides, the issue would need to be kept open for at least three working days but not more than 30 days. The investment manager may issue advertisements for issue opening and closing advertisements, Sebi said.

The final norms would be put in place after taking into account public comments, which have been invited till 15 January. The regulator also said that any public communication including advertisement, publicity material and research reports concerned with the issue should not contain any matter extraneous to the contents of the offer document.

Sebi said that no REITs can make a public issue of units if it or any of its sponsors, investment manager or trustee is debarred from accessing the capital market by Sebi.

Besides, public issue can’t be launched if REIT is in default of payment of distributions to the unit holders in accordance with Sebi norms for a period of more than six months. No person connected with the issue can offer any direct or indirect incentive “in any manner, whether in cash or kind or services or otherwise to any person for making an application for allotment of units".

However, this would not apply to fees or commission for services rendered in relation to the issue. No REIT should alter the terms of the issue, which may adversely affect the interests of the holders of that units unless a resolution to that effect is passed at a meeting of the unit-holders. PTI

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Published: 31 Dec 2015, 07:40 PM IST
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