Mumbai, India, January 15, 2018, BSE Ltd. (BSE), Asia’s oldest and World’s fastest exchange with a speed of 6 microseconds, today announced Buyback of its Equity Shares.
The Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held today has inter-alia approved the Buyback proposal for purchase by the Company of its fully paid-up equity shares of face value of ? 2/- each ("Equity Shares" and such buyback, the "Buyback"), from the shareholders/beneficial owners of the Company, at a price not exceeding ? 1,100 (Rupees One Thousand and One Hundred Only) per Equity Share ("Maximum Buyback Price") from the open market through stock exchange mechanism in such manner as may be prescribed in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Buy Back of Securities) Regulations, 1998 (“Buy-back Regulations”) and the Companies Act, 2013 (“Act”) (including any statutory modification(s) or re-enactment of the Act or Buy-back Regulations, for the time being in force).
The Buyback shall not exceed Rs. 166.00 crore (Rupees One Hundred Sixty Six crore only), excluding brokerage costs, fees, turnover charges, taxes such as securities transaction tax and goods and service tax (if any), stamp duty and other transaction charges ("Maximum Buyback Size"). The Maximum Buyback Size represents 9.99% of the aggregate of the Company’s paid-up Equity Share capital and free reserves based on the standalone audited financial statements of the Company as at March 31, 2017, which is in compliance with the maximum permissible limit of 10% of the paid-up equity share capital and free reserves in accordance with Section 68(2) of the Companies Act, 2013.
The Board noted that the Company is professionally managed and does not have any identifiable promoters or promoter groups and persons in control.
The Public Announcement setting out the process, timelines and other statutory details will be released in due course in accordance with the Buy-back Regulations. The dates of the Buyback offer will be mentioned in the public announcement. The Board has formed a Buyback Committee (the "Buyback Committee") and has delegated its powers to the Buyback Committee to do all such acts, deeds, matters and things as it may, in its absolute discretion, deem necessary, expedient, usual or proper in connection with the Buyback.
At the Maximum Buyback Price and for Maximum Buyback Size, the indicative maximum number of Equity Shares bought back would be 15,09,090 (Fifteen Lakh Nine Thousand Ninety Only) Equity Shares (“Maximum Buyback Shares”) (comprising around 2.80% of the existing paid up Equity Share capital). If the Equity Shares are bought back at a price below the Maximum Buyback Price, the actual number of Equity Shares bought back could exceed the indicative Maximum Buyback Shares (assuming full deployment of Maximum Buyback Size) but will always be subject to the Maximum Buyback Size.
Commenting on the buyback, Shri S. Ravi, Chairman, BSE Limited, said: “This buyback plan demonstrate the Board’s confidence in our future, our commitment to delivering values to all of our stakeholders and strong Balance Sheet. The intention behind the BSE’s buyback is two fold – (a) take cognizance of the views and requests from its international and domestic shareholders and (b) improve BSE’s valuation for long term shareholders.”
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