The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is set to list on September 24 after a decade-long wait. Several long-standing investors are retaining their NSE sta…
1/10Azim Premji’s family office: Premji Invest, Azim Premji’s family office, is the largest private investment name among the investors highlighted. Its holding vehicle, PI Opportunities Fund I, owns 5.82 crore NSE shares. At the IPO’s upper price band of ₹1,785 a share, the stake is worth ₹10,231.6 crore. The fund is not selling any shares in the IPO. (Image: Reuters)
2/10360 ONE: 360 ONE, through various investment vehicles, holds around 4 crore NSE shares. At ₹1,785 a share, the combined holding is worth about ₹7,139.3 crore.
3/10DMart founder Radhakishan Damani: Radhakishan Damani, founder of Avenue Supermarts, which operates DMart, holds 3.9 crore NSE shares. His holding is worth ₹6,856 crore at the IPO’s upper price band of ₹1,785 a share. He is retaining his entire stake. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
4/10Sunil Kant Munjal: Sunil Kant Munjal, chairman of Hero Enterprise, holds 1.02 crore NSE shares. At ₹1,785 a share, the holding is worth about ₹1,821.2 crore.
5/10Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan: Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan holds 94.29 lakh NSE shares. At ₹1,785 a share, his holding is worth roughly ₹1,683 crore. (Image: Reuters)
6/10Tiger Global: Tiger Global, through its investment vehicle, holds 56 lakh NSE shares. At ₹1,785 a share, the holding is worth about ₹999.6 crore.
7/10N R Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran: Catamaran, the investment firm associated with Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy, owns 38.5 lakh NSE shares. At the IPO’s upper price band, the holding is worth ₹687 crore. (Image: Reuters)
8/10Other prominent NSE investors: The NSE shareholder list also includes several other prominent business and market names. These include Siddharth Balachandran, Vanaja Sundar Iyer, Siddharth Iyer, Lata Bhanshali, Bharat Taparia, Ignatius Navil Noronha, Dolly Khanna, Raamdeo Agrawal and Motilal Oswal. (Image: AI-Generated)
9/10Some investors are selling part of their stakes: Not all major NSE shareholders are retaining their entire holdings. Aranda Investments, owned by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, is selling about 1.12 crore shares from its 11.25 crore-share holding. Mahagony will retain about 8.93 crore shares, while Crown Capital will retain around 4.55 crore shares. TA Asia Pacific Acquisitions will retain about 3.23 crore shares and MS Strategic, associated with Morgan Stanley, will retain about 1.88 crore shares.
10/10NSE’s decade-long IPO journey: NSE first filed its IPO papers with SEBI in December 2016, but the listing was delayed amid the co-location controversy and related regulatory proceedings. Its ₹22,561-crore IPO is entirely an offer for sale, with shares scheduled to list on September 24.