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    MTN may float shares in Lagos as soon as next week

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    MTN Group’s Nigerian unit may list shares in Lagos next week, according to two people familiar with the matter, almost three years after agreeing to the move as part of a deal with local regulators.

    Africa’s biggest mobile phone company could go ahead with the placing on 16 May, said the people, who asked not to be named as the matter is private. The move could be delayed as some steps required by the Nigerian Stock Exchange still have to be completed, they said.

    “We don’t have a specific date, we are looking at some time before the end of this quarter,” Tobechukwu Okigbo, MTN Nigeria’s head of corporate relations, said by phone.

    We don’t have a specific date, we are looking at some time before the end of this quarter

    MTN Nigeria registered 20.35 billion ordinary shares with the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission this week. It plans to list around 20% of those on the bourse and they could trade at 80 naira to 90 naira, said one of the people. That would give the unit a market value of as much as 1.8 trillion naira (US$5.1-billion), making it the second biggest public firm in Africa’s main oil producer after Dangote Cement. It will be the largest when measured by revenue.

    Settlement

    MTN agreed to an initial public offering of its Nigeria business as part of the settlement of a reduced $1-billion fine in the country in 2016. The listing planned for next week is the first of two stages, with a selldown of MTN’s majority stake to take place at a later date. The carrier appointed former Nigerian central bank governor Lamido Sanusi, who’s now the Emir of Kano, to its board last week in preparation for the listing.

    MTN remains locked in a legal battle with Nigeria’s attorney-general over a $2-billion tax claim, the latest in a series of disputes in the country. The Lagos-based unit is the largest of MTN’s 20-market portfolio, accounting for almost a quarter of its 233 million subscribers.  — Reported by Paul Wallace, with assistance from Tope Alake, (c) 2019 Bloomberg LP



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