Enersis Tops 99%

Chile’s Enersis reached a 99.04% shareholder subscription rate for its CLP2.84trn ($6.00bn) equity capital increase, it says. The energy holdco had sold 16.28bn of 16.44bn shares on offer as of the subscription period’s close, with the remainder to be offered in an auction today, at CLP173 each. The subscription period included the $625m sale of American Depositary Shares (ADS). JPMorgan, BTG Pactual and Bank of America Merrill Lynch were global coordinators on the ADS sale, with Banchile, BBVA, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, LarrainVial, Morgan Stanley and Santander as bookrunners. JPMorgan, Celfin, BBVA, Santander, LarrainVial, Banchile and BAML managed the local side. The controversial transaction was approved in December, after months of back and forth with regulators and minority investors. Endesa subscribed its portion with its LatAm assets that don’t already belong to Enersis, and needed negotiations with Chilean pension funds and multiple outside evaluations to reach agreement on the assets’ value. The process will raise funds for acquisition opportunities and streamline Endesa’s operations in LatAm by placing all of its holdings under Enersis. Enersis shares closed at CLP182.41 Wednesday.