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The Equity Capital Markets (“ECM”) team offers access to regional equity markets. The team’s deep local and regional knowledge, world-class execution and extensive network ensures client success and achievement of strategic goals, be it expansion, growth, succession planning or exit. The team’s services are comprehensive, value re-enforcing, and catered to all types of clients.

Accentuating the ECM team’s proven track record is the long-standing relationships with regulatory bodies, ensuring smooth and efficient procedures.

Since inception, the ECM team successfully closed transactions worth more than USD 20.0 billion.

Equity Capital Markets Services

  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Private Placements
  • Secondary Offerings
  • Listing Advisory Services

Highlights

The ECM team is the undisputed and unrivaled advisor of choice for a variety of clients with diverse strategic goals and has advised on some of the largest deals in the region

  • Government’s Advisor
    The Kuwaiti government chose NBK Capital to lead the transaction advisory consortium responsible for distributing its 50% stake (KD 55.0 million) in Shamal Az-Zour Al-Oula Power and Water Company, which is the first completed Public-Private Partnership Project in Kuwait.
  • Pioneering Transactions
    The team was the financial advisor of choice to Integrated Holding Co.’s KD 55.8 million private placement and listing on Boursa Kuwait. The listing of Integrated Holding Co. was considered to be the first since the implementation of the new rulebook associated with Boursa Kuwait’s Market Development - Phase 2.
  • Value-add Services
    The team’s efforts were instrumental in the success story of Humansoft as it gained prominence as a leading company on Boursa Kuwait. The KD 83.0 million secondary offering orchestrated by the ECM team led to significantly improved valuation and liquidity.
  • Clients’ Top Choice
    The team is consistently involved in company listings on Boursa Kuwait, including blue chip companies such as Mezzan Holding Co., Kuwait Telecommunications Company, and Jazeera Airways.

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  • All figures are as of 30 June 2021