Through Private Placement, Benakat Integra Achieves Fresh Funds Almost Rp 314 Billion

INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta - PT Benakat Integra Tbk (BIPI) has completed the addition of capital without preemptive rights (HMETD) alias private placement and reached fresh funds amounting to Rp313, 97 billion. After this corporate action, the total outstanding BIPI shares rose to 40.16 billion units of shares compared to 36.51 shares previously.

The corporate action was carried out by the company through the release of 3.65 billion common stock B series offered at Rp86 per share unit. All funds from the implementation of the corporate action will be used to finance working capital and expansion of the company's business in the future.

After going through the corporate action, according to the company's official report on Monday (18/12/2017), there are now 5 companies that become new shareholders of BIPI. The five shareholders are Knights Investment Pte Ltd., PT Baskara Timur Kencana, PT Inti Bumi Artha, PT Geolink Indonesia and Risco Investama Lestari.

According to the details of its share portion, Risco Investama Lestari is the party that absorbs the most common shares of series B of the company, reaching 1.33 billion units of stocks totaling Rp114.38 billion.

Then PT Geolink Indonesia purchased 317.48 million units of BIPI shares through a private placement process worth a total of Rp27.30 billion. Then Knights Investment Pte Ltd., a private fund from Malaysia, accumulated 666.666 million shares worth Rp57.33 billion BIPI. Therefore, Knight now owns a 1.6% stake in BIPI.

The same portion is also owned by PT Baskara Timur Kencana and PT Inti Bumi Artha, each of which bought 666.666 million shares worth Rp57.33 billion BIPI. (Abraham Sihombing)