Investors prepare for largest ever Kenyan IPO

Part of an increasingly active market attracting foreign investors.

Kenya is gearing up for the country’s largest ever IPO, scheduled for November, when the government plans to sell a 30% stake in Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen).

The sale of the stake should raise about $120 million for the government. “This is a huge public offering for Kenya,” says Andre de Simon, executive director of Kenyan investment house Kestrel Capital, which has been appointed co-sponsoring broker for institutional investors on the issue.

Kenya’s previous largest IPO was an approximately $30 million-equivalent listing in 1996 of Kenya Airways.

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