InterGlobe Aviation’s (IndiGo) promoter Rakesh Gangwal. File
“InterGlobe Aviation promoter Rakesh Gangwal and his family trust on Tuesday (May 27, 2025) sold a 5.7% stake in the airline for about ₹11,385 crore ($1.33 billion) through a block deal,” according to sources.
“Apart from Gangwal, the Chinkerpoo Family Trust, whose trustees are Shobha Gangwal and JP Morgan Trust Company of Delaware, has also participated in the transaction for divesting its stake in IndiGo, the country’s largest airline,” the sources said.
“Investment banking firms Goldman Sachs [India] Securities Pvt Ltd, Morgan Stanley India Company, and J P Morgan India are the placement agents for the stake sale,” they added.
Before the latest transaction, Mr. Gangwal and the family trust together owned about 13.5% in IndiGo.
As per the latest block deal, up to 2.2 crore equity shares were sold at a floor price of ₹5,175 per share, as per the updated term sheet seen by PTI.
The total number of shares has been raised from the initial 13.2 million shares (1.32 crore shares) worth around $803 million (around ₹6,831 crore) mentioned in the earlier term sheet.
The floor price is at a 4.5% discount compared to the closing price of ₹5,420 per share on Monday (May 26, 2025).
The sources said “2.2 crore shares amount to around 5.7% stake in the company, and the offer size, based on the floor price, is pegged at around $1.33 billion or about ₹11,385 crore”.
The share sale, executed through multiple tranches on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE), is entirely secondary in nature.
As part of the deal structure, a 150-day lock-up period will apply to the vendors and their immediate relatives, barring one exception — they may transfer shares worth at least $300 million to a single investor or investor group through a negotiated transaction, subject to certain pricing and lock-up conditions.
In August 2024, Rakesh Gangwal’s family trust sold a 5.2% stake in the airline for ₹9,549 crore. Before that, Mr. Gangwal had sold shares of IndiGo in March.
The share sale is part of Gangwal’s decision in February 2022 to trim his shareholding after a bitter feud with co-founder Rahul Bhatia over alleged corporate governance issues.
Since February 2022, Mr. Gangwal and his wife Shobha Gangwal have been offloading their shares in IndiGo.
In September 2022, Rakesh Gangwal and Shobha Gangwal sold a 2.74% shareholding for ₹2,005 crore. In February 2023, Shobha Gangwal divested a 4% stake in the company for ₹2,944 crore.
Later in August, Shobha Gangwal sold a nearly 2.9% stake in the company for a little over ₹2,800 crore.
Published – May 27, 2025 02:06 pm IST