• Bayanat AI PLC’s IPO received strong demand from professional investors and the Professional Investor tranche is oversubscribed
  • Earlier today, Bayanat AI PLC announced its IPO has gathered enough subscriptions to cover the professional investors’ offering of 534,285,715 shares
  • In addition to the Cornerstone Investors’ committed subscription, the IPO has received enough subscriptions to cover 41X of the remaining professional investor shares
  • The subscription period ends on 25 October 2022 while the listing of shares and trading on ADX is anticipated on 31 October 2022

Abu Dhabi: Bayanat AI PLC, a public company limited by shares incorporated in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (the “Company”), the region’s leading high-growth AI-powered geospatial intelligence businesses, today announced the successful start of the subscription period for its Initial Public Offering (“IPO” or the “Offering”) on the First Market of the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (“ADX”).

In a press statement issued nearly an hour after subscriptions to the IPO opened, the Company announced that it had gathered enough subscriptions to cover the Professional Investors’ offering of 534,285,715 shares. The Offering saw significant demand in addition to the commitment from the Company’s Cornerstone Investors Silver Lake and International Holding Company (IHC). The Company’s IPO received an over subscription of 41X on the remaining shares in the Professional Investor tranche.

Commenting on the announcement, Hasan Al Hosani, CEO of the Company, said:

“It gives me great pleasure to bear witness to the show of commitment by our Cornerstone Investors – Silver Lake and International Holding Company (IHC), as well as other professional investors. The overwhelming demand for subscription to Bayanat AI’s IPO is a strong reflection of the confidence that our Investors have in our vision and strong growth trajectory.”

The subscription period ends on 25 October 2022 while the listing of shares and trading on ADX is anticipated on 31 October 2022.

Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC is the Lead Manager, and First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC is acting as the Lead Receiving Bank. International Securities are the Lead Placement Agent on the IPO.

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About Bayanat

Bayanat AI PLC, a G42 company, provides comprehensive world-class AI-powered geospatial solutions to a growing number of sectors such as Defense, Environment, Energy & Resources, Smart Cities and Transportation. It’s offering includes topographic, hydrographic and aeronautical products and charts, as well as spatial data surveying, analysis, management, modelling, visualization and cartography services. Bayanat’s solutions harness vast amounts of premium and unique data from a range of sources including Satellites, High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) and Earth Observation powered by AI to drive geospatial intelligence (gIQ).

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