Compass Gas E Energia SaBMFBOVESPA: PASS3

Brazil's Compass launches $500 million share offering

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Brazil's Compass Gas e Energia BMFBOVESPA:PASS3, a unit of conglomerate Cosan BMFBOVESPA:CSAN3, announced a secondary offering of about 89.3 million shares on Tuesday, which it said was set to raise at least 2.5 billion reais ($501.69 million).

  • Price per share will range from 28 reais to 35 reais, Compass said in a securities filing.

  • Pricing will be disclosed on May 7.

  • Selling shareholders include Cosan, Atmos, Bradesco BMFBOVESPA:BBDC3, Brasil Capital and the Bussola group.

  • BTG Pactual, Bank of America, Bradesco BBI, Citi, Itau BBA, Santander, JPMorgan, XP, BNP Paribas and UBS BB will act as bookrunners.

  • The deal will in practice represent Compass' initial public offering, as part of a broader deleveraging push by Cosan.

  • Cosan said in a separate filing it may dispose of shares representing about 15% of Compass' share capital.

  • Natural gas distributor Compass had filed for IPO in March.

($1 = 4.9832 reais)

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