(Bloomberg) -- Infraestructura Energetica Nova, the Mexico-based unit of Sempra Energy, is seeking to raise about $1.27 billion by issuing new shares to fund its recent acquisitions of the country's largest wind farm and a 50 percent stake in a pipeline company.
Ienova, Mexico's only publicly traded energy company, will offer 323 million shares as soon as Oct. 13 following a 10-city roadshow, according to a stock exchange filing on Monday. The offer includes upsize and over-allotment options totaling 57 million shares. That may raise between 24.5 billion pesos ($1.27 billion) and 28.8 billion pesos, according to Bloomberg calculations based on Monday's closing share price.
The sale will be used to finance Ienova's $375 million purchase of the Ventika wind complex, which includes the assumption of $477 million in long-term financing, and to help fund the recently approved $1.1 billion acquisition of Petroleos Mexicanos's 50 percent in pipeline operator Gasoductos de Chihuahua, according to the filing.
Sempra, Ienova's largest shareholder, will buy as much as $350 million worth of shares, according to the statement. The San Diego-based company said in July that it plans to develop additional projects in Mexico and will spend more than $3 billion in Latin America through 2020.
Ienova closed at 75.76 pesos per share on Monday. The company's shareholders will meet Oct. 7 to approve the offering.
--With assistance from Dale Quinn To contact the reporters on this story: Adam Williams in Mexico City at awilliams111@bloomberg.net, Michelle F. Davis in Mexico City at mdavis194@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: David Marino at dmarino4@bloomberg.net, Ramsey Al-Rikabi
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