Ask The Best And Brightest: Who Will Be GM's "Cornerstone Investors"?
GM’s IPO filing still has yet to appear on the SEC’s EDGAR database, but while we wait for the S-1 form to clear, Reuters has some details on what to expect from the sale. The big news:
GM is mulling a plan under which sovereign wealth funds or pension funds would serve as “cornerstone investors,” a technique often used for large initial public offerings to show that key investors are supporting the deal, four people said…
Each cornerstone investor would likely be asked to commit to buying 2 percent to 10 percent of the IPO and cornerstone investors would likely account for 10 percent to 30 percent of the total IPO, one of the sources said.
On the other hand, another source says GM is targeting 15 percent of its equity towards cornerstone investors, with 20-25% is aimed at the retail investment market. Either way, Reuters points out that another recent large IPO of a government-owned business, the Agricultural Bank of China, relied heavily on cornerstone investors… but that the politics of such a strategy could be risky.
have been consulted on the question of how to balance access to the offering by retail investors against the potentially competing goal of maximizing returns for U.S. taxpayers.
the White House won’t be able to avoid any political fallout from (for example) headlines proclaiming a part-Chinese-owned GM.
On the other hand, getting a big investor to go large on a GM IPO could help reassure the market, which is understandably hesitant about GM’s return to public trading. But who’s got $2b to drop in a single big bet on a troubled, recently-bankrupt automaker? If GM’s can find two such investors with no major political downsides, they’d be crazy not to woo the hell out of them. But who could such investors be? Or will GM throw politics to the wind and end up in the arms of their Chinese partners? Scenario me…
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Ok, just for laughs ... How about Cerberus?
Let China invest in them, they'll own GM down the road anyways.