The lender, one of the region’s most exposed banks to indebted conglomerate Dubai World, issued mandatory convertible bonds worth AED4.8 billion to four strategic shareholders including the government of Abu Dhabi in April 2008.
The bonds, which carried a coupon of EIBOR plus 1.5 percent, were due to be converted before April 2011.
At issue, the bonds had a conversion price of AED7.35 but the price automatically adjusted to AED6.11 after ADCB’s bonus issue in May 2008.
ADCB shares currently trade at AED2.72.
“The actual increase was 785.5 million shares as requested by the company, therefore the new capital listed in ADX is 5.59 billion,” the bank said in a statement on the Abu Dhabi stock market website.
ADCB has hired Goldman Sachs and BOA-Merrill Lynch as advisers for its $1.4 billion stake sale in RHB Capital, its chief executive said last month.
