Kazakh joins metal billionaire ranks The Times October 08, 2005 By Peter Klinger
VLADIMIR KIM, the Kazakh entrepreneur, joined the rapidly expanding ranks of metal billionaires yesterday after the stunning debut of his copper company on the London Stock Exchange.
Spurred on by record copper prices, City investors discarded any fears over Kazakhstan’s political risk or Mr Kim’s lack of experience in running a public company, to buy £661 million of Kazakhmys shares.
The institutional demand outstripped the size of Kazakhmys’s initial public offering (IPO), triggering a scramble for the copper miner’s shares when conditional trading started yesterday.
* The shares, priced at 540p each, towards the upper end of the 460p-545p indicative range, traded as high as 615p before closing at 561½p, valuing Kazakhmys at £2.6 billion.
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