June 26 (Reuters) - Indian fintech firm Pine Labs
has filed for an initial public offering, draft papers
showed on Thursday, with the company set to issue fresh shares
worth 26 billion rupees ($304 million).
Pine Labs offers full stack payment solutions including
point-of-sale machines to merchants for card payments and
competes with Paytm and Walmart's ( WMT ) PhonePe.
Existing backers, which include Peak XV, Paypal ( PYPL ) and
Mastercard ( MA ), are selling up to 147.8 million shares in the
IPO.
Proceeds from the fresh shares issued will be used for
investing in overseas units to expand the firm's presence beyond
India, develop technology and pare down borrowings, draft papers
showed.
Morgan Stanley, Citi and Jefferies are among the book
running lead managers of the offering.
($1 = 85.6150 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia
Cheema and Mrigank Dhaniwala)