Liberty Oilfield Services falls after pricing secondary offering

Riverstone Holdings

08/06/2021 14:19

(Updates with pricing details)
    ** Liberty Oilfield Services Inc  LBRT.N  shares down ~8% at
$15.43 premarket after secondary offering prices
    ** LBRT late Mon announced sale of ~12.3 mln shares by
Riverstone/Carlyle partnership entities  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nBw17fJ4Pa
    ** Sources say offering priced at $15.60, 6.9% discount to
stock's Mon close
    ** Riverstone fully exits remaining ~7% LBRT stake
    ** Morgan Stanley sole underwriter for offering
    ** In Feb, Riverstone/Carlyle sold 8.7 mln shares in
secondary priced at $11.45  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2KF165
    ** In Jan, completed acquisition of Schlumberger's  SLB.N 
shale fracking business in all-stock deal; SLB has 39% LBRT
stake (~66.3 mln shares)
    ** LBRT shares up ~62% YTD

 (Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
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