listings, Refinitiv data shows, well up from the $1.9 billion from 14 deals in the same period a year ago.Įight Chinese companies including home service platform Daojia Ltd and Atour Lifestyle Holdings have made public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list in the U.S. So far this year, a record $12.5 billion by Chinese firms has been raised from 34 U.S. capital markets have been a lucrative source of funding for Chinese firms in the past decade, especially for technology companies looking to benchmark their valuations against listed peers there and tap an abundant liquidity pool. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and China International Capital Corp Ltd (CICC) were the investment banks on the deal and all declined to comment to Reuters. LinkDoc did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The sources declined to be identified as the information has not yet been made public. The book closed one day earlier than planned on Wednesday, one of the three sources and a separate person said. It had planned to sell 10.8 million shares between $17.50 and $19.50 each. and make it more difficult to raise funds overseas," he said.īacked by Alibaba Health Information Technology Ltd, LinkDoc filed for its IPO last month and was due to price its shares after the U.S. "The new rules may impose long waiting periods on any companies hoping to list abroad which will hit investor sentiment, depress valuations for IPOs in the U.S.
listing, they may have to wait for further clarification, stricter scrutiny and pre-approval from different regulators and authorities," said Bruce Pang, macro & strategy research head at China Renaissance Securities. IPO is seen as an example of the great lengths the Chinese government will pursue, even if a company has a high-profile name and numerous foreign investors.LinkDoc's decision to suspend its $211 million IPO, first reported by Reuters, is likely to be followed by others, analysts said, although they noted that U.S. “After communication with the relevant regulators, Ximalaya understands that a Hong Kong listing would be regarded as a preferred outcome,” the source told FT.Ĭhina’s crackdown on Didi following its U.S. The Chinese podcast platform Ximalaya recently suspended its U.S.
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The truck-hailing app Full Truck Alliance and online recruiter Boss Zhipin are two of the many Chinese companies that filed plans to go public in New York IPOs this year and are being subjected to intense scrutiny. The popular Chinese fitness app Keep is backed by Japan’s SoftBank and China’s Tencent and was looking to raise $500 million, sources told FT. IPO endeavors as Beijing intensified its policing of technology platforms in China. The news of LinkDoc ran parallel to the decision by Keep to pull its $500 million U.S. public listings are not forbidden, the move by LinkDoc is expected to spark a pull-out by additional Chinese companies with U.S. The move by officials prompted investors to unload Chinese stocks listed in the U.S.Īnalysts told Reuters that despite the fact that U.S. LinkDoc is likely the first Chinese startup to have retreated from its IPO plans as China’s regulatory agencies stepped up Big Tech oversight.
The move against Didi from Chinese regulators came just two days after it went public in the U.S. Sources told Reuters that LinkDoc was in the midst of filing for a $211 million initial public offering (IPO) in New York but scrapped the plans after Beijing pulled Didi from app stores and from payment platforms WeChat Pay and Alipay. Medical data firm LinkDoc Technology and digital fitness platform Keep have both pulled out following regulators’ probes into ride-hailing giant Didi Global, according to separate reports from the Financial Times and Reuters on Thursday (July 8). in light of China’s crackdown on domestic companies looking to list overseas. Two Chinese startups suspended public listing plans in the U.S.
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