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Sumeet Singh
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Weibo Secondary Offering

Weibo plans to raise around US$500-700m in its secondary listing in Hong Kong. The company won HK listing approval and filed its PHIP on 19th Nov 2021. It will look to launch its secondary offering soon.

In this note, we’ll take a look at the deal and talk about the impact of the raising.
In our previous notes, along with covering all of the past listings, we have also looked at the overall drivers for the secondary listings, links to which are below:
China ADRs Secondary Listing Deep-Dive: Yin and Yang, published in Feb 2020, we looked at the background and rules around undertaking a secondary listing in Hong Kong and then came up with a short-list of companies that might undertake a secondary listing.
In China ADRs Secondary Listing: COVID-19 Has Increased the Tension but Narrowed the Short List published in May 2020, we looked at the recent developments and provided an revised short-list
In China ADRs Secondary Listing - Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act - I’m Coming Home, published in May 2020, we spoke about the implication of the act which had made its way through the senate.
In China ADRs Secondary Listing - Pipeline looks rich, have three years to move, published in Feb 2021, we looked at the recent updates from the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and Hong Kong Exchanges changes to corporate weighted average voting rights.
Underlying
Weibo Corp Sponsored ADR Class A

Provider
Aequitas Research
Aequitas Research

Aequitas Research is a leading ECM research firm with a focus on IPOs and placements/follow-on offerings across the Asia Pacific with deal size of over USD100m. 

Since 2015, we have covered 400+ IPOs and 450+ placements with a hit rate of 73% and 65%, respectively. We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic analysis.
 
Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis. We also provide a more quant driven analysis on placement/follow-on offerings.
 
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Sumeet Singh

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