public listings are not forbidden, the move by LinkDoc is expected to spark a pull-out by additional Chinese companies with U.S. The news of LinkDoc ran parallel to the decision by Keep to pull its $500 million U.S. IPO endeavors as Beijing intensified its policing of technology platforms in China. 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.
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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 Chinese podcast platform Ximalaya recently suspended its 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. 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.The tougher stance by the Cybersecurity Administration of China has been driven in part by concerns that the United States could gain greater access to data owned by Chinese firms - similar to concerns that the previous Trump administration had voiced about Chinese firms operating in the United States. later this year, a review of the filings showed. 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.
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