03 SEPTEMBER 2020 Top 10 Headlines | APARNA SAI Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Fangda Partners are advising Chinese fintech firm Ant Group on its planned $30 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and King & Wood Mallesons counselling the joint sponsors.
The IPO of Ant Group, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is being touted as world’s largest offering, topping oil giant Saudi Aramco, which raised $29.4 billion last December. It is expected to surpass the record set by Alibaba’s own $25 billion float in New York 2014. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For more news, click here to visit the website |
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