Hong Kong IPO pipeline - April 14

Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:28am EDT
 
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 2008   Little Sheep    N.A.    N.A.    Deutsche Bank     200
                                     Merrill Lynch
 (Little Sheep, an operator of "hotpot" restaurants in China and
Hong Kong, is 30 percent-owned by private equity firm 3i Group
Plc (III.L) and Prax Capital.)
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 Q2    Anhui Yingliu  N.A.    N.A.    Morgan Stanley     100
(The company is a Chinese machine tool maker.)
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 2008  PCD Stores      N.A.     N.A.    Credit Suisse   350-500
(The department store operator targets middle- to high-end
consumers in China. UK-based private equity firm 3i Group (III.L)
has a stake in the firm. PCD Stores has postponed its IPO to 2008
from Dec. 2007 as documentation work could not be completed on
time.)
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2008    North China   N.A.    N.A.      JP Morgan          700
     Shipping Holding
     Co Ltd
(The company is a Hong Kong-based arm of privately run Hebei
Ocean Shipping Co Ltd -- a Chinese shipowner and operator in
international bulk cargo shipping.)
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2008   China Post       N.A.   N.A.       N.A.        2,000
    Logistics
 (China's top logistics firm, plans to raise more than $2 billion
in a Hong Kong and Shanghai listing in 2008. The state-owned firm
operates 31 provincial subsidiaries, engaged in activities from
 storage and distribution to procurement and transportation.)
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2008   China Southern   N.A.   N.A.       CICC        2,000
    Locomotive & Rolling               Macquarie
    Stock Industry
 (China Southern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group)
Corp and China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry
(Group) Corp, was created in 2000 after a government-mandated
reform of railway manufacturing assets. China Southern Locomotive
plans to raise a combined US$2 billion from a Hong Kong and
Shanghai IPO.)
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2008 Far East REIT     N.A.    N.A.    Deutsche Bank     320
                                     HSBC
 (Far East Consortium International (0035.HK) originally planned
to spin off its hotel portfolio in a real estate investment trust
as soon as April, but delayed its HK IPO due to poor market
conditions.)
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2008   Goodbaby Group    N.A.    N.A.      Credit Suisse   200
                                        Merrill Lynch
 (The firm, in which private equity firm Pacific Alliance has a
stake, is a baby carriages and young children's products producer
in China.)
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2008 Chongqing Machinery  N.A.    N.A.    Credit Suisse  200-300
  and Electronic
(The car parts and machine tool maker plans to raise funds for
production capacity expansion, according to the company's
executive director Liao Shaohua.)
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2008 China Wheel Co.   N.A.     N.A.       CICC        100
(The Guangzhou-based company, a maker of aluminium-alloy car
wheels, supplies one in four car wheels in the United States.
Private equity firms AIF and Investec hold stakes in the
privately run firm.)
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2008   Festival Walk  N.A.    N.A.      UBS             500
    REIT                             HSBC
                                     Goldman Sachs
(Conglomerate Swire Pacific (0019.HK) plans to raise US$500
million by spinning off its wholly owned Festival Walk shopping
mall into a real estate investment trust (REIT).)
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2008   Chenming     409      N.A.      Guotai Junan      385
    Paper Holdings
(Chenming Paper (000488.SZ) (200488.SZ) plans to raise funds for
a wood pulp production project. The company has A and B shares
listed in Shenzhen, and its IPO would make it the first with A, B
and H shares)
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