Hong Kong IPO pipeline - April 14
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.) --------------------------------------------------------------- Q2 Anhui Yingliu N.A. N.A. Morgan Stanley 100 (The company is a Chinese machine tool maker.) --------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) -------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) --------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) --------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) ________________________________________________________________ 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.) ________________________________________________________________ 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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