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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