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By Scott Murdoch
(Reuters) – Chinese language firms iMotion Automotive Expertise and Henan Jinyuan Hydrogenated Chemical substances are making a last-minute sprint to checklist in Hong Kong earlier than the top of the yr, searching for a mixed $130 million, in accordance with regulatory filings lodged on Tuesday.
Self-driving agency iMotion is seeking to elevate HK$655.7 million ($84.00 million) by promoting 22.11 million shares at HK$29.65 per share in a deal launched on Wednesday, the filings confirmed.
The preliminary public providing (IPO) has been pared again after the corporate initially aimed to lift $100 million, Reuters reported in November.
iMotion had earlier deliberate to lift as much as $300 million however the ongoing monetary market volatility prompted the corporate to scale back its fundraising goal, one supply with direct data of the matter mentioned beforehand.
Chemical substances provider Henan Jinyuan is seeking to elevate as much as HK$358.4 million ($45.92 million) by promoting 238.9 million shares at a value vary of $HK1.10 to HK$1.50 every, its filings confirmed.
Elsewhere, lithium ion battery producer REPT BATTERO will finalise on Wednesday the pricing for its Hong Kong IPO that’s aiming to lift as much as HK$2.4 billion ($307.48 million).
The three offers is not going to be sufficient to assist Hong Kong’s flagging IPO market, bankers say, which is experiencing a multi-year low in new share gross sales.
There was $2.7 billion raised within the first three quarters of 2023 in Hong Kong, in accordance with LSEG information, in comparison with $4.1 billion throughout the identical interval in 2022.
($1 = 7.8055 Hong Kong {dollars})
