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HONG KONG, March 13 (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group
Holding is "95 percent certain" to choose New York as the venue for its
initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing
unnamed sources close to the deal.
The company is no longer discussing a potential listing in Hong Kong, the
newspaper added, citing the sources.
Alibaba declined immediate comment on the planned IPO, which analysts have
estimated could be worth more than $15 billion.
The company's listing venue has been up in the air since last year, after
Hong Kong regulators refused to bend on their one share-one vote stance.
Alibaba has planned an IPO with a shareholder structure that allows a group
of top managers and founders to nominate and control the board, while
holding only around 13 percent of the company's shares.
Though there had been some speculation that Alibaba and Hong Kong regulators
could be moving to a compromise, Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai
appeared to throw cold water on the prospect on Wednesday, telling Reuters
that the company would not change its partnership shareholding structure in
order to list in Hong Kong.
Under an agreement with its second biggest shareholder, Yahoo Inc, Alibaba
has incentives in place to complete an IPO before Dec. 2015. Japan's
SoftBank Corp is Alibaba's biggest shareholder with a 36.7 percent stake. |
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