The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) approved CATL’s plan to sell up to 220.17 million shares in a secondary listing in the city, the company said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange late on Tuesday.
CATL planned to raise at least US$5 billion to finance the construction of factories overseas, according to its February 13 announcement, in what could be the largest initial public offering in Hong Kong in four years. It would be the city’s largest share sale in the city since Kuaishou Technology raised US$6.2 billion in January 2021.
Chinese companies domiciled on the mainland must get the approval from the CSRC to raise capital offshore, including in Hong Kong and the United States. The procedure has been simplified in recent years into a registration process, as the authorities in Beijing reopened the avenue for fundraising after a 20-month obstruction to enable businesses to recapitalise for growth in the post-Covid period.
CATL’s successful secondary listing would see the company join the likes of Alibaba Group Holding, Nio, Baidu and many others from the mainland. Alibaba, which owns the Post, raised US$13 billion in 2019 from its secondary share sale in the city.
Based in Ningde in eastern Fujian province, CATL raked in 110 billion yuan (US$15.1 billion) in 2024 sales from outside China, or 30 per cent of total revenue, according to its exchange filing. In 2023, overseas businesses accounted for 32.7 per cent of the total. CATL’s 2024 revenue fell 9.7 per cent to 362 billion yuan.
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