In the first two deals of their kind to date, two Australian companies were recently delisted from their home share market and came to be listed in Hong Kong.
“It is a big decision for a listed company to change its listing venue, and we can expect a multitude of factors to be behind such a decision,” Candy Chan, a partner at King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in Hong Kong, told Asia Business Law Journal. “For instance, one consideration would be the difficulty of further capital raising in Australia.”
KWM advised the sole sponsor and the underwriters on the Hong Kong listing of Dragon Mining, an Australian company engaged in gold exploration, mining and processing with mines, pre-production mining assets and production plants in Sweden and Finland.
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