Alibaba secondary listing a rare good-news story for Hong Kong

The first deal under new 19C listing rules will raise $12.9 billion if greenshoe is exercised.

Alibaba’s co-founder Jack Ma is seen on the screen at the group’s listing ceremony at HKEX on Tuesday

Hong Kong has needed a good-news story for quite a while. The up to $12.9 billion secondary listing of Alibaba won’t bring peace to the streets, but it is a useful illustration of the city’s enduring strength as a financial market.

The Alibaba deal rained accolades. It is the largest equity offering worldwide this year, the largest Hong Kong equity offering since AIA in 2010, and the largest tech follow-on anywhere in the world.

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