Al­pham­ab On­col­o­gy rounds out HKEX's sec­ond biotech IPO year with $230M raise and high lo­cal in­ter­est

Al­pham­ab On­col­o­gy has in­spired a surge of lo­cal in­ter­est in what will like­ly be the Hong Kong Stock Ex­change’s last biotech run of the year, pric­ing its IPO on the high end of the range and rais­ing over $230 mil­lion (HK$1.83 bil­lion).

Af­ter re­jig­ging the of­fer­ing struc­ture and mak­ing up to 50% avail­able for en­thu­si­as­tic lo­cal in­vestors, the biotech sold 179.4 mil­lion shares at $1.31 (HK$10.2) and saw its stock rise to $1.77 ($13.8) on the first day of trad­ing.

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