Can a $1B IPO at­tract leery in­vestors on HKEX? WuXi AppTec is set to find out

An in­tre­pid WuXi AppTec is stick­ing to its re­port­ed ini­tial am­bi­tion as it moves clos­er to a $1 bil­lion list­ing in Hong Kong that will bankroll a num­ber of ini­tia­tives for its ex­pan­sive glob­al op­er­a­tion.

The CRO pow­er­house, which reaped $354 mil­lion from a Shang­hai IPO back in May, is hop­ing to raise be­tween $954 mil­lion and $1.06 bil­lion, Reuters re­port­ed on Wednes­day. The ask­ing price in Hong Kong is ex­pect­ed to be be­tween $8.19 and $9.13 per share for 116.47 mil­lion shares, a rough­ly 21% to 29% dis­count to its cur­rent share price.

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