Hong Kong ranked second after New York for IPOs in 2014, and, though some analysts have predicted a smaller year for IPOs, 2015 is already off to an auspicious start.
With the April listing of GF Securities, China’s fourth-largest broker by assets, the year’s biggest to date, Latham & Watkins has advised on all three of year’s largest Hong Kong IPOs.
Cathy Yeung, the corporate department chair of Latham & Watkins’ Hong Kong office and chair of the firm’s greater China practice, pointed to the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, as well as the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect anticipated later this year, as part of what makes Hong Kong an attractive location for going public.
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