Clifford Chance

Streamlining Hong Kong listings of debt securities and issues surrounding the new 'professional investor' regime

22 November 2011

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has recently amended its listing rules in respect of listing of debt securities issued to professional investors. These new rules aim to simplify the debt listing application and approval procedures and tailor disclosure to professional investors. However, there are some limitations to the regime, and some classes of investor will no longer be able to participate in offerings which have been structured to take advantage of the simplified procedures and disclosure requirements.

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