AMTD International Inc. Operational Update

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Apr 28, 2020
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AMTD International Inc. (“AMTD International” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HKIB; SGX: HKB), a subsidiary of AMTD Group Company Limited (“AMTD Group”), a leading comprehensive financial services conglomerate, today announced an operational update for the year ended December 31, 2019. Despite the volatility in international capital markets in 2019, AMTD International, Asia's largest independent investment bank, achieved an upbeat set of results. The total number and value of capital market transactions completed in 2019 both surpassed that of 2018 and reached a new height in AMTD International’s operating history. In 2019, AMTD International, as the global coordinator and/or bookrunner (a senior role in the underwriting syndicate), completed 24 Hong Kong and US IPOs and equity capital market transactions, with a total financing amount of over US$4.6 billion, consisting of 16 Hong Kong IPOs, six US IPOs and two block trades. These transactions included two IPOs of Chinese regional banks, Jinshang Bank and Bank of Guizhou on the HKEX in which the Company served as the only joint global coordinator besides deal sponsors; Maoyan Entertainment’s Hong Kong IPO, the first IPO in China’s Internet entertainment services industry; Feihe Group’s HK IPO, the largest IPO from dairy industry in the history of HKEX; CMGE Technology’s Hong Kong IPO, a transaction with one of the largest cumulative subscription monies in the retail tranche in 2019; Shanghai Henlius Biotech’s HK IPO, the largest IPO in biotech industry in Hong Kong; and FangDD’s US IPO, the first US IPO in real estate SaaS industry. During 2019, AMTD International, as the global coordinator and/or bookrunner, completed 24 international debt capital market transactions with a total financing amount of more than US$6 billion, including the first overseas preferred shares issuance by Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank; and the largest Tier 2 capital bond offering by Nanyang Commercial Bank in Hong Kong’s banking sector during the past ten years.