Syngenta wins Shanghai Trade approval for $9.1 billion IPO

The approval will come as a aid to the Swiss-headquartered agency’s proprietor Sinochem Holdings Corp. Syngenta has been engaged on the itemizing since no less than 2019, two years after it was acquired for $43 billion in China’s greatest international takeover thus far.

A earlier listening to for an utility by Syngenta to debut on Shanghai’s Star board was abruptly canceled in March, stunning Syngenta’s executives and advisers. The appliance was withdrawn and resubmitted final month for a list on the principle board.

The corporate plans to make use of proceeds from the IPO for high-end agricultural expertise analysis, international acquisitions and long-term debt reimbursement in addition to enterprise enlargement and upgrades, it mentioned in a submitting final month.

China has shifted duty for vetting the eligibility of IPO candidates to the exchanges, as a part of reforms aimed to hurry entry to funding within the nation’s $10.3 trillion fairness market. Regulators earlier this yr moved to develop a registration-based system for listings on all exchanges past the Star board.

Whereas international IPO volumes within the yr thus far are down 17 per cent in comparison with the identical interval in 2022, listings in China account for $32 billion, about half of the worldwide complete, in line with Bloomberg calculations. Chinese language banks have taken the highest 5 slots within the international underwriting league tables up to now this yr.

Syngenta’s gross sales rose to $9.2 billion within the three months ending in March, a 3 per cent improve from the identical interval in 2022. The corporate mentioned the expansion of its crop safety companies was slower after exceptionally sturdy quarters within the prior two years. Its China operations have been strong, with gross sales leaping 26 per cent from a yr in the past to $3 billion.

China Nationwide Chemical, generally known as ChemChina, acquired Syngenta in 2017. Sinochem absorbed ChemChina in 2021, and Syngenta subsequently included Sinochem’s agricultural enterprise.

China Worldwide Capital and BOC Worldwide Holdings Ltd. are sponsors of the deliberate share sale.