Set out below is an article that was published in the Autumn 2022 edition of “Expert Matters”, the magazine of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI) in the UK, of which I am a member. read

Receive a 20% discount when ordering the third edition of my book, “IPO: A Global Guide”, on the publisher’s website. Simply insert the discount code A-IP312 when placing the online order with Hong Kong University Press. See the link below! read

For those of you based in North America, University of Chicago Press is offering 70% off until the end of May 2022 on purchases of my book, “Cornerstone Investors: A Practice Guide for Asian IPOs”, through their website. Click on the link below to benefit from this offer. read

The 3rd edition, published by Hong Kong University Press, is now in print and will be available for purchase shortly.

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Surprise, surprise. Riyadh appears to have lost its bet to successfully bring to market a US$100 billion-plus IPO for Saudi Aramco. read

On 8 October 2019, HKEX quietly dropped its US$36 billion-plus bid for the London Stock Exchange, citing its disappointment that, “it had been unable to engage” with the management of the latter “in realising its vision to create a world-leading market infrastructure group”. read

Amid drone attacks on Saudi Aramco’s production facilities, news that both the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges were unlikely to be in the running for the international portion of the company’s flotation came as no surprise. read

Last week, news that Deutsche Bank would fold its global equities business and terminate almost 20,000 of its employees came as a shock for market observers. read