Sunplus GDR connects with investors

Taiwan''s largest IC design house has taken a first step towards its end goal of becoming a global player.

Jackie Horne

March 08, 2001

Books for a 17.5 million GDR offering were said to have closed yesterday (Thursday) four times oversubscribed. With UBS Warburg as lead manager, the company priced its combined primary and secondary deal within an indicative 0% to 10% discount range at $9.57 per GDR, securing an 8.28% discount to an underlying close of NT$169, or a 6.36% discount to a 30 day average of NT$165.53.

The $167.48 million deal comprised 10 million units of primary shares, where one unit equals two shares and 7.5 million units of secondary shares, with an additional 2.5 million unit greenshoe of old shares. Fees totalled 3%, with Barits Securities named as senior co-lead, SG Securities as co-lead and Capital Securities, Fuh Hwa Securities and Taiwan International as co-managers.

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