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Amber Energy continues IPO momentum

16 Jul 2009

Clean energy company Amber Energy has completed its public offering and share placement on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Offering a total of 100 million shares, or approximately 25% of the total issued share capital of the company, the public offer was 1,247 times over-subscribed indicating that the market is heating up for more fund raisings.

Hong Kong-based Barbara Mok and Shanghai-based Alex Zhang led the Jones Day team advising Amber. King & Wood provided the energy company with PRC law advice with Peng Mu and Junpeng Lai leading its team. Conyers Dill & Pearman’s Lilian Woo assisted with Cayman law matters.

Piper Jaffray acted as sole sponsor, book-runner and lead manager on the listing, with a DLA Piper team led by Dr Liu Wei and Esther Leung and featuring  Mike Suen, Amanda Li and Emen Cheng – advising on Hong Kong law and a Jingtian & Gongcheng team – including Chen Zejia and Huang Jia – advising on PRC law.

Trading of Amber’s shares on the HKEx commenced on July 10. Due to the record high oversubscription, a claw-back mechanism was initiated under which the number of shares available for the public offer was increased.