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The brokerage, a unit of state-owned conglomerate Citic Group, said in March it intends to issue no more than 10% of its entire stock in Hong Kong and allow its underwriters to issue an additional 15% of the offering in what is known as a greenshoe option.
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It has an option of selling 63.49 million shares, or 15% of the offer, in an additional offering called a greenshoe if demand is strong.
Prada Hong Kong IPO Could Raise $2.6 Billion Nisha Gopalan 2011
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There is a so-called greenshoe option to increase the offering size 15% in the event of strong demand, which would boost the deal up to US$2.5 billion.
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It has an option of selling 63.49 million shares, or 15% of the offer, in an additional offering called a greenshoe if demand is strong.
Prada Hong Kong IPO Could Raise $2.6 Billion Nisha Gopalan 2011
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There is a so-called greenshoe option to increase the offering size by 15% if there is strong demand, which would raise the deal to $616.6 million.
Yuanda Aims to Raise $536 Million in IPO Prudence Ho 2011
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It includes a so-called "greenshoe option," which will give the banks taking part in the deal the right to buy an additional 5.1% stake in Atento.
Telefónica to List Stake in Unit David Roman 2011
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By exercising the overallotment option also known as a greenshoe
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The IPO includes an overallotment option, known as the greenshoe, of 10 percent of the offer.
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IPO for such investors, before exercising a so - called greenshoe option.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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The exercise of the over-allotment, also known as a greenshoe, pushed AgBank's Hong Kong and Shanghai offering past Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's (ICBC) $21.9 billion IPO four years ago.
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