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Chinese bitcoin miner joins Opera’s $115m Nasdaq IPO

Opera’s planned $115m Nasdaq IPO now has a cryptocurrency angle after Bitmain, a Chinese bitcoin miner, joined the deal as an anchor investor.

  • By John Loh
  • 03 Jul 2018


The issuer’s filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday said it is working with CICC and Citi as bookrunners.

The American Depositary Share listing has received commitments from Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining equipment, as well as US venture investor IDG ...

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Rank Arranger Share % by Volume
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1 China Merchants Securities Co 14.82
2 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) 12.96
3 CITIC Securities 9.30
4 Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) 8.10
5 China CITIC Bank Corp 7.20

Bookrunners of Asia-Pac (ex-Japan) ECM

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Goldman Sachs 16,518.46 78 7.50%
2 Morgan Stanley 14,156.51 66 6.43%
3 Citi 14,074.12 91 6.39%
4 UBS 12,548.70 77 5.70%
5 China International Capital Corp Ltd 11,025.08 44 5.01%

Bookrunners of Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) G3 DCM

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 HSBC 22,797.54 198 7.41%
2 Citi 22,552.18 150 7.33%
3 JPMorgan 14,738.77 90 4.79%
4 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 13,099.48 83 4.26%
5 BNP Paribas 11,893.43 89 3.87%

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