Preparing for a Taiwan debut
Taiwan is increasingly becoming an attractive destination for technology companies to conduct their initial public offerings and list their securities, so interested issuers should familiarise themselves with the listing process and related legal matters
Issue: July/August 2010
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LCS & Partners
The Taiwan capital markets have several features that are attractive to rapidly growing companies, particularly in the technology sectors: relatively high P/E ratios, excellent liquidity for companies of comparable size, a cluster effect among technology companies resulting in high interest and familiarity among investors and analysts, and significantly lower IPO costs. This article summarises some of the legal issues that foreign companies are likely to encounter when preparing a Taiwan listing.
Threshold questions and considerations for the foreign issuer
The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) is not the first market to attempt to offer an alternative to the Nasdaq as a viable, long term IPO market for small to medium-sized technology businesses around the world, particularly technology companies with a growth story in emerging economies such as China. Over the past decade or more, such attempts to do the same have been made by established exchanges such as the Hong...
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