New Century Shipbuilding Cancels $483 Million IPO in Singapore

BusinessWeek, 5 May 2010
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- New Century Shipbuilding Ltd., the fifth-largest shipbuilder in China, canceled a S$666 million ($483 million) initial public offering that would have been this year’s biggest IPO in Singapore.
The company “intends to review the situation” and will consider restarting its IPO in the “near future,” without giving a reason for withdrawing, according to a statement on the Singapore Exchange Ltd.’s website yesterday. New Century, based in Jingjiang in southeastern China, was scheduled to sell 560 million shares at a maximum price of S$1.19 each today, the company’s prospectus and Bloomberg data showed. Full Story

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