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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Han Kun Law Offices have advised China’s Autohome on its $685 million Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) secondary listing, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Commerce & Finance Law Offices counselling the joint sponsors and underwriters.

New York-listed Autohome is an online platform in China delivering content, tools and services to automobile consumers, automakers, and dealers via its websites, autohome.com.cn and che168.com.

Autohome is the latest in a string of Chinese companies undertaking secondary listings in Hong Kong following New Oriental Education & Technology, Yum China Holdings, Zai Lab, ZTO Express and Huazhu Group, among others.

The Simpson Thacher team was led by partners Christopher Wong and Yi Gao.

Partners Haiping Li, Christopher Betts, and Paloma Wang led the Skadden team.

 

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