Davis Polk & Wardwell has advised Razer Inc, a U.S. and Singapore-based gaming hardware maker backed by Intel Corp and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, on its $528 million initial public offering in Hong Kong.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and King & Wood Mallesons acted as legal advisers to the underwriters.
Offshore firm Maples and Calder, Pinsent Masons’ Singapore joint law venture Pinsent Masons MPillay, Chinese firm Grandall Law Firm, and German firm Hengeler Mueller were involved, counseling Razer on Cayman Islands law, Singapore law, PRC law, and German law, respectively.
The company was founded in 2005 by Min-Liang Tan and Robert Krakoff, and has grown from producing a gaming mouse as its initial product to manufacturing laptops worth almost $4,000.
It plans to use the IPO proceeds to develop new verticals in the gaming and digital entertainment industry, including mobile devices, audio visual technology and live-streaming, as well as to fund acquisitions as it expands its ecosystem.
Razer’s listing, which surged 18 percent on its debut on Monday, is the latest in a string of stellar stock listings by technology-based companies in Hong Kong in recent months, amid growing retail demand for new technology stocks in the Asian financial hub, reported Reuters.
Just last week, Tencent’s e-book unit China Literature saw its shares surge more than 80 percent in its debut. In September, ZhongAn Online Property & Casualty Insurance went public, raising $1.5 billion in Asia’s biggest-ever financial technology IPO.
And there’s more to come with the expected listings of other fintech giants in Hong Kong, including Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial and peer-to-peer lending and wealth management platform Lufax.
The Davis Polk team included Hong Kong-based corporate partners Bonnie Chan and James Lin.
Hong Kong-based partners Grace Huang and David Ludwick led the deal for Freshfields.
