{"id":1226,"date":"2023-05-30T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2023-06-14T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:48:22","slug":"canadian-solars-subsidiary-csi-solars-ipo-pricing-announced-by-the-shanghai-stock-exchange%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/2023\/1226.html","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN SOLAR&#8217;S SUBSIDIARY CSI SOLAR&#8217;S IPO PRICING ANNOUNCED BY THE SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GUELPH, ON,&nbsp;May 30, 2023&nbsp;\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiansolar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian Solar Inc<\/a>. (the &#8220;Company&#8221; or &#8220;Canadian Solar&#8221;) (NASDAQ: CSIQ) today announces that, in connection with the proposed initial public offering (&#8220;IPO&#8221;) of its majority-owned subsidiary&nbsp;CSI Solar Co., Ltd.&nbsp;(&#8220;CSI Solar&#8221;) on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board of the&nbsp;Shanghai Stock Exchange, the&nbsp;Shanghai Stock Exchange&nbsp;has announced the pricing of the IPO of&nbsp;CSI Solar&#8217;s&nbsp;shares.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CSI Solar&nbsp;plans to issue 541,058,824 shares, representing 15% of 3,607,058,824 shares outstanding immediately after the IPO. In addition,&nbsp;CSI Solar&nbsp;plans to grant the principal underwriter of the IPO a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 81,158,500 shares of&nbsp;CSI Solar&nbsp;to cover over-allotments, if any.&nbsp;CSI Solar&nbsp;plans to issue 622,217,324 shares, representing approximately 17% of 3,688,217,324 shares outstanding immediately after the IPO, assuming that the over-allotment option is exercised in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed pricing of the IPO is&nbsp;RMB 11.10&nbsp;per share. The estimated total gross proceeds of the IPO are expected to be approximately&nbsp;RMB 6 billion. Currently,&nbsp;Canadian Solar&nbsp;owns approximately 80% of&nbsp;CSI Solar&#8217;s&nbsp;outstanding shares. Immediately after the completion of the IPO,&nbsp;Canadian Solar&nbsp;will own approximately 64% of&nbsp;CSI Solar, assuming the over-allotment option is not exercised, or approximately 62% of&nbsp;CSI Solar, assuming that the over-allotment option is exercised in full. The issuance and subscription date of the IPO is expected to be&nbsp;May 31, 2023. The final IPO share placement and share allocations are expected to be confirmed on&nbsp;June 5, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The shares of&nbsp;CSI Solar&nbsp;will not be and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in&nbsp;the United States&nbsp;absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUELPH, ON,&nbsp;May 30, 2023&nbsp;\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;&nbsp;Canadian Solar Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221; or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiansolar-energy.co.jp\/en\/news_release\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}