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Cooley advised Fangdd on its $78 million initial public offering of 6,000,000 American depositary shares, each representing 25 class A ordinary shares. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to 900,000 additional shares. The transaction represents Cooley’s first completed IPO out of its newly launched Hong Kong office. Partner Will Cai led the Cooley team advising Fangdd. Founded in 2011 by former real estate agents Yi Duan and Xi Zeng, Fangdd now trades its securities on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “DUO.”

Cooley advised J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Evercore as part of Grab’s agreement to merge with Altimeter Capital’s special purpose acquisition company or SPAC. The transaction marks the largest SPAC merger in history and values the SoftBank-backed technology company at approximately $40 billion. Will Cai in Hong Kong and Ferish Patel in Singapore led a global team of Cooley lawyers across Hong Kong, Singapore and the US on the transaction.

Cooley advised FinAccel, the parent of artificial intelligence-enabled digital consumer credit platform Kredivo, on its agreement to merge with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings II (VPCB), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by Victory Park Capital (VPC), which will result in Kredivo becoming a publicly traded company on Nasdaq. Partners Ferish Patel, Matthew Bartus, Rama Padmanabhan and Will Cai led the Cooley team advising FinAccel on the transaction, which marks the largest fintech deSPAC transaction in Asia.

Cooley advised the underwriters on Smart Share Global’s $150 million initial public offering of 17,650,000 American Depositary Shares. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Global Markets  and China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited acted as joint bookrunners and for the offering. Smart Share Global, whose securities now trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol EM, is a consumer tech company providing mobile device charging service. Partners Will Cai, Michael Yu and David Peinsipp led the Cooley team.

Cooley advised GOGOX, an online intracity logistics platform in Asia focused on the transportation of freight and goods in urban areas, on its HK$675 million (US$86 million) initial public offering of 3,120,000 shares (subject to an overallotment option to issue an additional 4,680,000 shares), which now trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Partners Michael Yu and Will Cai led the Cooley team advising GOGOX, which also included Lisa Yuan, Marcus Chen, Ying Liu, Keke Wu, Jasmine Li, April Wang, Cindy Pan, Shuaiwen Wang, Jieting Zhang and Freeda Li.