Baozun Announces Closing of an Offering of American Depositary Shares in connection with the Registered ADS Borrow Facility
The Company also closed the concurrent offering of
Concurrently with the Notes Offering, the Company has entered into the ADS lending agreements with the ADS Borrowers that are affiliates of the initial purchasers in the Notes Offering, pursuant to which the Company lent, in total, 4,230,776 ADSs to the ADS Borrowers, of which 2,250,000 ADSs (the “Initial Borrowed ADSs”) were initially offered at
The ADS Borrowers may subsequently offer the remaining borrowed ADSs for sale on a delayed basis following the Notes Offering at market prices prevailing at the time of sale or at negotiated prices. The Company has been advised by the ADS Borrowers that they expect that, over the same period as their affiliates sell such additional borrowed ADSs, the ADS Borrowers or their affiliates may, in their discretion, purchase a comparable number of ADSs in the open market and use such ADSs to facilitate short sales and/or privately negotiated derivative transactions by investors in the Notes. The activity described above could affect the market price of the Company’s ADSs or the Notes otherwise prevailing at that time.
The borrowed ADSs are not considered outstanding for purposes of computing and reporting the Company’s earnings per ADS under current U.S. GAAP rules. The Company believes that the registered ADS borrow facility, as described above, helped achieve better terms of the Notes Offering for the Company.
The Company has filed an automatic shelf registration statement on Form F-3 with the
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities, nor shall there be a sale of the securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
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