HiSoft Technology International, China’s second-largest information technology outsourcing company, has made a regulatory filing to raise up to $110.6m on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Intel Capital, the corporate venturing division of US-listed semiconductor maker Intel, owns 7.6% of HiSoft, which will issue 6.4 million American depository shares (ADS) in its initial public offering (IPO).
The existing shareholders will offer a further one million ADSs in the IPO with an option to sell a further 1.1 million through a ‘greenshoe’ if demand is high. Each ADS will be priced by lead underwriter Deutsche Bank at between $11 and $13 and represent 19 common shares.
Intel is to sell 3.7 million shares (0.9%) in the IPO and after dilution will own 5.3% of the company, before any greenshoe.
The largest shareholder will be US and China-based private equity firm GGV Capital (previously known as Granite Global Ventures) with 17.4% after dilution as it is not selling any shares. Excluding HiSoft’s management, the other large shareholders post-flotation will be: the World Bank’s investment organization, the International Finance Corporation with 8.1%; Japanese bank Nomura’s venture division Jafco Asia (5.6%); US-based venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (6.3%); and General Electric’s private equity division, GE Capital Equity (4.9%).
GE was one of HiSoft’s five largest clients by revenue last year, along with Microsoft, Nomura, UBS and an undisclosed US technology firm, understood to be Intel.
HiSoft posted annual revenues of $91.5m last year, a 51.2% compound annual growth rate from the $17.5m in 2005 after a series of acquisitions using its shares as currency.
Jafco, Intel and GGC initially acquired 38.2% at 20 cents each in July 2004 before further shares were issued to raise money.