Kokusai Electric to Debut After Japan’s Biggest IPO Since 2018

10/25/2023 06:49
Kokusai Electric to Debut After Japan’s Biggest IPO Since 2018

Japanese semiconductor-equipment company Kokusai Electric Corp. is expected to start trading in Tokyo on Wednesday after the largest initial public offering in the country since 2018.

Japanese semiconductor-equipment company Kokusai Electric Corp. is expected to start trading in Tokyo on Wednesday after the largest initial public offering in the country since 2018.

American private equity firm KKR & Co., which acquired the business from Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. in 2018, sold about 58.8 million shares in the company to raise ¥108 billion ($721 million). Shares were sold at ¥1,840 each, the top of a marketed range, in the biggest IPO hosted in Tokyo since SoftBank Corp.’s ¥2.4 trillion listing in December 2018.

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