Investment bankers could draw record fees from equity deals involving Chinese companies in 2020, underscoring global finance’s growing dependency on the country even as geopolitical tensions rise.
Lenders based outside of China have earned $1.73bn of revenues this year from selling shares in Chinese groups on bourses in New York, Hong Kong and mainland China, up 113 per cent from a year ago, according to data from Dealogic. That puts them on the verge of surpassing the $1.77bn in fees earned in 2010.
The growth in revenues from these deals comes on the back of a banner year for primary and secondary listings by Chinese companies, which have raised a record $132.3bn, or 38 per cent of all global equity fundraising in 2020.