More than sixty U.S.-listed Chinese companies have completed going-private transactions over the past five years, with six transactions closing in 2017 and accounting for approximately $7.3 billion in equity value. Broader equity markets continued to rise in 2017, with the S&P 500 Index up almost 20%, leading to the tripling of completed IPOs by Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges in 2017 as compared to 2016.

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