Opinion on the Application of Securities and Futures Laws No.3: Opinion on the Application of the Provision “No Major Change Shall Have Occurred in the Issuer's Core Business During the Most Recent Three Years” of Article 12 of the «Measures for the Administration of Initial Public Offerings of Shares and the Listing Thereof»
《首次公开发行股票并上市管理办法》第十二条发行人最近3年内主营业务没有发生重大变化的适用意见 - 证券期货法律适用意见第3号
When an IPO issuer restructures identical, similar or related businesses under the same corporate controller during the reporting period, it shall pay close attention to the effect of the reorganization on its total assets, or its operating revenue or gross profit.
(Issued by the China Securities Regulatory Commission on May 19 2008.)
(中国证券监督管理委员会于二零零八年五月十九日公告。)
Announcement of the CSRC [2008] No.22
Article 12 of the Measures for the Administration of Initial Public Offerings of Shares and the Listing Thereof (Order of the CSRC No.32; the “IPO Measures”) requires that no major change shall have occurred in an issuer's core business during the most recent three years. Recently, there have been circumstances where, during the most recent three years (the Reporting Period), certain companies that have applied for an initial public offering of shares and the listing thereof (Issuers) have reorganized identical, similar or related businesses under the same corporate controller, and numerous Issuers have asked whether such circumstances are in compliance with the aforementioned requirement of the IPO Measures. After consideration, we are of the opinion that:
证监会公告 [2008] 22号
1. Many reorganizations of identical, similar or related businesses under the same corporate controller by an Issuer are market acts effected by an enterprise group for the purpose of realizing an overall offering and listing of the core business, reducing management costs, leveraging the advantages of business synergies and enhancing the enterprise's economies of scale. From a capital market perspective, the reorganization and integration by an Issuer of businesses under the same corporate controller that are identical, similar or related to its own prior to an offering and listing is helpful in avoiding intra-industry competition, reducing affiliated transactions, optimizing corporate governance, ensuring compliant operation and has a positive role in enhancing the quality of listed companies, optimizing the resource allocation function of capital markets, protecting the lawful rights and interests of investors, particularly small and medium investors, and promoting the healthy and stable development of capital markets.
2. If an Issuer has reorganized identical, similar or related businesses under the same corporate controller during the Reporting Period and it additionally satisfies the following conditions, its core business shall be deemed not to have undergone a major change:
《首次公开发行股票并上市管理办法》(证监会令第32号,以下简称《首发办法》)第十二条要求,发行人最近3年内主营业务没有发生重大变化。近来,一些申请首次公开发行股票并上市的公司(以下简称发行人)最近3年(以下简称报告期)内存在对同一公司控制权人下相同、类似或相关业务进行重组的情况,不少发行人咨询该情况是否符合《首发办法》的上述要求。经研究,我会认为:
(1) the reorganized party shall have been under the control of the same corporate controller as the Issuer from the beginning of the Reporting Period or, if the reorganized party was newly established during the Reporting Period, it shall have been under the control of the same corporate controller as the Issuer from the date of its establishment; and
(2) the business of the reorganized party injected into the Issuer shall be related (identical or similar industry or the upstream or downstream segment of the same production chain) to the business of the Issuer prior to the reorganization.
一、发行人对同一公司控制权人下相同、类似或相关业务进行重组,多是企业集团为实现主营业务整体发行上市、降低管理成本、发挥业务协同优势、提高企业规模经济效应而实施的市场行为。从资本市场角度看,发行人在发行上市前,对同一公司控制权人下与发行人相同、类似或者相关的业务进行重组整合,有利于避免同业竞争、减少关联交易、优化公司治理、确保规范运作,对于提高上市公司质量,发挥资本市场优化资源配置功能,保护投资者特别是中小投资者的合法权益,促进资本市场健康稳定发展,具有积极作用。
The reorganization method shall comply with market principles, and include but not be limited to the following:
(1) the Issuer acquiring the equity of the reorganized party;
二、发行人报告期内存在对同一公司控制权人下相同、类似或相关业务进行重组情况的,如同时符合下列条件,视为主营业务没有发生重大变化:
(2) the Issuer acquiring the business assets of the reorganized party;
(3) the corporate controller using the equity or business assets of the reorganized party to increase the capital of the Issuer; or
(一)被重组方应当自报告期期初起即与发行人受同一公司控制权人控制,如果被重组方是在报告期内新设立的,应当自成立之日即与发行人受同一公司控制权人控制;
(4) the Issuer absorbing the reorganized party by way of a merger by absorption.
3. When an Issuer restructures identical, similar or related businesses under the same corporate controller during the Reporting Period, it shall pay close attention to the effect of the reorganization on its total assets, or its operating revenue or gross profit. The Issuer shall, depending on the effect, handle matters in accordance with the following requirements:
(二)被重组进入发行人的业务与发行人重组前的业务具有相关性(相同、类似行业或同一产业链的上下游)。
(1) if the total assets of the reorganized party at the end of the financial year preceding the reorganization or its operating revenue or gross profit for the financial year preceding the reorganization equal(s) or exceed(s) 100% of those/that of the corresponding project of the Issuer prior to the reorganization, the Issuer may apply for an offering only after it has operated for one financial year after the reorganization so as to permit investors to understand its overall operations after the reorganization;
(2) if the total assets of the reorganized party at the end of the financial year preceding the reorganization or its operating revenue or gross profit for the financial year preceding the reorganization equal(s) or exceed(s) 50% but are/is less than 100% of those/that of the corresponding project of the Issuer prior to the reorganization, the sponsor and the Issuer's legal counsel shall, in accordance with requirements of relevant laws and regulations in respect of an entity making an initial public offering, include the reorganized party in their due diligence investigations and issue the relevant opinion; additionally, the documents issued by the accountant concerning the reorganized party and other documents relating to financial accounting information shall be submitted in accordance with the requirements of Parts Four and Eight of the schedule to the Guidelines for the Contents and Formats for Information Disclosures by Companies that Offer Securities to the Public (No.9): Application Documents for Initial Public Offerings of Shares and the Listing Thereof (Zheng Jian Fa Xing Zi [2006] No.6) together with the other offering application documents;
重组方式遵循市场化原则,包括但不限于以下方式:
(3) if the total assets of the reorganized party at the end of the financial year preceding the reorganization or its operating revenue or gross profit for the financial year preceding the reorganization equal(s) or exceed(s) 20% of those/that of the corresponding project of the Issuer prior to the reorganization, the submitted financial statements must, at least, include the balance sheet for the most recent period following the completion of the reorganization.
4. If there were affiliated transactions during the financial year preceding the reorganization between the reorganized party and the Issuer prior to the reorganization, the total assets, operating revenue or gross profit shall be calculated after subtracting such transactions.
(一)发行人收购被重组方股权;
5. If more than one reorganization occurred in the financial year or period preceding the submission of the IPO application documents by the Issuer, the effects of the reorganizations on the Issuer's total assets, operating revenue or gross profit shall be calculated cumulatively.
6. If a reorganization involves a merger of an enterprise subject to the same control as specified in the Enterprise Accounting Guidelines No.20 - Business Combinations, the net losses or gains of the reorganized party shall be counted as non-recurring losses or gains, and shall be indicated separately in the submitted financial statements.
(二)发行人收购被重组方的经营性资产;
If a reorganization does not involve a merger of an enterprise under the same corporate controller, but the total assets of the reorganized party at the end of the financial year preceding the reorganization or its operating revenue or gross profit for the financial year preceding the reorganization equal(s) or exceed(s) 20% of those/that of the corresponding project of the Issuer prior to the reorganization, in preparing the Issuer's pro forma income statements for the most recent three years and most recent period, such statements shall be prepared as if the post-reorganization corporate structure had already existed at the beginning of the period of the submitted statements and the accountant making the submission shall issue an opinion thereon.
clp reference:3710/08.05.19prc reference:证监会公告 [2008] 22号promulgated:2008-05-19This premium content is reserved for
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