Svmuu News: Morgan Stanley was not selected as the sole lead underwriter for the listing of SK Hynix American Depositary Receipts (ADRs),The transaction, valued at approximately $26.5 billion (about 40 trillion won), is the largest IPO by a foreign company in the U.S. Based on a 0.5% underwriting fee rate, the commission would amount to approximately $130 million. The final underwriting syndicate consists of Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase. Morgan Stanley Having previously secured projects such as SpaceX and Anthropic, and once considered a front-runner to underwrite OpenAI’s IPO, Morgan Stanley’s exclusion from this deal is viewed internally as a blow to its reputation.
Industry observers widely believe that ’s exclusion is linked to its repeated release of bearish reports on the South Korean semiconductor sector, including its well-known analysis of the “memory winter.”Several investment banking professionals, including a former Morgan Stanley executive, stated that a growing number of people within the Seoul office believe the previous bearish reports may have cost the firm the SK Hynix deal, and that the firm will need to exercise greater caution when publishing such views in the future. (CLS)