Amendments To The Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Rules 2009

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Amendments To The Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Rules 2009

Article by Dieter Yih, Mandy Yim, Gigi Wong and

Fiona Tai

Originally Published 5th December 2008

New amendments to the Listing Rules in Hong Kong will take

effect from 1 January 2009, following the publication by the Hong

Kong Stock Exchange ("HKEx") of the Consultation

Conclusions on Proposals in the 2008 Combined Consultation Paper

("Consultation Conclusions").

The Consultation Conclusions are published in response to the

Combined Consultation Paper on Proposed Changes to the Listing

Rules first published in January 2008. The Consultation Conclusions

introduced amendments to the Rules Governing the Listing of

Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited ("Main

Board Rules") and the Rules Governing the Listing of

Securities on the Growth Enterprise Market of The Stock Exchange of

Hong Kong Limited ("GEM Rules").

The changes to these two sets of rules (together, the

"Listing Rules") will be adopted to address policy issues

in relation to corporate governance and initial listing criteria,

as well as to improve the clarity, certainty and effic...

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