NTT has lodged preliminary prospectus to list REIT on Singapore Exchange

The last listing of similar size was a $977 million IPO for Digital Core REIT in 2021, LSEG data showed. The IPO portfolio comprises six data centre assets located in the United States, Austria and Singapore, with a total appraised value of about $1.6 billion, according to the preliminary prospectus. The sponsor of NTT DC REIT is NTT Ltd, which is part of Japanese telecommunication giant NTT. Cornerstone investors include Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and private investment and asset management firms such as AM Squared Ltd and Viridian Asset Management Ltd, the prospectus showed. Cornerstone investors are large institutional investors that subscribe to an IPO offering before it is open to the public.
There is growing interest from companies seeking to list on the Singapore Exchange, after the city-state announced measures in February to strengthen its equities market, including a 20% tax rebate for primary listings. Hong Kong-listed China Medical System said on Tuesday it had applied for a secondary listing of its shares on the Singapore Exchange. IPO proceeds raised on the Singapore Exchange surged more than five-fold to $331.6 million in the first half of this year, from $59.3 million the same period a year ago, LSEG data showed. (Reporting by Yantoultra Ngui; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Tom Hogue) View Comments