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Article NO. Content

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Taiwan Securities Association Rules Governing Underwriting and Resale of Securities by Securities Firms  CH

Amended Date: 2024.06.27 (Articles 11, 33, 52-2, 73 amended,English version coming soon)
Current English version amended on 2016.04.12 
Article 22-3     In an initial offering of Taiwan Depositary Receipts in which part are placed by book building and part by public subscription, the book building and public subscription procedures shall be carried out simultaneously, and 10 percent of the volume that is to be publicly sold shall first be put up for public subscription, and the volume allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted according to the subscription volume.
    If the underwritten subscription volume (defined as the final confirmed total volume of subscriptions that brokers have transmitted to the TWSE by the public subscription deadline) falls short of the volume allocated for public subscription as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the shortfall may be added to the volume to be underwritten through book building, and allocated in that manner. If the subscription volume exceeds by a certain multiple the volume allocated for public subscription, the volume allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted upward in accordance with the following provisions:
  1. If the subscription multiple is at least 15 times but less than 20 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 15 percent.
  2. If the subscription multiple is at least 20 times but less than 25 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 20 percent.
  3. If the subscription multiple is at least 25 times but less than 30 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 25 percent.
  4. If the subscription multiple is at least 30 times but less than 35 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 30 percent.
  5. If the subscription ratio is at least 35 times but less than 40 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 35 percent.
  6. If the subscription multiple is at least 40 times but less than 45 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 40 percent.
  7. If the subscription multiple is at least 45 times but less than 50 times, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 45 percent.
  8. If the subscription multiple is 50 times or more, the amount allocated for public subscription shall be adjusted to 50 percent.
    If the post-adjustment volume allocated for public subscription as calculated per any of the subparagraphs of paragraph 2 is not a whole number, the number shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number.
    In an initial offering of Taiwan Depositary Receipts in which part are placed by book building and part by public subscription, the book building and public subscription procedures shall be carried out simultaneously. The relevant procedures shall be subject mutatis mutandis to the provisions of Article 42-1.