GDS Holdings Limited(“GDS”or the“Company”)(Nasdaq:GDS)today announced the pricing of a public offering by it of 11,940,299 American Depositary Shares(“ADSs”),each representing eight of its Class A ordinary shares,at a public offering price of US$33.50 per ADS.The underwriters have been granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,791,044 ADSs from GDS at the same price.
The offering is expected to close on March 19,2019,subject to customary closing conditions.
GDS expects to use the net proceeds from the offering in connection with the development and acquisition of new data centers and for other general corporate purposes.
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J.P.Morgan Securities LLC,Morgan Stanley&Co.LLC and RBC Capital Markets,LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering,and Cowen,Credit Agricole Securities(USA)Inc.,Haitong International,Raymond James and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey,Inc.are acting as co-managers.
The securities described above are being offered by GDS pursuant to a shelf registration statement filed by GDS with the Securities and Exchange Commission(the“SEC”)that automatically became effective as of January 23,2018.This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities,nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer,solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
The offering is being made only by means of an effective shelf registration statement,including a preliminary prospectus supplement and final prospectus,which was or will be filed with the SEC and available on the SEC’s website located at http://www.sec.gov.Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the final prospectus relating to this offering,when available,may be obtained from:J.P.Morgan Securities LLC,c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions,1155 Long Island Avenue,Edgewood,NY 11717,or by telephone at 866-803-9204 or by email at prospectus-eq_fi jpmchase.com;Morgan Stanley&Co.LLC,Prospectus Department,Cynthia Simmons,2nd Floor,180 Varick Street,New York,NY,10014,United States of America,or by calling 1-917-606-8487,or by email at prospectus morganstanley.com;or RBC Capital Markets,LLC,Attention:Equity Syndicate,200 Vesey Street,8th Floor,New York,NY 10281-8098,or by telephone at(877)822-4089 or by email at equityprospectus rbccm.com.
About GDS
GDS Holdings Limited(Nasdaq:GDS)is a leading developer and operator of high-performance data centers in China.The Company’s facilities are strategically located in China’s primary economic hubs where demand for high-performance data center services is concentrated.The Company’s data centers have large net floor area,high power capacity,density and efficiency,and multiple redundancy across all critical systems.GDS is carrier and cloud neutral,which enables customers to connect directly to all major PRC telecommunications carriers and to the largest PRC and global cloud service providers hosted by GDS in many of its facilities.The Company has an 18-year track record of service delivery,successfully fulfilling the requirements of some of the largest and most demanding customers for outsourced data center services in China.The Company’s base of customers consists predominantly of hyper-scale cloud service providers,large internet companies,financial institutions,telecommunications and IT service providers,and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations.
