Deal: Clayton Utz has acted as the Australian counsel to dual-listed China-based Tianqi Lithium Corporation on its HK$13.5 billion (US$1.7 billion) initial public offering and secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE).

Value: US$1.7 billion

Area: Corporate

Key players: The Clayton Utz team was led by corporate partners Brett Cohen and Liz Humphry, which included special counsel Armin Fazely and lawyer Luke Crofts.

Deal significance: The share sale was oversubscribed, with cornerstone investors including South Korean diversified chemical company LG Chem and state-owned China Aviation Lithium Battery Co.

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Tianqi’s Australian operations, located in Western Australia, comprise the Greenbushes lithium concentrate mining operations and the Kwinana Lithium Hydroxide Plant, Australia’s first fully automated lithium hydroxide processing plant. The Kwinana plant delivered its first batch of battery-grade lithium hydroxide in May this year, with electrified transport and energy storage systems fuelling a demand boom for the metal. 

Congratulating Tianqi on its IPO milestone, the firm said: “This is a significant achievement for Tianqi, and we’re pleased to have been involved in helping them bring this second listing to market. The response reflects the strong global demand for lithium, which continues unabated.”