Merrill Lynch & Company acted as lead manager for the global offering.

Following the global offering, the free float of shares was 22.14% of the market capitalization.

The global offering is the first undertaken by a borrower other than the World Bank.

Hence a global offering that could raise $10 billion.

The pricings were dominated by a $1.5 billion global offering of five-year notes from the World Bank.

No American company was in the top 10 global initial public offerings.

Last year, according to estimates, the United States capital markets attracted only 8 percent of all global initial offerings.

Hanson, up to $1 billion of global offering.

Hutchison said it would sell shares in a global initial public offering of the company in March.

China Fund Inc., 4 million common shares in a global offering.