The video streaming service, majority-owned by Baidu, has hired three banks to manage its initial public offering expected to take place in the first half of 2018.

Legend and Susquehanna International Group stand to score an exit as peer-to-peer lending platform PPdai gears up for a flotation on the New York Stock Exchange.

Tencent, online services provider Sea's largest investor, has expressed interest in buying $100m of shares in the latter's forthcoming initial public offering.

Spero Therapeutics, a bacterial infection treatment developer based on research at Harvard Medical School, has filed to raise up to $86.3m in an initial public offering.

The Rocket Internet and Vorwerk-backed meal kit subscription service has confirmed it is seeking $295m to $355m in proceeds from a Frankfurt Stock Exchange flotation.

Allena Pharmaceuticals, a Pharmstandard-backed developer of metabolic and kidney disorder treatments, has filed to go public after raising $93m in venture capital.

The integrated circuit producer, which has raised more than $195m from investors including GlobalFoundries, Cisco, Intel, LSI and Xilinx, has filed for an $86m IPO.

The Tencent-backed Southeast Asian online services provider is set to raise between $596m and $695m from its US initial public offering.

Rocket Internet-backed HelloFresh had filed for a $332m offering in 2015 but halted the plans a month later.