China Yongda Automobiles Services Holdings, which was due to price its initial public offering after the US market close on Wednesday, has extended the institutional bookbuilding until Monday as it tries to find additional demand to complete the deal, sources say. The company, which is the number one BMW dealer in China, has made no changes to the original terms, so the deal size is still between HK$2.37 billion and HK$3.37 billion $306 million to $435 million.
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