Deutsche Bank Appointed as Depositary Bank for the Sponsored Level III American Depositary Receipt Program of Hailiang Education Group Inc.

Deutsche Bank today announced its appointment as sponsored depositary bank for the capital raising Level III NASDAQ-listed American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program of Hailiang Education Group Inc. (Hailiang).

Hailiang (NASDAQ: HLG) provides K-12 educational services in the People's Republic of China. The company operates three centrally managed schools, including Zhuji Hailiang Foreign Language School, Zhuji Private High School, and Tianma Experimental School under the Hailiang brand in Zhuji city, Zhejiang province. Its schools offer its basic educational program and international program at the kindergarten, primary school, middle school, and high school levels, as well as provide courses designed for students to become admitted to programs, such as A-levels courses for the United Kingdom universities and SAT courses for the United States universities for students planning to apply to undergraduate programs in the United Kingdom and the United States. As of December 31, 2014, the company had 17,211 enrolled students in its schools.*

Jose Sicilia, Head of Depositary Receipts, Institutional Cash & Securities Services at Deutsche Bank, said: “We are delighted to welcome Hailiang to our established franchise of Chinese ADR issuers and we look forward to working with them to optimize the visibility of their ADR program and broaden their investor base."

Deutsche Bank’s Depositary Receipts team is part of the Issuer Services business within the Bank’s Institutional Cash & Securities Services unit.

In addition to specializing in administering cross-border equity structures such as American and global depositary receipts and global registered shares, Issuer Services provides corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and supranational agencies around the world with trustee, agency, escrow and related services. The Bank offers a very broad range of services for diverse products, from complex securitizations and project finance to syndicated loans, debt exchanges and restructurings.

*Source: Hailiang Education Group Inc. (July 2015)

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