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INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY.

Founded

Hangzhou, China (4 April 1999)

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

Slogan

Global Trade Starts Here

Keypeople

Jack Ma (Chairman)
Jonathan Lu (CEO)
Joseph Tsai (Vice Chairman)

Industry

Internet

Products

E-commerce, Online auction hosting,

Online money transfers, mobile
commerce

Jack Ma
( Brain behind the success story )

LETS UNDERSTAND IPO BETTER

The first sale of stock by a private company to the public.
In an IPO, the issuer obtains the assistance of an underwriting firm, which

helps it determine what type of security to issue (common or preferred), the

best offering price and the time to bring it to market.

THE SIX BANKS LEADING ALIBABAS GIANT I.P.O.

Six

firms were listed as Alibabas lead underwriters, listed mostly in

alphabetical order: Credit Suisse, deutsche bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan
chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. They emerged as winners for the
honour of running an I.P.O. That could ultimately end up raising more than
$20 billion.

Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley worked on much of the prospectus

JPMorgan and Goldman were tasked with working on the offering structure
and communicating with existing shareholders

Deutsche bank and Goldman helped out with legal due diligence

EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

Alibaba

had 20,884 employees as of Dec. 31 and 7,306 of them were in

engineering and data analysis.

Yet the company has just four directors: founder Jack Ma, vice-chair Joseph

Tsai, Softbanks Masayoshi son and a yahoo executive, Jacqueline reses, who
will step down ahead of the IPO.

THE OFFERING
Offeringprice

Between US$66.00 and US$68.00 per ADS.

ADSsofferedbyus

123,076,931 ADSs

ADSsofferedbythe
sellingshareholders

197,029,169 ADSs

ADSsoutstanding
immediatelyafter
thisoffering

320,106,100 ADSs (or 368,122,000 ADSs if the underwriters

exercise in full their option to
purchase additional ADSs)

Ordinaryshares
outstanding
immediatelyafter
thisoffering

2,465,005,966 ordinary shares (based on 2,341,929,035

ordinary shares outstanding immediately
prior to this offering).

CONT..
NewYorkStockExchangetrading
symbol

BABA

Lock-up

Depositary

Citibank, N.A.

91 days after the date of this

prospectus, 8,108,115 ordinary shares
will be available for sale in the public
market;
181 days after the date of this
prospectus,
429,052,673
ordinary
shares will be available for sale in the
public market; and
366 days after the date of this
prospectus,
1,579,322,008
ordinary
shares will be available for sale in the
public market.

DIVIDEND POLICY
Since

inception, they have not declared or paid any dividends on ordinary

shares. They have no present plan to pay any dividends on ordinary shares.

In the foreseeable future they

intend to retain most, if not all, of available

funds and any future earnings to operate and expand business.

Any future determination

to pay dividends will be made at the discretion of

board of directors and may be based on a number of factors.

SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

Upon completion of this offering, they will have 320,106,100 ADSs outstanding
representing approximately 13.0% of ordinary shares (or 368,122,000 ADSs
outstanding representing approximately 14.8% of ordinary shares, if the
underwriters exercise in full their option to purchase additional ADSs), based
on the number of ordinary shares outstanding as of august 31, 2014. This does
not include 128,417,070 ordinary shares, representing 5.2% of outstanding
ordinary shares immediately after this offering.

UNDERWRITING
Credit suisse securities (USA) LLC
Deutsche bank securities inc.
Goldman sachs (asia) l.L.C.
J.P. Morgan securities LLC
Morgan stanley & co. International plc
Citigroup global markets inc.
Boci asia limited
China international capital corporation hong kong securities limited
CLSA limited
DBS bank ltd.
Hsbc securities (usa) inc.
Mizuho securities usa inc.
Pacific crest securities llc
RBC capital markets, LLC
Stifel, nicolaus & company, incorporated
Wells fargo securities, LLC
BNP paribas securities corp.
Evercore group l.L.C.
Raymond james & associates, inc.
Suntrust robinson humphrey, inc.
Bhf-bank aktiengesellschaft
CIMB securities limited
China merchants securities (HK) co., Limited
ING financial markets LLC
Needham & company, LLC
Nomura securities international, inc.
Raine securities llc
RBS securities inc.
Sg americas securities, llc
C.L. King & associates, inc.
Lebenthal & co., Llc
Mischler financial group, inc.
Samuel a. Ramirez & company, inc.
Topeka capital markets inc.
The williams capital group, l.P.

EXPENSES RELATED TO THIS OFFERING

SECregistrationfee

US$3,224,160

NewYorkStockExchangelistingfee

250,000

FinancialIndustryRegulatoryAuthorityfilingfee

225,500

Printingandengravingexpenses

1,000,000

Independentfinancialadvisoryfeesandexpenses

9,000,000

Legalfeesandexpenses

15,775,000

Accountingfeesandexpenses

5,000,000

Miscellaneous

11,192,168

Total

US$45,666,828

IPO OF ALIBABA
Alibaba raised $21.8 billion in its debut, making it the biggest U.S.-Listed IPO in
history.

If Alibaba's investment banks were to exercise their option to sell an additional

48 million shares, it could make Alibaba's ipo the biggest in the world.

Alibaba now has a market capitalization of roughly $219.8 billion.

Unlike the US E-commerce giant Amazon, Alibaba has been consistently
profitable. .

 In may, the e-commerce giant filed for an initial public offering in the united

states. Four months later, it achieved the biggest market debut in history. On
sept. 18, the company priced its shares at $68 a pop, raising $21.8 billion,
and that on Friday, sept. 19, the stock began trading at a stunning $92.70.

The company will sell 320.1 million shares. The stock

share, the top price proposed by Alibaba.

The

went on sale at $68 a

offering brought in $21.8 billion, valuing the company at about $167

billion.

SOME INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT ALIBABA.

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, starts trading on the New York stock
exchange under the listing BABA.

Alibaba

has the biggest IPO ever 20,884 people work for Alibaba. That's
more employees than Yahoo and Facebook have combined.

In 2013, two of Alibaba's websites handled $240 billion in sales that's double
the size of Amazon, triple the size of EBay.

Alibaba has 231 million annual active buyers who make 11.3 billion orders
per year.

Alibaba is on track to become the world's first e-commerce firm to handle $1

trillion a year in transactions.

THANK YOU.