WuXi AppTec major shareholders reduce stakes, triggering disclosure

WuXi AppTec announced on December 19, 2025, that its controlling shareholders and their concert parties have reduced their aggregate shareholding, triggering a 1% threshold disclosure. Between November 26, 2025, and December 17, 2025, these entities collectively decreased their holdings by 29,508,754 shares through concentrated bidding and block trades. This represents 0.989% of the company's total share capital as of the announcement date.

The total number of shares held by these shareholders decreased from 535,711,396 shares to 506,202,642 shares. Consequently, their combined shareholding percentage fell from 17.95% to 16.97%. The transactions primarily involved concentrated bidding, accounting for 29,836,652 shares (1% of total share capital), and block trades totaling 11,500,000 shares (0.39% of total share capital).

The company stated that this equity change complies with relevant laws and regulations, does not trigger a tender offer, and will not alter the company's actual control. The reduction is part of previously disclosed share reduction plans by the information disclosure obligors, who remain within their planned reduction period.