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WeWork Is Looking to Go Public in September

(Bloomberg) -- WeWork Cos. is looking to go public in September, people familiar with the company’s plans said, in what’s expected to be the second-biggest initial public offering of the year.

The company is targeting a share sale of about $3.5 billion, though that amount may change, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans were private.

The New York-based company, which rents office space to workers, has said it submitted its paperwork confidentially to U.S. regulators in December. WeWork plans to to discuss its business with analysts on July 31, the person said.

WeWork declined to comment on the plans. The intended timing of the IPO was reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal.

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SoftBank Group Corp. is WeWork’s largest backer and has valued the unprofitable business at $47 billion.

WeWork has been in talks to secure a credit facility, originally $2.75 billion -- a figure that was expanded to as much as $4 billion, people with knowledge of the discussions said this month. The company is now in talks to increase that amount to as much as $6 billion in what would be an asset-backed and highly structured financing, one of the people said.

Uber Technologies Inc.’s $8.1 billion IPO in May ranks as the biggest of 2019. A WeWork offering of $3.5 billion would put it ahead of diagnostic equipment maker Avantor Inc.’s $2.9 billion listing in May, currently the second-biggest for the year globally.

(Updates with IPO target amount in second paragraph)

To contact the reporters on this story: Ellen Huet in San Francisco at ehuet4@bloomberg.net;Gillian Tan in New York at gtan129@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Mark Milian at mmilian@bloomberg.net, ;Alan Goldstein at agoldstein5@bloomberg.net, Michael Hytha

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