{"id":171690,"date":"2023-11-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=926956"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:00:00","slug":"tiktok-owner-bytedance-offers-to-buy-back-shares-from-staff-at-160-apiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/11\/08\/tiktok-owner-bytedance-offers-to-buy-back-shares-from-staff-at-160-apiece\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok owner ByteDance offers to buy back shares from staff at $160 apiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The ByteDance logo is seen at the company's office in Shanghai, China July 4, 2023. REUTERS\/Aly Song\/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights<br \/>\nSHANGHAI\/HONG KONG, Nov 8 (Reuters) - China's ByteDance, the parent of short video app TikTok, is offering to buy back shares from its employees outside the United States for $160 apiece, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a plan that the company confirmed.<br \/>\nThe price per restricted stock unit is in line with an offer it made to current and former U.S. employees in October, according to a Reuters report which said the company was looking to buy at least $300 million worth of stock at $160 per share.<br \/>\nThe price valued the company at $223.5 billion, about 26% lower than a valuation a year earlier, the Reuters report said. Last year, ByteDance was valued at $300 billion in a buyback program offered to its non-U.S. employees.<br \/>\nThe latest $160 price is higher than the $155 price set in an earlier April buyback, the person added.<br \/>\nA ByteDance spokesperson confirmed the share buyback plan for employees outside the U.S., saying it aimed to provide liquidity options for staff through such programs. The company has offered buyback programs twice a year to eligible current and former staff since 2017.<br \/>\nBuybacks allow employees to cash in shares without waiting for the company to list on the stock market. An initial public offering for ByteDance has been highly anticipated for years, but the company has said since 2021 it had no imminent plans amid Beijing's heightened scrutiny of China's technology giants.<br \/>\nReporting by Brenda Goh in Shanghai and Josh YE in Hong Kong Editing by Mark Potter<br \/>\nOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ByteDance logo is seen at the company's office in Shanghai, China July 4, 2023. REUTERS\/Aly Song\/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights<br \/>\nSHANGHAI\/HONG KONG, Nov 8 (Reuters) &#8211; China's ByteDance, the parent of short video app TikTok, is offering to buy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,144,339,194,222,401,465,1284,1542,484],"tags":[10309,2353,10315,10310],"class_list":["post-171690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-news-chinese-law","category-online-video","category-shanghai","category-social-media","category-stock-market","category-technology","category-united-states","tag-bytedance","tag-ipo","tag-media-intelligence","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171691,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171690\/revisions\/171691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}