Alibaba Discloses State Ownership in More Than 12 Business Units

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. disclosed a wider web of Chinese government stakes in its business units than previously known, following an inquiry from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Hangzhou-based e-commerce pioneer said in filingsBloomberg Terminal in the US and Hong Kong over the weekend that more than a dozen of its entities are partially owned by Chinese state-owned enterprises or foreign sovereign wealth funds. In the notice, the company said the disclosures were made “in response to certain comments from the staff of the SEC” as an amendment to its earlier filing from July.

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