Gatekeeper Substitution and its Limits under a Cooperation Gap: A Practice-Based Analysis of the Hong Kong, China Listing of Laos-Based Assets

Yiran Liu; Chenlu Zhao

doi:10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797306.20261006

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Gatekeeper Substitution and its Limits under a Cooperation Gap: A Practice-Based Analysis of the Hong Kong, China Listing of Laos-Based Assets

Volume 10, Issue 6

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Gatekeeper Substitution and its Limits under a Cooperation Gap: A Practice-Based Analysis of the Hong Kong, China Listing of Laos-Based Assets
Gatekeeper Substitution and its Limits under a Cooperation Gap: A Practice-Based Analysis of the Hong Kong, China Listing of Laos-Based Assets
Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, 999078, China
Vol. 10, Issue 6, Pages: 35-39(2026)
Published：30 June 2026
DOI：10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797306.20261006
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Liu Yiran,Zhao Chenlu.Gatekeeper Substitution and its Limits under a Cooperation Gap: A Practice-Based Analysis of the Hong Kong, China Listing of Laos-Based Assets[J].Development Economics of China,2026,10(06):35-39.
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Liu Yiran,Zhao Chenlu.Gatekeeper Substitution and its Limits under a Cooperation Gap: A Practice-Based Analysis of the Hong Kong, China Listing of Laos-Based Assets[J].Development Economics of China,2026,10(06):35-39. DOI： 10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797306.20261006.

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Abstract

Demand for listing overseas resource assets in Hong Kong

China continues to grow

yet there is little precedent for an issuer whose underlying assets lie entirely within a jurisdiction that has established no securities regulatory cooperation arrangement with Hong Kong. Taking as its sample an application to list Laos-based mining assets under Chapter 18 of the Hong Kong Main Board Listing Rules

this Article defines the concept and scope of the

cooperation gap

and shows that such a gap does not defeat listing eligibility

since an issuer can satisfy Rule 8.02A through structural arrangements. What the gap does is shift the function of certifying issuer quality from public regulatory cooperation to private gatekeepers. Because gatekeepers' certification capacity is itself conditioned on such external factors as public enforcement and reputational sanction

that shift is necessarily incomplete and costly

and its limits are endogenous to the gatekeeping mechanism itself. Working through three levels of analysis

namely enforcement cooperation

the jurisdictional environment and the issuer

this Article assesses what each category of gatekeeper can and cann

ot substitute for. It closes by setting out the two listing routes available under a cooperation gap

offering issuers and gatekeeping institutions contemplating comparable projects a framework for feasibility analysis.

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