Alibaba will take into account ceding management of a few of its companies in the event that they decide to record as a part of a break-up into six semi-autonomous models, prime executives mentioned because the Chinese language tech group maps out its largest restructuring in years.

“After going public, we’ll proceed to judge the strategic significance of those corporations to Alibaba and, on that foundation, we’ll determine whether or not or to not proceed to retain management,” mentioned chief monetary officer Toby Xu throughout an investor name on Thursday.

The group on Tuesday introduced an overhaul that will break up it into six enterprise models, with their very own chief executives and managed by a holding firm. Every unit could be allowed to usher in exterior capital and finally pursue their very own preliminary public choices.

Chief govt Daniel Zhang mentioned that whereas the break up mirrored the strains of its present enterprise teams, the connection between Alibaba and its models would change.

“Alibaba shall be extra within the nature of an asset and capital operator than a enterprise operator,” he mentioned. “Every enterprise group firm could have its personal company entity . . . we anticipate that these modifications will unleash extra vitality from our enterprise models.”

Xu mentioned Alibaba would additionally hold promoting down a few of its exterior investments. “We are going to proceed to monetise sure of the much less strategic investments in our funding portfolio so as to enhance our capital construction,” he mentioned, including that the group would additionally keep on with shopping for again its shares as a part of a beforehand authorised $25bn programme.

The ecommerce-led group has already been promoting off stakes in some portfolio corporations, offloading all its shares in Indian digital funds supplier Paytm, which had been valued at $310mn on the finish of final 12 months, via two block trades since January. Alibaba’s fintech affiliate Ant Group nonetheless owns a 25 per cent stake in Paytm.

The transfer to downsize Alibaba’s funding portfolio mirrors motion taken by rival Tencent, one other main funder of tech start-ups, which is promoting off belongings beneath strain from regulators involved about its huge affect within the sector.

Chelsey Tam, analyst at Morning Star, in a be aware to purchasers, forecast that Alibaba’s enterprise models might “meet the itemizing necessities of Hong Kong Fundamental Board itemizing guidelines”, which embody income, revenue and administration targets, after three years.

Alibaba has not supplied a timeline for when the models may search exterior capital or record publicly. The Alibaba holding group will retain full possession of on-line gross sales platforms Tmall and Taobao, which generated extra earnings than the group as a complete in its final fiscal 12 months.

Xu additionally acknowledged that there had been little motion on the group’s plan to transform its secondary Hong Kong itemizing right into a major itemizing, which had initially been set for the top of 2022.

“We are going to proceed to judge market situations and exterior circumstances, that can take time however we do proceed to make that analysis,” he mentioned.

The change to a major itemizing would lay the groundwork for added mainland Chinese language traders to purchase its shares, however it could additionally expose the corporate to larger disclosure necessities and is prone to pressure its executives to report their private gross sales of Alibaba inventory.

Lax guidelines for overseas issuers together with Alibaba within the US at present exempt its executives from making the knowledge public. Alibaba in November additionally attributed a part of the delay to needing to create a brand new inventory compensation plan for workers.