EX-15.1 9 wb-20211231xex15d1.htm EX-15.1

Exhibit 15.1

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YCU/688185-000001/21922107v1

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Charmaine.Chow@maples.com

Weibo Corporation

8/F, QIHAO Plaza, No. 8 Xinyuan S. Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100027
Peoples Republic of China

10 March 2022

Dear Sirs,

Weibo Corporation

We have acted as legal advisers as to the laws of the Cayman Islands to Weibo Corporation, an exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands (the Company), in connection with the filing by the Company with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) of an annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2021 (the Annual Report).

We hereby consent to the reference to our firm under the headings  Item 5.A Operating ResultsTaxation  and Item 10.B. Additional InformationMemorandum and Articles of Association in the Annual Report, and we further consent to the incorporation by reference of the summary of our opinions under these headings into the Companys registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-199022) that was filed on 30 September 2014, pertaining to the Companys 2010 Share Incentive Plan and 2014 Share Incentive Plan and the Companys registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. No. 333-228525) pertaining to the Companys 2014 Share Incentive Plan.

We consent to the filing with the SEC of this consent letter as an exhibit to the Annual Report. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, or under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in each case, as amended, or the regulations promulgated thereunder.

Yours faithfully,

/s/ Maples and Calder (Hong Kong) LLP