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Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

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<li>Atlassian Corporation Plc, leading software and services provider, recently marked their Q3 of Fiscal Year 2024 earnings call, reporting significant growth in their Cloud customer base and paid seats, among other financial milestones.</li>
<li>However, they also made the announcement of the stepping down of co-CEO, Scott Farquhar, by August 31, 2024.</li>
<li>The growth in the Cloud customer base was highlighted as a result of the winding down of support for Server operations three and a half years ago, which yielded three times the increase in paid seats in the Cloud.</li>
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Atlassian Corporation Plc, leading software and services provider, recently marked their Q3 of Fiscal Year 2024 earnings call, reporting significant growth in their Cloud customer base and paid seats, among other financial milestones.
However, they also made the announcement of the stepping down of co-CEO, Scott Farquhar, by August 31, 2024.
The growth in the Cloud customer base was highlighted as a result of the winding down of support for Server operations three and a half years ago, which yielded three times the increase in paid seats in the Cloud.


Atlassian Corporation: Will The New Sole CEO Help Take The Company Towards A New Growth Trajectory?

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Algosun Global

Equity Capital Markets

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/gitlab-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34460:1" rel="noopener">GitLab (GTLB US)</a> , one of the key competitors of GitHub (Microsoft), filed for an IPO and sold ~8.4 million Class A shares today for $77.00 per share, implying a market cap of ~$13 billion at above the expected price range of $66.00-$69.00 per share on a fully diluted basis (including options and RSUs). Selling stockholders also sold additional ~1.98 million Class A shares. GitLab shares are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq Global Market under the trading symbol “GTLB”. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America are lead underwriters on the IPO.   </p>

GitLab (GTLB US) , one of the key competitors of GitHub (Microsoft), filed for an IPO and sold ~8.4 million Class A shares today for $77.00 per share, implying a market cap of ~$13 billion at above the expected price range of $66.00-$69.00 per share on a fully diluted basis (including options and RSUs). Selling stockholders also sold additional ~1.98 million Class A shares. GitLab shares are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq Global Market under the trading symbol “GTLB”. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America are lead underwriters on the IPO.   

GitLab IPO: Is $10 Billion+ Stock Valuation Too High?

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ventia-services-group-pty-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34917:1" rel="noopener">Ventia (VNT AU)</a> (VSG)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, aim to raise around US$174m via selling 11.7% of the company.</li>
<li>The two investors have pared their stake thrice this year and this will be the final cleanup sale. All the past deals have done ok.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics.</li>
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Ventia (VNT AU) (VSG)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, aim to raise around US$174m via selling 11.7% of the company.
The two investors have pared their stake thrice this year and this will be the final cleanup sale. All the past deals have done ok.
In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics.


Ventia Services Group Placement- Coming Ahead of Lockup but Is Well Flagged, past Deals Have Done Ok

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ventia-services-group-pty-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34917:1" rel="noopener">Ventia Services Group Pty (VNT AU)</a> (VSG)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, aim to raise around US$214m via selling 14% of the company.</li>
<li>The two largest shareholders together owned nearly 30% of the company and have pared their stake twice this year.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics.</li>
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Ventia Services Group Pty (VNT AU) (VSG)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, aim to raise around US$214m via selling 14% of the company.
The two largest shareholders together owned nearly 30% of the company and have pared their stake twice this year.
In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics.


Ventia Services Group Placement - Well Flagged and All past Deals Have Done Well

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ventia-services-group-pty-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34917:1" rel="noopener">Ventia Services Group Pty (VNT AU)</a>’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, will come off their placement linked lockup soon.</li>
<li>The two largest shareholders together owned nearly 30% of the company and have pared their stake twice this year.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the likely placement and past deal performance.</li>
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Ventia Services Group Pty (VNT AU)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, will come off their placement linked lockup soon.
The two largest shareholders together owned nearly 30% of the company and have pared their stake twice this year.
In this note, we will talk about the likely placement and past deal performance.


Ventia Services Group US$450m Placement Lockup Expiry - Past Deals Have Done Well

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Atlassian Corporation provides technology solutions. The Company designs and develops enterprise software platform for project management, collaboration, issue tracking, integration, deployment, and support services. Atlassian serves customers worldwide.

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Atlassian Corporation: Will The New Sole CEO Help Take The Company Towards A New Growth Trajectory?

Atlassian Corporation Plc, leading software and services provider, recently marked their Q3 of Fiscal Year 2024 earnings call, reporting...

Baptista Research

GitLab IPO: Is $10 Billion+ Stock Valuation Too High?

Money-losing unicorn GitLab has sky-high IPO valuation of $12B+ and we believe GitLab shares have ~16% downside potential to IPO price of $77 per...

Andrei Zakharov

Ventia Services Group Placement- Coming Ahead of Lockup but Is Well Flagged, past Deals Have Done Ok

Ventia (VNT AU) (VSG)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, aim to raise around US$174m via selling 11.7% of the...

Sumeet Singh

Ventia Services Group Placement - Well Flagged and All past Deals Have Done Well

Ventia Services Group Pty (VNT AU) (VSG)’s two largest shareholders, Apollo Global Management and CIMIC Group, aim to raise around US$214m via...

Sumeet Singh

Ventia Services Group US$450m Placement Lockup Expiry - Past Deals Have Done Well

The deal is now live, with the two investors looking to sell half of their current stake, as we had expected. This will be a very well flagged deal.

Sumeet Singh

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