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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Physicswallah Limited / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/physicswallah-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45792:1" rel="noopener">Physicswallah</a> is looking to raise about US$434m in its upcoming India IPO.</li>
<li>Physicswallah Ltd (PWL) offers test preparation courses for competitive examinations, and other courses such as for upskilling, across 13 education categories, including JEE, NEET, and UPSC, among others.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Physicswallah is looking to raise about US$434m in its upcoming India IPO.
Physicswallah Ltd (PWL) offers test preparation courses for competitive examinations, and other courses such as for upskilling, across 13 education categories, including JEE, NEET, and UPSC, among others.
In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.


Physicswallah Pre-IPO - The Positives - Has Had a Dream Run

Samsung Electronics / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, there were a flurry of deal launches across Hong Kong and India.</li>
<li>On the placements front, while the week was rather quiet, we did have a look at the upcoming lockup release.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, there were a flurry of deal launches across Hong Kong and India.
On the placements front, while the week was rather quiet, we did have a look at the upcoming lockup release.


ECM Weekly (3 November 2025)-Sany, Seres, CIG, PonyAI, WeRide, Mininglamp, Lenskart, Groww, Softcare

Zijin Gold International / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPO front, this week saw a few good listings across the region while the spotlight will be on <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zijin-gold-international" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:45448:1" rel="noopener">Zijin Gold (2259 HK)</a> in the coming week.</li>
<li>On the placements front, it was a relatively quiter week, as compared to some of the more recent weekly flows.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPO front, this week saw a few good listings across the region while the spotlight will be on Zijin Gold (2259 HK) in the coming week.
On the placements front, it was a relatively quiter week, as compared to some of the more recent weekly flows.


ECM Weekly (29 September 2025)- Zijin, Chery, CAREIT, Orion, Butong, Victory Giant, Northern Star

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nextbillion-technology-pvt-ltd-groww" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34787:1" rel="noopener">Groww (1573648D IN)</a> is looking to raise up to US$803m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JPM, Kotak, Axis, Citi and Motilal Oswal.</li>
<li>Groww, officially called Billionbrains Garage Ventures, is a direct-to-customer (D2C) digital investment platform that provides multiple financial products and services.</li>
<li>According to the Redseer Report, Groww was India’s largest and fastest growing investment platform by active users on NSE as of June 30, 2025.</li>
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Groww (1573648D IN) is looking to raise up to US$803m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JPM, Kotak, Axis, Citi and Motilal Oswal.
Groww, officially called Billionbrains Garage Ventures, is a direct-to-customer (D2C) digital investment platform that provides multiple financial products and services.
According to the Redseer Report, Groww was India’s largest and fastest growing investment platform by active users on NSE as of June 30, 2025.


Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Sree Capital

Sreemant Dudhoria

Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

Fundamental Research on Listed Indian Companies

Sree Capital

Sree Capital is a platform to share fundamental research on listed Indian companies. We do this research for our own investment

National Securities Depository / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>This insight describes about <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/national-securities-depository-ltd-nsdl" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:39939:1" rel="noopener">NSDL (NSDL IN)</a> 's complete overhaul in top management team over the last 12 months.</li>
<li>The mandate for new team is to arrest the market share loss with new age/ discount brokers. The revised strategy seems to be working.</li>
<li>The IPO provides investors a front-row seat opportunity to witness this turnaround.</li>
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This insight describes about NSDL (NSDL IN) 's complete overhaul in top management team over the last 12 months.
The mandate for new team is to arrest the market share loss with new age/ discount brokers. The revised strategy seems to be working.
The IPO provides investors a front-row seat opportunity to witness this turnaround.


NSDL - New Management, Revised Strategy — The Battle for Market Share Continues

India

Groww is a direct-to-customer digital investment platform offering a wide range of financial products and services, including stocks, direct mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), initial public offerings (IPOs), derivatives, bonds, and gold. The company also provides margin trading facilities and personal loans. Groww is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and was founded in 2018.

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Physicswallah Pre-IPO - The Positives - Has Had a Dream Run

Physicswallah is looking to raise about US$434m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (3 November 2025)-Sany, Seres, CIG, PonyAI, WeRide, Mininglamp, Lenskart, Groww, Softcare

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (29 September 2025)- Zijin, Chery, CAREIT, Orion, Butong, Victory Giant, Northern Star

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Groww Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Groww is looking to raise up to US$803m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JPM, Kotak, Axis, Citi and Motilal Oswal.

Akshat Shah

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Physicswallah Pre-IPO - The Positives - Has Had a Dream Run

Physicswallah is looking to raise about US$434m in its upcoming India IPO. In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (3 November 2025)-Sany, Seres, CIG, PonyAI, WeRide, Mininglamp, Lenskart, Groww, Softcare

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

ECM Weekly (29 September 2025)- Zijin, Chery, CAREIT, Orion, Butong, Victory Giant, Northern Star

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Groww Pre-IPO Tearsheet

Groww is looking to raise up to US$803m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by JPM, Kotak, Axis, Citi and Motilal Oswal.

Akshat Shah

NSDL - New Management, Revised Strategy — The Battle for Market Share Continues

NSDL has moved sharply post listing. It is up 56% from the IPO price. The stock now trades (73x P/E FY25) at premium to CDSL (62x P/E FY25). One...

Sreemant Dudhoria