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.

Equity Capital Markets

InnoScience Suzhou Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/innoscience-suzhou-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44185:1" rel="noopener">InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK)</a> aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong placement.</li>
<li>Innoscience was only listed in Dec 2024 and it undertook another primary raising in July 2025, the lockup for which has yet to expire.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong placement.
Innoscience was only listed in Dec 2024 and it undertook another primary raising in July 2025, the lockup for which has yet to expire.
In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Innoscience Suzhou Tech Placement - Selling Ahead of Lockup Expiry, Relatively Small

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 12th.</li>
<li>The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for Xiaomi, Tencent, CMB, Alibaba, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology, BYD.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Hong Kong Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 12th.
The top stocks by inflows and outflows were tabulated for all market, HSCEI, mid cap and s/mid cap groups.
We highlight flows for Xiaomi, Tencent, CMB, Alibaba, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology, BYD.


HK Connect Flows Weekly (Dec 12th): Xiaomi Inflows & Tencent/Alibaba Outflows

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

Equity Bottom-Up

InnoScience Suzhou Technology / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>InnoScience is a leader in the global GaN power semiconductor industry, ranking first with market share of 33.7% in 2023, per Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S).</li><li>The Company designs, develops and manufactures different types of GaN products, including discrete chips, ICs, wafers and modules.</li><li>Their products are widely used in various end markets, such as consumer electronics, renewable energy, industrial applications, automotive electronics and data centers. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

InnoScience is a leader in the global GaN power semiconductor industry, ranking first with market share of 33.7% in 2023, per Frost &amp; Sullivan (F&amp;S).The Company designs, develops and manufactures different types of GaN products, including discrete chips, ICs, wafers and modules.Their products are widely used in various end markets, such as consumer electronics, renewable energy, industrial applications, automotive electronics and data centers. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

InnoScience (2577 HK) - Global Integrated GaN Leader with Significant Growth Potential

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

InnoScience Suzhou Technology / Event-Driven

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/innoscience-suzhou-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44185:1" rel="noopener">InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK)</a> has priced its IPO at HK$30.86/share, the low end of the range. Over half the shares have been allotted to cornerstone investors.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/innoscience-suzhou-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44185:1" rel="noopener">InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK)</a> should be added to the HSCI in March and will be added to Southbound Stock Connect early March.</li>
<li>Inclusion in global indices will take place in 2026 and there will be supply in mid- and late-2025 following lock-up expiries.</li>
</ul>



InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) has priced its IPO at HK$30.86/share, the low end of the range. Over half the shares have been allotted to cornerstone investors.

InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) should be added to the HSCI in March and will be added to Southbound Stock Connect early March.
Inclusion in global indices will take place in 2026 and there will be supply in mid- and late-2025 following lock-up expiries.


InnoScience (2577 HK): Prices at Low End & Lists Today; Index Inclusion Timeline

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher, ORTEX

Dimitris Ioannidis

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher

Global Financial Data and Analytics Platform

ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/innoscience-suzhou-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44185:1" rel="noopener">InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK)</a> is anticipated to debut at the HKEX on 30 December 2024 with a valuation between $3.5bn - $3.9bn.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/innoscience-suzhou-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44185:1" rel="noopener">InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK)</a> is forecasted to fail the fcap threshold in the first place for both global indices due to small size offering and lock-ups.</li>
<li>The security is expected to be added in China all-world or small-cap at the September 2025 review following the 6-month lock-up expiry. </li>
</ul>



InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) is anticipated to debut at the HKEX on 30 December 2024 with a valuation between $3.5bn - $3.9bn.

InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) is forecasted to fail the fcap threshold in the first place for both global indices due to small size offering and lock-ups.
The security is expected to be added in China all-world or small-cap at the September 2025 review following the 6-month lock-up expiry. 


InnoScience Technology (2577 HK): Low IPO Free Float Delays Global Index Inclusion

Hong Kong

Innoscience is the largest 8-inch Integrated Device Manufacture (IDM) fully focused on GaN technology in the world.

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InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK)

Innoscience Suzhou Tech Placement - Selling Ahead of Lockup Expiry, Relatively Small

InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong placement. In this note, we talk about the deal dynamics and...

Sumeet Singh

HK Connect Flows Weekly (Dec 12th): Xiaomi Inflows & Tencent/Alibaba Outflows

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlighted flows for Xiaomi, Tencent, CMB, Alibaba, Zhejiang Leapmotor...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

InnoScience (2577 HK) - Global Integrated GaN Leader with Significant Growth Potential

InnoScience is a leader in the global GaN power semiconductor industry, ranking first with market share of 33.7% in 2023, per Frost & Sullivan (F&S).

CMB International

InnoScience (2577 HK): Prices at Low End & Lists Today; Index Inclusion Timeline

InnoScience raised US$180m in its IPO, valuing the company at US$3.5bn and the H-shares at US$1.95bn. Float will be 2-4% till Dec25, so no chance...

Brian Freitas

InnoScience Technology (2577 HK): Low IPO Free Float Delays Global Index Inclusion

InnoScience Technology set to debut at HKEX on 30 December with a valuation of ~$3.9bn but is expected to initially be excluded from global...

Dimitris Ioannidis

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Innoscience Suzhou Tech Placement - Selling Ahead of Lockup Expiry, Relatively Small

InnoScience Suzhou Technology (2577 HK) aims to raise around US$200m in its Hong Kong placement. In this note, we talk about the deal dynamics and...

Sumeet Singh

HK Connect Flows Weekly (Dec 12th): Xiaomi Inflows & Tencent/Alibaba Outflows

We analyzed southbound Hong Kong connect flows in the past week and highlighted flows for Xiaomi, Tencent, CMB, Alibaba, Zhejiang Leapmotor...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

InnoScience (2577 HK) - Global Integrated GaN Leader with Significant Growth Potential

InnoScience is a leader in the global GaN power semiconductor industry, ranking first with market share of 33.7% in 2023, per Frost & Sullivan (F&S).

CMB International

InnoScience (2577 HK): Prices at Low End & Lists Today; Index Inclusion Timeline

InnoScience raised US$180m in its IPO, valuing the company at US$3.5bn and the H-shares at US$1.95bn. Float will be 2-4% till Dec25, so no chance...

Brian Freitas

InnoScience Technology (2577 HK): Low IPO Free Float Delays Global Index Inclusion

​InnoScience Technology set to debut at HKEX on 30 December with a valuation of ~$3.9bn but is expected to initially be excluded from global...

Dimitris Ioannidis

InnoScience Technology set to debut at HKEX on 30 December with a valuation of ~$3.9bn but is expected to initially be excluded from global...