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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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs</li>
<li>On the IPO front,  only the smaller issuers were active with most following through on year end listing plans.</li>
<li>On placements front, HK market got going in a jiffy, riding on the coattails of China reopening.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs
On the IPO front,  only the smaller issuers were active with most following through on year end listing plans.
On placements front, HK market got going in a jiffy, riding on the coattails of China reopening.


ECM Weekly (8th Jan 2022) - Sinohytec, Beauty Farm, Sula, Kfin, Bionote, Meidong, CIFI, Jinxin Fert

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bionote-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36446:1" rel="noopener">Bionote (377740 KS)</a> raised US$72.2m in its Korean IPO. The IPO had consisted of both a primary and secondary selldown.</li>
<li>Bionote is an integrated producer of diagnostics test products and biocontent products. </li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.</li>
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Bionote (377740 KS) raised US$72.2m in its Korean IPO. The IPO had consisted of both a primary and secondary selldown.
Bionote is an integrated producer of diagnostics test products and biocontent products. 
In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.


Bionote IPO Trading - Weakest Demand Even After Cutting Price and Size

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>In this insight, we review all the 16 Korean pair trade ideas in 2022.</li>
<li>A few of the best performing pair trade ideas this year included long LG Chem/short LGES, long Doosan Corp/short Doosan Enerbility, and long KIH/short MFG.</li>
<li>Going forward in 2023, as the market continues to show higher volatility, there could be continued strong interest in pair trade ideas in Korea. </li>
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In this insight, we review all the 16 Korean pair trade ideas in 2022.
A few of the best performing pair trade ideas this year included long LG Chem/short LGES, long Doosan Corp/short Doosan Enerbility, and long KIH/short MFG.
Going forward in 2023, as the market continues to show higher volatility, there could be continued strong interest in pair trade ideas in Korea. 


Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>The ESOP's 3.5% stake will be released on January 27. Considering the extremely tight flow situation, this is by no means small. 3.48% is 20 times the recent ADTV.</li>
<li>NPS will likely move toward a minimum stake of 6% again for LG Energy, irrespective of LG Energy's current valuation, despite its recent selling.</li>
<li>We should consider the possibility that NPS will contrarily utilize this ESOP lockup release, and we should also design a contrarian position for this lockup release.</li>
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The ESOP's 3.5% stake will be released on January 27. Considering the extremely tight flow situation, this is by no means small. 3.48% is 20 times the recent ADTV.
NPS will likely move toward a minimum stake of 6% again for LG Energy, irrespective of LG Energy's current valuation, despite its recent selling.
We should consider the possibility that NPS will contrarily utilize this ESOP lockup release, and we should also design a contrarian position for this lockup release.


LG Energy: ESOP Lockup Release (3.5% of SO) & Contrarian Approach Targeting NPS

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vinfast" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36550:1" rel="noopener">VinFast (1905332D VN)</a>  is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO.</li>
<li>VinFast is a full-scale mobility platform focused primarily on designing and manufacturing premium EVs, electric scooters and electric buses.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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VinFast (1905332D VN)  is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO.
VinFast is a full-scale mobility platform focused primarily on designing and manufacturing premium EVs, electric scooters and electric buses.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


VinFast Auto Pre-IPO - The Negatives - ... But Starting Low

South Korea

LG Energy Solution produces and sells batteries. The Company manufactures and sells automobile batteries, small batteries, energy storage system batteries, and other products. LG Energy Solution markets its products worldwide.

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LG Energy Solution (373220 KS)

ECM Weekly (8th Jan 2022) - Sinohytec, Beauty Farm, Sula, Kfin, Bionote, Meidong, CIFI, Jinxin Fert

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Bionote IPO Trading - Weakest Demand Even After Cutting Price and Size

Bionote (377740 KS) raised US$72.2m in its Korean IPO. In this note, we will talk about the demand for the deal and other trading dynamics.

Clarence Chu

Korean Pair Trades Review in 2022

We review all the 16 Korean pair trade ideas in 2022. A few of the best performing pair trade ideas this year included long LG Chem/short LGES and...

Douglas Kim

LG Energy: ESOP Lockup Release (3.5% of SO) & Contrarian Approach Targeting NPS

This post details LG Energy's ESOP lockup release event scheduled for January 27 and discusses the contrarian trading approach targeting NPS.

Sanghyun Park

VinFast Auto Pre-IPO - The Negatives - ... But Starting Low

VinFast is looking to raise up to US$1bn in its upcoming US IPO. In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

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