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Macau Legend Development / Equity Bottom-Up

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  <li>Macau Legend is facing significant financial distress, with substantial net losses, high debt levels, and net current liabilities, raising going-concern risks. The discontinuation of its satellite gaming business model by 2026 presents a major operational and financial challenge.</li>
  <li>The company's strategic pivot to non-gaming operations, centered around the Macau Fisherman's Wharf property, is critical for future viability. However, this transition requires significant investment and faces intense competition in a market still recovering from the pandemic.</li>
  <li>Severe corporate governance and execution risks are evident, highlighted by the imprisonment of a former co-chairman, the termination of its Cape Verde project by the local government, and ongoing debt restructuring negotiations with lenders.</li>
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  Macau Legend is facing significant financial distress, with substantial net losses, high debt levels, and net current liabilities, raising going-concern risks. The discontinuation of its satellite gaming business model by 2026 presents a major operational and financial challenge.
  The company's strategic pivot to non-gaming operations, centered around the Macau Fisherman's Wharf property, is critical for future viability. However, this transition requires significant investment and faces intense competition in a market still recovering from the pandemic.
  Severe corporate governance and execution risks are evident, highlighted by the imprisonment of a former co-chairman, the termination of its Cape Verde project by the local government, and ongoing debt restructuring negotiations with lenders.
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Primer: Macau Legend Development (1680 HK) - Aug 2026

Leading Independent Investment Research, Morningstar, Inc.

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<p>Eighteen sales and marketing executives at Crown Resorts were reported as being detained in China, likely due to illegally soliciting Chinese to gamble in overseas casinos. Our contacts in the industry have already seen immediate termination of marketing efforts in mainland China by Macau casinos, which imply lower near-term gaming revenue in our view. A loss of higher-margin direct VIP business could also mean lower overall VIP margin for the Macau casinos, as junket VIP margins are one to two percentage points lower compared with direct VIP margins. Near-term sentiment will be unfavorable for the Macau gaming stocks. However, we gauge that marketing activities in mainland China will resurface as the dust settles, though casinos will take a lower-profile approach.</p><p>To reflect the short-term impact, if we reduced 2016 full-year VIP, mass and slot revenue by 7.5% for our Macau gaming coverage, there would still be no impact on fair value estimates. Therefore, we maintain our long-term forecast and long-term-based, DCF-generated fair value estimates. Our narrow moat ratings also remain unchanged.</p><p><em>Analyst: Chelsey Tam</em></p>

Eighteen sales and marketing executives at Crown Resorts were reported as being detained in China, likely due to illegally soliciting Chinese to gamble in overseas casinos. Our contacts in the industry have already seen immediate termination of marketing efforts in mainland China by Macau casinos, which imply lower near-term gaming revenue in our view. A loss of higher-margin direct VIP business could also mean lower overall VIP margin for the Macau casinos, as junket VIP margins are one to two percentage points lower compared with direct VIP margins. Near-term sentiment will be unfavorable for the Macau gaming stocks. However, we gauge that marketing activities in mainland China will resurface as the dust settles, though casinos will take a lower-profile approach.To reflect the short-term impact, if we reduced 2016 full-year VIP, mass and slot revenue by 7.5% for our Macau gaming coverage, there would still be no impact on fair value estimates. Therefore, we maintain our long-term forecast and long-term-based, DCF-generated fair value estimates. Our narrow moat ratings also remain unchanged.Analyst: Chelsey Tam

Negative Near-Term Read-Throughs from the Detainment of Crown Resorts' Marketing Executives in China

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

Melco International Development / Event-Driven

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<p>Lawrence Ho has all-but sidestepped family succession issues since his father passed away earlier this year - Stanley fathered 17 children with four women, and I count at last three ongoing legal actions by the siblings  - and appears intent on developing his own brand. With <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/melco-international-development-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:809:1" rel="noopener">Melco International Development (200 HK)</a> languishing around its NAV lows, will he simply continue to (gradually) increase his stake in Melco, or propose a major restructuring. </p>
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<p>Preceding my comments on Toyota and Melco, are the weekly setup/unwind tables for Asia-Pacific Holdcos.</p>
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<p>These relationships trade with a minimum liquidity threshold of US$1mn on a 90-day moving average, and a % market capitalisation threshold - the $ value of the holding/opco held, over the parent’s market capitalisation, expressed in percent - of at least 20%.</p>
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Lawrence Ho has all-but sidestepped family succession issues since his father passed away earlier this year - Stanley fathered 17 children with four women, and I count at last three ongoing legal actions by the siblings  - and appears intent on developing his own brand. With Melco International Development (200 HK) languishing around its NAV lows, will he simply continue to (gradually) increase his stake in Melco, or propose a major restructuring. 



Preceding my comments on Toyota and Melco, are the weekly setup/unwind tables for Asia-Pacific Holdcos.





These relationships trade with a minimum liquidity threshold of US$1mn on a 90-day moving average, and a % market capitalisation threshold - the $ value of the holding/opco held, over the parent’s market capitalisation, expressed in percent - of at least 20%.




StubWorld: Melco (200 HK) At NAV Trough Levels

Global Gaming and Casinos Industry Specialist, Casino Business Review LLC

Howard J Klein

Global Gaming and Casinos Industry Specialist

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<li>Arrival of VIOP room operator Levo Chan as equity partner could presage a post-pandemic revival of this small, expanding Macau operator.</li>
<li>Macau recovery will also reach Fisherman's Wharf properties both in VIP and mass.</li>
<li>At HK$0.96 at delisting, the stock has reopened at HK$1.06 possibly reflecting Chan's 20.65% stake for HK$1.344b (US$173m),</li>
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Arrival of VIOP room operator Levo Chan as equity partner could presage a post-pandemic revival of this small, expanding Macau operator.
Macau recovery will also reach Fisherman's Wharf properties both in VIP and mass.
At HK$0.96 at delisting, the stock has reopened at HK$1.06 possibly reflecting Chan's 20.65% stake for HK$1.344b (US$173m),


Macau Legends Development: Resumes Trading as Golden Week Approaches with Positive Tone

<p> Back on the 11 September, shares in Macau gaming service provider <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/macau-legend-development-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16631:1" rel="noopener">Macau Legend Development (1680 HK)</a> ("MLD") were suspended "<em><a href="https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2020/0914/2020091101464.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pursuant</a> to the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers"</em>.</p>
<p>The same day, Levo Chan Weng-lin, chief executive of Macau's junket brand Tak Chun Group, bought a 20.65% stake (~US$173mn) according to the HKEx <a href="https://di.hkex.com.hk/di/NSNoticeSSList.aspx?sa2=ns&amp;sid=87469&amp;corpn=Macau+Legend+Development+Ltd.&amp;sd=16/09/2019&amp;ed=16/09/2020&amp;cid=0&amp;sa1=cl&amp;scsd=16%2f09%2f2019&amp;sced=16%2f09%2f2020&amp;sc=1680&amp;src=MAIN&amp;lang=EN&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disclosures</a>. </p>
<p>That acquisition has now been clarified with this morning's <a href="https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2020/0921/2020092100034.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> that Chan had entered into a SPA on the 11 September with David Chow and Sheldon Trainor De Girolamo, to acquire 20.65% of shares out or 1.280bn shares.</p>
<p>Because of a prior agreement entered into between Chow inter alia, who are collectively known as the Covenantors (holding &gt;51% of shares out), following the completion of the SPA, Chan is deemed to be acting concert with the Covenantors <em>and</em> De Girolamo, and will therefore be obligated to make an unconditional mandatory general offer.</p>
<p>The MGO Price will be HK$1.05/share, the same price Chan paid for his 20.65% stake. That's a 9.34% premium to the last close.</p>
<p>As always, more below the fold.</p>

 Back on the 11 September, shares in Macau gaming service provider Macau Legend Development (1680 HK) ("MLD") were suspended "pursuant to the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers".
The same day, Levo Chan Weng-lin, chief executive of Macau's junket brand Tak Chun Group, bought a 20.65% stake (~US$173mn) according to the HKEx disclosures. 
That acquisition has now been clarified with this morning's announcement that Chan had entered into a SPA on the 11 September with David Chow and Sheldon Trainor De Girolamo, to acquire 20.65% of shares out or 1.280bn shares.
Because of a prior agreement entered into between Chow inter alia, who are collectively known as the Covenantors (holding &gt;51% of shares out), following the completion of the SPA, Chan is deemed to be acting concert with the Covenantors and De Girolamo, and will therefore be obligated to make an unconditional mandatory general offer.
The MGO Price will be HK$1.05/share, the same price Chan paid for his 20.65% stake. That's a 9.34% premium to the last close.
As always, more below the fold.

Macau Legend (1680 HK): Mandatory General Offer

Macau

Macau Legend Development Limited owns hotels and casinos. The Company operates casino gaming facilities, shopping complexes, themed hotels, convention and entertainment complexes and other leisure facilities in Macau.

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Macau Legend Development (1680 HK)

Primer: Macau Legend Development (1680 HK) - Aug 2026

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Macau Legends Development: Resumes Trading as Golden Week Approaches with Positive Tone

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Macau Legend (1680 HK): Mandatory General Offer

Levo Chan Weng-lin, chief executive of Macau's junket brand Tak Chun Group, bought a 20.65%t stake (~US$173mn) in Macau Legend Development (1680...

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