APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC 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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Daiwa House Logistics Trust / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/daiwa-house-logistics-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35020:1" rel="noopener">Daiwa House Logistics Trust (DHLT SP)</a>, a Japan pure-play logistics REIT, is looking to raise US$343m in its Singapore IPO.</li>
<li>As of Jun 2021, its assets had an aggregate net lettable area (NLA) of 423,920 sqm and had an appraised valuation of approximately JPY80,570m (S$952.9m).</li>
<li>As of Oct 2021, portfolio occupancy stood at 96.3% and its assets had a weighted average lease expiry (WALE) of 7.2 years.</li>
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Daiwa House Logistics Trust (DHLT SP), a Japan pure-play logistics REIT, is looking to raise US$343m in its Singapore IPO.
As of Jun 2021, its assets had an aggregate net lettable area (NLA) of 423,920 sqm and had an appraised valuation of approximately JPY80,570m (S$952.9m).
As of Oct 2021, portfolio occupancy stood at 96.3% and its assets had a weighted average lease expiry (WALE) of 7.2 years.


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BondEvalue is a Singapore-based Fintech that specializes in bond market data and technology. The company's information services business offers bond market data on hard-currency corporate & sovereign bonds across Asia, Middle East, Europe and the Americas. The data, which includes bond prices, yields, news and analytics, is offered to end investors via interactive Mobile and Web Apps. Investors can sign up for a free trial of the service either via the company's website (https://bondevalue.com) or by downloading the BondEvalue Mobile App (http://onelink.to/wej7jq). BondEvalue is also developing an electronic bond exchange, BondbloX in Singapore that allows investors to trade bonds electronically in smaller sizes (US$1,000 or equivalent). For more information, visit https://www.bondblox.com/

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US equities ended higher with the S&amp;P and Nasdaq up 0.5% and 0.9%. Sectoral gains were led by Consumer Discretionary and Energy, up 2.1% and 1.4%. US 10Y Treasury yields eased 1bp to 1.63%. European stocks were mixed with the DAX and FTSE up 0.4% and 0.3% while the CAC was down 0.3%. Brazil’s Bovespa was up 2.3%. In the Middle East, UAE’s ADX was down 0.2% while Saudi TASI was up 0.4%. Asian markets have opened broadly mixed – Shanghai was flat, Nikkei higher by 1.8% while HSI and STI were down 0.4% and 0.3% respectively. US IG and HY CDS spreads were 0.7bp and 0.5bp tighter. EU Main and Crossover CDS spreads were 0.2bp and 0.3bp tighter. Asia ex-Japan CDS spreads tightened by 1.1bp.

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IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

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<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/esr-reit" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10934:1" rel="noopener">ESR-REIT (EREIT SP)</a> announced the proposed merger with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ara-logos-logistics-trust" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:937:1" rel="noopener">ARA LOGOS (ALLT SP)</a> by way of a trust scheme of arrangement. Under the scheme consideration, each ALLT unitholder will receive S$0.095 in cash and 1.6765 new EREIT units at an issue price of S$0.510. The total consideration implies a gross exchange ratio of 1.863x and a total scheme consideration of S$0.950 per ALLT unit, which is a 1.6% premium to the ALLT last close price of S$0.935 per unit (on 14 October). </p><p>The merger was widely anticipated to avoid conflicts of interest arising from the proposed acquisition of ARA Asset Management by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/esr-cayman-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27983:1" rel="noopener">ESR Cayman (1821 HK)</a> for a total consideration of US$5.2 billion, which was announced on 5 August 2021. ESR Cayman which owns 67% of EREIT’s manager would also own 100% of ALLT’s manager on completion of the acquisition resulting in overlapping investment mandates.</p><p>A key issue is on pricing particularly the EREIT issue price of S$0.510 which is based on EREIT’s 52-week high. Notably, at the last close EREIT price of S$0.465, implies a scheme consideration of S$0.875 per ALLT unit, which is a -6.5% discount to the ALLT last close price of S$0.935 per unit (on 14 October). </p><div class="content-highlight"><p>As the cash consideration represents just 10% of the total scheme consideration, ALLT unitholders have greater exposure to any post-merger share price gains driven by the enlarged REIT’s higher free float, lower cost of capital, cost savings and higher growth potential. While short-term pricing concerns will linger, we note that the scheme consideration even at the last close EREIT price seems reasonable. Consequently, we believe that the merger will get the nod from both sets of unitholders.</p></div>

ESR-REIT (EREIT SP) announced the proposed merger with ARA LOGOS (ALLT SP) by way of a trust scheme of arrangement. Under the scheme consideration, each ALLT unitholder will receive S$0.095 in cash and 1.6765 new EREIT units at an issue price of S$0.510. The total consideration implies a gross exchange ratio of 1.863x and a total scheme consideration of S$0.950 per ALLT unit, which is a 1.6% premium to the ALLT last close price of S$0.935 per unit (on 14 October). The merger was widely anticipated to avoid conflicts of interest arising from the proposed acquisition of ARA Asset Management by ESR Cayman (1821 HK) for a total consideration of US$5.2 billion, which was announced on 5 August 2021. ESR Cayman which owns 67% of EREIT’s manager would also own 100% of ALLT’s manager on completion of the acquisition resulting in overlapping investment mandates.A key issue is on pricing particularly the EREIT issue price of S$0.510 which is based on EREIT’s 52-week high. Notably, at the last close EREIT price of S$0.465, implies a scheme consideration of S$0.875 per ALLT unit, which is a -6.5% discount to the ALLT last close price of S$0.935 per unit (on 14 October). As the cash consideration represents just 10% of the total scheme consideration, ALLT unitholders have greater exposure to any post-merger share price gains driven by the enlarged REIT’s higher free float, lower cost of capital, cost savings and higher growth potential. While short-term pricing concerns will linger, we note that the scheme consideration even at the last close EREIT price seems reasonable. Consequently, we believe that the merger will get the nod from both sets of unitholders.

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US markets ended the day mixed with the S&amp;P down 0.2% and Nasdaq up 0.1%. Materials and Industrials, down 1.2% and 0.7% dragged the index while Utlities, Consumer Discretionary and Healthcare, were up 0.8%, 0.3% and 0.2% providing support. HSBC’s Q2 profit topped forecasts (details below). General Motors and Alibaba will be reporting earnings later this week. The CAC, FTSE and DAX were up 1%, 0.7% and 0.2%. Saudi TASI and UAE’s ADX were up 0.8% and 0.2% respectively. Brazil’s Bovespa gained 0.6%. Asia Pacific stocks opened in the red – HSI, Nikkei, Singapore’s STI and Shanghai were down 0.8%, 0.6%, 0.4% and 0.1%. US 10Y yields dipped to 4bp to 1.19%.

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Both S&amp;P and Nasdaq advanced 0.1% to conclude a fourth straight month of gains before the US closed for a long weekend to celebrate Memorial Day. Real Estate and Utilities led the gains while Media, Entertainment and Telecom dragged the indices lower. The markets will be keenly looking out for the May jobs report later this week. US 10Y Treasury yields fell 2bp to 1.59% with a higher month-end extension (Term of the day, explained below) even as inflation rose with Core PCE at 3.1% vs. 2.9% forecasted. European markets ended higher with DAX and CAC up ~0.7% while the FTSE was almost flat. US IG CDS spreads were 0.2bp tighter and HY spreads were 1.4bp tighter. EU main spreads were 0.5bp tighter and crossover spreads tightened 2.9bp. Asian equities are off to a soft start, down ~0.2% with Asia ex-Japan CDS spreads tightening 0.4bp.

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Mapletree Logistics Trust is an Asia-focused logistics real estate investment trust. The Company invests in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate which is used for logistics purposes.

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