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

Tekscend Photomask / 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, India saw a host of listing, while HK is gearing up a busy year end.</li>
<li>On the placements front, we had a look at some of the IPO lockups. There weren't any large placements this week.</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, India saw a host of listing, while HK is gearing up a busy year end.
On the placements front, we had a look at some of the IPO lockups. There weren't any large placements this week.


ECM Weekly (20 October 2025)- Sany, Seres, JST, Fibocom, Tekscend, FineToday, LG India, DIY, Duality

Japanese Equity Specialist, Ortus Advisors

Andrew Jackson

Japanese Equity Specialist

Ortus Advisors

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Japan's space names down as much as -43% recently set to recover sharply with SpaceX IPO priced at $135 and $100bn of retail demand.</li>
<li>Recently sold US AI and semi plays surging the most since April last year after several sessions of weak and choppy trading.</li>
<li>Retail losers Musashi Seimitsu, Rigaku, JX Metals, Teraprobe and Seikoh Giken among the names that could rebound as AI sentiment recovers.</li>
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Japan's space names down as much as -43% recently set to recover sharply with SpaceX IPO priced at $135 and $100bn of retail demand.
Recently sold US AI and semi plays surging the most since April last year after several sessions of weak and choppy trading.
Retail losers Musashi Seimitsu, Rigaku, JX Metals, Teraprobe and Seikoh Giken among the names that could rebound as AI sentiment recovers.


Japan Morning Connection: Space Names to Fly High on SpaceX IPO Success

Kokusai Electric  / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>KKR is looking to raise around US$960m through an accelerated secondary offering for around 10% of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kokusai-electric-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40152:1" rel="noopener">Kokusai Electric (6525 JP)</a>’s (KE) stock.</li>
<li>KE had seen a number of selldowns in the past from KKR and Applied Materials, with mixed results.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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KKR is looking to raise around US$960m through an accelerated secondary offering for around 10% of Kokusai Electric (6525 JP)’s (KE) stock.
KE had seen a number of selldowns in the past from KKR and Applied Materials, with mixed results.
In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Aequitas: Kokusai Electric Placement - Past Deals Have Been Mixed but Its a US$1bn Cleanup

Samsung Electronics / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<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,  a few companies in Hong Kong managed to use the ceasefire window to launch their bookbuilds.</li>
<li>On the placement front, as well there a few large deals along with some upcoming lockups.</li>
</ul>


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,  a few companies in Hong Kong managed to use the ceasefire window to launch their bookbuilds.
On the placement front, as well there a few large deals along with some upcoming lockups.


Aequitas ECM Weekly (13 April 2026)-Samsung, Victory Giant, Huaqin, Sigenergy, Manycore, Merdeka

US-EU Index Rebalances / Quantitative Researcher

Dimitris Ioannidis

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.

Index Rebalance

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/verisure-holding-ab" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43889:1" rel="noopener">Verisure Holding (VSURE SS)</a> is forecasted to be added to Global Standard following its IPO in October 2025, provided its index nationality is assigned to Sweden.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/servicetitan-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44109:1" rel="noopener">ServiceTitan (TTAN US)</a> is expected to be added to Global SmallCap following its IPO lock-up.</li>
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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 (2577 HK)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bloks-group-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43648:1" rel="noopener">Bloks (325 HK)</a> are projected IPO additions following their 12-month IPO lock-up expiry.</li>
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Verisure Holding (VSURE SS) is forecasted to be added to Global Standard following its IPO in October 2025, provided its index nationality is assigned to Sweden.

ServiceTitan (TTAN US) is expected to be added to Global SmallCap following its IPO lock-up.

InnoScience (2577 HK) and Bloks (325 HK) are projected IPO additions following their 12-month IPO lock-up expiry.


Global Index IPO Forecasts - Feb26: InnoScience, Bloks, Verisure, ServiceTitan Among Candidates

Japan

Tekscend Photomask Corp. manufactures semiconductor products. The Company produces semiconductor photomasks and other products. Tekscend Photomask conducts businesses in Japan.

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Tekscend Photomask (429A JP)

ECM Weekly (20 October 2025)- Sany, Seres, JST, Fibocom, Tekscend, FineToday, LG India, DIY, Duality

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

Japan Morning Connection: Space Names to Fly High on SpaceX IPO Success

Synspective, QPS, Astroscale and Axelspace all set to recover after heavy recent selling with SpaceX IPO priced at $135 and $100bn of retail demand.

Andrew Jackson

Aequitas: Kokusai Electric Placement - Past Deals Have Been Mixed but Its a US$1bn Cleanup

KKR is looking to raise around US$960m through an accelerated secondary offering for around 10% of Kokusai Electric (6525 JP)’s (KE) stock. In this...

Sumeet Singh

Aequitas ECM Weekly (13 April 2026)-Samsung, Victory Giant, Huaqin, Sigenergy, Manycore, Merdeka

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

Global Index IPO Forecasts - Feb26: InnoScience, Bloks, Verisure, ServiceTitan Among Candidates

Forecasted inclusions for the Feb26 Global Index review from IPOs within the past year include Verisure, ServiceTitan, InnoScience and Bloks.

Dimitris Ioannidis

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