APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

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.

Equity Capital Markets

Unimicron Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/unimicron-technology-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18778:1" rel="noopener">Unimicron Technology (3037 TT)</a> (UT) is looking to raise around US$2.5bn in its upcoming global depository receipts (GDRs) offering.</li>
<li>On 10th Apr 2026, UT announced its board’s resolution to issue 100m common shares via a GDR offering, to purchase raw materials, replenish working capital and repay loans from proceeds.</li>
<li>Similar to previous GDR listings, the deal is a drawn out process with the firm required to jump through a number of board/shareholder/regulatory approval loops. </li>
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Unimicron Technology (3037 TT) (UT) is looking to raise around US$2.5bn in its upcoming global depository receipts (GDRs) offering.
On 10th Apr 2026, UT announced its board’s resolution to issue 100m common shares via a GDR offering, to purchase raw materials, replenish working capital and repay loans from proceeds.
Similar to previous GDR listings, the deal is a drawn out process with the firm required to jump through a number of board/shareholder/regulatory approval loops. 


Aequitas: Unimicron Technology GDR Early Look-Small Deal to Digest; Backed by Strong Recent Momentum

CEO / Founder, Crea8

Kim-Hwa Lim

CEO / Founder

Make an Impact

Crea8

Crea8 blends AI-driven precision, big data scalability, and rigorous quantitative frameworks with seasoned human insight. By extracting actionable intelligence from vast global datasets, we eliminate emotional bias and deliver optimal risk-adjusted returns. Our hybrid approach uncovers hidden market efficiencies and ensures your capital is dynamically positioned across markets.

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally.</li>
<li>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</li>
<li>Previous portfolio returned 16.2% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 12%.</li>
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The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally.
By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.
Previous portfolio returned 16.2% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 12%.


<ul><li><p>The strategy seeks to invest in Shariah compliant stocks and in themes that are driving returns globally.</p></li><li><p>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</p></li><li>Previous portfolio returned 17.5% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 13.3%.</li></ul>

The strategy seeks to invest in Shariah compliant stocks and in themes that are driving returns globally.By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.Previous portfolio returned 17.5% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 13.3%.

AP Memory Technology / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ap-memory-technology-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35694:1" rel="noopener">AP Memory Technology (6531 TT)</a>  is raising around US$422m, selling 14.8m shares via a GDR offering. Proceeds will be used to procure raw materials overseas and fund working capital.</li>
<li>Similar to previous GDR listings, the firm has undergone a long drawn out process prior to launching the deal, having to jump through a number of board/shareholder/regulatory approval loops.</li>
<li>In this note, we run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.</li>
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AP Memory Technology (6531 TT)  is raising around US$422m, selling 14.8m shares via a GDR offering. Proceeds will be used to procure raw materials overseas and fund working capital.
Similar to previous GDR listings, the firm has undergone a long drawn out process prior to launching the deal, having to jump through a number of board/shareholder/regulatory approval loops.
In this note, we run the deal through our ECM framework and comment on deal dynamics.


Aequitas: AP Memory Technology GDR Offering - Well Flagged US$422m GDR

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Oct 8th. The aggregated holding was USD2,409.2bn.</li>
<li>We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD6,235mln. We tabulate the league tables for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.</li>
<li>We highlight changes of foreign holdings in Wiwynn, MediaTek, TSMC, Unimicron Technology, Zhen Ding Technology.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in foreign holdings of TWSE Stocks as of Oct 8th. The aggregated holding was USD2,409.2bn.
We estimate that foreign flows to be inflows of USD6,235mln. We tabulate the league tables for top changes by value for 1W/4W/1Y and top stocks held by foreign institutions.
We highlight changes of foreign holdings in Wiwynn, MediaTek, TSMC, Unimicron Technology, Zhen Ding Technology.


TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Oct 8th): Wiwynn, MediaTek, TSMC, Unimicron Technology

Taiwan

Unimicron Technology Corp. manufactures and markets double-sided and multi-layer printed circuit boards.  The Company also provides integrated circuits (IC) burning and testing services.

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Unimicron Technology (3037 TT)

Aequitas: Unimicron Technology GDR Early Look-Small Deal to Digest; Backed by Strong Recent Momentum

Unimicron Technology is looking to raise around US$2.6bn in its upcoming GDR offering. On 10th Apr 2026, UT announced its board’s resolution to...

Akshat Shah

Global Thematic Portfolio (18-Aug-2026)

The strategy seeks to invest in themes that are driving returns globally. By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the...

Crea8

Global Thematic (Shariah) Portfolio

The strategy seeks to invest in Shariah compliant stocks and in themes that are driving returns globally. By adopting a portfolio of stocks...

Crea8

Aequitas: AP Memory Technology GDR Offering - Well Flagged US$422m GDR

AP Memory Technology Corporation (6531 TT) is raising around US$422m, selling 14.8m shares via a GDR offering. In this note, we run the deal...

Akshat Shah

TWSE Foreign Holding Weekly (Oct 8th): Wiwynn, MediaTek, TSMC, Unimicron Technology

We analyzed TWSE foreign holding data for the past week and highlighted foreign holding changes in Wiwynn, MediaTek, TSMC, Unimicron Technology,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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