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Daily Brief Event-Driven: Weekly Deals Digest (12 Oct) – Hang Seng Bank and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Weekly Deals Digest (12 Oct) – Hang Seng Bank, Soft99, Toyota Industries, Infomedia, Tekscend
  • Last Week In Event SPACE: Hang Seng Bank, Soft99, Sihuan Pharma, Dongfeng Motor
  • (Mostly) Asia-Pac M&A: Mandom, Pacific Smiles, Robex Res., Infomedia, Pacific Ind., ReNew Energy


Weekly Deals Digest (12 Oct) – Hang Seng Bank, Soft99, Toyota Industries, Infomedia, Tekscend

By Arun George


Last Week In Event SPACE: Hang Seng Bank, Soft99, Sihuan Pharma, Dongfeng Motor

By David Blennerhassett

  • As with large, clean liquid deals in Asia-Pac, expect Hang Seng (11 HK)‘s annualised spreads to widen (i.e. gross spread remains static) as investors hit their full quota early on. 
  • The question is whether Soft99 (4464 JP)‘s MBO Bidco raises the price to  ¥3,200 saying “let’s split the difference”, and that would make some people happy. It’s doubtful they will.
  • Sihuan Pharmaceutical (460 HK) has benefited a little from the HK$500mn buyback programme announced last October. But a HK$11bn run up in market cap YTD? This looks stretched to me.

(Mostly) Asia-Pac M&A: Mandom, Pacific Smiles, Robex Res., Infomedia, Pacific Ind., ReNew Energy

By David Blennerhassett


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