In today’s briefing:
- Nufarm Placement – Cleanup by Strategic Investor
- Converge ICT Placement – Clean-Up and Buyback, Just in Time for the Index Inclusion
- Delhivery IPO Trading – Anchor Book Was Good but Overall Demand Was Still Tepid
- Next Chip IPO Preview
- Cloud Village IPO Lock-Up – Selling the PE Stock (US$350m) Might Solve the Liquidity Issues
Nufarm Placement – Cleanup by Strategic Investor
- Sumitomo Chemical (4005 JP) is looking to sell its entire stake in Nufarm Ltd (NUF AU) to raise A$338.3m (US$240.6m).
- Sumitomo Chemical had been a strategic investor, where it purchased 20% stake via a tender offer at A$14/share. The former had also acquired Nufarm’s South American businesses in mid-2020.
- While this would be a clean-up sale, the deal is a large one to process at 36 days ADV.
Converge ICT Placement – Clean-Up and Buyback, Just in Time for the Index Inclusion
- Warburg Pincus, aims to raise around US$138m via selling its 3.6% in Converge ICT (CICT). The sale will be accompanied by a company buyback and a private transaction.
- Warburg had earlier sold in the IPO and then in Nov 21, and this trade will be a cleanup.
- In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework.
Delhivery IPO Trading – Anchor Book Was Good but Overall Demand Was Still Tepid
- Delhivery raised around US$680m in its India IPO, the company is backed by a host of financial investors, the largest being Softbank.
- Delhivery is an online logistics service provider which covers express parcel delivery, heavy goods delivery, part truckload (PTL) freight, truckload (TL) freight, supply chain solutions, cross border solutions etc.
- We have covered various aspects of the deal in our earlier notes. In this note, we talk about the demand and trading dynamics.
Next Chip IPO Preview
- Next Chip (396270 KS) is getting ready for an IPO in Korea in June. The IPO price range is from 9,900 won to 11,600 won.
- Next Chip is a Korean system semiconductor company for automobiles and autonomous vehicles. Next Chip was split from NC& Co Ltd (092600 KS) in January 2019.
- The bankers used four companies including Abov Semiconductor (102120 KS), MCNEX Co Ltd (097520 KS), Chips & Media, and Telechips as comps for Next Chip Co.
Cloud Village IPO Lock-Up – Selling the PE Stock (US$350m) Might Solve the Liquidity Issues
- Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO in Dec 21. The IPO was almost entirely taken up by cornerstones.
- The company had also earlier obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other mainly PE investors. These investors will be released from their lock-up on 1st Jun 2022.
- In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates over the past few months.
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