Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of IPO & Placements for Aequitas Research. At Aequitas we cover all IPOs and placements across Asia-Pac with a deal size of at least US$100m. 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%. 
Prior to Aequitas. I was heading Content Strategy for Smartkarma, along with covering IPOs & Placement. In an earlier life I have covered ASEAN property and the banking space in India.

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Kioxia Placement - US$2bn Deal, Relatively Small, Index Upweight but the Shares Have Runup

SBI Shinsei Bank Pre-IPO - Thoughts on Valuations

ECM Weekly (24 November 2025) - CATL, Hengrui, Hongqiao, WT Micro, SBI Shinsei, NS Group, Ultragreen

SBI Shinsei Bank Pre-IPO - Peer Comparison

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

Kioxia Holdings  / 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, busy season remains on in full swing going into the year end.</li>
<li>On the placements front, there were a few large deals across the region.</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, busy season remains on in full swing going into the year end.
On the placements front, there were a few large deals across the region.


Singtel (Singapore Telecommunications) (ST SP)

Suzhou Novosense Microelectron (688052 CH)

Artificial Intelligent Interconnection Technology (AII HK)

Artificial Intelligent Interconnection Technology

Guangdong Tianyu Semiconductor (2223725D CH)

ECM Weekly (1 December 2025)-Kioxia, Airtel, Nippon, Toyoda Gosei, SBI Shinsei, NS Group, Super Bank