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

ECM Weekly (17 November 2025) -Softcare, Northsand, Human Made, Lenskart, Pine Labs, Klook, Sagility

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

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

PonyAI and WeRide Secondary HK Trading - Weakish Demand, WeRide Did Better but Trading Lower

Bharti Airtel Placement - Second Singtel Selldown in 2025; Fourth US$1bn+ Deal This Year

ECM Weekly (3 November 2025)-Sany, Seres, CIG, PonyAI, WeRide, Mininglamp, Lenskart, Groww, Softcare

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

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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, the deal flow continues unabated, although a lot of listing in Hong Kong didn't do to well last week.</li>
<li>On the placements front, there were a number of deals, with a few right at lockup expiry.</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, the deal flow continues unabated, although a lot of listing in Hong Kong didn't do to well last week.
On the placements front, there were a number of deals, with a few right at lockup expiry.


Lendlease Global Commercial REIT (LREIT SP)

Tenneco Clean Air India Ltd (1880671D IN)

Emmvee Photovoltaic Power Limited (0198068D IN)

ECM Weekly (10 November 2025) - Seres, Pony, WeRide, Joyson, DIY, Maynilad, Northsand, Softcare

Seres Group

ECM Weekly (10 November 2025) - Seres, Pony, WeRide, Joyson, DIY, Maynilad, Northsand, Softcare