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

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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>A group of shareholders aims to raise around US$380m via selling around 4% of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/isuzu-motors-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14726:1" rel="noopener">Isuzu Motors (7202 JP).</a>
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<li>Being another cross-shareholding unwind in Japan, it shouldn’t carry much negative connotations, in our view.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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A group of shareholders aims to raise around US$380m via selling around 4% of Isuzu Motors (7202 JP).

Being another cross-shareholding unwind in Japan, it shouldn’t carry much negative connotations, in our view.
In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (8316 JP)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (MUFG) (8306 JP)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (MUFG) ADR (MUFG US)

Isuzu Motors Placement - Relatively Small Deal Along with Buyback