Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

HK Type 4 license through Ballingal Investment Advisors Ltd. ("BIA" or "BIAL")

BACKGROUND
I have 20+yrs experience in Asia doing alternative strategies (i.e. non-delta1 non long-only) in fixed income, equity derivatives, and activist/catalyst/event-driven and long-short equity strategies with most of that time spent managing money. 

4 years in fixed income macro, 8 years running internal hedge fund and 4yrs investment banking at Citi in Japan, 3 years running an Asia multi-strat portfolio at a hedge fund, 4+yrs as an independent special situations analyst.

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Japan Activism:  Japan Catalyst Fund Calls Out Taisho Pharma Committee on MBO Price

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdin / Event-Driven

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<li>Six+ weeks ago, the founding family which controls a 33% stake in cash-rich <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/taisho-pharmaceutical-holdin" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3774:1" rel="noopener">Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdin (4581 JP)</a> announced a Tender Offer MBO to buy out minorities.</li>
<li>¥8,620/Share is 0.85x PBR but the takeover is at 0.72x operating assets with net debt at zero That's low - comps are 2+x book and twice the EV/EBITDA ratio.</li>
<li>But the scourge that is cross-holding investors blindly following management means they have 61-63% before this gets started, and only one small firm has voiced an objection.</li>
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Six+ weeks ago, the founding family which controls a 33% stake in cash-rich Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdin (4581 JP) announced a Tender Offer MBO to buy out minorities.
¥8,620/Share is 0.85x PBR but the takeover is at 0.72x operating assets with net debt at zero That's low - comps are 2+x book and twice the EV/EBITDA ratio.
But the scourge that is cross-holding investors blindly following management means they have 61-63% before this gets started, and only one small firm has voiced an objection.


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