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

C&T/Cheil:  A Big Day Tomorrow, But....  Did Cheil Put Their Foot In It?

Samsung C&T:  Completely the Wrong Price - TRILLIONS being left on the table

Event-Driven

Since Cheil Industries (028260 KS) and Samsung C&amp;T (000830 KS) announced their merger in an effort to increase Lee family control of Samsung Electronics shares (and shares in other group companies) on a post-inheritance-tax pro-forma basis, the Smartkarma universe has been regularly updating readers regarding the situation.A RECAP:  <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insight_providers/5" target="_blank">Arzish</a> started things off with <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/samsung-c-t-too-big-to-cheil" target="_blank">Samsung C&amp;T: Too Big to Cheil</a> just after deal announcement. After Elliot announced its increased position, I followed up with <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/samsung-c-t-completely-the-wrong-price-trillions-being-left-on-the-table" target="_blank">"Completely the Wrong Price: Trillions being left on the table"</a> then a <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/samsung-c-t-quicknote-30-40-foreign-institutional-investors-ask-for-fairer-swap-rate" target="_blank">QuickNote</a> suggesting Dutch national pension manager APG was leading a group of foreign shareholders to ask C&amp;T for a better merger ratio, and a <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/samsung-c-t-quicknote-volume-patterns-and-ownership-changes-since-deal-announcement" target="_blank">piece</a> on volume changes and ownership since the deal was announced. <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insight_providers/16" target="_blank">Crispin Francis</a> added a <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/shareholder-activism-around-samsung-c-t-legal-limitations" target="_blank">piece</a> on the legal limits of shareholder activism. Another <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/helmets-on-c-t-sells-treasury-shares-to-pensions-increase-stake" target="_blank">piece</a> was added when C&amp;T announced it had sold its Treasury Shares to KCC Corp (a large shareholder of Cheil Industries and a friendly party) and Crispin followed up with a <a href="http://www.smartkarma.com/insights/treasury-shares-differences-and-similarities-to-precedent-cases" target="_blank">piece</a> on legal precedents to injunctions filed against treasury share sales in proxy battle situations with a 'hostile' party. The discussion section of several pieces have been of additional interest I think. THIS NOTE adds a table - as comprehensive as possible - of cross holdings among Lee family members, the Samsung foundations, and major Samsung group companies (listed and unlisted). It can be used to estimate where the potential interest lies in future mergers in order to obtain greater family control.More below the fold.

Since Cheil Industries (028260 KS) and Samsung C&amp;T (000830 KS) announced their merger in an effort to increase Lee family control of Samsung Electronics shares (and shares in other group companies) on a post-inheritance-tax pro-forma basis, the Smartkarma universe has been regularly updating readers regarding the situation.A RECAP:  Arzish started things off with Samsung C&amp;T: Too Big to Cheil just after deal announcement. After Elliot announced its increased position, I followed up with "Completely the Wrong Price: Trillions being left on the table" then a QuickNote suggesting Dutch national pension manager APG was leading a group of foreign shareholders to ask C&amp;T for a better merger ratio, and a piece on volume changes and ownership since the deal was announced. Crispin Francis added a piece on the legal limits of shareholder activism. Another piece was added when C&amp;T announced it had sold its Treasury Shares to KCC Corp (a large shareholder of Cheil Industries and a friendly party) and Crispin followed up with a piece on legal precedents to injunctions filed against treasury share sales in proxy battle situations with a 'hostile' party. The discussion section of several pieces have been of additional interest I think. THIS NOTE adds a table - as comprehensive as possible - of cross holdings among Lee family members, the Samsung foundations, and major Samsung group companies (listed and unlisted). It can be used to estimate where the potential interest lies in future mergers in order to obtain greater family control.More below the fold.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (000810 KS)

サムスングループ：誰が何を保有しているのか？

Samsung C&T Corp/Old

サムスングループ：誰が何を保有しているのか？