Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

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

Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2024, starting with Hong Kong.</li>
<li>This list has been compiled on a best effort basis from tracking the company filings and through various other sources.</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are only a part of our full IPO pipeline tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on these IPOs.</li>
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In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2024, starting with Hong Kong.
This list has been compiled on a best effort basis from tracking the company filings and through various other sources.
The deals you see in this note are only a part of our full IPO pipeline tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information on these IPOs.


Aequitas 2024 Asia IPO Pipeline - Hong Kong

Blue Lotus Non US Internet research, Blue Lotus Research Institute

Ying Pan

Blue Lotus Non US Internet research

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>BABA/ SE/ PDD: Lazada mass-layoffs also in China offices (+/+/-)</li>
<li>NTES: Local media published an article addressing the issue of underage top-up in NetEase's mobile game &lt;Eggy Party&gt; (/)</li>
<li>700 HK: The New Year event operation of &lt;CrossFire Mobile&gt; is a success.(+)</li>
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BABA/ SE/ PDD: Lazada mass-layoffs also in China offices (+/+/-)
NTES: Local media published an article addressing the issue of underage top-up in NetEase's mobile game &lt;Eggy Party&gt; (/)
700 HK: The New Year event operation of &lt;CrossFire Mobile&gt; is a success.(+)


[Blue Lotus Daily - TMT Update]: BABA/SE/PDD/3690 HK/NTES/700 HK/AMZN/MELI/CPNG

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC IPOs & Placements

<ul>
<li>In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for HK IPOs and placements in 2023. </li>
<li>The following dataset includes all HK IPOs and placements above US$100m, <strong>which amounted to a total of 27 deals.</strong>
</li>
<li>The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO and placement tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information.</li>
</ul>


In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for HK IPOs and placements in 2023. 
The following dataset includes all HK IPOs and placements above US$100m, which amounted to a total of 27 deals.

The deals you see in this note are based on our historical IPO and placement tracker. Feel free to drop us a message for additional information.


Aequitas HK IPOs + Placements Broker Performance 2023

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Event-Driven

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<li>SK Square announced it will not exercise the call option to repurchase minority stake in 11 Street. This is likely to have a positive impact on the company. </li>
<li>SK Square does not need to pay 500 billion won plus 3.5% annualized interest to the financial investors of 11 Street. This will also accelerate sale of 11 Street.</li>
<li>In addition, SK Square announced the merger of TVing and Wavve OTT services. </li>
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SK Square announced it will not exercise the call option to repurchase minority stake in 11 Street. This is likely to have a positive impact on the company. 
SK Square does not need to pay 500 billion won plus 3.5% annualized interest to the financial investors of 11 Street. This will also accelerate sale of 11 Street.
In addition, SK Square announced the merger of TVing and Wavve OTT services. 


SK Square: Drag Along Rights To Be Exercised to Sell 11 Street + Merger of TVing and Wavve

Overseas Chinese Equities, Aequitas Research

Ming Lu

Overseas Chinese Equities

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>PDD diversified into ‘local life’ businesses in December 2023, but stopped these businesses within two weeks.</li>
<li>We believe PDD’s low price advantage does not work in Meituan-like ‘local life’ and the top performer Meituan is hard to fight.</li>
<li>We believe the stock price has an upside of 88% for year end 2024.</li>
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PDD diversified into ‘local life’ businesses in December 2023, but stopped these businesses within two weeks.
We believe PDD’s low price advantage does not work in Meituan-like ‘local life’ and the top performer Meituan is hard to fight.
We believe the stock price has an upside of 88% for year end 2024.


PDD (PDD US): Stopped Diversifying into ‘Local Life’ – A Rational Decision During Fast Growing

China

Alibaba Group Holding Limited provides online sales services. The Company provides internet infrastructure, electronic commerce, online financial, and internet content services through its subsidiaries. Alibaba Group Holding offers its products and services worldwide.

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Alibaba Group Holding (BABA US)

Aequitas 2024 Asia IPO Pipeline - Hong Kong

In this note, we will take a look at the Asia Pacific IPO pipeline for 2024, starting with Hong Kong including the filed, lapsed and future filings.

Sumeet Singh

[Blue Lotus Daily - TMT Update]: BABA/SE/PDD/3690 HK/NTES/700 HK/AMZN/MELI/CPNG

Lazada mass-layoffs also in China offices. NetEase faces criticism over underage top-ups in mobile game . The New Year event operation of is a...

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Aequitas HK IPOs + Placements Broker Performance 2023

In this note, we will take a look at broker performance for HK IPOs and placements in 2023, which includes all HK IPOs and placements above...

Ethan Aw

SK Square: Drag Along Rights To Be Exercised to Sell 11 Street + Merger of TVing and Wavve

According to Chosun Business Daily, the financial investors (Nile Holdings Consortium) want to sell 11st at about 600 billion won (100% stake),...

Douglas Kim

PDD (PDD US): Stopped Diversifying into ‘Local Life’ – A Rational Decision During Fast Growing

PDD stopped ‘local life’ business just two weeks after it began. We believe PDD’s low price advantage does not work in Meituan-like ‘local life’...

Ming Lu

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