IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/calb-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35985:1" rel="noopener">CALB (CALBLZ CH)</a>, a leading EV battery manufacturer, is seeking to raise US$2.0 billion through an HKEx IPO, according to press reports.</li>
<li>According to Frost &amp; Sullivan, in terms of installed capacity in 2021, CALB ranked seventh globally among EV battery companies with a 3.2% market share.</li>
<li>The key elements of the bull case rest on a large and growing market, rising market share, explosive top-line growth and ambitious capacity expansion plans.</li>
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CALB (CALBLZ CH), a leading EV battery manufacturer, is seeking to raise US$2.0 billion through an HKEx IPO, according to press reports.
According to Frost &amp; Sullivan, in terms of installed capacity in 2021, CALB ranked seventh globally among EV battery companies with a 3.2% market share.
The key elements of the bull case rest on a large and growing market, rising market share, explosive top-line growth and ambitious capacity expansion plans.


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.

Country Garden Holdings Co / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.</li>
<li>There were no major IPO launches during the week. Soosan will list early next week.</li>
<li>There were a number of placements/blocks across the region, including GDR launches for Swiss listing.</li>
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Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.
There were no major IPO launches during the week. Soosan will list early next week.
There were a number of placements/blocks across the region, including GDR launches for Swiss listing.


ECM Weekly (31st Jul 2022) - Soosan, WCP, GDRs, Yancoal, Country Garden, Legend Biotech, MEP, PSMC

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>China started mulling an expansion of its Stock Connect relationships in late 2021 with plans to allow GDR issuance in Switzerland and eventually Germany.</li>
<li>New GDR issuance rules came into effect in February and companies started planning to issue GDRs in Switzerland in March.</li>
<li>The new SIX Listing Rules went into effect 25 July. Two companies priced GDRs on 22 July and two more yesterday. US$1.5bn so far. There are 6 more near-term.</li>
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China started mulling an expansion of its Stock Connect relationships in late 2021 with plans to allow GDR issuance in Switzerland and eventually Germany.
New GDR issuance rules came into effect in February and companies started planning to issue GDRs in Switzerland in March.
The new SIX Listing Rules went into effect 25 July. Two companies priced GDRs on 22 July and two more yesterday. US$1.5bn so far. There are 6 more near-term.


Chinese GDRs on the SIX Exchange - More Names, Smaller Discounts, Smaller Size, Less Liquidity

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

APAC IPOs & Placements

Gotion High-tech   / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/gotion-high-tech-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27133:1" rel="noopener">Gotion High-Tech Co Ltd (002074 CH)</a> (GHT) is looking to raise US$1bn from its Swiss GDR listing. Bookrunners on the deal are CICC and Haitong International.</li>
<li>The shares offered in GHT’s GDR offering ranges between 16.65m - 33.29m GDRs (83.24m - 166.47m A-shares), ranging the deal size between US$499m-US$1bn. </li>
<li>At the top end, in terms of number of GDRs offered, the deal would represent 4.7 days of ADV on the A-share market and 9.6% of current mcap.</li>
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Gotion High-Tech Co Ltd (002074 CH) (GHT) is looking to raise US$1bn from its Swiss GDR listing. Bookrunners on the deal are CICC and Haitong International.
The shares offered in GHT’s GDR offering ranges between 16.65m - 33.29m GDRs (83.24m - 166.47m A-shares), ranging the deal size between US$499m-US$1bn. 
At the top end, in terms of number of GDRs offered, the deal would represent 4.7 days of ADV on the A-share market and 9.6% of current mcap.


Gotion High Tech GDR Listing - Recent GDRs Have Seen Narrowing Discounts

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

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<li>There are 28 changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shanghai-shenzhen-csi-300-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22906:1" rel="noopener">Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index (SHSZ300 INDEX)</a> at the upcoming rebalance that will be implemented at the close of trading on 9 June.</li>
<li>We had forecast nearly all the changes, though the index committee seems to have used discretion in deciding not to add three Distillers to the index, leading to other changes.</li>
<li>There's a large sector skew with Industrials, Information Technology and Materials stocks taking 17 more spots in the index, while Health Care and Financials lose 9 and 5 spots respectively.</li>
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There are 28 changes for the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index (SHSZ300 INDEX) at the upcoming rebalance that will be implemented at the close of trading on 9 June.
We had forecast nearly all the changes, though the index committee seems to have used discretion in deciding not to add three Distillers to the index, leading to other changes.
There's a large sector skew with Industrials, Information Technology and Materials stocks taking 17 more spots in the index, while Health Care and Financials lose 9 and 5 spots respectively.


CSI300 Index Rebalance: Big Sector Shift with 28 Changes

China

Gotion High-tech Co.,Ltd researches, develops, manufacture and markets lithium batteries. The Company mainly produces lithium ion batteries, power lithium battery sets, and other related products. Guoxuan High-Tech supplies its products for electric commercial vehicles, passenger cars, power stations, and other fields.

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Gotion High-tech (002074 CH)

CALB IPO: The Bull Case

The key elements of the bull case rest on a large and growing market, rising market share, explosive top-line growth and ambitious capacity...

Arun George

ECM Weekly (31st Jul 2022) - Soosan, WCP, GDRs, Yancoal, Country Garden, Legend Biotech, MEP, PSMC

Aequitas Research puts out a weekly update on the deals that were covered by the team recently along with updates for upcoming IPOs.

Sumeet Singh

Chinese GDRs on the SIX Exchange - More Names, Smaller Discounts, Smaller Size, Less Liquidity

China amended its rules for GDR issuance in February 2022 and planned issuance in Switzerland to start this summer. Official issuance was permitted...

Travis Lundy

Gotion High Tech GDR Listing - Recent GDRs Have Seen Narrowing Discounts

Gotion High-Tech Co Ltd (002074 CH) (GHT) is looking to raise US$1bn from its Swiss GDR listing. Bookrunners on the deal are CICC and Haitong...

Clarence Chu

CSI300 Index Rebalance: Big Sector Shift with 28 Changes

The June rebalance of the CSI300 Index will have 28 changes, a large sector skew, one-way turnover of 4.11% and a one-way trade of CNY 10bn. The...

Brian Freitas

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