Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Event-Driven

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<li>After the market close today, it was announced that Chairman of LX Holdings Koo Bon-Joon will sell about 530 billion won worth of LG Corp (003550 KS).</li>
<li>The block sale price range is from 79,800 won to 82,400 won per share, which are 5.2% to 8.2% discount to the closing price of LG Corp today.</li>
<li>We would take the deal and we continue to have a positive view of LG Corp. </li>
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After the market close today, it was announced that Chairman of LX Holdings Koo Bon-Joon will sell about 530 billion won worth of LG Corp (003550 KS).
The block sale price range is from 79,800 won to 82,400 won per share, which are 5.2% to 8.2% discount to the closing price of LG Corp today.
We would take the deal and we continue to have a positive view of LG Corp. 


Chairman of LX Holdings Koo Bon-Joon Selling About 530 Billion Won Worth of LG Corp

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

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Global Equity Research Ltd

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LG Energy Solution / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-energy-solution" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33464:1" rel="noopener">LG Energy Solution (LGENERGY KS)</a> is a leading EV battery manufacturer. It is pre-marketing an IPO to raise up to $10.8 billion, which would be South Korea’s largest-ever listing.  </li>
<li>LGES is offering 42.5 million shares with a primary/secondary split of 80/20. Pre-marketing will run until 17 December.  </li>
<li>LGES has attractive fundamentals with a strong backlog, healthy revenue growth and improving margins (recall provisions have peaked). </li>
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LG Energy Solution (LGENERGY KS) is a leading EV battery manufacturer. It is pre-marketing an IPO to raise up to $10.8 billion, which would be South Korea’s largest-ever listing.  
LGES is offering 42.5 million shares with a primary/secondary split of 80/20. Pre-marketing will run until 17 December.  
LGES has attractive fundamentals with a strong backlog, healthy revenue growth and improving margins (recall provisions have peaked). 


LG Energy Solution IPO Initiation: Amp My Ride

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.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-energy-solution" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33464:1" rel="noopener">LG Energy Solution (LGENERGY KS)</a> (LGES) is looking to raise up to US$10.8bn in its upcoming South Korea IPO.</li>
<li>LGES is the EV battery unit of LG Chem. It was spun off in December last year. The company is a major supplier to customers including Tesla and General Motors.</li>
<li>The company is a dominant player and has all the right ingredients (such as planned capacity, partnerships, order backlog) to benefit from the tailwinds.</li>
</ul>



LG Energy Solution (LGENERGY KS) (LGES) is looking to raise up to US$10.8bn in its upcoming South Korea IPO.
LGES is the EV battery unit of LG Chem. It was spun off in December last year. The company is a major supplier to customers including Tesla and General Motors.
The company is a dominant player and has all the right ingredients (such as planned capacity, partnerships, order backlog) to benefit from the tailwinds.


LG Energy Pre-IPO - Positives - Long Track Record Of Growth

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

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<li>From a valuation point of view, the biggest issue is the size of the recall provisions.</li>
<li>There is a risk that the float-adjusted market cap threshold may not be met if there is too much voluntary lockup.</li>
<li>Many institutional investors will preemptively sell the existing constituents of the battery sector indexes and then repurchase them when the LG ES joins the indexes.</li>
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From a valuation point of view, the biggest issue is the size of the recall provisions.
There is a risk that the float-adjusted market cap threshold may not be met if there is too much voluntary lockup.
Many institutional investors will preemptively sell the existing constituents of the battery sector indexes and then repurchase them when the LG ES joins the indexes.


LG Energy Solution IPO: Offering Details & Issues for Consideration

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<li>LG Energy Solution is getting ready to complete its IPO in the Korean stock market on 27 January 2022. The IPO price is from 257,000 won to 300,000 won. </li>
<li>The IPO base deal size is from $9.3 billion to $10.8 billion. This is the biggest ever IPO in Korea. </li>
<li>The bankers used CATL and Samsung SDI as its comps. Using their annualized EBITDA in 2021, the average EV/EBITDA of its peers is 51.4x (2021E). </li>
</ul>


LG Energy Solution is getting ready to complete its IPO in the Korean stock market on 27 January 2022. The IPO price is from 257,000 won to 300,000 won. 
The IPO base deal size is from $9.3 billion to $10.8 billion. This is the biggest ever IPO in Korea. 
The bankers used CATL and Samsung SDI as its comps. Using their annualized EBITDA in 2021, the average EV/EBITDA of its peers is 51.4x (2021E). 


South Korea

LG Chem Ltd. is a chemical manufacturer. The Company's products include petrochemicals, plastic resins, and engineering plastics. LG Chem also produces industrial and electronic materials.

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