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

LG Energy Solution / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<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>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-energy-solution" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33464:1" rel="noopener">LG Energy Solution (373220 KS)</a> saw very strong demand for its mega US$10bn+ IPO.</li>
<li>While other IPO markets were in torpor, a number of placements continued to flow in.</li>
</ul>


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

LG Energy Solution (373220 KS) saw very strong demand for its mega US$10bn+ IPO.
While other IPO markets were in torpor, a number of placements continued to flow in.


ECM Weekly (16th Jan 2022) - LG Energy, Hyundai Engineering, Nippon Paint, Sunac, JL Mag, JREITs

Nippon Paint Holdings / Equity Capital Markets

<ul>
<li>A group of shareholders of Nippon Paint Holdings, plan to raise around US$1.4bn via selling nearly 6% of the stock.</li>
<li>We covered most aspects of the deal in our previous note, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/nippon-paint-holdings-placement-nothing-particularly-exciting-needs-to-correct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nippon Paint Holdings Placement - Nothing particularly exciting, needs to correct</a>.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the updates and share price movement since then.</li>
</ul>


A group of shareholders of Nippon Paint Holdings, plan to raise around US$1.4bn via selling nearly 6% of the stock.
We covered most aspects of the deal in our previous note, Nippon Paint Holdings Placement - Nothing particularly exciting, needs to correct.
In this note, we will talk about the updates and share price movement since then.


Nippon Paint Placement Quick Update - Better Positioned After Delivering the Largest Correction

Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets, JapanConsuming

Michael Causton

Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets

Real Insight on Japanese Consumer Markets

JapanConsuming

JapanConsuming is a specialist research firm producing intelligence on Japanese retail and consumer markets. Founded in 2000, JapanConsuming has become the leading provider of insights on Japanese retailers and consumer trends to retailers, brands, government agencies and investors. As well as a highly regarded monthly report on the market, JapanConsuming produces in-depth reports on retail sectors, seminars on key trends and telephone consulting to investors on trends and retailers.

JapanConsuming was founded by Michael Causton and Roy Larke. 

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We remain very optimistic about the outlook for Mercari's fundamentals, both gross transaction values and operating margins.</li>
<li>The sharing economy in Japan alone remains nascent and Mercari has only just started adding on adjunct value-add services, most of which are (and will) carry high margins.</li>
<li>Even in the core fashion category, which some analysts have assumed is already reaching saturation, CtoC platforms and used retailers have barely scratched the surface as new research shows.</li>
</ul>


We remain very optimistic about the outlook for Mercari's fundamentals, both gross transaction values and operating margins.
The sharing economy in Japan alone remains nascent and Mercari has only just started adding on adjunct value-add services, most of which are (and will) carry high margins.
Even in the core fashion category, which some analysts have assumed is already reaching saturation, CtoC platforms and used retailers have barely scratched the surface as new research shows.


2022 High Conviction – Plenty of Growth Avenues for Mercari, the Apple of CtoC Services

Private Capital Markets

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<li>Yodobashi Camera will build up to 20 new fulfilment centres within the next five years. The aim is to offer same or next day delivery nationwide. </li>
<li>In the past year, the unlisted company has massively grown its online capacity – it already has more coverage than Rakuten and 2x the online sales of Seven &amp; I.</li>
<li>It is set to build on its existing position as the largest e-commerce operation outside the big, pure play malls.</li>
</ul>


Yodobashi Camera will build up to 20 new fulfilment centres within the next five years. The aim is to offer same or next day delivery nationwide. 
In the past year, the unlisted company has massively grown its online capacity – it already has more coverage than Rakuten and 2x the online sales of Seven &amp; I.
It is set to build on its existing position as the largest e-commerce operation outside the big, pure play malls.


Yodobashi Camera: 50% Online in 5 Years with Nationwide Delivery

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<li>Net Protections Holdings (NPH), a buy now pay later service provider, raised around US$570m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Japan IPO.</li>
<li>As per Yano Research, it had 40% market share in the domestic BNPL market for B2C transactions.</li>
<li>In this note we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
</ul>


Net Protections Holdings (NPH), a buy now pay later service provider, raised around US$570m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Japan IPO.
As per Yano Research, it had 40% market share in the domestic BNPL market for B2C transactions.
In this note we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Net Protections IPO Trading - Peers Have Moved Lower. Provides the Only Exposure to BNPL in Japan

Japan

Rakuten Group, Inc. provides Internet services. The Company offers Internet finance services which including "Rakuten Card" and "Rakuten Bank". Rakuten Group also provides digital content services including electronic book services.

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Rakuten (4755 JP)

ECM Weekly (16th Jan 2022) - LG Energy, Hyundai Engineering, Nippon Paint, Sunac, JL Mag, JREITs

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

Nippon Paint Placement Quick Update - Better Positioned After Delivering the Largest Correction

A group of shareholders of Nippon Paint Holdings, plan to raise around US$1.4bn via selling nearly 6% of the stock. In this note we talk about the...

Sumeet Singh

2022 High Conviction – Plenty of Growth Avenues for Mercari, the Apple of CtoC Services

Mercari is much, much more than its CtoC platform and will emerge as a pivotal part of Japan's consumer goods/services/finance distribution system...

Michael Causton

Yodobashi Camera: 50% Online in 5 Years with Nationwide Delivery

Consumers are shifting purchases of electronics online and, while the big consumer electronics chains had a good pandemic, this won't last....

Michael Causton

Net Protections IPO Trading - Peers Have Moved Lower. Provides the Only Exposure to BNPL in Japan

Net Protections Holdings (NPH), a buy now pay later service provider, raised around US$570m in its Japan IPO. In this note, we will talk about the...

Sumeet Singh

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