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

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<li>Education Australia, the largest shareholder of IDP Education, last raised around US$858m (A$1.1bn) via selling 15% of IDP Education in Aug 2021.</li>
<li>The lock-up from that deal is set to expire later this month, which will result in an additional 12.5% of the company’s shares, worth US$670m (A$927m) being unlocked. </li>
<li>In this note we will talk about the recent results and the upcoming lockup expiry.</li>
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Education Australia, the largest shareholder of IDP Education, last raised around US$858m (A$1.1bn) via selling 15% of IDP Education in Aug 2021.
The lock-up from that deal is set to expire later this month, which will result in an additional 12.5% of the company’s shares, worth US$670m (A$927m) being unlocked. 
In this note we will talk about the recent results and the upcoming lockup expiry.


IDP Education Placement - Time for Round 2 (US$700m Worth) Of the Selldown

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

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Event-Driven

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<li>As expected, S&amp;P DJI have announced that <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bhp-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:147:1" rel="noopener">BHP Group (BHP AU)</a>'s weight in the S&amp;P/ASX indices will be increased all at once at the close of trading on 28 January. </li>
<li>We estimated passive S&amp;P/ASX trackers will need to buy over A$4bn of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bhp-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:147:1" rel="noopener">BHP Group (BHP AU)</a> leading to a funding sell of that size on the other index constituents.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bhp-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:147:1" rel="noopener">BHP Group (BHP AU)</a> has risen 25% from its lows in November. We expect most UK shareholders have finished selling shares and the one-shot inclusion could take the stock higher.</li>
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As expected, S&amp;P DJI have announced that BHP Group (BHP AU)'s weight in the S&amp;P/ASX indices will be increased all at once at the close of trading on 28 January. 
We estimated passive S&amp;P/ASX trackers will need to buy over A$4bn of BHP Group (BHP AU) leading to a funding sell of that size on the other index constituents.

BHP Group (BHP AU) has risen 25% from its lows in November. We expect most UK shareholders have finished selling shares and the one-shot inclusion could take the stock higher.


BHP Unification - ASX Upweight in One Shot

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<li>CSL aims to raise up to US$4.8bn (A$6.8bn) via a fully underwritten placement, in order to partly fund its acquisition of Vifor Pharma.</li>
<li>The deal has been in the news for a while with CSL recently having to put out a media release to confirm talks.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
</ul>


CSL aims to raise up to US$4.8bn (A$6.8bn) via a fully underwritten placement, in order to partly fund its acquisition of Vifor Pharma.
The deal has been in the news for a while with CSL recently having to put out a media release to confirm talks.
In this note, we will talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.


CSL Placement - Lage Acquisition, Placement and Accretion, Along with Index Impact

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<li>Ventia, an infrastructure services provider, raised around US$325m in its Australian IPO. Capital Group had signed up as a cornerstone.</li>
<li>Ventia is an essential infrastructure services provider in Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the largest providers of maintenance services for critical public and private infrastructure.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
</ul>


Ventia, an infrastructure services provider, raised around US$325m in its Australian IPO. Capital Group had signed up as a cornerstone.
Ventia is an essential infrastructure services provider in Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the largest providers of maintenance services for critical public and private infrastructure.
In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


<ul>
<li>Ventia, an infrastructure services provider, aims to raise up to US$325m in its Australian IPO. Capital Group has signed up as a cornerstone.</li>
<li>Ventia is an essential infrastructure services provider in Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the largest providers of maintenance services for critical public and private infrastructure.</li>
<li>We have covered most aspects of the deal in our earlier notes see <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/ventia-ipo-at-your-service-everywhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/ventia-ipo-strong-revenue-visibility-valuation-appears-reasonable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. In this note, we will look at the revised valuations. </li>
</ul>


Ventia, an infrastructure services provider, aims to raise up to US$325m in its Australian IPO. Capital Group has signed up as a cornerstone.
Ventia is an essential infrastructure services provider in Australia and New Zealand. It is one of the largest providers of maintenance services for critical public and private infrastructure.
We have covered most aspects of the deal in our earlier notes see here and here. In this note, we will look at the revised valuations. 


Ventia IPO - Priced to Go on the Revised Terms

Australia

Transurban Group owns and operates urban toll road networks. The Company has core capabilities in network planning and forecasting, operations and customer management, project development and delivery, technology application, and community engagement. Transurban operates in Australia and North America.

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IDP Education Placement - Time for Round 2 (US$700m Worth) Of the Selldown

Education Australia, the largest shareholder of IDP Education, last raised around US$858m (A$1.1bn) via selling 15% of IDP Education in Aug 2021....

Sumeet Singh

BHP Unification - ASX Upweight in One Shot

The BHP upweight in the ASX indices will be done all at once at the close on 28 January. This will mean A$4bn of BHP to buy and a funding sell on...

Brian Freitas

CSL Placement - Lage Acquisition, Placement and Accretion, Along with Index Impact

CSL aims to raise up to US$4.8bn (A$6.8bn) via a fully underwritten placement, in order to partly fund its acquisition of Vifor Pharma.

Sumeet Singh

Ventia IPO Trading - Should Pop

Ventia, an infrastructure services provider, raised around US$325m in its Australian IPO. Capital Group has signed up as a cornerstone.

Sumeet Singh

Ventia IPO - Priced to Go on the Revised Terms

Ventia, an infrastructure services provider, aims to raise up to US$325m in its Australian IPO. Capital Group has signed up as a cornerstone.

Sumeet Singh

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