Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

HK Type 4 license through Ballingal Investment Advisors Ltd. ("BIA" or "BIAL")

BACKGROUND
I have 20+yrs experience in Asia doing alternative strategies (i.e. non-delta1 non long-only) in fixed income, equity derivatives, and activist/catalyst/event-driven and long-short equity strategies with most of that time spent managing money. 

4 years in fixed income macro, 8 years running internal hedge fund and 4yrs investment banking at Citi in Japan, 3 years running an Asia multi-strat portfolio at a hedge fund, 4+yrs as an independent special situations analyst.

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

EPS MBO Is Cheap. Too Cheap. But Be Careful Of Your Assumptions

The Amended FamilyMart Document Is A MUST READ For Investor-Stewards

FamilyMart Tender Offer - Winnie and HunnyPot Redux

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/eps-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13246:1" rel="noopener">Eps Holdings (4282 JP)</a> was founded in 1991 by Hao Yan with 100,000 yen when he was 28 years old. It was a company which was built around software to manage clinical trials. Basically, the entire company was built off that idea of providing an infrastructure to allow a small company to act like a big one, or to allow a big one to interface with 5,000 smaller ones. A couple of years later the company became a CRO (Contract Research Organization) by amalgamating case registration and drug allocation services for those same clinical trials. Less than a decade later and they were managing the interfaces with clinical trial sites (i.e. they were a Site Management Organization (SMO)) for pharmaceutical companies, then they tacked on a CSO (Contract Sales Organization) status so they could take existing product from that same group of pharmaceutical companies for whom they were managing drug trials and could sell those drugs to the same doctors who were in situ at the thousands of sites across Japan conducting trials. Later, the company launched some of those same services in China and in SE Asia. It's a good business. About 15yrs ago the company listed on the TSE1. About five years ago they formed a tie-up with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/suzuken-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:14996:1" rel="noopener">Suzuken Co Ltd (9987 JP)</a>. Now they are participating in the joint development of a DNA vaccine for covid-19. <h2>The NEW News</h2>Earlier this week, EPS launched a Takeunder of a Hong Kong company called Speed Apparel Holdings (3860 HK - held as to 75% by a single holder). It's not clear why they are doing this takeunder but it has been arranged as of earlier this spring.And on Thursday 27 May, the company announced that Mr. Hao Yan's company and an executive team of EPS would launch a Management Buyout (MBO) of EPS Holdings with contributions from partner Suzuken and MBK Partners as sponsor.It's a decent deal at a decent premium so... we dig in.

Eps Holdings (4282 JP) was founded in 1991 by Hao Yan with 100,000 yen when he was 28 years old. It was a company which was built around software to manage clinical trials. Basically, the entire company was built off that idea of providing an infrastructure to allow a small company to act like a big one, or to allow a big one to interface with 5,000 smaller ones. A couple of years later the company became a CRO (Contract Research Organization) by amalgamating case registration and drug allocation services for those same clinical trials. Less than a decade later and they were managing the interfaces with clinical trial sites (i.e. they were a Site Management Organization (SMO)) for pharmaceutical companies, then they tacked on a CSO (Contract Sales Organization) status so they could take existing product from that same group of pharmaceutical companies for whom they were managing drug trials and could sell those drugs to the same doctors who were in situ at the thousands of sites across Japan conducting trials. Later, the company launched some of those same services in China and in SE Asia. It's a good business. About 15yrs ago the company listed on the TSE1. About five years ago they formed a tie-up with Suzuken Co Ltd (9987 JP). Now they are participating in the joint development of a DNA vaccine for covid-19. The NEW NewsEarlier this week, EPS launched a Takeunder of a Hong Kong company called Speed Apparel Holdings (3860 HK - held as to 75% by a single holder). It's not clear why they are doing this takeunder but it has been arranged as of earlier this spring.And on Thursday 27 May, the company announced that Mr. Hao Yan's company and an executive team of EPS would launch a Management Buyout (MBO) of EPS Holdings with contributions from partner Suzuken and MBK Partners as sponsor.It's a decent deal at a decent premium so... we dig in.

Another Too-Cheap MBO as Founder Takes Out EPS