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

Joban Kaihatsu MBO Price Bumped, Tender Extended: Still Not Rolling In Clover

SmallCap Joban Kaihatsu Founder Tries a Free MBO

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>In the annals of foreign buyers of Japanese tourism-related real estate assets, there have been a few good examples, and several disasters. Yesterday, we got a new suitor for assets. </li>
<li>Fortress SPV Ontario GK will attempt to buy out Fukushima-based <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/joban-kosan-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:2826:1" rel="noopener">Joban Kosan (9675 JP)</a> through a double Tender Offer. </li>
<li>There is a history here of a bump on an MBO on an associated company. That may have caused it to trade at a premium on Day 1. It's unrelated.</li>
</ul>


In the annals of foreign buyers of Japanese tourism-related real estate assets, there have been a few good examples, and several disasters. Yesterday, we got a new suitor for assets. 
Fortress SPV Ontario GK will attempt to buy out Fukushima-based Joban Kosan (9675 JP) through a double Tender Offer. 
There is a history here of a bump on an MBO on an associated company. That may have caused it to trade at a premium on Day 1. It's unrelated.


Joban Kosan (9675) - Fortress Buys Out a Fukushima Tourism Asset