Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

An inquisitive investment analyst with background in both finance and computing. Covering ECM research, biotech, market data analytics.

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

JW Therapeutics (药明巨诺) IPO Trading: Peer Performance Doesn't Support a Strong Debut

JW Therapeutics (药明巨诺) Pre-IPO: Pricing with In-License Potential

JW Therapeutics (药明巨诺) Pre-IPO: CAR-T Leader in China

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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JW Therapeutics is a leading China-based cell therapy company with the most advanced progress for CAR-T commercialization. The company has started book building to raise up to USD 300m to list in Hong Kong.In our previous note, we discussed that the company is backed by a strong shareholder Juno, and has a strong foundation in the technology underlying the CAR-T therapy, which is demonstrated by its superior safety data for its Relma-cel. In addition to the CD19 target, the company has also obtained the technology for the BCMA target. The company's T-cell receptor-based pipeline products for solid tumor (liver cancer) with anti-T cell exhaustion enhancement based on the technologies from Eureka and Lyell have good potential as well. We think at the high-end pricing, investors are getting a free option for their potential in-license products. The deal attracted strong investor backing but there's still a lack of presence of international healthcare specialist funds.<h2>Our previous coverage on JW Therapeutics</h2><ul>
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JW Therapeutics is a leading China-based cell therapy company with the most advanced progress for CAR-T commercialization. The company has started book building to raise up to USD 300m to list in Hong Kong.In our previous note, we discussed that the company is backed by a strong shareholder Juno, and has a strong foundation in the technology underlying the CAR-T therapy, which is demonstrated by its superior safety data for its Relma-cel. In addition to the CD19 target, the company has also obtained the technology for the BCMA target. The company's T-cell receptor-based pipeline products for solid tumor (liver cancer) with anti-T cell exhaustion enhancement based on the technologies from Eureka and Lyell have good potential as well. We think at the high-end pricing, investors are getting a free option for their potential in-license products. The deal attracted strong investor backing but there's still a lack of presence of international healthcare specialist funds.Our previous coverage on JW Therapeutics
JW Therapeutics (药明巨诺) Pre-IPO: CAR-T leader in China
JW Therapeutics (药明巨诺) Pre-IPO: Pricing with in-license potential


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