Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of IPO & Placements for Aequitas Research. At Aequitas we cover all IPOs and placements across Asia-Pac with a deal size of at least US$100m. 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%. 
Prior to Aequitas. I was heading Content Strategy for Smartkarma, along with covering IPOs & Placement. In an earlier life I have covered ASEAN property and the banking space in India.

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<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/16263" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16263:1">Kenedix Office Investment Co (8972 JP)</a> (KDO) plans to raise around US$140m to part fund its purchase of an office tower in Tokyo. Unlike the other regular market visitors among JREITs, this will be the first issuance for KDO since Nov-2014. While the acquisition NOI yield doesn't seem generous, it does appear that the impact of the acquisition, the sell-off of the properties and the issuance will be mildly DPU positive/neutral. Overall, the deal scores well on our framework given the company's…</p>

Kenedix Office Investment Co (8972 JP) (KDO) plans to raise around US$140m to part fund its purchase of an office tower in Tokyo. Unlike the other regular market visitors among JREITs, this will be the first issuance for KDO since Nov-2014. While the acquisition NOI yield doesn't seem generous, it does appear that the impact of the acquisition, the sell-off of the properties and the issuance will be mildly DPU positive/neutral. Overall, the deal scores well on our framework given the company's…

Kenedix Office REIT Placement - Past Deals Have Done Well