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

NEC Networks (1973 JP) Final Showdown II - Synergies Not Included, So Fair Value Not Offered

NEC Network (1973 JP) Tender Offer - The Landscape Has Fully Changed

NEC Networks (1973 JP) Final Showdown I - Extendy-Extendy, But Not Yet Bumpity Bumpity

Japan Banks - Near End of Negative Rates BOJ, Deposits with BOJ to See Big Yield Rise, Not Only JGBs

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

Nec Networks & System Integr / Event-Driven

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<li>On Friday, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nec-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17084:1" rel="noopener">NEC Corp (6701 JP)</a> raised the price for its Tender Offer on <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nec-networks-system-integr" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16396:1" rel="noopener">Nec Networks &amp; System Integr (1973 JP)</a> from ¥3,250 to ¥3,300. </li>
<li>It also lowered the minimum to 10.153mm shares (6.82%). It had proposed to do so earlier but NESIC demanded a bump, and NEC didn't want to. </li>
<li>Now it's bumped. That's the "final price." But it still does not include <em>"a fair allocation of a portion of the value that cannot be realised without an acquisition."</em>
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On Friday, NEC Corp (6701 JP) raised the price for its Tender Offer on Nec Networks &amp; System Integr (1973 JP) from ¥3,250 to ¥3,300. 
It also lowered the minimum to 10.153mm shares (6.82%). It had proposed to do so earlier but NESIC demanded a bump, and NEC didn't want to. 
Now it's bumped. That's the "final price." But it still does not include "a fair allocation of a portion of the value that cannot be realised without an acquisition."



NEC Networks (1973 JP) Next To Last Showdown - NEC Lowers Minimum, Bumps Tiny, Ignores Synergies