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.

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

Japan Airlines Placement - Given the Uncertain Outlook, Might Need Further Correction

Japan Airlines Placement - Tricky Tricky, Needs to Correct

ANA Holdings Placement - Bigger but Not Necessarily Better Deal than JAL

Mitsui Fudosan Logistics Park Placement - Large Deal but Minimal Accretion

Yakult Honsha Placement - Danone Heads for a Clean-Up

Mitsui Fudosan Logistics Park Placement - Less Dilutive and More Accretive than the Previous Deal

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.

Equity Capital Markets

Nippon Building Fund / Equity Capital Markets

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nippon-building-fund-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1900:1" rel="noopener">Nippon Building Fund (8951 JP)</a> aims to raise around US$1.2bn (JPY127bn) in order to part fund its purchase of two assets.This will be one of the largest JREIT placement that we have seen over the past few years. In addition, the stock hasn't been doing too well this year.In this insight, I'll talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.

Nippon Building Fund (8951 JP) aims to raise around US$1.2bn (JPY127bn) in order to part fund its purchase of two assets.This will be one of the largest JREIT placement that we have seen over the past few years. In addition, the stock hasn't been doing too well this year.In this insight, I'll talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.

Mitsui Fudosan Logistics Park Inc (3471 JP)

Nippon Building Fund Placement - Needs to Correct Some More Given the Weak Sentiment