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

Pressance Partial Tender - Almost EVERYONE Tendered

Pressance (3254 JP) Partial Tender - YUMMY!

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

In <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/pressance-3254-jp-partial-tender-yummy" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:45354" rel="noopener">Pressance (3254 JP) Partial Tender - YUMMY!</a> I looked at the partial tender which was being launched by the much larger Kanto-based <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/open-house-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19550:1" rel="noopener">Open House (3288 JP)</a> on Kansai-based <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/pressance-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17783:1" rel="noopener">Pressance Corp (3254 JP)</a>, a partial tender offer combined with a third-party placement by Pressance to Open House after the Tender Offer designed to get Open House to a 65% ownership level in Pressance. 65% is near the maximum that an owner can get to without being obliged to launch a tender offer for all shares outstanding, and it sets up the new owner for both control and near-super-majority control when including both Open House's future 65% stake and the 7% held by financial and corporate cross-holders and existing directors outside the shares held by former and disgraced CEO Yamagishi-san, who will be selling his shares in the Tender Offer. I thought the trade pretty "yummy." I still think so. The shareholding has changed somewhat dramatically since the Tender Offer was launched, but not in a way that dramatically changes the outcome I expected. Discussion ensues.

In Pressance (3254 JP) Partial Tender - YUMMY! I looked at the partial tender which was being launched by the much larger Kanto-based Open House (3288 JP) on Kansai-based Pressance Corp (3254 JP), a partial tender offer combined with a third-party placement by Pressance to Open House after the Tender Offer designed to get Open House to a 65% ownership level in Pressance. 65% is near the maximum that an owner can get to without being obliged to launch a tender offer for all shares outstanding, and it sets up the new owner for both control and near-super-majority control when including both Open House's future 65% stake and the 7% held by financial and corporate cross-holders and existing directors outside the shares held by former and disgraced CEO Yamagishi-san, who will be selling his shares in the Tender Offer. I thought the trade pretty "yummy." I still think so. The shareholding has changed somewhat dramatically since the Tender Offer was launched, but not in a way that dramatically changes the outcome I expected. Discussion ensues.

Pressance Partial - Last Chance To Buy The Tender Residual Cheap