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APAC IPOs & Placements

Zhen Zhou, Toh

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

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/westpac-banking-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:444:1" rel="noopener">Westpac Banking (WBC AU)</a> is looking to raise US$260m by selling its entire shareholding in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zip-co-ltd-3708706d-4978-4e29-acbc-d9702b971da9" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29126:1" rel="noopener">Zip Co Ltd (Z1P AU)</a> a day after it announced its partnership with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/afterpay-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26940:1" rel="noopener">Afterpay Touch (APT AU)</a>. This is a clean up trade.</p><p>The deal scored well on our framework owing to strong share price momentum and decent track record. Past deals have done well over the longer time horizon and rhe selldown can also be easily absorbed by the market as it only accounted for 4 days ADV.</p>

Westpac Banking (WBC AU) is looking to raise US$260m by selling its entire shareholding in Zip Co Ltd (Z1P AU) a day after it announced its partnership with Afterpay Touch (APT AU). This is a clean up trade.The deal scored well on our framework owing to strong share price momentum and decent track record. Past deals have done well over the longer time horizon and rhe selldown can also be easily absorbed by the market as it only accounted for 4 days ADV.

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