Competitive Advantages
Our vast, collective experience has taught us that success in business isn’t a solo act. It is about having a network you trust. It is about being connected to the world and being present. Success is a collaboration, which is why we are the group to give you the competitive advantage you need.
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Subject Matter and Industry Experts from a Diverse and Extensive Background.
We apply our years of collective know-how to enable and complete successful business combinations. This collective expertise has been amassed over decades of nurturing startups and ventures, leading M&A negotiations and executions, right up to guiding candidates for the stock exchange listing.2
Extensive network of contacts for effective and successful ventures.
Our years of collective know-how have gained us a valuable cross industry and cross-sector network of contacts. Governments, private and public companies, private equity and venture capital funds, investment bankers, attorneys and accountants - this breadth of sources enables us to generate acquisition opportunities, secure new deals and seek follow-on businesses which help accentuate business value with the right level of due diligence.3
Market Knowledge and Business Acumen Helps Keep Our Finger on the Pulse.
Rising consumer income, large addressable markets, and increasing technology literacy during the new normal recovery will be the platform for new sector leaders to emerge in the post-COVID Asia Pacific. Businesses with the ability to leverage technology, adapt to uncertain times by evolving and transforming itself will come through ahead, and our ability to understand these challenges helps us identify new, lasting opportunities.4
Our listing on Nasdaq will help enable and augment new businesses.
Being listed on the second largest stock exchange by market capitalisation in the world is proof of our collective track record of execution, but more importantly, an indication of our unique market edge. Opting for a business combination with us instead of the traditional public offering process is economical and secure, immediately opening up access to direct capital, credibility with listing on a global exchange, business opportunities to enhance present valuations, industry experts and talent.Business Strategy
Our approach to business is shaped by the collective wisdom gained through our diverse and extensive team. And this wisdom is applied in our operations and executions, cascaded through best practices and optimised processes. It allows us to leverage prevailing market conditions and harness industry opportunities to identify the best valued propositions.
The increasing digital literacy among Asia Pacific’s youth is a major boon in the region’s new normal recovery and growth. The smartphone penetration in Asia Pacific was 61% in 2019 and is poised to grow to 84.9% by 2027. This means that 8 out of 10 people in Asia Pacific will have access to a device by then, enabling a digital lifestyle that will amplify the growth of its technology sector. Rising demand for cloud-based services supports this further. The backbone of on-demand digital services, they enable organisations to quickly scale operations and infrastructure. Despite the pandemic, cloud-based services rose by 38% in 2020 and a further 33% in 2021.
Concurrently, growing technology ecosystem enablers have played a critical role in shifting the world towards a digital reality. It is made up of numerous disruptive changemakers – technology enterprises that fall under Holistic eCommerce, FinTech, Big Data, and Analytics and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – that is capitalising on this very shift and powering it in turn.
Business Combination Criteria
Target Size
Consistent with our investment thesis as described above, we plan to target businesses with total enterprise values ranging from $200 million to $2 billion in the technology industry, specifically middle market “enabling technology” companies.
Strong Management
We will seek companies with strong management teams already in place. We will spend significant time assessing a company’s leadership and human fabric, and maximizing its efficiency over time.
Businesses with Revenue and Earnings Growth Potential
We will seek to acquire one or more businesses that have the potential for significant revenue and earnings growth through a combination of both existing and new product development, increased production capacity, expense reduction and synergistic follow-on acquisitions resulting in increased operating leverage.
Businesses with Potential for Strong Free Cash Flow Generation
We will seek to acquire one or more businesses that have the potential to generate strong, stable and increasing free cash flow. We intend to focus on one or more businesses that have predictable revenue streams and definable low working capital and capital expenditure requirements. We may also seek to prudently leverage this cash flow in order to enhance stockholder value.
Benefit from Being a Public Company
We intend to acquire one or more businesses that will benefit from being publicly-traded and can effectively utilize the broader access to capital and the public profile that are associated with being a publicly traded company.
Appropriate Valuations and Upside Potential
We intend to apply rigorous, criteria-based, disciplined, and valuation-centric metrics. We intend to acquire a target on terms that we believe provide significant upside potential while seeking to limit risk to our investors.
*These criteria are not intended to be exhaustive. Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that from time to time our management may deem relevant.
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