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Sumeet Singh
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Cloud Village (NetEase Music) IPO Lock-up

Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO in Dec 21. The IPO was almost entirely taken up by cornerstones, of which the largest was Netease, who together took up 83% of the deal.

The company had also earlier obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with a host of other mainly PE investors. These investors will be released from their lock-up on 1st Jun 2022.

In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates over the past few months.

We covered various aspects of the deal in our previous notes:
Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Was in the slow stream, playing catch-up,
Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Tencent Music peer comp, regulatory impact,
Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Initial thoughts on valuation,
Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Mixed PHIP update, updated thoughts on valuation,
Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Revised PHIP updates, thoughts on valuation, and
Cloud Village (NetEase Music) - Cornered deal but offers limited upside
Underlyings
NetEase Inc. Sponsored ADR

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Aequitas Research
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