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Investments

116

Portfolio Exits

37

Funds

8

Partners & Customers

10

About Nomura Holdings

Nomura Holdings (TYO: 8604) (NYSE: NMR) (SGX: N33) is a financial services company. It services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: retail, wholesale (global markets and investment banking), and investment management. The company was founded in 1925 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Headquarters Location

1-9-1 Nihonbashi Chuo-ku

Tokyo, 103-8645,

Japan

+81 (0)3 3211 1811

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Alibaba to Exit Cloud Business After Beijing Undercuts Potential

May 20, 2023

(Bloomberg) -- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s surprise move to fully spin out a potentially transformative $12 billion cloud business is stirring speculation about whether the Chinese e-commerce leader bowed to market or political realities. Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang dropped a bombshell Thursday when he unveiled the contours of Alibaba’s historic six-way shakeup for the first time. Included among the listing and financing of a plethora of businesses was a plan to fully relinquish control of the business known as Alibaba Cloud, a once-thriving operation that harbored the potential to supercharge the company the way Amazon Web Services grew to signify Amazon.com Inc. At the heart of the issue is why Alibaba chose to sever a business some analysts value at upwards of $30 billion, a prime beneficiary of a post-ChatGPT upswell that depends on cloud resources to train next-generation AI models. In doing so, it’s hiving off a unit that comes with historical baggage and its own share of business uncertainty. Alibaba dived as much as 5.9% in Hong Kong Friday, after also reporting disappointing Chinese commerce figures. China’s most valuable online commerce firm invested tens of billions over more than a decade in the business of hosting computing for corporations over the internet. For years, it was among Alibaba’s proudest and most often-touted accomplishments, a business that outstripped rival offerings from Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc., grew more global in flavor than any other division, and spearheaded important inhouse initiatives. But government scrutiny of cloud services operated by private firms intensified around 2020, when Beijing grew suspicious of privately owned repositories of sensitive and valuable data, triggering a now-infamous sweeping crackdown on the internet sphere. AliCloud itself drew regulatory ire in 2021 for discovering then sharing a major software flaw before informing authorities, and was then investigated in 2022 for its role in China’s largest known cybersecurity data leak. The cloud division in recent years began to bleed market share to rivals including Huawei Technologies Co. and state-run China Mobile Ltd. “It’s positive for shareholders as it represents a significant capital return, but once fully distributed the cloud business will no longer add to Alibaba Holdco’s valuation,” said Vey Sern Ling, managing director at Union Bancaire Privee. “The company says cloud business is relatively independent and unrelated to its core e-commerce businesses. But investors may wonder if the government told them to break up.” Key Points of the Breakup Blueprint Alibaba plans to spin off its cloud services division as an independent entity by distributing stock to shareholders over the next year That means Alibaba could eventually end up not owning shares in China’s biggest cloud services platform It will aim to float its Cainiao logistics arm within 12 to 18 months Most immediately, the firm aims to complete an IPO for the Freshippo grocery chain within the coming year And it plans to secure external financing for its international commerce division, which encompasses overseas operations such as Singapore-based Lazada Like Amazon’s, Alibaba’s cloud service emerged from the computational power needed to handle millions of simultaneous online shopping transactions. But unlike its US counterpart, it enjoyed home-field advantage in a vast Chinese market where web-based computing was (and still is) novel to many enterprises. Its push into the cloud, where software and services are provided to customers via server farms the size of football fields, was once envisioned as helping cushion Alibaba against domestic shocks to its core operation. Zhang said Thursday the cloud arm pretty much runs itself as an independent operation. But it’s also inextricably intertwined with some of the company’s most pivotal undertakings. Cloud drives its signature Singles’ Day gala, an annual event that showcases the company’s enormous global reach in online shopping. It helped power hundreds of thousands of transactions per second — a phenomenal endeavor Alibaba has unfailingly credited the cloud division with enabling. The unit contributed to profit for the first time around late 2020, helping prop up the bottom line just as Covid-era shocks hammered shopping. And it houses the DAMO academy that works on potentially groundbreaking, moonshot projects from chip design to quantum computing. In fiscal 2022, it generated nearly $12 billion of revenue for the company — 8% of turnover. It was so important that in March, when Alibaba first unveiled its six-way breakup, Zhang personally took the helm of what he called the Cloud Intelligence division — seemingly signaling it was destined for greater things. Bloomberg “This full spinoff plan involving AliCloud is both bold and puzzling,” Nomura Holdings Inc analysts Jialong Shi and Thomas Shen wrote in a note. Their current valuation for the unit stands at about $31 billion. “AliCloud is BABA’s organic business and is still deemed as one of the long-term drivers for the group even though its growth temporarily slowed down in recent quarters due to macro headwinds. That is why we find it puzzling that BABA has decided to fully spin off this business instead of retaining a minority stake at least.” The tide had turned against the business several years before. Beijing’s relentless and widespread crackdown on its formerly high-flying tech giants since late 2020 had nudged risk-averse institutions toward state-owned providers. Large-scale businesses like the China Construction Bank and local municipalities in cities such as Nantong were already moving closer to state-backed cloud platforms, Bloomberg News has reported. Ultimately, Alibaba may have acceded to business considerations. Zhang said the cloud spinoff was intended to simplify the structure and respond to market needs. A standalone platform could grow to someday even surpass Alibaba in size if it attracted the right external financing, he told analysts Thursday without elaborating. “The planned spin-out comes at a challenging time for the Cloud business, which seems to have lost the growth initiative,” said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Robert Lea.

Nomura Holdings Investments

116 Investments

Nomura Holdings has made 116 investments. Their latest investment was in Digile Group as part of their Corporate Minority on April 4, 2023.

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Nomura Holdings Investments Activity

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Date

Round

Company

Amount

New?

Co-Investors

Sources

4/24/2023

Corporate Minority

Digile Group

Yes

1

4/17/2023

PIPE

Moolec Science

Yes

4

3/7/2023

Line of Credit - II

Origis Energy

$750M

No

2

1/26/2023

Line of Credit

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$99M

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10

1/26/2023

Loan

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$99M

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10

Date

4/24/2023

4/17/2023

3/7/2023

1/26/2023

1/26/2023

Round

Corporate Minority

PIPE

Line of Credit - II

Line of Credit

Loan

Company

Digile Group

Moolec Science

Origis Energy

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Amount

$750M

$99M

$99M

New?

Yes

Yes

No

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Co-Investors

Sources

1

4

2

10

10

Nomura Holdings Portfolio Exits

37 Portfolio Exits

Nomura Holdings has 37 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was SoundHound on April 28, 2022.

Date

Exit

Companies

Valuation
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Acquirer

Sources

4/28/2022

Reverse Merger

$99M

8

2/1/2022

Acquired

$99M

3

4/1/2021

Acq - Fin

$99M

3

2/23/2021

Acquired

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$99M

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10

6/24/2020

Shareholder Liquidity

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$99M

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10

Date

4/28/2022

2/1/2022

4/1/2021

2/23/2021

6/24/2020

Exit

Reverse Merger

Acquired

Acq - Fin

Acquired

Shareholder Liquidity

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Acquirer

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Sources

8

3

3

10

10

Nomura Holdings Acquisitions

3 Acquisitions

Nomura Holdings acquired 3 companies. Their latest acquisition was New Forests on May 20, 2022.

Date

Investment Stage

Companies

Valuation
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Total Funding

Note

Sources

5/20/2022

Other

$99M

Corporate Majority

3

12/11/2019

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10

11/4/2006

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10

Date

5/20/2022

12/11/2019

11/4/2006

Investment Stage

Other

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

Total Funding

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Corporate Majority

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Sources

3

10

10

Nomura Holdings Fund History

8 Fund Histories

Nomura Holdings has 8 funds, including N-MEZ Fund 1.

Closing Date

Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

Sources

2/28/2020

N-MEZ Fund 1

$262M

1

11/29/2017

Nomura Distressed Business Fund

$99M

10

4/20/2017

Nomura Fund II

$99M

10

Dreamers Fund

10

Japan-China Industrial Fund

10

Closing Date

2/28/2020

11/29/2017

4/20/2017

Fund

N-MEZ Fund 1

Nomura Distressed Business Fund

Nomura Fund II

Dreamers Fund

Japan-China Industrial Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

$262M

$99M

$99M

Sources

1

10

10

10

10

Nomura Holdings Partners & Customers

10 Partners and customers

Nomura Holdings has 10 strategic partners and customers. Nomura Holdings recently partnered with QUICK on May 5, 2023.

Date

Type

Business Partner

Country

News Snippet

Sources

5/15/2023

Partner

Japan

Nomura : Partners with QUICK to Launch Sponsored Research Business

The partnership will leverage Nomura ' strong network with issuers , domestic and foreign institutional investors and individual investors , QUICK Corp. 's wealth of data on issuers and markets , and Nomura 's expertise in helping issuers communicate corporate information to investors .

1

11/28/2022

Vendor

United States

Nomura selects Quantifi to support model building by structured credit team

Nomura Holdings selects Quantifi to support model building by structured credit team

2

10/21/2021

Partner

Japan

6/22/2021

Partner

United States

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10

6/9/2021

Vendor

United Kingdom

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10

Date

5/15/2023

11/28/2022

10/21/2021

6/22/2021

6/9/2021

Type

Partner

Vendor

Partner

Partner

Vendor

Business Partner

Country

Japan

United States

Japan

United States

United Kingdom

News Snippet

Nomura : Partners with QUICK to Launch Sponsored Research Business

The partnership will leverage Nomura ' strong network with issuers , domestic and foreign institutional investors and individual investors , QUICK Corp. 's wealth of data on issuers and markets , and Nomura 's expertise in helping issuers communicate corporate information to investors .

Nomura selects Quantifi to support model building by structured credit team

Nomura Holdings selects Quantifi to support model building by structured credit team

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Sources

1

2

10

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Nomura Holdings Team

74 Team Members

Nomura Holdings has 74 team members, including current Chief Executive Officer, James Elton.

Name

Work History

Title

Status

James Elton

Chief Executive Officer

Current

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