A lot of work goes on behind the scenes before a company announces its Initial Public Offering (IPO). For raising funds for the first time, a company needs a team of underwriters, lawyers, accountants and industry experts to audit the financial performance of the company as well as determine the type of shares and security to offer, initial price, timelines and the number of shares that are to be offered to raise the required capital from the market.
Hence, from being a privately held company to going public is a big leap – a process that needs professional advice and hand-holding from conceptualization to the first offering to getting on with investor presentations, preparing reports and compliances required to operate as a publicly listed company.
An IPO support team makes all this real simple and easy. They work closely with the management and the owners of the company or the issuer from scratch where it all starts with the planning phase. There are detailed deliberations and discussions pertaining to timing the offering, selecting the correct option and preparing the IPO route map. The scope of work generally includes:
• Getting the right team members to make a quality team responsible for overseeing and implementing the IPO project. This team studies the gap, audits historical financial performance and prepares the project report based on which the IPO offering is decided.
• Help in restructuring of the Board and appointing new Directors
• Prepare investor relations strategy.
• Decide the right stock exchange and discuss transactions with them.
• Documentation and preparation of disclosures pertaining to the offering. Making the draft prospectus.
• Review initial pricing.
• Begin marketing and start work on public relations campaign.
• Register prospectus once the pricing and other parameters are fixed.
• Confirm listing with the stock exchange and begin trading.
Hence, from being a privately held company to going public is a big leap – a process that needs professional advice and hand-holding from conceptualization to the first offering to getting on with investor presentations, preparing reports and compliances required to operate as a publicly listed company.
An IPO support team makes all this real simple and easy. They work closely with the management and the owners of the company or the issuer from scratch where it all starts with the planning phase. There are detailed deliberations and discussions pertaining to timing the offering, selecting the correct option and preparing the IPO route map. The scope of work generally includes:
• Getting the right team members to make a quality team responsible for overseeing and implementing the IPO project. This team studies the gap, audits historical financial performance and prepares the project report based on which the IPO offering is decided.
• Help in restructuring of the Board and appointing new Directors
• Prepare investor relations strategy.
• Decide the right stock exchange and discuss transactions with them.
• Documentation and preparation of disclosures pertaining to the offering. Making the draft prospectus.
• Review initial pricing.
• Begin marketing and start work on public relations campaign.
• Register prospectus once the pricing and other parameters are fixed.
• Confirm listing with the stock exchange and begin trading.
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