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Byline: Allison Bisbey Colter Entrepreneurs may have a number of reasons for waiting longer to take their companies public, but Carter Mack, president of the San Francisco boutique investment bank [...]

Byline: Allison Bisbey Colter Pandora Media's initial public offering will be a big payday for some early investors, who will receive $27 million of accrued and unpaid dividends as part [...]

Byline: Matthew Sheahan Allison Transmission is the latest company looking to tap the equity market to repay debt. The Indianapolis manufacturer of transmissions and other auto parts is planning to [...]

Byline: Paul Burton Less than 18 months after after a mammoth bankruptcy petition that made its earlier stock worthless, General Motors began its comeback with the largest initial public offering [...]

Byline: Allison Bisbey Colter July 2010 may not have seemed like the ideal time for Agricultural Bank of China, the nation's third-largest bank by assets, to make its public debut. [...]

Byline: Aleksandrs Rozens Late this spring, senior managers at Moelis & Co. gathered for a routine conference call to discuss the firm's deal pipeline and its business outlook. Bankers from [...]

Byline: Ken Tarbous Imperial Capital is pushing beyond its traditional role as a distressed-debt specialist. The firm's objective: To transform itself into a full-service advisor for M&A and corporate restructurings. [...]

Byline: Ken Tarbous Dealmakers expect the pace of secondary equity offerings to quicken in coming quarters after a slow start in the first two months of the year, and a [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff KKR IPO FILING RAISES SUCCESSION QUESTION Kohlberg Kravis Roberts& Co. confirmed that it still planned to go public in the U.S. by filing a new initial public [...]

Byline: Ken Tarbous Dollar General, a retailer best known for its bargains, picked the right time and the right price point when it went public last fall. The initial public [...]

TalbotsInc.'s recent transaction with special-purpose acquisition company BPW Acquisition Corp. may come unstitched, according to some market participants who warned that the SPAC's investors may vote against the deal because [...]

Muriel 'Mickie' Siebert is not slowing down, and neither is her firm. The 77-year-old Wall Street veteran wants to grow Muriel Siebert & Co.'s capital markets division, Siebert Capital Markets. [...]

Little more than two years ago the market for mergers sponsored by special-purpose acquisition companies couldn't have looked brighter. But with liquidation deadlines fast approaching this month and early next [...]

Lazard announced Tuesday that it brought on Tom Tuft (seen above), the former chairman of Goldman Sachs' equity capital markets group, as part of a build-out of its equity capital [...]

Wall Street's IPO machine has come back to life, and fees generated by investment bankers bringing companies public or selling shares for publicly traded companies may bolster profits in the [...]

Byline: Kelly Holman When Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup took Singapore semiconductor chip maker Avago Technologies Ltd. public for $648 million last week, the new company's debut [...]

Byline: Aleksandrs Rozens Houston's El Paso Corp. has to refinance its existing debt this year. The company, owner of North America's largest interstate natural gas pipeline, also wants money to [...]

Byline: Tom Granahan In a year that saw no shortage of remarkable, even historic, deal-making within the financial services sector, it was going to take a similarly notable deal to [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff A unit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts said last Monday that it doesn't expect to price its initial public offering until next year. KKR Private Equity Investors, the [...]

Byline: Kelly Holman Activity in the US initial public offering market is about as slow as the drip of molasses in January, but the IPO mart is drawing new registrations [...]

Hicks Acquisition Co., a Dallas special purpose acquisition company established by private equity financier Thomas Hicks, reached a definitive agreement to go public with Graham Packaging Holdings in a $3.2 [...]

September 2007. In hindsight, it doesn't seem like the ideal time for a boutique investment bank to have gone public. Of course, Duff & Phelps has proven adept at navigating [...]

First the good news on initial public offerings: the world's financial markets are coming off a record-setting year. Through November 2007 - and with December still not accounted for - [...]

The Nasdaq Stock Market is aiming to tap into the lucrative initial public offering market for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), proposing a rule change to the Securities and Exchange [...]

Credit-card company Visa is planning an $18.8 billion initial public offering, a transaction that likely will be welcome on Wall Street, where investment banks have incurred losses and seen a [...]

For Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' $1.2 billion initial public offering, it's full steam ahead. The New York buyout titan filed an amended regulatory filing on Nov. 13, indicating that its intention [...]

Few private equity and hedge fund managers going public these days can boast that Hollywood actors James Garner and Jonathan Pryce brought to life the drama of one of their [...]

*Blackstone Group completed its wildly anticipated IPO, pricing 133.3 million units at $31 each, at the high end of expectations. Including a $3 billion stake bought by the Chinese government, [...]

Duff & Phelps, a financial advisory and investment banking services company, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of as [...]

Bill Hambrecht doesn't set business goals. But even to Hambrecht, a self-admitted type-A personality, his next act of revolutionizing Wall Street with his trademark Dutch auction IPOs, hasn't taken off [...]

Since the tech bubble burst, investors have trained themselves to look more closely at IPOs that come out of the IT sector. But recent offerings suggest the window might be [...]

When it comes to the Blackstone Group's anticipated initial public offering, some market participants are viewing such a move, if it happens, as a smart combination of hedging one's bets [...]

The new year has brought a revolution to the hedge fund industry, as the much talked-about and very successful initial public offering of Fortress Investment Group earlier this month not [...]

The biggest surprise about the _8.3 billion leveraged buyout of the semiconductor division of Royal Philips is that it was expected - albeit not as an LBO. Philips initially planned [...]

In a year where Goldman Sachs seemed to do just about everything right, proving them wrong merits special recognition. While the Thomas Weisel Partners IPO was too small to compete [...]

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), founded in 1872, was set to go public on Thursday, November 16, as of IDD's press time. And in the current environment, the future [...]

The billion-dollar-plus IPO from southern California office and apartment giant Douglas Emmett, expected to occur later this month, would seem to fly in the face of the privatization wave sweeping [...]

Piper Jaffray is targeting the small- and middle-market segment in China as it aims to attain the same footprint in that country that it has cemented in the US. The [...]

*Banc of America Securities said on Sept. 11 that it would sell a portion of its prime brokerage business to Baypoint Trading for an undisclosed sum. San Francisco-based Baypoint focuses [...]

The sell-side executive says that a rebound in Nasdaq could create a wave of IPO filings from small financial services companies that are focused on tech companies, but the leaders [...]

Rosneft's IPO underwhelmed the aftermarket last week as institutional investors were forced to balance Russia's promising oil and gas reserves, which could account for up to 10% of the world's [...]

Middle-market investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners is now the sole firm at the helm of its IPO after Goldman Sachs, the other lead underwriter, pulled out of the deal. TWP [...]

All the hurricane damage and insurance squabbles in the energy and pipeline industries in the Gulf states have taken a toll on energy investors, and interest in energy-related IPOs and [...]

Boutique investment banks Thomas Weisel Partners and S.G. Cowen recently unveiled plans to go public, but lurking in the background are constant calls that their model-the small, full-service investment bank-is [...]

While the impact of soaring energy prices and a damage-heavy hurricane season has been evident in stock prices for some time now, the IPO market has only begun to display [...]

The annual rush to get out the door before the Labor Day holiday has produced a bit of a mess in this month's calendar of initial public offerings. Biopharma hopefuls [...]

For real estate investment trusts, the road to China's vast real estate market goes through Hong Kong. A recent easing of regulations in that former British colony has paved the [...]

Expectations that the rebound in investment banking activity in the healthcare sector will continue is leading to a bit of a midsummer hiring frenzy as middle-market firms, banks and boutiques [...]

When Google Inc. launched its massive initial public offering via a 'Dutch' auction in August 2004, it raised many eyebrows on Wall Street. But in the IPO's aftermath-the stock has [...]

Lazard's recent filing for an initial public offering, coupled with last year's successful IPO of Greenhill & Co., has stirred the speculative pot at four tiny West Coast boutiques with [...]