Intelligize Webinar
August 12, 2020
1 pm – 2 pm EDT
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Direct listings are an alternative to the traditional IPO process that has generated much attention lately. A U.S. or foreign-domiciled company may choose to register a class of its securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and list its stock on…
On June 22, 2020, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) submitted an amended proposal to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) that would modify existing NYSE rules relating to direct listings in order to permit companies to conduct concurrent primary offerings. As we previously blogged, on December 6, 2019, the SEC rejected a broader NYSE…
Please note the originally scheduled in person seminar has been cancelled and we will now webcast this program.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
8:30 – 9:45 AM ET
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Due to market structure and regulatory changes, the traditional capital-raising path for entrepreneurial companies has evolved. For companies in certain sectors, the firm…
Date: March 12, 2020
Location: 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Time: 8:00 AM Registration; 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Program & Breakfast
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Due to market structure and regulatory changes, the traditional capital-raising path for entrepreneurial companies has evolved. For companies in certain sectors, the firm commitment IPO may no…
On December 6, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rejected the proposal submitted by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) to allow companies to simultaneously go public through a direct listing and raise cash from public market investors. As we previously blogged, the NYSE’s proposed rule would have incorporated an option to raise…
On November 26, 2019, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a proposed rule change that would allow companies to simultaneously go public through a direct listing and raise cash from public market investors as an alternative to a traditional initial public offering. The proposed change would allow…
Consistent with the rule adopted by the New York Stock Exchange in 2018 in order to facilitate direct listings, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved a similar Nasdaq rule for the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Rule IM-5315-1. Although prior to the effectiveness of the rule, the Nasdaq had permitted companies to undertake direct listings,…
A paper titled, “The Impact of Exchange Listing on Corporate Governance Evidence from Direct Listing,” written by Dan French, Andrew Kern, Thibaut Morillon, and Adam Yore, considers the impact on corporate governance policies attributable to the listing of a class of securities on a national securities exchange. The authors focus on direct listings…
On February 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the New York Stock Exchange’s (the “NYSE”) proposal to permit qualifying private companies to use “direct listings” to list their shares on the NYSE so long as the direct listing is accompanied by a concurrent resale registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933. To…
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