Category: Resource
2025 Financial Staleness Calendar and Filing Guide
As we approach the final months of 2024, many companies are looking toward 2025 for initial public offerings and other public financing transactions. Among the most commonly asked questions during capital markets transactions – and one that is crucial in determining deal timelines – is this: “Which financial statements are […]
Counsel Corner: Don’t Want to Miss the Next IPO Window? Here’s What to Do Now
After a recent cooling-off period, the success of high-profile tech IPOs and favorable market conditions suggest that 2024 is a promising time for tech and growth companies to go public. Here, we’ll share why the market is ripe for tech IPOs now, along with the key steps tech companies should […]
Beyond Borders: A Playbook to Empower Tech Legal Leaders – Foreign Private Issuer Insights
In the ever-evolving landscape of global business, tech companies are not confined by geographical boundaries – they are pioneering the path beyond borders. As in-house teams navigate the intricate realm of international expansion, the concept of becoming a foreign private issuer (FPI), or taking proactive steps to maintain FPI status, […]
2024 Financial Staleness Calendar and Filing Guide
As we approach the end of 2023, many companies are looking toward 2024 for initial public offerings and other public financing transactions. Among the most commonly asked questions during capital markets transactions – and one that is crucial in determining deal timelines – is this: “œWhich financial statements are required […]
Pre-IPO Converts: What Late-Stage Private Companies Should Know
Our late-stage private company clients that are on the path to an IPO in the next 12 to 24 months will often ask us for guidance on “pre-IPO converts. ” This article explains what a pre-IPO convert is and describes some of the main considerations in this type of transaction. […]
Top 10 Considerations for Management in a Continental European IPO
1. Share structure and cap table Depending on where your company is incorporated, dual- or multi-class voting structures may or may not be permitted. It is therefore important to determine early in the initial public offering (IPO) planning process whether your “œhome country ” corporate law and applicable stock exchange […]
2023 Financial Staleness and Filing Guide
As we approach the end of 2022, many companies are looking toward 2023 for initial public offerings and other public financing transactions. Among the most commonly asked questions during capital markets transactions – and one that is crucial in determining deal timelines – is this: “œWhich financial statements are required in order to price the offering? “ To help […]
2021 Update: 10 Key Considerations for Going Public with a SPAC
It is a reasonable extrapolation – and we are nothing at Cooley if not wildly reasonable – that, since the beginning of time, more operating companies are considering going public through a merger with a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company). While the number of SPAC IPOs may have peaked in […]
SPAC Transactions – Considerations for Target-Company CFOs
Although special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have been used for decades as alternative investment vehicles, they have recently come into vogue as seasoned investors and management teams have turned to SPACs to mitigate the increased market volatility risk of traditional initial public offerings (IPOs). In fact, 2020 has been a record-breaking […]
London Listings for People’s Republic of China (PRC) Companies
The United Kingdom (UK) offers a range of markets that companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) might consider as venues for a primary or secondary listing of their equity securities. This blog post provides a high-level overview of the types of equity securities which might be listed, factors […]