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Current Trends in IPOs

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

Going public is like standing in front of an X-Ray machine forever. You are completely exposed. Everything about the business is in the public domain and in front of the competition. ' Anonymous CEO

In 2006, high investor confidence fueled a worldwide market for Initial Public Offerings ('IPO' or 'IPOs'). The amount of capital raised worldwide by companies going public rose to a record U.S. $246 billion. The number of new listings also rose sharply to 1729, which is the highest number in a calendar year since 2000. Moreover, Global IPOs in the first quarter of 2007 raised U.S. $36.5 billion through 371 IPOs. Globally, such numbers reflect that a wide diversity of companies are going public.

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