Keywords: IPO, initial public offerings, Europe
For most companies and their owners, an initial public offering
(IPO) is a "once-in-in-a-lifetime" event that may
represent the culmination of many years of hard work. The IPO may
provide both the shareholders and management of the company with a
significant sense of accomplishment and will arguably be one of the
most important milestones in the corporate evolution of a company,
for its owners, management, employees and other stakeholders.
An IPO, however, will also frequently bring with it a sense of
upheaval as significant changes are often required to be made to
the way a company operates and conducts itself – membership
of the new "public" world brings with it legal and
compliance obligations that need to be both understood and complied
with.
Mayer Brown has a global team of IPO lawyers with experience
guiding our issuer and underwriter clients through the IPO process
from the initial kick-off meeting through completion of their
initial public offerings in most of the major markets across the
globe.
If you would like to learn more about initial public offerings,
please click on the following links to view a PDF copy of the
European Edition of our
Initial Public Offerings – An Issuer's Guide or to
request a hard copy. The guide is primarily intended to assist
potential IPO candidates and their owners, management teams and
in-house lawyers to assess the commercial and legal implications
(good and bad) of "going public" and to generally better
understand the likely time, effort, costs and related documentation
involved in conducting an IPO, either in an SEC-registered
transaction in the United States or in connection with a listing on
a regulated or exchange-regulated market in Europe. However, we
hope that other market participants (such as underwriting banks,
law firms or other financial and legal advisers) will also find it
helpful.
Originally published 21 July 2014
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