IPO

Initial Public Offering — a private company’s first sale of shares to public investors, run by underwriting banks who build the book of institutional demand and price the deal.

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The IPO Process, End to EndAn initial public offering is a financing, a governance change and a marketing exercise happening at once, and the price is decided in the last forty-eight hours.Read the guide — 11 min

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