Zach Fisher, Managing Director, TMT Investment Banking Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, now account for approximately one fourth of the entire U.S. IPO market, a result of higher-quality participants, from investment banks to private-equity firms, giving the product validation....

Charles Freund, EVP of Strategy at FLEETCOR By John Jannarone What was the key to the most successful IPOs of the 2010s? The likes of Tesla, Inc. and Shopify Inc. introduced technologies that transformed their industries. Another IPO from an...

Short sellers on Wall Street are aware of a single risk that could spoil their party: A surprise rate cut or even liquidity injection from the Federal Reserve. That’s according to IPO Edge Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone, who joined Cheddar TV...

Andrew Chung of 1955 Capital Speaking at the Swiss Energy and Climate Summit in 2015 By IPO Edge Staff The climate has long been a hot button topic for politicians and activists, and it is becoming one for investors too....

Chris Weekes, Managing Director, Capital Markets, at Cowen Inc. Much of the recent success of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, is due to a watershed structural change: the separation of the vote and the ability to redeem shares for...

The American Dental Association as well as various state dental boards have made an organized attack on SmileDirectClub, Inc. in an effort to protect their turf, but savvy investors should look past Big Dental and focus instead on the orthodontics...

SmileDirectClub, Inc. has been subject to unfair attacks from the powerful American Dental Association, short sellers, and even unscrupulous journalists, but the strong underlying business has attracted investors who see through the confusion. That’s according to IPO Edge Editor-in-Chief John...

RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Medalist Diversified REIT, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDRR) (the “Company”), a Virginia-based real estate investment trust that specializes in acquiring, owning and managing value-add commercial real estate in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, announced today the pricing of its underwritten...

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP), a growth-focused technology investment firm, today announced the initial public offering (IPO) of Locaweb Servicos de Internet SA (BVMF:LWSA3), a portfolio company of SEP’s predecessor fund, Silver Lake Sumeru, on Bovespa, the Sao...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Beam Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAM), a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 12,176,471 shares of common stock, including the exercise in full by the underwriters of...