integrated into our modern culture and society during that time. In 1995‚ Netscape‚ an early leader and innovator in the Internet and WWW software and web browser market‚ had been going through the initial public offering (IPO) process. Specifically‚ on August 8‚ 1995‚ Netscape ’s lead IPO underwriters recommended to the Netscape board to increase the initial offering price to $28 per share from $14 per share‚ a 100% increase. At this new offering price‚ the firm ’s value would be $1 billion‚ raising
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructuring are a big part of the corporate finance world. Every day‚ Wall Street investment bankers arrange M&A transactions‚ which bring separate companies together to form larger ones. When they’re not creating big companies from smaller ones‚ corporate finance deals do the reverse and break up companies through spinoffs‚ carve-outs or tracking stocks. Not surprisingly‚ these actions often make the news. Deals can be worth hundreds of millions
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Characteristic of IPO Initial Public Offering (IPO) has lots of unique characteristics which including short-term underpricing‚ price stabilization‚ and investment banks. IPOs are always underpriced which means the pricing of IPOs often below its market value. This is because of concerns relating to liquidity and uncertainty about the level at which stock will trade. The lesser the liquid and uncertainty about the shares are‚ the more underpriced they will have to be in order to compensate investors
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With the recent Facebook IPO‚ many analysts and Wall Street experts are wondering‚ Is Facebook going to be a relevant Social Media company over the next 5-10 years? Facebook is a free service to its users that allows its customers to keep in touch with friends and family and makes money through advertising. (Lewis‚ 2010) But if 44% of its users never click on those ads‚ will advertisers continue to spend a portion of its marketing budget on Facebook advertising? (Reisinger‚ 2012) Facebook is the
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FI516 IPO Paper Identify the company and its industry. Pandora Media‚ Inc. is an internet streaming radio service used by more than 80 million listeners. Pandora‚ which has a catalog of 800‚000 songs from more than 80‚000 artists‚ has roughly half the market for Internet radio in 2010‚ according to a study published in November by Ando Media. Though the service is wildly popular‚ it has yet to make a profit. The Internet radio station generates playlists based on a user ’s favorite artist or
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SGMT 6050 – Mergers and Acquisitions Facebook IPO Facebook‚ a social networking site‚ has grown at an exponential rate that far surpasses market expectation‚ so much so that its growth rate is referred to as the “ Facebook phenomenal”. In 2004‚ Facebook had 1million monthly active users‚ and in comparison‚ it had reached 845million monthly active users in 2011. This phenomenal led to one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) the market had seen in recent years‚ with total capital raised
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analysis on the recent announcement of Twitter’s IPO. The tweet heard around the world came yesterday afternoon stating‚ “We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.” Immediately Wall Street was running wild with speculation over what the company could be worth‚ who the underwriters were‚ and whether or not Main Street investors would get fleeced as badly on this IPO as they all did on Facebook. The analysts in
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Case (1)：The Blackstone Group’s IPO 1. What are the built-in tensions with a public private equity firm? How does Blackstone’s structure attempt to reconcile them? 2. If you were an LP in Blackstone‚ how would you view the structure Blackstone has put in place to go public? 3. Would you rather be a unitholder in Blackstone or an LP? 4. As a potential employee‚ how you evaluate the Blackstone compensation package against a commensurate offer from a similar large-scale private equity firm that
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June 2010 Perspectives on merger integration Table of contents 5 A new generation of M&A: A McKinsey perspective on the opportunities and challenges Despite continued uncertainty‚ signs point to a surge in M&A activity that will be ambitious in both scope and profile. 11 Beyond risk avoidance: A McKinsey perspective on creating transformational value from mergers Most mergers are doomed from the beginning. Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly
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manager should attempt to manage sensitive information about the firm. 4. In the long run‚ a successful acquisition is one that: enables the acquirer to make an all-equity purchase‚ thereby avoiding additional financial leverage. enables the acquirer to diversify its asset base. increases the market price of the acquirer’s stock over what it would have been without the acquisition. increases financial leverage. 5. Bidding companies often pay too much for the acquired firm.
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