The myth of bookbuilding..

The myth of bookbuilding... The Holy Grail for any company issuing new equity is to build a book of investors who understand the company, support the company, and will stick around for more than a week. Liquidity events like IPOs, after all, should not be opportunities to give away stock cheaply to traders looking to make a quick buck. Rather, they should be opportunities to allow genuinely interested investors to partake in a liquidity event and come away with a sizeable stake. The fear on the part of the company, of course, is that they are under-pricing the issue and that upon listing, investors who have been granted the cheap stock - at the expense of other interested parties who are scaled back or simply not allowed in at all because they aren't clients of the bookrunner - will run for the woods, taking their immediate profits with them. Continue reading: (VIEW LINK)
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At OnMarket, we are all former capital markets professionals who thought there was a better way for companies to raise capital, so we provided the know-how behind the technology that powers the world's first exchange-hosted capital raising...
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At OnMarket, we are all former capital markets professionals who thought there was a better way for companies to raise capital, so we provided the know-how behind the technology that powers the world's first exchange-hosted capital raising...
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