IPO Adviser

If you own or are a Director of a successful company you’ve probably heard before of the concept of IPO’ing the business to get you shares listed on the stock market. It’s a relatively niche thing to do with just a few hundred companies progressing down this route in the UK each year (and a… Continue reading IPO your business

A Public Offering quite simply means making the shares of a company or similar organisation available to the public usually for the first time. The securities will normally be made available by listing them on a well-known Stock Exchange and the whole process is typically organised to generation a source of finance for the company,… Continue reading Public Offerings to fuel Growth

Floating a company onto one of the markets, also described as ‘Going Public’ – is the legal process describing how a company goes from being privately owned to publicly owned. The floating process culminates with a percentage of the company’s shares being made available to buy by public investors or institutions such as pension funds via… Continue reading Floating a company the easy way

A SPAC, otherwise known as a Special Purpose Acquisition Company or a Cash Shell is also occasionally referred to as a Blank Check (or Cheque for this side of the pond!) Company – this is because in essence it is an empty organisation listed on a stock market waiting to trade in its declared area… Continue reading SPAC finance – Better than VC’s or Banks?

A SPAC Company isn’t strictly speaking a correct term, it should really be a SPA Company as that’s what the C in SPAC already stands for! So what is a SPA Company or SPAC Company and why are you probably hearing this relatively modern term bandied around so much these days? A SPAC is mostly… Continue reading SPAC Company – What is it?

In business, Mergers, or as they are more commonly known in Corporate Finance and City Circles, Mergers and Acquisitions, are quite simply the bringing together of two entities with the purpose of creating an enlarged entity with increased shareholder value. The entities can be incorporated businesses, other kinds of organisations, partnerships or even simply operating… Continue reading Business Mergers to help you exit?

An IPO or Initial Public Offering is seen by many as the beginning of a businesses real journey, a time when it has matured from start-up status into a fully fledged and audited grown-up business. Strangely enough, a well structured IPO can also be the beginning of the end, at least for the original Founders… Continue reading IPO Companies to Exit

If you are familiar with the terms SPAC and IPO you cant fail to have noticed the increased trend for them to be mentioned in business news over recent years. Even through the pandemic the number of company floatation’s onto the markets have increased, perhaps because of it, as it’s a almost guaranteed route to… Continue reading SPAC/IPO – Just a fad?

An Initial Public Offering or IPO is simply the process by which a formerly privately owned business makes its shares available to a broader range of potential investors through one of the regulated stock markets somewhere in the world. So in the UK that typically means the London Stock Exchange who operate/are generally known as… Continue reading Initial Public Offering Explained

Acquisitions and Mergers (or as we more commonly hear it described in the UK, Mergers and Acquisitions) is a pretty common and hence well understand concept amongst both business leaders and the general public who realise it describes how businesses may seek to grow by combining their activities with other companies. The main difference between… Continue reading Acquisitions and Mergers to Grow Your Business