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Firms Gravitate To Remote IPOs For Cost And Time Savings
July 02, 2020

Is the “virtual” initial public offering (IPO) here to stay? At a time when the coronavirus fallout has dashed the dreams of some entrepreneurs, virtual IPOs have offered an attractive alternative to young companies eager to go public. Weeks-long roadshows are compressed into a few...

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SoftBank-Backed Lemonade Soars Above $3B Valuation On First Day Of IPO Trading
July 02, 2020

Lemonade, the insurance startup backed by Japan’s SoftBank, soared on its first day of trading Thursday (July 2), rising more than 100 percent as of the afternoon after raising $319 million in an initial public offering. The company priced the shares at $29 on Wednesday...

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Insurance Marketplace GoHealth Seeks $100M In Potential IPO
June 29, 2020

GoHealth, Inc. is seeking to raise $100 million in Class A common stock during a proposed upcoming initial public offering (IPO), according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The health insurance marketplace is seeking to list with the “GHTH” symbol on The...

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Slimmed-Down Albertsons IPO Raises $800M
June 26, 2020

The long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) of Idaho-based grocery chain Albertsons went ahead on Friday (June 26) after often-fraught years of planning. Now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ACI, the chain sold 50 million shares at $16 per share, bringing...

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Lemonade Seeks $23 Per Share In IPO
June 26, 2020

Lemonade Inc., the technology-driven insurance startup, has told regulators that its initial public offering (IPO) is seeking a share price of between $23 to $26.  In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday (June 25), the company’s revised Form S-1 reported...

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Albertsons Proceeds With Pared-Down $800M IPO
June 25, 2020

Albertson’s, the second-largest grocery chain in the United States, has priced its initial public offering (IPO) at a downsized $800 million, after numerous attempts of owner Cerberus Capital Management to cash out, Reuters said. Cerberus had discussions with numerous shareholders which led to the downsizing,...

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Analytics Firm Dun & Bradstreet Launches IPO
June 25, 2020

Analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet has launched an initial public offering (IPO), with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan and Barclays acting as joint lead book running managers, a press release says. According to the release, Dun & Bradstreet is offering 65,750,000...

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Blank Check Companies Set Sights On Unicorns
June 23, 2020

Amid Wall Street’s gyrations and the search for the next great tech unicorn: Blank checks for blank check companies? On Monday (June 22), CNBC reported that famed investor Bill Ackman is seeking to raise $3 billion for an initial public offering (IPO) of his blank...

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Cloud-based FI Software Provider nCino To Go Public
June 22, 2020

nCino, a cloud-based software provider for financial institutions (FIs), plans to go public, per a press release. In its initial public offering (IPO) filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (June 22), the North Carolina-based company said it plans to raise...