Also, because the era of the mega IPO is pretty much over in HK / China (simply because most of the possible mega IPOs have already happened), any new
IPO boom this year will be one of practice groups taking on more deals in order to bring in the same amount of revenue of the mega IPOs of recent years.
Not exact matches
Overall, 2014 has been a blockbuster
year for
IPOs, raising the most capital since 2000 during the dot com
boom.
Of the companies that did go public this
year, the healthcare sector has seen the most activity with 96
IPOs, largely due to a biotech
boom.
The
IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com
boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few
years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed
IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
This
year could be one of the best for the
IPO market since the dot - com
boom, according to IVP General Manager Sandy Miller.
«US companies are dropping
IPOs and selling themselves at the highest rate in three
years, underscoring the gap between volatile financial markets and a
booming merger business,» The Journal says.
The
booming industry saw four companies that filed for US
IPOs in the second half of the
year alone.
On this site, we talked about the lunacy of the
IPO market in China and about all the superlatives and record - breaking which I felt were eerily reminiscent of our own dot com
boom and bust 9
years ago.
In recent
years, initial public offering (
IPOs) have been in the limelight, and during the
IPO boom of 1999 and early 2000 this was the most glamorous and visible type of exit route.
Since late last
year, things have been
booming in Hong Kong / China in cap markets, especially Hong Kong
IPOs.
The flood of international law firms into the Asian region to service the new opportunities in an ever expanding legal market over the last decade has been phenomenal and in 2010 there's a new gold rush for law firms with china connections for this
year's huge
IPO boom