Not exact matches
Overall, 2014 has been a blockbuster year for
IPOs, raising the most capital since 2000
during the dot com
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.
Quattrone, who faced charges of misconduct for his handling of
IPOs during the Internet
boom in the late 1990s, and Lynch have acknowledged meeting with Oracle executives.
During this growth
boom, the SEC found it increasingly difficult to prevent shady
IPOs and conglomerates from proliferating.
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.