Publicly-Traded Companies, Controlling Stockholders, Initial Public Offering (IPO)

Proposed Amendments to Delaware General Corporation Law Aim to Clarify Corporate Transaction Rules

Latham & Watkins LLP on 2/25/2025

If enacted, the amendments would significantly impact the risk-benefit considerations for public and private companies contemplating reincorporation or going public in a different jurisdiction. ...more

Delaware Court Holds that SPAC Sponsor’s “Founder Shares” Created a Conflict of Interest with Public Stockholders

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 2/2/2022

In 2021, there were 613 initial public offerings (“IPOs”) of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”), after 248 SPACs went public in 2020 and 59 in 2019. Prior to 2021, there had not been more than 500 IPOs of any...more

Comparing a Reverse Merger and a SPAC Business Combination

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 11/4/2020

This chart is intended to compare and contrast in summary form some of the considerations for a private company considering merging into an existing public operating company in a reverse merger or entering into a business...more

Hong Kong Regulatory Update - July 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/5/2019

This edition provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed, or planning to list, on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In...more

SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee Airs Concerns Over Multi-Tiered Offerings Following Snap’s IPO

Mintz - Securities & Capital Markets... on 4/19/2017

Snap Inc., which debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 2nd, was the largest tech IPO since Alibaba went public in 2014. Initially priced at $17 per share, the share price jumped to more than $24 by the end of...more

Publicly-Traded Companies › Controlling Stockholders › Initial Public Offering (IPO)

Proposed Amendments to Delaware General Corporation Law Aim to Clarify Corporate Transaction Rules

Delaware Court Holds that SPAC Sponsor’s “Founder Shares” Created a Conflict of Interest with Public Stockholders

Comparing a Reverse Merger and a SPAC Business Combination

Hong Kong Regulatory Update - July 2019

SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee Airs Concerns Over Multi-Tiered Offerings Following Snap’s IPO

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