The New York Stock Exchange recently re-filed a proposal to permit direct listings, where private companies list a class of shares without an IPO or other registered offering. The rule change was likely prompted by apparent market interest in such a path to “going public” coupled with the NYSE’s belief that its rival, The Nasdaq Stock Market, already permits direct listings.
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Effective today, July 10, 2017, the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance will accept draft registration statements for review on a confidential basis from an expanded group of issuers. The confidential submission process, which was formerly limited to IPOs by emerging group companies, or EGCs, is now available to most issuers and also in conjunction with follow‑on offerings in the first year after the IPO or an initial listing on a stock exchange.… More