Topic
IPO
617 published works
The Securities Edge
The Attempted Murder of the SpaceX IPO
The SpaceX IPO is now history, but Senator Elizabeth Warren may not be happy about it. A few days before the IPO was completed, Senator Warren sent a letter to…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
The Gender Gap Among IPO Lawyers
By Afra Afsharipour, Kristina Bishop, Matthew Jennejohn
Capital markets work is among the most profitable areas of transactional legal practice, and it is typically awarded to lawyers within a tight network. Perhaps the most elite of those…
Consumer Finance Monitor
SpaceX Becomes the First Major IPO Issuer to Implement the SEC’s New Shareholder Arbitration Policy
By Alan S. Kaplinsky, Joseph J. Schuster
Based on reports published around the IPO and the first day of trading, the SpaceX offering appears to have set or approached a remarkable number of records. Some are clear-cut…
Louis Lehot Medium Blog
How to Make IPOs Great Again
By Louis Lehot
In May, the SEC made its most ambitious proposals in a generation to bring companies back to the public markets. That is the right goal and a strong start. We…
Latham.London
Space X’s IPO Marks the First Use of the FCA’s POP Regime for a UK Retail Offer
The transaction is a landmark moment for the UK’s reformed capital markets framework. By Mark Austin, Ryan Benedict, Frederick Gardner, Isabelle Knapton, and Rob Moulton Latham & Watkins has advised…
Global Financial Regulatory Blog
Space X’s IPO Marks the First Use of the FCA’s POP Regime for a UK Retail Market
The transaction is a landmark moment for the UK’s reformed capital markets framework. By Mark Austin, Ryan Benedict, Frederick Gardner, Isabelle Knapton, and Rob Moulton Latham & Watkins has advised…
Truth on the Market
SpaceX and the New Geography of Corporate Governance
SpaceX may soon ask public investors to buy a piece of the future. The fine print may ask them to buy something else, too: a theory of corporate governance. The…
Louis Lehot Medium Blog
It’s Time to Get Going
By Louis Lehot
Friends,I spent yesterday afternoon in New York at the Nasdaq MarketSite for the Sidebar Summit, and I moderated a panel on markets, AI, and capital formation. Sidebar Summit was part…
Known Trends
SEC Chairman Invites Comment on Modernizing the IPO Process
In remarks delivered on May 26, 2026, at the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission or SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins expressly invited public…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Big surprise! Anthropic is going public!
By Peter Vogel
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed on Monday for an initial public offering, joining what could be a once-in-a-generation, moneymaking moment on Wall…