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Securities Law Prof Blog
Taxpayers Get $11.7 Billion from GM IPO
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that with the delivery of $11.7 billion in proceeds from the initial public offering of General Motors (GM), the total amount of Troubled Asset Relief…
Securities Law Prof Blog
U.S. Expects to Sell Half its GM Shares at $33
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that it has agreed to sell 358,546,795 shares of its General Motors (GM) common stock at $33.00 per share, as part of…
The Venture Alley
Not-So-Local Local IPO
By Trent Dykes
CONTRIBUTED BY Megan Muir As reported in The Seattle Times, Bothell-based HaloSource recently completed its initial public offering of shares on the London AIM stock exchange. HaloSource plans to use…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Agrawal & Cooper on Accounting Scandals in IPO Firms
Accounting Scandals in IPO Firms: Do Underwriters and VCs Help?, by Anup Agrawal, University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, and Tommy Cooper, Kansas State University…
M&A Viewpoints Blog
The Bumpy Road to Recovery for Private Equity-Backed IPOs in 2010
By Brett Miller
As we profiled in October 2009 (click here), the IPO market has significantly bounced back in 2010 with private equity-backed floatations comprising a majority of the overall offerings. Ernst & Young…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Treasury Named as Selling Shareholder in GM Registration Statement
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that it has agreed to be named as a selling shareholder of common stock in General Motors Company's (GM) registration statement on…
The Faculty Lounge
KKR
KKR is going public later this month (story here). Some of us are old enough to remember the merger, buyout, and takeover mania of the 1980s. Some of the higher-profile…
China Law Vision
2010 Shall Be An IPO Starting Year For Insurance Companies
By AnJie Broad
During Christmas holiday of 2009, China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd was listed in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, with the stock code”02601” and the stock name of…
InsureReinsure
A.I.G. to List American International Assurance on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
According to recent reports in the New York Times and Financial Times, A.I.G. plans to list its Asian life insurance unit, American International Assurance (“A.I.A.”), on the Hong Kong stock…
Pension Risk Matters
Some Venture Capital Firms Lower Fees
According to Wall Street Journal reporter Pui-Wing Tam, hedge funds are not alone in reducing their fees to entice investors. As laid out in "Venture Funds Sweetening the Terms," fund-raising…