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GLG Topic: Initial Public Offering (IPO)

An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the first sale of a company's common shares to the public for listing in a public stock exchange. Companies use an IPO to raise capital and in hopes of further growing the company. The process for a company going public can be lengthy because the requirements and regulations placed on publicly held entities.

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Leading Experts: Initial Public Offering (IPO)

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Elizabeth Demers, Visiting Professor of Accounting, INSEADElizabeth Demers
Visiting Professor of Accounting
INSEAD

Elizabeth Demers, PhD, is a Professor of Accounting at INSEAD. Dr. Demers’s research interests relate to economic issues concerning Internet and other New Economy firms. Her studies investigate Internet stock valuations, the marketing role of IPOs, IPO failure prediction, technology stock market bubbles,...

Keith Berman, MPH, MBA, Consultant, Health Research Associates Keith Berman, MPH, MBA
Consultant
Health Research Associates

Keith Berman, MPH, MBA, founded Health Research Associates in 1996. HRA provides reimbursement consulting, business development and market research services to leading biopharmaceuticals, blood products and medical device manufacturers and suppliers. Previously, Mr. Berman worked for ten years in product...

Bradley Townsend
Chief Financial Officer
Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc.

Bradley Townsend is the CFO of Advanced Interactive Systems, a defense simulated training company. Prior to joining AIS, he was Vice President of Finance at SafeNet, a network security software company, where he was lead in taking the company private. As Corporate Controller for VectroSGI from 2003...

Simon Holliday, Partner, GLOBAL BETTING & GAMING CONSULTANTSSimon Holliday
Partner
GLOBAL BETTING & GAMING CONSULTANTS

Simon Holliday is a Partner at Global Betting & Gaming Consultants (GBGC), the leading UK-based consultancy to the gambling industry, which he co-founded in 1998. At GBGC, he is responsible for collecting and analyzing the data for both online and land-based gambling markets, producing forecasts and...

John Waugh, Director of System Laboratory Operations, Henry Ford Health SystemJohn Waugh
Director of System Laboratory Operations
Henry Ford Health System

John Waugh is the Director of System Laboratory Operations at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, the 12th largest US hospital laboratory, research & academic medical center. Mr. Waugh has expertise in new and emerging clinical and molecular diagnostic systems including products and services from Cepheid,...

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GLG NewsSM Analysis: Initial Public Offering (IPO)(?)

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Liquidnet IPO Offers Investors Stake In Leading Alternative Trading System (ATS) | 07-04-2008
Analysis of: Liquidnet Plans To Go Public Via IPO | www.securitiesindustry.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Of all of the Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) and Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs) that have fragmented market liquidity and disintermediated traditional exchanges and broker/dealers, Liquidnet has by far the most innovative business model and technology. Enabled by a unique business...

Cerberus Reportedly Shopping Talecris Biotherapeutics to Competitors | 06-13-2008
Analysis of: Owners Might Sell Talecris Instead of Pursuing an IPO | www.newsobserver.com
Author: Keith Berman, MPH, MBA, Consultant, Health Research Associates

After abandoning a 2007 IPO, Talecris majority owner Cerberus Capital is now reported to be pursuing negotiations to sell the $1.2 billion plasma products firm. Talecris' valuation will necessarily involve projections of worldwide market demand for intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), the industry's most...

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