Our IPO Portal Glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms commonly used throughout the IPO process.

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Thinking about embarking on the IPO journey? We can help you understand the requirements, navigate the process, avoid pitfalls, and successfully execute your IPO. Here is a high-level overview of the IPO timeline and deliverables, corporate structure considerations, the registration process and underwriting, governance requirements, IPO alternatives, and more.

IPO 101: Learn All the Basics

Webinar: Overview of the Initial Public Offering Process
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Is your company ready to go public? Do you have the right people with the right skills? Do you have the necessary infrastructure and technology? What are you missing that you need to be a successful public company?

Readiness Overview

Our readiness overview summarizes all the pre-IPO action items: human capital needs, corporate governance and policies, systems and technology requirements, financial reporting and forecasting skills, internal controls, and more.

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A Financial Reporting-Focused Readiness Review

Internal controls, accounting disclosure issues, closing the books each quarter, tax structuring and risks, information technology, and more.

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Other Key Considerations

IT strategy, human capital (including missing skillsets and compensation and benefits plans to attract the right people), and technical tax issues.

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Managing Risk

Shifts in personal and corporate liability, D&O insurance basics, securities litigation trends, and more.

Webinar: Your IPO & D&O Insurance: Managing Risk From Private to Public 
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Understand the registration process – the registration forms and the SEC’s disclosure requirements, confidential submission, the timeline from your organizational meeting to closing, SEC review, and the roadshow.

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Understand the underwriting process – the role of the underwriters and marketing, underwriter selection, engagement letters, due diligence, and underwriting agreements.

Webinar: An IPO – The Underwriting Process
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Understand the financial statement requirements – PCAOB audits, financial statement staleness, impact of historical acquisitions, accounting policies, the close process, and more.

Webinar: The Journey from Private to Public 
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Understand exchange listing requirements and governance standards – board independence, committee requirements, IPO transition rules, controlled company exceptions, committee charters, corporate policies, and more.

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Understand the communications rules – what can you say and when? Overview of gun-jumping and testing the waters, the three communication periods and their varying publicity limitations, and more.

Webinar: Can We Talk? Communicating Your IPO
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Understand your post-IPO obligations – overview of fiduciary duties, periodic reporting requirements, Section 16 ownership reporting requirements, insider trading issues, selective disclosure issues, and more.

Webinar: Now You Are Public, What’s Next?
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