Private Equity IPO

Private Equity Initial Public Offerings to Lead 2010

Here's just a short article I came across today which covers the expected wave of IPOs coming from private equity and venture capital firms.  The market was largely considered too unstable in 2009 to bring any privately-held companies public, but now as the stock market recovers private equity portfolio companies are going to lead the IPOs.  It's going to be an interesting next couple months as the firms test investor interest in young or restructured companies--if they don't end up holding off a bit longer.

Venture capitalists that own companies as diverse as New Look and Hilton hotels are struggling to raise fresh capital from credit-crunched investors; an alternative is to consider flotation as an exit route, allowing them to realise investments after a two-and-a-half year IPO drought.

David Wilkinson, UK head of IPOs at Ernst & Young said: "With recovery some way off and an election in the offing, the IPO window could be relatively short as political and economic uncertainties kick in later in the year. But we hear that the IPO pipeline is relatively full and expect quite a few operations to come to market in the near future, especially where they involve private equity."

City sources say that a number of companies are looking at flotations before Easter in the hope that the stock market will continue to rally in the first half of 2010.   Source

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