Author Archives: Jan Paschal

The IPO market is taking a slow summer walk this week. Just two tiny deals are on tap – plus the Fed’s July meeting, which started today – Tuesday, July 30, 2024. That summer break follows the fever dream of last week. IPO bankers raised almost $6 billion during the week of July 22, 2024,  […]

NIP Group (NIPG), the owner of the esports brand Ninjas in Pyjamas, priced its IPO at $9.00 – the low end of its $9.00-to-$11.00 price range – and sold 2.25 million American Depositary Shares to raise $20.25 million on Thursday night, July 25, 2024. Jackson Wang, Hong Kong-born singer and pop star, is among NIP […]

Lineage (LINE), the world’s largest cold food storage REIT, raised $4.4 billion in the biggest IPO of 2024 so far on Wednesday night, July 24, 2024. Lineage priced its REIT IPO at $78.00 – above the $76.00 mid-point and below the $82.00 top of its range. The LINE deal was supersized at pricing to 56.88 […]

KKR-backed OneStream (OS) priced its IPO at $20.00 – $1.00 above the top of its $17.00-to-$19.00 range – and sold 24.5 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $490 million on Tuesday night, July 23, 2024. OneStream’s AI-enabled software platform caters to CFOs and other financial services professionals. OneStream’s […]

Tokyo-based BloomZ (BLMZ) priced its micro-cap IPO at $4.30 – as expected – and sold 1.25 million ordinary shares – the number of shares  in the prospectus – to raise $5.38 million on Tuesday night, July 23, 2024. BloomZ shares are expected to start trading Wednesday, July 24, 2024, on the NASDAQ. Network 1 Financial […]

Primega Group Holdings Limited  (PGHL) of Hong Kong priced its small-cap IPO at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$6.00 range – and sold 1.5 million shares to raise $6 million early Monday, July 22, 2024. Primega’s shares started trading at $5.60 – up $1.60 for a 40 percent gain from their $4.00 IPO price […]

Artiva Biotherapeutics (ARTV) added stock and priced its IPO at $12.00 – $2.00 below the bottom of its range – to raise $167.04 million on Thursday night, July 18, 2024. The Phase I autoimmune biotech’s IPO was increased in size at pricing to 13.92 million shares – up from 8.7 million shares in the prospectus […]

Private equity-backed hospital and healthcare chain Ardent Health Partners (ARDT) priced its IPO at $16.00 – $4.00 below the bottom of its range – and cut the deal’s size to 12.0 million shares – down from 14.3 million shares in the prospectus – to raise $192.0 million on Wednesday night, July 17, 2024. The IPO’s […]

Sweet 17: Property and casualty insurer TWFG Inc. (TWFG) priced its IPO at $17.00 – $1.00 above the top of its range – and sold the full 11.0 million shares in the prospectus – to raise $187.0 million on Wednesday night, July 17, 2024. The IPO raised $22 million more than if it had been priced at the […]

Lineage (LINE Proposed) launched its $3.57 billion IPO early today for pricing next week – in an S-11/A filing dated July 16, 2024. The early Tuesday filing by the frozen warehouse REIT heated up an IPO Calendar that started the week with some sizzle. The terms of Lineage’s IPO might prompt some double-takes: 47.0 million […]