Overview

Over the course of the development of a business, one of the major milestones that can be achieved is the transformation of a private company into a public company through processes of Initial Public Offering (“IPO”). Through IPOs, companies are allowed to sell their shares through the stock market and are thus able to generate whole new levels of equity capital from public investors in exchange for the relevant founders losing total autonomy over a company, as well as the addition of several new obligations (which mainly relate to information disclosures and the submission of reports).[1]