Author Archives: Jan Paschal

No IPOs are scheduled for pricing this week  as bankers take a break for the holidays. This is a short work week. An abbreviated U.S. stock trading session will end at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 24th, for Christmas Eve. The U.S. stock market will be closed on Friday for Christmas Day.  To all […]

WISH is the word circled by IPO investors this week. ContextLogic, Inc., which runs Wish.com, a bargain hunters’ mobile shopping site, is going public with a proposed symbol – WISH – that’s right in tune with the holiday shopping season. This deal is joined by BioAtla, Inc.(BCAB proposed), a cancer-focused biopharma, and Upstart Holdings, Inc. […]

C3.ai (AI proposed), DoorDash (DASH proposed) and Airbnb (ABNB proposed) are the hottest tickets to the Unicorns’ Ball this week.  C3.ai is generating a lot of buzz – no mean feat in a week when two celebrity unicorns, DoorDash and Airbnb, are set to go public at last. Bankers expect to raise about $8.4 billion […]

(Editor’s Note: This column was updated Tuesday morning, Dec. 1, with the news of Airbnb’s IPO filing terms and trade date.) Seven deals are on this week’s IPO Calendar.  But IPO investors are focused on their holiday wish list. That list – topped off by unicorns – took a step closer to reality today when DoorDash (DASH […]

Ozon Holdings PLC, often called “Russia’s Amazon,” is leading the short IPO Thanksgiving Parade this week. The Ozon deal is the first traditional Russian IPO in the U.S. since May 2019 – and it’s attracting a lot of interest. In addition to Ozon, three SPACs and one small-cap IPO are expected this week. Bankers expect […]

Healthcare deals dominate this week’s IPO Calendar. Sotera Health Co. (SHC proposed) and Maravai LifeSciences Holdings, Inc. (MRVI proposed) are expected to raise $2.3 billion – or a little more than half of the $4.4 billion in estimated IPO volume from 11 deals scheduled so far this week. (We’ll have more on these deals in […]

IPO bankers are getting back into the post-election swing of things this week with a biotech-driven calendar. U.S. stocks soared to record highs today – with the Dow up almost 5 percent – on news from Pfizer about progress on a COVID-19 vaccine and two days after Democrat Joe Biden became the president-elect of the […]

October’s final week looks like a rush to the dance floor on Homecoming Weekend: Twelve IPOs and two SPACs are in the works so far. Bankers expect to raise $5.9 billion. Root, Inc. (ROOT proposed) is generating some early buzz.  This tech-savvy auto insurance startup reminds some of Lemonade (LMND). (We will have more on […]

Everyone wants a date with Datto. The cloud company is generating a lot of early buzz from IPO investors. Datto Holding Corp. (MSP proposed) is set for its IPO debut on Wednesday, followed by McAfee Corp. (MCFE proposed), the antivirus software company, and Guild Holdings Co. (GHLD proposed), the parent of a nonbank mortgage lender […]