Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT) priced its IPO at $17.00 and sold 14.75 million shares – as expected – to raise $250.75 million on Sunday night, Oct. 26, 2025. The Redwood City, California-based biotech sold another 476,707 shares in a concurrent private placement – at the $17.00 IPO price – to Goldman Sachs affiliates – to bring […]

MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT Proposed) and Navan (NAVN Proposed) share the IPO marquee. They aim to raise about $1.17 billion combined. Both IPOs were launched after the U.S. government shutdown began on Oct. 1st. Wall Street will also be in Fed Watch mode this week. The Street expects the Fed to cut the benchmark fed funds […]

Lafayette Acquisition Corp. (LAFAU) of Paris – a SPAC whose CEO Christophe Charlier is the former chairman of Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital – raised $100 million on Thursday night, Oct. 23, 2025. Lafayette Acquisition priced its SPAC IPO in sync with the terms in the prospectus – 10 million units at $10.00 each. Each […]

Miluna Acquisition (MMTXU) of Taiwan raised $60 million by pricing its SPAC IPO with a whole warrant – a sweetening of the unit’s composition from the original plan to offer one-half of a warrant – on Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025. Miluna priced 6 million units priced at $10.00 each – with each unit consisting of  one […]

From Seoul to Wall Street: Harvard Avenue Acquisition (HAVAU) cut its IPO’s size this afternoon to 14.5 million units – down from 18 million units in the prospectus  – and priced the deal at $10.00 per unit – as expected – to raise $145 million tonight (Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025).  Each unit consists of one […]

Calisa Acquisition Corp. (ALISU), an Asia-focused blank check company, raised $60 million on Tuesday night, Oct. 21, 2025. This SPAC deal was priced in sync with the terms in the prospectus – 6 million units at $10.00 each. Each unit consists of one share of stock and the right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of a […]

Shares of Ambitions Enterprise Management (AHMA), a Dubai-based tour operator and travel agency, climbed in their NASDAQ debut today – Tuesday, Oct, 21, 2025 – touching $5.40 after opening flat with their $4.00 IPO price. Ambitions Enterprise Management’s (AHMA) stock closed at $4.65 – up 65 cents from its IPO price for a 16.25 percent […]

Charming Medical Ltd. (MCTA) shares shot up to $8.21 – slightly more than double their IPO price – in their NASDAQ debut today – Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. The Hong Kong provider of TCM-inspired therapies and products priced its micro-cap IPO at $4.00 last night (Monday, Oct. 20, 2025) on 1.6 million shares to raise $6.4 million. […]

Fans of crypto, whisky and SPACs are in luck this week. The IPO Calendar sports a modest crypto deal along with a whisky wholesaler’s small IPO and a couple of SPACs. All have ties to Asia. This week’s volume is light. Bankers aim to price 11 deals to raise about $348 million combined. The slow […]

Flight Plan: Grupo Aeromexico (AERO Proposed) revealed the terms for its U.S. IPO to raise $222.82 million – in an SEC filing after Friday’s close. Mexico’s only full-service carrier emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in 2022. Grupo Aeromexico’s U.S. IPO consists of 11.73 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at a price range of $18.00 […]