The IPO Buzz: Bowhead Specialty Holdings Launches $100 Million IPO

Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc. (BOW Proposed), a New York-based specialty property and casualty insurance company, disclosed terms for its $100 million IPO and launched the deal early today – Monday, May 13, 2024 – for pricing next week. The profitable P&C insurance company is offering 6.67 million shares at a price range of $14.00 to $16.00 to raise $100.0 million, if priced at the $15.00 mid-point. This is a New York Stock Exchange listing. (Please see our IPO Calendar for the pricing date.)

Bowhead Specialty Holdings would have a market cap of about $ 460.05 million, based on mid-point pricing at $15.00.  

J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods are the joint book-runners.

Bowhead Specialty Holdings, based in New York, N.Y., offers specialty P&C insurance, professional liability insurance and healthcare risk insurance, the prospectus says:

  • Bowhead’s Casualty Division offers liability insurance to cover risks in the construction, distribution, heavy manufacturing, real estate and hospitality segments;

  • Its Professional Liability Division provides underwriting solutions on both an admitted and an E&S (Excess & Surplus) basis to standard and nonstandard risk for publicly traded and privately held financial institutions and nonprofit organizations, and

  • Its Healthcare Division focuses exclusively on healthcare entities, providing tailored solutions for liability insurance across four major healthcare segments – hospitals, senior care providers, managed care organizations and miscellaneous medical facilities.

The company, founded in 2020, says its ability to write business is “currently largely based on our relationship with AmFam” – a reference to the American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. – according to the prospectus.

Bowhead Specialty Holdings is profitable, the prospectus says. For the year ended Dec. 31, 2023, Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc. reported net income of $25.0 million on revenue of $283.4 million, according to financial statements in the prospectus.

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