Credit Suisse, among other banks, was probed for its practices in allocating IPO offerings.
Goldman Sachs Group went public in 1999 in what was then the second-biggest IPO.
There are now some 225 companies in IPO registration, most of them starved for cash.
Millennium went public in 1996 and the stock immediately popped 50%, reviving a moribund biotech IPO market.
That makes it the biggest private equity IPO to date and among the biggest financial services IPOs.
Small-time frauds claiming to sell pre-IPO shares of companies like Facebook have already surfaced, according to the SEC.
All are trading well below their IPO prices and yet none are cheap by traditional metrics.
Forty-four companies are currently registered for an IPO, up from 25 at this time last year.
They knew exactly how much they would be worth by this time just before an IPO.
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The IPO would mark the end of a long and colorful era in the building's history.
The Facebook IPO will deposit somewhere between six and 20 billion dollars into cash.
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Analysts say it will take more than rate cuts to revive the IPO market.
Others banks involved with the IPO included Deutsche Bank, Oppenheimer, Needham, Craig-Hallum and William Blair.
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As seen with the IPO of Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK), the Big Data industry is certainly red hot.
The General Motors IPO, the second largest ever, is arguably this decade's most hyped financial event.
That year Morgan Stanley served as lead manager for the Netscape Communications IPO.
The first outward sign of trouble came May 9, nine days before the IPO.
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What if the IPO market stays cold, as it did from 1974 to 1980?
Sharespost has had to retrench its own secondary business after the Facebook IPO.
The company originally filed its S-1 for an IPO publicly in early April.
That answer even the question seems to be elusive in the public discussion of the IPO.
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The company, already up more than 35% since its September IPO, jumped 12.6% Wednesday morning.
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Groupon, which has filed for an IPO, and LivingSocial are the leaders in the space.
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Note that Morgan Stanley was the lead underwriter on the Millennial IPO last March.
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It could stay the course, hoping that a wildly successful IPO will cure all evils.
Earlier this week, the post-IPO lock-up period expired for insiders holding 234 million Facebook shares.
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Ma gets a huge stake in his own company and the green-light to IPO.
Facebook shares have performed well since dropping precipitously after its rocky IPO in May.
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As far as trying to do an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, forget it.
The lack of a strong IPO market makes life tougher for biotech venture capitalists.
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