IPO crash course for hungry entrepreneurs

In recent years, more and more startups have opted for a public market listing, raising capital on stock markets for small- and medium-sized growth companies.

Not only foreign but also Swiss start-ups have listed on Euronext, the London Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq US. We have also just had the first small cap listing on the newly-created Sparks segment of SIX. Listing platforms become more and more attractive to ambitious startups to catalyze the realization of their growth potential.

Improve your understanding to leverage opportunities that a listing provides and nurture your network during the Q&A cocktail, with Leti McManus, multi-market expert, experienced in small-cap IPOs.

🟡 Can smaller companies (e.g. start-ups and SMEs) go public ?

🟡 The different types of stock market segments that host smaller companies (Switzerland ; within Europe ; US and Asia)

🟡 The multiple advantages of IPO preparation (private fundraising, M&A, etc.)

🟡 Listing in Switzerland vs listing abroad

🟡 The steps in the IPO preparation process

🟡 Types of listing (IPO, direct, reverse, SPAC)

🟡 The IPO advisory team for a smaller company IPO

🟡 The costs of an IPO

🟡 Why being a successful public company is far more important than having a successful IPO

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Our Speaker

Leti McManus

CFA, Strategy consulting for IPO preparation/small-cap specialist

Leti is one of the very few Swiss-based specialists with multi-market experience in small-cap IPOs, having been involved in numerous listings on the LSE, NASDAQ, Euronext, TSX, HKEX and SGX.

Leti comes from an investment banking (Equity Capital Markets) background. For the past nineteen years, she has been working with companies (market cap CHF 0-1.5bn) through their listing process and post-listing. Previously a Director, Equity Capital Markets with Seymour Pierce (now Cantor Fitzgerald Europe), the largest smaller company broker in London at the time. Leti currently advises potential Swiss IPO candidates on strategic issues related to preparing for a domestic or international listing. Leti works closely with the major stock exchanges and with key small- and mid-cap specialist investment banks and other regulated advisers in a variety of jurisdictions.

Leti is a Committee Member of the Zurich Chapter of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce

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‍📅17 may 2022

⌚️16:30

📍 Microcity, Rue Pierre-à-Mazel 39, 2000 Neuchâtel