IPO Activity Rises in Q3-2009, China Leads in Numbers and Deal Value

Ernst & Young just released its eagerly awaited Global IPO report, an analysis which is very topical today to validate the recovery seen in capital markets throughout the world. Results from this surveys in recent quarters have been quite glum, as companies and investors stayed away from initial public offerings. But this latest Q3-2009 report appears to have a much more positive spin, in line with other concurrent financial and Big4 surveys which indicate that things may finally be turning around towards better times...

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Q2-2009 IPO Activity Grows Seven-Fold Over Q1-2009, Signals Some Deal Optimism

Ernst and Young has just released its Q2-2009 global IPO report, and while activity in this quarter was substantially over previous Q1-2009 quarter, it was far below 2008 levels and driven largely by 3 key IPOs in developing countries...

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EY Report Shows Q1-2009 IPO Activity Completely Stalled – Only 50 Worldwide

As widely expected, exit strategies through initial public offerings to investors took a beating in the last three months, testimony to a slow capital market and unenthusiastic investors. Ernst & Young confirms that in its just-released Q1-2009 Global IPO update. There were just 50 IPOs worldwide in Q1-2009 raising about US$1.4 billion in capital, with only 2 deals over US$100 million...

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What We Blog About - Now on Wall Street Journal First Page

Today's WSJ carries two substantive articles on Sarbanes Oxley and PCAOB / Big Four Firms. It is the very first item on the What's News front page column, indicating the extraordinary importance of these topics to investors and the business community at large. We are pleased to see that the issues we write about in our blog are critical, timely and central to business and capital markets...

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