The US securities market offer companies one of the richest sources of capital in the world as a result of their size, credibility and pool of enthusiastic investors. However, taking a company through a public offering on the US securities market is a major undertaking and presents complex...

We study firms that go public through reverse mergers (RMs) versus initial public offerings (IPOs) in China. Using a manually assembled data set, we show that pre-listing RM firms are larger, more profitable, and less politically connected than pre-listing IPO firms. Chinese RM firms also have...