This Note examines the role of corporate governance in the biotechnology industry today by analyzing, as a case study, the 39 biotechnology companies that made initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2013. The empirical study of Form S-1 and Form 4 SEC filings shows a cohort of newly public companies...

This Review discusses three developments in equity jurisprudence drawn from significant recent decisions of the Privy Council, the House of Lords, the High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of Canada. The developments are of importance and interest in New Zealand

In this study, to the help using free cash flow models feature the forecast abnormal stock returns of Initial public offering companies in Tehran Stock Exchange for companies ranged from 2003 to 2012 are examined. Three models of free cash flow used as the independent variable and abnormal stock...

In this study, we take advantage of the unique features of the Taiwan stock market, where short selling is forbidden within the first six months following an IPO. We examine the effects of short selling on IPO price efficiency and the relation between short selling activities and the fundamental...

This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...

Before shares of a company are sold to the general public on a security exchange for the first time, regulatory publication requirements force U.S. firms to file an initial public offering prospectus. While accounting information in IPO filings are closely studied by investors and analysts,...