On Monday of this week I was watching Squawk Box on CNBC and Herb Greenberg was making a case that maybe “Companies should not go IPO”. His argument was simple. Going public is a privilege not a right. Why should private committees, Congress or the SEC make it easier for companies to [...]

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In a recent article in Business 2.0 “Why it pays to be Private,” Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s School of Business, makes an interesting case for why companies should consider abandoning the public markets. According to Professor Pfeffer’s observations management spends countless hours meeting with analysts, speaking and meeting with [...]

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At what point should a public company decide that they are better served by going private? There are many reasons why it may not be in the best interest of the company and its shareholders to stay public. The most obvious is that the business plan originally outlined by the company did not get [...]

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Reverse mergers can be completed much faster than traditional IPO’s. In 2005, the SEC instituted some new rules that now make it mandatory for companies to disclose all information regarding the new company that has merged into the shell within four business days after closing. Most reverse mergers are completed within 30 to 60 [...]

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DealFlow Media has once again organized The PIPEs Conference 2006 to be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan on November 7 & 8. The conference offers an in depth view of the major players in the reverse shell merger industry. If you think this is just another conference, think again. [...]

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The reverse merger between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago came as a shock to many industry experts. The NYSE dove off the high board when it decided to transform itself from a privately held membership-based stock exchange into a publicly traded company by partnering with one of the leading trading technologies in the [...]

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If you are seeking to find an investment in a substantial company that has recently gone public I suggest you take a look at SPACs. For the patient investor this could be a gold mine. Most SPACs are funded with between $20 million to $50 million. Their sole purpose is to acquire [...]

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I recently had breakfast with David Feldman, a securities attorney, to discuss his new book Reverse Mergers. David is the founding partner of Feldman, Weinstein & Smith located in Manhattan, NY. The newly released book covers all aspects of going public through alternative vehicles such as Virgin Shells, SPACs and Reverse Shell Mergers. [...]

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Other than selling a Shell, where else can a CEO totally fail, destroy a company and still end up pocketing several hundred thousand dollars on his way out the door? Well, maybe CEOs with golden parachutes, but lets’ face it, this is not a common occurrence. The reason for my writing on this [...]

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The Pink Sheets is a centralized quotation service that collects and publishes market-maker quotes for OTC securities in real time. Companies that trade on the Pink Sheet Exchange do not have to report to the SEC or any other regulatory body. Furthermore, the Pink Sheet Exchange does not list bid and ask prices [...]

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