Before anything else, a company needs a clear-eyed answer to whether a U.S. listing is the right way to achieve what its owners actually want — growth capital, liquidity, currency for acquisitions, profile, or a path to eventual exit.
We work through the objectives, the alternatives, and the practical consequences of listing: the cost of the process, the ongoing cost of being public, the dilution, the loss of privacy, and the demands on management. We then set out the realistic routes available to the company and what each would require.
The output is a written view you can take to your board — including, where that is the honest conclusion, a recommendation not to proceed yet.
What we deliver
- Objectives and alternatives reviewed with the owner and board
- Assessment of the routes available to the company
- Indicative cost, timeline and resourcing for each route
- A written recommendation with the reasoning set out
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Project management
Owning the timetable, the workstreams and the board reporting so the listing runs to plan and the business keeps running.
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Selecting, appointing and then coordinating the auditors, counsel, underwriters and other firms a listing requires.
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Keeping auditors, counsel, underwriters and registrars aligned to one timetable across several time zones.
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