Initial public offering of: a sizeable number of ordinary shares -

Offer price per share: stated in local currency -

This is our global initial public offering guide. It will help you navigate the US portion of a global IPO – in other words, an IPO in which you sell locally listed ordinary shares to investors outside the United States under Regulation S, and to investors inside the United States in private transactions without registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The US investors in global IPOS are usually large US institutional investors known as qualified institutional buyers, or QIBs, purchasing under Rule 144A or another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.