Dual-track IPOs
Why Choose the Dual Track Process?
The education and training that lawyers receive is valuable. For some reason, many lawyers are prone to forgetting their value. Getting through law school and passing the bar examination is a significant achievement. In...more
You’ve created a great product and built a valued brand. You’ve devoted countless hours to building relationships with key distributors and retailers, designing attractive packaging, and forging a social media presence. But...more
Over the past few years, private equity funds and hedge funds have increasingly employed tactics traditionally employed by the other as part of their value maximization strategies. Underscoring this convergence has been a...more
Everyone assumes that intellectual property has value, but how do you determine that value? Can you increase it, and can you damage it?...more
Chicago-based partner Cathy Birkeland explains why companies might choose the dual track Mergers and Acquisition (private confidential auction process) and Initial Public Offering process over single track. ...more