IPOs

  • A total of 63.6 million shares were sold for C$22 apiece, the Waterloo, Ontario-based company said in a release late Wednesday, the top end of the range it had targeted. The company is also selling another C$700 million in shares in a private placement to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and Swiss Re.

    November 18
  • A list with the names of about 100 global investors has been shared with the 10 banks working on the deal and the institutions will approach different sets of investors, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named as discussions are private.

    November 17
  • The to-do list for the electric-vehicle maker will be funded in part by its IPO -- the sixth-largest in U.S. history. Rivian shares soared 22% Thursday in their second day of trading, creating a stock-market value of more than $100 billion. Two months after delivering its first pickups, largely to employees, Rivian now has a market valuation exceeding that of General Motors Co.

    November 12
    A Rivian R1T electric pickup truck during the company's IPO outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, on Nov. 10.
  • The shares will be priced in a range of C$19 to C$22 apiece and will be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “DFY,” Waterloo, Ontario-based Definity said in a statement Monday.

    November 8
  • The funding round was led by AIA Insurance Inc. as Tiki looks to expand into life insurance and plans a U.S. initial public offering.

    November 8
  • Lemonade Car, a telematics auto insurance product, is now live in Illinois and will roll out across the U.S. soon.

    November 3
    The logo for Lemonade on a laptop computer arranged in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Lemonade Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on November 11. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
  • The company sold as much as 162 million new shares, at 120 rubles each in Moscow, it said in a statement. The sale values the insurance group, controlled by investors led by Boris Jordan, at 66.8 billion rubles. The stake was smaller than initially planned, when the company said it could raise up to 25.2 billion rubles.

    October 21
  • Renaissance Insurance, Russia’s largest online policy provider, is trawling the country’s traditional insurers for acquisition targets as it prepares for a possible initial public offering.

    September 24
    Employees speak with customers between protective screens inside a Renaissance Insurance customer service center in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. A Russian insurance company backed by billionaire Roman Abramovich has picked banks to prepare it for an initial public offering, according to two people familiar with the matter.
  • Kotak Mahindra Capital Co., JM Financial Ltd., Citigroup Inc. and Nomura Holdings Inc. are also on the shortlist, based on their technical and financial bids, after 16 investment banks presented their pitches to the government on Thursday, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public.

    August 27
    Goldman Sachs Group Inc. headquarters in New York, U.S., on Monday, June 14, 2021. On Tuesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo lifted New York state’s pandemic mandates effective immediately, saying that 70% of the adult population has now been given at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Photographer: Nina Westervelt/Bloomberg
  • Allowing FDI in LIC would permit so-called strategic investors such as massive pension funds or insurance firms to participate in the initial public offering, which is slated to be India’s largest ever.

    August 24
    Life Insurance Corporation