The meeting of all members of an IPO team that takes place usually six to eight weeks before a company officially registers with the securities and exchange authority. Once a company decides to go public, it would need to pick an IPO team. In an all-hands meeting, the IPO team plan a schedule for going public and assign duties to each member. This meeting is one in a series of pre-IPO planning meetings that brings together a company’s management, underwriter, outside accountants, law firm, lead investment bank, etc.

This meeting is also known as an organizational meeting.