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Green Shoe

A provision in an initial public offering (IPO) underwriting agreement which entitles the underwriters to purchase more shares than specified...

Grandfathered Shell

A shell company or a blank check which was crated and taken public prior to the passage of Rule 419...

General Solicitation

An act of seeking interest from the broad public (public investors) for an offering (public offering) through mass communication (advertising,...

Indication of Interest

A phase of the offering process during which the underwriter gathers information about the initial demand for the deal. In...

Full-Service Investment Bank

An investment bank that engages in all types of activities, including trading, underwriting, merchant banking, merger and acquisition, securities services,...

IPO Halt

A circuit breaker process that activates on suspicion of any potential manipulation on an offering price. It aims to suspend...

IOI

An abbreviation for indication of interest; a phase of the offering process during which the underwriter gathers information about the...

Dutch Auction IPO

A type of initial public offering (IPO) in which investors (individual and institutional) bid by indicating the desired number of...

DTD

An initial public offering (IPO) that has no scheduled release date on the IPO calendar. An IPO is typically designated...

Direct Public Offering

An initial public offering (IPO) in which the issuing company doesn't hire the services of an underwriter and sells its...