Insights and media coverage
Europe’s listing miasma – Craig Coben (IPO Stories, Ep. 6)
Why is there so little innovation in the IPO process? How has the investor landscape changed over the last decades, and how can companies get institutional investors engaged in their IPOs? Craig Coben was until recently Bank of America's Global...
The incredible shrinking stock market
Continuing on the post from last week, this week I will highlight another 2018 paper, by Alexander Ljungqvist, Lars Persson and Joacim Tåg.: "The incredible shrinking stock market: on the political economy consequences of...
ESG in IPOs – Marie Freier (IPO Stories, Ep. 5)
ESG investing is becoming increasingly important, both in terms of fund flows and integration in investment decisions. The disclosure requirements for private and public companies are not the same, making the IPO a crucial milestone regarding ESG,...
Innovations in Sustainable Finance podcast
In this podcast with Julian Kölbel, Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of St.Gallen, our co-founder and CEO Per Einar Ellefsen discusses the IPO process, the need for further ESG disclosure in IPOs, and how providing...
Sharpening the arithmetic of active management
At Amundsen Investment Management, we think that IPOs and Equity Capital Markets transactions in general would benefit from more academic research into the topic, to spur innovations and discussion about how companies finance themselves in the...
Private Equity IPOs at KKR – Eric Han (IPO Stories, Ep. 4)
KKR is one of the world’s largest private equity firms, and also one of the most active private equity sponsors of IPOs, with 3-4 IPOs per year globally. In Europe, they have listed 6 companies over the last 5 years: Trainline, Calisen, Hensoldt,...
Family-owned company IPOs – Annika Sigfrid (IPO Stories, Ep. 3)
Annika Sigfrid has been at the center of more IPOs than most of us will ever be. She has 25 years' experience in Equity Capital Markets transactions. In her last role she was Global Head of ECM at Nordea, a leading Nordic investment bank. She is...
OVHCloud – Yann Leca (IPO Stories, Ep. 2)
Yann Leca was the CFO of OVHCloud, a cloud computing company, from 2019 to 2022 and led the company to its IPO in October 2021 - one of the largest and most succesful tech IPOs in Europe in 2021. OVHCloud, founded by Octava Klaba more than 20 years...
Exclusive Networks – Jesper Trolle (IPO Stories, Ep. 1)
In this episode, we discuss the IPO of Exclusive Networks, a global distributor of cybersecurity solutions, with Jesper Trolle, its CEO since September 2020. Jesper was hired to join Exclusive in the middle of covid-19, and led the company to its...
Euronext Tech Leaders initiative
We are present today at Euronext’s Tech Leaders conference, to affirm our support to the listing of #tech companies in Europe. The French minister of technology announced the government’s ambition to see 10 French unicorns listed by...
LSE IPO Forum 2022
Thank you to LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), Bank of America and Moelis & Company for the invitation to speak at the London IPO Forum today. Our CIO Gautier Rousseau shared our views on important questions...
Euronext Oslo Børs conference
We are happy to attend the Euronext Oslo Børs conference today, celebrating the re-opening of the Oslo Stock Exchange building. The theme of the conference was The role of capital markets in the green transition.Amundsen Investment Management is...
Galion Project: Expectations of IPO Investors
We are very excited to be invited to participate in a roundtable on the expectations of #IPO investors at an event organized by Societe Generale and The Galion Project in Paris on July 5th. Our CIO Gautier Rousseau will be discussing with Aude...
Lhyfe IPO
🚀Congratulations to Lhyfe for its IPO! 🚀 Current market conditions are extremely challenging but Lhyfe was successful in raising capital to finance the deployment of its growing pipeline of green hydrogen projects. 🌱 Capital markets can...