Your company’s initial public offering (IPO) is a transformational event in its growth, whether it has a history of operations or is a start-up venture. Partner with Dentons to optimize this financing opportunity. We understand the IPO process and use our experience and relationships to assist our clients across a full range of industry sectors in choosing the most appropriate course of action to achieve their financing objectives.

We work very closely with your team to help maximize the early life of the business as a public company and position it for long-term growth, including successful follow-on public financings. We apply our comprehensive knowledge of the latest legal, regulatory and commercial trends in the ever-shifting economic and political environment that affects your business.

Our lawyers are practiced and proficient in the art of managing your public offering through narrow financing windows, while providing innovative solutions to obstacles that could otherwise derail the financing. The protection and enhancement of your legal interests is always our overriding concern. Whether your listing is on one exchange or several, Dentons brings to your team our long-standing working history with securities and stock exchange regulators, and our close relationships with investment firms and business leaders locally and globally, to make the most of your IPO.

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Climate Reporting Has Arrived in the US

March 13, 2024

On March 6, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted by a 3-2 vote new rules requiring domestic and foreign public companies to disclose certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. The adoption of the final rules comes nearly two years after the Commission first proposed them.

Transactional activism: A fireside chat series

May 31, 2023

Canada: Our speakers discussed a number of proactive steps and defensive strategies to help minimize risks when it comes to transactional activism.

California Court Strikes Down Second Board Diversity Law

June 7, 2022

United States: On May 13, 2022, the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles held in Crest v. Padilla, Case No. 19STCV27561, that California Senate Bill (SB) 826, requiring publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a minimum number of women on their boards, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution.

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Chuck Spector interviewed by BNN Bloomberg on IPOs and SPACs

March 29, 2021

As part of the launch of Dentons Going Public in Canada Resource Centre, partner and lead of our national Corporate group, Charles Spector, was interviewed by BNN Bloomberg to discuss what challenges might lie ahead for investors who are taking part in the Special Purpose Acquisition Company market boom.