The US IPO market has already posted its busiest year since the internet bubble in 2000, and we expect issuance to stay active in the fall. With broader equity markets at all-time highs and a burgeoning IPO pipeline of private unicorns, many long-awaited names will finally take the leap to public markets, supported by the busiest month of August for new filings in over a decade. That said, fall IPO activity in unlikely to match the summer’s frantic pace. August filings were down from prior months, and the year’s weak IPO aftermarket returns serve as a headwind, evidenced by several postponements at the end of July.
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