going public with a company

• International Fight League Going Public ; Completes Reverse Merger with Failed Biotech Company

The International Fight League on Monday completed a reverse merger with a publicly traded company, a move that will allow shares of the newly combined entity to begin trading Wednesday. Shareholders of Paligent Inc., a failed biotechnology company, voted to approve the reverse merger with the IFL, according to Gareb Shamus, the Bergen County businessman who is a co-founder and CEO of the league.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• November 28, 2006

• The shell company: going public with a Pandora's box.

Firms that accept an offer to go public through a shell-company merger may face legal problems. Shell-company promoters offer shell companies, usually corporations in Utah or Nevada, as merger candidates. This creative financing technique may leave the buyer with a non-public firm that feloniously sells securities, leaving the buyer open to litigation. The due diligence process in a traditional initial public offering provides protection that is usually not available in the shell-company process. The main disadvantage of the shell-company process is that it does not provide the purchaser with new capital. The SEC is taking steps to enforce blank-check offerings, but some states with less restrictive laws, such as Utah and Colorado, implicitly encourage the formation of shell companies.

• Financial Executive
• Vol. 7 Nbr. 2, March 1991

• Taking your company public: business finance.

Going public with a growth company can bring many benefits to a firm, including name recognition, capital inflow which is debt free, and opportunities to expand. But there are also risks. An analysis of the pros and cons of going public is presented.

• Black Enterprise
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 11, June 1997

• Urban Land's Grand New Plans

It's not something we're going public with," says Paul Muench, the company's head of commercial development. "The only thing I can tell you at this point is we had some initial questions for the city about what we could do there. "It's an iconic and beautiful old building," he says. "It's a building we love, and we're not going to tear it down." He also bemoans such "dirty tricks" as bombarding people with calls and making calls seem to come from a different campaign. "People get so disgusted with them, it influences the outcome of the election," says [Spencer Black]. "Sometimes they use it to jam the phones so their opponent can't call."

• Isthmus; Madison, Wis.
• August 21, 2009

• Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes:

... NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (``Nasdaq'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commissi... additional listing requirements for a company that has become public through a combination with ..., Nasdaq proposes to prohibit a company going public by combining with a public shell \8\ from a...

• FR, June 14, 2011
• Notices
• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Officials Seek Fix for 911outage: ; Frontier Says Call Volume May Be Culprit in Emergency System Issues

Kanawha County residents are cleaning up after Mondays storm and local officials are looking at ways to eliminate problems caused by Mondays high winds. Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper is awaiting word from Frontier Communications as to why the emergency lines at the 911 Center shut down during the storm. Frontier officials asked for time to look at the issue before making a report. Carper said that although he is not an expert on communications equipment, he believes the system shut down because of the sheer volume of calls received in the wake of the storm. Frontiers response was quick, but we cant have the 911 system crashing, Carper said. He plans to wait for the report before he offers an opinion about the quality of the companys service. Frontier bought this system...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• April 06, 2011

• Emerging issues for non-U.S. shareholders in corporate inversions.

...companies are seeking access to capital by going public on Asia Pacific (ASIA-PAC) stock exchanges...., there may be more investors in ASIA-PAC with capital to invest in initial public offerings (IPO...company such as a Hong Kong or a British Virgin Islands--b...

• The Tax Adviser
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 5, May 2011

• Gm Keeps Quiet On Plans to Cut Costs ; Company Believes Its Measures Taken to Cut Costs Will Save As Much As $4 Billion in 2006.

DAYTON -- General Motors Corp. expects its cost-cutting efforts to eventually save it as much as $4 billion this year. But the company is steering clear of going public with specific earnings projections for 2006, because actions that it has undertaken or is considering could cost it billions of dollars. With that out there as uncertainties, it would be a mistake for them to put out any estimates," David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., said Thursday.

• Dayton Daily News
• April 25, 2006

• Libn Parent Dolan Media to Go Public

Dolan Media Co., which owns the Long Island Business News, is going public. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Minneapolis-based company said it plans to raise $150 million in an initial public offering. The company said it would use the net proceeds to redeem preferred stock, repay debt and for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions and working capital.

• Long Island Business News
• April 27, 2007

• Rep. Jack Kingston Holds a Hearing On Agriculture Marketing Regulatory Programs Budget

... Undersecretary, if you guys are ready we're going to go ahead and start. Mr. Bishop and I are going...And so we -- without any further discussion, we'd like to hear from you... We put that out for a public bid. We get offers on those. And then we make a ...I went to lunch with the company, the integrator, and they brought out form the bac...

• Political Transcript Wire
• March 14, 2011