A Guide to the US Capital Markets for Japanese Companies Vol.4
A Company with Zero Revenue Conducts an IPO on Nasdaq In May of this year (2018), a Singaporean pharmaceutical company, ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, conducted an IPO on Nasdaq. For the 2017 fiscal period immediately preceding its IPO, ASLAN had zero consolidated revenue and a pre-tax loss of $40 million (approx. 4.0 billion JPY, converted at $1=100 …
A Guide to the US Capital Markets for Japanese Companies Vol.2
(C)2013, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. In August 2013, the listing ceremony for UBIC, Inc. (now FRONTEO, Inc.) was held at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square, where the “Closing Bell” was rung to symbolize the listing. UBIC had officially listed in May of that year. This was the first Nasdaq listing by …