THE Securities Commission (SC) has set up on its website the reasons for rejecting the listing plans for initial public offerings (IPOs) in the first six months this year. Incidentally, since January to June this year, 28 companies out of 51 proposals submitted were rejected by the SC.
Of those rejected, 20 were meant for the […]

Today’s article is to visit the pros and cons on going for IPO/listing
As financial executives, we are aware of the following obvious advantages of taking a private company into a public listed status:

Enhances profile and standing of the company;
Access to capital market;
Flexibility in sourcing funds;
Ability to get cheaper funding due to public listed status;
Greater visibility;
Added […]

Further to my article on  some of the reasons for companies to privatize, recently in The Star , it was reported that infrastructure group MMC Corp Bhd is taking private Malakoff Bhd, in a deal that values Malaysia’s biggest independent power producer at Rm9.3 billion, making it Malaysia’s biggest-ever corporate takeover.

Let’s look at the following scenario […]

There is the increasing trend of listed companies going towards privatisation exercises.
Hence, it is important that we are aware of the reason for majority shareholders or founder shareholders of public listed companies to go private.
Listed below are some of the reasons :

their company‘s share prices have been grossly under-valued by the public/share market;
to avoid public […]