Year-to-date IPO statistics
Dealogic has just issued a set of interesting statistics following the completion of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Trust’s US$5.45 billion business trust IPO in Singapore. That deal, which was the fifth largest IPO in the transportation sector globally on record, as well as the biggest-ever Singapore IPO, has pushed the global IPO volume in 2011 to US$40 billion, up 42% as compared to the same period in 2010. This also represents the highest year-to-date (YTD) volume on record. read