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April 27, 2023 31 mins

Initial public offerings (IPOs) tapping capital markets on Wall Street sounds glamorous and are a terrific way to fuel business expansion plans. But too many small and mid-cap companies find themselves at a serious disadvantage after they’ve gone public.

Adam J. Epstein believes many of those IPOs facing challenges are rooted in some very common pre-IPO mistakes.

Discover what they are and how to be better prepared for them.

What You’ll Discover About IPOs :

  • How pre-IPO mistakes plague IPOs and their financing options
  • Why historic deal data matters to IPOs
  • The most common mistake companies make when picking an investment banker and how it affects IPOs
  • How mutual funds run circles around small and mid-cap companies and what you can do about it
  • PLUS so much more

Guest: Adam J. Epstein 

Adam J. Epstein is a nationally recognized small-cap expert and advisor to the boards of pre-IPO and small-cap companies through his firm, Third Creek Advisors, LLC (TCA).

Prior to TCA, Adam was a long-tenured institutional investor, an experience which gives him a comparative perspective on why some small and mid-cap companies are more successful in their post-IPO financing efforts than others.

He speaks monthly at corporate governance and investor conferences, and is a distinguished National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and faculty member.

Adam is also the small-cap contributing editor for Directorship magazine, the boardroom intelligence publication of the National Association of Corporate Directors, as well as the author of the best-selling book The Perfect Corporate Board: A Handbook for Mastering the Unique Challenges of Small-Cap Companies.

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Contact Adam and connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Learn more about Third Creek Advisors, LLC

Learn more about the National Association of Corporate Directors

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