New edi­ti­on of the bro­chu­re “Suc­cessful IPO” by Dr. Kon­rad Bösl

The com­ple­te­ly revi­sed new edi­ti­on of the bro­chu­re “Suc­cessful on the Stock Exch­an­ge” is now available.

In this bro­chu­re, Dr. Kon­rad Bösl bund­les his expe­ri­ence of around 60 per­so­nal­ly accom­pa­nied IPOs. The rea­der will be given a wealth of expe­ri­ence, which is some­ti­mes reflec­ted in small – other­wi­se rather unno­ti­ced – details, which are cru­cial for the suc­cess of the IPO and for the share pri­ce deve­lo­p­ment after the lis­ting.

Below is a pre-rea­ding sam­ple. You are wel­co­me to order the com­ple­te prin­ted edi­ti­on free of char­ge via our cont­act form.

Pre­face

Entre­pre­neur­ship means making decis­i­ons that prepa­re the com­pa­ny for chan­ging envi­ron­men­tal con­di­ti­ons ear­ly and sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly. An important entre­pre­neu­ri­al decis­i­on is equi­ty capi­ta­liza­ti­on. This must keep pace with the com­pany’s growth and growth poten­ti­al. Only a strong equi­ty base gives the com­pa­ny sta­bi­li­ty and opens up fur­ther cre­dit scope at attrac­ti­ve con­di­ti­ons. The­se con­side­ra­ti­ons should be enough of an incen­ti­ve for entre­pre­neurs to think inten­si­ve­ly about how they can impro­ve their equi­ty base and their abili­ty to rai­se equi­ty. IPOs stand out as the ide­al way to rai­se equi­ty capi­tal becau­se, unli­ke other sources of finan­cing, they can pro­vi­de the com­pa­ny with con­sider­a­b­ly more tax-free equi­ty capi­tal.

In many medi­um-sized com­pa­nies, going public is not even con­side­red as an alter­na­ti­ve to rai­sing equi­ty capi­tal becau­se the­re is a lack of know­ledge about it. And even in com­pa­nies that are con­side­ring or have deci­ded to go public, the­re is a rela­tively lar­ge lack of infor­ma­ti­on about the pro­cess and the cen­tral decis­i­on-making para­me­ters. This bro­chu­re has the­r­e­fo­re set its­elf the goal of pro­vi­ding medi­um-sized entre­pre­neurs with well-foun­ded and objec­ti­ve infor­ma­ti­on about this important, usual­ly uni­que step.

The bro­chu­re bund­les the expe­ri­ence of around 60 per­so­nal­ly accom­pa­nied IPOs. The rea­der can the­r­e­fo­re be pro­vi­ded with a wealth of expe­ri­ence which is some­ti­mes reflec­ted in small — other­wi­se rather unno­ti­ced — details, but which are of decisi­ve importance for the suc­cess of the IPO and for the deve­lo­p­ment of the share pri­ce after the lis­ting.

 

1. IPO — why?

One of the pri­ma­ry issues of Ger­man SMEs is the insuf­fi­ci­ent equi­ty base. Alt­hough the IPO (also known as going public) is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to rai­se equi­ty capi­tal, it is only hesi­tant­ly used by medi­um-sized com­pa­nies. In addi­ti­on to the lack of infor­ma­ti­on about an IPO, ano­ther reason is the pre­do­mi­nan­ce of fami­ly-owned or owner-mana­ged com­pa­nies among SMEs. Such com­pa­nies find it dif­fi­cult to include a lar­ge num­ber of new share­hol­ders in the pre­vious (rather clo­sed) cir­cle of owners, to publish infor­ma­ti­on on busi­ness deve­lo­p­ment on a regu­lar basis and to give exter­nal accoun­ta­bi­li­ty.

Despi­te the­se argu­ments, a num­ber of medi­um-sized com­pa­nies that are still fami­ly-owned are lis­ted on the stock exch­an­ge. Obvious­ly — as sur­veys of lis­ted com­pa­nies show — the aspects of an IPO that are per­cei­ved as nega­ti­ve are (cle­ar­ly) ove­re­sti­ma­ted. Of cour­se, the capi­tal increase for the IPO requi­res an expan­si­on of the cir­cle of share­hol­ders. Howe­ver, the influence of the for­mer owners on the com­pa­ny is not end­an­ge­red as long as they hold the majo­ri­ty of shares. On the con­tra­ry, streng­thening the equi­ty base ensu­res the con­ti­nui­ty and inde­pen­dence of the com­pa­ny for the pre­vious owners. The infor­ma­ti­on obli­ga­ti­ons ari­sing from the stock exch­an­ge lis­ting and the reac­tions of inves­tors reflec­ted in the share pri­ce deve­lo­p­ment repre­sent an effec­ti­ve cor­rec­ti­ve for a sus­tainable value-enhan­cing cor­po­ra­te poli­cy. And it is the for­mer owners who bene­fit most from this.

Irre­spec­ti­ve of this, the entre­pre­neu­ri­al aspects should be in the fore­ground when deci­ding on an IPO. The (signi­fi­cant) impro­ve­ment in the equi­ty base asso­cia­ted with an IPO streng­thens the com­pany’s abili­ty to adapt to chan­ging envi­ron­men­tal con­di­ti­ons. This is neces­sa­ry becau­se the majo­ri­ty of medi­um-sized com­pa­nies today are faced with the pro­blem that tech­no­lo­gi­cal leaps, shorter pro­duct life cycles or neces­sa­ry stra­te­gic invest­ments requi­re high finan­cial input. At the same time, SMEs can no lon­ger rely on exten­si­ve loan finan­cing from banks, as they used to, espe­ci­al­ly when their equi­ty capi­tal base is weak. As a result, equi­ty capi­ta­liza­ti­on and the abili­ty to rai­se equi­ty capi­tal are decisi­ve fac­tors in deter­mi­ning the com­pe­ti­ti­ve oppor­tu­ni­ties of com­pa­nies.

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