Note: This post was last updated in 2018. Though the general information is still valid, prices and specific information is based on current markets and changes routinely. Please consult us for specific prices and procedure at the time you are reading this.]
9/10/2018
Dear Potential Client:
Here is a little more information about the going public process in the US and other jurisdictions.
“Going Public” in the US, though a way to raise capital, is more importantly a leverage tool. As a leverage tool, it is best used from the inception of any project as a multi-faceted way to grow your company which will in the long run (if done properly) allow you to retain a larger percentage of your own company than is usually possible by the “venture capital” route.
Used as a leverage tool it is a way to:
1) Leverage a larger retention of ownership (as mentioned above).
2) Grow your company faster and more powerfully by attracting top personnel without necessarily huge cash outlays. (Sometimes these personnel bring with them investment money, contracts, or clientele).
3) Grow your company faster and more powerfully by attracting top-notch team members to your board of directors. (With the same implications as 2)
4) Raise money faster and cheaper by increasing the “liquidity” factor for your investors.
5) Grow your company faster and make it more powerful by increasing your ability to attract “mergers”, “acquisitions” and “strategic partners”.
6) Grow your company faster and more powerfully by increasing its ability to compete for large corporate or government contracts.
7) Leverage your personal return on investment as an owner by decreasing the amount of time it will take you to make money on your investment, as well as increasing the valuation of your company by sometimes enormous multiples over the valuation of a private company, as well as, changing the liquidity of your asset to a much more liquid form than that of a private company.
8) Grow your business faster and make it more powerful by increasing your status in the eyes of all those you do business with.
There are many ways to go public in the US and there are many different listings. The four major levels of listing are:
THE OTC MARKETS – PINKS: Often referred to as “pink sheets”, these companies are quoted electronically and although neither the FINRA nor the SEC require Pink companies to maintain current reporting status nor undertake costly annual audits, recently the PINK SHEETS implemented their own information reporting system requiring updated current information annually and upon certain events. Additionally, many brokers will not accept stock on account from companies that do not at least have Limited information on file with the OTC MARKETS.
THE OTCBB and OTCQB: The OTC Bulletin Board is operated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) and the OTCQB is operated by the OTC MARKETS and both require that all companies whose stock is quoted at these levels maintain their current reporting status with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which includes current audited financial statements and quarterly reports (10Ks and 10Qs). Recently it was made possible to get an OTCQB designation directly from OTC Markets without going through the SEC.
THE OTC MARKETS QX: Operated by the OTC Markets, it gives exchange like disclosure without the heavy costs of the US exchanges.
EXCHANGES: While the OTC PINKS OTCQB and the OTC Bulletin Board are excellent quotation markets, some clients are interested in trading on one of the more mature U.S. stock exchange markets – NASDAQ Small-Cap, NASDAQ NMS, NYSE or NYSE AMERICAN. There are varying levels of qualification for each exchange including asset levels, number of shareholders, required Board level committees, and market capitalization. All exchanges require the company to maintain a current reporting status with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which includes current audited financial statements. There are also secondary stock exchanges such as the Boston Stock Exchange which was bought by NASDAQ. We can assess whether your company qualifies for one of these stock exchanges and, if not, help your company grow and obtain a listing when it does meet the minimum requirements for such a listing. Typically, though, a client wishing to trade on one of these exchanges will need a minimum of $20 – $100 million in annual revenue and net profits of at least $2 million annually.
COSTS OF GOING PUBLIC – PRE PUBLIC COSTS.
The cost for a startup company going public FROM SCRATCH on the OTC runs about $75,000 and a 10% equity position in the company – and takes, on average, about 9 – 12 months or so to get listed on the OTC PINKS or OTCQB. Alternatively for about $125,000 and a 10% equity position in the company, you can acquire a spun off NON-TRADING public company with an existing shareholder base which saves several months of time and can possibly be listed in as little as 3 – 6 months.
Companies with established business revenue streams over $10 million annually can usually negotiate a smaller equity position retention, if they are just going public and not raising money.
As you will see when you read this entire letter, after the company is listed on the OTC PINKS, the value of a “primo” public company at current market is about $150,000 – $175,000 (+ equity retention). So, your investment is secure if something should go wrong and you should change your mind. After you are listed on the OTC PINKS, for about $20,000 in legal fees, you can then do a filing to move you up to the OTCQB or OTCBB if you wish, which can increase the value of your public company to about $400,000 to $450,000+ (+ equity retention) if something should go wrong and you would have to liquidate it.
Our consulting fees and stock positions (we are already shareholders of these companies) are included in the prices we have mentioned above.
Also, I would like to remind you of our services, most of which come with the consulting fee you pay included in the price of the public company merger transaction. We provide you with a public vehicle and in addition to that, we also provide complete back up services. We provide structuring of your deal to make it attractive to the particular investment community you are dealing with. We pay for all the legal work to obtain a quotation for your company on the OTC. We will help you put together the “team” of professionals that will be working for your company on the “public corporation” side of things. We provide Market Maker introductions, Investment Banker introductions, CPA introductions, SEC Attorney introductions, Investor Relation Firms, and Media Placement Firms introductions as needed.
We can also make introductions to support the growth of your business on the business side of things. We can assist you with the introduction of potential acquisitions candidates. And we have numerous business plan writers, management consultants, marketing consultants, international franchise and licensing specialists, etc., who are experienced with public companies as well as the full range of companies from small startup operations to large companies such as fortune 500 companies.
We are available for “ongoing” consultation for your company. We will assist you in structuring your company and in growing your company to make it attractive to the investment banker community. (This includes consultation with regards to acquisition strategy, key and “power” personnel attraction strategy, and “business plan” strategy.) We have many contacts with all the professionals needed in the public arena, many of which are our existing clients; and because of these existing relationships with clients (such as SEC attorneys, investment bankers, market makers, and investor relation firms) we are well informed in all the important issues to such professionals. We are independent of the team we help you assemble and stand ready to protect your venture by supplying new, additional, or replacement team members in case any “team” member doesn’t perform.
The timeline for an OTC public company from scratch would go something like this.
1) Listing agreement signed.
2) Formation documentation, turning over of corporation to new officers and directors. (~ 3 – 4 weeks)
3) Formation of free trading shareholder base. (~ 30 – 40 weeks)
3A) (Private placement could be done here, or Reg A, 504, or S1 to raise capital up to 1 million.)
4) Preparation of Market Maker due diligence pack. ( 4 weeks)
5) Meet with Market Maker. Give Market Maker due diligence pack. Market Maker review. (~ 1 – 2 weeks)
6) FINRA review process, answer deficiency letters, etc. (~ 4 – 12 weeks) (During this time, we would meet with IR firms to line up market support for the company once listed. We can also begin talking to Investment Bankers to do a private placement during this time.)
7) LISTED. (Estimated time since merger agreement signed approximately 44 – 56 weeks)
8) TRADING activity.
9) Private Placement, or IPO to raise capital.
Of course, the above time estimates are actual but aggressive and assume all requests we give the company for information are answered in 24 hours, and attorneys, accountants, market makers, investment bankers, IR people all respond quickly and efficiently. Usually however, people get bogged down on answering a few question and people just aren’t as efficient as you would like them to be, so you might add some time on to the entire process to account for the “inefficiency” factor if you want to be conservative in your own time estimates.
An alternative route, which would be more expensive yet faster, would be to purchase an existing trading public company.
The current market for OTC PINKS runs from about $75,000 for the bad PINKS to about $250,000 for the primo PINKS. For OTCBB and OTCQB companies, it is about $250,000 for the bad OTCBBs and QBs and $400,000 – $450,000 for the primo OTCBB and QB companies. These prices are the prices usually quoted for a 90/10 deal, however, that is always negotiable depending on the deal. In this market you usually get what you pay for.
We define “bad” as a public company 1) having been operated as a shell, 2) with an unfriendly shareholder base that has lost money and is waiting to “sue” the company or “dump” any stock they retain, and 3) with a large float (millions of shares) consisting of unfriendly shareholders, or unknown shareholders, or sellers who are looking for a quick dump of their stock.
We define “primo” as 1) never having conducted business as a shell, or having recovered from shell status by doing appropriate filings and waiting the appropriate period of time; 2) original small, friendly, shareholder base intact consisting mainly of friends and relatives of the public company owners who were investing with a long term view; and 3) a small float or alternatively a larger float consisting of friendly “long-term” shareholders who will agree to “leak out” “lock-up” schedules.
We think it is obvious to a professional like yourself that a primo public company, though initially more costly, is cheaper in the long run.
Some of the companies that we have available for a reverse merger have the original shareholder base intact and, although cleared for trading, very few trades have transpired. So, you can affect the first trades for these companies after the acquisition. We can introduce you to market makers to assist you in doing this as we discussed. In addition, the shareholder base is friendly, long term, and will agree to “leak-out” “lock-up” provisions.
As noted above, besides providing a public company, we also provide complete backup services to take a company public. We provide structuring of your deal to make it attractive to the investment community. We put together and supervise the “team” of professionals that will be working for your company on the “public corporation” side of things. We provide the legal team to do all the legal work for the 15c211 filing to get the company listed (included in the price of the public company). We can provide attorneys to do future legal work for offerings, etc. at “wholesale” prices. We provide Market Maker introductions, Investment Banker introductions, CPA introductions and Investor Relation Firm introductions as needed.
As noted above, we are available for “ongoing” consultation for your company. We will assist you in structuring your company and in growing your company to make it attractive to the investment banker community. (This includes consultation with regards to acquisition strategy, key and “power” personnel attraction strategy, and “business plan” strategy.) We have many contacts with all the professionals needed in the public arena, many of which are our existing clients; and because of these existing relationships with clients (such as SEC attorneys, investment bankers, market makers, and investor relation firms) we are well informed in all the important issues to such professionals. We are independent of the team we help you assemble and stand ready to protect your venture by supplying new, additional, or replacement team members in case any “team” member flakes out and doesn’t perform.
The estimated time line for acquisition of a listed public company goes something like this:
1) Terms discussed verbally. Verbal agreement attained 1 – 3 days.
2) Verbal agreements put in contract form for formal signing. Contracts approved. 1 – 3 days.
3) Signing of contracts and good faith deposit (usually $50,000) forwarded to sellers.
4) Closing: OTC PINK 3 – 7 days. OTCBB or QB 14 – 120 days. Balance of transaction fees upon closing.
COSTS OF GOING PUBLIC – POST PUBLIC COSTS
After you are public, you will have routine costs in several areas.
If you are a reporting company, you will have to have audited financials at least yearly for your 10k report, and financials (un-audited) for your quarterly 10q. Cost on these will vary with the company. You should contact the company accountant for an estimate. If you are on the PINK sheets you do not have to have audited financials, but you may want to have them anyway so you can qualify for a listing on Standard and Poor’s Corporate Profiles. You must have at least yearly audited financials to be listed with Standard and Poor’s and a company can be listed with them for under $5,000. Being listed on Standard and Poor’s qualifies the company for a blue sky after-market exemption in 34+ states. Though not required, many broker dealers will not sell your stock unless you get this exemption.
If you are a reporting company, you should plan on at least $25,000 – $50,000+ a year in legal and other preparation fees to comply with your reporting requirements. The cost here really depends on the size of the company and the complexity of the reports. The above figures are typical costs for newer emerging companies.
If your company wants to raise money, it will most likely (but not always) have to prepare various filings to do that. Preparation and legal fees for a private placement are usually $10,000 – $20,000, for an SB-1 perhaps $25,000 – $50,000. Again, these figures are for emerging companies doing a typical offering. If you were a huge Fortune 500 type company doing an offering in 50 states it might cost you $300,000 – $500,000 in legal and preparation fees.
If you are a PINK sheet company, PINK SHEETS reporting requirements will cost the company about $5,000 a year.
If you are a PINK sheet company looking to become a reporting company it will cost about $20,000 in legal fees to do the proper filing.
You should have an attorney review all contracts and press releases before they are signed or go out. This should cost the typical company about $5,000 a year depending on your activity in these areas.
Investor Relations firms will run you about $10,000 a month for a typical good firm. You can get some for as little as $5,000 a month or as much as $30,000 a month.
All of the above are cash estimates. However, many people will work for stock rather than cash once you are a public company. One of the services we provide is to help you secure attorneys, investor relations firms, investment bankers, etc. on a budget you can afford. We can give you referrals to those who will work for stock and those who won’t. We can educate you when it is not a good idea to give stock for work and when it is acceptable.
Re: Frankfurt/Berlin/Worldwide Stock Exchange Listings
Frankfurt and Berlin and other World Wide Stock Exchanges are definitely a viable alternative and/or supplement to the S-1 IPO Registration or “reverse merger” method of “going public” in the US.
Companies from the US, Canada, Australia, Africa, China, India, Brazil, Chile, etc. have formed Canadian, UK, Swiss or other holding companies to use as a vehicle to list on the Frankfurt and other worldwide exchanges.
We have been taking companies public in the US for about 25 years now, but since 2008, when the US economy started having major problems, and when we first got connected to German investors who funded many US companies for us, we have come to realize the power of being an “international” player. Given the state of the world, with communication to any part of the world being not only practical but “easy”, we have developed an international community for taking our clients public around the world, tapping into sources of money around the world.
Right now we feel the best strategy for going public is not to abandon listing in the US altogether, as we see things improving in a year or two in the US, but to achieve multiple listings on several international exchanges.
We have proprietary “international” solutions which allow you to:
1) Go public in as little as 180 days on a foreign exchange and get funded in as little as another 60 days;
2) Be listed in several countries at once – including the US, without US and SEC rules having jurisdiction over your entire structure. This allows you to take advantage of rules on other exchanges like the German exchanges which allow for immediate free trading stock (no holding period) and no bar on affiliate sales (affiliates can sell immediately and as much as they want);
3) Prevent and eliminate the bad effects that “shorting” by market makers (as is usually practiced on the US OTC) creates;
4) Hold an attractive price for your stock rather than the penny and sub-penny prices that US OTC stocks often fall to;
5) Keep control of your company. Get funded without dilution beyond a set acceptable amount no matter how much money you raise;
6) Do mergers and acquisitions of other companies without losing control of your company or going beyond a set dilution upon merger or acquisition;
7) Attract private “investors” by creating investment-grade securities that are guaranteed to make a profit – yes that’s right – you can guarantee the investment will make a profit;
8) Solve problems you may be having with note holders, existing investors, factors and others;
9) And more.
Right now we can take companies public on any of the US Exchanges or OTC, as well as the Bermuda Stock Exchange, GXG Markets UK Exchange in London, the London Stock Exchange and AIM, the Aktietorget Stock Exchange in Sweden, the Cypress Stock Exchange, the Vienna Stock Exchange, the German Stock Exchanges – Frankfurt, Berlin, and Stuttgart, the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada, the Dubai Stock Exchange, The Singapore Stock Exchange, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
All of the above stock exchanges can provide liquidity to a public company listed there. Which exchanges you should list on first depends on the type of company you have and the particular strategy we would work out for you.
The main advantages of a multi-national listing approach are that you are no longer reliant on any one country or economy. By tapping into multiple exchanges, you are hedged against sudden negative events in the public sector such that have recently happened in both the US and Germany.
Once you get listed on one exchange, you raise money which then funds a listing on another higher and more prestigious exchange. Once you get listed on the first exchange, it then also becomes an easy matter to get a dual listing on multiple exchanges as another way to raise initial funds.
Going public in the US is still a good and relatively cheap alternative. However, US listings take longer than most other countries. A listing on the OTC can take nine to twelve months to achieve.
Listings on many other international exchanges can be had in as little as one to four months. Dual listings on German exchanges, which have liquidity comparable to the US OTC, can be achieved in as little as three to four months.
What we usually recommend is getting listed on a fast exchange, such as GXG or Bermuda, which can then lead to a quick dual listing in Germany. After obtaining funding in Germany, one should expand into and raise money on other international exchanges so that your company is set up to always be in a liquid money raising market in the future.
Costs for going public in the US or on other exchanges can be as little as $75,000 out of pocket for legal, accounting and filing fees. It depends on your company, the country and exchange we are filing on and what you are doing. On average it costs about $75,000 – $125,000 out of pocket expenses plus stock in your company to go public. Sometimes we can provide investors to cover some of these costs. However, investors always want you to have something invested in the endeavor so even with an investor that we might provide, you should plan on coming up with at least $25,000 minimum out of your pocket.
Shell companies, existing public companies with no business in them, can also be acquired in most countries for those who are in a hurry (not a good option in the US unless you know what you are doing). Public company transactions can sometimes be closed in a matter of weeks as opposed to months. Shells range in cost from about $150,000 – $500,000 depending on the exchange you are interested in. If you have that kind of budget and are interested in a public company transaction let us know and we will get back to you with a list of companies that are available for purchase.
STRUCTURING SERVICES
One of the specialties we bring to the table for our clients is our structuring services. Structuring is a little known but extremely powerful tool that when combined with a public company can move mountains. We are structuring specialists. In general, companies are restructured or are structured upon formation to deal with a particular environment (Like shorting on the US OTC) or to protect shareholder equity and to prevent shareholder dilution during intense money raising stages.
However structuring is a solution that has many uses, for example:
We have structured anti-dilutive control blocks along with investment grade securities that future investors do not protest, but still allow the founders never to go below 51% to 80% ownership and voting control of their companies.
We have structured acquisitions where negotiations were impossibly broken down.
We have structured investment shares that resist shorting and market slippage. They go up in value even when the stock is being shorted down or simply falling down.
We have structured arbitrage preferred shares, principal and interest guaranteed by investment grade government securities held in escrow paying 3% interest and netting a 10-50% arbitrage.
We have structured arbitrage preferred shares as above with international currencies and yielding even higher interest rates and hedged against currency risks.
We have structured corporate bonds with principal and interest secured by investment grade securities.
We have structured preferred securities to remove debt from the balance sheet while still protecting the debt investors.
We have solved problems with creditors by designing unique preferred shares that satisfied the concerns of all parties.
We have structured corporate hierarchies which allow companies to go public in multiple international jurisdictions without conflicts, thus enhancing liquidity and increasing the pool of investors the company can tap into.
How about draw down funding like equity liens and other PIPES? Ever been offered one of these so called “death spirals”? Well, we have the structure that will allow you to accept this kind of funding and survive its negative effects.
Practically anything you can think of can be handled by a structuring analysis and we invite our clients to present us their needs when going public, no matter how unique they may consider such needs.
FUNDINGS
Initial fundings tend to be through drawdown fundings and other market related fundings. We have several broker dealers – US and International – that do firm drawdown funding commitments from $1 million on up. We have other firms that will buy blocks of stock and/or notes from shareholders of listed and trading companies.
For companies with existing income of $5,000,000 or more, we can have broker dealer clients who will consider doing a private placement for such a company anywhere from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000+ prior to going public.
For Pink Sheet clients in the US, we have several investors who do Reg A fundings of up to 5 million dollars. There are no upfront fees associated with the Reg A fundings but you will have to pay for legal work which may run $15,000 -$25,000.
For Shareholders of OTC Pinks and OTCBB/QB companies, we have block purchasers who will lend on and/or buy blocks of stock from shareholders.
For OTCBB/QB clients and Pinks Sheet Clients who are moving up to the OTCBB/QB, we have EQUITY LINE funders who will provide the company with a firm commitment to fund from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000 for the company via an equity line. Firm commitments can be obtained in writing for an additional cost of about $15,000, which is paid directly to the EQUITY LINE funder. Equity lines require an S1 filing to be effective, which usually run about $25,000 – $40,000 for legal work.
For our PINK SHEET, OTCBB/QB, and higher exchange clients we also have REG S fundings available at very good rates. REG S fundings are available on both “best efforts” basis and “firm commitment” basis from about $2 million on up to $20 million.
We also have several banks that will do loans against stock shortly after you get listed and before you start trading for select companies. After an initial funding the same banks will arrange for fundings via stand by letters of credit or bonds for larger transactions ($20 to $100 million).
We have other broker dealers who will do a firm commitment S1 and/or a 1001 or Reg A Exemption funding in the US.
We have many sources for PIPES and PRIVATE PLACEMENTS. Once you are public, we can arrange road tours in Europe, the US and Asia with investment firms and “Billionaire” investors for medium to large size investments. PRIVATE PLACEMENTS can be for both debt (bonds) and equity (stock) instruments.
IPO’s can be arranged on Germany’s Prime Standard, or Dubai’s Exchange for larger companies that are seeking a minimum of $50 million and above.
UNSECURED BUSINESS CREDIT LINES are also available from $25,000 to $500,000 for clients with FICO scores of 780 and above and ability to service the loan.
401(k) and IRA FUNDINGS – We can arrange to service any investors you may have with 401(k) plans and IRA plans. We can arrange to make our services and investments into the public companies themselves qualified 401(k) and IRA investments.
Preferred share Fundings – We can also arrange to service any investors you may have with preferred share fundings that are designed to protect the investor and guarantee him a profitable return no matter what happens to your share price.
Institutional Investor Fundings – we have thousands of connections with institutional investors. Many times institutional investor fundings can be arranged shortly after the company goes public. Raises can be done for fundings from $1,000,000 to $100,000,000+.
SENIOR CONSULTANTS
Why use Artfield Investments RD, Inc. to go public? Good question. Visit our website FAQ page https://artfieldinvestmentsrdinc.info/blog/faq/ for a thorough answer to that question. But let me just state one reason here.
We are able to assume the role of senior consultants to your company or client. That is to say, we have the ability and skill to evaluate all your advisors and co-ordinate all your advisors into an agreed upon course of action. One of the most confusing things you will encounter without a senior consultant is that there are many different philosophies in the “going public” arena. There are many ways to go public, and many different and equally valid approaches to doing things. The problem is you have to have consultants who all agree on the same course of action. If you have one consultant telling you to do an IPO while another screams at you NEVER do an IPO, while another says do a “reverse to handle the short sellers,” while another says do a “forward split to handle the short sellers,” your life as an executive can get confusing.
The purpose of the senior consultant is to educate management, not manipulate them. The senior consultant has to be a consultant(s) or firm(s) who is(are) familiar with all aspects of going public and can talk “legalese” to your attorneys and “market making” to the market makers and “investment banking” to the investment bankers.
The senior consultant has to be familiar with all the different philosophies in each advisory field and know how to educate management with the various philosophies and approaches and the benefits and pitfalls and self-interest motives involved in each. The senior consultant should educate management so that management can make educated decisions which will result in coordinated team members all on the same game plan.
The senior consultant should be able to educate other team members when necessary, and when they are not easily educated, the senior consultant should be able to advise which team members should be let go because their philosophy does not fit with the rest of the team or their philosophy is not current.
BEWARE: The biggest mistake we see is the company letting a person who is not qualified to be a senior consultant act as a senior consultant. Thus, we see companies letting an attorney who doesn’t know much more than the legal viewpoint acting as a senior consultant. Or worse yet, we see companies letting their investment banker or money raiser, or IR professional act as the senior consultant. The people who invest in you have as their first and foremost objective to get their commission or their money back. Your company’s interests and well-being comes in second place (if even that).
OPTIONS/ RECOMMENDATIONS
You have several options available to you.
1) A premium OTCQB public company can be acquired immediately for $400,000 – $450,000. You could raise up to $5,000,000 – $10,000,000 on market raises within about 6 – 9 months of going public with an OTCQB and be eligible for some institutional raises and institutional private placements for up to $100,000,000 in addition.
2) Go public from scratch. The advantage of course is that it is cheaper ($75,000) and cleaner as there has been no one in the public company vehicle but you. However it usually takes at least 9 – 12+ months to go public direct to the OTCQB from Scratch. Best option if you are not in a hurry. Poor option if you are. If you have $5,000,000 gross income and are profitable, we can often contract to take you public, then do a private placement before the S1 offering with a broker dealer. After you get financed completely we then file the S1 and proceed with the listing.
3) European listing – Go public on a foreign EU exchange. Have more latitude as owners of the company to sell stock and raise capital in the $5,000,000 – $10,000,000 range. A European listing from scratch can be achieved in about 4 – 5 months so it is faster, but more expensive. Cost is about €75,000 – €125,000 (Euros = $105,000 – $175,000 USD) depending on jurisdiction chosen. You will also be eligible for some institutional raises and institutional private placements for up to €100,000,000+. Europe is generally quicker and faster to raise money.
4) Go public on a foreign listing and come back to the US on a foreign listing on the OTC Pink Sheets. The advantage is you can go public from scratch quicker (3 – 4 months) and have two markets to raise money in. The cost factor is the same as just going public in Europe €75,000 – €125,000 (Euros = $105,000 – $175,000 USD). There is another version of this that goes for a European Listing on the GXG Exchange (which qualifies for pension fund investments) and a PINK SHEET listing in the US. This costs about the same as getting listed in the US – $75,000+ fees – and can be done even quicker (2 to 3 months). The advantage of the foreign “come back to US” listing is that US investors and broker dealers like foreign listed companies. Take a look at the OTC volume charts each day. Foreign listed companies and Foreign Deposit Receipts comprise about 1/2 of the volume leaders each day while representing only 20-30% of all listings.
Which of these options are best for you depends on your goals, timing and costing factors.
In all cases when going public from scratch, you are hedged and cannot lose money as the public company you are creating will end up being worth more than what you are spending to create it.
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