What are the benefits of being a public company?
- Raise capital for growth both at time of admission and through further capital raisings
- Create a market for your company’s shares, broadening your company’s shareholder base
- Establish an objective market value for your company
- Encourage employee commitment and long-term motivation with share schemes
- Use quoted shares as acquisition currency
- Create a heightened public profile and credibility
- Provide liquidity in your company’s shares
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- Access the deepest pool of international capital in the world
- High quality advisory community and sell-side research coverage
- Respected, balanced and fair regulatory environment and legal framework
- Resilient market technology and world-class market surveillance
- Proven levels of sustained liquidity in a central time zone
- Multiple routes to market to suit different types of issuer and different funding routes
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