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Investment Banking Flashcards

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Investment banking

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How to raise money from the public

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Negotiated offering

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Issuer chooses the IB directly, most common

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Competitive offering

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IB chosen through auction, letter of intent

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UW

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Buys securities from issuer, sells them to the public

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Syndicate

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Group of UW’s chosen by IB of issuer, risk is subdivided

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Managing (lead) UW

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Manages syndicate and negotiates with issuer

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Selling group

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No underwriting, no risk, just helps sell

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Chinese wall

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Separates IB from B/D

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3 types of UW agreements

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  1. Firm commitment - unsold securities retained by syndicate, must maintain escrow acct
  2. Best efforts - unsold securities returned to issuer includes A. AON entire offering sold or cancelled and returned to issuer B. Min/Max minimum amount sold to avoid cancellation, unsold returned to issuer, must maintain escrow acct
  3. Stand-by rights - purchases shares not bought during rights offering, firm commitment
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Investments not regulated by SEC

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LI , fixed annuities, commodities, futures, regular CDs, currencies, real estate

Options and RETs ARE securities and regulated

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Primary offering

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Authorized but unissued securities, shelf registration 2 or 3 yrs

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Well known seasoned issuer

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At least 700mm public float or 1bill of non convertible bonds issued w/in last 3 yrs, shelf registration 3 yrs

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Seasoned issuer

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An issuer w/at least 75mm in public float, shelf registration valid for 3 yrs

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Unseasoned issuer

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Less than 75mm in public float, files qtrly and annual w/SEC, 2 yr shelf registration

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Non-reporting issuer

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Not required to file with SEC i.e. Private company, not publicly traded

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Public float

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Outstanding stocks not held by insiders

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Secondary offering

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Stock held by insiders or treasury stock

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Combined (split) offering

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Primary and secondary offering

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Red herring

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Preliminary prospectus, not final, subject to completion, cannot be delivered electronically

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Effective registration date

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1st day the offer starts trading, set by the SEC

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Issuer directed sales

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No need for syndicate or selling group

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Securities act 1933

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Regulated federal registration of new issues, requires issuer to make full disclosure of relevant info

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Corporate charter

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Purpose, place, type of security, amount of securities, mgt rules

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Trust indenture act 1939

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Indenture filed w/SEC for new issues of corporate bonds over $50mm

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Price of new issues determined by:

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  1. Earnings
  2. Comparisons
  3. Mkt conditions
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Exempt securities

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Govt securities, munis, commercial paper, non profit, bank issued securities, rail & trucking issued securities, small business investment co’s, intrastate offerings,

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Reg A

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Offering of $50mm or less w/in 12 month period

Exempt Transaction

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Reg S

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US companies offering securities outside the US

exempt transaction

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Reg D

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Private Placement - no promotion allowed unless targeting accredited investors, website ok with password

PPM private placement memo AKA PROSPECTUS

Exempt transaction

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Accredited investors

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Financial institutions, insiders (and family of), annual income of 200k (300k jt) for previous 2 yrs and coming yr, net worth $1mm excluding residence

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Restricted stock

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Stock purchased through private placement

Exempt transaction

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State registration (blue sky)

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B/D, rep, and security must all be registered in the customer’s state, unless exempt

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Methods of state registration

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  1. Notification - filing, simplest form
  2. Coordination - registration effective w/SEC (same time), used for IPO
  3. Qualification - used for federal exempt, not state, hardest
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Cooling off period

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Starts when filed w/SEC, lasts about 20 days, SEC reviews, may send stop order, can send red herring, cannot send money though

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Allocation of orders

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  1. Pre sale
  2. Syndicate (group net)
  3. Designated
  4. Member
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Distribution of profits, Spread:

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Difference btwn POP and amount paid to issuer includes takedown and managers fee

Spread = takedown + managers fee

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Takedown

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Part of the spread, this is the biggest part which goes to the syndicate

Part 1 concession - profit to the selling group
Part 2 reallowance - profit paid to those outside selling group

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Types of syndicates

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  1. Western (divided) account - members do not assist each other “Wild West”
  2. Eastern (undivided) account - unsold reallocated based on original allocation %
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Market out clause

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Allows UW to w/d from offering due to negative mkt conditions, can happen up through the due diligence mtg

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Sticky issue

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New issue, difficult to sell, cannot be sold at a discount to firms outside the syndicate or selling group w/o UW permission.

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Hot issue

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New issue in high demand, trades at a premium w/in 1st 5 minutes

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Over allotment (oversubscribed)

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Take indications of interest for securities than available

Greens how clause - can sell additional 15% of securities due to over allotment, still must register with SEC

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Corporate financing department rule

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Part of FINRA that examines compensation to UW, looks at 6 month window for comp, cannot include registration or legal fees, UW must report comp to CFD w/in 1 day after docs filed w/ SEC

stock, options, warrants, are included but cannot be more than 10% of outstanding shares, 6 month holding period

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