Written by edgaragentsdb on March 5, 2018
February was a strong month for F-1 filings, with law firms Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Davis Polk & Wardwell ringing their bells with the month’s largest IPO, iQiyi, Inc., a $1.5B offer amount. Latham & Watkins came in second with Spotify’s direct listing on the NYSE for a $1B offer amount.
Like an S-1, a form F-1 must be filed with the SEC by foreign private issuers before they can make an IPO or other first-time security offering in the United States.
| Issuer | Form | Issuer Counsel | Underwriter | Underwriter Counsel | Amount | Date |
| ELECTRAMECCANICA VEHICLES CORP. | F-1 | Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP | Not specified | Not specified | $27.5MM | 1-Feb |
| TIPMEFAST, INC. | S-1 | Elaine A. Dowling, Esq. of EAD Law Group, LLC | Not specified | Not specified | 65MM | 2-Feb |
| EXENT CORP. | S-1 | Not Specified | Not Specified | Not Specified | $200MM | 2-Feb |
| POLYPID LTD. | F-1 | Cooley LLP | Cowen and Company, LLC Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Latham & Watkins LLP | $86.25MM | 8-Feb |
| BIOXCEL THERAPEUTICS, INC. | S-1 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP | Barclays Capital Inc BMO Capital Markets Corp UBS Investment Bank |
Latham & Watkins LLP | $69MM | 12-Feb |
| BRIDGEWATER BANCSHARES INC | S-1 | Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP | D.A. Davidson and Co Sandler O’Neill and Partners, L.P |
Vedder Price P.C | $50MM | 16-Feb |
| TAIWAN LIPOSOME COMPANY, LTD. | F-1 | Cooley LLP | Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | $50MM | 16-Feb |
| ARCUS BIOSCIENCES, INC. | S-1 | Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP | Citigroup Global Markets Inc Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Leerink Partners LLC |
Cooley LLP | $100MM | 16-Feb |
| ZSCALER, INC. | S-1 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
Cooley LLP | $100MM | 16-Feb |
| OPES ACQUISITION CORP. | S-1 | Graubard Miller | EarlyBirdCapital, Inc | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | $115MM | 20-Feb |
| SUNLANDS ONLINE EDUCATION GROUP | F-1 | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP | $300MM | 23-Feb |
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| IBEX HOLDINGS LTD | F-1 | DLA Piper LLP (US) | Piper Jaffray & Co. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc William Blair and Co., L.L.C. |
Goodwin Procter LLP | $75MM | 23-Feb |
| TERRAPIN 4 ACQUISITION CORP | S-1 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | Nomura Securities International, Inc. | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | $300MM | 23-Feb |
| DROPBOX, INC. | S-1 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. | Allen & Company LLC BofA Merrill Lynch Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | $500MM | 23-Feb |
| GREENTREE HOSPITALITY GROUP LTD. | F-1 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | BofA Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc UBS Investment Bank |
Latham & Watkins LLP | $200MM | 27-Feb |
| IQIYI, INC. | F-1 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | BofA Merrill Lynch Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. |
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | $1.5B | 27-Feb |
| SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. | F-1 | Latham & Watkins LLP | Not specified | Not specified | $1B | 28-Feb |
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