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Underpricing of sponsored and non-sponsored IPOs on the London stock exchange
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In this thesis, I study the effect of the certification role played by private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors on IPO underpricing in the UK markets during the period from 2002 to 2022. Past research is predominantly U.S.-centric and focused on venture capital. I aim to fill this gap by studying this phenomenon in the UK markets and including both PE and VC investors. The analysis is conducted by cross-sectionally regressing underpricing with PE-backing and VC-backing while controlling for issue size, market capitalization, company age, hot periods, industry, and underwriter reputation.
I find that IPOs backed by PE and VC investors are less underpriced on average than non-sponsored IPOs but there is no statistically significant relationship between sponsor backing the issue and underpricing. This indicates that the difference in level of underpricing is the result of other factors such as issue size, market capitalization and time of the issue. Additionally, I find that PE-backed companies are generally larger in terms of issue size and market capitalization and are more mature compared to non-sponsored companies. I also note that PE investors tend to focus more on mature industries like manufacturing, whereas VC investors favor sectors where the growth potential is greater, such as services, including ICT.