That makes it the biggest private equity IPO to date and among the biggest financial services IPOs.
There were 72 venture-backed public offerings in 2010, the biggest year for IPOs since 2004.
Four of the five best IPOs to debut on U.S. exchanges last year were Chinese companies.
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Now I agree there will be excitement for top-tier IPOs like Facebook, Zynga and perhaps Twitter.
But, despite their large sizes, billion-dollar IPOs usually are able to score opening-day gains.
The drop in IPOs from the 1990s might lead you to this erroneous conclusion.
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Not to mention that it is the latest in a growing list of recent tech IPOs.
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Compare that with 269 IPOs in 1999, 272 in 1996, and 365 in 1986.
In the dot-com heyday, there was huge supply of hundreds of Internet company IPOs.
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Well, three years later, Krispy Kreme was one of the hottest IPOs of 2000.
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As ".com" became The Street's magical incantation, Internet-related IPOs gained an average 242% last year.
Vonage quickly soured investors on IPOs of what are perceived to be riskier bets.
These three REITs had seen their IPOs oversubscribed by 8.4 times to 43.9 times.
Investors love IPOs with meteoric first day performance, but the best new offerings appreciate over time.
But compared to those recent IPOs, others that came out this week landed quietly.
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That should be handy as the seven-year-old company grows, spreads across multiple continents and eventually IPOs.
Two of the coolest companies out there have just filed the paperwork for their upcoming IPOs.
IPOs have not been nearly as plentiful as they were in the previous 10 years.
Those numbers fell off a cliff to 21 IPOs in 2001 and 19 in 2002.
Its Zhongguancun area saw 23 high-tech IPOs in 2009, against just one for Silicon Valley.
This time, there have been relatively few big internet IPOs (though that is likely to change).
Last year was a big year for social-media IPOs, with companies from Angie's List Inc.
The first quarter's largest and most-watched IPOs garnered higher-than-expected prices and still managed strong trading gains.
Six IPOs were pulled last week, the most since Nov. 29, 2010, according to Dealogic.
And IPOs by social Web giants Twitter, Zynga and Facebook may not be far behind.
But according to investment boutique Renaissance Capital, the IPOs in the pipeline span many sectors.
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There have been just a handful of IPOs, aside from a flurry of Chinese Internet deals.
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These new startups will be what feeds the later stage funding cycle and future IPOs.
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Yet few of the recent Internet and social-media IPOs are setting the market on fire.
The year 2006 saw new records for IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and asset sales.
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