Listing on Borsa Italiana

Barbara Lunghi, Head of Primary Markets - Italy

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Why consider the stock market?

Considering the stock market means giving form to your ambitions, gaining access to capital to accelerate your growth and to make investments and acquisitions, diversifying sources of funding, and opening up your company to a whole world of new stakeholders who can contribute their ideas and ambitions.
Considering the stock market means seeing growth in your company’s future, based on constant access to capital, but also to management talent, new competencies, and an area that brings with it vision, strategy, planning and an ability to create value for shareholders, employees and customers.
Considering the stock market also means looking ahead to the generations to come, projecting your company into the future beyond its founding entrepreneur, while also making the most of the role of family and other shareholders and managers.
Those who consider the stock market want to compete in another league, gain status and visibility within their business community and sector, in Italy, but also, and above all, at international level.
It also means imagining a future of sustainable growth made possible by access to capital markets increasingly focused on the values of sustainability in selecting companies in which to invest.


Is my company ready for a listing?

Your company is ready for a listing if it has ambitious, feasible plans that generate sustainable growth and returns for potential investors.
The companies listed on our markets include start-ups, scale-ups, small and medium enterprises and global leaders. They include companies from all sectors of our economy, industrial, service and financial companies, as well as a growing number of innovative companies. They include companies interested in increasing their capital and companies that are seeking to buy out pre-existing shareholders.
Companies that have opened themselves up to other shareholders, such as private-equity or venture-capital firms or industrial shareholders, companies that have used crowdfunding platforms and companies that are taking financial investors for the first time. They include companies whose identities reflect the exchange’s values and companies that have got to know us and have approached the decision and investments in executive and management systems and in all that is needed to make a gradual transition to being a listed company.
Borsa Italiana can help you consider whether your company is ready for a listing and steer you optimally towards a successful transaction.

How can Borsa Italiana help me?

Borsa Italiana seeks to support entrepreneurs and managers in conducting an informed assessment of the opportunities and responsibilities relating to the listing decision, as we believe that access to the market is a strategic option that all ambitious companies ought to consider, identifying the right time consistent with the investments envisaged in your business plan.
We invite you to accompany us on what we have called an IPO Journey: a voyage towards a listing on the exchange. In this section of our website, you will find feedback from entrepreneurs and managers who, like you, considered whether the time was right for a listing.
You will find useful information regarding aspects to be considered in taking a decision, but also regarding the work processes to set in motion to prepare for the appointment with the market in an extremely concrete manner.
Depending on your needs, we invite you

  • to access the IPO Master Class, to learn about the listing process
  • to contact our experts for an initial evaluation of your company’s readiness for a listing and to request a full pre-listing assessment, where appropriate, to take an in-depth look at your strategy, business plan and management and governance systems.

Above all, we invite you to access the community of market experts, identifying the team that best meets your needs according to their track record, your size, your business sector and the chemistry that needs to be formed with those who will be accompanying you on your way to your strategic projects.
We wish you a good IPO Journey, in the hope that one day we will open the markets together to the sound of the bell celebrating your admission to the exchange.

Learn more through a meeting with Borsa Italiana

The Primary Markets team of Borsa Italiana is available to meet with entrepreneurs interested in the listing process and with their advisers in order to explore the company’s growth prospects and assess how Borsa Italiana can support them.


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