Menu
  • Hot Topics
  • Services
  • Technology
  • About us
  • Locations
  • Press
  • Language
  • ESG Solutions
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Modeling Solutions
  • Distressed Situations
  • Business Partnering
  • IFRS 18
  • Reporting & Regulatory
  • Digital Finance
  • Deal Advisory
  • Partner
  • Accounting & Reporting
  • Capital Markets
  • ESG Solutions
  • Carve out / PMI
  • Governance, Risk & Compliance
  • Business Partnering
  • Financial Services
  • Treasury
  • Concepts & Systems
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • Optimization
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Performance
  • Program Management
  • Finance Transformation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • M&A Strategy
  • Due Diligence
  • Fact Book
  • Valuation
  • Restructuring
  • Debt Advisory
  • Modeling Solutions
  • IDL
  • Lucanet
  • OneStream
  • Oracle
  • CCH Tagetik
  • Accounting Advisory
  • Leasing
  • Financial Statements Support and Audit Assistance
  • Consulting for Statutory Auditor Invitations to Bid
  • Business Reporting
  • Financial Statements in Accordance with the German Commercial Code IFRS
  • ESEF Format for Financial Reporting
  • IPO Readiness
  • IFRS Conversion & Support
  • CSRD and ESRS
  • EU taxonomy
  • Non-financial Declaration for Companies
  • Carve Out Solutions
  • Post Merger Integration
  • Risk Management
  • Internal Controls & Process Assurance
  • Internal Audit
  • Compliance Management
  • IT Governance
  • Data protection & data security
  • Board Advisory
  • ESG solutions
  • IPO Readiness
  • Treasury as a resource
  • Treasury for Special Projects
  • Fully outsourced Treasury
  • Business blueprints
  • Master Data Management
  • Further ERP systems
  • Unser Beratungsansatz
  • Efficient closing
  • Modernization of the finance function
  • Harmonization of internal and external accounting
  • Target Operating Model
  • Process Mining & Optimization
  • Process automation in the financial sector
  • Working Capital Optimization
  • Management Reporting
  • Implementation of Planning Tools
  • Rolling Planning / Forecasting
  • Liquidity Management by using Liquidity Planning
  • Legal and management reporting with SAP S/4HANA
  • Corporate Performance Management
  • Sell Side Advisory
  • Buy Side Advisory
  • Capital Markets Advisory
  • Business management M&A consulting
  • Post Merger Integration
  • Fit for Sale
  • Private Equity Initiative
  • Corporate valuation
  • Purchase Price Allocation
  • Impairment Test
  • Fairness Opinion
  • Interim management
  • About us
  • Locations
  • Press
English
German
  • English
  • German
  • Hot Topics Clothing
    • ESG Solutions
    • SAP S/4HANA
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Modeling Solutions
    • Distressed Situations
    • Business Partnering
    • IFRS 18
    CSRD und ESRS
  • Services Clothing
    • Reporting & Regulatory
      • Accounting & Reporting
        • Accounting Advisory
        • Leasing
        • Financial Statements Support and Audit Assistance
        • Consulting for Statutory Auditor Invitations to Bid
        • Business Reporting
        • Financial Statements in Accordance with the German Commercial Code IFRS
        • ESEF Format for Financial Reporting
      • Capital Markets
        • IPO Readiness
        • IFRS Conversion & Support
      • ESG Solutions
        • CSRD and ESRS
        • EU taxonomy
        • Non-financial Declaration for Companies
      • Carve out / PMI
        • Carve Out Solutions
        • Post Merger Integration
      • Governance, Risk & Compliance
        • Risk Management
        • Internal Controls & Process Assurance
        • Internal Audit
        • Compliance Management
        • IT Governance
        • Data protection & data security
        • Board Advisory
        • ESG solutions
        • IPO Readiness
      • Business Partnering
      • Financial Services
      • Treasury
        • Treasury as a resource
        • Treasury for Special Projects
        • Fully outsourced Treasury
    • Digital Finance
      • Concepts & Systems
        • Business blueprints
        • Master Data Management
        • Further ERP systems
      • SAP S/4HANA
        • Unser Beratungsansatz
      • Optimization
        • Efficient closing
        • Modernization of the finance function
        • Harmonization of internal and external accounting
        • Target Operating Model
        • Process Mining & Optimization
        • Process automation in the financial sector
      • Advanced Analytics
      • Performance
        • Working Capital Optimization
        • Management Reporting
        • Implementation of Planning Tools
        • Rolling Planning / Forecasting
        • Liquidity Management by using Liquidity Planning
        • Legal and management reporting with SAP S/4HANA
        • Corporate Performance Management
      • Program Management
      • Finance Transformation
      • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Deal Advisory
      • M&A Strategy
        • Sell Side Advisory
        • Buy Side Advisory
        • Capital Markets Advisory
        • Business management M&A consulting
        • Post Merger Integration
        • Fit for Sale
        • Private Equity Initiative
      • Due Diligence
      • Fact Book
      • Valuation
        • Corporate valuation
        • Purchase Price Allocation
        • Impairment Test
        • Fairness Opinion
      • Restructuring
        • Interim management
      • Debt Advisory
      • Modeling Solutions
    Private Equity Initiative
    SAP S/4HANA Transformation
  • Technology Clothing
    • Partner
      • IDL
      • Lucanet
      • OneStream
      • Oracle
      • CCH Tagetik
    Lucanet
IPO Readiness
Home Services Reporting & Regulatory Capital Markets IPO Readiness
Contact us!
IPO READINESS
CHALLENGES
SERVICES OF WTS ADVISORY
CONTACT PERSONS

IPO Readiness

An Initial Public Offering (IPO) offers companies a promising strategic option for long-term financing through equity. An IPO, however, is a very complex and challenging project, both in terms of time and content, which should not be underestimated. The necessary measures to get ready for an IPO lead, for example, to an increase in the workload for employees since the normal day-to-day business must continue to be handled in addition to the IPO preparation. It should therefore be ensured that the numerous interdependent topics and tasks are prepared, analyzed and managed in the best possible way.

Getting a company ready for an IPO, its public listing and ability to be publicly listed usually requires changes in the entire company, the organization and the corporate culture. One reason for this is that publicly listed companies are subject to greater disclosure obligations and greater transparency. Furthermore, the relevance of compliance and corporate governance issues is rising. 

Challenges to IPO Readiness

The main challenges to getting a company ready for an IPO include the following points:

The conversion of accounting to IFRS

and the ensuring of future reporting obligations

RMS

Implementation of a risk management system

Ensuring other requirements

Preparation of an IPO due diligence and a stock exchange prospectus, execution of numerous valuations, establishment of an internal control system (ICS)

Project planning

/ Project managemnet

In addition, internal processes, both for going public and being public, must be optimized or often created for the first time due to considerable disclosure obligations and fixed schedules for reporting.

IPO Readiness – WTS Advisory Services

WTS Advisory has extensive experience in IPOs and M&A transactions for companies of all sizes and in a wide range of industries. In doing so, we offer independent expertise as well as professional advice at eye level. As a result, WTS Advisory's clients benefit from the highest quality and a unique customer focus. The IPO-experienced specialists of WTS Advisory, with know-how from numerous IPOs and IFRS conversions, support you, for example, in the identification of business conversion issues and point out possible alternatives.

If an IFRS conversion is required in the course of an Initial Public Offering, WTS Advisory also supports its clients in this regard and provides the WTS Advisory Conversion Tool for a system-supported transition or assists in mapping the parallel accounting in your ERP system. In addition to the entire IPO support (IFRS conversion, risk management, financial due diligence, etc.), our range of services also includes ongoing support during the Being Public process. This includes, for example, business support for ongoing accounting in accordance with IFRS or for upcoming M&A activities.

Further services of WTS Advisory in connection with IPO readiness are the procedural support in setting up a risk management system (RMS) and the three implementation of an internal control system (ICS), the business management issues in the context of the preparation of the stock exchange prospectus (among others management discussion and analysis), the execution of an IPO financial due diligence as well as the support for business management issues in the topic of investor relations.

In addition, we provide support in the preparation of a compensation report, segment reporting, calculation of earnings per share and requirements for the management report from a business management perspective.

Contact Persons

bild faerber-nikolaus
WTS Advisory
Nikolaus Färber
Board WTS Advisory
Sustainibility Auditor (IDW)
Friedenstraße 22
81671 München
+49 (0) 89 28646-2700

Your contact to us

Do you have any questions about our services or WTS Advisory? We look forward to your message or your call!

Contact
Contact Legal notice Data Privacy Statement