NewLink Genetics Corporation has filed for an initial public offering. It currently has not specified the quantity of common stock to be offered, nor has a price been set for the offering. NewLink Genetics Corporation, headquartered in Ames, Iowa, is a biopharmaceutical company which is focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel immunotherapeutic products intended to improve the options of cancer treatment for both patients and physicians. Currently, their lead product candidate, HyperAcute Pancreas cancer immunotherapy, or HyperAcute Pancreas, is in it’s Phase 3 clinical trial in surgically resected pancreatic cancer patients which is being performed under Special Protocol... 

Home Loan Servicing Solutions, Ltd. has filed an IPO. Home Loan Services is a newly incorporated, Cayman Islands exempted company, which was formed to acquire mortgage servicing assets. Since they are not responsible for issuing or purchasing mortgage loans, they are not liable to the risk of loss that is related to the ownership of mortgage loans. Since Home Loan Servicing is incorporated as an exempted company in the Cayman Islands, they do not levy income taxes on individuals or companies. As such, they expect to be treated as a passive foreign investment company (PFIC) under U.S. federal income tax laws, and intend on distributing at least 90% of their income to their shareholders in the... 

Air Lease Corporation has filed its IPO. The quantity and price of it’s Class A common stock has yet to be released in the filing. Air Lease Corporation is a Los Angeles, CA. based aircraft leasing company that was launched in February 2010 by aviation pioneer Steven F. Udvar-Házy. Their primary business is the purchasing or commercial aircrafts which they lease to international airline companies. The average lease term on their aircrafts is around 5.6 years as of the end of last year. Their business is operated on a global basis and their customers are in every geographical location and includes emerging markets. As of December 31, 2010, Air Lease Corporation owned 40 aircrafts. In... 

Medgenics Inc. is a medical technology and therapeutics company whose primary focus is on providing sustained protein therapies. They have developed proprietary technology which uses a patient’s own tissue to produce and deliver the patient’s own protein therapy. This therapy will potentially be able to treat a wide range of chronic diseases, including, anemia, hepatitis C, hemophilia and other chronic diseases or conditions. Their Biopump Platform Technology converts a sliver of a patient’s dermal skin tissue into a protein-producing “Biopump”. This protein therapy has the ability to deliver several months of protein to a patient from one single procedure without the need... 

On Friday, the Luxembourg based company MagnaChip Semiconductor filed the terms for its IPO. MagnaChip is the former analog and mixed signal semiconductor business of LG, it is also known as being the logic and foundry spinoff of Hynix Semiconductor Inc. MagnaChip plans to raise funds of $152 million by making an offering of 9.5 million ADSs at a price of between $15 to $17. Presuming they will achieve a price in the mid-range, MagnaChip will have a market value of $539 million. The company filed for an IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2007, but withdrew their filing in January 2009. In that filing, their offering was valued up to $575 million. Later in 2009, MagnaChip... 

U.S.-based developmental stage company, Kips Bay Medical, Inc., has completed it’s initial public offering (IPO) of 2,062,500 shares of common stock. At a cost of $8 per share, the company experienced raised gross proceeds of $16.5 million. The lead underwriters are Rodman & Renshaw and Newbridge Securities. Kips Bay Medical Inc. are a development stage medical device company who are developing technology to be use as vein support in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). They were incorporated in Delaware in 2007, and their headquarters are currently in Minneapolis, MN. Kips Bay Medical, has yet to generate any revenue from the sales of their products, but plans to list on NASDAQ... 

The popular internet streaming site Pandora has filed for an IPO – an unusual event in the tech world, and an even more unusual event for a music company. The flotation values the company at $100 million. The lead underwriters are Morgan Stanley (MS), JP Morgan, (JPM), William Blair and Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. Pandora is a leading internet radio provider which provides a listening experience based on an algorithm listener. Pandora had a base of 80 million users registered in the U.S. This number grow at 40% in January. According to reports, Pandora gained 40 million users when they launched their iPhone app. Pandora is a pioneer in the world of radio. It creates a radio playlist in real-time...