The Expiration of Mandatory and Voluntary IPO Lock-up Provisions - Empirical Evidence from Germany’s Neuer Markt
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Abstract. This chapter explores the stock price impact of expirations of lock-up provisions that prevent insiders from selling their shares after the Initial Public Offering (IPO). I examine 172 lock-up expirations of 142 IPOs floated on Germany’s Neuer Markt. I detect significant negative abnormal returns and a twenty-five percent increase in trading volume surrounding lock-up expiration. The negative abnormal returns are larger for firms with high volatility; superior performance after the IPO, low free float, and venture capital financed firms. The negative price reaction is significantly stronger for the expiration of voluntary lock-up agreements than for mandatory prohibitions of disposal.
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