The IPO year of Financière de Tubize SA is 2000
Initial public offering is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.
Through IPO a privately held company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its public investors. After the IPO, when shares trade freely in the open market, money passes between public investors.
Although IPO offers many advantages, there are also significant disadvantages, chief among these are the costs associated with the process and the requirement to disclose certain information that could prove helpful to competitors.
The IPO process is colloquially known as going public. Details of the proposed offering are disclosed to potential purchasers in the form of a lengthy document known as a prospectus. Most companies undertake an IPO with the assistance of an investment banking firm acting in the capacity of an underwriter. Underwriters provide several services, including help with correctly assessing the value of shares.
Financière de Tubize S.A., through its interest in UCB, operates as a biopharmaceutical company worldwide. It discovers and develops medicines and solutions in the therapeutic areas of neurology and immunology diseases. The company's principal products include Cimzia for treating ankylosing spondylitis, axial spondyloarthritis, Crohn's disease, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis; Briviact, Vimpat, and Keppra for the treatment of epilepsy partial-onset seizures; Nayzilam, a nasal spray; and Neupro for treating Parkinson's disease and restless legs syndrome. It also offers Zyrtec and Xyzal for the treatment of allergy; Nootropil for the treatment of psycho-organic syndromes or cognitive decline and cortical myoclonus; and Xyrem for use in treating narcolepsy with cataplexy in adult patients. The company's products in pipeline include padsevonil for drug resistant epilepsy; UCB0107 for treating progressive supranuclear palsy; UCB0599 for Parkinson's disease; UCB7858 for auto-inflammatory diseases; bimekizumab to treat psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, hidradenitis suppurativa, and axial spondyloarthritis; rozanolixizumab to treat myasthenia gravis, immune thrombocytopenia, and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; and dapirolizumab pegol for systemic lupus erythematosus. Financière de Tubize S.A. is based in Brussels, Belgium.