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over allotment

A practice in which the underwriters offer and sell a higher number of shares than they had planned to purchase from the issuer.

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  1. Greenshoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    A greenshoe option (sometimes green shoe, but must legally be called an "over- allotment option" in a prospectus) allows underwriters to short sell shares in a ...
     
  2. Optimal Exercise of the Over-Allotment Option in IPOs - JStor
    Technical Notes. Optimal Exercise of the Over-Allotment Option in IPOs. Chris J. Muscarella,. Associate Professor of. Finance, College of. Business ...
     
  3. Over-allotment option - Financial Dictionary - The Free Dictionary
    Option that allows the underwriter for a new issue to increase the size of the issue because of high demand for the shares.
     
  4. Collabrium Japan Acquisition Corporation Completes Portion of ...
    6 hours ago ... The units sold pursuant to the over-allotment option were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $2,000,000.
     
  5. Brompton Split Banc Corp. Completes Over-Allotment | Press ...
    5 hours ago ... This issuance was pursuant to the exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the agents in connection with the Company's recently ...
     
  6. Southcross Energy Partners, L.P. Closes Over-Allotment Option ...
    4 days ago ... Southcross Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SXE), a Delaware limited partnership ( the “Partnership”), announced today that underwriters of its ...
     
  7. What is over allotment? definition and meaning
    Definition of over allotment: A practice in which the underwriters offer and sell a higher number of shares than they had planned to purchase from the issuer.
     
  8. over-allotment noun - definition in Business English Dictionary ...
    over-allotment noun - definition, audio pronunciation and more for over-allotment noun: in a share offering (= time when shares are offered for sale), extra shares ...