Supervoting shares allow certain shareholders (often a company's founders and initial backers) to maintain control of the company after a more widely distributed public offering. In this blog post, William Carleton explains why these supervoting shares, which have to be disclosed prior to an initial public offering in a prospectus, might not result in a diminished valuation realized in an IPO. Mr. Carleton uses the examples of LinkedIn and Zillow as illustrations in this analysis.
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Valuation and Supervoting