Listing on ASX

ASX can provide your company or trust with invaluable access to retail and institutional investors and exposure throughout the world. By listing with ASX, you will enter a new phase in your organisation's development where you will become part of a select group of organisations on the global capital stage. Listing on ASX has helped thousands of companies achieve their growth ambitions and successfully make the transition to public ownership or by raising debt through the public market.

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Eddie Grieve explains some of the benefits an ASX listing provides to private companies seeking to grow their business with a new source of capital provided by the public equity market.

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Why do organisations list

 

What is Listing?

It is the process of taking a privately-owned organisation and making the transition to a publicly-owned entity whose shares can be traded on a stock exchange.

The world's stock exchanges have been listing companies, trusts and other products for hundreds of years, so the benefits of listing are well known to the market. Amongst the key benefits ASX can offer its listed companies is access to international institutional investors via its series of road shows, operated in conjunction with the major investment banks and their clients in the US, UK and Asia.

You need to examine a wide range of factors in order to gauge if your organisation is ready to list.

Download IPO: the road to growth and opportunity (PDF 845KB) for more information on listing.

Chinese flag Initial Public Offering brochure - Chinese version (PDF 2.2MB)

How do organisations list

The timetable for listing depends on the complexity and scale of the transaction, how quickly the listing can be prepared and how quickly funds are received from investors. The amount of time taken to list can range from three months to two years, with six months being typical.

The road to an initial public offering (IPO) usually involves the following steps:

Step 1: Appoint advisers

Step 2: Talk to ASX

Step 3: Prepare and lodge prospectus

Step 4: Apply to list

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International listings on ASX

ASX's unique position as a developed market in the Asia-Pacific region and time-zone offers international companies exposure to the growing pool of investment capital in the world's fastest growing region, as well as providing the opportunity for global trading and price discovery on a round-the-clock basis.

An ASX Foreign Exempt Listing caters for large international companies already listed on another recognised stock exchange. The ASX Listing Rules minimise the regulatory burden on these companies by relying on their continuing compliance with the regulatory requirements of their home market and provision to ASX of all public information provided to their home market. Foreign companies that do not meet the minimum size and profitability requirements for this category are invited to apply for listing under the ASX Listing category.

Download International Listings on ASX (PDF 882KB) or International Resources Listings on ASX (PDF 1.49MB) for more information.

Listing fee calculator

The ASX equity listing fee calculator is designed to provide you with a guide to ASX's Equity Listing Fees that apply as of 1 May 2012.

Listing FAQs

Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about listing.

Listings in 2012

 

Number of organisations that have listed in 2012:

17
(as at 30 April 2012)

On the list

 QR National Limited

Peter Hiom (Deputy CEO of ASX) and John Prescott AC (Chairman of QR National)

Peter Hiom (Deputy CEO of ASX) and John Prescott AC (Chairman of QR National) displaying the listing certificate
 

Lance Hockridge, MD and CEO of QR National

 Lance Hockridge (MD and CEO) speaking at the listing ceremony

ASX IPO Workshop

ASX will be holding IPO workshops in 2012. The aim of these sessions is to introduce companies to the fundamentals of IPO planning from a financial, legal and broking perspective. The workshops, are usually held in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, and are designed for small cap companies who seek to list on ASX.

  • Sydney - 20 August 2012
  • Melbourne - 22 August 2012
  • Brisbane - 28 August 2012

Contact us

If you would like more information about listing on ASX or a free copy of our Guide to Listing Brochure titled 'IPO: the road to growth and opportunity', please email.

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