{"id":555,"date":"2022-01-14T04:13:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/stubhub-entertains-public-listing-idea\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T04:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:13:38","slug":"stubhub-entertains-public-listing-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/stubhub-entertains-public-listing-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"StubHub entertains public listing idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>StubHub Holdings, which operates ticket resale platforms StubHub and Viagogo, is considering the idea of going public via a direct listing, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/markets\/fixed-income\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports that StubHub Holdings has filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission to pursue a direct listing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the group is working with advisers including JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co and Goldman Sachs Group. A transaction could see StubHub valued at more than $13bn (\u00a39.47bn\/\u20ac11.35bn).<\/p>\n<p>In September last year, Viagogo was given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2021\/09\/08\/uk-watchdog-approves-viagogos-stubhub-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">green light<\/a> by the UK\u2019s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to complete its takeover of StubHub.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was approved after it was agreed that StubHub would sell its international business to a venture capital group.<\/p>\n<p>Viagogo had originally agreed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2019\/11\/25\/viagogo-buys-stubhub-4-05bn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchase of StubHub<\/a> from e-commerce company eBay for $4.05bn in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Baker was a co-founder of StubHub while in business school, but left before the business was sold to eBay in 2007 for $310m.<\/p>\n<p>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@actionvance?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ActionVance<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/concert?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/01\/14\/stubhub-entertains-public-listing-idea\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] StubHub Holdings, which operates ticket resale platforms StubHub and Viagogo, is considering the idea of going public via a direct listing, according to media reports. Bloomberg reports that StubHub Holdings has filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchanges Commission to pursue a direct listing. According to the report, the group is working with &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[810,2,811,482,812,3,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebay","category-featured-news","category-public","category-stubhub","category-stubhub-holdings","category-ticker-featured","category-viagogo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}