Baker & McKenzie's Cross-Border Listings App Addresses Clients' Need to Compare Global Listing Options

The Pitch/Paid Content.By Amar Budarapu Partner at Baker & McKenzie In October, our Securities practice at Baker & McKenzie launched a first-of-its-kind cross-border listings app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The app was designed to be an interactive resource for our investment bank and corporate clients. It provides users with timely legal and regulatory information for various stock exchanges around the world, and allows them to compare certain listing requirements between two exchanges. The story of our app began in a more traditional medium – a book. Our Cross-Border Listings Handbook was first published in the fall of 2010 to assist clients in navigating the regulatory complexities involved in listing securities abroad. We decided to put the handbook together in response to the increase in cross-border IPOs we were seeing. Our clients were seeking to expand into other markets, tap new investors and take advantage of higher valuations. Our investment bank contacts were increasingly asking us to connect them with a capital markets lawyer in another part of the world as they too were advising clients on listing options in other markets. With contributions from our Securities lawyers around the world, the handbook helps our clients compare and contrast…