Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders

It's always a pleasure to speak to a grizzled veteran who has decades of experience leading hundreds of deals that have raised billions of dollars.

Here to share that wisdom is Gregg Nabhan, Chairman of the America's Equity Capital Markets, as well as Managing Director of the Consumer and Retail team at Bank of America. Gregg is responsible for the origination, IPO valuation, structuring, book-building, price discovery allocation trading, and aftermarket performance of equity transactions. Gregg has almost 40 years of experience on Wall Street. He's led over 400 deals, raising over 265 billion for companies around the world, including 115 IPOs totaling 50 billion dollars.

Prior to joining Bank of America in 2008, Gregg worked at Morgan Stanley for 13 years where he was a Managing Director in the equity capital markets. He has a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.

Gregg and I talked about the past 4 decades of economic twists and turns, some of his career highlights and what he sees coming around the bend.

Show Notes

Summary:

It's always a pleasure to speak to a grizzled veteran who has decades of experience leading hundreds of deals that have raised billions of dollars.

Here to share that wisdom is Gregg Nabhan, Chairman of the America's Equity Capital Markets, as well as Managing Director of the Consumer and Retail team at Bank of America. Gregg is responsible for the origination, IPO valuation, structuring, book-building, price discovery allocation trading, and aftermarket performance of equity transactions. 
Gregg has almost 40 years of experience on Wall Street. He's led over 400 deals, raising over 265 billion for companies around the world, including 115 IPOs totaling 50 billion dollars. 

Prior to joining Bank of America in 2008, Gregg worked at Morgan Stanley for 13 years where he was a Managing Director in the equity capital markets. He has a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. 

Gregg and I talked about the past 4 decades of economic twists and turns, some of his career highlights and what he sees coming around the bend.

Highlights:
  • Gregg talks about his start at Bank of America (2:45)
  • The IPO resources that B of A offers (4:35)
  • Gregg's perspective on the last 3 years of market activity (5:20)
  • The Fed's inflation strategy (8:43)
  • The number of IPOs now, compared with the past 15 years (10:08)
  • Industries that are favoured to open the IPO market (11:20)
  • Gregg discusses the valuation reset (12:46)
  • What strong performing companies have in common (14:45)
  • What the Fed needs to see to change their stance on interest rates (16:15)
  • Gregg's take on the state of the consumer (18:58)
  • Gregg tells us about some of his favourite deals over the years (19:44)
  • The biggest challenges for management teams going through an IPO (20:55)
  • Gregg's take on ESG (23:15)
  • Will IPO Road Shows remain virtual, post-COVID? (24:38)
  • Gregg talks about the huge value of his mentors over the years (25:46)
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Bank of America Website

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What is Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders?

In the increasingly crowded and competitive corporate and financial ecosystem, it’s harder than ever for companies to break through the clutter and be heard. The media, investors, agenda-driven influencers, even customers and competitors, are defining your business story on their terms. Therefore, it is imperative that companies take control and proactively drive the conversation with stakeholders in an effort to build & maintain equity value.

In Welcome to the Arena from ICR, Co-Founder & CEO of ICR, Tom Ryan, interviews key business and financial players who influence the fate of public or aspiring public companies in the capital markets. As a former Wall Street Journal ranked sell-side equity analyst and the founder of one of the largest strategic communications firms in the world, Tom understands what it takes to navigate this complex environment.

This is a forum for CEOs, CFOs, institutional investors, sell-side analysts, financial journalists, private equity professionals and other financial community participants to share their stories and give advice in an open and candid conversation.

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