Best Effort vs. Bought dealMaybe this might add clarity to the effort.
From these descriptions I'm of the opinion that FIU chose to go this way to not lower the SP but to get the most bang for their buck as they feel this stock has a lot of upside... Again Could be totally out to lunch.
A best efforts offering is one of the ways that underwriters sell an offering of stocks,. This method of selling stocks releases the underwriter from the responsibility of having to purchase the stocks upfront. Buying stocks through a best efforts offering is really no different from buying them through other means
A bought deal is one way that an underwriter offers an initial public offering of stocks (IPO). The various ways of selling IPOs only differ in how the financial sponsor of the company, or underwriter, sells the stocks. There is no real difference to the stock buyer who purchases IPOs through a bought deal, although this method can be a good predictor of the future success of the stocks.
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We'll need it :-)