A disappointing roadshow lunch
In 2016, I attended a roadshow lunch for an upcoming initial public offering (IPO). This was of course in the “good old days” before the pandemic. It was a biggish launch, so maybe 100 of us crammed into a room in a grand West London hotel.
As we juggled laptops with dinnerplates, the CEO stepped up to the lectern. He was leading a global business with over £1bn in revenues and over 9,000 employees. The first thing he wanted to talk to his potential investors about? The company’s clever tax structuring. Read more …