Pre-Marketing: pilot fishing, pre-soundings and non-deal roadshows | Practical Law
This note provides an overview of pre-marketing practices in the context of initial public offerings (IPOs) on the Official List and Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and documented follow-on offerings in the UK with a concurrent unregistered offering to institutional investors in the US. This note focuses on pilot fishing and pre-sounding, differentiating these activities from what are sometimes referred to as non-deal roadshows (NDRs).