Author
Ashik Karim
Founder, IPOReady
Ashik Karim is the founder of IPOReady, the operating system for going public in Canada and the United States. He built IPOReady after seeing how fragmented the going-public process is for issuers — regulatory requirements scattered across exchange policies, timelines managed in spreadsheets, and no single system tracking a transaction from first board resolution to listing day.
The go-public guide library is written and maintained from the same regulatory dataset that powers the IPOReady platform — TSX, TSXV, CSE, Cboe Canada, NASDAQ, NYSE, and OTC Markets listing requirements, transaction-path mechanics for IPOs, RTOs, CPC qualifying transactions, SPACs, and direct listings — and reviewed on the cadence described in our editorial standards.