First North is a growth market designed for ambitious small and medium-sized companies in the Baltics. Being a Certified Adviser permits PwC to guide growth companies in Baltics through the Firth North application process and ensure they meet all the market’s requirements on a continuous basis.
“By working closely with multiple executives and shareholders of both private and State-owned corporates, we have observed an increasing interest about the capital markets. Business leaders have become more ambitious and better aware of the myriad of benefits from attracting capital via the exchange. At PwC, we are confident that First North Certified Adviser status will allow us to provide a more diversified advice for our clients in the Baltic region and help navigate them in the journey of an intensified capital market activity,”
Nasdaq First North Market is tailored to support smaller, growing companies that want to raise capital and get the visibility and credibility of being a public company. For investors, First North offers an opportunity to invest in companies that are at an earlier stage of their growth.
“PwC is a great addition to the family of Nasdaq Baltic Certified Advisers in Latvia. We congratulate PwC and wish them all success in providing support for Baltic companies looking to raise growth capital on First North,”
Nasdaq First North Market is tailored to support smaller, growing companies that want to raise capital and get the visibility and credibility of being a public company. For investors, First North offers an opportunity to invest in companies that are at an earlier stage of their growth.
Nasdaq Baltic operates three stock exchanges – in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – and the Nasdaq CSD under one Baltic roof, providing the capital market infrastructure across the whole value chain – from listing, trading, and market data to clearing and settlement and safe-keeping of securities. Nasdaq Baltic exchanges are a part of the world’s largest exchange group Nasdaq, Inc., thus ensuring great confidence in the Baltic securities market for international investors, offering a market infrastructure in accordance with the international industry standards, world’s fastest trading platform and high listing standards. Nasdaq Baltic offers a comprehensive, efficient and secure marketplace regulated to global standards for companies to raise capital and for investors to transact and settle financial products seamlessly between the three countries. The essential elements of a single Baltic marketplace like shared global technology, one market model, joint membership, common information distribution and other have been put in place, making the region easier accessible and more attractive to local and international investors, as well as companies seeking to list their shares on the stock exchange.