London remains Europe’s top venue for sales of shares in listed companies, as a recent raft of secondary deals eclipses a lack of UK initial public offerings.
There have been $11.3 billion worth of such share offerings in London so far in 2024, a jump of almost 24% on a yearearlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Even after missing out on a nascent revival in IPOs, the volume of share sales in London dwarfs that of any other European exchange.
