IPO Report

Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has delayed a scheduled IPO (Initial Public Offering) due to "market conditions".  Aegerion was slated to sell 5 million shares of common stock at $12 to $14 per share. The net proceeds were to be used to repay debt, fund clinical programs and general corporate purposes.

The company also applied with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the withdrawal of its registration statement on Friday.

"The postponement of Aegerion's IPO has no impact on ongoing clinical programs, which continue to progress as scheduled," said President and Chief Executive Jerry Wisler.

Aegerion currently has two product candidates which are designed to lower cholesterol levels in patients by limiting the secretion of cholesterol and triglycerides, also known as lipids, from the intestine and liver.

Blackstone Group announced that it's initial public offering ( IPO ) will take place during the week of June 25.  Morgan Stanley is the primary underwriter.

The IPO represents 12.3 percent of Blackstone's management division.

The IPO is expected to raise as much as $4.75 billion.  In addition to the IPO funds, Blackstone secured $3 billion in May from an investment from the Chinese government.  In total, Blackstone is expected to be valued at approximately $32 billion.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd., a solar-energy products maker in China, is scheduled to launch it's U.S. IPO the week of June 4, 2007.  The terms of the initial public offering are 29 million American depositary shares, with an estimated price range between $11 and $13 per share.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. is based in Baoding, China.  The company is offering 26.55 million shares, and Yingli Power Holding Co. Ltd., the company's controlling shareholder, is offering 2.45 million additional shares, according to an amended prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The underwriters have an option to purchase up to 4.35 million additional shares from certain selling shareholders to cover overallotments.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co is scheduled to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol YGE.

The company said it intends to use the net proceeds from the IPO to redeem bonds issued last November. Its operating subsidiary will use the proceeds from the equity contribution to fund a planned expansion of manufacturing capacity, to buy raw materials and for other general corporate purposes.