”With First North, OMX offers yet another attractive marketplace. First North is tailored to support the many, primarily small, companies that are to help ensure growth and prosperity in Denmark and the Nordic region in general,“ says Jan Ovesen, Deputy President of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange and continues: “We are very happy about the great support and inspiration that we have received in connection with the establishment of the alternative marketplace from the Danish Government and Danish Parliament, the various players in the financial sector and the Danish business community in general.”
Apart from establishing a Nordic alternative marketplace, OMX also offers small companies a channel through which to raise risk capital and an access point for both professional and private investors to invest capital in non-stock exchange listed companies via the same trading system that is used for trading in shares listed on OMX’s exchanges.
Kristian Jensen, Danish Minister for Taxation comments: “In order for companies in Denmark to turn innovation and business ideas into commercial successes, more risk capital is needed. First North can serve as a display window for new and dynamic companies – a display window that will put even more focus on a big and important layer of small, but dynamic and innovative companies which are a prerequisite for an energetic and vigorous business sector.”
Chris Mottes, CEO of Deadline Games, says: ”The Nordic game industry has huge potential. The possibilities that a marketplace like First North offer to us, will help Deadline Games well on its way to reach its potential on the global game market. Examples like Digital Illusions and Starbreeze Studios in Sweden, which are listed on similar exchanges, as well as IO Interactive in Denmark, which ensured capital via different channels, show how the industry may create success once it gains access to risk capital.”
“We are extremely proud to present 15 firms which have been approved as ‘Approved Advisers’. It is very positive to observe the great interest to help and support the companies that want to go on First North. It is inspiring to note that the ‘Approved Advisers’ come from all four areas within corporate counselling, Several of them have not had a close relation to the stock market, but are strongly related to the companies”, says Carsten Borring, Head of First North in Copenhagen.
The 15 ’Approved Advisers’ are the following:
Company brokers:
- Advizer – Aarhus and Copenhagen
- Atrium Partners - Copenhagen
- Audon Partners - Copenhagen
- CDI BROCORFI – Aalborg
- Dahl-Sørensen & Partners – Copenhagen
- Korral Partners – Copenhagen – London – Oslo – Stockholm
- Schrøder, Lucas & Partners – Copenhagen
- Phillip & Partner
- Deloitte – Nationwide
- Ernst & Young – Nationwide
- Grant Thornton – Nationwide
- Danske Markets – Nationwide
- HSH Gudme Bank – Copenhagen
Sydbank – Nationwide
First North has 18 members: Amagerbanken, Arbejdernes Landsbank, Carnegie Bank, Danske Bank, Dexia Bank Danmark, EIK Bank, Enskilda Securities AB, E*Trade Bank, Fionia Bank, Forstædernes Bank, GP Børsmæglerselskab, Gudme Raaschou, Handelsbanken, Jyske Bank, Nordea, Nordnet, Spar Nord Bank, Sydbank.
From tomorrow December 13 at 9:00 CET it will be possible to place bid and ask orders in Deadline Games shares on First North – the alternative marketplace – for unlisted shares using the ticker name DGAMES. First North’s website will also open tomorrow at 9:00 at www.omxgroup.com/firstnorth.
