IPO registrations (S-1, F-1) · Registrants
BGC Group, Inc.
- SEC CIK
- 1094831 · filings on EDGAR ↗
- Name on the registration
- BGC Partners, Inc.
- Former names
- BGC Partners, Inc. (2008–2023); ESPEED INC (1999–2008)
- Registration
- Form S-1, first filed 1999-09-21, last 2008-06-05; 2 initial registrations, 7 amendments
- Outcome
- Final prospectus filed 1999-12-13; declared effective 2008-06-05; withdrawal requested 2001-02-27
- Industry (SIC)
- Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services 6200
- Business address
- 499 PARK AVENUE, New York, NY 10022
- EIN
- 86-3748217
- Ticker
- BGC (Nasdaq)
- EDGAR entity type
- operating
- Insiders and CEO pay
- BGC Group, Inc. on the corporate pages
Offering terms
- Proposed price range
- $17.00–$19.00 per share (S-1/A filed 1999-12-09)
- Final price
- $22.00 per share, above the range (424B4 filed 1999-12-13, an initial public offering)
- Shares sold
- 9,000,000 (6,000,000 by the company, 3,000,000 by selling holders)
- Gross proceeds
- $198,000,000 before underwriting discounts and any over-allotment option
- Listing
- Nasdaq under the symbol ESPD
- Lead underwriters
- UBS (3,195,000 shares); Hambrecht & Quist (1,952,500 shares); Thomas Weisel Partners (1,952,500 shares)
- Syndicate
- Cantor Fitzgerald (100,000); BofA Securities (100,000); Robertson Stephens (100,000); Oppenheimer (100,000); Credit Lyonnais Securities (USA), Inc (100,000); Deutsche Bank (100,000); A.G. Edwards (100,000); Lazard (100,000); Lehman Brothers (100,000); PaineWebber (100,000); Prudential Securities (100,000); Citigroup (100,000); Schroder & Co. Inc (100,000); Cowen (100,000); William Blair (50,000); Blaylock & Partners, L.P (50,000); Brean Murray & Co., Inc (50,000); RBC Capital Markets (50,000); Wachovia (50,000); Piper Sandler (50,000); Putnam, Lovell & Thornton Inc (50,000); Raymond James (50,000); C.E. Unterberg, Towbin (50,000); Volpe Brown Whelan & Company, LLC (50,000)
Read from the cover pages of the filings listed under “Prospectus pages read” below; check the document for anything that matters.
On this site
- Business registration: BGC GROUP, Inc. Fuzzy (name and state)
- Business registration: BGC GROUP, LLC Fuzzy (name and state)
- SEC filer: BGC Group, Inc. EXACT (CIK (EXACT))
- Person page: Frank V Saracino Fuzzy (officer, director or 10% owner on the company's Forms 3, 4 and 5 (Officer))
- Person page: William J Moran Fuzzy (officer, director or 10% owner on the company's Forms 3, 4 and 5 (Director))
Filings 16
| Filed | Form | What it is | Name as filed | EDGAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-09-21 | S-1 | S-1 (registration) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-002746 ↗ |
| 1999-11-16 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-003410 ↗ |
| 1999-11-16 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-003431 ↗ |
| 1999-12-02 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-003579 ↗ |
| 1999-12-09 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-003623 ↗ |
| 1999-12-09 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-003632 ↗ |
| 1999-12-13 | 424B4 | 424B4 (final prospectus) | ESPEED INC | 0000889812-99-003651 ↗ |
| 2001-02-27 | RW | RW (withdrawal request) | ESPEED INC | 0001125282-01-000725 ↗ |
| 2001-03-07 | RW | RW (withdrawal request) | ESPEED INC | 0001125282-01-000860 ↗ |
| 2001-03-08 | 424B4 | 424B4 (final prospectus) | ESPEED INC | 0001125282-01-000873 ↗ |
| 2008-04-18 | S-1 | S-1 (registration) | BGC Partners, Inc. | 0001193125-08-084138 ↗ |
| 2008-05-27 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | BGC Partners, Inc. | 0001193125-08-122492 ↗ |
| 2008-06-05 | S-1/A | S-1/A (amendment) | BGC Partners, Inc. | 0001193125-08-128406 ↗ |
| 2008-06-05 | EFFECT | EFFECT (declared effective) | BGC Partners, Inc. | 9999999995-08-001794 ↗ |
| 2008-06-06 | 424B1 | 424B1 (final prospectus) | BGC Partners, Inc. | 0001193125-08-128945 ↗ |
| 2010-05-21 | EFFECT | EFFECT (declared effective) | BGC Partners, Inc. | 9999999995-10-001591 ↗ |
Prospectus pages read 2
| Filed | Form | Read as | Range | Price | Shares | Proceeds | Listing | Underwriters | What was found | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-12-09 | S-1/A | registration statement | $17.00–$19.00 | $18.00 | 8,500,000 | $153,000,000 | Nasdaq ESPD | 5 | from the submission text; range, price sentence, shares headline, proceeds computed, underwriting table 1, cover names 4 | document ↗ |
| 1999-12-13 | 424B4 | final prospectus | $22.00 | 9,000,000 | $198,000,000 | Nasdaq ESPD | 27 | from the submission text; price sentence, shares headline, proceeds table, underwriting table 27, cover names 4 | document ↗ |
Officers, directors and large holders Forms 3, 4 and 5
| Insider | Role | Title | Filings | Years | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MERKEL STEPHEN M | Director,Officer; Officer | Chairman of the Board & GC; EVP and General Counsel; EVP, GC and Secretary; EVP, Gen Counsel & Secretary; EVP, General Counsel and Sec.; EVP, General Counsel and Secre; EVP, General Counsel and Sec'y; Executive VP, General Counsel; Exe. VP, Gen Counsel & Sec | 57 | 2006–2026 | |
| LUTNICK HOWARD W | Director,Officer; Director,Officer,TenPercentOwner; Director,TenPercentOwner | Chair, CEO and President; Chairman and CEO; Chairman and Co-CEO; Chairman & CEO; Chairman, CEO and President; Chairman & Chief Exec. Officer; Chairman & Co-CEO; Chairman of the Board and CEO; Chariman, Chief Exec Officer; Chief Executive Officer | 78 | 2006–2025 | |
| CANTOR FITZGERALD L P | Director; Director,TenPercentOwner; TenPercentOwner | 49 | 2006–2025 | ||
| CF GROUP MANAGEMENT INC | Director,Other; DirectorOther; Director,TenPercentOwner; Director,TenPercentOwner,Other; TenPercentOwner | 48 | 2006–2025 | ||
| Saracino Frank V | Officer | Chief Accounting Officer; Interim Chief Accounting Off; Interim Chief Accounting Offic | 3 | 2006–2007 | person page Fuzzy |
| JUVONEN RONALD | Other; TenPercentOwner | 10 | 2006–2008 | ||
| SLOANE BARRY R | Director | 13 | 2006–2013 | ||
| DALTON JOHN H | Director | 27 | 2006–2017 | ||
| WEIS ALBERT M | Director | 26 | 2006–2015 | ||
| Saltzman Paul | Officer | Chief Operating Officer | 2 | 2006–2007 | |
| Gosin Barry M | Director | 1 | 2007 | ||
| Koshland Catherine P | Director | 4 | 2007–2008 | ||
| AMAITIS LEE M | Director,Officer | Co-Chief Executive Officer | 2 | 2008 | |
| Lynn Shaun D | Officer | President | 24 | 2008–2020 | |
| West Robert K | Officer | Chief Financial Officer | 3 | 2008 | |
| PAR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC | TenPercentOwner | 5 | 2008 | ||
| PAR Group, L.P. | TenPercentOwner | 5 | 2008 | ||
| PAR INVESTMENT PARTNERS LP | TenPercentOwner | 5 | 2008 | ||
| Windeatt Sean A | Officer | Chief Operating Officer; COO and Co-CEO; COO and Interim CFO; COO effective 01/01/2009 | 22 | 2008–2026 | |
| Sadler Anthony Graham | Officer | Chief Financial Officer | 4 | 2009–2016 | |
| Curwood Stephen T | Director | 20 | 2009–2021 | ||
| MORAN WILLIAM J | Director | 11 | 2013–2021 | person page Fuzzy | |
| Bell Linda A | Director | 21 | 2013–2025 | ||
| McMurray Steven R | Officer | Chief Financial Officer | 1 | 2016 | |
| Richards David | Director | 13 | 2017–2025 | ||
| Galvin Sean | Officer | Chief Accounting Officer | 2 | 2018 | |
| Bisgay Steven | Officer | Chief Financial Officer | 1 | 2020 | |
| MBANEFO ARTHUR U | Director | 10 | 2021–2025 | ||
| Hauf Jason W. | Officer | Chief Financial Officer | 7 | 2022–2026 | |
| Laguerre Martin | Director | 2 | 2023 | ||
| Addas William Dean | Director | 5 | 2023–2025 | ||
| AUBIN JEAN-PIERRE | Officer | Co-Chief Executive Officer | 6 | 2025–2026 | |
| Lutnick Brandon | Director; Director,TenPercentOwner | 2 | 2025 | ||
| ABULARRAGE JOHN J. | Officer | Co-Chief Executive Officer | 3 | 2025–2026 |
Everyone who filed an insider report for this company, from the SEC’s Insider Transactions Data Sets (2006 on). Person pages are matched by name and state only.
Data: SEC EDGAR. The quarterly full index (every S-1, S-1/A, F-1 and F-1/A since 1993, with the pricing prospectus, notice of effectiveness and withdrawal request of each registrant) and the company submissions data (SIC, state of incorporation, address, EIN, tickers, former names). Company details are what EDGAR holds today, not at the time of the filing.
Also on this site Fuzzy
| Record | Name as filed | Where | Dataset | Matched by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business registration | BGC GROUP, Inc. | NY | State business registries | name and state |
| Business registration | BGC GROUP, LLC | NY | State business registries | name and state |
| SEC filer | BGC Group, Inc. | SEC filers (EDGAR) | CIK (EXACT) | |
| Person page | Frank V Saracino | People (Form 990 officers, directors and employees) | officer, director or 10% owner on the company's Forms 3, 4 and 5 (Officer) | |
| Person page | William J Moran | People (Form 990 officers, directors and employees) | officer, director or 10% owner on the company's Forms 3, 4 and 5 (Director) |
Matched by an identifier (EIN, CIK, CRD), by name and state or city, or by street address; a shared name or address is not proof of the same person or organization. Every link says how it was made; how the cross-referencing works.
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