Some investors of Anthropic plan to resell up to $500 million in IPO allocation shares

According to Bloomberg, some investors in Anthropic have introduced expected shares to new buyers before the IPO pricing. The brokerage firm JonesTrading is representing investors expected to receive a large allocation of shares worth up to $500 million, planning to charge an additional fee of 3% to 5% based on the final IPO issue price.

Insiders say that these shares are not subject to lock-up agreements, but buyers must simultaneously obtain approval from both the seller and a bank participating in the IPO. Bloomberg points out that such arrangements allow investment institutions to reduce the risk of certain allocation positions while expanding their own investor base. Jon Jefferies, head of private markets at JonesTrading, did not comment on specific transactions but mentioned that he first saw such arrangements during the SpaceX IPO, and there are currently several similar transactions related to Anthropic being pitched in the market.

Additionally, another seller is promoting over $1 billion worth of existing shares in Anthropic through a special purpose vehicle (SPV), with a valuation corresponding to $14 trillion to $16 trillion for the company, and also charging fees. Insiders say that the SPV has a single-layer structure and directly holds Anthropic shares, with the transaction involving issued shares and not relying on the seller's allocation in the IPO. Anthropic's IPO seeks a fully diluted valuation of about $14 trillion, and the company along with some investors aims to raise up to $90.4 billion through the IPO and private placements combined; if this scale is reached, it will exceed SpaceX's base issuance scale of $75 billion. An Anthropic spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.