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Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are competing for the lead underwriter position for the OpenAI and Anthropic IPO, with potential proceeds exceeding $7 billion.

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June 10 (Fortune) — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are competing to serve as lead underwriters for upcoming initial public offerings (IPOs) from AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, per a new Fortune report. Goldman has already locked in the lead underwriter role for SpaceX’s IPO, scheduled to price on June 12. OpenAI and Anthropic each plan to raise at least $60 billion in their IPOs, bringing their combined total target to over $120 billion. Jay Ritter, an IPO expert at the University of Florida, notes the lead underwriter controls how much IPO stock institutional investors receive—a edge that could drive far bigger gains for the bank than its peers would see. Ritter explained that institutional investors routinely pay "soft dollars" to lead underwriters to secure better IPO allocations. Soft dollars refer to trading commissions that exceed actual execution costs. Since it remains unclear whether Goldman or Morgan Stanley will land the top underwriting spot for OpenAI and Anthropic, funds may direct extra trading commissions to both banks to boost their odds of getting IPO shares. Take SpaceX’s prospective IPO as an example: if the space firm hits its $860 billion funding target, underwriting fees would hit roughly $600 million. But if SpaceX’s stock jumps 20% on its first trading day, IPO investors would generate paper gains exceeding $17 billion. Ritter estimates at least 30% of that total—around $5 billion—would flow back to the bank as soft dollars, an amount far larger than the underwriting fee itself. If both OpenAI and Anthropic post 20% first-day price pops, their combined paper gains would reach $24 billion. Using the same 30% soft dollar ratio, the lead underwriter could pull in over $7 billion in soft dollars, with the majority going to the top underwriter. Right now, both OpenAI and Anthropic have confidentially filed draft registration statements with U.S. regulators but have not yet set official listing dates.
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