Boat Rocker Media's IPO raises $170.1 million

TORONTO — Canadian entertainment company Boat Rocker Media announced today it has completed its previously announced initial public offering of subordinate voting shares for total gross proceeds to the company of $170.1 million. For its IPO, Boat Rocker (which makes The Go Big Show, Mary Makes it Easy, and owns Orphan Black, for example) issued an aggregate of 18.9 million subordinate voting shares at a price of $9 per share. The company’s subordinate voting shares will commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange today under the ticker symbol “BRMI”. “The completion of our IPO represents an exciting next chapter for...