{"id":981386,"date":"2025-12-22T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981386"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:23:31","slug":"morgan-stanley-seen-as-front-runner-for-spacex-ipo-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/morgan-stanley-seen-as-front-runner-for-spacex-ipo-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley seen as front-runner for SpaceX IPO, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley is emerging as a leading contender for a key role in SpaceX&#8217;s blockbuster initial public offering, as the bank&#8217;s close ties to CEO Elon Musk give it an edge in \u2060his decision, according to three people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>A selection process, or &#8220;bake-off,&#8221; for the IPO is still underway, with a select group of banks, including Morgan Stanley , Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, vying for roles, four people familiar with the matter said, adding that there is no certainty Morgan Stanley will secure the coveted &#8220;lead left&#8221; underwriting position, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley is emerging as a leading contender for a key role in SpaceX&#8217;s blockbuster initial public offering, as the bank&#8217;s close ties to CEO Elon Musk give it an edge in \u2060his decision, according to three people familiar with the matter. A selection process, or &#8220;bake-off,&#8221; for the IPO is still underway, with a select group of banks, including Morgan Stanley , Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, vying for roles, four people familiar with the matter said, adding that there is no certainty Morgan Stanley will secure the coveted &#8220;lead left&#8221; underwriting position, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}