Assignment on Benefits and Drawbacks of going Public to Alibaba

The motivation behind going for an IPO for Alibaba was increasing the global exposure of the company, raising Capital to pay out Yahoo, following the strategy of other giants like Microsoft, Google, etc, and percolating the benefits to employees who made a windfall gain, exit strategy for investors, targeting the US and European market, etc. Going public has benefited, as well as caused some consequences to Alibaba in various ways. This document will provide explained description of all these points.