After a barren year for listings in 2009, is the IPO market set to kick back into life?

Will they, won’t they? And if they do, when? Initial public offerings (IPOs), still the bellwether for market confidence, have been all but absent in 2009. As such, for many lawyers, the real test of whether recovering markets can deliver deals will be if 2010 can make good on the predictions that the IPO market will reopen for business.