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WTR Insights Conference Featured Speaker: Joseph Lucosky of Lucosky Brookman on Getting Listed and Staying Listed in 2026

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Recorded as a featured session at the WTR Virtual Insights Conference, Joseph Lucosky, Managing Partner of Lucosky Brookman, joins Shawn Severson, CEO and Founding Partner of Water Tower Research, to break down what has changed for emerging growth companies coming to market in 2026.

Joseph Lucosky explains how NASDAQ's December 2025 discretionary listing rules reset the market, including a 78-day stretch with no microcap IPOs and the first year on record in which direct listings and uplistings outpaced traditional IPOs. Through August 31, the Lucosky Brookman data desk…

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