Morgan Stanley enters agreement to acquire Vinyl Equity https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/morgan-stanley-enters-agreement-to-acquire-vinyl-equity-thefly-news · TipRanks TipRanks Mon, November 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM EST MS +3.33% ^GSPC +2.35% Trade MS on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
Morgan Stanley (MS) has entered into an agreement to acquire Vinyl Equity, a digital-first SEC-registered transfer agent and shareholder recordkeeping platform. The acquisition expands Morgan Stanley at Work's ecosystem by adding transfer agency capabilities, giving companies a single platform for cap table management, equity administration, share transfer, and wealth management infrastructure across private and public markets. Founded in 2022, Vinyl has developed a digital-native platform that modernizes the historically manual work of transfer agents through digital workflows, real-time reporting, and streamlined administration. Vinyl works alongside issuers, counsel, and banking partners with a focus on some of the most operationally demanding moments of a private company, such as the IPO process. The platform is built to handle the complexity that comes with taking a company public. Across its suite of services, Morgan Stanley at Work covers roughly 50% of the S&P 500 and over 70% of the Top 100 unicorns based on market cap, serving 3,400+ corporate clients, and supporting 6.7 million participants. It is the largest provider of Rule 144 and Rule 10b5-1 transaction services. Together with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's Private Markets Transaction Desk and private share marketplace EquityZen, Vinyl strengthens its network of solutions for late-stage private companies preparing for an IPO. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's collaboration with private capital software platform Carta extends that reach, with Morgan Stanley as Carta's exclusive referral partner for U.S. equity management and workplace solutions for late-stage private companies, as well as the preferred wealth manager for Carta participants. To serve the individuals behind those companies, Morgan Stanley's Founders Specialists are equipped to address the distinct needs of founders and private market executives. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in 1Q 2027.
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