Asset management firm Fifth Street files for a $200 million IPO

Fifth Street Asset Management, an alternative asset manager with $5.6 billion in AUM, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $200 million in an initial public offering. The Greenwich, CT-based company, which was founded in 1998, plans to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol FSAM. Fifth Street initially filed confidentially on July 23, 2014. Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, RBC Capital Markets and Credit Suisse are the joint bookrunners on the deal. No pricing terms were disclosed.