Europe’s IPO market opened the year with a bang on Wednesday with the float of defence supplier Czechoslovak Group in Amsterdam in a deal of up to around €4bn.

Liftoff Mobile filed Tuesday afternoon for a Nasdaq IPO that would allow its principal backers to cash out a portion of their investment as well as repay debt, reversing course from earlier plans to sell the business outright.

L3Harris Technologies secured a US$1bn investment from the US government for its missile business in a move to accelerate arms production, making it the latest company to combine forces with the government on operations deemed critical to national defense.

EquipmentShare.com launched marketing early Tuesday of its US$778m Nasdaq IPO, an offering that extends a business uniquely seeded by institutional investors into the public equity markets.