When LCLN insiders can sell

Lincoln International, Inc. · IPO prospectus filed 2026-05-21 · Single cliff · 180-day lock-up

Scheduled lock-up expiry
2026-11-17

That is the calendar date the clause computes to, counted from the prospectus date. It is the only date computable without knowing a future earnings date, which is why everything that could pull it earlier is printed below it on this page rather than folded into it.

The lock-up clause, in the issuer's words

Every other free lock-up calendar tells you 180 days and moves on. This is the actual sentence the date above was computed from, so that if the words do not support the number, the number is wrong and the filing is one click away.

We, our officers and directors and the holders of substantially all of our outstanding capital stock have agreed that, for a period of 180 days from the date of this prospectus, they will not, without the prior written consent of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, dispose of, hedge, make any demand for registration or otherwise publicly announce any intention to do any of the foregoing for any shares of our Class A common stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for our Class A common stock, subject to certain exceptions. Redemption rights of LILP Partners holding common units After the expiration or earlier termination of any applicable LILP Lock-Up P…

Where the share count comes from

The prospectus never prints the number of shares coming free, and nothing in it lets the figure be derived. That is why this deal carries no flow math.

Shares outstanding after the offering102,015,412
Underwriters' over-allotment option3,078,803

Exceptions written into the lock-up (5)

Each of these is a route by which LCLN shares can move before 2026-11-17. The 10b5-1 carve-out is the one worth reading twice: it lets insiders put a selling plan in place during the lock-up, so the first sales can be automatic and immediate rather than discretionary and later.

  • 10b5-1 plan
  • bona fide gift or charitable transfer
  • estate planning or family transfer
  • option exercise or RSU settlement
  • underwriter discretionary release
10b5-1 plan
…subject to the terms of the lock-up agreement 181 (h) transfers in "sell to cover" or similar open market transactions (including, without limitation, sales pursuant to any written plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, relating to the transfer, sale or other disposition of the undersigned's Underwriter Lock-Up Securities) during the Underwriter Lock-Up Period to satisfy tax withholding obligations as a result of the exercise, vesting and or settlement of Company equity awards (including options and RSUs) held by the undersigned and issued pursuant to a plan or arrangement described in the Prospectus,…
bona fide gift or charitable transfer
…," are subject to certain exceptions, including with respect to (a) transfers of the holder's Underwriter Lock-Up Securities (i) in the initial public offering pursuant to the underwriting agreement, (ii) as one or more bona fide gifts or charitable contributions, or for bona fide estate planning purposes (iii) upon death by will, testamentary document or the laws of intestate succession (iv) (A) if the holder is a natural person, to any member of the holder's immediate family or to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the holder or the holder's immediate family or (B) if the holder is a trust, to a trust or, trustee or b…
estate planning or family transfer
With limited exceptions for estate planning, domestic relations orders, certain beneficiary designations and the laws of descent and distribution, awards under the 2026 Plan are generally non-transferable prior to vesting, and are exercisable only by the participant. With regard to tax withholding, exercise price and purchase price obligations arising in connection with awards under the 2026 Plan, the plan administrator may, in its discretion, accept cash or check, shares of our Class A common stock that meet specified conditions, a "market sell order" or such other consideration as it deems suitable.
option exercise or RSU settlement
…e under our 2026 Incentive Award Plan (the "2026 Plan"), which will become effective in connection with the consummation of this offering (which number includes (i) 1,612,000 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of options held by certain of the Other Senior Professionals, and (ii) 3,808,300 shares of Class A common stock subject to restricted stock unit awards that will be granted to certain of our employees and directors pursuant to our 2026 Plan in connection with the consummation of this offering, based upon the initial public offering price of $20.00 per share) excludes 1,715,490 Liquidity Event Shares, based u…
underwriter discretionary release
LLC may, in their discretion, release any of the securities subject to the lockup agreements with the underwriters at any time, subject to applicable notice requirements. 182 Prior to the offering, there has been no public market for the shares of Class A common stock. The initial public offering price has been negotiated among us and the representatives. Among the factors to be considered in determining the initial publ…

What we could not establish

LCLN is read but not publishable: the prospectus does not state how many shares come free. So there is no absorb-day figure on this page and no call, and there will not be one until the number exists in a filing.

The common case is a prospectus that says "substantially all" of the locked shares become eligible for sale without ever printing a count. The clause above is quoted in full so you can see that for yourself. An estimate presented with a filing link beside it would read as a filing figure, and that is worse than an admission — it is the one failure mode a reader cannot detect.

How this reading of LCLN could be wrong

The lock-up period is restated 5 times in this prospectus. Issuers repeat the clause on the cover, in the summary, in the risk factors and in the underwriting section, and the wording is not always identical. The parser resolved them to one period; if a reader finds a restatement that disagrees, the quote above is the one it used.

The volume is a vendor's, not ours. LCLN is not in our own price table, so average daily volume comes from yahoo-finance2 daily bars (symbol not in our price table). Vendor bars for recently listed symbols are the ones most likely to be wrong.

Only 20 sessions of volume history. This is a recent IPO, and early volume is dominated by the offering itself. An average over 20 sessions of a stock that has barely traded is the weakest input on the page, and absorb days inherits every bit of that weakness.

The parser can misread a filing. That is why every number here is printed next to the words it came from. Earlier versions of this parser read the underwriters' 30-day over-allotment window as a 30-day lock-up on five deals, and double-counted one issuer's share total because the offering summary appears on both the cover and in the summary section.

Also unlocking in 2026-11 (10)

Lock-ups cluster, because IPOs cluster: these priced in the same window as LCLN and come free in the same month. Several heavy releases landing together is a different situation from one.

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2026-11-03——
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ODTX
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SUJA
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FRVO
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2026-11-10205.0M22.3 sessions
GMRS
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2026-11-1022.1M32.8 sessions
CBRS
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2026-11-10212.9M18.7 sessions
EROK
EagleRock Land, LLC
2026-11-10——
BXDC
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2026-11-11——
GUAC
Berto Acquisition Corp. II
2026-11-14——

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