SG has started premarketing for the initial public offering (IPO) of Iliad, an internet service provider, in the first sizeable French technology offering for three years.

SG is sole global co-ordinator and bookrunner of the offering. The French bank also led the last French technology IPO valued at over €100m ($127.5m), according to Dealogic, the investment banking data firm. It led the €101.2m flotation of Memscap in March 2001.