Reformation Inc. (REF) IPO

Executive Summary

Reformation Inc. (REF) priced its IPO at $15.00 per share — the LOW END of the marketed $15.00–$17.00 band, not the midpoint — selling 14,062,500 shares on the NYSE. 9,478,821 shares come from the company; 4,583,679 come from existing stockholders.

1. Priced at the floor: $15.00 against a marketed $15.00–$17.00 range, 6.25% below the $16.00 midpoint.
2. 67.4% of the offering is primary — 9,478,821 of 14,062,500 shares are issued by the company.
3. At the final $15.00 price the base deal is $210.9 million gross: $142.2 million from company shares and $68.8 million from selling stockholders. Exercised in full, the greenshoe adds $31.6 million — all of it to selling stockholders — for a $242.6 million deal.
4. The underwriters' option covers 2,109,375 additional shares and is a selling-stockholder greenshoe.
5. Use of proceeds: approximately $125.0 million net to the company at $15.00, holding the filing's estimated underwriting discounts and expenses constant — against approximately $125.1 million contracted to repay the term loan. At the floor price the raise is fully consumed by the loan.
6. Syndicate of 9 banks, J.P. Morgan-led. Auditor: PwC. 180-day lockup.
7. Terms read from S-1/A Amendment No. 1, accession 0001104659-26-084856 (filed 2026-07-20); final price of $15.00 from the issuer's pricing release, 2026-07-29.
8. Final share count, greenshoe exercise and first-trade date remain open until the 424B4.
9. Day one: the stock opened at $15.00 on 2026-07-30, exactly the offer price — a flat open, no first-print premium. Opening price is the official Polygon opening bar for the session.
10. The STRIKE alert carried $15.55, a quote reading roughly twelve minutes after the opening auction. It is not the opening print and is stored separately from it.

How this Dossier is built

A Bellipo Dossier is built from the filing itself. We aggregate the company's S-1 and its amendments, extract the disclosures that move a deal, and compile them into a single structured brief — the financial statements normalized into comparable lines, the use-of-proceeds split between primary and secondary, the capitalization and ownership table, the underwriting syndicate, insider selling, the auditor and its prior engagements, and the ranked risk factors. Every figure is traced to the source filing rather than the press release. The result is a desk-grade read of what the company disclosed, not what it announced — in plain English, in about five minutes.

Company Information

Reformation Inc. designs and sells women's apparel primarily through its own direct-to-consumer channels, with a smaller wholesale business. The company positions sustainability claims at the center of its brand and discloses them as company statements in the filing.

Business as filed

1. The company states it reached Climate Positive at the end of 2025 and targets Circular by 2030, and describes a RefRecycling program. These are company statements as disclosed in the filing, not verified by Bellipo.

All figures as disclosed in the Form S-1/A, accession 0001104659-26-084856.

The Bellipo Take

A 66-store apparel retailer coming public with a mostly primary offering whose proceeds go almost entirely to paying down a term loan drawn weeks before filing.

1. Fleet headroom, stated in the filing.The company operates 66 retail stores and says it is present in only about half of the top 50 U.S. MSAs, with a stated plan to roughly double the store fleet over five years.
2. Two channels beyond its own stores.The filing discloses roughly 142 wholesale doors and international sales of about 18% of revenue, so the store fleet is not the only distribution surface.
3. Mostly primary.About 67% of the shares offered are being sold by the company rather than by existing holders (own calc from the cover), so the majority of gross proceeds reach the issuer.

1. Proceeds retire debt, not build stores.Net proceeds of approximately $125.0 million at the final $15.00 price are allocated with about $125.1 million to repay borrowings under the Credit Agreement — including a $92 million incremental term loan drawn on June 17, 2026. Pricing at the floor leaves effectively none of the raise for anything else.
2. Discretionary demand sits at the top of the risk stack.The filing ranks consumer discretionary sensitivity among its leading risk factors; apparel spend is the first line the prospectus tells you can move against it.
3. Lender-affiliated underwriters.The filing discloses that affiliates of certain underwriters are lenders under the Credit Agreement being repaid, which it identifies as a conflict of interest. The book is nine banks, and the company carries a pro forma as adjusted accumulated deficit of about $8.8 million.

Bottom line

Two-thirds of the deal is primary, but the cash largely restores a balance sheet that was levered up weeks earlier — and pricing at the low end of the band, $15.00 against a $15.00–$17.00 range, removes the cushion between the raise and the loan it repays.

S-1 Deep Dive

Business overview

Reformation Inc. is a sustainability-positioned apparel brand. Claims made in the filing are reported as the filing states them; Bellipo does not verify sustainability claims.

Use of proceeds

Approximately $125.0 million net to the company at the final $15.00 price, holding the filing's estimated underwriting discounts and expenses constant against the $134.5 million net figure it gave at the $16.00 midpoint. Approximately $125.1 million is contracted to repay the term loan — at the floor price, effectively the entire net raise. Selling stockholders receive their own proceeds; the company receives none of the secondary or greenshoe proceeds.

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