Google has finally announced that it’s going public. This may actually help kick-start the stock market — but more importantly, it’ll help kick-start the profit margins of the investment banks doing the deal. The fees for midwiving this $4 billion offering would go as high as $280 million, as Bloomberg reports:

“On any given day there would be a line of 200 investment bankers that would kill their mothers to get the Google deal,” said Reed Taussig, chief executive officer at Callidus Software Inc., a San Jose, California based company that plans to sell shares in an IPO.

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