Tag Archives: SPAC

The once red-hot SPAC market continues to be touch and go, at best.  Third quarter to-date, an average of six SPAC [special purpose acquisition company] IPOs have raised $1.2 billion in total capital each week, according to fresh data out of Goldman Sachs on Thursday. That pace is down sharply from the boom period seen in the first quarter, when an average of 21 SPACs raising $6 billion in capital came to market each week.  Goldman points to increased regulatory concerns — in part fueled… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The blank-check company seeking to buy electric-car startup Lucid Motors Inc. made a last-minute appeal for retail shareholders to vote for the deal amid signs that it’s struggling to win their approval. Churchill Capital Corp. IV, the special purpose acquisition company started by investment banker Michael Klein, adjourned its Thursday shareholder meeting that was to determine the fate of the merger, pushing the decision back to the following day. It also appealed again in a… Source link

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency company Bullish announced on Friday it had agreed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Far Peak Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in a $9 billion deal. Bullish, a unit of blockchain software company Block.one, plans to launch a regulated crypto exchange later this year. The company is backed by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital and Founders Fund, British hedge fund… Source link

A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri July 7 (Reuters) – Earth data and analytics company Planet Labs Inc, which is backed by Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, will go public through a merger with a blank-check company in a deal valued at $2.8 billion, the companies said on Wednesday. Planet Labs will merge with dMY Technology Group Inc IV (DMYQ.N) and list on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which… Source link

SoFi’s (SOFI) long-awaited IPO on Tuesday isn’t the first time CEO Anthony Noto has had a splashy deal day.  Noto is a former tech analyst and investment banker at Goldman Sachs who spent more than 12 years at the firm (1999 to 2008, then a return from 2010 to 2014 after a stint in between as the NFL’s CFO). He played a key role in Twitter’s IPO while at Goldman — he then joined CEO Jack Dorsey at the company as chief operating officer for an almost four-year period. Given that extensive… Source link

RIP, SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) craze.  Going public via a SPAC became all the rage late in 2020 and into 2021 because of its relative ease versus the traditional IPO route and the fact everyone on the Street seemed to be doing it. Now the process has darn near crashed.  New research out from Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin on Thursday shows that only six new SPAC IPOs have come to market in the second quarter of 2021. For context, Goldman notes, at this point in the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Trading platform EToro, a rival to Robinhood Markets Inc., plans to go public via a merger with a blank-check firm led by serial dealmaker Betsy Cohen. The agreement with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V values the combined company at about $10.4 billion, according to a statement Tuesday confirming a Bloomberg report. The companies are raising about $650 million in equity to support the deal. Investors in the equity transaction included ION Investment Group, Softbank Vision Fund II,… Source link

Bloomberg Wall Street Is Inflation-Proofing Its Debt-Market Portfolios (Bloomberg) — From money managers at BlackRock and T. Rowe Price, to analysts at Goldman Sachs, to the credit shops run by Blackstone and KKR, a new economic reality is prompting Wall Street’s most powerful forces to adjust their investment strategies.The rise in inflation set to accompany the post-pandemic economic boom is threatening to reverse the four-decade decline in U.S. interest rates, sparking a rush to protect… Source link

The Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) juggernaut storms into 2021 raising more than $45 billion with no sign of slowing down. “The front end of these SPACs is exploding. January, February will be the biggest months ever for those front end SPACs,” JMP Securities CEO Mark Lehmann told Yahoo Finance Live. “I just caution the overall public, this GameStop fever, unfortunately will probably bleed a little into the SPACS.” Lehmann said investors can find great opportunities in SPACs, as… Source link

As Wall Street flits from one craze to the next; GameStop (GME), Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and now SPACs, the message is clear. If only we could act upon it. As a way of looking into this ongoing mania of mini-manias, I’ve turned my attention to the latest boom, SPACs, once a quirky, backwater of a security, now all the rage. Let’s start with Kap, who has a SPAC. That being former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick—famous for taking a knee during the national anthem—who has… Source link