Download PDF Introduction After the great years of 2020 and 2021, the cryptocurrency market has been recently going through what many industry analysts believe to be a “crypto winter”, with Bitcoin prices reaching a low of $15,000 in December 2022, falling from almost $60,000 in November 2021. The fall from Read more…
Download PDF Introduction On October 20, 2021, Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced his new digital-media venture and revealed that it would go public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Trump Media & Technology Group will create a social network called Truth Social to fight the current popular Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Polestar, the Swedish premium electric car maker, has announced it will go public. It will do so by merging with a blank-check company backed by private equity investor Alec Gores and investment bank Guggenheim Partners. The implied enterprise value will amount to $20bn. The transaction will mark Read more…
Download PDF Introduction On September 16, 2021, Prenetics Group Limited, a world leader in the field of genomics and diagnostics, announced that it has reached a definitive merger agreement with Artisan Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company privately founded by famed entrepreneur Adrian Cheng and listed on the Nasdaq Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Grab Holdings Inc., Southeast Asia’s leading app, announced on April 13th that it intends to go public in the US in partnership with Altimeter Growth Corp. in what is expected to be the largest-ever equity offering by a Southeast Asian company. The combined company expects its securities Read more…
Download PDF What is a SPAC? A Special Purpose Acquisitions Company (SPAC) is a shell company set up by investors with the only purpose of raising money through an IPO in order to eventually acquire another company. They are also known as “blank-check companies” since they generally don’t have a Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Covid-19 and the policy measures put in place to contain its spread have not only resulted in significant operational disruption for companies, e.g. reductions in demand from customers and failing supply chain with reduced inventories available for sale, but have also created serious issues for companies across Read more…
Download PDF Introduction WeWork has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-cheque company BowX Acquisition Corp in a deal that implies an initial enterprise value of approximately $9bn for the office-sharing provider. Following the high-profile collapse of its IPO attempt in 2019, WeWork is taking advantage of Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Bullish tech valuations have companies flocking towards stock exchanges to make their debut on public markets. The IPO market is hot according to data from Zephyr, which says 53 companies worldwide went public in September1, a 331% increase compared to the same time last year. 22% Read more…
Download PDF Introduction On July 17th 2020, in the midst of severe market volatility, Bill Ackman, the famed activist investor, raised the largest SPAC in history. With an IPO of $4bn, Pershing Square Tontine Holdings is just one of the many large SPAC fundraisings that have been conducted this year. Read more…
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. [NYSE: SPCE] – Market Cap as of 08/11/2019 $2.126bn Introduction On October 28th, 2019, Virgin Galactic started trading on the NYSE and became the first publicly traded commercial spaceflight company. It did so by merging with Social Capital Hedosophia, a special purpose acquisition company already listed Read more…
The origins Special Purpose Acquisition Companies were first introduced in 1990s by investment bankers David Nussbaum, Roger and Robert Gladstone, who were among the founders of EarlyBirdCapital, a boutique investment banking firm which since then launched and assisted a remarkable number of SPACs. After them, many other large investment banks Read more…