A Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) is a type of publicly traded investment vehicle that is created specifically to acquire or merge with another company. SPACs are also sometimes called “blank check companies” because they are set up with the sole purpose of raising capital through an initial public offering (IPO) to later identify and merge with an existing private company.
The ‘March SPACness’ Final Four Is Set: Are These The Best Former SPACs
On “SPACs Attack,” the latest SPAC mergers, rumors and headline news is broken down Monday through Friday.
‘SPACs Attack’ Weekly Recap: Looking Back On 5 Deals, Rumors And Headline News
It was another busy week for the SPAC market with numerous deal announcements and rumored deals. Benzinga’s “SPACs Attack” covered the deals and news of the week.
Prime time for SPACs
After more than a decade of buildup, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have exploded and are gaining momentum in the US and beyond.
‘SPACs Attack’ Weekly Recap: Looking Back On 9 Deal Announcements, Rumors And Headline News
It was another busy week for the SPAC market with numerous deal announcements and rumored deals. The market brought down the valuation of many SPACs late in the week.
Special purpose acquisition companies grow in popularity on Wall Street during the pandemic
Raising special purpose acquisition companies is en vogue in the COVID-19 economy. From venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya to footballer-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, it seems like everyone is taking part in this new variant of initial public offerings.
Betting on ‘blank check’ companies
These are strange days for the stock market. You can take a company public without actually having a business, customers, or revenue. And if you’re Woody Benson, you can do it from the master bathroom of your home in Bonita Bay, Fla., showing slides over Zoom to prospective investors.
3 Questions Looming For The 2021 IPO Market
Following an explosive finish for the initial public offerings market in 2020, capital markets lawyers are expecting that momentum to carry into the new year independent of the pandemic and changes in the presidential administration.
DraftKings/Skillz SPAC Team Announces New IPO By Spinning Eagle Acquisition Corp.
It seems like December is going to pack an extraordinary amount of movement in the commercial gaming space.
The 7 Best 2020 SPACs That Could Make You More Money
This year has seen an incredible increase in interest surrounding special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). In fact, many companies have come to the market via this path. These companies do not have operations, but instead exist to raise capital via an initial public offering (IPO) to fund the company they merge with.
The SPAC Trend Now Has Its Own ETF
One of the hottest themes on Wall Street is the proliferation of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and where there’s a hot theme, an exchange traded fund usually isn’t far behind.
Egregious Founder Shares. Free Money for Hedge Funds. A Cluster***k of Competing Interests. Welcome to the Great 2020 SPAC Boom.
It’s a brilliant, blue-sky afternoon in mid-August, and Bill Ackman is enjoying being, well, Bill Ackman.
Maybe it’s the sun. Or maybe it’s the aftermath of his latest tour de force — the IPO of a $4 billion special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, the largest of its kind during a year when such blank-check deals are exploding.
Law firms could make hundreds of millions of dollars on the SPAC boom, as elite firms elbow in on a growing market
SPACs used to be a small segment of the market, but elite law firms have flocked to the sector in…
Spartan Energy Has a Long Road to Revenue, So Skip It
Spartan Energy Acquisition (NYSE:SPAQ) stock came to prominence only a few weeks ago. Prior to the Fisker deal, it wasn’t much talked about outside of niche circles.
Competitive mobile game maker Skillz will do a quick IPO at $3.5 billion valuation
Skillz is going public this fall on the New York Stock Exchange through a special public acquisition company (SPAC). This has become a popular way for fast-moving companies to go public without all the hassle of a traditional IPO. SPACs are set up by managers who raise money in a blind shell company, and the investors don’t know what they’re putting their money into.
Virgin Galactic, DraftKings, Nikola – What’s Next? Everything You Need To Know About Buying SPACs
Blank check IPOs are the latest craze to hit the stock market, with Virgin Galactic, DraftKings and Nikola among the well-known special purpose acquisition companies out there. But what exactly are SPACs?
SPACs Are The Hot Investment Trend For 2020, Should You Participate?
One pronounced trend for 2020 is the growth of funds flowing to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), sometimes called blank-check…
DraftKings CEO sounds alarm on SPAC market: ‘Hopefully the market settles down a little bit there’
The SPAC market may be getting frothy.
Just like in entertainment, when network executives copycat a hit show format until the market is saturated, investors are flooding the market with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, to scout private companies to take them public.
Feeling bullish: Why SPACs are fueling the first wave of igaming IPOs
What is it about blank-check companies that appeals to operators and what exactly is exciting investors so much? The term…