SPAC

Investors The C$402 billion ($298 billion) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) hired Yana Watson Kakar as managing director and head of Americas in New York, where she will oversee the pension fund’s offices in Mexico and Brazil. ...

Deal activity slowed to a crawl on the Friday before the May Day holiday. Other than a pre-SPAC move and a KKR real estate acquisition in Asia, we tracked little of note today.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been busy when it comes to new disclosure requirements, but nowhere is this more evident than in the SPAC market that is coming off of a historic boom ushering in a notable de-SPAC trend. ...

One issue the SPAC boom has recently raised is whether in the U.S. the de-SPACings (the closing of particular mergers between SPACs and their targets) are keeping up. After all, if an exit doesn’t work, the entrance into a transactional ...

Dana Barsky has joined The Growth for Good Acquisition Corporation, a newly formed "blank check company" focused on investing in firms that boast strong ESG/social impact aims. She joins as president and a board member for the SPAC, which raised ...

The Bitdeer Group, a Singapore-based provider of services to the miners of digital assets, plans to list on NASDAQ through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, Blue Safari Group (BSGA). The Bitdeer Group was founded by Jihan Wu, ...

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have become an increasingly popular and effective alternative to the traditional IPO for privately held companies to go public. With this increased popularity of SPACs, administrators have had to evolve to include admin services for ...

Pagaya Technologies will be going public through a SPAC. The deal, announced Wednesday, Sept. 15, values Pagaya, a financial tech startup that operates an AI network to make lending transactions more efficient, at about $9 billion. The shell company involved ...

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs, have been around in different forms for a long time, but their impact is still being weighed in the alternative investment world. After decades hanging out in the squirrelly corners of penny stocks and ...

A newly published survey from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP shows that investors who have participated in at least one transaction involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) say they expect such activity will continue to increase, at least through 2022. The ...