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查看中文 The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX) and Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have announced a temporary relaxation of the minimum market capitalization requirements for Specialist Technology Company...more
On January 24, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new final rules relating to special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”). The new rules affect both initial public offerings (“IPOs”) for...more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s 2023 Mid-Year Technology and Life Sciences PIPE and RDO Report presents analysis related to 87 private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and registered direct offerings (RDOs) by...more
Key Points - The first half of 2022 experienced a slowdown in SPAC activity when compared to recent years. Only 77 de-SPAC M&A deals were announced in the first half of 2022, compared to 167 de-SPAC transactions in the same...more
About 600 SPAC market participants came together June 15-16 to discuss latest developments, trends, worries, and innovations at the annual SPAC Conference organized by DealFlow Events....more
Plenty has changed since January 2022, when we last examined developing trends in the SPAC market. Since then, the macroeconomic environment shifted dramatically due to rising inflation, increasing interest rates, and the war...more
A Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) is a blank-check company formed for the purpose of effecting a business combination with one or more businesses. While SPACs are not new, they have recently increased in...more
Takeaways - While the SPAC IPO and PIPE markets were challenging in 2021, the enormous amounts of capital already raised should drive merger activity in 2022. As more shareholders choose to redeem shares and potential...more
Takeaways - Greater China companies operating in any industry can now obtain secondary listings in Hong Kong, provided they meet market capitalization minimums. Recent Listing Rules amendments also allow some companies...more
Takeaways - German technology and mid-cap growth companies may find a combination with a U.S. SPAC appealing, but must prepare to meet public capital market requirements. Arranging adequate PIPE funding is crucial to...more
The SPAC market has withstood many challenges throughout 2021, including softening of the private investment in public equity (PIPE) market for a majority of the year after a very robust first quarter for initial business...more
It is a reasonable extrapolation – and we are nothing at Cooley if not wildly reasonable – that, since the beginning of time, more operating companies are considering going public through a merger with a SPAC (Special Purpose...more
In legislative text released October 28, 2021, the House Rules Committee proposed to impose a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases by publicly traded companies starting in 2022. If the provision is enacted, corporations will...more
This update provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed or planning to list on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In particular,...more
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have been around for decades, but have grown in size and prominence in recent years. Last year, 237 SPAC IPOs raised approximately $80 billion. Q1 2021 eclipsed that entire year’s...more
Transactions involving a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) accounted for more than 50% of new publicly listed US companies in 2020. Described as the new way to go public, SPAC transactions have proven to be an...more
SPACs remain on everyone’s mind, especially the country’s chief regulator. On May 26, 2021, SEC Chair Gary Gensler testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on “key capital...more
PIPEs generally involve private equity funds, hedge funds and other private financial investors acquiring minority stakes in a SPAC, as a public listed company, at a significant discount to the market price of the SPAC’s...more
The past year saw a burst in popularity of SPACs. More than half of companies that went public in 2020 did so using a SPAC on their way to raising over $80 billion in proceeds, and so far in 2021 SPAC offerings far outpace...more
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), also referred to as “blank check” companies, have reached record numbers in the United States, with 242 SPACs conducting an initial public offering (IPO) on either NYSE or Nasdaq...more
In the financial world, 2020 was the year of the SPAC. During the past few years, many Silicon Valley start-ups were chomping at the bit to get listed and cash out via initial public offering (IPO). And in 2020, over half of...more
Transactions by special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, exploded in 2020, resulting in a 320% increase in the number of SPAC initial public offerings (IPOs) compared to 2019. SPACs have been around for 15 years and...more
Private companies go public for a variety of reasons, including: •raising capital- •providing liquidity for existing owners- •establishing publicly traded currency for acquisitions... ...more