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Special purpose acquisition companies

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Hong Kong still awaits payback from new Spacs regime

    Corporate bosses warn tough standards deter blank-cheque companies from listing

    Pedestrians walk by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Montana’s loss-making fire company survives ex-CEO’s election

    Bridger Aerospace gains adjusted altitude heading into winter

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    David Crook
    The Spac trap has been reset, not eliminated

    If new rules for ‘blank-cheque’ vehicles lead to a revival investors should tread carefully

    People consider a blank cheque sitting in an oversized mousetrap
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Bill Ackman
    Bill Ackman seeks to revive IPO with sweeteners for investors

    US fund relaunch could include right to buy extra shares or stock in billionaire’s hedge fund

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  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
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    With traditional IPOs have been far and few, so-called blank cheque companies have been seeking to fill the void

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Bill Ackman
    Ackman postpones Pershing Square IPO after scaling back expectations

    Delay marks a setback for the billionaire hedge fund manager who hoped for one of the largest listings in history

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  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Funding surge for blank cheque companies points to Spac bounceback

    An investing class left for dead after early excesses and poor performance shows signs of life

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
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    Plus, how Europe’s playing catch up with a new Nato tech defence fund

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  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Trump Media & Technology Group
    Trump Media’s auditor is really bad at spelling his own name

    Meet Ben F orgers (we wish we were making this up)

  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Trump Media & Technology Group
    Ken Griffin’s trading firm blasts Trump Media boss as ‘loser’

    Citadel Securities attacks Devin Nunes after letter to Nasdaq raises concerns over naked short selling

  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    Accountancy
    Trump Media auditor has faced repeated criticism from regulators

    Colorado’s BF Borgers has built the eighth-largest client list of any US audit firm in just 15 years

    The exterior of the BF Borgers building in Lakewood, Colorado
  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    Trump Media & Technology Group
    Trump’s $10bn media group sinks 21% after disclosing widening losses

    Auditor warns of ‘substantial doubt’ about future of business as it reports less than $1mn in quarterly revenue

    Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Due Diligence
    The Spac that made Donald Trump rich again Premium content

    Plus, the heat rises on Sullivan Cromwell’s FTX fees and Adam Neumann begins to put together a WeWork bid

    The Due Diligence logo
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s stake in social media group hits $4.6bn after market debut

    Shares of company behind former president’s Truth Social platform rise 16% in first day of trading

    Donald Trump’s image appears on a Truth Social  account on a mobile device
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    LexDonald Trump
    Trump taps superfans to make Spacs great again Premium content

    TMTG looks like a rightwing meme stock combined with the classic pathologies of the blank cheque bubble

    Montage of Donald Trump and a smartphone screen showing the Truth Social app
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump unlocks potential $3bn windfall after social media Spac deal

    Company behind Truth Social site will list on Nasdaq with the ticker symbol DJT next week

    The Truth Social network logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a display of Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Potential $3.5bn windfall for Trump hangs on fight over Spac deal

    Litigation with a former partner hangs over Friday’s vote to take Truth Social network public

    The Truth Social account of former president Donald Trump on a mobile device
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    US banks
    Blank-cheque company aims to buy failed US banks

    Porticoes Capital bets on further turmoil with approval to take over collapsed lenders from FDIC

    Former UBS banker Tom Naratil
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
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    Webull’s $7bn listing deal shows Spac madness is not entirely over Premium content

    Existing shareholders will own 98.1% of new company and control all voting rights

    Webull gained popularity in 2021 at the height of the meme stock trading frenzy
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Digital World Acquisition Corp
    Trump media company co-founders allege ‘stock grab’ in lawsuit

    Legal fight complicates path to public listing for Truth Social operator that could provide windfall for former president

    The Truth Social network logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a display of Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Singapore, Hong Kong Spac failures highlight thwarted ambitions

    Lack of new listings and stalled mergers dim prospects for ‘blank-cheque companies’

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Lex
    How a failed retailer and a tax shield can create an accidental Spac Premium content

    Wish’s strategy can be thought of as a free call option on an M&A punt

    Wish’s website on a mobile phone
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Tidjane Thiam
    Ex-Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam’s Spac sued by Chinese partner

    China Bridge Capital lawsuit underscores how quickly relations soured as Spac boom ended

    Tidjane Thiam
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    New SEC rules on Spacs shut the barn door after horses have bolted

    It’s too late, Gary, now it’s too late

  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Media
    Lionsgate to carve out and list studio business in $4.6bn Spac deal

    Newly created entity acquired by blank-cheque company led by Hollywood veterans Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky

    Keanu Reeves in John Wick
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