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SPACs
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
SPAC vs. IPO: Is There a Difference in Executive Compensation?
An emerging company in need of capital to grow has an important decision to make: how and when to raise the necessary capital. The traditional way of taking an emerging…
Roger Royse Articles
AgTech Enters the SPAC Space
By Roger Royse
By now everyone has heard of the use of SPACS to access the public markets. A SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, is a company that raises money to acquire…
The D&O Diary
SPAC-Related Securities Suit Filed Against Plastics Recycling Company
In the latest example of a company that went public through a recent merger with a SPAC getting hit with a securities class action lawsuit, a plaintiff shareholder has filed…
The Right Coast
NFT, SPAC, and the Future of Money
What these widely diverging cults of money were responding to was a sense that money had come alive again that, given the global financial crisis and the Fed s using…
New York Business Divorce
It Was Only a Matter of Time: SPAC Meets Business Divorce
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies or "SPACs" have become all the rage over the last two years, so it was inevitable that we'd see litigation between members of the LLCs that…
Free Writings + Perspectives
SPACs Under SEC Scrutiny: Mitigating Potential Liability for Offering Participants
May 19, 2021 Webinar 12:00pm – 1:00pm EDT Register here. Please join Mayer Brown partners, Christopher Houpt, Brian Massengill, and Anna Pinedo, for the third session in the Banking &…
Free Writings + Perspectives
Merging with a SPAC & Preparing for Life as a Public Company
May 18, 2021 Webinar 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT Register here. Given the increased interest in going public through a combination with a SPAC, many private companies may not have had…
Israel Global Gateway
Guest Blog: SEC focus on SPACs – Key takeaways from recent SEC statements and enforcement activity
By Israel Group
By: Melanie Walker | Deborah R. Meshulam | Jeffrey C. Selman | Sidney Burke Over the past several months, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has increasingly focused…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
FCA consults on strengthening investor protections in SPACs
By Iona Wright (UK), Imogen Garner (UK)
On 30 April 2021, the FCA published Consultation Paper 21/10: Investor protection measures for special purpose acquisition companies: Proposed changes to the Listing Rules (CP21/10). A special purpose acquisition company…
Banking, Finance and Securities
SPACs Fuel Hot M&A and IPO Markets – Will SEC Cool the Fire?
By Allan T. Marks, Rod Miller, Iliana Ongun
SPACs, or “blank check” Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, have surged over the past two years, raising over $75 billion (about half the total US IPO market) last year alone. Recent…