Tournament Update of the SPAC Sixteen Matches
We have a pretty decent match going on between BofA and Chardan. Chardan took the lead this morning, but BofA came back and is now leading 57% to 43%. Is Chardan the Cinderella Story of this Tournament? There’s still time to cast your vote….
In other surprising news, B. Riley is handily beating J.P. Morgan right now with 60% of the votes to JPM’s 40%. (Although maybe not so surprising since B. Riley has been on more recent SPAC transactions than JPM)
Credit Suisse and EarlyBirdCapital have commanding leads with both rounding up 100% of the votes cast in their favor, while Deutsche Bank, Cantor and Goldman Sachs all look likely to win their matches.
Voting ends at Midnight so there’s still time…
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