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SPAC market resurfaces, SEC taps law professor to run unit that reviews SPACs, Hims & Hers buys Honest Health, and India plans to build framework for SPACs
SPAC IPO Market Slowly Resurfaces With Play-It-Safe Accounting
The blank-check companies that captivated Wall Street for a year are playing it safe with their accounting as the market slowly recovers from a financial reporting crackdown that halted IPOs.
The majority of the almost three dozen SPACs that went public since the SEC’s market-jolting accounting announcement in mid-April are sticking to what they know: the same investor terms and incentives they used prior to the SEC’s warning, according to Bloomberg Tax.
The upshot is that SPACs may not want warrants with terms that make them report the money-raising incentives as liabilities on their balance sheets, but no one wants to be an outlier, said Angela Veal, managing director at Eisner Amper LLP.
READSEC Gets New Leader To Review SPACs
SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s leadership team is taking shape with law professor Renee Jones being tapped to run the unit that reviews blank-check companies and will work on rules for corporations’ climate disclosures.
Jones, who taught courses at Boston College Law School, will head the SEC’s division of corporation finance, according to a Monday statement.
Her appointment is a departure from the agency’s typical practice of naming a corporate lawyer to run the unit, which examines filings for IPOs and SPACs. Jones is also the first Black woman to lead one of the SEC’s four major divisions.
READTelehealth Company Hims & Hers to Buy U.K.’s Honest Health
Telehealth company Hims & Hers Health Inc. said late Monday it has agreed to buy London-based health platform Honest Health for an undisclosed amount. Honest Health offers hair loss-related products, including access to compounded products.
“The proposed transaction provides Hims & Hers with best-in-class operational capability and infrastructure to support the beginnings of the company’s long-term plans for expansion” across the U.K. and western Europe, Hims and Hers said in a statement to Market Watch.
The deal is expected to close in the second fiscal quarter of this year, the company said. Shares of Hims and Hers fell 0.6% in the extended session Monday after ending the regular trading day up 5.7%. The stock began trading in January after a merger with a SPAC.
READAs Indian Startups Explore SPACs Abroad, SEBI Considers Framework To Promote Domestic Listings
India’s securities and market regulator the Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI) plans to build a dedicated framework on SPACs to allow such ‘non-operational’ entities to also raise funds in initial share sales and list locally, according to reports. Currently, SEBI allows listing of only operational companies with reported financials.
To allow SPACs in India, SEBI has to either introduce a separate law or amend current regulations to allow listing of ‘non-operating’ or ‘investment’ companies, industry officials aware of the development told ET.
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Cal Redwood Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:CRAQU) announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “CRAQU”, Friday, May 23, 2025. The new SPAC aims to combine with a company in the technology, media and telecommunications sector at the crossroads of emerging trends like...
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Oyster Enterprises II Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:OYSEU) announced the pricing of its upsized $220 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “OYSEU”, Thursday, May 22, 2025. The new SPAC aims to combine with a target company in a sector that aligns with the management’s expertise like technology,...
INFINT 2 (NASDAQ: Symbols TBD) has filed for a $100 million SPAC with another team running it back after their first successful close last year. The new SPAC has one right to a 1/10 share in each unit and has overfunded its trust to 100.50% with $10.05 per unit in trust from the start. This...
FIGX (NASDAQ:FIGXU) has filed for a $131 million SPAC with the goal of taking public a financial asset manager with the potential of expanding into a global player. The new S-1 is the ninth of the month and was followed by a tenth this morning, suggesting that May may yet hit April’s blistering pace of...