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Latest SPAC News: Trump Social SPAC sinks as downloads slump 95%, SPAC seizes on SEC’s proposed rules to fight investor suit, and France’s InVivo plans retail tie-up
SPAC Tied to Trump’s Social Media Venture Sinks as Downloads Slump 95%
Shares of the blank-check firm bringing Donald Trump’s media venture public are sinking with daily downloads for the former president’s social media app declining 95% since launching last month.
Digital World Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:DWAC), the special-purpose acquisition company merging with Trump Media & Technology Group, has shed 31% of its value since shares soared late in February when the Truth Social app launched on the Apple App Store.
READSPAC Seizes on SEC’s Proposed Rules to Fight Investor Suit
A blank-check company co-founded by Noam Gottesman told a court that newly proposed SEC rules support its legal defense against an investor.
The company’s filing appears to be the first to invoke the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal in a legal battle over whether certain SPACs are really investment companies.
The rules would require SPACs to disclose more information about their sponsors and potential conflicts of interest. Gottesman’s SPAC, Go Acquisition (NYSE:GOAC), which he founded with Hertz Global Holdings Inc. Chairman Greg O’Hara, told a federal judge in a letter Thursday that the rules bolster Go’s case against the investor, George Assad.
READFrance’s InVivo Plans Retail Tie-Up With Neil-Backed SPAC
French agribusiness group InVivo has entered exclusive negotiations to merge its retail activities with 2MX Organic, an acquisition vehicle backed by French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel, the companies said on Thursday.
The planned deal is based on a 675 million euro ($748 million) enterprise value for InVivo Retail, they said.
READEV Startup Faraday Future Tumbles After Disclosing SEC Probe
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.’s (NASDAQ:FFIE) stock plunged after the electric-vehicle startup revealed it’s under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Members of the management team and employees recently received subpoenas related to a formal probe of the company, Faraday said Thursday in a statement. The company is “cooperating fully” with the investigation, which Faraday said is related to an internal inquiry previously underway.
Faraday had been looking into false representations made by executives to investors around its 2021 merger with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp.
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Titan Acquisition Corp has filed for a $240 million SPAC IPO, aiming to focus on opportunities in the finance and tech-enabled services industry. The blank-check company intends to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “TACHU”, offering 24,000,000 units at $10.00 each, with the trust funded at 100.5%. The unit structure includes one-half of one...
Dune II (NASDAQ:IPODU) has filed for a $150 million IPO to give its young team a chance to go two-for-two with completed deals in its SPAC series. The Dune team had a tumultuous run in their first outing that eventually saw it combine with sustainable fuel developer Global Gas (OTC:HGAS) in 2023. Dune I was...
Siddhi Acquisition Corp has filed for a $200 million SPAC backed by the consumer-focused investment firm of the same name and becomes the second new SPAC to file with Santander since the start of the year. Like Santander’s earlier IPO for Live Oak V (NASDAQ:LOKVU), Siddhi is overfunding its trust to 100.5% with $10.05 per...
At the SPAC of Dawn SPAC teams bookended this past weekend with the filing of three new SPACs, collectively seeking to raise $640 million in capital. The new S-1 for Titan Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:TACHU) puts Cantor Fitzgerald back in the hunt among top underwriters for new SPACs filed in 2025. Two SPACs are also seeking...
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending March 7, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. It was an extremely quiet week on the SPAC front with no IPOs pricing, but there were three new S-1 filings. There was also only...