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Latest SPAC News: Asia Innovations in talks to merge with E.Merge Technology and Alvotech announces positive results from clinical study for AVT04
Parent of Social Platform Uplive is Discussing Deal With E.Merge SPAC
Asia Innovations Group Ltd., the startup that operates social platform Uplive, is in talks to go public through a merger with E.Merge Technology Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:ETACU).
Any transaction is set to value the combined company at more than $2 billion. E.Merge is poised to begin formally canvassing PIPE investors for capital to support the transaction. Its company’s revenue more than doubled in 2021 to about $300 million.
READAlvotech Clinical Study Results Demonstrate Therapeutic Equivalence Between Biosimilar Candidate AVT04 and Reference Product Stelara
Alvotech Holdings S.A., a global biotech company focused solely on the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, today announced positive results from a confirmatory clinical study for AVT04, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Stelara®. Alvotech is the second company to announce positive results from a patient study utilizing a biosimilar candidate to Stelara®. Teva Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. affiliate of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) is the exclusive strategic partner for the commercialization of AVT04 in the United States. STADA is the company’s exclusive strategic partner for AVT04 for the European market.
On December 7, 2021, Alvotech and Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: OACB), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., announced they had entered into a definitive business combination agreement.
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AGBA (NASDAQ:AGBA) stock is up over +90% this morning following a +211% premarket spike on news it has signed a definitive agreement to combine with social streaming video platform Triller. AGBA, the company itself, was formed by the $555 million combination between a SPAC of the same name and TAG Companies, a financial services firm...
At the SPAC of Dawn Since closing its combination with DHC last month, AI customer engagement firm BEN (NASDAQ:BNAI) has rolled out new partnerships with call center and healthcare clients. And, while it faces a fair bit of competition in the chatbot realm, several high-profile institutions have demonstrated that creating one that provides useful services...
Blue Ocean (NASDAQ:BOCN) provided significantly more texture today in the presentation for its $275 million combination with Asian digital media group TNL Mediagene, which it expects to hit profitability in the second half of the year despite a slight shakeup in financing for the transaction. The first big update in the first investor deck is...
At the SPAC of Dawn A brand new market may have just opened up for space de-SPACs as NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced a shift in the agency’s $11 billion program for a mission to return samples from Mars. Rather than rely on the agency’s internal technologies that would be predicted to get a sample...
Overall deal flow between SPACs and biotech firms has slowed over the last year, but some pending FDA changes could breathe new life into particular business models within the space. In particular, the FDA has asked Congress as part of its 2025 Legislative Proposals to eliminate the interchangeability designation for biosimilar medications, claiming the existing...