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Latest SPAC News: Elliott discloses new stake in Clarivate, Virusight and Technogenetics expand collaboration, and Apollomics receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation
Elliott Takes Stake in Clarivate With Take-Private Wave Rising
Elliott Investment Management disclosed a new stake in Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT) amid a wave of take-private transactions in the information services sector.
Clarivate is a provider of critical data, insights and analytics used by universities, corporations, the legal community and other institutions around the world, according to its website. It was purchased from Thomson Reuters Corp. in 2016 by a group of investors led by Onex Corp. and Baring Private Equity Asia.
The company went public in 2019 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company led by Michael Klein. Several of its top investors are private equity companies, including Leonard Green & Partners, which is its largest shareholder with a 17.3% stake in the company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
READVirusight and Technogenetics to Expand Collaboration for Global Deployment of Innovative Spectral-Based Pathogens Diagnosis
Virusight Diagnostic (a joint venture subsidiary of Newsight Imaging Ltd.) and Technogenetics today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand their collaboration for worldwide commercialization of the 20-second COVID-19 diagnosis solution and to develop additional diagnostic applications utilizing the technology.
On August 30, 2022, Newsight Imaging announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to become publicly listed through a merger transaction with Vision Sensing Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: VSAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
READApollomics Inc. Receives FDA Orphan Drug Destination for Vebreltinib for Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with MET Genomic Tumor Aberrations
Apollomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: JMAC), an innovative biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery and development of mono- and combination-oncology therapies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to vebreltinib (APL-101) for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with MET genomic tumor aberrations. The FDA granted the Orphan Drug Designation in August.
As previously announced on Sept. 14, 2022, Apollomics and Maxpro Capital Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: JMAC, JMACU, JMACW), announced a definitive agreement for a business combination that would result in Apollomics becoming a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq Global Market.
READAUM Biosciences Receives Human Research Ethics Committee Approval to Commence Phase II Clinical Trial of AUM001 for Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer in Australia
AUM Biosciences Pte. Ltd. (“AUM”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, advancing a clinical stage candidate and a broader pipeline designed to deploy multi-faceted inhibition strategies to reverse cancer resistance, today announced it has received Human Research Ethics Committee (“HREC”) approval to commence a Phase II clinical trial of its selective translation inhibitor AUM001 in Australia. Ethics approval is confirmation that AUM has completed all the necessary pre-clinical safety and efficacy testing of AUM001 required to commence its Phase II clinical trial in Australia.
Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp. V (Nasdaq: MCAG) is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
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At the SPAC of Dawn Happy Friday! SPACInsider has unveiled new presets on SPAC Performance accessible via the Data drop-down to easily sort for the highest and lowest performing active SPACs and de-SPACs. On the de-SPAC side, Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) continues to be well ahead of the pack, logging a 710% return by share price adjusted...
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...
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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...