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Terms Tracker for the Week Ending October 16, 2026 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week's pricings. Two more IPOs priced this week, bringing the October count to four and the 2026 year-to-date count to 156. ...

EuroSPAC Acquisition Corp. has filed for a $125 million SPAC with a team made up of executives from the shipping industry. The new SPAC is offering investors 1/2 warrants in its units with no overfunding of its trust and a 24-month transaction deadline. ...

TCGX Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ:TCXB) announced the pricing of its $100 million IPO and its shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "TCXB" on Friday, October 16, 2026. ...

In the last iteration of this column, SPACInsider took a look at some industries and targets that should be high on a SPAC team’s list, especially should inflation and interest rate pressures force a renewed focus on cash-generating targets. ...

Pyrophyte II (NYSE:PAII) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with manufacturing firm Sakuu at a pro forma enterprise value of $682.3 million. San Jose, California-based Sakuu is developing manufacturing lines for more efficiently producing battery materials for a number of industries. ...

Frazier Life Sciences Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ:FLSC) announced the pricing of its $75 million IPO and its shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "FLSC" on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. ...

Frazier Life Sciences Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ:FLSC) announced the pricing of its $75 million IPO and its shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "FLSC" on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. ...

Pine Tree Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:PAXGU) announced the pricing of its $100 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "PAXGU" on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. ...

Southport Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE:PORT.U) announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PORT.U" on Thursday, October 1, 2026. ...

Bluerock Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ:BRRKU) announced the pricing of its $150 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "BRRKU" on Friday, September 24, 2026. ...

Live Oak Acquisition Corp. VI (NASDAQ:LOVIU) announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "LOVIU" on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. ...

Leader’s Advantage Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:LEDRU) announced the pricing of its $150 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "LEDRU" on Friday, September 18, 2026. ...

Apex Treasury Corp II (NASDAQ:APTTU) has filed for a $250 million SPAC to look at AI targets as well as a number of other hot sectors. The new SPAC is offering investors a 1/3 warrant in each unit, but it will not be overfunding its trust or shortening its transaction deadline from 24 months. ...

Tang Capital (NASDAQ:TCAA) has filed for a $75 million biotech SPAC with some of the most unique features seen this cycle. Frequently, the major innovations in SPAC structure have come with some element that could cause controversy before the regulators. ...

Arca Nova (NYSE:ANAC.U) has filed for a $100 million SPAC from a team that previously contemplated de-SPACing their own company before eventually opting to go with a regular way IPO. In 2012, Arca Nova CEO and Chairwoman Norma Ka Yin Chu founded DDC Enterprise, which produced digital cooking content and prepared packaged meals out of its base in Hong Kong. ...

Pop Global (NASDAQ:PGAU) has filed for a $100 million IPO that would put another first-time team into the hunt with a technology focus. The new SPAC is offering investors one whole warrant in each unit and it has overfunded its trust to 100. ...

Calm Seas Acquisitions Corp. Calm Seas (NYSE:CSEA.U) has filed for a $300 million SPAC that brings a management team staffed with former generals into the hunt for a target in the oil and gas, offshore drilling and shipping sectors. ...

Frazier Life Sciences II (NASDAQ:FLSC) has filed for a $75 million shares-only SPAC with a biotech focus and a particular interest in companies developing genetic and molecular cancer drug candidates. The offering is not handing out IPO investors other goodies in the form of overfunding and it will have a full 24 months to initially complete a business combination. ...

This week, we speak with Anindya Datta, CEO of Mobilewalla, and Bala Padmakumar, CEO and Chairman of SPACSphere Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:SSAC). The two announced a $250 million business combination in June. ...

This week, we speak with Dr. José Rosas-Bustos, CEO of EigenQ, and Dan Nash, CEO and Chairman of Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SVAQ). The two announced a $2.93 billion business combination in June. ...

This week, we speak with Gianfranco Imperato, CEO of Trasteel, and Jamie Karson, Vice Chairman of Sizzle Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ:SZZL). The two announced a $1.3 billion business combination in April. It has been an interesting year for steel as it has been the target of trade restrictions and supply chain snares. ...

For our first-ever video podcast episode, we headed to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to speak with Allyson Satin, COO of the Ares SPACs, and Paul Wood, Co-Head of SPAC Investment Banking at BTIG. ...

This week, we speak with Tod Higinbotham, CEO of battery maker ZincFive and Jim Rhee, Chairman and CEO of Spark I Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:SPKL). The two announced a $752 million combination in June. Lithium-ion batteries have dominated much of the conversation in cutting-edge technology. ...

On this week's podcast, we speak with Paul Lichty, Co-Founder and CEO of Forge Nano. He explains how Forge Nano’s atomic layer deposition approach can build better batteries and semiconductors while maximizing the rarest materials these require. ...

At the SPAC of Dawn In a first for SPACs this week, two teams released the results from shareholder votes, in which zero shares were redeemed in connection with either of them. ...

At the SPAC of Dawn In the latest move to allow subscribers to leverage AI to work with SPACInsider data, SPACInsider now has two MCP plugins available on both ChatGPT and Claude. ...

At the SPAC of Dawn After an EDGAR holiday, the rate of filings has not been the torrent that one might have expected, although it did bring one more new business combination bringing October's total to eight and the year's tally to 83. ...

At the SPAC of Dawn Today is another mixed holiday with EDGAR set to be down as the SEC observes Columbus Day, but US stock exchanges will continue to trade. That is likely to lead to lighter overall SPAC activity to start the week could be also augur a crowded Tuesday. ...

At the SPAC of Dawn One of the benefits of SPACs is their ability to pull companies that would have otherwise had additional or perhaps unsurmountable obstacles to being listed on the US markets. ...

At the SPAC of Dawn So far, the streak of SPAC deals announced in early October have been more warmly received than many of those unveiled in September. SIM I (NASDAQ:SIMA), CSLM III (NASDAQ:KOYN) and Charlton Aria (NASDAQ:CHAR) all announced deals in succession over the past three days and all continue to trade above $10 now. ...