This week, SPACInsider founder Kristi Marvin speaks with a panel spanning the banking, investing and advisory sides of SPAC transactions.
She is joined by Ed Kovary, Head of SPAC Capital Markets at BTIG, Nick Skibo, Managing Partner at Gritstone Asset Management, and Dimitre Genov, a Managing Director at Brookline Capital Markets advising SPAC sponsors on IPOs and de-SPAC transactions.
Kristi checks in on how recent trends like the resurgence of anchor investors is perceived by the various participants in a SPAC transaction through to close, and what the SPAC landscape looks like now with the previous cycle winding to a close and a new one beginning.
Globa Terra Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:GTERU) has filed for a $152.2 million SPAC to find an agriculture or food-tech target company The new SPAC is overfunded to 100.5% and is set to have both a 3/4 warrant and right to a 1/20 share in each of its units. This vies for the most investor-friendly unit coverage of...
EGH Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:EGHAU) has filed for a $150 million SPAC to continue the work of the Tortoise serial SPAC team under a fresh name. The new SPAC is not overfunded and will have one right to a 1/10 share in each of its units. It will have 24 months to initially close a business...
Yorkville Acquisition Corp. has filed for a $150 million SPAC to bring the sponsor’s experience in SPAC investing to a search for a technology, media or telecom target. The new SPAC is overfunded to 100.5% with $10.05 per unit in trust initially. Each unit is set to contain a 1/3 share and it will have...
At the SPAC of Dawn This week’s trading comes to an end later today as the US exchanges will observe the Good Friday holiday (but the SEC’s EDGAR filing system will not). Dow futures ahead of this session remain in the red although both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq look to make up some losses...
This week, we return to another episode from 2021, when we spoke with Will Marshall, Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs (NYSE:PL). Planet provides data services drawn from its fleet of about 200 satellites that generate a complete image of the earth’s surface every day. It just celebrated its first quarter of EBITDA profitability, but at...