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.
Columbus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:COLAU) announced the pricing of its $60 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “COLAU”, Thursday, January 23, 2025. The new SPAC intends to conduct a broad search for a target company without a focus on any particular industry or geography. Columbus’ sponsor...
Silver Pegasus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:SPEGU) has filed for a $150 million SPAC with Roth Capital Partners underwriting the offering. The new SPAC is laser-focused on finding a semiconductor or “systems solutions” target, which is an intriguing space given that the sector has been in the crosshairs of trade restrictions by nearly all countries involved. That...
At the SPAC of Dawn Space de-SPACs have been among the big winners from the market’s initial parsing of the Trump administration 2.0’s policy priorities, with Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) gaining +30%, Redwire (NYSE:RDW) +51% and Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) +23.9%. Redwire got the double boost of Trump’s bullish words on space and also the announcement that...
Iron Horse Acquisitions Corp. II has filed for a $250 million SPAC with D. Boral Capital underwriting under its new name. D. Boral emerged in November from a messy dispute at the top of investment bank EF Hutton that was concluded with Joseph Rallo taking the EF Hutton trademark and departing the firm while David...
At the SPAC of Dawn This shortened trading week could be a rocky one as the market takes in the first wave of initiatives out of the new US administration and will have what are technically the first Trump 2.0 jobs numbers released on Thursday. It should be somewhat quieter for SPACs working through their...