In the least shocking news of the week, Barington/Hilco announced this morning of their intention to liquidate. The redemption price per share is $10.87854059 (they really carried that out far) and its public shares ceased trading as of this morning, November 1, 2018. As
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Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corp. (MPAC), announced early this morning that their shareholder vote to complete their business combination with U.S.
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This afternoon, Hunter Maritime (HUNT) released the results of their shareholder vote to extend the date by which the company must consummate its initial business combination from November 23, 2018 to April 23, 2019.
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Avista Healthcare Public Acquisition Corp., announced late Tuesday afternoon that not only did their originially approved extension proposal vote not get passed, but that they are liquidating due to an error in the voting process which, according to AHPA’s charter requires 100% participation in the extension vote.
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Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSAC), which was supposed to hold it’s shareholder vote this morning to approve their business combination with Universal Hospital Services, Inc.
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Voting closes at 5:00PM (ET) on Wednesday, and we will announce the winner on Thursday.
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Late Friday evening, Boxwood Merger Corp., filed for $250 million SPAC IPO. Boxwood, which will be led by Stephen Kadenacy, as CEO and Director, intends to focus on companies “that provide technical and industrial services in the United States”.
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Thursday evening, AMCI Acquisition Corp. filed for a $200 million SPAC IPO with a focus on the global natural resources sector and related infrastructure, value chain and logistics businesses. AMCI will be led by Hans Mende, as Executive Chairman of the Board, and William Hunter, as CEO, CFO and Director.
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Tuesday evening, the Fintech team filed their third SPAC with Fintech Acquisition Corp. III, for a $275 million IPO.
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Alberton Acquisition Corporation, a $100 million SPAC with a broad sector focus, announced the pricing of their SPAC IPO tonight and will trade tomorrow under the symbol ALACU.
Alberton is being led by Bin (Ben) Wang, as Chairman and CEO.
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Hunter Maritime, just announced they have revised their Extension Tender Offer and “corrected course”. In fact, there hasn’t been a ship so off course since Columbus hit the Caribbean looking for China.
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Thanks to a super accommodating SEC (for quickly turning around a recently amended S-1 this morning), Alberton Acquisition Corporation is now expected to price their $100 million broadly-focused SPAC tonight for trading Wednesday morning.
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Alberton Acquisition Corporation, re-filed their prospectus this morning and added a warrant to its unit. Previously, Alberton’s unit structure consisted of just one ordinary share and one right to receive 1/10 of one share.
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GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (“GTY”), announced this afternoon that it is increasing the cash the consideration for which each public warrant would be automatically exchanged to $2.00, up from $1.35.
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Sentinel Energy Services announced this morning it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Strike Capital LLC (“Strike Capital”), which owns and operates Strike LLC (“Strike”), a leading North America infrastructure and integrity services and projects business.
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This afternoon, Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. III (HCAC), Daniel Hennessy’s third SPAC, released the results of their shareholder vote to approve their business combination with NRC Group Holdings. Shareholders approved the transaction, but there was an uncomfortable amount of redemptions.
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Wednesday morning, Gores Holdings II, Inc., a $400 million SPAC, released the results of their shareholder vote to approve their business combination with Verra Mobility.
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Graf Industrial, the $225 million industrials-focused SPAC being led by James Graf, announced Tuesday evening they have priced their IPO and will trade tomorrow under the symbol NYSE: GRAF.U.
Graf Industrial is the sixth SPAC to price this October with total gross proceeds raised for the month of $1.114 billion.
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Graf Industrial Corp. is now expected to price their $225 million industrials-focused SPAC tonight for trading tomorrow. Graf Industrial is being led by James Graf, as CEO and Director and as previously mentioned, Mr.
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For subscribers that have a Database Subscription, we’ve added a new table that you can now find under the SPACs tab: At-Risk Capital / Promote.
We’ve detailed each SPAC team’s at-risk capital as well as the sponsor’s promote for all SPACs by category: Searching for a Target, Announced a Transaction, and currently Filed for IPO.
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