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Ballard Spahr LLP

Cautious Optimism For Capital Markets

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Life sciences capital markets in 2025 have been a mixed bag—some rays of light peeking through, but still, plenty of clouds for early-stage companies hoping to tap the public markets. After a long IPO drought, 2024 brought a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

HKEX and SFC Reduce Barriers for Specialist Technology Company IPOs and De-SPACs

查看中文 The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX) and Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have announced a temporary relaxation of the minimum market capitalization requirements for Specialist Technology Company...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2023 Technology and Life Sciences PIPE and RDO Report

The 2023 Technology and Life Sciences PIPE and RDO Report presents analysis related to 177 private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and registered direct offerings (RDOs) by U.S.-based technology and life sciences...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

The Modern De-SPAC and a Way Forward

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I. SPAC and de-SPAC Background - A special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, is a public company with no operations, products, or assets. Unlike a traditional public company’s initial public offering (IPO), a SPAC’s...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Taking Stock of SPACs: 2022 Trends in Review

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Plenty has changed since January 2022, when we last examined developing trends in the SPAC market. Since then, the macroeconomic environment shifted dramatically due to rising inflation, increasing interest rates, and the war...more

Morgan Lewis

A Look at the SPAC Market in 2022

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A Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) is a blank-check company formed for the purpose of effecting a business combination with one or more businesses. While SPACs are not new, they have recently increased in...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Staying Nimble in the SPAC PIPE Market

The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) market has begun to cool, and with that, private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions, a financing tool used to facilitate de-SPAC transactions, have also encountered...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Choppy Market for SPACs and PIPEs, Competition for Targets Spurs Deal Innovations

Takeaways - While the SPAC IPO and PIPE markets were challenging in 2021, the enormous amounts of capital already raised should drive merger activity in 2022. As more shareholders choose to redeem shares and potential...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Hong Kong Encourages Listings by Foreign Companies, SPACs

Takeaways - Greater China companies operating in any industry can now obtain secondary listings in Hong Kong, provided they meet market capitalization minimums. Recent Listing Rules amendments also allow some companies...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SPACs Considering German Targets Face Unique Challenges

Takeaways - German technology and mid-cap growth companies may find a combination with a U.S. SPAC appealing, but must prepare to meet public capital market requirements. Arranging adequate PIPE funding is crucial to...more

Goodwin

SPAC 2021 Year-End Review and 2022 Preview: Tailwinds, Headwinds, and Regulatory Landscape

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The SPAC market has withstood many challenges throughout 2021, including softening of the private investment in public equity (PIPE) market for a majority of the year after a very robust first quarter for initial business...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Hong Kong Regulatory Update - October 2021

This update provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed or planning to list on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In particular,...more

Perkins Coie

SEC Speaks Out on SPACs

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When a significant volume of capital is raised from investors through nontraditional capital markets transactions, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is sure to follow with increased scrutiny. The SEC made that...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

A SPAC Primer

Nary a day goes by when we do not get an inquiry about SPACs. This primer provides you with an introduction to SPACs. Among other things, it explains what a SPAC is, lays out the economic terms of the equity offered in a SPAC...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2021 Forecast for UK M&A and IPOs: Delayed Gratification?

Many commentators predicted a boom in M&A and initial public offerings (IPOs) in the U.K. in 2020, a year that proved making predictions is a risky business. As we enter 2021, however, there are good reasons to believe that...more

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