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December 14 2021
Footprint Agrees to $1.6 Billion Gores SPAC Deal as Koch Invests
Footprint, a materials-science technology company seeking to eliminate single-use plastic, agreed to merge with Gores Holdings VIII Inc., a special purpose acquisition company led by billionaire Alec Gores.
www.bloomberg.com
December 13 2021
Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle brand LiveWire is merging with a SPAC to go public
LiveWire, the electric motorcycle company spun out of Harley-Davidson, is going public by merging with a special acquisition company, or SPAC. The transaction will net LiveWire approximately $545 million at a pro forma enterprise value of approximately $1.77 billion, Harley-Davidson says in its announcement. LiveWire is the latest electric vehicle company to go public by merging with a SPAC, which are also known as “blank check” companies.
www.theverge.com
December 13 2021
SoftBank SPAC to take Walmart-backed Symbotic public in $5.5 bln deal
Walmart Inc-backed (WMT.N) Symbotic said on Monday it would go public through a merger with a SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) blank-check firm in a deal offering the robotics and automation startup a pro-forma equity value of $5.5 billion.
www.reuters.com
December 10 2021
Getty Images to go public again in $4.8bn SPAC deal
Getty Images has revealed plans to rejoin the US stock market after more than a decade-long hiatus, in a $4.8bn (£3.6bn) SPAC deal. The British-American visual media company, which provides stock and news photos, will merge with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called CC Capital and Neuberger Berman, with total equity investment totalling $1.2bn.
www.nz.news.yahoo.com
December 10 2021
Tilman Fertitta backs out of his SPAC deal
After a year of toying with the public markets, Tilman Fertitta has opted to keep his company private. The owner of Fertitta Entertainment, including an empire of restaurant chains that he acquired in a series of transactions over the past 20 years, has agreed to pay up to $33 million to back out of a merger with the SPAC Fast Acquisition Corp.
www.restaurantbusinessonline.com
December 09 2021
SEC chair Gensler seeks tougher SPAC disclosure, liability rules
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler on Thursday floated several potential SPAC rules he hopes the regulator will consider as it works to oversee one of Wall Street’s up-and-coming ways to take companies public.
www.cnbc.com
December 07 2021
Better HoldCo Inc., a mortgage and real estate startup backed by SoftBank Group Corp., is pushing back its public listing through a merger with a blank-check firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter, after amending the deal a day before it terminated 9% of its workforce.
www.bloomberg.com
December 02 2021
BuzzFeed News union members plan walkout for same day as SPAC IPO vote
Members of BuzzFeed News’ union said they plan to walk out on the job at noon Thursday, the same day shareholders will vote on whether or not to take BuzzFeed public via a SPAC IPO.
www.axios.com