dMY Technology Group, Inc. Announces Closing of $230 Million Initial Public Offering
MY Technology Group, Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that it closed its initial public offering of 23,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit, including 3,000,000 units issued pursuant to the exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option in full. The units are listed on The New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) and began trading under the ticker symbol “DMYT.U” on February 21, 2020.
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TMT SPAC GigCapital3 files for a $200 million IPO
GigCapital3, the third blank check company from semiconductor veteran Avi Katz, filed on Tuesday with the SEC to raise up to $200 million in an initial public offering. GigCapital3 is calling itself a Private-to-Public Equity (PPE) company, a term its sponsor has trademarked.
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Yunhong International Announces Closing of Upsized $60 Million Initial Public Offering
Yunhong International (NASDAQ:ZGYHU, the “Company”), a company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, announced today the closing of its previously announced initial public offering of 6,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit.
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B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. and Alta Equipment Holdings Complete Business Combination
B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. (NYSE: BRPM, BRPM WS, BRPM.U), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of B. Riley Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: RILY), and Alta Equipment Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of premium industrial and construction equipment and related services, today announced the completion of their previously announced business combination, forming a leading publicly traded equipment dealership platform.
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TKK Symphony Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:TKKS) (“TKK”), a special purpose acquisition company, and Glory Star New Media Group Limited (“Glory Star”), a leading mobile and online digital media and entertainment company in China, today announced the closing of the transactions contemplated by their previously-announced share exchange agreement, pursuant to which TKK acquired Glory Star (the “Business Combination”).
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Boxwood Merger Corp. and Atlas Technical Consultants Complete Business Combination
Boxwood Merger Corp. (Nasdaq: BWMC, BWMCU and BWMCW) (“Boxwood”), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, and Atlas Intermediate Holdings LLC (“Atlas”), a leading provider of professional testing, inspection, engineering, program management and consulting services under the name Atlas Technical Consultants, announced today the completion of their previously announced business combination, pursuant to which Boxwood acquired Atlas, a Bernhard Capital Partners portfolio company, for approximately $617 million in total consideration.
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SCVX launches with $230M IPO, eyes cybersecurity acquisition
SCVX Corp. is looking to make acquisitions in the cybersecurity industry, and it’s taking a different route to reach that goal. Washington, D.C.-based investment firm Strategic Cyber Ventures this week launched the IPO of SCVX, which raised $230 million Wednesday. The new company entered the New York Stock Exchange as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which is a blind pool of capital raised through an IPO with the purpose of acquiring an asset.
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‘Blank-Check’ Companies Are Hot on Wall Street. Investors Can’t Ignore Them.
Some big-name initial public offerings last year were panned for not having a profitable business. Yet more than a quarter of the offerings were of companies with no business at all—by design.
These were special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, also known as “blank-check companies.” Their goal is to raise money from public and private investors and then identify an acquisition target and buy it, typically within two years. SPACs raised $13.6 billion in 59 IPOs last year.
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