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Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 11, 2026

At the SPAC of Dawn Pressure has continued to build on the wave of conservative-tinged de-SPAC plays that were trendy for several years. Some of the latest signs of this came from Black Rifle Coffee (NYSE:BRCC), which was the first to get a major pop on announcement back in 2021. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · 2026-08-11 at 8:29am
Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 11, 2026

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SPAC IPO Terms Tracker: August 7, 2026

Terms Tracker for the Week Ending August 7, 2026 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week's pricings. Five more IPOs priced this week to kick off August and bring the 2026 year-to-date count to 140. ...
Kristi Marvin · Aug 8

New SPACs: Southport II (PORT.U), Lucens Capital I (LCNS.U), Rainier (RNAQU) File for IPOs

Southport Acquisition Corp. II Southport II (NYSE:PORT.U) has filed for a $200 million SPAC that will be hunting for a target in the AI technology space. Under that fairly wide umbrella, the Southport II team plans to target companies that have AI data, security or workflow automation tools as well as firms operating in the AI infrastructure, robotics and AI-guided life sciences sectors. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 7
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Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 11, 2026

At the SPAC of Dawn Pressure has continued to build on the wave of conservative-tinged de-SPAC plays that were trendy for several years. Some of the latest signs of this came from Black Rifle Coffee (NYSE:BRCC), which was the first to get a major pop on announcement back in 2021. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 11

SPAC IPO Terms Tracker: August 7, 2026

Terms Tracker for the Week Ending August 7, 2026 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week's pricings. Five more IPOs priced this week to kick off August and bring the 2026 year-to-date count to 140. ...
Kristi Marvin · Aug 8

New SPACs: Southport II (PORT.U), Lucens Capital I (LCNS.U), Rainier (RNAQU) File for IPOs

Southport Acquisition Corp. II Southport II (NYSE:PORT.U) has filed for a $200 million SPAC that will be hunting for a target in the AI technology space. Under that fairly wide umbrella, the Southport II team plans to target companies that have AI data, security or workflow automation tools as well as firms operating in the AI infrastructure, robotics and AI-guided life sciences sectors. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 7

Top 3 SPAC Targets – Financial Infrastructure

This column series has recently looked at a number of target sectors that were popular with SPACs during the 2020-2021 boom that are now coming back into favor. Fintech is one of the industries that SPACs were most smitten with during that period, and, five years on, the results for those de-SPACs have not been sterling overall. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 6
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New SPACs: Southport II (PORT.U), Lucens Capital I (LCNS.U), Rainier (RNAQU) File for IPOs

Southport Acquisition Corp. II Southport II (NYSE:PORT.U) has filed for a $200 million SPAC that will be hunting for a target in the AI technology space. Under that fairly wide umbrella, the Southport II team plans to target companies that have AI data, security or workflow automation tools as well as firms operating in the AI infrastructure, robotics and AI-guided life sciences sectors. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 7

New SPAC: Gravity Acquisition Corp. (GVACU) Files for $250M IPO

Gravity Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: GVACU) has filed for a $250 million SPAC with a generalist focus, but with strong ties to Asia and the Middle East. The team is led by CEO Iris Zhao, a Malta citizen based in the UAE who brings the group's prior SPAC experience, having served as COO of Mars Acquisition Corp, which IPO'd in 2023. ...
Kristi Marvin · Aug 5

New SPAC: Luminous Acquisition (LUMIU) Files for $105M IPO

Luminous Acquisition (Nasdaq: LUMIU) has filed for a $105 million SPAC built around the ARC Group investment-banking network. Luminous keeps its mandate broad, planning to search for a target with an enterprise value of $700 million or more in whatever sector best fits its team's background. ...
Kristi Marvin · Aug 4
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Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 10, 2026

At the SPAC of Dawn SPACs have not gone on break this summer with plenty of activity set for this week at all points of the SPAC lifecycle. After a week where five SPACs priced their IPOs, three more are currently lined up to do the same in the coming days. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 10

Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 6, 2026

At the SPAC of Dawn With broad positivity in Asian and European markets, US markets looked poised to extend their record highs in Thursday's session. Among the biggest de-SPAC winners in yesterday's session was specialty vehicle insurance firm Hagerty (NYSE:HGTY), which surged +15. ...
Nicholas Alan Clayton · Aug 6

Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 4, 2026

At the SPAC of Dawn July closed with a cleanup of some of the older vintages of SPACs. Six of the seven SPACs that liquidated in June and July first came public back in 2020 or 2021, and had spent four-plus years on extensions before finally handing cash back to holders. ...
Kristi Marvin · Aug 4

Morning SPAC News Roundup: August 3, 2026

At the SPAC of Dawn August starts the month with three IPOs on the calendar so far after closing July with 18 deals priced. SPACs are now just nine IPOs away from matching 2024's IPO count of 144 with five more months left in 2026. ...
Kristi Marvin · Aug 3