Below is a daily summary of links to the latest SPAC news and rumors gathered across the web.
Latest SPAC News: EO Charging raises new funds after SPAC deal collapses, Bridgetown Holdings weighs merger with Hyphen Group, and Graphjet receives awards from Frost & Sullivan
UK EV charging start-up raises new funds after SPAC collapse
EO Charging, a British electric vehicle charging company that works with companies such as Amazon, has agreed funding from investors including from the Middle East at a lower valuation than targeted under a failed Spac listing in New York.
EO was last year forced to walk away from a proposed $675mn deal to combine with First Reserve Sustainable Growth, a New York-listed special purpose acquisition company, after the market for Spac-backed flotations collapsed.
READThiel-Backed SPAC Weighs Merger With HK Fintech Hyphen, Sources Say
Bridgetown Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ:BTWN), the US-listed blank-check company backed by billionaires Peter Thiel and Richard Li, is considering a merger with financial technology firm Hyphen Group.
A transaction could value the combined company at several hundred million dollars, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Li is already among the Hong Kong-based Hyphen’s investors.
READNASDAQ-bound Graphjet Technology bags two awards from Frost & Sullivan
NASDAQ-bound Graphjet Technology Sdn Bhd (GTI), the world’s leading graphite and single-layer graphene producer, has recently been awarded the Prestigious 2023 Best Practices Awards by Frost & Sullivan.
GTI received the Frost & Sullivan 2023 Global Leadership Award and the 2023 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award.
Currently, GTI is completing a business combination with Energem Corp. (NASDAQ:ENCPW), a SPAC.
READMirion Technologies Announces $150 Million Investment from T. Rowe Price, Priced At-the-Market
Mirion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: MIR), a global provider of radiation detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring solutions to the medical, nuclear, defense, and research end markets, today announced that it has agreed to sell $150 million of shares of Class A common stock to certain funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc., a global investment management organization.
Marion completed its business combination with GS Acquisition II in October 2021.
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Ares Acquisition Corporation II (NYSE:AACT) filed its S-1 yesterday afternoon for a $400 million IPO, marking the second SPAC to file for an IPO in March and the largest since December 20, 2021, when Gores Holdings X Inc. filed for a $725 million SPAC. Ares II intends to focus its search on an established target...
Latest SPAC Liquidations: TCV Acquisition Corp. TCV Acquisition Corp. (TCVA) to Liquidate on April 13 TCV Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: TCVA) announced that it intends to dissolve and liquidate. It will redeem all of the outstanding Class A ordinary shares that were included in its initial public offering at a per-share redemption price of approximately $10.24. As...
DiamondHead Holding Corps. (NASDAQ:DHHC) announced that it has closed its combination with Great Southern Homes and the combined company will be renamed United Homes Group. The deal was approved by shareholders during a meeting last Thursday, and only 109,426 shares were redeemed in connection with the vote, but DiamondHead saw about 87% redemptions in total...
Below is a daily summary of links to the latest SPAC news and rumors gathered across the web. Latest SPAC News: Volta sued over SPAC deal, Liberty Resources establishes M&A Transition Taskforce, and chancery validates SPACs’ charter amendments and share issuances Volta Sued Over SPAC Deal as $169M Shell Sale Is Approved An investor sued...
Maxpro Capital (NASDAQ:JMAC) announced that it has closed its combination with clinical-stage biotech firm Apollomics and the combined company’s shares and warrants are to begin trading today on the Nasdaq under the symbols “APLM” and “APLMW”, respectively. Apollomics is set to receive $21.35 million in proceeds from a PIPE that Maxpro announced in February and...