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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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After announcing its intent to liquidate yesterday, Blockchain Moon Acquisition Corp.(NASDAQ:BMAQ) disclosed this afternoon that it no longer plans to dissolve its trust and will instead continue its search for an alternative target to combine with. The decision to liquidate followed the SPAC’s unilateral termination of its $163 million deal with Web 3.0 infrastructure builder DLTx ASA (OSX:DLTX)....
Four Leaf Acquisition Corp. priced its downsized $52 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “FORL” Friday, March 17, 2023. The SPAC intends to pursue an acquisition of a company focused on the Internet of Things (“IoT”) and adjacent technologies that target the IoT market such...
JATT Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: JATT) announced this afternoon that its shareholders have approved its combination with clinical-stage biotechnology company Zura Bio. A total of 4,907,863 ordinary shares, or 95.5% of JATT’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares, were present at today’s special meeting. The business combination was overwhelmingly approved as holders of 4,903,764 ordinary shares, or 99.9% of...
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GX Acquisition Corp. II (OTC:GXII) announced this morning that its shareholders have approved its combination with rare earth mineral miner NioCorp (TSX:NB) and the parties expect to close the transaction on March 17. The SPAC showed in an earlier 8-K filing that it saw about 95% of shares redeemed at the March 15 shareholder vote,...