Afternoon SPAC News Roundup: February 26, 2024
by Nicholas Alan Clayton on 2024-02-26 at 1:45pm

News and Rumors

  • PR: Medtech firm Agiliti (NYSE:AGTI) has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) at $10 per share and an enterprise value of $2.5 billion. This represents a 43% premium over the company’s 90-day VWAP and returns it to 100% ownership by THL five years after it combined with Federal Street at a $1.7 billion enterprise value.
  • PR: Fintech AtlasClear (NYSE:ATCH) has completed the acquisition of Pacsquare Technologies, which will help it scale the group’s cloud customer engagement tools. AtlasClear closed a combination with Quantum FinTech on February 9.
  • PR: Akili (NASDAQ:AKLI) has submitted its digital therapeutics SDT-001 for marketing approval in Japan, having received positive results in treating pediatric patients for ADHD in Phase III trials. Akili combined with Social Capital Suvretta I in August 2022.
  • SpaceNews: Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) expects to communicate with its IM-1 Moon lander for just one more day as it appears to have tipped over and may not be able to regularly recharge itself via solar panels. The company made the historic first commercial soft landing on the moon last week, having combined with Inflection Point in February 2023.

 

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