News and Rumors
- SpaceNews: Boeing (NYSE:BA) has sued Virgin Galactic (NASDAQ:SPCE) alleging the space tourism venture refused to pay $25 million it owed for design work and violated Boeing’s intellectual property rights. Virgin Galactic combined with Social Capital Hedosophia in 2019.
- Bloomberg: The most popular options contract for Trump Media (NASDAQ:DJT) predicts it to plunge down to $2.50 in the coming weeks, although this could be a means of hedging as the buzzy company spends its first few weeks as a public company after closing with Digital World.
- TechCrunch: A former executive at Nextdoor (NYSE:KIND), which combined with Khosla II in November 2021, has raised $25.5 million for a venture aiming to roll up HVAC service providers.
Scheduling Notes
- LAMF Global I (NASDAQ:LGVC) intends to adjourn its Thursday vote to complete its combination with Nuvo and reconvene it at 11 am ET April 1.
Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V (NASDAQ:LOKVU) has filed for a $200 million IPO that brings another serial SPAC team back to the mix for a generalist search but with a pair of technology deals already in their pocket. The new S-1 also puts Santander on the board for the 2025 SPAC market after it made...
CH4 Natural Solutions (NYSE:MTNE.U) has filed for a $250 million SPAC to bring both the Riverstone sponsor team and underwriter Citigroup back to the market for 2025. The team secured notably sponsor-friendly terms for the vehicle and will not overfund its trust. In fact, along with fellow Friday filer Live Oak V (NASDAQ:LOKVU), these two...
At the SPAC of Dawn Amid a restive market, SPACs have front-loaded their business this week with three of their four votes set for today and tomorrow. One of these is a completion vote, in which Bowen (NASDAQ:BOWN) will try and secure shareholder approval for its combination with Shenzhen Qianzhi BioTechnology just after having gained...
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending January 10, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. This was the first full week in January and the first non-holiday week since December 23rd. All the same, 2025 has started with a bang...
Origin Investment Corp I has filed for a $60 million SPAC to hunt for an Asian target outside of China and marks ThinkEquity’s entry into the 2025 SPAC IPO market. ThinkEquity took all of 2024 off from directly underwriting SPACs as a left lead and has not brought one all the way to IPO since...