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Conduit’s $1.2bn Nasdaq listing deals another blow to London
A British biopharmaceuticals business has completed a deal to list on Nasdaq, delivering a further blow to the London Stock Exchange which has struggled to persuade fast-growing companies to float in the UK.
Conduit Pharmaceuticals completed its merger with Murphy Canyon Acquisition Corp, a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company, after the US market closed on Friday. The deal placed a value of $1.2 billion on the business. The new combined company has been named Conduit Pharmaceuticals.
READWilson, Goodwin on Cheche Group’s de-SPAC merger, achieving NASDAQ listing
Cheche’s U.S. listing represents the first case of a VIE structure overseas listing project completed under the Administrative Measures of Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies. According to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) website, Cheche received its approval on September 14. […]
Cheche Group, founded in 2014, aims to transform China’s auto insurance market and digitise the end-to-end insurance purchasing process in a transparent, universal, and efficient manner. Currently, Cheche has 130 service centres nationwide, with research and development centres located in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Plum Acquisition Corp. I (NASDAQ:PLMI) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with digital transformation company Veea for a total enterprise value of approximately $281 million. New York City-based Veea aims to simplify secure edge computing by improving application responsiveness, reducing bandwidth and data transport costs, and eliminating central cloud dependency. The parties expect the transaction to be...
L Catterton Asia (NASDAQ:LCAA) announced this morning that it has upsized the committed financing in its combination with EV sports car maker Lotus to $870 million in total. The latest fuel injection comes in the form of $750 million in convertible notes and PIPE commitments under so far undisclosed terms. Counted purely as a PIPE,...
At the SPAC of Dawn SPAC closing timelines can always be somewhat unpredictable, but PROOF I (NYSE:PACI) has the opportunity today to vie for a recent speed record today. It announced a combination with private aviation firm Volato 118 days ago on August 2 and its shareholders are set to vote to approve the combination...
Dune Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:DUNE) announced in an 8-K today that it has once again modified its agreement with sustainable energy firm Global Hydrogen. This amendment marks a reduction in Global Hydrogen’s equity value from $48 million to $43 million, alongside an increase in the available shares of common stock that is for the Global Gas Corporation...
At the SPAC of Dawn After mixed signals for the consumer sector earlier this month, initial Black Friday sales numbers have shown that Americans were not too stuffed for a shopping spree this year. Shoppers bagged between $9.8 billion and $10 billion in goods online, depending on one’s preferred source, either of which would be...