This week, we sit down with Rick Hendrix and Adam Fishman from the Live Oak SPAC team. Rick Hendrix is the Founder of Live Oak Merchant Partners, and Chairman and CEO of Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V (NASDAQ:LOKV). In addition, he is an operating executive at Crestview Partners, a New York-based middle market focused private equity firm....
Churchill Capital Corp X (NASDAQ:CCCXU) has filed for a $300 million SPAC with a broad search focus, to add to the portfolio of Churchill deals. Five Churchill deals have closed (I, II, III, IV, and AltC), while V, VI and VII liquidated in the SPAC downturn. However, keep in mind that the Churchill team still...
Digital Asset Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:DAAQU) announced the pricing of its $150 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “DAAQU”, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. The new SPAC aims to combine with a target company in the digital asset and cryptocurrency sectors. Digital Asset Acquisition Corp.’s management team...
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending April 25, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. Everybody’s back in the pool. Two more SPACs filed this week while four others priced their IPOs. Additionally five SPACs announced their combinations, breaking the...
Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp (NASDAQ:TVACU) announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “TVACU”, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. The new SPAC’s primary search focus will be on industrial technology, specifically companies implementing advanced technologies including software, mobile and IoT applications,...
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending April 18, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. Six new SPACs filed to IPO this week. That’s not a typo. Six. Plus, another 13 amended S-1/A were filed. The total number of SPACs...
At the SPAC of Dawn As we close out Passover and head into Easter weekend, we’re reminded that even the most hopeless situations, like wandering the desert for 40 years, being dead for three days, or trying to close a DeSPAC with zero redemptions in this market, can eventually turn around. After all, SPACs have...
This week, we return to another episode from 2021, when we spoke with Will Marshall, Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs (NYSE:PL). Planet provides data services drawn from its fleet of about 200 satellites that generate a complete image of the earth’s surface every day. It just celebrated its first quarter of EBITDA profitability, but at...
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending April 11, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. It was another chaotic week for the broader markets, but the SPAC market held its ground—sort of. Despite the volatility, SPACs priced one IPO, announced...
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending April 4, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. This week may have been quiet for SPAC deal announcements, but the broader market was anything but. All eyes were on “Liberation Day,” as President...