Below is a daily summary of links to the latest SPAC news and rumors gathered across the web.
Latest SPAC News: Delaware Court of Chancery ruling regarding stockholder class vote creates new obstacle for de-SPACs
Delaware Court Ruling Regarding Stockholder Class Vote Creates New Obstacle For Former SPACs
In a case filed simply to determine whether a plaintiff was entitled to attorneys’ fees and expenses for conferring a benefit on a corporation, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the planned stockholder vote by the corporation would have been insufficient under Delaware law to authorize amendments to the corporation’s certificate of incorporation in connection with a de-SPAC merger transaction. Garfield v. Boxed, Inc., No. 2022-0132-MTZ, 2022 WL 17959766 (Del. Ch. Dec. 27, 2022).
Terms Tracker for the Week Ending March 31, 2023 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. Filings continue to remain quiet, but SPACs did manage to price two more IPOs this week with TMT Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: TMTCU) and Trailblazer Merger...
Hudson Acquisition I Corp. (NASDAQ:HUDA) announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to combine with a pre-clinical-stage biotechnology company. The SPAC did not provide many details on the unnamed target, but disclosed that the biotech company is focused on developing intranasal preventives for major disease-causing respiratory viruses. As a condition to the target...
Heading into April, SPACs are to see eight sponsors and 11 de-SPAC’d companies freed from lock-ups and ready to trade. Most of these lock-up expirations are loaded into the final week of the month, but those hitting this milestone already next week include some of the more interesting transactions of the crop. In particular, MoonLake...
Below is a daily summary of links to the latest SPAC news and rumors gathered across the web. Latest SPAC News: Shares of Digital World jump after Trump’s indictment, and pair of Delaware Chancery court decisions deny motions to dismiss SPAC shareholder’s fiduciary breach claims Trump-Tied SPAC’s Shares Jump After Historic New York Charge The...
Ares Acquisition Corporation II (NYSE:AACT) filed its S-1 yesterday afternoon for a $400 million IPO, marking the second SPAC to file for an IPO in March and the largest since December 20, 2021, when Gores Holdings X Inc. filed for a $725 million SPAC. Ares II intends to focus its search on an established target...