The SPAC Week in Review

A newsletter recapping the past week's SPAC activity (May 2, 2022)

The Stats:

The Deals from Last Week (5):

1) Ignyte Acquisition Corp. (IGNY) & Peak Bio

  • Valuation: $278M Pro-forma equity value

  • PIPE: $25M including investments from Palo Alto Investors and Peak Bio’s CEO, Hoyoung Huh

  • Press Release

2) Isleworth Healthcare Acquisition Corp. (ISLE) & Cytovia Therapeutics

3) Arogo Capital Acquisition Corp. (AOGO) & EON Reality

4) Data Knights Acquisition Corp. (DKDCA) & OneMedNet

5) XPAC Acquisition Corp. (XPAX) & SuperBac

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News from Last Week:

Updates from Last Week:

Terminations / Liquidations

  • Mallard Acquisition Corp. (MACU) announces liquidation on 4/29/22

    • MACU will redeem all of the public SPAC shares at a redemption price of 10.10

    • Shareholders approved the extension with 8.5M shares redeemed or an estimated ~77% of the public SPAC shares. The SPAC opted to liquidate rather than extend

Merger Votes/ Completions

  • SAI.TECH Global Corporation (SAI) announces closing of the merger with TradeUP Global Corporation (TUGC) and will begin trading as SAI today, 5/2

  • Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. (SV) shareholders approved the merger with NuScale Power

    • The merger raised ~$380M in gross proceeds and is expected to close on 5/2 with the ticker change to SMR on 5/3

    • 8.6M shares were redeemed or an estimated ~37% of the public SPAC shares

  • Zanite Acquisition Corp. (ZNTE) and Eve UAM announce the merger is expected to close on 5/9, subject to approval at the shareholder meeting on 5/6

  • SoundHound AI (SOUN) completed its merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners Co. (ATSPT) and will trade as SOUN starting today

Extensions

  • Bull Horn Holdings Corp. (BHSE) shareholders approved the deadline extension from 5/3/22 on a monthly basis up to 11/3/22

    • ~4.3M shares were redeemed (~56% of the public SPAC shares) resulting in $32.7M remaining in trust

  • Brookline Capital Acquisition Corp. shareholders approved the deadline extension from 5/2/22 on a monthly basis up to 11/2/22

    • 688k shares were redeemed (~12% of the public SPAC shares) resulting in $51.1M remaining in trust

Other Deal Updates

De-SPAC S-1 Filings (including PIPE resale registrations*):

S-1 Effective:

  • SES AI (SES)

*When applicable

S-4 Activity:

S-4 filings:

Upcoming Dates:

Upcoming Announced Shareholder Meetings, Unit Splits, Warrant Redemptions

See the full calendar here.

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