Jan. 12, 2021 7:45 pm ET
A blank-check company backed by energy investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners agreed to acquire and take public electric vehicle company Proterra Inc. in a deal that gives it an enterprise value of about $1.6 billion.
ArcLight Clean Transition Corp. , the special-purpose acquisition company, will use $278 million raised through an initial public offering in September as well as $415 million being raised in a private investment in public securities transaction to help finance the deal, regulatory filings show. The deal is expected to close in the first half of the year.
Shares of the blank-check company, which priced its IPO at $10 a share and closed Monday at $12.19 each, more than doubled on Tuesday on news of the deal, closing at $25.20.