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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In the first three months of 2021, there have been approximately 300 initial public offerings (IPOs) of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that have raised $100 billion, which are significant increases over the record number of transactions and amounts raised in all of 2020. Inevitably, the growth in SPAC deal activity has attracted scrutiny from market regulators, including the US...

INTRODUCTION In a remarkable year for the equity markets in 2020, the increased use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) to take companies public stands out as a defining trend. In 2020, well-known private businesses – like Virgin Galactic – became publicly-traded companies through an acquisition by a SPAC, rather than through a traditional initial public offering (“IPO”).[i] And several prominent investors – including Bill Ackman of Pershing and former White House E...