A prospective client seeking to sell their company recently asked me if the recent craze involving the use of SPACs to buy private companies might be applicable to their firm. I answered unequivocally that SPACs were suited to much bigger companies as well as industries with more future growth and appeal than exhibited by the mature printing and packaging industry. I was wrong. In the case of one industrial printing company, a merger into a SPAC is the pathway to value and liquidity for the owners. SPAC is the acronym for a Special Purpose Acquisition Company. In simple terms, a SPAC is essen...