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Morrison & Foerster Strengthens Its Global Corporate Capabilities With Addition of M&A and Private Equity Partner Aly El Hamamsy in New York Share Article Mr. El Hamamsy’s arrival further expands the firm’s preeminent global M&A and Private Equity capabilities; fifth corporate partner to join the New York office since the start of 2020. NEW YORK (PRWEB) June 02, 2021 Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Aly El Hamamsy as a partner in its Mergers + Acquisitions and Private Equit...

SPACs, currently still a US phenomenon, are poised to spread across other regions including Greater China.

SPAC Mania Anxiety Grows; Bankers, Regulators, Insurers Try to Keep Pace Anxiety is growing that the wellspring of special-purpose acquisition companies, a 2020s echo of the dot-com mania of the 1990s, is bumping up against the limits of both Wall Street and Washington. The pipeline of SPACs rushing to market is getting so clogged that bankers, lawyers and auditors are turning away business as they struggle to keep pace, according to people familiar with the matter. As founders of blank-check companies wait in line, the deep-pocketed investors needed to take them public have grown squeamish. ...

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - A raft of funds and financiers in Asia is leveraging their deal-sourcing capabilities and understanding of US capital markets to jump on one of the hottest bandwagons on Wall Street - special-purpose acquisition companies or SPACs. Among them are former Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers banker Joaquin Rodriguez Torres, who is now talking with more than a dozen companies in the region for his SPAC Poema Global Holdings that just raised US$345 million (S$458.6 million). Others diving into the action include LVMH-backed L Catterton's Asia unit, Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li...