Month: October 2020

Highlights from Cooley’s M&A Dealmakers Roundtable: SPACs!

On September 24, Cooley M&A partner, Garth Osterman, moderated a webinar on the current trend in going public: SPACs! Dave Peinsipp, co-chair of Cooley’s capital markets practice group and Rama Padmanabhan, a Cooley M&A partner participated in the webinar which focused on the current wave of SPAC activity and how […]

Past Event: Deloitte IPO Bootcamp 2020

Should you IPO? Timing the market can be difficult so it’s important to prepare your company well in advance of your targeted offering date. This exclusive workshop designed for C-suite executives, accounting and finance leaders of pre-IPO companies will offer actionable insights and best practices for a successful IPO. This […]

SPAC Transactions – Considerations for Target-Company CFOs

Although special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have been used for decades as alternative investment vehicles, they have recently come into vogue as seasoned investors and management teams have turned to SPACs to mitigate the increased market volatility risk of traditional initial public offerings (IPOs). In fact, 2020 has been a record-breaking […]

A Couple of Quick Items Regarding IPO Alternatives

Here are two quick items regarding popular IPO alternatives, SPACs (special purpose acquisition corporations) and primary direct listings: SPACs.  In an interview on CNBC with Andrew Ross Sorkin on Thursday, SEC Chair Jay Clayton addressed the recent SPAC frenzy. (Very loosely, SPACs are companies with no real operations formed to […]