Friday evening, Easterly Acquisition Corp., a $200 million SPAC, released the results of their shareholder vote to approve their business combination with Sirius International Insurance Group, Ltd. Shareholders approved the combination with 16,436,502 votes “for”, but there were a sizeable number of redemptions. ...READ MORE
Modern Media Acquisition Corp. (MMDM), announced this morning that they had entered into a “non-binding letter of intent” with a private company. And that’s all we got. No name of the company, no details. ...READ MORE
Haymaker Acquisition Corp. (HYAC), announced Thursday evening that they have entered into a definitive agreement with OneSpaWorld (“OSW”), a global provider of health and wellness products and services onboard cruise ships and in destination resorts around the world, with the transaction being valued at $948 million. ...READ MORE
The contest winner, who also wishes to remain anonymous (we hear ya), received a total of 180 votes out of 360 total, or exactly 50%. ...READ MORE
In the least shocking news of the week, Barington/Hilco announced this morning of their intention to liquidate. The redemption price per share is $10.87854059 (they really carried that out far) and its public shares ceased trading as of this morning, November 1, 2018. As ...READ MORE
Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corp. (MPAC), announced early this morning that their shareholder vote to complete their business combination with U.S. ...READ MORE
This afternoon, Hunter Maritime (HUNT) released the results of their shareholder vote to extend the date by which the company must consummate its initial business combination from November 23, 2018 to April 23, 2019. ...READ MORE
Avista Healthcare Public Acquisition Corp., announced late Tuesday afternoon that not only did their originially approved extension proposal vote not get passed, but that they are liquidating due to an error in the voting process which, according to AHPA’s charter requires 100% participation in the extension vote. ...READ MORE
Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSAC), which was supposed to hold it’s shareholder vote this morning to approve their business combination with Universal Hospital Services, Inc. ...READ MORE
Voting closes at 5:00PM (ET) on Wednesday, and we will announce the winner on Thursday. ...READ MORE
Late Friday evening, Boxwood Merger Corp., filed for $250 million SPAC IPO. Boxwood, which will be led by Stephen Kadenacy, as CEO and Director, intends to focus on companies “that provide technical and industrial services in the United States”. ...READ MORE
Thursday evening, AMCI Acquisition Corp. filed for a $200 million SPAC IPO with a focus on the global natural resources sector and related infrastructure, value chain and logistics businesses. AMCI will be led by Hans Mende, as Executive Chairman of the Board, and William Hunter, as CEO, CFO and Director. ...READ MORE
Tuesday evening, the Fintech team filed their third SPAC with Fintech Acquisition Corp. III, for a $275 million IPO. ...READ MORE
Alberton Acquisition Corporation, a $100 million SPAC with a broad sector focus, announced the pricing of their SPAC IPO tonight and will trade tomorrow under the symbol ALACU.
Alberton is being led by Bin (Ben) Wang, as Chairman and CEO. ...READ MORE
Hunter Maritime, just announced they have revised their Extension Tender Offer and “corrected course”. In fact, there hasn’t been a ship so off course since Columbus hit the Caribbean looking for China. ...READ MORE
Thanks to a super accommodating SEC (for quickly turning around a recently amended S-1 this morning), Alberton Acquisition Corporation is now expected to price their $100 million broadly-focused SPAC tonight for trading Wednesday morning. ...READ MORE
Alberton Acquisition Corporation, re-filed their prospectus this morning and added a warrant to its unit. Previously, Alberton’s unit structure consisted of just one ordinary share and one right to receive 1/10 of one share. ...READ MORE
GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (“GTY”), announced this afternoon that it is increasing the cash the consideration for which each public warrant would be automatically exchanged to $2.00, up from $1.35. ...READ MORE
Sentinel Energy Services announced this morning it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Strike Capital LLC (“Strike Capital”), which owns and operates Strike LLC (“Strike”), a leading North America infrastructure and integrity services and projects business. ...READ MORE
This afternoon, Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. III (HCAC), Daniel Hennessy’s third SPAC, released the results of their shareholder vote to approve their business combination with NRC Group Holdings. Shareholders approved the transaction, but there was an uncomfortable amount of redemptions. ...READ MORE