Securities,
Corporate
Apr. 12, 2021
Getting SPACs right
Building investor trust while mitigating litigation risk
Nicolas Morgan
Partner
Paul Hastings LLP
Phone: (213) 683-6181
Email: nicolasmorgan@paulhastings.com
Nicolas is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department. He served as senior trial counsel in the SEC's Los Angeles office.
Thomas A. Zaccaro
Senior Counsel
Hueston Hennigan LLP
Phone: (213) 788-4039
Email: tzaccaro@hueston.com
Boston College Law School
Thomas is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department. He served as regional trial counsel in the SEC's Los Angeles office.
Blank-check companies, or special purpose acquisition companies, known as SPACs, are thriving in corporate finance. SPACs have rapidly become a popular mechanism to take companies public. SPACs and traditional IPOs each raised about $80 billion in 2020. In January and February of this year, however, SPACs have overtaken IPOs by almost $40 billion. This exciting reemergence into capital markets, from lucrative transactions with popular companies to an array of celebrit...
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