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Overview - Instructions
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 Page
covers select SPAC IPO filings
- Deals filed in 2008
- Some select earlier filings
Deal
terms
- Units of one common share and one warrant,
unless otherwise noted
- SPAC is incorporated in Delaware,
unless otherwise noted
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2008
CR Acquisition
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Targets
global retail and consumer products and services industries
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.00)
- Deutsche Bank
- Mintz Levin / Debevoise
SEC
filings
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FinTech Acquisition
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Target
not limited
- $100mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- UBS
- Ledgewood / Clifford Chance
SEC
filings
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Leopard Acquisition
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Target
not limited
- $175mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- JPMorgan
- Greenberg Traurig / Davis Polk
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Liberty Lane Acquisition Terminated 
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IPO
terminated, citing market conditions Target
not limited
- $350mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - 0.5 warrant (@ $7.50)
- Goldman Sachs
- Goldman's first SPAC underwriting
- Skadden Arps / Cleary Gottlieb
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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China Growth Alliance Cayman Islands
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Target
with primary operations in People's Republic of China
- $56mm units at $8.00
- Unit: One subunit - One Class A warrant (@ $6.00)
- Subunit: One share - One Class B warrant (0.5
share $6.00)
- Ferris Baker Watts / Jesup & Lamont / Maxim
Group
- Ellenoff Grossman / Gersten Savage
- Cayman Islands
SEC
filings
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Lambert's Cove Acquisition
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Communications,
information, technology, entertainment, media, new media or related target
- $100mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- UBS / Morgan Joseph
- Ellenoff Grossman & Schole / Clifford Chance
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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National Security Solutions
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Target
not limited, although intention is on security and homeland defense industries
- $20mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Banc of America
- Gibson Dunn / DLA Piper US
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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BHG Acquisition
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Target
not limited
- $350mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Credit Suisse / Deutsche Bank Securities
- Akin Gump / Proskauer Rose
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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J.W. Childs Acquisition I
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Target
consumer products and specialty retail sectors
- $200mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.00)
- Deutsche Bank Securities
- McDermott Will / Kaye Scholer
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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PJSC Acquisition
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Target
not limited, focus initially on target businesses In North America in retail,
apparel and consumer goods, distribution, healthcare and general industrial
sectors
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Banc of America Securities
- Graubard Miller / Skadden Arps
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Oasis Group
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Target
lodging or hospitality sectors, focus on hotels, resorts, and related businesses
- $300mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Bear Stearns & Co
- Latham & Watkins / Debevoise
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Market Street Acquisition
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Target
global consumer products and services industry
- $350mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Bear Stearns
- Proskauer / Debevoise
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Sidhu Special Purpose Capital
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Target
not limited, focus in the depository institutions sector or broader financial
services industry
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.00)
- Bear Stearns
- Stevens & Lee / Latham & Watkins
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Transformation Capital
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Target
operating businesses in the alternative asset management sector or related
business
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Banc of America
- Cleary Gottlieb / McDermott Will
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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United Services Management
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Target
not limited, focus on service providers to the government and commercial markets
with an emphasis on communications, information technology or IT and consulting
- $160mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Citi
- Kramer Levin / Davis Polk
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Orbit Acquisition
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Target
in the energy, power and related industries
- $250mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- JPMorgan
- Akin Gump / Cleary Gottlieb
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Tri-Artisan Acquisition
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Target
not limited, focus on global consumer products, service, and retailing
industries
- $250mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- JPMorgan
- Akin Gump / Davis Polk
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Delos Acquisition
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Target
business/information service industry
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.00)
- Morgan Stanley
- Sidley Austin / Davis Polk
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Global Entertainment & Media
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Target
entertainment and media related industries
- $172.5mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Merrill Lynch / Morgan Joseph / Ladenburg
Thalmann
- Hughes Hubbard / Sidley Austin
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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JWL Partners Acquisition
SEC_CODE_REF_0090001192884
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Target
not limited
- $200mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Credit Suisse / Ladenburg Thalmann
- Greenberg Traurig / Skadden Arps
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Apple Creek Acquisition
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Target
alternative asset management sector
- $225mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- JPMorgan / Ladenburg Thalmann
- Schulte Roth / Davis Polk
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Corporate Acquirers
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Target
not limited
- $100mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Deutsche Bank Securities
- Ellenoff Grossman / Lowenstein Sandler
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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K Road Acquisition
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Target
energy business in North America focusing on the power sector
- $300mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Credit Suisse
- Ellenoff Grossman / Skadden Arps
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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KBL Acquisition IV
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Target
not limited, focusing on healthcare or consumer industries
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Lazard / Citi / EarlyBirdCapital
- Graubard Miller / Bingham McCutchen
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Open Acquisition
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Target
not limited
- $125mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Deutsche Bank
- Rosenzweig & Wolosky / Cleary Gottlieb
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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China Ascendance Acquisition Cayman Islands
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Target
not limited, principal operations in the People's Republic of China
- $100mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Susquehanna Financial Group / Ladenburg Thalmann
- Graubard Miller / Blank Rome
- Cayman Islands
SEC
filings
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Opportunity Acquisition
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Target
not limited, businesses in North America
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Banc of America / Keefe Bruyette
- Greenberg Traurig / Sidley Austin
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Mistral Acquisition
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Target
consumer products and services and media industries
- $300mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.00)
- Merrill Lynch / Pali Capital
- DLA Piper US / Kramer Levin
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Greenstreet Acquisition
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Target
not limited
- $300mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $6.00)
- Credit Suisse / Lazard
- Skadden Arps / Simpson Thacher
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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Grail Investment
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Targets
financial services industry (excluding depository institutions)
- $200mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Lazard
- Dechert / Davis Polk
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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New Asia Partners China I
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Target
not limited, located in People's Republic of China
- $40mm units at $8.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $5.00)
- Ladenburg Thalmann / Morgan Joseph
- Blank Rome / Graubard Miller
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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ASM Acquisition Cayman Islands
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Target
not limited, operations in Asia
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- UBS / I-Bankers Securities / Roth Capital
- Loeb & Loeb / Clifford Chance
- Cayman Islands
SEC
filings
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First Class Navigation Marshall Islands
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Target
one or more vessels or one or more operating businesses in the shipping industry
- $150mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.00)
- Dahlman Rose / Ladenburg Thalmann
- Kramer Levin / Morgan Lewis
- Republic of the Marshall Islands
SEC
filings
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RAI Acquisition
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Target
financial services industry (other than extensively regulated businesses)
- $250mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- JPMorgan
- Ledgewood / Cleary Gottlieb
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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2007
Performance Acquisition
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Target
entertainment, media and/or publishing industry
- $500mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - 0.5 redeemable warrant (@ $5.50)
- Citi
- Graubard Miller / Akin Gump
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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MAFS Acquisition
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Target
not limited
- $500mm units at $10.00
- Unit: One share - One warrant (@ $7.50)
- Citi
- Paul Weiss / Akin Gump
- Delaware incorporated
SEC
filings
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