Dealmaker Michael Klein’s fourth SPAC was a symbol of the mania around blank check companies when it announced a merger agreement with electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors in mid-February.
Now it’s a symbol of the fall — and the most heavily shorted SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, in the market.
Rumors of the Lucid deal sent the SPAC soaring earlier this year at the peak of the frenzy. But Klein’s SPAC, Churchill Capital Corp. IV, quickly began to crash — falling from a high of $65 to around $20 Friday — and took the rest of the SPAC world with it.