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From left: Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace, Tishman Speyer’s Rob Speyer, Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya, Cantor Fitzgerald’s Howard Lutnick, Pershing Square Capital’s Bill Ackman and Opendoor’s Eric Wu
When Fifth Wall Ventures decided to jump into the SPAC market in January, it targeted a raise of $250 million to take a startup public.
Within three weeks, it upsized the offering twice before the new blank-check firm closed its $345 million IPO on Feb. 9. “There was a lot of public demand,” a euphoric-looking Brendan Wallace, the venture firm’s co-founder, said during a video call after the IPO.
Charles Henry Henke, 81, of Concordia, Mo., passed away on Feb. 3, 2021.
Charlie was born Oct. 10, 1939, to Maurice Dink Henke and Gertrude Neal Henke on Jefferson Street in Marshall, Mo. Charlie was raised in Malta Bend, Mo., where he played basketball and graduated from Malta Bend High School in 1957.
Charlie attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and graduated in 1961 from the School of Wildlife Biology. He had a legendary basketball career at Mizzou, earning All-Big Eight honors in 1960 and 1961 and All-American status in 1961. He was inducted into the Mystical Seven in 1960. He still holds the number 2 spot on the all-time season scoring average at 24.6 points per game, which was set in 1961.
Industry insiders say likely logistics companies and e-commerce operators would be likely acquisition targets.
Retail REIT Simon Property Group, the country’s largest operator of regional malls, is riding the SPAC wave. We don’t know yet where that wave will take the company, but industry insiders offer a number of guesses.
On Jan. 29, Indianapolis-based Simon filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to form a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The SPAC, called Simon Property Group Acquisition Holdings Inc., seeks to raise at least $300 million through an IPO.
A “blank check” SPAC is a shell company with no operations that’s set up for the sole purpose of raising cash via an IPO and eventually acquiring an existing company. It’s considered a less costly, less complicated fundraising alternative to a traditional IPO.