Oaktree Capital has paid $375 million to acquire a significant minority stake in Primary Wave some of which will be used to complete a new music rights fund.
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NEW YORK, May 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm rated
Top 50 in the 2018-2020 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating
Roth CH Acquisition II Co. ( ROCC or the Company ) (ROCC) relating to its proposed acquisition of Reservoir Holdings, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, ROCC will acquire Reservoir through a reverse merger, with Reservoir emerging as a publicly traded company.
The investigation focuses on whether Roth CH Acquisition II Co. and its Board of Directors violated securities laws and/or breached their fiduciary duties to the Company by 1) failing to conduct a fair process, and 2) whether the transaction is properly valued.
Inflation News Hits SPACs, Pershing Square Tontine Surges
The 4% YoY CPI jump dominated market news and sent stocks and SPACs both sliding. Switchback s Bird deal flopped and Ackman boosted PSTH.
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The two deals announced this morning were a mixed bag, though both are still trading at significant discounts to NAV, and certainly lacking punch:
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+2.17% to $9.89
It s very tough to announce a deal in such difficult market conditions, so perhaps we will see CENH trade above NAV as equity markets recover. On a really tough day overall for stocks following this morning s CPI print, SPACs were not immune to the selloff. Current pre-deal SPACs are
LOKB, STWO, LSAQ Announce SPAC Deals
An unusually busy SPAC Friday with three deals and GAMC announcing full over-allotment exercised by underwriters. Will it be enough to change the narrative?
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More on the deals here:
Could 3 Positively Received Deals Change the Narrative?
We ve been saying that it will take multiple positive events for the SPAC mood and overall narrative to change. Is it possible that a triple of deals on Friday will all be positively received and start to turn the narrative? GAMC announcing that their full over-allotment was exercised could also boost the narrative a bit.
That said, it will be a tough shift as yesterday the average pre-deal SPAC closed at $9.88, well off of NAV and almost 85% of SPACs with announced deals traded down.
SPACs Get Beat Up Again
SPACs are getting increasingly battered as IPOs are scarce, pre-deal SPACs fall consistently below NAV, and announced deals continue to weaken. EV SPACs got hammered as two deals closed.
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Another rough day for SPACs as
the average price for a pre-deal SPAC is now down to $9.88. SPACs with announced deals fared even worse with
almost 85% trading down today.
This morning did see one M&A announcement (see below), but that brings the week s total to just two announced and neither impressed.
It s clear the pace will remain slow until peak deal - i.e. when the 420+ SPACs that are searching for targets and feeling the pressure - forces the hand of the SPACs. Those SPACs are trading at an