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The week kicked off with a large SPAC deal announced on Sunday, bringing a new global sports betting and online casino company public. Several other SPAC deals were announced throughout the week along with a couple rumors that could be worth a watch this week. Benzinga s SPACs Attack covered the deals and news of the week.
Here is a look back at the announced deals, rumors and some top headlines.
SPAC Deals
On Sunday, online sports betting and gaming company Super Group Holding, the owner of Betway and Spin, announced a SPAC deal with Sports Entertainment Acquisition Corp (NYSE: SEAH) valuing the company at $4.75 billion. Super Group is licensed in 23 jurisdictions with plans to use its scale and technology to expand into additional territories. In the 12-month period ending March 2021, Super Group had over $42 billion of wagers and 2.5 million monthly unique active customers.
Published: 29 Apr 2021, 10:09
By:
Andy Colthorpe
Commercial and industrial (C&I) battery storage from Stem Inc allows business to cut their electricity costs through peak shaving of demand charges levied on commercial customers in the US, while the systems can also be co-optimised to play into other opportunities such as grid services. Image: Stem Inc.
Stem Inc’s shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, after the “artificial intelligence-driven clean energy storage services” company completed its business combination with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Star Peak Energy Transition Corp.
Stem Inc, which was a pioneer in deploying battery storage systems in combination with smart software that enables commercial and industrial electricity users to lower their electricity bills from reducing their draw of power from the grid at peak times, while also enrolling the batteries in various grid, energy and capacity services programmes to
Results in over $600 million of gross cash proceeds to Stem
Stem’s common stock to begin trading on the NYSE under symbol “STEM” on April 29, 2021
MILLBRAE, Calif., April 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Stem, Inc., a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clean energy storage services, announced today that it has completed its previously announced business combination with Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. (“Star Peak”).
The transaction was unanimously approved by Star Peak’s Board of Directors and was approved at a special meeting of Star Peak stockholders on April 27, 2021. In connection with the closing, Star Peak changed its name to Stem, Inc. (“Stem” or the “Company”). The ticker symbols for the common stock and warrants of Stem will change from “STPK” and “STPK.WS” to “STEM” and “STEM.WS” and will begin trading as such on the New York Stock Exchange on April 29, 2021.
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Apr 23, 2021
While 3 deals ultimately announced this week (HZAC, FWAA, and DBDR) it was still a slow week compared to peak SPAC merger frenzy. This week s deals provided modest pops - despite what has (mostly) been a rollercoaster overall week for risk assets. On a happy note, SPACs finished Friday largely up, for the first time in what feels like years.
Overall, the week was one where the mood felt increasingly dark with the media only adding to it with little positive to say.