The special purpose acquisition company (Spac) boom is cooling. Spacs are shell firms that list on the stockmarket in order to raise cash. They then use the money to merge with another company.
For start-up founders, Spacs offer a route to a public stockmarket listing that is less bureaucratic than the traditional initial public offering (IPO). They have been used to launch everything from electric-vehicle (EV) makers to space tourism business Virgin Galactic.
Around 250 Spacs launched in America last year, raising $83bn. Between February and March, 69 companies agreed to merge with Spacs, but that number has fallen to just 30 since the start of April, say Echo Wang and Anirban Sen on Reuters. Dozens of firms have ditched merger plans of late.
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