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2. The Corporate Law Reckoning for SPACs
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 18 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...rom federal officials, especially the SEC. This federal attention on SPACs is natural, as at first glance the SPAC appears to be simply an alternative to the conventional IPO, itself regulated chiefly at the federal leve...
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3. Gary Gensler’s Assault on US Capital Markets
  
  Explore wsj.com Jul 17 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...osal declared that advisers on SPACs—including banks—were already subject to liability as underwriters for de-SPAC merger transactions, the second step in bringing private companies public. The SEC then began taking meas...
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4. Bill Ackman Will Repay Investors $4 Billion After His SPAC Fails
  
  Explore cnn.com Jul 13 2022 BoardNews
  
  Billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman will close his special purpose acquisition company and return $4 billion to investors after failing to find an adequate target company to take public...
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5. How the Man Behind the Apple Store Presided Over a Spac Catastrophe
  
  Explore News07trends Jul 5 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...buyers have been slowly changing into extra discriminating. Redemption charges — the amount of cash pulled by Spac shareholders when the time involves vote on a transaction — had crept as much as about 60 per cent by the...
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6. Better's Ex-COO Says She Was Pushed Out for Complaining About CEO Garg
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 8 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...ey did, Pierce's complaint said. Pierce said Calamari worried the letter would imperil the company's upcoming SPAC deal. Better is expected to merge with Aurora Acquisition Corp., a blank-check company, by the end of the...
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7. RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. Appoints Annita Menogan To Board of Directors
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jun 6 2022 BoardMoves
  
  ...l Counsel of The Simply Good Foods Company and previously Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., which SMPL acquired in a SPAC transaction. Before that, she served as Chief Legal Officer of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., advising ...
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8. Super Group Appoints Two New Members to Expanded Board of Directors
  
  Explore Yogonet.com May 13 2022 BoardMoves
  
  ...o pursue our global growth strategy.” Holloway joins the Super Group Board following the company's successful SPAC deal with Sports Entertainment Acquisition Corp, where she was chair of the Audit Committee for the Board...
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9. SEC 2022 Examination Priorities
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Apr 26 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...available here. See also Sidley Investment Funds Update, Expansive New SEC Rule Proposals Seek to Rewrite the SPAC Playbook, available here.(go back) 4See Observations from Examinations of Advisers that Provide Electroni...
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10. The Limits of SPAC Sponsor Earnouts
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Apr 8 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  SPACs have been widely criticized for their misalignment of sponsor and shareholder interests and for the dilution inherent in their structure. A major source of these problems is the sponsors promote, under which sponsors receive 20% of post-IPO shares essentially for free...
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11. Shareholder Activists Will Target SPACs In 2022 – But It Won’t Be Easy
  
  Explore forbes.com Mar 17 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Shareholder activists who are searching for undervalued or underperforming companies could find an exceptionally target-rich environment among the SPACs that completed MA deals in the last few years. But successful SPACtivism, as its now called, wont be as easy as it looks on the surface. Nothing worth doing is ever that easy...
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12. SPAC Law and Myths
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Mar 1 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were the financial-legal hit of 2021, before they werent. SPACs broke records and displaced to an extent conventional initial public offerings (C-IPOs), even as C-IPOs also boomed...
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13. Litigation Trends in Delaware and How Businesses and Boards Can Mitigate Risk
  
  Explore Sidley Austin LLP Feb 16 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...losure, conflicts, and risk allocation. We take a look at the latest Delaware rulings and what they say about SPAC directors fiduciary duty, as well as COVIDs effect on MA deals, and how corporations and boards can mitig...
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14. Chancery Court Allows deSPAC Litigation to Proceed
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 31 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...leted business combination for Churchill Capital Corp III (Churchill), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and Multiplan Inc... ...
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15. Board Memo 2022: Sustainability and Beyond
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 15 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...-related activism is likely to also be fueled by the growth in public companies, particularly the spate of de-SPAC’ed companies that emerged throughout 2021. Significantly, the proxy contest dynamic will undoubtedly be i...
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16. SPAC Governance: In Need of Judicial Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Dec 8 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  SPACs have gotten their share of critical attention over the past year, including by ushereandhere. But there has been little attention paid to the weak corporate governance of many SPACs, and less attention paid to judicial review of alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. We have recently posted a paper on those topicshere. In this post, we summarize that analysis...
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