Blank Check Company

  By Nicholas Jasinski   July 6, 2020 6:00 am ET Editors Note from Dudley Pierce Baker at CommonStockWarrants.com : Our interest here at CSW is that all of the SPAC’s (blank check companies) have a stock warrant which will have a 5-year life starting from the time of the merger of the SPAC with another company. Interesting long-term opportunities here for greatly increased upside leverage potential with the stock warrants. Currently, we have over 65 blank check companies in our database, all of which are looking for mergers. I have not verified the information in the article below but there are many more SPAC’s trading than what the article says. Bryan R. Smith/Getty Images This year has become a boom year for special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. Some postmerger returns have been stunning, including those of Nikola Motors, Virgin Galactic, and DraftKings —all of which went public by combining with SPACs. New SPAC issuance is soaring, with multiple initial public offerings a week for several weeks running. And big names like Bill Ackman want in. More recently, investors have begun bidding up shares of SPACs that have agreed to attractive deals, but months before their combinations close. Tortoise Acquisition (ticker: SHLL), which will merge with electric-truck company Hyliion this fall, has nearly tripled since its deal announcement in June. On Monday, shares of Landcadia Holdings II (LCA), a SPAC sponsored by Landry’s CEO and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, said it plans to merge with Fertitta’s Golden Nugget gaming franchise. The stock popped more than 50% in the next two days. Also known as “blank-check companies,” SPACs … Continue reading →