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SPACs Are Booming. These 21 May Be About to Announce Deals

  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

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Chuck E. Cheese Will Soon Be Publicly Traded

I dare say that every parent, grandparent, aunt and uncle, everyone, has been to a Chuck E. Cheese somewhere in the world. Chuck E. Cheese will soon be completing a merger with Leo Holding Corp., a blank check company, sometimes referred to as a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation – (SPAC) which will allow CEC to become a publicly traded company. Upon the completion of this business combination, the new name will be Chuck E Cheese Brands, Inc. and new symbols will be issued for trading. Leo issued a press release announcing that it has scheduled the extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders to approve the Business Combination for July 30, 2019. However, I caution investors, until this merger is finalized issues can still arise, and until the deal is done, the deal is not done. Leo Holding Corp. currently trades as LHC on the New York Stock Exchange as do the stock warrants which trade as LHC.WS. Soon investors will have another restaurant and entertainment company trading which might represent an attractive opportunity depending upon your personal investment objectives. My fascination and purpose in writing this article is that Leo Holding Corp. has stock warrants trading which will become stock warrants of the new company which may be of interest to many investors. Currently in our databases, there are 66 blank check companies trading and with each company there is a stock warrant trading which was issued in the initial offering of the blank check company. All of these 66 … Continue reading

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