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Wow that seems like the kind of behaviour you'd see in a massive speculative bubble. People buying blank cheque companies without knowing what they're going to

• mason55 6y ago
  If you don’t like what the SPAC is going to do then you can get your money back before it’s used in the acquisition.
• kpommerenke 6y ago
  Once the SPAC has identified a company to buy, investors in the SPAC get a choice to either stay invested or get their money back with interest. So it's only a blank check initially, but not once it matters. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-08/spac-magic-isn-t-free https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-08/spac-m...
  • grey-area 6y ago
    I'm not sure I buy that - you're only likely to find out it was a bad idea after the takeover, because the deal is deliberately opaque, early investors get special rights, it may only be for a small part of the private company's value, and the private company has not usually published all the data required of a public company. There are very good reasons IPOs require all sorts of public documentation and due diligence. All that regulation which SPACs attempt to side-step is there because of previous scams run in just the same style as SPACs. They are reminiscent of the weird companies formed during the South Sea Bubble e.g. A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is