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FP for CFO Magazine: SPACs require best-in-class communications from the get-go

Topic: Thought Leadership IPO Communications
Nov 1, 2020 10:18:00 AM

Moira Conlon writes for CFO Magazine: "In our experience, establishing a strong investor relations foundation and leveraging best-in-class investor communications from the start are critical competitive advantages for companies entering the public market through SPAC transactions."

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While SPAC transactions have long been considered a last resort way to go public, they are now thriving and represented about half of all IPO issuance so far in 2020. Today’s special-purpose acquisition company deals have been validated by numerous high-profile sponsors, established and successful private companies leveraging the structure to go public, and top-tier institutional investors and investment banks participating in these transactions...

 


About the author:

Moira Conlon is the Founder & CEO of Financial Profiles, where she is responsible for the firm's operations and growth. operations and growth. She leads teams and client engagements, sharing her vast 30 years of experience as an investor and strategic communications advisor and as an investment banker earlier in her career at Merrill Lynch. Moira has provided counsel to management, boards and communications executives of hundreds of public and private companies in many industries. She has expertise in investor relations, media relations, transactions, crisis communications, and corporate governance.

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