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

Written by Moira Conlon | Nov 1, 2020 6:18:00 PM

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."

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...