Since the early 1990s, the U.S. stock exchanges have long been home to many prominent Chinese companies as they tried to attract a wide spectrum of investors and enhance their global profile. Over the past decade, waves of...more
8/26/2024
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Buyouts ,
Capital Markets ,
China ,
Going-Private Transactions ,
Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA) ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
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Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) played a critical role in U.S. capital market growth in 2020. There were 248 SPACs launched, raising an aggregate of $83 billion in proceeds. The beginning of 2021 witnessed an...more
3/4/2021
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Asia ,
Capital Markets ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
D&O Insurance ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investors ,
Mergers ,
Nasdaq ,
NYSE ,
PIPEs ,
Purchase Agreement ,
Right of Redemption ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholders ,
Shell Corporations ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) ,
Trust Accounting
On January 27 and 28, 2021, over 300 participants joined Morrison & Foerster’s webinars on “SPAC 101- Is 2021 the Year of SPACs in Asia?” where Partners Mitchell S. Presser, Justin R. Salon, and Ruomu Li led an in-depth...more
Down rounds—equity financing rounds where the company’s valuation is lower than at least one of its previous rounds of financing—have been rare in the sellers’ market of the past few years, where high valuations fueled by an...more