Elliott Smith, Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP Successful SPACs need transaction advisors with SPAC deal-making experience. Often the best acquisition targets are growth companies rather than distressed assets. And while some SPAC IPOs have approached a billion dollars, huge...

  Presented by Winston & Strawn LLP and ICR Inc.   While Wall Street groaned over the struggles of Uber Technologies, Inc., Lyft, Inc., and WeWork parent The We Company in recent months, a cousin of the traditional IPO has...

Shares of SmileDirectClub, Inc. Fell 28% on Their First Day of Trade By John Jannarone This is one record that’s nothing to smile about. Shares of SmileDirectClub, Inc., the much-hyped orthodontics disruptor, fell 28% Thursday after pricing at $23 each,...

WeWork Parent We Co. may have made some positive steps to clean up its act as its IPO got into trouble, but a close look at changes to a recent SEC filing reveals some problems with profitability that are tough...

Trinity Merger Corp. to Combine with Broadmark to Create Listed Mortgage REIT By John Jannarone From Travel-as-a-Service to Space-as-as-Service, the IPO market has been dominated by big promises and little profits in 2019. For those seeking a new listing with...

The troubled IPO of WeWork parent We Co. can still be completed but the company needs to make more significant progress allaying investors concerns. That’s according to Nick Mazing, Director of Research at Sentieo,  a leading AI-enabled financial research and...

By John Jannarone Under heavy fire from Wall Street, WeWork parent We Co. has made some serious tweaks to its planned IPO. It’s added a female board director, CEO Adam Neumann returned a few million dollars for a questionable trademark,...

WeWork parent We Co. did the right thing to add a woman to its board of directors, but the workspace-sharing company still suffers severe corporate governance issues.  That’s according to IPO Edge Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone, who spoke to Cheddar TV...

There are plenty of places to try out The Impossible Burger, from Restaurant Brands International Inc.’s Burger King to The Cheesecake Factory. Soon, investors may also be a bit to get a taste of publicly-listed shares. In an interview with...

  Blank-check company Legacy Acquisition Corp. has agreed to purchase a global digital marketing company to be renamed Blue Impact Inc., clearing the way to grow organically and through M&A. Legacy, which raised $300 million almost two years ago, is...