DLA Piper Partner Jeff Selman By Jarrett Banks 2020 has meant a lot of things to different people. But for Jeff Selman, a partner at DLA Piper, who advises […]

  By Jarrett Banks Matt Rubel is looking to empower a business. The former CEO of Cole Haan just launched a retail-focused SPAC called Empower Ltd. (NYSE: EMPW-UN), which raised […]

  By John Jannarone Funding for therapeutic medicine can be controversial, especially in the case of psilocybin. To address recent investor questions, IPO Edge spoke Wednesday with Mydecine Innovations Group, […]

    Akerna Founder and CEO Jessica Billingsley By Jarrett Banks Being a female CEO in tech and the even less diverse cannabis industry is no small feat. But Akerna […]

By John Jannarone 22nd Century Group, Inc. (ticker: XXII) wants you to quit smoking. But it also wants you to feel better. The biotechnology company is primarily focused on reduced […]

Skillz Chief Executive Officer Andrew Paradise By Jarrett Banks First it was the pandemic. Then it was the SPAC boom. The lockdown led to the best quarter ever for mobile gaming […]

  SPAC, direct listing, or regular-way IPO? To answer, IPO Edge hosted a bootcamp in partnership with Latham & Watkins LLP, Nasdaq, MorganFranklin Consulting, GTS, Woodruff Sawyer, Jefferies LLC, ICR […]

The IPO market has recovered far faster than most expected, with roughly $98 billion in U.S. deals so far in 2020, the highest since 2000, according to Dealogic. But companies […]

By Larry Wieseneck Co-President, Cowen and Company, LLC 1986, 1998, 2001, 2008, 2020…. The last four decades have been defined by major market events that were “game changers” for the […]

SPAC to File S-1 with SEC as Soon as Friday, Seeks Target in Technology Sector Emil Michael was Previously Chief Business Officer at Uber Technologies, Inc. SPAC’s Special Advisors Include […]