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2. Super Group Appoints Two New Members to Expanded Board of Directors
  
  Explore Yogonet.com May 13 2022 BoardMoves
  
  ...o pursue our global growth strategy.” Holloway joins the Super Group Board following the company's successful SPAC deal with Sports Entertainment Acquisition Corp, where she was chair of the Audit Committee for the Board...
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3. SEC 2022 Examination Priorities
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Apr 26 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...available here. See also Sidley Investment Funds Update, Expansive New SEC Rule Proposals Seek to Rewrite the SPAC Playbook, available here.(go back) 4See Observations from Examinations of Advisers that Provide Electroni...
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4. The Limits of SPAC Sponsor Earnouts
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Apr 8 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  SPACs have been widely criticized for their misalignment of sponsor and shareholder interests and for the dilution inherent in their structure. A major source of these problems is the sponsors promote, under which sponsors receive 20% of post-IPO shares essentially for free...
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5. Shareholder Activists Will Target SPACs In 2022 – But It Won’t Be Easy
  
  Explore forbes.com Mar 17 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Shareholder activists who are searching for undervalued or underperforming companies could find an exceptionally target-rich environment among the SPACs that completed MA deals in the last few years. But successful SPACtivism, as its now called, wont be as easy as it looks on the surface. Nothing worth doing is ever that easy...
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6. SPAC Law and Myths
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Mar 1 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were the financial-legal hit of 2021, before they werent. SPACs broke records and displaced to an extent conventional initial public offerings (C-IPOs), even as C-IPOs also boomed...
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7. Litigation Trends in Delaware and How Businesses and Boards Can Mitigate Risk
  
  Explore Sidley Austin LLP Feb 16 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...losure, conflicts, and risk allocation. We take a look at the latest Delaware rulings and what they say about SPAC directors fiduciary duty, as well as COVIDs effect on MA deals, and how corporations and boards can mitig...
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8. Chancery Court Allows deSPAC Litigation to Proceed
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 31 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...leted business combination for Churchill Capital Corp III (Churchill), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and Multiplan Inc... ...
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9. Board Memo 2022: Sustainability and Beyond
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 15 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  ...-related activism is likely to also be fueled by the growth in public companies, particularly the spate of de-SPAC’ed companies that emerged throughout 2021. Significantly, the proxy contest dynamic will undoubtedly be i...
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10. SPAC Governance: In Need of Judicial Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Dec 8 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  SPACs have gotten their share of critical attention over the past year, including by ushereandhere. But there has been little attention paid to the weak corporate governance of many SPACs, and less attention paid to judicial review of alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. We have recently posted a paper on those topicshere. In this post, we summarize that analysis...
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  Mentions: Fiduciary Duties SPAC Corporate Governance
11. SPAC Shareholders Approve Deal That Will Take WeWork Public
  
  Explore wsj.com Oct 20 2021 BoardNews
  
  BowX says deal is expected to provide the shared-workspace company with cash proceeds of about $1.3 billion...
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  Mentions: WeWork SPAC activist investor
12. How Self-Dealing Made Houston Rockets Owner Tilman Fertitta Billions Richer During The Pandemic
  
  Explore forbes.com Oct 11 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...o 248 raising $83 billion in 2020 and 443 raising $127 billion in the first nine months of 2021, according to SPAC Analytics. Others have done more SPAC deals than Fertitta. Billionaire venture capitalist (and bitcoin en...
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13. Blog: ISS Releases Results of 2021 Broad Policy and Climate Surveys
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Oct 5 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ocus on the market price relative to the redemption value. However, given the structure of SPAC transactions, SPAC investor voting practices and the SPAC redemption feature, ISS is considering a policy change to “general...
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14. The Coming Proxy Season Will Be A Lively One
  
  Explore valuewalk.com Sep 10 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ally on M&A issues such as special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) mergers. "In some votes, especially for SPAC transactions, the turnaround time is really tight, which makes reaching the requisite vote threshold a ch...
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15. 49 Law Firms Respond to Investment Company Act Lawsuits Targeting SPACs
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 7 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  Recently a purported shareholder of certain special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) initiated derivative lawsuits asserting that the SPACs are investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940, because proceeds from their initial public offerings are invested in short-term treasuries and qualifying money market funds...
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16. Continued Scrutiny of SPACs and Media Statements
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 23 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  On July 29, 2021, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York and the SEC announced parallel charges against Trevor Milton, founder, former CEO and executive chairman, and largest shareholder of Nikola Corporation, an electric- and hydrogen-powered vehicle and energy company...
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