| 30.03.2021 Other Voices: The ripples behind the SPAC wave |
| By: Michael Hackett, David Heck, Jonathan Weiss The past year saw a burst in popularity of SPACs. More than half of companies that went public in 2020 did so using a SPAC on their way to raising over $80 billion in proceeds, and so far in 2021 SPAC offerings far outpace traditional IPOs. SPACs allow companies to go public with greater speed and with fewer hurdles than a traditional IPO. These |