As US SPACs flounder, did Europe largely dodge a bullet?

Clean-check firms could also be little greater than a fast solution to de-horn unicorns

Yesterday, we requested how low SPAC-led public debuts may go, and the reply was very near zero. Some now-public firms that rode blank-check firms to the general public markets have seen 90% or extra of their worth deleted.

It’s tough to overstate how far some SPAC mixtures have fallen.

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The excellent news is that whereas the U.S. SPAC market went bananas final 12 months, different international locations’ public markets did not generate as a lot blank-check company quantity. Europe, for instance, noticed far fewer SPACs through the 2020-2021 growth than we tabulated in America. Does that imply that European startups dodged a bullet? Maybe, however to not the diploma that we could have first anticipated. Why? It comes right down to firm high quality.