SPAC Boom Ends in Frenzy of Liquidation

The Wall Street Journal2022-12-26

Many SPACs have said they would wind down, hurting backers such as venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya.During the boom in blank-check companies, their creatorscouldn’t launch them fast enough. Now...

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Many of those deadlines are coming up in the first half of next year.A 1%federal tax on share repurchasesthat is part of new climate, health and spending legislation has accelerated liquidations. Winding down a SPAC and returning cash to the investors could be considered a repurchase of the company’s existing shares, which would face the buyback tax beginning next year. Some analysts project SPAC liquidation losses will top $2 billion in the coming months.“Something people thought was going to be a fantastic vehicle for creating wealth is looking increasingly like a poisoned chalice,” saidJohn Chachas, co-managing principal at Methuselah Advisors, a boutique investment bank that has advised companies fielding an increasing number of calls from SPACs desperate to find deals.Also called a blank-check company, a SPAC is ashell firmthat raises money from investors and lists publicly with the sole purpose of merging with a private company to take it public. After regulators review the deal and it is completed, the company going public replaces the SPAC in the stock market.Such mergers burst onto the scene as popular alternatives to traditional initial public offerings in 2020 and 2021. The boom turned into a bust during this year’s market reversal.An exchange-traded fund tracking companies that went public this way is down more than 70% this year, dragged down by losses in startups such as sports-betting firmDraftKingsInc. and electric car maker Lucid Group Inc. Companies that went public via SPACs haveperformed worsethan other newly public companies this year.One characteristic of SPACs is that investors can get their cash back if they don’t want to participate in a deal. When the market was hot, investors often held shares in the newly public startups, expecting big returns or selling immediately if shares had already gone up. 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SPAC creators have lost about $9 million on average through liquidations this year, money they paid to banks and law firms to set up the shell companies.There are another roughly 150 SPACs holding about $25 billion that have reached merger agreements but haven’t closed them, including a blank-check firm that is trying to take publicDonald Trump’s social-media company, according to SPAC Research. 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