PropertyGuru to go public in merger with SPAC backed by Richard Li, Peter Thiel

Reuters2021-07-26

July 23 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian online realty company PropertyGuru on Friday agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm backed by billionaires Richard Li and Peter Thiel, giving ...

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Portfolio50
2021-08-13
Portfolio50
Gonna take a watchful eye on this IPO
Tzengoes
2021-08-12
Tzengoes
Another Singapore SPAC after Grab~ how would it go up against Redfin / Zillow etc etc? [傲嬌] [白眼] [賤笑]
Chrystle
2021-07-26
Chrystle
Nice to see SPAC structure being utilised.
- Ckee:
  Yes
YTRT
2021-07-26
YTRT
Thanks
- Maybl:
  ?
carolinetsh
2021-07-26
carolinetsh
Good
IZLIN
2021-07-26
IZLIN
@Meow17 @Sagi08 @simplydkam[Surprised]

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It serves 37 million property seekers a month and 49,000 active property agents across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.\nThe company offers digital property marketplaces to match buyers and tenants with sellers and landlords, as well as digital marketing for property agents and developers.\n\"The market for property is probably the oldest market in the world, and only now is it beginning to change rapidly,\" said Peter Thiel, president of Thiel Capital.\n\"As PropertyGuru spearheads that change in Southeast Asia, Bridgetown 2 will provide capital and expertise to accelerate it even further,\" he said.\nThe combined company will have an enterprise value of about $1.35 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021 or the first quarter of 2022.\nMerrill Lynch (Singapore) Pte Ltd is serving as exclusive financial advisor to PropertyGuru on the deal.\nMerrill Lynch, Citigroup, KKR Capital Markets and TPG Capital were the placement agents to Bridgetown 2. (Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; additional reporting Scott Murdoch in Hong Kong, Editing by Devika Syamnath, Robert Birsel)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":251,"commentSize":25,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.3","shortVersion":"4.29.3","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2153354629"}