{"product_id":"9780367609887-mergers-acquisitions-international-fin","title":"Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnalysing Special Purpose Acquisition Companies. This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective. \u003cp\u003eThis is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective. By the end of 2020, more than 240 SPACs were listed in the US (on NASDAQ or the NYSE), raising a record $83 billion. The SPAC craze has been shaking the US for months, mainly because of its simplicity: a bunch of investors decides to buy shares at a fixed price in a company that initially has no assets. In this way, a SPAC, also known as a \"blank check company\", is created as an empty shell with lots of money to spend on a corporate shopping spree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCould the trend be here to stay? Are SPACs the new legitimate path to traditional IPO? This book tackles those questions and more. The author provides a thorough analysis of SPACs including their legal framework and how they are used as a risk mitigation tool to structure transactions. The main objectives of the book are focused on finding a working definition for SPACs and theorising on their origins, definition, and evolution; identifying the objectives of financial regulation within the context of the recent financial crisis (2007–2010) and the one that is currently unfolding (Covid-19); and also describing practical examples of SPACs through a comparative study that, for the first time, outlines every major capital market on which SPACs are listed, in order to identify a possible international standard of regulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is relevant to academics as well as policymakers, international financial regulators, corporate finance lawyers as well as to the financial industry \u003ci\u003etout court\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40987353612385,"sku":"9780367609887","price":44.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/eadddf6f6ce233a370dbfb29603b77dd.jpg?v=1695199941","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367609887-mergers-acquisitions-international-fin","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}