Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)

Providing sophisticated, comprehensive legal counsel on complex deal structures.

After a lull in the usage of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), entrepreneurs and investors have returned to SPACs in force over the past year, raising more capital in 2020 for SPACs than in the last ten years combined. Husch Blackwell’s transactional teams have helped lead the way, representing both buyers and sellers in complex SPAC transactions.

Due to the complexities involved in SPAC-led transactions, our firm brings together an impressive group of lawyers in order to provide a comprehensive, end-to-end deal team capable of addressing myriad interconnected legal challenges these deals present, including M&A, corporate and securities, capital markets, antitrust, intellectual property and employee benefits and executive compensation. Importantly, our firm’s industry-first structure allows our deal teams to draw on a wealth of industry-specific regulatory expertise, especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, food and agribusiness and energy and natural resources.

From initial public offerings, negotiations of business combination agreements, registration statements, complex cross-border acquisitions, pre-SPAC corporate roll-ups and PIPE financings, our SPAC team delivers the kind of sophisticated legal counsel that investors, buyers and sellers need to preserve and enhance corporate value.