Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have gained increasing attention over the past year, largely due to the recent surge of SPAC offerings in the United States.
While SPACs have been a less common means of capital markets financing and listing in Europe, a number of recent and anticipated offerings by SPACs indicate that this may be changing. This client briefing provides a high-level overview of common SPAC features, key considerations for SPACs in Europe as well as issues raised in offerings by SPACs to qualified institutional buyers in the United States.

