Over the trailing year, you have likely witnessed the rise of shell firms as a medium to take private enterprises public. Market analysts often use the term “reverse merger” to describe this ...

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, were big business in 2021 when everyone from lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart to politicians like Paul Ryan was investing in them. Also known as blank ...

Who can possibly forget the timeless childhood classic Blank Check? It was one of the first exposures to the benefits of having a lot of money we received as kids. It showed us the appeal of a ...

This form of taking a company public has been around for a while, but it's getting a lot of attention this year as its popularity rises. In the simplest terms, a blank check company is a public entity ...

The once hot blank-check merger trend is fading fast. The stock market has been cratering so far this year — leaving special purpose acquisition companies, which buy private firms in order to take ...

Fallout from the coronavirus has fueled a fresh wave of interest in an unusual investment vehicle with a shaky reputation: the blank-check company. Blank-check companies are essentially big pools of ...