Spacs speed up: NAAC brings the Pipe to the IPO

Anchor investors usually come into a Spac through a pre-merger Pipe deal. But the latest Europe-focused vehicle has brought them in from the very start.

It has only been listed for a week, but North Atlantic Acquisition Corp (NAAC), a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) formed to hunt for targets within the next two years, has already been inundated with interest. Gary Quin, its chief executive, tells Euromoney that he’s fielding a wealth of inbound pitches for business combinations, many of which are from investment banks keen to line up an alternative option for clients already in their own IPO pipelines.

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