This book is based on the author's dissertation submitted in 2017 as part of his LLM degree in Commercial and Corporate Law at Queen Mary University of London. Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, typically known in the marketplace as 'SPACs', are innovative investment vehicles providing financial resources for M&A transactions from capital markets. The past two years have seen the US SPACs explode in popularity to such a degree that they substantially surpass traditional IPOs in 2021 representing almost 60% of the total new listings.
As part of the need for understanding this trajectory, this book focuses on what the determinants of the US SPACs' success are, which ones are associated with failure and based on these findings, if it is possible to suggest a list of metrics to describe what a model of successful SPAC would look like. The book also provides a general overview of the Turkish regulatory landscape pertaining to SPACs and analyses the reasons why SPACs have rem...
