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Underwriter

Aegis Capital

Active in SPAC underwriting from Dec 19, 2013 to Feb 6, 2015.

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Mandates

2

1 bookrun

Deal volume

$86.7M

gross proceeds, full credit

Disclosed allocation

$6.5M

units × $10 unit price

Live vehicles

0

searching or announced

Completion rate

0%

0 closed vs 2 liquidated

Aegis Capital SPAC mandates by year

2 mandates between 2013 and 2015. Busiest year 2013 with 1.

20132015

Mandates

Every SPAC IPO this house was named on, newest first, with the role the cover page credited and the units the underwriting agreement assigned.

SPACRoleStatusIPODeal sizeAllocation
BARINGTON/HILCO ACQUISITION CORP.BookrunnerLiquidatedFeb 6, 2015$9.3M$4.0M
Cambridge Capital Acquisition CorpUnderwriterLiquidatedDec 19, 2013$77.4M$2.5M

Analyst questions

Aegis Capital and SPACs, answered

The questions a desk actually asks about a bank's blank-check franchise, answered from Aegis Capital's own mandates rather than from generic explainer copy.

Which SPACs has Aegis Capital underwritten?

Aegis Capital appears on the underwriting syndicate of 2 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including BARINGTON/HILCO ACQUISITION CORP. and Cambridge Capital Acquisition Corp. The full list, with the role credited on each cover page, is in the mandates table on this page.

How many SPAC IPOs has Aegis Capital book-run?

Aegis Capital was credited as a book-running manager on 1 of its 2 SPAC mandates, 50% of them. The remainder are co-manager or syndicate positions, where the economics and the sponsor relationship sit elsewhere.

How much SPAC capital has Aegis Capital underwritten?

$86.7M of gross proceeds across every offering Aegis Capital was named on. That is the conventional league-table measure, which credits the full deal to each syndicate member. The narrower figure is its own allocation: $6.5M, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to Aegis Capital specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.

What is the largest SPAC IPO Aegis Capital has worked on?

Cambridge Capital Acquisition Corp, which raised $77.4M in Dec 2013. Aegis Capital was credited as a syndicate member on that offering.

Which Aegis Capital SPACs completed a business combination?

None of the SPACs Aegis Capital underwrote has yet reported a completed business combination in the filings we index. 0 remain live and 2 returned their trust.

Which Aegis Capital SPACs are still looking for a target?

Aegis Capital has no live SPAC mandates in our index; every vehicle it underwrote has either closed a deal or wound up.

What is Aegis Capital's SPAC completion rate?

0%. Of the 2 vehicles Aegis Capital underwrote that have already resolved, 0 closed a business combination and 2 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 13.2%, so Aegis Capital sits below it. SPACs still searching are excluded, because an unfinished clock is not a result. The rate measures the vehicles, not the bank: a syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target.

Which Aegis Capital SPAC performed best after its merger?

We hold a current quote for none of Aegis Capital's closed deals, so no comparison is possible here. Post-merger price history is not part of our dataset, and we would rather say so than imply a ranking the data does not support. What this page does show is the outcome of every vehicle and the trust economics disclosed at the time.

Which sponsors does Aegis Capital work with most?

BARINGTON/HILCO (1 deal) and Cambridge (1 deal). Sponsor franchises are resolved from the sponsor entity named in each prospectus, so repeat issuers group together even though every vehicle is a separate legal entity.

Which banks does Aegis Capital share SPAC syndicates with?

Most often EarlyBirdCapital (2), I-Bankers Securities (2) and Sidoti & (1). Syndicate composition is read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section, so these are co-appearances on the same offering, not a commercial relationship we have any other visibility into.

When did Aegis Capital start underwriting SPACs, and is it still active?

Its first SPAC IPO in our index priced Dec 19, 2013 and the most recent Feb 6, 2015. It has no live vehicles at present.

What was Aegis Capital's busiest year in SPACs?

2013, with 1 mandate worth $77.4M of gross proceeds. The chart on this page shows the full year-by-year run, which for most houses traces the 2020-21 boom and the retreat that followed.

What size of SPAC does Aegis Capital typically underwrite?

The average offering it has been named on raised $43.4M, against a range from $9.3M to $77.4M. Deal size is a reasonable proxy for where a house sits in the market: the bulge bracket concentrates on larger trusts, the SPAC specialists on smaller ones.

Which sectors do Aegis Capital's SPACs target?

Consumer (1) and Transportation & Logistics (1). Mandates are read from charter language in the prospectus and are often deliberately broad. Many SPACs reserve the right to pursue any industry, in which case no sector is tagged at all.

How many of Aegis Capital's SPACs liquidated?

2. A liquidation means the vehicle reached its combination deadline without closing a deal and returned the trust to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed, not a default. Holders who did not redeem got their pro-rata share of the trust back.

Where does this Aegis Capital data come from?

Every figure is read from filings the registrants made with the SEC. Syndicate membership and role come from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section of each IPO prospectus (Form 424B4); outcomes come from the filing record: a current report announcing completion, or a delisting notice ending a liquidation. Nothing here is sourced from press coverage or from Aegis Capital itself.

Compiled by the SPACListing research desk

Last reconciled Feb 13, 2019

Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally IPO prospectuses (Form 424B4), current reports (Form 8-K), delisting notices (Form 25-NSE). Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.

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