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Underwriter

B. Riley Securities

Active in SPAC underwriting from Oct 14, 2015 to Sep 12, 2025.

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Mandates

62

28 bookrun

Deal volume

$10.9B

gross proceeds, full credit

Disclosed allocation

$3.2B

units × $10 unit price

Live vehicles

10

searching or announced

Completion rate

64%

32 closed vs 18 liquidated

B. Riley Securities SPAC mandates by year

62 mandates between 2015 and 2025. Busiest year 2021 with 24.

20152025
2021

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
OTG Acquisition Corp. IOTGABookrunnerSearchingSep 12, 2025$238M$100M
Quantumsphere Acquisition CorpQUMSUnderwriterAnnouncedAug 7, 2025$82.8M$500K
Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. IIDRDBBookrunnerAnnouncedDec 13, 2024$245M$200M
Hadron Energy, Inc.HDRNUnderwriterCompletedAug 29, 2024$200M$165M
Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman—Co-managerAnnouncedMay 3, 2024$288M$25.0M
Bayview Acquisition Corp—UnderwriterAnnouncedDec 19, 2023$60.0M$500K
Aimei Health Technology Co., Ltd.AFJKBookrunnerSearchingDec 6, 2023$12.5M$500K
Global Lights Acquisition Corp—BookrunnerLiquidatedNov 14, 2023$69.0M$500K
99 Acquisition Group Inc.—UnderwriterLiquidatedAug 21, 2023$77.2M$42.9M
Keen Vision Acquisition Corp.KVACFUnderwriterAnnouncedJul 25, 2023$150M$104M
Four Leaf Acquisition Corp—UnderwriterSearchingMar 22, 2023$19.9M$48.6M
New Horizon Aircraft Ltd.HOVRUnderwriterCompletedFeb 11, 2023$115M$95.7M
ALPHATIME ACQUISITION CORP—UnderwriterApprovedJan 3, 2023$16.0M$500K
Hudson Acquisition I Corp.—UnderwriterApprovedOct 17, 2022$58.7M$500K
Aquaron Acquisition Corp.—BookrunnerAnnouncedOct 5, 2022$54.2M$500K
Signal Hill Acquisition Corp.—BookrunnerLiquidatedFeb 14, 2022$100M$100M
Broad Capital Acquisition Corp—UnderwriterLiquidatedJan 12, 2022$99.4M$500K
GLOBALINK INVESTMENT INC.—BookrunnerLiquidatedDec 8, 2021$113M$500K
Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp—BookrunnerLiquidatedDec 8, 2021$225M$200M
Blockchain Moon Acquisition Corp.—BookrunnerCompletedOct 19, 2021$18.4M$500K
Monterey Innovation Acquisition Corp—UnderwriterLiquidatedOct 4, 2021$21.9M$500K
Parabellum Acquisition Corp.—BookrunnerLiquidatedSep 29, 2021$146M$125M
WinVest Acquisition Corp.WINVBookrunnerAnnouncedSep 16, 2021$113M$500K
Ocean Biomedical, Inc.OCEAUnderwriterCompletedSep 16, 2021$104M$500K
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.DJTUnderwriterCompletedSep 8, 2021$311M$500K
Wag! Group Co.—UnderwriterCompletedSep 1, 2021$125M$500K
Armada Acquisition Corp. I—UnderwriterCompletedAug 16, 2021$149M$500K
Nova Vision Acquisition Corp—UnderwriterCompletedAug 6, 2021$57.5M$500K
Nauticus Robotics, Inc.KITTUnderwriterCompletedJul 16, 2021$169M$500K
Oklo Inc.OKLOUnderwriterCompletedJul 10, 2021$308M$18.0M
Macondray Capital Acquisition Corp. I—BookrunnerLiquidatedJul 2, 2021$292M$250M
PSQ Holdings, Inc.PSQHUnderwriterCompletedJun 10, 2021$176M$150M
Osiris Acquisition Corp.—Co-managerLiquidatedMay 17, 2021$33.2M$46.0M
B. Riley Principal 250 Merger Corp.—BookrunnerLiquidatedMay 7, 2021$173M—
African Gold Acquisition Corp—BookrunnerLiquidatedMar 1, 2021$406M$360M
FaZe Holdings Inc.—BookrunnerCompletedFeb 19, 2021$173M—
Churchill Capital Corp VII—UnderwriterCompletedFeb 16, 2021$618M$36.0M
Churchill Capital Corp VI—UnderwriterLiquidatedFeb 12, 2021$287M$14.4M
Goal Acquisitions Corp.—UnderwriterLiquidatedFeb 11, 2021$254M$50.0M
Evo Acquisition Corp—BookrunnerCompletedFeb 11, 2021$125M$87.0M
Quantum FinTech Acquisition Corp—UnderwriterCompletedFeb 8, 2021$7.0M$500K
Healthcare Services Acquisition Corp—BookrunnerLiquidatedDec 23, 2020$331M$288K
Churchill Capital Corp V—UnderwriterCompletedDec 16, 2020$26.3M$13.5M
Globis Acquisition Corp.—BookrunnerCompletedDec 14, 2020$115M$500K
Redbox Entertainment Inc.—BookrunnerCompletedDec 1, 2020$145M$125M
Natural Order Acquisition Corp.—UnderwriterLiquidatedNov 12, 2020$230M$500K
GPGI, Inc.GPGIBookrunnerCompletedNov 9, 2020$236M$220M
Cipher Digital Inc.CIFRUnderwriterCompletedOct 20, 2020$169M$500K
Spartacus Acquisition Corp—BookrunnerCompletedOct 19, 2020$196M$200M
Otonomo Merger US Inc.—BookrunnerCompletedSep 15, 2020$150M$150M
Anghami (DE), Inc.—BookrunnerCompletedAug 10, 2020$100M$500K
PTK Acquisition Corp.—BookrunnerLiquidatedJul 15, 2020$115M$500K
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.EOSEBookrunnerCompletedMay 20, 2020$175M—
Aeva Technologies, Inc.AEVAUnderwriterCompletedFeb 5, 2020$243M$40.0M
Skillsoft Corp.SKILCo-managerCompletedJun 28, 2019$678M$30.0M
ALTA EQUIPMENT GROUP INC.ALTGBookrunnerCompletedApr 9, 2019$144M—
Churchill Capital Corp—UnderwriterCompletedSep 10, 2018$676M$15.0M
BPGIC INTERNATIONAL—UnderwriterLiquidatedJun 20, 2018$203M$42.0M
Landsea Homes Corp—UnderwriterCompletedJun 20, 2018$155M$90.5M
Trinity Merger Corp.—BookrunnerCompletedMay 15, 2018$342M—
Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc.BBCPUnderwriterCompletedJul 26, 2017$225M$50.0M
Capitol Acquisition Corp. III—BookrunnerCompletedOct 14, 2015$729K$1.5M

Analyst questions

B. Riley Securities and SPACs, answered

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

Which SPACs has B. Riley Securities underwritten?

B. Riley Securities appears on the underwriting syndicate of 62 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including OTG Acquisition Corp. I (OTGA), Quantumsphere Acquisition Corp (QUMS), Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II (DRDB) and Hadron Energy, Inc. (HDRN). The full list, with the role credited on each cover page, is in the mandates table on this page.

How many SPAC IPOs has B. Riley Securities book-run?

B. Riley Securities was credited as a book-running manager on 28 of its 62 SPAC mandates, 45% of them. The remainder are co-manager or syndicate positions, where the economics and the sponsor relationship sit elsewhere.

How much SPAC capital has B. Riley Securities underwritten?

$10.9B of gross proceeds across every offering B. Riley Securities 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: $3.2B, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to B. Riley Securities specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.

What is the largest SPAC IPO B. Riley Securities has worked on?

Skillsoft Corp. (SKIL), which raised $678M in Jun 2019. B. Riley Securities was credited as a co-manager on that offering.

Which B. Riley Securities SPACs completed a business combination?

32 of the SPACs B. Riley Securities underwrote closed a combination: Hadron Energy, Inc., New Horizon Aircraft Ltd., Blockchain Moon Acquisition Corp., Ocean Biomedical, Inc., Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. and Wag! Group Co.. Closing means the vehicle filed a current report reporting completion of the acquisition. That is an outcome, not a return.

Which B. Riley Securities SPACs are still looking for a target?

10 vehicles B. Riley Securities took public are still live, either searching or working towards an announced combination: OTG Acquisition Corp. I (OTGA), Quantumsphere Acquisition Corp (QUMS), Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II (DRDB), Churchill Capital Corp IX/Cayman, Bayview Acquisition Corp and Aimei Health Technology Co., Ltd. (AFJK). Their combination deadlines are on each profile.

What is B. Riley Securities's SPAC completion rate?

64%. Of the 50 vehicles B. Riley Securities underwrote that have already resolved, 32 closed a business combination and 18 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 59.5%, so B. Riley Securities sits above 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 B. Riley Securities SPAC performed best after its merger?

Measured against the $10.00 the units were sold at, the only baseline every SPAC shares, the strongest of B. Riley Securities's closed deals currently is Oklo Inc. (OKLO) at $28 a share, ahead of GPGI, Inc. and Aeva Technologies, Inc.. Treat that as a snapshot, not a return: it ignores dividends, splits, warrant exercise and anything that happened in between, because historical price series are not part of our data. For a proper total-return comparison use your market-data provider with the post-merger tickers.

Which sponsors does B. Riley Securities work with most?

Churchill Capital (6 deals), B. Riley Principal Sponsor Co (2 deals), Roman DBDR (1 deal), Aesther Healthcare (1 deal) and Mehana (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 B. Riley Securities share SPAC syndicates with?

Most often Chardan (16), EF Hutton (9), Citigroup (8), I-Bankers Securities (5) and EarlyBirdCapital (5). 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 B. Riley Securities start underwriting SPACs, and is it still active?

Its first SPAC IPO in our index priced Oct 14, 2015 and the most recent Sep 12, 2025. 10 of its vehicles are still live, so the franchise is active.

What was B. Riley Securities's busiest year in SPACs?

2021, with 24 mandates worth $4.4B 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 B. Riley Securities typically underwrite?

The average offering it has been named on raised $176M, against a range from $729K to $678M. 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 B. Riley Securities's SPACs target?

Technology (23), Financial Services (16), Generalist (12), Media & Entertainment (8) and Healthcare (6). 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.

Where do B. Riley Securities's SPACs list?

Nasdaq (12), NYSE (5) and OTC (3). Listing venue is taken from the exchange record on the registrant's SEC profile.

How many of B. Riley Securities's SPACs liquidated?

18. 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 B. Riley Securities 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 B. Riley Securities itself.

Compiled by the SPACListing research desk

Last reconciled Oct 17, 2026

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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