Underwriter
Drexel Hamilton
Active in SPAC underwriting from Oct 5, 2020 to Feb 10, 2022.
Mandates
16
1 bookrun
Deal volume
$4.4B
gross proceeds, full credit
Disclosed allocation
$158.1M
units × $10 unit price
Live vehicles
0
searching or announced
Completion rate
18.8%
3 closed vs 13 liquidated
16 mandates between 2020 and 2022. Busiest year 2021 with 12.
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.
| SPAC | Role | Status | IPO | Deal size | Allocation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| byNordic Acquisition CorpBYNO | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Feb 10, 2022 | $169.1M | $65.6M | |
| Lionheart III Corp— | Co-manager | Completed | Nov 5, 2021 | $127.0M | $3.5M | |
| VISION SENSING ACQUISITION CORP.— | Co-manager | Liquidated | Nov 1, 2021 | $99.2M | $16.3M | |
| Maxpro Capital Acquisition Corp.— | Underwriter | Completed | Oct 8, 2021 | $107.3M | $10.2M | |
| Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. V— | Co-manager | Liquidated | Aug 16, 2021 | $276.0M | $12.0M | |
| Sandbridge X2 Corp— | Co-manager | Liquidated | Mar 11, 2021 | $238.2M | $2.2M | |
| Lerer Hippeau Acquisition Corp.— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Mar 5, 2021 | $222.7M | $4.0M | |
| NightDragon Acquisition Corp.— | Co-manager | Liquidated | Mar 2, 2021 | $338.1M | — | |
| Churchill Capital Corp VII— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Feb 16, 2021 | $618.4M | $3.0M | |
| Churchill Capital Corp VI— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Feb 12, 2021 | $286.9M | $1.2M | |
| Climate Real Impact Solutions II Acquisition Corp— | Co-manager | Liquidated | Jan 27, 2021 | $241.5M | $2.1M | |
| One Equity Partners Open Water I Corp.— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Jan 25, 2021 | $345.0M | $15.0M | |
| Thoma Bravo Advantage— | Underwriter | Completed | Jan 15, 2021 | $1.0B | $18.0M | |
| Golden Falcon Acquisition Corp.— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Dec 21, 2020 | $42.9M | $1.5M | |
| Churchill Capital Corp V— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Dec 16, 2020 | $26.3M | $1.1M | |
| Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Corp— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Oct 5, 2020 | $250.4M | $2.5M |
Analyst questions
Drexel Hamilton and SPACs, answered
The questions a desk actually asks about a bank's blank-check franchise, answered from Drexel Hamilton's own mandates rather than from generic explainer copy.
Which SPACs has Drexel Hamilton underwritten?
Drexel Hamilton appears on the underwriting syndicate of 16 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including byNordic Acquisition Corp (BYNO), Lionheart III Corp, VISION SENSING ACQUISITION CORP. and Maxpro 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 Drexel Hamilton book-run?
Drexel Hamilton was credited as a book-running manager on 1 of its 16 SPAC mandates, 6% of them. The remainder are co-manager or syndicate positions, where the economics and the sponsor relationship sit elsewhere.
How much SPAC capital has Drexel Hamilton underwritten?
$4.4B of gross proceeds across every offering Drexel Hamilton 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: $158.1M, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to Drexel Hamilton specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.
What is the largest SPAC IPO Drexel Hamilton has worked on?
Thoma Bravo Advantage, which raised $1.0B in Jan 2021. Drexel Hamilton was credited as a syndicate member on that offering.
Which Drexel Hamilton SPACs completed a business combination?
3 of the SPACs Drexel Hamilton underwrote closed a combination: Lionheart III Corp, Maxpro Capital Acquisition Corp. and Thoma Bravo Advantage. Closing means the vehicle filed a current report reporting completion of the acquisition. That is an outcome, not a return.
Which Drexel Hamilton SPACs are still looking for a target?
Drexel Hamilton has no live SPAC mandates in our index; every vehicle it underwrote has either closed a deal or wound up.
What is Drexel Hamilton's SPAC completion rate?
18.8%. Of the 16 vehicles Drexel Hamilton underwrote that have already resolved, 3 closed a business combination and 13 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 13.2%, so Drexel Hamilton 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 Drexel Hamilton SPAC performed best after its merger?
We hold a current quote for none of Drexel Hamilton'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 Drexel Hamilton work with most?
Churchill Capital (3 deals), Climate Real Impact Solutions (1 deal), Golden Falcon (1 deal), Kensington (1 deal) and Lerer Hippeau (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 Drexel Hamilton share SPAC syndicates with?
Most often Academy Securities (7), Citigroup (5), Goldman Sachs (4), BofA Securities (4) and Tigress Financial (4). 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 Drexel Hamilton start underwriting SPACs, and is it still active?
Its first SPAC IPO in our index priced Oct 5, 2020 and the most recent Feb 10, 2022. It has no live vehicles at present.
What was Drexel Hamilton's busiest year in SPACs?
2021, with 12 mandates worth $3.9B 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 Drexel Hamilton typically underwrite?
The average offering it has been named on raised $274.3M, against a range from $26.3M to $1.0B. 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 Drexel Hamilton's SPACs target?
Technology (8), Financial Services (5), Media & Entertainment (3), Energy (2) and Healthcare (2). 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 Drexel Hamilton's SPACs list?
OTC (1). Listing venue is taken from the exchange record on the registrant's SEC profile.
How many of Drexel Hamilton's SPACs liquidated?
13. 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 Drexel Hamilton 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 Drexel Hamilton itself.
Compiled by the SPACListing research desk
Last reconciled Aug 14, 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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