Underwriter
Mizuho
Active in SPAC underwriting from Aug 3, 2020 to Nov 3, 2021.
Mandates
8
6 bookrun
Deal volume
$2.5B
gross proceeds, full credit
Disclosed allocation
$950.2M
units × $10 unit price
Live vehicles
0
searching or announced
Completion rate
0%
0 closed vs 8 liquidated
8 mandates between 2020 and 2021. Busiest year 2021 with 6.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp.— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Nov 3, 2021 | $197.2M | $175.0M | |
| Enterprise 4.0 Technology Acquisition Corp— | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Oct 20, 2021 | $313.9M | $104.4M | |
| Hawks Acquisition Corp— | Underwriter | Liquidated | Oct 12, 2021 | $230.0M | $90.0M | |
| Schultze Special Purpose Acquisition Corp. II— | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Oct 8, 2021 | $165.0M | $52.5M | |
| SVF Investment Corp. 2— | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Mar 10, 2021 | $230.0M | $12.0M | |
| Twelve Seas Investment Co. II— | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Mar 1, 2021 | $345.0M | $255.0M | |
| Carney Technology Acquisition Corp. II— | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Dec 10, 2020 | $395.5M | $52.5M | |
| E.Merge Technology Acquisition Corp.— | Bookrunner | Liquidated | Aug 3, 2020 | $590.2M | $208.8M |
Analyst questions
Mizuho and SPACs, answered
The questions a desk actually asks about a bank's blank-check franchise, answered from Mizuho's own mandates rather than from generic explainer copy.
Which SPACs has Mizuho underwritten?
Mizuho appears on the underwriting syndicate of 8 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp., Enterprise 4.0 Technology Acquisition Corp, Hawks Acquisition Corp and Schultze Special Purpose Acquisition Corp. II. The full list, with the role credited on each cover page, is in the mandates table on this page.
How many SPAC IPOs has Mizuho book-run?
Mizuho was credited as a book-running manager on 6 of its 8 SPAC mandates, 75% of them. The remainder are co-manager or syndicate positions, where the economics and the sponsor relationship sit elsewhere.
How much SPAC capital has Mizuho underwritten?
$2.5B of gross proceeds across every offering Mizuho 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: $950.2M, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to Mizuho specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.
What is the largest SPAC IPO Mizuho has worked on?
E.Merge Technology Acquisition Corp., which raised $590.2M in Aug 2020. Mizuho was credited as a book-running manager on that offering.
Which Mizuho SPACs completed a business combination?
None of the SPACs Mizuho underwrote has yet reported a completed business combination in the filings we index. 0 remain live and 8 returned their trust.
Which Mizuho SPACs are still looking for a target?
Mizuho has no live SPAC mandates in our index; every vehicle it underwrote has either closed a deal or wound up.
What is Mizuho's SPAC completion rate?
0%. Of the 8 vehicles Mizuho underwrote that have already resolved, 0 closed a business combination and 8 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 13.2%, so Mizuho 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 Mizuho SPAC performed best after its merger?
We hold a current quote for none of Mizuho'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 Mizuho work with most?
Carney Technology (1 deal), E.Merge Technology (1 deal), ENT4.0 Technology (1 deal), Hawks (1 deal) and McLaren Technology (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 Mizuho share SPAC syndicates with?
Most often Cantor Fitzgerald (4), UBS (1), Stifel (1), Beech Hill (1) and Citigroup (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 Mizuho start underwriting SPACs, and is it still active?
Its first SPAC IPO in our index priced Aug 3, 2020 and the most recent Nov 3, 2021. It has no live vehicles at present.
What was Mizuho's busiest year in SPACs?
2021, with 6 mandates worth $1.5B 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 Mizuho typically underwrite?
The average offering it has been named on raised $308.3M, against a range from $165.0M to $590.2M. 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 Mizuho's SPACs target?
Technology (4), Generalist (3), Financial Services (1) and Education (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 Mizuho's SPACs liquidated?
8. 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 Mizuho 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 Mizuho itself.
Compiled by the SPACListing research desk
Last reconciled Jun 28, 2024
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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