Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley appears on the underwriting syndicate of 67 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including New America Acquisition I Corp. (NWAX), Chenghe Acquisition Co., Pearl Holdings Acquisition Corp and ST Energy Transition I Ltd.. The full list, with the role credited on each cover page, is in the mandates table on this page.

Morgan Stanley was credited as a book-running manager on 46 of its 67 SPAC mandates, 69% of them. The remainder are co-manager or syndicate positions, where the economics and the sponsor relationship sit elsewhere.

$24.1B of gross proceeds across every offering Morgan Stanley 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: $7.5B, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to Morgan Stanley specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.

Ares Acquisition Corp, which raised $1.0B in Feb 2021. Morgan Stanley was credited as a syndicate member on that offering.

29 of the SPACs Morgan Stanley underwrote closed a combination: Chenghe Acquisition Co., PROKIDNEY CORP., Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV, Inc., Gores Guggenheim, Inc., Aurora Innovation, Inc. and Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II. Closing means the vehicle filed a current report reporting completion of the acquisition. That is an outcome, not a return.

3 vehicles Morgan Stanley took public are still live, either searching or working towards an announced combination: New America Acquisition I Corp. (NWAX), Plum Acquisition Corp. III (PLMJF) and Constellation Acquisition Corp I (CSTAF). Their combination deadlines are on each profile.

45.3%. Of the 64 vehicles Morgan Stanley underwrote that have already resolved, 29 closed a business combination and 35 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 59.5%, so Morgan Stanley 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.

Measured against the $10.00 the units were sold at, the only baseline every SPAC shares, the strongest of Morgan Stanley's closed deals currently is MP Materials Corp. / DE (MP) at $40 a share, ahead of Hippo Holdings Inc. and Aurora Innovation, 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.

The Gores Group (7 deals), Social Capital Hedosophia (2 deals), Fortress (2 deals), Reinvent Partners (2 deals) and InterPrivate Acquisition Management (2 deals). 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.

Most often Citigroup (15), Deutsche Bank (14), Credit Suisse (12), Goldman Sachs (8) and AmeriVet Securities (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.

Its first SPAC IPO in our index priced Nov 16, 2018 and the most recent Dec 5, 2025. 3 of its vehicles are still live, so the franchise is active.

2021, with 41 mandates worth $14.6B 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.

The average offering it has been named on raised $359M, against a range from $12.1M 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.

Technology (22), Generalist (15), Financial Services (10), Energy Transition (9) and Consumer (8). 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.

NYSE (5), Nasdaq (3) and OTC (2). Listing venue is taken from the exchange record on the registrant's SEC profile.

35. 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.

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 Morgan Stanley itself.