RBC Capital Markets

RBC Capital Markets appears on the underwriting syndicate of 19 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including Zapata Quantum, Inc. (ZPTA), LAVA Medtech Acquisition Corp., SOAR Technology Acquisition Corp. and DHB Capital Corp.. The full list, with the role credited on each cover page, is in the mandates table on this page.

RBC Capital Markets was credited as a book-running manager on 11 of its 19 SPAC mandates, 58% of them. The remainder are co-manager or syndicate positions, where the economics and the sponsor relationship sit elsewhere.

$6.3B of gross proceeds across every offering RBC Capital Markets 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: $1.3B, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to RBC Capital Markets specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.

Spartan Acquisition Corp. III, which raised $552M in Feb 2021. RBC Capital Markets was credited as a book-running manager on that offering.

12 of the SPACs RBC Capital Markets underwrote closed a combination: Zapata Quantum, Inc., Movella Holdings Inc., Spartan Acquisition Corp. III, Electriq Power Holdings, Inc., FOXO TECHNOLOGIES INC. and Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc.. Closing means the vehicle filed a current report reporting completion of the acquisition. That is an outcome, not a return.

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

63.2%. Of the 19 vehicles RBC Capital Markets underwrote that have already resolved, 12 closed a business combination and 7 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 59.5%, so RBC Capital Markets 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.

Measured against the $10.00 the units were sold at, the only baseline every SPAC shares, the strongest of RBC Capital Markets's closed deals currently is MP Materials Corp. / DE (MP) at $40 a share, ahead of ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. and Zapata Quantum, 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.

Spartan (2 deals), Horizon (2 deals), Apollo (1 deal), DHB (1 deal) and DIAC (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.

Most often Credit Suisse (8), Deutsche Bank (6), Siebert Williams Shank (4), Citigroup (4) and Morgan Stanley (3). 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 Oct 19, 2017 and the most recent Jan 15, 2022. It has no live vehicles at present.

2021, with 9 mandates worth $2.9B 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.

The average offering it has been named on raised $332M, against a range from $20.0M to $552M. 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.

Generalist (7), Media & Entertainment (4), Financial Services (4), Healthcare (2) and Technology (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.

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

7. 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 RBC Capital Markets itself.