Mercator Acquisition Corp.MRCO
Cash in trust
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Not yet disclosed
Trust per share
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Redemption value
IPO
Jul 2026
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Combination deadline
Jan 10, 2028
493 days remaining
Filings on record
20
Latest Aug 25, 2026
Overview
Mercator Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002106436. It completed its initial public offering in Jul 2026 and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker MRCO, units under MRCOU, warrants under MRCOW on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Mercator Investor through Mercator Investor Holdings, LLC. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Mercator Acquisition Corp. has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Time on the clock
493 days to the Jan 10, 2028 deadline. The vehicle is early in its search window, and the deadline is not yet the binding constraint.
Underwriting
Clear Street led the offering. It has been named on 34 SPAC IPOs, book-running 26 of them, and 60% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.
Scores
Recomputed 4m agoThree readings of Mercator Acquisition Corp., each an unweighted mean of the components shown beneath it, and each component a percentile against every live SPAC rather than an absolute we invented. They describe the setup, not the merit. How they are built
FOMO
ModerateHow much attention is this vehicle attracting right now?
35/100
- Filing activity69
4 in 30 days
- News coverage0
0 stories in 30 days
Attention is not quality. FOMO rises on news volume and on the market paying above trust, both of which have preceded plenty of disappointments.
Potential
ElevatedHow likely is this vehicle to complete a combination, and at what scale?
59/100
- Lead bank record96
60.0%
- Bank franchise41
34 SPAC mandates
- Stage40
searching
Potential is about execution, not about the target. It says nothing about whether the eventual deal is worth owning, because the target is usually unknown when the score is computed.
These are derived measures, not ratings of investment merit. They carry no view on the target, no price target and no recommendation, and a high score is not a reason to buy anything.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001213900-26-093509
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001213900-26-093170
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-088514
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-086670
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-078835
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-078834
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-078833
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-078832
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Other events
Items 1.01, 3.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-078814
- 424B4
Final IPO prospectus
Accession 0001213900-26-076921
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-26-002219
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-076517
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-076516
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-076515
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-076513
- CERT
Exchange listing certification
Accession 0001354457-26-000651
- 8-A12B
Registration of securities on an exchange
Accession 0001213900-26-076260
- S-1/A
Amended IPO registration statement
Accession 0001213900-26-074947
- S-1/A
Amended IPO registration statement
Accession 0001213900-26-032483
- S-1
Registration statement for the initial public offering
Accession 0001213900-26-021867
Mercator Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Mercator Acquisition Corp. (MRCO)?
Mercator Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002106436. It completed its initial public offering in Jul 2026 and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker MRCO, units under MRCOU, warrants under MRCOW on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Mercator Investor through Mercator Investor Holdings, LLC. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
How much does Mercator Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
No trust balance has been disclosed in a filing we have indexed for Mercator Acquisition Corp.. For a newly priced IPO this is normal: the figure first appears in the quarterly report after closing.
When must Mercator Acquisition Corp. complete a merger?
By Jan 10, 2028. If no combination closes by then the sponsor must seek a further extension or wind the vehicle up and return the trust.
What happens if Mercator Acquisition Corp. does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Mercator Acquisition Corp., and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
What tickers does Mercator Acquisition Corp. trade under?
Class A shares trade as MRCO on Nasdaq, the units as MRCOU, and the warrants as MRCOW. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Mercator Acquisition Corp.?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
How much dilution do Mercator Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
Both are disclosed in the prospectus and both survive into the combined company, which is why a de-SPAC at $10 is not economically the same as an IPO at $10.
Who sponsors Mercator Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
Mercator Investor Holdings, LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Mercator Investor franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor. Named principals: Shawn Matthews.
Which banks underwrote the Mercator Acquisition Corp. IPO?
Clear Street. Clear Street was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Mercator Acquisition Corp. tradeable, and where?
Yes. MRCO returned a live quote of $9.86 on Nasdaq. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.
Is Mercator Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Mercator Acquisition Corp. is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Mercator Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Mercator Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0002106436: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
Compiled by the SPACListing research desk
Last reconciled Sep 4, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. 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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