Pure Acquisition Corp.
Cash in trust
$53.2M
$53,159,750
Trust per share
$10.31
Redemption value
IPO
Apr 2018
$414.0M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
126
Latest Feb 12, 2021
Overview
Pure Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001726293. It completed its initial public offering in Apr 2018, raising $414.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by HighPeak Pure through HighPeak Pure Acquisition, LLC. The mandate targets energy. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“We intend to focus our search for target businesses in the energy industry.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Pure 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.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.31 per public share, 3.1% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 1,437,500 shares against 3,462,877 public shares, or 29.3% of the combined count, acquired before the IPO at nominal cost. That promote is the structural dilution every public shareholder carries into a combination, and it is why the economics of a de-SPAC differ so sharply from a conventional IPO.
Underwriting
Oppenheimer led the offering. It has been named on 13 SPAC IPOs, book-running 12 of them, and 9.1% 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.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- SC 13G/A
KARPUS INVESTMENT MGT / PURE ACQUISITION CORP. - SCHEDULE 13G/A(#2)
Accession 0001072613-21-000244
- 15-12B
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001437749-20-019589
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001076809-20-000152
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-20-000447
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001076809-20-000135
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
Item 5.07 · Accession 0001437749-20-018595
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001076809-20-000125
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001437749-20-017706
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001437749-20-017698
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001437749-20-017573
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001437749-20-017574
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001437749-20-017545
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001437749-20-017353
- DEFM14A
Definitive merger proxy statement
Accession 0001437749-20-017099
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001437749-20-016729
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001437749-20-016728
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001076809-20-000110
- SC TO-T/A
SCHEDULE TO-T/A
Accession 0001437749-20-016300
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001076809-20-000106
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001437749-20-015986
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001437749-20-015987
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure; Other events
Items 7.01, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001437749-20-015728
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001437749-20-015729
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001076809-20-000094
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001076809-20-000088
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure; Other events
Items 7.01, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001437749-20-014699
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001437749-20-014700
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001437749-20-014436
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001437749-20-014437
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001437749-20-013169
Pure Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Pure Acquisition Corp.?
Pure Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001726293. It completed its initial public offering in Apr 2018, raising $414.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by HighPeak Pure through HighPeak Pure Acquisition, LLC. The mandate targets energy. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Pure Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
Approximately $53,159,750, or about $10.31 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must Pure Acquisition Corp. complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if Pure 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 Pure 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, most recently disclosed at about $10.31 per share. 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.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Pure 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 Pure Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 1,437,500 shares against 3,462,877 public shares, so roughly 29.3% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. 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 Pure Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
HighPeak Pure Acquisition, LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the HighPeak Pure franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor. Named principals: Jack D. Hightower.
Which banks underwrote the Pure Acquisition Corp. IPO?
Oppenheimer, EarlyBirdCapital, I-Bankers Securities. Oppenheimer was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Pure Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Pure 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 Pure Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Pure Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001726293: 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.
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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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