Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp.
Cash in trust
$200.3M
$200,309,576
Trust per share
—
Redemption value
IPO
Oct 2020
$196.0M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
70
Latest Feb 14, 2023
Overview
Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001821682. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2020, raising $196.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Sarissa through Sarissa Capital Acquisition Sponsor LLC. The mandate targets healthcare. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to focus on industries that complement our management teams background, and to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and acquire a business, focusing on the healthcare and biopharma industry.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Sarissa Capital 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.
Warrant coverage
Each unit carried one-third of one warrant per unit. Warrants are dilution deferred: they cost the holder nothing until exercised, and they overhang the post-combination share count. Thinner coverage is generally a sign of a stronger book at pricing.
Underwriting
Cantor Fitzgerald led the offering. It has been named on 114 SPAC IPOs, book-running 101 of them, and 21.4% 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
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001421578-23-000006
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001567619-23-002683
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001214659-23-002113
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000769993-23-000199
- 15-12G
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001193125-22-282740
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-22-000614
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-22-259685
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001076809-22-000134
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-22-220055
- PRER14A
PRER14A
Accession 0001193125-22-213682
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001193125-22-200142
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001193125-22-196374
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-22-150259
- 10-K/A
10-K/A
Accession 0001193125-22-093859
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001193125-22-092090
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001567619-22-004107
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001421578-22-000005
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001214659-22-002412
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000902664-22-001250
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001193125-22-023330
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000769993-22-000029
- 10-K/A
10-K/A
Accession 0001193125-22-011689
- 10-Q/A
10-Q/A
Accession 0001193125-22-011686
- 8-K
Current report
Item 4.02 · Accession 0001193125-22-001768
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-21-330103
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001193125-21-306652
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-21-254052
- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001193125-21-249148
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-21-244915
- 10-K/A
10-K/A
Accession 0001193125-21-211819
Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp.?
Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001821682. It completed its initial public offering in Oct 2020, raising $196.0M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Sarissa through Sarissa Capital Acquisition Sponsor LLC. The mandate targets healthcare. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
Approximately $200,309,576, 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 Sarissa Capital 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 Sarissa Capital 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 Sarissa Capital 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.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Sarissa Capital 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 Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
Each unit also carried one-third of one warrant per unit, which is dilution deferred until exercise. 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 Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
Sarissa Capital Acquisition Sponsor LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Sarissa franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. IPO?
Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor Fitzgerald was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Sarissa Capital 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 Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Sarissa Capital Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001821682: 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
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