Author Archives: Jan Paschal

Viking Acquisition Corp. I (VACI.U), a New York-based SPAC, raised $200 million on Thursday night, Oct. 30, 2025, with the pricing of its IPO: 20 million units at $10.00 each. Viking Acquisition Corp. I (VACI.U) opened at $10.05 – up a nickel from its SPAC IPO price – on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 – on […]

Houston-based Dynamix III Corp. (DNMXU) priced its SPAC IPO in sync with the terms in its prospectus -17.5 million units at $10.00 each – to raise $175 million on Wednesday night, Oct. 29, 2025. Dynamix III (DNMXU) opened at $10.12 – up 12 cents from its SPAC IPO price – in its debut at 10:52 […]

Navan (NAVN), a road warriors’ travel and expense app, priced its IPO at $25.00 – the mid-point of its $24.00-to-$26.00 range. Navan’s IPO consisted of 36.9 million shares – the number in the prospectus – and it raised $963 million on Wednesday night, Oct. 29, 2025. Navan offered 30 million shares – for $750 million […]

Insight Digital Partners II (DYORU) raised $150 million on Tuesday night, Oct. 28, 2025 – in the second crypto-focused SPAC IPO priced this week. The deal totaled 15 million units at $10.00 each. According to the prospectus, each unit consists of one share of stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Insight Digital Partners II […]

Medline Inc. (MDLN Proposed) filed its S-1 to go public  today – no terms – in a deal that’s already creating a stir on the Street. This could be a blockbuster IPO. Bloomberg estimates that Medline’s IPO could raise about $5 billion in what is likely to be one of the biggest private equity-backed deals […]

MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT) priced its IPO at $17.00 and sold 14.75 million shares – as expected – to raise $250.75 million on Sunday night, Oct. 26, 2025. The Redwood City, California-based biotech sold another 476,707 shares in a concurrent private placement – at the $17.00 IPO price – to Goldman Sachs affiliates – to bring […]

MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT Proposed) and Navan (NAVN Proposed) share the IPO marquee. They aim to raise about $1.17 billion combined. Both IPOs were launched after the U.S. government shutdown began on Oct. 1st. Wall Street will also be in Fed Watch mode this week. The Street expects the Fed to cut the benchmark fed funds […]

Lafayette Acquisition Corp. (LAFAU) of Paris – a SPAC whose CEO Christophe Charlier is the former chairman of Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital – raised $100 million on Thursday night, Oct. 23, 2025. Lafayette Acquisition priced its SPAC IPO in sync with the terms in the prospectus – 10 million units at $10.00 each. Each […]

Miluna Acquisition (MMTXU) of Taiwan raised $60 million by pricing its SPAC IPO with a whole warrant – a sweetening of the unit’s composition from the original plan to offer one-half of a warrant – on Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025. Miluna priced 6 million units priced at $10.00 each – with each unit consisting of  one […]

From Seoul to Wall Street: Harvard Avenue Acquisition (HAVAU) cut its IPO’s size this afternoon to 14.5 million units – down from 18 million units in the prospectus  – and priced the deal at $10.00 per unit – as expected – to raise $145 million tonight (Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025).  Each unit consists of one […]