Author Archives: Jan Paschal

IPO bankers are offering a lean menu for the short Thanksgiving holiday week. Only two deals – a small NYSE-AmEx listing and a big SPAC IPO – are set to price this week before the holiday. The U.S. stock market will be closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving. Wall Street will work a short half day […]

Singapore-based Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp. (HCACU) priced its SPAC IPO in sync with its terms –  18 million units at $10.00 each – to raise $180 million on Thursday night, Nov. 20, 2025. Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp. (HCACU) started trading at $10.04 – up 4 cents from its SPAC IPO price – in its NASDAQ […]

Missouri-based Central Bancompany (CBC) priced its NASDAQ Uplisting deal at $21.00 – the low end of its $21.00-to-$24.00 price range – and sold 17.8 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $373.38 million in its public offering on Wednesday night, Nov. 19, 2025. This was not an IPO. Central […]

Gloo Holdings, Inc. (GLOO), a tech platform for churches and nonprofits, priced its IPO at $8.00 – 20 percent below the bottom of its $10.00-to-$12.00 range – and sold 9.1 million shares – the number of shares in the prospectus – to raise $72.8 million on Tuesday night, Nov. 18, 2025. Gloo’s stock started trading […]

Gloo Holdings (GLOO Proposed), the parent of a tech platform for churches with former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its executive chair, is the only large IPO – at $100 million – on tap for the third week of November. Central Bancompany (CBC Proposed), a bank holding company, is expected to price its big NASDAQ […]

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (HOS Proposed) updated the financial information today in its amended prospectus – dropping a hint that it may be getting closer to going public. The Covington, Louisiana-based oilfield services company, which provides water transportation to offshore drilling rigs, earned net income of $136.35 million on revenue of $655.46 million for the […]

WeShop Holdings Ltd. (WSHP), a British social network for shoppers, went public today – Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 – in a NASDAQ Direct Listing of existing shares. Its stock started trading at $20.02 at 2:53 p.m. EST. The stock rose to $39.22 to touch its intraday high. WeShop’s stock ended Friday’s session at $30.21 – […]

From deep in the heart of Texas:  Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp. II (ALUB.U) of Austin priced its SPAC IPO last night and raised $250 million. The deal’s size: 25 million units at $10.00 each – with each unit consisting of a share of stock and one-third of one redeemable warrant – the terms in the […]

Phaos Technology Cayman (Holdings) Ltd. (POAS) of Singapore priced its micro-cap IPO at $4.00 – the low end of its $4.00-to-$5.00 range – and sold 2.7 million shares – the number in the prospectus – to raise $10.8 million on Wednesday night, Nov. 12, 2025. In addition selling shareholders sold 900,090 shares at $4.00 each and […]

Evolution Global Acquisition Corp. (EVOXU), a SPAC focused on critical minerals, rallied in its NASDAQ debut today on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 – which also is observed as Veterans Day. Evolution Global Acquisition Corp. opened at $10.14 – up 14 cents – at 11:40 a.m. EST; it ended its first day of NASDAQ trading at […]