Over the trailing year, you have likely witnessed the rise of shell firms as a medium to take private enterprises public. Market analysts often use the term “reverse merger” to describe this ...

Pawliczek, Andrea; Skinner, A. Nicole; Zechman, Sarah L. C. Signing Blank Checks: The Roles of Disclosure and Reputation in the Face of Limited Information. Accounting Review. Mar2024, Vol. 99 Issue 2 ...

Fallout from the coronavirus has fueled a fresh wave of interest in an unusual investment vehicle with a shaky reputation: the blank-check company. Blank-check companies are essentially big pools of ...

The once hot blank-check merger trend is fading fast. The stock market has been cratering so far this year — leaving special purpose acquisition companies, which buy private firms in order to take ...