For a fuller discussion of blank cheque companies, see Special purpose acquisition company.

Special purpose acquisition companies, a boom time product of financial engineering, are an endangered species.

A special purpose acquisition company is a shell organization that uses money raised in an initial public offering to buy another business.

Blank-check companies - also known as special purpose acquisition companies - use funds from a public offering for future acquisitions.

The firm's private equity investments and its stake in a special purpose acquisition company total $156 million or 145% of tangible common equity.

And possibly more long-term business was initiated because several “blank check” special purpose acquisition companies attended, Mr. Roth said.

But special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) focusing on China are a different story.

If the answer is yes, then join the latest alternative investment craze: special purpose acquisition companies, or SPAC's.

Based in New York, Weprin will focus on originating and executing strategic financing transactions, including special purpose acquisition companies.

These acquisitions were made possible through RLJ Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company formed in 2010.

In 2004, she zeroed in on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, as a vehicle that could bring her business to the next level.

(Amex: GHQ), our special purpose acquisition company.

Iridium will be acquired by a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with Greenhill & Co, the US investment bank, which has $400m in cash.

The Heckmann Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, has announced an agreement to acquire China Water and Drinks for approximately $625.0 million.

Mr. Hicks, who owns the Texas Rangers professional baseball team, is making this deal through his Spac, which stands for special purpose acquisition company.

Blank-check companies - also known as special purpose acquisition companies - are increasingly popular vehicles formed solely to acquire other businesses with funds raised in public offerings.

Blank-check companies, or special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), which use proceeds from share sales to fund future acquisitions, can work well.

The IPO data from Thomson Reuters exclude special purpose acquisition companies, which typically go public before purchasing an operating company.

GHL Acquisition is a special purpose acquisition company launched in February 2008 in an initial public offering raising $400 million of gross proceeds.

Almost half the respondents expect SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) to remain a significant source of new issuance.

For the periods prior to the acquisition of TPI, ISG was a special purpose acquisition company and therefore had no operations.

Liberty, an Amsterdam-listed special purpose acquisition company (Spac), will count up votes on the deal at an extraordinary meeting on Friday following three weeks of investor meetings.

A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is a collective investment structure that allows public stock market investors to invest in private equity type transactions, particularly leveraged buyouts.

Murstein had been seeking a sports investment since 2008 when he formed a special purpose acquisition company together with Hank Aaron, a Medallion board member, and others worth $215 million.

According to the complex deal, the U.S. Special Purpose Acquisition Company could acquire up to half of the media company’s capital and will be fully absorbed by Prisa.