Part II of June meeting. 

Topic:  Analyzing the SPAC Boom's Effect on the M&A Marketplace -   

This talk will discuss the effects of the 18-month deal window closing this summer for a sizeable portion of the 2020 SPAC wave has on deal valuations, target expectations, and other market dynamics.  This is Part II of our meeting that was widely popular last month.
 

Kristi Marvin | CEO | www.spacinsider.com

Accomplished investment professional with 15 years of experience driving revenue in traditional and alternative investment markets, including Hedge Funds and SPACs.

Successful in establishing, managing, and marketing asset management products targeted towards sophisticated investors. A builder of businesses: co-founded and established SPACInsider.com, a website devoted to the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) asset class. Responsible for all website development, content, analysis, and data management. Skilled in investment banking, capital markets, relationship building, and presentations, with superior ability to communicate complex information in an informed and concise manner.

Adele Hogan  J.D | Partner Co-Head Corporate Securities | www.lucbro.com

An experienced transactional lawyer with over $200 billion of contracts and deals closed. The driver of revenue and team leader of up to 60 people for departments contributing significantly to multi-billion dollar global companies and firms, while meeting and exceeding client growth and business objectives. Project management for regulatory and technology transformations. Codes in SQL. NY Best Lawyers and Chambers rated attorney.

Partner and Counsel leading mergers and capital markets transactions, including IPOs, SPACs, de-SPACs, the corporate side of bankruptcies, securities, and derivatives. Successfully leads legal, regulatory, and strategic projects to completion on budget and on time. Subject matter expert in risk management and corporate governance. Strategic data, knowledge management, and data privacy expertise.

On-going commitment to the legal and financial education of others, teaching, chairing, and speaking at PLI, Board Associations, and Fordham University, and judging Transactional Law Competitions at Cornell Law School.

Dr. Avv. Daniele D'Alvia | CEO | www.spacsconsultancy.com

Dr. Daniele D’Alvia is the CEO and Founder of SPACs Consultancy Ltd. He is a Teaching Fellow in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London, and a pioneer in SPAC’s studies in law, award-winner of the Colin B Picker Prize by the American Society of Comparative Law.

Chris Denver | Managing Director | www.crowe.com 

Chris Denver, MBA, CPA, is an experienced technical accountant and is recognized as one of the leaders in Crowe’s Accounting Advisory Practice, which services clients needing technical accounting advice around IPOs, Mergers & Acquisitions, Convertible Debt financing, Preferred Stock financing, Warrants, SPACs, de-SPACs, and other creative financing vehicles. Chris is also an expert in automation, leveraging RPA to reduce client operating costs.  Chris holds and MBA from the University of Chicago in Finance and Econometrics & Statistics.  Chris was awarded a BBA in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.

Milos Vulanovic, Ph.D |  Professor Corporate Finance |  EDHEC 

Milos Vulanovic, Ph.D, is Professor of Corporate Finance at EDHEC Business School. He is teaching in various EDHEC programs. He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from The Graduate Center at City University of New York. His prior teaching experience includes City University of Hong Kong, Western New England University, Baruch College-City University of New York, Yeshiva University, Pace University, Lehman College- City University of New York and New York Institute of Technology. 

His research interests include empirical corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and special purpose acquisition companies. His papers have been published in several journals including Managerial Finance, Global Finance Journal and North American Journal of Finance and Economics. Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the top 15 European business schools.  Financial Times Ranks  EDHEC #5 Masters in finance Worldwide - 2021 Ranking

Milos Vulanovic, Ph.D PUBLICATIONS

SPAC IPO Wave Economics Letters, Volume 197, December 2020

SPACS: Post Merger Survival Managerial Finance, Vol. 43 N° 6 pp. 679 - 699, March 2017

U.S. SPACS With a Focus on China  Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Volume 39, March 2017, Pages 1-18

Specified purpose acquisition companies in shipping Y Shachmurove, M Vulanovic - Global Finance Journal, 2015

Unit IPOs: A Case of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)

8 Apr 2013

The role of warrants in shelf offerings Milan Lakicevic, Milos Vulanovic 2011 Montenegrin Journal of Economics