Blank check preferred stock allows companies to issue new preferred shares without immediate shareholder approval. Learn its use in raising capital and defending against takeovers.

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 ...

This form of taking a company public has been around for a while, but it's getting a lot of attention this year as its popularity rises. In the simplest terms, a blank check company is a public entity ...

Blank-check firms - popularly known as SPACs - emerged as the most popular investment vehicles and the primary driving force behind a record year for initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2020, even as ...

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, were big business in 2021 when everyone from lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart to politicians like Paul Ryan was investing in them. Also known as blank ...

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 ...

Special purpose acquisition companies, also known as "blank check" companies, have seen a surge in popularity in 2020 as several high-profile companies went public via a SPAC reverse-merger. So far in ...

Investors are more willing than ever to write blank checks. Initial public offerings of special-purpose acquisition companies—essentially, shell companies that go public to raise cash for deals—have ...