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Turning 125: Nelson Mullins Celebrating 125 Years of Legal Service in 2022
In January 1897, attorney P.H. Nelson left his position as solicitor of the Fifth Judicial Circuit to set up a private law practice in Columbia, S.C. The State newspaper contained a short but prescient news item on Jan. 26 about the endeavor, which noted that "the new firm should meet with great success."
And they were right. Today, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP offers legal services in 15 states and the District of Columbia from 31 offices with 930+ attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals. It is the 71st largest law firm in the nation based on 2021 gross revenues, according to The American Lawyer’s Am Law 100, a legal news organization that tracks law firm growth.
Throughout 2022, Nelson Mullins will be sharing seminal events from its history that highlight its growth from a one-man firm in 1897 to where we are today. Click here to learn more.
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September 13, 2022
Continuing the FinTech University series, join the chair of Nelson Mullins FinTech and Regulation Practice, Richard Levin, commercial litigation attorney Erin Kolmansberger, civil litigation attorney Katherine Baker, and special guest Jennifer Docherty, for this one-hour session, "The Business Case for Women in FinTech." Levin will moderate. The discussion will focus on leveraging gender diversity to enhance the performance of FinTech companies.
The Business Case for Women in FinTech - FinTech University Series
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
Taking you through the fast-paced SPAC & de-SPAC process
Whether you seek to
- organize a sponsor group and create a SPAC
- receive assistance on what you should consider for corporate, tax, executive compensation, and SEC reporting
- take a private company public through a merger with a SPAC (de-SPAC)
our team of experienced attorneys are here to help.
Keeping SPACs on track
We represent SPACs, sponsor groups, and underwriters throughout the formation, structuring, initial public offering, and identification of an acquisition target, the de-SPAC business combination or wind down of the SPAC. We represent private companies going public through combining with a SPAC. The current SPAC market offers higher quality sponsors, increased investor incentives, better sponsor-investor alignment structure, increased deal certainty, improvements to the warrant structure, capital raising, and initial public offering.
Nelson Mullins professionals provide value in the following ways
- Understanding of the SPAC life cycle
- Awareness of structural changes in the capital markets
- Diverse clientele across various industries, both domestic and international
- Deep sector experience
- Private equity emphasis
- End-to-end deal team capabilities
- Preparation and negotiation of definitive transaction agreements
Our team brings long term experience to help meet our client’s needs
- Our practitioners handle a range of SPAC transactions reaching across more than 20 industries.
- Lawyers represent both domestic and international sponsors of and targets of SPACs.
- Significant experience with a multitude of transactions and transaction structures with SPACs.
- Our team has long experience with the SEC having advised hundreds of public companies on over 500 public company acquisitions.
- Many of our practitioners have served as former CEO, COO, General Counsel, or other high-level positions in a wide range of industries.
- Focusing on understanding our clients’ business objectives at the outset of a transaction and guide clients with practical solutions.
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Nelson Mullins draws on elite capital markets, public company representation, private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and tax capabilities to guide clients through the entire SPAC cycle in both SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.
- Established contacts and relationships to help sponsors and companies going through the SPAC IPO or de-SPAC process.
- Leverage our team’s combined experience of over 100 years in M&A, private equity, as well as capital markets tax and securities to supply a seamless process along the SPAC spectrum.
- The first and possibly the only firm in the country to successfully assist a SPAC in acquiring a bank holding company.
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Nelson Mullins draws on elite capital markets, public company representation, private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and tax capabilities to guide clients through the entire SPAC cycle in both SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.
- Established contacts and relationships to help sponsors and companies going through the SPAC IPO or de-SPAC process.
- Leverage our team’s combined experience of over 100 years in M&A, private equity, as well as capital markets tax and securities to supply a seamless process along the SPAC spectrum.
- The first and possibly the only firm in the country to successfully assist a SPAC in acquiring a bank holding company.
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Nelson Mullins draws on elite capital markets, public company representation, private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and tax capabilities to guide clients through the entire SPAC cycle in both SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.
- Established contacts and relationships to help sponsors and companies going through the SPAC IPO or de-SPAC process.
- Leverage our team’s combined experience of over 100 years in M&A, private equity, as well as capital markets tax and securities to supply a seamless process along the SPAC spectrum.
- The first and possibly the only firm in the country to successfully assist a SPAC in acquiring a bank holding company.
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Nelson Mullins draws on elite capital markets, public company representation, private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and tax capabilities to guide clients through the entire SPAC cycle in both SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.
- Established contacts and relationships to help sponsors and companies going through the SPAC IPO or de-SPAC process.
- Leverage our team’s combined experience of over 100 years in M&A, private equity, as well as capital markets tax and securities to supply a seamless process along the SPAC spectrum.
- The first and possibly the only firm in the country to successfully assist a SPAC in acquiring a bank holding company.
Experience
Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
SPAC IPOs
- Represented underwriters in a $316 million IPO for a tech/consumer healthcare SPAC.
- Represented issuer in a $316 million IPO for a tech/software SPAC for a $12 billion Chicago-area asset management group.
- Represented underwriter in a $208 million IPO for a tech/software SPAC.
- Represented issuer in a $100 million IPO for a data center SPAC.
De-SPACs/SPAC Acquisitions
- Represented a SPAC focused on the tech sector in a de-SPAC transaction with an automobile semiconductor design company valued at $1.1 billion.
- Represented a digital banking platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of a large bank holding company in its $140 million acquisition by a SPAC focused on the financial technology industry.
- Represented a SPAC in its $100 million acquisition of two bank holding companies (one of the first times a SPAC has obtained approval to acquire a bank holding company).
- Represented a privately held development company in its all-stock merger with a SPAC yielding a combined entity with enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion.
- Represented a shipping company in its merger with a SPAC.
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Nelson Mullins draws on elite capital markets, public company representation, private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and tax capabilities to guide clients through the entire SPAC cycle in both SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.
- Established contacts and relationships to help sponsors and companies going through the SPAC IPO or de-SPAC process.
- Leverage our team’s combined experience of over 100 years in M&A, private equity, as well as capital markets tax and securities to supply a seamless process along the SPAC spectrum.
- The first and possibly the only firm in the country to successfully assist a SPAC in acquiring a bank holding company.
Keeping SPACs on track
We represent SPACs, sponsor groups, and underwriters throughout the formation, structuring, initial public offering, and identification of an acquisition target, the de-SPAC business combination or wind down of the SPAC. We represent private companies going public through combining with a SPAC. The current SPAC market offers higher quality sponsors, increased investor incentives, better sponsor-investor alignment structure, increased deal certainty, improvements to the warrant structure, capital raising, and initial public offering.
Nelson Mullins professionals provide value in the following ways
- Understanding of the SPAC life cycle
- Awareness of structural changes in the capital markets
- Diverse clientele across various industries, both domestic and international
- Deep sector experience
- Private equity emphasis
- End-to-end deal team capabilities
- Preparation and negotiation of definitive transaction agreements
Our team brings long term experience to help meet our client’s needs
- Our practitioners handle a range of SPAC transactions reaching across more than 20 industries.
- Lawyers represent both domestic and international sponsors of and targets of SPACs.
- Significant experience with a multitude of transactions and transaction structures with SPACs.
- Our team has long experience with the SEC having advised hundreds of public companies on over 500 public company acquisitions.
- Many of our practitioners have served as former CEO, COO, General Counsel, or other high-level positions in a wide range of industries.
- Focusing on understanding our clients’ business objectives at the outset of a transaction and guide clients with practical solutions.
Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
SPAC IPOs
- Represented underwriters in a $316 million IPO for a tech/consumer healthcare SPAC.
- Represented issuer in a $316 million IPO for a tech/software SPAC for a $12 billion Chicago-area asset management group.
- Represented underwriter in a $208 million IPO for a tech/software SPAC.
- Represented issuer in a $100 million IPO for a data center SPAC.
De-SPACs/SPAC Acquisitions
- Represented a SPAC focused on the tech sector in a de-SPAC transaction with an automobile semiconductor design company valued at $1.1 billion.
- Represented a digital banking platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of a large bank holding company in its $140 million acquisition by a SPAC focused on the financial technology industry.
- Represented a SPAC in its $100 million acquisition of two bank holding companies (one of the first times a SPAC has obtained approval to acquire a bank holding company).
- Represented a privately held development company in its all-stock merger with a SPAC yielding a combined entity with enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion.
- Represented a shipping company in its merger with a SPAC.
- Nelson Mullins draws on elite capital markets, public company representation, private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and tax capabilities to guide clients through the entire SPAC cycle in both SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions.
- Established contacts and relationships to help sponsors and companies going through the SPAC IPO or de-SPAC process.
- Leverage our team’s combined experience of over 100 years in M&A, private equity, as well as capital markets tax and securities to supply a seamless process along the SPAC spectrum.
- The first and possibly the only firm in the country to successfully assist a SPAC in acquiring a bank holding company.
