WeWork is looking to go public but the real estate company isn’t planning to do so through a normal initial public offering (IPO). Instead, it’s looking at a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) BowX Acquisition (NASDAQ:BOWX) to get its stock on the market.
Here’s what investors need to know about the SPAC merger between WeWork and BowX Acquisition.
- The SPAC merger values WeWork at $9 billion.
- It will also set the company up with $1.3 billion of cash.
- That includes $483 million in cash held in trust by BowX Acquisition.
- Another $800 million is coming from a private investment in public equity (PIPE).
- Leading that PIPE is Insight Partners, Starwood Capital Group funds, Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, Centaurus Capital, and BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) funds.
- This will also provide the combined company with $2.4 billion of liquidity.
- Among this is a a $550 million senior secured notes facility being provided by SoftBank (OTCMKTS:SFTBY).
- WeWork will likely keep BOWX stock on the Nasdaq Exchange when it takes over.
- However, the company doesn’t say what it plans to change the stock ticker to after the merger is complete.
- The deal has the unanimous support from both comapnies’ Boards of Directors.
- Now it just needs to complete other customary closing conditions.
- That includes getting approval from regualtors and holders of BOWX stock.
- So long as there’s no problems during the process, the deal is set to close in the third quarter of 2021.
- BOWX stock is seeing heavy trading on today’s SPAC merger news.
- As of this writing, more than 15 million shares of the stock have changed hands.
- To put that in perspective, the company’s daily average trading volume is only about 403,000 shares.
BOWX stock was up 10.3% as of Friday morning.
WeWork is far from the only company with plans to go public.
There have been quite a few comapnies lately that have joined the public market. Among them are ThredUP (NASDAQ:TDUP), Vizio (NYSE:VZIO), and DigitalOcean Holdings (NYSE:DOCN). Investors can learn more about those IPO efforts with the following content from InvestorPlace.com.
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On the date of publication, William White did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.
