SRNG, DNA: 14 Things to Know About Ginkgo Bioworks and the Soaring Eagle SPAC Merger

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Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA) stock is set to start trading today as the company completes its merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Soaring Eagle (NASDAQ:SRNG).

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Let’s take a look at everything investors need to know about DNA stock and the SPAC merger.

  • To start off with, the SPAC merger will result in SRNG stock changing to the new DNA stock ticker.
  • This will also see it shift from the Nasdaq Exchange over to the New York Stock Exchange.
  • The SPAC merger was approved on Tuesday with the new shares set to start trading today.
  • Ginkgo Bioworks will exit the SPAC merger with $1.6 billion in total proceeds.
  • It also sets a value of $16 billion for the company.
  • Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotech company working on a method to allowing cell programming.
  • The company’s goal is to made cell programming as easy to perform as computer programming.
  • It was founded in 2008 and operates out of Boston, Mass.
  • Soaring Eagle is a SPAC founded by Harry E. Sloan, Jeff Sagansky, and Eli Baker.
  • It was created with the goal of finding a suitable merger partner to take public.
  • The SPAC merger has Ginkgo Bioworks maintaining its current management team.
  • However, there are changes for its Board of Directors.
  • That includes Soaring Eagle CEO Harry Sloan joining the company’s Board.
  • Several other individuals are also taking seats on the combined company’s updated Board of Directors.

SRNG stock was up 10.2% as of Friday morning.

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