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‘Spotlight on SPACs’ is a new weekly column that tracks the latest news, data, and analysis on special purpose acquisition vehicles, drawing on proprietary intelligence from Mergermarket and Dealreporter, as well as data from Dealogic.    The report, published weekly, features forward-looking insight on what to expect in SPAC M&A, as well as

EUR 350m fundraise could include debt component IPO plans cancelled, could reassess in future Keliber, the Finnish lithium hydroxide company, is preparing a EUR 30m fundraise for September, with a view to raising cEUR 350m in 2022, CEO Hannu Hautala told Mergermarket.   The EUR 30m fundraise will enable it to complete the planning

OrgHive, a Chinese online community platform for organic products, is seeking to raise up to USD 10m through a proposed Series A fundraise by 2021, offering an adequate war chest for customer acquisition, said Chief Executive Officer Anastasios Papadopoulos.    The first tranche, which equals to around USD 5m of the planned Series A, is scheduled to

by Bhavna Kaul and Emily Fasold
Harvest Hill Beverage Company, backed by Brynwood Partners, is looking again to find a buyer with its previous financial advisor JPMorgan, said four sources familiar with the situation.   The juice company, known for the Juicy Juice and SunnyD brands, has been sending books to potential suitors, three of the sources said. Harvest Hill is being

by Claire Rychlewski in Chicago and Heather West in San Francisco 
Election, Biden tax proposal spur dealmaking September deal deluge expected   A potential change in tax regime following the US presidential election is pushing dealmakers to close transactions before the end of this year—potentially yielding a significant increase in M&A activity during a year that has seen serious lulls, industry sources

Jumpstory, the Danish AI-technology company, is in dialogue with US business angels and seed investors for a smaller pre-seed round ahead of a Series A round in six to nine months, CEO and co-founder Jonathan Low told Mergermarket. The stake size up for grabs will be negotiable, he added.   The pre-seed round could be a couple of million Danish

by Amy-Jo Crowley, Ryan Gould and Maryna Irkliyenko in London
Private equity group Hellman & Friedman is weighing options for its stake in Nets, which is expected to lead to a full sale of the Danish payment services group, four sources familiar with the matter said.

This is an overview of the buy now, pay later (BNPL) sector in Australia, which will continue to undergo consolidation, according to advisors and dealmakers polled by Mergermarket journalist Christel Thunell. This overview features insights on the sector, investment rationale, recent deals and a selection of companies to watch.   There is no stopping

OnRobot seen as attractive target Teradyne, Robotiq among consolidators COVID-19 a short-term blip in M&A In little more than a decade, the Odense robotics cluster has become one of the world’s leading clusters for robotics technology, especially with collaborative robots (cobots) attracting large investments from global industrial

by Patrick Harris in London and Claudia De Meulemeester in Perugia
Besieged miner SolGold risks alienating shareholders and potential acquirers as it approaches a requisitioned general meeting and the lifting of a standstill agreement with BHP in late October, shareholders and bankers following the situation said.