It has been a big 15 months in the world of special-purpose acquisition companies, Barron’s reports, and the mood was ebullient at the (DealFlow) 2021 SPAC Conference on a sunny Wednesday at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. But a cloud of threatened regulation also hovered over the gathering. Read more.
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