This has been dubbed “the year of the SPAC” with exponential growth in the number and value of blank-check companies going public and merging with well-known targets, Bloomberg reports. But the cost of D&O insurance coverage for SPACs jumped this fall and created a perfect storm of eye-popping insurance premium pricing and a constriction in coverage availability and terms. Read more.
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