SPAC

140 days ago

While my electric guitar gently takes the piss: joke RTO announced

Having almost entirely wiped out shareholders with its first RTO as a SPAC, Electric Guitar (ELEG) and its advisors, Allenby of NightCap and Chill Brands infamy, are at it again, announcing that it has provisionally agreed another RTO. They really are taking the piss.

269 days ago

Electric Guitar - it’s either death or massive dilution for existing shareholders ( and then probable death), this is not what capitalism is about

Today Electric Guitar (ELEG) has issued two RNS announcements, one covers the interim results and the other announces a Company Voluntary Arrangement and Fundraise to try and save the company and make it a cash shell.

282 days ago

How to turn $10 million into way less than $2 million without asking Comrade Swanny, Friday is the day to shout timber!

No this is not another comment of Comrade Swanny making a small fortune by investing a big one on crap like Conroy Gold, Tern and Chill Brands. My reference here is Critical Metals (Nasdaq:CRML) and the credibility of technically insolvent Technology Minerals (TM1).

813 days ago

Ashington Innovations – Jason Drummond taking the piss

Ashington Innovations (ASHI) managed to float on the sub Standard List just over two months ago on the anniversary of D day. It says that it is a SPAC looking to do a deal in technology. The prospectus is a shocker.

1250 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the spiral of death when stakeholders smell a cash crisis – ref AO World

I start with explosions here at the Hovel in Wales and how Bearcast listener G cannot assist. Talking of explosions I comment on IRA loving cottage burners in a Welsh independence march I went on yesterday with the kids HERE. With hindsight I’d rather have attended the Pride March. Well maybe not. It is a marginal call. Then it is onto SPACs and the schoolboy error of Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT). Finally AO World (AO) which looks screwed. I describe how rational behaviour by four groups of stakeholders will ensure a cash struggling company goes down.]

1371 days ago

A new kind of SPAC maybe, certainly less morally offensive than those before it

Showing what complete geeks they are, the chaps at Peterhouse Capital have today launched the first of three SPC’s all named after famous Brits born within 100 yards of the Peterhouse City HQ.  But before you scoff at More Capital (Sir Thomas More was born in Milk Street) there are a couple of unusual and, actually rather creditable, features here.

1468 days ago

You couldn't make it up: Top of a bull market signal: Sith Lord Zak Mir floating media company SPAC

I kid you not. Natch there is a very obviously related party stink, the valuation is a joke, the brokers behind it are scumbags and my friend Zak is a clown who doesn’t have a scooby about media and fintech M&A but do not let me put you off. This madness will at least be entertaining, if not rewarding for those daft enough to back it.

1484 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: The sordid truth emerges about Wandisco & the Equities First Hoods, Dave Richards should shoot and/or fire his advisers

I follow up on yesterday’s bearcast on Wandisco (WAND) and the deal done by CEO Dave Richards with the hoods at Equities First Holdings (EFH). Dave called me up. I explain why he is naive not dishonest but why he needs to grill his advisers. Was there a brown envelope? Who penned the RNS which now looks even more dishonest with what I tell you today? Dave should shoot and/or his advisers as they have landed him in the reputational soup.  I then look at today’s latest  disgusting revelations on the Charlie Wood Hydrogen and Helium SPAC spoof IPOs, at the utter naivety of Aquis and I have advise for certain City folk on what they should do as the regulator has failed. Liam, Fungai and he who shall not be named you know what to do. I look at Bowleven (BLVN) and also at Caracal Gold (GCAT) asking who is selling?  

1654 days ago

And now from Peterhouse and Chris Akers it is another shameless nest of vipers ramp – meet TECC Capital

They used to be called cash shells but Peterhouse likes to brand its pointless financial creations SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) to make them sound more sexy. Of course what they really are, are money making machines for greedy founder investors and rampers like Chris Akers, the Wolf of AIM, and for financiers like Peterhouse who float them on a production line of greed.

1680 days ago

EXPOSE: Are penny share promoter Chris Akers & a high profile SPAC boss committing market abuse in private chatroom? Company response is to smear critics!

The company is All Active Asset Capital (AAA) a grossly over-ramped and over valued AIM sewer promote when penny share spiv Chris Akers is involved. Soo too is Johnny Mahtani the boss of Media Tech SPAC a murky, newly formed, company backed by Akers planning a stockmarket listing within months. There is a private Telegram group where Akers, Mahtani and others pump the stock. The screenshot below is from yesterday evening.

1704 days ago

FCA prepares for London to join the race to SPAC investor hell as London goes for gold in the fraud Olympics

There were 190 IPOs of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) in the USA last year, none in Britain. But like other ghastly Americanisms including Trick or Treat, rap music and Meghan Markle, eventually all the rubbish ends up here too. But fear not, the FCA has plans to regulate SPACs so that they can list on the London Stock Exchange and has today launched a consultation exercise. My submission, if there was any point, would be to just say No!