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Chardan is a SPAC powerhouse that has had an absolutely killer past several years.

With a lot of SPACs not successfully de-SPACing anymore and returning capital to investors, the sponsors got burned because they have paid a bunch of fees to a banker like Chardan, EarlyBird, or a BB bank’s ECM team. This is what kills the deal flow.

SPACs are the red-headed stepchild of Wall Street right now, but if you love the product, there will always be more SPACs.

Feel free to ask any follow-ons about the product.

 
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They don’t cover a ton of stocks. Most of the stocks are biotech, which makes sense given that it was a popular de-SPAC target market. Most of the biotech stocks were actually never SPACs; I think it’s just a core competency they had and felt they understood. 
Then there’s the other tech coverage, and that list reads like a who’s who of SPACs. BMTX, PLBY, KITT, PRST, PET, etc. Giving coverage of the stock after the fact supports the IPO activity of the firm and is good karma.

I think they have a small, but non-SPAC biotech arm which evolved from their de-SPAC activities, and they cover some of their own cooking on the SPAC side as goodwill.

 

Very helpful, do you have any color on culture, WLB, bonus figures, etc. 

 

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