The SPAC Podcast: Special Purpose Acquisition Company

1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

   SPAC Market Update: A Record Pace of IPOs and What's Fueling It (opens the original)

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   SPAC IPO volume has already blown past all of 2025 — and the market isn't slowing down. Mike Blankenship breaks down what's fueling the record pace, why PIPE pricing is validating deal valuations, and how serial sponsors are driving the next wave. In this SPAC Market Update, Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner and Capital Markets Practice Co-chair at Winston Taylor, joins host Joshua Wilson to unpack a record year for SPAC issuance. With IPO volume already topping all of 2025, Mike breaks d...

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2. Episode · Aug 5, 2026

   August 2026 SPAC Market Update (opens the original)

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   135 SPAC IPOs year to date. $26 billion raised. 359 SPACs still outstanding and competing for targets. Mike Blankenship breaks down what those numbers mean if you are sponsoring a SPAC or sitting on the target side of the table. Michael (Mike) Blankenship, Managing Partner at Winston Taylor and co-chair of the firm's Capital Markets practice, joins Executive Producer Joshua Wilson for a market update on where SPACs stand in August 2026. The conversation covers issuance pace, trust size and t...

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