New this week: SPAC transactions continue to gain momentum as a means of raising funds quickly — read our analysis on their advantages. Plus, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 4068 to revise the elective pass-through entity (PTE) Business Alternative Income Tax (BAIT). Read on for everything you need to know:
The SPAC is BACK
Special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), often referred to as “blank-check” companies, raised more than $94.4 billion last year and shattered 2020’s record-setting raise of $83.2 billion – which, in its own right, was up more than 2,000 percent. Embedded within last year’s SPAC IPO numbers were more than 200 target companies acquired in deals involving – in whole or in part – a SPAC. As we settle into the current year, financial sponsors continue to raise bountiful “blind pools” of cash within the SPAC market while many others wait in queue for IPO approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
New Jersey Enacts “Clean-Up” Bait Legislation
If you thought the elective pass-through entity (“PTE”) Business Alternative Income Tax (“BAIT”) for New Jersey could be improved upon, you were not alone. In response to pressure from the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (“NJCPA”) and other New Jersey taxpayers, on January 18, 2022, Governor Phil Murphy signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 4068 to revise the elective PTE BAIT.