
Mark Schwartz
Speaker
Mark leads EY’s IPO and SPAC Advisory practice assisting clients evaluating and navigating IPOs, SPAC mergers and direct listings. Mark has worked with management teams and boards for more than two decades as an equity capital markets investment banker and a capital markets lawyer, providing them with critical insights on the key aspects of public listings.
Prior to joining EY, Mark was a Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets on Wall Street, most recently as Deutsche Bank’s Head of Equity Financing Solutions focused on IPOs, and before that, as a senior IPO execution banker at Barclays and its predecessor, Lehman Brothers. Prior to his investment banking career, Mark was a corporate and securities lawyer in Davis Polk’s capital markets practice and a staff attorney in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.
Mark received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bucknell University and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
Topic
June 18, 2025 June 18, 2025
Addressing Today’s SPAC Market Challenges
- Evolving SPAC structures that better suit today’s market
- Optimizing post-close trading performance and liquidity
- Expediting SPAC deals by addressing key process and timing complexities
- PIPE and trust redemption strategies to address capital-raising concerns
- Navigating the “new” SEC
Wednesday June 12, 2024
Getting Better SPAC Deals Done in 2024 and Beyond
- Better and best practices for marketing the transaction and converting the shareholder base
- Managing dilutive instruments in the capital structure, optimizing liquidity and float, and transacting with smaller and/or aging SPACs
- Optimizing readiness, governance and transaction management
Wednesday June 28, 2023
What Will the Future Hold for SPACs?
- The role SPACs will play in the capital markets going forward
- The types of companies that will be attracted to SPACs
- How deal structures will evolve to solve capital needs and other issues
Wednesday June 15, 2022
Counseling Private Companies Considering a SPAC in These Turbulent Times
- Hear what advisors are telling private companies considering SPACs in this environment
- Navigating some of the tough issues of the day and what to look out for
- How market and other forces are influencing how companies should behave