OUR SPONSORS

PREMIER SPONSOR

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole

Founded in 1992, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is a mid-sized New York City-based law firm, offering its clients legal services in a broad range of business and litigation related matters. Over the course of the last decade, EG&S has been involved in nearly 33% of all SPAC IPOs, either as issuer’s or underwriter’s counsel. Over 20 years of SPAC leadership, EGS has represented more than 550 SPAC IPOs and worked on 200 SPAC M&A Assignments. EGS led the SPAC IPO Legal League Tables for 2020 ranking at #1 for number of deals completed.

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Withum

Founded in 1974, Withum ranks among the top 25 largest public accounting and advisory firms in the country with offices throughout California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida and Grand Cayman. Withum continues to be the go-to firm, ranking number one in total proceeds raised in IPOs over the last five years and auditing 300 IPOs for a total amount raised of approximately $100 billion. Withum’s Financial Services Industry Group serves other clients reflecting the diversity of the industry, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms, broker-dealers and regulated investment companies.

Loeb & Loeb

At Loeb & Loeb, we have been at the forefront of creative SPAC structures and transactions for more than 20 years, representing both issuers and underwriters in hundreds of SPAC offerings and business combinations, including some of the earliest deals on Wall Street. As pioneers in counseling on SPACs and other innovative, first-of-their kind transactions that have contributed to the market evolution, we are uniquely situated to streamline these complex and time-sensitive deals, providing the most efficient and effective counsel from the very start.

GOLD SPONSORS

Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company

In 1964, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust was founded on a specific vision: to fully support companies with superior client responsiveness and uniquely tailored business solutions. Coordinating the IPO and post-IPO activity of a SPAC is a particular area of our expertise. Continental’s unique proprietary platforms oversee trust assets and all stages of business combinations/redemptions. As the industry-leading SPAC administrator, we have handled over 1,000 SPAC IPOs since 2003. Likewise, we have overseen all aspects of 700 SPAC business combinations. It is for these reasons that Continental is recognized as the gold standard leader in the oversight and administration of SPACs.

Cohen & Company Capital Markets

We are a full-service boutique investment bank focused on advising leading and emerging companies across sectors to address their strategic and financial opportunities.

When partnering with us, you get decades of knowledge across a variety of disciplines, industries and expertise. Given our unique approach to banking, you can expect the high level of engagement of a boutique coupled with the expertise of a bulge bracket advisor.

Marcum

Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, with offices in major business markets throughout the U.S., as well as select international locations. Headquartered in New York City, Marcum provides a full spectrum of traditional tax, accounting, and assurance services; advisory, valuation, and litigation support; managed accounting services; and an extensive portfolio of specialty and niche industry practices. The Firm serves both privately held and publicly registered companies, as well as nonprofit and social sector entities, high net worth individuals, private equity funds, and hedge funds, with a focus on middle- market companies and closely held family businesses. Marcum is a member of the Marcum Group, an organization providing a comprehensive array of professional services. For more information, visit www.marcumllp.com.

Ernst & Young

At EY, our purpose is building a better working world. The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets. Through our four integrated service lines — Assurance, Consulting, Strategy and Transactions, and Tax — and our deep sector knowledge, we help our clients to capitalize on new opportunities and assess and manage risk to deliver responsible growth.

EY teams have extensive experience and knowledge navigating the opportunities and risks of the SPAC market, and can help SPAC sponsors and target companies evaluate opportunities, make transactions more efficient, and achieve their strategic goals. EY teams have assisted in SPAC transactions across a broad range of industries, including cross-border transactions.

NETWORKING SPONSORS

EarlyBird Capital

EarlyBirdCapital is a boutique investment bank, as well as the pioneer and leader in the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (“SPAC™”) investment vehicle. EarlyBirdCapital’s Investment Banking expertise lies in Equity Offerings (private placements and public offerings), M&A Advisory Services, Debt Placements, Fairness Opinions and Valuations, and Recapitalizations. SPACs enable seasoned executives to raise capital through an IPO in order to seek an attractive operating business and deploy the capital through a business combination.

CFGI

CFGI, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners, is a leading global accounting and business advisory firm. We partner with our clients on their most important regulatory, transaction, and business improvement initiatives. Our team of over 1000 former Big 4 professionals bring expertise across technical accounting, capital markets, tax, valuation, ESG, transaction advisory, restructuring, and technology solutions — all delivered with an independent and roll-up-the-sleeves approach. CFGI was founded in 2000 and serves thousands of global clients across 19 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions.

Laurel Hill Advisory Group

The Laurel Hill Advisory Group is North America’s leading independent Corporate Communications firm, offering services including; Proxy Solicitation, Unclaimed Property, and Corporate Actions. Our integrated suite of Annual Meetings and Special Meetings, Mergers and Acquisitions and Institutional Investor Identification programs have been created to assist public and private companies, SPAC’s and Bank & Thrifts with the right intelligence in order to navigate through the ever changing landscape of shareholder proposals, activism, and regulations.

SILVER SPONSORS

SPAC Research

SPAC Research is an independent data service focused on US-listed Special Purpose Acquisition Companies. SPAC Research is a thought leader that provides custom research and analysis on the SPAC space, as well as a comprehensive data set and synopsis of all material events throughout each SPAC’s life cycle.

RRBB Accountants + Advisors

RRBB Accountants and Advisors is a full-service accounting, advisory and consulting firm located in central New Jersey. We put our client relationships first by providing responsive, quality service at reasonable rates. We have been in public accounting, delivering high quality accounting and advisory services for over 50 years and have experts with vast experience in many disciplines.

Calabrese Consulting

Calabrese Consulting is an international SPAC advisory firm. With deep expertise on both the stakeholder and auditor side, we are able to move with speed and accuracy to deliver an exceptional experience from IPO to merger completion. With many successful SPAC acquisitions under our belt and over 100 SPACs we are currently serving, our clients know they can depend on us when time and precision are essential. We relieve the burden of accounting and financial reporting; and provide the personalized style you deserve.

Woodruff Sawyer

As one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the US, Woodruff Sawyer protects the people and assets of more than 4,000 companies. We provide expert counsel and fierce advocacy to protect clients against their most critical risks in property & casualty, management liability, cyber liability, employee benefits, and personal wealth management. An active partner of Assurex Global and International Benefits Network, we provide expertise and customized solutions where clients need it, with headquarters in San Francisco, offices throughout the US, and global reach on six continents.

Maples Group

With over 50 years’ experience in the financial services industry and expertise in the provision of a wide range of domestic and international services, we have become a global partner to our clients with offices strategically situated to best serve their needs.

We offer a broad range of solutions tailored to the unique requirements of each of our clients, independently providing specialised fiduciary, fund administration, regulatory and compliance, entity formation and management and legal services on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg.

The Nuvo Group

The Nuvo Group provides financial printing, digital publishing and EDGAR SEC electronic filing services to some of the world’s most respected financial institutions. The company possess the tools, team and advanced technologies to ensure an exceptional customer experience —ease of process, rapid execution, regulatory compliance and uncompromising accuracy in ways that makes our clients’ jobs easier and their printing and filing faster.

Morrow Sodali

Morrow Sodali provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to investor engagement, environmental, social, and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and shareholders activism, strategic communications, investor relations, and research.

Centri Business Consulting

At Centri, we provide the highest quality advisory services to our clients by being reliable and responsive to their needs. In addition, we provide companies with the expertise they need to meet their reporting demands. Our areas of expertise include financial reporting, internal controls, valuation services, technical accounting research, and CFO advisory services for companies of various sizes and industries. From complex technical accounting transactions to periodic financial reporting, our professionals can offer any organization the specialized expertise and multilayered skill sets to ensure the project is completed timely and accurately.

The Cotto Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley

The Cotto Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley focuses on providing businesses, entrepreneurs, families and organizations the support they need to achieve and maintain financial success.

BRONZE SPONSORS

PROMOTIONAL SPONSORS

MEDIA SPONSORS

Why You Should SPONSOR

As a Sponsor of The SPAC Conference, your people are in the same room as the people empowered to make decisions and sign deals. Sponsoring this conference gives you unparalleled access to SPAC executives and the CEOs of private companies who are eager to increase their appeal and maximize their value.

Elevate your brand in the SPAC market and get direct access to…

Creative ways to market your firm to decision-making executives in attendance

A popular conference format that focuses on conducting business as well as education and networking

A highly cost-effective way of maximizing your firm’s exposure to a targeted audience

Proven integrated media campaigns that attract not just an audience – but the right audience

The Opportunity

The SPAC Conference 2024 includes a multifaceted marketing plan that delivers exceptional value to sponsors and results in a successful event with your target audience.

Don’t be left out.

As a Sponsor, you benefit not just from delivering content during the event, but you also gain valuable exposure from our pre- and post-event marketing.

This is an opportunity to gain more business, and get more deals done. We bring together the professionals working in this space and the corporate executives intrigued by the possibility of going public via SPAC.

As our valued partner, all you have to do is introduce yourself to them.

If you’re interested in learning about sponsorship opportunities for The SPAC Conference 2024, contact Brooke Greiff at (516) 876-8006 extension 26 or brooke@dealflowevents.com.