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A Wave of Earnings Restatements Slams a Hot Market

Accounting guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission has led to a big slowdown in SPACs.

A Wave of Earnings Restatements Slams a Hot Market

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SPACs raised $3.9 billion in May and $3.2 billion in 2021 through June 24, the data show.\n“The SEC statement had the impact of immediately stopping the SPAC market—it shut everything down,” said David Larsen, a managing director at valuation firm Duff & Phelps LLC. “We’re still dealing with the aftermath.”\nDeals are still getting done, with a steady stream of SPACs taking companies public in recent weeks. The slowdown may have helped take some of the speculative froth out of the market, according to analysts. “It allowed people to take their breath in a superheated market,” Mr. Larsen said.\nMore than 540, or almost three-quarters, of active SPACs and companies taken public by SPACs have restated their financials to comply with the SEC rules. 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