Completed · 8 Jul 2024GPACU · NasdaqCIK 1831979Sponsor at IPO: Global Partner Sponsor II LLC
Global Partner Acquisition Corp II
Now Stardust Power Inc. · Name history
$300MTrust raised at IPO · 0% of public shares left after its last counted vote
Merged with Stardust Power Inc. (SDST) · Materials and mining
- IPO11 Jan 2021
- Searching24 months
- Deal announcedAgreement signed
- Closed8 Jul 2024
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Larger than 71% of 2021’s SPAC IPOs.
$300M raised, against a median of $239M for the 610 SPACs that priced in 2021.
- 02
100% of public shares redeemed across 3 votes.
2 extension votes and the merger vote, counted from the SPAC’s 8-Ks. 0% of the public shares remained after the last one.
- 03
Closed its merger 42 months after its IPO.
The combined company is Stardust Power Inc. (SDST). Sector: Materials and mining.
Worked out from checked figures in snapshot 14 · no forecasts or advice
Key terms
Other 2021 SPAC IPOs →- IPO priced
- 11 Jan 2021
- IPO closed
- 14 Jan 2021
- Raised
- $300M1
- Units sold
- 30,000,0002
- Trust raised
- $300M3
- Trust per unit
- $10.004
- Unit
- Warrants and rights5
- Months to complete
- 246
- Deadline before extensions
- 14 Jan 2023
- Over-allotment
- Exercised in full
Each unit: “one Class A ordinary share, one-sixth of one detachable redeemable warrant and the contingent right to receive one-sixth of one distributable redeemable warrant”
Name history
The same company under every name it has filed with the SEC, tracked by its CIK, 1831979. This page keeps its IPO name; the others lead here.
- Global Partner Acquisition Corp IIAt IPO20 Nov 2020 – 28 Jun 2024
- Stardust Power Inc.Now8 Jul 2024 – today
Dates are those EDGAR records for each name, as of 16 October 2026. A name change follows a shareholder vote or a merger’s closing, and is reported in an 8-K.
How it compares
Global Partner Acquisition Corp II against the 610 SPACs that priced in 2021.
- Raised
- $300M
- 71% of 2021 SPACs are below it
- 2021 median: $239M
- Trust per unit
- $10.00
- 63% of 2021 SPACs match it
- 2021 median: $10.00
- Months to complete
- 24
- 56% of 2021 SPACs match it
- 2021 median: 24
- Redeemed across its votes
- 100%
- 86% of 2021 SPACs are below it
- 2021 median: 94%
Trust and redemptions
- Extension vote · 11 Jan 202326,068,281 of 30,000,000 redeemed (87%)
- Extension vote · 9 Jan 20242,137,134 of 3,931,719 redeemed (54%)
- Merger vote · 27 Jun 20241,660,035 of 1,794,585 redeemed (93%)
Public shares before each vote and the shares redeemed, as its 8-Ks (or the next 10-Q or 10-K) state them. Only votes whose redemptions were paid count.
Firms named in the prospectus
Bookrunners
Company counsel
Underwriters’ counsel
Auditor
Sponsor
No other SPAC from Global Partner Sponsor II LLC or a vehicle of the same name priced since 1 January 2019.
No SPAC named Global Partner I is in our data. It either priced before 1 January 2019, came to market under another name (SPACs are listed by their name at IPO), never came to market, or is not yet in an approved snapshot, so this record may understate the sponsor.
Peers
Other 2021 SPAC IPOs with RBC Capital Markets, LLC as bookrunner.
| SPAC | IPO | Raised | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAVA Medtech Acquisition Corp. | 26 Oct 2021 | $115M | 1 sh + ½ warrant | Liquidated |
| SOAR Technology Acquisition Corp. | 15 Sept 2021 | $230M | 1 sh + ⅓ warrant | Liquidated |
| DHB Capital Corp. | 1 Mar 2021 | $288M | 1 sh + ⅓ warrant | Liquidated |
| Pathfinder Acquisition Corp | 16 Feb 2021 | $325M | 1 sh + ⅕ warrant | Completed |
| Crown PropTech Acquisitions | 8 Feb 2021 | $276M | 1 sh + ⅓ warrant | Deal announced |
Sources
- PFinal prospectus: 0001213900-21-001995
- 1Gross proceeds: 0001213900-21-003307
The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds (before underwriting commissions and offering expenses) of $300,000,000 to the Company.
- 2Units sold: 0001213900-21-003307
completed its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 30,000,000 units (“Units”), including 2,500,000 Units sold pursuant to the full exercise of the IPO underwriters’ over-allotment option.
- 3Trust raised: 0001213900-21-003307
a total of $300,000,000 was placed in a U.S.-based trust account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee
- 4Trust per unit: 0001213900-21-001995
$275,000,000, or $300,000,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full (in either case, $10.00 per unit), will be deposited into a U.S. based trust account
- 5Unit composition: 0001213900-21-001995
Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share, one-sixth of one detachable redeemable warrant (or 4,583,333 detachable redeemable warrants in the aggregate, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) and the contingent right to receive
- 6Months to complete: 0001213900-21-001995
If we have not consummated an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, we will redeem 100% of the public shares for cash
Each quote is found word for word in the filing it cites. Where a figure here differs from the filing, the filing prevails.
How the figures are compiled
- Which IPOs. Every final IPO prospectus (Form 424B4 or 424B1, or a 424B3 when it is the first prospectus filed on an S-1 or F-1 registration within 10 days of it going effective) filed on SEC EDGAR from the history start, by a registrant whose SIC code was 6770 (blank checks) on the filing date. Offerings that are not exchange-listed SPAC IPOs are excluded when the prospectus is read. The window starts on 1 January 2021.
- Dated by. The date of the final prospectus.
- Raised. Units sold to the public, including over-allotment units, times the unit price, as stated in the SPAC's 8-K reports after the IPO.
- Trust. The trust held for public shareholders after the IPO and any over-allotment: trust per unit times public units, as stated in the SPAC's filings. Cash deposited in trust and then moved out as working capital is not counted.
- Bookrunners. Firms the prospectus names as book-running managers; where it names none, the firm it names as sole underwriter or representative of the underwriters. Only the prospectus's own wording counts, not later 8-K reports. Each IPO's gross proceeds are split equally among its bookrunners.
- Counsel and auditors. Issuer counsel and underwriters' counsel as named in the prospectus's Legal Matters section; the auditor as named in its Experts section. Each is credited with the IPO's full gross proceeds.
- Unit structure. What one unit consists of, as the prospectus states it: a share with warrants, with rights, with both, or a share alone (shares-only offerings sell no units). Warrants per unit is the fraction of a warrant in each unit; rights are measured as the fraction of a share they convert into per unit.
- Trust per unit. Dollars placed in the trust account for each unit sold to the public, as the prospectus states it.
- Time to complete. Months from the IPO closing that the SPAC has to complete its business combination before any extension, as the prospectus states it.
- Over-allotment. Whether the underwriters bought all, part or none of the over-allotment option, comparing units sold with the base offering and the option.
- Votes. Shareholder votes to extend a SPAC's deadline or to approve its business combination, as reported in its 8-Ks (Item 5.07), for the SPACs in the IPO statistics only: SPACs that priced before the history start are not included, so votes in the first years under-represent the market. Only redemptions actually paid count: votes on a proposal that failed, or an extension that was approved but never took effect, are left out (redemption requests lapse with them), and a merger vote counts only when the deal closed, and only the last merger vote before the closing, since merger redemptions are paid at closing. Liquidation votes are left out too, as every public share is redeemed by definition.
- Redemption rate. Public shares redeemed at a vote over public shares outstanding just before it. Shares redeemed are as an 8-K, or failing that the next 10-Q or 10-K, states them. Shares before are as a filing states them, or redeemed plus the shares left after, or carried from the IPO's public shares and earlier votes. The median is the typical vote; the weighted rate divides all shares redeemed by all shares before, the share of public money that left the trusts. A vote counts only when each of these figures is verified or accepted. Votes whose redemption count no filing states, after a search of the SPAC's and the combined company's filings, are counted as not disclosed rather than estimated.
- Outcomes. Where each SPAC stands as of the snapshot: completed (business combination closed), liquidated (trust returned and redeemed), deal pending (agreement signed, not closed) or searching (no agreement in force). Grouped by the year the SPAC priced its IPO. Awaiting review means its status is still being checked.
- Closings. Completed business combinations by year of closing. The sector is the SEC's industry code (SIC) of the combined company, grouped into broad sectors; months from IPO run from the prospectus date to the closing.
- Checking. A SPAC counts only when every required figure is verified (quote found verbatim in the filing and all cross-checks pass) or accepted by a named reviewer.
- Coverage. 1,077 of the 1,089 SPAC IPOs read are counted; 12 wait on a figure still under review and 11 filings were excluded as not exchange-listed SPAC IPOs.
Compiled from SEC filings with the assistance of AI · figures as of 3 November 2026
For information only. These figures are compiled from SEC filings with the assistance of AI. Although they are checked against those filings, they may contain errors or omissions and have not been audited; where they differ from the filings, the filings prevail. They are not an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation of any security. Information about any SPAC is qualified in its entirety by its filings with the SEC, available at www.sec.gov.
