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Completed · 22 Feb 2024LCAAU · NasdaqCIK 1841024Sponsor at IPO: LCA Acquisition Sponsor, LP

L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp

$287MTrust raised at IPO · 3% of public shares left after its last counted vote

Merged with Lotus Technology Inc. (LOT) · Industrials and transport

  1. IPO10 Mar 2021
  2. Searching24 months
  3. Deal announcedAgreement signed
  4. Closed22 Feb 2024

Tavia Read What stands out, from the filings · snapshot 14

  1. 01

    Larger than 66% of 2021’s SPAC IPOs.

    $287M raised, against a median of $239M for the 610 SPACs that priced in 2021.

  2. 02

    97% of public shares redeemed across 2 votes.

    1 extension vote and the merger vote, counted from the SPAC’s 8-Ks. 3% of the public shares remained after the last one.

  3. 03

    Closed its merger 35 months after its IPO.

    The combined company is Lotus Technology Inc. (LOT). Sector: Industrials and transport.

Worked out from checked figures in snapshot 14 · no forecasts or advice

Key terms

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IPO priced
10 Mar 2021
IPO closed
15 Mar 2021
Raised
$287M
Units sold
28,650,8741
Trust raised
$287M2
Trust per unit
$10.003
Unit
1 sh + ⅓ warrant4
Months to complete
245
Deadline before extensions
15 Mar 2023
Over-allotment
Exercised in part

Each unit: “one Class A ordinary share and one-third of one redeemable warrant”

How it compares

L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp against the 610 SPACs that priced in 2021.

Raised
$287M
66% 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
97%
62% of 2021 SPACs are below it
2021 median: 94%

Trust and redemptions

  1. Extension vote · 10 Mar 20236,867,252 of 28,650,874 redeemed (24%)
  2. Merger vote · 2 Feb 202420,818,519 of 21,783,622 redeemed (96%)

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

Company counsel

Underwriters’ counsel

Auditor

Sponsor

No other SPAC from LCA Acquisition Sponsor, LP or a vehicle of the same name priced since 1 January 2019.

Peers

Other 2021 SPAC IPOs with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as bookrunner.

SPACIPORaisedUnitStatus
AP Acquisition Corp16 Dec 2021$173M1 sh + ½ warrantLiquidated
Investcorp Europe Acquisition Corp I14 Dec 2021$345M1 sh + ½ warrantSearching
Growth for Good Acquisition Corp9 Dec 2021$253M1 sh + ½ warrant + 1 right (1/2)Liquidated
UTA Acquisition Corp1 Dec 2021$230M1 sh + ½ warrantLiquidated
Infinite Acquisition Corp.18 Nov 2021$276M1 sh + ½ warrantLiquidated

Sources

  1. PFinal prospectus: 0001047469-21-000589
  2. 1Units sold: 0001104659-21-058999holders of the units sold in the Company’s initial public offering of 28,650,874 units may elect to separately trade the Class A ordinary shares and warrants included in the units.
  3. 2Trust raised: 0001104659-21-043339A total of $36,508,740 of the net proceeds from the sale of the Additional Units was deposited in a trust account
  4. 3Trust per unit: 0001047469-21-000589$250,000,000, or $287,500,000 if the underwriters' option to purchase additional units is exercised in full ($10.00 per unit in either case), will be deposited into a U.S.-based trust account
  5. 4Unit composition: 0001047469-21-000589Each unit has an offering price of $10.00 and consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-third of one redeemable
  6. 5Months to complete: 0001047469-21-000589If 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

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.