To: Buckey who wrote (2398 ) 3/17/2012 3:59:25 PM From: Glenn Petersen Respond to of 3862 The “reborn” SPACs are a mixed bag. I like the prospects for the pre-revenue Ascend Acquisition (stock symbol: ASCQ) , primarily because of the involvement of Jonathan Ledecky. UAN Cultural & Creative Co. (stock symbol: UCCC), whose thinly traded shares have a market cap in excess of $150 million, may be worth $1.5 to $2 million tops. The company owns and operates an art gallery in Luzhu Township, Taiwan. It is too bad that there are no available shares to short. The thinly capitalized Golden Gate Homes, Inc. (stock symbol: GNGT), which has a market cap of approximately $270,000, describes itself as being in the business of, ”acquiring and reselling high-quality, distressed residential properties in the U.S. to international buyers, primarily from China and other parts of Asia.” Good luck with that. When Global Services Partners Acquisition Corp was unable to close on their proposed transaction with the video game publisher SouthPeak Interactive Corporation (stock symbol: SOPK), they liquidated the trust fund, retained their corporate existence and executed an alternative transaction to acquire and finance SouthPeak. Unfortunately, they did not raise a lot of money and SouthPeak, which has real revenues (over $40 million in 2010), is close to being insolvent. I would avoid it. I like Pinpoint Advance Corp. (stock symbol: PPAC), which is essentially a bet on a lawsuit. Unfortunately, I can find no evidence that either class of common shares are trading. There are five other liquidated SPACs that have retained their corporate existence: Phoenix India Acquisition Corp. (stock symbol: PXIA ), Affinity Media International Corp. (stock symbol: AFMI ), Santa Monica Media Corporation (stock symbol: MEJ ) and China Healthcare Acquisition (stock symbol: CHM ) have terminated their registrations with the SEC and gone dark. Israel Growth Partners Acquisition Corp. (Class A stock symbol: IGPAA ), which has a market cap of approximately $1.8 million, is still a reporting company. I would have expected more of the liquidated SPACs to have continued their corporate existence, if for no other reason than it would have provided the founders, who received no payouts when the companies were liquidated, an opportunity to recoup some or all of their losses. I am updating my SPAC database. I was surprised to find out that 23 new SPACs have gone public in the last two years.