CEA ACQUISITION CORP
Completed 2006-02-09- CIK 1268904
- CEAC
- IPO 2004-02-13
- $17.9M trust
- 288 filings
Successfully merged with etrials Worldwide, Inc.
- IPO Size
- $21M
- raised at the IPO
- Trust Amount
- $17.9M
- held for shareholders
- Current Status
- Completed
- from its latest filing
- IPO Year
- 2004
- year it listed
Filings, by quarter
288 filings over 24 quarters; violet bars carry a milestone
- 03 Q4: 3 filings
- 04 Q1: 11 filings
- 04 Q2: 1 filing
- 04 Q3: 1 filing
- 04 Q4: 1 filing
- 05 Q1: 10 filings
- 05 Q2: 1 filing
- 05 Q3: 3 filings
- 05 Q4: 22 filings
- 06 Q1: 46 filings
- 06 Q2: 27 filings
- 06 Q3: 10 filings
- 06 Q4: 3 filings
- 07 Q1: 4 filings
- 07 Q2: 14 filings
- 07 Q3: 7 filings
- 07 Q4: 14 filings
- 08 Q1: 20 filings
- 08 Q2: 17 filings
- 08 Q3: 7 filings
- 08 Q4: 14 filings
- 09 Q1: 6 filings
- 09 Q2: 39 filings
- 09 Q3: 7 filings
- S-1 filed 03 Q4
- IPO 04 Q1
- Definitive agreement 05 Q3
- Completed 06 Q1
SPAC Overview
Where it stands on the road from S-1 to merger
Timeline Progress
About
CEA Acquisition Corporation is a blank check company formed to acquire an operating business in the entertainment, media and communications industry. It intends to concentrate its search in cable and satellite television, broadcast television, radio broadcasting, newspaper and consumer magazine publishing, specialty media, and voice and data transmission-related segments.
Investment Focus
Entertainment, Media, Communications
Key Information
As the filings state it
- IPO Date
- 2004-02-13
- SIC
- 6770
- Completion Date
- 2006-02-09
- Merger Target
- etrials Worldwide, Inc.
- SPAC Ticker
- CEAC
SPAC Team
The banks on its IPO, and the team as the filings describe it
Underwriters
Extended Team Information
The management team is led by J. Patrick Michaels, Jr., founder and CEO of Communications Equity Associates, with experience in entertainment, media and communications investment banking and private equity. Other leaders bring private-equity, investment-banking, broadcasting, and financial experience; together, the team reports involvement in more than 500 transactions valued at over $25 billion.