- SPACs
- Endeavor Acquisition Corp.
Endeavor Acquisition Corp.
Completed 2007-12-12- CIK 1336545
- EDA
- IPO 2005-12-16
- $121M trust
- 767 filings
Successfully merged with American Apparel, Inc.
- IPO Size
- $129M
- raised at the IPO
- Trust Amount
- $121M
- held for shareholders
- Current Status
- Completed
- from its latest filing
- IPO Year
- 2005
- year it listed
Filings, by quarter
767 filings over 43 quarters; violet bars carry a milestone
- 05 Q3: 1 filing
- 05 Q4: 17 filings
- 06 Q1: 9 filings
- 06 Q2: 2 filings
- 06 Q3: 2 filings
- 06 Q4: 6 filings
- 07 Q1: 10 filings
- 07 Q2: 8 filings
- 07 Q3: 8 filings
- 07 Q4: 28 filings
- 08 Q1: 21 filings
- 08 Q2: 15 filings
- 08 Q3: 8 filings
- 08 Q4: 12 filings
- 09 Q1: 32 filings
- 09 Q2: 23 filings
- 09 Q3: 16 filings
- 09 Q4: 12 filings
- 10 Q1: 14 filings
- 10 Q2: 10 filings
- 10 Q3: 8 filings
- 10 Q4: 27 filings
- 11 Q1: 25 filings
- 11 Q2: 36 filings
- 11 Q3: 19 filings
- 11 Q4: 19 filings
- 12 Q1: 21 filings
- 12 Q2: 21 filings
- 12 Q3: 15 filings
- 12 Q4: 15 filings
- 13 Q1: 22 filings
- 13 Q2: 20 filings
- 13 Q3: 23 filings
- 13 Q4: 26 filings
- 14 Q1: 24 filings
- 14 Q2: 35 filings
- 14 Q3: 40 filings
- 14 Q4: 22 filings
- 15 Q1: 14 filings
- 15 Q2: 36 filings
- 15 Q3: 15 filings
- 15 Q4: 12 filings
- 16 Q1: 18 filings
- S-1 filed 05 Q3
- IPO 05 Q4
- Definitive agreement 06 Q4
- Completed 07 Q4
SPAC Overview
Where it stands on the road from S-1 to merger
Timeline Progress
- Registration2005-09-20 Filed S1
- IPO2005-12-16 IPO, search begins
- Definitive Agreement2006-12-18 Agreement for merger
- Completed2007-12-12 Merger Completed
About
Endeavor Acquisition Corp. is a blank-check company seeking to complete a business combination with an operating business, with a stated focus on service businesses in several segments. It intends to pursue a business whose operations can be improved with its capital resources and that offers organic and acquisition growth opportunities.
Investment Focus
Business Services, Marketing, Consumer, Healthcare, Logistics
Geographic Focus
United States
Key Information
As the filings state it
- IPO Date
- 2005-12-16
- Jurisdiction of Incorporation
- Delaware
- SIC
- 6770
- Completion Date
- 2007-12-12
- Merger Target
- American Apparel, Inc.
- SPAC Ticker
- EDA
SPAC Team
The banks on its IPO, and the team as the filings describe it
Underwriters
Extended Team Information
Chairman Eric J. Watson and President Jonathan J. Ledecky have experience forming, acquiring and operating service businesses; they have been involved in the formation of more than 25 companies and 400 acquisitions. Ledecky founded U.S. Office Products and Building One Services Corporation.