GSC Acquisition Co
Liquidated 2009-06-26- CIK 1381117
- GGA
- IPO 2007-06-27
- $176M trust
- 87 filings
- IPO Size
- $180M
- raised at the IPO
- Trust Amount
- $176M
- held for shareholders
- Current Status
- Failed
- from its latest filing
- IPO Year
- 2007
- year it listed
Filings, by quarter
87 filings over 12 quarters; violet bars carry a milestone
- 06 Q4: 1 filing
- 07 Q1: 5 filings
- 07 Q2: 23 filings
- 07 Q3: 8 filings
- 07 Q4: 6 filings
- 08 Q1: 5 filings
- 08 Q2: 10 filings
- 08 Q3: 4 filings
- 08 Q4: 4 filings
- 09 Q1: 14 filings
- 09 Q2: 5 filings
- 09 Q3: 2 filings
- S-1 filed 06 Q4
- IPO 07 Q2
- Liquidated 09 Q2
SPAC Overview
Where it stands on the road from S-1 to merger
Timeline Progress
About
GSC Acquisition Company is a blank-check company formed to acquire one or more businesses or assets through an initial business combination. It is a generalist, focusing on U.S. and European industries and target businesses with significant growth opportunity.
Geographic Focus
United States, Europe
Key Information
As the filings state it
- IPO Date
- 2007-06-27
- Jurisdiction of Incorporation
- Delaware
- SIC
- 6770
- Failed Date
- 2009-06-26
- SPAC Ticker
- GGA
SPAC Team
The banks on its IPO, and the team as the filings describe it
Underwriters
Extended Team Information
The team is backed by GSC Group. Chairman Alfred C. Eckert III has over 20 years of private equity, distressed debt and mezzanine lending experience; CEO Peter R. Frank and President Matthew C. Kaufman together have more than 40 years of control-investment and operating experience.