- SPACs
- Hicks Acquisition CO I Inc.
Hicks Acquisition CO I Inc.
Completed 2009-09-28- CIK 1402175
- TOH
- IPO 2007-10-01
- $537M trust
- 154 filings
Successfully merged with Resolute Energy Corporation
- IPO Size
- $552M
- raised at the IPO
- Trust Amount
- $537M
- held for shareholders
- Current Status
- Completed
- from its latest filing
- IPO Year
- 2007
- year it listed
Filings, by quarter
154 filings over 48 quarters; violet bars carry a milestone
- 07 Q2: 1 filing
- 07 Q3: 21 filings
- 07 Q4: 19 filings
- 08 Q1: 9 filings
- 08 Q2: 5 filings
- 08 Q3: 9 filings
- 08 Q4: 2 filings
- 09 Q1: 12 filings
- 09 Q2: 3 filings
- 09 Q3: 38 filings
- 09 Q4: 2 filings
- 10 Q1: 1 filing
- 10 Q2: 0 filings
- 10 Q3: 0 filings
- 10 Q4: 0 filings
- 11 Q1: 3 filings
- 11 Q2: 0 filings
- 11 Q3: 0 filings
- 11 Q4: 0 filings
- 12 Q1: 0 filings
- 12 Q2: 0 filings
- 12 Q3: 3 filings
- 12 Q4: 4 filings
- 13 Q1: 3 filings
- 13 Q2: 0 filings
- 13 Q3: 0 filings
- 13 Q4: 0 filings
- 14 Q1: 0 filings
- 14 Q2: 0 filings
- 14 Q3: 0 filings
- 14 Q4: 0 filings
- 15 Q1: 0 filings
- 15 Q2: 0 filings
- 15 Q3: 0 filings
- 15 Q4: 0 filings
- 16 Q1: 0 filings
- 16 Q2: 0 filings
- 16 Q3: 0 filings
- 16 Q4: 4 filings
- 17 Q1: 0 filings
- 17 Q2: 6 filings
- 17 Q3: 0 filings
- 17 Q4: 0 filings
- 18 Q1: 0 filings
- 18 Q2: 6 filings
- 18 Q3: 0 filings
- 18 Q4: 0 filings
- 19 Q1: 3 filings
- S-1 filed 07 Q2
- IPO 07 Q4
- Definitive agreement 09 Q3
- Completed 09 Q3
SPAC Overview
Where it stands on the road from S-1 to merger
Timeline Progress
- Registration2007-06-14 Filed S1
- IPO2007-10-01 IPO, search begins
- Definitive Agreement2009-08-02 Agreement for merger
- Completed2009-09-28 Merger Completed
About
Hicks Acquisition Company I is a blank-check company seeking to acquire or control one or more businesses through an initial business combination. It is an industry generalist, excluding energy businesses, and will not pursue a business whose principal operations are outside the United States or Canada.
Geographic Focus
United States, Canada
Key Information
As the filings state it
- IPO Date
- 2007-10-01
- Jurisdiction of Incorporation
- Delaware
- SIC
- 6770
- Completion Date
- 2009-09-28
- Merger Target
- Resolute Energy Corporation
- SPAC Ticker
- TOH
SPAC Team
The banks on its IPO, and the team as the filings describe it
Underwriters
Extended Team Information
The team is led by founder and chairman Thomas O. Hicks, with extensive private-equity and leveraged-acquisition experience. Hicks and other members of management have experience identifying, acquiring and operating a wide variety of businesses.