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The First Annual Eurasian Sport Industry Conference 2020
As an industrial pacesetter, emlyon business school has joined hands with China’s top sport academy—Beijing Sport University to launch the First Annual Eurasian Sport Industry Conference -A New Frontier，- The Business and Management of Sport in Eurasia, which will be held between December 8 and 9, 2020 in Beijing.
Eurasia, which hosts important economies such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, France, and the UK, is home to 75% of the world’s population. It is not only a market with strong economic growth, a major investor in the global sports industry, the hosts of important international sports events, but also a lowland of value with the highest potential.
Therefore, with its topics focusing on the Eurasian sports industry, the Eurasian Sport Industry Conference will invite experts and scholars from all over the world to help you develop an In-depth knowledge of the market structure and business prospects of sports industry in Eurasia from multi-dimensional perspectives of sports, business, management, among many others. Date: 2020.12.8-9 Zoom Webinar Language: Chinese / English
Special purpose acquisition companies: are football clubs going (back) to the stock market?
Stock markets this year, most notably in the U.S., have been boosted by the return of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) as a popular means to fundraise public M&A and bring private companies onto the public markets. Having seen an uptick in fundraising by SPACs since 2017, previous records have been shattered in 2020 as more than $36 billion[1] had been raised on Wall Street as of mid-September. This comes at a time when football clubs and leagues are looking for investors and financiers to help steer their balance sheets through the Covid-19 pandemic[2]. It is no longer only high-net-worth individuals and private equity funds[3] looking to invest in football[4].
This article reviews the trend, examining:
What is a SPAC?
Which rules and regulations apply to acquisitions?
How does this apply to football clubs?
Current activity in the market
