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WeWork to go public via SPAC

WeWork said Friday that it has agreed to be taken public by a SPAC sponsored by Vivek Ranadivé's Bow Capital Management.

Why it matters: This is a sunny ending to a very dark year for WeWork, which was already under pressure before the pandemic crushed co-working.


By the numbers: The deal would give WeWork an implied valuation of around $9 billion.

  • That's a dramatic discount to its $47 billion valuation in early 2019, but a slight improvement on where WeWork was valued in a SoftBank-led bailout round later that same year.
  • In between was WeWork's abandoned IPO process, and the ouster of founding CEO, Adam Neumann.

Timing: Word of a SPAC deal for WeWork first surfaced weeks ago, and was expected to be announced after SoftBank and Neumann reached a legal settlement related to a failed stock tender offer.

  • But sources say that there were some difficulties in obtaining PIPE financing for the deal, as that market has been tightening.
  • The PIPE is an $800 million outlay from firms like Insight Partners, Starwood Capital Group and Fidelity.

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