SPAC · Merger completed
Gores Metropoulos, Inc.
Business combination with Luminar Technologies, Inc.
Gores Metropoulos, Inc. is a blank-check company (SPAC) that raised $375M in its initial public offering on Feb 1, 2019. It completed its business combination with Luminar Technologies, Inc. on Dec 2, 2020; the combined company is Luminar Technologies, Inc. (LAZR). Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised the SPAC and Ropes & Gray advised the underwriters on the IPO.
Luminar Technologies is an autonomous vehicle sensor and software company offering a lidar and perception platform. Founded in 2012, it has a team of about 350 people with offices in Palo Alto, Orlando, Colorado Springs, Detroit and Munich.
- Status
- Merger completed
- IPO date
- Feb 1, 2019
- IPO size
- $375M
- Target
- Luminar Technologies, Inc.
- Announced
- Aug 24, 2020
- Closed
- Dec 2, 2020
- Combined company
- Luminar Technologies, Inc. (LAZR)
- SPAC counsel (IPO)
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Underwriters' counsel (IPO)
- Ropes & Gray
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- Redemptions at each extension and at the merger vote
- Liquidation deadline and extension history
- Merger proxy, registration statement and investor presentation
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Filings
- IPO prospectus (424B4) Feb 1, 2019
- Deal announcement (8-K) Aug 24, 2020
- Press release
- All filings on EDGAR CIK 1758057
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