Weekly recap

IPOs, SPACs and new listings: week of Apr 20–26, 2026

Week of Apr 20–26, 2026: 4 US IPOs priced raising $720M; 0 SPAC IPOs; 3 SPAC deals announced; 0 deSPACs closed; 3 new IPO filings. The largest IPO was AEVEX Corp., raising $320M.

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US IPOs priced4$720M raised

SPAC IPOs0

SPAC deals announced3

deSPACs closed0

US IPOs, direct listings and uplistings

Company	Type	Priced	Price	Raised	Market cap	Lead-left
AEVEX Corp.	IPO	Apr 20, 2026	$20.00	$320M	$2.23B	Goldman Sachs
Yesway, Inc.	IPO	Apr 23, 2026	$20.00	$280M	$1.22B	Morgan Stanley
Elmet Group Co.	IPO	Apr 23, 2026	$14.00	$120M	$403.9M	Cantor
Liberty Defense Holdings, Ltd.	IPO	Apr 21, 2026	$4.50	—	$25.5M	Benchmark
Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics Inc.	Direct listing	Apr 23, 2026	$10.00	—	—	—

New IPO filings

Company	First filed	Form	Exchange
Tarsier Pharma Ltd.	Apr 21, 2026	F-1	NYSE
SunScout Holding Ltd	Apr 22, 2026	F-1	NYSE American
Lincoln International, Inc.	Apr 24, 2026	S-1	NYSE

SPAC IPOs

None this week.

SPAC deals announced

SPAC	Target	Announced	Deal value
Piermont Valley Acquisition Corp (formerly Capitalworks Emerging Markets Acquisition Corp)	Tigerless Health, Inc.	Apr 20, 2026	$280M
Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co.	Forge Nano, Inc.	Apr 20, 2026	$1.2B
Iron Horse Acquisition II Corp.	Electra Vehicles, Inc.	Apr 22, 2026	$250M

SPAC mergers closed

None this week.

London listings

Company	Market	Admitted	Raised
Rift Helium plc	AIM	Apr 22, 2026	£8.1M

Canadian companies listing in the US

Company	Type	Exchange	Date
Liberty Defense Holdings, Ltd.	US IPO	Nasdaq Capital Market	Apr 21, 2026

Reg A offerings qualified

Company	Tier	Qualified
Winners, Inc.	Tier1	Apr 24, 2026

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