Certificate of completion issued to
Moustafa Abdou
For completing
SPACs Pathway
Completion date
13 May 2022
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About SPACs Pathway
3 Video modules
32 minutes of learning
4.9 rating
Foundational level
SPACs, or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, are an alternative way for private companies to go to market, without having to undertake an IPO. In this pathway, Rupert Walford will explain how SPACs work, how they are different to IPOs and will also take us through a case study.
In this pathway
Understand SPACs
Compare SPACs to IPOs
Analyse case studies of SPACs
Pathway experts
Rupert Walford
25 years: Capital markets
Rupert has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry working mainly in international capital markets. He is currently a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets in London responsible for ECM Execution and Healthcare ECM and Corporate Broking in Europe. Rupert was previously at Linklaters for 8 years, at UBS Investment Bank for 9 years as Head of Global Capital Markets Legal and as a member of UBS's ECM Execution team and subsequently at Deutsche Bank in Compliance covering ECM and Corporate Broking. Rupert has extensive experience in a wide range of investment banking transactions in EMEA, predominantly in the emerging markets and in particular Russia. He is also a qualified lawyer.