SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift
Key takeaways
- Space X makes its public debut on Friday and some investors who backed the company through special purpose vehicles (SPVs) still don t know how many shares they re entitled to or whether they ll get any shares at all.
- Investing through SPVs, where multiple parties pool their money to invest in a single company, has been around for a while.
- SpaceX will be the first major test of the legitimacy of multi-layer SPV.
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Space X makes its public debut on Friday and some investors who backed the company through special purpose vehicles (SPVs) still don t know how many shares they re entitled to or whether they ll get any shares at all.
Investing through SPVs, where multiple parties pool their money to invest in a single company, has been around for a while. But Space X represents an unprecedented case of an IPO with multiple layers of these vehicles. Since demand for Space X allocations has been so high in recent years, investors in an SPV have occasionally formed a new SPV from their shares, creating a structure sometimes stacked four or five layers deep.
SpaceX will be the first major test of the legitimacy of multi-layer SPV. In recent months, Anthropic and Anduril have announced that they are disallowing these structures.