the controversial partnerships that attract Shaquille O’Neal, Jay-Z or the richest man in Europe

Sicav, socimis … and now SPAC. Some new acronyms are leading the international stock markets, mainly the US ones, but it is also reaching Europe. Behind them are the Special Purpose Acquisition Company, a model of publicly traded companies that is attracting a significant number of large and heterogeneous investors, many of them famous in fields very different from those of the financial sector. This type of company has experienced a boom linked to the coronavirus pandemic and, according to different sources, it has served to attract almost 70,000 million euros in 2020.