Capitol Investment Corp. V announced today that the underwriters of its initial public offering of 30,000,000 units have fully exercised their option to purchase an additional 4,500,000 units to cover over-allotments. Each unit to be sold in the initial public offering, including the additional units subject to the over-allotment option, will be sold at $10.00 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $345,000,000. Each unit consists of one share of the Company's Class A common stock and one third of one warrant, each whole warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of the Company's Class A common stock at an exercise price of $11.50.
The offering is expected to close on December 4, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The Company's efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region.
The Company is led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mark D. Ein, and President and Chief Financial Officer, L. Dyson Dryden. The Capitol team has raised $1.53 billion in five SPACs since 2007 and closed four SPAC mergers.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are acting as joint book-running managers of the offering.