A British Columbian auctioneer listed on the NYSE Amex stock exchange spun off its business in a reverse merger with a Chinese coal company and raised $7 million in a private placement. Full Story
Sources: PrivateRaise Profile, 8-K
Regent International Enterprises, First Equity Group, and Red Sky Enterprises acquired non-trading shell company Expedite 5 Inc. from Sheila Hunter for $30,000. Full Story
Filing: 8-K
Reach Messaging raised $315,000 in a private placement of common stock in its reverse merger with shell company FormulaWon Inc. Full Story
Sources: PrivateRaise Profile, 8-K
Atlantic Green Power Holding Co., a renewable electricity company, went public in a reverse merger with the shell company Lodestar Mining. Full Story
Sources: PrivateRaise Profile, 8-K
Shell company InovaChem Inc. completed its acquisition of NuGen Mobility, a maker of components for hybrid vehicles and other alternative energy products, and raised about $1 million in a private placement. Full Story
Filing: 8-K
The shell company EPOD Solar entered an agreement to reverse merge today with Nanotech Industries, a San Francisco company that makes "green" polyurethane coatings for flooring. Full Story
Filing: 8-K
The Milwaukee Iron, a team in the new Arena Football 1 league, completed a reverse merger with the shell company Genesis Capital Corp.
Filing: 8-K
Tone in Twenty, a company that planned to open isometric fitness centers in Las Vegas, completed a reverse merger with Muscle Pharm, a sports nutrition and supplement maker in Colorado. Full Story
Filing: 14f-1
Kasian Franks acquired a 98.3% stake in Fashion Net, a former fashion marketing company, from its former chief executive, Evelyn Meadows, for an undisclosed price. Full Story
Sources: PrivateRaise Profile, 8-K
UniTek USA, a portfolio company of private equity firm HM Capital Partners that provides engineering and construction services to the cable and satellite industries, agreed to reverse merge with wireless services company Berliner Communications. Full Story
Source: Press Release
Q4 Brings Promising Uptick
While the total deal value and financing totals for 2009 were down from 2008, reverse merger activity in the last quarter, especially among Chinese companies, has shown a promising uptick that could provide momentum for the coming year.
The total number of deals for the fourth quarter of 2009 increased about 40% from the previous quarter and about 28% from the year-earlier quarter. Full Story
SOX Exception for Merger Companies Could Aid Market
The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in early December, includes a provision calling for a permanent exemption from certain elements of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) for small public companies. That would seem to be cause for celebration in the reverse merger community. Full Story
Several prominent reverse merger dealmakers and attorneys are planning trips to India in the near future to initiate partnerships with local firms and meet with private companies.
Those planning future business in the country say it will be a slow process, however, and India will likely remain a niche market. Full Story
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- American Energy Fields Inc.
- Amico Games Corp.
- Car Charging Group Inc.
- China Baicaotang Medicine
- China Interactive Education
- China New Media Corp.
- Covenant Group of China Inc.
- Dove Diamonds and Mining Inc.
- Integrated Freight Corp.
- Magnolia Solar Corp.
- Masterbeat Corp.
- Paneltech International Holdings Inc.
- Pioneer Power Solutions
- Urban Barns Food
- Viking Investments Group, LLC
- Weifang Huajie Fuel Injection Co.
- Wuhan Vogue-Show Jewelry Co.
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- Declared Shell Companies



