SPAC IPO FILING: Delos Acquisition Corp

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Delos Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, submitted an IPO filing Tuesday. The filing shows $150 million proceeds targeted at $10.00 per unit, each unit will consist of one share of stock and one warrant. The proposed maximum aggregate amount in securities is listed as $172,500,000, although this number is for filing purposes only.  The sole underwrite for the IPO is listed as Morgan Stanley. Delos has requested to trade on the American Stock Exchange.

The filing specifies that they will intend to initially focus on businesses in the business/information services industry in North America; however, they are not limited to this industry or geographic region.  In evaluating a potential target, Delos will use the following criteria: Competitive industry position; Experienced management team; Established track record; Potential for earnings and growth; Diversified Customer and Supplier Base.

Mel Bergstein, the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, currently acts as Chairman of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc., a leading consultancy firm. Prior to Diamond, he held high management positions at Technology Solutions Company and Computer Sciences Corporation. He also has over 20 years of management consulting experience at what is now Accenture. The Vice Chairman and CFO is Michael Mikolajczyk, also a member of the Board at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc.

Delos joins a wave of recent SPAC IPO filings. SPAC’s and mortgage securities-related players are dominating the group of companies brave enough to go public in the wake of a looming recession.

Rachel Lopez
February 20, 2008

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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