Alternative Acquisition Models and Financial Innovation: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies in Europe, and the Italian Legal Framework DAlvia Daniele

This is the first book in English on SPACs in the context of European and Italian Financial Law, introducing the topic with a general overview at the European level. As such, it is a ground-breaking reference book for SPAC studies, at the international level.It offers the most comprehensive overview of the current international financial regulation of SPACs in the European Union and the United Kingdom (U.K.) against the main legal system where SPAC originates: the United States (U.S.). It is also the first book on the European financial regulation of SPACs.

The edited book is focusing on finding a European legal framework for SPACs by discovering whether the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) or the Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS) are applicable to them or not, and why; and identifying the objectives