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Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group seeks to raise at least $525M for SPAC in the US

SoftBank Group, Japan’s second largest publicly traded company, filed in the United States to secure up to $604 million for a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a shell company established to merge with an operating company to enable the latter to become publicly listed without undergoing the lengthy traditional IPO process.