The leaders of Allego would no doubt have preferred other circumstances for their company’s IPO. But they had no choice: the operation, carried out via a merger with the SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) Spartan, already listed on the New York Stock Exchange, had been planned since last July.
“We had been ready for several weeks. We were waiting for the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] issues the necessary authorizations,” explains Thierry Deau, managing director of the Meridiam fund, which controls the Dutch company specializing in charging stations for electric vehicles.
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