This is a great press release issued by Market Wire on November 16,2006: Private Companies Going Public via Reverse Mergers. Please read the article. Here are the bullet points:

  • Aggregate Market Cap Generated by Reverse Mergers Doubled
  • Third quarter of 06, 44 companies went public using reverse mergers
  • Increase from $1.67 billion to $3.4 billion
  • 139 reverse mergers through September 30th, 2006
  • Reverse mergers now eclipse IPO’s
  • 34% of reverse mergers are non US (80% non US are Chinese)

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