Why are SPACs Gaining Traction Again in 2025?
After the historic SPAC boom of 2020–2021 and a cooling period that followed, 2025 is seeing renewed interest in the SPAC model. In this episode of The SPAC Podcast, Mike and Derek discuss why the market is turning back to SPACs as a viable capital formation pathway.
Many SPACs from the boom years ultimately liquidated, returning billions in capital to investors. With the traditional IPO window still slow to reopen, that capital is now looking for new deployment vehicles—and SPACs are regaining attention. This conversation explores what’s changed in the landscape, how investor sentiment is shifting, and why SPACs may continue to play a meaningful role in public market access moving forward.
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Derek Kearns
Partner, SEC & SPAC Practice Leader
Derek is a Partner at Centri Business Consulting and the leader of the firm’s SEC, Financial Reporting & SPAC Practice. He has more than 25 years of accounting experience in both public and private industries. He joined Centri in September 2020 and has focused on Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and regulations, recurring public company SEC filings, IPO registration statements, business combination filings and pro forma financial statements as well as private company IPO readiness activities and strategies. Additionally, he has significant experience with both domestic and international public filers in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors, the mining industry, life sciences, merchant services, as well as experience in the cannabis industry and manufacturing.
Prior to his time with Centri, Derek oversaw the reporting and technical accounting functions at Mile High Labs, an international cannabinoid and CBD product manufacturer. He also successfully operated an independent consulting business for four years.
Derek has held management positions at multiple Fortune 250 companies, as well as a public gold exploration company, overseeing SEC reporting and technical accounting functions. Derek began his career with Deloitte, where he spent six years in the audit and assurance practice.
He received his B.S. in Accounting and Finance from The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Colorado.