Cantor Equity Partners IV, the thirteenth blank check company formed by Cantor Fitzgerald, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering.
The New York, NY-based company plans to raise $400 million by offering 40 million shares at $10. The company is not offering units with warrants attached.
Cantor Equity Partners II is led by CEO and Chairman Brandon Lutnick, who was recently appointed as the CEO of Cantor, succeeding his father, Howard Lutnick. He is joined by CFO Jane Novak, the Global Head of Accounting Policy at Cantor. The SPAC plans to leverage management's experience to target businesses in the financial services, digital assets, healthcare, real estate services, technology, and software industries. Cantor has backed a dozen other SPACs. The most recent to complete mergers include CF Acquisition VIII, which merged with process automation firm XBP Europe (XBP; -91% from $10 offer price) in November 2023, and CF Acquisition VI, which merged with video platform Rumble (RUM; -4%) in September 2022. Two Cantor-backed SPACs, Cantor Equity Partners (CEP; +237%) and Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO; +43%) have announced mergers with bitcoin treasuries in the recent months, with the latter announcing its merger just yesterday.
The New York, NY-based company was founded in 2021 and plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol CEPF. Cantor Equity Partners IV filed confidentially on March 31, 2025. Cantor Fitzgerald is the sole bookrunner on the deal.
