GLG Partners, Inc.

GLG Partners, Inc. came to market through Freedom Acquisition Holdings Corp. (NYSE: FRH), a blank-check company sponsored by Nicolas Berggruen and Martin Franklin that completed its IPO in 2006. The S-1/A amendment filed on December 17, 2007, with accession number 0000950123-07-016695, was submitted in connection with the de-SPAC combination that brought GLG Partners — a London-based alternative asset manager overseeing a broad range of hedge fund strategies — onto U.S. public markets. The transaction closed in 2007, marking one of the more prominent SPAC combinations in the financial services and alternative investment management sector during that era. Visit SpacDesk and sign up for full filings, sponsor history, and deal analytics on this and every other SPAC transaction in our database.