Churchill Capital Corp IV plunges 35% after Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with a $24 billion valuation

<p><img src="https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/6034cad8bed5c50011a2bfa1-2400/Lucid studios_5.jpg" border="0" alt="Lucid studios_5" data-mce-source="Lucid" data-mce-caption="Lucid Air."></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><ul class="summary-list"><li>Churchill Capital IV fell 35% in pre-market trading after Lucid Motors struck a deal to go public via the SPAC.</li><li>The deal will generate $4.4 billion for Lucid, which plans to use the funds to expand its Arizona facility.</li><li>Churchill's transaction values Lucid at about $24 billion at the PIPE offer price of $15.00 per share.</li><li id="recirc"><a href="https://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/10-things-opening-bell&amp;hash=8122c716833601fc1471f79af063b104'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sign up here for our daily newsletter, 10 Things Before the Opening Bell</a>.</li></ul><hr><p>Shares in <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/cciv-stock'utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest">Churchill Capital IV</a> fell as much as 35% in early trading on Tuesday after the blank-check company's <a href="https://www.lucidmotors.com/media-room/lucid-motors-public-merger-churchill-capital-corp-iv/">merger with Lucid Motors</a> was announced.&nbsp;</p><p>Electric-vehicle maker Lucid confirmed it would go public via the special-purpose acquisition company run by financier Michael Klein with a pro-forma equity value of $24 billion.&nbsp;</p><p>The deal will generate about $4.4 billion in cash for 14-year-old Lucid, which plans to use the funds to expand its manufacturing facility in Arizona. The facility has a production capacity of 365,000 units per year at scale.</p><p>Churchill's pre-market stock performance is a reversal from previous sessions when reports on the deal sparked consecutive rallies.</p><p>Speculation over the deal has been going around for over a month. Earlier in February, <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/churchill-capital-iv-stock-price-spac-lucid-motors-michael-klein-2021-2-1030089036">shares in Churchill Capital IV soared 33%</a> on a report the SPAC was nearing an agreement. On Monday, shares spiked 19% after Bloomberg said <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/churchill-capital-corp-iv-stock-price-lucid-motors-electric-vehicle-2021-2-1030108234">a deal could be announced Tuesday</a>.</p><p>Lucid's deal with Churchill, which is expected to close in the second quarter of this year, marks one of the highest-profile SPAC arrangements in the EV space after a wave of interest in electric-vehicle startups and automotive tech suppliers. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/23/22194330/ev-startups-tesla-success-2020-electric-vehicles-spac-public">That may have been sparked</a> by a rally in <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/tsla-stock">Tesla's</a> shares over the past 12 months. Peter Rawlinson, the company's CEO and CTO, is known for his work as chief engineer at Tesla for the Model S. He joined Lucid in 2013.</p><p>"I see the SPAC as just a tool, another lever to pull on, where we can accelerate our trajectory," Rawlinson told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-22/lucid-motors-agrees-to-go-public-with-24-billion-valuation">Bloomberg</a> in an interview. "This is a technology race. Tesla gets this. It's why they are so valuable and Lucid also has the technology."</p><p>The SPAC merger represents the largest capital boost since Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund injected an <a href="https://www.lucidmotors.com/media-room/lucid-motors-closes-1bn-investment-public-investment-fund-saudi-arabia/">investment worth more than $1 billion in 2018</a>. The deal was led by the Public Investment Fund as well as BlackRock, Fidelity Management &amp; Research, Franklin Templeton, Neuberger Berman, Wellington Management, and Winslow Capital Management.</p><p>Shares in Churchill fell as much as 35% in pre-market trading to $37.34 per share, after closing at $57.37 per share on Monday.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/elon-musk-wealth-tumbles-15-billion-tesla-stock-dropped-9-2021-2-1030111505" >Elon Musk's wealth tumbles by $15 billion after Tesla shares dropped 9% in one day</a></strong></p><p><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/churchill-capital-stock-price-lucid-confirms-spac-deal-2021-2-1030111769#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-myths-debunked-wuhan-china-2020-2">Epidemiologists debunk 13 coronavirus myths</a></p>
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