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Hong Kong’s nearly three-year-old special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) program may finally get a much-needed lift by bringing its first actual company to market using an existing listed shell company. Somewhat ironically, the company that could make its debut through the SPAC route is from Singapore, rather than from China, which is the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s main supplier of new listings.
HK Acquisition Corp. (7841.HK), a Hong Kong-based SPAC backed by a former head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city’s de facto central bank, announced last Thursday that it will hold a special shareholder meeting on Oct. 25 to vote on a planned merger with Singapore’s Synagistics Pte. Ltd., an e-commerce company focused on Southest Asia.