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Youth-Focused Digital Platform FaZe Clan Nears $1 Billion SPAC Deal

Editorial Board Published October 25, 2021
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Youth-focused online platform FaZe Clan Inc. is nearing a deal to combine with a special-purpose acquisition company and go public with a roughly $1 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said.

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Based in Los Angeles, FaZe Clan markets itself as a leading online-gaming company and a brand created by young people that targets millennials and Gen Z consumers. Its business includes esports, merchandise and digital content. The company’s website says FaZe Clan has a global reach to a community of roughly 350 million people across its social-media platforms.

FaZe Clan was founded in 2010 and has partnerships with large brands such as McDonald’s Corp. and Totino’s Pizza Rolls, which is owned by General Mills Inc., GIS 0.30% that are hoping to reach younger consumers.

The company is close to an agreement to combine with the SPAC B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp., a blank-check company backed by B. Riley Financial Inc., RILY 1.14% the people said. The merger could be announced as soon as Monday.

FaZe Clan partners with large businesses such as McDonald’s that hope to reach younger consumers.

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Fast-growing digital platforms have flocked to SPAC deals recently to raise large sums of money and increase brand awareness by going public. In the past few years, sports-betting firm DraftKings Inc., DKNG -5.74% mobile gaming firm Skillz Inc. and digital-media platform BuzzFeed Inc. have completed or announced similar mergers.

Personalities who create content for FaZe Clan include professional athletes Kyler Murray and Ben Simmons. The singer Pitbull and several other sports and entertainment figures are among the company’s investors.

As part of the SPAC deal, FaZe Clan is expected to raise about $120 million through a private investment in public equity, or PIPE, associated with the merger, the people said.


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The B. Riley SPAC has about $170 million. Some or all of that money could also increase FaZe Clan’s cash proceeds from the deal. Because SPAC investors have the right to withdraw their money before a merger is completed, a SPAC’s cash pile can dwindle before a deal gets finished.

Low share prices often motivate investors to withdraw money. Such withdrawals have skyrocketed in recent months amid a share-price slump for many companies that merged with SPACs, making it more difficult for many companies to complete their blank-check mergers.

A SPAC is a shell firm that raises money and begins trading on a stock exchange to merge with a private company and take it public. The private company then replaces the SPAC in the stock market. SPAC deals have exploded in the past year, in part because they allow startups such as FaZe Clan to make business projections that aren’t allowed in traditional initial public offerings.

FaZe Clan projects this year’s expected sales of roughly $50 million will grow rapidly in the years ahead, the people said.

SPACs were hot investments early this year, then faded in popularity after many companies that went public this way struggled to meet their business targets.

Some excitement has returned to the sector in recent days after former President Donald Trump’s new social-media venture said it would go public by combining with the SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp. Shares of the SPAC rose nearly 10-fold in the two days following the deal announcement after individual investors piled in. The gains were unprecedented for SPACs and implied a valuation of several billion dollars for Mr. Trump’s startup.

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Write to Amrith Ramkumar at [email protected]

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