Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp
BOCN · Nasdaq
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Nothing left to do
The purchase completed and the shares became shares in the company it bought. There is no deadline left to miss.
Cash at settlement
No cash-per-share figure was filed for this vehicle before it finished.
Last close
Daily close
No price history on file yet — daily closes accumulate from the market data feed.
Trust settled · There is no line to draw here. This vehicle has finished: the cash was paid back or spent closing the deal, so the last filed figure describes an account that no longer exists and would be a floor under nothing.
SpacBrain’s read
Trust settled
The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).
In plain terms
- What it is
- A SPAC from Blue Ocean Sponsor LLC, listed on Nasdaq in December 2021.
- What it's doing now
- It agreed in November 2024 to buy TNL Mediagene, a digital media and journalism company. That purchase completed, and it stopped being a SPAC — the shares became shares in the business it bought.
- What you should know
- This SPAC has finished. The purchase completed, and the shares became shares in the company it bought — anyone who wanted the cash instead asked for it at the vote, so there is no cash left here to claim and no deadline left to miss.
At a glance
- Where it stands
- Closed (deSPAC)
- The business it bought
- TNL Mediagene
- Industry
- Communication Services — digital media and journalism
- Deal value
- not stated in the filings we hold
- announced 7 November 2024
- Price vs cash at settlement
- no live price on file
- Cash in trust when it settled
- not yet extracted into a snapshot — the filings below may state it
- the last trust total filed while this was still a SPAC — the account has since been paid out or used to close the deal
- IPO
- 6 December 2021
- size not on file · 102.0% of each $10 unit into trust
- Headquarters
- 2 WISCONSIN CIRCLE, CHEVY CHASE, MD, 20815
- registered in the Cayman Islands
- Lead underwriter
- not extracted from the prospectus yet
- Key officers
- Pearlstine Norman (Director) · Motley Joel (Director) · Leggett Richard Jr (Chief Executive Officer)
- Listed securities
- BOCN common
This vehicle has finished, so there is no window to file a cash-per-share figure for and none will follow. No estimate is shown in its place.
Nothing dated is on file. That is an absence in the record, not a statement that nothing is coming.
Yield to redemption
Nothing left to redeem — no yield to compute.
This SPAC has finished — its trust was paid back or used to close the deal, so there is nothing left to redeem and no yield to compute. A yield to redemption is a claim that you can hand these shares back for the trust cash. That account is closed, so this page will not print a number here.
What happened to the cash
The reasoning behind the verdict above, in the order the filings establish it.
- The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).
What has happened, and what is coming
3 dated milestonesEvery dated step from the day it listed to the next date you may have to act on. Where you have to do something, the day your broker needs the instruction is marked too.
- 6 December 2021IPOpassed
IPO size not on file
- 7 November 2024Deal announcedpassed
Combination with TNL Mediagene
The deal
terms as filedWhat it is buying, on what terms, and how much of the combined company new shares take from you.
- TNL Mediagene— · announced 7 November 2024closedCommunication Servicespost-close TNMGSEC primary
The score
deterministic, from filed fieldsBOCN is not in the scored universe, so no score is shown. A withheld score is a fact about the record, not a verdict about the company.
The score is only published for names that carry both a price and a filed cash-per-share figure — 292 of the tracked fleet today. The rest keep an empty dial rather than a modelled one, and fill in by themselves as the fields land.
The company
from SEC filingsRead the full profile
Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp (BOCN) was a blank-check company whose common stock was listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker BOCN. The company priced its initial public offering on December 6, 2021, as reflected in a 424B prospectus filed with the SEC. Its lifecycle is closed: it completed a business combination and the vehicle no longer files. The closing is established by a Form 25 filed on December 5, 2024, under 17 CFR 240.12d2-2(a)(3), indicating that the Class A ordinary shares, units, and warrants came to evidence other securities in substitution therefor. The BOCN ticker appears on the cover page of an 8-K filed on November 27, 2024.
Material findings
from the full read of every filingEvery document this company files gets read whole — body and exhibits. These are the ones the read flagged as material, newest first, each citing its filing.
A best case of 6.19% ownership and a worst case of literally zero is the clearest statement of dilution a SPAC proxy can make: BOCN public holders are contributing cash and receiving a sliver, while TNL Mediagene shareholders take roughly 82%. Because the 0.00% figure corresponds to full redemption, holders who redeem lose nothing they would otherwise have owned. The redemption right, not the equity, is where the value sits in this deal.
The extension is being sought because the deal itself needs more time: the company signed a June 6, 2023 merger agreement with The News Lens Co., Ltd. and TNL Mediagene, has determined there will not be sufficient time before the June 7, 2024 Merger Deadline, and is working with TNL to amend the agreement to push that deadline to December 7, 2024. Failing the extension, the company must wind up and redeem 100% of the public Class A ordinary shares.
The company has a signed deal with TNL from June 2023 and is buying nine months to complete it, so this extension is deal-driven rather than a search extension, which is the more favourable case for holders who want to stay. The deposit rate of $0.035 per share a month, capped at $60,000, adds roughly 0.35% of a $10 share monthly, modest but not nominal. Redemption at the pro rata trust value stays available regardless of the vote, and the sponsor funds deposits with notes repayable on closing rather than with permanent contributions.
Twelve monthly extensions take the vehicle to two and a half years past its December 7, 2021 IPO with a deposit rate of $0.035 per share a month, which adds roughly 0.35% of a $10 share monthly, better than the token amounts many 2023 SPACs offered but still modest against a full year of waiting. The founder share amendment on the same ballot typically permits founder shares to convert to Class A, which increases the sponsor's voting weight in any later vote while leaving its trust exclusion intact. Redemption at pro rata trust value stays open regardless of the vote.
Filings
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The sponsor
The people who set this company up, what they have done before, and the advisers around the deal.
Blue Ocean Sponsor LLCnamed as sponsor in this SPAC’s filings — but with no researched track record behind it yet.
A missing score, not a score of zero — why
A Sponsor Score is only published once the sponsor’s prior vehicles have been verified on EDGAR and their post-close outcomes priced. That record does not exist for this sponsor yet, so no number and no tier is shown. That is a missing score, not a score of zero — and not a neutral 50 either.
Coverage so far: 301 of 1284 tracked SPACs (23%) are attached to a scored sponsor. This card fills in by itself as the research lands.
The record
The reference detail — how the shares were structured at listing, how thinly they trade, and where the company is registered.
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Unit structure
Unit: U = S + W/2 · 102.0% of the $10 unit
from 424B4 0001140361-21-040368
Trading & liquidity
Company profile
Directors & officers
- Pearlstine NormanDirector
- Motley JoelDirector
- Leggett Richard JrChief Executive Officer
- Han PriscillaDirector
- Goldberg MattDirector
- Brauchli MarcusChairman
Institutional holders
from SC 13G/13DFunds that have declared a stake above 5%. Heavy ownership by arbitrage funds usually means heavy cash-outs at the next vote.
Show the declared stakes
8 filers with a stake on file · 0 re-affirmed in the last 12 months. A stake with no amendment since is the filer’s last word on it, not proof it is still held — and percentages filed in different years are percentages of different floats, because this vehicle’s share count collapses at every redemption.
- Blue Ocean Sponsor LLCwith 3 other reporting persons on the same schedule18.6% · SC 13G/ADec 9, 2024 stale
- First Trust Capital Management L.P.with 1 other reporting person on the same schedule5.2% · SC 13GNov 15, 2024 stale
- Apollo Management Holdings GP, LLCwith 8 other reporting persons on the same schedule4.5% · SC 13G/AFeb 13, 2024 stale
- GLAZER CAPITAL, LLCwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule3.0% · SC 13G/ASep 10, 2024 stale
- METEORA CAPITAL, LLCwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule0.2% · SC 13G/ADec 6, 2024 stale
- Saba Capital Management, L.P.with 1 other reporting person on the same schedule0.0% · SC 13G/ANov 7, 2024 stale
- CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST/IL0.0% · SC 13GFeb 14, 2024 stale
- HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC0.0% · SC 13G/AJan 19, 2024 stale
One line per filer, not per reporting person: a joint schedule names the management company, its funds and often the individual who controls them, and all of them report the same shares. Click a name for that filer’s whole footprint across every SPAC it has declared a stake in.
Sources on file
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38 full SEC filing texts archived — searchable, never lost.
- Vault note — BOCN (Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp)
vault-note · /vault/tickers/BOCN
- Vault deal note — TNL Mediagene (BOCN)
vault-note · /vault/deals/tnl-mediagene
In plain English
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No floor / floorlessthe cash guarantee is gone — the price is unprotected
A SPAC's downside protection is not the cash in trust; it is your right to demand that cash. Once the redemption window closes, the cash stays with the company and the share can trade anywhere.
Redemption deadlinethe last day to hand shares back for cash
Set by the filing that calls the meeting. Tender after it and the company is under no obligation to pay you the trust value.
Broker action datethe day your broker needs the instruction — earlier than the official date
Brokers batch redemption instructions to the transfer agent, so the practical cutoff is roughly two business days before the published deadline. This is the date that actually costs people the floor.
Cash in trust / trust per sharethe cash the company is holding for each public share
Filed quarterly in the 10-Q's XBRL. It earns interest between filings, so the figure on a given day is slightly higher than the last filed one — where we show that we label it an estimate.
Trust discountbuying below the cash held for you
Only meaningful while a redemption right exists. On a floorless name the same arithmetic is not a discount, it is the market pricing distress, and this product will not call it a yield.
Dilutionhow much of the company new shares take from you
Sponsor promote, PIPE shares, warrants and rights all issue stock that did not pay $10 for it. The headline deal value is before that; the effective value is after.
Pro-forma equitywhat the company is valued at once the deal closes
The combined company's equity value assuming the announced terms and the redemptions that have actually happened.
ARShow much upside you get per unit of downside
SpacBrain's asymmetric-return score. It is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same number — and it is capped, not zeroed, when the floor is gone.
De-SPACthe day the SPAC becomes the real company
The shares stop being a claim on a pot of cash and start being equity in an operating business. Roughly 80% of recent de-SPACs traded below $10 within a year.
Outside datethe contractual long-stop for closing the deal
A deadline between the SPAC and its target, not between the SPAC and you. It confers no right to cash, which is exactly why it must never be counted as a redemption window.
Accession numberthe SEC's unique id for one filing
Every figure on this page carries the accession of the filing that states it, so you can open the primary document rather than trust us.
Accreted NAV (estimate)the last filed cash figure, plus the interest it should have earned since
A model, not a filing: last filed value compounded at the 3-month T-bill for the days elapsed. Always shown in italic with the word estimate, and never printed beside a filed number without it.
Ask the brain
from its filingsData provenance & audit trail7 internal entries
Written by SpacBrain’s data agents whenever a figure is captured, corrected or flagged, and kept verbatim so every number on this page can be traced back to the filing that states it. This is a running log, not the current record: an early entry may be superseded by a later correction — the panels above always hold the current values.
admitted from the HISTORICAL census (EDGAR's SIC 6770 registrant list, walked in full: 3,325 registrants, 1,167 of which ever priced an IPO). The live discovery job cannot reach this registrant — it reads the filing tape, and this one stopped filing. Admission rule: src/lib/universe-admit.ts. SIC 6770 (Blank Checks); 424B 0001140361-21-040368 priced 2021-12-06; common ticker BOCN off 8-K 0001213900-24-103571 (2024-11-27); lifecycle EXITED. Ending PROVEN, not inferred: CLOSED per Form 25 0001354457-24-000918 (2024-12-05) — Form 25 filed under 17 CFR 240.12d2-2(a)(3) — the rule for securities that "have come to evidence other securities in substitution therefor", i.e. the shares became the successor's (class: Class A Ordinary share, unit, warrant). ipoSizeM and deadline left NULL: gross-proceeds prose conflates the over-allotment with the offering, and a charter deadline belonging to a vehicle that has ended is a date nobody can act on. ipoDate is the 424B pricing date.
sponsor "Blue Ocean Sponsor LLC" sourced from prospectus definition (10-K) acc 0001140361-22-011686.
AI-extracted target (z-ai/glm-5.2, conf 0.99)
target sector as filed: "Digital media company (formerly The News Lens Co., Ltd.)" — sentence punctuation — this is prose; stored NULL.
target recovered for a completed de-SPAC
entity created from the filed target name; no About paragraph on file, so every other field awaits a sourced read
OTHER -> MEDIA_CONSUMER, on 8-K 0001213900-24-103571: "shareholders of Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp (the “Company”) held an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the “Extraordinary General "