Generation Asia I Acquisition Ltd
GAQ · Nasdaq
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Nothing left to do
The cash went back to shareholders and the company wound up. 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.
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Trust settled
The trust was liquidated and paid back to holders pro rata — the floor was honoured and the SPAC has wound up, so there is nothing left to claim.
In plain terms
- What it is
- A SPAC from Generation Asia LLC, listed on Nasdaq in January 2022.
- What it's doing now
- It never completed a purchase. The company wound up and the cash in the account went back to shareholders — the ordinary ending when a SPAC runs out of time. No agreed deal for it is on file with us, so we cannot say whether one was ever announced and later fell through.
- What you should know
- This SPAC has finished. The cash was paid back to shareholders and the company wound up, so there is nothing left to claim — the money went where the charter said it would.
At a glance
- Where it stands
- Liquidated
- Deal
- none — it wound up and returned the cash instead
- Industry
- no filing we hold states a sector this SPAC restricted its search to
- Deal value
- no deal to value — it wound up instead
- 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
- 20 January 2022
- size not on file · 101.0% of each $10 unit into trust
- Headquarters
- TWO EXCHANGE SQUARE, SUITE 3102, HONG KONG, F4, 0
- registered in the Cayman Islands
- Lead underwriter
- not extracted from the prospectus yet
- Key officers
- Gao Mei (Director) · CHO SUNGHWAN (Director) · Kuan Roy (Chief Executive Officer)
- Listed securities
- GAQ 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 trust was liquidated and paid back to holders pro rata — the floor was honoured and the SPAC has wound up, so there is nothing left to claim.
What has happened, and what is coming
2 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.
- 20 January 2022IPOpassed
IPO size not on file
The score
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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
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Generation Asia I Acquisition Ltd is a blank-check company whose common stock traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker GAQ. The company priced its initial public offering on January 20, 2022, as reflected in 424B prospectus 0001193125-22-013916. On October 23, 2024, it filed 8-K 0000950170-24-116671, in which it announced that it would dissolve and liquidate its assets and redeem all of its outstanding public Class A ordinary shares issued in the initial public offering, as it would not consummate an initial business combination within the time period required by its Memorandum and Articles, as amended. The company is classified under SEC SIC industry code 6770 and has SEC CIK 0001852061.
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.
The sponsor's decision not to fund ends the company: the extension mechanism was voluntary each month and nothing compelled the payment. This is the first of this registrant's extension filings to state the monthly amount, $35,000, and it does so in the report announcing that it will not be paid. No trust balance or per-share redemption figure is given.
The first of this registrant's extension filings to state any term at all: an amount, a lender and the monthly mechanism its earlier template reports omitted. July 23, 2025 is a charter ceiling reachable only if each monthly payment is funded, not a deadline now in force, and the note is expressly non-convertible. The other-events item is again captioned 'Exhibit 8.01' rather than 'Item 8.01'.
A second sponsor facility after the $550,000 note of February 6, 2024, now sized against the new July 23, 2025 ceiling and the reduced $35,000 monthly deposit approved on April 16, 2024. At $35,000 a month, $450,000 covers roughly twelve months of extension payments plus working capital. The note is non-convertible, so repayment depends entirely on a completed business combination. This report again captions the other-events item "Exhibit 8.01".
A seventh extension announcement on the same defective template, filed six days after the April 16, 2024 meeting that set the monthly deposit at $35,000 and the outer date at July 23, 2025 — but this report states neither. Flagged for review: nothing here supports a deadline, a deposit amount or a funding source.
Shareholders elected to redeem 5,342,374 Class A shares — approximately 69% of the IPO shares — taking about $59,834,588.80 out of trust and leaving 2,357,355 Class A shares outstanding. Against that float, $35,000 a month is about $0.015 per public share, half the $0.03 rate the amendment replaced, so each extra month adds materially less per remaining share. Separately, 2,422,500 Class B shares were converted to Class A, leaving 5,060,000 Class B outstanding.
Founder shares are being converted specifically to keep a listing standard satisfied through an expected wave of redemptions — the capitalisation test counts shares that will not be redeemed. The report states the Class A shares issued on conversion will NOT be redeemable by their holders, so they add to the count without any claim on the trust.
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The first report from this registrant that identifies its proxy as a BCA proxy statement — so a business combination vote, not merely an extension, is before shareholders. Holders of record as of March 25, 2024 may vote even if they have since sold their shares, and previously submitted redemption requests may be withdrawn by asking the transfer agent to return the shares before the meeting.
The amendment reduces what public holders receive for waiting by roughly two-thirds to three-quarters, depending on the share count, while extending how long they must wait by a further year — the sponsor buys twelve more months for $420,000 in total rather than the $1.5 million the existing terms would require. Generation Asia LLC or its designees must still fund each $35,000 deposit before the applicable extension date, and the board may decline to extend at any point.
A sixth extension announcement on the same defective template, whose terms exist only in the furnished press release and are not part of this text. Flagged for review: nothing in the report supports a deadline, a deposit amount or a funding source.
The transfer slips roughly two weeks from the March 26, 2024 date given on March 13. The warrants and units still leave a national exchange for the over-the-counter market. The report's forward-looking legend again identifies "whether the sponsor will continue to elect to extend" the business combination period as a risk, so the company's remaining life is a month-to-month sponsor decision.
This is a voluntary transfer, not a deficiency: the report cites no listing rule failure. But the warrants and units leave a national exchange for the OTC market, which is a real change in where those sub-securities trade and in their liquidity, and it is disclosed only in passing. The forward-looking legend states the risk of "whether the sponsor will continue to elect to extend" the combination period — the clearest statement yet that this registrant's extensions are sponsor-elected month by month.
A fifth extension announcement on the same defective template, whose terms exist only in the furnished press release and are not part of this text. The February 6, 2024 report separately disclosed a $550,000 sponsor note funding monthly extensions to a July 23, 2024 ceiling, but this document does not say which month it buys. Flagged for review.
The first report from this registrant that states any extension mechanics: monthly steps to a July 23, 2024 ceiling, funded from a $550,000 sponsor facility. That ceiling is reachable only if each monthly extension payment is actually made, and the note is non-convertible, so repayment depends on a completed business combination. This report again captions the other-events item "Exhibit 8.01" rather than Item 8.01.
The standard pre-liquidation or pre-closing move out of securities and into cash, most often taken to avoid Investment Company Act exposure as a SPAC ages past its expected life. It changes what the trust holds, not how much: the filing states no trust balance, no per-share figure and no deadline.
A fourth extension announcement from this registrant on the same defective template, whose terms exist only in the furnished press release and are not part of this text. Flagged for review: nothing in the report supports a deadline, a deposit amount or a funding source.
A third extension announcement from this registrant in three months whose terms exist only in the furnished press release, which is not part of this text. Flagged for review: nothing in the report supports a deadline, a deposit amount or a funding source.
A second extension announcement from this registrant whose terms exist only in the furnished press release, which is not part of this text. Flagged for review: nothing in the report supports a deadline, a deposit amount or a funding source.
An extension is announced and none of its terms are in the filed report — they are only in the furnished press release, which is not part of this text. Flagged for review: nothing here supports a deadline, a deposit amount or a funding source.
A second sponsor facility on top of the $870,000 note of July 21, 2023, both non-convertible and both repayable in full on a closing — so unlike most extension paper in this tier they dilute nobody and are not forgiven if the deal fails. July 23, 2024 remains a CEILING requiring a separate monthly deposit of the lesser of $125,000 or $0.03 per public share each time, not a date the company has secured.
Nothing about the extension can be read from this report — the substance is entirely in Exhibit 99.1. Flagged for review because the extract is effectively a cover page and one furnished sentence, the second consecutive month this registrant has reported an extension this way. No figure or date should be taken from this row.
Nothing about the extension can be read from this report — the substance is entirely in Exhibit 99.1. Flagged for review because the extract is effectively a cover page and one furnished sentence. For context the company's July 21, 2023 report describes monthly contributions of $125,000 under the July 13 amendments, but this filing does not say that, and no figure or date should be taken from this row.
The first of the monthly payments the July 13 amendments made possible, at the reduced rate of $125,000 rather than the $723,690 the articles previously required. Two features distinguish it from most sponsor extension paper in this tier: the note is expressly non-convertible, so it dilutes nobody, and it is repayable in full on a closing rather than forgiven. The $870,000 facility is roughly seven such monthly deposits.
July 23, 2024 is a CEILING: it is reached only by making twelve separate monthly deposits, and the cost of each has been cut to roughly a sixth of what the original terms required. That reduction transfers value from the trust to the sponsor's cost of optionality — public holders who stay get $0.03 per share per month instead of the $723,690 the articles previously required. A second amendment restricts combinations with Mainland China businesses holding material variable-interest-entity exposure.
Filings
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What changed: Item 8.01. On October 23, 2024 Generation Asia I Acquisition Limited announced by press release that its sponsor, Generation Asia LLC, has indicated it will not fund the monthly extension payment of $35,000 into the trust account due that day, nor any future monthly extension payments, so the period to consummate a business combination will not be extended beyond October 23, 2024. As a result the company will dissolve and liquidate its assets and redeem all outstanding public Class A ordinary shares issued in its initial public offering. Why it matters: The sponsor's decision not to fund ends the company: the extension mechanism was voluntary each month and nothing compelled the payment. This is the first of this registrant's extension filings to state the monthly amount, $35,000, and it does so in the report announcing that it will not be paid. No trust balance or per-share redemption figure is given.
What changed: Captioned 'Exhibit 8.01. Other Events' (not 'Item 8.01'): on September 23, 2024 Generation Asia I Acquisition Limited states it issued a press release announcing 'the Extension', furnished as Exhibit 99.1, plus Item 9.01 exhibits. As in the registrant's earlier filings of this template, the defined term 'the Extension' has no antecedent in the document: no prior deadline, no new date, no deposit amount and no vote is stated. Why it matters: No deadline, deposit or trust figure can be taken from this filing, because the report discloses none. It is the twelfth instance of the same template from this registrant. The report is dated September 23, 2024 in its signature block and was filed September 24, 2024.(flagged for human review)
The sponsor
The people who set this company up, what they have done before, and the advisers around the deal.
Generation Asia 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 · 101.0% of the $10 unit
from 424B4 0001193125-22-013916
Trading & liquidity
Company profile
Directors & officers
- Gao MeiDirector
- CHO SUNGHWANDirector
- Kuan RoyChief Executive Officer
- Niwa NorimitsuChief Operating Officer
- Kwok Catherine Chung KaChief Financial Officer
- Chan Gary WBDirector
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
17 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.
- CALAMOS INVESTMENT TRUST/IL10.4% · SC 13G/AOct 7, 2024 stale
- Apollo Management Holdings GP, LLCwith 8 other reporting persons on the same schedule9.0% · SC 13G/ANov 14, 2024 stale
- Polar Asset Management Partners Inc.8.4% · SC 13G/ANov 14, 2024 stale
- MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP INC7.7% · SC 13GFeb 13, 2024 stale
- Blue Owl Capital Holdings LP7.3% · SC 13GNov 14, 2024 stale
- Atalaya Capital Management LPwith 6 other reporting persons on the same schedule6.9% · SC 13G/AFeb 14, 2024 stale
- First Trust Capital Management L.P.with 1 other reporting person on the same schedule5.7% · SC 13GNov 15, 2024 stale
- SEA OTTER SECURITIES GROUP LLC4.9% · SC 13G/AJan 25, 2022 stale
- WOLVERINE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLCwith 4 other reporting persons on the same schedule3.1% · SC 13G/AMay 22, 2024 stale
- Shaolin Capital Management LLC3.0% · SC 13G/AFeb 14, 2024 stale
- Weiss Asset Management LPwith 3 other reporting persons on the same schedule2.2% · SC 13G/AFeb 1, 2023 stale
- P SCHOENFELD ASSET MANAGEMENT LPwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule1.3% · SC 13G/AFeb 14, 2024 stale
- COWEN AND COMPANY, LLC0.0% · SC 13G/ANov 13, 2024 stale
- PERISCOPE CAPITAL INC.0.0% · SC 13G/ANov 12, 2024 stale
- MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLCwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule0.0% · SC 13G/AJan 31, 2024 stale
- HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC0.0% · SC 13G/AJan 19, 2024 stale
- UBS OCONNOR LLCnot stated · SC 13G/AFeb 9, 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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- Vault note — GAQ (Generation Asia I Acquisition Ltd)
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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
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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.
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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 0001193125-22-013916 priced 2022-01-20; common ticker GAQ off 8-K 0000950170-24-116671 (2024-10-23); lifecycle EXITED. Ending PROVEN, not inferred: LIQUIDATED per 8-K 0000950170-24-116671 (2024-10-23) — announced liquidation of the trust account: “…will dissolve and liquidate its assets and will redeem all of its outstanding public Class A ordinary shares that were issued to the public in its initial public offering, as the Company will not consummate an initial business combination within the time period required by the Memorandum and Articles, as amended. A cop…”. 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 "Generation Asia LLC" sourced from prospectus definition (10-K/A) acc 0000950170-23-053417.