Sidley is representing Global Technology Acquisition Corp. I (NASDAQ: GTAC) (GTAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in its US$434 million definitive business combination agreement with Tyfon Culture Holdings Limited (Tyfon), a well-recognized Chinese art trading platform. The transaction will result in Tyfon becoming a public company. Upon the closing of the transaction, the combined company will be named Tyfon Culture Inc. and will continue to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “TFCI.”
The Sidley team is being led by Joshua G. DuClos (M&A and Private Equity), Michael P. Heinz (Capital Markets), and Zachary Shub-Essig and Jeff Wysong (M&A and Private Equity), and includes Jihyun Yoon (M&A and Private Equity); Hana Lee (Capital Markets); Meng Ding, Liming Xu, Cindy Liu, and Mulai Xu (China Corporate and Finance); Angela T. Richards and Jonathan M. Westreich (Tax); Lianying Wang (Privacy and Cybersecurity); Ken Daly, Jamie M. Sadler, and Flor Van Den Hende (Antitrust and Competition); Eric M. Winwood (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Cathryn Le Regulski (Labor, Employment and Immigration); James Heyworth and Andrew A. Kunsak (Securities and Shareholder Litigation); E. Kyle Barnett (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); and Michael D. Mann, Leslie A. Shubert, Allison L. Dapper, and Brian C. Earl (White Collar Defense and Investigations).