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Mosaic SPAC Completes Merger With Vivint Smart Home
- Client News
- January 17, 2020
Paul, Weiss advised publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Mosaic Acquisition Corp. in its previously announced merger with Vivint Smart Home, Inc., resulting in Vivint becoming a publicly traded company. The transaction marks one of the largest-ever U.S. SPAC mergers, with an enterprise value of $4.2 billion. Vivint is a leading smart home company in North America, serving 1.5 million customers throughout the United States and Canada.
The Paul, Weiss team included, among others, corporate partners Ross Fieldston, Jeffrey Marell, Raphael Russo and Eric Goodison and counsel Patricia Vaz de Almeida and Philip Heimowitz; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; tax partner David Mayo; real estate partner Mitchell Berg; employee benefits partner Lawrence Witdorchic and counsel Reuven Falik and Uri Horowitz; antitrust counsel Yuni Sobel and Marta Kelly; and environmental counsel William O’Brien.