Capitol Acquisition Corp

Capitol Acquisition Corp, trading under the ticker CLA1, is a blank check company that completed its initial public offering in 2007, with an amended S-1 registration statement filed with the SEC on November 2 of that year. The SPAC was sponsored by Capitol Acquisition Corp LLC, with Mark Ein and Lawrence Kellner serving as key principals. Organized as a general-purpose acquisition vehicle, the company was not restricted to a specific industry sector, giving its management broad latitude to identify a business combination target. The filing represents one of the earlier SPAC structures from the pre-financial-crisis era of blank check company activity. Sign up at SpacDesk for full filing history, sponsor profiles, and deal-timeline data on Capitol Acquisition Corp and hundreds of other SPACs.