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Italy’s luxury house brand Zegna to go public via US Spac

Combination of stock and cash financing should bring in around $880m in gross proceeds

Italian luxury house Ermenegildo Zegna will go public on the New York Stock Exchange later this year as part of a tie-up agreement with special purpose acquisition corporation Investindustrial Acquisition.

The family-owned company and the Spac said on 19 July that the combined entity will have an enterprise value of $3.2bn and a market capitalisation of $2.5bn, as part of the deal agreed on 18 July.

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