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ICR Inc is guiding Wag!, dog-walking app, as it plans to go public via a $350M SPAC deal with CHW Acquisition Corp.
Founded in 2015 to relieve the guilt and stress of leaving a pet unattended, Wag! has more than 350K pet caregivers in 4,600 cities in the US, handling dog walking, pet sitting, training, advice and drop-in visits.
It has generated 11M reviews with 96 percent of them earning five-star ratings. Rebooking rate clocks in at 90 percent. The pet wellness/services market was valued at $44B in 2020.
Wag! CEO Garrett Smallwood said his company is “transforming the fragmented and largely offline pet wellness and services industry through our vertically integrated mobile-first technology platform.”
The company anticipates revenues of $42M for 2022, which would be a 120 percent boost over last year’s performance.
Shares of Wag! Group Co. are expected to to trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol, “PET.”
Stagwell CEO Mark Penn reports Q3 net revenues jumped 6 percent to $614.5M, a record performance for a non-political period. Operating income soared 45.7 percent to $60.9M.
Joele Frank works for Klöckner Pentaplast as the German maker of plastic films declares Chapter 11. A successful reorganization would slash its its corporate debt by $1.5B.
Teneo represents Metsera, the New York City biotech focused on weight-control products, which is subject to a bidding war between heavyweights Novo Nordisk and Pfizer.
Haggie Partners is working the $7B takeover of the specialty insurer Convex by Canada’s Onex private equity fund and American International Group.
WPP reported Q3 revenues less pass-through costs tumbled 5.9 percent to $3.3B, a performance new CEO Cindy Rose called “unacceptable.”
