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Dimitre J Genov

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Dimitre Genov is Managing Director at Brookline Capital Markets, where he focuses on SPACs, IPOs, structured financings, and private-to-public transactions. He has more than three decades of experience across investment banking and investing, advising companies, sponsors, and institutional investors on complex capital markets transactions.
Prior to Brookline, Dimitre was a Portfolio Manager at Balyasny Asset Management and Magnetar Capital, where he focused on SPACs, PIPEs, mergers, spin-offs, restructurings, and other special situations, managing over $1 billion of capital focused on corporate events and private-to-public transitions.
Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade at Lazard advising clients globally on M&A, restructurings, and capital markets transactions. He also writes the SPAC & Forth newsletter, focused on SPAC market trends and the evolving role of SPACs as a specialized pathway to the public markets.

What Makes a Good SPAC Target (and What Disqualifies One)
June 30, 2026

What Makes a Good SPAC Target (and What Disqualifies One)

What actually disqualifies a private company from a SPAC deal? Patrick Sturgeon says the answer is often the same thing that would sink a traditional IPO — size. A single-asset biotech at Phase 1B with a sub-$100M valuation "just should not be a public company," and the exchanges are taking a harder look at microcaps trying to list. In this episode, Chaz Churchwell sits down with Dimitre Genov, Managing Director, and Patrick Sturgeon, Managing Partner at Brookline Capital Markets, for a practiti...