Vietnam’s richest man poised to briefly triple fortune on EV bet

Pham Nhat Vuong has the paperwork in place to take his electric-vehicle maker VinFast public through a SPAC listing with a blank-check firm. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments on this deal, which would give VinFast an equity value of about $23 billion.

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