1. Your comment is a logical fallacy known as a straw man argument, because it assumes YA Global do not know the value of branding, and that they would “allow” the ticker to die and be taken over by somebody else, rather than forging a beneficial partnership.
2. According to investopedia, reverse mergers are less costly and time consuming than a new IPO and many companies prefer the reverse merger route due to this fact.
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