lanvin group the luxury fashion company that is backed by fosun international is going public by merging with a specialpurpose acquisition company from the chinese investment firm primavera capital group the transaction which values lanvin at 15 billion before the merger is expected to close later this year once the companies complete the deal lanvin will be valued at 19 billion all of lanvin’s existing stockholders are rolling their shares into the deal and will own 65 of the public company