DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 3 Months Ended |
Mar. 31, 2014 |
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract] | ' |
DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | ' |
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NOTE A — DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS |
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FlatWorld Acquisition Corp. (the “Company” or “FlatWorld”) is a blank check company formed on June 25, 2010 as a British Virgin Islands business company with limited liability for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation or contractual control arrangement with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar business transaction, one or more unidentified operating business or assets (“Business Transaction”). The Company’s efforts in identifying a prospective target business for its Business Transaction will not be limited to a particular industry, geographic region or minimum transaction value, but will focus its search on identifying a prospective target business in either (i) the global business services sector or (ii) emerging Asian markets. On June 29, 2011, the Company changed its fiscal year solely for financial accounting purposes such that the Company’s fiscal year will now end on December 31st of each calendar year. The Company had initially adopted a fiscal year end of June 30th solely for financial accounting purposes. |
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A registration statement for the Company’s initial public offering (its “IPO”) was declared effective on December 9, 2010. On December 15, 2010, the Company consummated the sale of 2,200,000 units consisting of one ordinary share and one warrant to purchase one ordinary share (a “Warrant” and, together with an “Ordinary Share,” a “Unit”) and, on January 25, 2011, consummated the sale of an additional 95,500 Units pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. Each Warrant entitled the holder to purchase from us one Ordinary Share at an exercise price of $11.00 per share. The net proceeds of the IPO, including proceeds from the over-allotment option and from the concurrent private placement of 2,000,000 warrants (the “Insider Warrants”) at a price of $0.75 per warrant to FWAC Holdings Limited, the Company’s sponsor (our “Sponsor”), and after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and the estimated IPO expenses, were approximately $23,374,786, which was placed in a trust account as more fully described below. The Warrants issued in connection with the Units sold in the Company’s IPO, as well as the Insider Warrants, expired worthless on September 9, 2012. The Company’s management had has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the IPO, although substantially all of the net proceeds of the IPO intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Transaction. Upon the closing of the IPO, the private placement of warrants and partial exercise of over-allotment, $23,374,786 was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) and invested in U.S. “government securities,” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) with a maturity of 180 days or less, or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the 1940 Act. |
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On July 26, 2012, FlatWorld and its wholly owned subsidiary FTWA Orchid Merger Sub LLC. (a Maryland LLC formed on July 16, 2012 for the purposes of facilitating the merger described more fully below), FWAC Holdings Limited, Orchid Island Capital, Inc., Bimini Capital, Inc. and Bimini Advisors, LLC entered into the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (the “Agreement and Plan of Reorganization”), pursuant to which FlatWorld would acquire Orchid Island Capital, Inc. |
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Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, the Company filed a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on July 30, 2012 (together with all amendments and supplements thereto, the “Schedule TO”). The Schedule TO, as further amended by Amendment No. 7, relates to the offer by FlatWorld to purchase for cash up to 825,000 of its ordinary shares, no par value (“Ordinary Shares”), at a price of $10.18 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest (the “Share Purchase Price”) for an aggregate purchase price of up to $8,398,500 upon the terms and subject to certain conditions set forth in the Amended and Restated Offer to Purchase dated August 20, 2012 (as amended and supplemented, the “Offer to Purchase”), previously filed as Exhibit (a)(1)(F) to the Schedule TO and the Amended and Restated Letter of Transmittal previously filed as Exhibit (a)(1)(G) to the Schedule TO (which, as amended or supplemented from time to time, together constitute the offer (the “Offer”)). The Tender Offer was terminated on September 6, 2012 because of insufficient time to satisfy the terms and conditions of the Offer to Purchase, including the number of ordinary shares that were validly tendered and not properly withdrawn as of the previously announced expiration date of September 6, 2012 (the “Expiration Date”) being in excess of the maximum number of shares that FlatWorld could accept for purchase in satisfaction of the conditions to the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, pursuant to which the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary FTWA Orchid Merger Sub LLC would have effected the Merger with Orchid Island Capital, Inc., were not satisfied. |
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As of September 9, 2012, FlatWorld also terminated the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization and would not consummate the merger of Orchid Island Capital, Inc. with and into its subsidiary, FTWA Orchid Merger Sub LLC. |
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Beginning on September 10, 2012, FlatWorld commenced the process to distribute (the “Distribution”) the Trust Account, pro rata, less taxes and interest earned on the proceeds of its IPO placed in the Trust Account, to its public shareholders via a non-liquidating distribution (without redemption of the Ordinary Shares). The balance of the Trust Account was approximately $23,374,786 (less taxes and interest earned on the proceeds of FlatWorld’s initial public offering), which resulted in a Distribution of approximately $10.18 per share to FlatWorld’s public shareholders. No payments were made with respect to any of the Company’s outstanding Warrants or Insider Warrants, which expired worthless on September 9, 2012. Effective September 13, 2012 the Company effected a mandatory conversion of all of the Company’s then-outstanding Units into Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis, such that only the Company’s Ordinary Shares remained outstanding. The record date for the Distribution was September 21, 2012, and the payment for the Distribution was made on September 26, 2012. |
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Following the completion of the Distribution, the Company’s board of directors (the “Board of Directors”) determined it to be in the best interests of the Company’s shareholders to (i) continue its corporate existence, rather than dissolve the Company as contemplated by the IPO prospectus and (ii) retain the Company’s current management while the Company continues to seek acquisition targets or other uses for the Company. To accomplish these goals, on December 21, 2012, the Company held a special meeting of shareholders to approve an amendment to the Company’s Eighth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (its “Charter”) to modify its Charter to eliminate the blank check company provisions which restrict the Company’s ability to pursue the acquisition of one or more operating companies and related financings after the Distribution of the Trust Account to the holders of the Company’s Ordinary Shares sold in the IPO by deleting Article 24 of its Charter in its entirety. Greater than the requisite seventy-five percent (75%) majority of those shareholders in attendance at the meeting and voting by person or by proxy voted in favor of the proposed amendment (the “Amendment Proposal”). The Company filed its Ninth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association with the Registrar of Corporate Affairs of the British Virgin Islands (the “Registrar”) to become effective as of December 21, 2012. |
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On December 21, 2012, the Company entered into an agreement with FWC Management Services Ltd renewing the Administrative Services Agreement dated December 9, 2010. On December 31, 2013, the Company entered into an agreement with FWC Management Services Ltd and FlatWorld Capital LLC, an entity controlled by three officers of the Company, to assign FWC Management Services Ltd’s interest in the Administrative Services FWC Management Services Agreement to FlatWorld Capital LLC. Under such agreement, FlatWorld Capital LLC will continue to provide the services previously performed by, and on the same terms of, FWC Management Services Ltd, and all previous fees outstanding will be payable to FlatWorld Capital LLC. |
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Going concern consideration |
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The accompanying (a) condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2013, which has been derived from audited consolidated financial statements, and (b) the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, which contemplate continuation of the Company as a going concern. As indicated in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, at March 31, 2014, the Company had $251 in cash, current liabilities of $269,520 and a working capital deficit (current liabilities minus current assets) of $269,269. Further, the Company has incurred and expects to continue to incur costs. These factors, among others, indicate that the Company may be unable to continue operations as a going concern unless further financing is consummated. |
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The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of asset carrying amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern. |
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The Board of Directors anticipates that the Company will need to raise capital to fund ongoing operations, including the compliance cost of continuing to remain a public reporting company, and to fund the acquisition of an operating business. The Company does not currently have any specific capital-raising plans. The Company may receive funds from some or all of our officers or directors, and it may seek to issue equity securities, including preferred securities for which it may determine the rights and designations, ordinary shares, warrants, equity rights, convertibles notes and any combination of the foregoing. Any such offering may take the form of a private placement, public offering, rights offering, other offering or any combination of the foregoing at fixed or variable market prices or discounts to prevailing market prices. The Company cannot assure you that they will be able to raise sufficient capital on favorable, or any, terms. The Company believes that the issuance of equity securities in such a financing will not be subject to shareholder approval if the Company’s Ordinary Shares are not then listed on a national exchange. Accordingly, you may not be entitled to vote on any future financing by the Company. Moreover, shareholders have no preemptive or other rights to acquire any securities that the Company may issue in the future. |