DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS Quinpario Acquisition Corp. 2 (“us”, “we”, “Company” or “our”) is a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on July 15, 2014. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (“Business Combination”). All activity through December 31, 2015 relates to the Company’s formation, initial public offering described below and search for a Business Combination. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies. The registration statement for the Company’s initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”) was declared effective on January 15, 2015. The Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 35,000,000 units (“Units”) at $10.00 per Unit on January 22, 2015, generating gross proceeds of $350,000,000, which is described in Note 3. Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the private placement of 18,000,000 warrants (“Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $0.50 per warrant to Quinpario Partners 2, LLC, the Company’s sponsor (“Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $9,000,000, which is described in Note 3. Transaction costs amounted to $19,805,250, consisting of $7,000,000 of underwriting fees, $12,250,000 of deferred underwriting fees (which are held in the Trust Account (defined below)), $555,250 of Initial Public Offering costs and $63,920 of other expenses incurred through January 22, 2015. In addition, $1,380,830 of cash was available to fund operations and held outside of the Trust Account on January 22, 2015. Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering on January 22, 2015, an amount of $350,000,000 ($10.00 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement Warrants was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) and has been invested in U.S. treasury bills, notes or bonds with a maturity of 180 days or less or in any open ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund selected by the Company meeting the conditions of paragraphs (c)(2), (c)(3) and (c)(4) of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and that invest solely in U.S. treasuries, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below. The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of its Initial Public Offering, although substantially all of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination. Furthermore, there is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully affect a Business Combination. On June 19, 2015, the Company received a $500,000 reimbursement for expenses that it incurred in connection with the due diligence of a potential business combination that did not materialize. We will either (1) seek stockholder approval of our initial Business Combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which stockholders may seek to convert their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed Business Combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account (net of taxes payable), or (2) provide our stockholders with the opportunity to sell their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account (net of taxes payable), in each case subject to the limitations described herein. The decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of our proposed Business Combination or allow stockholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek stockholder approval. If we engage in a tender offer, we will file tender offer documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) which will contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial Business Combination as is required under the SEC’s proxy rules. We will consummate our initial Business Combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and, solely if we seek stockholder approval, a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company provides that a public stockholder, together with any affiliate or other person with whom such public stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended (the “Securities Act”)), will be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to an aggregate of more than 15% of the public shares (but only with respect to the amount over 15% of the public shares). The Company’s Units, common stock and warrants are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“NASDAQ”). Pursuant to the NASDAQ listing rules, the Company’s initial Business Combination must be with a target business or businesses whose collective fair market value is at least equal to 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (excluding deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable) at the time of the execution of a definitive agreement for such Business Combination, although this may entail simultaneous acquisitions of several target businesses. The Company will have until January 22, 2017 to consummate its initial Business Combination. If the Company is unable to consummate an initial Business Combination within such time period, it will, as promptly as possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares for a pro rata portion of the funds held in the Trust Account and then seek to dissolve and liquidate. In such event, the warrants will expire worthless. The Company expects the redemption price to be $10.00 per share of common stock, without taking into account any interest earned on such funds. However, the Company may not be able to distribute such amounts as a result of claims of creditors which may take priority over the claims of public stockholders. |