NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Forum Merger Corporation (the “Company”), is a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on November 17, 2016. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, recapitalization, exchangeable share transaction or other similar business transaction, one or more operating businesses or assets (a “Business Combination”). The Company has two wholly-owned subsidiaries, FMC Merger Subsidiary Corp., which was incorporated in Delaware on November 27, 2017 (“Merger Sub I”), and FMC Merger Subsidiary LLC, which was incorporated in Delaware on November 27, 2017 (“Merger Sub II”).
At December 31, 2017, the Company had not yet commenced operations. All activity through December 31, 2017 relates to the Company’s formation and its Initial Public Offering, which is described below, and identifying a target company for a Business Combination and activities in connection with the proposed acquisition of C1 Investment Corp. (“C1”), as described in Note 8.
The registration statements for the Company’s initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”) were declared effective on April 6, 2017. On April 12, 2017, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 15,000,000 units (“Units” and, with respect to the Class A common stock included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), generating gross proceeds of $150,000,000, which is described in Note 4.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 555,000 units (the “Placement Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Unit in a private placement to the Company’s sponsor, Forum Investor I, LLC (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $5,550,000, which is described in Note 5. In addition, at the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company issued 150,000 shares of Class A common stock (the “Representative Shares”) to the underwriter and certain other related parties.
Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering on April 12, 2017, an amount of $151,500,000 ($10.10 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Placement Units was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) and invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), 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 (d)(2), (d)(3) and (d)(4) of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, 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.
On April 18, 2017, in connection with the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option in full, the Company consummated the sale of an additional 2,250,000 Units, and the sale of an additional 67,500 Placement Units at $10.00 per Unit, generating total gross proceeds of $23,175,000. In addition, the Company issued an additional 22,500 Representative Shares to the underwriters for no additional consideration (see Note 4 and Note 5). Following the closing, an additional $22,725,000 of net proceeds ($10.10 per Unit) was placed in the Trust Account, resulting in $174,225,000 ($10.10 per Unit) held in the Trust Account).
Transaction costs amounted to $3,927,424, consisting of $3,450,000 of underwriting fees and $477,424 of Initial Public Offering costs. As of December 31, 2017, $115,240 of cash was held outside of the Trust Account and was available for working capital purposes.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of its Initial Public Offering and Placement Units, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination. The Company’s initial Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (net of taxes payable) at the time of the signing of a definitive agreement in connection with a Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required
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