UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
x | QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2019
or
¨ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from ___________ to ___________
Commission File Number001-38562
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Cayman Islands | N/A | |
State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization | I.R.S. Employer Identification No. | |
23rd Floor, 299 QRC 287-299 Queen’s Road Central Hong Kong | N/A | |
Address of Principal Executive Offices | Zip Code |
(852) 3703-3251 | ||
Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code |
Former Name, Former Address and Former Fiscal Year, if Changed Since Last Report
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||
Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one warrant | NFC.U | New York Stock Exchange | ||
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share | NFC | New York Stock Exchange | ||
Warrants, each exercisable for one Class A ordinary share | NFC WS | New York Stock Exchange |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes x No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer ¨ | Accelerated filer ¨ |
Non-accelerated filer x | Smaller reporting company x |
Emerging growth company x |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes x No ¨
As of November 14, 2019, 28,750,000 Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, and 11,712,500 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, were issued and outstanding, respectively.
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION
Form 10-Q
For the Quarter Ended September 30, 2019
Table of Contents
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2019 | December 31, 2018 | |||||||
(Unaudited) | ||||||||
Assets: | ||||||||
Current Assets: | ||||||||
Cash | $ | 1,239,877 | $ | 2,353,541 | ||||
Prepaid expenses and other assets | 60,168 | 59,738 | ||||||
Total current assets | 1,300,045 | 2,413,279 | ||||||
Investments held in trust account | 295,480,350 | 290,461,152 | ||||||
Total assets | $ | 296,780,395 | $ | 292,874,431 | ||||
Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity | ||||||||
Current liabilities: | ||||||||
Accrued expenses | $ | 8,780,349 | $ | 129,074 | ||||
Accounts payable | 155,901 | 315,487 | ||||||
Due to affiliate | 30,000 | 27,558 | ||||||
Total current liabilities | 8,966,250 | 472,119 | ||||||
Deferred underwriting commissions | 6,912,500 | 6,912,500 | ||||||
Total current liabilities | 15,878,750 | 7,384,619 | ||||||
Commitments | ||||||||
Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, $0.0001 par value; 27,590,164 and 28,048,981 at $10.00 per share as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively | 275,901,640 | 280,489,810 | ||||||
Shareholders' Equity: | ||||||||
Preference shares, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding | - | - | ||||||
Class A ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 180,000,000 shares authorized; 1,159,836 and 701,019 shares, respectively, issued and outstanding (excluding 27,590,164 and 28,048,981 shares, respectively, subject to possible redemption) | 116 | 70 | ||||||
Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 20,000,000 shares authorized; 11,712,500 shares issued and outstanding | 1,171 | 1,171 | ||||||
Additional paid-in capital | 7,635,513 | 2,815,847 | ||||||
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit) | (2,636,795 | ) | 2,182,914 | |||||
Total Shareholders' Equity | 5,000,005 | 5,000,002 | ||||||
Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity | $ | 296,780,395 | $ | 292,874,431 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.
F-1 |
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
For the nine months ended September 30, 2019 | For the period from March 28, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018 | For the three months ended September 30, 2019 | For the three months ended September 30, 2018 | |||||||||||||
Revenue | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||||
General and administrative expenses | 9,607,365 | 194,509 | 9,213,499 | 180,794 | ||||||||||||
Loss from operations | (9,607,365 | ) | (194,509 | ) | (9,213,499 | ) | (180,794 | ) | ||||||||
Other Income: | ||||||||||||||||
Interest Income | 5,019,198 | 1,439,212 | 1,577,914 | 1,439,212 | ||||||||||||
Net Income (loss) | $ | (4,588,167 | ) | $ | 1,244,703 | $ | (7,635,585 | ) | $ | 1,258,418 | ||||||
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A ordinary shares | 28,750,000 | 28,750,000 | 28,750,000 | 28,750,000 | ||||||||||||
Basic and diluted net income per ordinary share, Class A | $ | 0.17 | $ | 0.05 | $ | 0.05 | $ | 0.05 | ||||||||
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B ordinary shares | 11,712,500 | 11,712,500 | 11,712,500 | 11,712,500 | ||||||||||||
Basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share, Class B | $ | (0.82 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (0.79 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.
F-2 |
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
For the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and for the period from March 28, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018
(Unaudited)
Retained | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ordinary Shares | Additional | Earnings | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Class A | Class B | Paid-In | Accumulated | Shareholders' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Capital | ( Deficit) | Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Balances – January 1, 2019 | 701,019 | $ | 70 | 11,712,500 | $ | 1,171 | $ | 2,815,847 | $ | 2,182,914 | $ | 5,000,002 | ||||||||||||||||
Change in Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | (137,306 | ) | (14 | ) | - | - | (1,373,046 | ) | - | (1,373,060 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Net income during the period | - | - | - | - | - | 1,373,066 | 1,373,066 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Balances – March 31, 2019 | 563,713 | 56 | 11,712,500 | 1,171 | 1,442,801 | 3,555,980 | 5,000,008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Change in Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | (167,436 | ) | (16 | ) | - | - | (1,674,343 | ) | - | (1,674,359 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Net income during the period | - | - | - | - | - | 1,674,352 | 1,674,352 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Reclassification of additional paid-in-capital to retained earnings | - | - | - | - | 231,542 | (231,542 | ) | - | ||||||||||||||||||||
Balances – June 30, 2019 | 396,277 | 40 | 11,712,500 | 1,171 | - | 4,998,790 | 5,000,001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Change in Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | 763,559 | 76 | - | - | 7,635,513 | - | 7,635,589 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net income during the period | - | - | - | - | - | (7,635,585 | ) | (7,635,585 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Balances – September 30, 2019 | 1,159,836 | $ | 116 | 11,712,500 | $ | 1,171 | $ | 7,635,513 | $ | (2,636,795 | ) | $ | 5,000,005 | |||||||||||||||
Retained | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ordinary Shares | Additional | Earnings | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Class A | Class B | Paid-In | Accumulated | Shareholders' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Capital | ( Deficit) | Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Balances – March 28, 2018 (date of inception) | - | $ | - | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||||||||||||
Issuance of ordinary shares to initial shareholders | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net loss during the period | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||
Balances – March 31, 2018 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance of ordinary shares to initial shareholders | - | - | 11,712,500 | 1,171 | 23,829 | - | 25,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net loss during the period | - | - | - | - | - | (13,715 | ) | (13,715 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Balances – June 30, 2018 | - | - | 11,712,500 | 1,171 | 23,829 | (13,715 | ) | 11,285 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sale of units in initial public offering | 28,750,000 | 2,875 | - | - | 287,497,125 | - | 287,500,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Offering costs | - | - | - | - | (11,952,918 | ) | - | (11,952,918 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Sale of private placement warrants to Sponsor in private placement | - | - | - | - | 7,750,000 | - | 7,750,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Change in Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | (27,956,678 | ) | (2,796 | ) | - | - | (279,563,984 | ) | - | (279,566,780 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Net income during the period | - | - | - | - | - | 1,258,418 | 1,258,418 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Balances – September 30, 2018 | 793,322 | $ | 79 | 11,712,500 | $ | 1,171 | $ | 3,754,052 | $ | 1,244,703 | $ | 5,000,005 | �� |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.
F-3 |
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
For the nine months ended September 30, 2019 | For the period from March 28, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018 | |||||||
Cash Flows from Operating Activities: | ||||||||
Net income (loss) | $ | (4,588,167 | ) | $ | 1,244,703 | |||
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating activities: | ||||||||
Interest earned on the trust account | (5,019,198 | ) | (1,439,212 | ) | ||||
Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
Prepaid expenses | (430 | ) | (112,302 | ) | ||||
Accrued expenses | 8,651,275 | 52,500 | ||||||
Accounts payable | (159,586 | ) | 30,783 | |||||
Due to affiliates | 2,442 | - | ||||||
Net cash used in operating activities | (1,113,664 | ) | (223,528 | ) | ||||
Cash Flows from Investing Activities: | ||||||||
Redemption of Treasury Bills | 876,713,000 | - | ||||||
Purchase of new Treasury Bills | (876,713,190 | ) | - | |||||
Cash deposited in trust account | (287,500,000 | ) | ||||||
Residual interest income in investment | 190 | - | ||||||
Net cash used in investing activities | - | (287,500,000 | ) | |||||
Cash Flows from Financing Activities: | ||||||||
Proceeds received from promissory note from affiliate | - | 100,000 | ||||||
Repayment of promissory note to affiliate | (100,000 | ) | ||||||
Proceeds received from initial public offering | 287,500,000 | |||||||
Proceeds received from private placement | - | 7,750,000 | ||||||
Proceeds received as advance from affiliates | - | 2,800,000 | ||||||
Repayment of advance to affiliate | (2,800,000 | ) | ||||||
Payment of offering costs | - | (4,791,893 | ) | |||||
Net cash provided by financing activities | - | 290,458,107 | ||||||
Net change in cash | (1,113,664 | ) | 2,734,579 | |||||
Cash - beginning of period | 2,353,541 | - | ||||||
Cash - end of period | $ | 1,239,877 | $ | 2,734,579 | ||||
Supplemental disclosure of noncash investing and financing activities: | ||||||||
Offering costs included in accounts payable | $ | - | $ | 84,535 | ||||
Offering costs included in accrued expenses | $ | - | $ | 138,990 | ||||
Formation and offering costs paid by Sponsor in exchange for Founder Shares | $ | - | $ | 25,000 | ||||
Deferred underwriting commissions in connection with the initial public offering | $ | - | $ | 6,912,500 | ||||
Initial value of Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption | $ | $ | 279,566,780 | |||||
Change in value of ordinary shares subject to redemption | $ | (4,588,170 | ) | $ | - |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.
F-4 |
New Frontier Corporation
Notes to Condensed Financial Statements
September 30, 2019
(unaudited)
1. Organization and Business Operations
Incorporation
New Frontier Corporation (the “Company”) was incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on March 28, 2018. The functional currency of the Company is the United States dollar.
Sponsor
The Company’s sponsor is New Frontier Public Holding Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Sponsor”).
Fiscal Year End
The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
Business Purpose
The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more operating businesses (a “Business Combination”). The Company has neither engaged in any operations nor generated significant revenue to date.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of its initial public offering of Units (as defined below) (the “Initial Public Offering”), although substantially all of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering are intended to be generally applied toward completing a Business Combination. Furthermore, there is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully complete a Business Combination.
As of September 30, 2019, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from March 28, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2019 relates to the Company’s formation and the Initial Public Offering described below, and since the offering, the search for a prospective initial Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering.
Financing
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on June 27, 2018.
On July 3, 2018, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 28,750,000 units (each, a “Unit” and collectively, the “Units”), including 3,750,000 Units issued pursuant to the exercise in full of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $287.5 million, and incurring offering costs of approximately $12.0 million, inclusive of $6.91 million in deferred underwriting commissions (Note 3). The Company intends to finance its initial Business Combination with the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and a $7.75 million private placement of warrants (the “Private Placement”) (Note 4). Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement, $287.5 million was held in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) (discussed below).
Trust Account
Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, $287.5 million ($10.00 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement was placed in a segregated Trust Account located in London at Citibank, maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee. The Trust Account will be invested in permitted United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which was referred to as the Investment Company Act, having a maturity of 180 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act that invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations.
F-5
The Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, other than the withdrawal of interest earned on the funds that may be released to the Company to pay income taxes, if any, none of the funds held in trust will be released until the earlier of: (i) the completion of the Business Combination; (ii) the redemption of 100% of the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being sold in the Initial Public Offering (the “public shares”) if the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering; or (iii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the public shares if the Company does not complete the Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering.
Initial Business Combination
The Company, after signing a definitive agreement for a Business Combination, will either (i) seek shareholder approval of the Business Combination at a meeting called for such purpose in connection with which shareholders may seek to redeem their shares, regardless of whether they vote for or against the Business Combination, for cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay income taxes, or (ii) provide the holders of the public shares, “public shareholders,” with the opportunity to redeem their public shares by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a shareholder vote) for an amount in cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to commencement of the tender offer, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay income taxes. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of the Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its 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 the Company to seek shareholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements. If the Company seeks shareholder approval, it will complete its Business Combination only if a majority of the outstanding ordinary shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. However, in no event will the Company redeem its public shares in an amount that would cause its net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001. In such case, the Company would not proceed with the redemption of its public shares and the related Business Combination, and instead may search for an alternate Business Combination.
If the Company holds a shareholder vote in connection with a Business Combination, a public shareholder will have the right to redeem its shares for an amount in cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account but not previously released to the Company to pay income taxes. As a result, such ordinary shares will be recorded at redemption amount and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in accordance with FASB, ASC 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” The amount in the Trust Account initially was $10.00 per public ordinary share ($287,500,000 held in the Trust Account divided by 28,750,000 public ordinary shares).
The Company will only have 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, until July 3, 2020, to complete its initial Business Combination. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within this period of time, it will (i) cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses and net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholder’s rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any) and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of its remaining shareholders and its board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to its obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. The Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, in the event it commences a liquidation and all public shares have been redeemed, all Founder Shares (as defined below) not held by the Sponsor shall be surrendered to the Company for no consideration, such that only the Founder Shares held by the Sponsor share in any assets in liquidation.
The Sponsor and certain accredited investors have entered into forward purchase agreements (“Forward Purchase Agreements”) with the Company (the “anchor investors” and collectively with the Sponsor, the “initial shareholders”) pursuant to which they have agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and, with respect to the initial shareholders other than the anchor investors, public shares in connection with the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination, (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and, with respect to the initial shareholders other than the anchor investors, public shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the public shares if it has not consummated an initial Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering and (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their Founder Shares if the Company fails to complete its initial Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering (although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any public shares they hold if the Company fails to complete its initial Business Combination within the prescribed time frame).
F-6
On July 30, 2019, the Company entered into a transaction agreement (the “Transaction Agreement”) with NF Unicorn Acquisition L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of the Company (“NFC Buyer Sub”, and together with the Company, the “Buyer Parties”), Healthy Harmony Holdings, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“Healthy Harmony”), Healthy Harmony GP, Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the sole general partner of Healthy Harmony (“HH GP” and, together with Healthy Harmony, the “Target Companies”), TPG Healthy, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“TPG Seller”), Fosun Industrial Co., Limited, a Hong Kong company (“Fosun Seller”), Plenteous Flair Limited, a Cayman Islands company (“Boyu Seller”), Roberta Lipson (“Ms. Lipson”), the Benjamin Lipson Plafker Trust, the Daniel Lipson Plafker Trust, the Jonathan Lipson Plafker Trust and the Ariel Benjamin Lee Trust (the foregoing trusts together with Ms. Lipson, the “Lipson Parties,” and together with TPG Seller, Fosun Seller and Boyu Seller, each a “Seller” and collectively, the “Sellers”), pursuant to which the Company will indirectly acquire all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of HH GP (the “GP Shares”) and approximately 99.37% of the issued and outstanding limited partnership interests in Healthy Harmony (the “LP Interests”) from the Sellers on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein (the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreement and the related ancillary agreements, the “Transaction”). The remaining 0.63% of the issued and outstanding LP Interests are held by certain members of management of the Target Companies and are expected to be acquired by the Company simultaneously with the closing of the Transaction (the “Closing”) on terms and conditions to be agreed between the Company and these holders (Note 7).
Emerging Growth Company
Section 102(b)(1) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.
Mandatory Liquidation and Going Concern
The Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that it has until July 3, 2020 to complete the initial Business Combination. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the Company’s warrants, which will expire worthless if it fails to complete the initial Business Combination by July 3, 2020. In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with FASB’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” management has determined that the liquidity condition and the mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should the Company be required to liquidate after July 3, 2020.
The Company has principally financed its operations from inception using proceeds from the sale of Founder Shares (as defined in Note 4) to its Sponsor prior to the Initial Public Offering and proceeds from the Private Placement and the Initial Public Offering that were placed in an operating account outside of the Trust Account for working capital purposes. As of September 30, 2019, the Company had $1,239,877 in its operating account, $295,480,350 in cash and securities held in the Trust Account to be used for a Business Combination or to repurchase or redeem its ordinary shares in connection therewith and negative working capital of $7,666,205, as such, the Company does not have sufficient liquidity to meet its future obligations.
F-7
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited interim condensed financial statements of the Company should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 as filed with the SEC on April 1, 2019, which contains the audited financial statements and notes thereto, together with Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. The accompanying unaudited interim condensed financial statements have been prepared in U.S. dollars in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, since they are interim statements, the accompanying financial statements do not include all of the information and notes required by U.S. GAAP for a complete financial statement presentation. In the opinion of management, the unaudited interim condensed financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal, recurring adjustments) that are necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the period presented. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year.
Net Income (Loss) Per Ordinary Share
Net income (loss) per ordinary share is computed by dividing net income (loss) applicable to ordinary shares by the weighted average number of shares outstanding for the period. The Company has not considered the effect of the warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 22,125,000 Class A ordinary shares in the calculation of diluted income (loss) per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted income (loss) per ordinary share is the same as basic income (loss) per ordinary share for the periods.
The Company’s condensed statements of operations includes a presentation of net income (loss) per share for ordinary shares subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method. Net income (loss) per ordinary share, basic and diluted for Class A ordinary shares is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the trust account, net of any applicable income tax expense, by the weighted average number of Class A ordinary shares outstanding for the periods. Net loss per ordinary share, basic and diluted for Class B ordinary shares is calculated by dividing the net income, less income attributable to Class A ordinary shares, by the weighted average number of Class B ordinary shares outstanding for the periods.
Ordinary Shares Subject to Possible Redemption
The Company accounts for its ordinary shares subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” Ordinary shares subject to mandatory redemption are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable ordinary shares (including ordinary shares that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, ordinary shares are classified as shareholders’ equity. The Company’s ordinary shares feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, 27,590,164 and 28,048,981 ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ equity section of the Company’s condensed balance sheets.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution which, at times, may exceed the Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts. Deposits of cash held outside the United States totaled approximately $1.24 million and $2.35 million at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under FASB ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,” approximates the carrying amounts represented in the condensed balance sheets.
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Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received for sale of an asset or paid for transfer of a liability, in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). These tiers include:
• Level 1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical instruments in active markets;
• Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and
• Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable.
In some circumstances, the inputs used to measure fair value might be categorized within different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In those instances, the fair value measurement is categorized in its entirety in the fair value hierarchy based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Offering Costs
The Company complies with the requirements of the ASC 340-10-S99-1. Offering costs consisted principally of costs incurred through the balance sheet date that are related to the preparation for the Initial Public Offering. These costs together with the underwriters’ discount were charged to equity upon completion of the Initial public offering in July 2018.
Income Taxes
The Company complies with the accounting and reporting requirements of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Codification, or FASB ASC, 740, “Income Taxes,” which requires an asset and liability approach to financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts, based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. FASB ASC 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company’s management determined that the Cayman Islands is the Company’s only major tax jurisdiction. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.
There is currently no taxation imposed on income by the Government of the Cayman Islands. In accordance with Cayman income tax regulations, income taxes are not levied on the Company. Consequently, income taxes are not reflected in the Company's financial statements.
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.
Subsequent Events
Management has evaluated subsequent events to determine if events or transactions occurring after the date of the balance sheet were issued, require potential adjustment to or disclosure in the condensed balance sheets and has concluded that all such events that would require adjustment or disclosure have been recognized or disclosed.
3. Initial Public Offering
Public Units
On July 3, 2018, the Company closed its Initial Public Offering of 28,750,000Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit, including3,750,000Units issued pursuant to the exercise in full of the underwriters’ over-allotment option.Each Unit consists of one of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, and one-half of one redeemable warrant (the “Warrants”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share. Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination or 12 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering. However, if the Company does not complete its initial Business Combination on or prior to the 24-month period allotted to complete the Business Combination, the Warrants will expire at the end of such period. If the Company is unable to deliver registered ordinary shares to the holder upon exercise of Warrants during the exercise period, there will be no net cash settlement of these Warrants and the Warrants will expire worthless, unless they may be exercised on a cashless basis in the circumstances described in the warrant agreement governing the Company’s warrants.
The Company paid an underwriting discount at the closing of the Initial Public Offering of $3.95 million. An additional fee of approximately $6.91 million was deferred and will become payable upon the Company’s completion of an initial Business Combination. The deferred portion of the discount will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event the Company completes its initial Business Combination.
Antony Leung and Carl Wu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, purchased 900,000 Units in the Initial Public Offering and certain other investors identified by Mr. Leung and Mr. Wu purchased 8.1 million Units in the Initial Public Offering. The underwriters did not and will not receive any underwriting discounts or commissions on the 9 million units purchased by such parties, including Mr. Leung and Mr. Wu.
4. Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
The Sponsor received 10,750,000 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Founder Shares”), in exchange for a capital contribution of $25,000.
Up to 5,000,000 Class B ordinary shares were subject to forfeiture by the Sponsor and anchor investors ratably to the extent the aggregate amount committed to be purchased pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreements would be less than $200,000,000.
On June 12, 2018, the Sponsor forfeited 475,000 Founder Shares for no consideration in connection with the Forward Purchase Agreements totaling $181,000,000 rather than $200,000,000. In June 2018, the Company effected two share capitalizations resulting in an aggregate of 11,712,500 Class B ordinary shares outstanding, of which the Sponsor and the anchor investors held an aggregate of 9,450,000 and 2,262,500 shares, respectively, as of June 27, 2018. All share amounts were retroactively restated to reflect the share capitalizations.
Subsequent to the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor transferred 10,000 Founder Shares to Edward Leong Che-hung and 5,000 Founder Shares to each of two trusts for the benefit of family members of David Johnson in connection with Messrs. Leong and Johnson’s service as members of the Company’s board of directors.
The Founder Shares are identical to the public shares except that the Founder Shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below.
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If the underwriters did not exercise their over-allotment option in full, the Sponsor would have forfeited up to 937,500 Founder Shares for no consideration. On July 3, 2018, the underwriters exercised the over-allotment option in full; thus, these shares were no longer subject to forfeiture.
The Sponsor, Antony Leung and Carl Wu have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of its or his Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof until the earlier of (a) one year after the completion of the initial Business Combination with respect to 50% of its or his Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof, (b) two years after the completion of the initial Business Combination with respect to the remaining 50% of its or his Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof, and (c) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction after the initial Business Combination that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. The Anchor Investors and the members of the Company’s management team (other than Antony Leung and Carl Wu) have agreed to not transfer, assign or sell any of their founder shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof until the earlier of (A) one year after the completion of our initial Business Combination or (B) subsequent to the initial Business Combination, if (x) the closing price of the Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the initial Business Combination, or (y) the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property.
Private Placement Warrants
Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering on July 3, 2018, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 7,750,000 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share (the “Private Placement Warrants”), at a price of $1.00 per warrant ($7,750,000 in the aggregate). Each Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share. The purchase price of the Private Placement Warrants was added to the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account pending completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination. The Private Placement Warrants (including the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants) will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination and they will be non-redeemable so long as they are held by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the warrants included in the Units being sold in the Initial Public Offering. Otherwise, the Private Placement Warrants have terms and provisions that are identical to those of the Warrants being sold as part of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and have no net cash settlement provisions.
If the Company does not complete a Business Combination, then the proceeds will be part of the liquidating distribution to the public shareholders and the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.
Forward Purchase Agreement
Effective June 4, 2018, the Company entered into Forward Purchase Agreements with the anchor investors, pursuant to which the anchor investors agreed to purchase an aggregate of 18,100,000 Class A ordinary shares plus 4,525,000 redeemable warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $181 million in a private placement to close concurrently with the closing of the initial Business Combination. The forward purchase warrants will have the same terms as the Public Warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering. The Sponsor transferred 2,262,500 Founder Shares to the anchor investors on June 19, 2018 as an inducement to enter into the Forward Purchase Agreements for no cash consideration. The Company entered into an additional Forward Purchase Agreement as of June 29, 2018, with an accredited investor providing for the purchase of 900,000 Class A ordinary shares, plus 225,000 forward purchase warrants, for an aggregate purchase price of $9.0 million, or $10.00 per Class A ordinary share, in a private placement to close concurrently with the closing of the initial Business Combination. As an inducement to such accredited investor to enter into the Forward Purchase Agreement, the Company will issue an aggregate of 112,500 Class B ordinary shares to the accredited investor for nominal cash consideration upon the completion of the initial Business Combination. The obligations under the Forward Purchase Agreements do not depend on whether any public shareholders redeem their shares and provide the Company with a minimum funding level for the initial Business Combination.
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Registration Rights
Pursuant to a registration rights agreement to be entered into concurrently with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the holders of the Private Placement Warrants, the warrants that may be issued upon conversion of the working capital loans, and the Founder Shares will be entitled to registration rights with respect to such warrants and the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants and Founder Shares. These holders will be entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that the Company register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders will have “piggy-back” registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by the Company. However, the registration rights agreement provides that the Company will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until termination of the lock-up period applicable to the securities to be covered by such registration statement.
Related Party Loans and Advance Related to Initial Public Offering
The Sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of $300,000 to cover expenses related to the Initial Public Offering pursuant to a promissory note (the “Note”). The Note was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of December 31, 2018 or the completion of the Initial Public Offering. The Company borrowed an aggregate of $100,000 under the Note and repaid this amount on July 3, 2018.
In connection with the Initial Public Offering and the purchase of the Private Placement Warrants, the Sponsor and its affiliates transferred $10,550,000 to the Company, of which $2,800,000 was in excess of the private placement, and paid $146,404 of offering costs related to the Initial Public Offering. The amount in excess of the private placement and the offering costs were repaid by the Company to such parties on July 3, 2018.
The Company has agreed to pay, pursuant to the letter agreement entered into by and among the Company, the Sponsor and the Company's directors and officers entered into in connection with the Initial Public Offering, $50,000 cash per year to those independent members of the Company's board of directors who have elected to not receive Founder Shares for services rendered as board members prior to the completion of the initial Business Combination. Pursuant to such agreement, the Company paid $25,000 to Frederick Ma Si-hang, an independent member of the Company's board of directors, on January 28, 2019 for services rendered as a board member. All other independent members of the Company's board of directors elected to receive founder shares pursuant to such agreement and, as a result, will not receive any cash payments thereunder.
Administrative Services Agreement
The Company has agreed to pay $10,000 per month to an affiliate of the Sponsor for office space, secretarial and administrative services provided to members of the Company’s management team. Upon completion of the initial Business Combination or the Company’s liquidation, the Company will cease paying such monthly fees. For the three months ended September 30, 2019, the Company paid $30,000 to the affiliate, representing $30,000 owing from a prior period. Under this agreement, for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company incurred costs of $90,000. For the three months ended September 30, 2018, the Company incurred costs of $30,000. During the period from March 28, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018, the Company incurred costs of $31,000.
Working Capital Loans
In order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, our Sponsor may, but is not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required. If the Company completes its initial Business Combination, the Company would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to the Company. Otherwise, such loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that the Company’s initial Business Combination does not close, the Company may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from the Trust Account would be used to repay such loaned amounts. Up to $2,000,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants of the post Business Combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. Except as set forth above, the terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. There were no amounts outstanding under working capital loans at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.
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5. Trust Account and Fair Value Measurement
As of September 30, 2019, investment securities in the Company’s Trust Account consisted of $294,948,867 in United States Treasury Bills and another $531,483 held as cash and cash equivalents. As of December 31, 2018, investment securities in the Company’s Trust Account consisted of $290,445,374 in United States Treasury Bills and another $15,778 held as cash and cash equivalents. The U.S. Government Securities are continually rolled into one-month securities when they mature. The Company classifies its Treasury Instruments and equivalent securities as held-to-maturity in accordance with FASB ASC 320 “Investments – Debt and Equity Securities”. Held-to-maturity securities are those securities which the Company has the ability and intent to hold until maturity. Held-to-maturity treasury securities are recorded at amortized cost on the accompanying balance sheets and adjusted for the amortization or accretion of premiums or discounts. The following table presents fair value information as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques the Company utilized to determine such fair value. In addition, the table presents the carrying value (held to maturity), excluding accrued interest income and gross unrealized holding gain. Since all of the Company’s permitted investments consist of U.S. government treasury bills and cash, fair values of its investments are determined by Level 1 inputs utilizing quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets as follows:
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Value | Holding Gain (Loss) | (Level 1) | ||||||||||
U.S. Government Treasury Securities as of September 30, 2019, matured on October 03, 2019 and were rolled into new treasuries that matured on October 29, 2019. | $ | 294,948,867 | $ | 422,223 | $ | 295,371,090 | ||||||
U.S. Government Treasury Securities as of December 31, 2018, matured on January, 3, 2019 and were rolled into new treasuries that matured on April 04, 2019. | $ | 290,445,374 | $ | (36,313 | ) | $ | 290,409,061 |
6. Shareholders’ Equity
Class A Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 180,000,000 Class A ordinary shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. At September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, there were 28,750,000 Class A ordinary shares issued or outstanding, and there were 27,590,164 and 28,048,981 Class A ordinary shares, respectively, subject to possible redemption at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.
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Class B Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 20,000,000 Class B ordinary shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. Holders of the Company’s Class B ordinary shares are entitled to one vote for each share. On June 12, 2018, the Sponsor forfeited 475,000 Founder Shares for no consideration as a result of the Forward Purchase Agreements totaling $181,000,000 rather than $200,000,000. In June 2018, the Company effected two share capitalizations resulting in an aggregate of 11,712,500 Class B ordinary shares outstanding. Of these, the Sponsor and the anchor investors hold an aggregate of 9,450,000 and 2,262,500 shares, respectively, as of June 27, 2018. All share amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the share capitalization. At September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 there were 11,712,500 Class B ordinary shares issued and outstanding.
Preference Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 preference shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. At September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, there were no preference shares issued or outstanding.
Warrants — Public Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. No fractional Public Warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole Public Warrants will trade. The Public Warrants will become exercisable on the later of (a) 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination or (b) 12 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering; provided in each case that the Company has an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available (or the Company permits holders to exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act). The Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 30 business days, after the closing of a Business Combination, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement for the registration, under the Securities Act, of the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants. The Company will use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the Public Warrants in accordance with the provisions of the warrant agreement. If a registration statement covering the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants is not effective by the sixtieth (60th) day after the closing of the initial Business Combination, warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when the Company will have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act or another exemption. The Public Warrants will expire five years after the completion of a Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.
The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants included in the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, except that the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions. Additionally, the Private Placement Warrants will be non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or such purchasers’ permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants.
7. Transaction Agreement
Transaction Agreement
On July 30, 2019, the Buyer Parties entered into the Transaction Agreement with the Target Companies and the Sellers (see Note 1) pursuant to which the Company will indirectly acquire all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of the Target Companies from the Sellers and certain members of the management of the Target Companies on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein and in the related ancillary agreements.
Consideration
The aggregate purchase price for the Transaction is approximately $1.3 billion, subject to customary adjustments as set forth in the Transaction Agreement. Fosun Seller and the Lipson Parties have agreed to, concurrently with the Closing, reinvest a portion of their respective proceeds to be received by them under the Transaction Agreement, in an aggregate amount of approximately $144,756,494, for newly issued ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“New NFC ordinary shares”), in the post-Transaction company (“New NFC”) at a subscription price of $10.00 per share.
The foregoing description of the Transaction Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Transaction Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
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Subscription Agreements
In connection with its entry into the Transaction Agreement, the Company entered into certain subscription agreements (the “Subscription Agreements”), each dated as of July 30, 2019, with certain investors, including Vivo Capital Fund IX (Cayman), L.P. (“Vivo”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Company agreed to issue and sell, in private placements, an aggregate of up to 71.1 million public shares of the Company, to the investors for $10.00 per share (the “Equity Offering”), subject to the Company’s right to reduce the number of public shares to be issued to the investors by up to 25%. The Equity Offering is expected to close immediately prior to the Closing. The investors will be entitled to certain shelf registration rights subject to customary black-out periods and other limitations as set forth in the Subscription Agreements. In connection with the Subscription Agreements, the Company has agreed to pay advisory fees in the aggregate amount of 3.0% of the gross proceeds of the Equity Offering to certain financial advisors at the Closing.
The foregoing description of the Subscription Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the form Subscription Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
Vivo Letter Agreement
In connection with the entry into the Transaction Agreement, the Company, the Sponsor, Mr. Leung and Mr. Wu entered into a letter agreement with Vivo (the “Vivo Letter Agreement”), pursuant to which Mr. Leung, Mr. Wu and the Sponsor agreed to certain restrictions relating to their shareholdings in the Company.
The foregoing description of the Vivo Letter Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Vivo Letter Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
Debt Commitment Letters
In order to finance a portion of the cash consideration payable under the Transaction Agreement and the costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith, NF Unicorn Acquisition Limited, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the Company (“NF Unicorn”), entered into a senior loan commitment letter with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Putuo Sub-Branch (“SPDB”) (the “Senior Loan Commitment Letter”), pursuant to which SPDB has agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, to provide a 7-year senior secured credit facility to NF Unicorn in an aggregate principal amount equal to the RMB equivalent of $300,000,000. China Merchants Bank Shanghai Branch (“CMB”) had previously issued a senior loan commitment letter to the Company, which also contemplated a senior secured credit facility in an aggregate amount equal to up to $300,000,000 upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof.
The Company (and its wholly-owned subsidiaries) only expects to borrow up to an aggregate of $300,000,000 of senior secured term loans to finance the Transaction. As such, the Company (or any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries) expects to enter into a separate senior loan commitment letter or other agreements after the date hereof with SPDB and/or CMB reflecting this arrangement.
The foregoing description of the Senior Loan Commitment Letter does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Senior Loan Commitment Letter, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.4 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
Further information regarding the Business Combination is set forth in the Current Reports on Form 8-K (File Nos. 333-225940 and 001-38562) filed with the SEC on July 30, 2019, August 1, 2019 and September 9, 2019, as well as in the Company’s proxy materials filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A on October 25, 2019 and November 12, 2019.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
References to “we”, “us”, “our” or the “Company” are to New Frontier Corporation, except where the context requires otherwise. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this report.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those described in our other Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings.
Overview
We are a blank check company formed in the Cayman Islands on March 28, 2018 for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (a “business combination”) that the Company has not yet identified. Although we are not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of consummating a business combination, we intend to focus our search for a target with operations or prospects in the healthcare, technology or education sectors in China, which we refer to as the Chinese new economy sectors.
All activity through September 30, 2019 relates to our formation and our initial public offering (the “initial public offering”) and, since the closing of the initial public offering, a search for a business combination candidate. The registration statement for our initial public offering was declared effective on June 27, 2018. We consummated the initial public offering of 28,750,000 units, including the issuance of 3,750,000 units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option in full (“units” and, the Class A ordinary shares included in the units, the “public shares”) at $10.00 per unit on July 3, 2018, generating gross proceeds of $287.5 million. We incurred offering costs of approximately $12.0 million, inclusive of approximately $6.91 million in deferred underwriting commissions.
Simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering, we consummated the private placement (“private placement”) of 7,750,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per private placement warrant with our Sponsor, New Frontier Public Holding Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of approximately $7.75 million.
Upon the closing of the initial public offering and private placement on July 3, 2018, $287.5 million from the net proceeds of the sale of the units in the initial public offering and the private placement was placed in a segregated trust account located in London at Citibank, maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee (the “Trust Account”). The funds in the Trust Account were invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with maturities of 180 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act that invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations.
Our management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the initial public offering and the private placement, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied toward consummating an initial business combination.
If we are unable to complete an initial business combination by July 3, 2020, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding public shares which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining shareholders and our board of directors, proceed to commence a voluntary liquidation and thereby a formal dissolution of our company, subject in each case to its obligations to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of applicable law.
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Recent Developments
On July 30, 2019, we entered into a transaction agreement (the “Transaction Agreement”) with NF Unicorn Acquisition L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership and our wholly-owned indirect subsidiary (“NFC Buyer Sub”, and together with us, the “Buyer Parties”), Healthy Harmony Holdings, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“Healthy Harmony”), Healthy Harmony GP, Inc., a Cayman Islands company and the sole general partner of Healthy Harmony (“HH GP” and, together with Healthy Harmony, the “Target Companies”), TPG Healthy, L.P., a Cayman Islands limited partnership (“TPG Seller”), Fosun Industrial Co., Limited, a Hong Kong company (“Fosun Seller”), Plenteous Flair Limited, a Cayman Islands company (“Boyu Seller”), Roberta Lipson (“Ms. Lipson”), the Benjamin Lipson Plafker Trust, the Daniel Lipson Plafker Trust, the Jonathan Lipson Plafker Trust and the Ariel Benjamin Lee Trust (the foregoing trusts together with Ms. Lipson, the “Lipson Parties,” and together with TPG Seller, Fosun Seller and Boyu Seller, each a “Seller” and collectively, the “Sellers”), pursuant to which we will indirectly acquire all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of HH GP (the “GP Shares”) and approximately 99.37% of the issued and outstanding limited partnership interests in Healthy Harmony (the “LP Interests”) from the Sellers on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein (the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreement and the related ancillary agreements, the “Transaction”). The remaining 0.63% of the issued and outstanding LP Interests are held by certain members of management of the Target Companies and are expected to be acquired by us simultaneously with the closing of the Transaction (the “Closing”) on terms and conditions to be agreed between us and these holders.
The aggregate purchase price for the Transaction is approximately $1.3 billion, subject to customary adjustments as set forth in the Transaction Agreement. Fosun Seller and the Lipson Parties have agreed to, concurrently with the Closing, reinvest a portion of their respective proceeds to be received by them under the Transaction Agreement, in an aggregate amount of approximately $144,756,494, for newly issued ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“New NFC ordinary shares”), in the post-Transaction company (“New NFC”) at a subscription price of $10.00 per share.
The foregoing description of the Transaction Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Transaction Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein. For a description of certain other agreements entered into in connection with the Transaction Agreement, see Note 7 to the Financial Statements.
Critical Accounting Policy
Net Income (Loss) Per Ordinary Share
Net income (loss) per ordinary share is computed by dividing net income (loss) applicable to ordinary shares by the weighted average number of shares outstanding for the period. We have not considered the effect of the warrants sold in the initial public offering and private placement to purchase an aggregate of 22,125,000 Class A ordinary shares in the calculation of diluted income (loss) per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted income (loss) per ordinary share is the same as basic income (loss) per ordinary share for the periods.
Our statement of operations includes a presentation of net income (loss) per share for ordinary shares subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method. Net income (loss) per ordinary share, basic and diluted for Class A ordinary shares is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the Trust Account, net of any applicable income tax expense, by the weighted average number of Class A ordinary shares outstanding for the period from the issuance of such shares through September 30, 2019. Net loss per ordinary share, basic and diluted for Class B ordinary shares is calculated by dividing the net income, less income attributable to Class A ordinary shares, by the weighted average number of Class B ordinary shares outstanding for the periods.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Overview
As indicated in the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements, as of September 30, 2019, we had a balance of cash of approximately $1.24 million. There is currently no taxation imposed on income by the Government of the Cayman Islands. In accordance with Cayman federal income tax regulations, income taxes are not levied on us. Consequently, income taxes are not reflected in our unaudited condensed financial statements.
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Through September 30, 2019, our liquidity needs were satisfied prior to the completion of the initial public offering through receipt of a $25,000 capital contribution from our Sponsor in exchange for the issuance of the founder shares to the Sponsor. As of September 30, 2019, the Company had $295,480,350 in cash and marketable securities held in the Trust Account to be used for an initial business combination or to repurchase or redeem its ordinary shares in connection therewith, negative working capital of approximately $7,666,205, and $1,239,877 in its operating bank account. We intend to use these funds held outside the Trust Account primarily to identify and evaluate target businesses, perform business due diligence on prospective target businesses, travel to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, review corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, select the target business to acquire and structure, negotiate and complete a business combination.
We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust Account, including any amounts representing interest earned on the Trust Account holding the net proceeds of the initial public offering (less taxes payable and deferred underwriting commissions) to complete our initial business combination. To the extent that our equity or debt is used, in whole or in part, as consideration to complete our initial business combination, the remaining proceeds held in the trust account will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses, make other acquisitions and pursue our growth strategies.
We do not believe we will need to raise additional funds in order to meet the expenditures required for operating our business prior to our initial business combination. However, if our estimates of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating an initial business combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds available to operate our business prior to our initial business combination. In order to fund working capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete our initial business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts. In the event that our initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our Trust Account would be used for such repayment. Up to $2,000,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants of the post business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. The terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. Prior to the completion of our initial business combination, we do not expect to seek loans from parties other than our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor as we do not believe third parties will be willing to loan such funds and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our Trust Account.
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Going Concern Consideration
Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that we have until July 3, 2020 to complete the initial business combination as discussed above. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete the initial business combination by July 3, 2020. In connection with our assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with FASB’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” management has determined that the mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should we be required to liquidate after July 3, 2020.
Results of Operations
Our entire activity after the initial public offering through September 30, 2019 was pursuing a business combination target with operations or prospects in the healthcare, technology or education sectors. We will not be generating any operating revenues until the closing and completion of our initial business combination. We expect to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.
For the period from January 1, 2019 through September 30, 2019, we had a net loss of $4,588,167, which consisted of interest income from the Trust Account of $5,019,198 less operating expenses of $9,607,365. For the period from March 28, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2018, we had a net income of $1,244,703 which consisted of interest income from the Trust Account of $1,439,212 less operating expenses of $194,509.
For the period from July 1, 2019 through September 30, 2019, we had a net loss of $7,635,585, which consisted of interest income from the Trust Account of $1,577,914 less operating expenses of $9,213,499. For the period from July 1, 2018 through September 30, 2018, we recognized a net income of $1,258,418, which consisted of interest income from the Trust Account of $1,439,212 less operating expenses of $180,794.
Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
On April 19, 2018, our Sponsor received 10,750,000 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Founder Shares”), in exchange for a capital contribution of $25,000, which was reflected on the register of members of the Company on May 29, 2018.
Up to 5,000,000 Class B ordinary shares were subject to forfeiture by our Sponsor and anchor investors ratably to the extent the aggregate amount committed to be purchased pursuant to the forward purchase agreements would be less than $200,000,000.
On June 12, 2018, our Sponsor forfeited 475,000 Founder Shares for no consideration in connection with the forward purchase agreements totaling $181,000,000 rather than $200,000,000. In June 2018, the Company effected two share capitalizations resulting in an aggregate of 11,712,500 Class B ordinary shares outstanding. All share amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the share capitalizations.
Subsequent to the closing of the initial public offering, our Sponsor transferred 10,000 Founder Shares to Edward Leong Che-hung and 5,000 Founder Shares to each of two trusts for the benefit of family members of David Johnson in connection with Messrs. Leong and Johnson’s service as members of our board of directors.
As of September 30, 2019, our Sponsor, the independent directors (or their designees) and the anchor investors hold an aggregate of 9,430,000, 20,000 and 2,262,500 Founder Shares, respectively.
The Founder Shares are identical to the public shares except that the Founder Shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below.
If the underwriters did not exercise their over-allotment option in full, our Sponsor would have forfeited up to 937,500 Founder Shares for no consideration. On July 3, 2018, the underwriters exercised the over-allotment option in full; thus, these shares are no longer subject to forfeiture.
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Our Sponsor, Antony Leung and Carl Wu have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of its or his Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof until the earlier of (a) one year after the completion of the initial business combination with respect to 50% of its or his Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof, (b) two years after the completion of the initial business combination with respect to the remaining 50% of its or his Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof, and (c) the date on which we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction after the initial business combination that results in all of our shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. The anchor investors and the members of our management team (other than Antony Leung and Carl Wu) have agreed to not transfer, assign or sell any of their Founder Shares and any Class A ordinary shares issued upon conversion thereof until the earlier of (A) one year after the completion of our initial business combination or (B) subsequent to the initial business combination, if (x) the closing price of the Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the initial business combination, or (y) we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of our shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property.
Private Placement Warrants
Upon the closing of the initial public offering on July 3, 2018, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 7,750,000 Private Placement Warrants, each exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share, at a price of $1.00 per warrant ($7,750,000 in the aggregate). Each Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share. The purchase price of the Private Placement Warrants was added to the proceeds from the initial public offering held in our Trust Account pending completion of our initial business combination. The Private Placement Warrants (including the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants) will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination and they will be non-redeemable so long as they are held by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than our Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by us and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the warrants included in the units being sold in the initial public offering. Otherwise, the Private Placement Warrants have terms and provisions that are identical to those of the Warrants being sold as part of the units in the initial public offering and have no net cash settlement provisions.
If we do not complete a business combination, then the proceeds will be part of the liquidating distribution to our public shareholders and the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.
Forward Purchase Agreement
Effective June 4, 2018, we entered into forward purchase agreements with the anchor investors, pursuant to which the anchor investors agreed to purchase an aggregate of 18,100,000 Class A ordinary shares plus 4,525,000 redeemable warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $181 million in a private placement to close concurrently with the closing of the initial business combination. The forward purchase warrants will have the same terms as the warrants sold in the initial public offering. Our Sponsor transferred 2,262,500 Founder Shares to the anchor investors on June 19, 2018 as an inducement to enter into the forward purchase agreements for no cash consideration. We entered into an additional forward purchase agreement as of June 29, 2018, with an accredited investor providing for the purchase of 900,000 Class A ordinary shares, plus 225,000 forward purchase warrants, for an aggregate purchase price of $9.0 million, or $10.00 per Class A ordinary share, in a private placement to close concurrently with the closing of the initial business combination. As an inducement to such accredited investor to enter into the forward purchase agreement, we will issue an aggregate of 112,500 Class B ordinary shares to the accredited investor for nominal cash consideration upon the completion of the initial business combination. The obligations under the forward purchase agreements do not depend on whether any public shareholders redeem their shares and provide us with a minimum funding level for the initial business combination.
Registration Rights
Pursuant to a registration rights agreement to be entered into concurrently with the closing of the initial public offering, the holders of the Private Placement Warrants, the warrants that may be issued upon conversion of the working capital loans, and the Founder Shares will be entitled to registration rights with respect to such warrants and the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants and Founder Shares. These holders will be entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that the Company register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders will have “piggy-back” registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by us. However, the registration rights agreement provides that we will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until termination of the lock-up period applicable to the securities to be covered by such registration statement.
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Related Party Loans and Advance Related Initial Public Offering
The Sponsor agreed to loan us an aggregate of $300,000 to cover expenses related to the initial public offering pursuant to a promissory note (the “Note”). This loan was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of December 31, 2018 or the completion of the initial public offering. We borrowed an aggregate of $100,000 under the Note and repaid this amount on July 3, 2018.
In connection with the initial public offering and the purchase of the Private Placement Warrants, the Sponsor and its affiliates transferred $10,550,000 to the Company, of which $2,800,000 was in excess of the private placement, and paid $146,404 of offering costs related to the initial public offering. The amount in excess of the private placement and the offering costs were repaid by the Company to such parties on July 3, 2018.
Administrative Services Agreement
We pay $10,000 per month to an affiliate of the Sponsor for office space, secretarial and administrative services provided to members of our management team. Upon completion of the initial business combination or our liquidation, we will cease paying such monthly fees. From inception through September 30, 2019, we paid $151,000, which represents the administrative services from June 28, 2018 to September 30, 2019, to our affiliate.
Working Capital Loans
In order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our Sponsor may, but is not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete our initial business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to us. Otherwise, such loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that our initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from the Trust Account would be used to repay such loaned amounts. Up to $2,000,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants of the post business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. Except as set forth above, the terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Our management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.
Contractual Obligations
Registration Rights
Pursuant to a registration rights agreement to be entered into concurrently with the closing of the initial public offering, the holders of the Private Placement Warrants, the warrants that may be issued upon conversion of the working capital loans, and the Founder Shares will be entitled to registration rights with respect to such warrants and the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants and Founder Shares. These holders will be entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that we register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders will have “piggy-back” registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by us. However, the registration rights agreement provides that we will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until termination of the lock-up period applicable to the securities to be covered by such registration statement.
Underwriting Agreement
We paid an underwriting discount at the closing of the initial public offering of $3.95 million. An additional fee of $6.91 million was deferred and will become payable upon our completion of an initial business combination. The deferred portion of the discount will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that we complete our initial business combination.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of September 30, 2019, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S- K and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations.
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JOBS Act
On April 5, 2012, the JOBS Act was signed into law. The JOBS Act contains provisions that, among other things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies. We will qualify as an “emerging growth company” and under the JOBS Act will be allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements based on the effective date for private (not publicly traded) companies. We are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non-emerging growth companies. As such, our unaudited condensed financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
As of September 30, 2019, we were not subject to any market or interest rate risk. Following the consummation of our initial public offering, the net proceeds of our initial public offering, including amounts in the Trust Account, were invested in U.S. government treasury bills, notes or bonds with a maturity of 180 days or less or in certain money market funds that invest solely in U.S. treasuries. Due to the short-term nature of these investments, we do not believe that there will be an associated material exposure to interest rate risk.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our co-principal executive officers and principal financial and accounting officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2019, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2019 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
None.
As of the date of this Report, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 1, 2019, except we may disclose changes to such factors or disclose additional factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities
On April 19, 2018, the Sponsor purchased 10,750,000 Class B ordinary shares, which issuance was reflected on the register of members of the company on May 29, 2018, in exchange for a capital contribution of $25,000.
Effective June 4, 2018, we entered into forward purchase agreements with the anchor investors, pursuant to which the anchor investors agreed to purchase an aggregate of 18,100,000 Class A ordinary shares plus 4,525,000 redeemable warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $181 million in a private placement to close concurrently with the closing of the initial business combination. The forward purchase warrants will have the same terms as the warrants sold in the initial public offering. The Sponsor transferred 2,262,500 founder shares to the anchor investors on June 19, 2018 as an inducement to enter into the forward purchase agreements for no cash consideration.
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On June 12, 2018, the Sponsor forfeited 475,000 founder shares for no consideration in connection with the forward purchase agreements totaling $181,000,000 rather than $200,000,000. In June 2018, the Company effected two share capitalizations resulting in an aggregate of 11,712,500 Class B ordinary shares outstanding. Subsequent to the closing of the initial public offering, the Sponsor transferred 10,000 founder shares to Edward Leong Che-hung and 5,000 founder shares to each of two trusts for the benefit of family members of David Johnson in connection with Messrs. Leong and Johnson’s service as members of the Company’s board of directors. As of September 30, 2019, the Sponsor, the independent directors (or their designees) and the anchor investors hold an aggregate of 9,430,000, 20,000 and 2,262,500 founder shares, respectively.
We entered into an additional forward purchase agreement as of June 29, 2018, with an accredited investor providing for the purchase of 900,000 Class A ordinary shares, plus 225,000 forward purchase warrants, for an aggregate purchase price of $9.0 million, or $10.00 per Class A ordinary share, in a private placement to close concurrently with the closing of the initial business combination. As an inducement to such accredited investor to enter into the forward purchase agreement, we will issue an aggregate of 112,500 Class B ordinary shares to the accredited investor for nominal cash consideration upon the completion of the initial business combination.
The obligations under the forward purchase agreements do not depend on whether any public shareholders redeem their shares and provide us with a minimum funding level for the initial business combination.
Antony Leung and Carl Wu, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, own an indirect majority interest in and are the directors of and control the Sponsor. The Sponsor is an accredited investor for purposes of Rule 501 of Regulation D. Each of the equity holders in the Sponsor is an accredited investor under Rule 501 of Regulation D. Each of the anchor investors are accredited investors under Rule 501 of Regulation D.
The foregoing issuances were, and will be, made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The founder shares were transferred to the anchor investors in reliance on the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to the foregoing sales.
On July 3, 2018, the Company consummated its initial public offering of 28,750,000 units, including the issuance of 3,750,000 units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option in full. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one warrant, with each whole warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share for $11.50 per share. The units were sold at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $287,500,000.
The Company incurred offering costs of approximately $12.0 million, inclusive of approximately $6.91 million in deferred underwriting commissions.
Simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering, the Company consummated the private placement of 7,750,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant with the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of approximately $7.75 million. The Private Placement Warrants were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
A total of $287,500,000 was placed in the Trust Account. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds in the Trust Account that may be released to the Company to pay its taxes, the funds held in the Trust Account will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the Company’s initial business combination, (ii) the redemption of any of the Company’s public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of its obligation to redeem 100% of the Company’s public shares if it does not complete its initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the IPO or (iii) the redemption of the Company’s public shares if it is unable to complete its initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the IPO, subject to applicable law.
There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from such use as described in the Company’s final prospectus (File No. 333-225421), dated June 27, 2018, which was declared effective by the SEC on June 27, 2018.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.
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Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
None.
None.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized on this 14th day of November, 2019.
NEW FRONTIER CORPORATION | ||
/s/ Carl Wu | ||
Name: | Carl Wu | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
(Principal Executive Officer) | ||
/s/ Shuo Wang | ||
Name: | Shuo Wang | |
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
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