VIEW, INC.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (As Restated)
Note 1—Description of Organization, Business Operations and Basis of Presentation
CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II (“CFII,” now known as View, Inc. as of March 8, 2021, “View” or the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware on September 27, 2019. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”).
Although the Company is not limited in its search for target businesses to a particular industry or sector for the purpose of consummating a Business Combination, the Company intends to focus its search on companies operating in the financial services, healthcare, real estate services, technology and software industries. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of September 30, 2020, the Company had not commenced operations. All activity through September 30, 2020 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) described below, and since the Initial Public Offering, the search for a target for a 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 net gains on investments, dividends and interest income on U.S. Treasury Securities, investments in money market funds that invest in U.S. Treasury Securities, and cash from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering.
The Company’s sponsor is CF Finance Holdings II, LLC (the “Sponsor”). The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 26, 2020. On August 31, 2020, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 50,000,000 units (each, a “Unit” and with respect to the shares of Class A common stock included in the Units sold, the “Public Shares”) at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $500,000,000, which is described in Note 4. Each Unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and one-third of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of $11.50. Each warrant will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination or 12 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering and will expire 5 years after the completion of the Business Combination, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 7,500,000 Units to cover over-allotments, if any. The over-allotment option expired unexercised on October 10, 2020.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 1,100,000 Units (the “Private Placement Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit in a private placement to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $11,000,000, which is described in Note 5.
Transaction costs amounted to approximately $10,600,000, consisting of $10,100,000 of underwriting fees and approximately $500,000 of other costs. In addition, approximately $500,000 of cash from the Initial Public Offering was held outside of the Trust Account and is available for working capital purposes.
Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering on August 31, 2020 and the concurrent sale of Private Placement Units, an amount of $500,000,000 ($10.00 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units (see Note 5) was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) located in the United States at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, which may be invested only in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), with a maturity of 180 days or less or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund selected by the Company meeting the conditions of paragraphs (d)(2), (d)(3) and (d)(4) of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account, as described below.
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