Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
Overview
We are a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on June 22, 2020 for the purpose of identifying a company to partner with in order to effectuate a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar partnering transaction with one or more businesses (“Partnering Transaction”). We may pursue a Partnering Transaction in any business or industry but expect to focus on a business where we believe our strong network, operational background, and aligned economic structure will provide us with a competitive advantage. Our sponsor is ENPC Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (our “Sponsor”).
Our registration statements for our initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) became effective on September 15, 2020. On September 18, 2020, we consummated the Initial Public Offering of 16,560,000 (41,400,000 after giving effect to the Stock Split) CAPS™ (with respect to the Class A common stock included in the CAPS™ being offered, the “Public Shares”), which included 2,160,000 CAPS™ (5,400,000 CAPS™ after giving effect to the Stock Split) issued as a result of the underwriters’ exercise in full of their over-allotment option, at $25.00 per CAPS™ ($10.00 per CAPS™ after giving effect to the Stock Split), generating gross proceeds of $414.0 million, and incurring offering costs of approximately $4.8 million.
Concurrently with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, we completed the private sale of 245,600 (614,000 after giving effect to the Stock Split) private placement CAPS™ (“Private Placement CAPS™”), at a price of $25.00 per Private Placement CAPS™ ($10.00 per Private Placement CAPS™ after giving effect to the Stock Split) to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $6.1 million.
Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of Private Placement CAPS™, $414.0 million ($10.00 per CAPS™ after giving effect to the Stock Split) of the net proceeds of the sale of the CAPS™ in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement were placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) located in the United States with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, and held as cash or invested only in U.S. “government securities,” within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in money market funds meeting the conditions of paragraphs (d)(2), (d)(3) and (d)(4) of Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations, as determined by us, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Partnering Transaction and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.
We have 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or September 18, 2022 (or 27 months, or December 18, 2022, if we have executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement for the Partnering Transaction within 24 months) to complete its initial Partnering Transaction (the “Partnering Period”). If we do not complete a Partnering Transaction within this period of time (and stockholders do not approve an amendment to the certificate of incorporation to extend this date), we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, 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, of $10.00, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining stockholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and in all cases subject to the other requirements of applicable law.
On May 16, 2022, the Company, Granite Ridge Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation, ENPC Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, GREP Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and GREP Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“GREP”), entered into a business combination agreement (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company and GREP shall enter into a business combination. For additional information regarding the Business Combination Agreement, see the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 17, 2022.
Recent Events
On October 20, 2022, the Company held a special meeting of its stockholders (the “Special Meeting”), at which holders of 30,908,389 shares of ENPC’s Class A common stock (“Class A Common Stock”), par value $0.0001 per share, 300,000 shares of ENPC’s Class B common stock (“Class B Common Stock”), par value $0.0001 per share, and 828,000 shares of ENPC’s Class F common stock (“Class F Common Stock”), par value $0.0001 per share, were present in person or by proxy, collectively representing 78.9% of the voting power of ENPC’s outstanding voting capital stock as of the date of the Special Meeting, and constituting a quorum for the transaction of business at the Special Meeting. The proposals listed below are described in more detail in the definitive proxy statement of ENPC which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 29, 2022 (the “Proxy Statement”). The stockholders approved the Business Combination Proposal, each of the Charter Proposals and the Incentive Plan Proposal (each as defined in the Proxy Statement). As set forth in the Proxy Statement, the Adjournment Proposal (as defined in the Proxy Statement) would only be presented to stockholders, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies in the event that there are insufficient votes for the approval of one or more proposals at the Special Meeting. As each of the other Proxy Statement proposals passed, there was no need to present the Adjournment Proposal to the stockholders.
In connection with the Partnering Transaction, holders of 39,343,496 shares of Class A Common Stock exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.07 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $396.1 million.
Results of Operations
Our entire activity since inception through September 30, 2022 related to our formation, the preparation for the Initial Public Offering, and since the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the search for a prospective initial Partnering Transaction. We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. We will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial Partnering Transaction. We generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on investments held in Trust Account. 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 three months ended September 30, 2022, we had net income of approximately $898,000, which consisted of approximately $1.8 million interest income from investments held in Trust Account, partially offset by approximately $212,000 loss from change in fair value of warrant liabilities, approximately $204,000 in general and administrative costs, $60,000 in related party administrative fee, approximately $50,000 of franchise tax expense and approximately $351,000 income tax expense.