Exhibit 4.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED WARRANT AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED WARRANT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of February 3, 2022, is by and between Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company, as warrant agent (in such capacity, the “Warrant Agent”, and also referred to herein as the “Transfer Agent”).
WHEREAS, the Company completed an initial public offering (the “Offering”) of units of the Company’s equity securities, each such unit comprised of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), and one-third of one redeemable Public Warrant (as defined below) (the “Public Units”) and, in connection therewith, issued and delivered 9,200,000 warrants to public investors in the Offering (the “Public Warrants”);
WHEREAS, the Company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-251493 (the “Registration Statement”), and prospectus (the “Prospectus”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the Public Units, the Public Warrants and the Ordinary Shares included in the Public Units;
WHEREAS, the Company and the Warrant Agent entered into that certain Warrant Agreement dated as of January 6, 2021 (the “Original Agreement”) in connection with the Company’s entry into that certain Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement (the “Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement”) with Ivanhoe Capital Sponsor LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to purchase an aggregate of 5,013,333 warrants simultaneously with the closing of the Offering bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit B hereto (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant;
WHEREAS, in order to finance the Company’s transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan to the Company funds as the Company may require, of which up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into up to an additional 1,000,000 warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant (the “Working Capital Warrants”);
WHEREAS, following the consummation of the Offering, the Company may issue additional warrants (the “Post-IPO Warrants” and, together with the Public Warrants, the Private Placement Warrants and the Working Capital Warrants, the “Warrants”) in connection with, or following the consummation by the Company of, a Business Combination;
WHEREAS, Section 9.8 of the Original Agreement permits amendment of the terms thereof with the vote or written consent of the Registered Holders of 50% of the then-outstanding Public Warrants and, solely with respect to any amendment to the terms of the Private Placement Warrants or any provision of the Original Agreement with respect to the Private Placement Warrants, 50% of the then-outstanding Private Placement Warrants (the “Holder Consent”); and
WHEREAS, the Company desires to, upon receipt of the Holder Consent, amend and restate the Original Agreement as set forth herein and to provide for the form and provisions of the Warrants, the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitation of rights, and immunities of the Company, the Warrant Agent, and the holders of the Warrants; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things have been done and performed which are necessary to make the Warrants, when executed on behalf of the Company and countersigned by or on behalf of the Warrant Agent, as provided herein, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement.