registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2021. PwC served as the independent registered public accounting firm of Legacy Matterport prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, KPMG LLP (“KPMG”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm prior to the Business Combination, was dismissed as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm following the completion of KPMG’s review of the financial statements of the pre-Business Combination special purpose acquisition company as of and for the periods ended June 30, 2021, under the assumption that KPMG is able to perform such review, which is contingent upon KPMG completing its independence review of the newly merged company.
The audit report of KPMG on the Company’s financial statements as of December 31, 2020, and for the period from June 29, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020, did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainties, audit scope or accounting principles, except as follows: KPMG’s report on the financial statements of the Company as of December 31, 2020, and for the period from June 29, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020, contained a separate paragraph stating that “As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the 2020 financial statements have been restated to correct certain misstatements.”
During the period from June 29, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020, and the subsequent interim period through July 22, 2021, there were no (1) disagreements with KPMG on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of KPMG, would have caused it to make a reference in connection with their opinion to the subject matter of the disagreement or (2) reportable events as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K, except that KPMG advised Gores Holdings VI, Inc. of the following material weakness: internal control over financial reporting did not result in sufficient risk assessment of the underlying accounting for certain financial instruments.
During the period from June 29, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020, and through July 22, 2021, neither the Company nor anyone on the Company’s behalf consulted with PwC regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by PwC that PwC concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement, as that term is described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K, or a reportable event, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.
The Company provided KPMG with a copy of the foregoing disclosures prior to the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K and requested that KPMG furnish a letter addressed to the Commission, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 16.1, stating whether it agrees with such disclosures, and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree.
Item 5.01. | Changes in Control of Registrant. |
The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above and in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.02. | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
The disclosure set forth in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the sections titled “Directors and Executive Officers,” “Director Compensation” and “Executive Compensation” is incorporated by herein by reference.
2021 Incentive Award Plan
As previously disclosed, at the Special Meeting, on July 20, 2021, the stockholders of the Company considered and approved the 2021 Incentive Award Plan. The 2021 Incentive Award Plan was previously approved by the Board, subject to stockholder approval. The 2021 Incentive Award Plan became effective on the date on which the stockholders approved the 2021 Incentive Award Plan.
A description of the 2021 Incentive Award Plan is included in the Proxy Statement in the section titled “Proposal No. 5—The Incentive Award Plan Proposal” which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the 2021 Incentive Award Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the 2021 Incentive Award Plan and the related forms of award agreements under the 2021 Incentive Award Plan, which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.3(a)-(c), 10.4 and 10.5 and incorporated herein by reference.
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