GREENLIGHT BIOSCIENCES, INC.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
1. | NATURE OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION |
Organization
GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. (“GreenLight” or the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware in 2008. GreenLight, together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, GreenLight Pandemic Response, Inc. (“GLPRI”), and GreenLight Security Corporation (“GLSC”), is referred to on a consolidated basis as the “Company”. The Company has developed technology to create high-performing, natural ribonucleic acid (“RNA”) products to address global sustainability challenges and promote healthier plants, foods, and people.
The Company is located and headquartered in Medford, Massachusetts. The Company has additional lab and office space in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, a manufacturing facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, additional lab and office space in Woburn, Massachusetts, and a manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York. The Company’s revenues and expenses are derived from operations in the United States. Since its inception, the Company has devoted substantially all of its efforts to research and development activities, including the development of the Company’s cell-free RNA production process. The Company does not currently generate revenue from sales of any products.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to the authoritative United States generally accepted accounting principles as found in the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) and Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”).
Business Combination Transaction
On August 9, 2021, the Company entered into the business combination agreement (“Business Combination Agreement”) with Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. (“ENVI”) and Honey Bee Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, on February 2, 2022, Merger Sub merged with and into GreenLight (the “Merger”), with GreenLight surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of ENVI (the Merger, together with the other transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the “Business Combination”).
Immediately before the closing of the Business Combination, ENVI held approximately $207.0 million in a trust account for its public stockholders. In connection with the Business Combination, ENVI’s public stockholders redeemed shares of public common stock for approximately $194.9 million, and the funds remaining after such redemptions, totaling approximately $12.1 million, became available to finance transaction expenses and the future operations of New GreenLight. In connection with the Business Combination, ENVI entered into agreements with new investors and existing GreenLight investors to subscribe for and purchase an aggregate of approximately 12.4 million shares of ENVI Class A Common Stock (the “PIPE Financing”). The PIPE Financing was consummated on February 2, 2022 and resulted in gross proceeds of approximately $136.4 million, prior to payment of the transaction costs (of which $13.5 million was advanced to GreenLight as of December 31, 2021 and an additional $21.8 million was advanced to GreenLight in January 2022). The direct and incremental transaction costs are approximately $25.0 million, with the net proceeds from the Business Combination of approximately $111.4 million expected.
The Merger is accounted for as a reverse recapitalization, whereby for accounting and financial reporting purposes, the Company was the acquirer. A reverse recapitalization does not result in a new basis of accounting, and the financial statements of the combined entity will represent the continuation of the consolidated financial statements of the Company in many respects. The shares of ENVI remaining after redemptions of shares of ENVI public common stock and the unrestricted net cash and cash equivalents on the date the Business Combination was consummated will be accounted for as a capital infusion to GreenLight.
Retrospective Adjustment
In accordance with guidance applicable to these circumstances, the Company retroactively applied the recapitalization to the Company’s equity structure including the consolidated statement of stockholders’ (deficit) equity from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021, the total stockholders’ (deficit) equity within the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the weighted average outstanding shares basic and diluted for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. The retroactive application reflects the equivalent number of shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, issued to Legacy GreenLight’s stockholders in connection with the Business Combination at the applicable exchange ratio of .6656 (the “Exchange Ratio”).
Additionally, Legacy GreenLight’s convertible preferred stock previously classified as temporary equity was retroactively adjusted, converted into common stock and reclassified to permanent equity as a result of the reverse recapitalization. All periods prior to the Business Combination have been restated to reflect the convertible preferred stock as converted to common stock, with no convertible preferred stock outstanding.
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