BUSINESS OF L&F AND CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT L&F
References in this section to “we,” “our,” or “us” refer to L&F Acquisition Corp.
General
We are a blank check company incorporated as an exempted company in the Cayman Islands on August 20, 2020 formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses. We reviewed a number of opportunities to enter into an initial business combination with one or more operating businesses, and entered into the Business Combination Agreement on December 17, 2021.
IPO and Private Placement
On November 23, 2020, we consummated our initial public offering of 15,000,000 Units at $10.00 per L&F Public Unit, generating gross proceeds of $150,000,000. The securities in the offering were registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-249497). The SEC declared the registration statement effective on November 18, 2020. Simultaneously with the closing of our initial public offering, we consummated the sale of 6,859,505 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor and Jefferies LLC at a price of $1.00 per L&F Private Placement Warrant and approximately $1.21 per Private Placement Warrant, respectively, generating gross proceeds of $7,250,002. On November 25, 2020, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option, resulting in an additional 2,250,000 Units issued for an aggregate amount of $22,500,000. In connection with the underwriters’ full exercise of their over-allotment option, we consummated the sale of an additional 728,925 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor and Jefferies LLC at $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant and approximately $1.21 per Private Placement Warrant, respectively, generating total proceeds of $787,500
Transaction costs amounted to $10,050,665, consisting of $3,450,000 of underwriting fees, $6,037,500 of deferred underwriting fees and $563,165 of other offering costs.
Following the closing of our initial public offering on November 23, 2020 and the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment on November 25, 2020, an amount of approximately $175,087,500 ($10.15 per L&F Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in our initial public offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants were placed in a Trust Account, and invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund investing solely in U.S. Treasuries and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by us, until the earliest of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to our shareholders.
The Proposed Business Combination
As previously announced on L&F’s Current Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 20, 2022, on December 17, 2021, L&F entered into a Business Combination Agreement (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among L&F, L&F Acquisition Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“L&F Holdings”), ZF Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ZF Merger Sub”), IDX Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“IDX Merger Sub”), IDX Forward Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“IDX Forward Merger Sub”), ZeroFox, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ZeroFox”), and ID Experts Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“IDX”). The Business Combination Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby were approved by the boards of directors of each of L&F, ZeroFox and IDX and have been approved by the requisite stockholders of ZeroFox and IDX.
The Business Combination Agreement provides for, among other things, the following transactions on the date of closing: (i) ZF Merger Sub will merge with and into ZeroFox (the “ZF Merger”), with ZeroFox being the surviving company in the ZF Merger and, after giving effect to such merger, continuing as a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&F Holdings, (ii) IDX Merger Sub will merge with and into IDX (the “IDX Merger”), with IDX being the surviving company in the IDX Merger (“Transitional IDX Entity”) and, after giving effect to such merger, continuing as a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&F Holdings, and (iii) Transitional IDX Entity will merge with and into IDX Forward Merger Sub (the “IDX Forward Merger”, and collectively with the ZF Merger and IDX Merger, the “Mergers”), with IDX Forward Merger Sub being the surviving company in the IDX Forward Merger and, after giving effect to such merger, continuing as a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&F Holdings.