FORTRESS CAPITAL ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1. Description of Organization and Business Operations
Fortress Capital Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on August 27, 2020. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses that the Company has not yet identified (“Business Combination”). Although the Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of consummating a Business Combination, the Company intends to capitalize on the ability of its management team to identify, acquire and operate a business that may provide opportunities for attractive risk-adjusted returns.
The Company is an emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all the risks associated with emerging growth companies. As of January 15, 2021, the Company had not yet commenced operations. All activity through January 15, 2021 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering, which is described below. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of a Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on January 12, 2021. On January 15, 2021, the Company consummated its initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) of 40,000,000 units (“Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), which included the issuance of 5,000,000 Units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option in full, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $400.0 million and incurring offering costs of approximately $22.8 million, inclusive of $14.0 million in deferred underwriting commissions (see Note 6).
Substantially concurrently with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated a private placement (“Private Placement”) of 7,333,333 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”), at a price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant, with the Company’s sponsor, Fortress Capital Acquisition Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $11.0 million (see Note 5).
Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, $400.0 million ($10.00 per Unit) of the aggregate net cash proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement was placed in a U.S.-based trust account (“Trust Account”) at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee. The cash proceeds held in the Trust Account will be invested 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 any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund selected by the Company meeting certain conditions of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.
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