SOARING EAGLE ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO BALANCE SHEET
Note 1—Organization and Plan of Business Operations
Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on October 22, 2020. In February 2021 the Company effectuated a change in the name of the entity from Spinning Eagle Acquisition Corp to Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. 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 (“Business Combination”).
Although the Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of completing a Business Combination, the Company intends to capitalize on the ability of its management team to identify and combine with a business or businesses that can benefit from its management team’s established global relationships and operating experience. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of February 26, 2021, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from October 22, 2020 (inception) through February 26, 2021 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“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 Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The registration statement for the Company’s Public Offering was declared effective on February 23, 2021. On February 26, 2021, the Company consummated the Public Offering of 172,500,000 units (the “Units”), which includes the exercise by the underwriter of its over-allotment option in full in the amount of 22,500,000 Units, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $1,725,000,000 which is described in Note 3.
Transaction costs amounted to $87,510,593, consisting of $25,875,000 of underwriting fees, $60,375,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $1,260,593 of other offering costs. In addition, at February 26, 2021, cash of $3,000,000 was held outside of the Trust Account (as defined below) and is available for the payment of offering costs and for working capital purposes.
Following the closing of the Public Offering on February 26, 2021, an amount of $1,725,000,000 ($10.00 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), and which will be invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (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 the Company, until the earliest of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to the Company’s shareholders, as described below.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward completing a Business Combination. The Company must complete one or more Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the agreement to enter into the initial Business Combination. The Company will only complete a
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