UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Defined terms included below shall have the same meaning as terms defined and included elsewhere in this Form 8-K.
Introduction
New Local Bounti is providing the following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information to aid in the analysis of the financial aspects of the Business Combination. The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses.”
Leo is a blank check company incorporated on January 8, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. On March 2, 2021, Leo consummated an initial public offering of 27,500,000 units at an offering price of $10.00 per Unit, including the partial exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase an additional 3,500,000 units at the initial public offering price to cover over- allotments, and a private placement with the Sponsor of 5,333,333 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant. The net proceeds from the initial public offering, together with certain of the proceeds from the private placement completed simultaneously with our initial public offering, were placed in a trust account established for the benefit of the Leo’s public shareholders and the underwriters of the initial public offering. As of September 30, 2021, there was approximately $275.0 million held in the trust account.
Local Bounti is a producer of sustainably grown living lettuce, herbs and loose leaf lettuce. Local Bounti is a CEA company that utilizes patent pending Stack & Flow TechnologyTM, which is a hybrid of vertical farming and hydroponic greenhouse farming, to grow healthy food sustainably and affordably. Through its CEA process, it is Local Bounti’s goal to produce products in an environmentally sustainable manner that will increase harvest efficiency, limit water usage and reduce the carbon footprint of the production and distribution process. The environmental greenhouse conditions help to ensure nutritional value and taste, and the products are non-GMO and pesticide and herbicide free. Local Bounti’s products use 90% less water and 90% less land than conventional agriculture to produce. Local Bounti’s first CEA facility in Hamilton, Montana commenced construction in 2019 and reached full commercial operation by the second half of 2020.
On June 17, 2021, Leo, Merger Sub 1, Merger Sub 2 and Local Bounti entered into the Merger Agreement for the Business Combination, which provides for a total consideration of $650.0 million to Local Bounti’s stockholders, as discussed elsewhere in this Form 8-K. As a part of the Business Combination, Merger Sub 1 will merge with and into Local Bounti. Local Bounti will then merge with and into Merger Sub 2 and Merger Sub 2 will be the surviving corporation in the Business Combination. As a result, Local Bounti will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Leo and will change its name to “Local Bounti Corporation.”
On June 17, 2021, Leo entered into the Subscription Agreements with the PIPE Investors for the PIPE Financing for the purpose of funding a portion of the Business Combination and the costs and expenses incurred therein. Pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, New Local Bounti agreed to issue and sell to the PIPE Investors 12,500,000 shares of New Local Bounti common stock at a price of $10.00 per share for an aggregate gross purchase price of $125.0 million.
On November 4, 2021, the Subscription Agreements with the PIPE Investors for the PIPE Financing increased by 2.5 million shares, from 12.5 million to 15.0 million shares for a total aggregate gross purchase price of $150.0 million.
The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2021 assumes
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