PART II—OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. In addition to the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report on Form 10–Q, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form
10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on April 20, 2022, which could materially affect our business, financial condition, or future results.
Changes in laws or regulations, or a failure to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination, and results of operations.
We are subject to laws and regulations enacted by national, regional and local governments. In particular, we are required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements. Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws and regulations may be difficult, time consuming and costly. Those laws and regulations and their interpretation and application may also change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, investments and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete the Business Combination, and our results of operations.
On March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules that would, among other items, impose additional disclosure requirements in business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies; amend the financial statement requirements applicable to business combination transactions involving such companies; update and expand guidance regarding the general use of projections in SEC filings, as well as when projections are disclosed in connection with proposed business combination transactions; increase the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions; and impact the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940. These rules, if adopted, whether in the form proposed or in revised form, or changes in market practice by market participants in response to the proposed rules, may materially adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination and may increase the costs and time related thereto.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities
On March 23, 2021, we consummated our IPO of 25,000,000 Units. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share, and one-third of one redeemable warrant to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per whole share. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. acted as representatives of the Underwriters. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $250.0 million. We granted the Underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 3,750,000 units at the IPO price to cover over-allotments, if any. On March 31, 2021, the Underwriters partially exercised the over-allotment option and purchased an additional 2,128,532 Units generating gross proceeds of $21.3 million. On March 31, 2021, our Sponsor surrendered 532,132 Class B ordinary shares for cancellation in connection with the partial exercise of the over- allotment option. The securities in the offering were registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-253105). The Securities and Exchange Commission declared the registration statement effective on March 18, 2021.
Upon further evaluation, management determined that, due to a clerical error in the calculation of the number of Class B ordinary shares to be surrendered to us in connection with the partial exercise of the over-allotment option, the Sponsor inadvertently surrendered 126,765 Class B ordinary shares more than the 405,367 Class B ordinary shares that were required to have been forfeited by it in connection with the partial exercise of the over-allotment option (the “Clerical Error”). Accordingly, on September 16, 2021, we issued 126,765 Class B ordinary shares to the Sponsor, for no consideration, to correct the Clerical Error, such that the total number of Class B ordinary shares forfeited by the Sponsor, after giving effect to the correction of the Clerical Error, was 405,367 Class B ordinary shares.
Substantially concurrently with the closing of the IPO, we completed the private sale of 4,666,667 Private Placement Warrants, at a purchase price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant, to our Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $7.0 million. In connection with the Underwriters’ partial exercise of their over-allotment option, our Sponsor purchased an additional 283,804 Private Placement Warrants, generating gross proceeds of approximately
$0.4 million.
In connection with the IPO and the over-allotment, we incurred offering costs of $15,622,172, inclusive of approximately $9.5 million in deferred underwriting commissions. Other incurred offering costs consisted principally of preparation fees related to the IPO. After deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions (excluding the deferred portion, which amount will be payable upon consummation of the initial Business Combination, if consummated) and the IPO expenses, approximately $271.3 million of the net proceeds from our IPO, the over-allotment and certain of the proceeds from the private placement of the Private Placement Warrants (or $10.00 per Unit sold in the IPO) were placed in the Trust Account. See Note 1 to the unaudited condensed financial statements for additional detail.
We have agreed to pay the Underwriters up to an additional $9.5 million on account of certain deferred underwriting fees in connection with the initial Business Combination; provided, however, that the Underwriters will not be paid such additional fees if we do not complete the initial Business Combination.
There has been no material change in the planned use of the proceeds from the IPO and Private Placement as is described in our final prospectus related to the IPO.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 5. Other Information