Deferred Legal Fees
The Company engaged a legal counsel firm for legal advisory services, and the legal counsel agreed to defer a portion of their fees (“Deferred Legal Fees”). The deferred fee will become payable solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company had Deferred Legal Fees of approximately $1,250,000 and $1,054,000 in connection with such services, respectively. The Company will recognize an expense for these services when the performance trigger is considered probable.
Note 6 — Shareholders’ Deficit
Preference Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 preference shares, par value $0.0001 per share, with such designations, voting, and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s board of directors. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there were no preference shares issued or outstanding.
Class A Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 300,000,000 Class A ordinary shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there were 14,637,766 and 23,000,000 shares of Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption issued and outstanding, respectively, and were classified outside of permanent equity on the condensed balance sheets.
On January 25, 2024, the Company issued an aggregate of 7,666,666 shares of Class A ordinary shares, upon conversion of an equal number of shares of Class B ordinary shares. The 7,666,666 shares of Class A ordinary shares issued in connection with the Conversion are subject to the same restrictions as applied to the shares of Class B ordinary shares before the conversion, including, among others, certain transfer restrictions, waiver of redemption rights and the obligation to vote in favor of an initial business combination as described in the prospectus for the Company’s initial public offering. After giving effect to the Founder Share Conversion, the total number of shares of Class A ordinary shares that are issued and outstanding consists of 22,304,432 Class A ordinary shares (consisting of 14,637,766 publicly-held Class A ordinary shares, 7,546,666 Converted Class A shares held by Spring Valley Acquisition Sponsor II, LLC, and 120,000 Converted Class A shares not subject to redemption held by the registrant’s independent directors).
Class B Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 30,000,000 Class B ordinary shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share.
Holders of the Class A ordinary shares and holders of the Class B ordinary shares will vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s shareholders, except as required by law or stock exchange rule; provided that only holders of the Class B ordinary shares shall have the right to vote on the election of the Company’s directors prior to the initial Business Combination.
As described in Note 1, the Sponsor voluntarily elected to convert 7,546,666 of its Class B ordinary shares to Class A ordinary shares, and the independent directors of the Company voluntarily elected to convert an aggregate of 120,000 Class B ordinary shares to Class A ordinary shares, in each case, on a one-for-one basis. The Sponsor and the independent directors waived any right to receive funds from the Trust Account established by the Company in connection with its Initial Public Offering that was consummated on October 17, 2022, with respect to any Converted Class A shares, and no additional funds were deposited into the Trust Account in respect of any such Converted Class A shares. The Converted Class A Shares will remain subject to the existing transfer restrictions on the Class B ordinary shares following such conversions.
As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there was 1 and 7,666,667 Class B ordinary shares issued and outstanding, respectively.
Rights — As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there were 2,300,000 Rights outstanding. Each holder of a whole Right will receive one-tenth of one Class A ordinary share upon consummation of the initial Business Combination. In the event the Company will not be the survivor upon completion of the initial Business Combination, each holder of a Right will be required to affirmatively convert his, her or its Rights in order to receive the one share underlying each Right (without paying any additional