Exhibit 4.5
FORM OF PRIVATE WARRANT AGREEMENT
THIS PRIVATE WARRANT AGREEMENT, dated as of [ ], 2021 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), is by and between Andretti Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company, as warrant agent (in such capacity, the “Warrant Agent”).
WHEREAS, on [ ], 2021, the Company entered into that certain Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement with Andretti Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”) and SOL Verano Blocker 1 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a third party institutional accredited investor (the “Sponsor Co-Investor”), pursuant to which the Sponsor and the Sponsor Co-Investor will purchase an aggregate of 12,200,000 warrants (or up to 13,550,000 warrants if the underwriters in the Offering (as defined below) exercise their over-allotment option in full) simultaneously with the closing of the Offering (and the closing of the over-allotment option, if applicable), bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant;
WHEREAS, in order to finance the Company’s transaction costs in connection with an intended initial merger, consolidation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination, involving the Company and one or more businesses (a “Business Combination”), the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan to the Company funds as the Company may require, of which up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into up to an additional 1,500,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant (the “Working Capital Warrants” and, together with the Private Placement Warrants, the “Warrants”);
WHEREAS, the Sponsor may elect to extend the eighteen (18) month window to consummate the Company’s initial business combination from the closing of the Offering (the “Completion Window”) to up to twenty-four (24) months pursuant to the terms of the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. In order to extend the completion window, the Sponsor and the Sponsor Co-Investor must purchase an additional 2,000,000 private placement warrants (or 2,300,000 private placement warrants if the underwriters in the Offering exercise their over-allotment option in full) at a price of $1.00 per warrant for each three (3) month extension of the completion window;
WHEREAS, the Company is engaged in an initial public offering (the “Offering”) of units of the Company’s equity securities, each such unit comprised of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), and one-half of one redeemable warrant (the “Units”) and, in connection therewith, has determined to issue and deliver up to 11,500,000 redeemable warrants (including up to 1,500,000 redeemable warrants subject to the over-allotment option) to public investors in the Offering (the “Public Warrants”);
WHEREAS, the Company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-254627) and a prospectus (the “Prospectus”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the issuance of the Units, the Public Warrants, the Ordinary Shares included in the Units and the Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants;
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange and exercise of the Warrants;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the form and provisions of the Warrants, the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitation of rights and immunities of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the holders of the Warrants; and