Organization and Business Operations | Note 1 — Organization and Business Operations FTAC Zeus Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on December 11, 2020. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). 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. All activity for the period from December 11, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020 was de minimis and related only to the Company’s formation. All activity for the period from January 1, 2021 (commencement of operations) through December 31, 2021 relates to the Company’s formation and the Initial Public Offering (as defined below). The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company generates non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering placed in the Trust Account (as defined below). The registration statements for the Company’s Initial Public Offering were declared effective on November 18, 2021. On November 23, 2021, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 40,250,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the shares of Class A common stock included in the Units sold, the “Public Shares”), which includes the full exercise by the underwriter of its over-allotment option in the amount of 5,250,000 Units, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $402,500,000, which is described in Note 3. Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 1,778,750 units (each, a “Private Placement Unit”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit in a private placement to FTAC Zeus Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together with FTAC Zeus Advisors, LLC, the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $17,787,500, which is described in Note 4. Transaction costs amounted to $24,712,590, consisting of $7,000,000 of underwriting fees, $17,150,000 of deferred underwriting fees, $6,860,000 of deferred advisory fees, $3,362,590 of other offering costs which were offset by $9,660,000 reimbursement for the financial advisory fee (see note 6). In addition, cash of $4,775,000 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 Initial Public Offering on November 23, 2021, an amount of $408,537,500 ($10.15 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), and was 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 money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to the Company’s stockholders, as described below. In accordance with the rules of Nasdaq, the initial Business Combination must occur with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (less any deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on interest earned) at the time the Company signs a definitive agreement for the initial Business Combination. The Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination. Except for interest income released to the Company for the payment of taxes or dissolution expenses, none of the funds held in the Trust Account will be released, subject to the requirements of law, until the earlier of (i) the consummation of the initial Business Combination; (ii) the redemption of the Public Shares if the Company is unable to consummate a Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or 21 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering if the Company has executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement for the Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering but has not completed the Business Combination within such 18-month period to complete a Business Combination (the “Completion Window”) subject to applicable law; or (iii) the redemption of any Public Shares properly tendered in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if the Company does not complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window; or (iv) otherwise upon the liquidation or if the board of directors resolves to liquidate the Trust Account and ceases to pursue the consummation of a Business Combination prior to the expiration of the Completion Window (the board of directors may determine to liquidate the Trust Account prior to such expiration if it determines, in its business judgment, that it is improbable within the remaining time to identify an attractive Business Combination or satisfy regulatory and other business and legal requirements to consummate a Business Combination). The proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of the Company’s creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of the public stockholders. The Company will provide the public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares upon the completion of the initial Business Combination either in connection with a stockholder meeting called to approve the Business Combination or by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of an Initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would require the Company to seek stockholder approval under the law or stock exchange listing requirement. The Company’s public stockholders are entitled to redeem their Public Shares at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares. The amount in the Trust Account initially will be $10.15 per Public Share. The shares of common stock subject to redemption are recorded at redemption value and classified as temporary equity in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” The Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company’s Class A common stock is not a “penny stock” upon consummation of a Business Combination and, if the Company seeks stockholder approval, a majority of the issued and outstanding shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. The Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Company will have the Completion Window to consummate the initial Business Combination. If the Company has not consummated a Business Combination within the Completion Window, the Company will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem all Public Shares then outstanding at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its taxes (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining stockholders and the board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to the Company’s obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. The initial stockholders, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they have agreed: (1) to waive their redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares (as described in Note 5), placement shares and Public Shares held by them, as applicable, in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination; (2) to waive their redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares, placement shares and Public Shares held by them in connection with a stockholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to provide for the redemption of the Public Shares in connection with an initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if the Company has not consummated the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity; and (3) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Founder Shares or placement shares they hold if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window (although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Public Shares they hold if the Company fails to complete the initial Business Combination within the Completion Window). If the Company submits the initial Business Combination to the public stockholders for a vote, the initial stockholders, officers and directors have agreed to vote any Founder Shares, any placement shares and any Public Shares held by them in favor of the initial Business Combination. |