NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Global Consumer Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated in the State of Delaware on December 28, 2020. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, entering into contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with 1 or more businesses or entities (“Business Combination”). Although the Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of consummating a Business Combination, the Company intends to focus on businesses in the consumer products and services sectors.
As of September 30, 2021, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from December 28, 2020 (inception) through September 30, 2021 relates to the Company’s formation, the initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”), which is described below, and, subsequent to the Initial Public Offering, identifying a target company for a Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of a Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering.
The registration statement for the Company’s IPO was declared effective on June 8, 2021. On June 11, 2021, the Company consummated its IPO of 17,000,000 Units, at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $170,000,000, which is described in Note 4.
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, pursuant to a certain private placement unit subscription agreement, the Company completed the private sale of 431,510 units (the “Private Placement Units”) to the Sponsor at a purchase price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $4,315,100. In connection with the closing of the purchase of the Over-Allotment Units, the Company sold an additional 22,103 Private Placement Units to the Sponsor at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating an additional $221,025 of gross proceeds. The sales of private placement units generated proceeds with an aggregate amount of $4,536,130 to the Company, which is described in Note 5.
Following the closing of the IPO on June 11, 2021 and the partially exercised over-allotment of 18,263,000 Units by the underwriter on June 16, 2021, an amount of $182,630,000 ($10.00 per unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Public Units in the IPO and the sale of the Private Placement Units of 453,613 units to the Sponsor at a purchase price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $4,536,130, which was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), and will be 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 any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund meeting certain conditions of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to the Company’s stockholders, as described below, except that interest earned on the Trust Account can be released to the Company to pay its tax obligations (“permitted withdrawals”).
Transaction costs amounted to $8,628,545, consisting of $2,282,875 of underwriting fees, $5,935,475 deferred underwriting fee and $410,195 of other offering costs. In addition, as of September 30, 2021, $251,468 of cash was held outside of the Trust Account (as defined below) and is available for working capital purposes.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the IPO and sale of the Private Units, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination. Nasdaq rules provide that the Business Combination must be with 1 or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (as defined below) (less any deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on interest earned and less any interest earned thereon that is released for taxes) at the time of the signing of an agreement to enter into a 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 of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.