A total of five anchor investors purchased 7,440,000 Units in the Initial Public Offering; with one anchor investor purchasing 2,235,000 Units, three anchor investors each purchasing 1,485,000 Units, and one anchor investor purchasing 750,000 Units. The anchor investors have not been granted any shareholder or other rights in addition to those afforded to the Company’s other Public Shareholders, other than a right of first refusal with respect to any private placement in connection with a Business Combination. Further, the anchor investors are not required to (i) hold any Units, Public Shares or Public Warrants they purchased in the Initial Public Offering, or thereafter, for any amount of time, (ii) vote any Public Shares they may own at the applicable time in favor of the Business Combination or (iii) refrain from exercising their right to redeem their Public Shares at the time of the Business Combination. The anchor investors will have the same rights to the funds held in the Trust Account with respect to the Public Shares they purchased in the Initial Public Offering as the rights afforded to the Company’s other Public Shareholders.
Each anchor investor entered into separate anchor commitment letters with the Company and the Previous Sponsor pursuant to which each anchor investor purchased a specified amount of membership interests from the Previous Sponsor upon closing of the Initial Public Offering.
The Previous Sponsor will retain voting and dispositive power over the anchor investors’ portion of the Founder Shares held by the Previous Sponsor until the consummation of the initial Business Combination, following which time the Previous Sponsor will distribute such Founder Shares to the anchor investors (subject to applicable lock-up restrictions). The estimated fair value of the Founder Shares as of the execution of the anchor commitment letters was $5.38 per share, or $2,994,491 in the aggregate, which was $2,159,708 in excess of the amount paid by anchor investors for this interest.
On June 15, 2023, the Company, the Previous Sponsor and New Sponsor entered into an agreement, pursuant to which the Previous Sponsor agreed to sell to the New Sponsor, and the New Sponsor agreed to purchase from Previous Sponsor an aggregate of (i) 2,625,000 Founder Shares and (ii) 2,257,500 Private Placement Warrants held by the Previous Sponsor. The Transfer Transaction was consummated on June 26, 2023. Immediately prior to the closing of the Transfer Transaction, the Previous Sponsor elected to convert an aggregate of 3,749,999 Class B ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis into non-redeemable Class A ordinary shares, leaving one Class B ordinary share outstanding.
The Initial Shareholders agreed that, subject to certain limited exceptions, the Founder Shares (including 3,749,999 non-redeemable Class A ordinary shares and one Class B ordinary shares) will not be transferred, assigned, or sold until the earlier of (A) one year after the completion of a Business Combination or (B) subsequent to a Business Combination, (x) if the last reported sale price of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds (i) $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share dividends, rights issuances, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after a Business Combination or (ii) $18.00 per share (as adjusted for share sub-divisions, share dividends, rights issuances, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 75 days after a Business Combination, or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of the Public Shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property.
Administrative Services Agreement
The Company entered into an agreement, commencing on June 22, 2021, to pay an affiliate of the Previous Sponsor a total of $10,000 per month for administrative, financial and support services. The Company accrued $70,000 in connection with such agreement and upon closing of the Transfer Transaction on June 26, 2023, the Previous Sponsor forgave the balance owed upon consummation of the Transfer Transaction. The forgiveness amount is recorded as additional paid-in capital in the accompanying balance sheets.
On July 25, 2023, the Company entered into a new administrative support agreement with the New Sponsor, pursuant to which the Company agreed to pay the New Sponsor or an affiliate of the New Sponsor a total of $10,000 per month for administrative, financial and support services. Upon the completion of a Business Combination, the Company will cease paying these monthly fees.
The Company incurred $30,000 in connection to such agreements for each of the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company had $90,000 and $60,000 in accounts payable and accrued expenses to related parties owed to the New Sponsor.