Exhibit 5.1
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June 16, 2023
Board of Directors
Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp III
1 Little West 12th Street — 4th Floor
New York, New York 10014
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel to Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. III, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“FWAC”, and after its redomestication and corporate conversion into a Maryland corporation as described herein, the “Company”), in connection with the registration statement on Form S-4 (SEC File No. 333-269231 as may be amended from time to time, the “Registration Statement”), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 17, 2023 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) relating to the proposed offering of up to 30,954,657 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), 2,862 shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and 39,811 shares of the Company’s Series 1 Preferred Stock, $0.01 par value per Share (the “Series 1 Preferred Stock,” and, collectively with the Common Stock and the Series A Preferred Stock, the “Shares”). The Shares will be issued pursuant to the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 13, 2022, as amended by the First Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 23, 2023 (collectively, the “Merger Agreement”) by and among FWAC, Queen Merger Corp. I, a Maryland corporation, and Mobile Infrastructure Corporation, a Maryland corporation. The Merger Agreement contemplates that FWAC will convert into a Maryland corporation pursuant to a redomestication under Cayman Islands law, which will be effected in Maryland as a corporation conversion (the “Conversion”) through the filing of Articles of Conversion in accordance with Title 3, Subtitle 9 of the Maryland General Corporation Law (“MGCL”). This opinion letter is furnished to you at your request to enable you to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. §229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement.
In connection with the Conversion, FWAC will change its jurisdiction of incorporation by effecting a deregistration under Article 206 of the Cayman Islands Companies Act (As Revised) and a conversion under Article 3, Subtitle 9 of the MGCL by filing articles of conversion simultaneously with articles of incorporation, in each case in respect of the Company, with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation(the “MSDAT”). The Conversion is subject to the approval of FWAC’s shareholders. As a result of and upon the effective time of the Conversion, among other things, all of the then issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares of FWAC (“FWAC Class A Shares”) and Class B ordinary shares of FWAC (“FWAC Class B Shares”) will convert automatically into shares of Common Stock of the Company.