AltEnergy Acquisition (AEAE) 10-K/A 2022 FY Annual report (amended)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM

10-K/A

(Amendment No. 2)

(Mark One)

☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022

OR

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period fromto

Commission File Number:

001-40984

ALTENERGY ACQUISITION CORP.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware	84-2157013
(State or Other Jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization	Identification No.)

600 Lexington Avenue 9th Floor New York, New York	10022
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	(Zip Code)

(203)

299-1400

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Units, each consisting of one share of Class A common stock and one-half of one redeemable warrant	AEAEU	The Nasdaq Global Market
Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share	AEAE	The Nasdaq Global Market
Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of Class A common stock, each at an exercise price of $11.50 per share	AEAEW	The Nasdaq Global Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.    Yes  ☐    

N

o  

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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    Yes  ☐    No  ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation

S-T

(Section 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation

S-K

(Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form

10-K

or any amendment to this Form

10-K.  ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a

non-accelerated

filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule

12b-2

of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
Emerging growth company	☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the Registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant

to §240.10D-1(b).  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule

12b-2

of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

The aggregate market value of the Registrant’s Common Stock outstanding, other than shares held by persons who may be deemed affiliates of the Registrant, at March 31, 2023, computed by reference to the closing price of the common stock reported on The Nasdaq Global Market on such date, was $238,740,000.00.

As of March 31, 2023, 23,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, and 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value, were issued and outstanding.

Documents Incorporated by Reference: None.

Audit Firm ID	Auditor Name	Auditor Location
688	Marcum LLP	New York, New York

Table of Contents

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PART II
Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures (Restated)		1
PART IV
Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules		3

EXPLANATORY NOTE

10K/A Amendment No. 1. Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 23, 2023 (the “Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 1”) amended and restated certain items noted below in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of AltEnergy Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2023 (the “Original Filing”).

The Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 1 amended the Original Filing to include restated financial statements for the 2022 fiscal year. For the convenience of the reader, the Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 1 set forth the Original Filing, as amended, in its entirety; however, the Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 1 amended and restated only the following financial statements and disclosures that were impacted from the correction of the error:

• Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

• Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

• Item 9A.

• Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

In addition, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer provided new certifications dated as of the date of the filing of the Form 10K/A Amendment No. 1 in connection with the Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 1.

Except as described above, no other changes were made to the Original Filing pursuant to the Form 10K/A Amendment No. 1. The Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 1 spoke as of the date of the Original Filing and did not reflect events that may have occurred after the date of the Original Filing or modify or update any disclosures that may have been affected by subsequent events.

10K/A Amendment No. 2. This Amendment No. 2 on Form 10-K/A (this “Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 2”) amends and restates Item 9A in the Original Filing as amended in the Form 10K/A Amendment No. 1.

In addition, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have provided new certifications dated as of the date of this filing in connection with the Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 2.

Except as described above, no other changes have been made to the Original Filing or the Form 10K/A Amendment No. 1 pursuant to this Form 10K/A Amendment No. 2. This Form 10-K/A Amendment No. 2 speaks as of the date of the Original Filing and does not reflect events that may have occurred after the date of the Original Filing or modify or update any disclosures that may have been affected by subsequent events.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), such as this annual report, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer (our “Certifying Officers”) evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2022, pursuant to Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on this evaluation, the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that certain disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2022 due to material weaknesses that existed related our accounting for complex financial instruments and our accounting and reporting for the completeness and accuracy of warrant liabilities and the corresponding change in the fair value of the warrant liability, that led to the restatement of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. In addition to the remediation steps discussed below, the Company has added additional steps to its internal financial review process in order to provide reasonable assurance that a reoccurrence of a material misstatement of any item in our financial statements will not occur.

A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented, or detected and corrected on a timely basis.

Effective disclosure controls and internal control are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and prevent fraud. We continue to evaluate steps to remediate the material weaknesses. These remediation measures may be time consuming and costly and there is no assurance that these initiatives will ultimately have the intended effects.

Management has implemented remediation steps to improve our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting. Specifically, we expanded and improved our review process for complex securities and related accounting standards. We plan to further improve this process by enhancing access to accounting literature, identification of third-party professionals with whom to consult regarding complex accounting applications and consideration of additional staff with the requisite experience and training to supplement existing accounting professionals.

If we identify any new material weakness in the future, any such newly identified material weakness could limit our ability to prevent or detect a misstatement of our accounts or disclosures that could result in a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements. In such case, we may be unable to maintain compliance with securities law requirements regarding timely filing of periodic reports in addition to applicable stock exchange listing requirements, investors may lose confidence in our financial reporting and our stock price may decline as a result. We cannot assure you that the measures we have taken to date, or any measures we may take in the future, will be sufficient to avoid potential future material weaknesses.

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We do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.

Management’s Report on Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations and may not prevent or detect misstatements. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can only provide reasonable assurance with respect to financial reporting reliability and financial statement preparation and presentation. In addition, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to risk that controls become inadequate because of changes in conditions and that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on the criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on the results of its evaluation, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2022, due to the material weaknesses noted above.

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Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.

(c) Exhibits: The exhibits listed in the Exhibit Index below are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Exhibit Index

Exhibit Number	Description
31.1	Certification of the Chief Executive Officer required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a).
31.2	Certification of the Chief Financial Officer required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a).

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on the 25th day of July, 2023.

AltEnergy Acquisition Corp.
By:	/s/ Russell Stidolph
Name:	Russell Stidolph
Title:	Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Name	Position	Date
/s/ Russell Stidolph Russell Stidolph	Chief Executive Officer (Principal executive officer) and Director	July 25, 2023
/s/ Jonathan Darnell Jonathan Darnell	Chief Financial Officer (Principal financial and accounting officer)	July 25, 2023
/s/ William Campbell William Campbell	Director	July 25, 2023
Kimberly Heimert	Director	July 25, 2023
/s/ Michael Salvator Michael Salvator	Director	July 25, 2023
/s/ Daniel Shribman Daniel Shribman	Director	July 25, 2023

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