PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED October 22, 2021
$300,000,000
SEMPER PARATUS ACQUISITION CORPORATION
30,000,000 units
Semper Paratus Acquisition Corporation is a newly organized, special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our initial business combination. To date, our efforts have been limited to organizational activities as well as activities related to this offering. We have generated no operating revenues to date and we do not expect that we will generate operating revenues until we consummate our initial business combination. We have not identified any potential business combination target, and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any potential business combination target.
This is an initial public offering of our securities. Each unit has an offering price of $10.00 and consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, terms and limitations as described herein. The underwriters have a 45-day option from the date of this prospectus to purchase up to 4,500,000 additional units to cover over-allotments, if any.
We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Class A ordinary shares upon the completion of our initial business combination, subject to the limitations as described herein. If we have not consummated an initial business combination within 15 months from the closing of this offering or during any Extension Period (as defined herein), we will redeem 100% of the public shares for cash, subject to applicable law and certain conditions as described herein.
Our sponsor, Semper Paratus Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., the representative of the underwriters, which we refer to as Cantor, have agreed to purchase 1,360,000 placement units (or 1,450,000 placement units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full), at a price of $10.00 per unit, in a private placement to occur concurrently with the closing of this offering. Of those 1,360,000 placement units, our sponsor has agreed to purchase 1,210,000 placement units (or 1,300,000 placement units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full), and Cantor has agreed to purchase 150,000 (regardless of whether the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full). Each placement unit will be identical to the units sold in this offering, except as described in this prospectus. We refer to these units as the placement units throughout this prospectus. Our initial shareholders currently own 11,983,333 Class B ordinary shares, up to 1,530,000 of which are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised. The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holders thereof as described herein. Prior to our initial business combination, only holders of our Class B ordinary shares will be entitled to vote on the election of directors.
Assuming only the minimum number of shares representing a quorum are voted (20,906,668 shares or 50.1% of our issued and outstanding shares), and assuming the over-allotment option is not exercised, no affirmative votes from other public shareholders would be required to approve our initial business combination because our initial shareholders will own 11,663,333 shares in the aggregate (including 10,453,333 founder shares and 1,210,000 placement shares), which number exceeds the 10,453,335 votes (representing a majority of the 20,906,668 shares present and voting) needed to approve the initial business combination.
Upon consummation of this offering, and assuming the over-allotment option is not exercised, our initial shareholders and Cantor will own an aggregate of 11,813,333 shares, or 28.3% of our issued and outstanding shares, including 10,453,333 founder shares and 1,210,000 placement shares held by our initial shareholders and 150,000 placement shares held by Cantor.
Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our securities. We intend to apply to have our units listed on the Nasdaq Global Market, or the Nasdaq, under the symbol “LGSTU.” We expect that the Class A ordinary shares and warrants comprising the units will begin separate trading on the Nasdaq under the symbols “LGST” and “LGSTW” respectively, on the 52nd day following the date of this prospectus (or, if such date is not a business day, the following business day) unless the underwriters permit earlier separate trading and we have satisfied certain conditions.
We are an “emerging growth company” and “smaller reporting company” under applicable federal securities laws and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 37 for a discussion of information that should be considered in connection with an investment in our securities. Investors will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors in Rule 419 blank check offerings. Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
No offer or invitation, whether directly or indirectly, may be made to the public in the Cayman Islands to subscribe for our securities.
| | | Per Unit | | | Total | |
Public offering price. | | | | $ | 10.00 | | | | | $ | 300,000,000 | | |
Underwriting discounts and commissions(1) | | | | $ | 0.60 | | | | | $ | 18,000,000 | | |
Proceeds, before expenses, to us | | | | $ | 9.40 | | | | | $ | 282,000,000 | | |
(1)
$0.20 per unit sold in the base offering, or $6,000,000 in the aggregate, is payable upon the closing of this offering. Includes $0.40 per unit sold in the base offering, or $12,000,000 in the aggregate (or up to $14,700,000 in the aggregate if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), payable to Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. for deferred underwriting commissions to be placed in a trust account located in the United States as described herein and released to Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. for its own account only upon the consummation of an initial business combination. See also “Underwriting” for a description of compensation and other items of value payable to the underwriters.
Of the proceeds we receive from this offering and the sale of the placement units described in this prospectus, $306,000,000, or $351,900,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full ($10.20 per unit in either case), will be deposited into a U.S.-based trust account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, and $1,600,000 will be available to pay fees and expenses in connection with the closing of this offering and for working capital following the closing of this offering.
The underwriters are offering the units for sale on a firm commitment basis. The underwriters expect to deliver the units to the purchasers on or about [ ], 2021.
Book-Running Manager
Cantor
The date of this prospectus is [•], 2021
We are responsible for the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus, and neither we nor the underwriters take any responsibility for, or can provide assurance as to the reliability of, any other information others may give to you. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer to sell securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should not assume that the information contained in this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front of this prospectus.