MELI KASZEK PIONEER CORP
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Note 1 — Organization and Business Operations
MELI Kaszek Pioneer Corp. (the “Company”) is a Cayman Islands exempted company structured as a blank check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on May 27, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). The Company is not limited to a particular industry or sector for purposes of consummating a Business Combination. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of October 1, 2021, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from May 27, 2021 (inception) through October 1, 2021 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“IPO”). The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents from the proceeds derived from the IPO. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The Company’s sponsor is MELI Kaszek Pioneer Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), a Cayman Islands limited liability company.
The registration statement for the Company’s IPO was declared effective on September 28, 2021. On October 1, 2021, the Company consummated the IPO of 28,750,000 shares, which includes the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase an additional 3,750,000 shares, at $10.00 per share, generating gross proceeds of $287,500,000. Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated the sale of 975,000 shares (the “Private Placement Shares”), at a price of $10.00 per share, generating aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $9,750,000.
Transaction costs of the IPO amounted to $16,671,096 consisting of $5,750,000 of underwriting discounts and commissions, $10,062,500 of deferred underwriting discounts and commissions, and $858,596 of other offering costs.
Following the closing of the IPO on October 1, 2021, $287,500,000 ($10.00 per share) from the net offering proceeds of the sale of the Shares in the IPO and the sale of the Private Placement Shares was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) and will be invested only in U.S. government securities with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. The Trust Account is intended as a holding place for funds pending the earliest to occur of: (i) the completion of the initial Business Combination; (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the public shares if the Company does not complete the initial Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity; or (iii) absent an initial Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the return of the funds held in the Trust Account to the public shareholders as part of redemption of the public shares.
The Company will provide its public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A ordinary shares upon the completion of the initial Business Combination either (i) in connection with a shareholder meeting called to approve the initial Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a proposed initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in the Company’s discretion. The public shareholders will be entitled to redeem their shares at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its franchise and income taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be approximately $10.00 per public share.
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