Exhibit 4.1
WARRANT AGREEMENT
This WARRANT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of October 26, 2021 between OPY Acquisition Corp. I, a Delaware corporation, with offices at 85 Broad Street, New York, New York, 10004 (“Company”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company, with offices at 1 State Street, New York, New York 10004, as warrant agent (“Warrant Agent”).
WHEREAS, the Company is engaged in a public offering (“Public Offering”) of up to 12,650,000 units (including 1,650,000 units which may be issued pursuant to an overallotment option granted to the underwriters of the Public Offering), each unit (the “Public Units”) comprised of one share of the common stock, par value $.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), and one-half of one warrant, where each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as described herein, and, in connection therewith, will issue and deliver up to 6,325,000 warrants (the “Public Warrants”) to the public investors in connection with the Public Offering; and
WHEREAS, in lieu of cash compensation, the Company has agreed to compensate the underwriter in the Public Offering with up to 1,686,667 warrants (the “Underwriter Warrants”);
WHEREAS, the Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-1, No. 333-260171 and a Registration on form S-1MEF, No. 333- 260517 (“Registration Statement”) and prospectus (“Prospectus”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Act”) of, among other securities, the Public Warrants and the Underwriter Warrants; and
WHEREAS, the Company has received binding commitments (“Subscription Agreements”) from the Company’s sponsor, OPY Acquisition LLC I to purchase, simultaneously with the closing of the Public Offering, 2,100,667 (or up to 2,210,667 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full) warrants (the “Private Warrants”), each exercisable to purchase one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share, bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit B hereto; and
WHEREAS, the Company may issue up to an additional 1,333,333 warrants (the “Working Capital Warrants”) at a price of $1.50 per Working Capital Warrant, in satisfaction of certain working capital loans made by the Company’s officers, directors, initial stockholders and their affiliates; and
WHEREAS, following consummation of the Public Offering, the Company may issue additional warrants (“Post IPO Warrants” and together with the Public Warrants, Underwriter Warrants, Private Warrants, and Working Capital Warrants, the “Warrants”) in connection with, or following the consummation by the Company of, a Business Combination (defined below); and
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, redemption, and exercise of the Warrants; and
WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the form and provisions of the Warrants, the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitation of rights, and immunities of the Company, the Warrant Agent, and the holders of the Warrants; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things have been done and performed which are necessary to make the Warrants, when executed on behalf of the Company and countersigned by or on behalf of the Warrant Agent, as provided herein, the valid, binding, and legal obligations of the Company, and to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
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