PRELIMINARY — SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED NOVEMBER 9, 2021
PROXY STATEMENT FOR EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF
Artisan Acquisition Corp.
and
PROSPECTUS FOR UP TO 127,530,989 CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES, 11,311,390 WARRANTS AND
11,311,390 CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
OF
Prenetics Global Limited
The board of directors of Artisan Acquisition Corp., an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Artisan”), has unanimously approved the Business Combination Agreement, dated September 15, 2021 (as may be amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among Artisan, Prenetics Global Limited, an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“PubCo”), AAC Merger Limited, an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (“Artisan Merger Sub”), PGL Merger Limited, an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (“Prenetics Merger Sub”) and Prenetics Group Limited, an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Prenetics”), pursuant to which (i) Artisan shall merge with and into Artisan Merger Sub, with Artisan Merger Sub being the surviving entity and remaining as a wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (the “Initial Merger”) and (ii) following the Initial Merger, Prenetics Merger Sub shall merge with and into Prenetics, with Prenetics being the surviving entity and becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo (the “Acquisition Merger”, and collectively with the Initial Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the “Business Combination”). The Business Combination Agreement is attached to this proxy statement/prospectus as Annex A. At the consummation of the Business Combination, PubCo’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Amended PubCo Articles”) shall be substantially in the form attached to this proxy statement/prospectus as Annex B.
Artisan shareholders are being asked to consider a vote upon the Business Combination and certain proposals related thereto as described in this proxy statement/prospectus. As a result of, and upon consummation of, the Business Combination, each of Artisan Merger Sub and Prenetics shall be a wholly-owned subsidiary of PubCo, and PubCo shall become a new public company owned by the prior shareholders of Artisan, the prior shareholders of Prenetics, the Forward Purchase Investors and certain third-party investors (the “PIPE Investors”). PubCo has applied for listing, to be effective upon the consummation of the Initial Merger, of its Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares”) and warrants to purchase PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares (“PubCo Warrants”) on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) under the symbols “PRE” and “PREW,” respectively.
PubCo is a Cayman Islands holding company with operations primarily conducted through its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India and South Africa. Accordingly, following the consummation of the Business Combination, Artisan shareholders who do not elect to have their Artisan Public Shares (as defined below) redeemed for cash, the Prenetics shareholders, the Forward Purchase Investors (as defined below) and the PIPE Investors (as defined below) will be holding equity interest in a Cayman Islands holding company and not equity interest in our operating entities.
Recently, the Chinese government announced that it would increase supervision of mainland Chinese firms listed offshore. Under the new measures, China will improve regulation of cross-border data flows and security, police illegal activity in the securities market and punish fraudulent securities issuances, market manipulation and insider trading. China will also monitor sources of funding for securities investment and control leverage ratios. The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) has also opened a cybersecurity probe into several large U.S.-listed technology companies focusing on anti-monopoly and financial technology regulation and, more recently with the passage of the Data Security Law, how companies collect, store, process and transfer data.
Prenetics currently does not have any business operations in mainland China and does not generate revenues from any business in mainland China. Prenetics controls a PRC domestic entity (the ‘‘VIE Entity’’) through contractual arrangements, and the VIE Entity’s sole asset consists of 45% of the equity interests in a genomics business in mainland China (the “China Investment”). Prenetics has also commenced discussions with the other partners in the China Investment for the Company to dispose of its interest in or wind down the China Investment, and subsequently terminate the agreements governing the VIE Entity. Accordingly, the laws and regulations of the PRC applicable in mainland China do not currently have any material impact on Prenetics’s business, financial condition or results of operations. However, because of Prenetics’s substantial operations in Hong Kong and given the Chinese government’s significant oversight authority over the conduct of business in Hong Kong, there is always a risk that the Chinese government may, in the future, seek to affect operations of any company with any level of operations in mainland China or Hong Kong, including its ability to offer securities to investors, list its securities on a U.S. or other foreign exchange, conduct its business or accept foreign investment. In light of the PRC government’s recent expansion of authority in Hong Kong, there are risks and uncertainties which Prenetics cannot foresee for the time being, and rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little or no advance notice. The PRC government may intervene or influence our current and future operations in Hong Kong and mainland China at any time, or may exert more control over offerings conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in issuers likes Prenetics. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in Hong Kong”.
Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, upon the consummation of the Initial Merger: (i) each of Artisan’s units (“Units”) (each consisting of one Artisan Public Share and one-third of one Artisan Public Warrant) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Initial Merger (the “Initial Merger Effective Time”) shall be automatically separated and the holder thereof shall be deemed to hold one Artisan Public Share and one-third of an Artisan Public Warrant; provided, that, no fractional Artisan Public Warrants shall be issued in connection with such separation such that if a holder of such Units would be entitled to receive a fractional Artisan Public Warrant upon such separation, the number of Artisan Public Warrants to be issued to such holder upon such separation will be rounded down to the nearest whole number of Artisan Public Warrants and no cash will be paid in lieu of such fractional Artisan Public Warrants; (ii) immediately following the separation of each Unit, each Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, of Artisan (“Artisan Public Shares”) and each Class B ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, of Artisan (“Founder Shares” collectively with Artisan Public Shares, “Artisan Shares”) (excluding Artisan Public Shares that are held by Artisan shareholders that validly exercise their redemption rights, Artisan Shares that are held by Artisan shareholders that exercise and perfect their relevant dissenters’ rights and Artisan treasury shares) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Initial Merger Effective Time shall be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive one newly issued PubCo Class A Ordinary Share; and (iii) each whole warrant of Artisan outstanding immediately prior to the Initial Merger Effective Time shall cease to be a warrant with respect to Artisan Public Shares and be assumed by PubCo and converted into a warrant to purchase one PubCo Class A Ordinary Share, subject to substantially the same terms and conditions prior to the Initial Merger Effective Time.
In addition, pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, upon the consummation of the Acquisition Merger: (i) each ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share of Prenetics (“Prenetics Ordinary Shares”) and each preferred share, par value $0.0001 per share of Prenetics (“Prenetics Preferred Shares” and collectively with Prenetics Ordinary Shares, “Prenetics Shares”) (excluding Prenetics Shares that are held by Prenetics shareholders that exercise and perfect their relevant dissenters’ rights, Prenetics Shares held by Danny Yeung (“Prenetics Key Executive Shares”) and Prenetics treasury shares) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition Merger (the “Acquisition Effective Time”) shall be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive such fraction of a newly issued PubCo Class A Ordinary Share that is equal to the Exchange Ratio (defined below), without interest, subject to rounding up to the nearest whole PubCo Class A Ordinary Share with respect to the total number of PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares to be received by each Prenetics shareholder ; and (ii) each of the Prenetics Key Executive Shares issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Time shall be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive such fraction of a newly issued convertible Class B ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share of Pubco (“PubCo Class B Ordinary Shares” and collectively with PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares, “PubCo Ordinary Shares”) that is equal to the Exchange Ratio without interest, subject to rounding up to the nearest whole PubCo Class B Ordinary Share with respect to the total number of PubCo Class B Ordinary Shares to be received by Danny Yeung. The newly issued PubCo Class B Ordinary Shares will have the same economic terms as the newly issued PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares, but each PubCo Class B Ordinary Share will, among other rights, be entitled to twenty (20) votes per share compared with one (1) vote per share for PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares with all PubCo Ordinary Shares voting together as a single class on most matters. See “Description of PubCo Securities.” Mr. Yeung will beneficially own all of the issued PubCo Class B Ordinary Shares immediately following the consummation of the Business Combination.
Substantially concurrently with the execution and delivery of the Business Combination Agreement, Artisan’s Forward Purchase Agreements dated March 1, 2021 were amended by the Deeds of Novation and Amendment as of September 15, 2021, and pursuant to such Deeds of Novation and Amendment, (i) Aspex Master Fund, an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, has agreed to purchase 3,000,000 PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares and 750,000 PubCo Warrants for an aggregate price equal to $30,000,000 immediately prior to the Acquisition Effective Time and (ii) Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P., an exempted limited partnership formed under the laws of the Cayman Islands (together with Aspex Master Fund, the “Forward Purchase Investors”) has agreed to purchase 3,000,000 PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares and 750,000 PubCo Warrants for an aggregate price equal to $30,000,000 immediately prior to the Acquisition Effective Time.
Upon the consummation of the Business Combination, PubCo will become a “controlled company” as defined under the NASDAQ Rules, because it is expected that Mr. Yeung will beneficially own approximately 60.67% of the total voting power of all issued and outstanding PubCo Ordinary Shares immediately following the consummation of the Business Combination, assuming that (i) no shareholders of Artisan elect to have their Artisan Public Shares redeemed for cash in connection with the Business Combination as permitted by Artisan’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “No Redemption Scenario”); (ii) no Artisan shareholder exercises its dissenters’ rights; (iii) no Prenetics shareholder exercise its dissenters’ rights; and (iv) no shares underlying Prenetics’s outstanding restricted share units will be issued upon consummation of the Business Combination. Under these assumptions, holders of Artisan Public Shares, Prenetics shareholders (excluding Mr. Yeung), the Forward Purchase Investors, the PIPE Investors, Sponsor and certain Artisan directors and Mr. Yeung will beneficially own 24.57%, 52.35%, 4.89%, 4.34%, 6.69% and 7.16%, respectively, of the total economic interest in PubCo, and will hold 10.41%, 22.18%, 2.07%, 1.84%, 2.83% and 60.67%, respectively, of the total voting power of all issued and outstanding PubCo Ordinary Shares, in each case immediately following the consummation of the Business Combination. If the actual facts differ from these assumptions set forth above, these percentages will be different.
The sum of all PubCo Class A Ordinary Shares receivable by Artisan shareholders at the Initial Closing is referred to as “Initial Merger Consideration.” The sum of all the PubCo Ordinary Shares and other securities receivable by Prenetics shareholders at Closing is referred to as “Acquisition Merger Consideration.” The Initial Merger Consideration and the Acquisition Merger Consideration are collectively referred to as the “Shareholder Merger Consideration.” Assuming: (i) the No Redemption Scenario; (ii) no Artisan shareholder exercises its dissenters’ rights; (iii) no Prenetics shareholder exercise its dissenters’ rights; and (iv) no shares underlying Prenetics’s outstanding restricted share units will be issued upon consummation of the Business Combination, the Initial Merger Consideration, the Acquisition Merger Consideration and the Shareholder Merger Consideration consist of 43,917,793, 82,192,158 and 126,109,951 PubCo Ordinary Shares, respectively, or $ , $ and $ , respectively, based upon a closing price of $ per Artisan Public Share on NASDAQ on the assumed Closing Date. If the actual facts differ from these assumptions set forth above, these figures will be different.
Proposals to approve the Business Combination Agreement and the other matters discussed in this proxy statement/prospectus shall be presented at the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Artisan scheduled to be held on , 2021.
This proxy statement/prospectus provides you with detailed information about the Business Combination and other matters to be considered at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Artisan shareholders. We encourage you to carefully read this entire document. You should, in particular, carefully consider the risk factors described in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 52 of this proxy statement/
prospectus. The board of directors of Artisan (the “Artisan Board”) has unanimously approved and adopted the Business Combination Agreement and unanimously recommends that the Artisan shareholders vote FOR all of the proposals presented to the shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting. When you consider the Artisan Board’s recommendation of these proposals, you should keep in mind that Artisan’s directors and officer have interests in the Business Combination that may conflict with your interests as a shareholder. See “The Business Combination Proposal — Interests of Artisan’s Directors and Officer in the Business Combination.”
This proxy statement/prospectus is dated , 2021 and is first being mailed to Artisan shareholders on or about , 2021.
NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES REGULATORY AGENCY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THE TRANSACTIONS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS OR ANY OF THE SECURITIES TO BE ISSUED IN THE BUSINESS COMBINATION, PASSED UPON THE MERITS OR FAIRNESS OF THE BUSINESS COMBINATION OR RELATED TRANSACTIONS OR PASSED UPON THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE DISCLOSURE IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY CONSTITUTES A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.