LIBERTY RESOURCES ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 — Description of Organization and Business Operations
Liberty Resources Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated in the State of Delaware on April 22, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, entering into contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (“Business Combination”). The Company is an emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with emerging growth companies.
As of September 30, 2023, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from April 22, 2021 (inception) through September 30, 2023 relates to the Company’s formation and the Offering (as defined below). 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 Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The Company’s sponsor is Liberty Resources LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”). The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on November 3, 2021.
On November 8, 2021, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 10,000,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A common stock included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $100,000,000, and incurring offering costs of $8,501,579, of which $4,025,000 was for deferred underwriting commissions (which amount includes deferred underwriting commissions attributable to the exercise of the underwriters’ election of their over-allotment option, as described below) (see Note 6). The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 Units at the Initial Public Offering price to cover over-allotments.
Simultaneously with the consummation of the closing of the Offering, the Company consummated the private placement of an aggregate of 477,775 Class A common units (the “Private Placement Units”) to Liberty Fields LLC, the sponsor of the Company (the “Sponsor”),at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating total gross proceeds of $4,777,750 (the “Private Placement”) (see Note 4).
Additionally, on November 8, 2021, the Company consummated the closing of the sale of 1,500,000 additional units at a price of $10.00 per unit (the “Units”) upon receiving notice of the underwriters’ election to fully exercise their overallotment option (“Overallotment Units”), generating additional gross proceeds of $15,000,000 and incurred additional offering costs of $300,000 in underwriting fees. Each Unit consists of one share of Class A common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), and one redeemable warrant of the Company (“Warrant”), with each whole Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A Common Stock for $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1.
Simultaneously with the exercise of the overallotment, the Company consummated the Private Placement of an additional 52,500 Private Placement Units to Liberty Fields LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $525,000.
A total of $116,725,000, comprised of the proceeds from the Offering and the proceeds of private placements that each closed on November 8, 2021, net of the underwriting commissions, discounts, and offering expenses, was deposited in a trust account (“Trust Account”) which may be invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), with a maturity of 185 days or less or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund meeting the conditions of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination or (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account to the Company’s stockholders, as described below.
Transaction costs of the Initial Public Offering with the exercise of the overallotment amounted to $6,775,537 consisting of $2,300,000 of cash underwriting fees, $4,025,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $450,537 of other costs.
Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering and full exercise of underwriter’s over-allotment option, $1,031,940 of cash was held outside of the Trust Account available for working capital purposes. As of September 30, 2023, we have available to us $54,887 of cash on our balance sheet and a working capital deficit of $5,996,233.