Exhibit 4.3
Execution Version
WARRANT ASSIGNMENT, ASSUMPTION
AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
This Warrant Assignment, Assumption and Amendment Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made as of October 30, 2023, by and among Forbion European Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), enGene Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of Canada (“enGene”), enGene Holdings Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of Canada that intends to continue to a company governed by the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (“New enGene”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation (the “Warrant Agent”).
WHEREAS, the Company and the Warrant Agent are parties to that certain warrant agreement, dated as of December 9, 2021 (the “Original Warrant Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Company consummated, on December 14, 2021, an initial public offering (including the associated over-allotment offering, the “Offering”) of units of the Company’s equity securities, each such unit comprised of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”) and one-third of a redeemable Public Warrant (as defined below) and, in connection therewith, issued and delivered warrants for the purchase of 4,216,667 Ordinary Shares to public investors in the Offering (the “FEAC Public Warrants”);
WHEREAS, Forbion Growth Sponsor FEAC I B.V., a Dutch limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), substantially concurrently with the Offering, purchased from the Company warrants for the purchase of an 5,195,000 Ordinary Shares, each bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the “Private Placement Warrants”), at a purchase price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant;
WHEREAS, in order to finance the Company’s transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination (as defined below), the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, from time to time loan to the Company funds as the Company may require (“Working Capital Loans”);
WHEREAS, in order to extend the period of time the Company has to consummate a Business Combination (as defined below) by up to two additional three month periods, the Sponsor or its affiliates or designees must deposit into the trust account additional funds of $1,265,000 ($0.10 per unit) for each respective available three-month extension, for a total payment of up to $2,530,000 ($0.20 per unit), in exchange for one or more non-interest bearing, unsecured promissory notes (“Extension Loans”);
WHEREAS, up to $1,500,000 of the Working Capital Loans and Extension Loans, taken together, are convertible (at a rate of a warrant for one share for every $1.50 of such loans) into warrants for the purchase of Ordinary Shares at a price of $1.50 per warrant, which warrants will be identical to the Private Placement Warrants (the “Sponsor Loan Warrants” and, together with the Private Placement Warrants, the “FEAC Private Placement Warrants” and, together with the FEAC Public Warrants, the “FEAC Warrants”);
WHEREAS, all of the FEAC Warrants are governed by the Original Warrant Agreement;