Williams Rowland Acquisition Corp. - Quarter Report: 2022 March (Form 10-Q)

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Note 3 — Initial Public Offering

Public Units

On July 29, 2021, the Company sold 20,000,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit for aggregate proceeds of $200,000,000. On August 5, 2021, the underwriters exercised the full over-allotment option, which resulted in the sale of an additional 3,000,000 Units and $30,000,000 in proceeds. This resulted in aggregate Units sold of 23,000,000 and aggregate proceeds of $230,000,000 from the IPO and subsequent over-allotment.

Each Unit consists of one share of Common stock, and one-half (1/2) of one warrant (“Public Warrant”). Each whole public warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment.

Note 4 — Private Placement

Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO on July 29, 2021, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 9,900,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, for a purchase price of $9,900,000, in a private placement. In connection with the underwriters’ exercise of their full over-allotment option on August 5, 2021, the Sponsors purchased an additional 1,200,000 Private Placement Warrants for a purchase price of $1,200,000. This resulted in aggregate Private Placement Warrants of 11,100,000 sold for aggregate proceeds of $11,100,000 from the IPO and subsequent over-allotment.

Each Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of the Company’s Common stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, and will expire worthless if the Company does not complete the initial Business Combination. A portion of the proceeds from the private placement was added to the proceeds from the IPO held in the Trust Account.

Note 5 — Related Party Transactions

Founder Shares

On June 26, 2021, the Sponsor transferred 40,000 of Founder Shares to three of the Company’s directors and the Chief Financial Office (“CFO”) in recognition of and compensation for their future services to the Company. The assignment of the Founder Shares to the Company’s directors and CFO is within the scope of FASB ASC Topic 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation” (“ASC 718”). Under ASC 718, stock-based compensation associated with equity-classified awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date. The fair value of the 40,000 Founder Shares granted to the Company’s directors and CFO was $295,698 or $7.39 per share. The Founder Shares were assigned to directors and advisor effectively assigned subject to a performance condition (i.e., the consummation of a Business Combination). Compensation expense related to the Founder Shares is recognized only when the performance condition is probable of achievement under the applicable accounting literature. Stock-based compensation would be recognized at the date a Business Combination is considered probable in an amount equal to the number of Founder Shares times the grant date fair value per share (unless subsequently modified) less the amount initially received for the purchase of the Founder Shares. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company has not yet entered into any definitive agreements in connection with any Business Combination. Any such agreements may be subject to certain conditions to closing, such as, for example, approval by the Company’s stockholders. As a result, the Company determined that the consummation of a Business Combination is not considered probable, and, therefore, no stock-based compensation expense has been recognized.

Of the aggregate 23,000,000 Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, 1,980,000 Units were purchased by (i) D. E. Shaw Valence Portfolios, L.L.C., (ii) certain investment funds and accounts managed by Radcliffe Capital Management, L.P., and (iii) certain investment funds and accounts managed by Shaolin Capital Management LLC, unaffiliated qualified institutional buyers (the “Anchor Investors”). In connection with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, each Anchor Investor acquired from the Sponsors an indirect economic interest in certain Founder Shares (375,000 Founder Shares in the aggregate) at a purchase price of $0.0001 per share. The Company estimated the aggregate fair value of the Founder Shares attributable to the Anchor Investors to be $2,772,169 or $7.39 per share. The excess of the fair value of the Founder Shares was determined to be a contribution to the Company from the Sponsor in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) Topic 5T and an offering cost in accordance with SAB Topic 5A. Accordingly, the offering cost was recorded against additional paid-in capital.

The Company’s initial stockholders have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their founder shares until the earlier to occur of: (A) one year after the completion of the initial Business Combination or (B) subsequent to the initial Business Combination, (x) if the last reported sale price of the common stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after the initial Business Combination, or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of common stock for cash, securities or other property (except as described herein under the section of this prospectus entitled “Principal Stockholders - Restrictions on Transfers of Founder Shares and Private Placement Warrants”). Any permitted transferees will be subject to the same restrictions with respect to any founder shares. (the “Lock-up”).

Promissory Notes with Sponsor

The Sponsors agreed to loan the Company up to $600,000 to be used for a portion of the expenses of the Public Offering. This loan was non-interest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of August 31, 2021 or the closing of the Public Offering.

In order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, the Sponsors, an affiliate of the Sponsors or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company additional funds as may be required for working capital purposes (the “Working Capital Loans”). If the Company completes an initial Business Combination, the Company would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to the Company. Otherwise, such loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that the initial Business Combination does not close, the Company may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from the Trust Account would be used to repay such loaned amounts. Up to $1,000,000 of such loans may be convertible into Private Placement Warrants of the post Business Combination entity, at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants issued to the Sponsors.

On September 7, 2021, the Company executed a Promissory Note with the Sponsor for an amount of $500,000, under the aforementioned terms including a conversion option. The Promissory Note is not interest bearing and is repayable at the earlier of the date of when the Company consummates a Business Combination with another entity, the date on which the Company determines to liquidate or December 31, 2023. Through March 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021, the Company had borrowed $125,000 under the Promissory Note, which remained outstanding. The conversion option included in the Note is considered an embedded derivate and is remeasured at the end of each reporting period. The value of the conversion feature is de minimis as of March 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021.

Administrative Service Fee

The Company has entered into an administrative services agreement on July 26, 2021, commencing on that date, pursuant to which the Company will pay an affiliate of the Sponsors a total of $10,000 per month for office space, administrative and support services. Upon completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination or its liquidation, the Company will cease paying these monthly fees. For the three months ended March 31, 2022 and period from March 10, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2021, the Company recorded $30,000 and $0, of administrative service fees, which are included in formation and operating costs in the accompanying statements of operations.

Note 6 — Investments Held in Trust Account

At March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the assets held in the Trust Account were held in U.S. Treasury Bills with a maturity of 185 days or less. During the period from July 29, 2021 (the date of the IPO) through March 31, 2022, the Company did not withdraw any of the interest income from the Trust Account to pay its tax obligations.

The Company classifies its United States Treasury securities as held-to-maturity in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 320 “Investments - Debt and Equity Securities.” Held-to-maturity securities are those securities which the Company has the ability and intent to hold until maturity. Held-to-maturity treasury securities are recorded at amortized cost and adjusted for the amortization or accretion of premiums or discounts.

The carrying value, excluding gross unrealized holding loss and fair value of held to maturity securities on March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 are as follows:

The Face Value of the U.S. Treasury Securities held in Trust was $234,815,000 at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021.

Note 7 — Commitments and Contingencies

Registration Rights

The holders of the founder shares, Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans (and any shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans and upon conversion of the founder shares) will be entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement requiring the Company to register such securities for resale. The holders of these securities will be entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form demands, that the Company registers such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the Company’s completion of the initial Business Combination.

Underwriting Agreement

The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to 3,000,000 additional Units to cover any over-allotments, if any, at the Public Offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions. On August 5, 2021, the underwriter exercised the over-allotment option in full.

The underwriter was entitled to a cash underwriting discount of two percent (2%) of the gross proceeds of the Public Offering, or $4,000,000. The underwriter exercised the full over-allotment option on August 5, 2021 resulting in an additional $600,000 underwriting discount for an aggregate underwriting discount of $4,600,000 related to the IPO and subsequent over-allotment exercise.

Additionally, the underwriter will be entitled to a deferred underwriting discount of 3.5% of the gross proceeds of the Public Offering upon the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination.

Note 8 — Stockholders’ Deficit

Preferred Stock

The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, there were no shares of preferred stock issued or outstanding.

Common Stock

The Company is authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of Common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. Holders of the Common stock are entitled to one vote for each common stock. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, there were 5,750,000 shares of Common stock issued and outstanding, excluding 23,000,000 shares subject to possible redemption, which are presented as temporary equity.

Warrants

Each whole warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one share of the Company’s common stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment. In addition, if the Company issues additional shares of common stock or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per share of common stock (with such issue price or effective issue price to be determined in good faith by the board of directors and, in the case of any such issuance to the initial stockholders or their affiliates, without taking into account any founder shares or private placement securities held by them, as applicable, prior to such issuance) (the “newly issued price”), the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 115% of the newly issued price.

The warrants will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the warrant expiration date, which is five years after the completion of the initial Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. On the exercise of any warrant, the warrant exercise price will be paid directly to the Company and not placed in the Trust Account.

The Company will not be obligated to deliver any shares of common stock pursuant to the exercise of a warrant and will have no obligation to settle such warrant exercise unless a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to the shares of common stock underlying the warrants is then effective and a prospectus relating thereto is current, subject to the Company’s satisfying its obligations described below with respect to registration. No warrant will be exercisable and the Company will not be obligated to issue shares of common stock upon exercise of a warrant unless common stock issuable upon such warrant exercise has been registered, qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the registered holder of the warrants. In the event that the conditions in the two immediately preceding sentences are not satisfied with respect to a warrant, the holder of such warrant will not be entitled to exercise such warrant and such warrant may have no value and expire worthless. In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle any warrant. In the event that a registration statement is not effective for the exercised warrants, the purchaser of a Unit containing such warrant will have paid the full purchase price for the Unit solely for the share of common stock underlying such Unit.

The Company is not registering the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants at this time. However, the Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 15 business days after the closing of the initial Business Combination, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement for the registration under the Securities Act of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants and thereafter will use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective within 60 business days following the initial Business Combination and to maintain a current prospectus relating to the common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, until the expiration of the warrants in accordance with the provisions of the warrant agreement. If a registration statement covering the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is not effective by the 60th business day after the closing of the initial Business Combination, warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when the Company will have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act or another exemption. If that exemption, or another exemption, is not available, holders will not be able to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis.

Redemption of warrants

Once the warrants become exercisable, the Company may redeem the outstanding warrants:

The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants sold as part of the Units in the Initial Public Offering, subject to limited exceptions.

Note 9 — Subsequent Events

The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date up to the date that the financial statements were issued. Based upon this review, other than as described below, the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial statements.

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

References to the “Company,” “our,” “us” or “we” refer to Williams Rowland Acquisition Corp. The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this report. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those described in our other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings.

Overview

We are a blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation on March 10, 2021. We were incorporated for the purpose of effecting a Business Combination.

As of March 31, 2022, we have not yet commenced operations. All activity for the period from March 10, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2022 relates to our formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”), which is described below. We will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of our initial Business Combination, at the earliest. We generate non-operating income in the form of interest income from the proceeds held in the Trust Account. We have selected December 31 as our fiscal year end.

Our Sponsors are Williams Rowland Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and Wrac, Ltd, a Guernsey company. The registration statement for our Initial Public Offering was declared effective on July 26, 2021. On July 29, 2021, we consummated the Initial Public Offering of 20,000,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the shares of Common Stock included in the Units offered, the “Public Shares”), at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $200 million. On August 5, 2021, the underwriter fully exercised its option and purchased 3,000,000 additional Units, generating gross proceeds of $30 million (the “Over-Allotment”).

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, we consummated the Private Placement of 9,900,000 Private Placement Warrants, at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant to the Sponsor, generating proceeds of approximately $9.9 million. Concurrent with the consummation of the Over-Allotment on August 5, 2021, the Sponsors purchased 1,200,000 additional Private Placement Warrants, generating proceeds of $1,200,000 in the Second Private Placement.

Transaction costs of the IPO and subsequent Over-Allotment exercise amounted to $16,074,841, comprised of $4,600,000 of underwriting discount, $8,050,000 of deferred underwriting discount, $2,772,169 of fair value of shares transferred to Anchor Investors, and $652,672 of other offering costs.

Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement on July 29, 2021, and the Over-Allotment and Second Private Placement on August 5, 2021, approximately $234.6 million ($10.20 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement was placed in a Trust Account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee and invested in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (the “Investment Company Act”)having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under Investment Company Act, which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations, as determined by us, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.

Our management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of its Initial Public Offering and the sale of Private Placement Warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination.

If we are unable to complete a Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or January 29, 2023 (the “Combination Period”), we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish Public Stockholder’s rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any) and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining stockholders and the board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), our obligation under requirements of applicable law. 

Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern

As of March 31, 2022, we had $416,746 in our operating bank account and working capital deficiency of $47,743.

Our liquidity needs up to March 31, 2022, had been satisfied through a capital contribution from the Sponsors of $25,000 (see Notes to the Financial Statements) for the founder shares and the loan under an unsecured promissory note.

We anticipate that the $416,746 outside of the Trust Account as of March 31, 2022, might not be sufficient to allow us to operate until January 29, 2023, the Combination Period, assuming that a Business Combination is not consummated during that time. Until consummation of our Business Combination, we will be using the funds not held in the Trust Account, and any additional Working Capital Loans from the initial stockholders, our officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the business combination.

On September 7, 2021, we executed a promissory note to the Sponsors for an amount of $500,000 (the “Promissory Note”). The Promissory Note is not interest bearing and is repayable at the earlier of the date of when we consummate a Business Combination with another entity, the date on which we determine to liquidate or December 31, 2023. At the option of the Sponsors, in lieu of cash payment of the principal, the Sponsors may receive warrants to purchase Common Stock. As of March 31, 2022, we had borrowed $125,000 under the Promissory Note, which remained outstanding.

We can raise additional capital through Working Capital Loans from the initial stockholders, our officers, directors, or their respective affiliates, or through loans from third parties. None of the Sponsors, officers or directors are under any obligation, except as described above, to advance funds to, or to invest in, us. If we are unable to raise additional capital, we may be required to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of our business plan, and reducing overhead expenses. We cannot provide any assurance that new financing will be available to us on commercially acceptable terms, if at all. These conditions raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time, which is considered to be one year from the issuance date of the financial statements.

We have until January 29, 2023 to consummate a Business Combination. It is uncertain that we will be able consummate a Business Combination within the Combination Period. If a Business Combination is not consummated within the Combination Period, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution. In connection with our assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with the authoritative guidance FASB Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) Topic 2014-15, “Disclosure of Uncertainties About an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern”, management has determined that the liquidity condition, mandatory liquidation, and subsequent dissolution, should we be unable to complete a Business Combination, raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities should we be required to liquidate after January 29, 2023.

Results of Operations

All of our activity from March 10, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2022, was in preparation for an Initial Public Offering, and since our Initial Public Offering, our activity has been limited to the search for a prospective initial Business Combination. We will not generate any operating revenues until the closing and completion of our initial Business Combination.

For the three months ended March 31, 2022, we had a loss of $360,907, which consisted solely of formation and operating costs of $448,364, offset by trust interest income of $87,457.

For the period from March 10, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2021, we had a loss of $620, which consisted solely of formation and operating costs.

Contractual Obligations

Underwriting Agreement

The underwriter is entitled to $0.35 per unit, or approximately $7.0 million in the aggregate, which will be payable to the underwriter for deferred underwriting commissions. The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriter from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that that we complete a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.

In connection with the consummation of the Over-Allotment on August 5, 2021, the underwriter was paid an additional fee of $600,000 upon closing of the Over-Allotment and approximately $1.05 million in deferred underwriting commissions.

Administrative Support Agreement

We agreed to pay the Sponsor a total of $10,000 per month, commencing on the date of listing on the NYSE, for office space, utilities, secretarial and administrative support services provided to members of the management team. Upon completion of the initial Business Combination or our liquidation, we will cease paying these monthly fees.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

This management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our financial statements. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and judgments, including those related to fair value of financial instruments and accrued expenses. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. We have identified the following as our critical accounting policies:

Offering costs associated with the Initial Public Offering

The Company complies with the requirements of the ASC 340-10-S99-1 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) Topic 5A-“Expenses of Offering”. Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting, fair value of founder shares transferred to Anchor Investors, and other costs incurred through the balance sheet date that are related to the IPO. Offering costs amounted to $16,074,841, for the Initial Public Offering and subsequent over-allotment. Total amount of Offering costs is allocated between redeemable shares and Public Warrants based on their relative fair values.

Net Loss Per Share

The Company complies with the accounting and disclosure requirements of FASB ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per Share.” The Company applies the two-class method in calculating earnings per share. The contractual formula utilized to calculate the redemption amount approximates fair value. Changes in fair value are not considered a dividend of the purposes of the numerator in the earnings per share calculation. Net loss per share of common stock is computed by dividing the pro rata net loss between the shares of redeemable common stock and the shares of non-redeemable common stock by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for each of the periods. The calculation of diluted income per share does not consider the effect of the warrants issued in connection with the IPO since the exercise of the warrants is contingent upon the occurrence of future events and the inclusion of such warrants would be anti-dilutive.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2020-06, Debt - Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging - Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40) (“ASU 2020-06”) to simplify accounting for certain financial instruments. ASU 2020-06 eliminates the current models that require separation of beneficial conversion and cash conversion features from convertible instruments and simplifies the derivative scope exception guidance pertaining to equity classification of contracts in an entity’s own equity. The new standard also introduces additional disclosures for convertible debt and freestanding instruments that are indexed to and settled in an entity’s own equity. ASU 2020-06 amends the diluted earnings per share guidance, including the requirement to use the if-converted method for all convertible instruments. ASU 2020-06 is effective January 1, 2024 and should be applied on a full or modified retrospective basis, with early adoption permitted beginning on January 1, 2021. The Company deferred application of ASU 2020-06 and is currently assessing the impact, if any, that ASU 2020-06 would have on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of March 31, 2022, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

As a smaller reporting company we are not required to make disclosures under this Item. 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Disclosure controls are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this Report, is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management evaluated, with the participation of our current chief executive officer and chief financial officer (our “Certifying Officers”), the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2022, pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, our Certifying Officers concluded that, as of March 31, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to:

These matters constitute material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. In light of these material weaknesses, we performed additional analysis as deemed necessary to ensure that our financial statements were prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Accordingly, management believes that the financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q present fairly in all material respects our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented.

We do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Except as set forth above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

None.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in this report include the risk factors described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 21, 2022. As of the date of this Report, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

In April, 2021, our Sponsors purchased 5,750,000 founder shares (“Founder Shares”), which are shares of our common stock, for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.0043 per share. The holders of the Founder Shares agreed to surrender and cancel up to an aggregate of 750,000 Founder Shares, on a pro rata basis, to the extent that the option to purchase additional Units was not exercised in full by the underwriter. The underwriter fully exercised its over-allotment option on August 5, 2021; therefore, these 750,000 Founder Shares were no longer subject to possible redemption. Such shares were issued in connection with our organization pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. The Sponsor is an accredited investor for purposes of Rule 501 of Regulation D. Each of the equity holders in our Sponsor is an accredited investor under Rule 501 of Regulation D.

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, we consummated the Private Placement of 9,900,000 Private Placement Warrants, at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant to our Sponsor, generating proceeds of approximately $9.9 million. Concurrent with the consummation of the Over-Allotment on August 5, 2021, our Sponsors purchased an aggregate of 1,200,000 additional Private Placement Warrants, generating proceeds of $1.2 million. These issuances were made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and no underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to such sale.

No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to such private sales.

Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement on July 29, 2021, and the Over-Allotment and Second Private Placement on August 5, 2021, approximately $234.6 million ($10.20 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement was placed in a Trust Account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee and invested in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

There has been no material change in the planned use of the proceeds from our Initial Public offering and the Private Placement as is described in the Company’s final prospectus related to our Initial Public Offering filed with the SEC on July 28, 2021.

The Sponsors agreed to loan the Company up to $600,000 to be used for a portion of the expenses of the Public Offering. This loan was non-interest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of August 31, 2021, or the closing of the Public Offering.

On September 7, 2021, the Company executed a Promissory Note with the Sponsor for an amount of $500,000, under the aforementioned terms including a conversion option. The Promissory Note is not interest bearing and is repayable at the earlier of the date of when the Company consummates a Business Combination with another entity, the date on which the Company determines to liquidate or December 31, 2023. Through March 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021, the Company had borrowed $125,000 under the Promissory Note, which remained outstanding. The conversion option included in the Note is considered an embedded derivate and is remeasured at the end of each reporting period. The value of the conversion feature is de minimis as of March 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

None.

Item 5. Other Information

None.

Item 6. Exhibits

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.