Note 4— Private Placement
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company’s Sponsor and Cantor purchased an aggregate of 7,630,000 Private Placement Warrants,of which 6,630,000 Private Placement Warrants were purchased by the Sponsor and 1,000,000 Private Placement Warrants were purchased by Cantor, each exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share, at a price of $1.00 per warrant, or $7,630,000 in the aggregate, in a private placement.
The Private Placement Warrants will not be redeemable by the Company (except as described in Note 1) so long as they are held by the Sponsor, Cantor or their permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by holders other than the Sponsor, Cantor or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company in all redemption scenarios and exercisable by the holders on the same basis as the warrants included in the units being sold in the IPO. The Sponsor, as well as its permitted transferees, have the option to exercise the Private Placement Warrants on a cashless basis.
A portion of the proceeds from the Private Placement Warrants were added to the proceeds from the IPO to be held in the Trust Account. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period or during any Extension Period, the proceeds of the sale of the Private Placement Warrants will be used to fund the redemption of the public shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law), and the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.
The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants underlying the Units sold in the IPO, except that the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions. Additionally, except as described above, the Private Placement Warrants are non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or such purchasers’ permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the Initial Shareholders or Cantor or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants.
Note 5—Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
On April 26, 2021, the Sponsor purchased 5,750,000 founder shares for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.004 per share. The purchase price of the founder shares was determined by dividing the amount of cash contributed to the Company by the number of founder shares issued. On June 7, 2021, the Sponsor transferred 25,000 founder shares to Mitsui & Co., LTD., an advisory board member. On August 13, 2021, the Sponsor transferred 35,000 founder shares to each of Gary D. Begeman, Henry E. Dubois and Michael Leitner, the independent directors, and 25,000 founder shares to each of Eddie Kato and Simon Cathcart, the advisory board members. 750,000 founder shares were forfeited by the Sponsor on October 29, 2021 after the underwriters’ over-allotment option expired without being exercised.
In connection with the IPO, the anchor investors, collectively, acquired from the Sponsor an aggregate of 1,250,000 Founder Shares, with an aggregate fair value of $9,807,176. The excess of the fair value of the Founder Shares was determined to be an offering cost in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A. Accordingly, the offering costs were allocated to the separable financial instruments (i.e., public shares and Public Warrant) issued in the IPO based on a relative fair value basis, compared to total proceeds received. Offering costs allocated to the public shares were charged to shareholders’ equity upon the completion of the IPO.
Promissory Note—Related Party
The Sponsor issued a promissory note allowing the Company to borrow up to $300,000 under an unsecured promissory note used for a portion of the expenses of the IPO. The Company had borrowed $148,372 under promissory note, which was fully repaid on September 17, 2021. At December 31, 2021, no such promissory note were outstanding.