NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS9
Kimbell Tiger Acquisition Corporation is a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on April 9, 2021. As used herein, “the Company” or “TGR” refer to Kimbell Tiger Acquisition Corporation and its majority-owned and controlled operating subsidiary, Kimbell Tiger Operating Company, LLC (“Opco”), unless the context indicates otherwise. The Company is formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “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 December 31, 2022, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from April 9, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021 (the “2021 Period”) relates to the Company’s formation and the IPO (as defined below) described below. All activity in 2022 relates to the IPO and activities around identifying a business combination target. 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 IPO. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The Company’s sponsor is Kimbell Tiger Acquisition Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”). In May 2021, the Sponsor paid $25,000 to cover certain expenses of the Company in exchange for the issuance of (i) 5,750,100 shares of TGR’s Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class B common stock”), and (ii) 2,500 shares of TGR’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A common stock”). Also in May 2021, TGR paid $25,000 to Opco in exchange for the issuance of 2,500 Class A units of Opco. In May 2021, the Sponsor received 100 Class A units of Opco in exchange for $1,000 and 5,750,000 Class B units of Opco (which are profits interest units only). The Company refers to the 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock and corresponding number of Class B units of Opco (or the Class A units of Opco which such Class B units will convert) collectively as the “Founders Shares.” The Founders Shares consists of Class B units of Opco (and any Class A units of Opco into which such Class B units are converted) and a corresponding number of shares of Class B common stock, which together will be exchangeable for shares of TGR’s Class A common stock after the time of the initial Business Combination on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment as provided herein. The Company refers to the 100 Class A units of Opco (and corresponding number of shares of Class B common stock (which together will be exchangeable into shares of Class A common stock after the Business Combination on a one-for-one basis)) and the 2,500 shares of our Class A common stock as the “Sponsor Shares.”
The registration statement for the Company’s IPO was declared effective on February 4, 2022. On February 8, 2022, the Company consummated its initial public offering (the “IPO”) of 23,000,000 units (each, a “Unit” and collectively, the “Units”), including 3,000,000 additional Units that were issued pursuant to the underwriter’s exercise in full of its over-allotment option (the “Over-Allotment Units”) at $10.00 per Unit and consists of one share of Class A common stock and one-half of one public warrant, generating gross proceeds of approximately $230,000,000, and incurring offering costs of approximately $12,650,000, inclusive of $8,050,000 in deferred underwriting commissions. The warrants have an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustments, and will expire five years after the completion of a Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated the private placement (the “Private Placement”) of 14,100,000 warrants (each, a “Private Placement Warrant” and collectively, the “Private Placement Warrants”) to the Sponsor at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $14,100,000. Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable to purchase for $11.50 one share of Class A common stock, or, in certain circumstances, one Class A unit of Opco together with a corresponding number of shares of TGR’s non-economic Class B common stock.
Following the IPO, the Public Stockholders (as defined below) hold a direct economic equity ownership interest in TGR in the form of shares of Class A common stock, and an indirect ownership interest in Opco through TGR’s ownership of Class A units of Opco. By contrast, the Initial Stockholders of the Company (as defined below) own direct economic interests in Opco in the form of Class B units and a corresponding non-economic voting equity interest in TGR in the form of shares of Class B common stock.