−Removed: In this Annual Report
−Removed: on Form 10-K (the “Form 10-K”), references to the “Company” and to “we,” “us,” and “our”
+Added: In this Annual Report on
+Added: Form 10-K (the “Form 10-K”), references to the “Company” and to “we,” “us,” and “our”
refer to Feutune Light Acquisition Corporation
−Removed: We are a newly organized
−Removed: blank check company formed as a Delaware corporation for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition,
−Removed: stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this report
−Removed: as our initial business combination.
−Removed: Our efforts to identify a potential target has not been limited to a particular industry.
−Removed: not undertake our initial business combination with an entity being based in or having the majority of the company’s operations
−Removed: in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).
−Removed: Our ability to locate a potential target is subject to the uncertainties discussed in the registration
−Removed: statement on Form S-1 (File No.:
−Removed: 333-264221) (the “S-1”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
−Removed: On June 21, 2022, we
−Removed: consummated our initial public offering (the “IPO”) of 9,775,000 units (the “Units”), which included 1,225,000
−Removed: units issued upon the partial exercise of the over-allotment option of the underwriters of the IPO.
−Removed: Each Unit consists of one share of
−Removed: our Class A common stock (the “Class A Common Stock”), $0.0001 par value per share (the “Public Shares”), one
−Removed: redeemable warrant (the “Warrants”), each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A Common Stock
−Removed: at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, and one right (the “Rights”), each one Right entitling the holder thereof to exchange
−Removed: for one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A Common Stock upon the completion of the Company’s initial business combination, generating gross
−Removed: proceeds of $97,750,000.
−Removed: Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, we completed the private sale (the “Private Placement”)
−Removed: of 498,875 units (the “Private Units”, consisting of one Class A Common Stock, or the “Private Share”, one warrant,
−Removed: or the “Private Warrant”, and one right, or the “Private Right”), including 478,875 units to the Company’s
−Removed: sponsor, Feutune Light Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), and 20,000 units to US Tiger Securities, Inc.
−Removed: together with our Sponsor, directors and officers, the “founders”), the representative of the underwriters of the IPO, at
−Removed: a purchase price of $10.00 per Private Unit, generating gross proceeds of $4,988,750 (including $4,788,750 from Sponsor and $200,000 from
−Removed: US Tiger) (the “Private Placement Proceeds”).
−Removed: The Private Units are identical to the units as part of the Units in the IPO,
−Removed: except that the Private Units are not transferable, assignable or salable (except to our officers and directors and other persons or entities
−Removed: affiliated with or related to our founders, each of whom will be subject to the same transfer restrictions) until 30 days after the completion
−Removed: of our initial business combination.
−Removed: The proceeds of $99,216,250 ($10.15 per Unit) in the aggregate from the IPO and a portion from the
−Removed: Private Placement (the “Trust Funds”), were placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) established for the
−Removed: benefit of the Company’s public stockholders and the underwriters of the IPO with Wilmington Trust, National Association acting
+Added: We are a blank check company formed as a Delaware corporation for the
+Added: purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination
+Added: with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this report as our initial business combination.
+Added: Our efforts to identify a potential
+Added: target has not been limited to a particular industry.
+Added: We will not undertake our initial business combination with an entity being based
+Added: in or having the majority of the company’s operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).
+Added: Our ability to locate a potential
+Added: target is subject to the uncertainties discussed in the prospectus relating to our initial public offering (the “IPO”) filed
+Added: with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 17, 2022 (File No.
+Added: 333-264221) (the “Prospectus”).
+Added: On June 21, 2022, we consummated the “IPO of 9,775,000 units
+Added: (the “Units”), which included 1,275,000 units issued upon the full exercise of the over-allotment option of the underwriters
+Added: Each Unit consists of one share of our Class A common stock (the “Class A Common Stock”), $0.0001 par value per
+Added: share (the “Public Shares”), one redeemable warrant (the “Warrants”), each Warrant entitling the holder thereof
+Added: to purchase one share of Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, and one right (the “Rights”), each
+Added: one Right entitling the holder thereof to exchange for one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A Common Stock upon the completion of the Company’s
+Added: initial business combination, generating gross proceeds of $97,750,000.
+Added: Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, we completed the private
+Added: sale (the “Private Placement”) of 498,875 units (the “Private Units”, consisting of one Class A Common Stock,
+Added: or the “Private Share”, one warrant, or the “Private Warrant”, and one right, or the “Private Right”),
+Added: including 478,875 units to the Company’s sponsor, Feutune Light Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), and 20,000 units to US
+Added: Tiger Securities, Inc.
+Added: (“US Tiger”, together with our Sponsor, directors and officers, the “founders”), the representative
+Added: of the underwriters of the IPO, at a purchase price of $10.00 per Private Unit, generating gross proceeds of $4,988,750 (including $4,788,750
+Added: from Sponsor and $200,000 from US Tiger) (the “Private Placement Proceeds”).
+Added: The Private Units are identical to the units
+Added: as part of the Units in the IPO, except that the Private Units are not transferable, assignable or saleable (except to our officers and
+Added: directors and other persons or entities affiliated with or related to our founders, each of whom will be subject to the same transfer
+Added: restrictions) until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination.
+Added: The proceeds of $99,216,250 ($10.15 per Unit) in
+Added: the aggregate from the IPO and a portion from the Private Placement (the “Trust Funds”), were placed in a trust account (the
+Added: “Trust Account”) established for the benefit of the Company’s public stockholders and the underwriters of the IPO with
+Added: Wilmington Trust, National Association acting as trustee.
The Trust Funds include $3,421,250
−Removed: $3,421,250 payable to the underwriters (the “deferred underwriting compensation”) pursuant to the underwriting agreement dated
−Removed: June 15, 2022, entered among us, US Tiger and EF Hutton, division of Benchmark Investments, LLC, the representatives (the “Representatives”)
+Added: payable to the underwriters (the “deferred underwriting compensation”) pursuant to the underwriting agreement dated June 15,
+Added: 2022, entered among us, US Tiger and EF Hutton, division of Benchmark Investments, LLC, the representatives (the “Representatives”)
of the underwriters of the IPO.
−Removed: Our management has
−Removed: broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the proceeds of the Private Placement that are held out of the Trust Account,
−Removed: although substantially all the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally towards consummating an initial business combination and
−Removed: working capital.
−Removed: Since our IPO, our
−Removed: sole business activity has been identifying, evaluating suitable acquisition transaction candidates and preparing for consummation of
−Removed: an initial business combination.
−Removed: We intend to complete our initial business combination using cash from
−Removed: the proceeds of this offering and the private placements of the private units, our capital stock, debt or a combination of cash, stock
−Removed: We shall not undertake our initial business combination with any company being based in or having the majority of the company’s
−Removed: operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).
−Removed: Our Certificate of Incorporation to be adopted upon the effectiveness of this prospectus
−Removed: prohibit us from undertaking our initial business combination with any company being based in or having the majority of the company’s
−Removed: operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).
+Added: Our management has broad discretion
+Added: with respect to the specific application of the proceeds of the Private Placement that are held out of the Trust Account, although substantially
+Added: all the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally towards consummating an initial business combination and working capital.
+Added: Since our IPO, our sole business
+Added: activity has been identifying, evaluating suitable acquisition transaction candidates and preparing for consummation of an initial business
+Added: We intend to complete our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of this offering and the private placements
+Added: of the private units, our capital stock, debt or a combination of cash, stock and debt.
+Added: We shall not undertake our initial business combination
+Added: with any company being based in or having the majority of the company’s operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).
+Added: certificate of amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated June 19, 2023 and filed on June 20, 2023 (the
+Added: certificate of amendment, together with the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated June 14, 2022, the “Current
+Added: Charter”) prohibits us from undertaking our initial business combination with any company being based in or having the majority
+Added: of the company’s operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).
Permission Required from the PRC Authorities
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with no operations in China and all of our officers and directors are U.S.
−Removed: citizens, thus we or any of our officers and directors are
−Removed: not required to obtain permission from any Chinese authorities to operate or conduct a business combination.
−Removed: Since we will not undertake
−Removed: our initial business combination with any company being based in or having the majority of the company’s operations in China (including
−Removed: Hong Kong and Macau), we do not expect that any permission or approval that our officers and directors or us would be required from the
−Removed: Chinese authorities to search for a target company or to consummate our initial business combination.
+Added: citizens or U.S.
+Added: permanent residents, thus we or any of our
+Added: officers and directors are not required to obtain permission from any Chinese authorities to operate or conduct a business combination.
+Added: Since we will not undertake our initial business combination with any company being based in or having the majority of the company’s
+Added: operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau), we do not expect that any permission or approval that our officers and directors
+Added: or us would be required from the Chinese authorities to search for a target company or to consummate our initial business combination.
We are a blank check company
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or the Trial Measures, and five supporting guidelines promulgated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (the “CSRC”)
−Removed: on February 17, 2023, which will become effective on March 31, 2023.
+Added: on February 17, 2023, which became effective on March 31, 2023.
According to the Trial Administration Measures, an
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for an initial business combination.
−Removed: See the section titled “ Risk Factors— All of our management as well as members of
−Removed: our sponsor are either U.S.
−Removed: citizens or permanent residents in the United States and our sponsor is a Delaware LLC;
−Removed: and they do not have
−Removed: significant ties to China and Hong Kong except that certain members of our management and sponsor members lived in China and Hong Kong
−Removed: in the past, it is uncertain whether that would make us a less attractive partner to a non-China or non-Hong Kong-based target company
−Removed: and such perception may potentially limit or negatively impact our search for an initial business combination.”
+Added: See “Part I – Item 1A.
+Added: Risk Factors” on page 15 of this Annual Report.
Controlling or non-controlling
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your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.
−Removed: See the section titled “ Risk Factors—We may not
−Removed: be able to complete an initial business combination with a U.S.
−Removed: target company if such initial business combination is subject to U.S.
−Removed: foreign investment regulations and review by a U.S.
−Removed: government entity such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
−Removed: (CFIUS), or ultimately prohibited.
−Removed: ” in this report.
+Added: See “Part I – Item 1A.
+Added: Risk Factors” on page
+Added: 15 of this Annual Report.
+Added: Proposed Business Combination with Thunder
+Added: As previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed
+Added: on October 27, 2023, on October 26, 2023, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as the same may be amended,
+Added: restated or supplemented, the “Merger Agreement”) with Thunder Power Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands company (“Thunder
+Added: Power” or “TPH”) and Feutune Light Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company
+Added: (“Merger Sub”).
+Added: Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Thunder Power will be merged with and into Merger Sub (the “Merger”,
+Added: together will all transaction contemplated in the Merger Agreement, the “Thunder Power Business Combination”), with the Merger
+Added: Sub surviving the Merger as a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company after the Merger (the Company surviving the Merger shall be
+Added: referred as “Surviving Co”).
+Added: At the effective time of the
+Added: Merger (the “Effective Time”), by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of the Company, Merger Sub, Thunder
+Added: Power or the shareholders of Thunder Power immediately prior to the Effective Time (collectively, the “Thunder Power Shareholders”),
+Added: each Thunder Power Shareholder’s ordinary shares of Thunder Power (“Thunder Power Ordinary Shares”) issued and outstanding
+Added: immediately prior to the Effective Time (excluding dissenting shares and shares held by Thunder Power or any of its direct or indirect
+Added: subsidiaries as of immediately prior to the Effective Time) will be cancelled and automatically converted into (i) the right to receive,
+Added: without interest, the applicable portion of the Closing Merger Consideration Shares (as defined in the Merger Agreement) as set forth
+Added: in the Closing Consideration Spreadsheet (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and (ii) the contingent right to receive the applicable
+Added: portion of the Earnout Shares (as defined in the Merger Agreement), if, as and when payable in accordance with the earnout provisions
+Added: described below.
+Added: For avoidance of any doubt, each Thunder Power Shareholder will cease to have any rights with respect to such Thunder
+Added: Power Shareholder’s Thunder Power Ordinary Shares, except the right to receive the Closing Per Share Merger Consideration and the
+Added: Earnout Shares.
+Added: “Closing Merger Consideration Shares” means 40,000,000 shares of common stock of the Surviving Co, which
+Added: are equal or equivalent in value to the sum of $400,000,000 divided by $10.00 per share.
+Added: “Earnout Shares” means 20,000,000 shares
+Added: of common stock of Surviving Co, which are equal or equivalent in value to the sum of $200,000,000 divided by $10.00 per share, subject
+Added: to the vesting schedule set forth in the Merger Agreement.
+Added: The Thunder Power Business Combination will be submitted to stockholders
+Added: for approval at a special meeting.
+Added: The Company has filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 (File No.
+Added: 333-275933) relating
+Added: to the proposed Thunder Power Business Combination, the Merger Agreement and other relevant matters (as amended from time to time, the
+Added: Thunder Power
+Added: Thunder Power is a technology
+Added: innovator and a manufacturer of premium electric vehicles (“EVs”).
+Added: Thunder Power has developed several proprietary technologies
+Added: which are the building blocks of the Thunder Power family of EVs.
+Added: Thunder Power is a company that was incorporated under the laws and
+Added: regulations of the British Virgin Islands with limited liability on September 30, 2015.
+Added: Thunder Power is a parent holding company
+Added: with no operations.
Extension of the Period of Time to Consummate
Initial Business Combination
−Removed: On March 21, 2023, an aggregate
−Removed: of $977,500 (the “Extension Payment”) was deposited by the Sponsor into the Trust Account for the public stockholders, representing
−Removed: $0.10 per public share, which enables the Company to extend the period of time it has to consummate its initial business combination by
−Removed: three months from March 21, 2023 to June 21, 2023 (the “Extension”).
−Removed: In connection with the Extension
−Removed: Payment, the Company issued an unsecured promissory note (the “Note”) to the Sponsor.
−Removed: Note is non-interest bearing and payable (subject to the waiver against trust provisions) upon the date on which the Company consummates
−Removed: its initial business combination.
−Removed: The principal balance may be prepaid at any time, at the election of the Company.
−Removed: The holder of the
−Removed: Note has the right, but not the obligation, to convert the Note, in whole or in part, into Private Units of the Company, as described
−Removed: in the Prospectus of the Company, by providing the Company with written notice of its intention to convert the Note at least two business
−Removed: days prior to the closing of the Company’s initial business combination.
−Removed: The number of Private Units to be received by the holder
−Removed: in connection with such conversion shall be an amount determined by dividing (x) the sum of the outstanding principal amount payable to
−Removed: the holder, by (y) $10.00.
−Removed: Among $977,500 Extension Payment, (i) $600,000 were deposited by the
−Removed: Company’s sponsor, Feutune Light Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), and (ii) $377,500 by the Company from the working capital
−Removed: account of the Company in lieu of the Sponsor, pursuant to a non-interest, short-term loan provided by the Company to the Sponsor (the
−Removed: “Short-Term Loan Note”) to the Company, which provides for repayment of the Short-Term Loan on or before March 31, 2023..stockholder
+Added: On March 21, 2023, an
+Added: aggregate of $977,500 was deposited by the Sponsor into the Trust Account for the public stockholders, representing $0.10 per
+Added: public share, which enables the Company to extend the period of time it has to consummate its initial business combination by three months
+Added: from March 21, 2023 to June 21, 2023.
+Added: On June 16, 2023, the Company held a special meeting of the stockholders
+Added: (the “2023 Special Meeting”), where the stockholders of the Company approved the amendment of the Amended and Restated Certificate
+Added: of Incorporation to allow the Company until June 21, 2023 to consummate an initial business combination and to elect to extend the
+Added: period to consummate an initial business combination up to nine times, each by an additional one-month period (each, a “Monthly
+Added: Extension”), for a total of up to nine months to March 21, 2024, by depositing to the Trust Account, the lesser of (i) $100,000 for
+Added: all public shares and (ii) $0.04 for each public share for each one-month extension (each, a “Monthly Extension Payment”).
+Added: On June 20, 2023, the Current Charter was filed with the State of Delaware, effective on the same date.
+Added: In connection with the votes
+Added: to approve the amendment, 4,791,507 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock were tendered for redemption.
+Added: As of the date hereof, nine Monthly Extension Payments, each in the
+Added: amount of $100,000, were deposited into the Trust Account, among which, five Monthly Extension Payments were made by Thunder Power pursuant
+Added: to the Merger Agreement, three were made by the Sponsor and one was made by the management from the working capital of the Company.
+Added: a result, the Company currently has sought nine Monthly Extensions to have until March 21, 2024 to complete an initial business combination.
+Added: On March 1, 2024, the Company filed a notice of special meeting of
+Added: stockholders, according to which a special meeting of stockholders is to be held virtually on March 18, 2024 at 11:30 a.m., Eastern Time,
+Added: where the Company’s stockholders will vote to approve the amendment of the Current Charter to allow the Company until March 21,
+Added: 2024 to consummate an initial business combination and to elect to extend the period to consummate an initial business combination up
+Added: to nine times, each by an additional one-month period, for a total of up to nine months to December 21, 2024.
Effecting the Initial Business Combination
−Removed: Our business strategy
−Removed: is to identify and acquire potential targets in which we believe can materially grow revenue and earnings through the efforts of a combined
+Added: Our business strategy is to
+Added: identify and acquire potential targets in which we believe can materially grow revenue and earnings through the efforts of a combined
management team followed by the completion of an initial business combination, but we will not undertake our initial business combination
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opinion, nor will they be able to rely on such opinion.
−Removed: The Trust Funds
−Removed: released to us from the Trust Account upon the closing of our initial business combination may be used as consideration to pay the sellers
−Removed: of a target business with which we complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: If our initial business combination is paid for using equity
−Removed: or debt securities, or not all of the funds released from the Trust Account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with
−Removed: our initial business combination or used for redemption of our Public Shares, we may use the balance of the cash released to us from the
−Removed: Trust Account following the closing for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction
−Removed: businesses, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund
−Removed: the purchase of other companies or for working capital.
+Added: The Trust Funds released to
+Added: us from the Trust Account upon the closing of our initial business combination may be used as consideration to pay the sellers of a target
+Added: business with which we complete our initial business combination.
+Added: If our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt
+Added: securities, or not all of the funds released from the Trust Account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our initial
+Added: business combination or used for redemption of our Public Shares, we may use the balance of the cash released to us from the Trust Account
+Added: following the closing for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction businesses,
+Added: the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase
+Added: of other companies or for working capital.
In addition, we may be required
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capital needs and transaction costs in connection with our search for and completion of our initial business combination.
−Removed: and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, following the IPO and prior to the consummation of our initial business combination,
+Added: The Current Charter provides that, following the IPO and prior to the consummation of our initial business combination,
we are prohibited from issuing additional securities that would entitle the holders thereof to (i) receive funds from the Trust Account
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to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to (x) extend the time we have to consummate an initial business combination
−Removed: beyond March 21, 2023 (9 months from the closing of the IPO) (or up to December 21, 2023 (18 months from the closing of the IPO) (the
−Removed: “Combination Period”) if we extend the period of time to consummate an initial business combination) or (y) amend the
−Removed: foregoing provisions, unless (in connection with any such amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation) we offer
−Removed: our public stockholders the opportunity to redeem their Public Shares.
+Added: beyond March 21, 2024 (the “Combination Period”) if we extend the period of time to consummate an initial business combination)
+Added: or (y) amend the foregoing provisions, unless (in connection with any such amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation)
+Added: we offer our public stockholders the opportunity to redeem their Public Shares.
The existence of financial and personal interests of one or more of
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Status as a Public Company
−Removed: We believe our structure
−Removed: will make us an attractive initial business combination partner to target businesses.
−Removed: As an existing public company, we offer a
−Removed: target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other initial business combination.
−Removed: this situation, the owners of the target business would exchange their shares of stock in the target business for shares of our
−Removed: stock or for a combination of shares of our stock and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the
−Removed: Although there are various costs and obligations associated with being a public company, we believe target businesses will
−Removed: find this method a more certain and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering.
−Removed: a typical initial public offering, there are additional expenses incurred in marketing, road show and public reporting efforts that
−Removed: may not be present to the same extent in connection with an initial business combination with us.
−Removed: Furthermore, once a
−Removed: proposed initial business combination is completed, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public
−Removed: offering is always subject to the underwriters’ ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could
−Removed: delay or prevent the offering from occurring or could have negative valuation consequences.
−Removed: Once public, we believe the target business
−Removed: would then have greater access to capital and an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with stockholders’
−Removed: It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in
−Removed: attracting talented employees.
+Added: We believe our structure will
+Added: make us an attractive initial business combination partner to target businesses.
+Added: As an existing public company, we offer a target business
+Added: an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other initial business combination.
+Added: In this situation, the
+Added: owners of the target business would exchange their shares of stock in the target business for shares of our stock or for a combination
+Added: of shares of our stock and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers.
+Added: Although there are various
+Added: costs and obligations associated with being a public company, we believe target businesses will find this method a more certain and cost
+Added: effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering.
+Added: In a typical initial public offering, there are
+Added: additional expenses incurred in marketing, road show and public reporting efforts that may not be present to the same extent in connection
+Added: with an initial business combination with us.
+Added: Furthermore, once a proposed
+Added: initial business combination is completed, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering
+Added: is always subject to the underwriters’ ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could delay
+Added: or prevent the offering from occurring or could have negative valuation consequences.
+Added: Once public, we believe the target business would
+Added: then have greater access to capital and an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with stockholders’ interests.
+Added: It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting
+Added: talented employees.
We are an “emerging
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With funds in the Trust Account
−Removed: available for an initial business combination initially in the amount of $95,795,000, after payment of $3,421,250 for the deferred underwriting
−Removed: compensation, before fees and expenses associated with our initial business combination, we offer a target business a variety of options
−Removed: such as creating a liquidity event for its owners, providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening
−Removed: its balance sheet by reducing its debt or leverage ratio.
−Removed: Because we are able to complete our initial business combination using our
−Removed: cash, debt or equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use the most efficient combination that
−Removed: will allow us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to fit its needs and desires.
−Removed: However, we have not taken
−Removed: any steps to secure third-party financing and there can be no assurance it will be available to us.
+Added: available for an initial business combination initially in the amount of $95,795,000, excluding $3,421,250 for the deferred underwriting compensation,
+Added: before fees and expenses associated with our initial business combination, we offer a target business a variety of options such as creating
+Added: a liquidity event for its owners, providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening its balance
+Added: sheet by reducing its debt or leverage ratio.
+Added: Because we are able to complete our initial business combination using our cash, debt or
+Added: equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use the most efficient combination that will allow us
+Added: to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to fit its needs and desires.
+Added: However, we have not taken any steps to secure
+Added: third-party financing and there can be no assurance it will be available to us.
Lack of Business Diversification
−Removed: For an indefinite period
−Removed: of time after the completion of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance
+Added: For an indefinite period of
+Added: time after the completion of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance
of a single business.
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cause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.
−Removed: Limited Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management
−Removed: Although we intend
−Removed: to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business
−Removed: combination with that business, our assessment of the target business’ management may not prove to be correct.
−Removed: In addition, the
−Removed: future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.
−Removed: Furthermore, the future role
−Removed: of members of our management team or of our board, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with any certainty.
−Removed: it is possible that one or more of our directors will remain associated in some capacity with us following our initial business combination, it is presently unknown if any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs subsequent to our initial business combination.
−Removed: Moreover, we cannot assure you that members of our management team will have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations
−Removed: of the particular target business.
−Removed: The determination as to whether any members of our board of directors will remain with the combined
−Removed: company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.
−Removed: Following the initial
−Removed: business combination, to the extent that we deem it necessary, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent
−Removed: management team of the target business.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional
−Removed: managers will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.
−Removed: Stockholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve our
−Removed: Initial Business Combination
+Added: Limited Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management Team
+Added: Although we intend to closely
+Added: scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination
+Added: with that business, our assessment of the target business’ management may not prove to be correct.
+Added: In addition, the future management
+Added: may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.
+Added: Furthermore, the future role of members of
+Added: our management team or of our board, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with any certainty.
+Added: While it is possible
+Added: that one or more of our directors will remain associated in some capacity with us following our initial business combination, it is presently
+Added: unknown if any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs subsequent to our initial business combination.
+Added: Moreover, we cannot
+Added: assure you that members of our management team will have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the particular
+Added: target business.
+Added: The determination as to whether any members of our board of directors will remain with the combined company will be made
+Added: at the time of our initial business combination.
+Added: Following the initial business
+Added: combination, to the extent that we deem it necessary, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management
+Added: team of the target business.
+Added: We cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional managers
+Added: will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.
+Added: Stockholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve our Initial
+Added: Business Combination
We may conduct redemptions
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Merger of the company with a target
−Removed: Under Nasdaq’s listing rules, stockholder approval would
−Removed: be required for our initial business combination if, for example:
+Added: Under Nasdaq’s listing
+Added: rules, stockholder approval would be required for our initial business combination if, for example:
we issue shares of Common Stock that will be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of shares of our Common Stock then outstanding;
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the issuance or potential issuance of Common Stock will result in our undergoing a change of control.
−Removed: The decision as to
−Removed: whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed initial business combination in those instances in which stockholder approval
−Removed: is not required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based
−Removed: on business and legal reasons, which include a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:
−Removed: (i) the timing of the transaction,
−Removed: including in the event we determine stockholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek stockholder
−Removed: approval or doing so would place the company at a disadvantage in the transaction or result in other additional burdens on the company;
−Removed: (ii) the expected cost of holding a stockholder vote;
−Removed: (iii) the risk that the stockholders would fail to approve a proposed
−Removed: initial business combination;
+Added: The decision as to whether
+Added: we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed initial business combination in those instances in which stockholder approval is not required
+Added: by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on business and
+Added: legal reasons, which include a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:
+Added: (i) the timing of the transaction, including in
+Added: the event we determine stockholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek stockholder approval
+Added: or doing so would place the company at a disadvantage in the transaction or result in other additional burdens on the company;
+Added: expected cost of holding a stockholder vote;
+Added: (iii) the risk that the stockholders would fail to approve a proposed initial business
(iv) other time and budget constraints of the company;
−Removed: and (v) additional legal complexities of
−Removed: a proposed initial business combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to stockholders.
+Added: and (v) additional legal complexities of a proposed initial
+Added: business combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to stockholders.
Permitted Purchases of our Securities
−Removed: In the event we seek
−Removed: stockholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination
−Removed: pursuant to the tender offer rules, our founders, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions
−Removed: or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination.
+Added: In the event we seek stockholder
+Added: approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant
+Added: to the tender offer rules, our founders, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the
+Added: open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination.
However, they have no current commitments,
plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions.
−Removed: None of the funds in
−Removed: the Trust Account will be used to purchase shares in such transactions.
−Removed: They will not make any such purchases when they are in possession
−Removed: of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange
−Removed: Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is
−Removed: no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights.
+Added: None of the funds in the Trust
+Added: Account will be used to purchase shares in such transactions.
+Added: They will not make any such purchases when they are in possession of any
+Added: material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act.
+Added: Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no
+Added: longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights.
In the event that our founders or advisors
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at the time of any such purchases that the purchases are subject to such rules, the purchasers will comply with such rules.
−Removed: The purpose of such
−Removed: purchases would be to (i) vote such shares in favor of our initial business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining
−Removed: stockholder approval of our initial business combination or (ii) to satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that
−Removed: requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our initial business combination, where it appears
−Removed: that such requirement would otherwise not be met.
−Removed: This may result in the completion of our initial business combination that may not otherwise
−Removed: have been possible.
−Removed: In addition, if such
−Removed: purchases are made, the public “float” of our Common Stock may be reduced and the number of beneficial holders of our securities
−Removed: may be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities
−Removed: Our founders or advisors
−Removed: and/or their affiliates anticipate that they may identify the stockholders with whom our founders, advisors or their affiliates may pursue
−Removed: privately negotiated purchases by either the stockholders contacting us directly or by our receipt of redemption requests submitted by
−Removed: stockholders following our mailing of proxy materials in connection with our initial business combination.
−Removed: To the extent that our founders,
−Removed: advisors or their affiliates enter into a private purchase, they would identify and contact only potential selling stockholders who have
−Removed: expressed their election to redeem their shares for a pro rata share of the Trust Account or vote against our initial business combination.
−Removed: Our founders, advisors or their affiliates will only purchase shares if such purchases comply with Regulation M under the Exchange Act
−Removed: and the other federal securities laws.
−Removed: Any purchases by our
−Removed: founders, advisors and/or their affiliates who are affiliated purchasers under Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act will only be made
−Removed: to the extent such purchases are able to be made in compliance with Rule 10b-18, which is a safe harbor from liability for manipulation
+Added: The purpose of such purchases
+Added: would be to (i) vote such shares in favor of our initial business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder
+Added: approval of our initial business combination or (ii) to satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us
+Added: to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our initial business combination, where it appears that such
+Added: requirement would otherwise not be met.
+Added: This may result in the completion of our initial business combination that may not otherwise have
+Added: been possible.
+Added: In addition, if such purchases
+Added: are made, the public “float” of our Common Stock may be reduced and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may
+Added: be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities
+Added: Our founders or advisors and/or
+Added: their affiliates anticipate that they may identify the stockholders with whom our founders, advisors or their affiliates may pursue privately
+Added: negotiated purchases by either the stockholders contacting us directly or by our receipt of redemption requests submitted by stockholders
+Added: following our mailing of proxy materials in connection with our initial business combination.
+Added: To the extent that our founders, advisors
+Added: or their affiliates enter into a private purchase, they would identify and contact only potential selling stockholders who have expressed
+Added: their election to redeem their shares for a pro rata share of the Trust Account or vote against our initial business combination.
+Added: founders, advisors or their affiliates will only purchase shares if such purchases comply with Regulation M under the Exchange Act and
+Added: the other federal securities laws.
+Added: Any purchases by our founders,
+Added: advisors and/or their affiliates who are affiliated purchasers under Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act will only be made to the
+Added: extent such purchases are able to be made in compliance with Rule 10b-18, which is a safe harbor from liability for manipulation
under Section 9(a)(2) and Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act.
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make purchases of Common Stock if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Redemption Rights for Public Stockholders upon Completion
−Removed: of the Initial Business Combination
+Added: Redemption Rights for Public Stockholders upon Completion of the
+Added: Initial Business Combination
We will provide our public
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respect to such Public Shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the Combination Period.
−Removed: We will complete our Business Combination only if a majority of the
−Removed: outstanding shares of Common Stock voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination.
−Removed: A quorum for the special meeting for such a vote
−Removed: will consist of the holders present in person or by proxy of shares of outstanding capital stock of the company representing a majority
−Removed: of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the company entitled to vote at such meeting.
−Removed: Our founders will count
−Removed: toward this quorum and have agreed to vote their Founder Shares, Private Shares and any Public Shares purchased during or after the IPO
−Removed: in favor of our Business Combination.
−Removed: For purposes of seeking approval of the majority of our outstanding shares of Common Stock voted,
−Removed: non-votes will have no effect on the approval of our Business Combination once a quorum is obtained.
−Removed: Our founders collectively own 3,002,625
−Removed: shares of Common Stock (including 2,443,750 Founder Shares, 498,875 Private Shares and 60,000 Representative Shares).
−Removed: As a result, in
−Removed: addition to our founders’ Founder Shares, Private Shares and Representative Shares, we would need 3,386,188 shares (or 34.64% of
−Removed: the 9,775,000 Public Shares sold in the IPO) in order to have our Business Combination approved (assuming all outstanding shares voted);
−Removed: or 191,782 shares (1.96% of the 9,775,000 Public Shares sold in the IPO) in order to have our Business Combination approved (assuming
−Removed: only the quorum is present and voted).
−Removed: We intend to give approximately 30 days (but not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days) prior
−Removed: written notice of any such meeting, if required, at which a vote shall be taken to approve our Business Combination.
−Removed: These quorums and voting
−Removed: thresholds, and the voting agreements of our founders, may make it more likely that we will consummate our Business Combination.
−Removed: public stockholder may elect to redeem its Public Shares irrespective of whether they vote, do not vote or abstain, and if they do vote,
−Removed: irrespective of whether they vote for or against the Business Combination, and irrespective of whether they were a public stockholder
−Removed: on the record date for the general meeting held to approve the Business Combination.
−Removed: Our amended and restated
−Removed: certificate of incorporation provides that we will only redeem our Public Shares so long as (after such redemption) our net tangible assets
−Removed: will be at least $5,000,001 either immediately prior to or upon consummation of our initial business combination and after payment of
−Removed: underwriters’ fees and commissions (so that we are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules) or any greater
−Removed: net tangible asset or cash requirement which may be contained in the agreement relating to our initial business combination.
−Removed: the proposed Business Combination may require:
−Removed: (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash to be
−Removed: transferred to the target for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other
−Removed: conditions in accordance with the terms of the proposed Business Combination.
−Removed: In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be
−Removed: required to pay for all shares of Common Stock that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions
−Removed: pursuant to the terms of the proposed Business Combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the
−Removed: Business Combination or redeem any shares, and all shares of Common Stock submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof.
−Removed: Limitation on Redemption upon Completion of
−Removed: Initial Business Combination
−Removed: Notwithstanding the
−Removed: foregoing, if we seek stockholder approval of our Business Combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our
−Removed: Business Combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that a
−Removed: public stockholder, together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in
−Removed: concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from seeking
−Removed: redemption rights with respect to more than an aggregate of 20% of the shares sold in the IPO, which we refer to as the
−Removed: “Excess Shares.” We believe this restriction will discourage stockholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and
−Removed: subsequent attempts by such holders to use their ability to exercise their redemption rights against a proposed Business Combination
−Removed: as a means to force us or our management to purchase their shares at a significant premium to the then-current market price or on
−Removed: other undesirable terms.
−Removed: Absent this provision, a public stockholder holding more than an aggregate of 20% of the shares sold in the
−Removed: IPO could threaten to exercise its redemption rights if such holder’s shares are not purchased by us or our management at a
−Removed: premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms.
−Removed: By limiting our stockholders’ ability to redeem no
−Removed: more than 20% of the shares sold in the IPO, we believe we will limit the ability of a small group of stockholders to unreasonably
−Removed: attempt to block our ability to complete our Business Combination, particularly in connection with a Business Combination with a
−Removed: target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash.
−Removed: However, our amended and
−Removed: restated certificate of incorporation does not restrict our stockholders’ ability to vote all of their shares (including
−Removed: Excess Shares) for or against, or to abstain from voting on, our Business Combination.
−Removed: Tendering Stock Certificates in Connection
−Removed: with a Tender Offer or Redemption Rights
−Removed: We may require our
−Removed: public stockholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street
−Removed: name,” to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer documents mailed
−Removed: to such holders, or up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the Business Combination in the event we distribute
−Removed: proxy materials, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using the Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal
−Removed: At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option.
−Removed: The tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders
−Removed: of our Public Shares in connection with our Business Combination will indicate whether we are requiring public stockholders to satisfy
−Removed: such delivery requirements.
−Removed: Accordingly, a public stockholder would have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the
−Removed: close of the tender offer period, or up to two days prior to the vote on the Business Combination if we distribute proxy materials, as
−Removed: applicable, to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights.
−Removed: Given the relatively short exercise period, it
−Removed: is advisable for stockholders to use electronic delivery of their Public Shares.
−Removed: There is a nominal
−Removed: cost associated with the above-referenced tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC
−Removed: The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker $100.00 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass
−Removed: this cost on to the redeeming holder.
−Removed: However, this fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders seeking to exercise
−Removed: redemption rights to tender their shares.
−Removed: The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the
−Removed: timing of when such delivery must be effectuated.
+Added: will complete our business combination only
+Added: if a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination.
+Added: A quorum for the special
+Added: meeting for such a vote will consist of the holders present in person or by proxy of shares of outstanding capital stock of the Company
+Added: representing a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company entitled to vote at such meeting.
+Added: Our founders will count toward this quorum and have agreed to vote their Founder Shares, Private Shares and any Public Shares purchased
+Added: during or after the IPO in favor of our business combination.
+Added: For purposes of seeking approval of the majority of our outstanding shares
+Added: of Common Stock voted, non-votes will have no effect on the approval of our business combination once a quorum is obtained.
+Added: collectively own 3,002,625 shares of Common Stock (including 2,443,750 Founder Shares, 498,875 Private Shares and 60,000 Representative
+Added: As a result, assuming only a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company entitled
+Added: to vote at such meeting are present at such meeting and all Founder Shares, Private Shares and Representative Shares vote in favor of
+Added: the initial business combination, we do not need any additional shares of Common Stock from the public stockholders to vote in favor in
+Added: order to have our initial business combination approved.
+Added: We intend to give approximately 30 days (but not less than 10 days nor more than
+Added: 60 days) prior written notice of any such meeting, if required, at which a vote shall be taken to approve our business combination.
+Added: These quorums and voting thresholds,
+Added: and the voting agreements of our founders, may make it more likely that we will consummate our business combination.
+Added: Each public stockholder
+Added: may elect to redeem its Public Shares irrespective of whether they vote, do not vote or abstain, and if they do vote, irrespective of
+Added: whether they vote for or against the business combination, and irrespective of whether they were a public stockholder on the record date
+Added: for the general meeting held to approve the business combination.
+Added: The Current Charter provides that
+Added: we will only redeem our Public Shares so long as (after such redemption) our net tangible assets will be at least $5,000,001 either immediately
+Added: prior to or upon consummation of our initial business combination and after payment of underwriters’ fees and commissions (so that
+Added: we are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules) or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement which may
+Added: be contained in the agreement relating to our initial business combination.
+Added: For example, the proposed business combination may require:
+Added: (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash to be transferred to the target for working capital
+Added: or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions in accordance with the terms of the
+Added: proposed business combination.
+Added: In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all shares of Common Stock
+Added: that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business
+Added: combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combination or redeem any shares, and
+Added: all shares of Common Stock submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof.
+Added: Limitation on Redemption upon Completion of Initial
+Added: Business Combination
+Added: Notwithstanding the foregoing,
+Added: if we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination
+Added: pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that a public stockholder, together
+Added: with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group”
+Added: (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to more than an
+Added: aggregate of 20% of the shares sold in the IPO, which we refer to as the “Excess Shares.” We believe this restriction will
+Added: discourage stockholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and subsequent attempts by such holders to use their ability to exercise
+Added: their redemption rights against a proposed business combination as a means to force us or our management to purchase their shares at a
+Added: significant premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms.
+Added: Absent this provision, a public stockholder holding
+Added: more than an aggregate of 20% of the shares sold in the IPO could threaten to exercise its redemption rights if such holder’s shares
+Added: are not purchased by us or our management at a premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms.
+Added: By limiting our
+Added: stockholders’ ability to redeem no more than 20% of the shares sold in the IPO, we believe we will limit the ability of a small
+Added: group of stockholders to unreasonably attempt to block our ability to complete our business combination, particularly in connection with
+Added: a business combination with a target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash.
+Added: However, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation does not restrict our stockholders’ ability to vote all of their
+Added: shares (including Excess Shares) for or against, or to abstain from voting on, our business combination.
+Added: Tendering Stock Certificates in Connection with a Tender
+Added: Offer or Redemption Rights
+Added: We may require our public stockholders
+Added: seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either
+Added: tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer documents mailed to such holders, or up
+Added: to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the business combination in the event we distribute proxy materials,
+Added: or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using the Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At
+Added: Custodian) System, at the holder’s option.
+Added: The tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of
+Added: our Public Shares in connection with our business combination will indicate whether we are requiring public stockholders to satisfy such
+Added: delivery requirements.
+Added: Accordingly, a public stockholder would have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the close
+Added: of the tender offer period, or up to two days prior to the vote on the business combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable,
+Added: to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights.
+Added: Given the relatively short exercise period, it is advisable
+Added: for stockholders to use electronic delivery of their Public Shares.
+Added: There is a nominal cost associated
+Added: with the above-referenced tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC System.
+Added: agent will typically charge the tendering broker $100.00 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the redeeming
+Added: However, this fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders seeking to exercise redemption rights to tender
+Added: their shares.
+Added: The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the timing of when such delivery
+Added: must be effectuated.
The foregoing is different
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the meeting ensures that a redeeming holder’s election to redeem is irrevocable once the initial business combination is approved.
−Removed: Any request to redeem
−Removed: such shares, once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to the date set forth in the tender offer materials or the date of the stockholder
+Added: Any request to redeem such
+Added: shares, once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to the date set forth in the tender offer materials or the date of the stockholder
meeting set forth in our proxy materials, as applicable.
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initial business combination.
−Removed: If our Business Combination
−Removed: is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be
−Removed: entitled to redeem their shares for the applicable pro rata share of the Trust Account.
+Added: If our business combination is
+Added: not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be entitled
+Added: to redeem their shares for the applicable pro rata share of the Trust Account.
In such case, we will promptly return any certificates
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combination is not completed, we may continue to try to complete an initial business combination with a different target with the Combination
−Removed: Redemption of Public Shares and Liquidation
−Removed: if no Initial Business Combination
−Removed: Our amended and restated certificate
−Removed: of incorporation provides that we have only 18 months from the closing of the IPO to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: are unable to complete our initial business combination with the Combination Period, we will:
−Removed: (i) cease all operations except for
−Removed: the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the Public
−Removed: Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account including interest earned
−Removed: on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (less up to $50,000 of interest to pay dissolution
+Added: Redemption of Public Shares and Liquidation if no Initial
+Added: Business Combination
+Added: The Current Charter allows the
+Added: Company until June 21, 2023 to consummate an initial business combination and to elect to extend the period to consummate an initial business
+Added: combination up to nine times, each by an additional one-month period, for a total of up to nine months to March 21, 2024.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to complete our initial business combination with the Combination Period, we will:
+Added: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose
+Added: of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the Public Shares,
+Added: at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account including interest earned on
+Added: the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (less up to $50,000 of interest to pay dissolution
expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’
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above) we would not proceed with the amendment or the related redemption of our Public Shares.
−Removed: We expect that all
−Removed: costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from amounts
−Removed: remaining out of the approximately $500,000 of proceeds held outside the Trust Account, although we cannot assure you that there will
−Removed: be sufficient funds for such purpose.
−Removed: However, if those funds are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing
−Removed: our plan of dissolution, to the extent that there is any interest accrued in the Trust Account not required to pay taxes on interest income
−Removed: earned on the Trust Account balance, we may request the trustee to release to us an additional amount of up to $50,000 of such accrued
−Removed: interest to pay those costs and expenses.
−Removed: If we were to expend
−Removed: all of the net proceeds of the IPO and the sale of the Private Shares, other than the Trust Funds, and without taking into account interest,
+Added: We expect that all costs and
+Added: expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from amounts remaining
+Added: out of the approximately $500,000 of proceeds held outside the Trust Account, although we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient
+Added: funds for such purpose.
+Added: However, if those funds are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan
+Added: of dissolution, to the extent that there is any interest accrued in the Trust Account not required to pay taxes on interest income earned
+Added: on the Trust Account balance, we may request the trustee to release to us an additional amount of up to $50,000 of such accrued interest
+Added: to pay those costs and expenses.
+Added: If we were to expend all of
+Added: the net proceeds of the IPO and the sale of the Private Shares, other than the Trust Funds, and without taking into account interest,
if any, earned on the Trust Account, the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders upon our dissolution would be approximately
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we cannot assure you that we will have funds sufficient to pay or provide for all creditors’ claims.
−Removed: Although we will seek
−Removed: to have all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with
−Removed: us waiving any right, title, interest and claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account for the benefit of our public
−Removed: stockholders, there is no guarantee that they will execute such agreements or even if they execute such agreements that they would be
−Removed: prevented from bringing claims against the Trust Account including but not limited to fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility
−Removed: or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with
−Removed: respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: If any third party refuses to execute an agreement
−Removed: waiving such claims to the monies held in the Trust Account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to
−Removed: it and will only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s
−Removed: engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.
−Removed: Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third
−Removed: party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third-party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed
−Removed: by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management
−Removed: is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver.
−Removed: In addition, there
−Removed: is no guarantee that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations,
−Removed: contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason.
−Removed: Our Sponsor has agreed that it will
−Removed: be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target
−Removed: business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below
−Removed: (i) $10.15 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation
−Removed: of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount of interest which may be withdrawn
−Removed: to pay taxes, except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account
−Removed: and except as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under
−Removed: the Securities Act.
−Removed: In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, then the Sponsor will not
−Removed: be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third party claims We have not independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient
−Removed: funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and believe that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company.
−Removed: asked the Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations.
+Added: Although we will seek to have
+Added: all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving
+Added: any right, title, interest and claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account for the benefit of our public stockholders,
+Added: there is no guarantee that they will execute such agreements or even if they execute such agreements that they would be prevented from
+Added: bringing claims against the Trust Account including but not limited to fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other
+Added: similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect
+Added: to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the Trust Account.
+Added: If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving
+Added: such claims to the monies held in the Trust Account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will
+Added: only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement
+Added: would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.
+Added: Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third party that
+Added: refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third-party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management
+Added: to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable
+Added: to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver.
+Added: In addition, there is no guarantee
+Added: that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts
+Added: or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason.
+Added: Our Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable
+Added: to us if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business
+Added: with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below (i) $10.15
+Added: per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust
+Added: Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount of interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes,
+Added: except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account and except as
+Added: to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities
+Added: In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, then the Sponsor will not be responsible
+Added: to the extent of any liability for such third party claims We have not independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient funds
+Added: to satisfy its indemnity obligations and believe that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company.
+Added: We have not asked
+Added: the Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations.
Therefore, we cannot assure you that the Sponsor would be able to satisfy
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target businesses.
−Removed: In the event that the
−Removed: Trust Funds are reduced below (i) $10.15 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account
−Removed: as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount
−Removed: of interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, and the Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its indemnification obligations
−Removed: or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take
−Removed: legal action against the Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations.
−Removed: While we currently expect that our independent directors
−Removed: would take legal action on our behalf against the Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent
+Added: In the event that the Trust
+Added: Funds are reduced below (i) $10.15 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account as
+Added: of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount of
+Added: interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, and the Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its indemnification obligations or
+Added: that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal
+Added: action against the Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations.
+Added: While we currently expect that our independent directors would
+Added: take legal action on our behalf against the Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent
directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so if, for example, the cost of such legal action is deemed by the
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per-share redemption price will not be less than $10.15 per public share.
−Removed: We will seek to reduce
−Removed: the possibility that the Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors,
−Removed: service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right,
−Removed: title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: the Sponsor will also not be liable as to any claims under
−Removed: our indemnity of the underwriters of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
−Removed: access to up to approximately $700,000 from the proceeds of the IPO with which to pay any such potential claims.
−Removed: In the event that we
−Removed: liquidate and it is subsequently determined that the reserve for claims and liabilities is insufficient, stockholders who received funds
−Removed: from our Trust Account could be liable for claims made by creditors.
−Removed: Under the DGCL, stockholders
−Removed: may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution.
−Removed: The pro rata portion of our Trust Account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our Public Shares in the event
−Removed: we do not complete our Business Combination with the Combination Period may be considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law.
+Added: We will seek to reduce the
+Added: possibility that the Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service
+Added: providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title,
+Added: interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.
+Added: The Sponsor will also not be liable as to any claims under our
+Added: indemnity of the underwriters of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
+Added: We will have access
+Added: to up to approximately $700,000 from the proceeds of the IPO with which to pay any such potential claims.
+Added: In the event that we liquidate
+Added: and it is subsequently determined that the reserve for claims and liabilities is insufficient, stockholders who received funds from our
+Added: Trust Account could be liable for claims made by creditors.
+Added: Under the DGCL, stockholders may
+Added: be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution.
+Added: pro rata portion of our Trust Account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our Public Shares in the event we
+Added: do not complete our business combination with the Combination Period may be considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law.
If the corporation complies with certain procedures set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL intended to ensure that it makes reasonable
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would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution.
−Removed: Furthermore, if the pro rata
−Removed: portion of our Trust Account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our Public Shares in the event we do not complete
−Removed: our Business Combination within the Combination Period if we extend the period of time to consummate an initial business combination),
−Removed: is not considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant
+Added: Furthermore, if the pro rata portion
+Added: of our Trust Account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our Public Shares in the event we do not complete our
+Added: business combination within the Combination Period if we extend the period of time to consummate an initial business combination), is
+Added: not considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant
to Section 174 of the DGCL, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption
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of such date.
−Removed: Because we will not
−Removed: be complying with Section 280, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such
−Removed: time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within
−Removed: the subsequent 10 years.
−Removed: However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations will be limited
−Removed: to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers,
−Removed: investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses.
−Removed: As described above, pursuant to the obligation contained in our underwriting
−Removed: agreement, we will seek to have all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business
−Removed: execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: result of this obligation, the claims that could be made against us are significantly limited and the likelihood that any claim that would
−Removed: result in any liability extending to the Trust Account is remote.
−Removed: Further, the Sponsor may be liable only to the extent necessary to ensure
−Removed: that the amounts in the Trust Account are not reduced below (i) $10.15 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public
−Removed: share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets,
−Removed: in each case net of the amount of interest withdrawn to pay taxes and will not be liable as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters
−Removed: of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
−Removed: In the event that an executed waiver is deemed
−Removed: to be unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.
−Removed: If we file a bankruptcy
−Removed: petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the Trust Funds could be subject to applicable
−Removed: bankruptcy law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims
−Removed: of our stockholders.
−Removed: To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the Trust Account, we cannot assure you we will be able to return $10.15
−Removed: per share to our public stockholders.
−Removed: Additionally, if we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against
−Removed: us that is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy
−Removed: laws as either a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek
−Removed: to recover some or all amounts received by our stockholders.
−Removed: Furthermore, our board of directors may be viewed as having breached its
−Removed: fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages,
−Removed: by paying public stockholders from the Trust Account prior to addressing the claims of creditors.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that claims will
−Removed: not be brought against us for these reasons.
−Removed: Our public stockholders will
−Removed: be entitled to receive funds from the Trust Account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our Public Shares if we do not complete
+Added: Because we will not be complying
+Added: with Section 280, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such time that
+Added: will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within the subsequent
+Added: However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations will be limited to searching
+Added: for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.)
+Added: or prospective target businesses.
+Added: As described above, pursuant to the obligation contained in our underwriting agreement, we will seek
+Added: to have all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with
+Added: us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account.
+Added: As a result of this obligation,
+Added: the claims that could be made against us are significantly limited and the likelihood that any claim that would result in any liability
+Added: extending to the Trust Account is remote.
+Added: Further, the Sponsor may be liable only to the extent necessary to ensure that the amounts in
+Added: the Trust Account are not reduced below (i) $10.15 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the
+Added: Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net
+Added: of the amount of interest withdrawn to pay taxes and will not be liable as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of the
+Added: IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
+Added: In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be
+Added: unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.
+Added: If we file a bankruptcy petition
+Added: or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the Trust Funds could be subject to applicable bankruptcy
+Added: law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our stockholders.
+Added: To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the Trust Account, we cannot assure you we will be able to return $10.15 per share to our
+Added: public stockholders.
+Added: Additionally, if we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is
+Added: not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either
+Added: a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover
+Added: some or all amounts received by our stockholders.
+Added: Furthermore, our board of directors may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty
+Added: to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying
+Added: public stockholders from the Trust Account prior to addressing the claims of creditors.
+Added: We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought
+Added: against us for these reasons.
+Added: Our public stockholders will be
+Added: entitled to receive funds from the Trust Account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our Public Shares if we do not complete
an initial business combination with the Combination Period, subject to applicable law, (ii) (a) in connection with a stockholder
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business combination.
−Removed: Our executive offices
−Removed: are located at 48 Bridge Street Building A, Metuchen, New Jersey 08840.
+Added: Our executive offices are
+Added: located at 48 Bridge Street Building A, Metuchen, New Jersey 08840.
We currently have three executive
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Periodic Reporting and Financial Information
−Removed: We have registered
−Removed: our Units, Class A Common Stock, Warrants and Rights under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the requirement
−Removed: that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC.
−Removed: In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, our annual reports
−Removed: will contain financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.
−Removed: We have filed a Registration
−Removed: Statement on Form 8-A with the SEC to voluntarily register our securities under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
−Removed: we are subject to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: We have no current intention of filing a Form 15
−Removed: to suspend our reporting or other obligations under the Exchange Act prior or subsequent to the consummation of our Business Combination.
+Added: We have registered our Units,
+Added: Class A Common Stock, Warrants and Rights under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the requirement that we file
+Added: annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC.
+Added: In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, our annual reports will contain
+Added: financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.
+Added: We have filed a Registration Statement
+Added: on Form 8-A with the SEC to voluntarily register our securities under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
+Added: As a result, we are subject
+Added: to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act.
+Added: We have no current intention of filing a Form 15 to suspend
+Added: our reporting or other obligations under the Exchange Act prior or subsequent to the consummation of our business combination.
We will provide stockholders
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While this may limit the pool of potential acquisition candidates, we do not believe that this limitation will
−Removed: We will be required to
−Removed: evaluate our internal control procedures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
−Removed: Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer will we be required to have our internal
−Removed: control procedures audited.
−Removed: A target company may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding
−Removed: adequacy of their internal controls.
−Removed: The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the
−Removed: Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.
+Added: will be required to evaluate our internal control procedures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 as
+Added: required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
+Added: Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer will
+Added: we be required to have our internal control procedures audited.
+Added: A target company may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley
+Added: Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls.
+Added: The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with
+Added: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.
Legal Proceedings
−Removed: There is no material
−Removed: litigation, arbitration or governmental proceeding currently pending against us or any members of our management team in their capacity
+Added: There is no material litigation,
+Added: arbitration or governmental proceeding currently pending against us or any members of our management team in their capacity as such.
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