−Removed: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL
−Removed: CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
+Added: OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
References in this report
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in effecting our initial business combination.
+Added: We expect to continue to incur significant costs in the pursuit of
+Added: our acquisition plans.
+Added: We cannot assure you that our plans to complete an initial business combination will be successful.
+Added: Recent Developments
+Added: ANEW Business Combination
+Added: On May 30, 2023, we entered
+Added: into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”) by and among the Company, ANEW Medical Sub, Inc.,
+Added: a Wyoming corporation (“Merger Sub”), and ANEW Medical, Inc., a Wyoming corporation (“ANEW”).
+Added: The Business Combination
+Added: Agreement provides, among other things, that on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, Merger Sub will merge with
+Added: and into ANEW, with ANEW as the surviving company in the merger and, after giving effect to such merger, a wholly owned subsidiary of
+Added: the Company (the “Merger”).
+Added: Upon the closing of the Merger, the Company will change its name to “ANEW Medical, Inc.”
+Added: Under the Business Combination
+Added: Agreement, we will acquire all of the outstanding equity interests of ANEW in exchange for shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001
+Added: per share (the “Common Stock”), based on an implied ANEW equity value of $60,000,000, to be paid to ANEW stockholders at the
+Added: effective time of the Merger.
+Added: In addition, certain ANEW stockholders will be issued additional shares of Common Stock (the “Contingent
+Added: Consideration Shares”), which will be issued as follows:
+Added: (i) 2,000,000 Contingent Consideration Shares upon the Company achieving
+Added: a closing price equal to or exceeding $12.50 for 10 trading days within a 20-day trading period in the first three years following the
+Added: closing of the Merger;
+Added: (ii) 2,000,000 Contingent Consideration Shares upon the Company achieving a closing price equal to or exceeding
+Added: $15.00 for 10 trading days within a 20-day trading period in the first three years following the closing of the Merger;
+Added: and (iii) 1,000,000
+Added: Contingent Consideration Shares upon the Company achieving a closing price equal to or exceeding $20.00 for 10 trading days within a 20-day
+Added: trading period in the first five years following the closing of the Merger.
+Added: In connection with the execution
+Added: of the Business Combination Agreement, the Sponsor and other persons party thereto (together with the Sponsor, collectively, the “Company
+Added: Insiders”), entered into a support agreement with the Company and ANEW (the “Sponsor Support Agreement”).
+Added: Sponsor Support Agreement, the Sponsor agreed to vote, at any meeting of the stockholders of the Company and in any action by written
+Added: consent of the stockholders of the Company, all of such Sponsor’s 2,875,000 shares of common stock (the “Founder Shares”)
+Added: and 530,000 Private Units, each consisting of one share of Common Stock (such shares, together with the Founder Shares, the “Supporter
+Added: Shares”), one warrant and one right, (i) in favor of (a) the Business Combination Agreement and each ancillary document to which
+Added: the Company is a party and the transactions contemplated thereby and (b) the other proposals that the Company and ANEW agreed in the Business
+Added: Combination Agreement shall be submitted at such meeting for approval by the Company’s stockholders together with the proposal to
+Added: approve the Merger, (ii) approval of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws and (iii) against
+Added: any other action that would reasonably be expected to impede, interfere with or adversely affect the Merger.
+Added: The Sponsor Support Agreement
+Added: also prohibits the Sponsor from, among other things and subject to certain exceptions, selling, assigning or transferring any Supporter
+Added: Shares held by the Sponsor or taking any action that would have the effect of preventing or materially delaying the Sponsor from performing
+Added: its obligations under the Sponsor Support Agreement.
+Added: In addition, in the Sponsor Support Agreement, the Sponsor agreed to waive, and not
+Added: to assert or claim, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any anti-dilution protection pursuant to the organizational documents
+Added: of the Company in connection with the Merger.
+Added: In connection with the execution
+Added: of the Business Combination Agreement, certain ANEW stockholders (the “ANEW Supporting Stockholders”) entered into a voting
+Added: and support agreement with the Company and ANEW (the “ANEW Support Agreement”).
+Added: Under the ANEW Support Agreement, each ANEW
+Added: Supporting Stockholder agreed that, at any meeting of ANEW’s stockholders related to the transactions contemplated by the Business
+Added: Combination Agreement, each such ANEW Supporting Stockholder will appear at the meeting or otherwise cause its shares to be voted (i)
+Added: in favor of the Business Combination Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, and authorize and approve any amendment to ANEW’s
+Added: governing documents that is deemed necessary or advisable by ANEW to effect the Merger;
+Added: and (ii) against any other action would reasonably
+Added: be expected to impede, interfere with or adversely affect the Merger.
+Added: The ANEW Support Agreement
+Added: also restricts the ANEW Supporting Stockholders from, among other things, selling, assigning or otherwise transferring any of its shares
+Added: unless the buyer, assignee or transferee thereof executes a joinder agreement to the ANEW Support Agreement in a form reasonably acceptable
+Added: to the Company.
+Added: On November 4, 2023,
+Added: the Company entered into Amendment No.
+Added: 1 to the Business Combination (the “Amendment”) with the other parties thereto.
+Added: The Amendment extends the termination date under the Business Combination Agreement from November 4, 2023 to March 4, 2024 (the
+Added: “Termination Date”);
+Added: provided, further, that (i) the right to terminate the Business Combination Agreement will not be
+Added: available to the Company if any Company party’s breach of any of its covenants or obligations under the Business Combination
+Added: Agreement will have proximately caused the failure to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement
+Added: on or before the Termination Date, and (ii) the right to terminate the Business Combination Agreement will not be available to the
+Added: Company if the Company’s breach of its covenants or obligations under the Business Combination Agreement will have proximately
+Added: caused the failure to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement on or before the Termination
+Added: On April 16, 2024, the Company entered into a Side Letter to Business Combination Agreement by and among the Company, the Merger Sub and
+Added: ANEW pursuant to which the parties agreed to extend the Termination Date to June 4, 2024.
+Added: Extension Meetings
+Added: On March 31, 2023, we held
+Added: a special meeting of stockholders, at which our stockholders approved (i) an amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation
+Added: (the “Extension Amendment”) and (ii) an amendment (the “Trust Amendment”) to the Trust Agreement, by and between
+Added: the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee, extending the date by which we must consummate a Business
+Added: Combination from April 4, 2023 to July 4, 2023, with the ability to further extend the deadline on a monthly basis up to five times from
+Added: July 4, 2023 to December 4, 2023.
+Added: In connection with the stockholders’ vote at the special meeting, an aggregate of 6,103,350 shares
+Added: with redemption value of $63,169,451 (or $10.35 per share) of the Company’s common stock were tendered for redemption.
+Added: As a result of stockholder
+Added: approval of the Extension Amendment and the Trust Amendment, our sponsor, Redwoods Capital LLC (the “Sponsor”), or any of
+Added: their respective affiliates or designees, agreed to deposit into the Trust Account $360,000 for the initial three-month extension and
+Added: $120,000 per month for each subsequent one-month extension.
+Added: The extension payment(s) will bear no interest and will be repayable by the
+Added: Company to the contributors upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: The loans will be forgiven by the contributors if the Company
+Added: is unable to consummate the Business Combination except to the extent of any funds held outside of the Trust Account.
+Added: On March 31, 2023, the Sponsor
+Added: made a deposit of $360,000 into the Trust Account and extended the period of time we have to consummate an initial Business Combination
+Added: from April 4, 2023 to July 4, 2023, on June 29, 2023, the Sponsor made a deposit of $360,000 into the Trust Account and extended the period
+Added: of time we have to consummate an initial business combination from July 4, 2023 to October 4, 2023, and subsequently on each of September
+Added: 26, 2023 and November 1, 2023, the Sponsor made a deposit of $120,000 into the Trust Account to further extend the business combination
+Added: period to December 4, 2023.
+Added: On November 13, 2023, we held
+Added: a special meeting of stockholders, at which our stockholders approved (i) an amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation
+Added: (the “Second Extension Amendment”) to allow us to extend the date by which we must consummate a business combination up to
+Added: twelve (12) times for an additional one month each time from December 4, 2023 to December 4, 2024 and (ii) an amendment to the Trust Agreement
+Added: (the “Second Trust Amendment”) to allow us to extend the date on which the trustee must liquidate the Trust Account by up
+Added: to twelve (12) times for an additional one month each time from December 4, 2023 to December 4, 2024 by depositing $35,000 per month for
+Added: each monthly extension.
+Added: In connection with the stockholders’ vote at the special meeting, an aggregate of 3,636,456 shares with
+Added: redemption value of approximately $39,255,410 (or $10.79 per share) of our common stock were tendered for redemption.
+Added: Following the special meeting
+Added: on November 13, 2023, we and the trustee entered into the Second Trust Amendment and we filed the Second Extension Amendment with the
+Added: Secretary of State of the State of Delaware which became effective upon filing.
+Added: Pursuant to the Second Extension Amendment, we are permitted
+Added: to extend the date by which we must consummate an initial business combination on a monthly basis up to twelve times from December 4,
+Added: 2023 to December 4, 2024 by depositing $35,000 for each monthly extension in accordance with the terms of the Second Trust Amendment.
+Added: On April 16, 2024, the Company entered into a Side Letter to Business Combination Agreement by and among the Company, the Merger Sub and
+Added: ANEW pursuant to which the parties agreed to extend the Termination Date to June 4, 2024.
+Added: The Company called and provided
+Added: a notice of a special meeting to be held on March 8, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
+Added: Eastern time, as a virtual meeting, to consider and vote upon
+Added: the matters described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on February 20, 2024.
+Added: On March 8, 2024, the
+Added: Company convened the special meeting as scheduled and adjourned the special Meeting without any business being conducted.
+Added: On March 22, 2024, the Company
+Added: reconvened its special meeting that was previously adjourned on March 8, 2024.
+Added: At the special meeting, the stockholders present voted
+Added: to adjourn the special meeting without any business being conducted.
+Added: On April 1, 2024, the Company
+Added: reconvened its special meeting that was previously adjourned on March 22, 2024.
+Added: At the special meeting, the stockholders present voted
+Added: to adjourn the special meeting without any business being conducted.
+Added: As announced at the special meeting, it will be reconvened at 10:00
+Added: Eastern Time on April 8, 2024.
+Added: On April 8, 2024, the Company reconvened its special meeting that was previously adjourned on March 22, 2024.
+Added: At the special meeting,
+Added: the stockholders present voted to adjourn the special meeting without any business being conducted.
+Added: As announced at the special meeting,
+Added: it will be reconvened at 10:00 a.m.
+Added: Eastern Time on April 12, 2024.
+Added: On April 12, 2024, the Company completed its special meeting that was originally convened and adjourned on March 8, 2024.
+Added: At the special
+Added: meeting holders of 4,189,027 shares of common stock of the Company were present in person or by proxy, representing 81% of the total shares
+Added: of common stock as of February 16, 2024, the record date for the special meeting, and constituting a quorum for the transaction of business.
+Added: At the special meeting, the stockholders approved the business combination proposal, the charter proposal, the governance proposal, the
+Added: incentive plan proposal, the director election proposal and the Nasdaq proposal.
+Added: The Company plans to close the business combination transaction
+Added: as soon as possible and will continue to accept reversal of redemption requests until closing.
+Added: The Company’s stockholders elected to redeem an aggregate of 1,739,776 shares of common stock in connection with the special meeting.
Results of Operations
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and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses in connection with searching for, and completing, an initial business
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had net income of $1,233,352
−Removed: which consisted of interest earned on the investments held in the Trust Account of $1,656,478and change in fair value of warrant liabilities
−Removed: of $555,917, offset by general and administrative expenses of $533,992, franchise tax of $123,026, and income tax expense of $322,025.
−Removed: For the period from March 16, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021, we had net loss of $3,559 which consisted of formation costs.
+Added: For the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2023, we had net income of $1,346,125 which consisted of general and administrative expenses of $1,225,241, franchise tax of $75,600,
+Added: an increase in fair value of warrant liabilities of $26,500, and income tax expense of $690,572, offset by interest earned on the investments
+Added: held in the Trust Account of $3,364,038.
+Added: For the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2022, we had net income of $1,233,352 which consisted of interest earned on the investments held in the Trust Account of $1,656,478and
+Added: change in fair value of warrant liabilities of $555,917, offset by general and administrative expenses of $533,992, franchise tax of $123,026,
+Added: and income tax expense of $322,025.
Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern
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only upon completion of an initial business combination) and $1,177,839 of other offering costs.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022, we had marketable securities held in the Trust
−Removed: Account of $117,806,478 consisting of securities held in a treasury trust fund that invests in U.S.
−Removed: “government securities,”
−Removed: within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less.
−Removed: Interest income on
−Removed: the balance in the Trust Account may be used by us to pay taxes.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we did not withdraw any interest
−Removed: earned on the Trust Account to pay our taxes.
−Removed: We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust Account, to acquire a
−Removed: target business and to pay our expenses relating thereto.
−Removed: To the extent that our capital stock is used in whole or in part as consideration
−Removed: to effect a Business Combination, the remaining funds held in the Trust Account will be used as working capital to finance the operations
−Removed: of the target business.
−Removed: Such working capital funds could be used in a variety of ways including continuing or expanding the target business’
−Removed: operations, for strategic acquisitions and for marketing, research and development of existing or new products.
−Removed: Such funds could also
−Removed: be used to repay any operating expenses or finders’ fees which we had incurred prior to the completion of our Business Combination
−Removed: if the funds available to us outside of the Trust Account were insufficient to cover such expenses.
+Added: As of December 31, 2023, we had
+Added: marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $19,256,423 consisting of securities held in a treasury trust fund that invests in
+Added: “government securities,” within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity
+Added: of 185 days or less.
+Added: Interest income on the balance in the Trust Account may be used by us to pay taxes.
+Added: Through December 31, 2023, we
+Added: withdraw $519,232 interest earned on the Trust Account to pay our taxes.
+Added: We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust
+Added: Account, to acquire a target business and to pay our expenses relating thereto.
+Added: To the extent that our capital stock is used in whole
+Added: or in part as consideration to effect a Business Combination, the remaining funds held in the Trust Account will be used as working capital
+Added: to finance the operations of the target business.
+Added: Such working capital funds could be used in a variety of ways including continuing or
+Added: expanding the target business’ operations, for strategic acquisitions and for marketing, research and development of existing or
+Added: new products.
+Added: Such funds could also be used to repay any operating expenses or finders’ fees which we had incurred prior to the
+Added: completion of our Business Combination if the funds available to us outside of the Trust Account were insufficient to cover such expenses.
As of December 31, 2023,
−Removed: the Company had cash of $340,962 and working capital of $299,788 (excluding income tax and franchise tax payable).
−Removed: On March 22 and March
−Removed: 30, 2023, the Sponsor provided a loan of up to $150,000 and $360,000, respectively, to be used, in part, for transaction costs related
−Removed: to the Business Combination.
−Removed: Until consummation of the Business Combination, we intend to use the funds held outside the Trust Account
−Removed: for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses,
−Removed: traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material
−Removed: agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the
−Removed: Business Combination.
−Removed: If our estimate of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating
−Removed: a Business Combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds available to operate our business
−Removed: prior to our Business Combination.
−Removed: In this event, our officers, directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds
−Removed: as may be required.
+Added: the Company had cash of $172,535 and working capital deficit of $2,113,550.
+Added: On March 22 and March 30, 2023, June 28, 2023, August 29,
+Added: 2023, September 25, 2023, and November 27, 2023, the Sponsor provided a loan of $150,000, $360,000, $360,000, $150,000, $120,000, and
+Added: $400,000, respectively, to be used, in part, for transaction costs related to the Business Combination.
+Added: Subsequently on each month from
+Added: January 2024 to April 2024, the Sponsor made a deposit of $35,000 into the Trust Account to further extend the business combination period
+Added: to May 4, 2024.
+Added: Until consummation of the Business Combination, we intend to use the funds held outside the Trust Account for identifying
+Added: and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and
+Added: from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements
+Added: of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the Business
+Added: If our estimate of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating a Business
+Added: Combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds available to operate our business prior
+Added: to our Business Combination.
+Added: In this event, our officers, directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as
+Added: may be required.
If we consummate an initial Business Combination, we would repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the Trust
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and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.
−Removed: The Company has incurred and
−Removed: expects to continue to incur significant professional costs to remain as a publicly traded company and to incur significant transaction
+Added: The Company has incurred
+Added: and expects to continue to incur significant professional costs to remain as a publicly traded company and to incur significant transaction
costs in pursuit of the consummation of a Business Combination.
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Standard Board’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s
−Removed: Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” the Company has until April 4, 2023 (or October 4, 2023, if the Company extends the time
−Removed: to complete a Business Combination) to complete a Business Combination.
−Removed: It is uncertain that the Company will be able to consummate a
−Removed: Business Combination by this time.
−Removed: If a Business Combination is not consummated by such date and an extension has not been requested by
−Removed: the Sponsor and approved by the Company’s stockholders, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of the
−Removed: Management has determined that the liquidity condition, the mandatory liquidation, should a Business Combination not occur and
−Removed: an extension not be requested by the Sponsor, and potential subsequent dissolution raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability
−Removed: to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Ability to Continue as a Going Concern”, the Company has until June 4, 2024 to complete
+Added: a Business Combination.
+Added: It is uncertain that the Company will be able to consummate a Business Combination by this time.
+Added: If a Business
+Added: Combination is not consummated by such date and an extension has not been requested by the Sponsor and approved by the Company’s
+Added: stockholders, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of the Company.
+Added: Management has determined that the date
+Added: for liquidation and subsequent dissolution as well as liquidity concerns raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to
+Added: continue as a going concern.
The financial statement does not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Contractual Obligations
−Removed: We do not have any long-term
−Removed: debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities, other than as described below.
+Added: Promissory Notes - Related Party
+Added: On March 22, 2023, we issued
+Added: an unsecured, non-interest bearing promissory note in the principal amount of up to $150,000 to the Sponsor (“Convertible Note 1”).
+Added: The promissory note is payable upon the closing of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
+Added: The holder of the promissory
+Added: note, in its sole discretion, may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory note into private units of the Company,
+Added: at a price of $10.00 per unit, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: On March 30, 2023, we issued
+Added: an unsecured, non-interest bearing promissory note in the principal amount of up to $360,000 to the Sponsor (“Convertible Note 2”).
+Added: The promissory note is payable upon the closing of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
+Added: The holder of the promissory
+Added: note, in its sole discretion, may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory note into private units of the Company,
+Added: at a price of $10.00 per unit, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: On May 15, 2023, the conversion
+Added: feature of Convertible Note 1 and Convertible Note 2 was amended;
+Added: the holder of the promissory notes, in its sole discretion, may convert
+Added: any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory notes into shares of common stock of the Company, at a conversion price of $10.00
+Added: per share, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: On June 28, 2023, the Company
+Added: issued an unsecured, non-interest bearing promissory note in the principal amount of $360,000 to the Sponsor (“Convertible Note
+Added: Convertible Note 3 is payable upon the closing of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
+Added: The holder of
+Added: the Convertible Note 3, in its sole discretion, may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory note into shares of
+Added: common stock of the Company, at a price of $10.00 per share, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: On August 29, 2023, the Company
+Added: issued an unsecured, non-interest bearing promissory note in the principal amount of $150,000 to the Sponsor (“Convertible Note
+Added: Convertible Note 4 is payable upon the closing of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
+Added: The holder of
+Added: the Convertible Note 4, in its sole discretion, may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory note into shares of
+Added: common stock of the Company, at a price of $10.00 per share, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: On September 25, 2023, the
+Added: Company issued an unsecured, non-interest bearing promissory note in the principal amount of $120,000 to the Sponsor (“Convertible
+Added: Convertible Note 5 is payable upon the closing of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
+Added: of the Convertible Note 5, in its sole discretion, may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory note into shares
+Added: of common stock of the Company, at a price of $10.00 per share, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: On November 27, 2023, the
+Added: Company issued an unsecured, non-interest-bearing promissory note in the principal amount of $400,000 to the Sponsor (“Convertible
+Added: Convertible Note 6 is payable upon the closing of the Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.
+Added: of the Convertible Note 6, in its sole discretion, may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the promissory note into shares
+Added: of common stock of the Company, at a price of $10.00 per share, upon consummation of the Business Combination.
Registration Rights
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equity, equity linked and debt offerings by us or any of our successors or subsidiaries.
−Removed: Critical Accounting Policies
+Added: In accordance with FINRA Rule 5110(g)(6)(A),
+Added: such right of first refusal shall not have a duration of more than three years from the commencement of sales of this offering.
+Added: Financial Advisor - Chardan
+Added: Chardan was independently
+Added: retained as M&A and capital markets advisor by each of Redwoods (in April of 2022) and ANEW (in October of 2022) in connection with
+Added: possible business combinations and related transactions that each was considering, including (eventually) the Merger.
+Added: When Redwoods and
+Added: ANEW commenced discussions in March of 2023 related to the Merger, Redwoods and ANEW consented to such dual representation in connection
+Added: with the Merger and waived any conflicts of interest arising therefrom.
+Added: On August 25, 2023, Redwoods received Chardan’s formal
+Added: resignation from its previous engagement as Redwood’s M&A and capital markets advisor in connection with the Merger and of the
+Added: fees to which Chardan would have been entitled for such engagement upon the closing of the Merger.
+Added: Chardan’s letter indicated that
+Added: it would continue its representation of ANEW in connection with the Merger and that Chardan was not waiving its entitlement to receive
+Added: from Redwoods the deferred IPO underwriting commission described in Redwoods’ IPO prospectus.
+Added: Upon the closing of the Merger, Chardan
+Added: will be entitled to $4,312,500 in deferred IPO underwriting commissions from Redwoods.
+Added: Financial Advisor – Del Mar Global Advisors
+Added: Limited (“Del Mar”)
+Added: On November 29, 2023, Redwoods
+Added: and Del Mar executed a Consultant Agreement pursuant to which Del Mar is serving as a financial advisor to Redwoods on a consultancy basis.
+Added: Redwoods has no prior relationship with Del Mar.
+Added: At closing the business combination, 240,000 shares will be issued to Del Mar as financial
+Added: advisor compensation to Redwoods.
+Added: The 240,000 shares of Redwoods common stock are valued at $2,400,000 or $10 per share.
+Added: retain an ownership interest of 2.2% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Combined Company’s Common Stock.
+Added: Contingent Legal Fees
+Added: The Company engaged a legal counsel firm for legal advisory services, and the legal counsel agreed to defer their fees in excess of $200,000.
+Added: The contingent fee will become payable in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination.
+Added: In the event that the Business
+Added: Combination does not close and the Company receive a break-up fee or similar payment from the target company, The Company agrees to pay
+Added: the legal counsel the balance of legal fees, up to the lesser of (i) one-half of the amount received from the target company, and (ii)
+Added: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had deferred legal fees of $1.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively, in connection
+Added: with such services.
+Added: Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The preparation of financial
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and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the period reported.
−Removed: Actual results could materially
−Removed: differ from those estimates.
−Removed: We have identified the following critical accounting policies:
+Added: We base our estimates on
+Added: historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances.
+Added: Actual results could
+Added: materially differ from those estimates.
+Added: We have not identified any critical accounting estimates;
+Added: we have identified the following critical
+Added: accounting policies:
Investments Held in Trust Account
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that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis.
+Added: Convertible Promissory Notes
+Added: The Company initially accounted
+Added: for its convertible promissory notes under ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” and elected the fair value option under ASC
+Added: Using the fair value option method, each convertible promissory note is required to be recorded at its initial fair value on the
+Added: date of issuance, and each balance sheet date thereafter.
+Added: Changes in the estimated fair value of the notes are recognized as a non-cash
+Added: gain or loss on the statements of operations.
+Added: Subsequently, the conversion
+Added: feature of the convertible promissory notes was amended on May 15, 2023;
+Added: the holder of the convertible promissory notes, in its sole discretion,
+Added: may convert any or all of the unpaid principal under the convertible promissory notes into common stocks of the Company (see Note 6).
+Added: As a result, the Company assessed the change in conversion feature and determined that the convertible promissory notes should be recorded
+Added: as debt (liability) at cash proceeds on the balance sheet.
+Added: The Company’s assessment of the embedded conversion feature considered
+Added: the derivative scope exception guidance under ASC 815 pertaining to equity classification of contracts in an entity’s own equity.
+Added: The Company’s assessment
+Added: was also based on ASC 470-50 – Debt Modifications and Exchanges;
+Added: management determined that the amended conversion option (which
+Added: is based on shares of the Company’s common stocks) is substantially different from the original conversion option (which was based
+Added: Since each unit consists of one share of common stock, one share of right convertible into one-tenth (1/10) of one share of
+Added: common stock upon the consummation of a Business Combination, the original conversion option offers at least 10% more shares of common
+Added: stock (including underlying shares from the rights conversion) than the amended conversion option.
+Added: As such, a remeasurement under ASC
+Added: 825 has occurred and the previously selected fair value option is no longer applied.
+Added: The convertible promissory notes were recorded as
+Added: debt (liability) at cash proceeds on the balance sheet effective May 15, 2023.
+Added: For all newly issued and unmodified
+Added: convertible promissory notes, the Company elects an early adoption of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued
+Added: Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2020-06, Debt - Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives
+Added: and Hedging - Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40) (“ASU 2020-06”) and accounts for newly issued s as
+Added: debt (liability) on the balance sheet.
+Added: The Company considers the derivative scope exception guidance under ASC 815 pertaining to equity
+Added: classification of contracts in an entity’s own equity.
The Company accounts for
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estimated fair value of the warrants are recognized as a non-cash gain or loss on the statements of operations.
−Removed: The Company accounts for its public warrants as equity and the private warrants as liabilities.
+Added: The Company accounts
+Added: for its public warrants as equity and the private warrants as liabilities.
Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption
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subject to possible redemption is presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section
−Removed: of our condensed balance sheets.
−Removed: We recognize changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and adjusts the carrying value of
−Removed: redeemable common stock to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period.
−Removed: Increases or decreases in the carrying amount
−Removed: of shares of redeemable common stock are affected by charges against additional paid in capital or accumulated deficit if additional paid
−Removed: in capital equals to zero.
+Added: of our balance sheets.
+Added: We recognize changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and adjusts the carrying value of redeemable
+Added: common stock to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period.
+Added: Increases or decreases in the carrying amount of shares
+Added: of redeemable common stock are affected by charges against additional paid in capital or accumulated deficit if additional paid in capital
+Added: equals to zero.
Net Income (Loss) Per Share
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public warrants and public rights based on the relative fair values of public shares, public warrants and public rights.
+Added: Recent Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: In December 2023, the FASB
+Added: issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740):
+Added: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosure (“ASU 2023-09”).
+Added: ASU 2023-09 mostly requires, on an annual basis, disclosure of specific categories in an entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation and
+Added: income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction.
+Added: The incremental disclosures may be presented on a prospective or retrospective basis.
+Added: The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently assessing
+Added: the impact, if any, that ASU 2023-09 would have on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
+Added: Management does not believe
+Added: that any recently issued, but not effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
Risks and Uncertainties
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include any adjustments that might result from the future outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: Additionally, as a result
−Removed: of the military action commenced in February 2022 by the Russian Federation and Belarus in the country of Ukraine and related economic
−Removed: sanctions, the Company’s ability to consummate an initial business combination, or the operations of a target business with which
−Removed: the Company ultimately consummates an initial business combination, may be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: In addition, the Company’s
−Removed: ability to consummate a transaction may be dependent on the ability to raise equity and debt financing which may be impacted by these
−Removed: events, including as a result of increased market volatility, or decreased market liquidity in third-party financing being unavailable
−Removed: on terms acceptable to the Company or at all.
−Removed: The impact of this action and related sanctions on the world economy and the specific impact
−Removed: on the Company’s financial position, results of operations and/or ability to consummate an initial business combination are not
−Removed: yet determinable.
−Removed: The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Additionally, an armed conflict
+Added: escalated between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022.
+Added: The sanctions announced by the United States and other countries against Russia
+Added: and Belarus following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to date include restrictions on selling or importing goods, services, or technology
+Added: in or from affected regions and travel bans and asset freezes impacting connected individuals and political, military, business, and financial
+Added: organizations in Russia and Belarus.
+Added: The United States and other countries could impose wider sanctions and take other actions should
+Added: the conflict further escalate.
+Added: Separately, in October 2023, Israel and certain Iranian-backed Palestinian forces began an armed conflict
+Added: in Israel, the Gaza Strip, and surrounding areas, which threatens to spread to other Middle Eastern countries including Lebanon and Iran.
+Added: As a result of the ongoing
+Added: Russia/Ukraine, Hamas/Israel conflicts and/or other future global conflicts, the Company’s ability to consummate a Business Combination,
+Added: or the operations of a target business with which the Company ultimately consummates a Business Combination, may be materially and adversely
+Added: In addition, the Company’s ability to consummate a transaction may be dependent on the ability to raise equity and debt
+Added: financing which may be impacted by these events, including as a result of increased market volatility, or decreased market liquidity in
+Added: third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to the Company or at all.
+Added: The impact of this action and potential future sanctions
+Added: on the world economy and the specific impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or ability to consummate
+Added: a Business Combination are not yet determinable.
+Added: The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome
+Added: of this uncertainty.
+Added: The recent military conflict
+Added: between Israel and militant groups led by Hamas has also caused uncertainty in the global markets.
+Added: Any of the above factors, including
+Added: sanctions, export controls, tariffs, trade wars and other governmental actions, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to
+Added: complete a business combination and the value of our securities.
Securities Held in Trust Account
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government review, whether by the CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy and we have limited time to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: If we cannot complete our initial business combination by July 4, 2023 (or December 4, 2023, if we extend the time to complete a business
−Removed: combination) because the review process drags on beyond such timeframe or because our initial business combination is ultimately prohibited
−Removed: by CFIUS or another U.S.
+Added: If we cannot complete our initial business combination by December 4, 2024, if we extend the time to complete a business combination because
+Added: the review process drags on beyond such timeframe or because our initial business combination is ultimately prohibited by CFIUS or another
government entity, we may be required to liquidate.
−Removed: If we liquidate, our public shareholders may only receive
−Removed: $10.10 per share, and our warrants and rights will expire worthless.
−Removed: This will also cause you to lose the investment opportunity in a
−Removed: target company and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.
+Added: If we liquidate, our public shareholders may only receive $10.10 per share, and
+Added: our warrants and rights will expire worthless.
+Added: This will also cause you to lose the investment opportunity in a target company and the
+Added: chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022,
−Removed: we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: We have no obligations, assets
+Added: or liabilities, which would be considered off-balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: We do not participate in transactions
+Added: that create relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as variable interest entities, which
+Added: would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements.
+Added: We have not entered into any off-balance sheet
+Added: financing arrangements, established any special purpose entities, guaranteed any debt or commitments of other entities, or purchased any
+Added: non-financial assets.
Emerging Growth Company Status
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longer qualify as an “emerging growth company.”
−Removed: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
+Added: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
+Added: ABOUT MARKET RISK
Not required for smaller
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following Item 15 of this Report and is included herein by reference.
−Removed: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING
−Removed: AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
+Added: CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
+Added: ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
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