−Removed: are a blank check company incorporated on November 7, 2018 as a Delaware corporation and formed for the purpose of effecting a
−Removed: merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or
−Removed: more businesses.
−Removed: We have reviewed, and continue to review, a number of opportunities to enter into an initial business combination
−Removed: with an operating business, but we are not able to determine at this time whether we will complete an initial business combination
−Removed: with any of the target businesses that we have reviewed or with any other target business.
−Removed: November 2018, our Sponsor purchased 5,750,000 shares of the Company’s Class B common stock (the “Founder Shares”)
−Removed: for $25,000, or approximately $0.004 per share.
−Removed: In February 2019, we effected a stock dividend of 718,750 shares of our Class
−Removed: B common stock, resulting in our Sponsor holding an aggregate of 6,468,750 Founder Shares (up to 843,750 shares of which were
−Removed: subject to forfeiture to the extent the underwriters of our Initial Public Offering did not exercise their over-allotment option).
−Removed: Also in February 2019, our Sponsor transferred 1,265,625 Founder Shares to Tortoise Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
−Removed: company (“Tortoise Borrower”) and an affiliate of our Sponsor.
−Removed: On March 4, 2019, the underwriters partially exercised
−Removed: their over-allotment option and on March 7, 2019, the underwriters waived the remainder of their over-allotment option.
−Removed: In connection
−Removed: therewith, our Sponsor forfeited 643,520 Founder Shares for cancellation by us.
−Removed: On March 4, 2019, Tortoise Borrower transferred
−Removed: 1,265,625 Founder Shares to Atlas Point Energy Infrastructure Fund, LLC (“Atlas Point Fund”), which is a fund managed
−Removed: by CIBC National Trust but is not affiliated with us or our Sponsor, pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreement (as defined below)
−Removed: and our Sponsor transferred 40,000 Founder Shares to each of our independent directors.
−Removed: The holders of our Founder Shares prior
−Removed: to our Initial Public Offering are referred to herein as our “initial stockholders.”
−Removed: the Closing Date, we consummated our Initial Public Offering of 23,300,917 units (the “Units”), including 800,917
−Removed: Units that were issued pursuant to the underwriters’
−Removed: partial exercise of their over-allotment option.
−Removed: The Units were sold
−Removed: at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds to us of approximately $233.0 million.
−Removed: Each Unit consists of one share
−Removed: of our Class A common stock and one-half of one warrant.
−Removed: Each whole warrant (a “public warrant”) entitles the holder
−Removed: thereof to purchase one share of our Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, and only whole
−Removed: warrants are exercisable.
−Removed: The public warrants will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our initial
−Removed: business combination and 12 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering, and will expire five years after the completion
−Removed: of our initial business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.
−Removed: March 4, 2019, simultaneously with the consummation of our Initial Public Offering, we completed the private sale of 6,660,183
−Removed: private placement warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant to Tortoise
−Removed: Borrower, generating gross proceeds to us of approximately $6.66 million.
−Removed: Each Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to
−Removed: purchase one share of our Class A common stock at $11.50 per share.
−Removed: The Private Placement Warrants (including the Class A common
−Removed: stock issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the
−Removed: holder until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination.
−Removed: Approximately
−Removed: $233.0 million of the net proceeds from our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants has been deposited
−Removed: in a trust account established for the benefit of our public stockholders (the “Trust Account”).
−Removed: connection with our Initial Public Offering, Atlas Point Fund entered into an amended and restated forward purchase agreement
−Removed: (the “Forward Purchase Agreement”) with us that provides for the purchase by Atlas Point fund of up to an aggregate
−Removed: maximum amount of $150,000,000 of either (i) a number of units (the “Forward Purchase Units”), consisting of one share
−Removed: of Class A common stock (the “Forward Purchase Shares”) and one-half of one redeemable warrant (the “Forward
−Removed: Purchase Warrants”), for $10.00 per unit or (ii) a number of Forward Purchase Shares for $9.67 per share (such Forward Purchase
−Removed: Shares valued at $9.67 per share or the Forward Purchase Units, as the case may be, the “Forward Purchase Securities”),
−Removed: in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of our initial business combination.
−Removed: The Forward Purchase
−Removed: Agreement also provides that Atlas Point Fund will be entitled to certain registration rights with respect to the Forward Purchase
−Removed: The Forward Purchase Agreement is subject to conditions, including Atlas Point Fund giving the Company its irrevocable
−Removed: written consent, which Atlas Point Fund may grant or withhold in its sole discretion, to purchase the Forward Purchase Securities
−Removed: no later than five days after the Company notifies it of the Company’s intention to meet to consider entering into a definitive
−Removed: agreement for a proposed initial business combination.
−Removed: received gross proceeds from our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants of approximately $233.0
−Removed: million and $6.66 million, respectively, for an aggregate of approximately $239.66 million.
−Removed: Approximately $233.0 million of the
−Removed: gross proceeds were deposited into the Trust Account.
−Removed: The approximately $233.0 million of net proceeds held in the Trust Account
−Removed: includes approximately $8.13 million of deferred underwriting discounts and commissions that will be released to the underwriters
−Removed: of our Initial Public Offering upon completion of our initial business combination.
−Removed: Of the gross proceeds from our Initial Public
−Removed: Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants that were not deposited in the Trust Account, approximately $4.64 million
−Removed: was used to pay underwriting discounts and commissions in connection with our Initial Public Offering, approximately $580,000
−Removed: was used to repay loans and advances from our Sponsor, and the balance was reserved to pay accrued offering and formation costs,
−Removed: business, legal and accounting due diligence expenses on prospective acquisitions and continuing general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: shares of our Class B common stock that we issued prior to the Closing Date will automatically convert into shares of our Class
−Removed: A common stock at the time of our initial business combination on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment for stock splits,
−Removed: stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like.
−Removed: In the case that additional shares of Class A common stock,
−Removed: or equity-linked securities, are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts sold in our Initial Public Offering and related
−Removed: to the closing of the initial business combination (other than the Forward Purchase Securities), the ratio at which the shares
−Removed: of our Class B common stock will convert into shares of our Class A common stock will be adjusted (unless the holders of a majority
−Removed: of the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock agree to waive such adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed
−Removed: issuance) so that the number of shares of Class A common stock issuable upon conversion of all issued and outstanding shares of
−Removed: Class B common stock will equal, in the aggregate, on an as-converted basis, 20% of the sum of the total number of all shares
−Removed: of common stock outstanding upon the completion of our Initial Public Offering plus all shares of Class A common stock and equity-linked
−Removed: securities issued or deemed issued in connection with the business combination (excluding the Forward Purchase Securities and
−Removed: any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the business combination).
−Removed: April 19, 2019, we announced that, commencing April 22, 2019, holders of the Units sold in our Initial Public Offering may elect
−Removed: to separately trade the shares of Class A common stock and public warrants included in the Units.
−Removed: The shares of Class A common
−Removed: stock and public warrants that are separated trade on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) under the symbols “SHLL”
−Removed: and “SHLL WS,”
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: Those Units not separated will continue to trade on the NYSE under the symbol “SHLL.U.”
−Removed: are a recently organized blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation in November 2018 and formed for the purpose
−Removed: of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination
−Removed: with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K as our initial business combination.
−Removed: We intend to acquire and operate a business in the energy industry and believe our management team together with Tortoise, an
−Removed: affiliate of our Sponsor, are well suited to identify opportunities that have the potential to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns
−Removed: for our stockholders, although we may pursue a business combination opportunity in any business or industry.
−Removed: intend to identify and acquire a business that could benefit from a hands-on owner with extensive operational experience
−Removed: in the energy sector and that presents potential for an attractive risk-adjusted return profile under our stewardship.
−Removed: fundamentally sound companies can often under-perform their potential due to a temporary period of dislocation in the markets
−Removed: in which they operate, inefficient capital allocation, over-levered capital structures, excessive cost structures, incomplete
−Removed: management teams or inappropriate business strategies.
−Removed: Our management team has extensive experience in the energy industry, ranging
−Removed: from acquiring and developing assets and companies, managing companies, including a publicly traded company, and making joint
−Removed: venture investments to selling companies in private sales or public transactions.
−Removed: Additionally, affiliates of our Sponsor have
−Removed: a long track record of making investments in publicly traded and privately held companies operating in the energy sector.
−Removed: this experience makes us very well situated to identify, source, negotiate and execute an initial business combination with an
−Removed: attractive energy-related target.
−Removed: believe a key advantage in sourcing potential business combination targets is our extensive network of contacts which include
−Removed: senior contacts in the energy industry, investment banking, private equity and other financial sponsors and owners of private
−Removed: Sponsor, Tortoise Sponsor LLC, is an entity owned by an affiliate of Tortoise and members of our management.
−Removed: Founded in 2002,
−Removed: Tortoise has a family of investment funds with over $21.3 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: For more than sixteen years, Tortoise has distinguished itself by being a market innovator and introduced the first direct placement,
−Removed: SEC-registered midstream oriented closed-end fund and North American pipeline fund.
−Removed: Tortoise has built a successful
−Removed: track record through a disciplined investment framework with expertise that spans across the entire energy value chain in addition
−Removed: to sustainable infrastructure, including wind, solar and battery storage assets.
−Removed: Tortoise has a robust deal flow track record
−Removed: and a long history of partnering with public and private equity investors across many of the leading companies in the energy sector,
−Removed: completing over 80 prior direct investment transactions through various vehicles across the firm.
−Removed: As a result of its investment
−Removed: activities, Tortoise has developed deep industry relationships within the broad energy sector.
−Removed: We believe the reputation and expertise
−Removed: of Tortoise and our management team in the energy industry will make us a preferred partner for potential business combination
−Removed: objective is to generate attractive returns for our stockholders.
−Removed: We will seek to do this by utilizing a disciplined investment
−Removed: process when reviewing candidates for our initial business combination.
−Removed: Our management team includes industry experts with the
−Removed: ability to identify attractive business combination candidates and capitalize on favorable industry trends.
−Removed: The breadth and depth
−Removed: of our operating and investing experience will enable us to consider candidates in multiple sectors within the energy industry
−Removed: and target the area with the most compelling potential returns.
−Removed: We believe this flexibility increases the probability of successfully
−Removed: executing our business strategy.
−Removed: will seek to capitalize on the approximately 25 years of experience in the energy industry of our Chief Executive Officer, Vincent
−Removed: Cubbage founded Lightfoot Capital Partners LP (together with its general partner, “Lightfoot
−Removed: Capital”), an energy-focused private investment vehicle, to make opportunistic investments in energy related companies
−Removed: or assets, raising private capital for investments from a number of leading energy investors that were part of Lightfoot Capital’s
−Removed: private investor group, including Tortoise, Blackrock, Magnetar Capital, GE Energy Financial Services and Atlas Energy.
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer of Lightfoot Capital, Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage led the investment strategy of the firm and oversaw the evaluation
−Removed: and detailed diligence process of hundreds of potential acquisition and investment opportunities across the broad natural resources
−Removed: and industrial sectors.
−Removed: 2007 to 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage was responsible for overseeing the acquisition, development and sale of two operating companies
−Removed: following the completion of 14 bolt-on acquisitions.
−Removed: Cubbage spearheaded Lightfoot Capital’s development of
−Removed: International Resource Partners LP, a natural resources mining company that was sold in 2011 for $475 million.
−Removed: In 2013, after
−Removed: developing an initial set of terminal assets into a public company scale business, Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage guided the initial public
−Removed: offering of Arc Logistics Partners (NYSE:
−Removed: ARCX), and served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
−Removed: Arc Logistics
−Removed: Partners grew under Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage’s leadership from its initial asset base of seven terminals and 1.5 million barrels
−Removed: of storage capacity in 2007 to 21 terminals located throughout the United States with 7.8 million barrels of storage capacity
−Removed: Cubbage managed the process for the sale of Arc Logistics Partners, which had an enterprise value of approximately
−Removed: $692.5 million when sold at the end of 2017.
−Removed: to founding Lightfoot Capital, Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage was a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Midstream sector in the investment
−Removed: banking division of Banc of America Securities, where he led the origination and execution of numerous transactions across a broad
−Removed: array of strategic opportunities and capital market issuers.
−Removed: Prior to joining Banc of America Securities, Mr.
−Removed: a Vice President at Salomon Smith Barney in the Global Energy and Power Group.
−Removed: his experience as founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lightfoot Capital and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
−Removed: of Arc Logistics Partners, together with his experience as an energy-sector investment banker for over 12 years, Mr.
−Removed: developed deep contacts within the energy and private equity industries and with investment and commercial banking firms.
−Removed: these contacts will help us source our initial business combination.
−Removed: Cubbage also developed significant practical experience
−Removed: and strong leadership abilities in operating both publicly traded and privately held companies as well as considerable commercial
−Removed: and technical knowledge of companies operating within the energy sector.
−Removed: In particular, Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage’s prior experience
−Removed: in energy-related merger and acquisition transactions makes him well suited to direct and oversee our management team to:
−Removed: potential attractive acquisition candidates or assets for our initial business combination and capitalize on favorable industry
−Removed: ● simultaneously
−Removed: evaluate multiple acquisition and investment opportunities;
−Removed: detailed due diligence analysis of both industry and business issues affecting acquisition candidates on a timely basis;
−Removed: negotiate the terms of and consummate complex transactions, including any debt or equity financing for our initial business combination.
−Removed: respect to the foregoing examples, past performance of Tortoise or Lightfoot Capital, including by our management team, is not
−Removed: a guarantee either (i) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate or (ii) that we will be able to identify
−Removed: a suitable candidate for our initial business combination.
−Removed: You should not rely on the historical record of Tortoise or Lightfoot
−Removed: Capital or our management’s performance as indicative of our future performance.
−Removed: have entered into a Forward Purchase Agreement pursuant to which Atlas Point Fund, which is a fund managed by CIBC National Trust
−Removed: but is not affiliated with us or our Sponsor, agreed to purchase up to an aggregate maximum amount of $150,000,000 of either (i)
−Removed: a number of Forward Purchase Units for $10.00 per unit or (ii) a number of Forward Purchase Shares for $9.67 per share, in a private
−Removed: placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of our initial business combination.
−Removed: Whether we will issue Atlas Point
−Removed: Fund Forward Purchase Units valued at $10.00 per unit or Forward Purchase Shares valued at $9.67 per share will be determined
−Removed: at our election, and in our sole discretion, at least 10 business days prior to the closing of our initial business combination.
−Removed: Each whole forward purchase warrant is exercisable to purchase one share of our Class A common stock at $11.50 per share.
−Removed: Forward Purchase Warrants have the same terms as the public warrants and the Forward Purchase Shares are identical to the shares
−Removed: of Class A common stock included in the Units sold in our Initial Public Offering, except the Forward Purchase Shares and the
−Removed: Forward Purchase Warrants are subject to transfer restrictions and certain registration rights.
−Removed: The funds from the sale of the
−Removed: Forward Purchase Securities may be used as part of the consideration to the sellers in the initial business combination, and any
−Removed: excess funds may be used for the working capital needs of the post-transaction company.
−Removed: This agreement is independent of
−Removed: the percentage of stockholders electing to redeem their public shares and may provide us with an increased minimum funding level
−Removed: for the initial business combination.
−Removed: The Forward Purchase Agreement is subject to conditions, including Atlas Point Fund giving
−Removed: us its irrevocable written consent to purchase the Forward Purchase Securities no later than five days after we notify it of our
−Removed: intention to meet to consider entering into a definitive agreement for a proposed business combination.
−Removed: Atlas Point Fund may grant
−Removed: or withhold its consent to the purchase entirely within its sole discretion.
−Removed: Accordingly, if Atlas Point Fund does not consent
−Removed: to the purchase, it will not be obligated to purchase the Forward Purchase Securities.
−Removed: Please see the risk factor entitled “In
−Removed: evaluating a prospective target business for our initial business combination, our management may consider the availability of
−Removed: funds from the sale of the Forward Purchase Securities, which may be used as part of the consideration to the sellers in the initial
−Removed: business combination.
−Removed: If Atlas Point Fund decides not to exercise its right to purchase all or some of the Forward Purchase Securities,
−Removed: we may decide not to consummate our initial business combination, or if we decide to, we may lack sufficient funds to consummate
−Removed: our initial business combination”
−Removed: for more information.
−Removed: Additionally, pursuant to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement,
−Removed: we granted Atlas Point Fund the right to appoint a single observer to our board of directors until the consummation of our initial
−Removed: business combination.
−Removed: Such observer does not have voting rights or otherwise have any of the powers of a member of our board of
−Removed: believe our ability to complete an initial business combination will be enhanced by our entering into this Forward Purchase Agreement
−Removed: with Atlas Point Fund.
−Removed: of our officers or directors has served as a sponsor, director or officer of any blank check companies or special purpose acquisition
−Removed: companies in the past.
−Removed: business strategy is to identify, combine with and maximize the value of a company with operations in the energy industry.
−Removed: will focus our efforts on opportunities where we feel we have a competitive advantage and are best situated to enhance the value
−Removed: of the business after completion of the initial business combination.
−Removed: The ultimate goal of this business strategy is to maximize
−Removed: stockholder value.
−Removed: believe that current market conditions in the energy sector present an opportunity for attractive acquisitions, including but
−Removed: not limited to reverse IPOs, non-core asset sales, undervalued or underperforming assets, restructuring transactions and
−Removed: distressed corporate divestitures.
−Removed: We believe that the deep industry and investing experience of our Sponsor, combined with the
−Removed: extensive experience of our Chief Executive Officer as the prior leader of a NYSE-listed company in the energy sector, founder
−Removed: and Chief Executive Officer of a private investment vehicle in the energy sector and senior energy-sector investment banker,
−Removed: makes us very well positioned to identify, source, negotiate and execute a business combination with attractive risk-adjusted returns
−Removed: for our stockholders.
−Removed: management team also includes other selected former employees of Lightfoot Capital who have extensive experience in identifying,
−Removed: evaluating, negotiating and completing the types of transactions that we plan to pursue for our initial business combination.
−Removed: Cubbage and the other members of our management team that were formerly affiliated with Lightfoot Capital are principally
−Removed: dedicated to executing our business plan, which we believe is a key competitive advantage.
−Removed: management team and the investment professionals at Tortoise have an extensive network of senior contacts within the energy industry
−Removed: including corporate executives, investment banking professionals, private equity and other financial sponsors, and owners of private
−Removed: In addition, Tortoise has a long history of partnering with leading public and private equity investors in the energy
−Removed: We believe this network is a key competitive advantage in sourcing attractive business combination targets that meet our
−Removed: criteria, and that the reputation and expertise of our management team and Tortoise in the energy industry will make us a preferred
−Removed: partner for potential business combination counterparties.
−Removed: management team brings a diversity of transactional and investing experience that will enable us to evaluate opportunities across
−Removed: multiple sectors within the energy industry.
−Removed: Tortoise’s expertise spans energy investing across the entire energy value
−Removed: chain in addition to sustainable infrastructure including wind, solar and water infrastructure, credit investing, direct lending
−Removed: to social infrastructure projects and index construction.
−Removed: Tortoise has deep industry relationships and a robust deal flow track
−Removed: record, completing over 80 prior direct investment transactions through various investment vehicles across the firm.
−Removed: we believe Tortoise’s extensive track record of public and private investments, including PIPEs, provides valuable expertise
−Removed: in evaluating and executing capital markets transactions.
−Removed: As an investment banker and the Chief Executive Officer of Lightfoot
−Removed: Capital and Arc Logistics Partners, our Chief Executive Officer oversaw the evaluation of hundreds of acquisitions and investments
−Removed: in the energy sector.
−Removed: We believe the breadth of Tortoise’s and our Chief Executive Officer’s investment activities
−Removed: in the energy industry is a competitive advantage.
−Removed: believe that the operational experience of our management team should enable us to enhance the strategic and operational performance
−Removed: of the assets and businesses that we acquire in order to maximize value for stockholders.
−Removed: This may include improving operating
−Removed: efficiencies and margins, driving revenue growth, investing in organic growth projects and pursuing future strategic acquisitions
−Removed: or divestitures.
−Removed: We believe our expertise in identifying and sourcing undervalued investment opportunities combined with our operational
−Removed: proficiency in unlocking value provides a competitive advantage relative to other strategic and financial buyers.
−Removed: Sponsor and management team have a deep understanding of capital markets, which we believe is an important aspect of a special
−Removed: purpose acquisition company management team.
−Removed: We believe that the combination of Mr.
−Removed: Cubbage and Tortoise’s experience
−Removed: and network in the public equity markets will allow us to effectively finance and structure the business combination transaction.
−Removed: believe our management team whose collective experience and network, combined with resources available to us from Tortoise, will
−Removed: allow us to pursue a number of transaction opportunities concurrently and expedite the time required from initial identification
−Removed: of an opportunity to transaction announcement.
−Removed: Combination Criteria
−Removed: with our business strategy, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in
−Removed: evaluating candidates for our initial business combination.
−Removed: We will use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating business combination
−Removed: opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet these
−Removed: criteria and guidelines.
−Removed: We intend to focus on candidates that we believe:
−Removed: benefit from our team’s operating expertise, technical expertise, structuring expertise, extensive network, insight and
−Removed: capital markets expertise in the energy industry;
−Removed: unrecognized value or other characteristics, desirable returns on capital, and a need for capital to achieve the company’s
−Removed: growth strategy, that we believe have been misevaluated by the marketplace based on our analysis and due diligence review;
−Removed: at an inflection point, such as requiring additional management expertise, are able to innovate through new operational techniques,
−Removed: or where we believe we can drive improved financial performance;
−Removed: opportunities to grow the business through organic growth projects and third-party acquisitions;
−Removed: be well received by public investors and are expected to have good access to the public capital markets;
−Removed: engaged in activities that are consistent with Tortoise’s view of macro trends in the energy industry;
−Removed: expected to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our stockholders.
−Removed: criteria are not intended to be exhaustive.
−Removed: Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination
−Removed: may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that our
−Removed: management may deem relevant.
−Removed: In the event that we decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business
−Removed: that does not meet the above criteria and guidelines, we will disclose that the target business does not meet the above criteria
−Removed: in our stockholder communications related to our initial business combination, which would be in the form of proxy solicitation
−Removed: materials or tender offer documents that we would file with the SEC.
−Removed: Business Combination
−Removed: NYSE rules require that we must complete one or more business combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80%
−Removed: of the net assets held in the Trust Account (net of amounts disbursed to management for working capital purposes and excluding
−Removed: the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in the Trust Account).
−Removed: Our board will make the determination as to the fair
−Removed: market value of a target business or businesses.
−Removed: If our board is not able to independently determine the fair market value of
−Removed: a target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of the
−Removed: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), or an independent accounting firm with respect to the satisfaction
−Removed: of such criteria.
−Removed: While we consider it unlikely that our board will not be able to make an independent determination of the fair
−Removed: market value of a target business or businesses, it may be unable to do so if the board is less familiar or experienced with the
−Removed: target company’s business or there is a significant amount of uncertainty as to the value of the company’s assets
−Removed: or prospects.
−Removed: amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires the affirmative vote of a majority of our board of directors, which
−Removed: must include a majority of our independent directors and each of the non-independent directors nominated by our Sponsor,
−Removed: to approve our initial business combination.
−Removed: may, at our option, pursue a business combination opportunity jointly with one or more entities affiliated with Tortoise and/or
−Removed: one or more investors in funds or separate accounts managed by Tortoise, which we refer to as an “Affiliated Joint Acquisition.”
−Removed: Any such parties would co-invest only if (i) permitted by applicable regulatory and other legal limitations;
−Removed: Tortoise considered such a transaction to be mutually beneficial to us as well as the affiliated entity;
−Removed: and (iii) other business
−Removed: reasons exist to do so, such as the strategic merits of including such co-investors, the need for additional capital beyond the
−Removed: amount held in our Trust Account to fund the business combination transaction and/or the desire to obtain committed capital for
−Removed: closing the business combination transaction.
−Removed: An Affiliated Joint Acquisition may be effected through a co-investment with
−Removed: us in the target business at the time of our initial business combination, or we could raise additional proceeds to complete the
−Removed: business combination by issuing to such parties a class of equity or equity-linked securities.
−Removed: We refer to this potential
−Removed: future issuance, or a similar issuance to other specified purchasers, as a “specified future issuance.”
−Removed: and other terms and conditions of any such specified future issuance would be determined at the time thereof.
−Removed: We are not obligated
−Removed: to make any specified future issuance and may determine not to do so.
−Removed: This is not an offer for any specified future issuance.
−Removed: Pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of our Class B common stock, any such specified future issuance (other than the
−Removed: Forward Purchase Securities) would result in an adjustment to the conversion ratio such that our initial stockholders and their
−Removed: permitted transferees, if any, would retain their aggregate percentage ownership at 20% of the sum of the total number of all
−Removed: shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of our Initial Public Offering plus all shares issued in the specified future
−Removed: issuance (excluding the Forward Purchase Securities and any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to
−Removed: any seller in the business combination), unless the holders of a majority of the then-outstanding shares of Class B common
−Removed: stock agreed to waive such adjustment with respect to the specified future issuance at the time thereof.
−Removed: We cannot determine at
−Removed: this time whether a majority of the holders of our Class B common stock would then agree to so waive such adjustment to the conversion
−Removed: They may waive such adjustment due to (but not limited to) the following:
−Removed: (i) closing conditions which are part of the
−Removed: agreement for our initial business combination;
−Removed: (ii) negotiation with Class A stockholders on structuring an initial business
−Removed: (iii) negotiation with parties providing financing which would trigger the anti-dilution provisions of the Class
−Removed: B common stock;
−Removed: or (iv) as part of the Affiliated Joint Acquisition.
−Removed: If such adjustment is not waived, the specified future issuance
−Removed: would not reduce the percentage ownership of holders of our Class B common stock, but would reduce the percentage ownership of
−Removed: holders of our Class A common stock.
−Removed: If such adjustment is waived, the specified future issuance would reduce the percentage ownership
−Removed: of holders of both classes of our common stock.
−Removed: anticipate structuring our initial business combination either (i) in such a way so that the post-transaction company in
−Removed: which our public stockholders own shares will own or acquire 100% of the equity interests or assets of the target business or
−Removed: businesses, or (ii) in such a way so that the post-transaction company owns or acquires less than 100% of such interests
−Removed: or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or stockholders, or for other
−Removed: reasons, including an Affiliated Joint Acquisition.
−Removed: However, we will only complete a business combination if the post-transaction company
−Removed: owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in
−Removed: the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
−Removed: as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).
−Removed: Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more
−Removed: of the voting securities of the target, our stockholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest
−Removed: in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction.
−Removed: For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding
−Removed: capital stock of a target.
−Removed: In this case, we would acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target.
−Removed: However, as a result of the
−Removed: issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our stockholders immediately prior to our initial business combination could own
−Removed: less than a majority of our outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination.
−Removed: If less than 100% of the equity
−Removed: interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, the portion
−Removed: of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be valued for purposes of the 80% of net assets test.
−Removed: the business combination involves more than one target business, the 80% of net assets test will be based on the aggregate value
−Removed: of all of the transactions and we will treat the target businesses together as the initial business combination for purposes of
−Removed: a tender offer or for seeking stockholder approval, as applicable.
−Removed: Business Combination Process
−Removed: evaluating prospective business combinations, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review process.
−Removed: This due diligence
−Removed: review process will be specific to the target business, but will include, among other things, a review of historical and projected
−Removed: financial and operating data, meetings with management and their financial sponsors (if applicable), an assessment of the commodity
−Removed: price risk of the business and our ability to mitigate such risks with hedges, on-site inspection of assets, discussion with
−Removed: customers, legal and environmental reviews and other reviews as we deem appropriate.
−Removed: We will also utilize our expertise and Tortoise’s
−Removed: expertise operating energy-related assets and evaluating operating projections, financial projections and determining the
−Removed: appropriate return expectations given the risk profile of the target business.
−Removed: are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with Tortoise or our officers
−Removed: or directors.
−Removed: In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with Tortoise
−Removed: or our officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment
−Removed: banking firm which is a member of FINRA or an independent accounting firm that our initial business combination is fair to our
−Removed: company from a financial point of view.
−Removed: of our management team and our independent directors own (directly or indirectly) Founder Shares and/or Private Placement Warrants.
−Removed: Accordingly, members of our management team and our board of directors may have a conflict of interest in determining whether
−Removed: a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination.
−Removed: Further, each
−Removed: of our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if
−Removed: the retention or resignation of any such officers and directors were to be included as a condition to any agreement with respect
−Removed: to our initial business combination.
−Removed: and each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual
−Removed: obligations to other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination
−Removed: For example, Tortoise and certain of its officers currently are obligated by contract to offer or allocate certain
−Removed: investment opportunities first to specific private funds managed by them.
−Removed: Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes
−Removed: aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary
−Removed: or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such opportunity to
−Removed: We believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of Tortoise and our officers or directors
−Removed: will not materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: In addition, we may, at our option, pursue
−Removed: an Affiliated Joint Acquisition opportunity with an entity to which Tortoise or an officer or director has a fiduciary or contractual
−Removed: Any such entity may co-invest with us in the target business at the time of our initial business combination,
−Removed: or we could raise additional proceeds to complete the business combination by making a specified future issuance to any such entity.
−Removed: Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we renounce our interest in any corporate opportunity offered
−Removed: to any director or officer unless such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director
−Removed: or officer of our company and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise
−Removed: be reasonable for us to pursue, and to the extent the director or officer is permitted to refer that opportunity to us without
−Removed: violating another legal obligation.
−Removed: officers and directors have agreed not to become an officer or director of any other special purpose acquisition company with
−Removed: a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), until
−Removed: we have entered into a definitive agreement regarding our initial business combination or we have failed to complete our initial
−Removed: business combination within 24 months after the closing of our Initial Public Offering.
−Removed: Management Team
−Removed: of our management team are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters but they intend to devote as much
−Removed: of their time as they deem necessary to our affairs until we have completed our initial business combination.
−Removed: The amount of time
−Removed: that any members of our management team will devote in any time period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected
−Removed: for our initial business combination and the current stage of the business combination process.
−Removed: believe our management team’s operating and transaction experience and relationships with companies provides us with a substantial
−Removed: number of potential business combination targets.
−Removed: Over the course of their careers, the members of our management team have developed
−Removed: a broad network of contacts and corporate relationships around the world.
−Removed: This network has grown through the activities of our
−Removed: management team sourcing, acquiring and financing businesses, our management team’s relationships with sellers, financing
−Removed: sources and target management teams and the experience of our management team in executing transactions under varying economic
−Removed: and financial market conditions.
−Removed: See “Part III, Item 10.
−Removed: Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance”
−Removed: a more complete description of our management team’s experience.
−Removed: as a Public Company
−Removed: believe our structure will make us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses.
−Removed: As an existing public company,
−Removed: we offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination
−Removed: In a business combination transaction with us, the owners of the target business may, for example, exchange their shares
−Removed: of stock in the target business for shares of our Class A common stock (or shares of a new holding company) or for a combination
−Removed: of shares of our Class A common stock and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers.
−Removed: Although there are various costs and obligations associated with being a public company, we believe target businesses will find
−Removed: this method a more certain and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering.
−Removed: typical initial public offering process takes a significantly longer period of time than the typical business combination transaction
−Removed: process, and there are significant expenses in the initial public offering process, including underwriting discounts and commissions,
−Removed: that may not be present to the same extent in connection with a business combination with us.
−Removed: once a proposed business combination is completed, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial
−Removed: public offering is always subject to the underwriters’
−Removed: ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions,
−Removed: which could delay or prevent the offering from occurring or could have negative valuation consequences.
−Removed: Once public, we believe
−Removed: the target business would then have greater access to capital, an additional means of providing management incentives consistent
−Removed: with stockholders’
−Removed: interests and the ability to use its equity as currency for acquisitions.
−Removed: Being a public company can
−Removed: offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting
−Removed: talented employees.
−Removed: we believe that our structure and our management team’s backgrounds will make us an attractive business partner, some potential
−Removed: target businesses may view our status as a blank check company, such as our lack of an operating history and our ability to seek
−Removed: stockholder approval of any proposed initial business combination, negatively.
−Removed: are an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
−Removed: Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”).
−Removed: As such, we are eligible
−Removed: to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that
−Removed: are not “emerging growth companies”
−Removed: including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation
−Removed: requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), reduced disclosure obligations
−Removed: regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding
−Removed: a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously
−Removed: If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our
−Removed: securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.
−Removed: addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition
−Removed: period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
−Removed: In other words,
−Removed: an emerging growth company can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply
−Removed: to private companies.
−Removed: We intend to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period.
−Removed: will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary
−Removed: of the completion of our Initial Public Offering, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion
−Removed: (as adjusted for inflation pursuant to SEC rules from time to time), or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer,
−Removed: which means the market value of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the
−Removed: prior June 30th, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities
−Removed: during the prior three-year period.
−Removed: our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of our Initial Public Offering and the private
−Removed: placement of the Private Placement Warrants and Forward Purchase Securities, our capital stock, debt or a combination of the foregoing.
−Removed: We may seek to complete our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its
−Removed: early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.
−Removed: our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt securities, or not all of the funds released from the Trust
−Removed: Account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our business combination or used for redemptions of purchases
−Removed: of our Class A common stock, we may apply the balance of the cash released to us from the Trust Account for general corporate
−Removed: purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction company, the payment of principal
−Removed: or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies
−Removed: or for working capital.
−Removed: our management will assess the risks inherent in a particular target business with which we may combine, we cannot assure you
−Removed: that this assessment will result in our identifying all risks that a target business may encounter.
−Removed: Furthermore, some of those
−Removed: risks may be outside of our control, meaning that we can do nothing to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely
−Removed: affect a target business.
−Removed: may need to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination, either because the transaction requires
−Removed: more cash than is available from the proceeds held in the Trust Account or because we become obligated to redeem a significant
−Removed: number of our public shares upon completion of the business combination, or if Atlas Point Fund decides not to exercise its right
−Removed: to purchase all of the Forward Purchase Securities, in which case we may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection
−Removed: with such business combination.
−Removed: There are no prohibitions on our ability to issue securities or incur debt in connection with
−Removed: our initial business combination.
−Removed: We are not currently a party to any arrangement or understanding with any third party with respect
−Removed: to raising any additional funds through the sale of securities, the incurrence of debt or otherwise.
−Removed: of Target Businesses
−Removed: anticipate that target business candidates will be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment
−Removed: market participants, private equity groups, investment banking firms, consultants, accounting firms and large business enterprises.
−Removed: Target businesses may be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being solicited by us through calls
−Removed: These sources may also introduce us to target businesses in which they think we may be interested on an unsolicited
−Removed: Our officers and directors, as well as their affiliates, may also bring to our attention target business candidates that
−Removed: they become aware of through their business contacts as a result of formal or informal inquiries or discussions they may have,
−Removed: as well as attending trade shows or conventions.
−Removed: In addition, we expect to receive a number of proprietary deal flow opportunities
−Removed: that would not otherwise necessarily be available to us as a result of the track record and business relationships of our officers
−Removed: and directors.
−Removed: While we do not presently anticipate engaging the services of professional firms or other individuals that specialize
−Removed: in business acquisitions on any formal basis, we may engage these firms or other individuals in the future, in which event we
−Removed: may pay a finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation to be determined in an arm’s length negotiation based
−Removed: on the terms of the transaction.
−Removed: We will engage a finder only to the extent our management determines that the use of a finder
−Removed: may bring opportunities to us that may not otherwise be available to us or if finders approach us on an unsolicited basis with
−Removed: a potential transaction that our management determines is in our best interest to pursue.
−Removed: Payment of a finder’s fee is customarily
−Removed: tied to completion of a transaction, in which case any such fee will be paid out of the funds held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: event, however, will our Sponsor or any of our existing officers or directors, or any entity with which they are affiliated, be
−Removed: paid any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation by the company prior to, or for any services they render in
−Removed: order to effectuate, the completion of our initial business combination (regardless of the type of transaction that it is).
−Removed: have agreed to pay our Sponsor (or an affiliate thereof) a total of $10,000 per month for office space, utilities, secretarial
−Removed: support and administrative services and to reimburse our Sponsor for any out-of-pocket expenses related to identifying, investigating
−Removed: and completing an initial business combination.
−Removed: Some of our officers and directors may enter into employment or consulting agreements
−Removed: with the post-transaction company following our initial business combination.
−Removed: The presence or absence of any such fees or
−Removed: arrangements will not be used as a criterion in our selection process of an acquisition candidate.
−Removed: are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a business combination target that is affiliated with our
−Removed: Sponsor, officers or directors, or from making the acquisition through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with
−Removed: our Sponsor, officers or directors.
−Removed: In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a business combination
−Removed: target that is affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, would obtain an
−Removed: opinion from an independent investment banking firm which is a member of FINRA or an independent accounting firm that such an
−Removed: initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view.
−Removed: We are not required to obtain such an opinion
−Removed: in any other context.
−Removed: any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity that falls within the line of business of
−Removed: any entity to which he or she has pre-existing fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she may be required to present
−Removed: such business combination opportunity to such entity prior to presenting such business combination opportunity to us.
−Removed: and directors currently have certain relevant fiduciary duties or contractual obligations that may take priority over their duties
−Removed: We may pursue an Affiliated Joint Acquisition opportunity with an entity to which an officer or director has a fiduciary
−Removed: or contractual obligation.
−Removed: Any such entity may co-invest with us in the target business at the time of our initial business
−Removed: combination, or we could raise additional proceeds to complete the acquisition by issuing to such entity a class of equity or
−Removed: equity-linked securities.
−Removed: of a Target Business and Structuring of our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: NYSE rules require that our initial business combination must occur with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate
−Removed: fair market value of at least 80% of the net assets held in the Trust Account (net of amounts disbursed to management for working
−Removed: capital purposes and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in the Trust Account).
−Removed: The fair market value
−Removed: of the target or targets will be determined by our board of directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the
−Removed: financial community, such as discounted cash flow valuation or value of comparable businesses.
−Removed: If our board is not able to independently
−Removed: determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment
−Removed: banking firm that is a member of FINRA or from an independent accounting firm with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria.
−Removed: We do not intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination.
−Removed: Subject to this requirement, our management will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting one or more
−Removed: prospective target businesses, although we will not be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank
−Removed: check company or a similar company with nominal operations.
−Removed: any case, we will only complete an initial business combination in which we own or acquire 50% or more of the outstanding voting
−Removed: securities of the target or otherwise acquire an interest in the target sufficient for the post-transaction company not to
−Removed: be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
−Removed: If we own or acquire less than 100% of the
−Removed: equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses, the portion of such business or businesses that are owned or acquired
−Removed: by the post-transaction company is what will be valued for purposes of the NYSE’s 80% of net assets test.
−Removed: the extent we effect our business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages
−Removed: of development or growth, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in such company or business.
−Removed: Although our management will
−Removed: endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain
−Removed: or assess all significant risk factors.
−Removed: evaluating a prospective target business, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review, which may encompass, among other
−Removed: things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews, interviews of customers and suppliers, inspection
−Removed: of facilities, as applicable, as well as a review of financial, operational, legal and other information which will be made available
−Removed: If we determine to move forward with a particular target, we will proceed to structure and negotiate the terms of the business
−Removed: combination transaction.
−Removed: costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of, and negotiation with, a prospective target business with
−Removed: which our business combination is not ultimately completed will result in our incurring losses and will reduce the funds we can
−Removed: use to complete another business combination.
−Removed: The company will not pay any consulting fees to members of our management team,
−Removed: or any of their respective affiliates, for services rendered to or in connection with our initial business combination.
−Removed: of Business Diversification
−Removed: an indefinite period of time after the completion of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend
−Removed: entirely on the future performance of a single business.
−Removed: Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinations
−Removed: with multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations
−Removed: and mitigate the risks of being in a single line of business.
−Removed: In addition, we intend to focus our search for an initial business
−Removed: combination in a single industry.
−Removed: By completing our business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification
−Removed: us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on
−Removed: the particular industry in which we operate after our initial business combination, and
−Removed: us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.
−Removed: Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management Team
−Removed: we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting
−Removed: our business combination with that business, our assessment of the target business’s management may not prove to be correct.
−Removed: In addition, the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.
−Removed: Furthermore, the future role of members of our management team, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with
−Removed: any certainty.
−Removed: The determination as to whether any of the members of our management team will remain with the combined company
−Removed: will be made at the time of our initial business combination.
−Removed: While it is possible that one or more of our directors will remain
−Removed: associated in some capacity with us following our business combination, it is unlikely that any of them will devote their full
−Removed: efforts to our affairs subsequent to our business combination.
−Removed: Moreover, we cannot assure you that members of our management team
−Removed: will have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the particular target business.
−Removed: cannot assure you that any of our key personnel will remain in senior management or advisory positions with the combined company.
−Removed: The determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our
−Removed: initial business combination.
−Removed: a business combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional managers will have the requisite
−Removed: skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.
−Removed: May Not Have the Ability to Approve our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: may conduct redemptions without a stockholder vote pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC, subject to the provisions of
−Removed: our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.
−Removed: However, we will seek stockholder approval if it is required by law or
−Removed: applicable stock exchange rule, or we may decide to seek stockholder approval for business or other legal reasons.
−Removed: the table below is a graphic explanation of the types of initial business combinations we may consider and whether stockholder
−Removed: approval is currently required under Delaware law for each such transaction.
−Removed: Type of Transaction
−Removed: Purchase of assets
−Removed: Purchase of stock of target not involving a merger with the company
−Removed: Merger of target into a subsidiary of the company
−Removed: Merger of the company with a target
−Removed: the NYSE’s listing rules, stockholder approval would be required for our initial business combination if, for example:
−Removed: issue shares of Class A common stock that will be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of shares of our Class A common stock
−Removed: then outstanding;
−Removed: of our directors, officers or substantial security holders (as defined by the NYSE rules) has a 5% or greater interest, directly
−Removed: or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired and if the number of shares of common stock to be issued, or if
−Removed: the number of shares of common stock into which the securities may be convertible or exercisable, exceeds either (a) 1% of the
−Removed: number of shares of common stock or 1% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any of our directors
−Removed: or officers or (b) 5% of the number of shares of common stock or 5% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the
−Removed: case of any substantial security holders;
−Removed: issuance or potential issuance of common stock will result in our undergoing a change of control.
−Removed: Purchases of our Securities
−Removed: the event we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business
−Removed: combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors, Atlas Point Fund or their affiliates
−Removed: may purchase shares or public warrants in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following
−Removed: the completion of our initial business combination.
−Removed: There is no limit on the number of shares our Sponsor, directors, officers,
−Removed: advisors, Atlas Point Fund or their affiliates may purchase in such transactions, subject to compliance with applicable law and
−Removed: the rules of the NYSE.
−Removed: However, they have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have
−Removed: not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions.
−Removed: None of the funds in the Trust Account will be used to purchase
−Removed: shares or public warrants in such transactions.
−Removed: If they engage in such transactions, they will not make any such purchases when
−Removed: they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited
−Removed: by Regulation M under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although
−Removed: still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption
−Removed: the event that our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors, Atlas Point Fund or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated
−Removed: transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders
−Removed: would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares.
−Removed: We do not currently anticipate that such purchases,
−Removed: if any, would constitute a tender offer subject to the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act or a going-private transaction
−Removed: subject to the going-private rules under the Exchange Act;
−Removed: however, if the purchasers determine at the time of any such purchases
−Removed: that the purchases are subject to such rules, the purchasers will comply with such rules.
−Removed: purpose of any such purchases of shares could be to (i) vote such shares in favor of the business combination and thereby increase
−Removed: the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of the business combination or (ii) to satisfy a closing condition in an agreement
−Removed: with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our business combination,
−Removed: where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met.
−Removed: The purpose of any such purchases of public warrants could
−Removed: be to reduce the number of public warrants outstanding or to vote such warrants on any matters submitted to the warrantholders
−Removed: for approval in connection with our initial business combination.
−Removed: Any such purchases of our securities may result in the completion
−Removed: of our business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.
−Removed: addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float”
−Removed: of our common stock or public warrants may be reduced and
−Removed: the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation,
−Removed: listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange.
−Removed: Sponsor, officers, directors, Atlas Point Fund and/or their affiliates anticipate that they may identify the stockholders with
−Removed: whom our Sponsor, officers, directors, Atlas Point Fund or their affiliates may pursue privately negotiated purchases by either
−Removed: the stockholders contacting us directly or by our receipt of redemption requests submitted by stockholders (in the case of shares
−Removed: of Class A common stock) following our mailing of proxy materials in connection with our initial business combination.
−Removed: extent that our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates enter into a private purchase, they would identify
−Removed: and contact only potential selling stockholders who have expressed their election to redeem their shares for a pro rata share
−Removed: of the Trust Account or vote against our initial business combination, whether or not such stockholder has already submitted a
−Removed: proxy with respect to our initial business combination but only if such shares have not already been voted at the stockholder
−Removed: meeting related to our initial business combination.
−Removed: Our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or any of their affiliates will
−Removed: select which stockholders to purchase shares from based on the negotiated price and number of shares and any other factors that
−Removed: they may deem relevant, and will only purchase shares if such purchases comply with Regulation M under the Exchange Act and the
−Removed: other federal securities laws.
−Removed: purchases by our Sponsor, officers, directors and/or their affiliates who are affiliated purchasers under Rule 10b-18 under
−Removed: the Exchange Act will only be made to the extent such purchases are able to be made in compliance with Rule 10b-18, which is a
−Removed: safe harbor from liability for manipulation under Section 9(a)(2) of and Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Rule 10b-18 has
−Removed: certain technical requirements that must be complied with in order for the safe harbor to be available to the purchaser.
−Removed: officers, directors and/or their affiliates will not make purchases of common stock if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2)
−Removed: of or Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: Rights for Public Stockholders upon Completion of our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: will provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A common stock upon
−Removed: the completion of our initial business combination at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount on
−Removed: deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination, including
−Removed: interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us to pay our franchise and income taxes,
−Removed: divided by the number of then-outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein.
−Removed: The per-share amount
−Removed: we will distribute to investors who properly redeem their shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting discounts and
−Removed: commissions we will pay to the underwriters of our Initial Public Offering.
−Removed: Our Sponsor, officers and directors and Atlas Point
−Removed: Fund have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect
−Removed: to any Founder Shares held by them and any public shares held by them in connection with the completion of our business combination.
−Removed: on Redemptions
−Removed: amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that
−Removed: would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock”
−Removed: However, the proposed business combination may require (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners,
−Removed: (ii) cash to be transferred to the target for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash
−Removed: to satisfy other conditions in accordance with the terms of the proposed business combination.
−Removed: In the event the aggregate cash
−Removed: consideration we would be required to pay for all shares of Class A common stock that are validly submitted for redemption plus
−Removed: any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combination exceed the aggregate
−Removed: amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combination or redeem any shares, and all shares of Class A
−Removed: common stock submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof.
−Removed: of Conducting Redemptions
−Removed: will provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A common stock
−Removed: upon the completion of our initial business combination either (i) in connection with a stockholder meeting called to approve
−Removed: the business combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer.
−Removed: The decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a
−Removed: proposed business combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety
−Removed: of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would require us to seek stockholder
−Removed: approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement.
−Removed: Asset acquisitions and stock purchases would not typically
−Removed: require stockholder approval while direct mergers with our company where we do not survive and any transactions where we issue
−Removed: more than 20% of our outstanding common stock or seek to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation would require
−Removed: stockholder approval.
−Removed: If we structure a business combination transaction with a target business in a manner that requires stockholder
−Removed: approval, we will not have discretion as to whether to seek a stockholder vote to approve the proposed business combination.
−Removed: currently intend to conduct redemptions in connection with a stockholder vote unless stockholder approval is not required by applicable
−Removed: law or stock exchange listing requirement and we choose to conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC for
−Removed: business or other legal reasons.
−Removed: we hold a stockholder vote to approve our initial business combination, we will, pursuant to our amended and restated certificate
−Removed: of incorporation:
−Removed: the redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, which regulates the
−Removed: solicitation of proxies, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules, and
−Removed: proxy materials with the SEC.
−Removed: the event that we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination, we will distribute proxy materials and, in connection
−Removed: therewith, provide our public stockholders with the redemption rights described above upon completion of the initial business
−Removed: we seek stockholder approval, we will complete our initial business combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of
−Removed: common stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination.
−Removed: A quorum for such meeting will consist of the holders present
−Removed: in person or by proxy of shares of outstanding capital stock of the company representing a majority of the voting power of all
−Removed: outstanding shares of capital stock of the company entitled to vote at such meeting.
−Removed: Our initial stockholders will count toward
−Removed: this quorum and have agreed to vote their Founder Shares and any public shares purchased during or after our Initial Public Offering
−Removed: in favor of our initial business combination.
−Removed: For purposes of seeking approval of the majority of our outstanding shares of common
−Removed: stock voted, non-votes will have no effect on the approval of our initial business combination once a quorum is obtained.
−Removed: As a result, in addition to our initial stockholders’
−Removed: Founder Shares, we would need 8,737,844, or 37.5%, of the 23,300,917
−Removed: public shares sold in our Initial Public Offering to be voted in favor of a transaction (assuming all outstanding shares are voted)
−Removed: in order to have our initial business combination approved.
−Removed: We intend to give approximately 30 days (but not less than 10 days
−Removed: nor more than 60 days) prior written notice of any such meeting, if required, at which a vote shall be taken to approve our initial
−Removed: business combination.
−Removed: These quorum and voting thresholds, and the voting agreements of our initial stockholders, may make it more
−Removed: likely that we will consummate our initial business combination.
−Removed: Each public stockholder may elect to redeem its public shares
−Removed: irrespective of whether it votes for or against the proposed transaction.
−Removed: In addition, our Sponsor, officers and directors and
−Removed: Atlas Point Fund have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights
−Removed: with respect to any Founder Shares and any public shares held by them in connection with the completion of a business combination.
−Removed: we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC, we will, pursuant to our amended and restated certificate
−Removed: of incorporation:
−Removed: the redemptions pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E under the Exchange Act, which regulate issuer tender offers, and
−Removed: tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing our initial business combination which contain substantially the same
−Removed: financial and other information about the initial business combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation
−Removed: 14A under the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies.
−Removed: the public announcement of our business combination, we or our Sponsor will terminate any plan established in accordance with
−Removed: Rule 10b5-1 to purchase shares of our Class A common stock in the open market if we elect to redeem our public shares through
−Removed: a tender offer, to comply with Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: the event we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, our offer to redeem will remain open for at least 20 business
−Removed: days, in accordance with Rule 14e-1(a) under the Exchange Act, and we will not be permitted to complete our initial business combination
−Removed: until the expiration of the tender offer period.
−Removed: In addition, the tender offer will be conditioned on public stockholders not
−Removed: tendering more than the number of public shares we are permitted to redeem.
−Removed: If public stockholders tender more shares than we
−Removed: have offered to purchase, we will withdraw the tender offer and not complete the initial business combination.
−Removed: on Redemption upon Completion of our Initial Business Combination if we Seek Stockholder Approval
−Removed: we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business
−Removed: combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that a public stockholder,
−Removed: together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group”
−Removed: (as defined under Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to more
−Removed: than an aggregate of 20% of the shares sold in our Initial Public Offering, which we refer to as the “Excess Shares.”
−Removed: We believe this restriction will discourage stockholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and subsequent attempts by
−Removed: such holders to use their ability to exercise their redemption rights against a proposed business combination as a means to force
−Removed: us or our management to purchase their shares at a significant premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable
−Removed: Absent this provision, a public stockholder holding more than an aggregate of 20% of the shares sold in our Initial Public
−Removed: Offering could threaten to exercise its redemption rights if such holder’s shares are not purchased by us, our Sponsor or
−Removed: our management at a premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms.
−Removed: By limiting our stockholders’
−Removed: ability to redeem no more than 20% of the shares sold in our Initial Public Offering without our prior consent, we believe we
−Removed: will limit the ability of a small group of stockholders to unreasonably attempt to block our ability to complete our business
−Removed: combination, particularly in connection with a business combination with a target that requires as a closing condition that we
−Removed: have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash.
−Removed: However, we would not be restricting our stockholders’
−Removed: vote all of their shares (including Excess Shares) for or against our business combination.
−Removed: of Public Shares and Liquidation if no Initial Business Combination
−Removed: amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we have 24 months from the closing of our Initial Public
−Removed: Offering to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: If we are unable to complete our business combination within such 24-month period
−Removed: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than
−Removed: 10 business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount
−Removed: then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released
−Removed: to us to pay our franchise and income taxes (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number
−Removed: of then-outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’
−Removed: rights as stockholders
−Removed: (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as
−Removed: reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our board of directors,
−Removed: dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the
−Removed: requirements of other applicable law.
−Removed: There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants,
−Removed: which will expire worthless if we fail to complete our business combination within the 24-month time period.
−Removed: Sponsor, officers and directors and Atlas Point Fund have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have
−Removed: waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Founder Shares held by them if we
−Removed: fail to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering.
−Removed: if our Sponsor, officers or directors acquire public shares in or after our Initial Public Offering, they will be entitled to
−Removed: liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our initial business
−Removed: combination within the allotted 24-month time period.
−Removed: Sponsor, officers, directors and director nominees have agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose
−Removed: any amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation
−Removed: to redeem 100% of our public shares if we have not consummated an initial business combination within 24 months from the
−Removed: closing of our Initial Public Offering, unless we provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares
−Removed: of Class A common stock upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate
−Removed: amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously
−Removed: released to us to pay our franchise and income taxes, divided by the number of then-outstanding public shares.
−Removed: may not redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we
−Removed: are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock”
−Removed: If this optional redemption right is exercised with respect
−Removed: to an excessive number of public shares such that we cannot satisfy the net tangible asset requirement, we would not proceed with
−Removed: the amendment or the related redemption of our public shares at such time.
−Removed: Pursuant to our amended and restated certificate of
−Removed: incorporation, such an amendment would need to be approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 65% of all then-outstanding shares
−Removed: of our common stock.
−Removed: expect that all costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors,
−Removed: will be funded from amounts held outside the Trust Account, although we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient funds
−Removed: for such purpose.
−Removed: However, if those funds are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing our
−Removed: plan of dissolution, to the extent that there is any interest accrued in the Trust Account not required to pay franchise and income
−Removed: taxes on interest income earned on the Trust Account balance, we may request the trustee to release to us an additional amount
−Removed: of up to $100,000 of such accrued interest to pay those costs and expenses.
−Removed: proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of our creditors, which would have higher priority
−Removed: than the claims of our public stockholders.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that the actual per-share redemption amount received by
−Removed: stockholders will not be substantially less than $10.00.
−Removed: Under Section 281(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”),
−Removed: our plan of dissolution must provide for all claims against us to be paid in full or make provision for payments to be made in
−Removed: full, as applicable, if there are sufficient assets.
−Removed: These claims must be paid or provided for before we make any distribution
−Removed: of our remaining assets to our stockholders.
−Removed: While we intend to pay such amounts, if any, we cannot assure you that we will have
−Removed: funds sufficient to pay or provide for all creditors’
−Removed: we will seek to have all vendors (other than our independent public accountants), service providers, prospective target businesses
−Removed: and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind
−Removed: in or to any monies held in the Trust Account for the benefit of our public stockholders, there is no guarantee that they will
−Removed: execute such agreements or even if they execute such agreements that they would be prevented from bringing claims against the
−Removed: Trust Account including but not limited to fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims,
−Removed: as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect to a claim
−Removed: against our assets, including the funds held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving
−Removed: 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
−Removed: party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative.
−Removed: Examples of possible instances where
−Removed: we may engage a third party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third-party consultant whose particular
−Removed: expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to
−Removed: execute a waiver or in cases where management 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,
−Removed: any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason.
−Removed: has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third party (other than our independent public accountants)
−Removed: for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have entered into a letter of intent,
−Removed: confidentiality or other similar agreement or business combination agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account
−Removed: to below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the
−Removed: liquidation of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case including interest earned on the
−Removed: funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us to pay our franchise and income taxes, less franchise and income
−Removed: taxes payable, except as to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed a waiver of any and all rights
−Removed: to the monies held in the Trust Account (whether or not such waiver is enforceable) and except as to any claims under our indemnity
−Removed: of the underwriters of our Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
−Removed: However, we have not asked our Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor have we independently verified whether
−Removed: our Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations, and we believe that our Sponsor’s only assets are
−Removed: securities of our company.
−Removed: Therefore, we cannot assure you that our Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations.
−Removed: if any such claims were successfully made against the Trust Account, the funds available for our initial business combination
−Removed: and redemptions could be reduced to less than $10.00 per public share.
−Removed: In such event, we may not be able to complete our initial
−Removed: business combination, and you would receive such lesser amount per share in connection with any redemption of your public shares.
−Removed: None of our officers or directors will indemnify us for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by vendors
−Removed: and prospective target businesses.
−Removed: the event that the proceeds in the Trust Account are reduced below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per
−Removed: public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, due to reductions in value of the
−Removed: trust assets, in each case including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us
−Removed: to pay our franchise and income taxes, less franchise and income taxes payable, and our Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy
−Removed: its indemnification obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors
−Removed: would determine whether to take legal action against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations.
−Removed: While we currently
−Removed: expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification
−Removed: obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so
−Removed: if, for example, the cost of such legal action is deemed by the independent directors to be too high relative to the amount recoverable
−Removed: or if the independent directors determine that a favorable outcome is not likely.
−Removed: We have not asked our Sponsor to reserve for
−Removed: such indemnification obligations and we cannot assure you that our Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations.
−Removed: we cannot assure you that due to claims of creditors the actual value of the per-share redemption price will not be less
−Removed: than $10.00 per public share.
−Removed: will seek to reduce the possibility that our Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring
−Removed: to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent public accountants), prospective target businesses or other
−Removed: entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to
−Removed: monies held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: the DGCL, stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received
−Removed: by them in a dissolution.
−Removed: The pro rata portion of our Trust Account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption
−Removed: of our public shares in the event we do not complete our business combination within 24 months from the closing of our Initial
−Removed: Public Offering may be considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law.
−Removed: If the corporation complies with certain procedures
−Removed: set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL intended to ensure that it makes reasonable provision for all claims against it, including
−Removed: a 60-day notice period during which any third-party claims can be brought against the corporation, a 90-day period
−Removed: during which the corporation may reject any claims brought, and an additional 150-day waiting period before any liquidating
−Removed: distributions are made to stockholders, any liability of stockholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to
−Removed: the lesser of such stockholder’s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the stockholder, and any liability
−Removed: of the stockholder would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution.
−Removed: if the pro rata portion of our Trust Account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our public shares in
−Removed: the event we do not complete our business combination within 24 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering is
−Removed: not considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant
−Removed: to Section 174 of the DGCL, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption
−Removed: distribution, instead of three years, as in the case of a liquidating distribution.
−Removed: If we are unable to complete our business
−Removed: combination within 24 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering, 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 10 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
−Removed: interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us to pay our franchise and income taxes
−Removed: (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then-outstanding public shares, which
−Removed: redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’
−Removed: rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further
−Removed: liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption,
−Removed: subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case
−Removed: to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
−Removed: it is our intention to redeem our public shares as soon as reasonably possible following our 24th month and, therefore, we do
−Removed: not intend to comply with those procedures.
−Removed: As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent
−Removed: of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary
−Removed: of such date.
−Removed: we will not be complying with Section 280, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us
−Removed: at such time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against
−Removed: us within the subsequent 10 years.
−Removed: However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations
−Removed: will be limited to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors
−Removed: (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses.
−Removed: As described above, we will seek to have all vendors,
−Removed: service providers (other than our independent public accountants), prospective target businesses or other entities with which
−Removed: we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in
−Removed: the Trust Account.
−Removed: we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the proceeds held
−Removed: in the Trust Account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to
−Removed: the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our stockholders.
−Removed: To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the
−Removed: Trust Account, we cannot assure you we will be able to return $10.00 per share to our public stockholders.
−Removed: Additionally, if we
−Removed: file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, any distributions
−Removed: received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a “preferential
−Removed: transfer”
−Removed: or a “fraudulent conveyance.”
−Removed: As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover some or all amounts
−Removed: received by our stockholders.
−Removed: Furthermore, our board of directors may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors
−Removed: and/or may have acted in bad faith, thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public stockholders
−Removed: from the Trust Account prior to addressing the claims of creditors.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against
−Removed: us for these reasons.
−Removed: public stockholders will be entitled to receive funds from the Trust Account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our public
−Removed: shares if we are unable to complete our business combination within 24 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering,
−Removed: subject to applicable law, (ii) in connection with a stockholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated certificate
−Removed: of incorporation that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we have not
−Removed: consummated an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering or (iii) if
−Removed: they redeem their respective shares for cash upon the completion of the initial business combination.
−Removed: In no other circumstances
−Removed: will a stockholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the Trust Account.
−Removed: In the event we seek stockholder approval
−Removed: in connection with our initial business combination, a stockholder’s voting in connection with the business combination
−Removed: alone will not result in a stockholder’s redeeming its shares to us for an applicable pro rata share of the Trust Account.
−Removed: Such stockholder must have also exercised its redemption rights described above.
−Removed: These provisions of our amended and restated
−Removed: certificate of incorporation, like all provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, may be amended with
−Removed: a stockholder vote.
−Removed: Payments to Insiders
−Removed: will be no finder’s fees, reimbursements or cash payments made by the Company to our Sponsor, officers or directors, or
−Removed: our or their affiliates, for services rendered to us prior to or in connection with the completion of our initial business combination,
−Removed: other than the following payments, none of which will be made from the proceeds of our Initial Public Offering held in the Trust
−Removed: Account prior to the completion of our initial business combination:
−Removed: of up to an aggregate of $300,000 in loans made to us by our Sponsor to cover offering-related
−Removed: and organizational expenses;
−Removed: ● reimbursement
−Removed: for office space, utilities, secretarial support and administrative services provided
−Removed: to us by our Sponsor (or an affiliate thereof), in an amount equal to $10,000 per month;
−Removed: ● reimbursement
−Removed: for any out-of-pocket expenses related to identifying, investigating, negotiating and
−Removed: completing an initial business combination;
−Removed: of loans which may be made by our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of
−Removed: our officers and directors to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended
−Removed: initial business combination.
−Removed: Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into
−Removed: warrants of the post business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the
−Removed: option of the lender.
−Removed: The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants,
−Removed: including as to exercise price, exercisability and exercise period.
−Removed: Except for the foregoing,
−Removed: the terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist
−Removed: with respect to such loans.
−Removed: identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business for our business combination, we may encounter intense competition from
−Removed: other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including other blank check companies, private equity groups and leveraged
−Removed: buyout funds, and operating businesses seeking strategic acquisitions.
−Removed: Many of these entities are well established and have extensive
−Removed: experience identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates.
−Removed: Moreover, many of these competitors
−Removed: possess greater financial, technical, human and other resources than we do.
−Removed: Our ability to acquire larger target businesses will
−Removed: be limited by our available financial resources.
−Removed: This inherent limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition
−Removed: of a target business.
−Removed: Furthermore, our obligation to pay cash in connection with our public stockholders who exercise their redemption
−Removed: rights may reduce the resources available to us for our initial business combination and our outstanding warrants, and the future
−Removed: dilution they potentially represent, may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses.
−Removed: Either of these factors may place
−Removed: us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating an initial business combination.
−Removed: currently have four officers.
−Removed: These individuals are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters but they
−Removed: intend to devote as much of their time as they deem necessary to our affairs until we have completed our initial business combination.
−Removed: The amount of time that they will devote in any time period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for
−Removed: our initial business combination and the stage of the business combination process we are in.
−Removed: Reporting and Financial Information
−Removed: have registered our Units, Class A common stock and public warrants under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including
−Removed: the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC.
−Removed: In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange
−Removed: Act, our annual reports will contain financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.
−Removed: will provide stockholders with audited financial statements of the prospective target business as part of the proxy solicitation
−Removed: or tender offer materials (as applicable) sent to stockholders.
−Removed: These financial statements may be required to be prepared in accordance
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−Removed: provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our initial
−Removed: business combination within the prescribed time frame.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that any particular target business identified by
−Removed: us as a potential acquisition candidate will have financial statements prepared in accordance with the requirements outlined above,
−Removed: or that the potential target business will be able to prepare its financial statements in accordance with the requirements outlined
−Removed: To the extent that any applicable requirements cannot be met, we may not be able to acquire the proposed target business.
−Removed: While this may limit the pool of potential acquisition candidates, we do not believe that this limitation will be material.
+Added: Corporate Information
+Added: Hyliion is a Delaware
+Added: corporation headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas.
+Added: On October 1, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), Tortoise Acquisition Corp.
+Added: (“TortoiseCorp”) entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination”) with each of
+Added: the shareholders of Hyliion Inc.
+Added: (“Legacy Hyliion”), and consummated the merger contemplated by the Business Combination,
+Added: with Legacy Hyliion surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TortoiseCorp.
+Added: As a result of the Business Combination,
+Added: we became a NYSE listed company.
+Added: Our mission is to
+Added: be the leading provider of electrified powertrain solutions for the commercial vehicle industry.
+Added: Our goal is to reduce the carbon
+Added: intensity and Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) emissions of the transportation sector by providing electrified powertrain solutions
+Added: for Class 8 commercial vehicles at the lowest total cost ownership (“TCO”).
+Added: Our solutions utilize our proprietary battery
+Added: systems, control software and data analytics, combined with fully integrated electric motors and power electronics, to produce
+Added: electrified powertrain systems that either augment, in the case of our Hybrid system, or fully replace, in the case of the Hypertruck
+Added: ERX system, a natural gas fueled engine powering the battery that improves their performance.
+Added: By reducing both GHG emissions and
+Added: TCO, our environmentally conscious solutions support our customers’
+Added: pursuit of their sustainability and financial objectives.
+Added: We are currently developing
+Added: two electrified powertrain systems for long-haul Class 8 commercial vehicles:
+Added: our Hybrid system and our Hypertruck ERX system.
+Added: Our Hybrid system has been installed in low volume on our initial customers’
+Added: commercial vehicles.
+Added: Across the customer installations
+Added: and over the entire Hyliion fleet we have accumulated millions of real world road miles on Class 8 commercial vehicles.
+Added: system can either be installed on a new vehicle during assembly and prior to entering fleet service or retrofit to an existing
+Added: in-service vehicle.
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX system is in the development stage with vehicles being built for testing and validation.
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX system’s design and technology leverages the experience and operating data from our Hybrid system to replace
+Added: the traditional diesel powertrain installed in new vehicles.
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX system will offer commercial vehicle owners and
+Added: operators a net carbon negative electrified powertrain option for Class 8 commercial vehicles, when using certain Renewable Natural
+Added: Gas (“RNG”).
+Added: initial expected deliveries of our Hypertruck ERX systems to customers are designed to have their batteries recharged with Compressed
+Added: Natural Gas (“CNG”).
+Added: CNG fueled recharging is preferable due to both the current comparable cost of fuels and existing
+Added: availability of CNG refueling infrastructure.
+Added: Class 8 commercial vehicles can currently be refueled with CNG through existing,
+Added: geographically diverse and third-party accessible natural gas refueling stations established across North America.
+Added: Globally, RNG,
+Added: CNG and liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) are used widely for land-based transport and trucking and Hyliion believes there
+Added: are established, geographically diverse and third-party accessible refueling stations available in certain areas in which Hyliion
+Added: expects it may sell its electrified powertrain solutions in the future.
+Added: We believe there is opportunity for adoption of our electrified
+Added: powertrain solutions across Europe.
+Added: This existing and accessible refueling infrastructure will significantly reduce the buildout
+Added: time and cost required to utilize our Hypertruck ERX system as compared to other proposed potential electrified solutions.
+Added: “Risk Factors —
+Added: Our future growth is dependent upon the commercial trucking industry’s willingness to adopt
+Added: alternative fuel, hybrid and electric vehicles.”
+Added: Our Hybrid and Hypertruck
+Added: ERX systems are designed to be installed on most major Class 8 commercial vehicles, which gives our customers the flexibility
+Added: to continue using their preferred vehicle brands and maintain their existing fleet maintenance and operations strategies.
+Added: early Hybrid system deployments include leaders in the transportation and logistics sector.
+Added: We are focusing its initial
+Added: marketing efforts on large fleet operators as well as companies committed to reducing the overall environmental impact and fuel
+Added: costs of their owned and operated trucking fleets.
+Added: Market Opportunity
+Added: We estimate that
+Added: the global market opportunity for our products is $800 billion, based on ACT Research’s estimate of eight million Class
+Added: 8 commercial vehicles currently in operation.
+Added: In addition, ACT Research estimates that the active Class 8 commercial vehicle population
+Added: will grow by approximately 4.5% annually from 2020 to 2024.
+Added: Challenges with
+Added: Other Solutions
+Added: With the global focus
+Added: on reducing the environmental impact of commercial transportation, a number of companies have begun developing solutions to lower
+Added: GHG emissions in commercial vehicles, including plug-in commercial battery electric vehicles (“BEVs”) and commercial
+Added: fuel cell electric vehicles (“FCEVs”).
+Added: However, neither of these solutions have been commercialized or delivered in
+Added: volume for the long-haul Class 8 commercial vehicle space at this time.
+Added: We believe these other proposed solutions face unique
+Added: challenges for widespread adoption, which may include:
+Added: availability of such commercial vehicles or solutions;
+Added: higher TCO relative to currently available diesel commercial vehicles;
+Added: availability and capacity of electric charging infrastructure and hydrogen fueling infrastructure;
+Added: lifecycle GHG emissions due to emissions from electricity generation to recharge the
+Added: batteries (from the electrical grid or hydrogen production) and the emissions associated
+Added: with the production of the battery cells;
+Added: need or choice to completely redesign the commercial vehicle to implement the solution;
+Added: available payload capacity (and resulting loss of revenue-producing transportation capacity)
+Added: due to the size and weight of required on-board batteries;
+Added: range on a single charge or fueling;
+Added: recharging or refueling times compared to refueling times for currently available diesel
+Added: and natural gas fueled commercial vehicles;
+Added: need to change customers’
+Added: existing fleet operations, including procurement, dispatch,
+Added: logistics, maintenance, repair, servicing and driver training.
+Added: Our Technology
+Added: and Solutions
+Added: Our electrified powertrain
+Added: solutions utilize our proprietary battery systems, control software and data analytics, combined with electric motors and power
+Added: electronics, to produce an electrified powertrain system technology platform that can be used to either augment, in the case of
+Added: our Hybrid system, or fully replace, in the case of our Hypertruck ERX system, conventional powertrains in Class 8 commercial
+Added: vehicles and improve their performance.
+Added: Our solutions are designed to be compatible with most major Class 8 commercial vehicle
+Added: manufacturers and are fuel and generator agnostic, giving our customers flexibility to choose the vehicles and fuel source that
+Added: best fit their overall commercial vehicle operations strategy in their transition to electrified transportation.
+Added: Hybrid Electric Powertrain
+Added: Our Hybrid system
+Added: can be installed on most major Class 8 commercial vehicles to reduce fuel usage, decrease GHG emissions, improve performance and/or
+Added: reduce operating costs.
+Added: Our Demonstrator Hybrid system is comprised of our proprietary battery system and an associated software
+Added: management solution, a control module running our software and data analytics, high and low voltage power distribution and a thermal
+Added: management system.
+Added: These components are attached to the frame rails of a Class 8 commercial vehicle.
+Added: The solution also includes
+Added: an axle with an electric motor, which replaces the third axle on the vehicle, and our CoPilot in-cab driver display.
+Added: is charged by regenerative braking and downhill deceleration and discharged to provide additional horsepower and torque when called
+Added: upon by our control software, thereby reducing fuel usage and related GHG emissions or applying additional power to improve vehicle
+Added: Our Hybrid system’s battery power can be utilized as an auxiliary power unit (“APU”) to supply electricity
+Added: for in-cab devices and air conditioning to reduce or eliminate idling when the driver is “hoteling”
+Added: in the truck.
+Added: We are developing our next generation Hybrid system, which we
+Added: intend to introduce in 2021.
+Added: The system is being designed to consolidate the separate control, battery system and glycol thermal
+Added: control system boxes from the Demonstrator Hybrid system into a single enclosure that can be attached to the frame rail of most
+Added: major Class 8 commercial vehicles, providing additional cost savings and simplifying installation, and incorporating a custom e-axle
+Added: solution with associated cooling box to reduce weight and improve system efficiencies.
+Added: Our next generation Hybrid system will also
+Added: include enhanced on-board data analytics capabilities among other improvements.
+Added: Based on internal and third-party testing and customer-reported
+Added: experiences, we believe the benefits of utilizing our Hybrid system compared to conventional diesel or CNG commercial vehicles
+Added: will reduce fuel usage, emissions, idling, and/or improved performance.
+Added: also believe that reduced operating costs will be the main decision factor for many fleets in adopting our Hybrid system.
+Added: Hybrid system enables fleets to transition from diesel to natural gas engines, which can currently be fueled at a cost significantly
+Added: lower than the fuel cost of a diesel engine.
+Added: Additionally, our customers should save on overall vehicle maintenance with reduced
+Added: wear and tear on the vehicles’
+Added: engines and brakes.
+Added: Range Extender Powertrain
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX
+Added: system, which is an electric range extender powertrain system, is being designed for installation on most major Class 8 commercial
+Added: vehicles to create a net carbon negative electrified Class 8 commercial vehicle when using RNG.
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX system builds
+Added: upon our Hybrid system and consists of a larger version of our proprietary battery system, an associated software management and
+Added: data analytics solution, a range extending electric generator powered by a customer’s choice of fuel, a primary electric
+Added: traction drive system and power electronics with integrated controls and our CoPilot in-cab driver display.
+Added: The system works by
+Added: pairing a fully electric powertrain with a battery system that is recharged by an onboard generator that produces electricity.
+Added: This system fully replaces the traditional powertrain in Class 8 commercial vehicles, while giving our customers the flexibility
+Added: to choose between most major Class 8 commercial vehicle brands and fuel type for their long-haul applications.
+Added: Hypertruck ERX system combines the performance of fully electric powertrains with the refueling efficiency of traditionally fueled
+Added: In most cases, we estimate that it will be less
+Added: expensive to run our onboard generator to produce electricity than recharging a BEV from the grid.
+Added: By using an onboard generation
+Added: of electricity, rather than using a large battery pack for a BEV, our Hypertruck ERX system will provide an extended range over
+Added: commercial BEVs and improve payload capacity compared to currently available diesel commercial vehicles.
+Added: We believe the benefits
+Added: of our Hypertruck ERX system will include:
+Added: Time to Market .
+Added: Net carbon negative electric Class 8 commercial vehicle solution potential .
+Added: Utilizes existing infrastructure .
+Added: Industry leading payload capacity .
+Added: Range comparable to diesel .
+Added: Industry standard refueling times .
+Added: Familiar existing Class 8 commercial vehicle brands .
+Added: Rollout Timeline
+Added: We are currently developing our initial Hypertruck ERX system
+Added: at our facility in Cedar Park, Texas.
+Added: We intend to deliver demonstration vehicles incorporating our Hypertruck ERX system to our
+Added: customers in late 2021 and begin commercial delivery in 2022.
+Added: and RNG as a Fuel
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX
+Added: system will leverage existing CNG fueling stations that provide a cross country refueling network.
+Added: In the continental United States,
+Added: there are approximately 700 public CNG fueling stations already in operation for Class 8 commercial vehicles.
+Added: These stations are
+Added: geographically dispersed across the United States enabling long-haul trucking without the need for incremental refueling infrastructure
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX system is being designed to allow operation for multiple days before refueling.
+Added: Furthermore, our Hypertruck
+Added: ERX system is being designed to be refueled in approximately ten minutes, which is on par with existing diesel solutions.
+Added: Internationally,
+Added: we believe CNG infrastructure is even more prevalent due to government mandates requiring reduced carbon emissions from transportation.
+Added: Additionally, we believe that in certain international jurisdictions, the necessary heavy-duty infrastructure exists that would
+Added: support adoption of our Hypertruck ERX system.
+Added: The ability to utilize
+Added: the existing CNG fueling infrastructure eliminates the time and cost needed to build expensive fueling infrastructure before our
+Added: Hypertruck ERX system can be utilized, as compared to Class 8 commercial BEVs and FCEVs, which currently lack electric charging
+Added: and hydrogen fueling infrastructure.
+Added: RNG is a form of
+Added: natural gas that is much cleaner for the environment than most other fuel sources.
+Added: RNG is generated by capturing methane from
+Added: landfills, livestock operations such as dairies, wastewater treatment and other sources or through anaerobic digestion and processing
+Added: of food and animal waste streams.
+Added: Depending on the source, RNG can have a significantly negative carbon intensity score, enabling
+Added: our solutions to achieve a net carbon negative emissions profile.
+Added: RNG is widely available today and new sources are in development.
+Added: Our customers interested in achieving a negative carbon intensity score are expected to be able to contract long-term delivery
+Added: of 100% RNG at various average carbon intensity scores from their fuel suppliers.
+Added: Generator and Fuel
+Added: Although our initial
+Added: Hypertruck ERX system is being used injunction with CNG it is designed to be generator and fuel agnostic.
+Added: Our current designs would
+Added: allow our Hypertruck ERX system to use any available fuel generator to recharge the battery system without needing to change other
+Added: components of its electric powertrain system.
+Added: In addition to natural gas, other potential generator options include hydrogen fuel
+Added: cells, microturbines, and diesel or gasoline generators.
+Added: The effect of the system’s design is to allow our Hypertruck ERX
+Added: system customers to choose their preferred recharging fuel based on their unique priorities, including fuel cost and availability
+Added: and emissions objectives.
+Added: By designing our solutions in this manner, we will be able to quickly adapt to changing commodity price
+Added: and availability fundamentals, customer preferences and regulatory signals and mandates without the need to redesign our solutions.
+Added: Battery Systems
+Added: In addition to designing
+Added: battery systems for our powertrain solutions, we intend to design, develop and sell advanced battery systems to customers for use
+Added: in their own applications.
+Added: These applications are expected to include lower range and smaller class commercial vehicles, specialty
+Added: vehicles such as airport or transportation terminal vehicles, as well as standalone components, such as APUs and systems to power
+Added: vehicle accessories such as pumps, lifts and thermal control.
+Added: Software and Data
+Added: Our software and algorithms
+Added: seek to control and optimize the fuel economy and performance of our powertrain systems by controlling and optimizing the charging
+Added: and discharging of the battery systems and the performance of the electric motor and power electronics.
+Added: Our software and control
+Added: algorithms can be remotely updated over the air to enable our customers to receive improvements and the latest features and functionalities.
+Added: We intend to develop
+Added: additional value-added services and software programs for its customers by further utilizing the data it harvests and the insights
+Added: into vehicle performance and utilization its solutions provide, which could include predictive maintenance and other logistics
+Added: and fleet management services.
+Added: Our CoPilot product
+Added: runs on our in-cab display and provides real-time vehicle performance, vehicle status metrics and driving feedback to the vehicle
+Added: CoPilot also brings gamification to the driver experience by giving real-time feedback of driving behaviors to help
+Added: coach drivers of all experience levels to drive more efficiently.
+Added: Additional Future
+Added: We intend to design,
+Added: develop and sell additional commercial transportation products in the future.
+Added: For example, our Hybrid technology could also be
+Added: utilized on trailers for either trailer electrical loads, such as refrigeration, or to provide power assist or additional battery
+Added: recharging to the vehicle when driving.
+Added: Customers and Backlog
+Added: We have deployed demonstration
+Added: Hybrid system units to certain companies we expect to be customers in the future, including leaders in the transportation and logistics
+Added: sector as well as companies committed to reducing the overall environmental impact and fuel costs of their owned and operated trucking
+Added: Our initial customer
+Added: and launch partner for its Hypertruck ERX system is Agility Transport, from which we have received a pre-launch order of up to
+Added: 1,000 trucks equipped with our Hypertruck ERX system in one or more future purchase orders, subject to certain testing and performance
+Added: requirements and termination rights (including a right to terminate the Agility Pre-Launch Agreement prior to purchasing all or
+Added: any portion of Agility Transport’s pre-order).
+Added: In October 2020, we entered into a sales agreement that includes a pre-order
+Added: of up to 250 Hypertruck ERX vehicles, allowing for early availability of our Hypertruck ERX to American Natural Gas (“ANG”)
+Added: and its fleet customers.
+Added: Our mission is to
+Added: be the leading provider of electrified powertrain solutions for the commercial vehicle industry.
+Added: Our value proposition to our customers
+Added: has five key elements:
+Added: reduced GHG emissions, cost savings, performance, availability and no new infrastructure requirements.
+Added: elements of our strategy include:
+Added: Maintaining Technology
+Added: Leadership and First-Mover Advantage
+Added: Our Hybrid system
+Added: is currently being deployed into our customers’
+Added: fleets, and we intend to be one of the first to the market with an electric
+Added: powertrain solution for long-haul Class 8 commercial vehicles.
+Added: Our Hypertruck ERX system is in advanced development, and we intend
+Added: to deliver demonstration vehicles incorporating our Hypertruck ERX system to our customers in late 2021 and begin commercial delivery
+Added: We expect to capture a market share for low and zero emission commercial vehicles by being one of the first to the market
+Added: and by having a solution that can offer a net carbon negative electrified powertrain option to the industry.
+Added: Our software and the
+Added: algorithms that drive our solutions have been utilized in millions of real-world road miles, which are used to drive continuous
+Added: improvements in the system management software.
+Added: Leveraging Existing
+Added: Infrastructure
+Added: We intend to leverage the substantial infrastructure of the
+Added: existing commercial transportation sector of diesel and CNG to accelerate adoption of its solutions.
+Added: To start, utilizing CNG allows
+Added: for electrified Class 8 commercial vehicle solutions that do not require substantial new infrastructure, such as the construction
+Added: of electric charging or hydrogen fueling stations.
+Added: By utilizing existing commercial transportation fueling infrastructure, we believe
+Added: our customers can achieve low GHG emissions, when utilizing CNG, or carbon negative status, when utilizing RNG, with our solutions.
+Added: Focusing on Powertrains
+Added: Our electrified powertrain
+Added: solutions are designed to be installed on Class 8 commercial vehicles from most major commercial vehicle OEMs.
+Added: on the powertrain and its associated components and including compatibility into its design, our solutions are intended to give
+Added: its customers the flexibility to use their preferred vehicle brand.
+Added: This will allow our customers to adopt our Hybrid or Hypertruck
+Added: ERX system while continuing to utilize their existing maintenance and service organizations.
+Added: We believe this approach will increase
+Added: the adoption of our solutions by reducing our customers’
+Added: cost and risk of transitioning to electrified transportation.
+Added: Continuing to Build
+Added: and Leverage Strategic Relationships
+Added: We intend to continue
+Added: developing partnerships to accelerate the development and production of our solutions.
+Added: We have entered into (a) agreements
+Added: with Dana, Sensata Technologies, Inc.
+Added: and other companies for component development and potential future sourcing, (b) non-binding
+Added: letters of intent with FEV North America Inc.
+Added: for design and system integration support and (c) non-binding letters of intent
+Added: with Lonestar Specialty Vehicles and Fontaine Modification Company for vehicle installation and (d) partnership agreement
+Added: with ANG that offers our customers discounted pricing for RNG at ANG fueling stations across the country.
+Added: Our strategic, engineering,
+Added: production and technology partners augment our internal resources, and we intend to leverage their capabilities and infrastructure
+Added: to bring our solutions to market more quickly and to meet industry standards, without requiring us to invest substantial amounts
+Added: of capital in internal production operations.
+Added: See “Risk Factors —
+Added: Certain of our strategic, development and deployment
+Added: arrangements could be terminated or may not materialize into long-term contract partnership arrangements.”
+Added: and “Risk
+Added: Factors —
+Added: We are dependent on our suppliers, some of which are single or limited source suppliers, and the inability of these
+Added: suppliers to deliver necessary components of our vehicles at prices and volumes, performance and specifications acceptable to us
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results.”
+Added: Production, Assembly
+Added: and Installation
+Added: We intend to primarily
+Added: outsource the production, assembly and installation of our electrified powertrain systems to our partners at volume, while maintaining
+Added: in-house research, development and prototyping capabilities, including low-volume assembly and installation.
+Added: Sales and Marketing
+Added: We currently market
+Added: and sell our electrified powertrain solutions domestically through a direct sales organization and with our marketing partners
+Added: to Class 8 commercial vehicle fleet owners and operators, and we expect to begin marketing and selling our electrified powertrain
+Added: solutions internationally in the future.
+Added: Research and Development
+Added: Our research and
+Added: development activities primarily take place at our headquarters in Cedar Park, Texas, on our testing and demonstration vehicles
+Added: on roads and highways, and at our partners’
+Added: Our research and
+Added: development is primarily focused on:
+Added: ● electrified
+Added: powertrain development and system integration;
+Added: software and algorithms for our powertrain systems;
+Added: generation packaging and cooling for our battery systems;
+Added: ● interoperability
+Added: with third-party powertrain components, such as e-motors, inverters and axles;
+Added: ● accelerated
+Added: lifetime testing processes to improve reliability, maintainability and system-level robustness;
+Added: ● alternative
+Added: products for existing and in development components and technology.
+Added: The majority of our
+Added: current activities are primarily focused on the research and development of our electrified powertrain systems, third-party component
+Added: integration and the underlying proprietary battery and software technology platforms.
+Added: We undertake significant testing and validation
+Added: of our products and components in order to ensure that they will meet the demands of our customers.
+Added: Intellectual Property
+Added: Intellectual property
+Added: is important to our business, and we seek protection for our strategic intellectual property.
+Added: We rely upon a combination of patents,
+Added: copyrights, trade secrets, know-how and trademark laws, along with employee and third-party non-disclosure agreements and other
+Added: contractual restrictions to establish and protect our intellectual property rights.
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2020, we had 15 issued U.S.
+Added: patents and 20 pending U.S.
+Added: patent applications.
+Added: We pursue the registration of our domain names, trademarks
+Added: and service marks in the United States and in some locations abroad.
+Added: In an effort to protect our brand, as of December 31,
+Added: 2020, we had three registered and four pending trademarks in the United States and 26 registered and 14 are pending internationally.
+Added: We regularly review
+Added: our development efforts to assess the existence and patentability of new intellectual property.
+Added: To that end, we are prepared to
+Added: file additional patent applications as we consider appropriate under the circumstances relating to the new technologies that we
+Added: We cannot be sure
+Added: that patents will be granted with respect to any of our pending patent applications or with respect to any patent applications
+Added: we may own or license in the future, nor can we be sure that any of our existing patents or any patents we may own or license
+Added: in the future will be useful in protecting our technology.
+Added: Please see the section entitled “Risk Factors”
+Added: for additional
+Added: information on the risks associated with our intellectual property strategy and portfolio.
+Added: Our headquarters
+Added: are located in an approximately 104,000 square foot facility that we lease in Cedar Park, Texas, just north of Austin, Texas,
+Added: where we design, develop, prototype and perform low volume assembly and installation of our electrified powertrain systems and
+Added: Our lease of this facility expires in January 2026 and we have the option to extend the lease for an additional
+Added: five-year term.
+Added: We also lease a 2,500 square foot facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania that is used to support our operations.
+Added: Human Capital
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2020, we had 91 employees.
+Added: We have not experienced any work stoppages and we consider our relationship with our employees to be
+Added: None of our employees are subject to a collective bargaining agreement or represented by a labor union.
+Added: are integral to our business, and we are highly dependent on our ability to attract and retain key employees and hire qualified
+Added: management, and technical and vehicle engineering personnel.
+Added: We seek to provide our employees with competitive compensation
+Added: and benefits, including grants of equity under our equity incentive plan.
+Added: While we are currently still a small company in
+Added: terms of headcount, we have plans to grow, and expect that our practices and programs with respect to human capital management
+Added: will grow as we do.
+Added: Government Regulations
+Added: We operate in an
+Added: industry that is subject to extensive environmental regulation, which has become more stringent over time.
+Added: The laws and regulations
+Added: to which we are subject govern, among others, water use, air emissions, use of recycled materials, energy sources, the storage,
+Added: handling, treatment, transportation and disposal of hazardous materials, the protection of the environment, natural resources
+Added: and endangered species and the remediation of environmental contamination.
+Added: We may be required to obtain and comply with the terms
+Added: and conditions of multiple environmental permits, many of which are difficult and costly to obtain and could be subject to legal
+Added: Compliance with such laws and regulations at an international, regional, national, provincial and local level is an
+Added: important aspect of our ability to continue its operations.
+Added: Environmental standards
+Added: applicable to us are established by the laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate, and our product are sold, standards
+Added: adopted by regulatory agencies and the permits and licenses that we hold.
+Added: Each of these sources is subject to periodic modifications
+Added: and increasingly stringent requirements.
+Added: Violations of these laws, regulations or permits and licenses may result in substantial
+Added: civil and criminal fines, penalties, orders to cease the violating operations or to conduct or pay for corrective works.
+Added: instances, violations may also result in the suspension or revocation of permits and licenses.
+Added: EPA and CARB Emissions
+Added: Compliance and Certification
+Added: Under the U.S.
+Added: Air Act, some of our electrified powertrain solutions may be required to obtain a Certificate of Conformity issued by the Environmental
+Added: Protection Agency (“EPA”) and a California Executive Order issued by the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”),
+Added: demonstrating that our powertrains and vehicles comply with requirements including as applicable, emission standards for both
+Added: criteria pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides (“NOx”) and particulate matter (“PM”), and GHGs, such as
+Added: CO2 and nitrous oxide (“N2O”).
+Added: A Certificate of Conformity is required for vehicles sold in all states and an Executive
+Added: Order is required for vehicles sold in California and states that have adopted the California standards.
+Added: CARB sets the California
+Added: standards for emissions control for certain regulated pollutants for new vehicles and engines sold in California and must obtain
+Added: a waiver of preemption from the EPA before implementing and enforcing such standards.
+Added: States that have adopted the California
+Added: standards, as approved by the EPA, also require a CARB Executive Order for sales of vehicles in those states.
+Added: There are currently
+Added: four states that have adopted the California standard for heavy-duty vehicles.
+Added: Pursuant to its authority
+Added: under the Clean Air Act, the EPA adopted Phase 1 fuel efficiency and GHG standards for heavy-duty vehicles and engines effective
+Added: 2014 through 2018.
+Added: The EPA subsequently adopted more stringent fuel efficiency and GHG standards for heavy-duty vehicles and engines
+Added: in October 2015.
+Added: Phase II CARB also has adopted GHG and fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles and engines effective
+Added: 2018 to 2027, and is considering an Advanced Clean Trucks rule that would require heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers to produce
+Added: and offer for sale in California a certain number of zero-emission vehicles.
+Added: Manufacturers of vehicles and engines must comply
+Added: with the GHG standards as a condition of the EPA Certificate of Conformity and the CARB Executive Order.
+Added: Additionally, CARB is also providing more stringent criteria
+Added: on heavy-duty engines, now testing requirements an expanded emissions warranty for specific engines and powertrain components in
+Added: CARB’s Low NOX Omnibus rule.
+Added: As currently proposed, CARB’s Low NOV Omnibus rule would begin in 2024 and be implemented
+Added: through 2031.
+Added: All vehicles and engines
+Added: manufactured for sale in the United States must be covered by an EPA Certificate of Conformity (and CARB Executive Order if
+Added: sold in California), including engines and vehicles using zero-emission or low-carbon technology.
+Added: As is necessary, an EPA Certificate
+Added: of Conformity and/or CARB Executive Order, covering both criteria pollutants and GHG, must be obtained each model year for each
+Added: engine family and heavy-duty vehicle.
+Added: Failure to obtain or comply with the terms of a Certificate of Conformity or Executive Order
+Added: is subject to civil penalty and administrative or judicial enforcement.
+Added: Receipt of an EPA
+Added: Certificate of Conformity and CARB Executive Order obligates the holder to ensure that the covered engine or vehicle complies
+Added: with applicable standards throughout the full useful life of the product, which ranges from ten years or 185,000 miles, whichever
+Added: comes first, for medium heavy-duty vehicles, to ten years or 435,000 miles, whichever comes first, for heavy heavy-duty vehicles.
+Added: Emissions control system warranty coverage must be provided for a period of five years or 50,000 to 100,000 miles, whichever comes
+Added: first and depending on the engine and vehicle size.
+Added: During this time, manufacturers must repair emission-related defects at no
+Added: cost to the customer.
+Added: Throughout the full useful life of the engine or vehicle, manufacturers are required to remedy in-use problems
+Added: that cause engines or vehicles to exceed emission standards for criteria pollutants or GHGs.
+Added: Manufacturers may have to conduct
+Added: recalls, service campaigns or other field actions, or provide extended warranties to address any such in-use issues that may arise.
+Added: Both the EPA and CARB are considering extending the emissions warranty period, depending on the engine size.
+Added: Manufacturers of
+Added: heavy-duty engines and vehicles also must ensure that their products comply with On Board Diagnostics (“OBD”) requirements.
+Added: The OBD system is intended to identify and diagnose malfunctions within the engine, aftertreatment and emission control systems
+Added: and alert the driver to the underlying issue so the vehicle can be brought in for service.
+Added: CARB issues approval of the OBD system
+Added: as part of its issuance of an Executive Order;
+Added: the EPA typically deems CARB OBD approval to be compliance with the EPA’s
+Added: requirements.
+Added: As with emissions compliance, manufacturers are required to ensure that the OBD system functions as designed and
+Added: is able to identify component malfunctions throughout the full useful life of the vehicle or engine.
+Added: Natural Gas and RNG
+Added: Generation and
+Added: Sale of Renewable Identification Numbers (“RIN”) Credits and low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) Credits.
+Added: February 2010, the EPA finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”) (which was established by the Energy Policy
+Added: Act of 1992/2005), which creates RINs that can be generated by the production and use of RNG in the transportation sector and
+Added: sold to fuel providers that are not compliant under the RFS.
+Added: In addition, CARB and comparable agencies in Oregon have adopted
+Added: the LCFS, which encourages low carbon “compliant”
+Added: transportation fuels (including CNG) in the California and Oregon
+Added: marketplace by allowing producers of these fuels to generate LCFS Credits that can be sold to noncompliant regulated parties.
+Added: Sale of Natural
+Added: Gas Vehicle Fuel:
+Added: Alternative Fuel Tax Credit (AFTC).
+Added: Under separate pieces of U.S.
+Added: federal legislation, natural gas
+Added: vehicle fuel sales made during the year ending December 31, 2020 are eligible for an AFTC.
+Added: The AFTC credit is equal to $0.50 per
+Added: gasoline gallon equivalent of CNG sold as vehicle fuel.
+Added: The AFTC may not be reinstated for vehicle fuel sales after December 31,
+Added: GHG Credits —
+Added: The EPA’s Greenhouse
+Added: Gas Regulation requires all manufacturers of heavy-duty engines and vehicles to comply with fleet average GHG standards.
+Added: Manufacturers
+Added: may comply with the standards by producing engines or vehicles, all of which comply with the standards, or by averaging, banking
+Added: and trading GHG credits within vehicle or engine categories.
+Added: Manufacturers may also comply with GHG standards by purchasing credits
+Added: from manufacturers with a surplus of credits.
+Added: The failure to comply with GHG standards can lead to civil penalties or the voiding
+Added: of a manufacturer’s EPA Certificate of Conformity.
+Added: In connection with the delivery and placement into service of zero-emission
+Added: and low-emission vehicles, we may earn tradable GHG credits that under current laws and regulations can be sold to other manufacturers.
+Added: Under the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulation, plug-in hybrid, all-electric and fuel cell vehicles earn a credit multiplier
+Added: of 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5, respectively, for use in the calculation of GHG emission credits.
+Added: Commercial engine
+Added: and vehicle manufacturers are required to meet the NOx emission standard for each type of engine or vehicle produced.
+Added: diesel engine emission control technology limits the fuel economy and GHG improvements that can be made while maintaining compliance
+Added: with the NOx standard.
+Added: As the fleet-average GHG standards continue to decrease over time, compliance with the NOx standard will
+Added: increase the difficulty for conventional diesel vehicles to meet the applicable GHG standard.
+Added: Until technology catches up for
+Added: commercial vehicles, manufacturers of diesel trucks will likely need to purchase GHG credits to cover their emission deficit.
+Added: The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulation provides the opportunity for the sale of excess credits to other manufacturers who apply
+Added: such credits to comply with these regulatory requirements.
+Added: Furthermore, the regulation does not limit the number of GHG credits
+Added: that can be sold within the same commercial vehicle categories.
+Added: GHG Credits —
+Added: California Air Resources Board
+Added: California also has
+Added: a separate GHG emissions regulatory program which is very similar to the EPA requirements.
+Added: Like the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas
+Added: Rule, the CARB rule allows for averaging, banking and trading of credits to comply with the fleet-average GHG standard and the
+Added: failure to comply with the California GHG standard may lead to the imposition of civil penalties.
+Added: The delivery and placement into
+Added: service of our zero-emission and low-emission vehicles in California may earn us tradable credits that can be sold.
+Added: GHG regulations, advanced technology vehicles also earn a credit multiplier of for use in the calculation of emission credits
+Added: in the same amounts as under the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule.
+Added: Examples of other
+Added: potential incentive and grant programs that either we or our customers can apply for include:
+Added: Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
+Added: The LCFS was initially developed in California and is quickly gaining traction in other jurisdictions
+Added: around the world.
+Added: The goal is to reduce the well-to-wheel carbon intensity of fuels by providing both mandated reduction targets
+Added: as well as tradable and sellable credits.
+Added: Both California and New York have active programs that provide “cash on the hood”
+Added: to customers that purchase newer, lower emissions vehicles, including zero-emission vehicles.
+Added: Other states are considering
+Added: developing similar programs.
+Added: Government entities at all levels from federal, including the U.S.
+Added: of Energy, state (for example, CARB) and local (for example, North Texas Council of Governments),
+Added: have grant programs designed to increase and accelerate the development and deployment
+Added: of zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure technologies.
+Added: The EPA Smartway program provides grants and funding for the retrofit
+Added: of heavy-duty vehicles with components and technologies that reduce emissions.
+Added: and fleet owners who repower vehicles with advanced technology powertrains or CNG engines
+Added: may be able to access funding to offset a portion of the cost.
+Added: European and Other Requirements for
+Added: Heavy-Duty Vehicles
+Added: Similar to requirements
+Added: in the US, Europe and other jurisdictions regulate pollutants, operational characteristics, and content of heavy-duty vehicles
+Added: and vehicle equipment.
+Added: For example, European emission regulations of heavy-duty vehicles (currently under “Euro VI”
+Added: regulations) specify criteria pollutant emission limits from various vehicles, including heavy-duty vehicles, that are similar
+Added: to those of EPA and CARB.
+Added: The European regulations also require similar engine and vehicle OBD systems to those of EPA and CARB.
+Added: However, as these are ‘similar’
+Added: emissions and diagnostic regulations, the EPA and CARB are not the same as European
+Added: emissions and diagnostic regulations.
+Added: Unlike the generally synergistic relation and regulations between EPA and CARB, current European
+Added: emissions and diagnostic regulations require separate design, validation, testing and approval such that EPA and/or CARB approval
+Added: does not directly correlate to European approval of similar powertrain and vehicle equipment.
+Added: Other requirements regulating vehicles
+Added: and vehicle equipment components similar to Hyliion systems may be applicable to or exempted by regulation.
+Added: For example, European
+Added: Restriction of Hazardous Substance (“ROHS”) regulates materials in electrical equipment, but currently exempts transport
+Added: As Hyliion considers these other markets, Hyliion systems will be configured to meet these requirements in other jurisdictions.
+Added: Heavy-Duty Vehicle Safety Requirements
+Added: Manufacturers of vehicles
+Added: that operate on US highways are subject to, and must comply with, various regulations established by the National Highway Traffic
+Added: Safety Administration (“NHTSA”).
+Added: These federal motor vehicle safety standards (“FMVSS”) cover a wide variety
+Added: of vehicle equipment and components.
+Added: Manufacturers of vehicles, including heavy-duty vehicles, must confirm that their vehicles
+Added: and vehicle equipment comply with applicable standards or, as appropriate, are exempt from those standards.
+Added: Currently, there are
+Added: several FMVSS that apply to vehicle manufacturers and may be applicable to Hyliion’s hybrid and ERX systems.
+Added: As may be required,
+Added: Hyliion is evaluating FMVSS requirements for applicability to Hyliion products.
+Added: Manufacturers of vehicles that operate on
+Added: US highways must also comply with NHTSA safety reporting requirements concerning safety involving Hyliion systems concerning various
+Added: issues including, but not limited to, accidents, warranty claims, field actions and reports, and recalls.
+Added: As situations may arise,
+Added: Hyliion will take appropriate actions to comply with these reporting requirements.
+Added: We have experienced,
+Added: and expect to continue to experience, intense competition from a number of companies, particularly as the commercial transportation
+Added: sector increasingly shifts towards low-emission, zero-emission or carbon neutral solutions.
+Added: We face competition from many different
+Added: sources, including major commercial vehicle OEMs and companies that are developing alternative fuel and electric commercial vehicles.
+Added: Existing commercial vehicle OEMs such as Paccar, Navistar, Volvo, Mack Trucks and Daimler maintain the largest market shares in
+Added: Given we primarily develop and sell powertrains that are designed to be installed into an OEM’s commercial vehicle
+Added: to augment or replace conventionally fueled powertrains, as opposed to a complete commercial vehicle, we believe we primarily compete
+Added: with new low emissions vehicle entrants in the commercial vehicle market and to a lesser extent the in-house powertrain development
+Added: efforts of the incumbent commercial vehicle OEMs, as well as existing traditional powertrain component manufacturers.
+Added: are many competitors addressing electrification of commercial vehicles, many of them are focused on shorter range vehicles.
+Added: are providing electrified solutions that are addressing both the long-haul and regional transportation sectors.
+Added: We believe the
+Added: primary competitive factors in the long-haul Class 8 commercial vehicle market include, but are not limited to:
+Added: cost of ownership;
+Added: ● availability
+Added: of charging or fueling network;
+Added: of integration into existing operations;
+Added: performance and uptime;
+Added: quality, reliability and safety;
+Added: support, parts and on-road service network;
+Added: ● technological
+Added: innovation specifically around battery, software and data analytics;
+Added: We believe that we compete favorably with our competitors on
+Added: the basis of these factors;
+Added: however, most of our current and potential competitors have greater financial, technical, manufacturing,
+Added: marketing and other resources than us.
+Added: Our competitors may be able to deploy greater resources to the design, development, manufacturing,
+Added: distribution, promotion, sales, marketing and support of their alternative fuel and electric truck programs.
+Added: Additionally, our
+Added: competitors also have greater name recognition, longer operating histories, larger sales forces, broader customer and industry
+Added: relationships and other tangible and intangible resources than us.
+Added: These competitors also compete with us in recruiting and retaining
+Added: qualified research and development, sales, marketing and management personnel, as well as in acquiring technologies complementary
+Added: to, or necessary for, our products.
+Added: Additional mergers and acquisitions may result in even more resources being concentrated in
+Added: our competitors.
+Added: We cannot provide assurances that our electrified systems will be the first to market.
+Added: Even if our electrified
+Added: systems are first to market, or among the first to market, we cannot be sure that customers will choose vehicles with our electrified
+Added: systems over those of our competitors, or over conventional diesel-powered vehicles.
+Added: Tesla and Nikola have
+Added: announced their plans to bring long-haul Class 8 commercial BEVs and FCEVs to the market over the coming years.
+Added: Cummins, Daimler,
+Added: Dana, Navistar, PACCAR, Volvo, Lion Electric, Hyzon and other commercial vehicle manufacturers have announced their plans to bring
+Added: Class 8 commercial BEVs or FCEVs to the market.
+Added: Furthermore, we will also face competition from manufacturers of internal combustion
+Added: engines powered by diesel fuel.
+Added: We expect additional competitors to enter the market as well.
+Added: Legal Proceedings
+Added: From time to time,
+Added: we may become involved in legal proceedings or be subject to claims arising in the ordinary course of our business.
+Added: currently a party to any material legal proceedings.
+Added: Regardless of outcome, such proceedings or claims can have an adverse impact
+Added: on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of resources and other factors and there can be no assurances that favorable
+Added: outcomes will be obtained.
+Added: Strategic Collaborations
+Added: Dana Limited (“Dana”)
+Added: Commercial Matters
+Added: In June 2020,
+Added: Hyliion and Dana entered into an agreement as to certain commercial arrangements (the “Commercial Matters Agreement”).
+Added: The Commercial Matters Agreement amended and replaced certain prior commercial arrangements between Hyliion and Dana.
+Added: Among other things,
+Added: pursuant to the Commercial Matters Agreement, as long as Dana or its affiliates hold at least 1,000,000 shares of our common stock
+Added: or equity securities issued in exchange therefor or into which such shares are otherwise converted (in each case subject to customary
+Added: adjustments for stock splits or dividends or other similar changes), and in the case of the Dana Sourcing Arrangement (defined
+Added: below), for five years following the date of certain change in control transactions affecting us or our respective affiliates:
+Added: (a) we agreed to purchase from Dana and its affiliates, unless we are directed by a customer to use a different
+Added: vendor, any component, product or service required or utilized by us that Dana or any of its affiliates manufactures, sells or
+Added: provides or unless Dana is not capable or willing to supply on reasonably competitive terms such component, product or service;
+Added: provided that if a customer so directs us to use an alternative source, we agreed to use our good faith efforts to cause such customer
+Added: to use Dana’s or its affiliates’
+Added: component, product or service by providing Dana or its affiliates with the opportunity
+Added: to meet and speak with such customer (the “Dana Sourcing Arrangement”);
+Added: (b) Dana agreed to provide Hyliion with
+Added: a sourcing arrangement that granted us certain preferred payment terms when purchasing components from Dana or its affiliates for
+Added: our own use in connection with its commercial vehicle business operations;
+Added: (c) Dana and Hyliion agreed to execute joint marketing
+Added: and branding activities;
+Added: (d) Dana and its affiliates were granted a right of first refusal with respect to any assembly or
+Added: manufacturing activities required by us;
+Added: and (e) we agreed not to engage in certain business activities with certain competitors
+Added: of Dana, subject to certain conditions.
+Added: For a period of three
+Added: years following the closing of the Business Combination, Dana agreed to provide to us, at no charge (other than reimbursement
+Added: of certain expenses), support services related to our business and operations, substantially comparable to the scope and quantity
+Added: of services provided by Dana to us prior to entering into the Commercial Matters Agreement (the “Dana Support Services”)
+Added: upon the terms and conditions of a new services agreement to be mutually agreed to, based upon good faith negotiations.
+Added: In consideration
+Added: for the Dana Support Services, Hyliion agreed to issue $10.0 million worth of Hyliion common stock to Dana immediately prior to
+Added: the consummation of the Business Combination.
+Added: Sensata Technologies,
+Added: Sensata Collaboration
+Added: In June 2019,
+Added: in connection with the notes payable issued to Sensata (“Sensata Notes”), we entered into a Collaboration and Development
+Added: Agreement with Sensata relating to the development and supply of power distribution units (“PDUs”) for use in certain
+Added: of our products (the “Sensata Collaboration Agreement”).
+Added: Pursuant to the Sensata Collaboration Agreement, we and Sensata
+Added: agreed to collaborate in connection with Sensata’s development, at its cost and expense, of PDUs that meet our specifications.
+Added: The Sensata Collaboration Agreement does not require Sensata to complete development of PDUs that meet our specifications.
+Added: if Sensata is able to deliver PDUs to us that meet our qualifications, we have agreed to negotiate in good faith a definitive
+Added: supply agreement for Sensata to manufacture and supply PDUs to us for use in certain of our products.
+Added: Such definitive supply agreement
+Added: shall require us to purchase Hyliion’s total requirements for such PDUs from Sensata for an initial term of three years,
+Added: so long as Sensata is willing and able to satisfy our pricing, timing and performance objectives.
+Added: If we fail to enter into such
+Added: definitive supply agreement or, if entered into, fail to purchase our total requirements of PDUs exclusively from Sensata during
+Added: such three-year period, Sensata shall be entitled to certain remedies including reimbursement for all of the documented costs
+Added: incurred by Sensata in the development of the PDUs pursuant to the Sensata Collaboration Agreement.
+Added: All intellectual property
+Added: developed by Sensata in connection with the Sensata Collaboration Agreement that does not incorporate any of our intellectual
+Added: property shall be solely owned by Sensata;
+Added: however, Sensata has granted us a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free,
+Added: non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to such intellectual property.
+Added: The term of the Sensata Collaboration
+Added: Agreement is 18 months and may be extended by the parties’
+Added: written mutual agreement.
+Added: Either party may terminate the Sensata
+Added: Collaboration Agreement by providing the other party with 30 days’
+Added: written notice.
+Added: Sensata Data Sharing
+Added: In June 2019,
+Added: in connection with the Sensata Notes, we also entered into a Data Sharing and Research Agreement with Sensata, pursuant to which
+Added: we and Sensata agreed to engage in predictive maintenance and data capture collaborations in connection with trucks operated by
+Added: us (the “Sensata Data Sharing Agreement”).
+Added: Pursuant to the Sensata Data Sharing Agreement, we agreed to deliver to
+Added: Sensata data from its vehicle fleet tests related to powertrain and other applications, and Sensata agreed to use commercially
+Added: reasonable efforts to work with Logistics Management Institute (formerly Clockwork Solutions) (“Clockwork”), a data
+Added: science and predictive maintenance consulting firm engaged by us, to analyze such data in order to develop and delineate analytics,
+Added: patterns and predictive algorithms for the purpose of enhancing Class 8 truck performance.
+Added: The Sensata Data Sharing Agreement
+Added: further specified that all data provided by us to Sensata shall remain our property.
+Added: To date, we and Sensata have collaborated
+Added: pursuant to the Sensata Data Sharing Agreement in connection with capturing data from trucks operated by us to permit a data study
+Added: conducted by Clockwork.
+Added: We have not entered into a definitive agreement with Clockwork to undertake advanced analytic data processing
+Added: and to assist with data analysis.
+Added: FEV Letter of Intent
+Added: for Commercial Agreement
+Added: we entered into a non-binding letter of intent with FEV North America Inc.
+Added: (“FEV”) relating to the provision of engineering
+Added: services (the “FEV LOI”).
+Added: The FEV LOI provides that we will negotiate a definitive agreement for FEV to provide services
+Added: to us on a non-exclusive basis relating to engineering and research and development in connection with our development of electrified
+Added: solutions for medium and heavy-duty trucks, among other matters.
+Added: The FEV LOI contemplates that following the execution of a definitive
+Added: agreement, we will, from time to time, provide FEV with the details of projects that it is working on and request that FEV submit
+Added: a proposal to provide services to us in connection with such projects.
+Added: If mutually agreed to by us and FEV, FEV would then provide
+Added: such services to us pursuant to the definitive agreement.
+Added: The FEV LOI also contemplates collaboration on customer leads and opportunities,
+Added: as mutually agreed to by us and FEV from time to time.
+Added: We are now renegotiating
+Added: the definitive agreement, but the term of the FEV LOI will continue until the execution of a definitive agreement.
+Added: may terminate the FEV LOI by delivering written notice to the other party.
+Added: In August 2020, we and FEV entered into a statement
+Added: of work, pursuant to which FEV is providing limited engineering services to us.
+Added: As contemplated by the FEV LOI, we and FEV intend
+Added: to enter into a definitive agreement that will govern all future work, but there is no guarantee that a binding definitive agreement
+Added: will be achieved.
+Added: Fontaine Letter of
+Added: Intent for Commercial Agreement
+Added: we entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Fontaine Modification Company (“Fontaine”), a North America based
+Added: provider of comprehensive post-production truck modification services for OEMs, relating to the provision of post-production truck
+Added: modification services (the “Fontaine LOI”).
+Added: The Fontaine LOI provides that we will negotiate a definitive agreement
+Added: for Fontaine to provide services to us on a non-exclusive basis relating to design, engineer, test and build truck modifications
+Added: and custom solutions for our products, among other matters.
+Added: The Fontaine LOI contemplates that Fontaine will have the capacity
+Added: and capability to modify an agreed upon number of trucks per year (and per month) on its production lines pursuant to the definitive
+Added: The Fontaine LOI also contemplates that following the completion of modification services by Fontaine, Fontaine will
+Added: work cooperatively with us to coordinate delivery of trucks to our customers, including utilizing “ship-thru”
+Added: with the OEMs of such trucks.
+Added: The term of the Fontaine LOI will continue until the execution of a definitive agreement.
+Added: party may terminate the Fontaine LOI by delivering written notice to the other party.
+Added: There is no guarantee that a binding definitive
+Added: agreement will be achieved.
+Added: Lonestar Letter of
+Added: Intent for Commercial Agreement
+Added: Since 2019, Lonestar
+Added: Specialty Vehicles (“Lonestar”), an installer of powertrains in rolling chassis and glider trucks, has been providing
+Added: us with installation services in connection with certain of our products.
+Added: In April 2020, we entered into a non-binding letter
+Added: of intent with Lonestar relating to the provision of truck production, installation and customization services (the “Lonestar
+Added: The Lonestar LOI provides that we will negotiate a definitive agreement for Lonestar to provide services to us on
+Added: a non-exclusive basis relating to the production, installation and customization of trucks that contain or utilize our products,
+Added: among other matters.
+Added: The Lonestar LOI contemplates that Lonestar will reserve capacity on its production line to build an agreed
+Added: upon number of trucks per year pursuant to specifications provided by us, and that Lonestar will be responsible for sourcing the
+Added: truck body and all truck components from applicable manufacturers, installing our products in such trucks and performing all customization
+Added: requested by us and our customers.
+Added: The Lonestar LOI also contemplates that following the completion of each truck, Lonestar will
+Added: coordinate delivery of such truck directly to our customers, Lonestar will be designated as one of our nationally recognized authorized
+Added: servicers, Lonestar will offer extended warranty contracts directly to our customers and Lonestar will offer financing and leasing
+Added: terms directly to our customers to assist them in purchasing or leasing trucks.
+Added: The term of the Lonestar LOI will continue until
+Added: the execution of a definitive agreement.
+Added: Either party may terminate the Lonestar LOI by delivering written notice to the other
+Added: There is no guarantee that a binding definitive agreement will be achieved.
+Added: Collaboration with
+Added: American Natural Gas
+Added: Since 2018, we and
+Added: American Natural Gas (“ANG”) have collaborated, on a non-exclusive basis, in connection with customer inquiries, on
+Added: potential co-marketing opportunities and potential opportunities for ANG to provide our customers with RNG/CNG at fueling stations
+Added: built, owned or operated by ANG across the United States.
+Added: In October 2020, we entered into a sales agreement and partnership
+Added: agreement with ANG.
+Added: The sales agreement includes a pre-order of up to 250 Hypertruck ERX vehicles and the partnership agreement
+Added: offers our customers discounted pricing for RNG at ANG fueling stations across the country and, for qualifying fleet customers,
+Added: ANG has also agreed to build new fueling stations near our customer locations with no upfront capital costs to such customers.
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