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differ materially from those in this report include the risk factors described in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
−Removed: As of the date of this Report, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Form 10-K for the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2022 and in our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 filed with the SEC.
+Added: As of the date of this Report, except as set forth below, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in
+Added: our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and in our Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2023 and June 30, 2023 filed
+Added: with the SEC.
+Added: We may not be
+Added: able to complete the Business Combination pursuant to the Merger Agreement.
+Added: If we are unable to do so, we will incur substantial costs
+Added: associated with withdrawing from the transaction and may not be able to find additional sources of financing to cover those costs.
+Added: In connection with the
+Added: Merger Agreement, we have incurred substantial costs researching, planning and negotiating the transaction.
+Added: These costs include, but
+Added: are not limited to, costs associated with securing sources of financing, costs associated with employing and retaining third-party advisors
+Added: who performed the financial, auditing and legal services required to complete the transaction, and the expenses generated by our officers,
+Added: executives, and employees in connection with the transaction.
+Added: If, for whatever reason, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement
+Added: fail to close, we will be responsible for these costs, but will have no source of revenue with which to pay them.
+Added: We may need to obtain
+Added: additional sources of financing in order to meet our obligations, which we may not be able to secure on the same terms as our existing
+Added: financing or at all.
+Added: If we are unable to secure new sources of financing and do not have sufficient funds to meet our obligations, we
+Added: will be forced to cease operations and liquidate the trust account.
+Added: If we are deemed
+Added: to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”),
+Added: we would be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities would be severely restricted and, as a result,
+Added: we may abandon our efforts to consummate an initial business combination and liquidate.
+Added: There is currently uncertainty
+Added: concerning the applicability of the Investment Company Act to blank check companies, or SPACs, including companies like ours.
+Added: it is possible that a claim could be made that we have been operating as an unregistered investment company.
+Added: If we are deemed to
+Added: be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities would be severely restricted.
+Added: In addition, we would be subject
+Added: to burdensome compliance requirements.
+Added: We do not believe that our principal activities will subject us to regulation as an investment
+Added: company under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: However, if we are deemed to be an investment company and subject to compliance with and regulation
+Added: under the Investment Company Act, we would be subject to additional regulatory burdens and expenses for which we have not allotted funds.
+Added: As a result, unless we are able to modify our activities so that we would not be deemed an investment company, we would expect to abandon
+Added: our efforts to complete an initial business combination and instead to liquidate.
+Added: If we were to liquidate, our warrants and rights will
+Added: expire worthless.
+Added: This will also cause you to lose the investment opportunity in connection with the Business Combination and any other
+Added: target company, and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.
+Added: We may not be
+Added: able to complete an initial business combination with a U.S.
+Added: target company if such initial business combination is subject to U.S.
+Added: investment regulations and review by a U.S.
+Added: government entity such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS),
+Added: or is ultimately prohibited.
+Added: None of the members
+Added: of the Company’s sponsor group is, is controlled by, or has substantial ties with a foreign person and therefore, we believe, will
+Added: not be subject to U.S.
+Added: foreign investment regulations and review by a U.S.
+Added: government entity such as the Committee on Foreign Investment
+Added: in the United States (CFIUS).
+Added: However, our initial business combination with a U.S.
+Added: business may be subject to CFIUS review, the scope
+Added: of which was expanded by the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), to include certain non-passive,
+Added: non-controlling investments in sensitive U.S.
+Added: businesses and certain acquisitions of real estate even with no underlying U.S.
+Added: FIRRMA, and subsequent implementing regulations that are now in force, also subjects certain categories of investments to mandatory filings.
+Added: If our potential initial business combination with a U.S.
+Added: business falls within CFIUS’s jurisdiction, we may determine that we
+Added: are required to make a mandatory filing or that we will submit a voluntary notice to CFIUS, or to proceed with the initial business combination
+Added: without notifying CFIUS and risk CFIUS intervention, before or after closing the initial business combination.
+Added: CFIUS may decide to block
+Added: or delay our initial business combination, impose conditions to mitigate national security concerns with respect to such initial business
+Added: combination or order us to divest all or a portion of a U.S.
+Added: business of the combined company without first obtaining CFIUS clearance,
+Added: which may limit the attractiveness of or prevent us from pursuing certain initial business combination opportunities that we believe
+Added: would otherwise be beneficial to us and our shareholders.
+Added: As a result, the pool of potential targets with which we could complete an
+Added: initial business combination may be limited and we may be adversely affected in terms of competing with other special purpose acquisition
+Added: companies which do not have similar foreign ownership issues.
+Added: Moreover, the process
+Added: of government review, whether by the CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy and we have limited time to complete our initial business combination.
+Added: If we cannot complete our initial business combination within the time period as required by our certificate of incorporation because
+Added: the review process extends beyond such timeframe or because our initial business combination is ultimately prohibited by CFIUS or another
+Added: government entity, we may be required to liquidate.
+Added: If we liquidate, our public shareholders may only receive their pro rata portion
+Added: of the Trust Account, and our warrants and rights will expire worthless.
+Added: This will also cause you to lose the investment opportunity
+Added: in a target company, and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.
+Added: A new 1% U.S.
+Added: federal excise tax could be imposed on us in connection with redemptions.
+Added: On August 16, 2022,
+Added: the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) was signed into federal law.
+Added: The IRA provides for, among other things, a
+Added: federal 1% excise tax on certain repurchases (including redemptions) of stock by publicly traded U.S.
+Added: corporations, by certain
+Added: subsidiaries of publicly traded non-U.S.
+Added: corporations, by “covered surrogate foreign corporations” (as defined in the
+Added: IRA) and by certain affiliates of the foregoing (each, a “covered corporation”).
+Added: Because our securities are trading on the
+Added: Nasdaq, we are a “covered corporation” for this purpose.
+Added: The excise tax is imposed on the repurchasing corporation itself,
+Added: not its shareholders from which shares are repurchased.
+Added: The amount of the excise tax is generally 1% of the fair market value of the
+Added: shares repurchased at the time of the repurchase.
+Added: However, for purposes of calculating the excise tax, repurchasing corporations are
+Added: permitted to net the fair market value of certain new stock issuances against the fair market value of stock repurchases during the same
+Added: taxable year.
+Added: In addition, certain exceptions apply to the excise tax.
+Added: Department of Treasury has been given authority to provide
+Added: regulations and other guidance to carry out, and to prevent the avoidance of the excise tax.
+Added: The IRA applies only to repurchases that
+Added: occur after December 31, 2022.
+Added: If we complete a business
+Added: combination after December 31, 2022, any redemption or other repurchase that occurs in connection with the business combination, or any
+Added: other redemption or other repurchase that occurs after December 31, 2022 may be subject to the excise tax.
+Added: Whether and to what extent
+Added: we would be subject to the excise tax would depend on a number of factors, including (i) the fair market value of the redemptions and
+Added: repurchases, (ii) the nature and amount of the equity issued in connection with the business combination (or otherwise issued not in
+Added: connection with the business combination but issued within the same taxable year of the business combination), and (iii) the content
+Added: of regulations and other guidance from the U.S.
+Added: Department of the Treasury.
+Added: In addition, because the excise tax would be payable by us,
+Added: and not by the redeeming holder, the mechanics of any required payment of the excise tax have not been determined.
+Added: The foregoing could
+Added: cause a reduction in the cash available on hand to complete any business combination and in our ability to complete any such business
+Added: On March 22, 2023, the
+Added: Company’s stockholders redeemed 18,000,868 shares for a total of $184,845,836.
+Added: The Company determined that a liability for excise
+Added: tax should be recorded due to the redeemed shares.
+Added: As of September 30, 2023, the Company recorded a charge to stockholders’ deficit
+Added: of $1,848,455 of excise tax liability calculated as 1% of shares redeemed.
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