Risk Factors.
−Removed: There have been no material changes from the
−Removed: risk factors previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the SEC on March 24, 2022.
−Removed: In addition, we may be subject
−Removed: to the following risk in connection with changes in laws and regulations.
−Removed: Changes in laws or regulations, or a failure
−Removed: to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial
−Removed: business combination and results of operations.
−Removed: We are subject to laws and regulations enacted
−Removed: by national, regional and local governments.
−Removed: In particular, we will be required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements.
−Removed: Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws and regulations may be difficult, time consuming and costly.
−Removed: Those laws and regulations
−Removed: and their interpretation and application may also change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our
−Removed: business, investments and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted
−Removed: and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business
−Removed: combination and results of operations.
−Removed: On March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules
−Removed: relating to, among other items, disclosures in business combination transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”)
+Added: As a smaller reporting company,
+Added: we are not required to include risk factors in this Report.
+Added: However, as of the date of this Report ,
+Added: other than as set forth below, there have been no material changes with respect to those risk factors previously disclosed in (i) our
+Added: registration statement on Form S-1 with respect to our initial public offering, initially filed with the SEC on January 29, 2021, as amended,
+Added: and which was declared effective on February 18, 2021 (File No.
+Added: 333-252598), (ii) our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC on March 24, 2022, (iii) our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2021 and
+Added: 2022, as filed with the SEC on May 14, 2021 and May 16, 2022, (iv) the Rumble Registration Statement, and (v) the Proxy Statement.
+Added: of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: risk factors not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business or results of operations.
+Added: may disclose changes to such risk factors or disclose additional risk factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.
+Added: SEC has recently issued proposed rules relating to certain activities of SPACs.
+Added: Certain of the procedures that we, a potential business
+Added: combination target, or others may determine to undertake in connection with such proposals may increase our costs and the time needed
+Added: to complete our Initial Business Combination.
+Added: March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules (the “SPAC Rule Proposals”) relating, among other items, to disclosures in
+Added: SEC filings in connection with business combination transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”)
and private operating companies;
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in proposed business combination transactions;
−Removed: and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company
−Removed: Act of 1940, as amended, including a proposed rule that would provide SPACs a safe harbor from treatment as an investment company if they
−Removed: satisfy certain conditions that limit a SPAC’s duration, asset composition, business purpose and activities.
−Removed: These rules, if adopted,
−Removed: whether in the form proposed or in a revised form, may increase the costs of and the time needed to negotiate and complete an initial
−Removed: business combination, and may constrain the circumstances under which we could complete an initial business combination.
−Removed: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
−Removed: and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities
+Added: and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment
+Added: Company Act, including a proposed rule that would provide SPACs a safe harbor from treatment as an investment company if they satisfy
+Added: certain conditions that limit a SPAC’s duration, asset composition, business purpose and activities.
+Added: The SPAC Rule Proposals have
+Added: not yet been adopted and may be adopted in the proposed form or in a different form that could impose additional regulatory requirements
+Added: of the procedures that we, a potential business combination target, or others may determine to undertake in connection with the SPAC
+Added: Rule Proposals, or pursuant to the SEC’s views expressed in the SPAC Rule Proposals, may increase the costs and time of completing
+Added: an Initial Business Combination.
+Added: For more information regarding regulatory and other requirements related to the Rumble Business Combination,
+Added: see the Rumble Registration Statement.
+Added: we are deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we would be required to institute burdensome
+Added: compliance requirements and our activities would be severely restricted.
+Added: described further above, the SPAC Rule Proposals relate, among other matters, to the circumstances in which SPACs such as the Company
+Added: could potentially be subject to the Investment Company Act and the regulations thereunder.
+Added: The SPAC Rule Proposals would provide
+Added: a safe harbor for such companies from the definition of “investment company” under Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company
+Added: Act, provided that a SPAC satisfies certain criteria, including a limited time period to announce and complete an Initial Business Combination.
+Added: Specifically, to comply with the safe harbor, the SPAC Rule Proposals would require a company to file a report on Form 8-K announcing
+Added: that it has entered into an agreement with a target company for a business combination no later than 18 months after the effective
+Added: date of its registration statement for its initial public offering (the “IPO Registration Statement”).
+Added: The company would
+Added: then be required to complete its Initial Business Combination no later than 24 months after the effective date of the IPO Registration
+Added: the SPAC Rule Proposals have not yet been adopted, there is currently uncertainty concerning the applicability of the Investment
+Added: Company Act to a SPAC, including a company like ours.
+Added: We do not believe that our principal activities will subject us to regulation
+Added: as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: However, if we are deemed to be an investment company and subject to compliance
+Added: with and regulation under the Investment Company Act, our activities would be severely restricted.
+Added: In addition, we would be subject to
+Added: additional burdensome regulatory requirements and expenses for which we have not allotted funds.
+Added: is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a “going concern.”
+Added: connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations under applicable accounting standards, management has
+Added: determined that our possible need for additional financing to enable us negotiate and complete our Initial Business Combination, as well
+Added: as the deadline by which we may be required to liquidate our Trust Account, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability
+Added: to continue as a going concern through approximately one year from the date the financial statements were issued.
+Added: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Mine Safety Disclosures
−Removed: Not applicable.
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