−Removed: of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q there have been no changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Prospectus filed with
−Removed: the SEC on January 11, 2021 and our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 20, 2021;
+Added: of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q there have been changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Prospectus filed with
+Added: the SEC on January 11, 2021 and our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 18, 2022;
Any of these factors, including that added
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disclose changes to such risk factors or disclose additional risk factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.
+Added: in laws or regulations or in how such laws or regulations are interpreted or applied, or a failure to comply with any laws, regulations,
+Added: interpretations or applications, may adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business
+Added: are subject to the laws and regulations, and interpretations and applications of such laws and regulations, of national, regional, state
+Added: and local governments and applicable non-U.S.
+Added: jurisdictions.
+Added: In particular, our consummation of a business combination may be contingent
+Added: upon our ability to comply with certain laws, regulations, interpretations and applications, and any post-business combination company
+Added: may be subject to additional laws, regulations, interpretations and applications.
+Added: Compliance with the foregoing may be difficult, time
+Added: consuming and costly.
+Added: Laws and regulations and their interpretation and application may also change from time to time, and those changes
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete an initial business combination.
+Added: A failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business,
+Added: including our ability to negotiate and complete an initial business combination.
+Added: March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules relating to, among other items, disclosures in business combination transactions involving
+Added: SPACs and private operating companies;
+Added: the financial statement requirements applicable to transactions involving shell companies;
+Added: use of projections in SEC filings in connection with proposed business combination transactions;
+Added: the potential liability of certain participants
+Added: in proposed business combination transactions;
+Added: and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment
+Added: Company Act of 1940, as amended, including a proposed rule that would provide SPACs a safe harbor from treatment as an investment company
+Added: if they satisfy certain conditions that limit a SPAC’s duration, asset composition, business purpose and activities.
+Added: if adopted, whether in the form proposed or in a revised form, may increase the costs of and the time needed to negotiate and complete
+Added: an initial business combination, and may constrain the circumstances under which we could complete an initial business combination.
+Added: we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements
+Added: and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.
+Added: we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities would be restricted, including through restrictions
+Added: on the nature of our investments, restrictions on our issuance of securities and restrictions on our incurrence of debt.
+Added: we would have imposed upon us extensive regulatory requirements, including to register as an investment company with the SEC, adopt a
+Added: specified form of corporate structure and comply with reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other
+Added: rules and regulations to which we are currently not subject.
+Added: order not to be regulated as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, unless we can qualify for an exclusion, we must
+Added: ensure that we are engaged primarily in a business other than investing, reinvesting or trading in securities and that our activities
+Added: do not include investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading of “investment securities” constituting more than 40% of
+Added: our total assets (exclusive of U.S.
+Added: government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis.
+Added: Our business is to identify and
+Added: complete an initial business combination and thereafter operate the post-transaction business or assets for the long term.
+Added: plan to invest in businesses or assets with a view to resale or profiting from their resale.
+Added: We do not plan to buy multiple unrelated
+Added: businesses or assets or to be a passive investor.
+Added: We do not plan to buy or sell businesses in the manner of a merchant bank or private
+Added: do not believe that our principal activities will subject us to the Investment Company Act.
+Added: To this end, the proceeds held in the trust
+Added: account may only be invested in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment
+Added: Company Act, having a maturity of 185 days or less, or in money market funds investing solely in U.S.
+Added: government treasury obligations
+Added: and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: Pursuant to the trust agreement, the trustee is not
+Added: permitted to invest in other securities or assets.
+Added: By restricting the investment of the trust account, and by having a business plan
+Added: targeted at acquiring and growing a business for the long term, we intend to avoid being deemed an “investment company” within
+Added: the meaning of the Investment Company Act.
+Added: Holding securities in our Company is not intended for persons who are seeking a return on
+Added: investments in government securities or investment securities.
+Added: Instead, the trust account is intended as a holding place for funds pending
+Added: the earliest to occur of:
+Added: (i) the completion of our initial business combination;
+Added: (ii) the redemption of any public shares
+Added: properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to
+Added: modify the substance or timing of our obligation to offer redemption rights in connection with any proposed initial business combination
+Added: (B) with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity;
+Added: (iii) absent an initial business combination within the Combination Period, our return of the funds held in the trust account to
+Added: our public shareholders as part of our redemption of the public shares.
+Added: are aware of litigation against certain special purpose acquisition companies asserting that, notwithstanding the foregoing, those special
+Added: purpose acquisition companies should be considered investment companies.
+Added: Although we believe that these claims are without merit, we
+Added: cannot guarantee that we will not considered an investment company and thus to be subject to the Investment Company Act.
+Added: addition, on March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules relating to, among other items, the extent to which SPACs could become subject
+Added: to regulation under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: The SEC’s proposed rule under the Investment Company Act would provide a safe harbor
+Added: for SPACs from the definition of “investment company” under Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act, provided that
+Added: the SPACs satisfy certain conditions that limit a SPAC’s duration, asset composition, business purpose and activities.
+Added: component of the proposed safe harbor rule would require a SPAC to file a report on Form 8-K with the Commission announcing that it has
+Added: entered into an agreement with the target company (or companies) to engage in an initial business combination no later than 18 months
+Added: after the effective date of the SPAC’s registration statement for its initial public offering.
+Added: The SPAC would then be required
+Added: to complete its initial business combination no later than 24 months after the effective date of its registration statement for its initial
+Added: public offering.
+Added: Although that proposed safe harbor rule has not yet been adopted, the SEC has indicated that there are serious questions
+Added: concerning the applicability of the Investment Company Act to a SPAC that does not complete its initial business combination within the
+Added: proposed time frame set forth in the proposed safe harbor rule.
+Added: UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
+Added: DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
+Added: MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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