Risk Factors.
−Removed: reporting company, we are not required to include risk factors in this Report.
−Removed: However, as of the date of this Report ,
−Removed: other than as set forth below, there have been no material changes with respect to those risk factors previously disclosed in our (i)
−Removed: Registration Statement on Form S-1 with respect to our initial public offering, initially filed with the SEC on February 19, 2021, as
−Removed: amended and which became effective on March 11, 2021 (File No.
−Removed: 333-253308), (ii) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022 and (iii) Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, as filed
−Removed: with the SEC on May 13, 2022.
+Added: As a smaller reporting company, we are not required
+Added: to include risk factors in this Report.
+Added: However, as of the date of this Report, other than as set forth below, there have been no
+Added: material changes with respect to those risk factors previously disclosed in our (i) Registration Statement on Form S-1 with respect to
+Added: our initial public offering, initially filed with the SEC on February 19, 2021, as amended and which became effective on March 11, 2021
+Added: 333-253308), (ii) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022 and
+Added: (iii) Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022, as filed with the SEC on May 13, 2022 and
+Added: August 15, 2022, respectively.
Any of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations
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filings with the SEC.
−Removed: The SEC has recently issued proposed rules
−Removed: relating to certain activities of SPACs.
−Removed: Certain of the procedures that we, a potential business combination target, or others may determine
−Removed: to undertake in connection with such proposals may increase our costs and the time needed to complete our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: and may make it more difficult to complete an Initial Business Combination.
−Removed: The need for compliance with the SPAC Rule Proposals may cause
−Removed: us to liquidate the funds in the Trust Account or liquidate the Company at an earlier time than we might otherwise choose.
−Removed: On March 30, 2022, the SEC
−Removed: issued proposed rules (the “SPAC Rule Proposals”) relating, among other items, to disclosures in SEC filings in connection
−Removed: with business combination transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) and private operating companies;
−Removed: the financial statement requirements applicable to transactions involving shell companies;
−Removed: the use of projections in SEC filings in connection
−Removed: with proposed business combination transactions;
−Removed: the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions;
−Removed: and the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act, including a proposed rule that would
−Removed: provide SPACs a safe harbor from treatment as an investment company if they satisfy certain conditions that limit a SPAC’s duration,
−Removed: asset composition, business purpose and activities.
−Removed: The SPAC Rule Proposals have not yet been adopted and may be adopted in the proposed
−Removed: form or in a different form that could impose additional regulatory requirements on SPACs.
−Removed: Certain of the procedures
−Removed: that we, a potential business combination target, or others may determine to undertake in connection with the SPAC Rule Proposals, or
−Removed: pursuant to the SEC’s views expressed in the SPAC Rule Proposals, may increase the costs and time of negotiating and completing
−Removed: an Initial Business Combination, and may make it more difficult to complete an Initial Business Combination.
−Removed: The need for compliance with
−Removed: the SPAC Rule Proposals may cause us to liquidate the funds in the Trust Account or liquidate the Company at an earlier time than we might
−Removed: otherwise choose.
−Removed: If we are deemed to be an investment company
−Removed: for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we would be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities
−Removed: would be severely restricted and, as a result, we may abandon our efforts to consummate an Initial Business Combination and liquidate
−Removed: As described further above,
−Removed: the SPAC Rule Proposals relate, among other matters, to the circumstances in which SPACs such as the Company could potentially be subject
−Removed: to the Investment Company Act and the regulations thereunder.
−Removed: The SPAC Rule Proposals would provide a safe harbor for such companies
−Removed: from the definition of “investment company” under Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act, provided that a SPAC satisfies
−Removed: certain criteria, including a limited time period to announce and complete an Initial Business Combination.
−Removed: Specifically, to comply with
−Removed: the safe harbor, the SPAC Rule Proposals would require a company to file a report on Form 8-K announcing that it has entered into an agreement
−Removed: with a target company for a business combination no later than 18 months after the effective date of its registration statement for
−Removed: its initial public offering (the “IPO Registration Statement”).
−Removed: The company would then be required to complete its Initial
−Removed: Business Combination no later than 24 months after the effective date of the IPO Registration Statement.
−Removed: Because the SPAC Rule Proposals
−Removed: have not yet been adopted, there is currently uncertainty concerning the applicability of the Investment Company Act to a SPAC,
−Removed: including a company like ours, where it has been less than 18 months since the effective date of its IPO Registration Statement.
−Removed: not believe that our principal activities will subject us to regulation as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
−Removed: if we are deemed to be an investment company and subject to compliance with and regulation under the Investment Company Act, our activities
−Removed: would be severely restricted.
−Removed: In addition, we would be subject to additional burdensome regulatory requirements and expenses for which
−Removed: we have not allotted funds.
−Removed: As a result, if we are deemed an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may abandon our efforts
−Removed: to consummate an Initial Business Combination and instead liquidate the Company.
−Removed: There is substantial doubt about our ability
−Removed: to continue as a “going concern.”
−Removed: In connection with the Company’s
−Removed: assessment of going concern considerations under applicable accounting standards, management has determined that our possible need for
−Removed: additional financing to enable us negotiate and complete our Initial Business Combination, as well as the deadline by which we may be
−Removed: required to liquidate our Trust Account, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern through
−Removed: approximately one year from the date the financial statements were issued.
+Added: The Sponsor and
+Added: our officers and directors have the ability to control any further votes of stockholders, including any subsequent extension proposals,
+Added: any amendments to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and any proposed business combination and may potentially vote
+Added: in a manner that you do not support.
+Added: Following the First Extension
+Added: and the Second Extension, the Sponsor and officer and directors own shares representing approximately 69.46% of our issued and outstanding
+Added: shares of common stock.
+Added: As a result, you will not have any influence over any stockholder votes, including, but not limited to, any further
+Added: extensions of the deadline for our initial business combination, any amendments to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation,
+Added: and any votes to approve any proposed initial business combination, including, the proposed business combination with XBP Europe.
+Added: A new 1% U.S.
+Added: federal excise tax could be
+Added: imposed on us in connection with redemptions by us of our shares in connection with a business combination or other stockholder vote pursuant
+Added: to which stockholders would have a right to submit their shares for redemption (a “Redemption Event”).
+Added: On August 16, 2022, the Inflation
+Added: Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IR Act”) was signed into federal law.
+Added: The IR Act provides for, among other things, a new
+Added: federal 1% excise tax on certain repurchases (including redemptions) of stock by publicly traded domestic (i.e., U.S.) corporations
+Added: and certain domestic subsidiaries of publicly traded foreign corporations.
+Added: The excise tax is imposed on the repurchasing corporation itself,
+Added: not its stockholders from which shares are repurchased.
+Added: The amount of the excise tax is generally 1% of the fair market value of the shares
+Added: repurchased at the time of the repurchase.
+Added: However, for purposes of calculating the excise tax, repurchasing corporations are permitted
+Added: to net the fair market value of certain new stock issuances against the fair market value of stock repurchases during the same taxable
+Added: In addition, certain exceptions apply to the excise tax.
+Added: Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury Department”)
+Added: has been given authority to provide regulations and other guidance to carry out and prevent the abuse or avoidance of the excise tax.
+Added: The IR Act applies only to repurchases that occur after December 31, 2022.
+Added: Any redemption or other repurchase
+Added: that occurs after December 31, 2022 in connection with a Redemption Event may be subject to the excise tax.
+Added: Whether and to what extent
+Added: we would be subject to the excise tax in connection with a Redemption Event would depend on a number of factors, including (i) the fair
+Added: market value of the redemptions and repurchases in connection with the Redemption Event, (ii) the structure of our initial business combination,
+Added: (iii) the nature and amount of any private investment in public equity or other equity issuances in connection with our initial business
+Added: combination (or otherwise issued not in connection with the Redemption Event but issued within the same taxable year of our initial business
+Added: combination) and (iv) the content of regulations and other guidance from the Treasury Department.
+Added: In addition, because the excise tax
+Added: would be payable by us, and not by the redeeming stockholder, the mechanics of any required payment of the excise tax have not been determined.
+Added: To mitigate the risk that we might be deemed
+Added: to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we may, at any time, instruct the trustee to liquidate the securities
+Added: held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account in cash items until the earlier of the consummation of our
+Added: initial business combination or our liquidation.
+Added: As a result, following the liquidation of securities in the Trust Account, we would likely
+Added: receive minimal interest, if any, on the funds held in the Trust Account, which would limit the dollar amount our public stockholders
+Added: would receive upon any redemption or liquidation of the Company.
+Added: funds in the Trust Account have, since our initial public offering, been held only in U.S.
+Added: government treasury obligations with a maturity
+Added: of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S.
+Added: government treasury obligations and meeting certain conditions
+Added: under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: However, to mitigate the risk of us being deemed to be an unregistered investment company
+Added: (including under the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act) and thus subject to regulation under the Investment
+Added: Company Act, we may, at any time, instruct Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the trustee with respect to the Trust Account,
+Added: to liquidate the U.S.
+Added: government treasury obligations or money market funds held in the Trust Account and thereafter to hold all funds
+Added: in the Trust Account as cash items until the earlier of the consummation of our initial business combination or our liquidation.
+Added: such liquidation of the securities in the Trust Account, we would likely receive minimal interest, if any, on the funds held in the Trust
+Added: However, interest previously earned on the funds held in the Trust Account still may be released to us to pay our taxes, if any.
+Added: As a result, any decision to liquidate the securities held in the Trust Account and thereafter to hold all funds in the trust account
+Added: in cash items would limit the dollar amount our public stockholders would receive upon any redemption of their shares or our liquidation.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
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