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Organization and Business Operations
12 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2022
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization and Business Operations

Note 1 - Organization and Business Operations

 

Organization and General

 

8i Acquisition 2 Corp. (the “Company”) is a company incorporated on January 21, 2021, under the laws of the British Virgin Islands for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “Initial Business Combination”). The Company is an “emerging growth company”, as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). The Company’s efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic location (excluding China). The Articles of Association prohibit the Company from undertaking the initial business combination with any entity that conducts a majority of its business or is headquartered in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).

 

As of July 31, 2022, the Company had not yet commenced any operations. All activity for the period from January 21, 2021 (inception) through July 31, 2022 relates to the Company’s organizational activities and the initial public offering (the “IPO”) described below. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its Initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of dividend and interest income on cash and cash equivalents from the proceeds derived from the IPO.

 

The Company has selected July 31 as its fiscal year end.

 

The Company will have 12 months from the closing of the IPO (or up to 18 months, with extension of two times by an additional three months each time) to consummate a Business Combination (the “Combination Period”). If the Company fails to consummate a Business Combination within the Combination Period, it will trigger its automatic winding up, liquidation and subsequent dissolution pursuant to the terms of the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. As a result, this has the same effect as if the Company had formally gone through a voluntary liquidation procedure under the Companies Law. Accordingly, no vote would be required from the Company’s shareholders to commence such a voluntary winding up, liquidation and subsequent dissolution.

 

For the period from January 21, 2021 (inception) to April 11, 2021, the Company was sponsored by 8i Holdings Limited, a Limited Liability Exempted Company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on November 24, 2017. On April 12, 2021, 8i Holdings Limited transferred their founder shares (as defined below) to 8i Holdings 2 Pte Ltd (the “Sponsor”), a Singapore Limited Liability Company incorporated on April 1, 2021.

 

The Trust Account

 

Upon the closing of the IPO and the private placement, $86,250,000 was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) with American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC acting as trustee.

 

The funds held in the Trust Account will be invested only in United States government treasury bills, bonds or notes having a maturity of 180 days or less, or in money market funds meeting the applicable conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and that invest solely in United States government treasuries. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to the Company to pay its income or other tax obligations, the proceeds will not be released from the Trust Account until the earlier of the completion of a Business Combination or the Company’s liquidation.

 

Business Combination

 

On April 11, 2022, the Company entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with Euda Health Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company (“EUDA Health”), Watermark Developments Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company (the “Seller”) and Kwong Yeow Liew, acting as Representative of the Indemnified Parties (the “Indemnified Party Representative”). Pursuant to the terms of the SPA, a business combination between the Company and EUDA Health will be effected through the purchase by the Company of all of the issued and outstanding shares of EUDA Health from the Seller (the “Share Purchase”).

 

 

8i ACQUISITION 2 CORP.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

The Company’s board of directors have (i) approved and declared advisable the SPA, the Share Purchase and the other transactions contemplated thereby, and (ii) resolved to recommend approval of the SPA and related transactions by the shareholders of the Company.

 

Mr. Meng Dong (James) Tan, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Company’s board of directors, had at the time, 10.0% of the equity interests of the Seller. Mr. Tan currently holds a 33.3% ownership stake in the Seller. The Company received a fairness opinion from EverEdge Global to the effect that the purchase price to be paid by the Company for the shares of EUDA Health pursuant to the SPA is fair to the Company from a financial point of view (the “Fairness Opinion”).

 

In connection with the closing of the transactions under the SPA, the current officers and directors of EUDA Health will become the Company’s officers and directors. The Company’s sponsor, 8i Holdings 2 Pte. Ltd. (the “Sponsor”), will have the right to nominate one director to serve as an independent director on the post-closing board of director.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

At July 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company had $193,546 and nil in cash and working capital/(deficit) of $(1,408,615) and $(218,797) (excluding deferred underwriting commissions and deferred offering costs), respectively.

 

The registration statement for the Company’s IPO (as described in Note 3) was declared effective on November 22, 2021. On November 24, 2021, the Company consummated the IPO of 8,625,000 units (include the exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters in the IPO) at $10.00 per unit (the “Public Units’), generating gross proceeds of $86,250,000. Each Unit consists of one ordinary share, one redeemable warrant (each a “Warrant”, and, collectively, the “Warrants”), and one right to receive one-tenth of an ordinary share upon the consummation of an Initial Business Combination.

 

Simultaneously with the IPO, the Company sold to Mr. Meng Dong (James) Tan 292,250 units at $10.00 per unit (the “Private Units”) in a private placement generating total gross proceeds of $2,922,500, which is described in Note 4.

 

Offering costs amounted to $5,876,815 consisting of $1,725,000 of underwriting fees, $3,018,750 of deferred underwriting fees, $649,588 of other offering costs and an excess of fair value of the underwriter’s purchase option of $483,477. Except for the $100 for the Unit Purchase Option and $25,000 of subscription of ordinary shares (as defined in Note 7), the Company received net proceeds of $87,114,830 from the IPO and the private placement.

 

On January 21, 2021 and February 5, 2021, the Company issued an aggregate of 1,437,500 ordinary shares to 8i Holding Limited, which have been subsequently sold to the Sponsor for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.017 per share. On June 14, 2021, the Sponsor transferred 15,000 founder shares in the aggregate to the directors for nominal consideration. On October 25, 2021, the Company issued an additional 718,750 ordinary shares which were purchased by the Sponsor for $12,500, resulting in an aggregate of 2,156,250 ordinary shares outstanding.

 

Going Concern

 

In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” the Company has until November 24, 2022 (absent any extensions of such period by the Sponsor, pursuant to the terms described above) to consummate the proposed Business Combination. It is uncertain that the Company will be able to consummate the proposed Business Combination by this time. If a Business Combination is not consummated by this date, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of the Company. Management has determined that the mandatory liquidation, should a business combination not occur, and potential subsequent dissolution, raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. No adjustments have been made to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities should the Company be required to liquidate after November 24, 2022. The Company intends to complete the proposed Business Combination before the mandatory liquidation date. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to consummate any business combination by November 24, 2022.

 

 

8i ACQUISITION 2 CORP.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS