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NOTE 5 — COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
NOTE 5 — COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

NOTE 5 — COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

Registration and Shareholder Rights

 

The holders of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and any warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans (and any Class A ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans) will be entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement signed prior to the effective date of the IPO. The holders of these securities are entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form demands, that the Company register such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the completion of the initial Business Combination. However, the registration rights agreement provides that the Company will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until termination of the applicable lockup period, which occurs (i) in the case of the Founder Shares, as described in the following paragraph, and (ii) in the case of the Private Placement Warrants and the respective Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants, 30 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BTIG or its designees may not exercise their demand and “piggy-back” registration rights after five years after November 2, 2021 and may not exercise their demand rights on more than one occasion.

 

Except as described herein, the Sponsor and the Company’s directors and officers have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell their Founder Shares until the earliest of (A) one year after the completion of an initial Business Combination and (B) subsequent to the initial Business Combination, (x) if the closing price of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30 -trading day period commencing at least 150 days after an initial Business Combination, or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s public shareholders having the right to exchange their ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property. Any permitted transferees will be subject to the same restrictions and other agreements of the Sponsor with respect to any Founder Shares. Such transfer restrictions are referred to as the lock-up.

 

Underwriting Agreement

 

The underwriters are entitled to deferred underwriting commissions of $0.40 per Unit on the 23,000,000 Units issued in the base offering and $0.60 per Unit on the 3,450,000 overallotment Units for a total of $11,270,000. The deferred underwriting commissions will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes an initial Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement entered into in connection with the IPO.

 

On March 1, 2023, the Company entered into an amendment to the underwriting agreement relating to its IPO where the underwriters have agreed to reduce the commission payable from $11,270,000 to $5,640,000 upon the closing of the proposed Business Combination and the forfeiture of 3,306,250 Founder Shares to the Company. Upon the Closing, the deferred underwriting commissions will be paid to the underwriters as follows based on the percentage of redemptions of Class A ordinary shares by public shareholders: (1) 80% or more redemptions: $3,000,000 in cash and $2,640,000 in Class A ordinary shares (at $10 per share), (2) 70% or more, but less than 80% redemptions: $3,880,000 in cash and $1,760,000 in Class A ordinary shares (at $10 per share), (3) 60% or more, but less than 70% redemptions: $4,760,000 in cash and $880,000 in Class A ordinary shares (at $10 per share), and (4) less than 60% redemptions: $5,640,000 in cash and $0 in Class A ordinary shares.