Exhibit 99.5
Carbon Revolution Public
Limited Company
Directors’ report and financial statements
Year ended June 30, 2023
Registered number: 607450
Directors | Jake Dingle (appointed December 22, 2022, resigned March 19, 2025) Rolando Ebuna (appointed December 22, 2022, resigned November 3, 2023) Ronan Donohoe (appointed November 25, 2022, resigned November 3, 2023) Andrew Lambe (appointed July 5, 2017, resigned November 25, 2022) Robert A. Lutz, Chair of the board (appointed November 3, 2023) Jacqueline Dedo (appointed November 3, 2023) Burt Jordan (appointed November 3, 2023) Chris Leary (appointed February 23, 2024) Jonathan Magaziner (appointed February 23, 2024) Matti Masanovich (appointed November 3, 2023) Dale McKee (appointed November 3, 2023) Donald Hampton, Jr. (appointed March 19, 2025) James Campbell Douglas (appointed November 3, 2023, resigned February 21, 2024) Lucia Estana Cade (appointed November 3, 2023, resigned February 21, 2024) Mark William Bernhard (appointed November 3, 2023, resigned February 21, 2024) | ||
Secretary | Bradwell Limited | ||
Registered office | 10 Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2 D02 T380 Ireland | ||
Independent auditor | KPMG 1 Stokes Place St. Stephen’s Green Dublin 2 | ||
Bankers | Nil | ||
Solicitors | Arthur Cox LLP Ten Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2 D02 T380 Ireland | ||
Registered number | 607450 | ||
• | The Company is not yet profitable or cash flow positive. The Company will need to raise additional capital to continue operating, and it may not be able to do so. |
• | The Company expects that it will need to refinance its long term debt, and may not be able to do so on acceptable terms, or at all. |
• | It may take longer for the Company to become cash flow breakeven or reach profitability than anticipated (or it may never occur). |
• | The Company could fail to meet the financial covenants under the New Debt Program (including the 2024 Amendments). |
• | The terms of the OIC Financing impose obligations on us or restrict our ability to engage in some business activities, which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
• | In the event of certain triggers under the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association and the certificate of designation of the Class B Preferred Shares, holders of Preferred Shares will gain certain governance and control rights. |
• | The Company has a limited operating history which does not provide a meaningful basis for investors to evaluate the business, financial performance and prospects. |
• | The Company’s customers may not order wheels as expected. |
• | Wheel programs warranting further expansion to a low cost manufacturing location may not be awarded or may not be awarded for the expected volumes or level of returns. |
• | Wheel programs may commence later than expected due to the design development and engineering phase taking longer than expected. |
• | The margin received by the Company for its wheels may be lower than expected. Similarly, the Company may not recover engineering and development or tooling costs from its customers to the extent expected. |
• | Due to industry standard contractual provisions which are favorable to the Company’s customers, the Company may be exposed to volatility in demand and changes to customer forecasts on short notice, resulting in disruption to the Company’s operations and supply chain and increased costs and lower margins. The Company may not be able to adjust its raw material supply orders on short notice to meet such demand, which may adversely affect the Company’s profitability, cash flow and operations. |
• | drawing up of a compliance policy statement setting out the company's policies (that, in our opinion, are appropriate to the company) respecting compliance by the company with its relevant obligations; |
• | putting in place appropriate arrangements or structures (that, in our opinion, are) designed to secure material compliance with the company's relevant obligations; and |
• | conducting a review during the financial year of any arrangements or structures that have been put in place. |
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Dale McKee | Matti Masanovich | ||||||||
Director | Director | ||||||||
• | select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; |
• | make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; |
• | state whether applicable Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; |
• | assess the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern; and |
• | use the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. |
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Dale McKee | Matti Masanovich | ||||||||
Director | Director | ||||||||
![]() | KPMG Audit 1 Stokes Place St. Stephen’s Green Dublin 2 D02 DE03 Ireland | ||
• | the financial statements give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities and financial position of the Company as at 30 June 2023 and of its result for the year then ended; |
• | the financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland; and |
• | the financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2014. |
• | we have not identified material misstatements in the directors’ report; |
• | in our opinion, the information given in the directors’ report is consistent with the financial statements; and |
• | in our opinion, those parts of the directors’ report specified for our review, which does not include sustainability reporting when required by Part 28 of the Companies Act 2014, have been prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2014. |
Year ended June 30 | ||||||
2023 Total € | 2022 Total € | |||||
Profit for the year | — | — | ||||
Year ended June 30 | ||||||
2023 Total € | 2022 Total € | |||||
Profit for the year | — | — | ||||
Other comprehensive income | — | — | ||||
Total comprehensive income | — | — | ||||
As at June 30 | |||||||||
Note | 2023 Total € | 2022 Total € | |||||||
Receivables from Officers | 3 | 25,000 | 100 | ||||||
ASSETS | 25,000 | 100 | |||||||
LIABILITIES | — | — | |||||||
NET ASSETS | 25,000 | 100 | |||||||
EQUITY | |||||||||
Ordinary share capital | 3 | 25,000 | 100 | ||||||
Share premium | — | — | |||||||
TOTAL EQUITY | 25,000 | 100 | |||||||
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Dale McKee | Matti Masanovich | ||||||||
Director | Director | ||||||||
Note | Share Premium € | Share Capital € | Total € | |||||||||
Balance at July 1, 2021 | — | 100 | 100 | |||||||||
Profit for the year | — | — | — | |||||||||
Other comprehensive income | — | — | — | |||||||||
At 30 June 2022 | — | 100 | 100 | |||||||||
Balance at July 1, 2022 | — | 100 | 100 | |||||||||
Profit for the year | — | — | — | |||||||||
Other comprehensive income | — | — | — | |||||||||
Issue of share capital | 3 | — | 24,900 | 24,900 | ||||||||
At 30 June 2023 | 3 | — | 25,000 | 25,000 | ||||||||
BASIS OF PREPARATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
i) | GENERAL INFORMATION |
ii) | BASIS OF PREPARATION |
iii) | STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE |
iv) | FOREIGN EXCHANGE |
v) | ORDINARY SHARE CAPITAL |
vi) | CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS |
vii) | GOING CONCERN |
• | Ongoing support from PIUS Limited LLC and its affiliates (“PIUS”) and Orion Infrastructure Capital (“OIC”) of US$11.4 million (EUR 10.5 million), including: |
• | conditional access to US$5 million (EUR 4.6 million) of capital under the OIC financing arrangements; |
• | conditional access to US$0.4 million (EUR 0.4 million) of capital under the PIUS financing arrangement; |
• | moving from cash paid interest to Payment in Kind (“PIK”) interest from July 2025 to December 2025, which is worth approximately US$6m (EUR 5.5 million) |
• | OIC also has US$15 million (EUR 13.9 million) of further funds available for investment in the Group, currently earmarked for future expansion opportunities. If the Group did require near term assistance after exhausting all other reasonable sources of liquidity, OIC may repurpose these funds to support the Group’s short-term liquidity needs, subject to OIC’s approval at the time. |
• | Its unrestricted cash balance of US$1.0 million (EUR 0.9 million) at April 30, 2025; |
• | Access to capital through the issuance of debt or equity securities via public or private placement; and |
• | Access to capital under the Committed Equity Facility (“CEF”). |
• | Satisfying the conditions necessary to access the remaining US$5 million (EUR 4.6 million) of OIC funds and US$0.4 million (EUR 0.4 million) PIUS funds, along with moving from cash interest to PIK interest in the second half of CY25; |
• | Achieving forecast production levels, sales mix and pricing; |
• | Reducing unit costs, reducing fixed overheads and limiting non-contracted capital expenditures in accordance with cost reduction initiatives; |
• | Securing agreement for ongoing deferral of previously agreed transaction costs deferrals from the capital reorganization amounting to a total of US$15.0 million (EUR 13.9 million). Under an agreement the Company had reached with these creditors to delay payment, US$5 million (EUR 4.6 million) was payable in November 2024, with the remainder to be paid from the proceeds of certain fundraising transactions or on a straight line basis over 5 years (depending on the option selected by the supplier). The US$5 million (EUR 4.6 million) payment was not made in November 2024 and a further US$10.0 million (EUR 9.2 million) is now payable or payable in twelve months from signing date, unless the relevant suppliers agree to or accept further deferral of the transaction costs for at least twelve months from signing date and until sufficient cashflow can be generated from operations or alternative sources of funding are obtained to pay down these debts; |
• | Ongoing support from suppliers and customers in the form of favorable payment terms and bailment arrangements; |
• | Successful outcome of claims which the Group has made or plans to make against customers primarily associated with ordered volumes that are below the volumes which the Company was required to build and reserve capacity for under its customer contracts, and cancellation of a wheel program; and |
• | Raising capital to fund operations through the issuance of debt or equity securities via public or private placement (including through the CEF). |
2. | REMUNERATION |
3. | SHARE CAPITAL |
Ordinary share capital: shares of €1 each | 2023 Number | 2023 € | 2022 Number | 2022 € | ||||||||
At 30 June 2023 (and 30 June 2022) | 25,000 | 25,000 | 100 | 100 | ||||||||
4. | RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK |
5. | CAPITAL MANAGEMENT |
6. | AUDITOR REMUNERATION |
2023 € | 2022 € | |||||
Audit services | 112,136 | — | ||||
Non-audit services | — | — | ||||
112,136 | — | |||||
7. | EVENTS AFTER THE REPORTING PERIOD |
8. | TRANSACTIONS BORNE BY CARBON REVOLUTION |
9. | GUARANTEES, CAPITAL COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES |
INFORMATION ABOUT SUBSIDIARIES |