25,000,000 Units Artius II Acquisition Inc. UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.1
25,000,000 Units
[●], 2024
Santander US Capital Markets LLC
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
As Representative of the several Underwriters
listed in Schedule I to the Agreement
Ladies and Gentlemen:
1.
Introductory. Artius II Acquisition Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to you and, as applicable,
to the several underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representative”) are acting as representative, 25,000,000 units (the “Units”) of the Company (said units to be issued
and sold by the Company being hereinafter called the “Firm Securities”). The Company also proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to 3,750,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments, if any (the “Optional
Securities”), as set forth below. The Firm Securities and the Optional Securities are herein collectively called the “Offered Securities.” To the extent that there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule I other than you, the
term Representative as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriter, and the term Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires. Certain capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined are defined in Section 22
of this agreement (this “Agreement”).
Each Unit consists of one of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), one right to receive one twenty-fifth (1/25) of one Ordinary Share (the “Rights”)
upon consummation of an initial Business Combination (as defined below) and one contingent right to receive a pro rata share of 1,250,000 (or 1,437,500 if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full) Ordinary Shares (the “Contingent
Rights”) at the distribution time under certain circumstances (the “Distributable Shares”), concurrently with the forfeiture by Xxxxxx XX Acquisition Partners LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (our “Sponsor”) of an equal
number of Founder Shares (as defined below). The Ordinary Shares and Rights included in the Units will not trade separately until the 52nd day following the date of the Prospectus (or, if such date is not a business day, the following business day)
(unless the Representative informs the Company of its decision to allow earlier separate trading), subject to (a) the Company’s preparation of an audited balance sheet reflecting the receipt by the Company of the proceeds of the Offering (as defined
below), (b) the filing of such audited balance sheet with the Commission on a Current Report on Form 8-K or similar form by the Company that includes such audited balance sheet (the “Closing Form 8-K”), and (c) the Company having issued a
press release announcing when such separate trading will begin. The Distributable Shares will be issued to holders of outstanding Ordinary Shares issued in connection with the sale of the Units hereunder that are outstanding after the Company redeems
Ordinary Shares that the holders thereof have elected to redeem in connection with an initial Business Combination (as defined below), and the distribution of Distributable Shares will occur substantially concurrently with the closing of an initial
Business Combination upon the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions specified in the business combination merger agreement. No fractional shares will be issued upon conversion of any rights or in connection
with the distribution of Distributable Shares. Fractional Ordinary Shares will either be rounded down to the nearest whole share or otherwise addressed in accordance with the applicable provisions of Cayman Islands law. The Contingent Rights will
remain attached to the Ordinary Shares, will not be separately transferable, assignable or saleable, and will not be evidenced by any certificate or instrument. As used herein, the term “Business Combination” (as described more fully in the
Registration Statement) shall mean a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses involving the Company.
The Company will enter into an Investment Management Trust Agreement, effective as of the Closing Date (the “Trust Agreement”), with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“CST”), as trustee (the “Trustee”),
in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registration Statement, pursuant to which proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units (as defined below) and proceeds of the Offering will be deposited and held in a trust account (the
“Trust Account”) for the benefit of the Company, the Underwriters and the holders of the Firm Securities and the Optional Securities, if and when issued.
The Company will enter into a Rights Agreement, effective as of the Closing Date (the “Rights Agreement”), dated as of the date hereof, in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 4.4 to the Registration Statement,
pursuant to which CST will act as rights agent in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, redemption, and exercise of the Rights, Private Placement Rights and any other rights that may be issued by the Company.
The Company will enter into a Contingent Rights Agreement, effective as of the Closing Date (the “Contingent Rights Agreement”), dated as of the date hereof, in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 4.5 to the
Registration Statement, pursuant to which CST will act as rights agent in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, redemption, and exercise of the Contingent Rights.
The Company has entered into a securities subscription agreement, dated July 31, 2024 (the “Securities Subscription Agreement”), with the Sponsor, in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the
Registration Statement, pursuant to which the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 7,187,500 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000 (including the Ordinary Shares issuable upon
conversion thereof, the “Founder Shares”). Up to 937,500 of the Founder Shares are subject to forfeiture to the extent the Underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option. The Founder Shares are substantially similar to the Ordinary
Shares included in the Units, except as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus.
The Company has entered into a Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, effective as of the date hereof (the “Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement”), with the Sponsor in substantially the form filed as
Exhibit 10.4 to the Registration Statement, pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to purchase an aggregate of 200,000 private placement units (including if the Underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), at a price of $10.00 per
unit, for an aggregate purchase price of $2,000,000 (including if the Underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised) (“Private Placement Units”). Underlying each Private Placement Unit is one Ordinary Share (each, a “Private Placement
Share”) and one right entitling the holder thereof to receive one twenty-fifth (1/25) of one Ordinary Share (each, a “Private Placement Right”) upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination.
The Company has entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated the date hereof (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), with the Sponsor and the other parties thereto, in substantially the form filed as Exhibit
10.3 to the Registration Statement, pursuant to which the Company has granted certain registration rights in respect of the Founder Shares (including any Ordinary Shares or other equivalent equity security issued or issuable upon the conversion of
any of the Founder Shares or exercisable for Ordinary Shares), the Private Placement Units, the Private Placement Rights, the Private Placement Shares, the Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise of any Private Placement Rights upon the
consummation of an initial Business Combination, and certain securities that may be issued upon conversion of certain working capital loans, if any.
The Company has entered into an Administrative Services Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, with the Sponsor, in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registration Statement (the “Administration
Services Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company will, subject to the terms of the Administration Services Agreement, pay to an affiliate of the Sponsor an aggregate monthly fee of $25,000 for accounting, bookkeeping, office space, IT
support, research, professional, secretarial and administrative services.
The Company, the Sponsor and each of the Company’s officers, directors and director nominees will cause to be duly executed and delivered a letter agreement, effective as of the Closing Date (the “Letter Agreement”),
in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registration Statement.
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2.
Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the several Underwriters that:
(a)
Filing and Effectiveness of Registration Statement. The Company has prepared and filed with the Commission the
Registration Statement (file number 333-[●]) on Form S-1, including the related Preliminary Prospectus, for registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the Ordinary Shares and Rights included as part of the
Offered Securities. Such Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, has become effective in accordance with section 8(a) of the Act. The Company has filed one or more amendments thereto, including
the related Preliminary Prospectus, each of which has previously been furnished to the Representative. The Company will file with the Commission the Prospectus in accordance with Rule 424(b). As filed, such Prospectus shall contain all information
required by the Act and, except to the extent the Representative shall agree in writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to the Representative prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at
the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the latest Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised the Representative, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or
made therein. The Company has complied to the Commission’s satisfaction with all requests of the Commission for additional or supplemental information.
(b)
Compliance with Securities Act Requirements. On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, and when the Prospectus is first filed in accordance
with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date (as defined herein) and on any date on which Optional Securities are purchased, if such date is not the Closing Date (a “settlement date”), the Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in
all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act; on the Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date and any settlement date, each individual Written Testing-the-Waters Communication (as defined herein)
did not and will not conflict, as applicable, with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Statutory Prospectus, and complied or will comply, as applicable, in all material respects with the Act; as of the Applicable Time and
on the Closing Date and any settlement date, each “road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) of the Act and any individual Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, in each case, when considered together with the Statutory Prospectus, did not and will not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date and each settlement date, the Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to the information
contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the
Representative specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the
information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.
(c)
Statutory Prospectus. The Statutory Prospectus, as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date and any settlement date, did not and will not contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the
Company makes no representations or warranties as to the information contained in or omitted from the Statutory Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through
the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.
(d)
Listing. The Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on Form 8-A (file number 001-[●])
providing for the registration under the Exchange Act of the Units and the Ordinary Shares and Rights included as part of the Units, which registration is currently effective on the date hereof. The Offered Securities and the Ordinary Shares and
Rights included as part of the Offered Securities have been authorized for listing, subject to official notice of issuance and evidence of satisfactory distribution, on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”), and the Company knows of no reason
or set of facts that is likely to adversely affect such authorization.
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(e)
No Stop Order. The Commission has not issued any order or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened to issue any
order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any part thereof, and has not instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened to institute any
proceedings with respect to such an order.
(f)
Ineligible Issuer Status. (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement and (ii) as of the Execution Time
(with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), the Company was and is an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405).
(g)
Free Writing Prospectus. The Company has not prepared or used a Free Writing Prospectus.
(h)
Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as an exempted
company in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands with full corporate power and authority to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the
Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus and to enter into this Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Rights Agreement, the Contingent Rights Agreement, the Securities Subscription Agreement, the Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, the
Registration Rights Agreement, the Letter Agreement and the Administrative Services Agreement and to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and, except where failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction that requires such qualification.
(i)
Disclosure. There is no franchise, contract or other document of a character required to be described in the
Registration Statement or Prospectus, or to be filed as an exhibit thereto, which is not described or filed as required (and the Statutory Prospectus contains in all material respects the same description of the foregoing matters contained in the
Prospectus); and the statements in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus under the headings “Principal Shareholders,” “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions,” and “Description of Securities” insofar as such statements summarize
legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings discussed therein, are in all material respects accurate and fair summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings. There are no business relationships or related party
transactions involving the Company or any other person required by the Act to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus that have not been described as required.
(j)
Capitalization. The Company’s authorized equity capitalization is as set forth in the Registration Statement,
the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(k)
Outstanding Securities. All issued and outstanding securities of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and
nonassessable; and none of such securities were issued in violation of the preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by the Company. The offers and sales of the outstanding securities of
the Company were at all relevant times either registered under the Act, the applicable state securities and blue sky laws or, based in part on the representations and warranties of the purchasers of such securities, exempt from such registration
requirements. The holders of outstanding securities of the Company are not entitled to preemptive or other rights to subscribe for the Offered Securities and, except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus, no options, warrants or other rights to purchase, agreements or other obligations to issue, or rights to convert any obligations into or exchange any securities for, ordinary shares or ownership interests in the Company are outstanding.
(l)
Offered Securities. The Offered Securities have been duly authorized and when issued and delivered against payment by the Underwriters pursuant to this
Agreement, will be validly issued.
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(m)
Ordinary Shares. The Ordinary Shares included in the Units and Private Placement Units have been duly authorized
and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor and registered in the Company’s register of members, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The holders of such Ordinary Shares are not and will not be subject to personal
liability by reason of being such holders; such Ordinary Shares are not and will not be subject to any preemptive or other similar contractual rights granted by the Company.
(n)
Rights and Private Placement Rights. The Rights and the Private Placement Rights, when issued and delivered in
the manner set forth in the Rights Agreement against payment therefor, will be duly issued and delivered, and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the
enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(o)
Contingent Rights. The Contingent Rights, when issued and delivered in the manner set forth in the Contingent Rights Agreement against payment therefor,
will be duly issued and delivered, and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or
similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(p)
Ordinary Shares Issuable Upon Exercise of Rights and Private Placement Rights. The Ordinary Shares issuable upon
exercise of the Rights and the Private Placement Rights have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance upon exercise thereof and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor pursuant to the Rights and the Private Placement Rights, as
applicable, and the Rights Agreement and registered in the Company’s register of members, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. The holders of such Ordinary Shares are not and will not be subject to personal liability by reason of
being such holders; such Ordinary Shares are not and will not be subject to any preemptive or other similar contractual rights granted by the Company; and all corporate action required to be taken for the authorization, issuance and sale of such
Ordinary Shares (other than such execution (if applicable), countersignature (if applicable) and delivery at the time of issuance) has been duly and validly taken.
(q)
Distributable Shares. The Distributable Shares have been duly authorized and reserved for distribution at the distribution time and, when issued and
delivered pursuant to the Contingent Rights and the Contingent Rights Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. Once issued, the Distributable Shares will be fully fungible with the Ordinary Shares and will trade under the
same ticker symbol.
(r)
Registration Rights. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus, no holders of any securities of the Company or any rights exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into securities of the Company have the right to require the Company to register any such securities of the Company under the Act or
to include any such securities in a registration statement to be filed by the Company.
(s)
Sales to Affiliates. No securities of the Company have been sold by the Company or by or on behalf of, or for
the benefit of, any person or persons controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Company from its inception through and including the date hereof, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus.
(t)
Integration. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates has, prior to the date hereof, made any offer or sale
of any securities that are required to be “integrated” pursuant to the Act with the offer and sale of the Offered Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.
(u)
Founder Shares. The issued and outstanding Founder Shares are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.
(v)
Private Placement Units. The Private Placement Units, when delivered upon the consummation of the Offering, will
be duly issued and delivered, and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
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(w)
Authorization of this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company
and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally
from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(x)
Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and, upon
execution and delivery and assuming due execution and delivery by CST, will be a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company, in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(y)
Rights Agreement. The Rights Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a
valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to
time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(z)
Contingent Rights Agreement. The Contingent Rights Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
the Company and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(aa)
Securities Subscription Agreement. The Securities Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company and the Sponsor, and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Sponsor, enforceable against the Company and the Sponsor in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(bb)
Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement. The Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Sponsor, and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Sponsor, enforceable against the Company and the Sponsor in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof
may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(cc)
Registration Rights Agreement. The Registration Rights Agreement has been duly authorized, and will be duly executed and delivered by the Company and,
upon execution and delivery, will be a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(dd)
Letter Agreement. The Letter Agreement executed by the Company, the Sponsor, and each executive officer, director and director nominee of the Company, has
been duly authorized, and will be duly executed and delivered by the Company, the Sponsor and to the Company’s knowledge, each such executive officer, director and director nominee, respectively, and, upon execution and delivery, will constitute a
valid and binding agreement of the Company, the Sponsor and, to the Company’s knowledge, each such executive officer, director and director nominee, respectively, enforceable against the Company, the Sponsor and, to the Company’s knowledge, each such
executive officer, director and director nominee, respectively, in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in
effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
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(ee)
Administrative Services Agreement. The Administrative Services Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, upon
execution and delivery and assuming due execution and delivery by the Sponsor, will be a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
(ff)
Investment Company Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Offered Securities and the Private Placement Units and
the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment
Company Act”).
(gg)
Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required in
connection with the transactions contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement, the Rights Agreement, the Contingent Rights Agreement, the Securities Subscription Agreement, the Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, the Registration Rights
Agreement, the Letter Agreement or the Administrative Services Agreement, except for the registration under the Act and the Exchange Act of the Offered Securities and the Ordinary Shares and Rights included as part of the Offered Securities and such
as may be required under state securities or blue sky laws of any jurisdiction, in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Offered Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Registration Statement, the
Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(hh)
Absence of Existing Defaults. The Company is not in violation or default of (i) any provision of its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of
Association, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or to which its property is
subject, or (iii) any (x) statute, law, rule, regulation, or (y) judgment, order or decree of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company; except in the case
of clauses (ii) and (iii) above for any such conflict, breach or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings,
business or properties of the Company, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
(ii)
Absence of Defaults and Conflicts Resulting From Transaction. Neither the issue and sale of the Offered
Securities nor the consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated nor the fulfillment of the terms hereof or of the Trust Agreement, the Rights Agreement, the Contingent Rights Agreement, the Securities Subscription Agreement, the
Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Letter Agreement or the Administrative Services Agreement will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon
any property or assets of the Company pursuant to, (i) the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other
agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company is a party or bound or to which the Company’s property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, or regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company of
any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its respective properties; except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such conflict,
breach or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or affect the validity of the Offered Securities or the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this
Agreement.
(jj)
Registration Rights under the Registration Statement. No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the
registration of such securities under the Registration Statement.
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(kk)
Financial Statements. The historical financial statements, including the notes thereto and the supporting
schedules, if any, of the Company included in the Statutory Prospectus, the Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of the dates and for the periods
indicated, comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods
involved (except as otherwise noted therein). The summary financial data set forth under the caption “Summary Financial Data” in the Statutory Prospectus, Prospectus and Registration Statement fairly present, on the basis stated in the Statutory
Prospectus, Prospectus and Registration Statement, the information included therein. The Company is not party to any off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations), or other relationships with
unconsolidated entities or other persons that may have a material current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or significant
components of revenues or expenses. The statistical, industry-related and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company reasonably and in
good faith believes are reliable and accurate in all material respects, and such data agree with the sources from which they are derived.
(ll)
Litigation. No action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or
any arbitrator involving the Company, the Sponsor, or, to the Company’s knowledge, any officer, director or director nominee of the Company, or the property of any of them is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened that (i) could
reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company or (ii) could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(mm)
Properties. The Company owns or leases all such properties as are necessary to the conduct of its operations as
presently conducted.
(nn)
Independent Auditors. Xxxxxx Xxxxx+Xxxxx, PC (“Xxxxxx”), who has certified certain financial statements
of the Company and delivered its report with respect to the audited financial statements and schedules included in the Registration Statement, Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, is a registered public accounting firm that is independent with
respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder.
(oo)
Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company maintains effective “disclosure controls and procedures” (as
defined under Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act to the extent required by such rule).
(pp)
Compliance with Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. Solely to the extent that the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as amended, and
the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”) have been applicable to the Company, there is and has been no failure on the part of the Company to comply in all material respects with the
applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act.
(qq)
Compliance with Exchange Rules. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or, to the knowledge
of the Company, any of the Company’s officers or directors, in their capacities as such, to comply with (as and when applicable), and immediately following the Effective Date the Company will be in compliance with, the requirements of Nasdaq
Marketplace Rule IM-5605. Further, there is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of the Company’s officers or directors, in their capacities as such, to comply with (as and when applicable), and
immediately following the Effective Date the Company will be in compliance with, the phase-in requirements and all other applicable provisions of the Nasdaq corporate governance requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.
(rr)
Taxes. There are no transfer, stamp, issue, registration, documentary or other similar taxes, duties, fees or
charges under U.S. federal law or the laws of any state, or any political subdivision thereof, or under the laws of the Cayman Islands, required to be paid in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the issuance or sale by the
Company of the Offered Securities.
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(ss)
Filing of Tax Returns. The Company has filed all necessary federal, state, local and foreign tax returns, and
has paid all taxes shown as due thereon (other than those being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves are being maintained in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America (“GAAP”), except where failure to so file or pay would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and except as otherwise set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, Statutory
Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(tt)
Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company possesses all licenses, certificates, permits and other
authorizations issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct its business, and the Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such license,
certificate, authorization or permit that, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the
Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(uu)
Anti-Corruption Laws. None of the Company, the Sponsor, any non-independent director or officer, or, to the
knowledge of the Company, any independent director or director nominee, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company: (i) has used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful
expense relating to political activity; (ii) has made any direct or indirect unlawful contribution or payment to any official of, or candidate for, or any employee of, any federal, state or foreign office from corporate funds; (iii) has made any
bribe, unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment; or (iv) is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the OECD Convention on Bribery of Foreign
Public Officials in International Business Transactions, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “FCPA”) or any similar law or regulation to which the Company, any
director, director nominee, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company is subject, including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in
furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the
FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA. The Company, the Sponsor, any non-independent director or officer, and, to the knowledge of the Company, the
Company’s independent director or director nominees, agents, employees and affiliates have each conducted the business of the Company and their own businesses on behalf of the Company in compliance with the FCPA and any applicable similar law or
regulation and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.
(vv)
Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping
and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), the
Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company conducts business, the applicable rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules,
regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any
arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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(ww)
Economic Sanctions. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, nor, to the
knowledge of the Company, any employee, agent, affiliate or representative of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is the subject or target of any U.S. sanctions administered or enforced by the
U.S. government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or
“blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority to which any such person is subject (collectively, “Sanctions”), including as a result of ownership or
control, nor is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of comprehensive country- or territory-wide Sanctions including, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the so-called
Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria (each a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or
otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person: (i) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or
facilitation, is the subject or target of any Sanctions; (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country; or (iii) in any other manner, in each case that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person
(including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise). Since inception, except as is not material to the analysis under any Sanctions, the Company has not knowingly engaged in, are not now
knowingly engaged in, and does not have any plans to engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or target of Sanctions.
(xx)
Lending Relationships; Use of Proceeds. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Statutory
Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company (i) does not have any material lending or other relationship with any bank or lending affiliate of any of the Underwriters and (ii) does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Offered
Securities hereunder to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of any of the Underwriters.
(yy)
Questionnaires. All information contained in the questionnaires (the “Questionnaires”) completed by the
Company and the Sponsor and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Company’s officers, directors and director nominees and provided to the Underwriters is true and correct in all material respects and the Company has not become aware of any
information that would cause the information disclosed in the Questionnaires completed by the Sponsor or the Company’s officers, directors and director nominees to become inaccurate and incorrect in any material respect.
(zz)
Acquisition Target Not Selected. Prior to the date hereof, the Company has not selected any specific Business Combination target and has not, nor has
anyone on its behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any Business Combination target with respect to an initial Business Combination with it. Prior to the date hereof, the Company has not, nor has anyone on its
behalf, taken any substantive measures, directly or indirectly, to identify or locate any suitable acquisition candidate for it, not has the Company engaged or retained any agent or other representative to identity or locate any such Business
Combination target.
(aaa)
No Finder’s or Similar Fees. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus, there are no claims, payments, arrangements, contracts, agreements or understandings relating to the payment of a brokerage commission or finder’s, consulting, origination or similar fee by the Company, the Sponsor or any officer,
director or director nominee of the Company with respect to the sale of the Offered Securities hereunder or any other arrangements, agreements or understandings of the Company, the Sponsor or any such officer, director or director nominee of the
Company, or their respective affiliates, that may affect the Underwriters’ compensation, as determined by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).
(bbb)
Absence of Certain Payments. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus, the Company has not made any direct or indirect payments (in cash, securities or by any other method that would be deemed “underwriting compensation” as defined in Rule 5110 of the FINRA Manual): (i) to any person, as a finder’s fee,
consulting fee or otherwise, in consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or introducing to the Company persons who raised or provided capital to the Company; (ii) to any person that, to the Company’s knowledge, has been accepted
by FINRA as a member of FINRA (a “Member”); or (iii) to any person or entity that, to the Company’s knowledge, has any direct or indirect affiliation or association with any Member, within the FINRA Review Period, as defined in Rule
5110(j)(20) of the FINRA Manual, other than payments to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement.
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(ccc)
Investment Banking Services. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus, during the period beginning 180 days prior to the initial public filing date of the Registration Statement and ending on the Effective Date, no Member and/or any person associated or affiliated with a Member has provided any investment
banking, financial advisory and/or consulting services to the Company.
(ddd)
FINRA Membership of Affiliates. Except as disclosed in the FINRA Questionnaires provided to the Representative,
to the Company’s knowledge, no officer, director, director nominee or beneficial owner of any class of the Company’s securities (whether debt or equity, registered or unregistered, regardless of the time acquired or the source from which derived)
(any such individual or entity, a “Company Affiliate”) is a Member or a person associated or affiliated with a Member.
(eee)
Ownership of FINRA Member Securities. Except as disclosed in the FINRA Questionnaires provided to the
Representative, to the Company’s knowledge, no Company Affiliate is an owner of shares or other stock of any Member (other than securities purchased on the open market).
(fff)
Proceeds; Payment to FINRA Members. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus
and the Prospectus, no proceeds from the sale of the Offered Securities (excluding underwriting compensation as disclosed in the Registration Statement, Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus) will be paid by the Company to any Member, or any
persons associated or affiliated with a Member.
(ggg)
Issuance of Securities to Underwriters. The Company has not issued any rights or other securities, or granted
any options, directly or indirectly to anyone who is a “participating member,” as defined in Rule 5110(j)(15) of the FINRA Manual, in the Offering within the 180-day period prior to the initial public filing date of the Registration Statement.
(hhh)
FINRA Association of Company Affiliates. Except for the issuance of securities to the Sponsor, no person to whom securities of the Company have been
privately issued within the 180-day period prior to initial public filing date of the Registration Statement has any relationship or affiliation or association with any Member.
(iii)
Conflicts of Interest. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and
the Prospectus, no Member intending to participate in the Offering has a conflict of interest with the Company. For this purpose, a “conflict of interest” means, if at the time of the Member’s participation in the Offering, any of the following
applies: (A) the securities are to be issued by the Member; (B) the Company controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the Member or the Member’s associated persons; (C) at least 5% of the net offering proceeds, not including
underwriting compensation, are intended to be: (i) used to reduce or retire the balance of a loan or credit facility extended by the Member, its affiliates and its associated persons, in the aggregate; or (ii) otherwise directed to the Member, its
affiliates and associated persons, in the aggregate; or (D) as a result of the Offering and any transactions contemplated at the time of the Offering: (i) the Member will be an affiliate of the Company; (ii) the Member will become publicly owned; or
(iii) the Company will become a Member or form a broker-dealer subsidiary. As used herein, the term “Member intending to participate in the Offering” includes any associated person of a Member that is participating in the Offering, any members of
such associated person’s immediate family, and any affiliate of a Member that is participating in the Offering.
(jjj)
Non-Compete/Non-Solicit. Except as described in the Registration Statement, Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, to the Company’s knowledge, none of
the Sponsor, officers, directors or director nominees of the Company is subject to a non-competition agreement or non-solicitation agreement with any employer or prior employer that could materially affect its, his or her ability to be and act in the
capacity of shareholder, officer or director of the Company, as applicable.
(kkk)
Absence of Manipulation. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would
constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.
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(lll)
Company Ownership of Other Entities. The Company does not own an interest in any corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other entity.
(mmm)
Related Party Transactions. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among any of the Company or
any affiliate of the Company, on the one hand, and any director, director nominee, officer, shareholder, special advisor, customer or supplier of the Company or any affiliate of the Company, on the other hand, which is required by the Act or the
Exchange Act to be described in the Registration Statement, Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus that is not described as required. There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of
business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers, directors or director nominees of the Company or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, Statutory
Prospectus and the Prospectus. The Company has not extended or maintained credit, arranged for the extension of credit, or renewed an extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan to or for any officer, director or director nominee of the
Company.
(nnn)
Absence of Unlawful Influence. The Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters to offer, the Offered
Securities to any person or entity with the intention of unlawfully influencing: (a) a customer or supplier of the Company or any affiliate of the Company to alter the customer’s or supplier’s level or type of business with the Company or such
affiliate or (b) a journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information about the Company or any such affiliate.
(ooo)
Applicability of Rule 419. Upon delivery and payment for the Offered Securities on the Closing Date and the
filing of the Closing Form 8-K, the Company will not be subject to Rule 419 under the Act and none of the Company’s outstanding securities will be deemed to be a “xxxxx stock” as defined in Rule 3a51-1 under the Exchange Act.
(ppp)
Emerging Growth Company Status. From the time of the initial public filing date of the Registration Statement to
the Commission (or, if earlier, the first date on which the Company engaged, directly or through any person authorized to act on its behalf, in any Testing-the-Waters Communication) through the Execution Time, the Company has been and is an “emerging
growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Act (an “Emerging Growth Company”). “Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) of the
Act or Rule l63B under the Act.
(qqq)
Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company (i) has not alone engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communication
other than Testing-the-Waters Communications with the consent of the Representative with entities that are qualified institutional buyers within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Act or institutions that are accredited investors within the meaning
of Rule 501 under the Act and (ii) has not authorized anyone other than the Representative to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company reconfirms that the Representative has been authorized to act on its behalf in undertaking
Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company has not distributed any Written Testing-the-Waters Communications other than those listed on Schedule III hereto. “Written Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any Testing-the-Waters
Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act.
(rrr)
Cybersecurity. To the knowledge of the Company, there has been no security breach or attack or other compromise
of or relating to any of the Company’s information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of its employees, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of it), equipment or technology
(“IT Systems and Data”) and (i) the Company has not been notified of, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach, attack or compromise to their IT Systems and Data, (ii)
the Company has complied, and is presently in compliance, with, all applicable laws, statutes or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority and all industry guidelines, standards,
internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification in all material respects and
(iii) the Company has implemented backup and disaster recovery technology consistent with industry standards and practices, except in each case that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(sss)
Local Qualification. It is not necessary under the laws of the Cayman Islands (i) to enable the Underwriters to enforce their rights under this Agreement
provided that they are not otherwise engaged in business in the Cayman Islands, or (ii) solely by reason of the execution, delivery or consummation of this Agreement, for any of the Underwriters to be qualified or entitled to carry out business in
the Cayman Islands.
(ttt)
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. Although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the courts of the State of New
York, a judgment will be recognized and enforced in the courts of the Cayman Islands at common law, without any re-examination of the merits of the underlying dispute, by an action commenced on the foreign judgment debt in the Grand Court of the
Cayman Islands, provided such judgment is given by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction, imposes on the judgment debtor a liability to pay a liquidated sum for which the judgment has been given, is final, is not in respect of taxes, a fine or a
penalty, and was not obtained in a manner and is not of a kind the enforcement of which is contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands.
(uuu)
Payments in Foreign Currency. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and
the Prospectus, under current laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands and any political subdivision thereof, all dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the Offered Securities may be paid by the Company to the holder thereof in
United States dollars or Cayman Islands dollars that may be converted into foreign currency and freely transferred out of the Cayman Islands and all such payments made to holders thereof or therein who are non-residents of the Cayman Islands will not
be subject to income, withholding or other taxes under laws and regulations of the Cayman Islands or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein and will otherwise be free and clear of any other tax, duty, withholding or
deduction in the Cayman Islands or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein and without the necessity of obtaining any governmental authorization in the Cayman Islands or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof
or therein.
Any certificate signed by any officer or director of the Company and delivered to the Representative or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the Offering shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the
Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.
3.
Purchase and Sale.
(a)
Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally
and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of $9.90 per Unit, the amount of the Firm Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule I hereto, with such discount representing underwriting commission of $0.10
per Unit, or $2,500,000 in the aggregate (or up to $2,875,000 in the aggregate if the Underwriters purchase the Optional Securities). Of this discount provided for immediately above, $1,250,000 shall be payable to the Representative upon the closing
of the Company’s initial public offering and $1,250,000 (or up to $1,625,000 in the aggregate if the Underwriters purchase the Optional Securities) shall be payable to the Representative from Permitted Withdrawals (as defined below) of interest
earned on the amounts held in the Trust Account as follows: 50% on the 12-month anniversary of the closing of the Company’s initial public offering, 25% on the 18-month anniversary of the closing of the Company’s initial public offering, and 25% on
the 24-month anniversary of the closing of the Company’s initial public offering. Any amounts not paid under this Section 3(a) from Permitted Withdrawals shall be accelerated and paid upon consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination.
(b)
Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an option to the several Underwriters to purchase, severally
and not jointly, up to 3,750,000 Optional Securities at $9.90 per Unit. Said option may be exercised only to cover over-allotments in the sale of the Firm Securities by the Underwriters. Said option may be exercised in whole or in part at any time
on or before the 45th day after the date of the Prospectus upon written notice by the Representative to the Company setting forth the number of Optional Securities as to which the several Underwriters are exercising the option and the settlement
date. The number of Optional Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be based upon the same percentage of the total number of the Optional Securities to be purchased by the several Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the
Firm Securities, subject to such adjustments as the Representative in its absolute discretion shall make to eliminate any fractional units.
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(c)
In addition to the amounts set forth in Section 3(a) of this Agreement representing a portion of the underwriting commission of $0.10 per unit, the Company hereby agrees to pay to the Underwriters
a deferred discount of $0.475 per Unit, or $11,875,000 in the aggregate (or up to $13,656,250 in the aggregate if the Underwriters purchase the Optional Securities) purchased hereunder (the “Deferred Discount”). The Deferred Discount will be
paid directly to the Representative, on behalf of the Underwriters, by the Trustee from amounts on deposit in the Trust Account by wire transfer payable in same-day funds if and when the Company consummates its initial Business Combination. The
Underwriters hereby agree that if no Business Combination is consummated within the time period provided in the Trust Agreement, as may be amended, and the funds held under the Trust Agreement, as may be amended, are distributed to the holders of the
Ordinary Shares included in the Offered Securities sold pursuant to this Agreement (the “Public Shareholders”), (i) the Underwriters will forfeit any rights or claims to the Deferred Discount and (ii) the Trustee under the Trust Agreement, as
may be amended, is authorized to distribute the Deferred Discount to the Public Shareholders on a pro rata basis.
4.
Delivery and Payment. Delivery of and payment for the Firm Securities and the Optional Securities (if the option provided for in Section 3 hereof shall
have been exercised on or before the second (2nd) Business Day prior to the Closing Date) shall be made at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on [●], 2024, or at such time
as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Offered Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”). Delivery of the Offered
Securities shall be made to the Representative for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representative of the purchase price thereof by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to
an account specified by the Company and to the Trust Account as described below in this Section 4. Delivery of the Firm Securities and the Optional Securities shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) unless
the Representative shall otherwise instruct.
(a)
Payment for the Firm Securities shall be made as follows: $248,750,000 of the net proceeds for the Firm Securities (including $11,875,000 of Deferred Discount) shall be deposited in the Trust
Account pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement along with such portion of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units in order for the Trust Account to equal the product of the number of Units sold and the public offering
price per Unit as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus upon delivery to the Representative of the Firm Securities through the facilities of DTC or, if the Representative have otherwise instructed, upon delivery to the Representative of
certificates (in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative) representing the Firm Securities, in each case for the account of the Underwriters. The Firm Securities shall be registered in such name or names and in such authorized
denominations as the Representative may request in writing at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date. If delivery is not made through the facilities of DTC, the Company will permit the Representative to examine and package the Firm
Securities for delivery, at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing Date. The Company shall not be obligated to sell or deliver the Firm Securities except upon tender of payment by the Representative for all the Firm Securities.
(b)
Payment for the Optional Securities shall be made as follows: $9.90 per Option Security (including $0.475 per Option Security of Deferred Discount) shall be deposited in the Trust Account pursuant
to the terms of the Trust Agreement upon delivery to the Representative of the Optional Securities through the facilities of DTC or, if the Representative have otherwise instructed, upon delivery to the Representative of certificates (in form and
substance satisfactory to the Representative) representing the Optional Securities (or through the facilities of DTC) for the account of the Underwriters. The Optional Securities shall be registered in such name or names and in such authorized
denominations as the Representative may request in writing at least one (1) Business Days prior to the settlement date of such Optional Securities. If delivery is not made through the facilities of DTC, the Company will permit the Representative to
examine and package the Optional Securities for delivery, at least one (1) Business Day prior to the settlement date of such Optional Securities. The Company shall not be obligated to sell or deliver the Optional Securities except upon tender of
payment by the Representative for all the Optional Securities.
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If the option provided for in Section 3 hereof is exercised after the second (2nd) Business Day prior to the Closing Date, the Company will
deliver the Optional Securities (at the expense of the Company) to the Representative, c/o Santander US Capital Markets LLC, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Equity Capital Markets on the date specified by the Representative
(which shall be at least two (2) Business Days after exercise of said option) for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representative of the purchase price thereof to the Trust
Account as described above in Section 4(b). If settlement for the Optional Securities occurs after the Closing Date, the Company will deliver to the Representative on the settlement date for such Optional Securities, and the obligation of the
Underwriters to purchase such Optional Securities shall be conditioned upon receipt of, supplemental opinions, certificates and letters confirming as of such date the opinions, certificates and letters delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to
Section 7 hereof.
5.
Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Offered Securities
for sale to the public as set forth in the Prospectus (the “Offering”).
6.
Certain Agreements of the Company. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:
(a)
Prior to the termination of the Offering, the Company will not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement unless the
Company has furnished the Representative with a copy for its review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment, supplement or Rule 462(b) Registration Statement to which the Representative reasonably objects. The Company will
cause the Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representative with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide
evidence satisfactory to the Representative of such timely filing. The Company will promptly advise the Representative (i) when the Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b) or when any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication shall have been filed with the Commission, (ii) when, prior to termination of the Offering, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have
been filed or become effective, (iii) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement, any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or for any supplement to the
Prospectus or for any additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any order preventing or suspending the use of the Preliminary Prospectus, the
Prospectus or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, or of the institution of any proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Act and (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the
qualification of the Offered Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any
such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including,
if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared or become effective as soon as practicable.
(b)
If, at any time prior to the filing of the Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event or development occurs as a result of which the Statutory Prospectus would include any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representative so that any
use of the Statutory Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Statutory Prospectus to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to the Representative in such
quantities as the Representative may reasonably request.
(c)
If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Offered Securities is required to be delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule
172), any event or development occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made or the circumstances then prevailing not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Prospectus to comply with the Act or the rules thereunder, the Company
promptly will (i) notify the Representative of any such event; (ii) prepare and file with the Commission, subject to paragraph (a) of this Section 6, an amendment or supplement that will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance;
and (iii) supply any supplemented Prospectus to the Representative in such quantities as the Representative may reasonably request.
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(d)
As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representative an earnings statement or statements of the Company and its subsidiaries that
will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.
(e)
The Company will not make any offer relating to the Units or the securities contained therein that constitutes or would constitute a Free Writing Prospectus or a portion thereof required to be
filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433 of the Act.
(f)
The Company will furnish to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other
Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant
to Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representative may reasonably request. The Company will pay the expenses of printing or other production of all documents relating to the
Offering.
(g)
The Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters against any documentary, stamp or similar issue tax, including any interest and penalties, on the creation, issue and sale of the
Offered Securities and on the initial resale thereof by the Underwriters and on the execution and delivery of this Agreement. All payments to be made by the Company hereunder shall be made without withholding or deduction for or on account of any
present or future taxes, duties or governmental charges whatsoever unless the Company is compelled by law to deduct or withhold such taxes, duties or charges. In that event, the Company shall pay such additional amounts as may be necessary in order
that the net amounts received by the Underwriters after such withholding or deduction shall equal the amounts that would have been received by the Underwriters if no withholding or deduction had been made.
(h)
The Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, (x) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction that is designed to,
or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any affiliate of the Company or any person in privity with the
Company or any affiliate of the Company), directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or
decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to, any Units, Ordinary Shares, Rights or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, Ordinary Shares or publicly
announce an intention to effect any such transaction during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 180 days after the date of this Agreement; provided, however, that the Company may (1) issue and sell the Private
Placement Units, (2) issue and sell the Optional Securities upon the exercise of the option provided for in Section 3 hereof, (3) register with the Commission pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, in accordance with the terms of the
Registration Rights Agreement, the resale of the securities covered thereby, and (4) issue securities in connection with an initial Business Combination; provided, further, however, the foregoing shall not apply to the
forfeiture of any Founder Shares pursuant to their terms or any transfer of Founder Shares to any current or future independent director of the Company (as long as such current or future independent director is subject to the terms of the Letter
Agreement at the time of such transfer and as long as, to the extent any reporting obligation under Section 16 of the Exchange Act is triggered as a result of such transfer, any related filing under Section 16 of the Exchange Act includes a practical
explanation as to the nature of the transfer); or (y) release the Sponsor or any officer, director, or director nominee from the 180-day lock-up contained in the Letter Agreement.
(i)
The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise,
stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Offered Securities.
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(j)
The Company agrees to pay the costs and expenses relating to the following matters: (i) the preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement
(including financial statements and exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (ii) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges
for counting and packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the
offering and sale of the Offered Securities; (iii) the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Offered Securities, including any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of
the Offered Securities; (iv) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the Offering; (v) the registration of the Offered Securities
under the Exchange Act and the listing of the Offered Securities and the Ordinary Shares and Rights included in the Offered Securities on Nasdaq; (vi) the printing and delivery of a preliminary blue sky memorandum, any registration or qualification
of the Offered Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of the several states and any filings required to be made with FINRA (including filing fees and the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of counsel for the
Underwriters relating to such filings, memorandum, registration and qualification) in an aggregate amount up to $25,000; (vii) the transportation and other expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company (and not the Underwriters) in connection with
presentations to prospective purchasers of the Offered Securities; (ix) the fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including U.S. and Cayman Islands counsel) for the Company; and (x) all other costs and
expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company (and not the Underwriters) incident to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder.
(k)
For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending five (5) years from the date of the consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs,
the Company will use its best efforts to maintain the registration of the Ordinary Shares and Rights (or such other securities into which the Ordinary Shares or Rights, as the case may be, may be exchanged in connection with a Business Combination)
under the provisions of the Exchange Act, except after giving effect to a going private transaction after the completion of an initial Business Combination. For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending upon the consummation of the
Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs, the Company will use its best efforts to maintain the registration of the Units under the provisions of the Exchange Act. During such applicable period, the Company
will not deregister the Units, Ordinary Shares or Rights under the Exchange Act (except in connection with an exchange pursuant to an initial Business Combination or a going private transaction after the completion of an initial Business Combination)
without the prior written consent of the Representative.
(l)
The Company shall, on the date hereof, retain its independent registered public accounting firm to audit the balance sheet of the Company as of the Closing Date (the “Audited Balance Sheet”)
reflecting the receipt by the Company of the proceeds of the Offering on the Closing Date. As soon as the Audited Balance Sheet becomes available, the Company shall promptly, but not later than four (4) Business Days after the Closing Date, file a
Current Report on Form 8-K with the Commission, which Current Report shall contain the Company’s Audited Balance Sheet. Additionally, upon the Company’s receipt of the proceeds from the exercise of all or any portion of the option provided for in
Section 3 hereof, the Company shall promptly, but not later than four (4) Business Days after the receipt of such proceeds, file a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Commission, which report shall disclose the Company’s sale of the Optional
Securities and its receipt of the proceeds therefrom, unless the receipt of such proceeds are reflected in the Current Report on Form 8-K referenced in the immediately prior sentence.
(m)
For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending five (5) years from the date of the consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs or
the Ordinary Shares and Rights cease to be publicly traded, the Company, at its expense, shall cause its regularly engaged independent registered public accounting firm to review (but not audit) the Company’s financial statements for each of the
first three (3) fiscal quarters prior to the announcement of quarterly financial information, the filing of the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the mailing, if any, of quarterly financial information to shareholders.
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(n)
For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending five (5) years from the date of the consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs,
the Company shall, to the extent such information or documents are not otherwise publicly available, upon written request from the Representative, furnish to the Representative copies of such financial statements and other periodic and special
reports as the Company from time to time furnishes generally to holders of any class of securities, and, to the extent such information or documents are not otherwise publicly available, upon written request from the Representative, promptly furnish
to the Representative: (i) a copy of such registration statements, financial statements and periodic and special reports as the Company shall be required to file with the Commission and from time to time furnishes generally to holders of any such
class of its securities in their capacities as such; and (ii) such additional documents and information with respect to the Company and the affairs of any future subsidiaries of the Company as the Representative may from time to time reasonably
request, all subject to the execution of a satisfactory confidentiality agreement. Any registration statements, financial statements, periodic and special reports or other additional documents referred to in the preceding sentence filed or furnished
on the Commission’s XXXXX website will be considered furnished for the purposes of this section.
(o)
For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending five (5) years from the date of the consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs or
the Ordinary Shares cease to be publicly traded, the Company shall retain a transfer agent. For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the date of the consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the
Liquidation occurs, the Company shall retain a rights agent.
(p)
In no event will the amounts payable by the Company for accounting, bookkeeping, office space, IT support, research, professional, secretarial and administrative services exceed $25,000 per month
in the aggregate from the date hereof until the earlier of the date of the consummation of the Business Combination and the Liquidation.
(q)
The Company will not consummate an initial Business Combination with any entity that is affiliated with the Sponsor or any of the Company’s officers or directors unless it, or a committee of
independent and disinterested directors, obtains an opinion from an independent investment banking firm which is a member of FINRA, or from an independent accounting firm, that such Business Combination is fair to the Company from a financial point
of view. Other than as set forth in this subsection, or as otherwise contemplated in the proxy statement related to its initial Business Combination or as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, the
Company shall not pay the Sponsor or its affiliates or any of the Company’s executive officers, directors or any of their respective affiliates any fees or compensation of any kind for services rendered to the Company prior to, or in connection with,
the completion of an initial Business Combination; provided, however, that such officers, directors, and affiliates (i) may receive reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by them in connection with activities on the Company’s behalf
related to identifying, investigating and completing an initial Business Combination; (ii) may be repaid loans as described in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus and (iii) may be paid $25,000 per month for
accounting, bookkeeping, office space, IT support, research, professional, secretarial and administrative services pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement between the Company and an affiliate of the Sponsor, none of which will be made from
the proceeds held in the Trust Account prior to completion of the initial Business Combination.
(r)
The Company will apply the net proceeds from the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units received by it in a manner consistent in all material respects with the applications described
under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(s)
For a period of 60 days following the Effective Date, in the event any person or entity (regardless of any FINRA affiliation or association) is engaged to assist the Company in its search for a
merger candidate or to provide any other merger and acquisition services, or has provided or will provide any investment banking, financial, advisory and/or consulting services to the Company, the Company agrees that it shall promptly provide to the
Representative and its counsel a notification prior to entering into the agreement or transaction relating to a potential Business Combination: (i) the identity of the person or entity providing any such services; (ii) complete details of all such
services and copies of all agreements governing such services prior to entering into the agreement or transaction; and (iii) justification as to why the value received by any person or entity for such services is not underwriting compensation for the
Offering. The Company also agrees that proper disclosure of such arrangement or potential arrangement will be made in the tender offer materials or proxy statement, as applicable, which the Company may file in connection with the Business
Combination for purposes of offering redemption of shares held by its shareholders or for soliciting shareholder approval, as applicable.
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(t)
The Company shall advise the Representative and its counsel if it is aware that any 10% or greater shareholder of the Company becomes an affiliate or associated person of a Member participating in
the distribution of the Offered Securities.
(u)
The Company shall cause the proceeds of the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units to be held in the Trust Account to be invested only in United States government treasury bills with
a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in direct U.S. government treasury obligations and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act as set forth in the Trust Agreement and disclosed
in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus. The Company will otherwise conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the Investment Company Act. Furthermore, once the Company consummates a Business Combination, it will
not be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
(v)
Prior to the earlier of the consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination and Liquidation, the Company may instruct the Trustee under the Trust Agreement to release interest from the
Trust Account, (i) to pay the Company’s taxes, (ii) to fund the Company’s working capital requirements, (iii) to fund repayment of amounts owed under a promissory note between the Company and the Sponsor, and (iv) to pay underwriting fees and
expenses (as described elsewhere in this Agreement), provided, that withdrawals under these subsections (ii), (iii) and (iv) (collectively, the “Permitted Withdrawals”) are subject to an annual limit of $1,250,000, or up to $1,437,500
if the Underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full. Otherwise, all funds held in the Trust Account (including any interest income earned on the amounts held in the Trust Account (which interest shall be net of taxes payable and
Permitted Withdrawals)) will remain in the Trust Account until the earlier of the consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination and the Liquidation; provided, however, that in the event of the Liquidation, up to $100,000
of interest income may be released to the Company if the proceeds of the Offering held by the Company outside of the Trust Account are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing the Company’s plan of dissolution.
(w)
The Company will reserve and keep available that maximum number of its authorized but unissued securities that are issuable pursuant to the exercise of the Rights and Private Placement Rights, and
upon conversion of the Founder Shares, outstanding from time to time.
(x)
Prior to the earlier of the consummation of a Business Combination and the Liquidation, the Company shall not issue (other than in replacement for lost, stolen or mutilated certificates) any
Ordinary Shares, Rights or any options or other securities convertible into Ordinary Shares, or any preferred shares, in each case, that would entitle the holders thereof to (1) receive funds from the Trust Account or (2) vote as a class with the
Public Shares (as defined below) (a) on any initial Business Combination or (b) to approve an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to (i) extend the time the Company’s has to consummate an initial
Business Combination beyond 24 months (or 27 months, if extended as described in the Prospectus) from the Closing Date or (B) amend the foregoing provisions.
(y)
Prior to the earlier of the consummation of an initial Business Combination and the Liquidation, the Company’s audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments made to the Sponsor, to
the Company’s officers or directors, or to the Company’s or any of such other persons’ respective affiliates.
(z)
The Company agrees that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the Company from becoming subject to Rule 419 under the Act prior to the consummation of any Business Combination,
including, but not limited to, using its best efforts to prevent any of the Company’s outstanding securities from being deemed to be a “xxxxx stock” as defined in Rule 3a51-1 under the Exchange Act during such period.
(aa)
To the extent required by Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act, the Company will maintain “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined under Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) and
a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary in order to permit
preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability
for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
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(bb)
For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending five (5) years from the date of the consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs,
the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to effect and maintain the listing of the Ordinary Shares on Nasdaq (or another national securities exchange). For a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the date of the
consummation of the Business Combination or until such earlier time at which the Liquidation occurs, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to effect and maintain the listing of the Units and Rights on Nasdaq (or another national
securities exchange).
(cc)
As soon as legally required to do so, the Company and its directors and officers, in their capacities as such, have taken or shall take all actions necessary to comply with any applicable
provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act, including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications, and to comply with the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.
(dd)
The Company shall not take any action or omit to take any action that would cause the Company to be in breach or violation of its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
(ee)
The Company will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than independent accountants), prospective target businesses, lenders or other entities with which it does business enter into
an agreement waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account for the benefit of the Public Shareholders. The Company may forego obtaining such waivers only if the Company’s management shall have
determined that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to the Company than any alternative.
(ff)
The Company, subject to any applicable provision of the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, may consummate the initial Business Combination and conduct
redemptions of Ordinary Shares for cash upon consummation of such Business Combination without a shareholder vote pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act, including the filing of tender offer documents with the Commission. Such
tender offer documents will contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial Business Combination and the redemption rights as is required under the Commission’s proxy rules and will provide each shareholder of the
Company with the opportunity prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination to redeem the Ordinary Shares held by such shareholder for an amount of cash equal to (A) the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, calculated
as of two (2) Business Days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, representing (x) the proceeds held in the Trust Account from the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units and (y) any interest earned on the funds
held in the Trust Account (which interest shall be net of taxes payable and Permitted Withdrawals), divided by (B) the total number of Ordinary Shares sold as part of the Units in the Offering (the “Public Shares”) then outstanding. If,
however, the Company elects not to file such tender offer documents, a shareholder vote is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement in connection with the initial Business Combination, or the Company decides to hold a
shareholder vote for business or other reasons, the Company will submit such Business Combination to the Company’s shareholders for their approval (“Business Combination Vote”). With respect to the initial Business Combination Vote, if any,
the Sponsor and the directors and officers of the Company have agreed to vote all of their Founder Shares and any other Ordinary Shares they may acquire during or after the Offering in favor of the Company’s initial Business Combination. If the
Company seeks shareholder approval of the initial Business Combination, the Company will offer to each Public Shareholder holding Ordinary Shares the right to have its shares redeemed in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to the proxy
rules of the Commission at a per share redemption price (the “Redemption Price”) equal to (I) the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two (2) Business Days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination,
representing (1) the proceeds held in the Trust Account from the Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units and (2) any interest income earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (which interest shall be net of any taxes payable and
Permitted Withdrawals), divided by (II) the total number of Public Shares then outstanding. If the Company seeks shareholder approval of the initial Business Combination, the Company may proceed with such Business Combination only if the Company
receives an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, which requires the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the Company’s ordinary shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon and who vote at a general meeting
of the Company. If, after seeking and receiving such shareholder approval, the Company elects to so proceed, it will redeem shares, at the Redemption Price, from those Public Shareholders who validly and affirmatively requested (and did not validly
withdraw) such redemption. Only Public Shareholders holding Ordinary Shares who properly exercise their redemption rights, in accordance with the applicable tender offer or proxy materials related to such Business Combination, shall be entitled to
receive distributions from the Trust Account in connection with an initial Business Combination, and the Company shall pay no distributions with respect to any other holders of ordinary shares of the Company in connection therewith. In the event
that the Company does not effect a Business Combination by the time period required by the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Company will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as
promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten (10) Business Days thereafter, redeem 100% of the Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest less
up to $100,000 of interest to pay liquidation and dissolution expenses and which interest shall be net of taxes payable and Permitted Withdrawals, divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish
Public Shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining
shareholders and the Company’s board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to the Company’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. Only Public
Shareholders holding Ordinary Shares included in the Offered Securities shall be entitled to receive such redemption amounts and the Company shall pay no such redemption amounts or any distributions in liquidation with respect to any other ordinary
shares of the Company. In the event that the Company proposes any amendment to its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with the
Company’s initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the outstanding Public Shares if the Company has not consummated a Business Combination within the time period required by the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of
Association, and with respect to any other material provision relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity, as described in the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Company shall
provide to the Public Shareholders the right to redeem their Public Shares in connection with such amendment.
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(gg)
In the event that the Company desires or is required by an applicable law or regulation to cause an announcement (“Business Combination Announcement”) to be placed in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times or any other news or media publication or outlet or to be made via a public filing or submission with the Commission announcing the consummation of the Business
Combination that indicates that the Underwriters were the underwriters in the Offering, the Company shall supply the Representative with a draft of the Business Combination Announcement and provide the Representative with a reasonable advance
opportunity to comment thereon, subject to the agreement of the Underwriters to keep confidential such draft announcement in accordance with the Representative’s standard policies regarding confidential information.
(hh)
Upon the consummation of the initial Business Combination, the Company and the Representative will jointly direct the Trustee to pay the Representative, on behalf of the Underwriters, the Deferred
Discount out of the proceeds of the Offering held in the Trust Account. The Underwriters shall have no claim to payment of any interest earned on the portion of the proceeds held in the Trust Account representing the Deferred Discount. If the
Company fails to consummate its initial Business Combination within the time period required by the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Deferred Discount will not be paid to the Representative and will, instead,
be included in the Liquidation distribution of the proceeds held in the Trust Account made to the Public Shareholders. In connection with any such Liquidation, the Underwriters forfeit any rights or claims to the Deferred Discount.
(ii)
The Company will arrange, in cooperation with the Representative, to qualify the Offered Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative may
reasonably designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Offered Securities; provided that no such qualification shall be required in any jurisdiction where, as a result thereof, the
Company would be subject to service of general process or to taxation as a foreign corporation doing business in such jurisdiction, or would be required to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified. Until the
earliest of (i) the date on which all Underwriters shall have ceased to engage in market-making activities in respect of the Offered Securities, (ii) the date on which the Offered Securities are listed on Nasdaq (or any successor thereto), (iii) a
going private transaction after the completion of a Business Combination, and (iv) the date of the Liquidation, in each jurisdiction where such qualification shall be effected, the Company will, unless the Representative agree that such action is not
at the time necessary or advisable, use all reasonable efforts to file and make such statements or reports at such times as are or may be required to qualify the Offered Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
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(jj)
If at any time following the distribution of any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Written Testing-the-Waters
Communication included or would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances existing at that subsequent time, not
misleading, the Company will promptly (i) notify the Representative so that use of the Written Testing-the-Waters Communication may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Written
Testing-the-Waters Communication to eliminate or correct such untrue statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to the Representative in such quantities as may be reasonably requested.
(kk)
The Company will promptly notify the Representative if the Company ceases to be an Emerging Growth Company at any time prior to the later of (i) completion of the distribution of the Offered
Securities within the meaning of the Act and (ii) completion of the 180-day restricted period referred to in Section 6(h) hereof.
(ll)
Upon the earlier to occur of the expiration and termination of the Underwriters’ over-allotment option, the Company shall cancel or otherwise effect the forfeiture of Founder Shares from the
Sponsor, in an aggregate amount equal to the number of Founder Shares determined by multiplying (a) 937,500 by (b) a fraction, (i) the numerator of which is 3,750,000 minus the number of Ordinary Shares purchased by the Underwriters upon the exercise
of their over-allotment option, and (ii) the denominator of which is 3,750,000. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, the Company shall not cancel or otherwise effect the forfeiture of the
Founder Shares pursuant to this subsection.
7.
Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Firm
Securities and the Optional Securities, as the case may be, shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time, the Closing Date and any settlement date pursuant
to Section 4 hereof, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a)
The Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened.
(b)
The Company shall have requested and caused Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representative its opinions dated the Closing Date and any
settlement date, as applicable, and addressed to the Representative, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Representative.
(c)
The Company shall have requested and caused Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx (Cayman) LLP, Cayman Islands counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representative its opinions dated the Closing Date and
any settlement date, as applicable, and addressed to the Representative, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Representative.
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(d)
The Representative shall have received from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and any settlement date, as
applicable, and addressed to the Representative, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities, the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus, the Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as
the Representative may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e)
The Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, signed by its Chief Executive Officer and the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company, dated
the Closing Date, and any settlement date, as applicable, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement and each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto,
and each “road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) of the Act used in connection with the Offering, and this Agreement and that:
(i)
the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of such date with the same effect as if made on such date and the Company has complied with
all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to such date;
(ii)
no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the
Company’s knowledge, threatened; and
(iii)
since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse
Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(f)
The Company shall have requested and caused Xxxxxx to have furnished to the Representative, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date and any settlement date, as applicable, letters, dated
respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date and any settlement date, as applicable, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative.
(g)
Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Statutory Prospectus and the
Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (g) of this Section 7 or (ii) any change, or any development involving a prospective
change, in or affecting the earnings, business, management, properties, assets, rights, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as
set forth in or contemplated in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representative, so material
and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Offered Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus
(exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(h)
Prior to the Closing Date, and any settlement date, as applicable, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative such further information, certificates and documents as the Representative
may reasonably request.
(i)
FINRA shall not have raised any objection with respect to the fairness or reasonableness of the underwriting or other arrangements of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(j)
The Offered Securities shall be duly listed subject to notice of issuance on Nasdaq, satisfactory evidence of which shall have been provided to the Representative.
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(k)
On the Effective Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Representative executed copies of the Trust Agreement, the Rights Agreement, the Contingent Rights Agreement, the Securities
Subscription Agreement, the Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, the Letter Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Administrative Services Agreement.
(l)
At least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date or a settlement date, as applicable, the Company shall have caused the required proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units to be
deposited into the Trust Account such that the cumulative amount deposited into the Trust Account as of such Closing Date or such settlement date, as applicable, shall equal the product of the number of Units issued in the Offering as of such Closing
Date or such settlement date, as applicable, and the public offering price per Unit as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus.
(m)
No order preventing or suspending the sale of the Units in any jurisdiction designated by the Representative pursuant to Section 6(ii) hereof shall have been issued as of the Closing Date, and no
proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or shall have been threatened.
If any of the conditions specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall
not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the
Representative. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.
The documents required to be delivered by this Section 7 shall be delivered electronically, or if by mail, at the office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 000 Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxx and Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, unless otherwise indicated herein, on the Closing Date and any settlement date, as applicable.
8.
Indemnification and Contribution. (a) Indemnification of Underwriters. The
Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its partners, members, directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of
the Exchange Act (each, an “Indemnified Party”), against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act, other Federal or state
statutory law or regulation or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any
part of any Registration Statement, or in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Statutory Prospectus, the Prospectus, any “road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) of the Act or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or in any amendment thereof or
supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Indemnified Party for any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending against any loss, claim, damage, liability, action, litigation, investigation or proceeding whatsoever (whether or not such
Indemnified Party is a party thereto), whether threatened or commenced, and in connection with the enforcement of this provision with respect to any of the above as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company will
not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon
and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter
consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.
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(b)
Indemnification of Company. Each Underwriter will severally and not jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors and each of its
officers who signs a Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each, an “Underwriter Indemnified Party”), against any losses, claims,
damages or liabilities to which such Underwriter Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act, other Federal or state statutory law or regulation or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any part of any Registration Statement, or in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Statutory Prospectus, the
Prospectus, any “road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) of the Act or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or the alleged omission of a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, and will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
Underwriter Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending against any such loss, claim, damage, liability, action, litigation, investigation or proceeding whatsoever (whether or not such Underwriter Indemnified Party is a party
thereto), whether threatened or commenced, based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission as such expenses are incurred, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or
on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the statements set forth under the heading “Underwriting”: (x) the sentence related to the Underwriter’s intention not to make sales to discretionary accounts and (y) the paragraphs related to stabilization,
syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids, in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in the
documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity.
(c)
Actions against Parties; Notification. Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section of notice of the commencement of any action, such
indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under subsection (a) or (b) above, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the indemnifying
party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further
that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b). In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it
notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense
thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its
election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof
other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could
have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such
action and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party.
(d)
Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Section is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection
(a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above (i) in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the Offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable
law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or
omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in
the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the Offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters. The relative fault shall be determined by
reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Underwriters and the parties’
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first
sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d).
Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the
Offered Securities exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation
(within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion
to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8(d) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters
were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 8(d).
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9.
Default of Underwriters. If any Underwriter or Underwriters default in their obligations to purchase Offered
Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and the aggregate number of Offered Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the total number of
Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on the Closing Date, the Representative may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons, including any of the
Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by the Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Offered Securities that such defaulting
Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on the Closing Date. If any Underwriter or Underwriters so default and the aggregate number of Offered Securities with respect to which such default or defaults occur exceeds 10% of the total number of
Offered Securities that the Underwriters are obligated to purchase on the Closing Date and arrangements satisfactory to the Representative and the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities by other persons are not made within 36 hours after
such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except as provided in Section 11 hereof (provided that if such default occurs with respect to Optional Securities after
the Closing Date, this Agreement will not terminate as to the Firm Securities or any Optional Securities purchased prior to such termination). As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an
Underwriter under this Section. Nothing herein will relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
10.
Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representative, by notice given to the Company prior to
delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities, if at any time prior to such delivery and payment (i) trading in the Company’s Units, Ordinary Shares or Rights shall have been suspended by the Commission, or trading in securities generally on the
New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq (or successor trading market) shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such exchange or trading market, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by
Federal or New York State authorities, (iii) there shall have occurred a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services, (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, declaration
by the United States of a national emergency or war, or other national or international calamity or crisis (including, without limitation, an act of terrorism) or change in economic or political conditions the effect of which on financial markets is
such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the Representative, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Offered Securities as contemplated by the Statutory Prospectus or the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement
thereto), (v) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, any material adverse change or any development involving a prospective material adverse change in or
affecting the earnings, business, management, properties, assets, rights, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (vi) the enactment, publication, decree
or other promulgation of any statute, regulation, rule or order of any court or other governmental authority which in the opinion of the Representative materially and adversely affects or may materially and adversely affect the business or operations
of the Company, or (vii) the taking of any action by any governmental body or agency in respect of its monetary or fiscal affairs which in the opinion of the Representative has a material adverse effect on the securities markets in the United States.
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11.
Survival of Certain Representations and Obligations. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations,
warranties and other statements of the Company or its officers, directors and of the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation, or statement as to the
results thereof, made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company or any of their respective representatives, officers, directors or any controlling person, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Offered Securities. If the purchase of
the Offered Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 hereof, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all documented out-of-pocket
expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Offered Securities. The respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 8 hereof shall remain in
effect notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement. In addition, if any Offered Securities have been purchased hereunder, the representations and warranties in Section 2 and all obligations under Section 6 shall also remain in effect.
12.
Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and, if sent to the Underwriters, will be mailed or delivered and confirmed to the
Representatives at: c/o Santander US Capital Markets LLC, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Equity Capital Markets, with a copy to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxx Xxxx, XX
00000, Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxx and Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed or delivered and confirmed to it at: 0 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, with a copy to Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, Xxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000 Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx and Xxxx X. Xxxx; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 8 will be mailed or delivered and confirmed to such Underwriter.
13.
Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their
respective successors and the officers, directors, director nominees, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
14.
Representation of Underwriters. The Representative will act for the several Underwriters in connection with this
financing, and any action under this Agreement taken by the Representative will be binding upon all the Underwriters.
15.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be
an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this
Agreement, if any, shall include images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including, without limitation, “pdf,” “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including, without limitation,
DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including, without limitation, any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal
effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the
New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other applicable law, including, without limitation, any state law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the Uniform Commercial Code.
16.
Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:
(a)
No Other Relationship. The Underwriters have been retained solely to act as an underwriter in connection with the sale of Offered Securities and that no
fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Underwriters has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Prospectus, irrespective of whether any Underwriter has advised or is
advising the Company on other matters;
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(b)
Arm’s Length Negotiations. The price of the Offered Securities set forth in this Agreement was established by
the Company following discussions and arm’s length negotiations with the Representative and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(c)
Absence of Obligation to Disclose. The Company has been advised that the Underwriters and their affiliates are
engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Underwriters have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or
agency relationship; and
(d)
Waiver. The Company waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the
Underwriters for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Underwriters shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a
fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including shareholders, employees or creditors of the Company.
17.
Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between
the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
18.
Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
19.
Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of
New York.
The Company and each Underwriter hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating
to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company and each Underwriter irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby in Federal and state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York and irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit or proceeding in any
such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Company agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any court to the
jurisdiction of which Company is subject by a suit upon such judgment.
20.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
THE COMPANY AND EACH UNDERWRITER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
21.
Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.
In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in
or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a
state of the United States.
In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may
be exercised against such Underwriters are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state
of the United States.
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22.
Definitions. The terms that follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.
“Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Applicable Time” shall mean [●] p.m. (New York City time) on the date of this Agreement.
“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).
“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.
“Commission” shall mean the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(i)
a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(ii)
a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(iii)
a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Effective Date” shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto and any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement became or becomes effective.
“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Execution Time” shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto.
“Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405.
“Liquidation” shall mean the distributions of the Trust Account to the Public Shareholders in connection with the redemption of Ordinary Shares held by the Public Shareholders pursuant to the terms of the
Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, as amended, if the Company fails to consummate a Business Combination.
“Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus referred to in Section 2(a) above and any preliminary prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the Effective Date that omits Rule 430A
Information.
“Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus relating to the Offered Securities that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time.
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“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statements referred to in paragraph 2(a) above, including exhibits and financial statements and any prospectus and prospectus supplement relating to the Offered
Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430A, as amended at the Execution Time and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto or any Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended or such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, as the case may be.
“Rule 158,” “Rule 172,” “Rule 405,” “Rule 419,” “Rule 424,” “Rule 430A,” “Rule 433,” and “Rule 462” refer to such rules under the Act.
“Rule 430A Information” shall mean information with respect to the Offered Securities and the offering thereof permitted to be omitted from the Registration Statement when it becomes effective pursuant to Rule
430A.
“Rule 462(b) Registration Statement” shall mean a registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462 relating to the offering covered by the registration statement referred to in Section
2(a) hereof.
“Statutory Prospectus” shall mean (i) the Preliminary Prospectus dated [●], 2024, relating to the Offered Securities and (ii) the Time of Delivery Information, if any, set forth on Schedule II hereto.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with the Representative’s understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement between the
Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.
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The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written.
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SCHEDULE I
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Number of
Firm Securities
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SCHEDULE I
SCHEDULE II
TIME OF DELIVERY INFORMATION
Artius II Acquisition Inc. priced 25,000,000 Units at $10.00 per Unit, plus an additional 3,750,000 Units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full.
The underwriting discounts and commissions shall be $0.575 per Unit, including $0.475 per Unit in the aggregate payable to the Underwriters for deferred underwriting commissions to be placed into the Trust Account and
released to the Underwriters upon completion of the initial Business Combination in accordance with the Trust Agreement.
The amounts in the Trust Account may be invested only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in direct U.S. government treasury obligations and
meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
The Units will be issued pursuant to an effective registration statement that has been previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of any offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would
be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities law of any such state or jurisdiction.
Copies of the prospectus related to this offering may be obtained from Santander US Capital Markets LLC at Santander US Capital Markets LLC, Attention: ECM Syndicate, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, by email at
xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xx, or by telephone at 000-000-0000.
SCHEDULE II
SCHEDULE III
SCHEDULE OF WRITTEN TESTING-THE-WATERS COMMUNICATIONS
Reference is made to the materials used in the testing-the-waters presentation made to potential investors by the Company, to the extent such materials are deemed to be a “written communication” within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended.
SCHEDULE III
