DOTA stockholders who seek to convert their public shares are required to vote for or against the business combination proposal in order to exercise their redemption rights. In addition to voting on the Business Combination Proposal, holders demanding redemption are also required to (A) either (i) check the box on their proxy card or otherwise indicate in your written redemption request to our transfer agent, (B) or (ii) submit their request in writing to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, DOTA’s transfer agent and (C B) deliver their stock, either physically or electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC System, to DOTA’s transfer agent no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 17, 2018 (two (2) business days prior to the special meeting). If you hold the shares in street name, you will have to coordinate with your broker to have your shares certificated or delivered electronically. Certificates that have not been tendered (either physically or electronically) in accordance with these procedures will not be converted into cash. There is a nominal cost associated with this tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC system. The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker $45 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the converting stockholder. In the event the proposed business combination is not consummated this may result in an additional cost to stockholders for the return of their shares.
A. If you are a holder of public shares and wish to exercise your redemption rights, you must affirmatively vote either for or against the Business Combination Proposal and demand that DOTA convert your shares into cash no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 17, 2018 (two (2) business days prior to the vote on the business combination proposal) by (A) (i) checking the box on the proxy card or otherwise indicate in your written redemption request to our transfer agent, (B) or (ii) submitting your request in writing to Mark Zimkind of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, at the address listed at the end of this section and (C B) delivering your stock to DOTA’s transfer agent physically or electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit Withdrawal at Custodian) System. As long as you vote on the Business Combination Proposal, you may affirmatively vote either for or against the business combination proposal without affecting your eligibility for exercising your redemption rights. Any holder of public shares voting for or against the business combination proposal will be entitled to demand that his shares be converted for a full pro rata portion of the amount then in the trust account (which was $59.1 million, or $10.27 per share, as of December 5, 2018, the record date). Such amount, less any owed but unpaid taxes on the funds in the trust account, will be paid promptly upon consummation of the business combination. There are currently no owed but unpaid income taxes on the funds in the trust account. However, under Delaware law, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to claims which could take priority over those of DOTA’s public stockholders exercising redemption rights, regardless of whether such holders vote for or against the business combination proposal. Therefore, the per-share distribution from the trust account in such a situation may be less than originally anticipated due to such claims. Your vote on any proposal other than the business combination proposal will have no impact on the amount you will receive upon exercise of your redemption rights.
Terms of Our Offering Terms Under a Rule 419 Offering Tendering stock certificates in connection with a tender offer or redemption rights We may require our public stockholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer documents mailed to such holders, or up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve our initial business combination in the event we distribute proxy materials, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option. The tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our initial business combination will indicate whether we are requiring public stockholders to satisfy such delivery requirements. Accordingly, a public stockholder would have from the time we furnish our tender offer materials until the close of the tender offer period, or up to two days prior to the vote on our initial business combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable, to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights. In order to perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations, holders could vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holders were seeking to exercise their redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the company would contact such stockholders to arrange for them to deliver their certificate to verify ownership.
As of March 31, 2016, there was approximately $40,851,104 in E-compass’s trust account, of which E-compass plans to withdraw the $51,104 interest to pay operating expenses before the shareholder meeting, or approximately $10.40 per outstanding ordinary share issued in E-compass’s initial public offering for the public shareholders except for the lead investor in the initial public offering, which purchased 2,000,000 units and agreed to waive $0.40 per ordinary shares in the event it seeks to convert such shares into cash held in the trust account. Our lead investor also agreed to hold 1,000,000 of the shares it purchased in our initial public offering through the consummation of our initial business combination, to vote in favor of the proposed business combination and not seek redemption in connection therewith. As a result, we do not expect there to be more than 3,000,000 shares that exercise redemption rights. We will enter into an agreement with our lead investor to repurchase 500,000 of such non-redeemable shares promptly after the closing of our business combination at a purchase price of $10.00 per share. On December 12, 2016, the record date for the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, the last sale price of E-compass’s ordinary shares was $[•].
A: Approval of the Business Combination will require the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the E-compass ordinary shares present and entitled to vote at the extraordinary general meeting; provided, however, that if 3,500,000 or more of the holders of E-compass ordinary shares exercise their redemption rights then the Business Combination will not be completed. However, our lead investor agreed to hold 1,000,000 of the shares it purchased in our initial public offering through the consummation of our initial business combination, vote in favor of the proposed business combination and not seek redemption in connection therewith. As a result, we do not expect there to be more than 3,500,000 shares that exercise redemption rights. We will enter into an agreement with our lead investor to repurchase 500,000 of such non-redeemable shares promptly after the closing of our business combination at a purchase price of $10.00 per share. Attendance at the extraordinary general meeting and abstentions and broker non-votes will have the same effect as a vote against the approval of the Business Combination Proposal. Approval of the Redomestication Proposal will require the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds of the E-compass ordinary shares outstanding present in person and by proxy. The Business Combination Adjournment Proposal will require the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds of the shares present in person and by proxy at the meeting.
A: No. You are not required to vote against the Business Combination Proposal in order to have the right to demand that E-compass redeem your E-compass ordinary shares for cash equal to your pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (before payment of deferred underwriting commissions and including interest earned on their pro rata portion of the trust account, net of (i) taxes payable and (i) income on the trust account, previously released to E-compass to fund its working capital requirements). These rights to demand redemption of E-compass ordinary shares for cash are sometimes referred to herein as redemption rights. If the Business Combination is not completed, then holders of E-compass ordinary shares electing to exercise their redemption rights will not be entitled to receive such payments. In addition, E-compass’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, or the E-compass charter, provides that an E-compass shareholder, together with any affiliate of such shareholder or any other person with whom such shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act), will be restricted from seeking redemption rights in connection with the Business Combination with respect to more than an aggregate of 20% of the E-compass ordinary shares sold in the IPO.
The Business Combination will not be consummated if the holders of 3,500,000 or more of E-compass’s ordinary shares exercise their redemption rights. However, our lead investor agreed to hold 1,000,000 of the shares it purchased in our initial public offering through the consummation of our initial business combination, vote in favor of the proposed business combination and not seek redemption in connection therewith. As a result, we do not expect there to be more than 3,000,000 shares that exercise redemption rights. We will enter into an agreement with our lead investor to repurchase 500,000 of such non-redeemable shares promptly after the closing of our business combination at a purchase price of $10.00 per share.
Irrespective of whether you voted for or against Proposal No. 2, if you hold Ordinary Shares that were issued in E-compass’s initial public offering (“Public Ordinary Shares”), you may demand that E-compass convert your Public Ordinary Shares into cash equal to your pro rata share of the aggregate amount on deposit in the trust account holding the proceeds of E-compass’s initial public offering by marking the “Exercise Redemption Rights” box below. If you abstain or fail to vote on Proposal No. 2, such abstention or failure to vote will have the same effect as a vote against Proposal No. 2, but will not be sufficient to enable you to exercise your redemption rights. If you exercise your redemption rights, then you will be exchanging your Public Ordinary Shares for cash and you will no longer own those shares. You will only be entitled to receive cash for those Public Ordinary Shares if the merger with NYM is completed and you continue to hold those Public Ordinary Shares through the effective time thereof, and you tender your certificates representing your Public Ordinary Shares in accordance with the delivery requirements discussed in the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus under the heading “EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF E-COMPASS SHAREHOLDERS—Redemption Rights”. You, together with any affiliate of yours or any other person with whom you are acting in concert or as a partnership, syndicate or other group for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of E-compass’s securities, may not exercise your redemption rights with respect to more than 20% of the Public Ordinary Shares. Holders of E-compass rights have no redemption rights.
The following discussion is a general summary of certain material U.S. federal income tax consequences to Trinitys stockholders with respect to the exercise of redemption rights in connection with the approval of the Extension Amendment. Because the components of each Unit sold in Trinitys initial public offering are separable at the option of the holder, the holder of a Unit generally should be treated, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as the owner of the underlying share of Class A common stock and one redeemable Public Warrant. As a result, the discussion below with respect to actual holders of Class A common stock should also apply to holders of Units (as the deemed owners of the underlying Class A common stock) that separate their Units into one share of Class A common stock and one Public Warrant for the purpose of exercising their redemption rights. This discussion assumes that holders currently hold Trinity securities as capital assets within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code.
In order to exercise redemption rights, holders of public shares are required to, among other requirements, submit a request in writing and deliver their stock (either physically or electronically) to our transfer agent at least two business days prior to the special meeting. Stockholders electing to redeem their public shares will receive their pro rata portion of the amount on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the anticipated consummation of the Merger. See the section entitled “Special Meeting of Company Stockholders — Redemption Rights and Procedures” for additional information on how to exercise your redemption rights. If you do not timely submit your redemption request and deliver your common stock and comply with the other redemption requirements, you will not be entitled to redeem your common stock.
Prior to exercising redemption rights, stockholders should verify the market price of our common stock as they may receive higher proceeds from the sale of their common stock in the public market than from exercising their redemption rights. We cannot assure you that you will be able to sell your shares of our common stock in the open market, even if the market price per share is higher than the redemption price, as there may not be sufficient liquidity in our common stock when you wish to sell your shares.
We are providing our public stockholders with redemption rights upon consummation of the Merger. Public stockholders electing to exercise redemption rights will be entitled to receive cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the Closing, provided that such stockholders follow the specific procedures for redemption set forth in this proxy statement/prospectus under “Special Meeting of Company Stockholders — Redemption Rights and Procedures.” Unlike many other blank check companies, our public stockholders are not required to vote against the Merger in order to exercise redemption rights. If the Merger is not completed, then public stockholders electing to exercise redemption rights will not be entitled to redeem the shares of common stock and will not receive payment for any shares they elected to redeem.
If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our initial stockholders, directors, officers or their respective affiliates may purchase shares in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions either prior to or following the consummation of our initial business combination. Our initial stockholders, directors, officers and their respective affiliates may also enter into transactions with stockholders and others to provide them with incentives to, among other things, acquire shares of our common stock or vote their shares in favor of an initial business combination. Our directors, officers or their affiliates will not make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or during a restricted period under Regulation M under the Exchange Act or in a transaction which would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule 10(b)-5 under the Exchange Act. Such a purchase would include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that our initial stockholders, directors, officers or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares.
If we hold a stockholder meeting to approve a potential business combination, we may require our public stockholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent up to two business days prior to the meeting date or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option. The proxy materials that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our initial business combination will indicate whether we are requiring public stockholders to satisfy such delivery requirements. Accordingly, a public stockholder would have until two days prior to the vote on the business combination to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights. Given the relatively short exercise period, it is advisable for stockholders to use electronic delivery of their public shares.
The foregoing is different from the procedures used by many blank check companies. In order to perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations, many blank check companies would distribute proxy materials for the stockholders’ vote on an initial business combination, and a holder could simply vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holder was seeking to exercise his redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the company would contact such stockholder to arrange for him to deliver his certificate to verify ownership. As a result, the stockholder then had an “option window” after the consummation of the business combination during which he could monitor the price of the company’s stock in the market. If the price rose above the redemption price, he could sell his shares in the open market before actually delivering his shares to the company for cancellation. As a result, the redemption rights, to which stockholders were aware they needed to commit before the stockholder meeting, would become “option” rights surviving past the consummation of the business combination until the redeeming holder delivered its certificate. The requirement for physical or electronic delivery prior to the meeting ensures that a redeeming holder’s election to redeem is irrevocable once the business combination is approved.
our initial business combination within the 24 month period. However, the initial holders will be entitled to redemption rights with respect to any public shares held by them if we fail to consummate a business combination or liquidate within the 24 month period, and Cantor Fitzgerald will have the same redemption rights as a public stockholder with respect to any public shares it acquires. To the extent our holders of founder shares or placement shares transfer any of these securities to certain permitted transferees, such permitted transferees will agree, as a condition to such transfer, to waive these same redemption rights. If we do not complete our initial business combination within such 24 month period, the portion of the proceeds of the sale of the placement units placed into the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our founder shares, placement shares or warrants, which will expire worthless if we do not consummate an initial business combination within 24 months of the completion of this offering (excluding any exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option). Except as described under “Principal Stockholders — Transfers of Founder Shares and Placement Units (including securities contained therein)”, the founder shares, placement units and their underlying securities will not be transferable, assignable or salable.
Our initial holders and Cantor Fitzgerald have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and placement shares (i) in connection with the consummation of a business combination, (ii) in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the completion of this offering (excluding any exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option) and (iii) if we fail to consummate a business combination within the 24 month period or if we liquidate prior to the expiration of the 24 month period. Our initial holders have also agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to public shares in connection with the consummation of a business combination and in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within the 24 month period. However, the initial holders will be entitled to redemption rights with respect to any public shares held by them if we fail to consummate a business combination or liquidate within the 24 month period, and Cantor Fitzgerald will have the same redemption rights as a public stockholder with respect to any public shares it acquires. To the extent our initial stockholders or purchasers of placement units transfer any of these securities to certain permitted transferees, such permitted transferees will agree, as a condition to such transfer, to waive these same redemption rights. Also, our sponsor and Cantor Fitzgerald have committed to purchase 420,000 placement units, at the price of $10.00 per unit, in a private placement that will occur simultaneously with the completion of this offering. If we submit our initial business combination to our public stockholders for a vote, our sponsor, the other initial holders, our officers and our directors, have agreed to vote their respective founder shares, placement shares and any public shares held by them in favor of our initial business combination. Cantor Fitzgerald has not committed to vote any shares held by them in favor of our initial business combination.
Section 9.07 Additional Redemption Rights. If, in accordance withSection9.01(a), any amendment is made toSection9.02(d)that would affect the substance or timing of the Corporation’s obligation to redeem 100% of the Offering Shares if the Corporation has not consummated a Business Combination within 24 months from the date of the Initial Closing, the Corporation shall offer to redeem the Offering Shares upon the approval of any such amendment, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the approval of such amendment, including any amounts representing interest earned on the Trust Account, less any interest previously released to, or reserved for use by, the Corporation for the payment of taxes or working capital expenses, by (ii) the total number of then outstanding Offering Shares; provided, however, that any such redemption shall be subject to the Redemption Limitation.
A: If you are a holder of public shares, you may redeem your public shares for cash equal to a pro rata share of the aggregate amount on deposit in the trust account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Merger (including any portion of the interest earned thereon which was not previously used or distributed to us for working capital purposes or to pay dissolution expenses or taxes), upon the consummation of the Merger. You must affirmatively vote “FOR” or “AGAINST” the Merger Proposal in order to exercise redemption rights.A public stockholder, together with any of his, her or its affiliates or any other person with whom such holder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming in the aggregate his, her or its shares or, if part of such a group, the group’s shares, in excess of 20% of the outstanding public shares. Our initial stockholders and Cantor have waived their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and placement shares in connection with the Merger, and our initial stockholders have also waived their redemption rights with respect to any public shares they hold in connection with the Merger. All such shares held by our initial stockholders and Cantor will be excluded from the pro rata calculation used to determine the per-share redemption price. For illustrative purposes, based on funds in the trust account of approximately $100.0 million on January 31, 2016, the estimated per share redemption price would have been approximately $10.00. Additionally, shares properly tendered for redemption will only be redeemed if the Merger is consummated; otherwise holders of such shares will only be entitled to a pro rata portion of the trust account (including any portion of the interest earned thereon which was not previously used or distributed to us for working capital purposes or to pay dissolution expenses or taxes) upon our liquidation.
Pursuant to our charter, holders of our public shares may elect to have their shares redeemed for cash at a redemption price per share calculated in accordance with our charter. As of January 31, 2016, this would have amounted to approximately $10.00 per share. If a holder of public shares properly exercises his, her or its redemption rights, then such holder will be exchanging his, her or its shares of our common stock for cash and will no longer own such shares. Holders of public shares must affirmatively vote either “FOR” or “AGAINST” the Merger Proposal in order to exercise redemption rights. See the section entitled “Special Meeting of FinTech Stockholders—Redemption Rights” for the procedures to be followed if you wish to redeem your shares for cash.
FinTech intends to fund a portion of the Cash Consideration using proceeds held in the trust account maintained for the benefit of its public stockholders, if any, after giving effect to the exercise by the public stockholders of their redemption rights. The remainder of the Cash Consideration will be paid from the proceeds of the First Lien Facilities and Second Lien Term Loan Facility (together, the “Debt Financing”) and the Equity Financing. In addition, a portion of the remaining proceeds of the Debt Financing and Equity Financing will be used to repay CardConnect’s indebtedness under its existing revolving credit facility. Any remaining proceeds of the trust account, Debt Financing and Equity Financing will be used for general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to working capital for operations, capital expenditures and future acquisitions.
TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS, YOU MUST (I)IF YOU HOLD EASTERLY UNITS, ELECT TO SEPARATE YOUR EASTERLY UNITS INTO THE UNDERLYING PUBLIC SHARES AND PUBLIC WARRANTS PRIOR TO EXERCISING YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO THE PUBLIC SHARES, (II)SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST TO EASTERLY'S TRANSFER AGENT TO REDEEM YOUR EASTERLY PUBLIC SHARES FOR CASH, AND (III)DELIVER YOUR PUBLIC SHARES TO EASTERLY'S TRANSFER AGENT, PHYSICALLY OR ELECTRONICALLY USING DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY'S DWAC (DEPOSIT WITHDRAWAL AT CUSTODIAN) SYSTEM, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES AND DEADLINES DESCRIBED IN THE ACCOMPANYING PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS. IF THE MERGER IS NOT CONSUMMATED, THEN THE EASTERLY PUBLIC SHARES WILL NOT BE REDEEMED FOR CASH. IF YOU HOLD THE SHARES IN STREET NAME, YOU WILL NEED TO INSTRUCT THE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT YOUR BANK, BROKER OR OTHER NOMINEE TO WITHDRAW THE SHARES FROM YOUR ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS. SEE "PROPOSAL NO. 1THE MERGER PROPOSALREDEMPTION RIGHTS" IN THE ACCOMPANYING PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS FOR MORE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS.
purchase shares from stockholders who would have otherwise elected to have their shares redeemed for a per-share pro rata portion of the Trust Account in conjunction with their consideration of a proposal to approve the Merger. None of the Sponsor, Easterly's directors, officers or advisors, or their respective affiliates will make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or during a restricted period under RegulationM under the Exchange Act. It is expected that such a purchase would include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of Easterly's shares, is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. To the extent required to comply with applicable securities laws, Easterly expects that any purchase by the Sponsor would be reported promptly on an amendment to the Sponsor's Schedule13D. In the event that the Sponsor, Easterly's directors, officers or advisors, or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. Any such privately negotiated purchases may be effected at purchase prices that are in excess of the per-share pro rata portion of the Trust Account. There is no limit to the number of public shares that the Sponsor, Easterly's directors, officers or advisors, or their respective affiliates could purchase. The purpose of any such purchases would be to increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of the Merger.
This subsection is addressed to U.S. holders of Easterly common stock that elect to have their Easterly common stock redeemed for cash as described in the section entitled "The Special Meeting of Easterly StockholdersRedemption Rights." For purposes of this discussion, a "Redeeming U.S. Holder" is a U.S. holder that so redeems its Easterly common stock.
, 2019 By Order of the UAC Board, Juan Sartori Chairman of the UAC Board TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS, YOU MUST DEMAND IN WRITING THAT YOUR PUBLIC SHARES ARE REDEEMED FOR A PRO RATA PORTION OF THE FUNDS HELD IN THE TRUST ACCOUNT AND TENDER YOUR SHARES TO UAC’S TRANSFER AGENT AT LEAST TWO BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE VOTE AT THE GENERAL MEETING. YOU MAY TENDER YOUR SHARES BY EITHER DELIVERING YOUR SHARE CERTIFICATE TO THE TRANSFER AGENT OR BY DELIVERING YOUR SHARES ELECTRONICALLY USING DTC’S DWAC (DEPOSIT WITHDRAWAL AT CUSTODIAN) SYSTEM. IF THE BUSINESS COMBINATION IS NOT COMPLETED, THEN THESE SHARES WILL NOT BE REDEEMED FOR CASH. IF YOU HOLD THE SHARES IN STREET NAME, YOU WILL NEED TO INSTRUCT THE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT YOUR BANK OR BROKER TO WITHDRAW THE SHARES FROM YOUR ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS. YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO REDEEM YOUR PUBLIC SHARES UNLESS YOU VOTE BY PROXY OR AT THE GENERAL MEETING.
The Sponsor, including UAC’s directors or executive officers, or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of the business combination, although they are under no obligation to do so. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such shareholder, although still the record holder of shares of UAC ordinary shares, is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that the Sponsor, including directors, officers or their affiliates, purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. The purpose of such purchases could be to vote such shares in favor of the business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the business combination or to satisfy closing conditions in the Exchange Agreement regarding required amounts in the trust account. This may result in the completion of the business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.
The general meeting of UAC’s shareholders to which this proxy statement/prospectus relates is to solicit your approval of the business combination. UAC’s public shareholders are not required to vote against the business combination in order to exercise their redemption rights. If the business combination is not completed, then public shareholders electing to exercise their redemption rights will not be entitled to receive such payments. The initial shareholders have agreed to vote their founder shares and any public shares they may hold in favor of the business combination. Currently, the initial shareholders own 20.0% of UAC’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares.
Redemption Rights. The Company is, subject to certain conditions, entitled to redeem Subordinate Voting Shares held by certain shareholders in order to permit the Company to comply with applicable licensing regulations. The purpose of the redemption right is to provide the Company with a means of protecting itself from having a shareholder (or a group of persons who the Board of Directors reasonably believes are acting jointly or in concert) (an “Unsuitable Person”) with an ownership interest of, whether of record or beneficially (or having the power to exercise control or direction over), five percent (5%) or more of the issued and outstanding Company Shares (calculated on as-converted to Subordinate Voting Shares basis), who a governmental authority granting licenses to the Company (including to any subsidiary) has determined to be unsuitable to own shares, or whose ownership of Subordinate Voting Shares may result in the loss, suspension or revocation (or similar action) with respect to any licenses relating to the conduct of the Company’s business relating to the cultivation, processing and dispensing of cannabis and cannabis-derived products in the United States or in the Company being unable to obtain any new licenses in the normal course, including, but not limited to, as a result of such person’s failure to apply for a suitability review from or to otherwise fail to comply with the requirements of a governmental authority, as determined by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion after consultation with legal counsel and, if a license application has been filed, after consultation with the applicable governmental authority.
At December 31, 2016, our net tangible book deficit was $150,855, or approximately $0.05 per share of common stock. After giving effect to the sale of 10,000,000 shares of common stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus, the sale of the private placement units and the deduction of underwriting commissions and estimated expenses of this offering, our pro forma net tangible book value at December 31, 2016 would have been $5,000,006 or $1.34 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value (as decreased by the value of the approximately 9,210,088 shares of common stock that may be redeemed for cash and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) of $1.39 per share to our initial stockholder as of the date of this prospectus and an immediate dilution of $8.66 per share or 86.6% to our public stockholders not exercising their redemption rights. The dilution to new investors if the underwriter exercises the over-allotment option in full would be an immediate dilution of $8.81 per share or 88.1%.
In the event we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination. However, they have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions. None of the funds in the trust account will be used to purchase shares in such transactions. They will not make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. Subsequent to the consummation of this offering, we will adopt an insider trading policy which will require insiders to: (i) refrain from purchasing shares during certain blackout periods and when they are in possession of any material nonpublic information and (ii) clear all trades with our legal counsel prior to execution. We cannot currently determine whether our insiders will make such purchases pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan, as it will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to, the timing and size of such purchases. Depending on such circumstances, our insiders may either make such purchases pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan or determine that such a plan is not necessary.
In order to perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations, holders could vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holders were seeking to exercise their redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the company would contact such stockholders to arrange for them to deliver their certificates to verify ownership.
No legal opinion of any kind has been or will be sought or obtained regarding the U.S. federal income tax or any other tax consequences of exercising or not exercising redemption rights. In addition, the following discussion is not binding on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) or any other taxing authority, and no ruling has been or will be sought or obtained from the IRS or other taxing authority with respect to any of the U.S. federal income tax consequences or any other tax consequences that may arise in connection with exercising redemption rights. There can be no assurance that the IRS or other taxing authority will not challenge any of the statements made in this summary or that a U.S. court or other judicial body would not sustain such a challenge.
Stockholders of Easterly who wish to have their shares redeemed for a pro rata portion of the Trust Account must comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising redemption rights. Public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares for a pro rata portion of the Trust Account must, among other things, tender their certificates to Easterlys transfer agent or deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically through the DTC prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the second business day prior to the Easterly special meeting of stockholders. In order to obtain a physical stock certificate, a stockholders broker and/or clearing broker, DTC and Easterlys transfer agent will need to act to facilitate this request. It is Easterlys understanding that stockholders should generally allot at least two weeks to obtain physical certificates from the transfer agent. However, because Easterly does not have any control over this process or over the brokers or DTC, it may take significantly longer than two weeks to obtain a physical stock certificate. If it takes longer than anticipated to obtain a physical certificate, stockholders who wish to redeem their shares may be unable to obtain physical certificates by the deadline for exercising their redemption rights and thus will be unable to redeem their shares.
Potential Purchases of Public Shares In connection with the stockholder vote to approve the proposed Business Combination, the Sponsor, Easterlys directors, officers, or advisors or their respective affiliates may privately negotiate transactions to purchase shares from stockholders who would have otherwise elected to have their shares redeemed in conjunction with the closing of the proposed Business Combination. None of the Sponsor, Easterlys directors, officers or advisors or their respective affiliates will make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or during a restricted period under Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Such a purchase would include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of Easterlys shares, is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that the Sponsor, Easterlys directors, officers or advisors or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. Any such privately negotiated purchases may be effected at purchase prices that are in excess of the per-share pro rata portion of the Trust Account.
These relative percentages assume that none of Easterlys stockholders exercise their redemption rights. If the actual facts are different than these assumptions, the percentage ownership retained by Easterlys existing stockholders will be different. These percentages also do not take into account (i) the issuance of up to 9,600,000 unallocated shares (or options to acquire shares) under the Omnibus Incentive Plan and 1,800,000 shares under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, (ii) the issuance of any shares upon the exercise of warrants to purchase up to a total of 16,750,000 shares of Easterly common stock that will remain outstanding following the Business Combination or any additional Private Placement Warrants that Easterly may issue to the Sponsor to repay working capital loans owed by Easterly to the Sponsor (currently in the amount of $15,000) or (iii) any shares of Easterly common stock surrendered to Easterly by former Sungevity securityholders after the consummation of the Business Combination as indemnification payments pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement.
At March 31, 2016, our net tangible book value was $(154,132), or approximately $(0.03) per share of common stock. After giving effect to the sale of 17,500,000 shares of common stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus, the sale of the private placement units and the deduction of underwriting commissions and estimated expenses of this offering, our pro forma net tangible book value at March 31, 2016 would have been $5,000,006 or $0.84 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value (as decreased by the value of the approximately 16,402,405 shares of common stock that may be redeemed for cash and assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option) of $0.87 per share to our initial stockholders as of the date of this prospectus and an immediate dilution of $9.16 per share or 91.6% to our public stockholders not exercising their redemption rights. The dilution to new investors if the underwriter exercises the over-allotment option in full would be an immediate dilution of $9.26 per share or 92.6%.
(ii)Redemption Rights. If a stockholder vote is required by law to approve the proposed initial Business Combination or the Corporation decides to hold a stockholder vote on the proposed initial Business Combination for business or other legal reasons, the Corporation shall offer to redeem the Offering Shares at a Redemption Price per share of the Common Stock payable to holders of the Offering Shares exercising their Redemption Rights (irrespective of whether they voted in favor or against the initial Business Combination) equal to, subject to the Redemption Limitation, the quotient obtained by dividing (a)the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable), by (b)the total number of then outstanding Offering Shares.
At March 31, 2017, our net tangible book deficit was $262,115, or approximately $0.09 per share of common stock. For the purposes of the dilution calculation, in order to present the maximum estimated dilution as a result of this offering, we have assumed the issuance of 0.1 of a share for each right outstanding, as such issuance will occur upon a business combination without the payment of additional consideration. After giving effect to the sale of 10,000,000 shares of common stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus, the sale of the private placement units and the deduction of underwriting commissions and estimated expenses of this offering, our pro forma net tangible book value at March 31, 2017 would have been $5,000,005 or $1.13 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value (as decreased by the value of the approximately (9,206,993) shares of common stock that may be redeemed for cash and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) of $1.13 per share to our initial stockholder as of the date of this prospectus and an immediate dilution of $8.96 per share or 89.6% to our public stockholders not exercising their redemption rights. The dilution to new investors if the underwriter exercises the over-allotment option in full would be an immediate dilution of $9.08 per share or 90.8%.
As of March 31, 2016, there was approximately $40,851,104 in E-compass’s trust account, of which E-compass plans to withdraw the $51,104 interest to pay operating expenses before the shareholder meeting, or approximately $10.40 per outstanding ordinary share issued in E-compass’s initial public offering for the public shareholders except for the lead investor in the initial public offering, which purchased 2,000,000 units and agreed to waive $0.40 per ordinary shares in the event it seeks to convert such shares into cash held in the trust account. Our lead investor also agreed to hold 1,000,000 of the shares it purchased in our initial public offering through the consummation of our initial business combination, to vote in favor of the proposed business combination and not seek redemption in connection therewith. As a result, we do not expect there to be more than 3,000,000 shares that exercise redemption rights. We will enter into an agreement with our lead investor to repurchase 500,000 of such non-redeemable shares promptly after the closing of our business combination at a purchase price of $10.00 per share. On [●], 2016, the record date for the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, the last sale price of E-compass’s ordinary shares was $[●].
On September 25, 2018, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation to designate 1,000,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock and provide for the rights, privileges, and preferences of the Series C Preferred Stock. Shares of SeriesC Preferred Stock may be converted at the holder’s election into shares of common stock, at the conversion rate of one share of common stock for one share of SeriesC Preferred Stock. Series C preferred stock has no dividends, liquidation or redemption rights. Each share is entitled to 100,000 votes.
Section 6. REDEMPTION RIGHTS. The shares of Preferred Stock shall have no redemption rights.
Section9.7Additional Redemption Rights.If, in accordance withSection9.1(a), any amendment is made toSection9.2(d)that would affect the substance or timing of the Corporation’s obligation to redeem 100% of the Offering Shares if the Corporation has not consummated a Business Combination by the applicable Termination Date, the Public Shareholders shall be provided with the opportunity to redeem their Offering Shares upon the approval of any such amendment, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable and working capital released to the Corporation), divided by the number of then outstanding Offering Shares. No such amendment may be made to Section 9.2(d) if the redemption of Offering Shares provided pursuant to this Section 9.7 would result in the Corporation having net tangible assets of less than the Redemption Limitation.
At May 31, 2016, our net tangible book value was $(108,587), or approximately $(0.05) per share of common stock. After giving effect to the sale of 8,000,000 shares of common stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus, the sale of the private placement warrants and the deduction of underwriting commissions and estimated expenses of this offering, our pro forma net tangible book value at May 31, 2016 would have been $5,000,003 or $1.89 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value (as decreased by the value of the approximately 7,358,798 shares of common stock that may be redeemed for cash and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option) of $1.94 per share to our initial shareholders as of the date of this prospectus and an immediate dilution of $10.10 per share or 101% to our public shareholders not exercising their redemption rights. Total dilution to public shareholders from this offering will be $8.11 per share. The dilution to new investors if the underwriter exercises the over-allotment option in full would be an immediate dilution of $8.32 per share or 83.2%.
If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our sponsor, directors, officers or their respective affiliates may purchase shares or warrants in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions either prior to or following the consummation of our initial business combination. Our sponsor, directors, officers and their respective affiliates may also enter into transactions with stockholders and others to provide them with incentives to, among other things, acquire shares of our common stock or vote their shares in favor of an initial business combination. Our directors, officers or their affiliates will not make any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or during a restricted period under Regulation Munder the Exchange Act or in a transaction which would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule 10(b)-5 under the Exchange Act. Such a purchase would include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that our sponsor, directors, officers or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our Class A common stock or public warrants and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, possibly making it difficult to obtain or maintain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange.
In order to perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations, holders could vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holders were seeking to exercise their redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the company would contact such stockholders to arrange for them to deliver their certificate to verify ownership.
Table of Contents Index to Financial Statements any stockholder meeting, which would be the minimum amount of time a stockholder would have to determine whether to exercise redemption rights. Accordingly, if it takes longer than we anticipate for stockholders to deliver their shares, stockholders who wish to redeem may be unable to meet the deadline for exercising their redemption rights and thus may be unable to redeem their shares. In the event that a stockholder fails to comply with the various procedures that must be complied with in order to validly tender or redeem public shares, its shares may not be redeemed.
As of March12, 2019, our net tangible book value was $20,000, or approximately $0.01 per share. For purposes of the dilution calculation, in order to present the maximum estimated dilution as a result of this offering, we have assumed the number of shares included in the units offered hereby will be deemed to be 13,000,000, and the price per unit in this offering will be deemed to be $10.00. After giving effect to the sale of 13,000,000 shares of Common Stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus (assuming the over-allotment option has not been exercised), the deduction of underwriting discounts and estimated expenses of this offering, the sale of the private units and the private underwriter shares and the issuance of 5,000 insider shares, our pro forma net tangible book value as of March12, 2019 would have been $5,000,010, or $1.21 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $1.20 per share to the Founders and an immediate dilution of $8.79 per share, or 87.9%, to new investors not exercising their redemption rights. For purposes of presentation, our pro forma net tangible book value after this offering is $126,724,990 less than it otherwise would have been because if we effect our initial business combination, the redemption rights of the public stockholders (but not our Founders) may result in the redemption of up to 12,672,499 shares sold in this offering (assuming the over-allotment option has not been exercised).
Any proxy solicitation materials we furnish to stockholders in connection with a vote for any proposed business combination will indicate whether we are requiring stockholders to satisfy such certification and delivery requirements. Accordingly, a stockholder would have from the time the stockholder received our proxy statement up until the time designated in the proxy statement to deliver his, her or its shares if he, she or it wishes to seek to exercise his, her or its redemption rights. This time period varies depending on the specific facts of each transaction. However, as the delivery process can be accomplished by the stockholder, whether or not he, she or it is a record holder or his, her or its shares are held in street name, in a matter of hours by simply contacting the transfer agent or his, her or its broker and requesting delivery of his her or its shares through the DWAC System, we believe this time period is sufficient for an average investor. However, we cannot assure you of this fact. Please see the risk factor titled We will require public stockholders who wish to redeem their shares of Common Stock in connection with a proposed business combination to comply with specific requirements for redemption that may make it more difficult for them to exercise their redemption rights prior to the deadline for exercising their rights for further information on the risks of failing to comply with these requirements.
If we seek stockholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates may purchase public shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our initial business combination, although they are under no obligation to do so. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that our sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates purchase public shares in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. The price per share paid in any such transaction may be different than the amount per share a public stockholder would receive if it elected to redeem its shares in connection with our initial business combination. The purpose of such purchases could be to vote such shares in favor of our initial business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of our initial business combination or to satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our initial business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the completion of our initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible. Any such purchases will be reported pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act to the extent such purchasers are subject to such reporting requirements.
At September 25, 2017 our net tangible book value was $(40,000), or approximately $(0.01) per share of common stock. After giving effect to the sale of 20,000,000 shares of common stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus, the sale of the private placement warrants and the deduction of underwriting commissions and estimated expenses of this offering, our pro forma net tangible book value at September 25, 2017 would have been $5,000,010, or approximately $0.83 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value (as decreased by the value of the approximately 19,001,999 shares of common stock that may be redeemed for cash and assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option) of $0.84 per share to our initial stockholders as of the date of this prospectus and an immediate dilution of $9.17 per share or 91.7% to our public stockholders not exercising their redemption rights. The dilution to new investors if the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full would be an immediate dilution of $9.27 per share or 92.7%.
At September 25, 2017 our net tangible book value was $(40,000), or approximately $(0.01) per share of common stock. After giving effect to the sale of 25,000,000 shares of common stock included in the units we are offering by this prospectus, the sale of the private placement warrants and the deduction of underwriting commissions and estimated expenses of this offering, our pro forma net tangible book value at September 25, 2017 would have been $5,000,010, or approximately $0.67 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value (as decreased by the value of the approximately 23,826,999 shares of common stock that may be redeemed for cash and assuming no exercise of the underwriters over-allotment option) of $0.68 per share to our initial stockholders as of the date of this prospectus and an immediate dilution of $9.33 per share or 93.3% to our public stockholders not exercising their redemption rights. The dilution to new investors if the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full would be an immediate dilution of $9.41 per share or 94.1%.