Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering and partial exercise of the over-allotment by the underwriters on November 15, 2021, an amount of $306,000,000 ($10.20 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) in the United States maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee, and was invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund meeting the conditions under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.
Although we are not limited to a particular industry or sector for purposes of consummating a Business Combination, we intend to concentrate on sourcing business combination opportunities in the financial services, technology and other sectors of the economy that are being enabled by emerging applications of blockchain.
Our management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination. There is no assurance that we will be able to complete a Business Combination successfully. The Nasdaq rules provide that the Initial Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the value of the Trust Account (excluding deferred underwriting costs and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the Company’s signing a definitive agreement to enter a Business Combination. We will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
We will have until 18 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering to complete a Business Combination (the “Combination Period”). If we are unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, we will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 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 earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its tax obligations (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), 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 liquidating distributions, if any), and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining shareholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to the Company’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period.
Proposed Business Combination
As more fully described in Note 11 to the unaudited condensed financial statements in Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, on November 10, 2022, we entered into a Business Combination Agreement (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), with BCSA Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), and Qenta Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Qenta”). The Business Combination Agreement provides for, among other things, the following transactions: (i) we will become a Delaware corporation (the “Domestication”) and, in connection with the Domestication, (A) our name will be changed to “Qenta Inc.” (“New Qenta”) and (B) each of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares and each of our outstanding Class B ordinary shares will become one share of common stock of New Qenta (the “New Qenta Common Stock”); and (ii) following the Domestication, Merger Sub will merge with and into Qenta, with Qenta as the surviving company in the merger and continuing as a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Qenta (the “Merger”).
In accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of the Business Combination Agreement, (i) outstanding shares of Qenta (other than treasury shares and any Company Dissenting Shares (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) will be exchanged for shares of New Qenta Common Stock and (ii) each outstanding Exchangeable Company RSU (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) will be exchanged for comparable restricted stock units of New Qenta, based on an agreed upon equity value. We anticipate issuing 49,100,000 shares of New Qenta Common Stock to the equityholders of Qenta in the Qenta Business Combination.
The obligation of the Company and Qenta to consummate the Business Combination is subject to certain closing conditions, including, but not limited to, (i) the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, (ii) the absence of any order, law or other legal restraint or prohibition issued by any court of competent jurisdiction or other governmental entity of competent jurisdiction enjoining or prohibiting the consummation of the Domestication or the Merger, (iii) the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”) in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended registering the New Qenta Common Stock to be issued in the Merger and the Domestication, (iv) the required approvals of our shareholders, (v) the approval of Qenta’s shareholders, (iv) the approval by Nasdaq of our listing application in connection with the Qenta Business Combination, (v) the consummation of the Domestication, (vi) the Company having at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) remaining after the closing of the Qenta Business Combination, and (vii) the aggregate cash proceeds available to us after redemptions at least equaling our aggregate closing expenses. In addition to certain other customary closing conditions, our obligation to consummate the Qenta Business Combination is also conditioned upon our receipt of an executed executive employment agreement with Brent de Jong, Qenta’s Chief Executive Officer.
In addition, in connection with the execution of the Business Combination Agreement, we entered into a Confirmation (the “Forward Purchase Agreement”), with Vellar Opportunity Fund SPV LLC - Series 5 (the “FPA Seller”), a client of Cohen & Company Financial Management, LLC (“Cohen”). Entities and funds managed by Cohen own equity interests in the Sponsor. Pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreement, the FPA Seller intends, but is not obligated, to purchase after the date of our redemption deadline through a broker in the open market our Class A ordinary shares, including such shares that holders had elected to redeem pursuant to our organizational documents in connection with the Qenta Business Combination, other than from the Company or affiliates of the Company, and (b) the FPA Seller has agreed to waive any redemption rights in connection with the Qenta Business Combination with respect to such Class A ordinary shares of the Company it purchases in accordance with the Forward Purchase Agreement (the “Subject Shares”). The Number of Shares shall equal the Subject Shares but shall be no more than 12,000,000 Shares. The FPA Seller has agreed to not beneficially own more than 9.9% of the New Qenta Common Stock on a post-combination pro forma basis.
The Forward Purchase Agreement provides that (a) one business day following the closing of the Qenta Business Combination, New Qenta will pay to the FPA Seller, out of the funds held in our trust account, an amount (the “Prepayment Amount”) equal to the Redemption Price per share (the “Initial Price”) multiplied by the aggregate number of Subject Shares, if any (together, the “Number of Shares”), less 10% (the “Shortfall Amount”) on the date of such prepayment. New Qenta will also deliver the FPA Seller an amount equal to the product of 500,000 multiplied by the Redemption Price to repay the FPA Seller for having purchased up to an additional 500,000 Class A ordinary shares of the Company, which shall not be included in the Number of Shares or the Terminated Shares (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement).
From time to time and on any scheduled trading day after the closing of the Qenta Business Combination, the FPA Seller may sell Subject Shares or Additional Shares (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) at its absolute discretion in one or more transactions, publicly or privately, and, in connection with such sales, terminate the Forward Purchase Transaction in whole or in part in an amount corresponding to the number of Subject Shares and Additional Shares. At the end of each calendar month during which any such early termination occurs, the FPA Seller will pay to the Company an amount equal to the product of (x) the Terminated Shares and (y) the Reset Price, where “Reset Price” refers to, initially, the Redemption Price. The Reset Price will be adjusted on the first scheduled trading day (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) of each month commencing on the first calendar month following the closing of the Qenta Business Combination to be the lowest of (a) the then-current Reset Price, (b) $10.00 and (c) the VWAP Price (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) of the last ten (10) scheduled trading days of the prior calendar month, but not lower than $5.00; provided, however, that, subject to certain exceptions, if we offer and sell shares of New Qenta Common Stock in a follow-on offering, or series of related offerings, at a price lower than, or upon any conversion or exchange price of currently outstanding or future issuances of any securities convertible or exchangeable for shares of New Qenta Common Stock being equal to a price lower than, the then-current Reset Price (the “Offering Price”), then the Reset Price shall be further reduced to equal the Offering Price. The payment of the Reset Price will not apply to sales of the Subject Shares or Additional Shares that provide proceeds to cover the FPA Sellers for the Shortfall Amount.
The Forward Purchase Agreement has a tenure of 36 months (“Maturity Date”), after which time New Qenta will be required to purchase from the FPA Seller such number of shares equal to the Maximum Number of Shares (as defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) less the Terminated Shares (as such terms are defined in the Forward Purchase Agreement) for consideration, settled in cash or New Qenta Common Stock, equal to the Maturity Consideration, which is the amount of (a) in the case of cash, the product of the Maximum Number of Shares less the Terminated Shares and $1.75 and (b) in the case of New Qenta Common Stock, such number of New Qenta Common Stock with a value equal to the product of the Maximum Number of Shares less the Terminated Shares and $1.75 divided by the VWAP Price of the Shares for the 30 trading days prior to the Maturity Date. In certain circumstances, the Maturity Date may be accelerated, as described in the Forward Purchase Agreement.
We and Qenta have agreed to pay to the FPA Seller a break-up fee equal to the sum of (i) all fees (in an amount not to exceed $75,000), plus (ii) $350,000, if we or Qenta terminate the Forward Purchase Agreement prior to the FPA Sellers purchasing shares under the agreement, other than because the Qenta Business Combination did not close or Class A Ordinary Share redemptions were less than 80%.
The primary purpose of entering into the Forward Purchase Agreement is to help ensure the aggregate cash proceeds condition in the Business Combination Agreement will be met, increasing the likelihood that the transaction will close.
The full Business Combination Agreement, Forward Purchase Agreement and other agreements entered into or contemplated to be executed prior to closing the Qenta Business Combination are included with a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC by us on November 10, 2022.
Results of Operations
Our entire activity since June 11, 2021 (inception) up to September 30, 2022 was in preparation for our formation and the Initial Public Offering and since the Initial Public Offering, our search for prospective Business Combination. We will not generate any operating revenues until the closing and completion of our initial Business Combination. We generate non-operating income in the form of investment income from our investments held in the Trust Account.
For the three months ended September 30, 2022 we had net income of approximately $431,000 which consisted of approximately $117,000 in a non-operating gain from change in fair value of derivative liabilities, and approximately $1.5 million of income from investments held in the Trust Account, offset by approximately $1,174,000 of general and administrative expenses, and $45,000 of general and administrative expenses to related party.
For the three months ended September 30, 2021, we had a net loss of $5,000, which was comprised of formation costs of $5,000.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2022 we had a net income of approximately $8.3 million, which consisted of approximately $9.8 million in non-operating gain from change in fair value of derivative liabilities, and approximately $1.7 million of income from investments held in the Trust Account, offset by approximately $3.1 million of general and administrative expenses, and $135,000 of general and administrative expenses to related party.
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