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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable in consideration for the business combination for rights to receive shares of the Company.

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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable for pre-combination services in consideration for the business combination.

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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable to replace certain vested acquiree warrants in consideration for the business combination.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Number of shares of common stock outstanding. Common stock represent the ownership interest in a corporation.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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