10-Q

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2019

OR

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                      to                     

RMG ACQUISITION CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	83-2289787
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

340 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor New York, New York	10173
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 220-9503

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer	¨	Accelerated filer	¨
Non-accelerated filer	x	Smaller reporting company	x
		Emerging growth company	x

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes x    No  ¨

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Units, each consisting of one share of Class A common stock and one-third of one warrant to purchase one share of Class A common stock	RMG	New York Stock Exchange
Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share	RMG	New York Stock Exchange
Public Warrants	RMG.WS	New York Stock Exchange

As of November 12, 2019, 23,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value, and 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value, issued and outstanding.

RMG ACQUISITION CORP.

Form 10-Q

For the Quarter Ended September 30, 2019

Table of Contents

		Page No.
PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.	Financial Statements	1
	Condensed Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2019 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2018	1
	Condensed Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 (Unaudited)	2
	Condensed Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 (Unaudited)	3
	Condensed Statement of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 (Unaudited)	4
	Notes to Condensed Financial Statements (Unaudited)	5
Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	16
Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	21
Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	21
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	21
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	21
Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities	21
Item 3.	Defaults Upon Senior Securities	22
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	22
Item 5.	Other Information	22
Item 6.	Exhibits	22

PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements

RMG ACQUISITION CORP.

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS

	September 30, 2019		December 31, 2018
		(Unaudited)
Assets:
Current assets:
Cash	$	1,381,346	$	37,044
Prepaid expenses and other assets		205,126		32,152
Total current assets		1,586,472		69,196
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account		913,946		-
Marketable sercurities held in Trust Account, at fair value		232,296,879		-
Deferred offering costs associated with the proposed public offering		-		411,948
Total assets	$	234,797,297	$	481,144
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	130,482	$	21,218
Accrued expenses		113,000		22,100
Due to related parties		-		115,381
Franchise tax payable		150,000		-
Income tax payable		591,258		-
Total current liabilities		984,740		158,699
Deferred legal fees		450,000		300,000
Deferred underwriting commissions		8,050,000		-
Total liabilities		9,484,740		458,699
Commitments and contingencies
Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 22,031,255 and -0- shares subject to possible redemption at $10 per share at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively		220,312,550		-
Stockholders' Equity:
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding		-		-
Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 968,745 and 0 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 22,031,255 and -0- shares subject to possible redemption) at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively		97		-
Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; 5,750,000 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018		575		575
Additional paid-in capital		4,341,185		24,425
Retained earnings (Accumulated deficit)		658,150		(2,555	)
Total stockholders' equity		5,000,007		22,445
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity	$	234,797,297	$	481,144

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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RMG ACQUISITION CORP.

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(UNAUDITED)

	For the three months ended			For the nine months ended
	September 30, 2019			September 30, 2019
General and administrative costs	$	210,806		$	668,222
Franchise tax expense		50,000			150,000
Loss from operations		(260,806	)		(818,222	)
Interest income		8,839			22,725
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account		1,142,497			3,299,930
Income before income tax expense		890,530			2,504,433
Income tax expense		232,380			668,514
Net income	$	658,150		$	1,835,919
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock		23,000,000			22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A	$	0.04		$	0.11
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock		5,750,000			5,750,000
Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B	$	(0.04	)	$	(0.11	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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RMG ACQUISITION CORP.

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(UNAUDITED)

	Common Stock															Retained Earnings			Total
	Class A						Class B						Additional Paid-In			(Accumulated			Stockholders'
	Shares			Amount			Shares			Amount			Capital			Deficit)			Equity
Balance - December 31, 2018		-		$	-			5,750,000		$	575		$	24,425		$	(2,555	)	$	22,445
Issuance of Class B common stock to anchor investors		-			-			575,000			58			2,255			-			2,313
Forfeiture of Class B common stock from Sponsor		-			-			(575,000	)		(58	)		58			-			-
Sale of units in initial public offering, gross		23,000,000			2,300			-			-			229,997,700			-			230,000,000
Offering costs		-			-			-			-			(13,448,120	)		-			(13,448,120	)
Sale of private placement warrants to Sponsor in private placement		-			-			-			-			6,900,000			-			6,900,000
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption		(21,880,163	)		(2,188	)		-			-			(218,799,442	)		-			(218,801,630	)
Net income		-			-			-			-			-			324,994			324,994
Balance - March 31, 2019 (unaudited)		1,119,837		$	112			5,750,000		$	575		$	4,676,876		$	322,439		$	5,000,002
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption		(85,277	)		(9	)		-			-			(530,322	)		(322,439	)		(852,770	)
Net income		-			-			-			-			-			852,775			852,775
Balance - June 30, 2019 (unaudited)		1,034,560		$	103			5,750,000		$	575		$	4,146,554		$	852,775		$	5,000,007
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption		(65,815	)		(6	)		-			-			194,631			(852,775	)		(658,150	)
Net income		-			-			-			-			-			658,150			658,150
Balance - September 30, 2019 (unaudited)		968,745		$	97			5,750,000		$	575		$	4,341,185		$	658,150		$	5,000,007

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

	For the nine months ended
	September 30, 2019
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net income	$	1,835,919
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account		(3,299,930	)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses		(172,974	)
Accounts payable		109,264
Accrued expenses		13,000
Due to related parties		(40,381	)
Franchise tax payable		150,000
Income tax payable		591,258
Net cash used in operating activities		(813,844	)
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Purchase of marketable securities held in Trust Account		(575,947,949	)
Proceeds received from sales, redemptions and maturities of marketable securities held in Trust Account		346,951,000
Net cash used in investing activities		(228,996,949	)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Proceeds received under loans from related parties		38,501
Repayment of loans to related parties		(113,501	)
Proceeds from issuance of Class B common stock to anchor investors		2,313
Proceeds received from initial public offering, gross		230,000,000
Proceeds received from private placement		6,900,000
Offering costs paid		(4,758,272	)
Net cash provided by financing activities		232,069,041
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents		2,258,248
Cash - beginning of the period		37,044
Cash and restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account - end of the period	$	2,295,292
Supplemental disclosure of noncash investing and financing activities:
Offering costs included in accrued expenses	$	100,000
Forfeiture of Class B common stock from Sponsor	$	58
Deferred underwriting commissions in connection with the initial public offering	$	8,050,000
Deferred legal fees in connection with the initial public offering	$	150,000
Reclassification of deferred offering costs to equity upon completion of the initial public offering	$	670,220
Value of common stock subject to possible redemption	$	220,312,550
Supplemental cash flow disclosure:
Cash paid for income taxes	$	(77,257	)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

Note 1 — Description of Organization, Business Operations and Basis of Presentation

RMG Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a newly organized blank check company incorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2018 (date of inception) for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). While the Company may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, it intends to focus its search for a target business in the diversified resources and industrial materials sectors. The Company is an emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with emerging growth companies.

As of September 30, 2019, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from October 22, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2019 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”). The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.

The Company’s sponsor is RMG Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”). The Company’s ability to commence operations is contingent upon obtaining adequate financial resources. The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on February 12, 2019. On February 12, 2019, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 20,000,000 units (“Units” and, with respect to the Class A common stock included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), and on February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments at $10.00 per Unit, generating aggregate gross proceeds of $230 million, and incurring offering costs of approximately $13.4 million, inclusive of $8.05 million in deferred underwriting commissions (Note 6). 

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the private placement (“Private Placement”) of 4,000,000 warrants (each, a “Private Placement Warrant” and collectively, the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors (as defined in Note 3), generating gross proceeds of $6.0 million (Note 4). In connection with the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters, the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors purchased an additional 600,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant, which generated additional gross proceeds of $900,000.

Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, $230 million ($10.00 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), located at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, with American Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, and were 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 180 days or less, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.

The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of Private Placement Warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to complete a Business Combination successfully. The Company must complete one or more initial Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the assets held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the agreement to enter into the initial Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-transaction 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.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

The Company will provide its holders of the outstanding Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, sold in the Initial Public Offering (the “public stockholders”) with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares upon the completion of a Business Combination either (i) in connection with a stockholder meeting called to approve the Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of a Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion. The public stockholders will be entitled to redeem their Public Shares for a pro rata portion of the amount then in the Trust Account (initially anticipated to be $10.00 per Public Share). The per-share amount to be distributed to public stockholders who redeem their Public Shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commissions the Company will pay to the underwriters (as discussed in Note 6). These Public Shares were recorded at a redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering. In such case, the Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation of a Business Combination and a majority of the shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. If a stockholder vote is not required by law and the Company does not decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other legal reasons, the Company will, pursuant to its amended and restated certificate of incorporation, conduct the redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination. If, however, stockholder approval of the transactions is required by law, or the Company decides to obtain stockholder approval for business or legal reasons, the Company will offer to redeem shares in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to the proxy rules and not pursuant to the tender offer rules. Additionally, each public stockholder may elect to redeem their Public Shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction. If the Company seeks stockholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor has agreed to vote its Founder Shares (as defined below in Note 5) and any Public Shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering in favor of a Business Combination. In addition, the Sponsor has agreed to waive its redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and Public Shares in connection with the completion of a Business Combination.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that a public stockholder, together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 20% or more of the Class A common stock sold in the Initial Public Offering, without the prior consent of the Company.

The Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have agreed not to propose an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would affect the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of its Public Shares if the Company does not complete a Business Combination, unless the Company provides the public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their Class A common stock in conjunction with any such amendment.

If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or February 12, 2021 (the “Combination Period”), 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 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 franchise and income taxes as well as expenses relating to the administration of the Trust Account (less up to $100,000 of interest released to the Company to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining stockholders and its Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to the Company’s obligations under Delaware 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 the warrants, which will expire worthless if the Company fails to complete its Business Combination within the prescribed time period.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

The Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their liquidation rights with respect to the Founder Shares if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period. However, if the Sponsor, officers or directors acquire Public Shares in or after the Initial Public Offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to such Public Shares if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period. The underwriters of the Initial Public Offering have agreed to waive their rights to its deferred underwriting commission (see Note 6) held in the Trust Account in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination within in the Combination Period and, in such event, such amounts will be included with the other funds held in the Trust Account that will be available to fund the redemption of the Public Shares. In the event of such distribution, it is possible that the per share value of the residual assets remaining available for distribution (including Trust Account assets) will be only $10.00 per share initially held in the Trust Account. In order to protect the amounts held in the Trust Account, the Sponsor has agreed to be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account. This liability will not apply with respect to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account or to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third party claims. The Company will seek to reduce the possibility that the Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which the Company does business, execute agreements with the Company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.

 Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed interim financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP. In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed interim financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary for the fair statement of the balances and results for the periods presented. Operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31, 2019, or any future period. These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2019.

Emerging Growth Company

The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Further, section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has irrevocably elected to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised standard at the time public companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another emerging growth company which has not opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Net Income per Common Stock

Net income per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The Company has not considered the effect of the warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 12,266,666 Class A common stock in the calculation of diluted earnings per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted earnings per ordinary share is the same as basic earnings per ordinary share for the periods presented.

The Company’s statement of operations includes a presentation of income per share for common stock subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method of income per share. Net income per common stock, basic and diluted for Class A common stock is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the Trust Account, by the weighted average number of Class A common stock outstanding for the period. Net loss per common stock, basic and diluted for Class B common stock is calculated by dividing the net income, less income attributable to Class A common stock and any working capital loans, by the weighted average number of Class B common stock outstanding for the periods presented.

The Company’s net income is adjusted for the portion of income that is attributable to Class A common stock subject to redemption, as these shares only participate in the earnings of the Trust Account (less applicable taxes) and not the income or losses of the Company. Accordingly, basic and diluted income per Class A common stock is calculated as follows:

	For the three months ended			For the nine months ended
	September 30, 2019			September 30, 2019
Interest income on restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	$	5,321		$	12,025
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account		1,142,497			3,299,930
Expenses available to be paid with interest income from Trust		(282,380	)		(818,514	)
Net income available to holders of Class A common stock		865,437			2,493,441
Net income	$	658,150		$	1,835,919
Less: Income attributable to Class A common stock		(865,437	)		(2,493,441	)
Net loss attributable to holders of Class B common stock	$	(207,287	)	$	(657,522	)
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock		23,000,000			22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A	$	0.04		$	0.11
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock		5,750,000			5,750,000
Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B	$	(0.04	)	$	(0.11	)

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the condensed interim financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed interim financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to credit risk consist principally of cash, restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, and marketable securities held in the Trust Account. Cash and restricted cash equivalents are maintained in accounts with financial institutions, which, at times may exceed the Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes, based upon the quality of the financial institutions, that the credit risk with regard to these deposits is not significant. The Company’s marketable securities portfolio consists entirely of U.S Treasury Securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had approximately $914,000 and $0 in cash equivalents held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.

The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents reported within the financial statements:

	September 30, 2019
Cash	$	1,381,346
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account		913,946
Total cash and restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account shown in the statement of cash flows	$	2,295,292

Marketable Securities Held in the Trust Account

The Company’s portfolio of marketable securities is comprised solely of U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 180 days or less, classified as trading securities. Trading securities are presented on the balance sheets at fair value at the end of each reporting period. Gains and losses resulting from the change in fair value of these securities is included in gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in the Trust Account in the accompanying condensed statement of operations. The estimated fair values of marketable securities held in the Trust Account are determined using available market information.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair value measurements are based on the premise that fair value is an exit price representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, the following three-tier fair value hierarchy has been used in determining the inputs used in measuring fair value:

Level 1	–	Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities on the reporting date.
Level 2	–	Pricing inputs are based on quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant assumptions are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3	–	Pricing inputs are generally unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs into the determination of fair value require management’s judgment or estimation of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the assets or liabilities. The fair values are therefore determined using factors that involve considerable judgment and interpretations, including but not limited to private and public comparables, third-party appraisals, discounted cash flow models, and fund manager estimates.

As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the recorded values of cash and restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, prepaid expenses, accounts payable, and accrued expenses approximate the fair values due to the short-term nature of the instruments. The Company’s portfolio of marketable securities held in the Trust Account is comprised of investments in U.S. Treasury securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less. The fair value for trading securities is determined using quoted market prices in active markets.

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Offering Costs

Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred of approximately $13.4 million that are directly related to the Initial Public Offering. These costs were charged to stockholder’s equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering in February 2019. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company had $100,000 and $22,100 of accrued offering costs in the accompanying balance sheets.

Income Taxes

The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statements carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized. The effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 of 26.1% and 26.7%, respectively, exceeds the statutory rate of 21% primarily due to state and local income taxes.

Uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return are accounted for using the more likely than not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement. There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

Class A common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable Class A common stock (including Class A common stock that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, Class A common stock are classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s Class A common stock feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at September 30, 2019, 22,031,255 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section of the Company’s balance sheet.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2016-02, Leases, (“ASC 842”) which amends existing guidance to require lessees to recognize assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for the rights and obligations created by long-term leases and to disclose additional quantitative and qualitative information about leasing arrangements. The new standard establishes a right-of-use model ("ROU") that requires a lessee to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with an initial term longer than twelve months. Leases will be classified as finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern and classification of expense recognition in the income statement. The Company adopted ASC 842 effective January 1, 2019 and has elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify. Accordingly, the Company has not recognized a ROU asset or lease liability as of September 30, 2019.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260); Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480); Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): (Part I) Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features, (Part II) Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests with a Scope Exception. The ASU allows companies to exclude a down round feature when determining whether a financial instrument (or embedded conversion feature) is considered indexed to the entity’s own stock. As a result, financial instruments (or embedded conversion features) with down round features may no longer be required to be accounted classified as liabilities. A company will recognize the value of a down round feature only when it is triggered and the strike price has been adjusted downward. For equity-classified freestanding financial instruments, such as warrants, an entity will treat the value of the effect of the down round, when triggered, as a dividend and a reduction of income available to common shareholders in computing basic earnings per share. For convertible instruments with embedded conversion features containing down round provisions, entities will recognize the value of the down round as a beneficial conversion discount to be amortized to earnings. The guidance in ASU 2017-11 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2019. As a result, the warrants issued in February 2019, in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, were equity-classified.

The Company’s management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.

Note 3 — Initial Public Offering

On February 12, 2019, the Company sold 20,000,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit in the Initial Public Offering. Each Unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and one-third of one redeemable warrant (“Public Warrant”). On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments at $10.00 per Unit, generating additional gross proceeds of $30.0 million. Each whole Public Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Class A common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment (see Note 7).

Of the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, an aggregate of 2,530,000 Units were purchased by certain funds and accounts managed by subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc. and certain funds and accounts managed by Alta Fundamental Advisers LLC (together, the “Anchor Investors”).

Note 4 — Private Placement

On February 12, 2019, the Company sold 4,000,000 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors at $1.50 per warrant, generating gross proceeds of $6.0 million in the Private Placement. On February 19, 2019, in connection with the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters, the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors purchased 600,000 additional Private Placement Warrants, which generated additional gross proceeds of $900,000.

Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share. A portion of the net proceeds from the Private Placement was added to the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.

Note 5 — Related Party Transactions

Founder Shares

On November 6, 2018, the Sponsor purchased 7,187,500 shares (the “Founder Shares”) of the Company’s Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B common stock”), for an aggregate price of $25,000. On December 17, 2018, the Company effectuated an 0.8-for-1 reverse split of the Founder Shares, resulting in an aggregate outstanding amount of 5,750,000 Founder Shares. In January 2019, the Sponsor forfeited to the Company 575,000 Founder Shares and the Anchor Investors purchased from the Company 575,000 Founder Shares for cash consideration of approximately $2,300. Additionally, the Sponsor had agreed to forfeit up to 750,000 Founder Shares to the extent that the over-allotment option is not exercised in full by the underwriters. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised its over-allotment option; thus, these shares were no longer subject to forfeiture.

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The Founder Shares will automatically convert into Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis at the time of the Company’s initial Business Combination and are subject to certain transfer restrictions.

Related Party Reimbursements and Loans

The Sponsor and the management agreed to cover expenses related to the Company’s formation and the Initial Public Offering (“Expenses Reimbursement”), and expected to be reimbursed upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering. The Company borrowed approximately $153,000 under the Expenses Reimbursement and fully repaid this amount to the related parties as of September 30, 2019.

In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor, or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required (“Working Capital Loans”). If the Company completes a Business Combination, the Company would repay the Working Capital Loans out of the proceeds held in the Trust Account released to the Company. Otherwise, the Working Capital Loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that a Business Combination is not completed, the Company may use a portion of the proceeds held outside the Trust Account to repay the Working Capital Loans but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay the Working Capital Loans. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such Working Capital Loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. The Working Capital Loans would either be repaid upon consummation of a Business Combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1.5 million of such Working Capital Loans may be convertible into warrants of the post Business Combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such Working Capital Loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.

Note 6 — Commitments & Contingencies

Registration Rights

The holders of Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans, if any, will be entitled to registration rights (in the case of the Founder Shares, only after conversion of such shares to Class A common stock) pursuant to a registration and shareholder rights agreement. These holders will be entitled to certain demand and “piggyback” registration rights. However, the registration and shareholder rights agreement provides that the Company will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until the termination of the applicable lock-up period for the securities to be registered. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.

Underwriting Agreement

The Company granted the underwriters a 45-day option from the date of the final prospectus relating to the Initial Public Offering to purchase up to 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments, if any, at $10.00 per Unit, less underwriting discounts and commissions. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised its over-allotment option.

The underwriters were entitled to an underwriting discount of $0.20 per unit, or $4.6 million in the aggregate, paid upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering. In addition, $0.35 per unit, or $8.05 million in the aggregate will be payable to the underwriters for deferred underwriting commissions. The deferred underwriting commissions will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.

Lease Agreement

In November 2018, the Company entered into a six-month lease agreement from January 15, 2019 to July 31, 2019 for its office space in New York. The agreement calls for a monthly rent of $10,000 and a security deposit of $20,000. The Company recorded the security deposit and January 2019 rent payment of approximately $25,000 in Prepaid expenses and other assets in the accompanying Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2018. As of September 30, 2019, $20,000 related to the security deposit was recorded in Prepaid expenses and other assets. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company recorded rent expense of approximately $31,000 and approximately $91,000, respectively.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

Deferred legal fees

The Company entered into an engagement letter to obtain legal advisory services, pursuant to which the legal counsel agreed to defer all fees until the closing of a Business Combination. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company recorded an aggregate of $450,000 and $300,000 in connection with such arrangement in deferred legal fees in the accompanying balance sheet, respectively.

Note 7 — Stockholder’s Equity

Common stock

Class A Common stock — The Company is authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. There were no shares of Class A common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2018. As of September 30, 2019, there were 23,000,000 shares of Class A common stock issued or outstanding, including 22,031,255 share of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption.

Class B Common stock — The Company is authorized to issue 10,000,000 shares of Class B common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. On December 17, 2018, the Company effectuated an 0.8-for-1 reverse split of the Founder Shares, resulting in an aggregate outstanding amount of 5,750,000 Founder Shares. As of December 31, 2018, there were 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock outstanding. Of the 5,750,000 Class B common stock outstanding, up to 750,000 shares were subject to forfeiture to the Company by the Sponsor for no consideration to the extent that the underwriters’ over-allotment option was not exercised in full or in part, so that the holders of the Company’s Class B common stock would have collectively owned 20.0% of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock after the Initial Public Offering. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised its over-allotment option; thus, 750,000 shares of Class B common stock were no longer subject to forfeiture. As a result, there were 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.

Common stockholders of record are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters to be voted on by stockholders. Holders of the Class A common stock and holders of the Class B common stock will vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders, except as required by law.

The Class B common stock will automatically convert into Class A common stock at the time of the initial Business Combination on a one-for-one basis (subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like), and subject to further adjustment.

Preferred Stock — The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, with such designations, voting and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s board of directors. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, there were no shares of preferred stock issued or outstanding.

Warrants — Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, the Company issued the Public Warrants and the Private Placement Warrants. Public Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. No fractional Public Warrants will be issued. The Public Warrants will become exercisable on the later of   (a) 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination or (b) 12 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering; provided in each case that the Company has an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available (or the Company permits holders to exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act). The Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 15 business days, after the closing of a Business Combination, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement for the registration, under the Securities Act, of the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants. The Company will use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the Public Warrants in accordance with the provisions of the warrant agreement. If a registration statement covering the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is not effective by the sixtieth (60th) day after the closing of the initial Business Combination, warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when the Company will have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act or another exemption. The Public Warrants will expire five years after the completion of a Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants underlying the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, except that the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions. Additionally, the Private Placement Warrants will be non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or such purchasers’ permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants.

The Company may call the Public Warrants for redemption (except with respect to the Private Placement Warrants):

· in whole and not in part;

· at a price of $0.01 per warrant;

· upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption; and

· if, and only if, the last reported last sale price of the Class A common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.

Additionally, commencing ninety days after the Public Warrants become exercisable, the Company may redeem the outstanding Public Warrants (except with respect to the Private Placement Warrants) in whole and not in part, for the number of Class A common stock determined by reference to the table set forth in the Company’s prospectus relating to the Initial Public Offering based on the redemption date and the “fair market value” of the Class A common stock, upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption and if, and only if, the last sale price of the Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00 per share (as adjusted per share splits, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) on the trading day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the Public Warrant holders. The “fair market value” of the Class A common stock is the average last reported sale price of the Class A common stock for the 10 trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to the holders of Public Warrants.

If the Company calls the Public Warrants for redemption, management will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise the Public Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

The exercise price and number of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a share capitalization, or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. If, in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination, the Company issues additional shares of common stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of common stock for capital raising purposes at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per share, the warrant exercise price will be adjusted to be equal to 115% of the price received in the new issuance. The Company adopted the provisions of ASU 2017-11 effective January 1, 2019. As a result, this exercise price reset provision was excluded from the assessment of whether the warrants are considered indexed to the Company’s own stock. The warrants otherwise meet the requirements for equity classification, as such were initially classified in stockholder’s equity. The Company will recognize the value of the exercise price reset provision if and when it becomes triggered, by recognizing the value of the effect of the exercise price reset as a deemed dividend and a reduction of income available to common shareholders in computing basic earnings per share.

Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the warrants shares. If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of warrants will not receive any of such funds with respect to their warrants, nor will they receive any distribution from the Company’s assets held outside of the Trust Account with the respect to such warrants. Accordingly, the warrants may expire worthless.

Note 8 — Fair Value Measurements

The following table presents information about the Company’s assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2019 and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques that the Company utilized to determine such fair value.

	Quoted Prices in Active Markets		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Other Unobservable Inputs
Description	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)
Assets held in Trust:
U.S. Treasury Securities	$	232,296,879	$	-	$	-
Cash equivalents - money market funds		913,946		-		-
	$	233,210,825	$	-	$	-

Transfers to/from Levels 1, 2, and 3 are recognized at the end of the reporting period. There were no transfers between levels for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019.

Level 1 instruments include investments in money market funds and U.S. Treasury securities. The Company uses inputs such as actual trade data, benchmark yields, quoted market prices from dealers or brokers, and other similar sources to determine the fair value of its investments.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

References to “we”, “us”, “our” or the “Company” are to RMG Acquisition Corp., except where the context requires otherwise. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our condensed financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this report.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. There can be no assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statements relating to our ability to consummate any acquisition or other business combination and any other statements that are not statements of current or historical facts. These statements are based on management’s current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including, but not limited to:

· our ability to select an appropriate target business or businesses in the diversified resources and industrial materials sectors, including the chemicals, energy services and alternatives, environmental services, metals and power sectors;

· our ability to complete our initial business combination;

· our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination;

· our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination, as a result of which they would then receive expense reimbursements;

· our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination;

· our pool of prospective target businesses in the diversified resources and industrial materials sectors;

· failure to maintain the listing on, or the delisting of our securities from, the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) or an inability to have our securities listed on NYSE or another national securities exchange following our initial business combination;

· the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential investment opportunities;

· our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;

· the lack of a market for our securities;

· the use of the proceeds that are not held in the Trust Account or that become available to us from interest income on the Trust Account balance;

· the Trust Account not being subject to claims of third parties; or

· our financial performance.

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Overview

We are a newly organized blank check company incorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2018 (date of inception) for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “initial business combination”). While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, it intends to focus our search for a target business in the diversified resources and industrial materials sectors. We are an emerging growth company and, as such, we are subject to all of the risks associated with emerging growth companies. Our sponsor is RMG Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “sponsor”).

On February 12, 2019, we consummated our initial public offering (“initial public offering”) of 20,000,000 units (“units” and, with respect to the Class A common stock included in the units being offered, the “public shares”) at $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $200 million. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase 3,000,000 additional units to cover over-allotments at $10.00 per unit, which generated additional gross proceeds of $30.0 million. We incurred offering costs of approximately $13.4 million, inclusive of $8.05 million in deferred underwriting commissions.

Simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering, we consummated the private placement (“private placement”) of 4,000,000 warrants (each, a “private placement warrant” and collectively, the “private placement warrants”) at a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant in a private placement to the sponsor and the certain funds and accounts managed by subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc. and certain funds and accounts managed by Alta Fundamental Advisers LLC (together, the “Anchor Investors”), generating gross proceeds of $6.0 million. In connection with the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters, the sponsor and the Anchor Investors purchased an additional 600,000 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant, which generated additional gross proceeds of $900,000.

Upon the closing of the initial public offering and private placement (including the exercise of the over-allotment option), $230.0 million ($10.00 per unit) of the net proceeds of the sale of the units in the initial public offering and the private placement was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), located at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, with American Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, and were 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 180 days or less, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of an initial business combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.

If we are unable to complete an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the initial public offering, or February 12, 2021, 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 us to pay our franchise and income taxes as well as expenses relating to the administration of the Trust Account (less up to $100,000 of interest released to us to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and its Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Delaware 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 the warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete the initial business combination within the prescribed time period.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of September 30, 2019, we had approximately $1.4 million in our operating bank account held outside of the Trust Account, approximately $2.3 million of investment income earned on marketable securities held in the Trust Account available to pay franchise tax and income tax obligations, and a working capital of approximately $1.3 million (excluding franchise tax and income tax obligations).

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Through September 30, 2019, our liquidity needs have been satisfied through receipt of a $25,000 capital contribution from our sponsor in exchange for the issuance of the founder shares, approximately $153,000 in loans from our sponsor, and the proceeds from the consummation of the private placement not held in the Trust Account. We fully repaid the loans from our sponsor as of September 30, 2019.

Based on the foregoing, management believes that we will have sufficient working capital and borrowing capacity to meet our needs through the earlier of the consummation of a business combination or one year from this filing. Over this time period, we will be using these funds for paying existing accounts payable, identifying and evaluating prospective initial business combination candidates, performing due diligence on prospective target businesses, paying for travel expenditures, selecting the target business to merge with or acquire, and structuring, negotiating and consummating the business combination.

Results of Operations

Our entire activity since inception was in preparation for our initial public offering, and since such offering, our activity has been limited to the search for a prospective initial business combination, and we will not be generating any operating revenues until the closing and completion of our initial business combination. We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. We will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination. We will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents. We expect to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.

For the three months ended September 30, 2019, we had net income of approximately $658,000, which consisted of approximately $1.1 million in net gains, dividends and interest income from marketable securities held in the Trust Account, approximately $9,000 in interest income, offset by approximately $211,000 in general and administrative costs, $50,000 in franchise tax expense, and approximately $232,000 in income tax expense.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, we had net income of approximately $1.8 million, which consisted of approximately $3.3 million in net gains, dividends and interest income from marketable securities held in the Trust Account, approximately $23,000 in interest income, offset by approximately $668,000 in general and administrative costs, $150,000 in franchise tax expense, and approximately $669,000 in income tax expense.

Related Party Transactions

Founder Shares

On November 6, 2018, the sponsor purchased 7,187,500 shares (the “founder shares”) of the Company’s Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B common stock”), for an aggregate price of $25,000. On December 17, 2018, the Company effectuated an 0.8-for-1 reverse split of the founder shares, resulting in an aggregate outstanding amount of 5,750,000 founder shares. In January 2019, the sponsor forfeited to the Company 575,000 founder shares and the Anchor Investors purchased from the Company 575,000 founder shares for cash consideration of approximately $2,300. Additionally, the sponsor had agreed to forfeit up to 750,000 founder shares to the extent that the over-allotment option is not exercised in full by the underwriters. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option; thus, these founder shares were no longer subject to forfeiture.

The founder shares will automatically convert into Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis at the time of the Company’s initial business combination and are subject to certain transfer restrictions.

Related Party Reimbursements and Loans

The sponsor agreed to cover expenses related to our formation and the initial public offering (“expenses reimbursement”), and expected to be reimbursed upon the completion of the initial public offering. We borrowed approximately $153,000 under the expenses reimbursement and fully repaid this amount to the related parties as of September 30, 2019.

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In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an initial business combination, the sponsor or an affiliate of the sponsor, or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required (“working capital loans”). If we complete an initial business combination, we would repay the working capital loans out of the proceeds held in the Trust Account released to us. Otherwise, the working capital loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that an initial business combination is not completed, we may use a portion of the proceeds held outside the Trust Account to repay the working capital loans but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay the working capital loans. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such working capital loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. The working capital loans would either be repaid upon consummation of an initial business combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1.5 million of such working capital loans may be convertible into warrants of the post initial business combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant. The warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such working capital loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements; Commitments and Contractual Obligations; Quarterly Results

As of September 30, 2019, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K and did not have any commitments or contractual obligations other than obligations disclosed herein. No unaudited quarterly operating data is included in this annual report, as we have conducted no operations to date.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

This management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of our financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our financial statements. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and judgments, including those related to fair value of financial instruments and accrued expenses. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. The Company has identified the following as its critical accounting policies:

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair value measurements are based on the premise that fair value is an exit price representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, the following three-tier fair value hierarchy has been used in determining the inputs used in measuring fair value:

Level 1	–	Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities on the reporting date.
Level 2	–	Pricing inputs are based on quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant assumptions are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3	–	Pricing inputs are generally unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs into the determination of fair value require management’s judgment or estimation of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the assets or liabilities. The fair values are therefore determined using factors that involve considerable judgment and interpretations, including but not limited to private and public comparables, third-party appraisals, discounted cash flow models, and fund manager estimates.

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As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the recorded values of cash and restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, prepaid expenses, accounts payable, and accrued expenses approximate the fair values due to the short-term nature of the instruments. Our portfolio of marketable securities held in the Trust Account is comprised of investments in U.S. Treasury securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less. The fair value for trading securities is determined using quoted market prices in active markets.

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

Class A common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable Class A common stock (including Class A common stock that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within our control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, Class A common stock are classified as stockholders’ equity. Our Class A common stock feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of our control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at September 30, 2019, 22,031,255 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section of our balance sheet.

Net Income Per Common Stock

Net income per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. We have not considered the effect of the warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of 12,266,666 Class A common stock in the calculation of diluted earnings per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted earnings per ordinary share is the same as basic earnings per ordinary share for the periods presented.

Our statements of operations include a presentation of income per share for common stock subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method of income per share. Net income per common stock, basic and diluted for Class A common stock is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the Trust Account, by the weighted average number of Class A common stock outstanding for the period. Net loss per common stock, basic and diluted for Class B common stock is calculated by dividing the net income, less income attributable to Class A common stock and any working capital loans, by the weighted average number of Class B common stock outstanding for the periods presented.

Offering Costs

Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred of approximately $13.4 million that are directly related to the Initial Public Offering. These costs were charged to stockholder's equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering in February 2019.

JOBS Act

On April 5, 2012, the JOBS Act was signed into law. The JOBS Act contains provisions that, among other things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies. Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected to irrevocably opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we will adopt the new or revised standard at the time public companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another emerging growth company that has not opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accountant standards used.

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Additionally, we are in the process of evaluating the benefits of relying on the other reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act. Subject to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, if, as an “emerging growth company”, we choose to rely on such exemptions we may not be required to, among other things, (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth public companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the PCAOB regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis), and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation related items such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the CEO’s compensation to median employee compensation. These exemptions will apply for a period of five years following the completion of our initial public offering or until we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” whichever is earlier.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and are not required to provide the information otherwise required under this item. 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2019, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2019 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

None.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

As of the date of this Report, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our 2018 Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2019, except we may disclose changes to such factors or disclose additional factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities

None.

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Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

None.

Item 5. Other Information

None.

Item 6. Exhibits.

Exhibit Number	Description
31.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer) Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a)  under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer) Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: November 12, 2019	RMG Acquisition Corp.
	By:	/s/ Robert S. Mancini
	Name:	Robert S. Mancini
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer
		(Principal Executive Officer)

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EX-31.1

EXHIBIT 31.1

CERTIFICATION

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-14 AND 15d-14

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED

I, Robert S. Mancini, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2019 of RMG Acquisition Corp.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b. [Paragraph intentionally omitted in accordance with SEC Release Nos. 34-47986 and 34-54942];

c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting.

Date: November 12, 2019	By:	/s/ Robert S. Mancini
		Robert S. Mancini
		Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer)

EX-32.1

EXHIBIT 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. 1350

(SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002)

In connection with the Quarterly Report of RMG Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Robert S. Mancini, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to the best of my knowledge:

(1) the Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: November 12, 2019

/s/ Robert S. Mancini
Name:	Robert S. Mancini
Title:	Chief Executive Officer
	(Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer)

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Private Placement

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Private Placement

Private Placement

Note 4 — Private Placement

On February 12, 2019, the Company sold 4,000,000 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors at $1.50 per warrant, generating gross proceeds of $6.0 million in the Private Placement. On February 19, 2019, in connection with the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters, the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors purchased 600,000 additional Private Placement Warrants, which generated additional gross proceeds of $900,000.

Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share. A portion of the net proceeds from the Private Placement was added to the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.

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Fair Value Measurements

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Fair Value Measurements

Fair Value Measurements

Note 8 — Fair Value Measurements

The following table presents information about the Company’s assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2019 and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques that the Company utilized to determine such fair value.

	Quoted Prices in
	Active		Significant Other		Significant Other
	Markets		Observable Inputs		Unobservable Inputs
Description	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)
Assets held in Trust:
U.S. Treasury Securities	$	232,296,879	$	—	$	—
Cash equivalents - money market funds		913,946		—		—
	$	233,210,825	$	—	$	—

Transfers to/from Levels 1, 2, and 3 are recognized at the end of the reporting period. There were no transfers between levels for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019.

Level 1 instruments include investments in money market funds and U.S. Treasury securities. The Company uses inputs such as actual trade data, benchmark yields, quoted market prices from dealers or brokers, and other similar sources to determine the fair value of its investments.

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Description of Organization and Business Operations (Details)		1 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Feb. 12, 2019 USD ($) $ / shares $ / item shares	Feb. 19, 2019 USD ($) $ / shares $ / item shares	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) $ / shares $ / item	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) $ / shares
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Deferred underwriting commissions			$ 8,050,000
Warrants exercise price | $ / shares			$ 0.01
Threshold percentage of outstanding voting securities in business combination			50.00%
Minimum percentage specified for aggregate fair market value of assets held in Trust Account			80.00%
Sale of units, price per unit | $ / item			10.00
Minimum amount of net tangible assets for business combination			$ 5,000,001	$ 5,000,001
Redemption percentage of public shares			100.00%
Amount of interest released to pay dissolution expenses			$ 100,000
Amount per share initially held in trust account | $ / shares			$ 10.00	$ 10.00
Class A Common stock
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Minimum threshold percentage of common stock sold in initial public offering			20.00%
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share) | $ / shares			$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Initial Public Offering
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued | shares	20,000,000
Units issue price per unit | $ / item	10.00
Over allotment option | Sponsor and Anchor Investors
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of warrant issued | shares		600,000
Warrants exercise price | $ / shares		$ 1.50
Proceeds from issuance of warrants		$ 900,000
Private Placement | Sponsor and Anchor Investors
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of warrant issued | shares	4,000,000
Warrants exercise price | $ / shares	$ 1.50
Proceeds from issuance of warrants	$ 6,000,000
Underwriting Agreement | Initial Public Offering
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Deferred underwriting commissions		8,050,000
Initial offering cost		$ 13,400,000
Underwriting Agreement | Over allotment option
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued | shares		3,000,000
Units issue price per unit | $ / item		10.00
Gross proceeds from units issued		$ 230,000,000

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CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Current assets:
Cash	$ 1,381,346	$ 37,044
Prepaid expenses and other assets	205,126	32,152
Total current assets	1,586,472	69,196
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	913,946
Marketable securities held in Trust Account, at fair value	232,296,879
Deferred offering costs associated with the proposed public offering		411,948
Total assets	234,797,297	481,144
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	130,482	21,218
Accrued expenses	113,000	22,100
Due to related parties		115,381
Franchise tax payable	150,000
Income tax payable	591,258
Total current liabilities	984,740	158,699
Deferred legal fees	450,000	300,000
Deferred underwriting commissions	8,050,000
Total liabilities	9,484,740	458,699
Commitments and contingencies
Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 22,031,255 and -0- shares subject to possible redemption at $10 per share at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively	220,312,550
Stockholders' Equity:
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value 1,000,000 shares authorized none issued and outstanding
Additional paid-in capital	4,341,185	24,425
Retained earnings (Accumulated deficit)	658,150	(2,555)
Total stockholders' equity	5,000,007	22,445
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity	234,797,297	481,144
Class A Common stock
Stockholders' Equity:
Common stock, value	97	0
Total stockholders' equity	97	0
Class B common stock
Stockholders' Equity:
Common stock, value	575	575
Total stockholders' equity	$ 575	$ 575

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STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net income	$ 1,835,919
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account	(3,299,930)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses	(172,974)
Accounts payable	109,264
Accrued expenses	13,000
Due to related parties	(40,381)
Franchise tax payable	150,000
Income tax payable	591,258
Net cash used in operating activities	(813,844)
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Purchase of marketable securities held in Trust Account	(575,947,949)
Proceeds received from sales, redemptions and maturities of marketable securities held in Trust Account	346,951,000
Net cash used in investing activities	(228,996,949)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Proceeds received under loans from related parties	38,501
Repayment of loans to related parties	(113,501)
Proceeds from issuance of Class B common stock to anchor investors	2,313
Proceeds received from initial public offering, gross	230,000,000
Proceeds received from private placement	6,900,000
Offering costs paid	(4,758,272)
Net cash provided by financing activities	232,069,041
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	2,258,248
Cash - beginning of the period	37,044
Cash and restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account - end of the period	2,295,292
Supplemental disclosure of noncash investing and financing activities:
Offering costs included in accrued expenses	100,000
Forfeiture of Class B common stock from Sponsor	58
Deferred underwriting commissions in connection with the initial public offering	8,050,000
Deferred legal fees in connection with the initial public offering	150,000
Reclassification of deferred offering costs to equity upon completion of the initial public offering	670,220
Value of common stock subject to possible redemption	220,312,550
Supplemental cash flow disclosure:
Cash paid for income taxes	$ (77,257)

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Initial Public Offering (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions		1 Months Ended
	Feb. 12, 2019 $ / item shares	Feb. 19, 2019 USD ($) $ / item shares	Sep. 30, 2019 $ / shares
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Description of Initial Public Offering unit	Each Unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and one-third of one redeemable warrant ("Public Warrant").
Warrants exercise price | $ / shares			$ 0.01
Class A Common stock | Public warrants
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Description for public warrant right		Each whole Public Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Class A common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment
Initial Public Offering
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued	20,000,000
Units issue price per unit | $ / item	10.00
Initial Public Offering | Anchor Investors
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued	2,530,000
Over allotment option | Underwriting Agreement
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued		3,000,000
Units issue price per unit | $ / item		10.00
Additional gross proceeds | $		$ 30.0

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Stockholder's Equity (Details) - $ / shares	1 Months Ended			3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 19, 2019	Jan. 31, 2019	Dec. 17, 2018	Mar. 31, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	Jun. 30, 2019	Nov. 06, 2018
Stockholders Equity [Line Items]
Preferred stock, shares authorized					1,000,000	1,000,000
Warrants exercise price					$ 0.01
Number of days for written notice of redemption					30 days
Common stock equals or exceeds for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date					$ 18.00
Additionally minimum price of public warrants become exercisable prior written notice of redemption					10.00
Convertible exercisable or exchangeable for shares of common stock at an issue price					$ 9.20
Percentage of warrant exercise price in new issuance					115.00%
Sponsor
Stockholders Equity [Line Items]
Common stock shares outstanding			5,750,000
Reverse split ratio			0.8-for-1
Warrants exercise price					$ 1.50
Class A Common stock
Stockholders Equity [Line Items]
Common stock, shares authorized					100,000,000	100,000,000
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)					$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Number of shares issued for possible redemption					22,031,255	0
Common stock, shares issued					968,745	0
Common stock shares outstanding				1,119,837	968,745	0	1,034,560
Common stock shares issued included possible redemption					23,000,000
Common stock shares outstanding included possible redemption					23,000,000
Class B common stock
Stockholders Equity [Line Items]
Common stock, shares authorized					10,000,000	10,000,000
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)					$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Common stock, shares issued					5,750,000	5,750,000
Common stock shares outstanding				5,750,000	5,750,000	5,750,000	5,750,000
Number of forfeited shares				575,000
Percentage of issued and outstanding common stock after the initial public offering						20.00%
Voting rights of common stock					one vote
Class B common stock | Sponsor
Stockholders Equity [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)								$ 0.0001
Number of forfeited shares		575,000
Number of shares issued to underwriter	750,000
Class B common stock | Sponsor | Maximum
Stockholders Equity [Line Items]
Number of forfeited shares		750,000

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Private Placement (Details) - USD ($)		1 Months Ended
	Feb. 12, 2019	Feb. 19, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Warrants exercise price			$ 0.01
Private Placement | Class A Common stock | Warrant
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Warrants exercise price		$ 11.50
Description of private placement warrant right		Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share.
Private Placement | Sponsor and Anchor Investors
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of warrant issued	4,000,000
Warrants exercise price	$ 1.50
Proceeds from issuance of warrants	$ 6,000,000
Over allotment option | Sponsor and Anchor Investors
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of warrant issued		600,000
Warrants exercise price		$ 1.50
Proceeds from issuance of warrants		$ 900,000

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Fair Value Measurements (Details) - Recurring basis	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)
Quoted Prices in Active Markets (Level 1)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	$ 233,210,825
Quoted Prices in Active Markets (Level 1) | U.S. Treasury Securities
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	232,296,879
Quoted Prices in Active Markets (Level 1) | Cash equivalents - money market funds
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	913,946
Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	0
Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) | U.S. Treasury Securities
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	0
Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) | Cash equivalents - money market funds
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	0
Significant Other Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	0
Significant Other Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) | U.S. Treasury Securities
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	0
Significant Other Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) | Cash equivalents - money market funds
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Assets held in Trust	$ 0

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Basic and diluted loss per common stock (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2019	Mar. 31, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Interest income on restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	$ 5,321			$ 12,025
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account	1,142,497			3,299,930
Expenses available to be paid with interest income from Trust	(282,380)			(818,514)
Net income (loss)	658,150	$ 852,775	$ 324,994	1,835,919
Class A Common stock
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Net income (loss)	865,437			2,493,441
Less: Income attributable to Class A common stock	$ (865,437)			$ (2,493,441)
Weighted average shares outstanding	23,000,000			22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income per share	$ 0.04			$ 0.11
Class B common stock
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Net income (loss)	$ (207,287)			$ (657,522)
Weighted average shares outstanding	5,750,000			5,750,000
Basic and diluted net income per share	$ (0.04)			$ (0.11)

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Related Party Transactions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Related Party Transactions

Related Party Transactions

Note 5 — Related Party Transactions

Founder Shares

On November 6, 2018, the Sponsor purchased 7,187,500 shares (the “Founder Shares”) of the Company’s  Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B common stock”), for an aggregate price of $25,000. On December 17, 2018, the Company effectuated an 0.8-for-1 reverse split of the Founder Shares, resulting in an aggregate outstanding amount of 5,750,000 Founder Shares. In January 2019, the Sponsor forfeited to the Company 575,000 Founder Shares and the Anchor Investors purchased from the Company 575,000 Founder Shares for cash consideration of approximately $2,300. Additionally, the Sponsor had agreed to forfeit up to 750,000 Founder Shares to the extent that the over-allotment option is not exercised in full by the underwriters. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised its over-allotment option; thus, these shares were no longer subject to forfeiture.

The Founder Shares will automatically convert into Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis at the time of the Company’s initial Business Combination and are subject to certain transfer restrictions.

Related Party Reimbursements and Loans

The Sponsor and the management agreed to cover expenses related to the Company’s formation and the Initial Public Offering (“Expenses Reimbursement”), and expected to be reimbursed upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering. The Company borrowed approximately $153,000 under the Expenses Reimbursement and fully repaid this amount to the related parties as of September 30, 2019.

In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor, or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required (“Working Capital Loans”). If the Company completes a Business Combination, the Company would repay the Working Capital Loans out of the proceeds held in the Trust Account released to the Company. Otherwise, the Working Capital Loans would be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that a Business Combination is not completed, the Company may use a portion of the proceeds held outside the Trust Account to repay the Working Capital Loans but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay the Working Capital Loans. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such Working Capital Loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. The Working Capital Loans would either be repaid upon consummation of a Business Combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1.5 million of such Working Capital Loans may be convertible into warrants of the post Business Combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. Except for the foregoing, the terms of such Working Capital Loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed interim financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP. In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed interim financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary for the fair statement of the balances and results for the periods presented. Operating results for the three  and nine months ended September 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31, 2019, or any future period. These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10‑K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2019.

Emerging Growth Company

Emerging Growth Company

The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Further, section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has irrevocably elected to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised standard at the time public companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another emerging growth company which has not opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

Net Income per Common Stock

Net Income per Common Stock

Net income per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The Company has not considered the effect of the warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of  12,266,666 Class A common stock in the calculation of diluted earnings per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted earnings per ordinary share is the same as basic earnings per ordinary share for the periods presented.

The Company’s statement of operations includes a presentation of income per share for common stock subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method of income per share. Net income per common stock, basic and diluted for Class A common stock is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the Trust Account, by the weighted average number of Class A common stock outstanding for the period. Net loss per common stock, basic and diluted for Class B common stock is calculated by dividing the net income, less income attributable to Class A common stock and any working capital loans, by the weighted average number of Class B common stock outstanding for the periods presented.

The Company’s net income is adjusted for the portion of income that is attributable to Class A common stock subject to redemption, as these shares only participate in the earnings of the Trust Account (less applicable taxes) and not the income or losses of the Company. Accordingly, basic and diluted income per Class A common stock is calculated as follows:

	For the three months		For the nine months
	ended		ended
	September 30, 2019		September 30, 2019
Interest income on restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	$	5,321	$	12,025
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account		1,142,497		3,299,930
Expenses available to be paid with interest income from Trust		(282,380)		(818,514)
Net income available to holders of Class A common stock		865,437		2,493,441
Net income	$	658,150	$	1,835,919
Less: Income attributable to Class A common stock		(865,437)		(2,493,441)
Net loss attributable to holders of Class B common stock	$	(207,287)	$	(657,522)
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock		23,000,000		22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A	$	0.04	$	0.11
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock		5,750,000		5,750,000
Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B	$	(0.04)	$	(0.11)

Use of Estimates

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the condensed interim financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed interim financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to credit risk consist principally of cash, restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, and marketable securities held in the Trust Account. Cash and restricted cash equivalents are maintained in accounts with financial institutions, which, at times may exceed the Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes, based upon the quality of the financial institutions, that the credit risk with regard to these deposits is not significant. The Company’s marketable securities portfolio consists entirely of U.S Treasury Securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had approximately $914,000 and $0 in cash equivalents held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.

The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents reported within the financial statements:

	September 30, 2019
Cash	$	1,381,346
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account		913,946
Total cash and restricted cash equivalents held in
Trust Account shown in the statement of cash flows	$	2,295,292

Marketable Securities Held in the Trust Account

Marketable Securities Held in the Trust Account

The Company’s portfolio of marketable securities is comprised solely of U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 180 days or less, classified as trading securities. Trading securities are presented on the balance sheets at fair value at the end of each reporting period. Gains and losses resulting from the change in fair value of these securities is included in gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in the Trust Account in the accompanying condensed statement of operations. The estimated fair values of marketable securities held in the Trust Account are determined using available market information.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair value measurements are based on the premise that fair value is an exit price representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, the following three-tier fair value hierarchy has been used in determining the inputs used in measuring fair value:

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities on the reporting date.

Level 2 – Pricing inputs are based on quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant assumptions are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3 – Pricing inputs are generally unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs into the determination of fair value require management’s judgment or estimation of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the assets or liabilities. The fair values are therefore determined using factors that involve considerable judgment and interpretations, including but not limited to private and public comparables, third-party appraisals, discounted cash flow models, and fund manager estimates.

As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the recorded values of cash and restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, prepaid expenses, accounts payable, and accrued expenses approximate the fair values due to the short-term nature of the instruments. The Company’s portfolio of marketable securities held in the Trust Account is comprised of investments in U.S. Treasury securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less. The fair value for trading securities is determined using quoted market prices in active markets.

Offering Costs

Offering Costs

Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred of approximately $13.4 million that are directly related to the Initial Public Offering. These costs were charged to stockholder’s equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering in February 2019. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company had $100,000 and $22,100 of accrued offering costs in the accompanying balance sheets.

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statements carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized. The effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 of 26.1% and 26.7%, respectively, exceeds the statutory rate of 21% primarily due to state and local income taxes.

Uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return are accounted for using the more likely than not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement. There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

Class A common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable Class A common stock (including Class A common stock that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, Class A common stock are classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s Class A common stock feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at September 30, 2019, 22,031,255 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section of the Company’s balance sheet.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2016‑02, Leases, (“ASC 842”) which amends existing guidance to require lessees to recognize assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for the rights and obligations created by long-term leases and to disclose additional quantitative and qualitative information about leasing arrangements. The new standard establishes a right-of-use model ("ROU") that requires a lessee to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with an initial term longer than twelve months. Leases will be classified as finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern and classification of expense recognition in the income statement. The Company adopted ASC 842 effective January 1, 2019 and has elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify. Accordingly, the Company has not recognized a ROU asset or lease liability as of September 30, 2019.

In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017‑11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260); Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480); Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): (Part I) Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features, (Part II) Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests with a Scope Exception. The ASU allows companies to exclude a down round feature when determining whether a financial instrument (or embedded conversion feature) is considered indexed to the entity’s own stock. As a result, financial instruments (or embedded conversion features) with down round features may no longer be required to be accounted classified as liabilities. A company will recognize the value of a down round feature only when it is triggered and the strike price has been adjusted downward. For equity-classified freestanding financial instruments, such as warrants, an entity will treat the value of the effect of the down round, when triggered, as a dividend and a reduction of income available to common shareholders in computing basic earnings per share. For convertible instruments with embedded conversion features containing down round provisions, entities will recognize the value of the down round as a beneficial conversion discount to be amortized to earnings. The guidance in ASU 2017‑11 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2019. As a result, the warrants issued in February 2019, in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, were equity-classified.

The Company’s management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.

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CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS (Parentheticals) - $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Preferred stock, par value (in dollars per share)	$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Preferred stock, shares authorized	1,000,000	1,000,000
Preferred stock, shares issued	0	0
Preferred stock, shares outstanding	0	0
Class A Common stock
Temporary equity, par value per share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Temporary equity, shares subject to possible redemption	22,031,255	0
Temporary equity, redemption price per share (in dollars per share)	$ 10	$ 10
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)	$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Common stock, shares authorized	100,000,000	100,000,000
Common stock, shares issued	968,745	0
Common stock shares outstanding	968,745	0
Number of shares issued for possible redemption	22,031,255	0
Class B common stock
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)	$ 0.0001	$ 0.0001
Common stock, shares authorized	10,000,000	10,000,000
Common stock, shares issued	5,750,000	5,750,000
Common stock shares outstanding	5,750,000	5,750,000

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Description of Organization, Business Operations and Basis of Presentation

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Description of Organization, Business Operations and Basis of Presentation

Description of Organization, Business Operations and Basis of Presentation

Note 1 — Description of Organization, Business Operations and Basis of Presentation

RMG Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) is a newly organized blank check company incorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2018 (date of inception) for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). While the Company may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, it intends to focus its search for a target business in the diversified resources and industrial materials sectors. The Company is an emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with emerging growth companies.

As of September 30, 2019, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from October 22, 2018 (date of inception) through September 30, 2019 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”). The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.

The Company’s sponsor is RMG Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”). The Company’s ability to commence operations is contingent upon obtaining adequate financial resources. The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on February 12, 2019. On February 12, 2019, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 20,000,000 units (“Units” and, with respect to the Class A common stock included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), and on February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments at $10.00 per Unit, generating aggregate gross proceeds of $230 million, and incurring offering costs of approximately $13.4 million, inclusive of $8.05 million in deferred underwriting commissions (Note 6).

Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the private placement (“Private Placement”) of 4,000,000 warrants (each, a “Private Placement Warrant” and collectively, the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors (as defined in Note 3), generating gross proceeds of $6.0 million (Note 4). In connection with the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriters, the Sponsor and the Anchor Investors purchased an additional 600,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.50 per Private Placement Warrant, which generated additional gross proceeds of $900,000.

Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, $230 million ($10.00 per Unit) of the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), located at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, with American Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee, and were 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 180 days or less, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account as described below.

The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of Private Placement Warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to complete a Business Combination successfully. The Company must complete one or more initial Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the assets held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the agreement to enter into the initial Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-transaction 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.

The Company will provide its holders of the outstanding Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, sold in the Initial Public Offering (the “public stockholders”) with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares upon the completion of a Business Combination either (i) in connection with a stockholder meeting called to approve the Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of a Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion. The public stockholders will be entitled to redeem their Public Shares for a pro rata portion of the amount then in the Trust Account (initially anticipated to be $10.00 per Public Share). The per-share amount to be distributed to public stockholders who redeem their Public Shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commissions the Company will pay to the underwriters (as discussed in Note 6). These Public Shares were recorded at a redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering. In such case, the Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation of a Business Combination and a majority of the shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination. If a stockholder vote is not required by law and the Company does not decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other legal reasons, the Company will, pursuant to its amended and restated certificate of incorporation, conduct the redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination. If, however, stockholder approval of the transactions is required by law, or the Company decides to obtain stockholder approval for business or legal reasons, the Company will offer to redeem shares in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to the proxy rules and not pursuant to the tender offer rules. Additionally, each public stockholder may elect to redeem their Public Shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction. If the Company seeks stockholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor has agreed to vote its Founder Shares (as defined below in Note 5) and any Public Shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering in favor of a Business Combination. In addition, the Sponsor has agreed to waive its redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and Public Shares in connection with the completion of a Business Combination.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that a public stockholder, together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 20% or more of the Class A common stock sold in the Initial Public Offering, without the prior consent of the Company.

The Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have agreed not to propose an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would affect the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of its Public Shares if the Company does not complete a Business Combination, unless the Company provides the public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their Class A common stock in conjunction with any such amendment.

If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, or February 12, 2021 (the “Combination Period”), 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 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 franchise and income taxes as well as expenses relating to the administration of the Trust Account (less up to $100,000 of interest released to the Company to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining stockholders and its Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to the Company’s obligations under Delaware 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 the warrants, which will expire worthless if the Company fails to complete its Business Combination within the prescribed time period.

The Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their liquidation rights with respect to the Founder Shares if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period. However, if the Sponsor, officers or directors acquire Public Shares in or after the Initial Public Offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to such Public Shares if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period. The underwriters of the Initial Public Offering have agreed to waive their rights to its deferred underwriting commission (see Note 6) held in the Trust Account in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination within in the Combination Period and, in such event, such amounts will be included with the other funds held in the Trust Account that will be available to fund the redemption of the Public Shares. In the event of such distribution, it is possible that the per share value of the residual assets remaining available for distribution (including Trust Account assets) will be only $10.00 per share initially held in the Trust Account. In order to protect the amounts held in the Trust Account, the Sponsor has agreed to be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account. This liability will not apply with respect to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the Trust Account or to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third party claims. The Company will seek to reduce the possibility that the Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which the Company does business, execute agreements with the Company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed interim financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP. In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed interim financial statements reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary for the fair statement of the balances and results for the periods presented. Operating results for the three  and nine months ended September 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31, 2019, or any future period. These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10‑K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2019.

Emerging Growth Company

The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Further, section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has irrevocably elected to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised standard at the time public companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another emerging growth company which has not opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Cash equivalents held in Trust Account	$ 914,000	$ 914,000	$ 0
Federal Depository Insurance Coverage, amount	250,000	250,000
Offering costs related to Initial Public Offering	13,400,000	13,400,000
Accrued offering costs	$ 100,000	$ 100,000	22,100
Effective Statutory Income tax rate	26.10%	26.70%
Percentage of state and local income taxes		21.00%
Unrecognized tax benefits	$ 0	$ 0	0
Unrecognized accrued interest and penalties	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
Class A Common stock
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Number of shares issued for possible redemption	22,031,255	22,031,255	0
Number of common stock would be anti-dilutive under treasury stock method		12,266,666

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Commitments & Contingencies (Details)	1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Feb. 19, 2019 USD ($) $ / shares $ / item shares	Nov. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Feb. 12, 2019 $ / item shares	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Payment made upon closing of Initial Public Offering				$ 4,758,272
Deferred underwriting commissions			$ 8,050,000	8,050,000
Monthly rent			31,000	91,000
Security deposit			20,000	20,000
Prepaid expenses and other assets			205,126	205,126		$ 32,152
Deferred legal fees			$ 450,000	$ 450,000		$ 300,000
Lease Agreement
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Monthly rent		$ 10,000
Security deposit		20,000
Prepaid expenses and other assets		$ 25,000
Over allotment option | Underwriting Agreement
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued | shares	3,000,000
Units issue price per unit | $ / item	10.00
Initial Public Offering
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Number of units issued | shares					20,000,000
Units issue price per unit | $ / item					10.00
Initial Public Offering | Underwriting Agreement
Subsidiary, Sale of Stock [Line Items]
Underwriting discount per unit | $ / shares	$ 0.20
Payment made upon closing of Initial Public Offering	$ 4,600,000
Deferred underwriting commission per unit | $ / shares	$ 0.35
Deferred underwriting commissions	$ 8,050,000

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Stockholder's Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Stockholder's Equity

Stockholder's Equity

Note 7 — Stockholder’s Equity

Common stock

Class A Common stock — The Company is authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. There were no shares of Class A common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2018. As of September 30, 2019, there were 23,000,000 shares of Class A common stock issued or outstanding, including 22,031,255 share of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption.

Class B Common stock — The Company is authorized to issue 10,000,000 shares of Class B common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. On December 17, 2018, the Company effectuated an 0.8-for-1 reverse split of the Founder Shares, resulting in an aggregate outstanding amount of 5,750,000 Founder Shares. As of December 31, 2018, there were 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock outstanding. Of the 5,750,000 Class B common stock outstanding, up to 750,000 shares were subject to forfeiture to the Company by the Sponsor for no consideration to the extent that the underwriters’ over-allotment option was not exercised in full or in part, so that the holders of the Company’s  Class B common stock would have collectively owned 20.0% of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock after the Initial Public Offering. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised its over-allotment option; thus, 750,000 shares of Class B common stock were no longer subject to forfeiture. As a result, there were 5,750,000 shares of Class B common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.

Common stockholders of record are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters to be voted on by stockholders. Holders of the Class A common stock and holders of the Class B common stock will vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders, except as required by law.

The Class B common stock will automatically convert into Class A common stock at the time of the initial Business Combination on a one-for-one basis (subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like), and subject to further adjustment.

Preferred Stock — The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, with such designations, voting and other rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s board of directors. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, there were no shares of preferred stock issued or outstanding.

Warrants — Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, the Company issued the Public Warrants and the Private Placement Warrants. Public Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. No fractional Public Warrants will be issued. The Public Warrants will become exercisable on the later of   (a) 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination or (b) 12 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering; provided in each case that the Company has an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available (or the Company permits holders to exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act). The Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 15 business days, after the closing of a Business Combination, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement for the registration, under the Securities Act, of the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants. The Company will use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the Public Warrants in accordance with the provisions of the warrant agreement. If a registration statement covering the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is not effective by the sixtieth (60th) day after the closing of the initial Business Combination, warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when the Company will have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act or another exemption. The Public Warrants will expire five years after the completion of a Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.

The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants underlying the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, except that the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions. Additionally, the Private Placement Warrants will be non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or such purchasers’ permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by someone other than the Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants.

The Company may call the Public Warrants for redemption (except with respect to the Private Placement Warrants):

· in whole and not in part;

· at a price of $0.01 per warrant;

· upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption; and

· if, and only if, the last reported last sale price of the Class A common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30‑trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders.

Additionally, commencing ninety days after the Public Warrants become exercisable, the Company may redeem the outstanding Public Warrants (except with respect to the Private Placement Warrants) in whole and not in part, for the number of Class A common stock determined by reference to the table set forth in the Company’s prospectus relating to the Initial Public Offering based on the redemption date and the “fair market value” of the Class A common stock, upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption and if, and only if, the last sale price of the Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00 per share (as adjusted per share splits, share dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) on the trading day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the Public Warrant holders. The “fair market value” of the Class A common stock is the average last reported sale price of the Class A common stock for the 10 trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to the holders of Public Warrants.

If the Company calls the Public Warrants for redemption, management will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise the Public Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement.

The exercise price and number of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a share capitalization, or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. If, in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination, the Company issues additional shares of common stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of common stock for capital raising purposes at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per share, the warrant exercise price will be adjusted to be equal to 115% of the price received in the new issuance. The Company adopted the provisions of ASU 2017‑11 effective January 1, 2019. As a result, this exercise price reset provision was excluded from the assessment of whether the warrants are considered indexed to the Company’s own stock. The warrants otherwise meet the requirements for equity classification, as such were initially classified in stockholder’s equity. The Company will recognize the value of the exercise price reset provision if and when it becomes triggered, by recognizing the value of the effect of the exercise price reset as a deemed dividend and a reduction of income available to common shareholders in computing basic earnings per share.

Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the warrants shares. If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of warrants will not receive any of such funds with respect to their warrants, nor will they receive any distribution from the Company’s assets held outside of the Trust Account with the respect to such warrants. Accordingly, the warrants may expire worthless.

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Fair Value Measurements (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Fair Value Measurements

Schedule of assets that are measured on a recurring basis

	Quoted Prices in
	Active		Significant Other		Significant Other
	Markets		Observable Inputs		Unobservable Inputs
Description	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)
Assets held in Trust:
U.S. Treasury Securities	$	232,296,879	$	—	$	—
Cash equivalents - money market funds		913,946		—		—
	$	233,210,825	$	—	$	—

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Document and Entity Information - shares	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019	Nov. 12, 2019
Entity Registrant Name	RMG Acquisition Corp.
Entity Central Index Key	0001757932
Trading Symbol	rmgun
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Entity Filer Category	Non-accelerated Filer
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Interactive Data Current	Yes
Entity Shell Company	true
Document Type	10-Q
Document Period End Date	Sep. 30, 2019
Amendment Flag	false
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2019
Document Fiscal Period Focus	Q3
Entity Small Business	true
Entity Emerging Growth Company	true
Entity Ex Transition Period	true
Class A Common stock
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		23,000,000
Class B common stock
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		5,750,000

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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (UNAUDITED) - USD ($)	Class A Common stock	Class B common stock	Additional Paid-In Capital	Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)	Total
Balance at Dec. 31, 2018	$ 0	$ 575	$ 24,425	$ (2,555)	$ 22,445
Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2018	0	5,750,000
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Issuance of Class B common stock to anchor investors		$ 58	2,255		2,313
Issuance of Class B common stock to anchor investors (in shares)		575,000
Forfeiture of Class B common stock from Sponsor		$ (58)	58
Forfeiture of Class B common stock from Sponsor (in shares)		(575,000)
Sale of units in initial public offering, gross	$ 2,300		229,997,700		230,000,000
Sale of units in initial public offering, gross (in shares)	23,000,000
Offering costs			(13,448,120)		(13,448,120)
Sale of private placement warrants to Sponsor in private placement			6,900,000		6,900,000
Common stock subject to possible redemption	$ (2,188)		(218,799,442)		(218,801,630)
Common stock subject to possible redemption (in shares)	(21,880,163)
Net income				324,994	324,994
Balance at Mar. 31, 2019	$ 112	$ 575	4,676,876	322,439	5,000,002
Balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2019	1,119,837	5,750,000
Balance at Dec. 31, 2018	$ 0	$ 575	24,425	(2,555)	22,445
Balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2018	0	5,750,000
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Net income	$ 2,493,441	$ (657,522)			1,835,919
Balance at Sep. 30, 2019	$ 97	$ 575	4,341,185	658,150	5,000,007
Balance (in shares) at Sep. 30, 2019	968,745	5,750,000
Balance at Mar. 31, 2019	$ 112	$ 575	4,676,876	322,439	5,000,002
Balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2019	1,119,837	5,750,000
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Common stock subject to possible redemption	$ (9)		(530,322)	(322,439)	(852,770)
Common stock subject to possible redemption (in shares)	(85,277)
Net income				852,775	852,775
Balance at Jun. 30, 2019	$ 103	$ 575	4,146,554	852,775	5,000,007
Balance (in shares) at Jun. 30, 2019	1,034,560	5,750,000
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Common stock subject to possible redemption	$ (6)		194,631	(852,775)	(658,150)
Common stock subject to possible redemption (in shares)	(65,815)
Net income	$ 865,437	$ (207,287)		658,150	658,150
Balance at Sep. 30, 2019	$ 97	$ 575	$ 4,341,185	$ 658,150	$ 5,000,007
Balance (in shares) at Sep. 30, 2019	968,745	5,750,000

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Initial Public Offering

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Initial Public Offering

Initial Public Offering

Note 3 — Initial Public Offering

On February 12, 2019, the Company sold 20,000,000 Units at a purchase price of $10.00 per Unit in the Initial Public Offering. Each Unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and one-third of one redeemable warrant (“Public Warrant”). On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments at $10.00 per Unit, generating additional gross proceeds of $30.0 million. Each whole Public Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Class A common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment (see Note 7).

Of the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering, an aggregate of 2,530,000 Units were purchased by certain funds and accounts managed by subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc. and certain funds and accounts managed by Alta Fundamental Advisers LLC (together, the “Anchor Investors”).

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Commitments & Contingencies

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Commitments & Contingencies

Commitments & Contingencies

Note 6 — Commitments & Contingencies

Registration Rights

The holders of Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans, if any, will be entitled to registration rights (in the case of the Founder Shares, only after conversion of such shares to Class A common stock) pursuant to a registration and shareholder rights agreement. These holders will be entitled to certain demand and “piggyback” registration rights. However, the registration and shareholder rights agreement provides that the Company will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until the termination of the applicable lock-up period for the securities to be registered. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.

Underwriting Agreement

The Company granted the underwriters a 45‑day option from the date of the final prospectus relating to the Initial Public Offering to purchase up to 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments, if any, at $10.00 per Unit, less underwriting discounts and commissions. On February 19, 2019, the underwriters fully exercised its over-allotment option.

The underwriters were entitled to an underwriting discount of $0.20 per unit, or $4.6 million in the aggregate, paid upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering. In addition, $0.35 per unit, or $8.05 million in the aggregate will be payable to the underwriters for deferred underwriting commissions. The deferred underwriting commissions will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.

Lease Agreement

In November 2018, the Company entered into a six-month lease agreement from January 15, 2019 to July 31, 2019 for its office space in New York. The agreement calls for a monthly rent of $10,000 and a security deposit of $20,000. The Company recorded the security deposit and January 2019 rent payment of approximately $25,000 in Prepaid expenses and other assets in the accompanying Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2018. As of September 30, 2019, $20,000 related to the security deposit was recorded in Prepaid expenses and other assets. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company recorded rent expense of approximately $31,000 and approximately $91,000, respectively.

Deferred legal fees

The Company entered into an engagement letter to obtain legal advisory services, pursuant to which the legal counsel agreed to defer all fees until the closing of a Business Combination. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company recorded an aggregate of $450,000 and $300,000 in connection with such arrangement in deferred legal fees in the accompanying balance sheet, respectively.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Schedule of basic and diluted loss per common stock

	For the three months		For the nine months
	ended		ended
	September 30, 2019		September 30, 2019
Interest income on restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	$	5,321	$	12,025
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account		1,142,497		3,299,930
Expenses available to be paid with interest income from Trust		(282,380)		(818,514)
Net income available to holders of Class A common stock		865,437		2,493,441
Net income	$	658,150	$	1,835,919
Less: Income attributable to Class A common stock		(865,437)		(2,493,441)
Net loss attributable to holders of Class B common stock	$	(207,287)	$	(657,522)
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock		23,000,000		22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A	$	0.04	$	0.11
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock		5,750,000		5,750,000
Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B	$	(0.04)	$	(0.11)

Schedule of reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents

	September 30, 2019
Cash	$	1,381,346
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account		913,946
Total cash and restricted cash equivalents held in
Trust Account shown in the statement of cash flows	$	2,295,292

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Net Income per Common Stock

Net income per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The Company has not considered the effect of the warrants sold in the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement to purchase an aggregate of  12,266,666 Class A common stock in the calculation of diluted earnings per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted earnings per ordinary share is the same as basic earnings per ordinary share for the periods presented.

The Company’s statement of operations includes a presentation of income per share for common stock subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method of income per share. Net income per common stock, basic and diluted for Class A common stock is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the Trust Account, by the weighted average number of Class A common stock outstanding for the period. Net loss per common stock, basic and diluted for Class B common stock is calculated by dividing the net income, less income attributable to Class A common stock and any working capital loans, by the weighted average number of Class B common stock outstanding for the periods presented.

The Company’s net income is adjusted for the portion of income that is attributable to Class A common stock subject to redemption, as these shares only participate in the earnings of the Trust Account (less applicable taxes) and not the income or losses of the Company. Accordingly, basic and diluted income per Class A common stock is calculated as follows:

	For the three months		For the nine months
	ended		ended
	September 30, 2019		September 30, 2019
Interest income on restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	$	5,321	$	12,025
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account		1,142,497		3,299,930
Expenses available to be paid with interest income from Trust		(282,380)		(818,514)
Net income available to holders of Class A common stock		865,437		2,493,441
Net income	$	658,150	$	1,835,919
Less: Income attributable to Class A common stock		(865,437)		(2,493,441)
Net loss attributable to holders of Class B common stock	$	(207,287)	$	(657,522)
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock		23,000,000		22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A	$	0.04	$	0.11
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock		5,750,000		5,750,000
Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B	$	(0.04)	$	(0.11)

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the condensed interim financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed interim financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to credit risk consist principally of cash, restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, and marketable securities held in the Trust Account. Cash and restricted cash equivalents are maintained in accounts with financial institutions, which, at times may exceed the Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes, based upon the quality of the financial institutions, that the credit risk with regard to these deposits is not significant. The Company’s marketable securities portfolio consists entirely of U.S Treasury Securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had approximately $914,000 and $0 in cash equivalents held in the Trust Account as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.

The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents reported within the financial statements:

	September 30, 2019
Cash	$	1,381,346
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account		913,946
Total cash and restricted cash equivalents held in
Trust Account shown in the statement of cash flows	$	2,295,292

Marketable Securities Held in the Trust Account

The Company’s portfolio of marketable securities is comprised solely of U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 180 days or less, classified as trading securities. Trading securities are presented on the balance sheets at fair value at the end of each reporting period. Gains and losses resulting from the change in fair value of these securities is included in gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in the Trust Account in the accompanying condensed statement of operations. The estimated fair values of marketable securities held in the Trust Account are determined using available market information.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Fair value measurements are based on the premise that fair value is an exit price representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, the following three-tier fair value hierarchy has been used in determining the inputs used in measuring fair value:

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities on the reporting date.

Level 2 – Pricing inputs are based on quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant assumptions are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3 – Pricing inputs are generally unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs into the determination of fair value require management’s judgment or estimation of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the assets or liabilities. The fair values are therefore determined using factors that involve considerable judgment and interpretations, including but not limited to private and public comparables, third-party appraisals, discounted cash flow models, and fund manager estimates.

As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the recorded values of cash and restricted cash equivalents held in the Trust Account, prepaid expenses, accounts payable, and accrued expenses approximate the fair values due to the short-term nature of the instruments. The Company’s portfolio of marketable securities held in the Trust Account is comprised of investments in U.S. Treasury securities with an original maturity of 180 days or less. The fair value for trading securities is determined using quoted market prices in active markets.

Offering Costs

Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred of approximately $13.4 million that are directly related to the Initial Public Offering. These costs were charged to stockholder’s equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering in February 2019. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company had $100,000 and $22,100 of accrued offering costs in the accompanying balance sheets.

Income Taxes

The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statements carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized. The effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 of 26.1% and 26.7%, respectively, exceeds the statutory rate of 21% primarily due to state and local income taxes.

Uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return are accounted for using the more likely than not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement. There were no unrecognized tax benefits as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. No amounts were accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption

Class A common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as liability instruments and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable Class A common stock (including Class A common stock that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, Class A common stock are classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s Class A common stock feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at September 30, 2019, 22,031,255 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption are presented as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section of the Company’s balance sheet.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2016‑02, Leases, (“ASC 842”) which amends existing guidance to require lessees to recognize assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for the rights and obligations created by long-term leases and to disclose additional quantitative and qualitative information about leasing arrangements. The new standard establishes a right-of-use model ("ROU") that requires a lessee to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with an initial term longer than twelve months. Leases will be classified as finance or operating, with classification affecting the pattern and classification of expense recognition in the income statement. The Company adopted ASC 842 effective January 1, 2019 and has elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify. Accordingly, the Company has not recognized a ROU asset or lease liability as of September 30, 2019.

In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017‑11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260); Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480); Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): (Part I) Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features, (Part II) Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests with a Scope Exception. The ASU allows companies to exclude a down round feature when determining whether a financial instrument (or embedded conversion feature) is considered indexed to the entity’s own stock. As a result, financial instruments (or embedded conversion features) with down round features may no longer be required to be accounted classified as liabilities. A company will recognize the value of a down round feature only when it is triggered and the strike price has been adjusted downward. For equity-classified freestanding financial instruments, such as warrants, an entity will treat the value of the effect of the down round, when triggered, as a dividend and a reduction of income available to common shareholders in computing basic earnings per share. For convertible instruments with embedded conversion features containing down round provisions, entities will recognize the value of the down round as a beneficial conversion discount to be amortized to earnings. The guidance in ASU 2017‑11 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2019. As a result, the warrants issued in February 2019, in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement, were equity-classified.

The Company’s management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.

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STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019
General and administrative costs	$ 210,806	$ 668,222
Franchise tax expense	50,000	150,000
Loss from operations	(260,806)	(818,222)
Interest income	8,839	22,725
Gain on marketable securities (net), dividends and interest, held in Trust Account	1,142,497	3,299,930
Income before income tax expense	890,530	2,504,433
Income tax expense	232,380	668,514
Net income	658,150	1,835,919
Class A Common stock
Net income	$ 865,437	$ 2,493,441
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted (in shares)	23,000,000	22,909,091
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.04	$ 0.11
Class B common stock
Net income	$ (207,287)	$ (657,522)
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted (in shares)	5,750,000	5,750,000
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share (in dollars per share)	$ (0.04)	$ (0.11)

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents (Details) - USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Cash	$ 1,381,346	$ 37,044
Restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account	913,946
Total cash and restricted cash equivalents held in Trust Account shown in the statement of cash flows	$ 2,295,292	$ 37,044

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Related Party Transactions (Details) - USD ($)		1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended
	Nov. 06, 2018	Jan. 31, 2019	Dec. 17, 2018	Mar. 31, 2019	Sep. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Issuance of Class B common stock to Sponsor				$ 230,000,000
Outstanding reimbursement expenses							$ 115,381
Warrants exercise price					$ 0.01
Class B common stock
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)					$ 0.0001		$ 0.0001
Common stock shares outstanding				5,750,000	5,750,000	5,750,000	5,750,000
Number of forfeited shares				575,000
Sponsor
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Reverse split ratio			0.8-for-1
Common stock shares outstanding			5,750,000
Outstanding reimbursement expenses					$ 153,000
Working capital loans, amount					$ 1,500,000
Warrants exercise price					$ 1.50
Sponsor | Class B common stock
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Issuance of Class B common stock to Sponsor (in shares)	7,187,500
Common stock, par value (in dollars per share)	$ 0.0001
Issuance of Class B common stock to Sponsor	$ 25,000
Number of forfeited shares		575,000
Sponsor | Class B common stock | Maximum
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Number of forfeited shares		750,000
Anchor Investors | Class B common stock
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Issuance of Class B common stock to Sponsor (in shares)		575,000
Issuance of Class B common stock to Sponsor		$ 2,300