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Amendment No. 1 to Confidential Draft Submission

As confidentially submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 17, 2021. This draft registration statement has not been filed, publicly or otherwise, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and all information contained herein remains strictly confidential.

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549

FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Onyx Acquisition Co. I

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cayman Islands		6770		98-1584432
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

104 5^th Avenue
New York, New York 10011
(212) 974-2844

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Michael Stern
Chief Executive Officer
104 5^th Avenue
New York, New York 10011
(212) 974-2844
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies:

Sean T. Wheeler, P.C.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
609 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 836-3600

Christian O. Nagler
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10022
(212) 446-4800

Stuart Neuhauser
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10105
(212) 370-1300

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) check the following box: ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
		Emerging growth company	☒

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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of Each Class of Security Being Registered	Amount Being Registered	Proposed Maximum Offering Price per Security⁽¹⁾		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price⁽¹⁾		Amount of Registration Fee
Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share, $0.0001 par value, and one-fourth of one redeemable warrant⁽²⁾ to acquire one Class A ordinary share	23,000,000 units	$	10.00	$	230,000,000	$	25,093.00
Class A ordinary shares included as part of the units⁽³⁾	23,000,000 shares		—		—		—	⁽⁴⁾
Redeemable warrants to acquire one Class A ordinary share included as part of the units⁽³⁾	5,750,000 warrants		—		—		—	⁽⁴⁾
Total				$	230,000,000	$	25,093.00

(1)	Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(a) under the Securities Act.

(2)	Includes 3,000,000 units, consisting of 3,000,000 Class A ordinary shares and 750,000 redeemable warrants, which may be issued upon exercise of a 45-day option granted to the underwriters to cover over-allotments, if any.

(3)	Pursuant to Rule 416(a), there are also being registered an indeterminable number of additional securities as may be offered or issued to prevent dilution resulting from share-subdivisions, share capitalizations, or similar transactions.

(4)	No fee pursuant to Rule 457(g).

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment No. 1”) to the registrant’s Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Draft Registration Statement”) is being filed solely for the purposes of filing Exhibit 4.4. This Amendment No. 1 does not modify any provisions of the prospectus that forms a part of the Draft Registration Statement and, accordingly, such prospectus has been omitted.

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

The estimated expenses payable by us in connection with the offering described in this registration statement (other than the underwriting discount and commissions) will be as follows:

SEC expenses	$	25,093
FINRA expenses		35,000
Accounting fees and expenses		70,000
Printing and engraving expenses		45,000
Travel and road show expenses		10,000
Legal fees and expenses		350,000
Nasdaq listing and filing fees		75,000
Miscellaneous		139,907
Total	$	750,000

Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against willful default, willful neglect, actual fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide for indemnification of our officers and directors to the maximum extent permitted by law, including for any liability incurred in their capacities as such, except through their own actual fraud, willful default or willful neglect. We will enter into agreements with our directors and officers to provide contractual indemnification in addition to the indemnification provided for in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. We expect to purchase a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our officers and directors against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment in some circumstances and insures us against our obligations to indemnify our officers and directors.

Our officers and directors will agree to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the trust account, and will agreed to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any services provided to us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason whatsoever (except to the extent they are entitled to funds from the trust account due to their ownership of public shares). Accordingly, any indemnification provided will only be able to be satisfied by us if (i) we have sufficient funds outside of the trust account or (ii) we consummate an initial business combination.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

On February 19, 2021, Onyx Acquisition Sponsor Co. LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (our “Sponsor”), paid $25,000, or approximately $0.002 per share, to cover certain expenses on our behalf in consideration of 10,062,500 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 (“Class B ordinary shares” or “founder shares”). Such securities were issued in connection with our organization pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. In July 2021, the Sponsor returned to us, for no consideration an aggregate of 4,312,500 Class B ordinary shares, which the Company cancelled, resulting in an aggregate of 5,750,000 Class B ordinary shares outstanding and held by the Sponsor. The total number of Class B ordinary shares outstanding after this offering and the expiration of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units will equal 20% of the total number of Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares outstanding at such time. The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares concurrently with or immediately following the consummation of our initial business combination, or earlier at the option of the holder thereof, on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment, as described in this prospectus. If we increase or decrease the size of this offering, we will effect a share capitalization or a share repurchase or redemption or other appropriate mechanism, as applicable, with respect to our Class B ordinary shares prior to the consummation of this offering in such amount as to maintain the number of founder shares at 20% of the total number of Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares outstanding at such time (assuming the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional units in full).

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Our Sponsor is an accredited investor for purposes of Rule 501 of Regulation D. Each of the equity holders in our Sponsor is an accredited investor under Rule 501 of Regulation D. The sole business of the Sponsor is to act as our sponsor in connection with this offering.

Our Sponsor will, pursuant to a written agreement, agree to purchase an aggregate of 4,333,333 private placement warrants (or 4,733,333 private placement warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), each exercisable to purchase one ordinary share at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, at a price of $1.50 per warrant ($6,500,000 in the aggregate or $7,100,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in a private placement that will close simultaneously with the closing of this offering. This issuance will be made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to such sales.

Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

(a)

The Exhibit Index preceding the signature page of this registration statement is incorporated herein by reference.

(b)

See page F-1 for an index to the financial statements and schedules included in the registration statement.

Item 17. Undertakings.

(i)

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

(ii)

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

(iii)

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.		Description
1.1		Form of Underwriting Agreement.*
3.1		Memorandum and Articles of Association.*
3.2		Form of Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.*
4.1		Specimen Unit Certificate.*
4.2		Specimen Class A Ordinary Share Certificate.*
4.3		Specimen Warrant Certificate.*
4.4		Form of Warrant Agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and the Registrant.
5.1		Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.*
5.2		Opinion of Walkers, Cayman Islands Counsel to the Registrant.*
10.1		Form of Investment Management Trust Agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and the Registrant.*
10.2		Form of Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement among the Registrant, the Sponsor and the Holders signatory thereto.*
10.3		Form of Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement between the Registrant and the Sponsor.*
10.4		Form of Indemnity Agreement.*
10.5		Promissory Note, dated as of July 27, 2021, between the Registrant and the Sponsor.*
10.6		Securities Subscription Agreement, dated as of February 19, 2021, between the Registrant and the Sponsor.*
10.7		Form of Letter Agreement between the Registrant, the Sponsor and each director and executive officer of the Registrant.*
23.1		Consent of Marcum LLP.*
23.2		Consent of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (included on Exhibit 5.1).*
23.3		Consent of Walkers (included on Exhibit 5.2).*
24.1		Power of Attorney (included on signature page to the initial filing of this Registration Statement).*

*	To be filed by amendment.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of New York, New York, on the day of , 2021.

	Onyx Acquisition Co. I

	By:
	Name:	Michael Stern
	Title:	Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints each of Michael Stern and Matthew Vodola, each acting alone, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement on Form S-1 (including all pre-effective and post-effective amendments and registration statements filed pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming that any such attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name	Position	Date

	Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Stern	(Principal Executive Officer)	, 2021

	Chief Financial Officer
Mattew Vodola	(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)	, 2021

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