Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Related Party Transactions

Related Party Transactions

Note 5—Related Party Transactions

Founder Shares

On March 15, 2021, the Prior Sponsor subscribed to purchase 7,187,500 Class B Ordinary Shares (the “Founder Shares”), and fully paid for those shares on March 19, 2021. In August 2021, the Prior Sponsor forfeited 1,437,500 Founder Shares, resulting in a decrease in the total number of Founder Shares from 7,187,500 to 5,750,000. All shares and associated amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the share forfeiture.

In March 2021, the Prior Sponsor transferred 50,000 Founder Shares (25,000 shares each) to the former Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Operating Officer at their original purchase price. On July 18, 2023, as part of the Sponsor Handover, the former Chief Financial Officer and former Chief Operating Officer transferred 38,500 Founder Shares (19,250 each) to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors and retained 11,500 Founder Shares (5,750 each).

In November 2021, the Prior Sponsor transferred a total of 150,000 Founder Shares or 25,000 shares to each of David Barksdale, Greg Boyd, David Jones, Alex Parker, Steven Rogers, and Robert Willis, each a former director of the Company (“former directors”), in each case for their par value. The Company estimated the fair value of the Founder Shares attributable to the such individuals to be $1,116,000 or $7.44 per share.

On July 18, 2023, the Company entered into the Sponsor Handover Securities Transfer Agreement with the Prior Sponsor and the Sponsor Purchasers, whereby the Prior Sponsor agreed to transfer to the Sponsor Purchasers, 3,046,634 Class B Ordinary Shares and 4,961,250 Private Placement Warrants, which the Prior Sponsor purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering and Private Placement. In addition, the Sponsor Handover Sellers transferred an aggregate of 1,380,866 Class B Ordinary Shares to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, pursuant to the Sponsor Handover Share Transfer Agreements. After the closing of the Sponsor Handover on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Handover Sellers held an aggregate of 1,322,500 Class B Ordinary Shares, and the Prior Sponsor held 2,383,750 Private Placement Warrants.

The Prior Sponsor, the Company Sponsor, Prior Officers, Prior Directors, Anchor Investors (as defined below), the Management, and their respective designees and affiliates, have agreed that, subject to certain limited exceptions, the Founder Shares will not be transferred, assigned, or sold until the earlier of (i) one year after the completion of a Business Combination or (ii) subsequent to an initial Business Combination, (x) if the closing price of Class A Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share subdivisions, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after an initial Business Combination, or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of the Public Shareholders having the right to exchange their Ordinary Shares for cash, securities or other property.

A total of eleven anchor investors (the “Anchor Investors”) each purchased an allocation of Units as determined by the underwriters, in the Initial Public Offering at the offering price of $10.00 per unit. Pursuant to such Units, the Anchor Investors have not been granted any shareholder or other rights in addition to those afforded to the Company’s other Public Shareholders. Further, the Anchor Investors are not required to (i) hold any Units, Class A Ordinary Shares or Warrants they may purchase in the Initial Public Offering or thereafter for any amount of time, (ii) vote any Class A Ordinary Shares they may own at the applicable time in favor of the Business Combination or (iii) refrain from exercising their right to redeem their Public Shares at the time of the Business Combination. The Anchor Investors have the same rights to the funds held in the Trust Account with respect to the Public Shares underlying the Units purchased in the Initial Public Offering as the rights afforded to the Company’s other Public Shareholders.

Each Anchor Investor has entered into separate investment agreements with the Company and the Prior Sponsor pursuant to which each Anchor Investor agreed to purchase a specified number of Founder Shares. Pursuant to the investment agreements, the Anchor Investors have agreed to (a) vote any Founder Shares held by them in favor of the Business Combination and (b) subject any Founder Shares held by them to the same lock-up restrictions as the Founder Shares held by the Prior Sponsor.

Administrative Support Agreement

In connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Company entered into the Administrative Support Agreement with the Prior Sponsor, to pay a total of $10,000 per month for office space, secretarial and administrative services. Upon the completion of an initial Business Combination or liquidation, the Company would cease paying these monthly fees. For the three month ended March 31, 2023, the Company recorded an expense totaling $30,000 which is included in general and administrative expenses in the condensed statement of operations. On June 30, 2023, in connection with the Sponsor Handover, the Administrative Support Agreement was terminated and the outstanding amount totaling $204,516 was cancelled.

Related Party Loans

In order to fund working capital deficiencies or 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 may repay the Working Capital Loans out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to the Company. Otherwise, the Working Capital Loans could be repaid only out of funds held outside the Trust Account. In the event that a Business Combination does not close, the Company may use a portion of 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. The Working Capital Loans would either be repaid upon consummation of a Business Combination or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1,500,000 of such Working Capital Loans may be convertible into warrants of the post Business Combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. The terms of such Working Capital Loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.

In connection with the closing of the Sponsor Handover, on July 18, 2023, the Sponsor Purchasers caused $375,000 to be deposited into the Trust Account to support the first three months of the Extension from July 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023 (the “July 2023 Extension Deposit”). The Purchaser agreed to deposit into the Trust Account an additional $125,000 for each successive month, or portion thereof, that is needed by the Company to complete an initial Business Combination until the end of the Combination Period. Each month starting on October 17, 2023 through May 17, 2024, the Company made the monthly deposit totaling $125,000 to extend the date the Company has to complete a Business Combination until June 18, 2024.

On July 18, 2023, the Company issued an unsecured promissory note in an amount of $375,000 (the “July 2023 Promissory Note”), to Chunyi (Charlie) Hao, for the July 2023 Extension Deposit.

The July 2023 Promissory Note does not bear interest and will be due and payable on the earlier (a) the date that the Company consummates an initial Business Combination and (b) the date of the liquidation of the Company.

On September 13, 2023, the Company issued unsecured promissory notes in an aggregate amount of $2,125,000 to the Company’s officers and their affiliates, for the Company’s working capital needs (the “September 2023 Promissory Notes”). The September 2023 Promissory Notes do not bear interest and mature upon the earlier of on the earlier (a) the date that the Company consummates an initial Business Combination and (b) the date of the liquidation of the Company. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there was $2,125,000 and $1,625,000, respectively, from the September 2023 Promissory Notes outstanding.

The outstanding July 2023 Promissory Note and September 2023 Promissory Notes totaled $2,500,000 and $2,000,000 as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.