Upgrading You may request an Upgrade. For purposes of an Upgrade request, each individual who constitutes the Depositor under the agreement for Retail Direct Services is considered a required Signing Officer for purposes of acceptance of the Upgrade, and You agree to ensure that each such individual agrees to the Upgrade and accepts the terms of this Agreement before initiating the Upgrade request. Implementation of an Upgrade is subject to the approval of the Financial Institution. We may rely on Your Upgrade request when evidenced by a single Signing Officer and treat such Upgrade request as binding on You. If We then implement the Upgrade, this Agreement is deemed to be accepted by and binding on You. If multiple individuals constitute the Depositor, this Agreement will be deemed provisionally accepted until all individuals who constitute the Depositor under the agreement for Retail Direct Services provide evidence of their acceptance of this Agreement to the Financial Institution (“Provisionally Accepted”). You agree to ensure that all such individuals provide timely evidence of their acceptance of this Agreement to Us. While this Agreement is Provisionally Accepted, one of the following states will apply:
Warrant Private Placement Simultaneously with the Closing, the Sponsor (and/or its designees) and I-Bankers Securities, Inc. will separately purchase from the Company pursuant to the Warrants Purchase Agreement (as defined below) an aggregate of 7,300,000 warrants of the Company (collectively, the “Placement Warrants”) in a private placement (the “Warrant Private Placement”) intended to be exempt from registration under the Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Act. The Placement Warrants and the securities underlying the Placement Warrants are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Placement Securities.” The Placement Warrants shall be identical to the Warrants sold in the Offering except that the warrants included in the Placement Warrants shall be (x) non-redeemable by the Company, and (y) may be exercised for cash or on a cashless basis, in each case so long as the warrants continue to be held by the initial purchasers of the Placement Warrants or their permitted transferees (provided, that if the Placement Warrants are not held by holders other than the initial purchasers or any of their permitted transferees, the Placement Warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by the holders on the same basis as the Warrants included in the Firm Units being sold in this Offering). There will be no placement agent in the Warrant Private Placement and no party shall be entitled to a placement fee or expense allowance from the sale of the Placement Securities.
Authorization of the Private Placement Warrants The Company has duly authorized the issuance and sale of the Private Placement Warrants to the Purchaser.
Terms of the Private Placement Warrants (i) Each Private Placement Warrant shall have the terms set forth in a Warrant Agreement to be entered into by the Company and a warrant agent on the IPO Closing Date, in connection with the Public Offering (the “Warrant Agreement”).
Authorization of the Placement Shares The Placement Shares, when issued and paid for as contemplated herein, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, will be issued in compliance with all applicable securities laws, and will be free of preemptive, registration or similar rights, and will conform to the description of the Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
Authorization Purchase and Sale Terms of the Private Placement Warrants A. Authorization of the Private Placement Warrants. The Company has duly authorized the issuance and sale of the Private Placement Warrants to the Purchaser.
No Downgrade Subsequent to the earlier of (A) the Applicable Time and (B) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, if there are any debt securities or preferred stock of, or guaranteed by, the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are rated by a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded any such debt securities or preferred stock and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its rating of any such debt securities or preferred stock (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).
Unit Private Placement Simultaneously with the Closing Date, the Sponsor will purchase from the Company pursuant to the Unit Purchase Agreement (as defined in Section 2.21.2 hereof), 450,000 units, which units are identical to the Firm Units subject to certain exceptions (the “Placement Units”) at a purchase price of $10.00 per Placement Unit in a private placement intended to be exempt from registration under the Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Act. The private placement of the Placement Units is referred to herein as the “Unit Private Placement.” None of the Placement Units nor the underlying shares of Common Stock (“Placement Shares”) and Warrants (“Placement Warrants”) may be sold, assigned or transferred by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees until thirty (30) days after consummation of a Business Combination. The proceeds from the sale of the Placement Units shall be deposited into the Trust Account. The Placement Units, Placement Shares and Placement Warrants and shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Placement Warrants are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Placement Securities”. No underwriting discounts, commissions, or placement fees have been or will be payable in connection with the Placement Securities. The Placement Warrants are identical to the Warrants except that (i) the Placement Warrants will be non-redeemable by the Company and (ii) the Placement Warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. In addition, the Placement Warrants may not be exercised after five years from the effective date of the Registration Statement if held by Cantor or its designees or affiliates. Except as described in the Registration Statement, none of the Placement Securities may be sold, assigned or transferred by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees until thirty (30) days after consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination. The Public Securities, the Placement Securities and the Founder Shares are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Securities”.
Purchase and Sale of the Private Placement Warrants (i) On the date of the consummation of the Public Offering or on such earlier time and date as may be mutually agreed by the Purchaser and the Company (the “Initial Closing Date”), the Company shall issue and sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser shall purchase from the Company, an aggregate of 7,500,000 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant for an aggregate purchase price of up to $7,500,000 (the “Purchase Price”), which shall be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the trust account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee (the “Trust Account”) in accordance with the Company’s wiring instructions at least one business day prior to the date of effectiveness of the registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-252273) filed in connection with the Public Offering. On the Initial Closing Date, the Company, shall either, at its option, deliver certificates evidencing the Private Placement Warrants purchased by the Purchaser on such date duly registered in the Purchaser’s name to the Purchaser, or effect such delivery in book-entry form. On the date of the consummation of the closing of the over-allotment option in connection with the Public Offering or on such earlier time and date as may be mutually agreed by the Purchaser and the Company (each such date, an “Over-allotment Closing Date,” and each Over-allotment Closing Date (if any) and the Initial Closing Date being sometimes referred to herein as a “Closing Date”), the Company shall issue and sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser shall purchase from the Company, up to an aggregate of 600,000 Private Placement Warrants, in the same proportion as the amount of the over-allotment option that is exercised, at a price of $1.00 per warrant for an aggregate purchase price of up to $600,000 (if the over-allotment option in connection with the Public Offering is exercised in full) (the “Over-allotment Purchase Price”), which shall be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Trust Account in accordance with the Company’s wiring instructions. On the Over-allotment Closing Date, upon the payment by the Purchaser of the Over-allotment Purchase Price payable by them by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Company, the Company shall either, at its option, deliver certificates evidencing the Private Placement Warrants purchased by the Purchaser on such date duly registered in the Purchaser’s name to the Purchaser, or effect such delivery in book-entry form.
Downgrades Securities may not be purchased based on an S&P, Xxxxx’x, Fitch or another NRSRO’s rating where the applicable NRSRO has announced publicly that it is examining the relevant rating for a possible downgrade. The foregoing limitation shall not apply to securities rated A-1+ by S&P. In the event that a security held falls below the minimum guideline as detailed in this paragraph G as a result of being downgraded by an NRSRO, JPMorgan shall notify the Lender and await instructions as to whether the affected security should be sold. In the absence of a contrary instruction, JPMorgan shall take no action in respect of the affected security. In no event shall JPMorgan be liable for any consequences of a rating downgrade, including, but not limited to, retention of the affected security in the absence of a sale instruction from Lender. Lender acknowledges that any loss from a sale shall be for its account.
