Special Purpose Acquisition Company ("SPAC") Sponsorship |
3 Months Ended |
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Nov. 30, 2022 | |
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| Special Purpose Acquisition Company ("SPAC") Sponsorship | Special Purpose Acquisition Company ("SPAC") Sponsorship On April 29, 2021, we announced the Company's sponsorship, through our wholly-owned subsidiary, ShiftPixy Investments, Inc. ("Investments"), of four SPACs. Each SPAC was seeking to raise approximately $150 million in capital investment, through an IPO, to acquire companies in the light industrial, healthcare and technology segments of the staffing industry, as well as one or more insurance entities. On March 18, 2022, the IPO registration statements related to three of the SPACs we had sponsored, Vital Human Capital, Inc. ("Vital"), TechStackery, Inc. ("TechStackery"), and Firemark Global Capital, Inc. ("Firemark"), were withdrawn. With the withdrawal of these IPO registrations, the Company recorded approximately $38.0 million of deferred costs against Non-controlling interest.
The registration statement and prospectus covering the IPO of IHC was declared effective by the SEC on October 19, 2021, and IHC Units, consisting of one share of common stock and an accompanying warrant to purchase one share of IHC common stock, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) on October 20, 2021. The IHC IPO closed on October 22, 2021, raising gross proceeds for IHC of $115 million. In connection with the IHC IPO, we purchased, through the Company's
wholly-owned subsidiary, 4,639,000 placement warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant, for an aggregate purchase price of$4,639,000.
Following the closing of the IPO, the sum of $116,725,000 was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), and was 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 "ICA"), with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund investing solely in U.S. Treasuries and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 of the ICA, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of the IBC and (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to the Company’s shareholders, as described below. The $116,725,000 consisted of the $115,000,000 of gross proceeds from the sale of the IHC Units in the IPO and $1,725,000 funded by the Company, as the corporate parent of the Sponsor, representing guaranteed interest for future redemptions and calculated as one year's interest at 1.5%. With the completion of the IPO, the Company recorded approximately $9.5 million of deferred costs in APIC, and $0.3 million of offering costs paid on behalf of IHC. During Fiscal 2022, IHC incurred approximately $3.5 million in offering costs. No other offering costs have been incurred during the period for the withdrawn SPACs. The Trust Account generated interest and dividend income for the three month ended November 30, 2022 and November 30, 2021 of approximately $0.9 million and $3,000, respectively. After completion of its IPO, IHC sought to acquire companies in the light industrial segment of the staffing industry.
Upon the completion of IHC's IPO, through the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, we owned approximately 15% of its issued and outstanding stock. Furthermore, we anticipated that IHC would operate as a separately managed, publicly traded entity following the completion of its IBCs. The operations of IHC have been consolidated in the accompanying condensed financial statements for the reasons set forth above in Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.
On October 14, 2022, the stockholders of IHC approved the proposed action to file an amended and restated certificate of incorporation to extend the date by which the Company has to consummate a Business Combination from October 22, 2022, to April 22, 2023, or a such earlier date as determined by the board of directors. The Company accordingly filed the Amendment with the Secretary of State of Delaware. In connection with the meeting, however, shareholders holding 11,251,347 Public Shares exercised their right to redeem their shares for a pro rata portion of the funds in the Trust Account. leaving 248,653 of the Company’s remaining Public Shares outstanding and the Trust Account substantially below the $5,000,001 minimum net tangible asset amount required by IHC's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be available upon consummation of such Business Combination. IHC's efforts to secure the decisions of some shareholders to reverse their redemptions were unsuccessful, and IHC accordingly declined to fund the extension, cancelled the Amendment as filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware, and proceeded to cease operations, dissolve and unwind. The board of directors of IHC accordingly adopted resolutions to liquidate, dissolve and unwind the entity. Since IHC was dissolved on November 14, 2022, and since the Trust released all the redemption funds to shareholders on December 2, 2022, effectively liquidating the Trust, we will evaluate the impact including potential de-consolidation of its operations during the wind up period in Fiscal 2023. The Class A common shares subject to redemption is classified as a current liability.
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