NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 – Organization and Plan of Business Operations
Sound Point Acquisition Corp I, Ltd (the “Company”) was incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on May 4, 2021, for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, which the Company refers to as the initial Business Combination (the “Business Combination”).
The Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region in the identification and acquisition of a target company. The Company is an emerging growth company and, as such, is subject to all of the risk associated with emerging growth companies.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from May 4, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2022, relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“IPO”), which is described below, and subsequent to the IPO identifying a target company for a Business Combination. The Company believes it will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of a Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate
non-operating
income in the form of interest income from the proceeds derived from the IPO.
The Company’s sponsor is Sound Point Acquisition Sponsor I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”).
The registration statements for the Company’s IPO became effective on March 1, 2022 (the “Effective Date”). On March 4, 2022, the Company consummated its IPO of 25,875,000 units (the “Units”), which includes 3,375,000 Units issued and sold pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of their option in full to purchase additional Units. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value of $0.0001 per share (the “Class A ordinary shares”), and
one-half
of one redeemable warrant of the Company. Each whole warrant (“Public Warrant”) is exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share. Only whole Public Warrants are exercisable. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $258,750,000 (before underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses). See Note 3.
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, pursuant to the Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated March 1, 2022, by and between the Company and the Sponsor (the “Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement”), the Company completed the sale of 15,437,500 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants” and, together with the Public Warrants, the “Warrants”) to the Sponsor at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $15,437,500 (See Note 4). The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants sold as part of the Units in the IPO, except that the Sponsor has agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of its Private Placement Warrants until 30 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions. No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to such sale. In addition, as long as they are held by the Sponsor or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis and they (including the Class A ordinary share issuable upon exercise of these warrants) are entitled to registration rights. The issuance of the Private Placement Warrants was made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). See Note 4.
Transaction costs of the IPO amounted to $15,689,039 consisting of $5,175,000 of underwriting discounts, $9,056,250 of deferred underwriting discount, and $1,457,789 of other offering costs.
Following the closing of the IPO on March 4, 2022, a total of $266,512,500 ($10.30 per Unit), comprised of $253,575,000 of the proceeds from the IPO (which amount includes $9,056,250 of the underwriters’ deferred discount) and $12,937,500 of the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Warrants, was placed in a U.S.-based Trust Account (“Trust Account”) and will be invested only in U.S. government treasury obligations, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, 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 Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of : (i) the completion of the initial Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of public shares if the Company