NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 — Description of Organization and Business Operations and Liquidity
Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III (the “Company”) was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on February 19, 2021. The Company is a blank check company formed for the purpose of entering into a business combination.
The Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of consummating a business combination. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity through March 31, 2022 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”), which is described below and since the offering, the search for a prospective initial Business Combination. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business combination, at the earliest. The Company
generates non-operating
interest income from the proceeds held in the Trust Account (as defined below).
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering (the “Registration Statement”) was declared effective on November 10, 2021. On November 15, 2021, the Company consummated the sale of 26,100,000 units (“Units”) with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered (the “Public Shares”) at $10.00 per Unit generating gross proceeds of $261,000,000, which is discussed in Note 3.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 10,330,000 warrants (“Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to the Company’s sponsor, Ascendant Sponsor LP III (the “Sponsor”) generating gross proceeds of $10,330,000.
Additionally with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the closing of the sale of 3,900,000 additional Units upon receiving notice of the underwriter’s election to partially exercise its overallotment option (“Overallotment Units”), generating additional gross proceeds of $39,000,000. Since the underwriters only partially exercised their over-allotment option, on November 15, 2021 the Sponsor forfeited 3,750 shares for no consideration. Simultaneously with the exercise of the overallotment, the Company consummated the Private Placement of an additional 1,170,000 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $1,170,000.
Offering costs for the Initial Public Offering and the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option amounted to $14,172,182, consisting of $3,000,000 of underwriting fees, $10,500,000 of deferred underwriting fees payable (which are held in the Trust Account (defined below)) and $672,182 of other costs. As described in Note 6, the $10,500,000 of deferred underwriting fee payable is contingent upon the consummation of a business combination by February 15, 2023, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
Following the closing of the Initial Public Offering and partial exercise of the over-allotment, $306,000,000 ($10.20 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the Private Placement Warrants was placed in a trust account (“Trust Account”) and 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 “Investment Company Act”), with a maturity of 180 days or less or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund selected by the Company meeting the conditions of paragraphs (d)(2), (d)(3) and (d)(4)
of Rule 2a-7 of the
Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company, unt
il the earlier of (i) the completion of a business combination and (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account, as described below.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a business combination. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to complete a business combination successfully. The Company must complete one or more initial business combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the assets held in the Trust Account excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the agreement to enter into the initial business combination. However, the Company will only complete a business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. There is no assurance the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.
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