Public Offering

3 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2018

4. Public Offering

On June 16, 2015, the Company sold 20,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit (“Public Units”) in the Offering, including the sale of units upon partial exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option (see Note 2 which describes the redemptions that have occurred subsequent to the Offering). Each Public Unit consists of one of the Company’s ordinary shares, no par value, and one warrant. Each warrant entitles the registered holder to purchase one-half of one ordinary share at a price of $5.75 per half share, subject to adjustment as discussed below, at any time commencing on the later of 12 months from the closing of the Offering or 30 days after the completion of our initial Business Combination. Warrants may be exercised only for a whole number of ordinary shares. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the warrants. The warrants will expire five years after the completion of an initial Business Combination, or earlier upon redemption, as described below.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no public warrants will be exercisable for cash unless we have an effective and current registration statement covering the ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants and a current prospectus relating to such ordinary shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a registration statement covering the ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the public warrants is not effective within a specified period following the consummation of our initial Business Combination, warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when we shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a cashless basis in the same manner as if we called the warrants for redemption and required all holders to exercise their warrants on a “cashless basis.” In such event, each holder would pay the exercise price by surrendering the warrants for that number of ordinary shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of ordinary shares underlying the warrants, multiplied by the difference between the exercise price of the warrants and the “fair market value” (defined below) by (y) the fair market value. The “fair market value” for this purpose will mean the average reported last sale price of the ordinary shares for the 10 trading days ending on the trading day prior to the date of exercise. There will be no net cash settlement of the warrants under any circumstances.

In connection with the Offering, the Sponsor and its designees, and an entity controlled by one of our directors, purchased from us an aggregate of 14,050,000 warrants (‘‘Private Warrants’’) at $0.50 per warrant (for a total purchase price of $7,025,000). These purchases took place on a private placement basis simultaneously with the consummation of the Offering. Each Private Warrant is exercisable to purchase one-half of one ordinary share at $5.75 per half share. All of the proceeds received from this private placement were placed in the Trust Account.

The Private Warrants are identical to the warrants included in the units sold in the Offering except the Private Warrants are non-redeemable and may be exercised on a cashless basis, at the holder’s option, in each case so long as they continue to be held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. The purchasers have also agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of the Private Warrants or underlying securities (except to the same permitted transferees as the insider shares and provided the transferees agree to the same terms and restrictions as the permitted transferees of the Private Warrants must agree to, each as described below) until 30 days after the completion of our initial Business Combination.

Electrum Special Acquisition Corp 10-Q