ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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• | “anchor investors” are to the eleven qualified institutional buyers or institutional accredited investors which are not affiliated with us, our sponsor, our directors or any member of our management and that purchased up to an aggregate of 99% of the units offered in our initial public offering; |
• | “advisors” or our “Board of Advisors” are to Dario Meli, Michael T. Pilson, Praveen Varshney, Greg Isenberg, Michael Chen, Rob Gruen, Mark Matheny, Jim Schneider, Mary Drolet, Jim Williams and Ken Armstrong; |
• | “Companies Act” are to the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands as the same may be amended from time to time; |
• | “founder shares” are to our Class B ordinary shares initially purchased by our sponsor in a private placement prior to our initial public offering and the Class A ordinary shares that will be issued upon the automatic conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination or earlier at the option of the holders thereof (for the avoidance of doubt, such Class A ordinary shares will not be “public shares”); |
• | “initial stockholders” are to all of the shareholders immediately prior to our initial public offering, including all of the officers, advisors and directors to the extent they directly hold ordinary shares of the company; |
• | “management” or our “management team” are to our executive officers and directors; |
• | “market value” are to the volume weighted average trading price of the Class A ordinary shares during the 20-trading day period starting on the trading day prior to the day on which the company consummates an initial business combination; |
• | “ordinary shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares and our Class B ordinary shares, collectively; |
• | “private placement warrants” are to the warrants issued to our sponsor and the anchor investors in private placements simultaneously with the closing of our initial public offering and upon conversion of working capital loans, if any; |
• | “public shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares sold as part of the units in our initial public offering (whether they were purchased in our initial public offering or thereafter in the open market); |
• | “public shareholders” are to the holders of our public shares, including our sponsor and management team to the extent our sponsor and/or members of our management team purchase public shares, provided that our sponsor’s and each member of our management team’s status as a “public shareholder” will only exist with respect to such public shares; |
• | “public warrants” are to the warrants sold as part of the units in our initial public offering; |
• | “sponsor” are to Swiftmerge Holdings, LP, a Delaware limited partnership. Our sponsor is controlled by its general partner, Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC; |
• | “warrants” are to our redeemable warrants, which include the public warrants as well as the private placement warrants to the extent that they are no longer held by the initial purchasers of the private placement warrants or their permitted transferees; and |
• | “we,” “us,” “our,” “company” or “our company” are to Swiftmerge Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company. |
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• | our ability to select an appropriate target business or businesses; |
• | our ability to complete our initial business combination; |
• | our expectations around the performance of the prospective target business or businesses; |
• | our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination; |
• | our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination; |
• | our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination; |
• | our pool of prospective target businesses; |
• | our ability to consummate an initial business combination due to the uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and other events (such as an outbreak or escalation of armed hostilities or acts of war, terrorist attacks, natural disasters or other significant outbreaks of infectious diseases); |
• | the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential business combination opportunities; |
• | our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading; |
• | the lack of a market for our securities; |
• | the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance; |
• | the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; or |
• | our financial performance following our initial public offering. |
• | We are a recently incorporated company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective. |
• | Past performance by our management team, advisors or their respective affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in us. |
• | Our shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed initial business combination, which means we may complete our initial business combination even though a majority of our shareholders do not support such a combination. |
• | Your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash. |
• | If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our sponsor, anchor investors, directors, advisors and officers have agreed to vote in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote. |
• | You will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. Therefore, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss. |
• | The ability of our public shareholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into a business combination with a target. |
• | The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares could increase the probability that our initial business combination would be unsuccessful and that you would have to wait for liquidation in order to redeem your shares. |
• | The requirement that we consummate an initial business combination within 18 months after the closing of our initial public offering may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may limit the time we have in which to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets, in particular as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to complete our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders. |
• | Certain of our officers and directors have or will have direct and indirect economic interests in us and/or our sponsor after the consummation of our initial public offering and such interests may potentially conflict with those of our public shareholders as we evaluate and decide whether to recommend a potential business combination to our public shareholders. |
• | The COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on business and debt and equity markets could have a material adverse effect on our search for a business combination, and any target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination. |
• | We may not be able to consummate an initial business combination within 18 months after the closing of our initial public offering, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate. |
• | If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our sponsor, executive officers, advisors, directors and their affiliates may elect to purchase public shares or warrants, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reduce the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares or public warrants. |
• | If a shareholder fails to receive notice of our offer to redeem our public shares in connection with our initial business combination, or fails to comply with the procedures for tendering its shares, such shares may not be redeemed. |
• | As the number of special purpose acquisition companies evaluating targets increases, attractive targets may become scarcer and there may be more competition for attractive targets. This could increase the cost of our initial business combination and could even result in our inability to find a target or to consummate an initial business combination. |
• | Nasdaq may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions. |
• | You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies. |
• | After our initial business combination, it is possible that a majority of our directors and officers will live outside the United States and all of our assets will be located outside the United States; therefore investors may not be able to enforce federal securities laws or their other legal rights. |
• | Because we are not limited to evaluating a target business in a particular industry sector nor have we selected any specific target businesses with which to pursue our initial business combination, you will be unable to ascertain the merits or risks of any particular target business’s operations. |
• | We may engage the underwriter of our initial public offering or one of its respective affiliates to provide additional services to us, which may include acting as financial advisor in connection with an initial business combination or as placement agent in connection with a related financing transaction. Our underwriter is entitled to receive deferred commissions that will released from the trust only on a completion of an initial business combination. These financial incentives may cause them to have potential conflicts of interest in rendering any such additional services to us after our initial public offering, including, for example, in connection with the sourcing and consummation of an initial business combination. |
• | We may have a limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target business and, as a result, may affect our initial business combination with a target business whose management may not have the skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company. |
• | We may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete a business combination, which may adversely affect our leverage and financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our shareholders’ investment in us. |
• | We have identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021. If we are unable to develop and maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results in a timely manner, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and materially and adversely affect our business and operating results. |
ITEM 1. |
BUSINESS |
• | E-commerce |
• | End-consumer Facing Fintech |
• | Social Media & Engagement |
• | Marketplaces |
• | Digital Content |
• | Educational Technology |
• | Virtual / Augmented reality |
• | High Growth Food Concepts |
• | Gaming / Escapism |
• | Wellness / Consumer healthcare |
• | Retail Enablement |
• | On- Demand Platforms “on-demand”. |
• | Software as a Service |
• | Consumer Communication Platforms |
• | subject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the particular industry in which we operate after our initial business combination; and |
• | cause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services. |
• | We issue ordinary shares that will be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of our ordinary shares then-outstanding; |
• | Any of our directors, officers or substantial shareholders (as defined by Nasdaq rules) has a 5% or greater interest (or such persons collectively have a 10% or greater interest), directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired or otherwise and the present or potential issuance of ordinary shares could result in an increase in outstanding common shares or voting power of 5% or more; or |
• | The issuance or potential issuance of ordinary shares will result in our undergoing a change of control. |
• | the timing of the transaction, including in the event we determine shareholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek shareholder approval or doing so would place the company at a disadvantage in the transaction or result in other additional burdens on the company; |
• | the expected cost of holding a shareholder vote; |
• | the risk that the shareholders would fail to approve the proposed business combination; |
• | other time and budget constraints of the company; and |
• | additional legal complexities of a proposed business combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to shareholders. |
• | conduct the redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules; and |
• | file proxy materials with the SEC. |
• | conduct the redemptions pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act, which regulate issuer tender offers; and |
• | file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing our initial business combination which contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial business combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies. |
ITEM 1A. |
RISK FACTORS |
• | default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after an initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations; |
• | acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant; |
• | our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt is payable on demand; |
• | our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt is outstanding; |
• | our inability to pay dividends on our Class A ordinary shares; |
• | using a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our Class A ordinary shares if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes; |
• | limitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate; |
• | increased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation; and |
• | limitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, execution of our strategy and other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt. |
• | solely dependent upon the performance of a single business, property or asset; or |
• | dependent upon the development or market acceptance of a single or limited number of products, processes or services. |
• | restrictions on the nature of our investments; and |
• | restrictions on the issuance of securities, |
• | registration as an investment company with the SEC; |
• | adoption of a specific form of corporate structure; and |
• | reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other rules and regulations that we are currently not subject to. |
• | a limited availability of market quotations for our securities; |
• | reduced liquidity for our securities; |
• | a determination that our Class A ordinary shares are a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our Class A ordinary shares to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities; |
• | a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and |
• | a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future. |
• | may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors, which dilution would increase if the anti-dilution provisions in the Class B ordinary shares resulted in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than one-to-one |
• | may subordinate the rights of holders of Class A ordinary shares if preference shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded our Class A ordinary shares; |
• | could cause a change in control if a substantial number of Class A ordinary shares are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors; |
• | may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of us by diluting the share ownership or voting rights of a person seeking to obtain control of us; |
• | may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our units, Class A ordinary shares and/or warrants; and |
• | may not result in adjustment to the exercise price of our warrants. |
• | we have a Board of Directors that includes a majority of “independent directors,” as defined under the rules of Nasdaq; |
• | we have a compensation committee of our Board of Directors that is comprised entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities; and |
• | we have a nominating committee of our Board of Directors that is comprised entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities. |
• | costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations; |
• | rules and regulations regarding currency redemption; |
• | complex corporate withholding taxes on individuals; |
• | laws governing the manner in which future business combinations may be effected; |
• | exchange listing and/or delisting requirements; |
• | tariffs and trade barriers; |
• | regulations related to customs and import/export matters; |
• | local or regional economic policies and market conditions; |
• | unexpected changes in regulatory requirements; |
• | longer payment cycles; |
• | tax issues, such as tax law changes and variations in tax laws as compared to the United States; |
• | currency fluctuations and exchange controls; |
• | rates of inflation; |
• | challenges in collecting accounts receivable; |
• | cultural and language differences; |
• | employment regulations; |
• | underdeveloped or unpredictable legal or regulatory systems; |
• | corruption; |
• | protection of intellectual property; |
• | social unrest, crime, strikes, riots and civil disturbances; |
• | regime changes and political upheaval; |
• | terrorist attacks, natural disasters and wars; and |
• | deterioration of political relations with the United States. |
ITEM 1B. |
UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS |
ITEM 2. |
PROPERTIES |
ITEM 3. |
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS |
ITEM 4. |
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES |
ITEM 5. |
MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES |
(a) |
Market Information |
(b) |
Holders |
(c) |
Dividends |
(d) |
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans |
(e) |
Performance Graph |
(f) |
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Offerings |
(g) |
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers |
ITEM 6. |
[RESERVED] |
ITEM 7. |
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS |
ITEM 7A. |
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK |
ITEM 8. |
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA |
ITEM 9. |
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE |
ITEM 9A. |
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES |
ITEM 9B. |
OTHER INFORMATION |
ITEM 9C. |
DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS |
ITEM 10. |
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |
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Age |
Position | ||
George Jones |
70 | Chairman of the Board | ||
John “Sam” Bremner* |
55 | Chief Executive Officer and Director | ||
Christopher J. Munyan* |
55 | Chief Financial Officer | ||
Aston Loch* |
34 | Chief Operating Officer and Secretary | ||
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark |
76 | Director | ||
Brett Conrad |
61 | Director | ||
Dr. Leonard Makowka |
67 | Director | ||
Dr. Courtney Lyder |
55 | Director | ||
Sarah Boatman |
49 | Director |
* | Denotes an executive officer. |
• | meeting with our independent registered public accounting firm regarding, among other issues, audits, and adequacy of our accounting and control systems; |
• | monitoring the independence of the independent registered public accounting firm; |
• | verifying the rotation of the lead (or coordinating) audit partner having primary responsibility for the audit and the audit partner responsible for reviewing the audit as required by law; |
• | inquiring and discussing with management our compliance with applicable laws and regulations; |
• | pre-approving all audit services and permitted non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm, including the fees and terms of the services to be performed; |
• | appointing or replacing the independent registered public accounting firm; |
• | determining the compensation and oversight of the work of the independent registered public accounting firm (including resolution of disagreements between management and the independent registered public accounting firm regarding financial reporting) for the purpose of preparing or issuing an audit report or related work; |
• | establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by us regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or reports which raise material issues regarding our financial statements or accounting policies; |
• | monitoring compliance on a quarterly basis with the terms of our initial public offering and, if any noncompliance is identified, immediately taking all action necessary to rectify such noncompliance or otherwise causing compliance with the terms of our initial public offering; and |
• | reviewing and approving all payments made to our existing shareholders, executive officers or directors and their respective affiliates. Any payments made to members of our audit committee will be reviewed and approved by our Board of Directors, with the interested director or directors abstaining from such review and approval. |
• | should have demonstrated notable or significant achievements in business, education or public service; |
• | should possess the requisite intelligence, education and experience to make a significant contribution to the Board of Directors and bring a range of skills, diverse perspectives and backgrounds to its deliberations; and |
• | should have the highest ethical standards, a strong sense of professionalism and intense dedication to serving the interests of the shareholders. |
• | reviewing and approving on an annual basis the corporate goals and objectives relevant to our executive officers performance in light of such goals and objectives and determining and approving the remuneration (if any) of each of our executive officers based on such evaluation; |
• | reviewing and approving the compensation of all of our other Section 16 executive officers; |
• | reviewing our executive compensation policies and plans; |
• | implementing and administering our incentive compensation equity-based remuneration plans; |
• | assisting management in complying with our proxy statement and annual report disclosure requirements; |
• | approving all special perquisites, special cash payments and other special compensation and benefit arrangements for our executive officers and employees; |
• | producing a report on executive compensation to be included in our annual proxy statement; and |
• | reviewing, evaluating and recommending changes, if appropriate, to the remuneration for directors. |
• | duty to act in good faith in what the director or officer believes to be in the best interests of the company as a whole; |
• | duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose; |
• | directors should not improperly fetter the exercise of future discretion; |
• | duty to exercise powers fairly as between different sections of shareholders; |
• | duty not to put themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests; and |
• | duty to exercise independent judgment. |
Individual |
Entity |
Entity’s Business |
Affiliation | |||
John “Sam” Bremner | IVEST Consumer Partners, LLC | Consumer Private Equity | Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | |||
George Jones | IVEST Consumer Partners, LLC | Consumer Private Equity | Chairman of the Board of Director and Co-Founder | |||
Aston Loch | IVEST Consumer Partners, LLC | Consumer Private Equity | Managing Director and Co-Founder | |||
Dan Dee International | Consumer Products | Director | ||||
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark |
Enverra Capital LLC | Investment Banking | Chairman and Founder | |||
Energy Security Partners, LLC | Infrastructure Management | Director | ||||
Kolibri Global Energy, Inc. | Energy | Director | ||||
Wesley K. Clark & Associates | Strategic Consulting | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||||
University of California Los Angeles | Public Education | Senior Fellow | ||||
Brett Conrad | Longboard Capital Advisors LLC | Investment Management | Founder | |||
Dr. Courtney Lyder | American Academy of Nursing | Professional Organization | Fellow |
New York Academy of Medicine | Professional Organization | Fellow | ||||
Sarah Boatman | UBC Investment Management Trust Xbox Game Studios | Investment Management Entertainment | Director Director of Business Development and Strategy |
• | Our officers, advisors and directors are not required to, and will not, commit their full time to our affairs, which may result in a conflict of interest in allocating their time between our operations and our search for a business combination and their other businesses, on the other hand. We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination. Each of our executive officers, advisors and directors is engaged in several other business endeavors for which he is entitled to substantial compensation and has substantial time commitments, and our executive officers, advisors and directors are not obligated to contribute any specific number of hours per week to our affairs. |
• | Our sponsor subscribed for founder shares prior to the closing of our initial public offering and purchased private placement warrants in a transaction that closed simultaneously with the closing of our initial public offering. A portion of the purchase price of the private placement warrants were added to the proceeds from the closing of our initial public offering held in the trust account. |
• | Our initial shareholders have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of our initial business combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 18 months from the closing of our initial public offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares. |
ITEM 11. |
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION |
ITEM 12. |
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS |
• | each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding ordinary shares; |
• | each of our executive officers and directors that beneficially owns our ordinary shares; and |
• | all our executive officers and directors as a group. |
Name of Beneficial Owners (1) |
Class B ordinary shares |
Class A ordinary shares |
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Number of Shares Beneficially Owned (2) |
Approximate Percentage of Class |
Number of Shares Beneficially Owned |
Approximate Percentage of Class |
Approximate Percentage of Voting Control |
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Swiftmerge Holdings, LP (our sponsor) (3) |
3,375,000 | 60 | % | — | — | % | 12 | % | ||||||||||||
John “Sam” Bremner (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
George Jones (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
Aston Loch (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
Christopher J. Munyan (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
Brett Conrad (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
Dr. Leonard Makowka (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
Dr. Courtney Lyder (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
Sarah Boatman (4) |
— | — | % | — | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||||
All officers and directors as a group (nine individuals) |
3,375,000 | 60 | % | — | — | % | 12 | % | ||||||||||||
Sculptor Capital LP (5) |
— | — | % | 1,980,000 | 8.8 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
Farallon Capital Partners, L.P. (6) |
— | — | % | 1,980,000 | 8.8 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
Shaolin Capital Management LLC (7) |
— | — | % | 1,980,000 | 8.8 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. (8) |
— | — | % | 1,980,000 | 8.8 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
Sandia Investment Management L.P. (9) |
— | — | % | 1,980,000 | 8.8 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
Antara Capital LP (10) |
— | — | % | 1,980,000 | 8.8 | % | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
CaaS Capital Management LP (11) |
— | — | % | 1,880,000 | 8.4 | % | 6.7 | % |
* | Less than one percent. |
(1) | Unless otherwise noted, the business address of each of the following is Executive Suite 200 - 100 Park Royal, West Vancouver, BC V7T 1A2. |
(2) | Interests shown consist solely of founder shares, classified as Class B ordinary shares. Such shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of the consummation of our initial business combination on a one-for-one |
(3) | Swiftmerge Holdings, LP, our sponsor, is the record holder of such shares. Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC, its general partner, exercises voting and dispositive power over all securities held by our sponsor. |
Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC is managed by a board of managers consisting of John “Sam” Bremner, George Jones and Aston Loch. Under the so-called “rule of three,” if voting and dispositive decisions regarding an entity’s securities are made by three or more individuals, and a voting or dispositive decision requires the approval of a majority of those individuals, then none of the individuals is deemed a beneficial owner of the entity’s securities. This is the situation with regard to Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC. Based upon the foregoing analysis, no individual manager of Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC exercises voting or dispositive control over any of the securities held by our sponsor, even those in which it directly holds a pecuniary interest. Accordingly, none of them will be deemed to have or share beneficial ownership of such shares. Accordingly, Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC may be deemed to beneficially own the reported shares held directly by Swiftmerge Holdings, LP. Swiftmerge Holdings GP, LLC disclaims beneficial ownership of any securities held by our sponsor except to the extent of such entity’s pecuniary interest therein. |
(4) | Does not include any shares indirectly owned by this individual as a result of a passive economic interest in our sponsor. Each of these individuals disclaims beneficial ownership of any shares except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein. |
(5) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed on December 22, 2021, by Sculptor Capital LP (“Sculptor”), a Delaware limited partnership, Sculptor is the principal investment manager to a number of private funds and discretionary accounts (collectively, the “Accounts”); Sculptor Capital II LP (“Sculptor-II”), a Delaware limited partnership that is wholly owned by Sculptor, also serves as the investment manager to certain of the Accounts. The Class A ordinary shares reported in this Schedule 13G are held in the Accounts managed by Sculptor and Sculptor-II; Sculptor Capital Holding Corporation (“SCHC”), a Delaware corporation, serves as the general partner of Sculptor; Sculptor Capital Holding II LLC (“SCHC-II”), a Delaware limited liability company that is wholly owned by Sculptor, serves as the general partner of Sculptor-II; Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. (“SCU”), a Delaware limited liability company, is a holding company that is the sole shareholder of SCHC and the ultimate parent company of Sculptor and Sculptor-II; Sculptor Master Fund, Ltd. (“SCMF”) is a Cayman Islands company. Sculptor is the investment adviser to SCMF; Sculptor Special Funding, LP (“NRMD”) is a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership that is wholly owned by SCMF; Sculptor Credit Opportunities Master Fund, Ltd. (“SCCO”) is a Cayman Islands company. Sculptor is the investment adviser to SCCO; Sculptor SC II LP (“NJGC”) is a Delaware limited partnership. Sculptor-II is the investment adviser to NJGC; Sculptor Enhanced Master Fund, Ltd. (“SCEN”) is a Cayman Islands company. Sculptor is the investment adviser to SCEN. The address of the principal business offices of Sculptor, Sculptor-II, SCHC, SCHC-II, SCU, SCMF, NRMD, SCEN, SCCO and NJGC is 9 West 57 Street, 39 Floor, New York, NY 10019. |
(6) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G/A filed on February 14, 2022 by Farallon Capital Partners, L.P., a California limited partnership (“FCP”). Includes 291,060 Class A ordinary shares held by FCP, 433,818 Class A ordinary shares held by Farallon Capital Institutional Partners, L.P., a California limited partnership (“FCIP”), 99,396 Class A ordinary shares held by Farallon Capital Institutional Partners II, L.P., a California limited partnership (“FCIP II”), 57,420 Class A ordinary shares held by Farallon Capital Institutional Partners III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“FCIP III”), 70,092 Class A ordinary shares held by Four Crossings Institutional Partners V, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“FCIP V”), 863,280 Class A ordinary shares held by Farallon Capital Offshore Investors II, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“FCOI II”), 137,016 Class A ordinary shares held by Farallon Capital F5 Master I, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“F5MI”), 27,918 Class A ordinary shares held by Farallon Capital (AM) Investors, L.P. (“FCAMI” and together with FCP, FCIP, FCIP II, FCIP III, FCIP V, FCOI II, F5MI, the “Farallon Funds”), as managed by Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the “Management Company”). Farallon Partners, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the “Farallon General Partner”), the general partner of each of FCP, FCIP, FCIP II, FCIP III, FCOI II and FCAMI, and the sole member of Farallon Institutional (GP) V, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the “FCIP V General Partner”), with respect to the Class A ordinary shares held by each of the Farallon Funds other than F5MI. Farallon F5 (GP), L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (the “F5MI General Partner”), which is the general partner of F5MI, may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of all such shares owned by F5MI. Philip D. Dreyfuss, Michael B. Fisch, Richard B. Fried, Varun N. Gehani, Nicolas Giauque, David T. Kim, Michael G. Linn, Rajiv A. Patel, Thomas G. Roberts, Jr., William Seybold, Andrew J. M. Spokes, John R. Warren and Mark C. Wehrly (collectively, the “Farallon Individual Reporting Persons”), as managing members of both the Farallon General Partner and the Management Company, and managers of the FCIP V General Partner and the F5MI General Partner, with the power to exercise investment discretion, may each be deemed to be a beneficial owner of all such shares owned by the Farallon Funds and the Managed Accounts. Each of the Management Company, the Farallon General Partner, the FCIP V General Partner, the F5MI General Partner, and the Farallon Individual Reporting Persons disclaims any beneficial ownership of any such shares. The address for the persons and entities listed in this footnote is c/o Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C., One Maritime Plaza, Suite 2100, San Francisco, CA 94111. |
(7) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 11, 2022. Shaolin Capital Management LLC, a company incorporated under the laws of State of Delaware, serves as the investment advisor to Shaolin Capital Partners Master Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company, MAP 214 Segregated Portfolio, a segregated portfolio of LMA SPC, and DS Liquid DIV RVA SCM LLC. The address of the principal business office of Shaolin Capital Management LLC and such managed funds is 7610 NE 4th Court, Suite 104, Miami, FL 33138. |
(8) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 11, 2022. Polar Asset Management Partners Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of Ontario, Canada, serves as the investment advisor to Polar Multi-Strategy Master Fund, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“PMSMF”) with respect to the Class A ordinary shares directly held by PMSMF. The address of the principal business office of Polar Asset Management Partners Inc and PMSMF is 6 York Street, Suite 2900, Toronto, ON, Canada M5J 0E6. |
(9) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2022. The Class A ordinary shares are beneficially owned by Sandia Investment Management L.P. (“Sandia”) in its capacity as investment manager to a private investment vehicle and separately managed accounts. Timothy J. Sichler serves as managing member of the general partner of Sandia, and in such capacity may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own the securities reported herein. The address of the principal business office of Sandia and its managed private investment vehicle accounts, and Mr. Sichler, is 201 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108. |
(10) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on March 3, 2022, each of the following persons has shared voting and dispositive power over 1,980,000 Class A ordinary shares of the company: Antara Capital LP, a Delaware limited partnership and the investment manager of Antara Capital Total Return SPAC Master Fund LP; Antara Capital GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the general partner of Antara Capital LP; and Himanshu Gulati, the managing member of Antara Capital GP LLC. The business address of each of the foregoing persons is 55 Hudson Yards, 47th Floor, Suite C, New York, NY 10001. |
(11) | Based solely on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on March 21, 2022, each of the following persons has shared voting and dispositive power over 1,880,000 Class A ordinary shares of the company: CaaS Capital Management LP, a Delaware limited partnership; CaaS Capital Management GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the general partner of CaaS Capital Management LP; and Siufu Fu, the managing member of CaaS Capital Management GP LLC. The business address of each of the foregoing persons is 800 Third Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10022. |
ITEM 13. |
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE |
ITEM 14. |
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES |
ITEM 15. |
EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SCHEDULES |
(a) | The following documents are filed as part of this Form 10-K: |
(1) | Financial Statements: Our consolidated financial statements are listed in the “Index to Consolidated Financial Statements” on page F-1. |
(2) | Financial Statement Schedules: None. |
(3) | Exhibits |
Exhibit No. |
Description | |
31.2 | Certification of the Chief Financial Officer required by Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a).* | |
32.1 | Certification of the Chief Executive Officer required by Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. 1350.** | |
32.2 | Certification of the Chief Financial Officer required by Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. 1350.** | |
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(1) | Incorporated by reference to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 17, 2021. |
(2) | Incorporated by reference to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on March 23, 2021. |
(3) | Incorporated by reference to the registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on October 1, 2021. |
(4) | Incorporated by reference to the registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on October 22, 2021. |
(5) | Incorporated by reference to the registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on October 25, 2021. |
(6) | Incorporated by reference to the registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed with the SEC on December 2, 2021. |
ITEM 16. |
FORM 10-K SUMMARY |
SWIFTMERGE ACQUISITION CORP. |
/s/ John Bremner |
Name: John Bremner Title: Chief Executive Officer and Director |
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/s/ George Jones |
Chairman of the Board | April 8, 2022 | ||
George Jones | ||||
/s/ John Bremner |
Chief Executive Officer and Director | April 8, 2022 | ||
John Bremner | ( Principal Executive Officer |
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/s/ Christopher J. Munyan |
Chief Financial Officer | April 8, 2022 | ||
Christopher J. Munyan | (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
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/s/ Aston Loch |
Chief Operating Officer | April 8, 2022 | ||
Aston Loch | ||||
/s/ General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark |
Director | April 8, 2022 | ||
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark | ||||
/s/ Brett Conrad |
Director | April 8, 2022 | ||
Brett Conrad | ||||
/s/ Dr. Leonard Makowka |
Director | April 8, 2022 | ||
Dr. Leonard Makowka | ||||
/s/ Dr. Courtney Lyder |
Director | April 8, 2022 | ||
Dr. Courtney Lyder | ||||
/s/ Sarah Boatman |
Director | April 8, 2022 | ||
Sarah Boatman |
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• | at any time after the warrants become exercisable; |
• | upon a minimum of |
• | if, and only if, the reported last sale price of the Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $ |
• | if, and only if, there is a current registration statement in effect with respect to the Class A ordinary shares underlying such warrants. |
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