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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM
10-Q
 
 
(Mark One)
☒
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2023
OR
 
☐
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
 
Alpha Healthcare Acquisition Corp. III
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
 
Delaware
  
001 - 40228
  
86-1645738
(State or other jurisdiction
  
(Commission
  
(IRS Employer
of incorporation)
  
File Number)
  
Identification No.)
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 5th Floor
New York, New York 10036
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (646)
494-3296
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
 
 
Title of each class
  
Trading
Symbol(s)
  
Name of each exchange
on which registered
Units, each consisting of one share of Class A Common Stock and
one-fourth
of one Redeemable Warrant
  
ALPAU
  
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share
  
ALPA
  
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Redeemable Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50
  
ALPAW
  
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  ☒    No  ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation
S-T
(§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated
filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule
12b-2
of the Exchange Act.
 
Large accelerated filer   ☐    Accelerated filer   ☐
Non-accelerated filer
   ☒    Smaller reporting company   ☒
     Emerging growth company   ☒
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule
12b-2
of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐
As of May 12, 2023, there were 15,907,985 shares of Class A common stock and 3,861,026 shares of Class B common stock outstanding.
 
 
 

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Alpha Healthcare Acquisition Corp. III

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q

Table of Contents

 

         Page
No.		  
  PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION   

Item 1.

   Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements      1  
  Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2023 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2022      1  
  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)      2  
  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit) (Unaudited)      3  
  Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)      4  
  Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)      5  

Item 2.

   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations      19  

Item 3.

   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk      22  

Item 4.

   Controls and Procedures      23  
  PART II. OTHER INFORMATION   

Item 1.

   Legal Proceedings      24  

Item 1A.

   Risk Factors      24  

Item 2.

   Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities      26  

Item 3.

   Defaults Upon Senior Securities      26  

Item 4.

   Mine Safety Disclosures      26  

Item 5.

   Other Information      26  

Item 6.

   Exhibits      27  

SIGNATURES

     28  

 

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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
    
March 31, 2023
    
December 31, 2022
  
     (unaudited)        
Assets
                 
Current assets:
                 
Cash
    $ 16,133     $ 187,664  
Prepaid expenses
      111,079       97,538  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Total current assets
      127,212       285,202  
Marketable securities held in Trust Account
      158,368,990       156,693,598  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Total assets
   
$
158,496,202
 
  
$
156,978,800
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)
                 
Current liabilities:
                 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
      1,817,299       1,258,337  
Due to related party
      71,024       31,979  
Income taxes payable
      734,526       391,198  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Total current liabilities
      2,622,849       1,681,514  
Deferred underwriting fees payable
      —         5,405,436  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Total liabilities
      2,622,849       7,086,950  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 5)
                 
Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 15,444,103 shares issued and outstanding subject to possible redemption
      157,180,994       155,909,529  
Shareholders’ equity (deficit):
                 
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding
      —         —    
Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 463,882 not subject to possible redemption issued and outstanding (excluding 15,444,103 shares subject to possible redemption)
      46       46  
Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; 3,861,026 shares issued and outstanding
      386       386  
Accumulated deficit
      (1,308,073 )      (6,018,111 ) 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Total shareholders’ deficit
      (1,307,641 )      (6,017,679 ) 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Deficit
   
$
158,496,202
 
  
$
156,978,800
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
1
ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
 
    
For the three months ended March 31,
  
    
2023
    
2022
  
General and administrative expenses
    $ 756,466     $ 535,142  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Loss from operations
      (756,466 )      (535,142 ) 
Other income:
                 
Dividend and interest income
      1,675,861       7,612  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Income (Loss) before income taxes
      919,395       (527,530 ) 
Income tax provision
      (343,328 )      —    
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Net Income (Loss)
    $ 576,067     $ (527,530 ) 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption
      15,444,103       15,444,103  
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share, Class A common stock subject to possible redemption
(see Note 2)
    $ 0.03     $ (0.03 ) 
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock
      463,882       463,882  
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share, Class A common stock (see Note 2)
    $ 0.03     $ (0.03 ) 
Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock
      3,861,026       3,861,026  
Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share, Class B common stock (see Note 2)
    $ 0.03     $ (0.03 ) 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
2
ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit)
For the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022
(Unaudited)
 
    
Common Stock Subject to
Possible Redemption
           
Common Stock
           
Total
  
    
Class A
           
Class A
     
Class B
     
Accumulated
    
Shareholders’
Equity
  
    
Shares
     
Amount
           
Shares
     
Amount
     
Shares
     
Amount
     
Deficit
    
(Deficit)
  
Balance—January 1, 2023
   
 
15,444,103
 
   
$
155,909,529
 
   
 
   
 
463,882
 
   
$
46
 
   
 
3,861,026
 
   
$
386
 
   
$
(6,018,111
) 
  
$
(6,017,679
) 
Deferred underwriting fees waiver
                     
 
                                          5,405,436       5,405,436  
Change in redemption value of Class A Common stock subject to possible redemption due to dividend and interest income earned
      —          1,271,465              —          —          —          —          (1,271,465 )      (1,271,465 ) 
Net income
      —          —       
 
      —          —          —          —          576,067       576,067  
    
 
 
     
 
 
          
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
    
 
 
  
Balance—March 31, 2023
   
 
15,444,103
 
   
$
  157,180,994
 
        
 
463,882
 
   
$
46
 
   
 
3,861,026
 
   
$
386
 
   
$
(1,308,073
) 
  
$
(1,307,641
) 
    
 
 
     
 
 
          
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
    
 
 
  
 
    
Common Stock Subject to
Possible Redemption
           
Common Stock
           
Total
  
    
Class A
           
Class A
     
Class B
     
Accumulated
    
Shareholders’
Equity
  
    
Shares
     
Amount
           
Shares
     
Amount
     
Shares
     
Amount
     
Deficit
    
(Deficit)
  
Balance—January 1, 2022
   
 
15,144,103
 
   
$
154,449,121
 
         
 
463,882
 
   
$
46
 
   
 
3,861,026
 
   
$
386
 
   
$
(4,762,700
) 
  
$
(4,762,268
) 
Accretion to trust earnings for Class A Common stock subject to possible redemption
      —          7,612     
 
      —          —          —          —          (7,612 )      (7,612 ) 
Net loss
      —          —       
 
      —          —          —          —          (527,530 )      (527,530 ) 
    
 
 
     
 
 
          
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
    
 
 
  
Balance—March 31, 2022
   
 
15,144,103
 
   
$
  154,456,733
 
        
 
463,882
 
   
$
46
 
   
 
3,861,026
 
   
$
386
 
   
$
(5,297,842
) 
  
$
(5,297,410
) 
    
 
 
     
 
 
          
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
    
 
 
  
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
3
ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
 
    
For the three
months ended
March 31,
2023
    
For the three
months ended
March 31,
2022
  
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
                 
Net income (loss)
    $ 576,067     $ (527,530 ) 
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities
                 
Interest earned in Trust Account
      (1,675,392 )      (7,612 ) 
Changes in current assets and liabilities:
                 
Prepaid expenses
      (13,541 )      37,637  
Accrued expenses
      558,962       346,993  
Due to related party
      39,045       (1,162 ) 
Income taxes payable
      343,328       —    
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Net cash used in operating activities
      (171,531 )      (151,674 ) 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
                 
Payment of offering costs
      —         (27,785 ) 
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Net Change in Cash
      (171,531 )      (179,459 ) 
Cash – beginning of period
      187,664       774,192  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Cash—end of period
    $ 16,133     $ 594,733  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Supplemental Disclosure of cash flow information:
                 
Deferred underwriting fees waiver
    $ 5,405,436       —    
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Offering costs included in accrued offering costs
    $ —       $ 84,700  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
Accretion of the interest earned in Trust Account
    $ 1,271,465     $ 7,612  
    
 
 
    
 
 
  
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
4
ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 — Organization and Business Operations
Alpha Healthcare Acquisition Corp. III (the “Company”) is a blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses that the Company has not yet identified (“Business Combination”). On January 4, 2023, the Company entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”) with Candy Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), and Carmell Therapeutics Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Carmell”).
The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
As of March 31, 2023, the Company has not yet commenced any operations. All activity from January 21, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2023 relates to the Company’s formation, the IPO (as defined below), and activities necessary to identify a potential target and prepare for a Business Combination. Since our IPO, we have not generated any operating revenues, and do not expect to generate any operating revenues, until at least after completion of our initial Business Combination, if at all.
The registration statement for the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO”) was declared effective on July 26, 2021. On July 29, 2021 (“IPO Date”), the Company consummated the IPO of 15,000,000 units (the “Public Units” and, with respect to the shares of Class A common stock included in the Units sold, the “Public Shares”), at $10.00 per Public Unit, generating gross proceeds of $150,000,000, which is described in Note 3. In connection with the IPO, the Company also granted the underwriters a
45-day
option to purchase an additional 2,250,000 Public Units at the IPO price.
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated the sale of 455,000 units (each, a “Private Placement Unit” and, collectively, the “Private Placement Units”) at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit in a private placement to AHAC Sponsor III LLC (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds of $4,550,000, which is described in Note 4. Each Private Placement Unit contains one share of Class A common stock (the “Private Placement Share”) and one fourth of one warrant (one whole warrant, a “Private Placement Warrant”).
At the IPO Date, transaction costs amounted to $3,461,151, consisting of $3,000,000 of underwriting fees and $461,151 of other offering costs. The Company also accrued underwriting fees of $5,250,000 that will be paid only if a Business Combination is entered into. In addition, cash of $1,550,000 was held outside of the Trust Account (as defined below) and was available for the payment of offering costs and for working capital purposes.
At the IPO Date, the Sponsor also transferred to certain investors a total of 225,000 of Founders shares (Note 4)
(“Non-Risk
Incentive Private Shares”) as compensation for their commitment to purchase the Public Units sold in the IPO. The Company estimated the aggregate fair value of these shares to be $1,186,448, or $5.27 per share. The fair value of the
Non-Risk
Incentive Private Shares was determined to be a contribution from the Sponsor for offering costs in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5T. These offering costs were allocated to the Public Units and charged to shareholder’s equity upon the completion of the IPO.
At the IPO Date, the Sponsor also transferred to certain other investors the total of 600,900 of Founders shares (“Risk Incentive Private Shares”) as a compensation for their commitment to acquire at least 9.9% of the Public Units sold in the IPO. These Risk Incentive Private Shares are subject to forfeiture if the investors sell their Public Units prior to the closing of the initial Business Combination. The fair value of these Risk Incentive Private Shares is equal to the fair value of the
Non-Risk
Incentive Private Shares. Due to the high probability of forfeiture, the fair value of these Risk Incentive Private Shares will be recorded as a capital contribution from the Sponsor upon the closing of the initial Business Combination.
On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters partially exercised their overallotment option and purchased 444,103 additional Public Units for a total amount of $4,441,030 resulting from the partial over-allotment exercise. The Company also issued 8,882 Private Placement Units, generating additional $88,820 in gross proceeds. Transaction costs related to the Underwriters’ partial over-allotment exercise amounted to $92,070, consisting of $88,820 of underwriting fees and $3,250 of other offering costs. The Company has also accrued additional underwriting fees of $155,436 that will be paid only if a business combination is entered into.
 
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The total issuance costs of $10,145,105 were allocated to the Class A common shares subject to possible redemption and the Public Warrants based on their relative fair values with $9,905,857 to the Class A shares subject to possible redemption and $239,247 to the Public Warrants.
Following the closing of the IPO on July 29, 2021, an amount of $154,441,030 ($10.00 per Public Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Public Units in the IPO, including the Public Units sold upon the exercise of the over-allotment option, and the sale of the Private Placement Units was placed in a trust account (the “Trust Account”), invested in U.S. government securities, 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 meeting the conditions of Rule
2a-7
of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), as determined by the Company. Except for the withdrawal of interest income to pay the income, the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation and subject to the requirements of law and regulation, provides that none of the funds held in the Trust Account will be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (a) the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination, (b) the redemption of the public shares if the Company is unable to consummate an initial Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Public Offering (the “Combination Period”), subject to applicable law, and (c) the redemption of the Company’s public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of its public shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination within the Combination Period or with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or
pre-initial
Business Combination activity. The proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of the Company’s creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of the Company’s public shareholders.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Public Offering, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination.
The Company’s Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the assets held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the amount of deferred underwriting discounts held in trust and taxes payable on the interest earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the signing an agreement to enter into a Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete an initial Business Combination if the post-business combination 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 that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination.
The Company will provide its public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of the initial Business Combination either (i) in connection with a shareholder meeting called to approve the initial Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a proposed initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion. The shareholders will be entitled to redeem their shares at a
per-share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest (net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be $10.00 per public share.
The Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company has net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 either immediately prior to or upon consummation of a Business Combination and, if the Company seeks shareholder approval, a majority of the issued and outstanding shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination.
If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the Company will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a
per-share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any); and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining shareholders and its board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case, to the Company’s obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to the Company’s warrants, which will expire worthless if the Company fails to consummate an initial Business Combination within the Combination Period.
 
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The Sponsor has agreed (i) to waive its redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares and public shares held by it in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination, (ii) to waive its rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Founder Shares or Private Placement Shares held by it if the Company fails to complete its Business Combination within the Combination Period, although the Sponsor will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any public shares it holds if the Company fails to complete its Business Combination within such time period, (iii) not to propose any amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation that would modify the substance or timing of its obligation to redeem 100% of the public shares if the Company does not complete its initial Business Combination within the Combination Period or with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or
pre-initial
Business Combination activity, unless the Company provides its public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares, and (iv) to vote any Founder Shares held by it and any public shares purchased during or after the Public Offering in favor of the Company’s initial Business Combination.
The Company’s Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a vendor for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amounts in the Trust Account to below the lesser of (i) $10.00 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account if less than $10.00 per share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case less taxes payable, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account nor will it apply to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. However, the Company has not asked the Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor has it independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and the Company believes that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of the Company. Therefore, the Company cannot assure you that the Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations. None of the Company’s officers or directors will indemnify the Company for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by vendors and prospective target businesses.
Business Combination Agreement—Proposed Business Combination with Carmell Therapeutics Corporation
On January 4, 2023, the Company entered into the Business Combination Agreement with Merger Sub and Carmell. The Business Combination Agreement provides, among other things, that on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, Merger Sub will merge with and into Carmell, with Carmell surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Carmell Business Combination”). Upon the closing of the Carmell Business Combination (the “Closing”), it is anticipated that the Company will change its name to “Carmell Therapeutics Corporation” and its ticker symbol on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) is expected to change to “CTCX” and have the Class A common stock listed for trading with such trading ticker.
The below description of the Business Combination Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby is not complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the actual agreement, a copy of which is filed with the Current Report on Form
8-K
filed on January 4, 2023, as Exhibit 2.1. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein will have the meanings given to them in the Business Combination Agreement.
The Business Combination Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby were approved by the boards of directors of each of the Company and Carmell. Under the Business Combination Agreement, the Company will acquire all of the outstanding equity interests of Carmell in exchange for shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, based on an implied Carmell equity value of $150,000,000, to be paid to Carmell stockholders at the effective time of the Carmell Business Combination.
Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, at or prior to the effective time of the Business Combination, each option and warrant exercisable for Carmell equity that is outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Business Combination shall be assumed by the Company and continue in full force and effect on the same terms and conditions as are currently applicable to such options and warrants, subject to adjustments to exercise price and number of shares of Class A common stock issued upon exercise.
 
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The parties to the Business Combination Agreement have agreed to customary representations and warranties for transactions of this type. In addition, the parties to the Business Combination Agreement agreed to be bound by certain customary covenants for transactions of this type, including, among others, covenants with respect to the conduct of Carmell, the Company and their respective subsidiaries during the period between execution of the Business Combination Agreement and Closing. The representations, warranties, agreements and covenants of the parties set forth in the Business Combination Agreement will terminate at Closing, except for those covenants and agreements that, by their terms, contemplate performance after Closing. Each of the parties to the Business Combination Agreement has agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to take or cause to be taken all actions and things necessary to consummate and expeditiously implement the Carmell Business Combination.
The Business Combination Agreement may be terminated under certain customary and limited circumstances at any time prior to the Closing, including, without limitation, (i) by the Company or Carmell, if (a) the Closing has not occurred by June 30, 2023 and (b) a breach of the covenants or obligations of the other party (Carmell, on one hand, or the Company or Merger Sub, on the other hand) seeking to terminate the Business Combination Agreement did not proximately cause the failure to consummate the Business Combination; (ii) by the Company or Carmell, in the event an applicable governmental, regulatory or administrative authority has issued a final and
non-appealable
order having the effect of permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Carmell Business Combination; (iii) by the Company or Carmell, if Carmell or the Company or Merger Sub, as applicable, has breached any of its respective representations, warranties, agreements or covenants contained in the Business Combination Agreement, such failure or breach would render certain conditions precedent to the Closing incapable of being satisfied, and such breach or failure is not cured within 30 days of written notice thereof; (iv) by the Company or Carmell if the Company’s stockholder meeting to vote on the Carmell Business Combination has been held and the Company stockholder approval has not been obtained; (v) by the Company, if the Carmell stockholder approval is not obtained within five (5) business days following the time at which a registration statement on Form
S-4
relating to the approval by the Company’s stockholders of the Carmell Business Combination filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by the Company is declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or (vi) by mutual written consent of the Company and Carmell.
If the Business Combination Agreement is validly terminated, none of the parties to the Business Combination Agreement will have any liability or any further obligation under the Business Combination Agreement other than customary confidentiality obligations, except in the case of Willful Breach or Fraud (each, as defined in the Business Combination Agreement).
Liquidity and Going Concern
As of March 31, 2023, the Company had cash outside the Trust Account of $16,133 available for working capital needs. All remaining cash held in the Trust Account is generally unavailable for the Company’s use, prior to an initial business combination, and is restricted for use either in a Business Combination or to redeem common stock. Up to $100,000 of interest and dividends earned in the Trust Account are available to pay dissolution expenses, if necessary, and the Company may withdraw dividend and interest income earned in the Trust Account to pay income and franchise taxes. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, none of the principal amount in the Trust Account was withdrawn as described above.
As of March 31, 2023, the Company had cash, negative working capital and an accumulated deficit of $16,133, ($2,495,637
)
 
and $1,308,073, respectively. The $16,133 held outside of the Trust Account may not be sufficient to allow the Company to operate until the earlier of the consummation of the Business Combination or the date the Company is required to liquidate, no later than July 29, 2023. The Company may need to raise additional capital through loans or additional investments from its Sponsor, stockholders, officers, directors, or third parties. The Company’s officers, directors and Sponsor may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion, to meet the Company’s working capital needs. Accordingly, the Company may not be able to obtain additional financing. If the Company is unable to raise additional capital, it may be required to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of a potential transaction, and reducing overhead expenses. The Company cannot provide any assurance that new financing will be available to it on commercially acceptable terms, if at all.
 
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The Company has until July 29, 2023 to consummate the initial Business Combination. It is uncertain whether the Company will be able to consummate the proposed Business Combination by this date. If a Business Combination is not consummated by this date, then, unless that time is extended, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of the Company. Extension of the business combination period would require an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Amending the amended and restated certificate of incorporation will require the approval of holders of 65% of the Company’s common stock, and, in connection with this, amending the warrant agreement will require a vote of holders of at least a majority of the public warrants (which may include public warrants acquired by the Sponsor or its affiliates in this offering or thereafter in the open market). In addition, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires the Company to provide its public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares for cash if the Company proposes an amendment to the amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of its obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial business combination or certain amendments to the charter prior thereto or to redeem 100% of the Company’s public shares if the Company does not complete the initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the IPO or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to stockholders’ rights or
pre-initial
business combination activity.
As disclosed in the Company’s Form
8-K
filed with the SEC on March 29, 2023, the Company received a written notice (the “Notice”) from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Company was not in compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(3), which requires the Company to have at least 300 public holders for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Minimum Public Holders Rule”). The Notice is only a notification of deficiency, not of imminent delisting, and has no current effect on the listing or trading of the Company’s securities on Nasdaq Capital Market.
The Notice gave the Company 45 calendar days to submit a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. The Company submitted a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule within the required timeframe. If Nasdaq accepts the Company’s plan, Nasdaq may grant the Company an extension of up to 180 calendar days from the date of the Notice to evidence compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. If Nasdaq does not accept the Company’s plan, the Company will have the opportunity to appeal the decision in front of a Nasdaq Hearings Panel.
These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern until the earlier of the consummation of the Business Combination or the date the Company is required to liquidate, no later than July, 29, 2023. These financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recovery of the recorded assets or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
The Company believes that the proceeds raised in the IPO and the funds potentially available from loans from the sponsor or any of their affiliates will be sufficient to allow the Company to meet the expenditures required for operating its business. However, if the estimate of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking
in-depth
due diligence and negotiating a Business Combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, the Company may have insufficient funds available to operate its business prior to the initial Business Combination. Moreover, the Company may need to obtain additional financing either to complete the Business Combination or because the Company becomes obligated to redeem a significant number of public shares upon completion of the Business Combination, in which case the Company may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such Business Combination.
Note 2 — Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form
10-Q
and Article 8 of Regulation
S-X
of the SEC. Certain information or footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes necessary for a complete presentation of financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of a normal recurring nature, which are necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results and cash flows for the periods presented. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
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The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2022 included in the Company’s Form
10-K
as filed with the SEC on March 17, 2023. The interim results for the three months ended March 31, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2023 or for any future periods.
Emerging Growth Company Status
The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012, (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to
non-emerging
growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Marketable Securities Held in Trust Account
At March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the assets held in the Trust Account were substantially held in a money market fund which is comprised of U.S. Treasury Bills, U.S. Treasury Coupons, and U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. Through March 31, 2023, the Company has not withdrawn any dividend and interest income from the Trust Account to pay its tax obligations.
Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption
The Company accounts for its Class A common stock subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” Class A common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) are classified as a liability instrument and are measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) are classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as shareholders’ equity. The Company’s common stock feature certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, 15,444,103 shares of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption are classified in temporary equity outside of the shareholders’ equity (deficit) section of the Company’s balance sheet and were immediately accreted to redemption value at the IPO Date.
 
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Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company issues warrants to its investors and accounts for warrant instruments as either equity-classified or liability-classified instruments based on an assessment of the specific terms of the warrants and applicable authoritative guidance in ASC 480 and ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”). The assessment considers whether the warrants are freestanding financial instruments pursuant to ASC 480, meet the definition of a liability pursuant to ASC 480, and meet all of the requirements for equity classification under ASC 815, including whether the warrants are indexed to the Company’s own stock and whether the holders of the warrants could potentially require “net cash settlement” in a circumstance outside of the Company’s control, among other conditions for equity classification.
The Public Warrants (see Note 3) and Private Warrants (see Note 4) were accounted for as equity as these instruments meet all of the requirements for equity classification under ASC 815.
Business Combination Costs
Costs incurred in relation to a potential Business Combination may include legal, accounting, and other expenses. Any such costs are expensed as incurred.
Net Income (Loss) per Common Stock share
The Company complies with accounting and disclosure requirements of ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per Share.” Net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of Common Stock shares outstanding during the period.
The Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations include a presentation of net income (loss) per share subject to redemption in a manner similar to the
two-class
method of income per share. With respect to the accretion of the Class A Shares subject to possible redemption and consistent with ASC
480-10-S99-3A,
the Company deemed the fair value of the Class A Common shares subject to possible redemption to approximate the contractual redemption value and the accretion has no impact on the calculation of net income (loss) per share.
The Company’s Public Warrants (see Note 6) and Private Placement Warrants (see Note 6) could, potentially, be exercised or converted into common shares and then share in the earnings of the Company. However, these warrants were excluded when calculating diluted income (loss) per share because such inclusion would be anti-dilutive for the periods presented. As a result, diluted income (loss) per share is the same as basic income (loss) per share for the period presented.
A reconciliation of net income per share is as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2023:
 
    
Class A subject to
possible
redemption
     
Class A
     
Class B
  
Allocation of undistributable income
      450,040        13,517        112,510  
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
Net income to ordinary shares
   
$
450,040
 
   
$
13,517
 
   
$
112,510
 
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted
      15,444,103        463,882        3,861,026  
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
Basic and diluted net income per share
    $ 0.03      $ 0.03      $ 0.03  
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
A reconciliation of net income per share is as follows for the three months ended March 31, 2022:
 
    
Class A subject to
possible
redemption
     
Class A
     
Class B
  
Allocation of undistributable losses
      (412,121 )       (12,379 )       (103,030 ) 
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
Net (loss) to Common shares
   
$
(412,121)
 
   
$
 (12,379)
 
   
$
 (103,030)
 
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted
      15,144,103        463,882        3,861,026  
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
Basic and diluted net loss per share
    $ (0.03 )     $ (0.03 )     $ (0.03 ) 
    
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
  
 
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Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under ASC Topic 820, “Fair Value Measurement,” approximates the carrying amounts represented in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet, primarily due to their short-term nature.
Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received for sale of an asset or paid for transfer of a liability, in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). These tiers include:
 
  •  
Level 1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical instruments in active markets;
 
  •  
Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and
 
  •  
Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable.
In some circumstances, the inputs used to measure fair value might be categorized within different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In those instances, the fair value measurement is categorized in its entirety in the fair value hierarchy based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, the Company held $158,368,990 and $156,693,598, respectively, of Level 1 financial instruments, which are the Company’s marketable securities held in the Trust Account. These assets are measured at fair value on a recurring basis based on quoted market prices for identical securities in the active market.
The Company did not hold any assets or liabilities requiring remeasurement on a recurring or nonrecurring basis as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022.
Income Taxes
The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes under ASC 740, “Income Taxes.” Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statements carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that included the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
ASC 740 prescribes recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. There were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties related to any uncertain tax benefits as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022. The Company is not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.
 
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Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit risk consist of a cash account in a financial institution, which at times may exceed the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation coverage limit of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on this account and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such account.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.
Note 3 — IPO
On July 29, 2021, the Company sold 15,000,000 Public Units at $10.00 per Public Unit, generating gross proceeds of $150.0 million. Each Public Unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and
one-fourth
of one redeemable warrant. Only whole warrants are exercisable. Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share.
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated the sale of 455,000 Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit in a private placement to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $4,550,000, which is described further in Note 4.
On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 444,103 additional Public Units for the total amount of $4,441,030, received on August 6, 2021. Resulting from the partial over-allotment exercise, the Company also issued 8,882 Private Placement Units, generating additional $88,820 in gross proceeds.
Note 4 — Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
On January 21, 2021, the Sponsor subscribed to purchase 3,593,750 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Founder Shares”) for an aggregate price of $25,000. On January 25, 2021, the Sponsor paid $25,000, or approximately $0.00696 per share, to cover certain offering and formation costs in consideration for 3,593,750 Founder Shares. On March 1, 2021, the Company effected a 1:1.2 stock split of its common stock which resulted in an aggregate of 4,312,500 shares of Class B common stock outstanding. All shares and associated amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the stock split. On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 444,103 additional Units out of the total 2,250,000 available under the over-allotments and the forfeiture provisions lapsed for 111,026 Founder Shares. The remaining 451,464 Founder Shares were forfeited upon the expiration of the
45-day
period reserved for the exercise of over-allotment option.
On July 27, 2021, our sponsor transferred 25,000 founder shares to each of Darlene DeRemer, Eugene Podsiadlo, and William Woodward, directors of the Company. The awards will vest simultaneously with the closing of an initial business combination, provided the director has continuously served on the Company’s board of directors through the closing of such initial business combination.
At the IPO Date, the Sponsor also transferred to certain investors a total of 225,000 of Founders shares (Note 4)
(“Non-Risk
Incentive Private Shares”) as a compensation for their commitment to purchase the Public Units sold in the IPO. The Company estimated the aggregate fair value of these shares to be $1,186,448, or $5.27 per share. The fair value of the
Non-Risk
Incentive Private Shares was determined to be a contribution from the sponsor for offering costs in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5T. These offering costs were allocated to the Public Units and charged to shareholder’s equity upon the completion of the IPO.
At the IPO Date, the Sponsor also transferred to certain other investors the total of 600,900 of Founders shares (“Risk Incentive Private Shares”) as a compensation for their commitment to acquire at least 9.9% of the Public Units sold in the IPO. These Risk Incentive Private Shares are subject to forfeiture if the investors sell their Public Units prior to the closing of the initial Business Combination and will be, upon their forfeiture, transferred back to the Sponsor. The fair value of these Risk Incentive Private Shares is equal to the fair value of the
Non-Risk
Incentive Private Shares. Due to the high probability of forfeiture, the fair value of these Risk Incentive Private Shares will be recorded as a capital contribution from the Sponsor upon the closing of the initial Business Combination.
 
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The Sponsor, directors and executive officers have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell (i) any of their Founder Shares until the earliest of (A) one year after the completion of the initial Business Combination and (B) subsequent to the initial Business Combination, (x) if the closing price of the Company’s shares of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any
30-trading
day period commencing at least 150 days after the initial Business Combination, or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of its public shareholders having the right to exchange their common stock for cash, securities or other property, and (ii) any of their Private Placement Units, Private Placement Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Class A common stock issued upon conversion or exercise thereof until 30 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination (the
“Lock-up”).
Any permitted transferees will be subject to the same restrictions and other agreements of the Sponsor and directors and executive officers with respect to any Founder Shares, Private Placement Units, Private Placement Shares, Private Placement Warrants and Class A common stock issued upon conversion or exercise thereof.
Private Placement
Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, the Sponsor purchased 455,000 placement units, at a purchase price of $4,550,000, in a private placement. Each Private Placement Unit is identical to the Public Units sold in the IPO except as described below. A portion of the proceeds from the Private Placement Units was added to the proceeds from the Public Offering to be held in the Trust Account. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period, the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units will be used to fund the redemption of the Public Shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law).
As a result of the partial over-allotment exercise on August 3, 2021, the Company also issued 8,882 Private Placement Units, generating an additional $88,820 in gross proceeds.
The Private Placement Units (including the Private Placement Shares, the Private Placement Warrants and Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of such Private Placement Warrants) will not be transferable or salable until 30 days after the completion of our Business Combination (except, among other limited exceptions, to our officers and directors and other persons or entities affiliated with our Sponsor).
Due to Related Party
The balances of $71,024 and $31,979 as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, represents $11,024 and $1,979, respectively, of general and administrative costs paid by an executive employee and affiliate of the Sponsor on behalf of the Company and $60,000 and $30,000, respectively, of unpaid monthly administrative services fees (as described below).
Administrative Service Fee
The Company has agreed, commencing on the date that the Company’s securities are first listed on the Nasdaq, to pay an affiliate of the Sponsor a monthly fee of an aggregate of $10,000 for office space, administrative and support services. For each of the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, administrative fees incurred totaled $30,000, included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations. During the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, administrative service fees incurred totaled $30,000, and $0, respectively. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, $60,000 and $30,000, respectively, is owed to the affiliate of the Sponsor for the administrative service fees, included in “due to related party” on the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. Upon completion of the initial Business Combination or the Company’s liquidation, the Company will cease paying these monthly fees.
Related Party Loans
In order to finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Company’s Sponsor, an affiliate of the Sponsor, or the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required (the “Working Capital Loans”). Such Working Capital Loans would be evidenced by promissory notes. The notes would either be repaid upon consummation of a Business Combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1,500,000 of notes may be converted upon consummation of a Business Combination into warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant. The warrants will be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. In the event that a Business Combination does not close, the Company may use a portion of proceeds held outside the Trust Account to repay the Working Capital Loans, but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay the Working Capital Loans. As of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were no written agreements in place for the Working Capital Loans, nor were any amounts loaned to the Company by the Sponsor.
 
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In conjunction with the IPO activities, on July 14, 2021 (the “Inception Date”), the Company and its Sponsor entered into the Subscription Agreements with certain investors (see Note 5).
Forward Purchase Agreement
The Company granted to the direct anchor investors an option, in their sole discretion, to subscribe to a forward purchase agreement for up to an aggregate of 60% (up to 10% per direct anchor investor) of the securities sold in one or multiple private placements to close prior to or concurrently with the closing of the initial Business Combination. The aggregate proceeds from the sale of any securities pursuant to these forward purchase agreements will be used for purposes related to the initial Business Combination. Since the issuance of the securities to the investors is contingent upon the closing of an equity financing in relation to the initial Business Combination, and the number of shares to be purchased by the investors is undefined, the terms of the forward purchase agreement will not create an obligation for the Company until such financing occurs.
Note 5 — Commitments & Contingencies
Registration Rights
The holders of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Units, Private Placement Warrants, Class A common stock underlying the Private Placement Warrants and Private Placement Units that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans (and any shares or Class A common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants and Private Placement Units that may be issued upon conversion of Working Capital Loans) are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement dated July 26, 2021. The holders of these securities are entitled to make unlimited demands that the Company registers such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the completion of the initial Business Combination. However, the registration rights agreement provides that the Company will not permit any registration statement filed under the Securities Act to become effective until termination of the applicable
lock-up
period, which occurs (i) in the case of the Founder Shares, as described in the following paragraph, and (ii) in the case of the Private Placement Warrants and the respective shares of Class A common stock underlying such warrants, 30 days after the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.
Underwriters Agreement
The Company granted the underwriters a
45-day
option from July 26, 2021, to purchase up to 2,250,000 additional Public Units to cover over-allotments, if any, at the Public Offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions. On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 444,103 additional Units for the total amount of $4,441,030.
The underwriters received a cash underwriting discount of two percent
(
2.0%) of the gross proceeds of the Public Offering, or $3,000,000, paid on July 29, 2021. Additionally, in connection with the partial over-allotment exercise, the underwriters received a cash underwriting discount of two percent
(
2.0%) of the gross proceeds, or $88,820, paid on August 6, 2021.
In addition to the cash underwriting discounts, under the original agreement, the underwriters were entitled to a deferred underwriting fee of three and a half percent
(
3.5%), or $5,405,436 of the gross proceeds of the Public Offering and the underwriters’ partial over-allotment exercise upon the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination.
On March 20, 2023, the Company received a letter providing notice from the representative of the underwriters, waiving any entitlement to their portion of the $5,405,436 deferred underwriting fee that accrued from their participation as the underwriters of the IPO as they have not been involved in the Business Combination process. This deferred underwriting discount, which previously increased the accumulated deficit due to the accretion of the Class A Common stock subject to possible redemption, was recorded as a recovery in the accumulated deficit during the three months ended March 31, 2023.
 
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Subscription Agreements
In conjunction with the IPO activities, on July 14, 2021 (the “Inception Date”), the Company and its Sponsor entered into the Subscription Agreements with certain investors. Under these Subscription Agreements, the investors, who received the At Risk Incentive Private Shares, received the right but not the obligation to subscribe, at their sole discretion, to any equity financing associated with the Closing of the initial Business Combination subject to a maximum of 10% of such offerings’ proceeds, and the right but not the obligation to subscribe, at their sole discretion, at the same terms in the next special purpose acquisition company or other similar entity sponsored by Constellation Alpha Holdings. The investors who received the Non Risk Incentive Private Shares also received the right but not the obligation to subscribe, at their sole discretion, to any equity financing associated with the Closing of the SPAC’s initial Business Combination subject to a maximum of 10% of such offerings’ proceeds if the Investor still holds their Public Shares at the business combination date. Since the number of shares or other instruments to be purchase by the investors is unknown, these rights to participate in future offerings do not meet definition of an equity contract.
Risks and Uncertainties
Results of operations and the Company’s ability to complete an Initial Business Combination may be adversely affected by various factors that could cause economic uncertainty and volatility in the financial markets, many of which are beyond its control. The business could be impacted by, among other things, downturns in the financial markets or in economic conditions, inflation, and increases in interest rates. The Company cannot at this time fully predict the likelihood of one or more of the above events, their duration or magnitude or the extent to which they may negatively impact our business and our ability to complete an Initial Business Combination. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Note 6 — Shareholder’s Equity
Common Stock
—On January 25, 2021, the Company issued 3,593,750 shares of common stock, including an aggregate of up to 468,750 shares of common stock that were subject to forfeiture, to the Company by the initial shareholders for no consideration to the extent that the underwriters’ over- allotment option is not exercised in full or in part, so that the initial shareholders will collectively own 20% of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock after the Proposed Public Offering.
On March 1, 2021, the Company amended its charter to authorize issuance of 100,000,000 Class A common stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share, 10,000,000 Class B common stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share, and 1,000,000 preferred stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share, and effected a 1:1.2 stock split of its common stock which resulted in an aggregate of 4,312,500 shares of Class B common stock outstanding All shares and per share amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the stock split.
On July 29, 2021, the Company sold 15,000,000 Units, each unit consists of one share of Class A common stock and
one-fourth
of one redeemable warrant.
On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 444,103 additional Units out of the total 2,250,000 available under the over-allotments and the forfeiture term lapsed for 111,026 Founder Shares. The remaining 451,464 Founder Shares were forfeited upon the expiration of the
45-day
period reserved for the exercise of over-allotment option.
Both Class A and B shareholders vote together as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company shareholders, with each share of common stock entitling the holder to one vote.
The shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock at the time of the initial Business Combination on a
one-for-one
basis (subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like), and subject to further adjustment as provided herein. In the case that additional shares of Class A common stock, or equity-linked securities, are issued or deemed issued in excess of the amounts offered in the Proposed Public Offering and related to the closing of the Business Combination, including pursuant to a specified future issuance, the ratio at which shares of Class B common stock shall convert into shares of Class A common stock will be adjusted (unless our Sponsor agrees to waive such adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed issuance, including a specified future issuance) so that the number of shares of Class A common stock issuable upon conversion of all shares of Class B common stock will equal, in the aggregate, on an
as-converted
basis, 20% of the sum of the total number of all shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of the Proposed Public Offering plus all shares of Class A common stock and equity-linked securities issued or deemed issued in connection with the Business Combination (after giving effect to any redemptions of shares of Class A common stock
 
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by public shareholders) (excluding any shares or equity-linked securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in the Business Combination and any Private Placement Units issued to our Sponsor, officers or directors upon conversion of Working Capital Loans). The Sponsor may also elect to convert their shares of Class B common stock into an equal number of shares of Class A common stock, subject to adjustment as provided above, at any time.
Preferred Stock
—The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share. At March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were no shares of preferred stock issued or outstanding.
Warrants
– The warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. The warrants included in the units sold in the Public Offering (the “Public Warrants”) will become exercisable 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination provided that the Company has an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available (or the Company permits holders to exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act). The Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 15 business days after the closing of the initial Business Combination, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC and have an effective registration statement covering the issuance of the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants and to maintain a current prospectus relating to those shares of Class A common stock until the warrants expire or are redeemed. If a registration statement covering the issuance of the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is not effective by the 60th business day after the closing of the initial Business Combination, warrant holders may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when the Company will have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act or another exemption.
The warrants have an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustments, and will expire five years after the completion of a Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. In addition, if (x) the Company issues additional shares of Class A common stock or equity- linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per share of Class A common stock (with such issue price or effective issue price to be determined in good faith by the board of directors and, in the case of any such issuance to the Sponsor or its affiliates, without taking into account any Founder Shares held by the Sponsor or such affiliates, as applicable, prior to such issuance), or the Newly Issued Price, (y) the aggregate gross proceeds from such issuances represent more than 60% of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of the initial Business Combination on the date of the consummation of the initial Business Combination (net of redemptions), and (z) the volume weighted average trading price of the common stock during the 20 trading day period starting on the trading day prior to the day on which the Company consummates its initial Business Combination (such price, the “Market Value”) is below $9.20 per share, the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 115% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price, and the $18.00 per share redemption trigger price described below under “Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $18.00” will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 180% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price, respectively.
The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants, except that the Private Placement Warrants and the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions.
Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class
 A common stock equals or exceeds $18.00
: Once the warrants become exercisable, the Company may redeem the outstanding warrants for cash:
 
  •  
in whole and not in part;
 
  •  
at a price of $0.01 per warrant;
 
  •  
upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption; and
 
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if, and only if, the closing price of the common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like and for certain issuances of Class A common stock and equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of the initial Business Combination) for any 20 trading days within a
30-trading
day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders (the “Reference Value”).
The Company will not redeem the warrants unless an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is effective and a current prospectus relating to those shares of Class A common stock is available throughout the
30-day
redemption period.
In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle any warrant. If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of warrants will not receive any of such funds with respect to their warrants, nor will they receive any distribution from the Company’s assets held outside of the Trust Account with the respect to such warrants. Accordingly, the warrants may expire worthless.
Note 7 — Income Taxes
The Company’s effective tax rate (“ETR”) is calculated quarterly based upon current assumptions relating to the full year’s estimated operating results and various
tax-related
items. The Company’s ETR was 37.3% and 0% for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The difference between the effective tax rate of 37.3% and the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% for the three months ended March 31, 2023 was primarily due to the ETR adjustment and the change in the valuation allowance. The difference between the effective tax rate of 0% and the U.S. federal statutory rate of 21% for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was due to the full valuation allowance recognized against the deferred tax assets.
The 2021 and 2022 federal tax returns for the Company remain open for examination.
Note 8 — Stock-based Compensation
On July 27, 2021, the Sponsor transferred 25,000 shares of Class B common stock to each of the three independent director nominees as compensation for their service on the board of directors. The awards will vest simultaneously with the closing of an initial business combination, provided the director has continuously served on the Company’s board of directors through the closing of such initial business combination. As such, the service period for these awards will start on the IPO Date. As the share awards would vest only upon the consummation on a business combination, the compensation expense in relation to these grants would be not recognized until the closing of the initial business combination. As a result, the Company recorded no compensation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022.
The fair value of the Founder Shares on the grant date was approximately $5.26 per share. The valuation performed by the Company determined the fair value of the Founder Shares on the date of grant based on the fair value of the Class A shares discounted for a) the probability of a successful business combination, and b) the lack of marketability. The aggregate grant date fair value of the award amounted to approximately $394,000.
Note 9 — Subsequent Events
The Company did not identify any subsequent events that require adjustment or disclosure in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements other than discussed below.
On May 1, 2023, Sandstone Asset Management notified the Company that it intends to stay invested in its anchor investor position in 1,020,520 shares of the Company’s common stock and 285,875 warrants through the closing of the potential Business Combination with Carmell. This commitment is expected to result in approximately $10.4 million in funds retained by the combined company after the Closing, based on the amount of funds in the Trust Account as of March 31, 2023 (excluding dividend and interest income available for payment of the Company’s taxes).
 
 
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

References to the “Company,” “our,” “us” or “we” refer to Alpha Healthcare Acquisition Corp. III. The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). We have based these forward- looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. Such statements include, but are not limited to, possible business combinations and the financing thereof, and related matters, as well as all other statements other than statements of historical fact included in this Form 10-Q. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those described in our other Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings.

Overview

We are a blank check company incorporated on January 21, 2021 as a Delaware corporation for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. On January 4, 2023, we entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”) with Candy Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation ( “Merger Sub”), and Carmell Therapeutics Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Carmell”). We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of our initial public offering (the “IPO”) and the private placement of the Private Placement Units, our shares, debt or a combination of cash, equity and debt.

We expect to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our initial Business Combination. We cannot assure you that our plans to raise capital or to complete our initial Business Combination will be successful.

Results of Operations and Known Trends or Future Events

We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. Our only activities since inception have been organizational activities, activities necessary to prepare for and complete our IPO, and activities related to identifying a potential target for an initial business combination. Since our IPO, we have not generated any operating revenues, and do not expect to generate any operating revenues, until at least the time of completion of our initial business combination, if at all. $3,927,960 of dividend and interest income has been earned in the Trust Account from inception through March 31, 2023. We will continue to generate non-operating income in the form of dividend and interest income on marketable securities held in the Trust Account. As a result of being a public company, we have incurred, and will continue to incur, legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance expenses, as well as due diligence expenses related to potential targets.

For the three months ended March 31, 2023, we had net income of $576,067, which was primarily due to $1,675,392 of dividend and interest income earned in the Trust Account, offset by $756,466 of general and administrative costs and $343,328 of income tax provision. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, we had a net loss of $527,530, which was attributable to $535,142 of general and administrative costs, partially offset by $7,612 of dividend and interest income earned in the Trust Account. The increase in dividend and interest income during the three months ended March 31, 2023 versus the three months ended March 31, 2022 was due to increased interest rates. The increase in income tax expense during the three months ended March 31, 2023 versus the three months ended March 31, 2022 was primarily attributable to the increase in dividend and interest income earned in the Trust Account, combined with temporary tax differences related to certain expenses. General and administrative costs increased during the three months ended March 31, 2023 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2022 due to the Company’s activities to prepare for the business combination with Carmell.

 

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Liquidity, Capital Resources and Going Concern

Until the consummation of the IPO, our only source of liquidity was an initial purchase of Class B common stock by the Sponsor and loans from our Sponsor for $25,000.

On July 29, 2021, we consummated the IPO of 15,000,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Public Unit, generating gross proceeds of $150,000,000. Simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, we consummated the sale of 455,000 Private Placement Units to the Sponsor at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit generating gross proceeds of $4,550,000. We incurred $9,897,599 in transaction costs, including $3,000,000 of underwriting fees, $1,186,448 representing the fair value of the Founder Shares transferred from the Sponsor to certain investors as an incentive to purchase the Units, underwriting fees of $5,250,000 that will be paid only if a business combination is entered into, and $461,151 of other offering costs.

On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 444,103 additional Units for the total amount of $4,441,030 resulting from the partial over-allotment exercise. The Company also issued 8,882 Private Placement Units, generating additional $88,820 in gross proceeds. Transaction costs related to the Underwriters’ partial over-allotment exercise amounted to $247,506, consisting of $88,820 of underwriting fees, deferred underwriting fees of $155,436 that will be paid only if a business combination is entered into, and $3,250 of other offering costs. In March 2023, the underwriters agreed to waive the deferred underwriting fees.

Following our IPO, the sale of the Private Placement Units and the exercise of the over-allotment option, a total of $154,441,030 was placed in the Trust Account, and we had $1,550,000 of cash held outside of the Trust Account, after payment of costs related to the IPO, and available for working capital purposes. As of March 31, 2022, the Company had cash outside the Trust Account of $594,733 available for working capital needs.

We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the Trust Account, including any amounts representing interest earned on the Trust Account, to complete our Business Combination. We may withdraw interest from the Trust Account to pay taxes, if any. To the extent that our share capital or debt is used, in whole or in part, as consideration to complete a Business Combination, the remaining proceeds held in the Trust Account will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses, make other acquisitions and pursue our growth strategies.

We intend to use the funds held outside the Trust Account primarily to identify and evaluate target businesses, perform business due diligence on prospective target businesses, travel to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses or their representatives or owners, review corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, structure, negotiate and complete a Business Combination.

In order to fund working capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete a Business Combination, we may repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the Trust Account released to us. In the event that a Business Combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts, but no proceeds from our Trust Account would be used for such repayment. up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into placement units of the post-business combination entity at a price of $10.00 per placement unit at the option of the lender. The placement units would be identical to the units. No such loans were received through March 31, 2023.

We do not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities, other than an agreement to pay an affiliate of the Sponsor a monthly fee of $10,000 for office space, secretarial and administrative services provided to the Company. We began incurring these fees on July 26, 2021 and will continue to incur these fees monthly until the earlier of the completion of a Business Combination and the Company’s liquidation.

 

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As of the IPO Date, the underwriters were entitled to a deferred fee of $0.35 per unit, or $5,405,436 in the aggregate, payable from the amounts held in the Trust Account, solely in the event that we complete a Business Combination. On March 20, 2023, the Company received a letter providing notice from the representative of the underwriters, waiving any entitlement to their portion of the $5,405,436 deferred underwriting fee that accrued from their participation as the underwriters of the IPO as they have not been involved in the Business Combination process.

As of March 31, 2023, the Company had cash, negative working capital and an accumulated deficit of $16,133, ($2,495,637) and $6,713,509, respectively. The $16,133 held outside of the Trust Account may not be sufficient to allow the Company to operate for at least the next 12 months from the issuance of the financial statements, assuming that a Business Combination is not consummated during that time. The Company may need to raise additional capital through loans or additional investments from its Sponsor, stockholders, officers, directors, or third parties. The Company’s officers, directors and Sponsor may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds, from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion, to meet the Company’s working capital needs. Accordingly, the Company may not be able to obtain additional financing. If the Company is unable to raise additional capital, it may be required to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of a potential transaction, and reducing overhead expenses. The Company cannot provide any assurance that new financing will be available to it on commercially acceptable terms, if at all.

The Company has until July 29, 2023 to consummate the initial Business Combination. It is uncertain whether the Company will be able to consummate the proposed Business Combination by this date. If a Business Combination is not consummated by this date, then, unless that time is extended, there will be a mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution of the Company. Extension of the business combination period would require an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Amending the amended and restated certificate of incorporation will require the approval of holders of 65% of the Company’s common stock, and, in connection with this, amending the warrant agreement will require a vote of holders of at least a majority of the Public Warrants (which may include Public Warrants acquired by the Sponsor or its affiliates in this offering or thereafter in the open market, see Note 6). In addition, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires the Company to provide its public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares for cash if the Company proposes an amendment to the amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of its obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial business combination or certain amendments to the charter prior thereto or to redeem 100% of the Company’s public shares if the Company does not complete the initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the IPO or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity.

As disclosed in the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2023, the Company received a written notice (the “Notice”) from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Company was not in compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(3), which requires the Company to have at least 300 public holders for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Minimum Public Holders Rule”). The Notice is only a notification of deficiency, not of imminent delisting, and has no current effect on the listing or trading of the Company’s securities on Nasdaq Capital Market.

The Notice gave the Company 45 calendar days to submit a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. The Company submitted a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule within the required timeframe. If Nasdaq accepts the Company’s plan, Nasdaq may grant the Company an extension of up to 180 calendar days from the date of the Notice to evidence compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. If Nasdaq does not accept the Company’s plan, the Company will have the opportunity to appeal the decision in front of a Nasdaq Hearings Panel.

These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern until the earlier of the consummation of the Business Combination or the date the Company is required to liquidate, no later than July, 29, 2023. These financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recovery of the recorded assets or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

 

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The Company believes that the proceeds raised in the IPO and the funds potentially available from loans from the sponsor or any of their affiliates will be sufficient to allow the Company to meet the expenditures required for operating its business. However, if the estimate of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating a Business Combination are less than the actual amount necessary to do so, the Company may have insufficient funds available to operate its business prior to the initial Business Combination. Moreover, the Company may need to obtain additional financing either to complete the Business Combination or because the Company becomes obligated to redeem a significant number of public shares upon completion of the Business Combination, in which case the Company may issue additional securities or incur debt in connection with such Business Combination.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The Company prepares its financial statements and accompanying notes in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which require management to make estimates and assumptions about future events that affect reported amounts. Estimations are considered critical accounting estimates based on, among other things, its impact on the portrayal of the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity, as well as the degree of difficulty, subjectivity, and complexity in its deployment. Critical accounting estimates address accounting matters that are inherently uncertain due to unknown future resolution of such matters. Management routinely discusses the development, selection, and disclosure of each critical accounting estimates. There have been no significant changes to the Company’s estimates and assumptions during the three-months ended March 31, 2023. Reference should be made to the financial statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 for a full description of other significant accounting policies.

Recent Accounting Standards

Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our financial statements.

JOBS Act

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”) contains provisions that, among other things, relax certain reporting requirements for qualifying public companies. We qualify as an “emerging growth company” and under the JOBS Act will be allowed to comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements based on the effective date for private (not publicly traded) companies. We are electing to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non-emerging growth companies. As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates.

Additionally, we are in the process of evaluating the benefits of relying on the other reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act. Subject to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, if, as an “emerging growth company,” we choose to rely on such exemptions we may not be required to, among other things, (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our system of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404, (ii) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth public companies under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (iii) comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements (auditor discussion and analysis) and (iv) disclose certain executive compensation related items such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the CEO’s compensation to median employee compensation. These exemptions will apply for a period of five years following the completion of our IPO or until we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” whichever is earlier.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and are not required to provide the information otherwise required under this item.

 

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Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2023. Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to a material weakness in internal controls over financial reporting related to the accounting for complex financial instruments.

Remediation Efforts to Address a Previously Identified Material Weakness in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

As described in Item 9.A Controls and Procedures of our 2021 Form 10-K and in Item 4 Controls and Procedures of our Form 10-Q/A for the quarter ended September 30, 2021, management identified errors in its historical financial statements related to the accounting for the Class A common stock subject to redemption, because the Class A common stock issued in the IPO can be redeemed or become redeemable subject to the occurrence of future events considered outside of the Company’s control, the Company should have classified all of these redeemable shares in temporary equity.

Management also identified errors related to the completeness and accuracy of financial data, relating to unrecorded liabilities and deferred offering costs incurred as of July 29, 2021 (the IPO Date).

In addition, errors were identified related to the overallotment liability, which was not recorded in the three months ended September 30, 2021, or in the audited balance sheet as of July 29, 2021, and was corrected in the financial statements as of December 31, 2021 included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 15, 2022 and in the amendment to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021 filed on September 13, 2022.

To address this material weakness, management has devoted, and plans to continue to devote, significant effort and resources to the remediation and improvement of its internal control over financial reporting and to enhance controls and improve internal communications within the Company and its financial reporting advisors. While we have processes to identify and appropriately apply applicable accounting requirements, we enhanced these processes to better evaluate our research and understanding of the nuances of the complex accounting standards that apply to our financial reporting requirements by utilizing the expertise of outside financial reporting advisors to support the Company in evaluating these transactions.

With respect to the material weakness surrounding the completeness and accuracy of liabilities, under the oversight of the audit committee, management has developed and implemented appropriate remedial measures to remediate the material weakness. To address this material weakness, we implemented additional review procedures to enable the Company to effectively search for and identify material unrecorded liabilities on a timely basis.

We can offer no assurance that these initiatives will ultimately have the intended effects.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Other than changes that have resulted from the material weakness remediation activities noted above, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting, during the most recently completed fiscal quarter, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART II-OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

To the knowledge of our management, there is no litigation currently pending or contemplated against us, any of our officers or directors in their capacity as such or against any of our property.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in this Quarterly Report are any of the risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 17, 2023. Any of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. Additional risk factors not currently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business or results of operations. As of the date of this Quarterly Report, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 17, 2023, except as noted below. We may disclose changes to such factors or disclose additional factors from time to time in our future filings with the SEC.

General Risk Factors

If we fail to comply with the continued listing requirements of Nasdaq, we would face possible delisting, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.

On March 29, 2023, we received a written notice (the “Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that we were not in compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(3), which requires us to have at least 300 public holders for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Minimum Public Holders Rule”). The Notice is only a notification of deficiency, not of imminent delisting, and has no current effect on the listing or trading of our securities on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

The Notice stated that we had 45 calendar days to submit a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. We have submitted a plan to regain compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule to Nasdaq. This plan notes that we will be in compliance following the closing of the Business Combination given the number of holders of Carmell’s securities that will receive our shares in connection with the Business Combination. If Nasdaq accepts our plan, it may grant us an extension of up to 180 calendar days from the date of the Notice to evidence compliance with the Minimum Public Holders Rule. If Nasdaq does not accept our plan, ALPA will have the opportunity to appeal the decision in front of a Nasdaq Hearings Panel.

If Nasdaq delists our securities from trading on its exchange, we could face significant material adverse consequences, including:

 

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a limited availability of market quotations for our securities;

 

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reduced liquidity with respect to our securities;

 

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a determination that its shares are “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our shares to adhere to more stringent rules, possibly resulting in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;

 

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a limited amount of news and analyst coverage for us; and

 

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a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.

Adverse developments affecting the financial services industry, such as actual events or concerns involving liquidity, defaults, or non-performance by financial institutions or transactional counterparties, could adversely affect the Company’s current and projected business operations and its financial condition and results of operations.

Actual events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions, transactional counterparties or other companies in the financial services industry or the financial services industry generally, or concerns or rumors about any events of these kinds or other similar risks, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems. For example, on March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) as receiver. Similarly, on March 12, 2023, Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital Corp. were each swept into receivership.

 

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Although a statement by the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC indicated that all depositors of SVB would have access to all of their money after only one business day of closure, including funds held in uninsured deposit accounts, borrowers under credit agreements, letters of credit and certain other financial instruments with SVB, Signature Bank or any other financial institution that is placed into receivership by the FDIC may be unable to access undrawn amounts thereunder. Although we are not a borrower or party to any such instruments with SVB, Signature or any other financial institution currently in receivership, if any of our lenders or counterparties to any such instruments were to be placed into receivership, we may be unable to access such funds. In addition, if any of our customers, suppliers or other parties with whom we conduct business are unable to access funds pursuant to such instruments or lending arrangements with such a financial institution, such parties’ ability to pay their obligations to us or to enter into new commercial arrangements requiring additional payments to us could be adversely affected. In this regard, counterparties to SVB credit agreements and arrangements, and third parties such as beneficiaries of letters of credit (among others), may experience direct impacts from the closure of SVB and uncertainty remains over liquidity concerns in the broader financial services industry. Similar impacts have occurred in the past, such as during the 2008-2010 financial crisis.

Inflation and rapid increases in interest rates have led to a decline in the trading value of previously issued government securities with interest rates below current market interest rates. Although the U.S. Department of Treasury, FDIC and Federal Reserve Board have announced a program to provide up to $25 billion of loans to financial institutions secured by certain of such government securities held by financial institutions to mitigate the risk of potential losses on the sale of such instruments, widespread demands for customer withdrawals or other liquidity needs of financial institutions for immediately liquidity may exceed the capacity of such program. Additionally, there is no guarantee that the U.S. Department of Treasury, FDIC and Federal Reserve Board will provide access to uninsured funds in the future in the event of the closure of other banks or financial institutions, or that they would do so in a timely fashion.

Although we assess our banking and customer relationships as we believe necessary or appropriate, our access to funding sources and other credit arrangements in amounts adequate to finance or capitalize our current and projected future business operations could be significantly impaired by factors that affect the Company, the financial institutions with which the Company has credit agreements or arrangements directly, or the financial services industry or economy in general. These factors could include, among others, events such as liquidity constraints or failures, the ability to perform obligations under various types of financial, credit or liquidity agreements or arrangements, disruptions or instability in the financial services industry or financial markets, or concerns or negative expectations about the prospects for companies in the financial services industry. These factors could involve financial institutions or financial services industry companies with which the Company has financial or business relationships, but could also include factors involving financial markets or the financial services industry generally.

The results of events or concerns that involve one or more of these factors could include a variety of material and adverse impacts on our current and projected business operations and our financial condition and results of operations. These could include, but may not be limited to, the following:

 

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Delayed access to deposits or other financial assets or the uninsured loss of deposits or other financial assets;

 

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Delayed or lost access to, or reductions in borrowings available under revolving existing credit facilities or other working capital sources and/or delays, inability or reductions in the company’s ability to refund, roll over or extend the maturity of, or enter into new credit facilities or other working capital resources;

 

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Potential or actual breach of contractual obligations that require the Company to maintain letters of credit or other credit support arrangements;

 

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Potential or actual breach of financial covenants in our credit agreements or credit arrangements;

 

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Potential or actual cross-defaults in other credit agreements, credit arrangements or operating or financing agreements; or

 

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Termination of cash management arrangements and/or delays in accessing or actual loss of funds subject to cash management arrangements.

In addition, investor concerns regarding the U.S. or international financial systems could result in less favorable commercial financing terms, including higher interest rates or costs and tighter financial and operating covenants, or systemic limitations on access to credit and liquidity sources, thereby making it more difficult for us to acquire financing on acceptable terms or at all. Any decline in available funding or access to our cash and liquidity resources could, among other risks, adversely impact our ability to meet our operating expenses, financial obligations or fulfill our other obligations, result in breaches of our financial and/or contractual obligations or result in violations of federal or state wage and hour laws. Any of these impacts, or any other impacts resulting from the factors described above or other related or similar factors not described above, could have material adverse impacts on our liquidity and our current and/or projected business operations and financial condition and results of operations.

 

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In addition, any further deterioration in the macroeconomic economy or financial services industry could lead to losses or defaults by our customers or suppliers, which in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our current and/or projected business operations and results of operations and financial condition. For example, a customer may fail to make payments when due, default under their agreements with us, become insolvent or declare bankruptcy, or a supplier may determine that it will no longer deal with us as a customer. In addition, a customer or supplier could be adversely affected by any of the liquidity or other risks that are described above as factors that could result in material adverse impacts on the Company, including but not limited to delayed access or loss of access to uninsured deposits or loss of the ability to draw on existing credit facilities involving a troubled or failed financial institution. Any customer or supplier bankruptcy or insolvency, or the failure of any customer to make payments when due, or any breach or default by a customer or supplier, or the loss of any significant supplier relationships, could result in material losses to the Company and may have a material adverse impact on our business.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities.

On July 29, 2021, we consummated our IPO of 15,000,000 Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating total gross proceeds of $150,000,000. The securities sold in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-253876). The registration statements became effective on July 26, 2021.

Simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO, we consummated a private placement of 455,000 Private Placement Units to our Sponsor at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating total proceeds of $4,550,000. Such securities were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

On August 3, 2021, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 444,103 additional Units for the total amount of $4,441,030. Resulting from the partial over-allotment exercise, the Company issued 8,882 Private Placement Units, generating additional $88,820 in gross proceeds.

A total of $154,441,030, composed of the proceeds of the IPO, including from the exercise of the over-allotment option by the Underwriters, and the sale of the Private Placement Units, including $5,405,436 of the underwriters’ deferred discount, was placed in the Trust Account.

We paid a total of $3,000,000 in underwriting discounts and commissions and $461,151 for other costs and expenses related to the IPO. In addition, the Company also included in offering costs the fair value of $1,186,448 of Founders Shares transferred by the Sponsor to certain investors as a compensation for their commitment to purchase the Public Units sold in our IPO. In addition, the underwriters agreed to defer $5,250,000 in underwriting discounts and commissions related to the IPO, and $155,436 related to the Underwriters’ partial over-allotment exercise. Additional transaction costs related to the Underwriters’ partial over-allotment exercise amounted to $92,070, consisting of $88,820 of underwriting fees and $3,250 of other offering costs. The Company has also accrued underwriting fees of $5,405,436 that will be paid only if a business combination is entered into.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Other Information.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

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Exhibit No.   

Description

    2.1    Business Combination Agreement, dated as of January 4, 2023, by and among Alpha Healthcare Acquisition Corp. III, Candy Merger Sub, Inc. and Carmell Therapeutics Corporation.(1)
  31.1*    Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  31.2*    Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  32.1**    Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.
  32.2**    Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.
101.INS*    Inline XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH*    Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL*    Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF*    Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB*    Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE*    Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
104*    Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)

 

*    Filed herewith.
**    Furnished herewith.
(1)    Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Form 8-K, filed with the Securities Exchange Commission on January 4, 2023

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized on this 15th day of May, 2023.

 

ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III

By:   /s/ Rajiv Shukla
  Name: Rajiv Shukla
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

ALPHA HEALTHCARE ACQUISITION CORP. III

By:   /s/ Patrick A. Sturgeon
  Name: Patrick A. Sturgeon
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

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