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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

SCHEDULE 14A

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PRELIMINARY PROXY MATERIALS

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LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS OF JACK CREEK INVESTMENT CORP.

386 Park Avenue South, 20th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Dear Jack Creek Investment Corp. Shareholder:

You are cordially invited to attend an extraordinary general meeting in lieu of an annual general meeting of Jack Creek Investment Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“JCIC”), which will be held on January 24, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP located at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153, and via a virtual meeting, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place to which the meeting may be postponed or adjourned (the “Shareholder Meeting”).

The Shareholder Meeting will be conducted via live webcast, but the physical location of the Shareholder Meeting will remain at the location specified above for the purposes of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Memorandum and Articles of Association”). If you wish to attend the Shareholder Meeting in person, you must reserve your attendance at least two business days in advance of the Shareholder Meeting by contacting [•] by 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days prior to the initially scheduled meeting date). You will be able to attend the Shareholder Meeting online, vote and submit your questions during the Shareholder Meeting by visiting [•].

The attached Notice of the Shareholder Meeting and proxy statement describe the business JCIC will conduct at the Shareholder Meeting (unless JCIC determines that it is not necessary to hold the Shareholder Meeting as described in the accompanying proxy statement) and provide information about JCIC that you should consider when you vote your shares. As more fully described in the attached proxy statement, which is dated [•], and is first being mailed to shareholders on or about that date, the Shareholder Meeting will be held for the purpose of considering and voting on the following proposals:

 

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Proposal No. 1—Extension Amendment Proposal—To amend, by way of special resolution, the Memorandum and Articles of Association to extend the date by which JCIC has to consummate a business combination (the “Charter Extension ”) from January 26, 2023 (the “Termination Date”) to March 27, 2023 (the “Charter Extension Date”, and the proposal being the “Extension Amendment Proposal ”);

 

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Proposal No. 2 - Director Election Proposal—Holders of the Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class B Ordinary Shares”) of JCIC will vote to appoint, by way of ordinary resolution of the Class B Ordinary Shares, Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the board of directors (the “Board”) of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified (the “Director Election Proposal”); and

 

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Proposal No. 3—Adjournment Proposal – To adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Ordinary Shares”) and Class B Ordinary Shares (collectively with the Class A Ordinary Shares, the “Ordinary Shares”) in the capital of JCIC represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal (the “Adjournment Proposal”).

Each of the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal is more fully described in the accompanying proxy statement. Please take the time to read carefully each of the proposals in the accompanying proxy statement before you vote.

 

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The purpose of the Extension Amendment Proposal is to allow JCIC additional time to complete the proposed transactions (the “Business Combination”) contemplated by the certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 3, 2022, by and among JCIC, Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, LLC, a Delaware corporation, (“Bridger”), Wildfire New PubCo, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Bridger (“New Bridger”), Wildfire Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly owned subsidiary of New Bridger, Wildfire Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly owned subsidiary of New Bridger, Wildfire Merger Sub III, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New Bridger, Wildfire GP Sub IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New Bridger and BTOF (Grannus Feeder) – NQ L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Blocker”). For more information about the Business Combination, see our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022 and November 7, 2022 and New Bridger’s preliminary proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 12, 2022, as amended on September 23, 2022, November 7, 2022 and November 23, 2022, and as may be further amended. You are not being asked to vote on the Business Combination at this time.

The Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that JCIC has until January 26, 2023 to complete its initial Business Combination (the “Termination Date”). JCIC’s Board has determined that it is in the best interests of JCIC to prepare to seek an extension of the Termination Date and have JCIC’s shareholders approve the Extension Amendment Proposal to allow for a short period of additional time to consummate the Business Combination if needed. JCIC intends to promptly call an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders to approve the Business Combination (referred to herein as the “Business Combination Meeting”) as soon as possible, and if the Business Combination is consummated prior to January 26, 2023, this extraordinary general meeting will be canceled. While JCIC is using its best efforts to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date, it is in the best interests of JCIC’s shareholders that, if it is not, the Charter Extension be obtained so that JCIC will have a limited amount of additional time to consummate the Business Combination. Without the Charter Extension, there is risk that JCIC might not, despite its best efforts, be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If that were to occur, JCIC would be precluded from completing the Business Combination and would be forced to liquidate even if JCIC’s shareholders are otherwise in favor of consummating the Business Combination.

JCIC reserves the right at any time to cancel the Shareholder Meeting and not to submit to its shareholders the Extension Amendment Proposal and implement the Charter Extension. In the event the Shareholder Meeting is cancelled, and the Business Combination is not consummated prior to January 26, 2023, JCIC will dissolve and liquidate in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

As contemplated by the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the holders of JCIC’s Class A Ordinary Shares, issued as part of the units sold in JCIC’s initial public offering (the “Public Shares”) may elect to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares in exchange for their pro rata portion of the funds held in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) established to hold a portion of the proceeds of the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) and the concurrent sale of the private placement warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”), if the Charter Extension is implemented (the “Redemption”), regardless of how such public shareholders vote in regard to the Extension Amendment Proposal. If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved by the requisite vote of shareholders, the holders of Public Shares remaining after the Redemption will retain their right to redeem their Public Shares for their pro rata portion of the funds available in the Trust Account upon consummation of the Business Combination or if JCIC does not complete the Business Combination by the Charter Extension Date.

On the Record Date (as defined below), the redemption price per share was approximately $[•], based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account of approximately $[•] as of the Record Date (including interest not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes), divided by the total number of then outstanding Public Shares. The Redemption price per share will be calculated based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting. The closing price of the Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”) on the Record Date (as defined below) was $[•]. Accordingly, if the market price of the Class A Ordinary Shares were to remain the same until the date of the Shareholder Meeting, exercising redemption rights would result in a public shareholder receiving approximately $[•] [more/less] per share than if the shares were sold in the open market (based on the per share redemption price as of

 

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the Record Date). JCIC cannot assure shareholders that they will be able to sell their Class A Ordinary Shares in the open market, even if the market price per share is lower than the redemption price stated above, as there may not be sufficient liquidity in its securities when such shareholders wish to sell their shares. JCIC believes that such redemption right enables its public shareholders to determine whether to sustain their investments for an additional period if JCIC does not complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date.

If JCIC’s shareholders approve the Business Combination at the Business Combination Meeting and the other conditions to the Business Combination are then satisfied or will be satisfied or waived on or before the Termination Date, then JCIC intends to use its best efforts to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. JCIC will cancel the Shareholder Meeting and will not implement the Charter Extension if, on or before January 26, 2023, it is able to complete the Business Combination. JCIC intends to hold the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Charter Extension and file the proposed amendment to its Memorandum and Articles of Association only if it has determined as of the time of the Shareholder Meeting that it may not be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If JCIC does not implement the Extension, it will not redeem any public shares submitted for redemption solely in connection with the Shareholder Meeting (but will redeem those shares and all other public shares submitted for redemption in connection with the Business Combination Meeting).

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved, and the Business Combination is not completed on or before the Termination Date, JCIC 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 earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of the 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 JCIC’s remaining shareholders and the Board, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to JCIC’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no distribution from the Trust Account with respect to JCIC’s warrants, which will expire worthless in the event JCIC dissolves and liquidates the Trust Account.

Subject to the foregoing, the approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares,, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

At the Shareholder Meeting, holders of Class B Ordinary Shares will also be asked to vote on the election of current Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified. Approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. You can find additional information about Ms. Hartnett under Proposal No. 2.—The Director Election Proposal.

Approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. The Adjournment Proposal will only be put forth for a vote if there are not sufficient votes to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal at the Shareholder Meeting.

The Board has fixed the close of business on [•] (the “Record Date”) as the date for determining JCIC’s shareholders entitled to receive notice of and vote at the Shareholder Meeting and any adjournment thereof. Only holders of record of Ordinary Shares on that date are entitled to have their votes counted at the Shareholder Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

 

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JCIC believes that it is in the best interests of JCIC’s shareholders that JCIC obtain the Charter Extension if needed. After careful consideration of all relevant factors, the Board has determined that the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal are in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders, has declared it advisable and recommends that you vote or give instruction to vote “FOR” the Extension Amendment proposal, the election of Ms. Harnett and “FOR” the Adjournment Proposal.

Your vote is very important. Whether or not you plan to attend the Shareholder Meeting, please vote as soon as possible by following the instructions in the accompanying proxy statement to make sure that your shares are represented and voted at the Shareholder Meeting. If you hold your shares in “street name” through a bank, broker or other nominee, you will need to follow the instructions provided to you by your bank, broker or other nominee to ensure that your shares are represented and voted at the Shareholder Meeting. The approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a two- thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Accordingly, if you fail to vote in person or by proxy at the Shareholder Meeting, your shares will not be counted for the purposes of determining whether the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal are approved by the requisite majorities.

If you sign, date and return your proxy card without indicating how you wish to vote, your proxy will be voted FOR each of the proposals presented at the Shareholder Meeting. If you fail to return your proxy card or fail to instruct your bank, broker or other nominee how to vote, and do not attend the Shareholder Meeting in person, the effect will be that your shares will not be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the Shareholder Meeting but will otherwise not have any effect on whether the proposals are approved. If you are a shareholder of record and you attend the Shareholder Meeting and wish to vote in person, you may withdraw your proxy and vote in person.

TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS, YOU MUST DEMAND IN WRITING THAT YOUR CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES ARE REDEEMED FOR A PRO RATA PORTION OF THE FUNDS HELD IN THE TRUST ACCOUNT AND TENDER YOUR SHARES TO JCIC’S TRANSFER AGENT AT LEAST TWO BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE INITIALLY SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SHAREHOLDER MEETING. IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHT, YOU NEED TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A BENEFICIAL HOLDER AND PROVIDE YOUR LEGAL NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS IN YOUR WRITTEN DEMAND. YOU MAY TENDER YOUR SHARES BY EITHER DELIVERING YOUR SHARE CERTIFICATE TO THE TRANSFER AGENT OR BY DELIVERING YOUR SHARES ELECTRONICALLY USING THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY’S DWAC (DEPOSIT WITHDRAWAL AT CUSTODIAN) SYSTEM. IF YOU HOLD THE SHARES IN STREET NAME, YOU WILL NEED TO INSTRUCT THE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT YOUR BANK OR BROKER TO WITHDRAW THE SHARES FROM YOUR ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS.

Enclosed is the proxy statement containing detailed information about the Shareholder Meeting, the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal. Whether or not you plan to attend the Shareholder Meeting, JCIC urges you to read this material carefully and vote your shares.

 

   By Order of the Board of Directors of Jack Creek Investment Corp.

 

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Jeffrey E. Kelter

Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

Robert F. Savage

President and Director

 

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JACK CREEK INVESTMENT CORP.

386 Park Avenue South, 20th Floor

New York, NY 10016

NOTICE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

TO BE HELD ON January 24, 2023

To the Shareholders of Jack Creek Investment Corp.:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting in lieu of an annual general meeting of the shareholders of Jack Creek Investment Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“JCIC”), will be held on January 24, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time (the “Shareholder Meeting”), at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP located at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153, and via a virtual meeting, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place to which the meeting may be postponed or adjourned (the “Shareholder Meeting”).

The Shareholder Meeting will be conducted via live webcast, but the physical location of the Shareholder Meeting will remain at the location specified above for the purposes of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Memorandum and Articles of Association”). If you wish to attend the Shareholder Meeting in person, you must reserve your attendance at least two business days in advance of the Shareholder Meeting by contacting [•] at [•] by 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days prior to the initially scheduled meeting date). You will be able to attend the Shareholder Meeting online, vote and submit your questions during the Shareholder Meeting by visiting [•].

You are cordially invited to attend the Shareholder Meeting that will be held for the purpose of considering and voting on (i) an extension amendment proposal to amend, by way of special resolution, the Memorandum and Articles of Association to extend the date by which JCIC has to consummate a business combination (the “Charter Extension”) from January 26, 2023 (the “Termination Date”) to March 27, 2023 (the “Charter Extension Date”, and the proposal being the “Extension Amendment Proposal ”); (ii) the election of Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the board of directors (the “Board”) of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified (the “Director Election Proposal”) and (iii) an adjournment proposal to adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal (the “Adjournment Proposal”) (unless JCIC determines that it is not necessary to hold the Shareholder Meeting as described in the accompanying proxy statement), each as more fully described below in the accompanying proxy statement, which is dated [•] and is first being mailed to shareholders on or about that date.

The full text of the proposals to be voted upon at the Shareholder Meeting is as follows:

 

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Proposal No. 1—The Extension Amendment Proposal—RESOLVED, as a special resolution that:

 

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the first sentence of Article 49.7 of the Memorandum and Articles of Association be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new first sentence of Article 49.7:

“In the event that the Company does not consummate a Business Combination by March 27, 2023, or such later time as the Members may approve in accordance with the Articles, the Company shall:”

 

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Article 49.8(a) of the Memorandum and Articles of Association be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new Article 49.8(a):

“to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to: (i) allow redemptions of the Public Shares in connection with a Business Combination or: (ii) redeem 100 per cent of the Public Shares if the Company has not completed a Business Combination by March 27, 2023, or such later time as the Members may approve in accordance with the Articles; and/or”

 

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Article 49.10(b) of the Memorandum and Articles of Association be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new Article 49.10(b):

“vote as a class with the Public Shares: (i) on the Company’s initial Business Combination or on any other proposal presented to shareholders prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial Business Combination; or (ii) to approve an amendment to the Memorandum or the Articles to (x) extend the time we have to consummate a business combination beyond March 27, 2023 or (y) amend this Article 49.10.”

 

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Proposal No. 2 - Director Election ProposalRESOLVED, as an ordinary resolution of the Class B Ordinary Shares, that Class I director Heather Hartnett be appointed to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified.

 

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Proposal No. 3—The Adjournment Proposal—RESOLVED, as an ordinary resolution, that the adjournment of the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share and Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share in the capital of JCIC represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal.

Each of the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal is more fully described in the accompanying proxy statement. Please take the time to read carefully each of the proposals in the accompanying proxy statement before you vote.

The purpose of the Extension Amendment Proposal is to allow JCIC additional time to complete the proposed transactions (the “Business Combination”) contemplated by the certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 3, 2022, by and among JCIC, Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, LLC, a Delaware corporation, (“Bridger”), Wildfire New PubCo, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Bridger (“New Bridger”), Wildfire Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly owned subsidiary of New Bridger, Wildfire Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and direct, wholly owned subsidiary of New Bridger, Wildfire Merger Sub III, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New Bridger, Wildfire GP Sub IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New Bridger and BTOF (Grannus Feeder) – NQ L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Blocker”). For more information about the Business Combination, see our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022 and November 7, 2022 and New Bridger’s preliminary proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 12, 2022, as amended on September 23, 2022, November 7, 2022 and November 23, 2022, and as may be further amended. You are not being asked to vote on the Business Combination at this time.

The Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that JCIC has until January 26, 2023 to complete its initial Business Combination (the “Termination Date”). JCIC’s board of directors (the “Board”) has determined that it is in the best interests of JCIC to prepare to seek an extension of the Termination Date and have JCIC’s shareholders approve the Extension Amendment Proposal to allow for a short period of additional time to consummate the Business Combination if needed. JCIC intends to promptly call an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders to approve the Business Combination (referred to herein as the “Business Combination Meeting”) as soon as possible, and if the Business Combination is consummated prior to January 26, 2023, this extraordinary general meeting will be canceled. While JCIC is using its best efforts to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date, it is in the best interests of JCIC’s shareholders that, if it is not, the Charter Extension be obtained so that JCIC will have a limited amount of additional time to consummate the Business Combination. Without the Charter Extension, there is risk that JCIC might not, despite its best efforts, be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If that were to occur, JCIC would be precluded from completing the Business Combination and would be forced to liquidate even if JCIC’s shareholders are otherwise in favor of consummating the Business Combination.

 

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JCIC reserves the right at any time to cancel the Shareholder Meeting (by means of adjourning the Shareholder Meeting sine die) and not to submit to its shareholders the Extension Amendment Proposal and implement the Charter Extension. In the event the Shareholder Meeting is cancelled and JCIC is unable to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date, JCIC will dissolve and liquidate in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

JCIC believes that it is in the best interests of JCIC’s shareholders that JCIC obtain the Charter Extension if needed. After careful consideration of all relevant factors, the Board has determined that the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal are in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders, has declared it advisable and recommends that you vote or give instruction to vote “FOR” the Extension Amendment Proposal, the election of Ms. Harnett and “FOR” the Adjournment Proposal.

As contemplated by the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the holders of JCIC’s Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”), issued as part of the units sold in JCIC’s initial public offering (the “Public Shares”) may elect to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares in exchange for their pro rata portion of the funds held in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) established to hold a portion of the proceeds of the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) and the concurrent sale of the private placement warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”), if the Charter Extension is implemented (the “Redemption”), regardless of how such public shareholders vote in regard to the Extension Amendment Proposal. If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved by the requisite vote of shareholders, holders of Public Shares remaining after the Redemption will retain their right to redeem their Public Shares for their pro rata portion of the funds available in the Trust Account upon consummation of the Business Combination or if JCIC does not complete the Business Combination by the Charter Extension Date.

On the Record Date (as defined below), the redemption price per share was approximately $[•], based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account of approximately $[•] as of the Record Date (including interest not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes), divided by the total number of then outstanding Public Shares. The Redemption price per share will be calculated based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting. The closing price of the Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”) on the Record Date was $[•]. Accordingly, if the market price of the Class A Ordinary Shares were to remain the same until the date of the Shareholder Meeting, exercising redemption rights would result in a public shareholder receiving approximately $[•] [more/less] per share than if the shares were sold in the open market (based on the per share redemption price as of the Record Date). JCIC cannot assure shareholders that they will be able to sell their Class A Ordinary Shares in the open market, even if the market price per share is lower than the redemption price stated above, as there may not be sufficient liquidity in its securities when such shareholders wish to sell their shares. JCIC believes that such redemption right enables its public shareholders to determine whether or not to sustain their investments for an additional period if JCIC does not complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date.

If JCIC’s shareholders approve the Business Combination at the Business Combination Meeting and the other conditions to the Business Combination are then satisfied or will be satisfied or waived on or before the Termination Date, then JCIC intends to use its best efforts to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. JCIC will cancel the Shareholder Meeting and will not implement the Charter Extension if, on or before January 26, 2023, it is able to complete the Business Combination. JCIC intends to hold the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Charter Extension and file the proposed amendment to its Memorandum and Articles of Association only if it has determined as of the time of the Shareholder Meeting that it may not be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If JCIC does not implement the Extension, it will not redeem any public shares submitted for redemption solely in connection with the Shareholder Meeting (but will redeem those shares and all other public shares submitted for redemption in connection with the Business Combination Meeting).

 

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Approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal is a condition to the implementation of the Charter Extension. In addition, JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets following approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, after taking into account the Redemption. JCIC cannot predict the amount that will remain in the Trust Account following the Redemption if the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, and the amount remaining in the Trust Account may be only a small fraction of the $[•] that was in the Trust Account as of the Record Date (including interest not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes).

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved or the Charter Extension is not implemented, and the Business Combination is not completed on or before the Termination Date, JCIC 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 earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of the 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 JCIC’s remaining shareholders and the Board, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to JCIC’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.

In the event of a liquidation, the Sponsor and the other initial shareholders of JCIC will not receive any monies held in the Trust Account as a result of their ownership of 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares which were issued to the Sponsor prior to the Initial Public Offering, and 9,400,000 private placement warrants, which were purchased by the Sponsor in a private placement which occurred simultaneously with the completion of the Initial Public Offering. As a consequence, a liquidating distribution will be made only with respect to the Public Shares.

TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS, YOU MUST DEMAND IN WRITING THAT YOUR CLASS A ORDINARY SHARES ARE REDEEMED FOR A PRO RATA PORTION OF THE FUNDS HELD IN THE TRUST ACCOUNT AND TENDER YOUR SHARES TO JCIC’S TRANSFER AGENT AT LEAST TWO BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE INITIALLY SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SHAREHOLDER MEETING. IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHT, YOU NEED TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS A BENEFICIAL HOLDER AND PROVIDE YOUR LEGAL NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS IN YOUR WRITTEN DEMAND. YOU MAY TENDER YOUR SHARES BY EITHER DELIVERING YOUR SHARE CERTIFICATE TO THE TRANSFER AGENT OR BY DELIVERING YOUR SHARES ELECTRONICALLY USING THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY’S DWAC (DEPOSIT WITHDRAWAL AT CUSTODIAN) SYSTEM. IF YOU HOLD THE SHARES IN STREET NAME, YOU WILL NEED TO INSTRUCT THE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT YOUR BANK OR BROKER TO WITHDRAW THE SHARES FROM YOUR ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR REDEMPTION RIGHTS.

With respect to the regulation of special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) like JCIC, on March 30, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued proposed rules relating to, among other items, the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The proposal is consistent with less formal positions recently taken by the staff of the SEC. To mitigate the risk of being viewed as operating an unregistered investment company, JCIC currently intends, prior to the Shareholder Meeting, to instruct Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the trustee with respect to the Trust Account, to hold all funds in the Trust Account in cash (i.e., in one or more bank accounts) until the earlier of consummation of the Business Combination and liquidation of JCIC. Accordingly, the funds in the Trust Account will cease to be invested and such funds are not expected to otherwise earn interest. This means that the amount available for redemption will not increase in the future, and those shareholders who elect not to redeem their Public Shares in connection with the Charter Extension will receive no more than the same amount, without additional interest, if they redeem their Public Shares in connection with the Business Combination or if JCIC is liquidated in the future, in each case as compared with the per share amount they would receive if they had redeemed in connection with the Charter Extension. See “Risk Factors—If we are deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we may be forced to abandon our efforts to complete an initial business combination and instead be required to liquidate. To mitigate the risk of that result, we intend to instruct, prior to the Shareholder Meeting, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company to liquidate the securities held in the Trust Account and instead hold all funds in the Trust Account in cash. As a result, following such change, we will likely not receive interest on the funds held in the Trust Account, which would reduce the dollar amount that our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or our liquidation.

 

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Subject to the foregoing, the approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Ordinary Shares” and together with the Class A Ordinary Shares, the “Ordinary Shares”), voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

At the Shareholder Meeting, holders of Class B Ordinary Shares will also be asked to vote on the election of current Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified. Pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. You can find additional information about Ms. Hartnett under Proposal No. 2.—The Director Election Proposal.

Approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. The Adjournment Proposal will only be put forth for a vote if there are not sufficient votes to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal at the Shareholder Meeting.

Record holders of Ordinary Shares at the close of business on [•] (the “Record Date”) are entitled to vote or have their votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting. On the Record Date, there were 34,500,000 issued and outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares and 8,625,000 issued and outstanding Class B Ordinary Shares. JCIC’s warrants do not have voting rights.

Our sponsor and JCIC’s officers, directors and initial shareholders have informed us of their intent to vote all of their Ordinary Shares in favor of the proposals being presented at the Shareholder Meeting, as applicable. Such shares will be excluded from the pro rata calculation used to determine the per-share redemption price. As of the date of the accompanying proxy statement, JCIC’s officers, directors and initial shareholders hold 8,625,000 of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares and have not purchased any Public Shares, but may do so at any time. As a result, in addition to JCIC’s officers, directors and initial shareholders, (i) approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal will require the affirmative vote of at least 20,125,000 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 58.3% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if all Ordinary Shares are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes, and the affirmative vote of at least 5,750,001 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 16.7% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if only such shares as are required to establish a quorum are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes; and (ii) approval of the Adjournment Proposal will require the affirmative vote of at least 12,937,501 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 37.5% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if all Ordinary Shares are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes, and the affirmative vote of at least 2,156,252 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 6.3% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if only such shares as are required to establish a quorum are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes.

The accompanying proxy statement contains important information about the Shareholder Meeting, the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal. Whether or not you plan to attend the Shareholder Meeting, JCIC urges you to read this material carefully and vote your shares.

The accompanying proxy statement is dated [•] and is first being mailed to shareholders on or about that date.

 

   By Order of the Board of Directors of Jack Creek Investment Corp.

 

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Jeffrey E. Kelter

Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

Robert F. Savage

President and Director

 

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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RISK FACTORS

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SHAREHOLDER MEETING

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EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF JCIC SHAREHOLDERS

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PROPOSAL NO. 1—THE EXTENSION AMENDMENT PROPOSAL

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PROPOSAL NO. 2—THE DIRECTOR ELECTION PROPOSAL

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PROPOSAL NO. 3—THE ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL

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CERTAIN MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

     40  

BUSINESS OF JCIC AND CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT JCIC

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BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

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FUTURE SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS

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HOUSEHOLDING INFORMATION

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the statements contained in this proxy statement constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans and strategies, anticipated events or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements reflect the current views of Jack Creek Investment Corp. (“JCIC”) with respect to, among other things, JCIC’s pending business combination with Bridger and JCIC’s capital resources and results of operations. Likewise, JCIC’s financial statements and all of JCIC’s statements regarding market conditions and results of operations are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of terminology such as “outlook,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words or phrases.

The forward-looking statements contained in this proxy statement reflect JCIC’s current views about future events and are subject to numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and changes in circumstances that may cause its actual results to differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statement. JCIC does not guarantee that the transactions and events described will happen as described (or that they will happen at all). The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and future events to differ materially from those set forth or contemplated in the forward-looking statements:

 

   

JCIC’s ability to complete the Business Combination;

 

   

the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination;

 

   

the volatility of the market price and liquidity of the Class A Ordinary Shares (as defined below) and other securities of JCIC;

 

   

the use of funds not held in the Trust Account (as described herein) or available to JCIC from interest income on the Trust Account balance; and

 

   

the competitive environment in which Bridger will operate following the Business Combination.

While forward-looking statements reflect JCIC’s good faith beliefs, they are not guarantees of future performance. JCIC disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors, new information, data or methods, future events or other changes after the date of this proxy statement, except as required by applicable law. For a further discussion of these and other factors that could cause JCIC’s future results, performance or transactions to differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, please see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in JCIC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 21, 2022, JCIC’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, as filed with the SEC on November 4, 2022 and in other reports JCIC files with the SEC. Risks regarding the Business Combination are also discussed in New Bridger’s preliminary proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 12, 2022, as amended on September 23, 2022, November 7, 2022 and November 23, 2022, and as may be further amended. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are based only on information currently available to JCIC (or to third parties making the forward-looking statements).

 

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RISK FACTORS

In addition to the below risk factors, you should consider carefully all of the risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 21, 2022, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 4, 2022, and any subsequent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC and in the other reports we file with the SEC before making a decision to invest in our securities. The risks and uncertainties described in the aforementioned filings and below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results or result in our liquidation.

There are no assurances that the Extension will enable us to complete the Business Combination.

Approving the Extension involves a number of risks. Even if the Charter Extension (as defined below) is approved, we can provide no assurances that any transaction qualifying as the Business Combination will be consummated prior to the Charter Extension Date (as defined below). Our ability to consummate the Business Combination is dependent on a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control. If the Charter Extension is approved, we expect to seek shareholder approval of the Business Combination prior to the Charter Extension Date. We are required to offer shareholders the opportunity to redeem their Public Shares (as defined below) in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal. Even if the Charter Extension is approved by our shareholders, it is possible that Redemptions (as defined below) will leave us with insufficient cash to consummate the Business Combination on commercially acceptable terms, or at all. The fact that we will have separate redemption periods in connection with the Charter Extension and the Business Combination vote could exacerbate these risks. Other than in connection with a redemption offer or liquidation, our shareholders may be unable to recover their investment except through sales of our shares on the open market. The price of our shares may be volatile, and there can be no assurance that shareholders will be able to dispose of our shares at favorable prices, or at all.

The SEC has recently issued proposed rules to regulate special purpose acquisition companies. Certain of the procedures that we, a potential business combination target, or others may determine to undertake in connection with such proposals may increase our costs and the time needed to complete the Business Combination and may constrain the circumstances under which we could complete the Business Combination.

On March 30, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rules (the “SPAC Proposed Rules”) that would, among other items, impose additional disclosure requirements in initial public offerings by special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) and business combination transactions involving SPACs and private operating companies; amend the financial statement requirements applicable to business combination transactions involving such companies; update and expand guidance regarding the general use of projections in SEC filings, as well as when projections are disclosed in connection with proposed business combination transactions; increase the potential liability of certain participants in proposed business combination transactions; and impact the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). These rules, if adopted, whether in the form proposed or in revised form, may materially adversely affect our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our initial business combination and may increase the costs and time related thereto.

If we are deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we may be forced to abandon our efforts to complete an initial business combination and instead be required to liquidate. To mitigate the risk of that result, we intend to instruct, prior to the Shareholder Meeting, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company to liquidate the securities held in the Trust Account and instead hold all funds in the Trust Account in cash. As a result, following such change, we will likely not receive interest on the funds held in the Trust Account, which would reduce the dollar amount that our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or our liquidation.

As indicated above, JCIC completed its Initial Public Offering on January 26, 2021 and has operated as a blank check company searching for a target business with which to consummate an initial business combination since such time. The SPAC Proposed Rules relate, among other matters, to the circumstances in which SPACs such as us could potentially be subject to the Investment Company Act. The SPAC Proposed Rules would provide a safe harbor for such companies from the definition of “investment company” under Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act, provided that a SPAC satisfies certain criteria. To comply with the duration limitation of the proposed safe harbor, a SPAC would have a limited time period to announce and complete a de-SPAC transaction. Specifically, to comply with the safe harbor, the SPAC Proposed Rules would require a company to file a report on Form 8-K announcing that it has entered into an agreement with a target company for an initial business combination no later than 18 months after the effective date of the registration statement for its initial public offering. The company would then be required to complete its initial business combination no later than 24 months after the effective date of the Initial Public Offering registration statement. We understand that the SEC has recently been taking informal positions regarding the Investment Company Act consistent with the SPAC Proposed Rules.

There is currently uncertainty concerning the applicability of the Investment Company Act to a SPAC, including a company like ours, that does not complete its initial business combination within the proposed time frame set forth in the proposed safe harbor rule. As a result, it is possible that a claim could be made that we have been operating as an unregistered investment company. If we were deemed to be

 

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an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we might be forced to abandon our efforts to complete an initial business combination and instead be required to liquidate. If we are required to liquidate, our investors would not be able to realize the benefits of owning shares in a successor operating business, including the potential appreciation in the value of our shares and warrants or rights following such a transaction, and our warrants would expire worthless.

The funds in the Trust Account have, since our Initial Public Offering, been held only in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S. government treasury obligations and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act. To mitigate the risk of us being deemed to have been operating as an unregistered investment company (including under the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended), we intend to instruct, prior to the Shareholder Meeting, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the trustee with respect to the Trust Account, to liquidate the U.S. government treasury obligations or money market funds held in the Trust Account and thereafter to hold all funds in the Trust Account in cash (i.e., in one or more bank accounts) until the earlier of consummation of the Business Combination or liquidation. This means that the amount available for redemption will not increase in the future, and those shareholders who elect not to redeem their Public Shares in connection with the Charter Amendment will receive no more than the same amount, without additional interest, if they redeem their public shares in connection with the Business Combination or if JCIC is liquidated in the future, in each case as compared with the per share amount they would receive if they had redeemed their Public Shares in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) or other regulatory agencies may modify, delay or prevent the Business Combination.

CFIUS or other regulatory agencies may modify, delay or prevent the Business Combination. CFIUS has authority to review certain direct or indirect foreign investments in U.S. companies. Among other things, CFIUS is empowered to require certain foreign investors to make mandatory filings in some circumstances, to charge filing fees when applicable and to self-initiate national security reviews of certain direct or indirect foreign investments in U.S. companies if the parties to that investment choose not to file voluntarily. If CFIUS determines an investment to pose a threat to national security, CFIUS has the power to place restrictions on the investment or to recommend that the President of the United States order the transaction blocked or unwound. Whether CFIUS has jurisdiction to review an acquisition or investment transaction depends on, among other factors, the nature and structure of the transaction, including the level of foreign beneficial ownership interest and the nature of any information or governance rights involved. For example, investments that result in “control” of a U.S. business by a foreign person always are subject to CFIUS jurisdiction. CFIUS also has jurisdiction to review investments that do not result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person but afford certain foreign investors certain information or governance rights in a U.S. business that has a nexus to “critical technologies,” “critical infrastructure” and/or “sensitive personal data.”

Our Sponsor has its principal place of business in the United States and is owned and controlled by U.S. persons. No non-U.S. entities have governance rights in JCIC other than those to which any holders of JCIC’s Class A Ordinary Shares are entitled. Furthermore, JCIC currently is incorporated in the Cayman Islands. While we cannot definitively predict whether JCIC or our Sponsor may be deemed to be a “foreign person” at the time of the Business Combination, JCIC does not believe that any of the facts or relationships with respect to the Business Combination would subject the Business Combination to regulatory review by any U.S. government entity or authority, including CFIUS, nor that the Business Combination ultimately would be prohibited should any such review take place.

In the event that CFIUS does assert jurisdiction over the Business Combination, CFIUS may decide to modify or delay the Business Combination, impose conditions with respect to the Business Combination, request the President of the United States to prohibit the Business Combination or order JCIC to divest all or a portion of the U.S. target business of the Business Combination that JCIC acquired without first obtaining CFIUS approval or prohibit the Business Combination entirely. Moreover, the process of government review, whether by CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy, and JCIC has only a limited time to complete its initial business combination. If JCIC is unable to consummate the Business Combination or any other business combination within the applicable time period required under its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, JCIC would be required to wind up, redeem and liquidate. In such event, JCIC’s shareholders would miss the opportunity to benefit from an investment in a target company and the appreciation in value of such investment through a business combination with JCIC. Additionally, there would be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to JCIC’s warrants, which would expire worthless in the event of JCIC’s winding up.

 

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SHAREHOLDER MEETING

The questions and answers below highlight only selected information from this proxy statement and only briefly address some commonly asked questions about the Shareholder Meeting (as defined below) and the proposals to be presented at the Shareholder Meeting. The following questions and answers do not include all the information that is important to JCIC shareholders. Shareholders are urged to read carefully this entire proxy statement, including the other documents referred to herein, to fully understand the proposal to be presented at the Shareholder Meeting and the voting procedures for the Shareholder Meeting, which will be held on January 24, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time. The Shareholder Meeting will be held at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP located at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153, and via a virtual meeting, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place to which the meeting may be postponed or adjourned (the “Shareholder Meeting”). You can participate in the meeting, vote, and submit questions via live webcast by visiting [•].

 

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Why am I receiving this proxy statement?

JCIC is a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on August 18, 2020. JCIC was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.

On January 26, 2021, JCIC consummated its initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) of 34,500,000 units (the “Units”), including the issuance of 4,500,000 JCIC Units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option. Each JCIC Unit consists of one JCIC Class A Ordinary Share, and one-half of one redeemable warrant of JCIC, each whole warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one JCIC Class A Ordinary Share at an exercise price of $11.50 per share. The JCIC Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds to JCIC of $345,000,000 that were placed in a trust account established at the consummation of the Initial Public Offering that holds the proceeds of the Initial Public Offering (the “Trust Account”). Substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Initial Public Offering, JCIC completed the private sale (the “Private Placement”) of 9,400,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, to JCIC Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), generating gross proceeds to JCIC of $9,400,000.

Like most blank check companies, JCIC’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Memorandum and Articles of Association”) provide for the return of the Initial Public Offering proceeds held in trust to the holders of Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares” or the “Public Shares”) sold in the Initial Public Offering if there is no qualifying business combination(s) consummated on or before January 26, 2023 (the “Termination Date”).

Without the Charter Extension, JCIC believes that JCIC might not, despite its best efforts, be able to complete an initial business combination (a “Business Combination”) on or before January 26, 2023. JCIC believes that it is in the best interests of JCIC’s shareholders to continue JCIC’s existence until March 27, 2023 if necessary in order to allow JCIC additional time to complete the Business Combination and is therefore holding this Shareholder Meeting.

At the Shareholder Meeting, you will also be asked to vote on the election of Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified.

 

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When and where will the Shareholder Meeting be held?

The Shareholder Meeting will be held on January 24, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP located at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153, and via a virtual meeting, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place to which the meeting may be postponed or adjourned.

Shareholders may attend the Shareholder Meeting in person. However in view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking precautionary measures and therefore encourage you to attend the Shareholder Meeting virtually. If you wish to attend the Shareholder Meeting in person, you must reserve your attendance at least two business days in advance of the Shareholder Meeting by contacting [•] by 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days prior to the initially scheduled meeting date). You can participate in the meeting, vote, and submit questions via live webcast by visiting [].

 

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How do I vote?

 

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The extraordinary general meeting will be held at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, on January [•], 2023, at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, located at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153 and via live webcast at [•], where you will be able to listen to the meeting live and vote during the meeting. If you are a holder of record of JCIC Ordinary Shares on the record date for the extraordinary general meeting, you may vote at the extraordinary general meeting in person, via the virtual meeting platform or by submitting a proxy for the extraordinary general meeting, in any of the following ways, if available:

 

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Vote by Mail: by signing, dating and returning the enclosed proxy card in the accompanying prepaid reply envelope. By signing the proxy card and returning it in the enclosed prepaid envelope to the specified address, you are authorizing the individuals named on the proxy card to vote your shares at the extraordinary general meeting in the manner you indicate. We encourage you to sign and return the proxy card even if you plan to attend the extraordinary general meeting so that your shares will be voted if you are unable to attend the extraordinary general meeting. If you receive more than one proxy card, it is an indication that your shares are held in multiple accounts. Please sign and return all proxy cards to ensure that all of your shares are voted. If you hold your shares in “street name” through a bank, broker or other nominee, you will need to follow the instructions provided to you by your bank, broker or other nominee to ensure that your shares are represented and voted at the extraordinary general meeting. If you sign and return the proxy card but do not give instructions on how to vote your shares, your JCIC Ordinary Shares will be voted as recommended by the JCIC Board.

Vote by Internet: visit [•], 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time on January [•], 2023 (have your proxy card in hand when you visit the website);

Vote by Phone: by calling toll-free (within the U.S. or Canada) [•] (have your proxy card in hand when you call); or

Vote at the extraordinary general meeting: you can attend the extraordinary general meeting in person or via the virtual meeting platform and vote during the meeting by following the instructions on your proxy card. You can access the extraordinary general meeting by visiting the website [•]. You will need your control number for access. Instructions on how to virtually attend and participate at the extraordinary general meeting are available at [•].

If you hold your shares in “street name,” which means your shares are held of record by a broker, bank or nominee, you should contact your broker, bank or nominee to ensure that votes related to the shares you beneficially own are properly counted. In this regard, you must provide the broker, bank or nominee with instructions on how to vote your shares or, if you wish to attend the extraordinary general meeting and vote in person, obtain a valid proxy from your broker, bank or nominee. In most cases you may vote by telephone or over the Internet as instructed.

 

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How do I attend the virtual Shareholder Meeting?

 

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If you are a registered shareholder, you will receive a proxy card from Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Continental,” or the “Transfer Agent”). The form contains instructions on how to attend the virtual Shareholder Meeting including the URL address, along with your control number. You will need your control number for access. If you do not have your control number, contact the Transfer Agent at 917-262-2373, or email proxy@continentalstock.com.

You can pre-register to attend the virtual Shareholder Meeting starting [•], 2023 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time (three business days prior to the meeting date). Enter the URL address into your browser [•], enter your control number, name and email address. Once you pre-register you can vote or enter questions in the chat box. At the start of the Shareholder Meeting you will need to log in again using your control number and will also be prompted to enter your control number if you vote during the Shareholder Meeting.

Shareholders who hold their investments through a bank or broker, will need to contact the Transfer Agent to receive a control number. If you plan to vote at the Shareholder Meeting you will need to have a legal proxy from your bank or broker or if you would like to join and not vote, the Transfer Agent will issue you a guest control number with proof of ownership. In either case you must contact the Transfer Agent for specific instructions on how to receive the control number. The Transfer Agent can be contacted at the number or email address above. Please allow up to 72 hours prior to the meeting for processing your control number.

If you do not have access to Internet, you can listen only to the meeting by dialing [•] (or [•] if you are located outside the United States and Canada (standard rates apply) and when prompted enter the pin number [•]. Please note that you will not be able to vote or ask questions at the Shareholder Meeting if you choose to participate telephonically.

 

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What are the specific proposals on which I am being asked to vote at the Shareholder Meeting? A: JCIC shareholders are being asked to consider and vote on the following proposals:

 

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Proposal No. 1—Extension Amendment Proposal - To amend, by way of special resolution, the Memorandum and Articles of Association to extend the date by which JCIC has to consummate a Business Combination (the “Charter Extension ”) from January 26, 2023 to March 27, 2023 (the “Charter Extension Date”, and the proposal being the “Extension Amendment Proposal”);

 

  2.

Proposal No. 2—Director Election Proposal—To elect, by way of ordinary resolution of the Class B Ordinary Shares, Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified (the “Director Election Proposal”); and

 

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  3.

Proposal No. 3—Adjournment Proposal – To adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal (the “Adjournment Proposal”).

Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares may vote with respect to the Extension Proposal and Adjournment Proposal, and Holders of Class B Ordinary Shares may vote with respect to all of the proposals.

For more information, please see “Proposal No. 1—The Extension Amendment Proposal”, Proposal No. 2 – The Director Election Proposal” and “Proposal No. 3—The Adjournment Proposal.”

After careful consideration, JCIC’s board of directors (the “Board”) has unanimously determined that the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal are in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders and unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” or give instruction to vote “FOR” the Extension Amendment Proposal, the election of Heather Hartnett as a director of JCIC, and the Adjournment Proposal .

The existence of financial and personal interests of our directors and officers may result in conflicts of interest, including a conflict between what may be in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders and what may be best for a director’s personal interests when determining to recommend that shareholders vote for the proposals. See the sections titled “Proposal No 1—The Extension Amendment Proposal—Interests of the Sponsor, JCIC’s Directors, Officers and Initial Shareholders” and “Beneficial Ownership of Securities” for a further discussion of these considerations.

THE VOTE OF SHAREHOLDERS IS IMPORTANT. SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO SUBMIT THEIR PROXIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER CAREFULLY REVIEWING THIS PROXY STATEMENT.

 

  Q:

Are any of the proposals conditioned on one another?

 

  A:

JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets following approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, after taking into account any redemptions of Class A Ordinary Shares by JCIC public shareholders in exchange for their pro rata portion of the funds held in the Trust Account in connection with the Charter Extension (the “Redemptions”). JCIC also will not proceed with the Charter Extension if, on or before the Termination Date, JCIC completes the Business Combination.

If the Charter Extension is approved and one or more JCIC shareholders elect to redeem their Public Shares pursuant to the Redemption, JCIC will remove from the Trust Account and deliver to the holders of such redeemed Public Shares an amount equal to the pro rata portion of funds available in the Trust Account with respect to such redeemed Public Shares, and retain the remainder of the funds in the Trust Account for JCIC’s use in connection with consummating the Business Combination, subject to the redemption rights of holders of Public Shares in connection with the Business Combination.

The Adjournment Proposal is conditional on JCIC not obtaining the necessary votes for approving the Extension Amendment Proposal prior to the Shareholder Meeting in order to seek additional time to obtain sufficient votes in support of the Charter Extension. If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved at the Shareholder Meeting, the Adjournment Proposal will not be presented.

The Director Election Proposal is not conditioned on either of the other proposals.

 

  Q:

Why is JCIC proposing the Extension Amendment Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal?

 

  A:

The Memorandum and Articles of Association, as currently in effect, provides for the return of JCIC’s IPO proceeds held in the Trust Account to the public shareholders if there is no qualifying business combination(s) consummated by January 26, 2023. As explained below, the purpose of the Extension Amendment Proposal and, if necessary, the Adjournment Proposal, is to allow JCIC additional time, if needed, to complete the Business Combination pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement. JCIC believes that it is in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders to complete the Business Combination and that it is in the best interests of JCIC’s shareholders that JCIC obtain the Charter Extension if needed. JCIC believes the Business Combination will provide significant benefits to its shareholders, and that circumstances warrant providing public shareholders additional time to consider the Business Combination. Therefore, JCIC is asking for an extension of this timeframe. Accordingly, if the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, JCIC’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association would be amended in the form attached as Annex A to extend the date by which we must consummate an initial business combination to March 27, 2023 (or such earlier date as determined by

 

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  the Board). For more information about the Business Combination, see our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022 and November 7, 2022, and New Bridger’s preliminary proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 12, 2022, as amended on September 23, 2022, November 7, 2022 and November 23, 2022 and as may be further amended.

Without the Charter Extension, JCIC believes that JCIC may not be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If that were to occur, JCIC would be forced to liquidate.

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved by JCIC’s shareholders, JCIC may put the Adjournment Proposal to a vote in order to seek additional time to obtain sufficient votes in support of the Charter Extension. If the Adjournment Proposal is not approved by JCIC’s shareholders, the Board may not be able to adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates in the event that there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal.

JCIC reserves the right at any time to cancel the Shareholder Meeting (by means of adjourning the Shareholder Meeting sine die) and not to submit to its shareholders the Extension Amendment Proposal and implement the Charter Extension. In the event the Shareholder Meeting is cancelled and JCIC is unable to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date, JCIC will dissolve and liquidate in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

 

  Q:

Who can vote on the Director Election Proposal?

 

  A:

Pursuant to our Memorandum and Articles of Association only holders of our Class B Ordinary Shares may vote to appoint a person to be a director of JCIC prior to the closing of a Business Combination. Therefore, only holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, which consists of JCIC Sponsor LLC, Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul and Richard Noll, are eligible to vote on the Director Election Proposal.

 

  Q:

What constitutes a quorum?

 

  A:

A quorum of our shareholders is necessary to hold a valid meeting. A quorum will be present at the Shareholder Meeting if one or more shareholders who together hold a majority of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares entitled to vote at the Shareholder Meeting are represented in person or by proxy. Abstentions and broker non-votes, while considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum, will not count as votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting. As of the record date for the Shareholder Meeting, 21,562,501 Ordinary Shares would be required to achieve a quorum for each proposal outside of the Director Election Proposal (in which case, 4,312,501 Class B Ordinary Shares would be required to establish a quorum) . Because all of the proposals to be voted on at the Shareholder Meeting are “non-routine” matters, banks, brokers and other nominees will not have authority to vote on any proposals unless instructed, so JCIC does not expect there to be any broker non-votes at the Shareholder Meeting. In the absence of a quorum, the chairman of the Shareholder Meeting has power to adjourn the Shareholder Meeting.

 

  Q:

What vote is required to approve the proposals presented at the Shareholder Meeting?

 

  A:

The approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

Approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

Approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

 

  Q:

How will the Sponsor, JCIC’s directors, officers and its initial shareholders vote?

 

  A:

The Sponsor, JCIC’s directors, officers and its initial shareholders have informed us of their intent to vote any Ordinary Shares over which they have voting control in favor of the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal, if applicable, and, if necessary, the Adjournment Proposal.

 

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The Sponsor, JCIC’s directors, officers and its initial shareholders and their respective affiliates are not entitled to redeem any Class B Ordinary Shares held by them in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal. On the Record Date, the Sponsor, JCIC’s directors, officers and its initial shareholders and their respective affiliates beneficially owned and were entitled to vote an aggregate of 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, representing 20.0% of JCIC’s issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares.

 

  Q:

Who is JCIC’s Sponsor?

 

  A:

JCIC’s sponsor is JCIC Sponsor LLC, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (the “Sponsor”). The Sponsor currently owns 8,550,000 Class B Ordinary Shares and 9,400,000 Private Placement Warrants. The Sponsor is not “controlled” (as defined in 31 CFR 800.208) by a foreign person, such that the Sponsor’s involvement in the Business Combination would be a “covered transaction” (as defined in 31 CFR 800.213). However, it is possible that non-U.S. persons could be involved in our Business Combination, which may increase the risk that our Business Combination becomes subject to regulatory review, including review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), and that restrictions, limitations or conditions will be imposed by CFIUS. If our Business Combination with a U.S. business is subject to CFIUS review, the scope of which was expanded by the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), to include certain non-passive, non-controlling investments in sensitive U.S. businesses and certain acquisitions of real estate even with no underlying U.S. business. FIRRMA, and subsequent implementing regulations that are now in force, also subjects certain categories of investments to mandatory filings. If our potential Business Combination with a U.S. business falls within CFIUS’s jurisdiction, we may determine that we are required to make a mandatory filing or that we will submit a voluntary notice to CFIUS, or to proceed with the Business Combination without notifying CFIUS and risk CFIUS intervention, before or after closing the Business Combination. CFIUS may decide to block or delay our Business Combination, impose conditions to mitigate national security concerns with respect to such Business Combination or order us to divest all or a portion of a U.S. business of the combined company without first obtaining CFIUS clearance, which may limit the attractiveness of or prevent us from pursuing certain initial business combination opportunities that we believe would otherwise be beneficial to us and our shareholders. As a result, the pool of potential targets with which we could complete the Business Combination may be limited and we may be adversely affected in terms of competing with other special purpose acquisition companies which do not have similar foreign ownership issues. A failure to notify CFIUS of a transaction where such notification was required or otherwise warranted based on the national security considerations presented by an investment target may expose the Sponsor and/or the combined company to legal penalties, costs, and/or other adverse reputational and financial effects, thus potentially diminishing the value of the combined company. In addition, CFIUS is actively pursuing transactions that were not notified to it and may ask questions regarding, or impose restrictions or mitigation on, the Business Combination post-closing.

Moreover, the process of government review, whether by the CFIUS or otherwise, could be lengthy and we have limited time to complete our Business Combination. If we cannot complete the Business Combination by January 26, 2023 (or by March 27, 2023 if extended) because the transaction is still under review or because our Business Combination is ultimately prohibited by CFIUS or another U.S. government entity, we may be required to liquidate. If we liquidate, our public shareholders may only receive $[•] per Public Share, and our warrants will expire worthless. This will also cause you to lose the investment opportunity in a target company and the chance of realizing future gains on your investment through any price appreciation in the combined company.

 

  Q:

Why should I vote “FOR” the Extension Amendment Proposal?

 

  A:

JCIC believes shareholders will benefit from JCIC consummating the Business Combination and is proposing the Extension Amendment Proposal to extend the date by which JCIC has to complete the Business Combination until the Charter Extension Date. Without the Charter Extension, JCIC believes that JCIC may not be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If that were to occur, JCIC would be forced to liquidate.

 

  Q:

Why should I vote “FOR” the Adjournment Proposal?

 

  A:

If the Adjournment Proposal is not approved by JCIC’s shareholders, the Board may not be able to adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates in the event that there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal.

If presented, the Board recommends that you vote in favor of the Adjournment Proposal.

 

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  Q:

What if I do not want to vote “FOR” the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal?

 

  A:

If you do not want the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal to be approved, you may vote “AGAINST” such proposal.

If you attend the Shareholder Meeting in person or by proxy, and you vote “AGAINST” the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal, your Ordinary Shares will be counted for the purposes of determining whether the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal (as the case may be) are approved.

However, if you fail to attend the Shareholder Meeting in person or by proxy, or if you do attend the Shareholder Meeting in person or by proxy but you “ABSTAIN” or otherwise fail to vote at the Shareholder Meeting, your Ordinary Shares will not be counted for the purposes of determining whether the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal (as the case may be) are approved, and your Ordinary Shares which are not voted at the Shareholder Meeting will have no effect on the outcome of such votes.

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, the Adjournment Proposal will not be presented for a vote.

 

  Q:

How are the funds in the Trust Account currently being held?

 

  A:

With respect to the regulation of SPACs like JCIC, on March 30, 2022, the SEC issued the SPAC Proposed Rules relating to, among other items, the extent to which SPACs could become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act, including a proposed rule that would provide SPACs a safe harbor from treatment as an investment company if they satisfy certain conditions that limit a SPAC’s duration, asset composition, business purpose and activities.

With regard to the SEC’s investment company proposals included in the SPAC Proposed Rules, while the funds in the Trust Account have, since JCIC’s Initial Public Offering, been held only in U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in U.S. Treasuries, to mitigate the risk of being viewed as operating an unregistered investment company (including pursuant to the subjective test of Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act of 1940), JCIC currently intends, prior to the Shareholder Meeting, to instruct Continental, the trustee managing the Trust Account, to hold all funds in the Trust Account in cash until the earlier of consummation of the Business Combination and liquidation of JCIC.

 

  Q:

Will you seek any further extensions to liquidate the Trust Account?

 

  A:

Other than as described in this proxy statement, JCIC does not currently anticipate seeking any further extension to consummate the Business Combination beyond the Charter Extension Date, but may do so in the future.

 

  Q:

What happens if the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved?

 

  A:

If there are insufficient votes to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal, JCIC may put the Adjournment Proposal to a vote in order to seek additional time to obtain sufficient votes in support of the Charter Extension.

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved at the Shareholder Meeting or at any adjournment thereof or the Charter Extension is not implemented, and the Business Combination is not completed on or before the Termination Date, then as contemplated by and in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association, JCIC 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 earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of the 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 JCIC’s remaining shareholders and the Board, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to JCIC’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no distribution from the Trust Account with respect to JCIC’s warrants, which will expire worthless in the event JCIC dissolves and liquidates the Trust Account.

The Sponsor, the officers and directors and the initial shareholders of JCIC waived their rights to participate in any liquidation distribution with respect to the 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares held by them.

 

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  Q:

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, what happens next?

 

  A:

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, JCIC will continue to attempt to consummate the Business Combination until the Charter Extension Date. JCIC will procure that all filings required to be made with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal are made and will continue its efforts to obtain approval of the Business Combination at an extraordinary general meeting and consummate the closing of the Business Combination on or before the Charter Extension Date.

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved and the Charter Extension is implemented, the removal from the Trust Account of the amount equal to the pro rata portion of funds available in the Trust Account with respect to such redeemed Public Shares will reduce the amount remaining in the Trust Account and increase the percentage interest of JCIC held by JCIC’s officers, directors, the Sponsor and its affiliates. In addition, JCIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that JCIC cannot redeem or repurchase Public Shares to the extent such redemption would result in JCIC’s failure to have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets. As a result, JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets upon its implementation of the Charter Extension, after taking into account the Redemptions.

 

  Q:

If I vote for or against the Extension Amendment Proposal, do I need to request that my shares be redeemed?

 

  A:

Yes. Whether you vote “for” or “against” the Extension Amendment Proposal, or do not vote at all, you may elect to redeem your shares. However, you will need to submit a redemption request for your shares if you choose to redeem.

 

  Q:

Am I being asked to vote on the Business Combination at this Shareholder Meeting?

 

  A:

No. You are not being asked to vote on the Business Combination at this time. If the Charter Extension is implemented and you do not elect to redeem your Public Shares, provided that you are a shareholder on the record date for the shareholder meeting to consider the Business Combination, you will be entitled to vote on the Business Combination when it is submitted to shareholders and will retain the right to redeem your Public Shares for cash in connection with the Business Combination or liquidation.

 

  Q:

Will how I vote affect my ability to exercise Redemption rights?

 

  A:

No. You may exercise your Redemption rights whether or not you are a holder of Public Shares on the Record Date (so long as you are a holder at the time of exercise), or whether you are a holder and vote your Public Shares of JCIC on the Extension Amendment Proposal (for or against) or any other proposal described by this proxy statement. As a result, the Charter Extension can be approved by shareholders who will redeem their Public Shares and no longer remain shareholders, leaving shareholders who choose not to redeem their Public Shares holding shares in a company with a potentially less liquid trading market, fewer shareholders, potentially less cash and the potential inability to meet the listing standards of the NASDAQ.

 

  Q:

May I change my vote after I have mailed my signed proxy card?

 

  A:

Yes. If you are a shareholder of record of Ordinary Shares as of the close of business on the record date, you can change or revoke your proxy before it is voted at the meeting in one of the following ways: Submit a new proxy card bearing a later date; or vote in person or electronically at the Shareholder Meeting by visiting www.[•].com and entering the control number found on your proxy card, voting instruction form or notice you previously received. Please note that your attendance at the Shareholder Meeting will not alone serve to revoke your proxy.

 

  Q:

How are votes counted?

 

  A:

Votes will be counted by the inspector of election appointed for the Shareholder Meeting, who will separately count “FOR” and “AGAINST” votes, “ABSTAIN” and broker non-votes. The approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

 

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Shareholders who attend the Shareholder Meeting, either in person or by proxy (or, if a corporation or other non-natural person, by sending their duly authorized representative or proxy), will be counted (and the number of Ordinary Shares held by such shareholders will be counted) for the purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the Shareholder Meeting. The presence, in person or by proxy or by duly authorized representative, at the Shareholder Meeting of the holders of a majority of all issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares entitled to vote at the Shareholder Meeting shall constitute a quorum for the Shareholder Meeting.

At the Shareholder Meeting, only those votes which are actually cast, either “FOR” or “AGAINST”, the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal, will be counted for the purposes of determining whether the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal (as the case may be) are approved, and any Ordinary Shares which are not voted at the Shareholder Meeting will have no effect on the outcome of such votes. Abstentions, while considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum, will not count as votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal. Broker non-votes will not be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum, will not count as votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on the Extension Amendment Proposal, Director Election Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal.

 

  Q:

If my shares are held in “street name,” will my broker, bank or nominee automatically vote my shares for me?

 

  A:

If your shares are held in “street name” in a stock brokerage account or by a broker, bank or other nominee, you must provide the record holder of your shares with instructions on how to vote your shares. Please follow the voting instructions provided by your broker, bank or other nominee. Please note that you may not vote shares held in “street name” by returning a proxy card directly to JCIC or by voting online at the Shareholder Meeting unless you provide a “legal proxy,” which you must obtain from your broker, bank or other nominee.

If you are a JCIC shareholder holding your shares in “street name” and you do not instruct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote your shares, your broker, bank or other nominee will not vote your shares on the Extension Amendment Proposal or the Adjournment Proposal. Accordingly, your bank, broker, or other nominee can vote your shares at the Shareholder Meeting only if you provide instructions on how to vote. You should instruct your broker to vote your shares as soon as possible in accordance with directions you provide.

Abstentions will be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum but, as a matter of Cayman Islands law, will not constitute votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting and therefore will have no effect on the approval of each of the proposals as a matter of Cayman Islands law.

 

  Q:

Does the Board recommend voting “FOR” the approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal?

 

  A:

Yes. After careful consideration of the terms and conditions of the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Board has determined that the Extension Amendment Proposal is in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders. The Board recommends that JCIC’s shareholders vote “FOR” the Extension Amendment Proposal.

Additionally, the Board has determined that the Director Election Proposal and Adjournment Proposal is are in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders and recommends that JCIC’s shareholders vote “FOR” the election of Ms. Hartnett and “For” the Adjournment Proposal.

 

  Q:

What interests do JCIC’s directors and officers have in the approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal?

 

  A:

JCIC’s directors and officers have interests in the Extension Amendment Proposal that may be different from, or in addition to, your interests as a shareholder. These interests include, among others, ownership, directly or indirectly through the Sponsor, of Class B Ordinary Shares and Private Placement Warrants. See the section entitled “Proposal No 1—The Extension Amendment Proposal—Interests of the Sponsor, JCIC’s Directors, Officers and Initial Shareholders” in this proxy statement.

 

  Q:

Do I have appraisal rights or dissenters’ rights if I object to the Extension Amendment Proposal?

 

  A:

No. There are no appraisal rights available to JCIC’s shareholders in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal.

 

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  Q:

If I am a Public Warrant (as defined below) holder, can I exercise redemption rights with respect to my Public Warrants?

 

  A:

No. The holders of warrants issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering (with a whole warrant representing the right to acquire one Class A Ordinary Share at an exercise price of $11.50 per share) (the “Public Warrants”) have no redemption rights with respect to such Public Warrants.

 

  Q:

What do I need to do now?

 

  A:

You are urged to read carefully and consider the information contained in this proxy statement and to consider how the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal will affect you as a shareholder. You should then vote as soon as possible in accordance with the instructions provided in this proxy statement and on the enclosed proxy card or, if you hold your shares through a brokerage firm, bank or other nominee, on the voting instruction form provided by the broker, bank or nominee.

 

  Q:

How do I exercise my redemption rights?

 

  A:

If you are a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares and wish to exercise your right to redeem your Class A Ordinary Shares, you must:

 

  I.

(a) hold Class A Ordinary Shares or (b) hold Class A Ordinary Shares through Units and elect to separate your Units into the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares and Public Warrants prior to exercising your redemption rights with respect to the Class A Ordinary Shares; and

 

  II.

prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting) (a) submit a written request to the Transfer Agent that JCIC redeem your Class A Ordinary Shares for cash and (b) deliver your Class A Ordinary Shares to the Transfer Agent, physically or electronically through the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”).

The address of the Transfer Agent is listed under the question “Who can help answer my questions?” below.

Holders of Units must elect to separate the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares and Public Warrants prior to exercising redemption rights with respect to the Class A Ordinary Shares. If holders hold their Units in an account at a brokerage firm or bank, holders must notify their broker or bank that they elect to separate the Units into the underlying Class A Ordinary Shares and Public Warrants, or if a holder holds Units registered in its own name, the holder must contact the Transfer Agent directly and instruct it to do so.

In connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal and contingent upon the effectiveness of the implementation of the Charter Extension, any holder of Class A Ordinary Shares will be entitled to request that their Class A Ordinary Shares be redeemed for 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 Shareholder Meeting, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then-outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares. As of the Record Date, this would have amounted to approximately $[•] per public share. However, the proceeds deposited in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of our creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of our public shareholders. Therefore, the per share distribution from the Trust Account in such a situation may be less than originally anticipated due to such claims. We anticipate that the funds to be distributed to public shareholders electing to redeem their Class A Ordinary Shares will be distributed promptly after the Shareholder Meeting.

Any request for redemption, once made by a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares, may be withdrawn at any time until the deadline for exercising redemption requests and thereafter, with the consent of the Board. If you deliver your shares for redemption to the Transfer Agent and later decide prior to the Shareholder Meeting not to elect redemption, you may request that JCIC instruct the Transfer Agent to return the shares (physically or electronically). You may make such request by contacting the Transfer Agent at the phone number or address listed at the end of this section. We will be required to honor such request only if made prior to the deadline for exercising redemption requests.

Any corrected or changed written exercise of redemption rights must be received by the Transfer Agent prior to the deadline for exercising redemption requests and, thereafter, with the consent of the Board. No request for redemption will be honored unless the holder’s shares have been delivered (either physically or electronically) to the Transfer Agent by 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on [•], 2023 (two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting).

If a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares properly makes a request for redemption and the Class A Ordinary Shares are delivered as described above, then, JCIC will redeem Class A Ordinary Shares for a pro rata portion of funds deposited in the Trust Account, calculated as of two business days prior to the Shareholder Meeting. If you are a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares and you exercise your redemption rights, it will not result in the loss of any Public Warrants that you may hold.

 

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If JCIC’s shareholders approve the Business Combination at the Business Combination Meeting and the other conditions to the Business Combination are then satisfied or will be satisfied or waived on or before the Termination Date, then JCIC intends to use its best efforts to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. JCIC will cancel the Shareholder Meeting and will not implement the Charter Extension if, on or before [•], it is able to complete the Business Combination. JCIC intends to hold the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Charter Extension and file the proposed amendment to its Memorandum and Articles of Association only if it has determined as of the time of the Shareholder Meeting that it may not be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If JCIC does not implement the Extension, it will not redeem any public shares submitted for redemption solely in connection with the Shareholder Meeting (but will redeem those shares and all other public shares submitted for redemption in connection with the Business Combination Meeting).

 

  Q:

What are the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of exercising my redemption rights?

 

  A:

We expect that a U.S. holder that exercises its redemption rights to receive cash in exchange for its Ordinary Shares generally will be treated as selling such shares in a taxable transaction resulting in the recognition of capital gain or loss. There may be certain circumstances in which the redemption may be treated as a distribution for U.S. federal income tax purposes depending on the amount of Ordinary Shares that such U.S. holder owns or is deemed to own prior to and following the redemption. For a more complete discussion of the U.S. federal income tax consequences of a U.S. holder’s exercise of redemption rights, see the section entitled “Certain Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

Additionally, the tax consequences of exercising redemption rights are subject to the PFIC rules discussed more fully under the section entitled “Certain Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences—Passive Foreign Investment Company Status.” All holders of Ordinary Shares considering exercising their redemption rights are urged to consult their tax advisors on the tax consequences to them of an exercise of redemption rights, including the applicability and effect of U.S. federal, state, local and foreign income and other tax laws.

 

  Q:

What should I do if I receive more than one set of voting materials for the Shareholder Meeting?

 

  A:

You may receive more than one set of voting materials for the Shareholder Meeting, including multiple copies of this proxy statement and multiple proxy cards or voting instruction cards. For example, if you hold your shares in more than one brokerage account, you will receive a separate voting instruction card for each brokerage account in which you hold shares. If you are a holder of record and your shares are registered in more than one name, you will receive more than one proxy card. Please complete, sign, date and return each proxy card and voting instruction card that you receive in order to cast your vote with respect to all of your shares.

 

  Q:

Who will solicit and pay the cost of soliciting proxies for the Shareholder Meeting?

 

  A:

JCIC will pay the cost of soliciting proxies for the Shareholder Meeting. JCIC has engaged [•] to assist in the solicitation of proxies for the Shareholder Meeting.

JCIC will also reimburse banks, brokers and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries representing beneficial owners of Class A Ordinary Shares for their expenses in forwarding soliciting materials to beneficial owners of Class A Ordinary Shares and in obtaining voting instructions from those owners. The directors, officers and employees of JCIC may also solicit proxies by telephone, by facsimile, by mail or on the Internet. They will not be paid any additional amounts for soliciting proxies.

 

  Q:

Who can help answer my questions?

 

  A:

If you have questions about the proposals or if you need additional copies of this proxy statement or the enclosed proxy card you should contact:

Attn: Chief Financial Officer

386 Park Avenue South, FL20

New York, NY 10016

(212) 710-5060

 

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or:

[•]

You also may obtain additional information about JCIC from documents filed with the SEC by following the instructions in the section titled “Where You Can Find More Information.” If you are a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares and you intend to seek redemption of your shares, you will need to deliver your Class A Ordinary Shares (either physically or electronically) to the Transfer Agent at the address below prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on [•] (two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting). If you have questions regarding the certification of your position or delivery of your shares, please contact:

Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company

One State Street Plaza, 30th Floor

New York, New York 10004

Attn: Mark Zimkind

E-mail: mzimkind@continentalstock.com

 

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EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF JCIC SHAREHOLDERS

This proxy statement is being provided to JCIC shareholders as part of a solicitation of proxies by the Board for use at the extraordinary general meeting of JCIC Shareholders to be held on January 24, 2023, and at any adjournment thereof. This proxy statement contains important information regarding the Shareholder Meeting, the proposals on which you are being asked to vote and information you may find useful in determining how to vote and voting procedures.

This proxy statement is being first mailed on or about [•] to all shareholders of record of JCIC as of [•], the Record Date for the Shareholder Meeting. Shareholders of record who owned Ordinary Shares at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to receive notice of, attend and vote at the Shareholder Meeting.

Date, Time and Place of Shareholder Meeting

The Shareholder Meeting will be held on January 24, 2023 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP located at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153, and via a virtual meeting, or at such other time, on such other date and at such other place to which the meeting may be postponed or adjourned.

The Shareholder Meeting will be conducted via live webcast, but the physical location of the Shareholder Meeting will remain at the location specified above for the purposes of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Memorandum and Articles of Association”). If you wish to attend the Shareholder Meeting in person, you must reserve your attendance at least two business days in advance of the Shareholder Meeting by contacting JCIC’s Chief Executive Officer at January 20, 2023 by 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on [•] (two business days prior to the initially scheduled meeting date). You will be able to attend the Shareholder Meeting online, vote and submit your questions during the Shareholder Meeting by visiting [•].

You can pre-register to attend the virtual Shareholder Meeting starting [•], 2023 at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time (three business days prior to the meeting date). Enter the URL address into your browser [•], enter your control number, name and email address. Once you pre-register you can vote or enter questions in the chat box. At the start of the Shareholder Meeting you will need to log in again using your control number and will also be prompted to enter your control number if you vote during the Shareholder Meeting.

Shareholders who hold their investments through a bank or broker, will need to contact the Transfer Agent to receive a control number. If you plan to vote at the Shareholder Meeting you will need to have a legal proxy from your bank or broker or if you would like to join and not vote, the Transfer Agent will issue you a guest control number with proof of ownership. Either way you must contact the Transfer Agent for specific instructions on how to receive the control number. The Transfer Agent can be contacted at 917-262- 2373, or via email at proxy@continentalstock.com. Please allow up to 72 hours prior to the meeting for processing your control number.

If you do not have access to the Internet, you can listen only to the meeting by dialing [•] (or [•] if you are located outside the United States and Canada (standard rates apply)) and when prompted enter the pin number [•]. Please note that you will not be able to vote or ask questions at the Shareholder Meeting if you choose to participate telephonically.

The Proposals at the Shareholder Meeting

At the Shareholder Meeting, JCIC shareholders will consider and vote on the following proposals:

 

  1.

Proposal No. 1—Extension Amendment Proposal - To amend, by special resolution, JCIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association to extend the date by which JCIC has to consummate a Business Combination from January 26, 2023 to March 27, 2023.

 

  2.

Proposal No. 2—Director Election Proposal—To elect, by way of ordinary resolution of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, Class I director Heather Hartnett to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified.

 

  3.

Proposal No. 3—Adjournment Proposal – To adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal.

 

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Voting Power; Record Date

As a shareholder of JCIC, you have a right to vote on certain matters affecting JCIC. The proposals that will be presented at the Shareholder Meeting and upon which you are being asked to vote are summarized above and fully set forth in this proxy statement. You will be entitled to vote or direct votes to be cast at the Shareholder Meeting if you owned Ordinary Shares at the close of business on [•], which is the Record Date for the Shareholder Meeting. You are entitled to one vote on each of the Extension Proposal and Adjournment Proposal for each Ordinary Share that you owned as of the close of business on the Record Date. You are entitled to one vote on the Director Election Proposal for each Class B Ordinary Share that you owned as of the close of business on the Record Date. If your shares are held in “street name” or are in a margin or similar account, you should contact your broker, bank or other nominee to ensure that votes related to the shares you beneficially own are properly counted. On the Record Date, there were 43,125,000 issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares, of which 34,500,000 Class A Ordinary Shares are held by JCIC public shareholders and 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares are held by the initial shareholders and officers of JCIC.

Recommendation of the Board

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS

THAT YOU VOTE “FOR” EACH OF THESE PROPOSALS

Quorum

The presence (which would include presence at the virtual Shareholder Meeting), in person or by proxy, of shareholders holding a majority of the Ordinary Shares entitled to vote at the Shareholder Meeting constitutes a quorum at the Shareholder Meeting. Abstentions will be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum. The initial shareholders of JCIC, who own 20% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares as of the Record Date, will count towards this quorum. As a result, as of the Record Date, in addition to the shares of the initial shareholders of JCIC, an additional 12,937,501 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders would be required to be present at the Shareholder Meeting to achieve a quorum.

Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes

Abstentions will be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum but, as a matter of Cayman Islands law, will not constitute votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting and therefore will have no effect on the approval of any of the proposals voted upon at the Shareholder Meeting.

We believe that all of the proposals to be voted on at the Shareholder Meeting will be considered non- routine matters. As a result, if you hold your shares in “street name”, your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee cannot vote your shares on any of the proposals to be voted on at the Shareholder Meeting without your instruction. If you hold your shares in street name and do not provide instructions on any of the proposals, a broker non-vote will occur for any such proposal.

Broker non-votes will not be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum and will not constitute votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting and therefore will have no effect on the approval of any of the proposals voted upon at the Shareholder Meeting.

Vote Required for Approval

The approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

Approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

Approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

 

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The initial shareholders of JCIC have informed us of their intent to vote all of their Ordinary Shares in favor of the proposals being presented at the Shareholder Meeting, as applicable. As of the date of this proxy statement, the initial shareholders and officers of JCIC own 20% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares.

The following table reflects the number of additional Public Shares required to approve each proposal:

 

Proposal

  

Approval Standard

   Number of Additional Public Shares Required To
Approve Proposal
 
   If Only Quorum is
Present and All Present
Shares Cast Votes
     If All Shares Are
Present and All Present
Shares Cast Votes
 

Extension Amendment Proposal

   Special Resolution1      5,750,001        20,125,000  

Director Election Proposal

   Ordinary Resolution of Class B Ordinary Shares2      0        0  

Adjournment Proposal

   Ordinary Resolution2      2,156,252        12,937,501  

 

1

Under Cayman law, a special resolution requires the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

2 

Under Cayman law, an ordinary resolution requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued ordinary shares who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting.

Voting Your Shares

If you were a holder of record of Ordinary Shares as of the close of business on [•], the record date for the Shareholder Meeting, you may vote with respect to the proposals in person or virtually at the Shareholder Meeting, or by completing, signing, dating and returning the enclosed proxy card in the postage-paid envelope provided. Only holders of Class B Ordinary Shares are entitled to vote on the Director Election Proposal. Your proxy card shows the number of Ordinary Shares that you own. If your shares are held in “street name” or are in a margin or similar account, you should contact your broker to ensure that votes related to the shares you beneficially own are properly counted.

There are three ways to vote your Ordinary Shares at the Shareholder Meeting:

Voting by Mail. By signing the proxy card and returning it in the enclosed prepaid and addressed envelope, you are authorizing the individuals named on the proxy card to vote your shares at the Shareholder Meeting in the manner you indicate. You are encouraged to sign and return the proxy card even if you plan to attend the Shareholder Meeting so that your shares will be voted if you are unable to attend the Shareholder Meeting. If you receive more than one proxy card, it is an indication that your shares are held in multiple accounts. Please sign and return all proxy cards to ensure that all of your shares are voted. Votes submitted by mail must be received by 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on [•], 2023.

Voting in Person at the Meeting. If you attend the Shareholder Meeting and plan to vote in person, you will be provided with a ballot at the Shareholder Meeting. If your shares are registered directly in your name, you are considered the shareholder of record and you have the right to vote in person at the Shareholder Meeting. If you hold your shares in “street name,” which means your shares are held of record by a broker, bank or other nominee, you should follow the instructions provided by your broker, bank or nominee to ensure that votes related to the shares you beneficially own are properly counted. In this regard, you must provide the record holder of your shares with instructions on how to vote your shares or, if you wish to attend the Shareholder Meeting and vote in person, you will need to bring to the Shareholder Meeting a legal proxy from your broker, bank or nominee authorizing you to vote these shares.

Voting Electronically. You may attend, vote and examine the list of shareholders entitled to vote at the Shareholder Meeting by visiting [•] and entering the control number found on your proxy card, voting instruction form or notice included in the proxy materials.

Revoking Your Proxy. If you give a proxy, you may revoke it at any time before the Shareholder Meeting or at the Shareholder Meeting by doing any one of the following:

 

   

you may send another proxy card with a later date;

 

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you may notify JCIC’s Chief Executive Officer in writing to Jack Creek Investment Corp., 386 Park Avenue South, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10016, before the Shareholder Meeting that you have revoked your proxy; or

 

   

you may attend the Shareholder Meeting, revoke your proxy, and vote in person, as indicated above.

No Additional Matters

The Shareholder Meeting has been called only to consider and vote on the approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, the Director Election Proposal and the Adjournment Proposal. Under the Memorandum and Articles of Association, other than procedural matters incident to the conduct of the Shareholder Meeting, no other matters may be considered at the Shareholder Meeting if they are not included in this proxy statement, which serves as the notice of the Shareholder Meeting.

Who Can Answer Your Questions about Voting

If you are a JCIC shareholder and have any questions about how to vote or direct a vote in respect of your Ordinary Shares, you may call [•], our proxy solicitor, by calling [•], or banks and brokers can call [•], or by emailing [•].

Redemption Rights

Pursuant to the Memorandum and Articles of Association, holders of Class A Ordinary Shares may seek to redeem their shares for cash, regardless of whether they vote for or against, or whether they abstain from voting on, the Extension Amendment Proposal. In connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal and contingent upon the effectiveness of the implementation of the Charter Extension, any shareholder holding Class A Ordinary Shares may demand that JCIC redeem such shares for a full pro rata portion of the Trust Account (which, for illustrative purposes, was $[•] per share as of [•], the Record Date for the meeting), calculated as of two business days prior to the Shareholder Meeting. If a holder properly seeks redemption as described in this section, JCIC will redeem these shares for a pro rata portion of funds deposited in the Trust Account and the holder will no longer own these shares following the Shareholder Meeting. However, JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets following approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, after taking into account Redemptions.

As a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares, you will be entitled to receive cash for any Class A Ordinary Shares to be redeemed only if you:

 

  (i)

hold Class A Ordinary Shares;

 

  (ii)

submit a written request to Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, in which you (i) request that JCIC redeem all or a portion of your Class A Ordinary Shares for cash, and (ii) identify yourself as the beneficial holder of the Class A Ordinary Shares and provide your legal name, phone number and address; and

 

  (iii)

deliver your Class A Ordinary Shares to Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, physically or electronically through DTC.

Holders must complete the procedures for electing to redeem their Class A Ordinary Shares in the manner described above prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days before the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting) (the “Redemption Deadline”) in order for their shares to be redeemed.

The redemption rights include the requirement that a holder must identify itself in writing as a beneficial holder and provide its legal name, phone number and address to Continental in order to validly redeem its shares.

If you hold your shares in “street name,” you will have to coordinate with your broker to have your shares certificated or delivered electronically. Shares of JCIC that have not been tendered (either physically or electronically) in accordance with these procedures will not be redeemed for cash. There is a nominal cost associated with this tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through DTC’s DWAC system. The Transfer Agent will typically charge the tendering broker $80 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the redeeming shareholder.

Any request for redemption, once made by a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares, may not be withdrawn following the Redemption Deadline, unless the Board determines (in its sole discretion) to permit such withdrawal of a redemption request (which it may do in whole or in part).

Any corrected or changed written exercise of redemption rights must be received by Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, at least two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting. No request for redemption will be honored unless the holder’s Class A Ordinary Shares have been delivered (either physically or electronically) to Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days before the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting).

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, a public shareholder, together with any affiliate of such public shareholder or any other person with whom such public shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)), will be restricted from redeeming its Class A Ordinary Shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the Class A Ordinary Shares sold in the Initial Public Offering, without our prior consent. Accordingly, if a public shareholder, alone or acting in concert or as a group, seeks to redeem more than 15% of the outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares, then any such shares in excess of that 15% limit would not be redeemed for cash, without our prior consent.

The closing price of Class A Ordinary Shares on [•], the record date for the Shareholder Meeting, was $[•] per share. The cash held in the Trust Account on such date was approximately $[•] (including interest not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes) ($[•] per Class A Ordinary Share). The Redemption price per share will be calculated based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting. Prior to exercising redemption rights, shareholders should verify the market price of Class A Ordinary Shares as they may receive higher proceeds from the sale of their ordinary shares in the public market than from exercising their redemption rights if the market price per share is higher than the redemption price. [•] cannot assure its shareholders that they will be able to sell their Class A Ordinary Shares in the open market, even if the market price per share is higher than the redemption price stated above, as there may not be sufficient liquidity in its securities when its shareholders wish to sell their shares.

If a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares exercises his, her or its redemption rights, then he, she or it will be exchanging his, her or its Class A Ordinary Shares for cash and will no longer own those shares. You will be entitled to receive cash for these shares only if you properly demand redemption by delivering your share certificate (either physically or electronically) to JCIC’s transfer agent two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting.

For a discussion of certain material U.S. federal income tax consequences for shareholders with respect to the exercise of these redemption rights, see “Certain Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences.” The consequences of a redemption to any particular shareholder will depend on that shareholder’s particular facts and circumstances. Accordingly, you are urged to consult your tax advisor to determine your tax consequences from the exercise of your redemption rights, including the applicability and effect of U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. income and other tax laws in light of your particular circumstances.

Appraisal Rights

There are no appraisal rights available to JCIC’s shareholders in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal.

Proxy Solicitation Costs

JCIC is soliciting proxies on behalf of the Board. This proxy solicitation is being made by mail, but also may be made by telephone or in person. JCIC has engaged [•] to assist in the solicitation of proxies for the Shareholder Meeting. JCIC and its directors, officers and employees may also solicit proxies in person. JCIC will ask banks, brokers and other institutions, nominees and fiduciaries to forward this proxy statement and the related proxy materials to their principals and to obtain their authority to execute proxies and voting instructions.

JCIC will bear the entire cost of the proxy solicitation, including the preparation, assembly, printing, mailing and distribution of this proxy statement and the related proxy materials. JCIC will pay [•] a fee of $[•], plus disbursements, reimburse [•] for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and indemnify [•] and its affiliates against certain claims, liabilities, losses, damages and expenses for its services as JCIC’s proxy solicitor. JCIC will reimburse brokerage firms and other custodians for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses for forwarding this proxy statement and the related proxy materials to JCIC shareholders. Directors, officers and employees of JCIC who solicit proxies will not be paid any additional compensation for soliciting.

 

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PROPOSAL NO. 1—THE EXTENSION AMENDMENT PROPOSAL

Overview

JCIC is proposing to amend its Memorandum and Articles of Association to extend the date by which JCIC has to consummate the Business Combination to the Charter Extension Date so as to give JCIC additional time to complete the Business Combination.

On August 3, 2022, JCIC entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”), pursuant to which, at the closing (the “Closing”) of the transactions contemplated thereunder (collectively, the “Transactions”), (i) Wildfire Merger Sub I, Inc. will merge with and into Blocker and Wildfire GP Sub IV will become general partner of the surviving entity (the “First Merger”), with Blocker as the surviving entity of the First Merger, (ii) Wildfire Merger Sub II, Inc. will merge with and into JCIC (the “Second Merger”), with JCIC as the surviving company of the Second Merger and (iii) Wildfire Merger Sub III, LLC will merge with and into Bridger (the “Third Merger” and together with First Merger and Second Merger, the “Mergers”), with Bridger as the surviving company of the Third Merger; following the Mergers, each of Blocker, JCIC, and Bridger shall be a subsidiary of New Bridger

Without the Charter Extension, JCIC believes that JCIC may not be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If that were to occur, JCIC would be forced to liquidate.

As contemplated by the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the holders of JCIC’s Public Shares may elect to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares in exchange for their pro rata portion of the funds held in the Trust Account if the Charter Extension is implemented.

On the Record Date, the redemption price per share was approximately $[•], based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account of approximately $[•] as of the Record Date (including interest not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes), divided by the total number of then outstanding Public Shares. The Redemption price per share will be calculated based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting. The closing price of the Class A Ordinary Shares on Nasdaq on the Record Date was $[•]. Accordingly, if the market price of the Class A Ordinary Shares were to remain the same until the date of the Shareholder Meeting, exercising redemption rights would result in a public shareholder receiving approximately $[more/less] per share than if the shares were sold in the open market (based on the per share redemption price as of the Record Date). JCIC cannot assure shareholders that they will be able to sell their Class A Ordinary Shares in the open market, even if the market price per share is lower than the redemption price stated above, as there may not be sufficient liquidity in its securities when such shareholders wish to sell their shares. JCIC believes that such redemption right enables its public shareholders to determine whether or not to sustain their investments for an additional period if JCIC does not complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date.

You are not being asked to vote on the proposed business combination with Bridger at this time. If the Charter Extension is implemented and you do not elect to redeem your public shares, you will retain the right to vote on the proposed business combination with Bridger at the Business Combination Meeting (to the extent such meeting is held after the Special Meeting) and the right to redeem your public shares into a pro rata portion of the Trust Account in the event the proposed Business Combination is approved and completed or JCIC has not consummated the Business Combination by the Extended Date.

Reasons for the Extension Amendment Proposal

JCIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association provides that JCIC has until January 26, 2023 to complete the Business Combination. JCIC and its officers and directors agreed that they would not seek to amend JCIC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association to allow for a longer period of time to complete the Business Combination unless JCIC provided holders of its Public Shares with the right to seek redemption of their Public Shares in connection therewith. As previously announced, JCIC entered into the Business Combination Agreement on August 3, 2022. Pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of the Business Combination Agreement, the parties agreed to effect the Business Combination. The Board currently believes that there may not be sufficient time before January 26, 2023 to complete the Business Combination. Accordingly, in order to ensure that JCIC is able to consummate the Business Combination, JCIC will need to obtain the Charter Extension. Without the Charter Extension, there is some risk that JCIC might not, despite its best efforts, be able to complete the Business Combination on or before the Termination Date. If that were to occur, JCIC would be precluded from completing the Business Combination and would be forced to liquidate even if JCIC’s shareholders are otherwise in favor of consummating the Business Combination. For more information about the Business Combination, see our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December August 4, 2022 and November 7, 2022 and New Bridger’s preliminary proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 12, 2022, as amended on September 23, 2022, November 7, 2022 and November 23, 2022, and as may be further amended.

The foregoing Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provision was included to protect JCIC shareholders from having to sustain their investments for an unreasonably long period if JCIC failed to find a suitable business combination in the timeframe contemplated by the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. However, that it is in the best interests of JCIC and its shareholders to complete the Business Combination and that circumstances warrant providing public shareholders additional time to consider the Business Combination.

 

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The Extension Amendment Proposal is essential to allowing JCIC additional time to consummate the Business Combination. Approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal is a condition to the implementation of the Charter Extension. JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets following approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, after taking into account the Redemptions.

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is Not Approved

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved, and the Business Combination is not completed on or before the Termination Date, then, as contemplated by and in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association, JCIC 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 earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of the 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 JCIC’s remaining shareholders and the Board, liquidate and dissolve, subject in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) to JCIC’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.

There will be no distribution from the Trust Account with respect to JCIC’s warrants, which will expire worthless in the event JCIC dissolves and liquidates the Trust Account.

The Sponsor, the officers and directors and the initial shareholders of JCIC have waived their rights to participate in any liquidation distribution with respect to the 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares held by them.

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is Approved

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, JCIC shall procure that all filings required to be made with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands in connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal to extend the time it has to complete the Business Combination until the Charter Extension Date are made. JCIC will then continue to attempt to consummate the Business Combination until the Charter Extension Date. JCIC will remain a reporting company under the Exchange Act and its Class A Ordinary Shares and Public Warrants will remain publicly traded during this time.

In addition, JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets following approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, after taking into account the Redemptions.

You are not being asked to vote on the proposed business combination with Bridger at this time. If the Charter Extension is implemented and you do not elect to redeem your public shares, you will retain the right to vote on the proposed business combination with Bridger at the Business Combination Meeting (to the extent such meeting is held after the Special Meeting) and the right to redeem your public shares into a pro rata portion of the Trust Account in the event the proposed Business Combination is approved and completed or JCIC has not consummated a business combination by the Extended Date.

Interests of the Sponsor, JCIC’s Directors, Officers and Initial Shareholders

When you consider the recommendation of the Board, JCIC shareholders should be aware that aside from their interests as shareholders, the Sponsor, certain members of the Board, officers and the initial shareholders of JCIC have interests that are different from, or in addition to, those of other shareholders generally. The Board was aware of and considered these interests, among other matters, in recommending to JCIC shareholders that they approve the Extension Amendment Proposal. JCIC shareholders should take these interests into account in deciding whether to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal:

 

   

the fact that the Sponsor paid $9,400,000 for 9,400,000 Private Placement Warrants, each of which is exercisable commencing on the later of 12 months from the closing of our Initial Public Offering and 30 days following the closing of a Business Combination for one Class A Ordinary Share at $11.50 per share; if the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved and we do not consummate a Business Combination by January 26, 2023, then the proceeds from the sale of the JCIC Private Placement Warrants will be part of the liquidating distribution to the public shareholders and the warrants held by our Sponsor will be worthless;

 

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the fact that the initial shareholders of JCIC, including the Sponsor (and certain of JCIC’s officers and directors who are members of the Sponsor), have invested in JCIC an aggregate of $9,425,000, comprised of the $25,000 purchase price for 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares and the $9,400,000 purchase price for 9,400,000 Private Placement Warrants. Assuming a trading price of $[•] per Class A Ordinary Share and $[•] per Public Warrant (based upon the respective closing prices of the Class A Ordinary Shares and the Public Warrants on Nasdaq on [•], the Record Date for the meeting), the 8,625,000 Class B Ordinary Shares and 9,400,000 Private Placement Warrants would have an implied aggregate market value of $[•]. Even if the trading price of the shares of Class A Ordinary Shares were as low as $[•] per share, the aggregate market value of the Class B Ordinary Shares alone (without taking into account the value of the Private Placement Warrants) would be approximately equal to the initial investment in JCIC by the initial shareholders of JCIC. As a result, if the Business Combination is completed, the initial shareholders of JCIC are likely to be able to make a substantial profit on their investment in JCIC at a time when the Class A Ordinary Shares have lost significant value. On the other hand, if the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved and JCIC liquidates without completing the Business Combination before January 26, 2023, the initial shareholders of JCIC will lose their entire investment in JCIC;

 

   

the fact that the Sponsor, JCIC’s directors, officers and initial shareholders have agreed not to redeem any Ordinary Shares held by them in connection with a shareholder vote to approve the Business Combination or the Extension Amendment Proposal;

 

   

the fact that the initial shareholders of JCIC and JCIC’s other current officers and directors have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Ordinary Shares (other than Public Shares) held by them if the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved and JCIC fails to complete the Business Combination by January 26, 2023;

 

   

the indemnification of JCIC’s existing directors and officers and the liability insurance maintained by JCIC;

 

   

the fact that the Sponsor and JCIC’s officers and directors will lose their entire investment in JCIC and will not be reimbursed for any loans extended, fees due or out-of-pocket expenses if the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved and the Business Combination is not consummated by January 26, 2023. As of the date of this proxy statement the Sponsor has advanced funds to JCIC for working capital purposes, including $800,000 as of August 10, 2022. These outstanding advances have been documented in a promissory note, dated as of February 16, 2022 (the “Promissory Note”) issued by JCIC to the Sponsor, pursuant to which JCIC may borrow up to $1,500,000 from the Sponsor (including those amounts which are currently outstanding). The Promissory Note is non-interest bearing, unsecured and due and payable in full on the earlier of the date JCIC consummates an initial business combination and the winding up of JCIC. If JCIC does not complete an initial business combination within the required period, it may use a portion of its working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such advances and any other working capital advances made to JCIC, but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay such advances and any other working capital advances made to JCIC, and such related party may not be able to recover the value it has loaned to JCIC and any other working capital advances it may make; and

 

   

the fact that if the Trust Account is liquidated, including in the event JCIC is unable to complete an initial business combination within the required time period, Sponsor has agreed to indemnify JCIC to ensure that the proceeds in the Trust Account are not reduced below $10.00 per JCIC public share, or such lesser per public share amount as is in the Trust Account on the Termination Date, by the claims of prospective target businesses with which JCIC has entered into an acquisition agreement or claims of any third party for services rendered or products sold to JCIC, but only if such a vendor or target business has not executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account.

Redemption Rights

Pursuant to the Memorandum and Articles of Association, holders of Class A Ordinary Shares may seek to redeem their shares for cash, regardless of whether they vote for or against, or whether they abstain from voting on, the Extension Amendment Proposal. In connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal and contingent upon the effectiveness of the implementation of the Charter Extension, any shareholder holding Class A Ordinary Shares may demand that JCIC redeem such shares for a full pro rata portion of the Trust Account (which, for illustrative purposes, was $[•] per share as of [•], the Record Date for the meeting), calculated as of two business days prior to the Shareholder Meeting. If a holder properly seeks redemption as described in this section, JCIC will redeem these shares for a pro rata portion of funds deposited in the Trust Account and the holder will no longer own these shares following the Shareholder Meeting. However, JCIC will not proceed with the Charter Extension if JCIC will not have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets following approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal, after taking into account Redemptions.

As a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares, you will be entitled to receive cash for any Class A Ordinary Shares to be redeemed only if you:

 

  (i)

hold Class A Ordinary Shares;

 

  (ii)

submit a written request to Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, in which you (i) request that JCIC redeem all or a portion of your Class A Ordinary Shares for cash, and (ii) identify yourself as the beneficial holder of the Class A Ordinary Shares and provide your legal name, phone number and address; and

 

  (iii)

deliver your Class A Ordinary Shares to Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, physically or electronically through DTC.

 

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Holders must complete the procedures for electing to redeem their Class A Ordinary Shares in the manner described above prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 20, 2023 (two business days before the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting) in order for their shares to be redeemed.

The redemption rights include the requirement that a holder must identify itself in writing as a beneficial holder and provide its legal name, phone number and address to Continental in order to validly redeem its shares.

If you hold the shares in “street name,” you will have to coordinate with your broker to have your shares certificated or delivered electronically. Shares of JCIC that have not been tendered (either physically or electronically) in accordance with these procedures will not be redeemed for cash. There is a nominal cost associated with this tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through DTC’s DWAC system. The Transfer Agent will typically charge the tendering broker $80 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the redeeming shareholder.

Any request for redemption, once made by a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares, may not be withdrawn following the Redemption Deadline, unless the Board determines (in its sole discretion) to permit such withdrawal of a redemption request (which it may do in whole or in part).

Any corrected or changed written exercise of redemption rights must be received by Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, at least two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting. No request for redemption will be honored unless the holder’s Class A Ordinary Shares have been delivered (either physically or electronically) to Continental, JCIC’s transfer agent, prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on [•], 2023 (two business days before the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a public shareholder, together with any affiliate of such public shareholder or any other person with whom such public shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming its Class A Ordinary Shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the Class A Ordinary Shares sold in the Initial Public Offering, without our prior consent. Accordingly, if a public shareholder, alone or acting in concert or as a group, seeks to redeem more than 15% of the outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares, then any such shares in excess of that 15% limit would not be redeemed for cash, without our prior consent.

The closing price of Class A Ordinary Shares on [•], the Record Date for the Shareholder Meeting, was $[•] per share. The cash held in the Trust Account on such date was approximately $[•] (including interest not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes) ($[•] per Class A Ordinary Share). The Redemption price per share will be calculated based on the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to JCIC to pay its taxes two business days prior to the Shareholder Meeting. Prior to exercising redemption rights, shareholders should verify the market price of Class A Ordinary Shares as they may receive higher proceeds from the sale of their ordinary shares in the public market than from exercising their redemption rights if the market price per share is higher than the redemption price. JCIC cannot assure its shareholders that they will be able to sell their Class A Ordinary Shares in the open market, even if the market price per share is higher than the redemption price stated above, as there may not be sufficient liquidity in its securities when its shareholders wish to sell their shares.

If a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares exercises his, her or its redemption rights, then he, she or it will be exchanging its Class A Ordinary Shares for cash and will no longer own those shares. You will be entitled to receive cash for these shares only if you properly demand redemption by delivering your share certificate (either physically or electronically) to JCIC’s transfer agent two business days prior to the initially scheduled date of the Shareholder Meeting.

Your right to redeem in connection with the Special Meeting relating to the Extension Amendment Proposal does not affect the right of JCIC shareholders to elect to redeem their public shares in connection with the Business Combination, which is a separate and additional redemption right available to JCIC shareholders. JCIC shareholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights in connection with the Business Combination should follow the instructions for the exercise of such rights set forth in the definitive proxy statement/final prospectus relating to the Business Combination Meeting. New Bridger’s preliminary proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC on August 12, 2022, as amended on September 23, 2022, November 7, 2022 and November 23, 2022, and as may be further amended

Vote Required for Approval

The approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal requires a special resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Abstentions will be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum but, as a matter of Cayman Islands law, will not constitute votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting and therefore will have no effect on the approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal.

 

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As of the date of this proxy statement, the initial shareholders of JCIC have agreed to vote any Ordinary Shares owned by them in favor of the Extension Amendment Proposal. As of the date hereof, the initial shareholders of JCIC own 20% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares and have not purchased any Public Shares, but may do so at any time. As a result, in addition to the initial shareholders of JCIC, approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal will require the affirmative vote of at least 20,125,000 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 46.7% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if all Ordinary Shares are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes, and the affirmative vote of at least 5,750,001 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 16.7% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if only such shares as are required to establish a quorum are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes.

Resolution

The full text of the resolution to be voted upon is as follows: “RESOLVED, as a special resolution that:

 

  a)

the first sentence of Article 49.7 of JCIC’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new first sentence of Article 49.7:

“In the event that the Company does not consummate a Business Combination by March 27, 2023, or such later time as the Members may approve in accordance with the Articles, the Company shall:”

 

  b)

Article 49.8(a) of JCIC’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new Article 49.8(a):

“to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to: (i) allow redemptions of the Public Shares in connection with a Business Combination or: (ii) redeem 100 per cent of the Public Shares if the Company has not completed a Business Combination by March 27, 2023, or such later time as the Members may approve in accordance with the Articles; and/or”

 

  c)

Article 49.10(b) of JCIC’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new Article 49.10(b):

“vote as a class with the Public Shares: (i) on the Company’s initial Business Combination or on any other proposal presented to shareholders prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial Business Combination; or (ii) to approve an amendment to the Memorandum or the Articles to (x) extend the time we have to consummate a business combination beyond March 27, 2023 or (y) amend this Article 49.10.””

Recommendation of the Board

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT JCIC SHAREHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE EXTENSION AMENDMENT PROPOSAL.

 

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PROPOSAL NO. 2—THE DIRECTOR ELECTION PROPOSAL

Our Board is divided into three classes, each of which will generally serve for a term of three years with only one class of directors being elected in each year. At the Shareholder Meeting, Heather Hartnett, JCIC’s sole Class I director, whose term is set to expire at JCIC’s first annual general meeting, is nominated for election to the Board to serve for the ensuing three-year period or until a successor is elected and qualified or her earlier resignation or removal. Ms. Hartnett’s biography is set forth below under the section entitled “Corporate Governance – Director Nominated for Election”.

Vote Required for Approval

The approval of the Director Election Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law of the holders of Class B Ordinary Shares, being the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the Class B Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Abstentions will be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum but, as a matter of Cayman Islands law, will not constitute votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting and therefore will have no effect on the approval of the Director Election Proposal.

Resolution

The full text of the resolution to be voted upon is as follows: “RESOLVED, as an ordinary resolution of the Class B Ordinary Shares, that Class I director Heather Hartnett be appointed to serve on the Board of JCIC for a three-year term expiring at the third succeeding annual general meeting after her election, or until her successor has been elected and qualified.

Recommendation of the Board

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT JCIC SHAREHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE ELECTION OF HEATHER HARTNETT AS A DIRECTOR OF JCIC.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Directors and Executive Officers

Our Board is divided into three classes, with only one class of directors being appointed in each year, and with each class (except for those directors appointed prior to our first annual general meeting) serving a three-year term. Prior to the completion of an initial business combination, any vacancy on the board of directors may be filled by a nominee chosen by holders of a majority of JCIC’s Class B Ordinary Shares (“Founder Shares”). In addition, prior to the completion of an initial business combination, holders of a majority of JCIC’s Founder Shares may remove a member of the Board for any reason.

JCIC’s officers are appointed by the Board and serve at the discretion of the Board, rather than for specific terms of office. JCIC’s Board is authorized to appoint persons to the offices set forth in JCIC’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association as it deems appropriate. JCIC’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that JCIC’s officers may consist of one or more chairman of the board, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, vice presidents, secretary, treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the board of directors.

 

Name   

Age

  

Position

Jeffrey E. Kelter    68    Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board
Robert F. Savage    54    Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Jermoluk    66    President, Director
James H. Clark    78    Chief Technology Officer
Lauren D. Ores    42    Chief Financial Officer
Heather Hartnett    39    Director
Samir Kaul    48    Director
Richard Noll    65    Director

 

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Director Nominated for Election

Heather Hartnett

Heather Hartnett has served as a director of JCIC since 2020 and as Chair of the Compensation Committee since [•]. Since 2015, Ms. Hartnett has served as the Chief Executive Officer and General Partner of Human Ventures, a New York City- based venture capital fund backing, building and scaling industry-changing technology companies through a startup studio model. Since launching six years ago under Hartnett’s leadership, Human Ventures has invested in and co-built more than 50 companies. Those companies have grown to a combined more than $4.1 billion in enterprise value and have gone on to raise over $500 million in additional capital from notable later stage investors. Key investments and board positions include Reserve Media, Inc. (acquired), Current, theSkimm, Tiny Organics Inc., Tia Health and Daily Muse Inc. Ms. Hartnett is an active leader in the technology community, serving on the leadership council for Tech:NYC since 2017 and the board of Transact Global. She has also been a member of the prestigious Kauffman Fellowship executive education program in venture capital and innovation since 2018. Ms. Harnett’s extensive experience on the boards of directors of numerous technology companies and in venture capital make her well qualified to serve as a member of JCIC’s Board.

Continuing Directors and Officers

Jeffrey E. Kelter

Jeffrey E .Kelter is JCIC’s Executive Chairman and Chairman of JCIC’s Board. Mr. Kelter is a Co-Founder and a Partner of KSH Capital since 2015. KSH Capital provides real estate entrepreneurs with capital and expertise to seed or grow their platform. KSH Capital is focused on the deployment of the principals’ capital in domestic and international strategies that offer compelling long-term returns. Prior to founding KSH Capital, Mr. Kelter was a Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of KTR Capital Partners (“KTR”) from 2005 to 2015, a leading private equity real estate investment and operating company focused on the industrial property sector in North America. KTR and its commingled investment funds were sold in May 2015 to a joint venture of Prologis Inc. and Norges Bank Investment Management. Since its inception in 2004, KTR had raised three funds which totaled over $7.0 billion of investment capacity. Prior to founding KTR, Mr. Kelter was President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of Keystone Property Trust, an industrial real estate investment trust. Mr. Kelter founded the predecessor to Keystone in 1982, and took the company public in 1997, where he and the management team directed its operations until its sale in 2004 to Prologis. Prior to forming Keystone, he served as president and CEO of Penn Square Properties, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a real estate company which he founded in 1982. Mr. Kelter currently serves on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH). From January 2014 to November 2017, Mr. Kelter served on the Board of Starwood Waypoint Homes, its predecessor. Mr. Kelter currently serves as a trustee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Mr. Kelter previously served as a trustee for Trinity College from 2010 to April 2020 and Westminister School from September 2011 to April 2020. Mr. Kelter formerly served on the Board of Gramercy Property Trust (NYSE: GPT) from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Kelter received a B.A. in Urban Studies from Trinity College. Mr. Kelter’s extensive investment and entrepreneurial experience makes him well qualified to serve as a member of our Board.

Robert F. Savage

Robert F. Savage is JCIC’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Savage is a Co-Founder and President of KSH Capital since 2015. KSH Capital provides real estate entrepreneurs with capital and expertise to see or grow their platform. KSH Capital is focused on the deployment of the principals’ capital in domestic and international strategies that offer compelling long-term returns. Prior to founding KSH Capital, Mr. Savage was Co-founder, President of KTR from 2005 to 2015, an investment, development and operating company focused exclusively on the industrial property sector in North America. At KTR, Mr. Savage was co-head of the firm’s Investment Committee and responsible for management of the firm’s day-to-day operations, including oversight of capital deployment, portfolio management and capital markets activities. Previously, Mr. Savage was a Partner at Hudson Bay Partners, L.P. a private equity firm focused on investing in real estate-intensive operating businesses. Mr. Savage also worked in the Investment Banking Division at Merrill Lynch & Co. where he specialized in corporate finance and M&A advisory services for REITs, private equity funds and hospitality companies. Mr. Savage is Chairman of the Board of Directors of VolunteerMatch.org, a San Francisco based 501(c)(3) that operates the largest volunteer network in the nonprofit world. Mr. Savage is a member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai and the Taft School and is Director of Environmental Waste International Inc. (TSX: EWS). He was previously Chairman of the Board of Directors of New Senior Investment Group (NYSE: SNR). Mr. Savage received a A.B. in Business Economics and Urban Studies from Brown University.

 

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Thomas Jermoluk

Thomas Jermoluk serves as a director of JCIC and JCIC’s President. Mr. Jermoluk has been the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Beyond Identity since April 2020, a cybersecurity company specializing in passwordless identity management. Since 2008, Mr. Jermoluk has been Partner at Clark Jermoluk Founders Fund, an early stage venture capital firm along with James H. Clark. Previously, from 2005 to 2009 Mr. Jermoluk was CEO of Hyperion Development Group. From 2000 to 2005 Mr. Jermoluk was General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most established venture capital firms and from 1996-2000 he was Chairman and CEO of @Home Networks, a highspeed internet service pioneer. For ten years ending 1996, Mr. Jermoluk held various positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc., including most recently President and Chief Operating Officer. Throughout his career, Mr. Jermoluk has served on the Board of Directors of numerous other private and public companies. Mr. Jermoluk earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Mr. Jermoluk’s extensive venture capital and technological operating experience makes him well qualified to serve as a member of JCIC’s Board.

James H. Clark

James H. Clark is JCIC’s Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. Dr. Clark is presently Chairman and Co-Founder of Beyond Identity a cybersecurity company specializing in passwordless identity management. He has founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, Healtheon, CommandScape, and most recently Beyond Identity. Dr. Clark earned both a B.S. and M.S. in Physics from The University of New Orleans, and a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Utah. He also holds Honorary Doctorate Degrees from University of New Orleans and Tulane University. Dr. Clark is a member of the Horatio Alger Association, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lauren D. Ores

Lauren D. Ores is JCIC’s Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Ores has served as Chief Financial Officer, and prior to that as Vice President, Planning and Finance, at KSH Capital since its founding in 2015. Prior to joining KSH Capital, Ms. Ores served as Vice President, Capital Markets at KTR, a leading private equity real estate investment and operating company focused exclusively on the industrial property sector in North America. At KTR, Ms. Ores was responsible for investor relations and the execution of capital markets activities for the company. Before re-joining KTR in 2011, Ms. Ores spent four years as an Associate in the Portfolio Management group at Deutsche Asset Management (formerly RREEF). Prior to that Ms. Ores was the Accounting and Finance Manager at KTR. She received a B.S. in Business Administration from Villanova University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business.

Samir Kaul

Samir Kaul serves as a director of JCIC and as Chair of the Nominating Committee. Mr. Kaul is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on health, sustainability, food, and advanced technology investments. Mr. Kaul led the firm’s investments in Vicarious Surgical NYSE: RBOT, SLD (acquired by Kyocera), Guardant Health Nasdaq: GH, Impossible Foods, Mojo Vision, NanoH2O (acquired by LG Chem), Nutanix Nasdaq: NTNX, Oscar Nasdaq: OSCR, Quantumscape Nasdaq: QS, Ultima, Raxium, Connie Health, Statespace, OpenStore, Varda, Rightway Heath, and Mirvie, among others. Previously, Mr. Kaul was at Flagship Ventures where he founded and invested in early-stage biotechnology companies, and Craig Venter’s Institute for Genomic Research where he led the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. He is active in philanthropy and has been a long-standing member of the leadership committee of the Tipping Point Community, a board member of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and on the Board of Trustees for the US Ski and Snowboard Association. Mr. Kaul holds a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Michigan, an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School. Mr. Kaul is qualified to serve as a member of JCIC’s board due to his wide-ranging experience in technology companies and insight in the management of startup companies and the building of companies from early stage to commercial scale.

Richard Noll

Richard Noll serves as a director of JCIC and as Chair of the Audit Committee. Since January 2020, Mr. Noll is Chairman of the Board of Reynolds Consumer Products Inc., and serves on the Audit Committee and Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Previously Mr. Noll served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hanesbrands Inc. from 2009 to 2019, and Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2016. Previously Mr. Noll worked at Sara Lee Corporation for 14 years in various management positions, including President and Chief Operating Officer of Branded Apparel and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Sara Lee Bakery Group, and led the turnarounds of several Sara Lee Corporation bakery and apparel businesses. Mr. Noll has also served as a director of Fresh Market Inc. from 2011 to 2016 and as a director of Carter’s Inc. from 2019-2021. Mr. Noll received a B.A. in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and an MSIA from Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Noll’s extensive experience in managing, operating and serving on the board of directors of numerous consumer product companies make him well qualified to serve as a member of JCIC’s Board.

 

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Director independence

Nasdaq listing standards require that a majority of JCIC’s Board be independent. JCIC’s Board has determined that Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul, and Richard Noll are “independent directors” as defined in the Nasdaq listing standards. JCIC’s independent directors have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.

Committees of the Board

JCIC’s Board has three standing committees: an audit committee, a nominating committee and a compensation committee. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of Nasdaq and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act require that the audit committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of Nasdaq require that the compensation committee and the nominating committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors.

Audit committee

Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul, and Richard Noll serve as members of JCIC’s audit committee. JCIC’s Board has determined that each of Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul, and Richard Noll are independent under the Nasdaq listing standards and applicable SEC rules. Richard Noll serves as the Chairman of the audit committee. Under the Nasdaq listing standards and applicable SEC rules, JCIC is required to have at least three members of the audit committee, all of whom must be independent within one year of the listing of the JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares. Each member of the audit committee is financially literate and JCIC’s board of directors has determined that Samir Kaul qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in applicable SEC rules.

The audit committee is responsible for:

 

   

meeting with JCIC’s independent registered public accounting firm regarding, among other issues, audits, and adequacy of JCIC’s accounting and control systems;

 

   

monitoring the independence of the independent registered public accounting firm;

 

   

verifying the rotation of the lead (or coordinating) audit partner having primary responsibility for the audit and the audit partner responsible for reviewing the audit as required by law;

 

   

inquiring and discussing with management JCIC’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations;

 

   

pre-approving all audit services and permitted non-audit services to be performed by JCIC’s independent registered public accounting firm, including the fees and terms of the services to be performed;

 

   

appointing or replacing the independent registered public accounting firm;

 

   

determining the compensation and oversight of the work of the independent registered public accounting firm (including resolution of disagreements between management and the independent auditor regarding financial reporting) for the purpose of preparing or issuing an audit report or related work;

 

   

establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by JCIC regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or reports which raise material issues regarding JCIC’s financial statements or accounting policies;

 

   

monitoring compliance on a quarterly basis with the terms of the Public Offering and, if any noncompliance is identified, immediately taking all action necessary to rectify such noncompliance or otherwise causing compliance with the terms of the Initial Public Offering; and

 

   

reviewing and approving all payments made to our existing shareholders, executive officers or directors and their respective affiliates. Any payments made to members of our audit committee will be reviewed and approved by JCIC’s Board, with the interested director or directors abstaining from such review and approval.

Nominating committee

Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul, and Richard Noll serve as members of JCIC’s nominating committee, and Samir Kaul serves as chairman of the nominating committee. Under the Nasdaq listing standards, JCIC is required to have a nominating committee composed entirely of independent directors. JCIC’s Board has determined that each of Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul, and Richard Noll are independent.

 

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The nominating committee is responsible for overseeing the selection of persons to be nominated to serve on JCIC’s board of directors. The nominating committee considers persons identified by its members, management, shareholders, investment bankers and others.

Guidelines for selecting director nominees

The guidelines for selecting nominees, which are specified in a charter adopted by JCIC, generally provide that persons to be nominated:

 

   

should have demonstrated notable or significant achievements in business, education or public service;

 

   

should possess the requisite intelligence, education and experience to make a significant contribution to the board of directors and bring a range of skills, diverse perspectives and backgrounds to its deliberations; and

 

   

should have the highest ethical standards, a strong sense of professionalism and intense dedication to serving the interests of the shareholders.

The nominating committee will consider a number of qualifications relating to management and leadership experience, background and integrity and professionalism in evaluating a person’s candidacy for membership on the board of directors. The nominating committee may require certain skills or attributes, such as financial or accounting experience, to meet specific board needs that arise from time to time and will also consider the overall experience and makeup of its members to obtain a broad and diverse mix of board members. The nominating committee does not distinguish among nominees recommended by shareholders and other persons.

Compensation committee

Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul and Richard Noll serve as members of JCIC’s compensation committee, and Heather Hartnett serves as chairman of the compensation committee.

Under the Nasdaq listing standards, JCIC is required to have a compensation committee composed entirely of independent directors. JCIC’s Board has determined that each of Heather Hartnett, Samir Kaul, and Richard Noll are independent. JCIC has adopted a compensation committee charter, which details the principal functions of the compensation committee, including:

 

   

reviewing and approving on an annual basis the corporate goals and objectives relevant to JCIC’s President’s, Chief Financial Officer’s and Chief Executive Officer’s compensation, evaluating JCIC’s President’s, Chief Financial Officer’s and Chief Executive Officer’s performance in light of such goals and objectives and determining and approving the remuneration (if any) of JCIC’s President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer based on such evaluation;

 

   

reviewing and approving the compensation of all of JCIC’s other Section 16 executive officers;

 

   

reviewing JCIC’s executive compensation policies and plans;

 

   

implementing and administering JCIC’s incentive compensation equity-based remuneration plans;

 

   

assisting management in complying with JCIC’s proxy statement and annual report disclosure requirements;

 

   

approving all special perquisites, special cash payments and other special compensation and benefit arrangements for JCIC’s executive officers and employees;

 

   

producing a report on executive compensation to be included in JCIC’s annual proxy statement; and

 

   

reviewing, evaluating and recommending changes, if appropriate, to the remuneration for directors.

 

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The charter also provides that the compensation committee may, in its sole discretion, retain or obtain the advice of a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser and will be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of any such adviser. However, before engaging or receiving advice from a compensation consultant, external legal counsel or any other adviser, the compensation committee will consider the independence of each such adviser, including the factors required by Nasdaq and the SEC.

Compensation committee interlocks and insider participation

None of JCIC’s executive officers currently serves, and in the past year has not served, as a member of the compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving on JCIC’s Board.

Code of ethics

Prior to consummation of our Initial Public Offering, JCIC adopted a Code of Ethics applicable to JCIC’s directors, officers and employees. JCIC intends to disclose any amendments to or waivers of certain provisions of our Code of Ethics in a Current Report on Form 8-K.

Conflicts of interest

Under Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties:

 

   

duty to act in good faith in what the director or officer believes to be in the best interests of the company as a whole;

 

   

duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;

 

   

directors should not improperly fetter the exercise of future discretion;

 

   

duty to exercise powers fairly as between different sections of shareholders;

 

   

duty not to put themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests; and

 

   

duty to exercise independent judgment.

In addition to the above, directors also owe a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature. This duty has been defined as a requirement to act as a reasonably diligent person having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and the general knowledge skill and experience of that director.

As set out above, directors have a duty not to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing, or to otherwise benefit as a result of their position. However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be forgiven and/or authorized in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors. This can be done by way of permission granted in the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.

Certain of JCIC’s officers and directors presently have, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary and contractual duties to other entities. As a result, if any of JCIC’s officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual obligations, then, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law, he or she will need to honor such fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity, before we can pursue such opportunity. If these other entities decide to pursue any such opportunity, JCIC may be precluded from pursuing the same. However, JCIC does not expect these duties to materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination. JCIC’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law: (i) no individual serving as a director or an officer shall have any duty, except and to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as us; and (ii) we renounce any interest or expectancy in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for any director or officer, on the one hand, and us, on the other.

 

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Below is a table summarizing the entities to which JCIC’s executive officers and directors currently have fiduciary duties, contractual obligations or other material management relationships:

 

Individual

  

Entity

  

Entity’s business

  

Affiliation

Jeffrey E. Kelter    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory    Non-Profit    Trustee
  

Invitation Homes

KSH Capital LP(1)

Valor Real Estate

Partners LLP

  

Real Estate

Investment

Real Estate

  

Director

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Partner

Robert F. Savage    Environmental Waste International, Inc.    Environmental    Director
  

KSH Capital LP(1)

Mount Sinai Health

System

  

Investment

Hospital

  

Founder, President

Trustee

  

The Taft School

Valor Real Estate

Partners LLP

  

Education

Real Estate

  

Trustee Partner

Partner

   VolunteerMatch.org    Non-Profit    Board Chair
Thomas Jermoluk   

EAZE Technology

Beyond Identity

  

Investment

Software

  

Director

Director, Chief Executive Officer

James H. Clark   

Beyond Identity

EAZE Technology

Clark Ventures Inc.

Monaco Partners LP

  

Software

Investment

Investment

Investment

  

Co-Founder, Chairman Director

Manager

Manager

Lauren D. Ores    KSH Capital LP(1)    Investment    Chief Financial Officer
Heather Hartnett   

Human Ventures, LLC(2)

Casa Komos Beverage

Group LLC

  

Investment

Food & Beverage

  

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Director

  

Groundswell

StorySpaces, Inc.

  

Software

Entertainment

  

Director

Director

Samir Kaul    Khosla Ventures, LLC(3) UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital   

Investment

Non-profit

   General Partner Director
Richard Noll   

Reynolds Consumer

Products Inc.

Neighbor Inc.

Software Director

   Household Products    Chairman

 

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(1) Includes KSH Capital and certain of its affiliates and other related entities.

(2) Includes Human Ventures and its managed and affiliated funds, related entities and portfolio companies.

(3) Includes Khosla Ventures and its managed and affiliated funds, related entities and portfolio companies.

Potential investors should also be aware of the following other potential conflicts of interest:

 

   

Our executive officers and directors are not required to, and will not, commit their full time to our affairs, which may result in a conflict of interest in allocating their time between our operations and our search for a business combination and their other businesses. We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination. Each of our executive officers is engaged in several other business endeavors for which he may be entitled to substantial compensation, and our executive officers are not obligated to contribute any specific number of hours per week to our affairs.

 

   

Our sponsor and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, in order to induce the underwriters to execute the underwriting agreement entered into in connection with the IPO, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of our initial business combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of the Public Offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares. Additionally, our sponsor has agreed to waive its rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to its Founder Shares if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame. If we do not complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame, the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless. Except as described herein, our sponsor and our directors and executive officers have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of their Founder Shares until the earliest of (A) one year after the completion of our initial business combination and (B) subsequent to our initial business combination, (x) if the closing price of JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for share subdivisions, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 150 days after our initial business combination, or (y) the date on which we complete a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of our public shareholders having the right to exchange Ordinary Shares for cash, securities or other property. Except as described herein, the Private Placement Warrants will not be transferable until 30 days following the completion of our initial business combination. Because each of our executive officers and directors will own Ordinary Shares or JCIC Private Placement Warrants directly or indirectly, they may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination.

 

   

Our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation of any such officers and directors is included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination.

We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor, officers or directors. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor or any of our officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions that such initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view. We are not required to obtain such an opinion in any other context.

Furthermore, in no event will our sponsor or any of our existing officers or directors, or their respective affiliates, be paid by us any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the completion of our initial business combination.

 

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We cannot assure you that any of the above mentioned conflicts will be resolved in our favor.

If we seek shareholder approval, we will complete our initial business combination only if we obtain the approval of an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the ordinary shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon and who vote at a general meeting. In such case, our sponsor and each member of our management team have agreed to vote their Founder Shares and public shares in favor of our initial business combination.

Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions

Founder Shares

On August 24, 2020 the Sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.003 per share, to cover certain JCIC expenses in consideration of 8,625,000 JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share. The number of JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares issued was determined based on the expectation that such JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares would represent 20% of the outstanding shares upon completion of the offering. On September 25, 2020, the Sponsor transferred 25,000 JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares to each of Heather Hartnett and Samir Kaul, each of whom serve on the JCIC Board, at their original per share purchase price. On January 13, 2021, the Sponsor surrendered 1,437,500 JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares to JCIC for cancellation for no consideration. On January 21, 2021, JCIC effected a share capitalization of 1,437,500 JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares, resulting in an aggregate of 8,625,000 JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares outstanding. On March 8, 2021, the Sponsor transferred 25,000 JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares to Richard Noll, who serves on the JCIC Board, at their original per share purchase price.

JCIC Private Placement Warrants

On January 26, 2021, JCIC completed the sale to the Sponsor of an aggregate of 9,400,000 JCIC Private Placement Warrants for a purchase price of $1.00 per whole warrant for an aggregate of $9,400,000. Each JCIC Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one JCIC Class A Ordinary Share at $11.50 per share. The JCIC Private Placement Warrants (including the JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holder until 30 days after the completion by JCIC of an initial business combination and entitles the holders thereof to certain registration rights

Original Sponsor Letter Agreement

On January 26, 2021, JCIC entered into a Sponsor Letter Agreement with the Sponsor, pursuant to which, among other things, the Sponsor agreed to vote all JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares held by it to approve a proposed business combination (including any proposals recommended by the JCIC Board in connection with such business combination and not to redeem any JCIC shares held by them in connection with such shareholder approval in order to induce JCIC and the underwriters in JCIC’s initial public offering to enter into an underwriting agreement and to proceed with JCIC’s initial public offering.

Sponsor Agreement

On August 3, 2022, in connection with the execution of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 3, 2022, by and among JCIC, New Bridger, Wildfire Merger Sub I, Wildfire Merger Sub II, Wildfire Merger Sub III, Wildfire GP Sub IV, Blocker and Bridger (the “Merger Agreement”), JCIC, each of the officers and directors of JCIC (collectively, the “Sponsor Persons”) and New Bridger entered into the an agreement (the “Sponsor Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Sponsor agreed to a forfeiture, effective as of immediately prior to the closing of an initial business combination (“Closing”), of the number of JCIC Class B Ordinary Shares equal to the sum of (a) 8,550,000 minus the number of Available Sponsor Shares (as defined in the Sponsor Agreement), and (b) if the amount of cash available in the Trust Account as of the Closing, after deducting the amount required to satisfy JCIC’s obligations to its shareholders (if any) that exercise their redemption rights (the “JCIC Shareholder Redemption”) is less than $20,000,000, (i) the excess of the aggregate of fees and expenses for legal counsel, accounting advisors, external auditors and financial advisors incurred by JCIC in connection with the business combination and other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement prior to Closing, but excluding any deferred underwriting fees, over $6,500,000, if any, divided by (ii) $10.00.

 

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In addition, pursuant to the Sponsor Agreement, the Sponsor agreed to subject 20% of the Available Sponsor Shares (the “Earnout Shares”) to a performance-based vesting schedule such that 50% of the Earnout Shares will vest on the first date during the period commencing on the date of the Closing and ending on the date that is five years after the date of the Closing (the “Earnout Period”) on which the VWAP of New Bridger Common Stock is greater than $11.50 for a period of at least twenty (20) days out of thirty (30) consecutive trading days and 50% of the Earnout Shares will vest on the first date during the Earnout Period on which the volume-weighted average closing sale price of a share of New Bridger Common Stock is greater than $13.00 for a period of at least twenty (20) days out of thirty (30) consecutive trading days. If the Trust Amount after deducting all amounts payable in respect of the JCIC Shareholder Redemption is less than $50,000,000, then immediately prior to Closing, each of JCIC and the Sponsor agreed to convert any outstanding loan balance under a promissory note between JCIC and the Sponsor, under which $800,000 has been drawn as of the date hereof, into a number of JCIC Class A Ordinary Shares equal to the amount of outstanding loan balance under such promissory note divided by $10.00, rounded up to the nearest whole share.

Stockholders Agreement

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, New Bridger, the Sponsor, Bridger Element LLC and its equityholders (collectively, the “Founder Stockholders”) and certain direct and indirect equityholders of Bridger that are affiliates of Blackstone Inc. (collectively, the “BTO Stockholders”) have agreed to enter into the Stockholders Agreement at the Closing. Pursuant to terms of the Stockholders Agreement, effective as of the Closing Date, the New Bridger Board is anticipated to be comprised of nine directors.

Following the Closing, the BTO Stockholders, collectively, will have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate for election to the New Bridger Board (i) up to two (2) directors, for so long as the BTO Entities (as defined in the Stockholders Agreement) collectively beneficially own (directly or indirectly) at least 10% of the outstanding Stock (as defined in the Stockholders Agreement); and (ii) one (1) director, for so long as the BTO Entities collectively beneficially own (directly or indirectly) less than 10% of the outstanding Stock, but at least 33% of the shares of Stock held by the BTO Entities as of the Closing. In addition, for so long as the BTO Entities have such nomination rights, (i) the New Bridger Board will use reasonable best efforts to cause any committee of the New Bridger Board to include in its membership at least one director nominated by the BTO Stockholders provided that such individual satisfies all applicable SEC and stock exchange requirements and (ii) the BTO Stockholders will have a consent right over affiliate transactions entered into by New Bridger or any of its subsidiaries, subject to customary exceptions.

The Founder Stockholders, to the extent they collectively beneficially own (directly or indirectly) at least 10% of the outstanding Stock will have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate the chairperson of the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of the New Bridger Board, subject to satisfaction of applicable SEC and stock exchange requirements.

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Stockholders Agreement, (i) each of the Founder Stockholders and the BTO Stockholders agree to take all necessary action (including, without limitation, voting or providing a proxy with respect to such stockholder’s shares) to effect the appointment of the directors nominated by the BTO Stockholders and (ii) each of the Founder Stockholders, the BTO Stockholders and the Sponsor agree with New Bridger to vote all shares of New Bridger Common Stock owned by it in favor of the slate of directors nominated by or at the direction of the New Bridger Board or a duly authorized committee thereof in connection with each vote taken in connection with the election of directors to the New Bridger Board and agrees not to seek to remove or replace a designee of the BTO Stockholders or any of Matthew Sheehy, Timothy Sheehy or McAndrew Rudisill (to the extent any such individuals are nominated by or at the direction of the New Bridger Board or a duly authorized committee thereof in connection with each vote taken in connection with the election of directors to the New Bridger Board.

 

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Subject to the terms and conditions of the Stockholders Agreement and applicable securities laws, the BTO Stockholders will have preemptive rights to acquire their pro rata share of any new issuance of equity securities (or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for equity securities) by New Bridger after the consummation of the Transactions, subject to customary exceptions. The BTO Stockholders will be entitled to apportion the preemptive rights granted to it in such proportions as it deems appropriate, among (i) itself and (ii) any BTO Entity; provided that each such BTO Entity agrees to enter into the Stockholders Agreement, as a “Stockholder” under the Stockholders Agreement.

Related Party Loans

On August 24, 2020, JCIC issued an unsecured promissory note (the “Promissory Note”) to the Sponsor, pursuant to which JCIC may borrow up to an aggregate principal amount of $300,000. The Promissory Note was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of (i) March 31, 2021 and (ii) the completion of JCIC’s initial public offering. The outstanding balance under the Promissory Note of $114,031 was repaid on January 25, 2021. JCIC is unable to borrow any future amounts against this note. On February 16, 2022 JCIC entered into a $1,500,000 convertible promissory note (“Convertible Note”) with the Sponsor in order to fund working capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination. The Convertible Note accrues no interest and is payable upon completion of a Business Combination. The Convertible Note’s entire or partial balance can be converted into warrants at the discretion of the Sponsor at the time of Business Combination. The warrants would be identical to the Private Placement Warrants, however, pursuant to the Sponsor Agreement, if the Trust Amount is less than $50 million after taking account of public shareholder redemptions, the balance of the Convertible Note will be converted into shares of New Bridger Common Stock at $10.00 per share. As of September 30, 2022, the aggregate balance of the Convertible Note is $800,000 with an available balance for withdrawal of $700,000.

Administrative Services Agreement

Commencing on January 21, 2021, JCIC entered into an agreement pursuant to which it will pay an affiliate of the Sponsor up to $10,000 per month for office space, secretarial and administrative services. Upon completion of a business combination or its liquidation, JCIC will cease paying these monthly fees. For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, JCIC incurred $90,000 in fees for these services, in which $20,000 was included in accrued expenses in the accompanying condensed balance sheet as of September 30, 2022. For the year ended December 31, 2021, JCIC incurred $113,226, in fees for these services, of which $10,000 was included in accrued expenses in the accompanying condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2021.

Amended & Restated Registration Rights Agreement

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, New Bridger, the Sponsor, the BTO Stockholders and certain stockholders of Bridger have agreed to enter into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “A&R Registration Rights Agreement”) at the Closing. The A&R Registration Rights Agreement will provide these holders (and their permitted transferees) with the right to require New Bridger, at New Bridger’s expense, to register New Bridger Common Stock that they hold on customary terms for a transaction of this type, including customary demand and piggyback registration rights. The A&R Registration Rights Agreement will also provide that New Bridger pay certain expenses of the electing holders relating to such registrations and indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise under the Securities Act. In addition, pursuant to the A&R Registration Rights Agreement Bridger’s stockholders (other than the BTO Stockholders) and the Sponsor will be subject to a restriction on transfer of their New Bridger Common Stock for a period of twelve (12) months following the Closing, and the BTO Stockholders will be subject to a restriction on transfer of their New Bridger Common Stock for a period of six (6) months following the Closing, in each case subject to certain exceptions.

Compensation

None of JCIC’s executive officers or directors have received any cash compensation for services rendered to JCIC. JCIC reimburses an affiliate of the Sponsor for office space, secretarial and administrative services provided to JCIC in the amount of $10,000 per month. In addition, the Sponsor, JCIC’s executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates will be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on JCIC’s behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. JCIC’s audit committee reviews on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by JCIC to

 

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the Sponsor, JCIC’s executive officers or directors, or their affiliates. Any such payments prior to a business combination will be made using funds held outside the trust account. Other than quarterly audit committee review of such reimbursements, JCIC does not expect to have any additional controls in place governing JCIC’s reimbursement payments to its directors and executive officers for their out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with JCIC’s activities on JCIC’s behalf in connection with identifying and consummating a business combination. Other than these payments and reimbursements, no compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, will be paid by JCIC to the Sponsor, JCIC’s executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, prior to completion of JCIC’s business combination.

Policy for Approval of Related Party Transactions

The audit committee of the JCIC Board has adopted an audit committee charter, providing for the review, approval and/or ratification of all “related party transactions” (which are those transactions required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) under the Exchange Act). At its meetings, the audit committee shall be provided with the details of each new, existing or proposed related party transaction, including the terms of the transaction, any contractual restrictions that JCIC has already committed to, the business purpose of the transaction and the benefits of the transaction to JCIC and to the relevant related party. Any member of the audit committee who has an interest in the related party transaction under review by the audit committee shall abstain from voting on the approval of the related party transaction, but may, if so requested by the chairman of the audit committee, participate in some or all of the audit committee’s discussions of the related party transaction. Upon completion of its review of the related party transaction, the audit committee may determine to permit or to prohibit the related party transaction.

Limitation on liability and indemnification of officers and directors

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against willful default, willful neglect, civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide for indemnification of our officers and directors to the maximum extent permitted by law, including for any liability incurred in their capacities as such, except through their own actual fraud, willful default or willful neglect. We have entered into agreements with our directors and officers to provide contractual indemnification in addition to the indemnification provided for in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. We have purchased a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our officers and directors against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment in some circumstances and insures us against our obligations to indemnify our officers and directors.

JCIC’s officers and directors have agreed to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the trust account, and have agreed to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any services provided to us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason whatsoever (except to the extent they are entitled to funds from the trust account due to their ownership of public shares). Accordingly, any indemnification provided will only be able to be satisfied by us if (i) we have sufficient funds outside of the trust account or (ii) we consummate an initial business combination.

JCIC’s indemnification obligations may discourage shareholders from bringing a lawsuit against our officers or directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions also may have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against our officers and directors, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our shareholders. Furthermore, a shareholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against our officers and directors pursuant to these indemnification provisions.

We believe that these provisions, the insurance and the indemnity agreements are necessary to attract and retain talented and experienced officers and directors.

 

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Shareholder Communication with the Board of Directors

JCIC shareholders and interested parties may communicate with the JCIC Board, any committee chairperson or the non-management directors as a group by writing to Attn: Chief Financial Officer, 386 Park Avenue South, FL 20, New York, NY 10016. Any such communication will be reviewed and, to the extent such communication falls within the scope of matters generally considered by the JCIC Board, forwarded to the JCIC Board, the appropriate committee chairperson or the non-management directors, as appropriate, based on the subject matter of the communication. The acceptance and forwarding of communications to the members of the JCIC Board, or to an executive officer of JCIC or New Bridger does not imply or create any fiduciary duty of such director or executive officer to the person submitting the communications.

Policy Regarding Hedging of Our Ordinary Shares

Pursuant to JCIC’s Insider Trading Policy, all directors and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries and to those acting on behalf of the Company are prohibited from engaging in hedging transactions with respect to ownership in JCIC securities, including trading in any derivative security relating to JCIC securities.

 

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

None of our executive officers or directors have received any cash compensation for services rendered to us. Commencing on the date that our securities are first listed on Nasdaq through the earlier of consummation of our initial business combination and our liquidation, we will reimburse an affiliate of our sponsor for office space, secretarial and administrative services provided to us in the amount of $10,000 per month. In addition, our sponsor, executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates will be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by us to our sponsor, executive officers or directors, or their affiliates. Any such payments prior to an initial business combination will be made using funds held outside the trust account. Other than quarterly audit committee review of such reimbursements, we do not expect to have any additional controls in place governing our reimbursement payments to our directors and executive officers for their out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with our activities on our behalf in connection with identifying and consummating an initial business combination. Other than these payments and reimbursements, no compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, will be paid by the company to our sponsor, executive officers and directors, or their respective affiliates, prior to completion of our initial business combination.

After the completion of our initial business combination, directors or members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting or management fees from the combined company. All of these fees will be fully disclosed to shareholders, to the extent then known, in the proxy solicitation materials or tender offer materials furnished to our shareholders in connection with a proposed business combination. We have not established any limit on the amount of such fees that may be paid by the combined company to our directors or members of management. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of the proposed business combination, because the directors of the post-combination business will be responsible for determining executive officer and director compensation. Any compensation to be paid to our executive officers will be determined, or recommended to the board of directors for determination, either by a compensation committee constituted solely by independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors on our board of directors.

We do not intend to take any action to ensure that members of our management team maintain their positions with us after the consummation of our initial business combination, although it is possible that some or all of our executive officers and directors may negotiate employment or consulting arrangements to remain with us after our initial business combination. The existence or terms of any such employment or consulting arrangements to retain their positions with us may influence our management’s motivation in identifying or selecting a target business but we do not believe that the ability of our management to remain with us after the consummation of our initial business combination will be a determining factor in our decision to proceed with any potential business combination. We are not party to any agreements with our executive officers and directors that provide for benefits upon termination of employment.

 

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PROPOSAL NO. 3—THE ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL

Overview

The Adjournment Proposal asks shareholders to approve the adjournment of the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates if necessary to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal.

Consequences if the Adjournment Proposal is Not Approved

If the Adjournment Proposal is not approved by JCIC’s shareholders, the Board may not be able to adjourn the Shareholder Meeting to a later date in the event, based on the tabulated votes, there are insufficient Ordinary Shares represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or at the time of the Shareholder Meeting to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal. In such events, the Charter Extension would not be implemented.

Vote Required for Approval

The approval of the Adjournment Proposal requires an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law, being the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of the issued Ordinary Shares, voting as a single class, who are present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon at the Shareholder Meeting. Abstentions will be considered present for the purposes of establishing a quorum but, as a matter of Cayman Islands law, will not constitute votes cast at the Shareholder Meeting and therefore will have no effect on the approval of the Adjournment Proposal.

As of the date of this proxy statement, the initial shareholders of JCIC have agreed to vote any Ordinary Shares owned by them in favor of the Adjournment Proposal. As of the date hereof, the initial shareholders and officers of JCIC own 20% of the issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares and have not purchased any public shares, but may do so at any time. As a result, in addition to the initial shareholders and officers of JCIC, approval of the Adjournment Proposal will require the affirmative vote of at least 12,937,501 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 37.5% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if all Ordinary Shares are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes, and the affirmative vote of at least 2,156,252 Ordinary Shares held by public shareholders (or approximately 6.3% of the Class A Ordinary Shares) if only such shares as are required to establish a quorum are represented at the Shareholder Meeting and cast votes.

Resolution

The full text of the resolution to be voted upon is as follows:

RESOLVED, as an ordinary resolution, that the adjournment of the Shareholder Meeting to a later date or dates if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if, based upon the tabulated vote at the time of the Shareholder Meeting, there are insufficient Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share and Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share in the capital of JCIC represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business at the Shareholder Meeting or to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal.”

Recommendation of the Board

THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT JCIC SHAREHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THE APPROVAL OF THE ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL.

 

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CERTAIN MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

The following is a discussion of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences for holders of Ordinary Shares of electing to have Ordinary Shares redeemed for cash if the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved. This discussion only applies to holders of Ordinary Shares that hold their Ordinary Shares as capital assets for U.S. federal income tax purposes within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code, and does not describe all of the tax consequences that may be relevant to holders of Ordinary Shares in light of their particular circumstances, including alternative minimum taxes and the tax on net investment income, or consequences to holders who are subject to special rules, such as:

 

   

banks, thrifts, mutual funds and other financial institutions or financial services entities;

 

   

insurance companies;

 

   

tax-exempt organizations, pension funds or governmental organizations;

 

   

regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts;

 

   

United States expatriates and former citizens or former long-term residents of the United States;

 

   

persons that acquired securities pursuant to an exercise of employee share options, in connection with employee incentive plans or otherwise as compensation;

 

   

dealers or traders subject to a mark-to-market method of tax accounting with respect to the Ordinary Shares;

 

   

brokers or dealers in securities or foreign currency;

 

   

individual retirement and other deferred accounts;

 

   

persons holding their Ordinary Shares as part of a “straddle,” hedge, conversion, constructive sale or other risk reducing transactions;

 

   

persons that directly, indirectly or constructively own 10% or more (by vote or value) of our shares;

 

   

persons who purchase or sell their shares as part of a wash sale for tax purposes;

 

   

Sponsor;

 

   

Sponsor’s officers and directors;

 

   

holders of the Public Warrants (solely in their capacity as such);

 

   

persons who are not U.S. holders (as defined below);

 

   

grantor trusts;

 

   

U.S. holders (as defined below) whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar;

 

   

partnerships or other pass-through entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes or investors in such entities;

 

   

holders that are “controlled foreign corporations” or “passive foreign investment companies,” referred to as “PFICs,” and corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;

 

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persons subject to the alternative minimum tax; or

 

   

a person required to accelerate the recognition of any item of gross income with respect to Ordinary Shares as a result of such income being recognized on an applicable financial statement.

This discussion does not consider the tax treatment of entities that are partnerships or other pass-through entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes or persons who hold Ordinary Shares through such entities. If a partnership or other pass-through entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes is the beneficial owner of Ordinary Shares, the U.S. federal income tax treatment of partners of the partnership will generally depend on the status of the partners and the activities of the partner and the partnership.

This discussion is based on the Code, administrative pronouncements, judicial decisions and final, temporary and proposed Treasury Regulations, all as of the date hereof, changes to any of which subsequent to the date of this proxy statement/prospectus may affect the tax consequences described herein. This discussion does not take into account potential suggested or proposed changes in such tax laws which may impact the discussion below and does not address any aspect of state, local or non-U.S. taxation, or any U.S. federal taxes other than income taxes. Each of the foregoing is subject to change, potentially with retroactive effect. Holders of Ordinary Shares are urged to consult their tax advisors with respect to the application of U.S. federal tax laws to their particular situation, as well as any tax consequences arising under the laws of any state, local or non-U.S. jurisdiction.

JCIC does not intend to request a ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences described in this discussion. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that the IRS will agree with this discussion or that a court will not sustain a challenge by the IRS to this discussion, if taken.

INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT WITH THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS (INCLUDING ANY POTENTIAL FUTURE CHANGES THERETO) TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS, AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES ARISING UNDER THE U.S. FEDERAL ESTATE OR GIFT TAX LAWS OR UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY U.S. STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER TAXING JURISDICTION OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATY.

U.S. Holders

For purpose of this discussion, a “U.S. holder” is a beneficial owner of Ordinary Shares who is, or that is for U.S. federal income tax purposes:

 

   

an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States ;

 

   

a corporation (or other entity taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia;

 

   

an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source; or

 

   

a trust if (1) a U.S. court can exercise primary supervision over the administration of such trust and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (2) it has a valid election in place to be treated as a U.S. person.

ALL HOLDERS OF ORDINARY SHARES SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS REGARDING THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF ELECTING TO HAVE THEIR ORDINARY SHARES REDEEMED, INCLUDING THE EFFECTS OF U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. AND OTHER TAX LAWS.

 

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Redemption of Ordinary Shares Pursuant to the Redemption

In the event that a U.S. holder’s Ordinary Shares are redeemed for cash pursuant to the Redemption, subject to the PFIC rules discussed below “ —Passive Foreign Investment Company Status,” the treatment of the redemption for U.S. federal income tax purposes depends on whether the redemption qualifies as a sale of the Ordinary Shares under Section 302 of the Code. Whether a redemption qualifies for sale treatment will depend largely on the total number of Ordinary Shares treated as held by the U.S. holder relative to all of the Ordinary Shares outstanding both before and after the redemption. For this purpose, the shares outstanding after the redemption should take into account shares owned by New Bridger as a result of the Second Merger.

The redemption of Ordinary Shares generally is treated as a sale of the Ordinary Shares if the redemption (i) results in a “complete termination” of the U.S. holder’s interest in JCIC, (ii) is “substantially disproportionate” with respect to the U.S. holder or (iii) is “not essentially equivalent to a dividend” with respect to the U.S. holder. These tests are explained more fully below.

In determining whether any of the foregoing tests are satisfied, a U.S. holder generally must take into account not only Ordinary Shares actually owned by such U.S. holder, but also Ordinary Shares such U.S. holder is treated as constructively owning. A U.S. holder may be treated as constructively owning Ordinary Shares owned by certain related individuals and entities (including New Bridger following the Second Merger) in which the U.S. holder has an interest or that have an interest in such U.S. holder, as well as any shares the U.S. holder has a right to acquire by exercise of an option, such as the Public Warrants or New Bridger warrants.

There will be a complete termination of a U.S. holder’s interest if either (i) all of the Ordinary Shares actually and constructively owned by the U.S. holder are redeemed or (ii) all of the Ordinary Shares actually owned by the U.S. holder are redeemed and the U.S. holder is eligible to waive, and effectively waives in accordance with specific rules, the attribution of shares owned by certain family members and the U.S. holder does not constructively own any other shares. In order to meet the “substantially disproportionate” test, the percentage of outstanding voting stock of JCIC actually or constructively owned by a U.S. holder immediately following the redemption generally must be less than 80% of the voting stock of JCIC actually or constructively owned by such U.S. holder immediately prior to the redemption. The redemption of the Ordinary Shares will not be essentially equivalent to a dividend if a U.S. holder’s redemption results in a “meaningful reduction” of the U.S. holder’s proportionate interest in JCIC. Whether the redemption will result in a meaningful reduction in a U.S. holder’s proportionate interest in JCIC will depend on the particular facts and circumstances. However, the IRS has indicated in a published ruling that even a small reduction in the proportionate interest of a small minority shareholder in a publicly held corporation who exercises no control over corporate affairs may constitute such a “meaningful reduction.” U.S. holders should consult with their tax advisors as to the tax consequences of a redemption.

If the redemption qualifies as a sale of stock by the U.S. holder under Section 302 of the Code, subject to the PFIC rules discussed below “ —Passive Foreign Investment Company Status,” the U.S. holder would generally be required to recognize capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference, if any, between the amount of cash received and the tax basis of the Ordinary Shares. Such gain or loss generally would be treated as long-term capital gain or loss if such shares were held for more than one year on the date of the redemption. A U.S. holder’s tax basis in such holder’s Ordinary Shares generally will equal the cost of such shares.

If the redemption does not qualify as a sale of stock under Section 302 of the Code, subject to the PFIC rules discussed below “ —Passive Foreign Investment Company Status,” then the U.S. holder will be treated as receiving a corporate distribution. Such distribution generally will constitute a dividend for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent paid from current or accumulated earnings and profits of JCIC, as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles. Distributions in excess of current and accumulated earnings and profits will constitute a return of capital that will be applied against and reduce (but not below zero) the U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in such U.S. holder’s Ordinary Shares. Any remaining excess will be treated as gain realized on the sale or other disposition of the Ordinary Shares.

Passive Foreign Investment Company Status

A U.S. holder who elects to have its Ordinary Shares redeemed for cash pursuant to the redemption provisions may be subject to the PFIC rules.

 

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A non-U.S. (foreign) corporation will be classified as a PFIC for any taxable year (i) if at least 75% of its gross income consists of passive income, such as dividends, interest, rents and royalties (except for rents and royalties earned in the active conduct of a trade or business), and gains on the disposition of property that produces such income, or (ii) if at least 50% of the fair market value of its assets (determined on the basis of a quarterly average) is attributable to assets that produce, or are held for the production of, passive income (including for these purposes its pro rata share of the gross income and assets of any entity in which it is considered to own at least 25% of the interest, by value). The determination of whether a foreign corporation is a PFIC is made annually.

If JCIC is determined to be a PFIC for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. holder of Ordinary Shares and the U.S. holder did not make either (i) a timely qualified election fund, or “QEF,” election under Section 1295 of the Code for JCIC’s first taxable year as a PFIC in which the U.S. holder held (or was deemed to hold) Ordinary Shares, (ii) a QEF election along with a “purging election,” or (iii) a “mark-to-market” election with respect to the Ordinary Shares (hereinafter, each a “ PFIC Election”), such holder generally will be subject to special rules with respect to “excess distributions,” generally including:

 

   

any gain realized by the U.S. holder on the sale or other disposition of its Ordinary Shares; and

 

   

any distributions to such U.S. holder during a taxable year of the U.S. holder that are greater than 125% of the average annual distributions received by such U.S. holder in respect of the Ordinary Shares during the three preceding taxable years of such U.S. holder or, if shorter, such U.S. holder’s holding period for the Ordinary Shares.

Under these rules,

 

   

the U.S. holder’s excess distribution will be allocated ratably over the U.S. holder’s holding period for the Ordinary Shares;

 

   

the amount allocated to the U.S. holder’s taxable year in which the U.S. holder recognized the excess distribution, or to the period in the U.S. holder’s holding period before the first day of JCIC’s first taxable year in which it qualified as a PFIC, will be taxed as ordinary income;

 

   

the amount allocated to other taxable years (or portions thereof) of the U.S. holder and included in its holding period will be taxed at the highest tax rate in effect for that year and applicable to the U.S. holder; and

 

   

the interest charge generally applicable to underpayments of tax will be imposed in respect of the tax attributable to each such other taxable year of the U.S. holder.

In order to comply with the requirements of a QEF election, a U.S. holder must receive certain information from JCIC. JCIC has not determined whether it will endeavor to provide such information to U.S. holders and there can otherwise be no assurance that JCIC will timely provide it.

Furthermore, in the event that a U.S. holder’s Ordinary Shares are redeemed for cash pursuant to the redemption provisions described in this proxy statement/prospectus, whether said redemption is treated as a sale or exchange of Ordinary Shares or as a distribution on the Ordinary Shares, such deemed sale or exchange or distribution, as applicable, would be treated as a sale or disposition or distribution, as applicable, for purposes of the PFIC rules described above.

The rules dealing with PFICs are very complex and are affected by various factors in addition to those described above. Accordingly, a U.S. holder of Ordinary Shares should consult its own tax advisor concerning PFIC elections and the application of the PFIC rules to such Ordinary Shares under such holder’s particular circumstances.

Reporting and Backup Withholding

Information returns will be filed with the IRS in connection with payments resulting from the redemption of Ordinary Shares. Backup withholding may apply to such payments if the U.S. holder fails to provide a taxpayer identification number or a certification of exempt status, or if the U.S. holder has been notified by the IRS that it is subject to backup withholding (and such notification has not been withdrawn).

 

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Backup withholding is not an additional tax. The amount of any backup withholding will be allowed as a credit against such holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability and may entitle such holder to a refund of any excess amounts withheld, provided that the required information is timely furnished to the IRS.

THE FOREGOING IS A SUMMARY OF THE MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES TO U.S. HOLDERS OF ORDINARY SHARES ELECTING TO HAVE THEIR ORDINARY SHARES REDEEMED WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PARTICULAR FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH HOLDER OF ORDINARY SHARES. HOLDERS OF ORDINARY SHARES ARE URGED TO CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS AS TO THE SPECIFIC TAX CONSEQUENCES TO THEM, INCLUDING THE APPLICABILITY AND EFFECT OF U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. AND OTHER TAX LAWS.

 

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BUSINESS OF JCIC AND CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT JCIC

References in this section to “we,” “our,” or “us” refer to Jack Creek Investment Corp..

General

We are a blank check company incorporated as an exempted company in the Cayman Islands on August 18, 2020 formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses in any industry or sector. We are currently reviewing a number of opportunities to enter into an initial business combination with one or more operating businesses.

Initial Public Offering and Private Placement

On January 26, 2021, we consummated our Initial Public Offering of 34,500,000 Units, including the issuance of 4,500,000 additional units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option in full, at $10.00 per JCIC Public Unit, generating gross proceeds of $345,000,000. The securities in the offering were registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-248951). The SEC declared the registration statement effective on January 21, 2021. Simultaneously with the closing of our Initial Public Offering, we consummated the sale of 9,400,000 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor at a price of $1.00 per JCIC Private Placement Warrant, generating gross proceeds of $9,400,000.

Following the closing of our Initial Public Offering on January 26, 2021, an amount of approximately $345,000,000 ($10.00 per JCIC Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants were placed in a Trust Account, and invested in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund investing solely in U.S. Treasuries and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by us, until the earliest of: (i) the completion of the Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to our shareholders.

 

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BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of JCIC’s Ordinary Shares as of July 25, 2022, based on information obtained from the persons named below, with respect to the beneficial ownership of shares of JCIC’s Ordinary Shares, by:

 

   

each person known by JCIC to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of JCIC’s outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares or Class B Ordinary Shares;

 

   

each of JCIC’s executive officers and directors that beneficially owns shares of JCIC’s Ordinary Shares; and

 

   

all JCIC’s executive officers and directors as a group.

Beneficial ownership is determined according to the rules of the SEC, which generally provide that a person has beneficial ownership of a security if such person possesses sole or shared voting or investment power over that security, including options and warrants that are currently exercisable or exercisable within sixty days.

In the table below, percentage ownership is based on 43,125,000 ordinary shares, consisting of (i) 34,500,000 Class A ordinary shares and (ii) 8,625,000 Class B ordinary shares, issued and outstanding as of July 25, 2022. The table below does not include the Class A Ordinary Shares underlying the Private Placement Warrants held by the Sponsor because these securities are not exercisable within 60 days of this proxy statement.

Unless otherwise indicated, we believe that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of ordinary shares beneficially owned by them.

 

Name of Beneficial Owners(1)

   Class B Ordinary Shares     Class A Ordinary Shares  
   Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned
    Approximate
Percentage of
Class
    Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned
    Approximate
Percentage
of Class
    Approximate
Percentage of
Voting Control
 

JCIC Sponsor LLC (our sponsor)

     8,550,000 (2)      99.1     —         —         19.8

Jeffrey E. Kelter

     8,550,000 (2)      99.1     —         —         19.8

Robert F. Savage

     8,550,000 (2)      99.1     —         —         19.8

Thomas Jermoluk

     8,550,000 (2)      99.1     —         —         19.8

James H. Clark

     —         —         —         —      

Lauren D. Ores

     —           —         —      

Heather Harnett

     25,000       *       —         —      

Samir Kaul

     25,000       *       —         —      

Richard Noll

     25,000       *        

All directors and executive officers of JCIC as a group (8 individuals)

     8,625,000       100     —         —         20.0

Other 5% Shareholders

     8,625,000       100     —         —         20.0

Aristeia Capital, LLC

     —         —         2,096,780 (3)      6.1     4.9

Adage Capital Partners, LLC

     —         —         1,750,000 (4)      5.1     4.1

 

*

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(1)

Unless otherwise noted, the business address of each of the following entities or individuals is c/o Jack Creek Investment Corp., 386 Park Avenue South, FL 20 New York, NY 10016.

(2)

Represents 8,550,000 shares directly held by our sponsor.

(3)

Based solely on the 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2022. The address of the principal business office of Aristeia Capital, L.L.C. is One Greenwich Plaza, 3rd Floor, Greenwich, CT 06830

(4)

Based solely on the Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on May 3, 2021. Each of Adage Capital Partners, L.P., Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C, Adage Capital Advisors, L.L.C., Robert Atchinson and Philip Gross share voting and dispositive power with regard to 1,750,000 ordinary shares. The business address for each is 200 Clarendon Street, 52nd Floor, Boston Massachusetts 02116.

 

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FUTURE SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS

If the Extension Amendment Proposal is approved, we anticipate that we will hold another extraordinary general meeting before the Charter Extension Date to consider and vote upon approval of the Business Combination Agreement and the Business Combination. Accordingly, if we consummate the Business Combination, JCIC’s next annual meeting of shareholders will be held at a future date to be determined by the post-Business Combination company. The date of such meeting and the date by which you may submit a proposal for inclusion in the proxy statement related thereto will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K or a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. If the Extension Amendment Proposal is not approved, or if it is approved but we do not consummate the Business Combination before the Charter Extension Date, JCIC will dissolve and liquidate.

 

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HOUSEHOLDING INFORMATION

Unless JCIC has received contrary instructions, JCIC may send a single copy of this proxy statement to any household at which two or more shareholders reside if JCIC believes the shareholders are members of the same family. This process, known as “householding,” reduces the volume of duplicate information received at any one household and helps to reduce JCIC’s expenses. However, if shareholders prefer to receive multiple sets of JCIC’s disclosure documents at the same address this year or in future years, the shareholders should follow the instructions described below. Similarly, if an address is shared with another shareholder and together both of the shareholders would like to receive only a single set of JCIC’s disclosure documents, the shareholders should follow these instructions:

If the shares are registered in the name of the shareholder, the shareholder should contact us at our offices at Jack Creek Investment Corp., 386 Park Avenue South, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10016 to inform us of his or her request; or

If a bank, broker or other nominee holds the shares, the shareholder should contact the bank, broker or other nominee directly.

 

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

JCIC files reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC as required by the Exchange Act. You may access information on JCIC at the SEC web site, which contains reports, proxy statements and other information, at: http://www.sec.gov.

This proxy statement is available without charge to shareholders of JCIC upon written or oral request. If you would like additional copies of this proxy statement or if you have questions about the proposals to be presented at the Shareholder Meeting, you should contact JCIC in writing at Jack Creek Investment Corp., 386 Park Avenue South, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10016.

If you have questions about the proposals or this proxy statement, would like additional copies of this proxy statement, or need to obtain proxy cards or other information related to the proxy solicitation, please contact [•], the proxy solicitor for JCIC, by calling [•], or banks and brokers can call [•], or by emailing [•]. You will not be charged for any of the documents that you request.

To obtain timely delivery of the documents, you must request them no later than five business days before the date of the Shareholder Meeting, or no later than [•], 2023.

 

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THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)

OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

JACK CREEK INVESTMENT CORP.

(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED [•] AND EFFECTIVE ON [•])


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THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)

OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

JACK CREEK INVESTMENT CORP.

(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED [•] AND EFFECTIVE ON [•])

 

1

The name of the Company is Jack Creek Investment Corp.

 

2

The Registered Office of the Company shall be at the offices of Maples Corporate Services Limited, PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman Islands, or at such other place within the Cayman Islands as the Directors may decide.

 

3

The objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by the laws of the Cayman Islands.

 

4

The liability of each Member is limited to the amount unpaid on such Member’s shares.

 

5

The share capital of the Company is US$55,100 divided into 500,000,000 Class A ordinary shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each, 50,000,000 Class B ordinary shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each and 1,000,000 preference shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each.

 

6

The Company has power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate limited by shares under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands.

 

7

Capitalised terms that are not defined in this Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association bear the respective meanings given to them in the Amended and Restated Articles of Association of the Company.


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THE COMPANIES ACT (AS REVISED)

OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

JACK CREEK INVESTMENT CORP.

(ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED [•] AND EFFECTIVE ON

[•])

1 Interpretation

1.1 In the Articles Table A in the First Schedule to the Statute does not apply and, unless there is something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:

 

Affiliate    in respect of a person, means any other person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such person, and (a) in the case of a natural person, shall include, without limitation, such person’s spouse, parents, children, siblings, mother-in-law and father-in-law and brothers and sisters-in-law, whether by blood, marriage or adoption or anyone residing in such person’s home, a trust for the benefit of any of the foregoing, a company, partnership or any natural person or entity wholly or jointly owned by any of the foregoing and (b) in the case of an entity, shall include a partnership, a corporation or any natural person or entity which directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such entity.
Applicable Law    means, with respect to any person, all provisions of laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, permits, certificates, judgments, decisions, decrees or orders of any governmental authority applicable to such person.
Articles    means these amended and restated articles of association of the Company.
Audit Committee    means the audit committee of the board of directors of the Company established pursuant to the Articles, or any successor committee.
Auditor    means the person for the time being performing the duties of auditor of the Company (if any).


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Business Combination    means a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganisation or similar business combination involving the Company, with one or more businesses or entities (the “target business”), which Business Combination: (a) as long as the securities of the Company are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, must occur with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value of at least 80 per cent of the assets held in the Trust Account (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the signing of the definitive agreement to enter into such Business Combination; and (b) must not be solely effectuated with another blank cheque company or a similar company with nominal operations.
business day    means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorised or obligated by law to close in New York City.
Clearing House    means a clearing house recognised by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on a stock exchange or interdealer quotation system in such jurisdiction.
Class A Share    means a Class A ordinary share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the share capital of the Company.
Class B Share    means a Class B ordinary share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the share capital of the Company.
Company    means the above named company.
Company’s Website    means the website of the Company and/or its web-address or domain name (if any).
Compensation Committee    means the compensation committee of the board of directors of the Company established pursuant to the Articles, or any successor committee.
Designated Stock Exchange    means any United States national securities exchange on which the securities of the Company are listed for trading, including the Nasdaq Capital Market.


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Directors    means the directors for the time being of the Company.
Dividend    means any dividend (whether interim or final) resolved to be paid on Shares pursuant to the Articles.
Electronic Communication    means a communication sent by electronic means, including electronic posting to the Company’s Website, transmission to any number, address or internet website (including the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission) or other electronic delivery methods as otherwise decided and approved by the Directors.
Electronic Record    has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions Law.
Electronic Transactions Law    means the Electronic Transactions Law (2003 Revision) of the Cayman Islands.
Equity-linked Securities    means any debt or equity securities that are convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Shares issued in a financing transaction in connection with a Business Combination, including but not limited to a private placement of equity or debt.
Exchange Act    means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any similar U.S. federal statute and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time.
Founders    means all Members immediately prior to the consummation of the IPO.
Independent Director    has the same meaning as in the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange or in Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act, as the case may be.
IPO    means the Company’s initial public offering of securities.
Member    has the same meaning as in the Statute.
Memorandum    means the amended and restated memorandum of association of the Company.
Nominating Committee    means the nominating committee of the board of directors of the Company established pursuant to the Articles, or any successor committee.


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Officer    means a person appointed to hold an office in the Company.
Ordinary Resolution    means a resolution passed by a simple majority of the Members as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting, and includes a unanimous written resolution. In computing the majority when a poll is demanded regard shall be had to the number of votes to which each Member is entitled by the Articles.
Over-Allotment Option    means the option of the Underwriters to purchase up to an additional 15 per cent of the firm units (as described in the Articles) issued in the IPO at a price equal to US$10 per unit, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
Preference Share    means a preference share of a par value of US$0.0001 in the share capital of the Company.
Public Share    means a Class A Share issued as part of the units (as described in the Articles) issued in the IPO.
Redemption Notice    means a notice in a form approved by the Company by which a holder of Public Shares is entitled to require the Company to redeem its Public Shares, subject to any conditions contained therein.
Register of Members    means the register of Members maintained in accordance with the Statute and includes (except where otherwise stated) any branch or duplicate register of Members.
Registered Office    means the registered office for the time being of the Company.
Representative    means a representative of the Underwriters.
Seal    means the common seal of the Company and includes every duplicate seal.
Securities and Exchange Commission    means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Share    means a Class A Share, a Class B Share, or a Preference Share and includes a fraction of a share in the Company.
Special Resolution    subject to Article 29.4, Article 47.1 and Article 47.2, has the same meaning as in the Statute, and includes a unanimous written resolution.
Sponsor    means JCIC Sponsor LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company, and its successors or assigns.
Statute    means the Companies Act (2021 Revision) of the Cayman Islands.
Tax Filing Authorised Person    means such person as any Director shall designate from time to time, acting severally.
Treasury Share    means a Share held in the name of the Company as a treasury share in accordance with the Statute.
Trust Account    means the trust account established by the Company upon the consummation of its IPO and into which a certain amount of the net proceeds of the IPO, together with a certain amount of the proceeds of a private placement of warrants simultaneously with the closing date of the IPO, will be deposited.
Underwriter    means an underwriter of the IPO from time to time and any successor underwriter.

1.2 In the Articles:

 

(a)

words importing the singular number include the plural number and vice versa;

 

(b)

words importing the masculine gender include the feminine gender;


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(c)

words importing persons include corporations as well as any other legal or natural person;

 

(d)

“written” and “in writing” include all modes of representing or reproducing words in visible form, including in the form of an Electronic Record;

 

(e)

“shall” shall be construed as imperative and “may” shall be construed as permissive;

 

(f)

references to provisions of any law or regulation shall be construed as references to those provisions as amended, modified, re-enacted or replaced;

 

(g)

any phrase introduced by the terms “including”, “include”, “in particular” or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words preceding those terms;

 

(h)

the term “and/or” is used herein to mean both “and” as well as “or.” The use of “and/or” in certain contexts in no respects qualifies or modifies the use of the terms “and” or “or” in others. The term “or” shall not be interpreted to be exclusive and the term “and” shall not be interpreted to require the conjunctive (in each case, unless the context otherwise requires);

 

(i)

headings are inserted for reference only and shall be ignored in construing the Articles;

 

(j)

any requirements as to delivery under the Articles include delivery in the form of an Electronic Record;

 

(k)

any requirements as to execution or signature under the Articles including the execution of the Articles themselves can be satisfied in the form of an electronic signature as defined in the Electronic Transactions Law;

 

(l)

sections 8 and 19(3) of the Electronic Transactions Law shall not apply;

 

(m)

the term “clear days” in relation to the period of a notice means that period excluding the day when the notice is received or deemed to be received and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect; and

 

(n)

the term “holder” in relation to a Share means a person whose name is entered in the Register of Members as the holder of such Share.

 

2

Commencement of Business

 

2.1

The business of the Company may be commenced as soon after incorporation of the Company as the Directors shall see fit.

 

2.2

The Directors may pay, out of the capital or any other monies of the Company, all expenses incurred in or about the formation and establishment of the Company, including the expenses of registration.

 

3

Issue of Shares and other Securities

 

3.1

Subject to the provisions, if any, in the Memorandum (and to any direction that may be given by the Company in general meeting) and, where applicable, the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law, and without prejudice to any rights attached to any existing Shares, the Directors may allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of Shares (including fractions of a Share) with or without preferred, deferred or other rights or restrictions, whether in regard to Dividends or other distributions, voting, return of capital or otherwise and to such persons, at such times and on such other terms as they think proper, and may also (subject to the Statute and the Articles) vary such rights, save that the Directors shall not allot, issue, grant options over or otherwise dispose of Shares (including fractions of a Share) to the extent that it may affect the ability of the Company to carry out a Class B Share Conversion set out in the Articles.

 

3.2

The Company may issue rights, options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive any class of Shares or other securities in the Company on such terms as the Directors may from time to time determine.


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3.3

The Company may issue units of securities in the Company, which may be comprised of whole or fractional Shares, rights, options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive any class of Shares or other securities in the Company, upon such terms as the Directors may from time to time determine. The securities comprising any such units which are issued pursuant to the IPO can only be traded separately from one another on the 52nd day following the date of the prospectus relating to the IPO unless the Representative(s) determines that an earlier date is acceptable, subject to the Company having filed a current report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a press release announcing when such separate trading will begin. Prior to such date, the units can be traded, but the securities comprising such units cannot be traded separately from one another.

 

3.4

The Company shall not issue Shares to bearer.

 

4

Register of Members

 

4.1

The Company shall maintain or cause to be maintained the Register of Members in accordance with the Statute.

 

4.2

The Directors may determine that the Company shall maintain one or more branch registers of Members in accordance with the Statute. The Directors may also determine which register of Members shall constitute the principal register and which shall constitute the branch register or registers, and to vary such determination from time to time.

 

5

Closing Register of Members or Fixing Record Date

 

5.1

For the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of Members or any adjournment thereof, or Members entitled to receive payment of any Dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other purpose, the Directors may, after notice has been given by advertisement in an appointed newspaper or any other newspaper or by any other means in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law, provide that the Register of Members shall be closed for transfers for a stated period which shall not in any case exceed forty days.

 

5.2

In lieu of, or apart from, closing the Register of Members, the Directors may fix in advance or arrears a date as the record date for any such determination of Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at any meeting of the Members or any adjournment thereof, or for the purpose of determining the Members entitled to receive payment of any Dividend or other distribution, or in order to make a determination of Members for any other purpose.

 

5.3

If the Register of Members is not so closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at, a meeting of Members or Members entitled to receive payment of a Dividend or other distribution, the date on which notice of the meeting is sent or the date on which the resolution of the Directors resolving to pay such Dividend or other distribution is passed, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of Members. When a determination of Members entitled to vote at any meeting of Members has been made as provided in this Article, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.

 

6

Certificates for Shares

 

6.1

A Member shall only be entitled to a share certificate if the Directors resolve that share certificates shall be issued. Share certificates representing Shares, if any, shall be in such form as the Directors may determine. Share certificates shall be signed by one or more Directors or other person authorised by the Directors. The Directors may authorise certificates to be issued with the authorised signature(s) affixed by mechanical process. All certificates for Shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified and shall specify the Shares to which they relate. All certificates surrendered to the Company for transfer shall be cancelled and, subject to the Articles, no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate representing a like number of relevant Shares shall have been surrendered and cancelled.


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6.2

The Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate for Shares held jointly by more than one person and delivery of a certificate to one joint holder shall be a sufficient delivery to all of them.

 

6.3

If a share certificate is defaced, worn out, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and on the payment of such expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in investigating evidence, as the Directors may prescribe, and (in the case of defacement or wearing out) upon delivery of the old certificate.

 

6.4

Every share certificate sent in accordance with the Articles will be sent at the risk of the Member or other person entitled to the certificate. The Company will not be responsible for any share certificate lost or delayed in the course of delivery.

 

6.5

Share certificates shall be issued within the relevant time limit as prescribed by the Statute, if applicable, or as the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law may from time to time determine, whichever is shorter, after the allotment or, except in the case of a Share transfer which the Company is for the time being entitled to refuse to register and does not register, after lodgement of a Share transfer with the Company.

 

7

Transfer of Shares

 

7.1

Subject to the terms of the Articles, any Member may transfer all or any of his Shares by an instrument of transfer provided that such transfer complies with the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law. If the Shares in question were issued in conjunction with rights, options or warrants issued pursuant to the Articles on terms that one cannot be transferred without the other, the Directors shall refuse to register the transfer of any such Share without evidence satisfactory to them of the like transfer of such option or warrant.

 

7.2

The instrument of transfer of any Share shall be in writing in the usual or common form or in a form prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law or in any other form approved by the Directors and shall be executed by or on behalf of the transferor (and if the Directors so require, signed by or on behalf of the transferee) and may be under hand or, if the transferor or transferee is a Clearing House or its nominee(s), by hand or by machine imprinted signature or by such other manner of execution as the Directors may approve from time to time. The transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of a Share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Members.

 

8

Redemption, Repurchase and Surrender of Shares

 

8.1

Subject to the provisions of the Statute, and, where applicable, the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law, the Company may issue Shares that are to be redeemed or are liable to be redeemed at the option of the Member or the Company. The redemption of such Shares, except Public Shares, shall be effected in such manner and upon such other terms as the Company may, by Special Resolution, determine before the issue of such Shares. With respect to redeeming or repurchasing the Shares:

 

(a)

Members who hold Public Shares are entitled to request the redemption of such Shares in the circumstances described in the Business Combination Article hereof;

 

(b)

Class B Shares held by the Sponsor shall be surrendered by the Sponsor for no consideration to the extent that the Over-Allotment Option is not exercised in full so that the Founders will own 20 per cent of the Company’s issued Shares after the IPO (exclusive of any securities purchased in a private placement simultaneously with the IPO); and

 

(c)

Public Shares shall be repurchased by way of tender offer in the circumstances set out in the Business Combination Article hereof.


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8.2

Subject to the provisions of the Statute, and, where applicable, the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law, the Company may purchase its own Shares (including any redeemable Shares) in such manner and on such other terms as the Directors may agree with the relevant Member. For the avoidance of doubt, redemptions, repurchases and surrenders of Shares in the circumstances described in the Article above shall not require further approval of the Members.

 

8.3

The Company may make a payment in respect of the redemption or purchase of its own Shares in any manner permitted by the Statute, including out of capital.

 

8.4

The Directors may accept the surrender for no consideration of any fully paid Share.

 

9

Treasury Shares

 

9.1

The Directors may, prior to the purchase, redemption or surrender of any Share, determine that such Share shall be held as a Treasury Share.

 

9.2

The Directors may determine to cancel a Treasury Share or transfer a Treasury Share on such terms as they think proper (including, without limitation, for nil consideration).

 

10

Variation of Rights of Shares

 

10.1

Subject to Article 3.1, if at any time the share capital of the Company is divided into different classes of Shares, all or any of the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the Shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied without the consent of the holders of the issued Shares of that class where such variation is considered by the Directors not to have a material adverse effect upon such rights; otherwise, any such variation shall be made only with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than two thirds of the issued Shares of that class (other than with respect to a waiver of the provisions of the Class B Share Conversion Article hereof, which as stated therein shall only require the consent in writing of the holders of a majority of the issued Shares of that class), or with the approval of a resolution passed by a majority of not less than two thirds of the votes cast at a separate meeting of the holders of the Shares of that class. For the avoidance of doubt, the Directors reserve the right, notwithstanding that any such variation may not have a material adverse effect, to obtain consent from the holders of Shares of the relevant class. To any such meeting all the provisions of the Articles relating to general meetings shall apply mutatis mutandis, except that the necessary quorum shall be one person holding or representing by proxy at least one third of the issued Shares of the class and that any holder of Shares of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll.

 

10.2

For the purposes of a separate class meeting, the Directors may treat two or more or all the classes of Shares as forming one class of Shares if the Directors consider that such class of Shares would be affected in the same way by the proposals under consideration, but in any other case shall treat them as separate classes of Shares.

 

10.3

The rights conferred upon the holders of the Shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the Shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further Shares ranking pari passu therewith or Shares issued with preferred or other rights.

 

11

Commission on Sale of Shares

The Company may, in so far as the Statute permits, pay a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe (whether absolutely or conditionally) or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions (whether absolutely or conditionally) for any Shares. Such commissions may be satisfied by the payment of cash and/or the issue of fully or partly paid-up Shares. The Company may also on any issue of Shares pay such brokerage as may be lawful.


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Non Recognition of Trusts

The Company shall not be bound by or compelled to recognise in any way (even when notified) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any Share, or (except only as is otherwise provided by the Articles or the Statute) any other rights in respect of any Share other than an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the holder.

 

13

Lien on Shares

 

13.1

The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on all Shares (whether fully paid-up or not) registered in the name of a Member (whether solely or jointly with others) for all debts, liabilities or engagements to or with the Company (whether presently payable or not) by such Member or his estate, either alone or jointly with any other person, whether a Member or not, but the Directors may at any time declare any Share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article. The registration of a transfer of any such Share shall operate as a waiver of the Company’s lien thereon. The Company’s lien on a Share shall also extend to any amount payable in respect of that Share.

 

13.2

The Company may sell, in such manner as the Directors think fit, any Shares on which the Company has a lien, if a sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable, and is not paid within fourteen clear days after notice has been received or deemed to have been received by the holder of the Shares, or to the person entitled to it in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the holder, demanding payment and stating that if the notice is not complied with the Shares may be sold.

 

13.3

To give effect to any such sale the Directors may authorise any person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Shares sold to, or in accordance with the directions of, the purchaser. The purchaser or his nominee shall be registered as the holder of the Shares comprised in any such transfer, and he shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the Shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the sale or the exercise of the Company’s power of sale under the Articles.

 

13.4

The net proceeds of such sale after payment of costs, shall be applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable and any balance shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the Shares before the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the Shares at the date of the sale.

 

14

Call on Shares

 

14.1

Subject to the terms of the allotment and issue of any Shares, the Directors may make calls upon the Members in respect of any monies unpaid on their Shares (whether in respect of par value or premium), and each Member shall (subject to receiving at least fourteen clear days’ notice specifying the time or times of payment) pay to the Company at the time or times so specified the amount called on the Shares. A call may be revoked or postponed, in whole or in part, as the Directors may determine. A call may be required to be paid by instalments. A person upon whom a call is made shall remain liable for calls made upon him notwithstanding the subsequent transfer of the Shares in respect of which the call was made.

 

14.2

A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Directors authorising such call was passed.

 

14.3

The joint holders of a Share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof.

 

14.4

If a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable, the person from whom it is due shall pay interest on the amount unpaid from the day it became due and payable until it is paid at such rate as the Directors may determine (and in addition all expenses that have been incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment), but the Directors may waive payment of the interest or expenses wholly or in part.

 

14.5

An amount payable in respect of a Share on issue or allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the par value of the Share or premium or otherwise, shall be deemed to be a call and if it is not paid all the provisions of the Articles shall apply as if that amount had become due and payable by virtue of a call.


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14.6

The Directors may issue Shares with different terms as to the amount and times of payment of calls, or the interest to be paid.

 

14.7

The Directors may, if they think fit, receive an amount from any Member willing to advance all or any part of the monies uncalled and unpaid upon any Shares held by him, and may (until the amount would otherwise become payable) pay interest at such rate as may be agreed upon between the Directors and the Member paying such amount in advance.

 

14.8

No such amount paid in advance of calls shall entitle the Member paying such amount to any portion of a Dividend or other distribution payable in respect of any period prior to the date upon which such amount would, but for such payment, become payable.

 

15

Forfeiture of Shares

 

15.1

If a call or instalment of a call remains unpaid after it has become due and payable the Directors may give to the person from whom it is due not less than fourteen clear days’ notice requiring payment of the amount unpaid together with any interest which may have accrued and any expenses incurred by the Company by reason of such non-payment. The notice shall specify where payment is to be made and shall state that if the notice is not complied with the Shares in respect of which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.

 

15.2

If the notice is not complied with, any Share in respect of which it was given may, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors. Such forfeiture shall include all Dividends, other distributions or other monies payable in respect of the forfeited Share and not paid before the forfeiture.

 

15.3

A forfeited Share may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Directors think fit and at any time before a sale, re-allotment or disposition the forfeiture may be cancelled on such terms as the Directors think fit. Where for the purposes of its disposal a forfeited Share is to be transferred to any person the Directors may authorise some person to execute an instrument of transfer of the Share in favour of that person.

 

15.4

A person any of whose Shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a Member in respect of them and shall surrender to the Company for cancellation the certificate for the Shares forfeited and shall remain liable to pay to the Company all monies which at the date of forfeiture were payable by him to the Company in respect of those Shares together with interest at such rate as the Directors may determine, but his liability shall cease if and when the Company shall have received payment in full of all monies due and payable by him in respect of those Shares.

 

15.5

A certificate in writing under the hand of one Director or Officer that a Share has been forfeited on a specified date shall be conclusive evidence of the facts stated in it as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the Share. The certificate shall (subject to the execution of an instrument of transfer) constitute a good title to the Share and the person to whom the Share is sold or otherwise disposed of shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to the Share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of the Share.

 

15.6

The provisions of the Articles as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of non payment of any sum which, by the terms of issue of a Share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the par value of the Share or by way of premium as if it had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.

 

16

Transmission of Shares

 

16.1

If a Member dies, the survivor or survivors (where he was a joint holder), or his legal personal representatives (where he was a sole holder), shall be the only persons recognised by the Company as having any title to his Shares. The estate of a deceased Member is not thereby released from any liability in respect of any Share, for which he was a joint or sole holder.


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16.2

Any person becoming entitled to a Share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any other way than by transfer) may, upon such evidence being produced as may be required by the Directors, elect, by a notice in writing sent by him to the Company, either to become the holder of such Share or to have some person nominated by him registered as the holder of such Share. If he elects to have another person registered as the holder of such Share he shall sign an instrument of transfer of that Share to that person. The Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the Share by the relevant Member before his death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution, as the case may be.

 

16.3

A person becoming entitled to a Share by reason of the death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution of a Member (or in any other case than by transfer) shall be entitled to the same Dividends, other distributions and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of such Share. However, he shall not, before becoming a Member in respect of a Share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to general meetings of the Company and the Directors may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to have some person nominated by him be registered as the holder of the Share (but the Directors shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as they would have had in the case of a transfer of the Share by the relevant Member before his death or bankruptcy or liquidation or dissolution or any other case than by transfer, as the case may be). If the notice is not complied with within ninety days of being received or deemed to be received (as determined pursuant to the Articles), the Directors may thereafter withhold payment of all Dividends, other distributions, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the Share until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.

 

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Class B Ordinary Share Conversion

 

17.1

The rights attaching to the Class A Shares and Class B Shares shall rank pari passu in all respects, and the Class A Shares and Class B Shares shall vote together as a single class on all matters (subject to the Variation of Rights of Shares Article and the Appointment and Removal of Directors Article hereof) with the exception that the holder of a Class B Share shall have the conversion rights referred to in this Article.

 

17.2

Class B Shares shall automatically convert into Class A Shares on a one-for-one basis (the “Initial Conversion Ratio”) automatically on the day of the closing of a Business Combination.

 

17.3

Notwithstanding the Initial Conversion Ratio, in the case that additional Class A Shares or any other Equity-linked Securities, are issued, or deemed issued, by the Company in excess of the amounts offered in the IPO and related to the closing of a Business Combination, all Class B Shares in issue shall automatically convert into Class A Shares at the time of the closing of a Business Combination at a ratio for which the Class B Shares shall convert into Class A Shares will be adjusted (unless the holders of a majority of the Class B Shares in issue agree to waive such anti-dilution adjustment with respect to any such issuance or deemed issuance) so that the number of Class A Shares issuable upon conversion of all Class B Shares will equal, on an as-converted basis, in the aggregate, 20 per cent of the sum of all Class A Shares and Class B Shares in issue upon completion of the IPO plus all Class A Shares and Equity-linked Securities issued or deemed issued in connection with a Business Combination, excluding any Shares or Equity-linked Securities issued, or to be issued, to any seller in a Business Combination and any private placement warrants issued to the Sponsor or its Affiliates upon conversion of loans made to the Company.

 

17.4

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the foregoing adjustment to the Initial Conversion Ratio may be waived as to any particular issuance or deemed issuance of additional Class A Shares or Equity-linked Securities by the written consent or agreement of holders of a majority of the Class B Shares then in issue consenting or agreeing separately as a separate class in the manner provided in the Variation of Rights of Shares Article hereof.


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The foregoing conversion ratio shall also be adjusted to account for any subdivision (by share split, subdivision, exchange, capitalisation, rights issue, reclassification, recapitalisation or otherwise) or combination (by reverse share split, share consolidation, exchange, reclassification, recapitalisation or otherwise) or similar reclassification or recapitalisation of the Class A Shares in issue into a greater or lesser number of shares occurring after the original filing of the Articles without a proportionate and corresponding subdivision, combination or similar reclassification or recapitalisation of the Class B Shares in issue.

 

17.6

Each Class B Share shall convert into its pro rata number of Class A Shares pursuant to this Article. The pro rata share for each holder of Class B Shares will be determined as follows: each Class B Share shall convert into such number of Class A Shares as is equal to the product of 1 multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the total number of Class A Shares into which all of the Class B Shares in issue shall be converted pursuant to this Article and the denominator of which shall be the total number of Class B Shares in issue at the time of conversion.

 

17.7

References in this Article to “converted”, “conversion” or “exchange” shall mean the compulsory redemption without notice of Class B Shares of any Member and, on behalf of such Members, automatic application of such redemption proceeds in paying for such new Class A Shares into which the Class B Shares have been converted or exchanged at a price per Class B Share necessary to give effect to a conversion or exchange calculated on the basis that the Class A Shares to be issued as part of the conversion or exchange will be issued at par. The Class A Shares to be issued on an exchange or conversion shall be registered in the name of such Member or in such name as the Member may direct.

 

17.8

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article, in no event may any Class B Share convert into Class A Shares at a ratio that is less than one-for-one.

 

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Amendments of Memorandum and Articles of Association and Alteration of Capital

 

18.1

The Company may by Ordinary Resolution:

 

(a)

increase its share capital by such sum as the Ordinary Resolution shall prescribe and with such rights, priorities and privileges annexed thereto, as the Company in general meeting may determine;

 

(b)

consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into Shares of larger amount than its existing Shares;

 

(c)

convert all or any of its paid-up Shares into stock, and reconvert that stock into paid-up Shares of any denomination;

 

(d)

by subdivision of its existing Shares or any of them divide the whole or any part of its share capital into Shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum or into Shares without par value; and

 

(e)

cancel any Shares that at the date of the passing of the Ordinary Resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of the Shares so cancelled.

 

18.2

All new Shares created in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article shall be subject to the same provisions of the Articles with reference to the payment of calls, liens, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the Shares in the original share capital.

 

18.3

Subject to the provisions of the Statute, and the provisions of the Articles as regards the matters to be dealt with by Ordinary Resolution, Article 29.4, Article 47.1 and Article 47.2, the Company may by Special Resolution:

 

  (a)

change its name;

 

  (b)

alter or add to the Articles;

 

  (c)

alter or add to the Memorandum with respect to any objects, powers or other matters specified therein; and

 

  (d)

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Offices and Places of Business

Subject to the provisions of the Statute, the Company may by resolution of the Directors change the location of its Registered Office. The Company may, in addition to its Registered Office, maintain such other offices or places of business as the Directors determine.

 

20

General Meetings

 

20.1

All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.

 

20.2

The Company may, but shall not (unless required by the Statute) be obliged to, in each year hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting, and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it. Any annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. At these meetings the report of the Directors (if any) shall be presented.

 

20.3

The Directors, the chief executive officer or the chairman of the board of Directors may call general meetings, and, for the avoidance of doubt, Members shall not have the ability to call general meetings.

 

20.4

Members seeking to bring business before the annual general meeting or to nominate candidates for appointment as Directors at the annual general meeting must deliver notice to the principal executive offices of the Company not less than 120 calendar days before the date of the Company’s proxy statement released to Members in connection with the previous year’s annual general meeting or, if the Company did not hold an annual general meeting the previous year, or if the date of the current year’s annual general meeting has been changed by more than 30 days from the date of the previous year’s annual general meeting, then the deadline shall be set by the board of Directors with such deadline being a reasonable time before the Company begins to print and send its related proxy materials.

 

21

Notice of General Meetings

 

21.1

At least five clear days’ notice shall be given of any general meeting. Every notice shall specify the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and the general nature of the business to be conducted at the general meeting and shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned or in such other manner if any as may be prescribed by the Company, provided that a general meeting of the Company shall, whether or not the notice specified in this Article has been given and whether or not the provisions of the Articles regarding general meetings have been complied with, be deemed to have been duly convened if it is so agreed:

 

(a)

in the case of an annual general meeting, by all of the Members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and

 

(b)

in the case of an extraordinary general meeting, by a majority in number of the Members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, together holding not less than ninety-five per cent in par value of the Shares giving that right.

 

21.2

The accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non receipt of notice of a general meeting by, any person entitled to receive such notice shall not invalidate the proceedings of that general meeting.

 

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Proceedings at General Meetings

 

22.1

No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum is present. The holders of a majority of the Shares being individuals present in person or by proxy or if a corporation or other non-natural person by its duly authorised representative or proxy shall be a quorum.

 

22.2

A person may participate at a general meeting by conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all the persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other. Participation by a person in a general meeting in this manner is treated as presence in person at that meeting.


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A resolution (including a Special Resolution) in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by or on behalf of all of the Members for the time being entitled to receive notice of and to attend and vote at general meetings (or, being corporations or other non-natural persons, signed by their duly authorised representatives) shall be as valid and effective as if the resolution had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.

 

22.4

If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting to commence, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and/or place or to such other day, time and/or place as the Directors may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting to commence, the Members present shall be a quorum.

 

22.5

The Directors may, at any time prior to the time appointed for the meeting to commence, appoint any person to act as chairman of a general meeting of the Company or, if the Directors do not make any such appointment, the chairman, if any, of the board of Directors shall preside as chairman at such general meeting. If there is no such chairman, or if he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for the meeting to commence, or is unwilling to act, the Directors present shall elect one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

22.6

If no Director is willing to act as chairman or if no Director is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for the meeting to commence, the Members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

22.7

The chairman may, with the consent of a meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.

 

22.8

When a general meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Otherwise it shall not be necessary to give any such notice of an adjourned meeting.

 

22.9

If, prior to a Business Combination, a notice is issued in respect of a general meeting and the Directors, in their absolute discretion, consider that it is impractical or undesirable for any reason to hold that general meeting at the place, the day and the hour specified in the notice calling such general meeting, the Directors may postpone the general meeting to another place, day and/or hour provided that notice of the place, the day and the hour of the rearranged general meeting is promptly given to all Members. No business shall be transacted at any postponed meeting other than the business specified in the notice of the original meeting.

 

22.10

When a general meeting is postponed for thirty days or more, notice of the postponed meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Otherwise it shall not be necessary to give any such notice of a postponed meeting. All proxy forms submitted for the original general meeting shall remain valid for the postponed meeting. The Directors may postpone a general meeting which has already been postponed.

 

22.11

A resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a poll.

 

22.12

A poll shall be taken as the chairman directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the general meeting at which the poll was demanded.

 

22.13

A poll demanded on the election of a chairman or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such date, time and place as the chairman of the general meeting directs, and any business other than that upon which a poll has been demanded or is contingent thereon may proceed pending the taking of the poll.

 

22.14

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Votes of Members

 

23.1

Subject to any rights or restrictions attached to any Shares, including as set out at Article 29.4, Article 47.1 and Article 47.2, every Member present in any such manner shall have one vote for every Share of which he is the holder.

 

23.2

In the case of joint holders the vote of the senior holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy (or, in the case of a corporation or other non-natural person, by its duly authorised representative or proxy), shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names of the holders stand in the Register of Members.

 

23.3

A Member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made by any court, having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote by his committee, receiver, curator bonis, or other person on such Member’s behalf appointed by that court, and any such committee, receiver, curator bonis or other person may vote by proxy.

 

23.4

No person shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is registered as a Member on the record date for such meeting nor unless all calls or other monies then payable by him in respect of Shares have been paid.

 

23.5

No objection shall be raised as to the qualification of any voter except at the general meeting or adjourned general meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered and every vote not disallowed at the meeting shall be valid. Any objection made in due time in accordance with this Article shall be referred to the chairman whose decision shall be final and conclusive.

 

23.6

Votes may be cast either personally or by proxy (or in the case of a corporation or other non-natural person by its duly authorised representative or proxy). A Member may appoint more than one proxy or the same proxy under one or more instruments to attend and vote at a meeting. Where a Member appoints more than one proxy the instrument of proxy shall specify the number of Shares in respect of which each proxy is entitled to exercise the related votes.

 

23.7

A Member holding more than one Share need not cast the votes in respect of his Shares in the same way on any resolution and therefore may vote a Share or some or all such Shares either for or against a resolution and/or abstain from voting a Share or some or all of the Shares and, subject to the terms of the instrument appointing him, a proxy appointed under one or more instruments may vote a Share or some or all of the Shares in respect of which he is appointed either for or against a resolution and/or abstain from voting a Share or some or all of the Shares in respect of which he is appointed.

 

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Proxies

 

24.1

The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing and shall be executed under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorised in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation or other non natural person, under the hand of its duly authorised representative. A proxy need not be a Member.

 

24.2

The Directors may, in the notice convening any meeting or adjourned meeting, or in an instrument of proxy sent out by the Company, specify the manner by which the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited and the place and the time (being not later than the time appointed for the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting to which the proxy relates) at which the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited. In the absence of any such direction from the Directors in the notice convening any meeting or adjourned meeting or in an instrument of proxy sent out by the Company, the instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited physically at the Registered Office not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting or adjourned meeting to commence at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote.

 

24.3

The chairman may in any event at his discretion declare that an instrument of proxy shall be deemed to have been duly deposited. An instrument of proxy that is not deposited in the manner permitted, or which has not been declared to have been duly deposited by the chairman, shall be invalid.

 

24.4

The instrument appointing a proxy may be in any usual or common form (or such other form as the Directors may approve) and may be expressed to be for a particular meeting or any adjournment thereof or generally until revoked. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to include the power to demand or join or concur in demanding a poll.


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Votes given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the Share in respect of which the proxy is given unless notice in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer was received by the Company at the Registered Office before the commencement of the general meeting, or adjourned meeting at which it is sought to use the proxy.

 

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Corporate Members

 

25.1

Any corporation or other non-natural person which is a Member may in accordance with its constitutional documents, or in the absence of such provision by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of Members, and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual Member.

 

25.2

If a Clearing House (or its nominee(s)), being a corporation, is a Member, it may authorise such persons as it sees fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or at any meeting of any class of Members provided that the authorisation shall specify the number and class of Shares in respect of which each such representative is so authorised. Each person so authorised under the provisions of this Article shall be deemed to have been duly authorised without further evidence of the facts and be entitled to exercise the same rights and powers on behalf of the Clearing House (or its nominee(s)) as if such person was the registered holder of such Shares held by the Clearing House (or its nominee(s)).

 

26

Shares that May Not be Voted

Shares in the Company that are beneficially owned by the Company shall not be voted, directly or indirectly, at any meeting and shall not be counted in determining the total number of outstanding Shares at any given time.

 

27

Directors

 

27.1

There shall be a board of Directors consisting of not less than one person provided however that the Company may by Ordinary Resolution increase or reduce the limits in the number of Directors.

 

27.2

The Directors shall be divided into three classes: Class I, Class II and Class III. The number of Directors in each class shall be as nearly equal as possible. Upon the adoption of the Articles, the existing Directors shall by resolution classify themselves as Class I, Class II or Class III Directors.

The Class I Directors shall stand elected for a term expiring at the Company’s first annual general meeting, the Class II Directors shall stand elected for a term expiring at the Company’s second annual general meeting and the Class III Directors shall stand elected for a term expiring at the Company’s third annual general meeting. Commencing at the Company’s first annual general meeting, and at each annual general meeting thereafter, Directors elected to succeed those Directors whose terms expire shall be elected for a term of office to expire at the third succeeding annual general meeting after their election. Except as the Statute or other Applicable Law may otherwise require, in the interim between annual general meetings or extraordinary general meetings called for the election of Directors and/or the removal of one or more Directors and the filling of any vacancy in that connection, additional Directors and any vacancies in the board of Directors, including unfilled vacancies resulting from the removal of Directors for cause, may be filled by the vote of a majority of the remaining Directors then in office, although less than a quorum (as defined in the Articles), or by the sole remaining Director. All Directors shall hold office until the expiration of their respective terms of office and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. A Director elected to fill a vacancy resulting from the death, resignation or removal of a Director shall serve for the remainder of the full term of the Director whose death, resignation or removal shall have created such vacancy and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.


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Powers of Directors

 

28.1

Subject to the provisions of the Statute, the Memorandum and the Articles and to any directions given by Special Resolution, the business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who may exercise all the powers of the Company. No alteration of the Memorandum or Articles and no such direction shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if that alteration had not been made or that direction had not been given. A duly convened meeting of Directors at which a quorum is present may exercise all powers exercisable by the Directors.

 

28.2

All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable or transferable instruments and all receipts for monies paid to the Company shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed as the case may be in such manner as the Directors shall determine by resolution.

 

28.3

The Directors on behalf of the Company may pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any other salaried office or place of profit with the Company or to his widow or dependants and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.

 

28.4

The Directors may exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking, property and assets (present and future) and uncalled capital or any part thereof and to issue debentures, debenture stock, mortgages, bonds and other such securities whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

 

29

Appointment and Removal of Directors

 

29.1

Prior to the closing of a Business Combination, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution of the holders of the Class B Shares appoint any person to be a Director or may by Ordinary Resolution of the holders of the Class B Shares remove any Director. For the avoidance of doubt, prior to the closing of a Business Combination, holders of Class A Shares shall have no right to vote on the appointment or removal of any Director.

 

29.2

The Directors may appoint any person to be a Director, either to fill a vacancy or as an additional Director provided that the appointment does not cause the number of Directors to exceed any number fixed by or in accordance with the Articles as the maximum number of Directors.

 

29.3

After the closing of a Business Combination, the Company may by Ordinary Resolution appoint any person to be a Director or may by Ordinary Resolution remove any Director.

 

29.4

Prior to the closing of a Business Combination, Article 29.1 may only be amended by a Special Resolution passed by at least 90 per cent of such Members as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been given, or by way of unanimous written resolution.

 

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Vacation of Office of Director

 

The

office of a Director shall be vacated if:

 

(a)

the Director gives notice in writing to the Company that he resigns the office of Director; or

 

(b)

the Director absents himself (for the avoidance of doubt, without being represented by proxy) from three consecutive meetings of the board of Directors without special leave of absence from the Directors, and the Directors pass a resolution that he has by reason of such absence vacated office; or

 

(c)

the Director dies, becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors generally; or

 

(d)

the Director is found to be or becomes of unsound mind; or

 

(e)

all of the other Directors (being not less than two in number) determine that he should be removed as a Director, either by a resolution passed by all of the other Directors at a meeting of the Directors duly convened and held in accordance with the Articles or by a resolution in writing signed by all of the other Directors.


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Proceedings of Directors

 

31.1

The quorum for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors, and unless so fixed shall be a majority of the Directors then in office.

 

31.2

Subject to the provisions of the Articles, the Directors may regulate their proceedings as they think fit. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In the case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

 

31.3

A person may participate in a meeting of the Directors or any committee of Directors by conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all the persons participating in the meeting can communicate with each other at the same time. Participation by a person in a meeting in this manner is treated as presence in person at that meeting. Unless otherwise determined by the Directors, the meeting shall be deemed to be held at the place where the chairman is located at the start of the meeting.

 

31.4

A resolution in writing (in one or more counterparts) signed by all the Directors or all the members of a committee of the Directors or, in the case of a resolution in writing relating to the removal of any Director or the vacation of office by any Director, all of the Directors other than the Director who is the subject of such resolution shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors, or committee of Directors as the case may be, duly convened and held.

 

31.5

A Director may, or other Officer on the direction of a Director shall, call a meeting of the Directors by at least two days’ notice in writing to every Director which notice shall set forth the general nature of the business to be considered unless notice is waived by all the Directors either at, before or after the meeting is held. To any such notice of a meeting of the Directors all the provisions of the Articles relating to the giving of notices by the Company to the Members shall apply mutatis mutandis.

 

31.6

The continuing Directors (or a sole continuing Director, as the case may be) may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to the Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors the continuing Directors or Director may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to be equal to such fixed number, or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.

 

31.7

The Directors may elect a chairman of their board and determine the period for which he is to hold office; but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for the meeting to commence, the Directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

31.8

All acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any Director, and/or that they or any of them were disqualified, and/or had vacated their office and/or were not entitled to vote, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and/or not disqualified to be a Director and/or had not vacated their office and/or had been entitled to vote, as the case may be.

 

31.9

A Director may be represented at any meetings of the board of Directors by a proxy appointed in writing by him. The proxy shall count towards the quorum and the vote of the proxy shall for all purposes be deemed to be that of the appointing Director.

 

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Presumption of Assent

A Director who is present at a meeting of the board of Directors at which action on any Company matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent from such action with the person acting as the chairman or secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered post to such person immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favour of such action.

 

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Directors’ Interests

 

33.1

A Director may hold any other office or place of profit under the Company (other than the office of Auditor) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and on such terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the Directors may determine.


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A Director may act by himself or by, through or on behalf of his firm in a professional capacity for the Company and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director.

 

33.3

A Director may be or become a director or other officer of or otherwise interested in any company promoted by the Company or in which the Company may be interested as a shareholder, a contracting party or otherwise, and no such Director shall be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as a director or officer of, or from his interest in, such other company.

 

33.4

No person shall be disqualified from the office of Director or prevented by such office from contracting with the Company, either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or any contract or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director shall be in any way interested be or be liable to be avoided, nor shall any Director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by or arising in connection with any such contract or transaction by reason of such Director holding office or of the fiduciary relationship thereby established. A Director shall be at liberty to vote in respect of any contract or transaction in which he is interested provided that the nature of the interest of any Director in any such contract or transaction shall be disclosed by him at or prior to its consideration and any vote thereon.

 

33.5

A general notice that a Director is a shareholder, director, officer or employee of any specified firm or company and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction with such firm or company shall be sufficient disclosure for the purposes of voting on a resolution in respect of a contract or transaction in which he has an interest, and after such general notice it shall not be necessary to give special notice relating to any particular transaction.

 

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Minutes

The Directors shall cause minutes to be made in books kept for the purpose of recording all appointments of Officers made by the Directors, all proceedings at meetings of the Company or the holders of any class of Shares and of the Directors, and of committees of the Directors, including the names of the Directors present at each meeting.

 

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Delegation of Directors’ Powers

 

35.1

The Directors may delegate any of their powers, authorities and discretions, including the power to sub-delegate, to any committee consisting of one or more Directors (including, without limitation, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating Committee). Any such delegation may be made subject to any conditions the Directors may impose and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and any such delegation may be revoked or altered by the Directors. Subject to any such conditions, the proceedings of a committee of Directors shall be governed by the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors, so far as they are capable of applying.

 

35.2

The Directors may establish any committees, local boards or agencies or appoint any person to be a manager or agent for managing the affairs of the Company and may appoint any person to be a member of such committees, local boards or agencies. Any such appointment may be made subject to any conditions the Directors may impose, and either collaterally with or to the exclusion of their own powers and any such appointment may be revoked or altered by the Directors. Subject to any such conditions, the proceedings of any such committee, local board or agency shall be governed by the Articles regulating the proceedings of Directors, so far as they are capable of applying.


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The Directors may adopt formal written charters for committees and, if so adopted, shall review and assess the adequacy of such formal written charters on an annual basis. Each of these committees shall be empowered to do all things necessary to exercise the rights of such committee set forth in the Articles and shall have such powers as the Directors may delegate pursuant to the Articles and as required by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law. Each of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating Committee, if established, shall consist of such number of Directors as the Directors shall from time to time determine (or such minimum number as may be required from time to time by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law). For so long as any class of Shares is listed on the Designated Stock Exchange, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating Committee shall be made up of such number of Independent Directors as is required from time to time by the rules and regulations of the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law.

 

35.4

The Directors may by power of attorney or otherwise appoint any person to be the agent of the Company on such conditions as the Directors may determine, provided that the delegation is not to the exclusion of their own powers and may be revoked by the Directors at any time.

 

35.5

The Directors may by power of attorney or otherwise appoint any company, firm, person or body of persons, whether nominated directly or indirectly by the Directors, to be the attorney or authorised signatory of the Company for such purpose and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under the Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as they may think fit, and any such powers of attorney or other appointment may contain such provisions for the protection and convenience of persons dealing with any such attorneys or authorised signatories as the Directors may think fit and may also authorise any such attorney or authorised signatory to delegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions vested in him.

 

35.6

The Directors may appoint such Officers as they consider necessary on such terms, at such remuneration and to perform such duties, and subject to such provisions as to disqualification and removal as the Directors may think fit. Unless otherwise specified in the terms of his appointment an Officer may be removed by resolution of the Directors or Members. An Officer may vacate his office at any time if he gives notice in writing to the Company that he resigns his office.

 

36

No Minimum Shareholding

The Company in general meeting may fix a minimum shareholding required to be held by a Director, but unless and until such a shareholding qualification is fixed a Director is not required to hold Shares.

 

37

Remuneration of Directors

 

37.1

The remuneration to be paid to the Directors, if any, shall be such remuneration as the Directors shall determine, provided that no cash remuneration shall be paid to any Director by the Company prior to the consummation of a Business Combination. The Directors shall also, whether prior to or after the consummation of a Business Combination, be entitled to be paid all travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in connection with their attendance at meetings of Directors or committees of Directors, or general meetings of the Company, or separate meetings of the holders of any class of Shares or debentures of the Company, or otherwise in connection with the business of the Company or the discharge of their duties as a Director, or to receive a fixed allowance in respect thereof as may be determined by the Directors, or a combination partly of one such method and partly the other.

 

37.2

The Directors may by resolution approve additional remuneration to any Director for any services which in the opinion of the Directors go beyond his ordinary routine work as a Director. Any fees paid to a Director who is also counsel, attorney or solicitor to the Company, or otherwise serves it in a professional capacity shall be in addition to his remuneration as a Director.


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Seal

 

38.1

The Company may, if the Directors so determine, have a Seal. The Seal shall only be used by the authority of the Directors or of a committee of the Directors authorised by the Directors. Every instrument to which the Seal has been affixed shall be signed by at least one person who shall be either a Director or some Officer or other person appointed by the Directors for the purpose.

 

38.2

The Company may have for use in any place or places outside the Cayman Islands a duplicate Seal or Seals each of which shall be a facsimile of the common Seal of the Company and, if the Directors so determine, with the addition on its face of the name of every place where it is to be used.

 

38.3

A Director or Officer, representative or attorney of the Company may without further authority of the Directors affix the Seal over his signature alone to any document of the Company required to be authenticated by him under seal or to be filed with the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere wheresoever.

 

39

Dividends, Distributions and Reserve

 

39.1

Subject to the Statute and this Article and except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any Shares, the Directors may resolve to pay Dividends and other distributions on Shares in issue and authorise payment of the Dividends or other distributions out of the funds of the Company lawfully available therefor. A Dividend shall be deemed to be an interim Dividend unless the terms of the resolution pursuant to which the Directors resolve to pay such Dividend specifically state that such Dividend shall be a final Dividend. No Dividend or other distribution shall be paid except out of the realised or unrealised profits of the Company, out of the share premium account or as otherwise permitted by law.

 

39.2

Except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any Shares, all Dividends and other distributions shall be paid according to the par value of the Shares that a Member holds. If any Share is issued on terms providing that it shall rank for Dividend as from a particular date, that Share shall rank for Dividend accordingly.

 

39.3

The Directors may deduct from any Dividend or other distribution payable to any Member all sums of money (if any) then payable by him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.

 

39.4

The Directors may resolve that any Dividend or other distribution be paid wholly or partly by the distribution of specific assets and in particular (but without limitation) by the distribution of shares, debentures, or securities of any other company or in any one or more of such ways and where any difficulty arises in regard to such distribution, the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and in particular may issue fractional Shares and may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any Members upon the basis of the value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all Members and may vest any such specific assets in trustees in such manner as may seem expedient to the Directors.

 

39.5

Except as otherwise provided by the rights attached to any Shares, Dividends and other distributions may be paid in any currency. The Directors may determine the basis of conversion for any currency conversions that may be required and how any costs involved are to be met.

 

39.6

The Directors may, before resolving to pay any Dividend or other distribution, set aside such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for any purpose of the Company and pending such application may, at the discretion of the Directors, be employed in the business of the Company.

 

39.7

Any Dividend, other distribution, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of Shares may be paid by wire transfer to the holder or by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the registered address of the holder who is first named on the Register of Members or to such person and to such address as such holder or joint holders may in writing direct. Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent. Any one of two or more joint holders may give effectual receipts for any Dividends, other distributions, bonuses, or other monies payable in respect of the Share held by them as joint holders.

 

39.8

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Any Dividend or other distribution which cannot be paid to a Member and/or which remains unclaimed after six months from the date on which such Dividend or other distribution becomes payable may, in the discretion of the Directors, be paid into a separate account in the Company’s name, provided that the Company shall not be constituted as a trustee in respect of that account and the Dividend or other distribution shall remain as a debt due to the Member. Any Dividend or other distribution which remains unclaimed after a period of six years from the date on which such Dividend or other distribution becomes payable shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Company.

 

40

Capitalisation

The Directors may at any time capitalise any sum standing to the credit of any of the Company’s reserve accounts or funds (including the share premium account and capital redemption reserve fund) or any sum standing to the credit of the profit and loss account or otherwise available for distribution; appropriate such sum to Members in the proportions in which such sum would have been divisible amongst such Members had the same been a distribution of profits by way of Dividend or other distribution; and apply such sum on their behalf in paying up in full unissued Shares for allotment and distribution credited as fully paid-up to and amongst them in the proportion aforesaid. In such event the Directors shall do all acts and things required to give effect to such capitalisation, with full power given to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit in the case of Shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrue to the Company rather than to the Members concerned). The Directors may authorise any person to enter on behalf of all of the Members interested into an agreement with the Company providing for such capitalisation and matters incidental or relating thereto and any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on all such Members and the Company.

 

41

Books of Account

 

41.1

The Directors shall cause proper books of account (including, where applicable, material underlying documentation including contracts and invoices) to be kept with respect to all sums of money received and expended by the Company and the matters in respect of which the receipt or expenditure takes place, all sales and purchases of goods by the Company and the assets and liabilities of the Company. Such books of account must be retained for a minimum period of five years from the date on which they are prepared. Proper books shall not be deemed to be kept if there are not kept such books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the Company’s affairs and to explain its transactions.

 

41.2

The Directors shall determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of Members not being Directors and no Member (not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by Statute or authorised by the Directors or by the Company in general meeting.

 

41.3

The Directors may cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in general meeting profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and such other reports and accounts as may be required by law.

 

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Audit

 

42.1

The Directors may appoint an Auditor of the Company who shall hold office on such terms as the Directors determine.


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Without prejudice to the freedom of the Directors to establish any other committee, if the Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on the Designated Stock Exchange, and if required by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law, the Directors shall establish and maintain an Audit Committee as a committee of the Directors and shall adopt a formal written Audit Committee charter and review and assess the adequacy of the formal written charter on an annual basis. The composition and responsibilities of the Audit Committee shall comply with the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law. The Audit Committee shall meet at least once every financial quarter, or more frequently as circumstances dictate.

 

42.3

If the Shares (or depositary receipts therefor) are listed or quoted on the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company shall conduct an appropriate review of all related party transactions on an ongoing basis and shall utilise the Audit Committee for the review and approval of potential conflicts of interest.

 

42.4

The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Audit Committee (if one exists).

 

42.5

If the office of Auditor becomes vacant by resignation or death of the Auditor, or by his becoming incapable of acting by reason of illness or other disability at a time when his services are required, the Directors shall fill the vacancy and determine the remuneration of such Auditor.

 

42.6

Every Auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the Company and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and Officers such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the Auditor.

 

42.7

Auditors shall, if so required by the Directors, make a report on the accounts of the Company during their tenure of office at the next annual general meeting following their appointment in the case of a company which is registered with the Registrar of Companies as an ordinary company, and at the next extraordinary general meeting following their appointment in the case of a company which is registered with the Registrar of Companies as an exempted company, and at any other time during their term of office, upon request of the Directors or any general meeting of the Members.

 

42.8

Any payment made to members of the Audit Committee (if one exists) shall require the review and approval of the Directors, with any Director interested in such payment abstaining from such review and approval.

 

42.9

The Audit Committee shall monitor compliance with the terms of the IPO and, if any non-compliance is identified, the Audit Committee shall be charged with the responsibility to take all action necessary to rectify such non-compliance or otherwise cause compliance with the terms of the IPO.

 

42.10

At least one member of the Audit Committee shall be an “audit committee financial expert” as determined by the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or otherwise under Applicable Law. The “audit committee financial expert” shall have such past employment experience in finance or accounting, requisite professional certification in accounting, or any other comparable experience or background which results in the individual’s financial sophistication.

 

42.11

The Audit Committee shall approve any transaction or transactions between the Company and any of the following parties:

 

(a)

any Member owning an interest in the voting power of the Company that gives such Member a significant influence over the Company; and

 

(b)

any Director or Officer and any Affiliate of such Director or Officer.


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Notices

 

43.1

Notices shall be in writing and may be given by the Company to any Member either personally or by sending it by courier, post, cable, telex, fax or e-mail to him or to his address as shown in the Register of Members (or where the notice is given by e-mail by sending it to the e-mail address provided by such Member). Notice may also be served by Electronic Communication in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any other competent regulatory authority or by placing it on the Company’s Website.

 

43.2

Where a notice is sent by:

 

(a)

courier; service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by delivery of the notice to a courier company, and shall be deemed to have been received on the third day (not including Saturdays or Sundays or public holidays) following the day on which the notice was delivered to the courier;

 

(b)

post; service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre paying and posting a letter containing the notice, and shall be deemed to have been received on the fifth day (not including Saturdays or Sundays or public holidays in the Cayman Islands) following the day on which the notice was posted;

 

(c)

cable, telex or fax; service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing and sending such notice and shall be deemed to have been received on the same day that it was transmitted;

 

(d)

e-mail or other Electronic Communication; service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by transmitting the e-mail to the e-mail address provided by the intended recipient and shall be deemed to have been received on the same day that it was sent, and it shall not be necessary for the receipt of the e-mail to be acknowledged by the recipient; and

 

(e)

placing it on the Company’s Website; service of the notice shall be deemed to have been effected one hour after the notice or document was placed on the Company’s Website.

 

43.3

A notice may be given by the Company to the person or persons which the Company has been advised are entitled to a Share or Shares in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a Member in the same manner as other notices which are required to be given under the Articles and shall be addressed to them by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description at the address supplied for that purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled, or at the option of the Company by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.

 

43.4

Notice of every general meeting shall be given in any manner authorised by the Articles to every holder of Shares carrying an entitlement to receive such notice on the record date for such meeting except that in the case of joint holders the notice shall be sufficient if given to the joint holder first named in the Register of Members and every person upon whom the ownership of a Share devolves by reason of his being a legal personal representative or a trustee in bankruptcy of a Member where the Member but for his death or bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of the meeting, and no other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings.

 

44

Winding Up

 

44.1

If the Company shall be wound up, the liquidator shall apply the assets of the Company in satisfaction of creditors’ claims in such manner and order as such liquidator thinks fit. Subject to the rights attaching to any Shares, in a winding up:

 

(a)

if the assets available for distribution amongst the Members shall be insufficient to repay the whole of the Company’s issued share capital, such assets shall be distributed so that, as nearly as may be, the losses shall be borne by the Members in proportion to the par value of the Shares held by them; or


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if the assets available for distribution amongst the Members shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the Company’s issued share capital at the commencement of the winding up, the surplus shall be distributed amongst the Members in proportion to the par value of the Shares held by them at the commencement of the winding up subject to a deduction from those Shares in respect of which there are monies due, of all monies payable to the Company for unpaid calls or otherwise.

 

44.2

If the Company shall be wound up the liquidator may, subject to the rights attaching to any Shares and with the approval of a Special Resolution of the Company and any other approval required by the Statute, divide amongst the Members in kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether such assets shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may for that purpose value any assets and determine how the division shall be carried out as between the Members or different classes of Members. The liquidator may, with the like approval, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the Members as the liquidator, with the like approval, shall think fit, but so that no Member shall be compelled to accept any asset upon which there is a liability.

 

45

Indemnity and Insurance

 

45.1

Every Director and Officer (which for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include auditors of the Company), together with every former Director and former Officer (each an “Indemnified Person”) shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against any liability, action, proceeding, claim, demand, costs, damages or expenses, including legal expenses, whatsoever which they or any of them may incur as a result of any act or failure to act in carrying out their functions other than such liability (if any) that they may incur by reason of their own actual fraud, wilful neglect or wilful default. No Indemnified Person shall be liable to the Company for any loss or damage incurred by the Company as a result (whether direct or indirect) of the carrying out of their functions unless that liability arises through the actual fraud, wilful neglect or wilful default of such Indemnified Person. No person shall be found to have committed actual fraud, wilful neglect or wilful default under this Article unless or until a court of competent jurisdiction shall have made a finding to that effect.

 

45.2

The Company shall advance to each Indemnified Person reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred in connection with the defence of any action, suit, proceeding or investigation involving such Indemnified Person for which indemnity will or could be sought. In connection with any advance of any expenses hereunder, the Indemnified Person shall execute an undertaking to repay the advanced amount to the Company if it shall be determined by final judgment or other final adjudication that such Indemnified Person was not entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Article. If it shall be determined by a final judgment or other final adjudication that such Indemnified Person was not entitled to indemnification with respect to such judgment, costs or expenses, then such party shall not be indemnified with respect to such judgment, costs or expenses and any advancement shall be returned to the Company (without interest) by the Indemnified Person.

 

45.3

The Directors, on behalf of the Company, may purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any Director or Officer against any liability which, by virtue of any rule of law, would otherwise attach to such person in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust of which such person may be guilty in relation to the Company.

 

46

Financial Year

Unless the Directors otherwise prescribe, the financial year of the Company shall end on 31st December in each year and, following the year of incorporation, shall begin on 1st January in each year.

 

47

Transfer by Way of Continuation

 

47.1

If the Company is exempted as defined in the Statute, it shall, subject to the provisions of the Statute and with the approval of a Special Resolution, have the power to register by way of continuation as a body corporate under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands and to be deregistered in the Cayman Islands. For the purposes of a Special Resolution to be passed pursuant to this Article, a holder of Class B Shares shall have ten votes for every Class B Share of which he is the holder and a holder of Class A Shares shall have one vote for every Class A Share of which he is the holder.


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47.2

Article 47.1 may only be amended by a Special Resolution passed by a majority of at least 90% of such Members as, being entitled to do so, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution has been given, or by way of unanimous written resolution of all Members.

 

48

Mergers and Consolidations

The Company shall have the power to merge or consolidate with one or more other constituent companies (as defined in the Statute) upon such terms as the Directors may determine and (to the extent required by the Statute) with the approval of a Special Resolution.

 

49

Business Combination

 

49.1

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Articles, this Article shall apply during the period commencing upon the adoption of the Articles and terminating upon the first to occur of the consummation of a Business Combination and the full distribution of the Trust Account pursuant to this Article. In the event of a conflict between this Article and any other Articles, the provisions of this Article shall prevail.

 

49.2

Prior to the consummation of a Business Combination, the Company shall either:

 

(a)

submit such Business Combination to its Members for approval; or

 

(b)

provide Members with the opportunity to have their Shares repurchased by means of a tender offer for a per-Share repurchase 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 such Business Combination, including interest earned on the Trust Account (which interest shall be net of taxes paid or payable, if any), divided by the number of then issued Public Shares, provided that the Company shall not repurchase Public Shares in an amount that would cause the Company’s net tangible assets to be less than US$5,000,001 upon consummation of such Business Combination

 

49.3

If the Company initiates any tender offer in accordance with Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act in connection with a proposed Business Combination, it shall file tender offer documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to completing such Business Combination which contain substantially the same financial and other information about such Business Combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act. If, alternatively, the Company holds a general meeting to approve a proposed Business Combination, the Company will conduct any redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules, and file proxy materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

49.4

At a general meeting called for the purposes of approving a Business Combination pursuant to this Article, in the event that such Business Combination is approved by Ordinary Resolution, the Company shall be authorised to consummate such Business Combination, provided that the Company shall not consummate such Business Combination unless the Company has net tangible assets of at least US$5,000,001 immediately prior to, or upon such consummation of, or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement that may be contained in the agreement relating to, such Business Combination.


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49.5

Any Member holding Public Shares who is not the Sponsor, a Founder, Officer or Director may, at least two business days’ prior to any vote on a Business Combination, elect to have their Public Shares redeemed for cash, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided for in the related proxy materials (the “IPO Redemption”), provided that no such Member acting together with any Affiliate of his or any other person with whom he is acting in concert or as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, or other group for the purposes of acquiring, holding, or disposing of Shares may exercise this redemption right with respect to more than 15 per cent of the Public Shares in the aggregate without the prior consent of the Company and provided further that any beneficial holder of Public Shares on whose behalf a redemption right is being exercised must identify itself to the Company in connection with any redemption election in order to validly redeem such Public Shares. If so demanded, the Company shall pay any such redeeming Member, regardless of whether he is voting for or against such proposed Business Combination, a per-Share redemption 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 Business Combination, including interest earned on the Trust Account (such interest shall be net of taxes payable) and not previously released to the Company to pay its taxes, divided by the number of then issued Public Shares (such redemption price being referred to herein as the “Redemption Price”), but only in the event that the applicable proposed Business Combination is approved and consummated. The Company shall not redeem Public Shares that would cause the Company’s net tangible assets to be less than US$5,000,001 following such redemptions (the “Redemption Limitation”).

 

49.6

A Member may not withdraw a Redemption Notice once submitted to the Company unless the Directors determine (in their sole discretion) to permit the withdrawal of such redemption request (which they may do in whole or in part).

 

49.7

In the event that the Company does not consummate a Business Combination by March 27, 2023, or such later time as the Members may approve in accordance with the Articles, the Company shall:

 

(a)

cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up;

 

(b)

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 earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company (less taxes payable and up to US$100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then Public Shares in issue, which redemption will completely extinguish public Members’ rights as Members (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any); and

 

(c)

as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining Members and the Directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to its obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and other requirements of Applicable Law.

 

49.8

In the event that any amendment is made to this Article:

 

(a)

to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to: (i) allow redemptions of the Public Shares in connection with a Business Combination or: (ii) redeem 100 per cent of the Public Shares if the Company has not completed a Business Combination by March 27, 2023, or such later time as the Members may approve in accordance with the Articles; and/or

 

(b)

with respect to any other provision relating to Members’ rights or pre-Business Combination activity,

each holder of Public Shares who is not the Sponsor, a Founder, Officer or Director shall be provided with the opportunity to redeem their Public Shares upon the approval or effectiveness of any such amendment at a per-Share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding Public Shares. The Company’s ability to provide such redemption in this Article is subject to the Redemption Limitation.

 

49.9

A holder of Public Shares shall be entitled to receive distributions from the Trust Account only in the event of an IPO Redemption, a repurchase of Shares by means of a tender offer pursuant to this Article, or a distribution of the Trust Account pursuant to this Article. In no other circumstance shall a holder of Public Shares have any right or interest of any kind in the Trust Account.


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49.10

After the issue of Public Shares, and prior to the consummation of a Business Combination, the Company shall not issue additional Shares or any other securities that would entitle the holders thereof to:

 

(a)

receive funds from the Trust Account; or

 

(b)

vote as a class with the Public Shares: (i) on the Company’s initial Business Combination or on any other proposal presented to shareholders prior to or in connection with the completion of an initial Business Combination; or (ii) to approve an amendment to the Memorandum or the Articles to (x) extend the time we have to consummate a business combination beyond March 27, 2023 or (y) amend this Article 49.10.

 

49.11

A Director may vote in respect of a Business Combination in which such Director has a conflict of interest with respect to the evaluation of such Business Combination. Such Director must disclose such interest or conflict to the other Directors.

 

49.12

As long as the securities of the Company are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Company must complete one or more Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80 per cent of the assets held in the Trust Account (net of amounts previously disbursed to the Company’s management for taxes and excluding the amount of deferred underwriting discounts held in the Trust Account) at the time of the Company’s signing a definitive agreement in connection with a Business Combination. A Business Combination must not be effectuated with another blank cheque company or a similar company with nominal operations.

 

49.13

The Company may enter into a Business Combination with a target business that is Affiliated with the Sponsor, a Founder, a Director or an Officer. In the event the Company seeks to complete a Business Combination with a target that is Affiliated with the Sponsor, a Founder, a Director or an Officer, the Company, or a committee of Independent Directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another valuation or appraisal firm that regularly renders fairness opinions on the type of target business the Company is seeking to acquire that is a member of the United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority or an independent accounting firm that such a Business Combination is fair to the Company from a financial point of view.

 

50

Certain Tax Filings

Each Tax Filing Authorised Person and any such other person, acting alone, as any Director shall designate from time to time, are authorised to file tax forms SS-4, W-8 BEN, W-8 IMY, W-9, 8832 and 2553 and such other similar tax forms as are customary to file with any US state or federal governmental authorities or foreign governmental authorities in connection with the formation, activities and/or elections of the Company and such other tax forms as may be approved from time to time by any Director or Officer. The Company further ratifies and approves any such filing made by any Tax Filing Authorised Person or such other person prior to the date of the Articles.

 

51

Business Opportunities

 

51.1

To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, no individual serving as a Director or an Officer (“Management”) shall have any duty, except and to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as the Company. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Company renounces any interest or expectancy of the Company in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for Management, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other. Except to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, Management shall have no duty to communicate or offer any such corporate opportunity to the Company and shall not be liable to the Company or its Members for breach of any fiduciary duty as a Member, Director and/or Officer solely by reason of the fact that such party pursues or acquires such corporate opportunity for itself, himself or herself, directs such corporate opportunity to another person, or does not communicate information regarding such corporate opportunity to the Company.

 

51.2

Except as provided elsewhere in this Article, the Company hereby renounces any interest or expectancy of the Company in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for both the Company and Management, about which a Director and/or Officer who is also a member of Management acquires knowledge.


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51.3

To the extent a court might hold that the conduct of any activity related to a corporate opportunity that is renounced in this Article to be a breach of duty to the Company or its Members, the Company hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, any and all claims and causes of action that the Company may have for such activities. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the provisions of this Article apply equally to activities conducted in the future and that have been conducted in the past.