Note
6—Shareholders’ Equity
Ordinary
Shares
The
Company is authorized to issue up to 50,000,000 ordinary shares
with a par value of $0.001 per share.
In
connection with the organization of the Company, on September 3,
2010, a total of 790,625 shares (718,750 shares before the effect
of the share dividend, discussed below) of the Company’s
ordinary shares were sold to the Initial Shareholders at a price of
$0.0316 per share ($0.0348 per share before the effect of the share
dividend, discussed below) for an aggregate of $25,000.
Effective
February 18, 2011, the Company’s Board of Directors
authorized a share dividend of 0.1 ordinary share for each
outstanding ordinary share. All share amounts presented have been
restated to reflect the effect of this share dividend.
On
February 17, 2011 the Initial Shareholders placed their initial
shares into an escrow account maintained by Continental Stock
Transfer & Trust Company, acting as escrow agent. Subject to
certain limited exceptions, these shares will not be transferable
during the escrow period which expires on the first anniversary of
the closing date of the initial Business Combination.
Ordinary Shares,
continued
Depending
on the number of holders who choose to exercise their redemption
rights in connection with the Company’s initial business
combination, the Company could be required to redeem for cash up to
one Subunit less than 58.37% (as
adjusted for repurchases through March 31, 2012 under the
Company’s Repurchase plan and interest earned but not
released from the Trust Account) of the subunits sold in the
Public Offering, or 1,845,879 shares, at a redemption price of
approximately $5.99 per share for approximately $11,051,067, in the
aggregate assuming that all of the Company’s shareholders
vote in favor of the proposed business combination and are
therefore entitled to receive a full pro rata share of the trust
account.
Preferred
Shares
On
February 16, 2011 the Company amended the capital clause of the
Memorandum and Articles of Association authorizing the issuance of
up to 5,000,000 preferred shares with a par value of $0.001 with
such designations as may be determined by the Board of Directors of
the Company from time to time.
Unit
Purchase Option
On
February 25, 2011, the Company issued a unit purchase option, for
$100, to EBC or its designees to purchase 175,000 units at an
exercise price of $6.60 per unit commencing on the later of (i) one
year from the effective date of the registration statement or (ii)
the consummation of an initial Business Combination, and expiring
upon the earlier of (i) the liquidation of the Trust Account if we
have not completed a Business Combination within the required time
periods or (ii) three years from the closing of the Company’s
initial Business Combination (but in no event will the option
expire more than five years from the effective date of the
registration statement for the Public Offering). The units issuable
upon exercise of this option are identical to the units being
offered in the Public Offering, with the exception of (i) not
including Subunits and instead including only the ordinary shares
and warrants that would otherwise comprise such Subunits since the
Subunits will no longer be trading once the unit purchase option
becomes exercisable and (ii) containing a provision for cashless
exercise by EBC. The Company accounted for the fair value of the
unit purchase option, inclusive of the receipt of a $100 cash
payment, as an expense of the Public Offering resulting in a charge
directly to shareholders’ equity. The Company estimated that
the fair value of this unit purchase option as of February 25, 2011
was approximately $431,185 ($2.46 per unit) using a Black-Scholes
option-pricing model. The fair value of the unit purchase option
granted to the underwriter was estimated as of the date of grant
using the following assumptions: (1) expected volatility of 48.1%,
(2) risk-free interest rate of 2.0% and (3) expected life of five
years. The unit purchase option may be exercised for cash or on a
‘‘cashless’’ basis, at the holder’s
option (except in the case of a forced cashless exercise upon the
Company’s redemption of the Warrants, as described in Note
3), such that the holder may use the appreciated value of the unit
purchase option (the difference between the exercise prices of the
unit purchase option and the underlying Warrants and the market
price of the Units and underlying ordinary shares) to exercise the
unit purchase option without the payment of any cash. The Company
will have no obligation to net cash settle the exercise of the unit
purchase option or the Warrants underlying the unit purchase
option. The holder of the unit purchase option will not be entitled
to exercise the unit purchase option or the Warrants underlying the
unit purchase option unless a registration statement covering the
securities underlying the unit purchase option is effective or an
exemption from registration is available. If the holder is unable
to exercise the unit purchase option or underlying Warrants, the
unit purchase option or Warrants, as applicable, will expire
worthless.