Item 4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
On April 12, 2021, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released a public statement entitled “Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” (“SPACs”) (the “Public Statement”). In the Public Statement, the SEC Staff expressed its view that certain terms and conditions common to SPAC warrants may require the warrants to be classified as liabilities on the SPAC’s balance sheet as opposed to equity. Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”) had classified its previously issued warrants and the forward purchase warrants to purchase Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the forward purchase agreement that the Company executed in connection with the consummation of its initial public offering (collectively, the “warrants”) as equity. For a full description of the Company’s warrants, please refer to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2020, which was originally filed with the SEC on March 30, 2021 (the “10-K”).
On June 8, 2021, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, based on the recommendation of and after consulting with the Company’s management, determined that the financial statements of the Company for the periods beginning with the period from June 4, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020, the audited balance sheet issued in connection with the Company’s initial public offering on August 6, 2021 and the unaudited interim financial statements as of, and for the periods ended, September 30, 2020 (together, the “Affected Financial Statements”) should no longer be relied upon due to changes required to reclassify the warrants as liabilities to align with the guidance set forth in the Public Statement. Similarly, investor presentations or other communications describing the Affected Financial Statements should no longer be relied upon. Following consideration of the guidance in the Public Statement, the Company concluded that the warrants do not meet the conditions to be classified in equity and instead, the warrants meet the definition of a derivative under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Subtopic 815-40, pursuant to which the Company should record the warrants as liabilities measured at fair value upon issuance, with subsequent changes in fair value reported in our Statement of Operations each reporting period.
The Company has discussed this approach with its independent registered public accounting firm, WithumSmith+Brown, PC, and intends to file an amendment to the 10-K, reflecting this restatement of the warrants (the “Amended 10-K”). The Company has engaged an independent valuation expert to perform a valuation of the warrants and will be filing the Amended 10-K shortly after this Current Report.