SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED NOVEMBER 9, 2020
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS
$500,000,000
Health Assurance Acquisition Corp.
50,000,000 SAILSM (Stakeholder Aligned Initial Listing) Securities
Health Assurance Acquisition Corp. is a newly organized blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities, which we refer to as our initial business combination. We have not selected any business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target. We will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region in our identification and acquisition of a target company.
This is an initial public offering of our securities. Each SAILSM security has an offering price of $10.00 and consists of one share of Class A common stock and one-fourth of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, terms and limitations as described herein. The underwriter has a 45-day option from the date of this prospectus to purchase up to 7,500,000 additional SAILSM securities to cover over-allotments, if any.
We will provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A common stock upon the completion of our initial business combination, subject to the limitations as described herein. If we have not consummated an initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering (or such later date as approved by holders of a majority of shares of our outstanding common stock that are voted at a meeting to extend such date, voting together as a single class), we will redeem 100% of the public shares for cash, subject to applicable law and certain conditions as described herein.
Our sponsor, HAAC Sponsor, LLC and certain directors of the Company have agreed to purchase 11,333,333 warrants (or 12,333,333 warrants if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full), each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment, at a price of $1.50 per warrant, in a private placement to occur concurrently with the closing of this offering. Our sponsor and Health Assurance Economy Foundation, a charitable foundation, currently own 2,561,624 (up to 375,000 of which are subject to forfeiture depending on the extent to which the underwriter's over-allotment option is exercised) and 287,500 shares of Class B common stock or “alignment shares”, which will collectively represent 5% of the shares of common stock issued in this offering. On the last day of each “measurement period” (as defined below), which will occur annually over ten fiscal years following consummation of our initial business combination (and, with respect to any measurement period in which we have a change of control or in which we liquidate, dissolve or wind up, on the business day immediately prior to such event instead of on the last day of such measurement period), 287,500 (or 250,000 if the over-allotment option is not exercised) of the shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock based upon the Total Return (as further described herein) of the Closing Share Count (as further described herein) as of the relevant measurement date above the Price Threshold (as further described herein). The alignment shares will be entitled to a number of votes representing 20% of our outstanding common stock prior to the completion of our initial business combination. Following completion of our initial business combination, the alignment shares will be entitled to one vote per share. Holders of the Class B common stock will have the right to elect all of our directors prior to our initial business combination. On any other matter submitted to a vote of our stockholders, holders of the Class B common stock and holders of the Class A common stock will vote together as a single class, except as required by applicable law or the applicable rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, or “Nasdaq,” then in effect.
Currently, there is no public market for our securities. We intend to apply to have our SAILSM securities listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “HAACU.” We expect that the shares of Class A common stock and warrants comprising the SAILSM securities will begin separate trading on Nasdaq under the symbols “HAAC” and “HAACW,” respectively, on the 52nd day following the date of this prospectus unless the underwriter permits earlier separate trading and we have satisfied certain conditions.
We are an “emerging growth company” under applicable federal securities laws and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements.
Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page
30 for a discussion of information that should be considered in connection with an investment in our securities. Investors will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors in Rule 419 blank check offerings.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
| | | Per SAILSM security | | | Total | |
Public offering price | | | | $ | 10.00 | | | | | $ | 500,000,000 | | |
Underwriting discounts and commissions(1) | | | | $ | 0.55 | | | | | $ | 27,500,000 | | |
Proceeds, before expenses, to us | | | | $ | 9.45 | | | | | $ | 472,500,000 | | |
(1)
Includes $0.35 per SAILSM security, or $17,500,000 in the aggregate (or $20,125,000 in the aggregate if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full), payable to the underwriter for deferred underwriting commissions to be placed in a trust account located in the United States as described herein and released to the underwriter only upon the consummation of an initial business combination. See also “Underwriting” for a description of compensation and other items of value payable to the underwriter.
Of the proceeds we receive from this offering and the sale of the private placement warrants described in this prospectus, $500,000,000, or $575,000,000 if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full ($10.00 per SAILSM security in either case), will be deposited into a U.S.- based trust account at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company acting as trustee.
The underwriter is offering the SAILSM securities for sale on a firm commitment basis. The underwriter expects to deliver the SAILSM securities to the purchasers on or about , 2020.
Sole Book-Running Manager
Morgan Stanley
The date of this prospectus is , 2020