Explanatory Note
This Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13D (this Amendment No. 1”) is being filed to amend the statement on Schedule 13D filed by Duddell Street Holdings Limited (“Duddell”), Maso Capital Partners Limited (“MCPL”), Maso Capital Investments Limited (“MCIL”), Blackwell Partners LLC – Series A (“BW”), Star V Partners LLC (“SVPL”), Manoj Jain, and Sohit Khurana (together, the “Reporting Persons”) on August 8, 2022 (the “Original Statement”), and relates to shares of the Class A Common Stock (the “Common Stock”) of FiscalNote Holdings, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (the “Issuer”).
The Original Statement is hereby amended and supplemented as detailed below, and, except as amended and supplemented hereby, the Original Statement remains in full force and effect. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Original Statement.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer
Item 5 of the Original Statement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
The information contained in rows 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 on each of the cover pages of this Amendment No. 1 and the information set forth or incorporated in Items 3 and 4 of this Schedule 13D is incorporated by reference in its entirety into this Item 5.
(a), (b) The following disclosure assumes that there were 131,893,564 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding which is comprised of 122,893,564 shares issued and outstanding on October 31, 2022, as reported on the Issuer’s Current Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 14, 2022, plus the exercise of the 9,000,000 warrants held by the Reporting Persons.
Pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Reporting Persons may be deemed to beneficially own up to an aggregate of 37,913,731 shares of Common Stock, representing approximately 28.7% of the shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the Closing Date. This number includes (i) 3,450,320 shares of Common Stock (as defined below), and 1,656,700 Warrants (as defined below) owned of record by MCIL, (ii) 17,854,774 shares of Common Stock, and 5,231,400 Warrants owned of record by BW, (iii) 7,002,387 shares of Common Stock, and 2,111,900 Warrants owned of record by SVPL, and (iv) 606,250 shares of Common Stock owned of record by Duddell. The Warrants will become exercisable on 30 days after the Closing Date.
Each of the directors and officers of the Reporting Persons disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock that the Reporting Persons may be deemed to beneficially own.
(c) The Reporting Persons effected the following transactions during the past 60 days:
| • | | Transfer of Shares. On December 30, 2022, Duddell distributed a total of 3,718,750 shares of Common Stock, leaving their total shares of Common Stock at a total of 606,250. These shares were transferred to the following recipients without any consideration: i) 673,466 shares to MCIL, ii) 2,198,525 shares to BW, and iii) 846,759 shares to SVPL. |
| • | | Transfer of Warrants. On January 17, 2023, Duddell transferred their aggregate holdings of 7,000,000 Warrants as follows: 1,267,700 Warrants to MCIL, 4,138,400 Warrants to BW and 1,593,900 Warrants to SVPL. |
(d) No one other than the Reporting Persons has the right to receive, or the power to direct the receipt of, dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, any of the securities of the Issuer beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons as described in Item 5.
(e) Not applicable.