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Prospectus of: | | Proxy Statement of: |
Pivotal Holdings Corp | | Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital |
March 15, 2022
On July 28, 2021, Swvl Inc., a British Virgin Islands business company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (“Swvl” or the “Company”), and Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability (“SPAC”), entered into that certain Business Combination Agreement (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”) by and among the Company, SPAC, Pivotal Holdings Corp, a British Virgin Islands business company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Holdings”), Pivotal Merger Sub Company I, a Cayman Islands exempted company with limited liability and wholly owned subsidiary of Holdings (“Cayman Merger Sub”), and Pivotal Merger Sub Company II Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands and wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC (“BVI Merger Sub”).
Pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, among other things, (a) SPAC will merge with and into Cayman Merger Sub (the “SPAC Merger”), with Cayman Merger Sub surviving the SPAC Merger (Cayman Merger Sub, in its capacity as the surviving company of the SPAC Merger, the “SPAC Surviving Company”) and becoming the sole owner of all of the issued and outstanding shares, par value $1.00 per share, of BVI Merger Sub (each, a “BVI Merger Sub Common Share”), (b) concurrently with the consummation of the SPAC Merger, Holdings will redeem each Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001, of Holdings (each, a “Holdings Common Share A”) and each Class B ordinary share, par value $0.0001, of Holdings (each, a “Holdings Common Share B”) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the SPAC Merger for par value (the “Holdings Redemption”), (c) following the date of the SPAC Merger, the SPAC Surviving Company will distribute all of the issued and outstanding BVI Merger Sub Common Shares to Holdings (the “BVI Merger Sub Distribution”) and (d) following the BVI Merger Sub Distribution, BVI Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company (the “Company Merger”, and together with the SPAC Merger, the “Mergers”), with the Company surviving the Company Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Holdings. As a result of the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, the SPAC Surviving Company and Swvl will each become wholly owned subsidiaries of Holdings and the securityholders of SPAC and Swvl will become securityholders of Holdings.
At the effective time of the SPAC Merger (the “SPAC Merger Effective Time”), among other things, (a) each Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, of SPAC (each, a “SPAC Class A Ordinary Share”) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the SPAC Merger Effective Time will be automatically cancelled, extinguished and converted into the right to receive one Holdings Common Share A and (b) each Class B ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, of SPAC, will be automatically cancelled, extinguished and converted into the right to receive one Holdings Common Share B, (c) each fraction of or whole warrant to purchase SPAC Class A Ordinary Shares (each, a “SPAC Warrant”) issued, outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the SPAC Merger Effective Time will be automatically assumed and converted into a fraction or whole warrant, as the case may be, to acquire (in the case of a whole warrant) one Holdings Common Share A, subject to the same terms and conditions (including exercisability terms) as were applicable to the corresponding former warrants of SPAC (each such resulting warrant, a “Holdings Warrant”) and (d) without duplication of the foregoing, each unit of SPAC (each, a “SPAC Unit”), comprised of one SPAC Class A Ordinary Share and one-third of one SPAC Warrant, existing and outstanding immediately prior to the SPAC Merger Effective Time will be automatically cancelled, extinguished and converted into one unit of Holdings (a “Holdings Unit”), comprised of one Holdings Common Share A and one-third of one Holdings Warrant.
At the effective time of the Company Merger (the “Company Merger Effective Time”), among other things, (a) all of Swvl’s ordinary common shares A of no par value (“Swvl Common Shares A”), all of Swvl’s ordinary common shares B of no par value (“Swvl Common Shares B”) and all preferred shares of Swvl (collectively, “Swvl Shares”) outstanding immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective Time (excluding any Swvl Shares held in treasury by the Company) will be automatically cancelled, extinguished and converted into the right to receive (i) a number of Holdings Common Shares A equal to the Exchange Ratio (as defined below) and (ii) upon the satisfaction of certain conditions more fully described in this proxy statement/prospectus, the applicable per share earnout consideration (the “Per Share Earnout Consideration”), in each case without interest and (b) each then outstanding and unexercised option to purchase Company Common Shares B (each, a “Swvl Option”), whether or not vested, will be assumed and converted into (i) an option to purchase a number of Holdings Common Shares A (such option, an “Exchanged Option”) equal to the product of (A) the number of Company Common Shares B subject to such Swvl Option (assuming payment in cash of the exercise price of such Swvl Option) immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective Time multiplied by (B) the Exchange Ratio (such product rounded down to the nearest whole share), at an exercise price per share (rounded up to the nearest whole cent) equal to (x) the exercise price per share of such Swvl Option immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective time, divided by (y) the Exchange Ratio (which option will remain subject to the same vesting terms as such Swvl Option) and (ii) a number of restricted stock units (the “Earnout RSUs”) that will be settled in Holdings Common Shares A (the “Earnout RSU Shares”) upon the satisfaction of certain price targets or the occurrence of a “change of control” event, as more fully described in this proxy statement/prospectus. Concurrently with the consummation of the Company Merger at the Company Merger Effective Time, the Swvl Convertible Notes (as defined herein) will also convert into the right to receive Holdings Common Shares A, as further described herein.
As used herein, “Exchange Ratio” means the ratio (rounded to ten decimal places) obtained by dividing (a) Swvl Merger Shares by (b) the difference of (i) the Swvl Outstanding Shares minus (ii) the number of Swvl Shares issued following the date of the Business Combination Agreement and prior to the Company Merger Effective Time in connection with the acquisition of a controlling interest in Shotl Transportation, S.L., as more fully described herein. As used herein, “Swvl Merger Shares” means the number of Holdings Common Shares A equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the sum of (i) $1,000,000,000 plus (ii) the sum of the aggregate exercise prices of all Swvl Options that are unexercised, issued and outstanding as of immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective Time and, if such Swvl Options were Exchanged Options, would have a per share exercise price of less than $10.00 per share by (b) $10.00. As used herein, “Swvl Outstanding Shares” means the total number of Swvl Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective Time, and including the number of Swvl Common Shares A that would have been issuable upon conversion of the Swvl Convertible Notes and the number of Swvl Common Shares B subject to unexpired, issued and outstanding Swvl Options as of immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective Time (assuming the payment in cash of the exercise price of such Swvl Options). The current estimated Exchange Ratio is approximately 1512.9762.
In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, SPAC, Holdings and, in some cases, Swvl have entered into subscription agreements (the “PIPE Subscription Agreements”) with a number of investors (the “PIPE Investors”), pursuant to which the PIPE Investors have agreed to purchase, and Holdings has agreed to sell to the PIPE Investors in a private placement at or after the Company Merger Effective Time, Holdings Common Shares A for a purchase price of $10.00 per share, representing an aggregate purchase price of $55 million. In addition, Swvl has issued $66.5 million of exchangeable notes (the “Swvl Exchangeable Notes”) to investors, including certain of the PIPE Investors, which such Swvl Exchangeable Notes will be automatically exchanged for Holdings Common Shares A. The aggregate number of Holdings Common Shares A issuable in connection with the PIPE Subscription Agreements and the Swvl Exchangeable Notes is 13,160,633.
This proxy statement/prospectus covers the Holdings Common Shares A, Holdings Warrants and Holdings Units issuable to securityholders of SPAC and Swvl in the Business Combination. Accordingly, Holdings is registering up to an aggregate of 159,716,814 Holdings Common Shares A, including 17,433,333 Holdings Common Shares A issuable upon exercise of Holdings Warrants, 17,433,333 Holdings Warrants and 5,742,417 Holdings Units. For more information about the anticipated capitalization of Holdings upon the consummation of the Company Merger, please see the subsection entitled “Summary of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus—Ownership of Holdings After the Closing”, beginning on page 1.
Proposals to approve the Business Combination Agreement and the other matters discussed in this proxy statement/prospectus will be presented at the extraordinary general meeting of SPAC shareholders scheduled to be held in person and virtually on March 30, 2022.
Although Holdings is not currently a public reporting company, following the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this proxy statement/prospectus is a part and the consummation of the SPAC Merger, Holdings will become subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Holdings intends to apply for listing of the Holdings Common Shares A, Holdings Warrants and Holdings Units on the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq”) under the SPAC’s current trading symbols “GMBT”, “GMBTW” and “GMBTU”, respectively, to be effective at the SPAC Merger Effective Time. At the Company Merger Effective Time, Holdings will change its name to “Swvl Holdings Corp” and intends to change the trading symbols of the Holdings Common Shares A and the Holdings Warrants to “SWVL” and “SWVLW”, respectively. The Holdings Units will separate into their component securities at the Company Merger Effective Time and will cease to exist. It is a condition to the consummation of the SPAC Merger and the Company Merger that the Holdings Common Shares A are approved for listing on Nasdaq (subject only to official notice of issuance thereof). While trading on Nasdaq is expected to begin on the first business day following the date of completion of the SPAC Merger, there can be no assurance that Holdings’ securities will be listed on Nasdaq or that a viable and active trading market will develop. Please see the subsection entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 24 for more information.
Holdings is an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, and is therefore eligible to take advantage of certain reduced reporting requirements otherwise applicable to other public companies.
Holdings is also a “foreign private issuer” as defined in the Exchange Act and will be exempt from certain rules under the Exchange Act that impose certain disclosure obligations and procedural requirements for proxy solicitations under Section 14 of the Exchange Act. In addition, Holdings’ officers, directors and principal shareholders will be exempt from the reporting and “short-swing” profit recovery provisions under Section 16 of the Exchange Act. Moreover, Holdings will not be required to file periodic reports and financial statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as frequently or as promptly as U.S. companies whose securities are registered under the Exchange Act.
This proxy statement/prospectus provides SPAC shareholders with detailed information about the Transactions (as defined herein) and other matters to be considered at the extraordinary general meeting of SPAC. We encourage you to read the entire accompanying proxy statement/prospectus, including the Annexes and other documents referred to therein, carefully and in their entirety. You should also carefully consider the risk factors described in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 24 of the accompanying proxy statement/prospectus.
Neither the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of the securities to be issued in connection with the Transactions, or determined if this proxy statement/prospectus is accurate or adequate. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
This proxy statement/prospectus is dated March 15, 2022, and is first being mailed to SPAC shareholders on or about March 15, 2022.