SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED DECEMBER 23, 2020
P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O S P E C T U S
$80,000,000
Medicus Sciences Acquisition Corp.
8,000,000 Units
Medicus Sciences Acquisition Corp. is a newly organized blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company and incorporated 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 with respect to an initial business combination with us. While we may pursue an initial business combination target in any industry or geographic location (subject to certain limitations described in this prospectus), we intend to focus our search for a target business operating in the medical technology sector.
This is the initial public offering of our securities. We are offering 8,000,000 units at an offering price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, and one-ninth of one redeemable warrant (or 888,889 redeemable warrants in the aggregate, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option), which we refer to as the “Outstanding Redeemable Warrants”, and a contingent right to receive at least two-ninths of one redeemable warrant following the Initial Business Combination Redemption Time (as defined below) under certain circumstances and subject to adjustment as further described in this prospectus (the “Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants” and, collectively with the Outstanding Redeemable Warrants, the “Redeemable Warrants” or the “public warrants”).
We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Class A ordinary shares upon the completion of our initial business combination, subject to the limitations described herein. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that an aggregate of 1,777,778 Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants (the “Aggregate Warrant Amount”) will be issued on a pro-rata basis only to holders of record of the Class A ordinary shares issued in this offering (whether acquired in this offering or afterward) that are outstanding after the time at which we redeem any Class A ordinary shares that the holders thereof have elected to redeem in connection with our initial business combination (which redemption time we refer to as the “Initial Business Combination Redemption Time”) as follows: (i) to the extent that no public shareholders redeem their Class A ordinary shares (whether acquired in this offering or afterwards) (the “public shares”) in connection with the initial business combination, each public shareholder will receive two-ninths of a Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrant, and (ii) to the extent that any public shareholders redeem any of their public shares in connection with the initial business combination, then (A) two-ninths of a Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrant will be issued per each public share that was not redeemed (the “remaining public shares”), and (b) Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants in an amount equal to the Aggregate Warrant Amount less the number of warrants issued pursuant to the foregoing clause (A) will be issued on a pro rata basis to the holders of the remaining public shares based on their percentage of Class A ordinary shares held after redemptions. The Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants will be issued at the “Medicus Distribution Time,” which will be immediately after the Initial Business Combination Redemption Time and immediately before the closing of our initial business combination. Public shareholders who exercise their redemption rights are not entitled to receive any Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants in respect of such redeemed public shares.
The number of Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants to be issued in respect of each unredeemed public share is contingent upon the aggregate number of public shares that are redeemed in connection with our initial business combination. The right to receive Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants will remain attached to our public shares and will not be separately transferable, assignable or salable. Holders of our public shares issued in this offering (whether acquired by the holder thereof during or after this offering) will be entitled to receive the Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants only in respect of public shares that they have not redeemed.
Each whole Redeemable Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as described in this prospectus, and only whole Redeemable Warrants are exercisable. No fractional Redeemable Warrants will be issued upon the separation of the Redeemable Warrants or the issuance of Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants, as applicable, no cash will be paid in lieu of issuing fractional Redeemable Warrants and only whole Redeemable Warrants will trade. The Redeemable Warrants will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination or 12 months from the closing of this offering, and will expire five years after the completion of our initial business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation, as described in this prospectus. Subject to the terms and conditions described in this prospectus, we may redeem the Redeemable Warrants for cash once the Redeemable Warrants become exercisable.
We have also granted the underwriters a 45-day option from the date of this prospectus to purchase up to 1,200,000 additional units to cover over-allotments, if any. If the underwriters fully exercise such option, we will issue an additional 1,200,000 Class A ordinary shares and 133,334 Outstanding Redeemable Warrants as part of the units, and will distribute at the Medicus Distribution Time an additional 266,668 Distributable Medicus Redeemable Warrants.
If we are unable to complete our initial business combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering, we will redeem 100% of the public shares for cash, subject to applicable law and certain conditions as further described herein.
Our sponsor, Medicus Sciences Holdings LLC, and Maxim Group, LLC (“Maxim”), the representative of the underwriters for this offering, have agreed to purchase an aggregate of 4,755,556 private placement warrants, at a price of $0.90 per warrant, of which 3,555,556 private placement warrants will be purchased by our sponsor and 1,200,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by Maxim for an aggregate purchase price of $4,280,000. These purchases will take place in a private placement simultaneously with the consummation of this offering. Our sponsor and Maxim have also agreed that, if the over-allotment option is exercised by the underwriters, they will purchase from us at $0.90 per warrant an additional 266,666 private placement warrants, of which up to an additional 86,666 private placement warrants will be purchased by our sponsor, and up to an additional 180,000 private placement warrants will be purchased by Maxim pro rata with the amount of the over-allotment option exercised. A portion of the proceeds we receive from this purchase will be placed in the trust account described below. These private placement warrants are also exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share and are identical to the warrants being sold as part of the units in this offering, subject to certain limited exceptions as described in this prospectus.
Our initial shareholders currently own 2,323,000 Class B ordinary shares (up to 303,000 of which are subject to forfeiture) which will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination as described herein, on a one-for-one