Exhibit 4.1
WARRANT AGREEMENT
THIS WARRANT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of November 9, 2021, is by and between Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (in such capacity, the “Warrant Agent”, and also referred to herein as the “Transfer Agent”).
WHEREAS, the Company is engaged in an initial public offering (the “Offering”) of units of the Company’s equity securities, each such unit comprised of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), and one-half of one redeemable Public Warrant (as defined below) (the “Public Units”) and, in connection therewith, has determined to issue and deliver up to 13,050,000 warrants (or up to 15,007,500 warrants if the Over-allotment Option (as defined below) is exercised in full) to public investors in the Offering (the “Public Warrants”);
WHEREAS, the Company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-255349 (the “Registration Statement”), and prospectus (the “Prospectus”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the Public Units, the Public Warrants and the Ordinary Shares included in the Public Units;
WHEREAS, the Company has entered into that certain Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement (the “Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement”) with Ascendant Sponsor LP III, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (the “Sponsor”), pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to purchase an aggregate of 10,330,000 warrants (or up to 11,504,500 warrants if the Over-allotment Option is exercised in full) simultaneously with the closing of the Offering (and the closing of the Over-allotment Option, if applicable) bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit B hereto (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant;
WHEREAS, the Company has entered into that certain Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Forward Purchase Agreement”) with NEXON Co. Ltd., a Japanese corporation (“Nexon”), pursuant to which Nexon will be issued up to 3,000,000 warrants (the “Forward Purchase Warrants”) included as part of the forward purchase units (together with the Public Units, the “Units”) to be sold to Nexon in a private placement transaction to occur at or prior to the time of the Company’s initial Business Combination (as defined below), bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit C hereto;
WHEREAS, in order to finance the Company’s transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan to the Company funds as the Company may require, of which up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into up to an additional 1,500,000 warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant (the “Working Capital Warrants”);
WHEREAS, following the consummation of the Offering, the Company may issue additional warrants (the “Post-IPO Warrants” and, together with the Public Warrants, the Private Placement Warrants and the Working Capital Warrants, the “Warrants”) in connection with, or following the consummation by the Company of, a Business Combination;