1. Description of Organization and Business Operations
Organization and General
ALSP Orchid Acquisition Corporation I (the “Company”) was formed under the laws of the Cayman Islands on August 31, 2021 for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (“Business Combination”). The Company’s sponsor is ALSP Orchid Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), which is owned and controlled by Accelerator Life Sciences Partners II, LP an affiliate of the Company’s sponsor. The Company has chosen December 31st as its fiscal year end.
All activity for the period from August 31, 2021 (inception) through November 23, 2021 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“Public Offering”) of 17,250,000 of the Company’s units (“Units”) including 2,250,000 Units as part of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share (“Public Share”) and one-half warrant (“Public Warrant”) to purchase one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50. The Company will not generate operating revenues prior to the completion of a Business Combination and will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on Permitted Investments (as defined below) from the proceeds derived from the Public Offering.
The registration statement for the Company’s Public Offering was declared effective by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 18, 2021 (the “Effective Date”). The Public Offering closed on November 23, 2021 (the “Closing Date”). The Sponsor purchased 915,000 units (the “Private Placement Units”), including 90,000 Private Placement Units related to the underwriters’ fully exercising their over-allotment option, at a purchase price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share (“Private Share”) and one-half warrant (“Private Warrant”), generating gross proceeds to the Company of $9,150,000, in a private placement on the Closing Date (the “Private Placement”). Each Private Placement Unit is identical to the public offering Units except for certain exceptions as described in Note 4.
The Company intends to finance a Business Combination with proceeds from its $172,500,000 Public Offering (see Note 3) and $9,150,000 Private Placement (see Note 4). At the Closing Date, proceeds of $175,950,000, net of underwriting commissions of $3,450,000, offering costs of $750,000 and $1,500,000 designated for operational use were deposited in a trust account with Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company acting as trustee (the “Trust Account”) as described below.
Transaction costs amounted to $10,027,643, consisting of $9,487,500 of underwriters’ commissions of which $6,037,500 was for Deferred underwriting commissions (see Note 6) and $540,143 of other offering costs.
Of the $181,650,000 total proceeds from the Public Offering and Private Placement, $175,950,000 was deposited into the Trust Account on the Closing Date. The funds in the trust account will be invested only in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations (collectively “Permitted Investments”).
Funds will remain in the Trust Account except for the withdrawal of interest earned on the funds that may be released to the Company to pay taxes. The proceeds from the Public Offering and Private Placement will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of a Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of the public shares if the Company has not completed a Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the offering, subject to applicable law, or (iii) the redemption of the public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of the Company obligation to allow redemption in connection with a Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the Company’s public shares if the Company has not consummated a Business Combination within 18 months from the closing of the offering or (B) with respect to any other provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity. The proceeds held outside the Trust Account may be used to pay business, legal and accounting due diligence on prospective acquisitions, listing fees and continuing general and administrative expenses.
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