NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II (the “Company”) was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on April 12, 2023. The Company was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (the “Business Combination”). The Company intends to identify solutions, opportunities, companies or technologies that focus on advancing the energy transition; specifically, ones that facilitate, improve or complement the reduction of carbon or greenhouse gas emissions while satisfying growing energy consumption across markets globally. The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”).
As of June 30, 2023, the Company had not yet commenced operations. All activity for the period from April 12, 2023 (inception) through June 30, 2023 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”), which is described below. The Company will not generate any operating revenues prior to the completion of the Business Combination, at the earliest, and will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on permitted investments from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
On April 24, 2023, Nabors Energy Transition Sponsor II LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), paid $25,000 to cover certain offering costs of the Company in consideration for 5,750,000 Class F ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Founder Shares”). On June 16, 2023, the Company issued 2,875,000 additional Founder Shares to the Sponsor in connection with a share capitalization, resulting in the Sponsor holding an aggregate of 8,625,000 Founder Shares, for approximately $0.003 per share.
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on July 13, 2023. On July 18, 2023, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 30,500,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”), which includes a partial exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option in the amount of 500,000 Units, at $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $305,000,000 which is discussed in Note 3.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 9,540,000 warrants (“Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, in a private placement to the direct or indirect owners of the Sponsor (the “Private Warrantholders”), generating gross proceeds of $9,540,000, which is discussed in Note 4.
In addition, the direct or indirect owners of the Sponsor loaned the Company a total of $3,050,000, and in exchange, the Company issued unsecured promissory notes to each lender for an aggregate principal amount of $3,050,000 (see Note 5), as of the closing date of the Initial Public Offering at no interest, which are referred to as the Overfunding Loans. The Overfunding Loans will be repaid upon the closing of the initial Business Combination or converted into warrants of the post-business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant (or any combination thereof), at the Sponsor’s discretion, which warrants will be identical to the Private Placement Warrants. The Overfunding Loans were extended in order to ensure that the amount in the Trust Account (as defined below) was $10.10 per Public Share at the closing of the Initial Public Offering. If the Company does not complete an initial Business Combination, the Company will not repay the Overfunding Loans from amounts held in the Trust Account, and the Trust Account proceeds will be distributed to the Public Shareholders (as defined below), subject to the limitations; however, the Company may repay the Overfunding Loans if there are funds available outside the Trust Account to do so.
Transaction costs amounted to $17,966,142 consisting of $6,100,000 of a cash underwriting discount, $10,675,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $1,191,142 of other final offering costs.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of its Initial Public Offering, the sale of Private Placement Warrants and the Overfunding Loans, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination. The Company’s initial Business Combination must be with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the Trust Account (net of amounts disbursed to management for working capital purposes and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in trust) at the time the Company signs a definitive agreement in connection with the initial Business Combination. However, the Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding