Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
References to the “Company,” “Mountain & Co. I Acquisition Corp.,” “our,” “us” or “we” refer to Mountain & Co. I Acquisition Corp. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited interim condensed financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this report. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those described in our other SEC filings.
Overview
We are a blank check company incorporated on April 16, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed 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 (the “Business Combination”). We have not selected any Business Combination target yet.
Our Sponsor is Mountain & Co. I Sponsor LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (the “Sponsor”).
Our registration statement was declared effective on November 4, 2021. On November 9, 2021, we consummated our initial public offering (the “IPO”) of 20,000,000 units (the “Units” and, with respect to the Class A ordinary shares included in the Units being offered, the “Public Shares”) at $10.00 per Unit and the sale of 12,000,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to our Sponsor that closed simultaneously with the IPO. On November 12, 2021, the underwriters exercised their full over-allotment option, resulting in an additional 3,000,000 Units purchased and $30,000,000 in additional gross proceeds for aggregate Units purchased of 23,000,000 and aggregate gross proceeds of $230,000,000 from both the IPO and over-allotment option exercise. Substantially concurrently with the exercise of the over-allotment option, we completed the private sale of 1,500,000 additional Private Placement Warrants to our Sponsor at a purchase price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant, generating gross proceeds to us of $1,500,000.
Transaction costs related to our IPO and the exercise of the over-allotment option amounted to $13,406,427 consisting of $4,600,000 of underwriting commissions, $8,050,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $756,427 of other cash offering costs.
Following the closing of our IPO on November 9, 2021, and subsequent close of the over-allotment option exercise on November 12, 2021, a total of $236,900,000, comprised of $225,400,000 of the net proceeds from the IPO, including $8,050,000 of the underwriters’ deferred discount, and $11,500,000 of the proceeds of the sale of the Private Placement Warrants, was placed in a U.S.-based trust account at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee (the “Trust Account”). The proceeds held in the Trust Account may only be invested in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. Pursuant to the trust agreement governing the Trust Account, the trustee is not permitted to invest in other securities or assets. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to us to pay taxes, if any, the proceeds from the IPO and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the initial Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of our public shares if we are unable to complete the initial Business Combination within 15 months from the closing of the IPO (or up to 18 months from the closing of our IPO if we extend the period of time to consummate a Business Combination, subject to our Sponsor depositing additional funds in the Trust Account, as described in more detail herein), subject to applicable law, or (iii) the redemption of our public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to (A) modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with the initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of our public