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Organization, Business Operation and Going Concern

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Organization, Business Operation and Going Concern
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization, Business Operation and Going Concern

Note 1—Organization, Business Operation and Going Concern

Generation Asia I Acquisition Limited (the “Company”) was incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on March 3, 2021. The Company was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). The Company has not selected any Business Combination target and the Company has not, nor has anyone on its behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any Business Combination target with respect to an initial Business Combination with it.

 

As of March 31, 2024, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from March 3, 2021 (inception) through March 31, 2024 relates to the Company’s formation, the initial public offering (the “IPO”), and searching for a Business Combination target. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents from the proceeds derived from the IPO. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.

The Company’s sponsor is Generation Asia LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (the “Sponsor”).

 

The registration statement for the Company’s IPO was declared effective on January 19, 2022 (the “Effective Date”). On January 24, 2022, the Company consummated the IPO of 20,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit (the “Units”), which is discussed in Note 3 (the “IPO”), generating gross proceeds to the Company of $200,000,000. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share (the “Public Shares”) and one-half of one warrant (the “Public Warrants”). Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share. The underwriter had a 45-day option from the Effective Date to purchase up to an additional 3,000,000 Units to cover over-allotments, if any. On February 1, 2022, the underwriter partially exercised the over-allotment option (the “Over-Allotment” and together with the IPO, the “Public Offering”) and purchased an additional 1,930,000 Units (the “Over-Allotment Units”), generating additional gross proceeds of $19,300,000. The underwriter forfeited the remaining portion of the over-allotment option.

 

Simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO, the Company consummated the private placement of 6,800,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $6,800,000, which is described in Note 4. On February 1, 2022, simultaneously with the sale of the Over-Allotment Units, the Sponsor purchased an additional 579,000 warrants in a private placement (the “Over-Allotment Private Placement Warrants” and together with the IPO Private Placement Warrants, the “Private Placement Warrants”), generating aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $579,000.

Transaction costs amounted to $21,942,071 consisting of $2,406,000 of underwriting commissions, $7,675,500 of deferred underwriting commissions, $10,290,473 of incentives to Anchor Investors and $1,570,098 of other offering costs. On June 26, 2023, the Company and the underwriter entered into a fee reduction agreement, pursuant to which the underwriter agreed to waive $4,675,500 of the deferred underwriter commission, see Note 6.

 

The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the IPO and the sale of Private Placement Warrants, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward consummating a Business Combination.‌

 

The Company must complete one or more initial Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the value of net assets held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on the interest earned on the Trust Account) at the time of signing a definitive agreement in connection with the initial Business Combination. However, the Company will complete the initial Business Combination only if the post-Business Combination company in which its public shareholders own shares will own or acquire 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or is otherwise not required to

register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act (the “Investment Company Act”). There is no assurance that the Company will be able to complete a Business Combination successfully.

 

Following the closing of the IPO on January 24, 2022 and the partial exercise of the over-allotment option on February 1, 2022, $221,493,000 ($10.10 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units in the IPO, Over-Allotment Units and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants was deposited in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) managed by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Continental”), and was invested in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act with a maturity of 180 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. In January 2024, following the Company’s instructions, Continental liquidated the U.S. government securities and money market funds previously held in the Trust Account and moved such sale proceeds in an interest-bearing demand deposit bank account. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to the Company to pay its 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 the Company’s public shares if the Company has not completed its initial Business Combination within up to 42 months from the consummation of the IPO, if extended each month at the request of the Sponsor (the “Combination Period”), subject to applicable law, or (iii) the redemption of the Company’s public shares properly submitted in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Memorandum and Articles”) (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with its initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the Company’s public shares if the Company has not consummated an initial Business Combination within the Combination Period or (B) with respect to any other specified provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses. The funds held in the Trust Account could become subject to the claims of the Company’s creditors, if any, which could have priority over the claims of the public shareholders.

 

The Company will provide the public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of the initial Business Combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve the initial Business Combination or (ii) without a shareholder vote by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a proposed initial Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion.

 

The shareholders will be entitled to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of the initial Business Combination at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations and on the conditions described herein. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be $10.10 per public share. The per-share amount the Company will distribute to investors who properly redeem their shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commissions the Company will pay to the underwriter.

 

The ordinary shares subject to redemption will be recorded at a redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the IPO, in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” In such a case, the Company will proceed with a Business Combination if the Company’s ordinary shares would not be a “penny stock” upon such consummation of a Business Combination and, if the Company seeks shareholder approval, a majority of the issued and outstanding shares voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination.

 

If the Company has not completed the initial Business Combination within the Combination Period, the Company will (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than 10 business days thereafter, subject to lawfully available funds therefor, redeem 100% of the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (less taxes payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the

approval of the Company’s remaining shareholders and the Company’s board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), to the Company’s obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and in all cases subject to the other requirements of applicable law, in which case the public shareholders may only receive $10.10 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, and the warrants will expire worthless.

 

The Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to (i) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and public shares they hold in connection with the completion of the Business Combination, (ii) waive their redemption rights with respect to their Founder Shares and public shares they hold in connection with a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s Memorandum and Articles to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with the Business Combination or to redeem 100% of its public shares if the Company has not consummated a Business Combination within the Combination Period or with respect to any other specified provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre Business Combination activity, (iii) waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their Founder Shares if the Company fails to complete its Business Combination within the Combination Period, although they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any public shares they hold if the Company fails to complete its Business Combination within such time period and (iv) vote any Founder Shares held by them and any public shares purchased during or after the IPO (including in open market and privately-negotiated transactions) in favor of the Company’s Business Combination.

 

The Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third party (other than the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm) for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company has entered into a written letter of intent, confidentiality or other similar agreement or Business Combination agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below the lesser of (i) $10.10 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, if less than $10.10 per share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case less taxes payable; provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed a waiver of any and all rights to the monies held in the Trust Account (whether or not such waiver is enforceable) nor will it apply to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriter of the IPO against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. However, the Company has not asked the Sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor has it independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and the Company believes that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of the Company. Therefore, the Company cannot assure you that the Sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations. As a result, if any such claims were successfully made against the Trust Account, the funds available for the initial Business Combination and redemptions could be reduced to less than $10.10 per public share. In such event, the Company may not be able to complete its initial Business Combination, and you would receive such lesser amount per public share in connection with any redemption of your public shares. None of the Company’s officers or directors will indemnify the Company for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by third parties, vendors and prospective target businesses.

 

In connection with the IPO, the Company entered into an Investment Management Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”), dated January 19, 2022, with Continental as trustee. On July 13, 2023, the Company held an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders (the “2023 Meeting”) to approve an amendment to the Trust Agreement and the Memorandum and Articles reflecting (i) the extension of the date by which the Company must consummate an initial Business Combination from July 23, 2023 on a monthly basis up to July 23, 2024, and (ii) the reduction of the amount of monthly extension payments which the Sponsor, or its affiliates or designees, must deposit into the Trust Account from $723,690 to an amount equal to the lesser of (x) $125,000 or (y) $0.03 per public share multiplied by the number of public shares outstanding at that time for each one-month extension of the date by which the Company has to consummate an initial Business Combination.

In connection with the 2023 Meeting, holders of 14,230,271 Class A ordinary shares exercised their right to redeem those shares for cash at an approximate price of $10.52 per share, for an aggregate of approximately $149.75 million, leaving 7,699,729 Class A ordinary shares outstanding after the 2023 Meeting.

 

On July 21, 2023, August 21, 2023, September 21, 2023, October 20, 2023, November 21, 2023, December 21, 2023, January 19, 2024, February 21, 2024 and March 21, 2024, the Company deposited nine tranches of $125,000 into

Trust Account, for an aggregate of $1,125,000, to extend the date by which the Company must consummate an initial Business Combination to April 23, 2024. On April 22, 2024, the Company deposited $35,000 into the Trust Account to extend the date by which the Company must consummate an initial Business Combination to May 23, 2024.

 

On January 18, 2024, the Company entered into Amendment No. 2 to the Trust Agreement to provide that Continental may maintain the funds in the Trust Account in an interest-bearing bank demand deposit account, and the Company sent an Investment Instruction Letter to Continental, pursuant to which the Company instructed Continental to move the funds in the Trust Account to such a demand deposit account.

 

On March 28, 2024, the Company filed Form 25 with the SEC informing the SEC and the NYSE of the delisting of the Company’s securities from the NYSE, which form became effective within 10 days of filing. Concurrently, the Company filed new Form 8-A with the SEC with respect to its Class A ordinary shares which were approved for listing on the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq”) with the first trading day on April 8, 2024. The Units and warrants to purchase Class A ordinary shares will continue trading over-the-counter.

 

On April 16, 2024, the Company held an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders (the “2024 Meeting”). At the 2024 Meeting, At the 2024 Meeting, the Company’s shareholders approved by special resolutions the amendments to the Company’s Memorandum and Articles (collectively, the “Articles Amendments”) and the amendment to the Trust Agreement, to, among other things, do the following: (a) to extend the date by which the Company must consummate an initial Business Combination from July 23, 2024 on a monthly basis up to July 23, 2025; and (b) to reduce the amount of monthly extension payments which the Sponsor, or its affiliates or designees, must deposit into the Trust Account from an amount equal to the lesser of (x) $125,000 or (y) $0.03 per public share multiplied by the number of public shares outstanding at that time for each one-month extension of the date by which the Company has to consummate an initial Business Combination, to an amount equal to $35,000 for each one-month extension of the date by which the Company has to consummate an initial Business Combination, which date may be extended by the Company pursuant to Article 49.7 of the Company’s Memorandum and Articles until July 23, 2025 (which is a period of time ending 42 months from the consummation of the Company’s IPO), unless the closing of a Business Combination shall have occurred prior thereto (Note 9).

 

In connection with the Extension Amendment Proposal considered at the 2024 Meeting, the Company’s shareholders elected to redeem 5,342,374 Class A Ordinary Shares for cash at an approximate redemption price of $11.10 per share, which represents approximately 69% of the shares that were part of the units that were sold in the Company’s IPO. Such shareholders redeemed approx. $59.83 million from the Trust Account. Following such redemptions, 2,357,355 Class A Ordinary Shares remain outstanding as of April 16, 2024.

 

Beginning on March 27, 2024, certain shareholders of the Company have submitted to the Company 2,437,500 Class B ordinary shares for conversion into Class A Ordinary Shares, on a one-to-one basis, pursuant to the terms of the Memorandum and Articles, effective on April 23, 2024. Holders of such converted Class A Ordinary Shares are not eligible to the redemptions set forth in the Memorandum and Articles.

 

On August 23, 2021, in connection with entering into forward purchase agreements, the Sponsor transferred to forward purchasers an aggregate of 825,000 Founder Shares for no cash consideration. On August 23, 2021, in connection with entering into forward purchase agreements, the Company issued 1,375,000 Class B ordinary shares for no consideration to the Sponsor, resulting in an aggregate of 7,125,000 Class B ordinary shares outstanding. On October 20, 2021 and October 21, 2021, in connection with entering into an additional forward purchase agreement, (i) the Company issued to a forward purchaser an aggregate of 375,000 Founder Shares at par value and the Sponsor surrendered to the Company the same number of Founder Shares for no cash consideration and (ii) the Company issued 625,000 Class B ordinary shares to the Sponsor for no consideration, resulting in an aggregate of 7,750,000 Class B ordinary shares outstanding. All shares and associated amounts have been retroactively restated to reflect the new issuance. In April 2024, due to the termination of the forward purchase agreements by their terms prior to the consummation of a Business Combination, the forward purchasers forfeited and cancelled 1,200,000 Class B ordinary shares held by them, and the Sponsor forfeited and cancelled 800,000 Class B ordinary shares. Thus, following such cancellation and the conversion described in the paragraph above, the aggregate number of issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares has been reduced to 3,045,000.

Going Concern

As of March 31, 2024, the Company had approximately $132,040 in its operating bank account. The working capital deficit as of March 31, 2024 was $2,518,469.

 

The Company’s liquidity needs prior to the IPO had been satisfied through a payment from the Sponsor of $25,000 (see Note 5) for the founder shares to cover certain offering costs, and the loan under an unsecured promissory note from the Sponsor of $275,000 (see Note 5), which was fully repaid on January 31, 2022. In addition, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor, initial shareholders, officers, directors or their affiliates may, but are not obligated to, provide the Company Working Capital Loans, as defined below (see Note 5). On July 21, 2023 and September 30, 2023, the Company issued two non-convertible unsecured promissory notes to the Sponsor, for a collective principal amount of $1,500,000 (see Note 5). On February 6, 2024, the Company issued two non-convertible unsecured promissory notes to the Sponsor, for a collective principal amount of $550,000 (see Note 5). As of March 31, 2024, the Company received the $2,049,999 under such promissory notes.

 

In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” management has determined that if the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination by July 23, 2025, subject to the Sponsor depositing additional funds into the Trust Account, then the Company will cease all operations except for the purpose of liquidating. The date for mandatory liquidation and subsequent dissolution raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the financial statements are available to be issued.

Risks and Uncertainties

 

As a result of the military action commenced in February 2022 by the Russian Federation and Belarus in the country of Ukraine and related economic sanctions, the Company’s ability to consummate a Business Combination, or the operations of a target business with which the Company ultimately consummates a Business Combination, may be materially and adversely affected. In addition, the Company’s ability to consummate a transaction may be dependent on the ability to raise equity and debt financing which may be impacted by these events, including as a result of increased market volatility, or decreased market liquidity in third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to the Company or at all. The impact of this action and related sanctions on the world economy and the specific impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations and/or ability to consummate a Business Combination are not yet determinable. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.