Company: COHN
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-033482
Chunk: 267

Company: Cohen & Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 267
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 of such Preferred Units consummated immediately prior to the execution of the Business Combination Agreement, in an aggregate amount of approximately $516,500 (the “Preferred Equity Investment”), and (b) certain qualified investors agreed to purchase convertible notes (“Convertible Notes”) issuable upon the Closing by ProCap Financial, with an aggregate principal amount of approximately $235,000 (the “Convertible Note Financing” and, together with the Preferred Equity Investment and the Business Combination, the “Proposed Transactions”). The net proceeds from the Convertible Notes will be utilized by ProCap Financial for purposes of acquiring bitcoin, collateral under the Convertible Notes, and for working capital purposes. The proceeds from the Preferred Equity Investment will be utilized, within 15 days following the Signing Date, to purchase bitcoin assets pursuant to a custodial arrangement with Anchorage Digital Bank N.A.

CCM acted as a co-placement agent in connection with the Convertible Note Financing and the Preferred Equity Investment.

As disclosed above, the Columbus Circle Sponsor holds an aggregate of 8,333,333 founder shares in the Columbus Circle SPAC. Further, certain non-controlling interests in the Columbus Circle Sponsor, including executives and key employees of the Operating LLC, purchased membership interests in the Columbus Circle Sponsor, either directly or indirectly, and have an interest in the Columbus Circle SPAC’s founder shares through such membership interests in the Columbus Circle Sponsor. The number of the Columbus Circle SPAC’s founders shares in which such non-controlling interests in the Columbus Circle Sponsor, including such executives and key employees of the Operating LLC, have an interest in through the Columbus Circle Sponsor will not be finally and definitively determined unless and until consummation of the Business Combination (the “Business Combination Closing”). The number of the Columbus Circle SPAC’s founder shares currently allocated to the Operating LLC is approximately 2,151,666, but such number of founder shares will also not be finally and definitively determined unless and until the Closing occurs. If the Business Combination Closing occurs, each founder share held by the Columbus Circle Sponsor, including those allocated to the Operating LLC, will be converted into one share of common stock in ProCap Financial.

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Sale of Management Contracts

On March 13, 2025, we entered into a Master Transaction Agreement (the “MTA”) with an affiliate of Hildene Capital Management, LLC (“Hildene”), an SEC-registered investment adviser based in