Exhibit 4.1

 

SPECIMEN UNIT CERTIFICATE

 

NUMBER UNITS

 

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SEE REVERSE FOR
   CERTAIN
   DEFINITIONS
    	
Trebia   Acquisition Corp.
    	
 
    




 

CUSIP [·]

 

UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE CLASS A ORDINARY SHARE AND ONE-THIRD OF ONE WARRANT TO PURCHASE ONE CLASS A ORDINARY SHARE

 

THIS CERTIFIES THAT

 

is the owner of Units.

 

Each Unit (“Unit”) consists of one (1) Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), of Trebia Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), and one-third (1/3) of one warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) Ordinary Share for $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment). Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of (i) thirty (30) days after the Company’s completion of a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses (each a “Business Combination”), or (ii) twelve (12) months from the closing of the Company’s initial public offering, and will expire unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on the date that is five (5) years after the date on which the Company completes its initial Business Combination, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. The Ordinary Shares and Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to           , 2020, unless Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and BofA Securities, Inc. elect to allow earlier separate trading, subject to the Company’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of a Current Report on Form 8-K containing an audited balance sheet reflecting the Company’s receipt of the gross proceeds of the initial public offering and issuing a press release announcing when separate trading will begin. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole Warrants will trade. The terms of the Warrants are governed by a Warrant Agreement, dated as of         , 2020, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Warrant Agent, and are subject to the terms and provisions contained therein, all of which terms and provisions the holder of this certificate consents to by acceptance hereof. Copies of the Warrant Agreement are on file at the office of the Warrant Agent at 1 State Street, 30th Floor, New York, New York 10004, and are available to any Warrant holder on written request and without cost.

 











 

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and Registrar of the Company.

 

This certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

 

Witness the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

 

	
By
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Chief Financial Officer
    	
 
    


 

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Trebia Acquisition Corp.

 

The Company will furnish without charge to each unitholder who so requests, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of shares or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

	
TEN COM
    	
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as tenants in common
    	
 
    	
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TEN ENT
    	
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as tenants by the   entireties
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
under Uniform Gifts to   Minors Act


    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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JT TEN
    	
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as joint tenants with   right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    


 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

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For value received, hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 

	
 
    	
 
    
	
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL   SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
    	
 
    


 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)

 

Units represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint Attorney to transfer the said Units on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

	
Dated
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Notice:        The signature to this   assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the   certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any   change whatever.
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Signature(s) Guaranteed:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
THE   SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION   (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH   MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO   S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15 OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULES).
    	
 
    	
 
    


 

 

In each case, as more fully described in the Company’s final prospectus dated        , 2020, the holder(s) of this certificate shall be entitled to receive a pro-rata portion of certain funds held in the trust account established in connection with the Company’s initial public offering only in the event that (i) the Company redeems the Class A Ordinary Shares sold in its initial public offering and liquidates because it does not complete an initial business combination within the period of time set forth in the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, (ii) the Company redeems the Class A Ordinary Shares sold in its initial public offering in connection with a shareholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (a) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the Class A Ordinary Shares if it does not complete an initial business combination within the time period set forth therein or (b) with respect to any other provisions

 

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relating to the rights of holders of the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares, or (iii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to redeem for cash his, her or its respective Class A Ordinary Shares in connection with a tender offer (or proxy solicitation, solely in the event the Company seeks shareholder approval of the proposed initial business combination) setting forth the details of a proposed initial business combination. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.

 

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