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Exhibit 4.1

 

[Form of Unit Certificate]

NUMBER UNITS

U-

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

CUSIP []

SPARTAN ACQUISITION CORP. III

 

UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK AND
ONE-[] OF ONE REDEEMABLE WARRANT TO PURCHASE ONE SHARE OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK

 


			
	
THIS CERTIFIES THAT
	
is the owner of
	
Units.




 

Each Unit (“Unit”) consists of one (1) share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of Spartan Acquisition Corp. III, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and one-[] of one redeemable warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) share (subject to adjustment) of Common Stock for $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment). Only whole Warrants are exercisable. Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of (i) thirty (30) days after the Company’s completion of a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses (each a “Business Combination”), and (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 “Expiration Date”). The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to, 2021, unless Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Cowen and Company, LLC elect to allow earlier separate trading, subject to the Company’s filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission containing an audited balance sheet reflecting the Company’s receipt of the gross proceeds of the offering and issuing a press release announcing when separate trading will begin. No fractional Warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units. The terms of the Warrants are governed by a Warrant Agreement, dated as of                      , 2021 (the “Warrant Agreement”), between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent (the “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.

 

Upon consummation of a Business Combination, the Units represented by this certificate will automatically separate into the shares of Common Stock and Warrants comprising such Units.

 

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as 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 signature of its duly authorized officers.

 

 


	
Secretary
	
 
	
Chief Executive Officer




 

 

 



 

Spartan Acquisition Corp. III

 

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 stock 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
	
–
	
as tenants in common
	
 
	
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT
	
–
	
 
	
Custodian
	
 

	
TEN ENT
	
–
	
as tenants by the entireties
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
(Cust)
	
 
	
(Minor)

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
JT TEN
	
–
	
as joint tenants with right of 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

	
 
	
 
	
survivorship and not as tenants in
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
common
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
(State)




 

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

 

For value received,                                    hereby sell, assign and transfer 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 RULE 17Ad-15 UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE)).




 

 

 

 



 

In each case, as more fully described in the Company’s final prospectus dated , 2021, 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 (the “Trust Account”) only in the event that (i) the Company redeems the shares of Common Stock sold in its initial public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial Business Combination within the period of time set forth in the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation, as may be amended from time to time (the “Charter”); (ii) the Company redeems the shares of Common Stock sold in its initial public offering in connection with a stockholder vote to approve an amendment to the Charter that would affect the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the Common Stock if it does not consummate an initial Business Combination within the period of time set forth therein; or (iii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to redeem for cash his, her or its respective shares of Common Stock in connection with a tender offer (or proxy solicitation, solely in the event the Company seeks stockholder 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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