SPECIMEN UNIT CERTIFICATE





 Exhibit 4.1 

NUMBER UNITS 
 U- 

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 
 CUSIP
[•] 
 GORES HOLDINGS IV, INC. 

UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK AND ONE-FOURTH OF ONE 

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 Gores Holdings IV, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and one-fourth (1/4) of one
warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) share (subject to adjustment) of Common Stock 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, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock 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 “Expiration Date”). The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units represented
by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to                , 2020, unless Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. elects to allow separate trading earlier,
subject to the Company’s filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K with the 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. 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 17 Battery Place, 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 signature of its duly authorized officers. 

 

					
	  
	 		  	  

	Secretary	 		  	President

 GORES HOLDINGS IV, INC. 

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 survivorship and not as tenants in common	  		  		  	 under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

 
 (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 S.E.C.
RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE).	 	

 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 its initial public offering only in the event that (i) the Company redeems the shares of Class A common stock sold in its initial public offering and liquidates because it does not
consummate an initial business combination by                , 2022, (ii) the Company redeems the shares of Class A common stock sold in its initial public offering
in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the


  
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Class A common stock if it does not consummate an initial business combination by                , 2022, or
(iii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to redeem for cash his, her or its respective shares of Class A 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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