Exhibit 4.1


 


	Number	 	Units


U-


 


SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS


 


CUSIP [●]


 


NEW PROVIDENCE ACQUISITION CORP.


 


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

HALF OF ONE WARRANT, EACH WHOLE WARRANT ENTITLING THE HOLDER

 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 New Providence Acquisition
Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and one-half of one redeemable warrant (the “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        , 2019, unless BTIG, LLC 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 Company’s initial public 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          , 2019, 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 signature of its duly
authorized officers of the Company.


 


	 	 	 
	Chief Executive Officer	 	Chief Financial Officer


 




     


     


    

 


New Providence 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 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
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 does 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 September [●], 2019, 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 shares of Class A common stock sold in the Company’s initial
public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial business combination by                          , 2021, (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 Class A common stock if it does not consummate an initial business combination by                          , 2021 or with respect to any other
provision relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity, 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.