Exhibit 4.1


 








	
        NUMBER

         

        U-__________
	 	UNITS
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS	NOVUS CAPITAL CORPORATION	 


 


CUSIP 67012U2078


 


 





UNITS CONSISTING OF
ONE SHARE OF COMMON STOCK AND


ONE-HALF OF ONE WARRANT


 





THIS CERTIFIES THAT ______________________________________________________________________________________________


 





is the owner of _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Units.


 





Each Unit (“Unit”)
consists of one (1) share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of Novus Capital Corporation,
a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and one-half of one warrant (“Warrant”). Each whole
Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock for $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment). Each whole Warrant
will become exercisable on the later of (i) 30 days after the Company’s completion of an initial merger, capital stock exchange,
asset acquisition, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “Business Combination”)
and (ii) 12 months from the closing of the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”), and will expire
unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on the fifth anniversary of the completion of an initial Business Combination,
or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. The Common Stock and Warrant(s) comprising the Unit(s) represented by this certificate
are not transferable separately until ninety days following the IPO, unless EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. informs the Company of their
decision to allow earlier separate trading, except that in no event will the Common Stock and Warrants be separately tradeable
until the Company has filed an audited balance sheet reflecting the Company’s receipt of the gross proceeds of its initial
public offering and issued a press release announcing when such 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 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.


Witness the facsimile
seal of the Company and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.


 


 


By


 


	Chairman	Secretary




 


 


 


 





DELAWARE


 






     


     


    

 





Novus Capital Corporation


 


The Company will furnish without charge to each shareholder
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	under Uniform Gifts to Minors	 
	 	and not as tenants in common	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) SHOULD 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).	 




 





The holder(s) of this certificate shall
be entitled to receive a pro-rata portion of the funds from the trust account with respect to the common stock underlying this
certificate only in the event that (i) the Corporation is forced to liquidate because it does not consummate an initial business
combination within the period of time set forth in the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation,
as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Charter”) or (ii) if the holder seeks to convert his shares upon
consummation of, or sell his shares in a tender offer in connection with, an initial business combination or in connection with
certain amendments to the Charter. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or
to the trust account.