EX-4.1





 Exhibit 4.1 
  

			
	NUMBER	  	UNITS
	U-	  	

 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 

CUSIP G05155 125 

ASCENDANT DIGITAL ACQUISITION CORP. 

UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE CLASS A ORDINARY SHARE AND ONE-HALF OF ONE REDEEMABLE WARRANT, 

EACH WHOLE WARRANT ENTITLING THE HOLDER TO PURCHASE ONE CLASS A ORDINARY SHARE 

THIS CERTIFIES THAT                is the owner
of                Units of Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), transferrable on the books of
the Company in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. 
 Each Unit
(“Unit”) consists of one (1) Class A ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Share”), of the Company and one-half of one redeemable
warrant (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Ordinary Share (subject to adjustment) 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 “Expiration Date”). The Ordinary Shares and Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not
transferable separately prior to                 , 2020, unless UBS Securities 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. 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                , 2020 (the “Warrant Agreement”), 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 registered by the 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 a duly authorized signatory of the Company. 

 

	
	
	   

	Authorized Signatory
	
	   

	 Transfer Agent















 Ascendant Digital 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 equity 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 ___________

		  		  		  		  				  	
    (Cust)              
                  (Minor)

	 TEN ENT
	  	—	  	 as tenants by the entireties
	  		  				  	
		  		  		  		  				  	     Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

		  		  		  		  				  	  

	 JT TEN
	  	—	  	as joint tenants with right of 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
S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15 UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE)).













 As more fully described in, and subject to the terms and conditions described in, the
Company’s final prospectus for its initial public offering dated                , 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 in the event that (i) the Company redeems the Ordinary Shares sold in its
initial public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial Business Combination within the time period set forth in the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, as the same may be amended from
time to time, or (ii) if the holder(s) properly redeem for cash his, her or its respective Ordinary Shares included in the Units represented by this certificate in connection with (x) 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 or (y) 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 allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of the Ordinary Shares if it does not
consummate an initial Business Combination within the time set forth in the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or
pre-initial Business Combination activity, as the same may be amended from time to time. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.