EX-4.1





 Exhibit 4.1 
  

			
		  	NUMBER UNITS
U-
	SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS	  	CUSIP [•]                              

 ARTIUS ACQUISITION INC. 

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

EACH WHOLE REDEEMABLE WARRANT ENTITLING THE HOLDER TO PURCHASE ONE CLASS 

A ORDINARY SHARE 
 THIS CERTIFIES THAT 

is the owner of                  Units. 

Each Unit (“Unit”) consists of one (1) Class A Ordinary Share, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary
Shares”), of Artius Acquisition Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), and one-third (1/3) of one redeemable warrant (“Warrant”).
Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) Ordinary Share (subject to adjustment) 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, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share 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 Ordinary Shares and Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate will begin separate
trading on                 , 2020 unless Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC elect to allow earlier separate trading, 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 its
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, 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 One State Street, 30th Floor, New York, New York
10004, and are available to any Warrant holder on written request and without cost. 
 Upon the consummation of the Business Combination, the Units
represented by this certificate will automatically separate into the Ordinary Shares and Warrants comprising such Units. 
 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 signatures of its duly authorized officers. 

Dated: 
  

	
	  

	Chief Executive Officer
	
	  

	Transfer Agent













 Artius Acquisition 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 shares 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) 
under Uniform Gifts to Minors
	JT TEN	  	— as joint tenants with right of survivorship 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 does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint


 Attorney to transfer the said Units on the register of members of the within named Company with full power of
substitution in the premises. 
 Dated: 
  

					
	Signature(s) Guaranteed:	  	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.
	  
 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) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED).
	  	













 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 Ordinary Shares sold in its initial public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial business combination by
                , 2022 or by such later date approved by the Company’s shareholders in accordance with the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and
articles of association, (ii) the Company redeems the Ordinary Shares sold in its initial public offering in connection with 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 the Company’s initial business combination or to redeem 100% of the Ordinary Shares if it does not consummate an initial business combination
by                 , 2022 or by such later date approved by the Company’s shareholders in accordance with the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and
articles of association or (b) with respect to any other provision relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity, or (iii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to
redeem for cash his, her or its respective Ordinary Shares in connection with 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. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.