EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1879373
Filing Year: 2023
Filename: 1879373_10-K_2023_0001493152-23-009772.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business
General
We are an early-stage blank check company incorporated in August 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company whose business purpose is to effect an initial business combination. Since our initial public offering, we have focused our search for an initial business combination with businesses that may provide significant opportunities for attractive investor returns.
Initial Public Offering
On November 16, 2021, we consummated our initial public offering of 10,000,000 units. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share and one redeemable warrant of the Company, with each warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share for $11.50 per whole share. The units were sold at a price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $115,000,000, which included an additional 1,500,000 units and 52,500 placement units in connection with the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, generating an additional $525,000 of gross proceeds. Simultaneously with the closing of the initial public offering, we completed the private sale of an aggregate of 528,075 units to our sponsor at a purchase price of $10.00 per placement unit, generating gross proceeds of $5,280,750.
A total of $116,725,000, comprised of the proceeds from the IPO after offering expenses and the proceeds of the sale of the Placement Units, was placed in a U.S.-based trust account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee.
Our management team is led by Swee Guan Hoo, our Chief Executive Officer and Cu Seng Kiu, our Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hoo brings more than 12 years of accounting and finance experience as a registered and certified professional accountant with CPA Australia and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. Mr. Kiu brings significant accounting and audit experience involving publicly listed companies during his years working with accounting standards. Mr. Hoo is also a director of the Company and along with Ms. Doris Wong Sing EE, is the co-manager and co-owner of our sponsor.
The Share Purchase Agreement
This section describes the material provisions of the Share Purchase Agreement but does not purport to describe all of the terms thereof. The following summary of the Share Purchase Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Share Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1. Shareholders of the Company and other interested parties are urged to read the Share Purchase Agreement in its entirety. Unless otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used below have the meanings given to them in the Share Purchase Agreement.
General Description of the Share Purchase Agreement
On August 1, 2022, the Company entered into a share purchase agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) with Graphjet Technology Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian private limited company (“Graphjet”), that converts palm kernel shells to essential raw materials such as graphene and graphite used to produce batteries in the electric vehicle space among other products. The Share Purchase Agreement is by and among the Company, Graphjet, Swee Guan Hoo, solely in his capacity as the representative of the shareholders of the Company, and their successors and assignees (the “Purchaser Representative”), from and after the closing of the Graphjet Business Combination (the “Closing”), and the holders of all issued and outstanding shares of Graphjet (the “Graphjet Shares”) (each, a “Selling Shareholder” and collectively, the “Selling Shareholders”), and Lee Ping Wei, in the capacity as the representative for the Selling Shareholders (the “Shareholder Representative”).
Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Share Purchase Agreement (the “Transactions”), (i) each Selling Shareholder shall sell to the Company, and the Company shall purchase from each Selling Shareholder, all of the issued and outstanding Graphjet Shares, as set forth opposite the name of such Selling Shareholder on Exhibit A-1 of the Share Purchase Agreement, free and clear of any and all liens and encumbrances, in exchange for the right to receive such Selling Shareholder’s share of the Transaction Consideration (as defined below); (ii) Graphjet shall become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company; and (iii) the Company will change its name to Graphjet Technology.
Transaction Consideration
The aggregate transaction consideration to be paid pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement to the Selling Shareholders, as of immediately prior to the Closing, for the purchase of all issued and outstanding Graphjet Shares, shall be that number of Energem Class A ordinary shares equal to (i) One Billion Three Hundred and Eighty Million U.S. Dollars ($1,380,000,000), minus (ii) the amount, if any, by which $30,000 (i.e., the target net working capital amount) exceeds the Net Working Capital Amount (but not less than zero) (as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement), minus (iii) the Closing Net Indebtedness amount (as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement), minus (iv) the amount of any Transaction Expenses (as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement), divided by ten dollars ($10.00) (in the aggregate, the “Consideration Shares”).
Each Selling Shareholder shall receive a number of Energem Class A ordinary shares equal to the aggregate Consideration Shares divided by the number of Graphjet Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Closing, multiplied by the number of Graphjet Shares held by such Selling Shareholder (the “Conversion Ratio”). The total consideration payable to the Selling Shareholders in accordance with the Share Purchase Agreement is also referred to herein as the “Transaction Consideration”.
Representations and Warranties; Covenants
The Share Purchase Agreement contains a number of representations and warranties by each of the Company, Graphjet and the Selling Shareholders as of the date of the Share Purchase Agreement and as of the date of the Closing. Many of the representations and warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect. “Material Adverse Effect” as used in the Share Purchase Agreement means with respect to any specified person or entity, any fact, event, occurrence, change or effect that has had or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities, results of operations, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of such person or entity and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the ability of such person or entity or any of its subsidiaries on a timely basis to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Share Purchase Agreement or the ancillary documents to which it is a party or bound or to perform its obligations thereunder, in each case subject to certain customary exceptions. Certain of the representations are subject to specified exceptions and qualifications contained in the Share Purchase Agreement or in information provided pursuant to certain disclosure schedules to the Share Purchase Agreement. The representations and warranties made by the Company, Graphjet and the Selling Shareholders are customary for transactions similar to the Transactions.
Each party agreed in the Share Purchase Agreement to use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the Closing and obtain third party and regulatory approvals. The Share Purchase Agreement also contains certain customary covenants by the Company and Graphjet during the period between the signing of the Share Purchase Agreement and the earlier of the Closing or the termination of the Share Purchase Agreement in accordance with its terms (the “Interim Period”), regarding (1) the provision of access to their properties, books and personnel; (2) the operation of their respective businesses in the ordinary course of business; (3) provision of financial statements by Graphjet; (4) Energem’s public filings; (5) no insider trading; (6) notifications of certain breaches, consent requirements or other matters; (7) efforts to file the S-4 Registration Statement (as defined below); (8) tax matters; (9) further assurances; (10) election of the post-Closing board of directors; (11) public announcements; and (12) confidentiality.
Each party also agreed during the Interim Period not to solicit or enter into any inquiry, proposal or offer, or any indication of interest in making an offer or proposal for an alternative competing transactions, to notify the others as promptly as practicable in writing of the receipt of any inquiries, proposals or offers, requests for information or requests relating to an alternative competing transaction or any requests for non-public information relating to such transaction, and to keep the others informed of the status of any such inquiries, proposals, offers or requests for information. There are also certain customary post-Closing covenants regarding (1) tax matters; (2) maintenance of books and records; (3) indemnification of directors and officers; and (4) use of trust account proceeds.
The Share Purchase Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby require the approval of the Company’s shareholders. The Company agreed, as promptly as practicable after the effective date of the Share Purchase Agreement, to prepare, with reasonable assistance from Graphjet, and file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), a registration statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the “S-4 Registration Statement”) in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) of the Energem Class A ordinary shares to be issued to the Selling Shareholders as Transaction Consideration, and containing a proxy statement/prospectus for the purpose of soliciting proxies from the shareholders of the Company. The solicitation of proxies is required to obtain the Company’s shareholders approval of the Share Purchase Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby (collectively, the “Energem Shareholder Approval Matters”), at a special meeting of the Company’s shareholders (the “Energem Special Meeting”) and providing such shareholders an opportunity to participate in the Redemption. The Company initially filed the S-4 Registration Statement with the SEC on December 7, 2022.
Representations and Warranties; Covenants
The parties also agreed to take all necessary action, so that effective at the Closing, the board of directors of the Company (the “Post-Closing Board”) will consist of seven individuals, three (3) persons designated by the Company prior to the Closing and four (4) persons designated by Graphjet prior to the Closing. At least three (3) of the designees to the Post-Closing Board of Directors shall be independent directors in accordance with Nasdaq requirements. At or prior to Closing, the Company will provide each member of the Post-Closing Board with a customary director indemnification agreement, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company, Graphjet and such director. The parties also agreed to take all action necessary, including causing the Company’s executive officers to resign, so that the individuals serving as the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, respectively, of the Company immediately after the Closing will be the same individuals as that of Graphjet immediately prior to the Closing.
During the Interim Period, the Company may, but is not required to, seek to enter into and consummate subscription agreements with investors relating to a private equity investment and/or backstop arrangements in connection with the Transactions (the “PIPE Investment”), and if so, Graphjet has agreed to cooperate in connection with such PIPE Investment and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such PIPE Investment to occur, including having Graphjet’s senior management participate in any investor meetings and roadshows as reasonably requested by the Company.
As part of the Energem Shareholder Approval Matters, the Company agreed, as promptly as practicable after the effective date of the S-4 Registration Statement, to solicit the approval of the Company shareholders to amend its Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Energem Charter Amendment”) to provide that (i) the name of the Company shall be changed to Graphjet Technology, and (ii) change certain provisions in the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association related to its status as a blank check company, and to file the Energem Charter Amendment with the Registrar of the Cayman Islands.
The parties agreed that during the Interim Period, the Company shall adopt an equity incentive plan which will provide for awards for Energem Class A ordinary shares thereunder and within 30 days after the Closing, the Company shall file a registration statement on Form S-8 with respect to the Energem Class A ordinary shares issuable under the equity incentive plan.
Conditions to Each Party’s Obligation to Close
The obligations of the parties to complete the Closing are subject to various conditions, including the following mutual conditions of the parties unless waived:
● receipt of Company shareholder approval;
● expiration of any applicable waiting periods under any antitrust laws;
● receipt of requisite consents from governmental authorities to consummate the Transactions, and receipt of specified requisite consents from other third parties to consummate the Transactions;
● the absence of any law or order that would prohibit the consummation of the Transactions or other transactions contemplated by the Share Purchase Agreement;
● upon the Closing, after giving effect to the completion of the Redemption, the Company shall have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001;
● the absence of any pending claim, demand, action, litigation complaint, or other proceeding by or before a governmental authority seeking to enjoin the consummation of the Share Purchase Agreement and the other Transactions;
● the members of the Post-Closing Board shall have been elected or appointed as of the Closing;
● the effectiveness of the S-4 Registration Statement;
● the Company and Graphjet shall have both received confirmation from Nasdaq that Energem’s Class A ordinary shares and warrants shall be eligible for continued listing on the Nasdaq Global Market; and
● Graphjet shall have obtained directors and officers insurance.
Unless waived by the Company, the obligations of the Company to consummate the Share Purchase Agreement are subject to the satisfaction of the following additional conditions, in addition to customary certificates and other closing deliverables:
● the representations and warranties of Graphjet being true and correct as of the effective date of the Share Purchase Agreement and as of the Closing (subject to Material Adverse Effect);
● Graphjet having performed in all material respects its obligations and complied in all material respects with its covenants and agreements under the Share Purchase Agreement required to be performed or complied with on or prior to the date of the Closing;
● absence of any Material Adverse Effect with respect to Graphjet or a Selling Shareholder since the date of the Share Purchase Agreement which is continuing and uncured;
● the Company having received a copy of the Graphjet’s charter certified by the Companies Commission of Malaysia in effect immediately prior to the Closing;
● the Company having received Executive Employment Agreements executed by the Key Executives of Graphjet; and
● the Company shall have received evidence reasonably acceptable to the Company that Graphjet shall have converted, terminated, extinguished and cancelled in full any outstanding convertible securities or commitments therefor.
Termination
The Share Purchase Agreement may be terminated under certain customary and limited circumstances at any time prior to the Closing, including, among others, (i) by the mutual written consent of the Company and Graphjet, if the Closing has not occurred by April 18, 2023, subject to extension if Energem secures one or more extensions of the deadline under its organizational documents and IPO prospectus to complete its initial business combination, (ii) by the Company or Graphjet if the Graphjet Business Combination is prohibited by a governmental authority, (iii) by the Company or Graphjet after an uncured breach by a party of the representations, warranties, covenants, or agreements contained in the Share Purchase Agreement, (iv) by the Company or Graphjet after a material adverse effect on Graphjet or the Company, or (v) by the Company if the Company’s shareholders do not approve the Graphjet Business Combination.
The foregoing description of the Share Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Share Purchase Agreement filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Report and incorporated herein by reference. The Share Purchase Agreement provides investors with information regarding its terms and is not intended to provide any other factual information about the parties. In particular, the assertions embodied in the representations and warranties contained in the Share Purchase Agreement were made as of the execution date of the Share Purchase Agreement only and are qualified by information in confidential disclosure schedules provided by the parties in connection with the signing of the Share Purchase Agreement. These disclosure schedules contain information that modifies, qualifies, and creates exceptions to the representations and warranties set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement. Moreover, certain representations and warranties in the Share Purchase Agreement may have been used for the purpose of allocating risk between the parties rather than establishing matters of fact. Accordingly, you should not rely on the representations and warranties in the Share Purchase Agreement as characterizations of the actual statements of fact about the parties.
Lock-Up Provisions
The Share Purchase Agreement contains lock-up provisions that provide that each Selling Shareholder, severally and not jointly, agrees during the period commencing from the Closing and ending on the earlier of six months after the Closing and the date after the Closing on which the Company consummates a liquidation, merger, capital share exchange, reorganization, or other similar transaction with an unaffiliated third party that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange each Company ordinary share for cash, securities, or other property (the “Lock-Up Period”) to not:
i. lend, offer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, donate, assign, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Energem Class A ordinary shares received by each Selling Shareholder in the transactions contemplated by the Share Purchase Agreement (all such securities, together with any securities paid as dividends or distributions with respect to such securities or into which such securities are exchanged or converted, the “Restricted Securities”);
ii. enter any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Restricted Securities; or
iii. publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing;
whether any such transaction described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) above is to be settled by delivery of Restricted Securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise (any of the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii), a “Prohibited Transfer”).
Governing Law
The Share Purchase Agreement is governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the Laws of the State of Delaware without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Subject to the Share Purchase Agreement, all actions arising out of or relating to the Share Purchase Agreement shall be heard and determined exclusively in the Chancery Court of the State of Delaware (or in any other court in the State of Delaware or any appellate court thereof)
Related Agreements
This section describes the material provisions of certain additional agreements entered or to be entered into pursuant to or in connection with the Share Purchase Agreement but does not purport to describe all of the terms thereof. The following summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of each of the additional agreements, copies of each of which are attached as exhibits to this Report as part of Exhibit 2.1. Shareholders and other interested parties are urged to read such additional agreements in their entirety.
Registration Rights Agreement
At the Closing, the Company, the Sponsor, the Sponsor’s founders and the Selling Shareholders (the “Subject Parties”) will enter into a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Company will be obligated to file a registration statement to register the resale of certain securities of the Company held by the Subject Parties and the existing Company registration rights agreement with the sponsor and founders will terminate. The Registration Rights Agreement will also provide the Subject Parties and the Sponsor with “piggy-back” registration rights, subject to certain requirements and customary conditions.
Equity Incentive Plan
Prior to the Closing, the Company will adopt an incentive equity plan (the “New Incentive Equity Plan”) that will provide for the grant of equity incentives of Energem Class A ordinary shares to the directors, officers, employees, consultants and advisors (and prospective directors, officers, employees, consultants and advisors) following the Closing. Within 30 days after the Closing, the Company will file a registration statement on Form S-8 with respect to the Class A ordinary shares issuable under the New Incentive Equity Plan, and the Company will use reasonable efforts to maintain the effectiveness of the registration statement and maintain the status of the prospectus contained therein for so long as awards granted pursuant to the New Incentive Equity Plan remain outstanding.
Key Executives Employment Agreements
Prior to the Closing of the transactions contemplated by the Share Purchase Agreement, each key executive of Graphjet (the “Key Executives”) shall have entered into an executive employment agreement with the Company (each, an “Employment Agreement”), each of which Employment Agreements will become effective as of the Closing. The Employment Agreements contain non-solicitation provisions.
S-4 Registration Statement
On December 7, 2022, the Company filed initially with the SEC the S-4 Registration Statement, which is to be delivered, once approved by the SEC and effective, to the Company’s shareholders in connection with a special meeting of the Company’s shareholders to be held to consider approval and adoption of (i) the Share Purchase Agreement and the Graphjet Business Combination; (ii) the issuance of Energem’s Class A ordinary shares in connection with the Graphjet Business Combination and any PIPE Investment; (iii) the second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company; (iv) the election of the members of the post-Closing Board whose terms will expire in 2023 and beyond; (v) the Company’s New Incentive Equity Plan; (vi) such other matters as the parties mutually determine to be necessary or appropriate in order to effect the Graphjet Business Combination (the approvals described in foregoing clauses (i) through (vi), collectively, the “Shareholder Approval Matters”), and (vii) the adjournment of the special meeting of the Company’s shareholders, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies in the reasonable determination of the Company.
Stock Exchange Listing
The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Energem Class A ordinary shares issued in connection with the Share Purchase Agreement to be approved for listing on the Nasdaq Global Market at Closing. During the period from the date hereof until the Closing, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the listing of its units, Class A ordinary shares, and warrants for trading on the Nasdaq Global Market.
Extension Amendment
As previously announced on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 18, 2022, on November 16, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET, the Company held an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders pursuant to due notice (the “Extraordinary General Meeting”). Company shareholders entitled to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting cast their votes and approved an amendment to the Trust Agreement (the “Trust Amendment Proposal”), pursuant to which the Trust Agreement was amended to extend the date on which Continental must liquidate the Trust Account established in connection with the IPO if the Company has not completed its initial business combination, from November 18, 2022 to August 18, 2023 provided the Company deposits $0.045 per Energem public Class A ordinary share per month extended.
Shareholders of the Company also approved the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association at the Extraordinary General Meeting, giving the Company the right to extend the date by which the Company must (i) consummate a merger, capital share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination involving the Company and one or more businesses (a “business combination”), (ii) cease its operations if it fails to complete such business combination, and (iii) redeem or repurchase 100% of Energem’s Class A ordinary shares included as part of the units sold its IPO from November 18, 2022 (the “Termination Date”) by up to nine (9) one-month extensions to August 18, 2023 (the “Extension Amendment Proposal”).
In connection with the voting on the Extension Amendment Proposal and the Trust Amendment Proposal at the Extraordinary General Meeting, holders of 9,604,519 shares of Energem’s Class A ordinary shares exercised their right to redeem those shares for cash at an approximate price of $10.26 per share, for an aggregate of approximately $98,538,999.03. Following the payment of the redemptions, the Trust Account had a balance of approximately $19,446,970.75.
Our Business
We have specifically formed a preeminent management team and board of directors with significant experience to source, evaluate and execute a merger with a company that would benefit from access to the public markets and the skills of our management team. We believe that the principal technologies and sectors with massive potential include: zero emission technologies in the in the renewable energy space. Applications will only be limited by imagination. From a geographic standpoint, our target sectors are globally integrated, and we target to capture opportunities high growth markets such as North America and Asia Pacific.
Our team is composed of seasoned industry leaders and experienced capital investors, and it has a robust network in our target industries and significant experience in the sourcing, due diligence, acquisition and execution of strategic investments. Further, our team has a global, demonstrated track-record of executing investments and managing follow-on growth in our target industries, with transaction sizes ranging from the hundreds of millions to multiple billions.
We intend to partner with the management and owners of one or more high-quality companies seeking an alternative to a traditional initial public offering (“IPO”). We will use our management team’s significant venture capital and private equity experience in sourcing transactions and due diligence to identify and negotiate a combination with an enduring business. The traditional IPO process entails significant preparation, commitment of time and resources and entails meaningful uncertainty. As a result, management and owners are searching for viable public market alternatives. We believe that the combined experience of our management, members of our Board and our advisors, represents a compelling alternative combined with the potential for long-term value creation.
We see an increased focus on sustainability and impact during the countdown to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (“UN SDGs”) by 2030. This focus is driving numerous attractive and high-growth commercial opportunities that can contribute to the solution of complex global challenges such as zero emissions, industrial innovation, reduction of waste, and combating climate change. Indeed, environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) investing continues to grow in significance with both institutional and retail investors, and its alignment with consumer behavior continues to grow as well.
We have also observed that companies increasingly seek to become more mission-driven through the adoption of clear and transparent ESG frameworks. Further, we are seeing that an emphasis on better outcomes for all stakeholders is increasingly becoming a source of competitive advantage. It is already well-evidenced that businesses with strong ESG practices can achieve attractive investment returns. In an era where more and more people want to work for, buy from and invest in organizations that share their values, we believe companies that have a positive impact on society and the planet will be better placed to succeed and grow sustainably.
Our team is comprised of seasoned industry leaders and experienced capital investors, and it has a robust network in our target industries and significant experience in the sourcing, due diligence, acquisition and execution of strategic investments. Further, our team has a global, demonstrated track record of executing investments and managing follow-on growth in our target industries, with transaction sizes ranging from the hundreds of millions to multiple billions.
Over the course of their careers, our management team and Board have developed a broad network of contacts and corporate relationships that we believe will serve as a useful source of opportunities. This network has been developed through both investing and operating experience across a broad range of sectors, including diversified business services, technology, telecommunications, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare, financial services and financial technology, consumer products, energy and power, real estate including real estate services and related businesses, environmental services, mobility and electrification of the transportation industry and insurance and insurance related services. We expect these networks will provide us with a robust flow of opportunities for a potential business combination.
We have employed a pro-active acquisition strategy focused on identifying potential business combination targets, as seen with the Graphjet Business Combination. We believe strongly in our management team’s ability to add value from both an operating and a financing perspective which has been a key driver of past performance and we believe will continue to be central to its differentiated acquisition strategy.
Our Business Strategy
Our investment strategy seeks to promote responsible and purposeful business standards, and focuses on the following three types of companies:
● Businesses that contribute scalable solutions in the renewable energy space, which have positive fundamental growth drivers that deliver attractive financial returns and measurable impact when considering ESG factors;
● Best-in-class businesses that benefit all stakeholders, where we can leverage our impact management expertise to maximize the companies’ positive impacts, build a stronger brand and value proposition, and drive financial return; and
● Businesses which do not currently have best-in-class impact management practices but where there is an opportunity to re-orient and transform currently negative aspects of business operations to generate positive outcomes; and in doing so, build a more sustainable and resilient business model with a more attractive, less risky and more future-proofed financial return.
While we will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, we believe our management and sponsors’ experience allows us to evaluate targets that have the potential to accelerate financial value creation while also having a measurable net positive impact on the environment and society outside of China and Hong Kong.
Our management team’s efforts to seek a suitable business combination target will be complemented by the experience and network of our Board of Directors. In addition, our management team and Board of Directors will utilize their extensive networks of seasoned industry operators and advisors to help us identify potential targets and effect the initial business combination in a more efficient process. We believe that our team and vision will make us an attractive partner for founders and owners in the industries in which we plan to pursue business combination targets.
Globally, we are approaching a decisive moment for international efforts to tackle the climate crisis - a great challenge of our times. The number of countries that have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century or soon after continues to grow, but so do global greenhouse gas emissions. This gap between rhetoric and action needs to close if we are to have a fighting chance of reaching net zero by 2050 and limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C. Doing so requires nothing short of a total transformation of the energy systems that underpin our economies. We are in a critical year at the start of a critical decade for these efforts.
Our business strategies will be to identify, acquire and, after our initial business combination, build a company in the energy value chain with an immediate plan to focus on South East Asia and the Asia Pacific Regions (outside of China and Hong Kong), specifically in the oil and gas and other potential renewable energy business as well as other adjacent services, industrials, and technologies, and remaining opportunities across the energy value chain, including select opportunities within the traditional power generation and energy production.
We believe that the way businesses and consumers operate, make decisions, and spend has forever been changed because of the pandemic. We believe further that our relationships with a large pool of quality initial business combination targets looking for an opportunity to create liquidity for current investors and currency to acquire other companies. This provides numerous opportunities, and we would be well positioned given the difficulty in bridging technology and/or capital opportunities between the east and west. Further, we believe that the management team and board member’s extensive background, careers, reputations, and relationships in cross border business experience gives us the insight and position to identify the ideal targets for a business combination that creates long-term opportunity and value growth and to complete the business combination.
Acquisition Criteria
Consistent with our business strategy, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective targets, such as Graphjet, for our initial business combination. We will use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating acquisition opportunities, but we may decide to enter our initial business combination with a target that does not meet these criteria and guidelines. We intend to acquire target businesses that we believe:
● are fundamentally sound but that we believe can improve results by leveraging the transactional, financial, managerial and investment experience of our management team;
● have high-quality and strategically located assets;
● have a de-risked asset base with meaningful free cash flow;
● can utilize the extensive networks and insights that our management team and have built in the energy value chain;
● are at an inflection point, such as requiring additional management expertise, are able to innovate through new operational techniques, or where we believe we can drive improved financial performance;
● exhibit unrecognized value or other characteristics, desirable returns on capital, and a need for capital to achieve the company’s growth strategy, that we believe have been misevaluated by the marketplace based on our analysis and due diligence review;
● have an attractive valuation at entry and conservative balance sheet to create resiliency across the commodity cycle;
● will offer an attractive risk-adjusted return for our shareholders.
● synergistic /strategic partnership with existing owner;
● clean slate with no or minimum legacy issues;
● offer growth potential & knock-on opportunities; and
● strong focus on environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) and sustainability.
Potential upside from growth in the target business and an improved capital structure will be weighed against any identified downside risks. We intend to spend significant time assessing a company’s leadership and personnel and evaluating what we can do to augment or upgrade the team over time if needed. We will seek to identify business that we believe exhibit unrecognized value or other characteristics, desirable returns on capital, and a need for capital to achieve the company’s growth strategy, or that we believe have been misevaluated by the marketplace based on our analysis and due diligence review. These criteria are not intended to be exhaustive. Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination may be based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that our management may deem relevant.
Our Acquisition Process
In evaluating a potential target business, we expect to conduct a comprehensive due diligence review to determine a target company’s quality and its intrinsic value. That due diligence review will encompass, among other things, financial statement analysis, detailed document reviews, technology diligence, multiple meetings with incumbent management and employees, inspection of facilities, consultations with relevant industry and academic experts, competitors, customers, and suppliers, as well as a review of operational, legal, and additional information that we will seek to obtain as part of our analysis of a target company. We will also utilize our operational and capital planning experience.
We expect to place significant emphasis on a business combination target’s technology and intellectual property as part of our acquisition evaluation process, consistent with the investment approach of our management team. This due diligence may include the engagement of multiple technical experts across both industry and academia to review the technology, participation in joint due diligence meetings with these technical experts and management, as well as detailed intellectual property due diligence, to determine the nature and quality of a company’s technology innovation.
We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor, officers or directors. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a company that is affiliated with our sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm which is a member of FINRA or an independent accounting firm that our initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view.
Members of our management team, including our officers and directors, directly or indirectly own founder shares and may own rights following this offering and, accordingly, may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target company is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our initial business combination. Further, each of our officers and directors, as well as our management team, may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination, including if the retention or resignation of any such officers, directors, and management team members was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to such business combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target.
Each of our directors and officers presently has and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual obligations to other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such opportunity to such entity. We do not believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors will materially affect our ability to complete our initial business combination.
Status as a Public Company
We believe our structure makes us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses, such as Graphjet. As an existing public company, we offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination. In this situation, the owners of the target business would exchange their shares or other equity interests in the target business for our shares or for a combination of our shares and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers. See “The Share Purchase Agreement” above for more information regarding such exchange in the Share Purchase Agreement. Although there are various costs and obligations associated with being a public company, we believe target businesses will find this method a more certain and cost-effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering. In a typical initial public offering, there are additional expenses incurred in marketing, road show and public reporting efforts that may not be present to the same extent in connection with a business combination with us.
Furthermore, once a proposed business combination is completed, such as the Graphjet Business Combination, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriters’ ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could delay or prevent the offering from occurring or could have negative valuation consequences. Once public, we believe the target business would then have greater access to capital and an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with shareholders’ interests. It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees.
Financial Position
With funds available for an initial business combination presently in the amount of approximately $20,011,014.13 (as of March 23, 2023), we offer a target business, such as Graphjet, a variety of options to facilitate a business combination and fund future expansion and growth of its business. Because we are able to consummate a business combination using the cash proceeds from our initial public offering, our share capital, debt or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use an efficient structure allowing us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to address the needs of the parties. However, if a business combination requires us to use substantially all of our cash to pay for the purchase price, we may need to arrange third party financing to help fund our business combination. Accordingly, our flexibility in structuring a business combination may be subject to these constraints.
Effecting our Initial Business Combination
We are not presently engaged in, and we will not engage in, any operations other than the pursuit of our initial business combination, for an indefinite period. We intend to complete our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of our initial public offering and the private placement of the private placement units, our share capital debt or a combination of these as the consideration to be paid in our initial business combination. We may seek to complete our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses, although we will not be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank check company or a similar company with nominal operations.
If our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt securities, or not all of the funds released from the trust account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our business combination or used for redemptions of our public shares, we may apply the balance of the cash released to us from the trust account for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction company, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other assets, companies or for working capital.
We may seek to raise additional funds through a private offering of debt or equity securities in connection with the completion of our initial business combination (which may include a specified future issuance), and we may complete our initial business combination using the proceeds of such offering rather than using the amounts held in the trust account. Subject to compliance with applicable securities laws, we would expect to complete such financing only simultaneously with the completion of our business combination. In the case of an initial business combination funded with assets other than the trust account assets, our tender offer documents or proxy materials disclosing the business combination would disclose the terms of the financing and, only if required by law, we would seek shareholder approval of such financing. There are no prohibitions on our ability to raise funds privately, including pursuant to any specified future issuance, or through loans in connection with our initial business combination.
The time required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete our initial business combination, and the costs associated with this process, are not currently ascertainable with any degree of certainty. Any costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of a prospective target business with which our business combination is not ultimately completed will result in our incurring losses and will reduce the funds we can use to complete another business combination.
Sources of Target Businesses
We receive proprietary transaction opportunities as a result of the business relationships, direct outreach, and deal sourcing activities from the network built up by our management team and by the members of our Board. Target business candidates, such as Graphjet, have been brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment banking firms, consultants, accounting firms, private equity groups, large business enterprises, and other market participants. These sources introduce us to target businesses in which they think we may be interested on an unsolicited basis, since many of these sources will have read the prospectus of our initial public offering and know what types of businesses we are targeting. Some of our officers and directors may enter into employment or consulting agreements with the post-transaction company following our initial business combination. The presence or absence of any such fees or arrangements will not be used as a criterion in our selection process of an acquisition candidate. In no event will our sponsor or any of our existing officers or directors, or any entity with which they are affiliated, be paid any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the completion of our initial business combination (regardless of the type of transaction that it is).
We are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a business that is affiliated with our sponsor, officers or directors. In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a business that is affiliated with our sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, will obtain an opinion from either an independent investment banking firm that is a member of FINRA or an independent accounting firm that our initial business combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view. Furthermore, if we seek such a business combination, we expect that the independent members of our board of directors would be involved in the process for considering and approving the transaction.
Each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual obligations to other entities, including entities that are affiliates of our sponsor, pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to such entity. Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands law.
Lack of Business Diversification
For an indefinite period after the completion of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance of a single business. Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinations with multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations and mitigate the risks of being in a single line of business. By completing our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may:
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subject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the industry in which we operate after our initial business combination; and
● cause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.
Limited Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management Team
Although we closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business, including the Graphjet management team, when evaluating the desirability of effecting our business combination with that business and plan to continue to do so if the Graphjet Business Combination is not consummated and we seek other business combination opportunities, our assessment of the target business’ management may not prove to be correct. In addition, the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications, or abilities to manage a public company. Furthermore, the future role of members of our management team or of our board, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with any certainty. While it is possible that one or more of our directors will remain associated in some capacity with us following our business combination, including the Graphjet Business Combination, it is presently unknown if any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs after our business combination. Moreover, we cannot assure you that members of our management team will have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the target business. The determination as to whether any members of our board of directors will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.
Following a business combination, to the extent that we deem it necessary, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management team of the target business. We cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional managers will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.
Evaluation of a Target Business and Structuring of our Initial Business Combination
Nasdaq rules require that we consummate an initial business combination with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the trust account (net of amounts disbursed to management for working capital purposes, if permitted, and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting commissions). The fair market value of our initial business combination will be determined by our board of directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community, such as discounted cash flow valuation, a valuation based on trading multiples of comparable public businesses, or a valuation based on the financial metrics of M&A transactions of comparable businesses.
In evaluating a prospective target business, such as Graphjet, we have conducted and will continue conduct an extensive due diligence review which encompasses, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and inspection of facilities, as well as review of financial and other information which is made available to us. This due diligence review is conducted either by our management or by unaffiliated third parties we may engage, although we have no current intention to engage any such third parties.
The time and costs required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete the business combination cannot presently be ascertained with any degree of certainty. Any costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of a prospective target business with which a business combination is not ultimately completed will result in a loss to us and reduce the amount of capital available to otherwise complete a business combination.
The Energem Board retained Baker Tilly (Malaysia) to opine on the fairness of the proposed acquisition of 100% of the equity interests in Graphjet for the Transaction Consideration of US$1.38 billion. Baker Tilly concluded that the fair market value of the entire equity interest in Graphjet ranges from USD $2.20 billion to USD $2.65 billion using the Relative Valuation Approach (“RVA”) methodology followed by the application of a fifty percent (50%) Start-Up Discount to Graphjet’s valuation. The Relative Valuation Approach uses a “relative valuation model,” which is a business valuation method that compares a company’s value to that of its competitors or industry peers to assess the company’s financial worth. The Energem Board relied on the Baker Tilly fairness opinion regarding the fairness of the Transaction Consideration to acquire Graphjet.
Shareholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve our Initial Business Combination
We may conduct redemptions without a shareholder vote pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC subject to the provisions of our second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. However, we will seek shareholder approval if it is required by law or applicable stock exchange rule, or we may decide to seek shareholder approval for business or other reasons.
Type of Transaction Whether
Share
Approval is
Required
Purchase of assets No
Purchase of shares of target not involving a merger with the company No
Merger of target into a subsidiary of the company No
Merger of the company with a target Yes
Under Nasdaq’s listing rules, shareholder approval would be required for our initial business combination if, for example:
● we issue ordinary shares that will be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of our ordinary shares then outstanding (other than in a public offering);
● any of our directors, officers or substantial shareholders (as defined by the Nasdaq rules) has a 5% or greater interest (or such persons collectively have a 10% or greater interest), directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired or otherwise and the present or potential issuance of ordinary shares could result in an increase in outstanding ordinary shares or voting power of 5% or more; or
● the issuance or potential issuance of ordinary shares will result in our undergoing a change of control.
The decision as to whether we will seek shareholder approval of a proposed business combination in those instances in which shareholder approval is not required by law will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on business and legal reasons, which include a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:
● the timing of the transaction, including in the event we determine shareholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek shareholder approval or doing so would place the Company at a disadvantage in the transaction or result in other additional burdens on the Company;
● the expected cost of holding a shareholder vote;
● the risk that the shareholders would fail to approve the proposed business combination;
● other time and budget constraints of the Company; and
● additional legal complexities of a proposed business combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to shareholders.
Ability to Extend Time to Complete Business Combination
The shareholders of the Company approved the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association at the November 16, 2022 Extraordinary General Meeting, changing the structure and cost of the Company’s right to extend the Termination Date by which the Company must (i) consummate a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination involving the Company and one or more businesses, which we refer to as a “business combination,” (ii) cease its operations if it fails to complete such business combination, and (iii) redeem or repurchase 100% of the Company’s common shares included as part of the units sold in the Company’s initial public offering that closed on November 18, 2021, which was November 18, 2022 but was amended to extend the Termination Date by up to nine (9) one-month extensions to August 18, 2023 provided that (i) the Sponsor (or its affiliates or permitted designees) will deposit into the Trust Account an additional $0.045 per share for each month until August 18, 2023, and (ii) compliance with the procedures relating to any such extension, as set forth in the Trust Agreement.
Permitted Purchases of Our Securities
If we seek shareholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our sponsor, directors, officers or their affiliates may purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the consummation of our initial business combination. Such a purchase would include a contractual acknowledgement that such shareholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. If our sponsor, directors, officers or their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public shareholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling shareholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. Although very unlikely, our initial shareholders, officers, directors and their affiliates could purchase sufficient shares so that the initial business combination may be approved without the majority vote of public shares held by non-affiliates. It is intended that purchases will comply with Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act, which provides a safe harbor for purchases made under certain conditions, including with respect to timing, pricing and volume of purchases.
The purpose of such purchases would be to (1) increase the likelihood of obtaining shareholder approval of the business combination or (2) to satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of the business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the consummation of an initial business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.
As a consequence of any such purchases, the public “float” of our public shares of Common Shares may be reduced and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, which may make it difficult to maintain the listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange following consummation of a business combination.
Redemption Rights for Public Shareholders upon Consummation of Our Initial Business Combination
We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion their shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination, such as the Graphjet Business Combination, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest (net of taxes payable), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein. Our initial shareholders have agreed to waive their right to receive liquidating distributions if we fail to consummate our initial business combination within the requisite period. However, if our initial shareholders or any of our officers, directors or affiliates acquires public shares in or after our initial public offering, they will be entitled to receive liquidating distributions with respect to such public shares if we fail to consummate our initial business combination within the required period.
Manner of Conducting Redemptions
We will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of our initial business combination either (i) in connection with a shareholder meeting called to approve the initial business combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. We intend to hold a shareholder vote in connection with our business combination. In such case, we will:
● conduct the redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules, and
● file proxy materials with the SEC.
If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, we will distribute proxy materials and, in connection therewith, provide our public shareholders with the redemption rights described above upon completion of the initial business combination. If we submit our initial business combination to our public shareholders for a vote, we will complete our initial business combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of ordinary shares present and entitled to vote at the meeting to approve the initial business combination are voted in favor of the initial business combination. A quorum for such meeting will consist of the holders present in person or by proxy of shares of outstanding ordinary shares of the company representing a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of ordinary shares of the company entitled to vote at such meeting. Our sponsor, officers, directors, and director nominees will count towards this quorum. Our sponsor, officers, directors, and director nominees have agreed to vote their founder shares and any public shares purchased during or after this offering in favor of our initial business combination. These quorum and voting thresholds, and the voting agreements of our sponsor, officers, directors, and director nominees may make it more likely that we will consummate our initial business combination.
Each public shareholder may elect to redeem its public shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against, or abstain from voting on, the proposed transaction or abstain from voting. Additionally, each public shareholder may elect to redeem its public shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction or abstained from voting. Public shareholders will not be offered the opportunity to vote on or redeem their shares in connection with any extension of the period to complete our initial business combination.
If, however, shareholder approval of the transaction is required by law or stock exchange listing requirement, or we decide to obtain shareholder approval for business or other reasons, we will, pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association:
● conduct the redemptions pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act, which regulate issuer tender offers; and
● file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing our initial business combination which contain substantially the same financial and other information about the initial business combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies.
Upon the public announcement of our initial business combination, we or our sponsor will terminate any plan established in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 to purchase Class A ordinary shares in the open market if we elect to redeem our public shares through a tender offer, to comply with Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act. In the event we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, our offer to redeem will remain open for at least 20 business days, in accordance with Rule 14e-1(a) under the Exchange Act, and we will not be permitted to complete our initial business combination until the expiration of the tender offer period. In addition, the tender offer will be conditioned on public shareholders not tendering more than the number of public shares we are permitted to redeem. If public shareholders tender more shares than we have offered to purchase, we will withdraw the tender offer and not complete the initial business combination.
Our second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules). Redemptions of our public shares may also be subject to a higher net tangible asset test or cash requirement pursuant to an agreement relating to our initial business combination. For example, the proposed business combination may require: (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash to be transferred to the target for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions in accordance with the terms of the proposed business combination. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all shares of our Class A ordinary shares that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the initial business combination or redeem any shares, and all shares of our Class A ordinary shares submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof.
Limitation on Redemption upon Completion of Our Initial Business Combination If We Seek Shareholder Approval
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our initial business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that a public shareholder, together with any affiliate of such shareholder or any other person with whom such shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from seeking redemption rights with respect to the Excess Shares. We believe this restriction will discourage shareholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and subsequent attempts by such holders to use their ability to exercise their redemption rights against a proposed business combination as a means to force us or our management to purchase their shares at a significant premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms.
Absent this provision, a public shareholder holding more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in this offering could threaten to exercise its redemption rights if such holder’s shares are not purchased by us, our sponsor or our management at a premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms. By limiting our shareholders’ ability to redeem no more than 15% of the shares sold in this offering without our prior consent, we believe we will limit the ability of a small group of shareholders to unreasonably attempt to block our ability to complete our initial business combination, particularly in connection with a business combination with a target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. However, we would not be restricting our shareholders’ ability to vote all of their shares (including Excess Shares) for or against our initial business combination.
Tendering Share Certificates in Connection with a Tender Offer or Redemption Rights
Public shareholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” will be required to either tender their certificates (if any) to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, mailed to such holders, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/ Withdrawal At Custodian) System, at the holder’s option, in each case up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote to approve the initial business combination. The proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our initial business combination will indicate the applicable delivery requirements, which will include the requirement that a beneficial holder must identify itself to validly redeem its shares. Accordingly, a public shareholder would have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the close of the tender offer period, or up to two days prior to the initial vote on the initial business combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable, to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights. Given the relatively short period in which to exercise redemption rights, it is advisable for shareholders to use electronic delivery of their public shares.
There is a nominal cost associated with the above-referenced tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC System. The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker a fee of approximately $80.00 and it would be up to the broker whether to pass this cost on to the redeeming holder. However, this fee would be incurred regardless of whether we require holders seeking to exercise redemption rights to tender their shares. The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the timing of when such delivery must be effectuated.
The foregoing is different from the procedures used by many blank check companies. To perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations, many blank check companies would distribute proxy materials for the shareholders’ vote on an initial business combination, and a holder could simply vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holder was seeking to exercise his or her redemption rights. After the initial business combination was approved, the Company would contact such shareholder to arrange for him or her to deliver his or her certificate to verify ownership. As a result, the shareholder then had an “option window” after the completion of the initial business combination during which he or she could monitor the price of the Company’s shares in the market. If the price rose above the redemption price, he or she could sell his or her shares in the open market before delivering his or her shares to the Company for cancellation. As a result, the redemption rights, to which shareholders were aware they needed to commit before the general meeting, would become “option” rights surviving past the completion of the initial business combination until the redeeming holder delivered its certificate. The requirement for physical or electronic delivery prior to the meeting ensures that a redeeming shareholder’s election to redeem is irrevocable once the initial business combination is approved.
Any request to redeem such shares, once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to two business days prior to the vote on the proposal to approve the initial business combination, unless otherwise agreed to by us. Furthermore, if a holder of a public share delivered its certificate in connection with an election of redemption rights and subsequently decides prior to the applicable date not to elect to exercise such rights, such holder may simply request that the transfer agent return the certificate (physically or electronically). It is anticipated that the funds to be distributed to holders of our public shares electing to redeem their shares will be distributed promptly after the completion of our initial business combination.
If our initial business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public shareholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be entitled to redeem their shares for the applicable pro rata share of the trust account. In such case, we will promptly return any certificates delivered by public holders who elected to redeem their shares. If our initial proposed business combination is not completed, we may continue to try to complete a business combination with a different target until 12 months (or as extended as provided in our registration statement) from the closing of this offering. Public shareholders will not be offered the opportunity to vote on or redeem their shares in connection with any extension of the period to complete our initial business combination.
Redemption of Public Shares and Liquidation if no Initial Business Combination
Our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that we have up to nine (9) one-month Extensions to August 18, 2023, provided that the Sponsor (or its affiliates or permitted designees) will deposit into the Trust Account an additional $0.045 per share for each month, or as extended by the Company’s shareholders in accordance with our Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. If we are unable to complete our business combination by August 18, 2023 (or as otherwise extended), we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete our business combination by August 18, 2023, in accordance with our second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
Our sponsor, directors and each member of our management have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their founder shares if we do not complete an initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination including with respect to any shares obtained through the placement units. However, if our sponsor, directors or members of our management team acquire public shares, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we do not complete an initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination.
Our sponsor, executive officers and directors have agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association that would affect the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete an initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination, unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes, if any divided by the number of the then outstanding public shares. However, we may not redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules). If this optional redemption right is exercised with respect to an excessive number of public shares such that we cannot satisfy the net tangible asset requirement, we would not proceed with the amendment or the related redemption of our public shares at such time. This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our sponsor, any executive officer, director or director nominee, or any other person.
We expect that all costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from amounts held outside the trust account plus up to $100,000 of funds from the interest on the trust account available to us to pay dissolution expenses, although we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient funds for such purpose.
If we were to expend all of the net proceeds of this offering the sale of the placement warrants, other than the proceeds deposited in the trust account, and without taking into account interest, if any, earned on the trust account, the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders upon our dissolution would be approximately $10.15. The proceeds deposited in the trust account could, however, become subject to the claims of our creditors which would have higher priority than the claims of our public shareholders. We cannot assure you that the actual per-share redemption amount received by shareholders will not be substantially less than $10.15. Under Section 281(b) of the Companies Act, our plan of dissolution must provide for all claims against us to be paid in full or make provision for payments to be made in full, as applicable, if there are sufficient assets. These claims must be paid or provided for before we make any distribution of our remaining assets to our shareholders. While we intend to pay such amounts, if any, we cannot assure you that we will have funds sufficient to pay or provide for all creditors’ claims.
Although we will seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public shareholders, there is no guarantee that they will execute such agreements or even if they execute such agreements that they would be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account including but not limited to fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain an advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account. If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative. Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third-party consultant whose expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver.
The underwriters will not execute agreements with us waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account. In addition, there is no guarantee that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason. In order to protect the amounts held in the trust account, our sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to us (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amounts in the trust account to below the lesser of (i) $10.15 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account if less than $10.15 per unit, due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be withdrawn to pay our taxes, if any, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business that executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account nor will it apply to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of this offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
If an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. However, we have not asked our sponsor to reserve for such indemnification obligations, nor have we independently verified whether our sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy their indemnity obligations and we believe that our sponsor’s only assets are securities of our company. Therefore, we cannot assure you that our sponsor would be able to satisfy those obligations. None of our officers or directors will indemnify us for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by vendors and prospective target businesses.
In the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below the lesser of (i) $10.15 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account if less than $10.15 per unit, due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay our taxes, if any, and our sponsor asserts that they are unable to satisfy its indemnification obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal action against our sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so in any particular instance. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that due to claims of creditors the actual value of the per-share redemption price will not be less than $10.15 per unit.
We will seek to reduce the possibility that our sponsor will have to indemnify the trust account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the trust account. Our sponsor will also not be liable as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of this offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. We will have access to the remaining proceeds of this offering and the sale of the placement units with which to pay any such potential claims (including costs and expenses incurred in connection with our liquidation, currently estimated to be no more than approximately $25,000).
If we liquidate, and it is subsequently determined that the reserve for claims and liabilities is insufficient, shareholders who received funds from our trust account could be liable for claims made by creditors, however such liability will not be greater than the amount of funds from our trust account received by any such shareholder.
Under the Companies Act, shareholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution. The pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public shareholders upon the redemption of our public shares in the event we do not complete our initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination may be considered a liquidating distribution under Cayman Islands law. If the corporation complies with certain procedures set forth in Section 280 of the Companies Act intended to ensure that it makes reasonable provision for all claims against it, including a 60-day notice period during which any third-party claims can be brought against the corporation, a 90-day period during which the corporation may reject any claims brought, and an additional 150-day waiting period before any liquidating distributions are made to shareholders, any liability of shareholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to the lesser of such shareholder’s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the shareholder, and any liability of the shareholder would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution.
Furthermore, if the pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public shareholders upon the redemption of our public shares in the event we do not complete our initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination, is not considered a liquidating distribution under Cayman Islands law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful (potentially due to the imposition of legal proceedings that a party may bring or due to other circumstances that are currently unknown), then pursuant to Section 174 of the Companies Act, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption distribution, instead of three years, as in the case of a liquidating distribution. If we do not complete our initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, redeem the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account that may be released to us to pay our taxes, if any (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay taxes and if needed, dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any) and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. Accordingly, it is our intention to redeem our public shares as soon as reasonably possible following our 18th month and, therefore, we do not intend to comply with those procedures. As such, our shareholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our shareholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary of such date.
Because we will not be complying with Section 280, Section 281(b) of the Companies Act requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within the subsequent ten years. However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations will be limited to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses. As described above, pursuant to the obligation contained in our underwriting agreement, we will seek to have all vendors, service providers, prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account. As a result of this obligation, the claims that could be made against us are significantly limited and the likelihood that any claim that would result in any liability extending to the trust account is remote. Further, our sponsor may be liable only to the extent necessary to ensure that the amounts in the trust account are not reduced below (i) $10.15 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount of interest withdrawn to pay taxes and will not be liable as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of this offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. If an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.
If we file a bankruptcy or winding-up petition or an involuntary bankruptcy or winding-up petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our shareholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, we cannot assure you we will be able to return $10.15 per unit to our public shareholders. Additionally, if we file a bankruptcy or winding-up petition or an involuntary bankruptcy or winding-up petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, any distributions received by shareholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy or insolvency laws as either a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy or insolvency court could seek to recover some, or all amounts received by our shareholders. Furthermore, our board of directors may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public shareholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.
Our public shareholders will be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our public shares if we do not complete an initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination, (ii) in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete an initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination or (B) with respect to any other provisions relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, or (iii) if they redeem their respective shares for cash upon the completion of the initial business combination. Public shareholders who redeem their Class A ordinary shares in connection with a shareholder vote described in clause (ii) in the preceding sentence shall not be entitled to funds from the trust account upon the subsequent completion of an initial business combination or liquidation if we have not completed an initial business combination within the period to consummate the initial business combination, with respect to such shares of our Class A ordinary shares so redeemed. In no other circumstances will a shareholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account. In the event we seek shareholder approval in connection with our initial business combination, a shareholder’s voting in connection with the initial business combination alone will not result in a shareholder’s redeeming its shares to us for an applicable pro rata share of the trust account. Such shareholder must have also exercised its redemption rights described above. These provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, like all provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, may be amended with a shareholder vote.
Competition
In identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business for our initial business combination, such as Graphjet, we may continue to encounter competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including other blank check companies, private equity groups and leveraged buyout funds, public companies and operating businesses seeking strategic business combinations. Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience identifying and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates. Moreover, many of these competitors possess greater financial, technical, human and other resources than we do. Our ability to acquire larger target businesses will be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the initial business combination of a target business. Furthermore, our obligation to pay cash in connection with our public shareholders who exercise their redemption rights may reduce the resources available to us for our initial business combination and our outstanding warrants, and the future dilution they potentially represent, may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses. Either of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating an initial business combination.
Employees
We currently have three executive officers. These individuals are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters, but they intend to devote as much of their time as they deem necessary to our affairs until we have completed our initial business combination. The amount of time they will devote in any period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for our initial business combination and the stage of the initial business combination process we are in. We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination.
Periodic Reporting and Financial Information
We have registered our Class A ordinary shares and warrants under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC. In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, our annual reports will contain financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accounting firm.
We will provide shareholders with audited financial statements of the prospective target business as part of the proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, sent to shareholders to assist them in assessing the target business. In all likelihood, these financial statements may be required to be prepared in accordance with, or reconciled to, GAAP, or IFRS, depending on the circumstances, and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame.
We are required to evaluate our internal control procedures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022, as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large-accelerated filer or an accelerated filer, and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company, will we be required to have our internal control procedures audited. A target business may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls. The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.
We have filed a Registration Statement on Form 8-A with the SEC to voluntarily register our securities under Section 12 of the Exchange Act. As a result, we are subject to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act. We have no current intention of filing a Form 15 to suspend our reporting or other obligations under the Exchange Act prior or after the consummation of our initial business combination.
We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act. As such, we are eligible to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.
In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an “emerging growth company” can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We intend to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period.
We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our IPO, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion (as adjusted for inflation pursuant to SEC rules from time to time), or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our Class A ordinary shares that is held by non-affiliates equals or exceeds $700.0 million as of the prior June 30th, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. Risk Factors
As a smaller reporting company, we are not required to include risk factors in this Report. However, below is a partial list of material risks, uncertainties and other factors that could have a material effect on the Company and its operations:
● early-stage company without an operating history;
● lack of opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination;
● lack of protections afforded to investors of blank check companies;
● issuance of equity and/or debt securities to complete a business combination;
● lack of working capital;
● third-party claims reducing the per-share redemption price;
● negative interest rate for securities in which we invest the funds held in the trust account;
● our shareholders being held liable for claims by third parties against us;
● failure to enforce our sponsor’s indemnification obligations;
● the ability of warrant holders to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with our company;
● dependence on key personnel;
● conflicts of interest of our sponsor, officers and directors and the representative;
● the delisting of our securities by Nasdaq;
● dependence on a single target business with a limited number of products or services;
● shares being redeemed and warrants and rights becoming worthless;
● our competitors with advantages over us in seeking business combinations;
● ability to obtain additional financing;
● our initial shareholders controlling a substantial interest in us;
● warrants’ and founder shares’ adverse effect on the market price of our ordinary shares;
● disadvantageous timing for redeeming warrants;
● registration rights’ adverse effect on the market price of our ordinary shares;
● impact of COVID-19 and related risks;
● business combination with a company located in a foreign jurisdiction;
● changes in laws or regulations; tax consequences to business combinations; and
● exclusive forum provisions in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association.
For the complete list of risks relating to our operations, see the sections titled “Risk Factors” contained in our (i) S-1 Registration Statement, (ii) our S-4 Registration Statement; (iii) our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022, (iv) our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, as filed with the SEC on May 15, 2022, (v) our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, as filed with the SEC on August 15, 2022, and (vi) our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, as filed with the SEC on November 15, 2022.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Not applicable.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties
Our executive offices are located at Level 3, Tower 11, Avenue 5, No. 8, Jalan Kerinchi, Bangsar South, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 59200, and our telephone number is + (60) 3270 47622. The cost for our use of this space is included in the $10,000 per month fee we pay to an affiliate of our sponsor for office space, administrative and shared personnel support services. We consider our current office space adequate for our current operations.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
To the knowledge of our management team, there is no litigation currently pending or contemplated against us, any of our officers or directors in their capacity as such or against any of our property.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Ordinary Equity, Related Shareholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
(a) Market Information
Our units, public shares and public warrants are each traded on Nasdaq under the symbols ENCPU, ENCP and ENCPW, respectively. Our units commenced public trading on November 16, 2021, and our public shares and public warrants commenced separate public trading on January 10, 2022.
(b) Holders
On March 30, 2023, there were two holders of record of our units, one holder of record of our Class A ordinary shares and one holder of record of our warrants.
(c) Dividends
We have not paid any cash dividends on our ordinary shares to date and do not intend to pay cash dividends prior to the completion of our initial business combination. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition after completion of our initial business combination. The payment of any cash dividends after our initial business combination will be within the discretion of our board of directors at such time. In addition, our board of directors is not currently contemplating and does not anticipate declaring any share dividends in the foreseeable future. Further, if we incur any indebtedness in connection with our initial business combination, our ability to declare dividends may be limited by restrictive covenants we may agree to in connection therewith.
(d) Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans.
None.
(e) Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
On November 18, 2021, simultaneously with the consummation of the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated the private placement of an aggregate of 475,575 placement units to the Sponsor, at a price of $10.00 per placement unit, generating total gross proceeds of $4,755,750. On the same day, with the exercise of the overallotment, the Company consummated the private placement of an additional 52,500 placement units to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of $525,000. No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to such sale. The issuance of the placement units was made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
The placement warrants included in the placement units are identical to the warrants sold as part of the units in the IPO except that, so long as they are held by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees, (i) they will not be redeemable by us, (ii) they (including the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of these warrants) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holders until 30 days after the completion of our initial business combination, (iii) they may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis, and (iv) will be entitled to registration rights.
(f) Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
None.
(g) Use of Proceeds from the Initial Public Offering
On November 16, 2021, the Company consummated its IPO of 10,000,000 units consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one redeemable warrant entitling the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per share at $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $100,000,000, and incurring offering costs of $8,304,871, of which $4,025,000 was for deferred underwriting commissions. The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 units at the IPO price to cover over-allotments.
On November 18, 2021, the underwriters purchased an additional 1,500,000 units pursuant to the exercise of the over-allotment option. The units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating additional gross proceeds to the Company of $15,000,000.
The securities sold in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act on the Company’s S-1 Registration Statement, which the SEC declared effective on November 15, 2021.
Of the gross proceeds received from the IPO and the placement units, $116,725,000 was placed in a Trust Account at the closing on November 18, 2021. We paid a total of $2,300,000 in underwriting discounts and commissions and $413,148 for other costs and expenses related to the IPO. In addition, the underwriters agreed to defer $4,025,000 in underwriting discounts and commission.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. Reserved.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
References to the “Company,” “us,” “our” or “we” refer to Energem Corp. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our unaudited financial statements and related notes included herein.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this Report including, without limitation, statements under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” regarding the Company’s financial position, business strategy and the plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this Report, words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend” and similar expressions, as they relate to us or the Company’s management, identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company’s management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors detailed in our filings with the SEC. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on the Company’s behalf are qualified in their entirety by this paragraph.
Overview
The Company is a blank check company formed under the laws of the Cayman Islands on August 6, 2021, for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The Company intends to effectuate its initial Business Combination using cash from the proceeds of the IPO and the Private Placement, the proceeds of the sale of our securities in connection with our initial business combination, our shares, debt or a combination of cash, stock and debt.
The issuance of additional shares in connection with an initial business combination to the owners of the target or other investors:
● may significantly dilute the equity interest of investors, which dilution would increase if the anti-dilution provisions in the Class B ordinary shares resulted in the issuance of Class A ordinary shares on a greater than one-to-one basis upon conversion of the Class B ordinary shares;
● may subordinate the rights of holders of our ordinary shares if preferred shares are issued with rights senior to those afforded our ordinary shares;
● could cause a change in control if a substantial number of shares of our ordinary shares is issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors;
● may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of us by diluting the share ownership or voting rights of a person seeking to obtain control of us; and
● may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our Class A ordinary shares and/or warrants.
Similarly, if we issue debt securities or otherwise incur significant debt to bank or other lenders or the owners of a target, it could result in:
● default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after an initial business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;
● acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;
● our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt security is payable on demand;
● our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt security contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt security is outstanding;
● our inability to pay dividends on our ordinary shares;
● using a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our ordinary shares if declared, our ability to pay expenses, make capital expenditures and acquisitions, and fund other general corporate purposes;
● limitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;
● increased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation;
● limitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, and execution of our strategy; and
● other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.
We expect to continue to incur significant costs in the pursuit of our initial business combination plans. We cannot assure you that our plans to raise capital or to complete our initial business combination will be successful.
Special Purchase Agreement
On August 1, 2022, the Company, entered into the Share Purchase Agreement with Graphjet, the Purchaser Representative, the Selling Shareholders and the Shareholder Representative. Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, subject to the terms and conditions therein, the Company will purchase 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Graphjet for the Consideration Shares such that Graphjet will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The Share Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants by the parties thereto and the Closing is subject to certain conditions as further described in the Share Purchase Agreement.
Graphjet converts palm kernel shells to essential raw materials such as graphene and graphite used to produce batteries in the electric vehicle space among other products. The aggregate value of the Consideration Shares to be paid pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement to the Selling Shareholders, as of immediately prior to the Closing, for the purchase of all issued and outstanding Graphjet Shares, shall be that number of Energem Class A ordinary shares equal to (i) One Billion Three Hundred and Eighty Million U.S. Dollars ($1,380,000,000), minus (ii) the amount, if any, by which $30,000 (i.e., the target net working capital amount) exceeds the Net Working Capital Amount (but not less than zero) (as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement), minus (iii) the Closing Net Indebtedness amount (as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement), minus (iv) the amount of any Transaction Expenses (as defined in the Share Purchase Agreement), divided by ten dollars ($10.00).
Each Selling Shareholder shall receive a number of Energem Class A ordinary shares equal to the aggregate Consideration Shares divided by the number of Graphjet Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Closing, multiplied by the number of Graphjet Shares held by such Selling Shareholder. The total consideration payable to the Selling Shareholders in accordance with the Share Purchase Agreement is also referred to herein as the Transaction Consideration.
The Extraordinary General Meeting
As previously reported on Form 8-K, on November 16, 2022, the Company held an annual meeting via an Extraordinary General Meeting at which the shareholders cast their votes and approved the Trust Amendment Proposal, pursuant to which the Trust Agreement was amended to extend the date on which Continental must liquidate the Trust Account established in connection with the IPO if the Company has not completed its initial business combination, from November 18, 2022 to August 18, 2023.
At the Extraordinary General Meeting, the shareholders of the Company approved the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company giving the Company the right to extend the date by which the Company must (i) consummate a merger, capital share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination involving the Company and one or more businesses, (ii) cease its operations if it fails to complete such business combination, and (iii) redeem or repurchase 100% of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares included as part of the units sold in the Company’s IPO that closed on November 18, 2021 from November 18, 2022 by up to nine (9) one-month extensions to August 18, 2023.
In connection with approval of the Extension Amendment Proposal and the Trust Amendment Proposal, the Company caused $0.045 per outstanding share of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares, giving effect to the redemptions disclosed above, or approximately $85,297 for the remaining 1,895,481 Class A ordinary shares to be deposited in the Trust Account in connection with the exercise of the first monthly extension of the Extended Date on November 17, 2022 in advance of the November 18, 2022 due date.
In connection with the second monthly extension of the Termination Date, the Company caused $0.045 per outstanding share of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares or approximately $85,297 for 1,895,481 Class A ordinary shares to be paid to the Trust Account on December 15, 2022, in advance of the December 17, 2022 due date for the second monthly extension of the Termination Date.
In connection with the third monthly extension of the Termination Date, the Company caused $0.045 per outstanding share of Energem’s Class A ordinary shares or approximately $85,297 for 1,895,481 Class A ordinary shares to be paid to the Trust Account on January 13, 2022, in advance of the January 18, 2022 due date.
In connection with the fourth monthly extension of the Termination Date, the Company caused $0.045 per outstanding share of Energem’s Class A ordinary shares or approximately $85,297 for 1,895,481 Class A ordinary shares to be paid to the Trust Account on February 10, 2023, in advance of the February 18, 2023 due date.
In connection with the fifth monthly extension of the Termination Date, the Company caused $0.045 per outstanding share of Energem’s Class A ordinary shares or approximately $85,297 for 1,895,481 Class A ordinary shares to be paid to the Trust Account on March 10, 2023, in advance of the March 18, 2023 due date to extend the period to consummate the period to complete a business combination to April 18, 2023.
Results of Operations
We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. Our only activities from inception to December 31, 2022, were organizational activities, those necessary to prepare for the IPO identifying a target company for a business combination. We do not expect to generate any operating revenues until after the completion of our initial business combination. We expect to generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and marketable securities held after the IPO. We expect that we will incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses in connection with completing a business combination.
For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had a net income of $53,884, which consists of formation and operating costs $1,294,712 and interest earned on marketable securities hold in the trust account of $1,348,596. For the period from August 6, 2021, to December 31, 2021, we had a net loss of $307,949 which consist of formation and operating costs of $309,298 and interest earned on marketable securities hold in the trust account of $1,349.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
On November 16, 2021, the Company consummated its IPO of 10,000,000 units (the “units” consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one redeemable warrant entitling the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at $11.50 per share), at $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $100,000,000, and incurring offering costs of $6,738,148, of which $4,025,000 was for deferred underwriting commissions (see Note 6). The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 units at the IPO price to cover over-allotments. Simultaneously with the consummation of the closing of the IPO, the Company consummated the private placement of an aggregate of 475,575 units to the Sponsor, at a price of $10.00 per placement unit, generating total gross proceeds of $4,755,750 (see Note 4).
On November 18, 2021, the underwriters purchased an additional 1,500,000 units pursuant to the exercise of the over-allotment option. The units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating additional gross proceeds to the Company of $15,000,000. Also, in connection with the partial exercise of the over-allotment option, the Sponsor purchased an additional 52,500 placement units at a purchase price of $10.00 per unit.
As of December 31, 2022, we had available to us $47,789 of cash on our balance sheet and a working capital deficit of $723,893. We intend to use the funds held outside of the Trust Account for identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates, performing business due diligence on prospective target businesses, traveling to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses, reviewing corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, selecting the target business to acquire and structuring, negotiating and consummating the business combination. The interest income earned on the investments in the Trust Account are unavailable to fund operating expenses.
Based on the foregoing, management believes that the Company will have sufficient working capital and borrowing capacity to meet its needs through the earlier of the consummation of a Business Combination or one year from this filing. Over this period, the Company will be using the funds held outside of the Trust Account for paying existing accounts payable, identifying and evaluating prospective initial Business Combination candidates, performing due diligence on prospective target businesses, paying for travel expenditures, selecting the target business to merge with or acquire, and structuring, negotiating and consummating the Business Combination.
The Company’s Sponsor, officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds from time to time or at any time, in whatever amount they deem reasonable in their sole discretion, to meet the Company’s working capital needs. Accordingly, the Company may not be able to obtain additional financing if needed. If the Company is unable to raise additional capital, it may be required to take additional measures to conserve liquidity, which could include, but not necessarily be limited to, curtailing operations, suspending the pursuit of a potential transaction, and reducing overhead expenses.
On August 6, 2021, Energem LLC, our sponsor, agreed to loan us up to an aggregate amount of up to $300,000 to cover expenses related to our IPO of our units. As of December 31, 2022, a total of $88,542 is outstanding under the promissory note.
Off-Balance Sheet Financing Arrangements
We have no obligations, assets or liabilities which would be considered off-balance sheet arrangements. We do not participate in transactions that create relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as variable interest entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements.
We have not entered any off-balance sheet financing arrangements, established any special purpose entities, guaranteed any debt or commitments of other entities, or entered any non-financial assets.
Contractual Obligations
We do not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities. Commencing on the date of the prospectus and until completion of the Company’s business combination or liquidation, the Company may reimburse Energem LLC, the Sponsor, up to an amount of $10,000 per month for office space, secretarial and administrative support.
The underwriter is entitled to deferred commissions of $4,025,000 from the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering. The deferred commissions will become payable to the underwriter from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely if we complete a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Following the consummation of our IPO, the net proceeds of our IPO, including amounts in the Trust Account, have been invested in U.S. government treasury bills, notes or bonds with a maturity of 185 days or less or in certain money market funds that invest solely in US treasuries. Due to the short-term nature of these investments, we do not believe that there will be an associated material exposure to interest rate risk.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
This information appears following Item 15 of this Report and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer (together, the “Certifying Officers”), we carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on the foregoing, our Certifying Officers concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the period covered by this Report.
Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Certifying Officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Management’s Report on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
As required by SEC rules and regulations implementing Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that:
(1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of our company,
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors, and
(3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect errors or misstatements in our consolidated financial statements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree or compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting on December 31, 2022. In making these assessments, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013). Based on our assessments and those criteria, management determined that we did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, due to the material weakness in our internal controls due to inadequate segregation of duties within account processes due to limited personnel and insufficient written policies and procedures for accounting, IT, and financial reporting and record keeping.
Management intends to implement remediation steps to improve our internal controls due to inadequate segregation of duties within account processes due to limited personnel and insufficient written policies and procedures for accounting, IT, and financial reporting and record keeping. We plan to further improve this process by enhancing the size and composition of our board upon the closing of the business and to identify third-party professionals with whom to consult regarding complex accounting applications and consideration of additional staff with the requisite experience and training to supplement existing accounting professionals and implemented additional layers of reviews in the financial close process.
This Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm due to our status as an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) during the most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information.
In connection with the sixth extension of the Company’s termination date, the Company intends to deposit $85,297 for 1,895,481 Class A ordinary shares (plus any applicable interest) into the trust account during the week of April 10, 2023. The Company caused $0.045 per share for each public Class A ordinary share outstanding after giving effect to the redemptions disclosed above, or approximately $85,297, in the Trust Account in connection with the first, second, third, fourth and fifth extension of the Company’s termination date, from November 18, 2022 to December 18, 2022, from December 18, 2022 to January 18, 2023, from January 18, 2023 to February 18, 2023, from February 13, 2023 to March 13, 2023, and from March 13, 2023 to April 13, 2023, respectively.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
Directors and Executive Officers
As of the date of this Report, our founder, officers and directors are as follows:
Name
Age
Position
Swee Guan Hoo
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Kok Seong Wong
Chairman of the Board, Independent Director
Cu Seng Kiu
Chief Financial Officer
Doris Wong Sing Ee
Executive Director
Kwang Fock Chong
Independent Director
Our management team is led by Swee Guan Hoo, our Chief Executive Officer, Kok Seong Wong, our Chairman of the Board, Cu Seng Kiu, our Chief Financial Officer and Doris Wong Sing Ee, our Executive Director.
Swee Guan Hoo brings more than 12 years of accounting and finance experience as a registered and certified professional accountant with CPA Australia and Malaysian Institute of Accountants. Mr. Hoo’s extensive experience traverses numerous industries of audit and advisory services involving steel and hardware, oil and gas, the renewable energy sector, personal services and retail industry, freight and logistics industry, the food and beverage industry and manufacturing industry. Mr. Hoo has been serving as Executive Director of BCM Alliance Berhad since January 2021 where he manages day-to-day business, strategic planning, legal, secretarial and audit affairs. Since April 2017, Mr. Hoo has served as an Independent Director and Audit Committee Chairman of PDZ Holdings Bhd where he reviews, assesses, and communicates with external and internal auditors for financial reporting, undertakes audit planning in accordance with the approved Financial Reporting Standards and terms of reference and/or approved relevant rules. His expertise in taxation, business development, strategic planning and experiences in mergers and acquisition contributes to his success pathway along with his partners. Mr. Hoo is a graduate from Victoria University, Australia where he obtained his master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) and he received an undergraduate degree from the University of Adelaide.
Kok Seong Wong is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Association of Charted Certified Accountants (FCCA). With 15 years in the United Kingdom, Mr. Wong gained extensive exposure for several companies. During his tenure there and currently, he was responsible for the preparation of business plans, budgets and organizational financial statements, due diligence, accounting and taxation, management, project financing and implementation. Over the last few years, he has extensively been involved in a wide range of businesses, such as cross border trading, manufacturing and property development. Since January 2016, Mr. Wong has been serving as Managing Partner in Hasnan THL Wong & Partners where he manages portfolio of clients, develop new client relationships, develop and implement firm goals, and oversees all financial activities and performance. From 2006 to present, Mr. Wong has served as Director of TH Law Consultants Sdn Bhd where he manages portfolio and discover new client relationship, cooperating with all staff of the firm and oversees hiring activities and approving contracts. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Wong served as Audit Partner of English Accounting firm, Appleby & Wood where he gained extensive exposure and his experience extended to multinational companies where he was appointed as Finance Director of several UK-based companies. Mr. Wong educated in Emile Woolf College of Accountancy London from 1991 to 1994 in Accountancy and achieved Chartered Accountant. He received his master’s degree in Business Administration from the Open University in the United Kingdom in 1999.
Cu Seng Kiu brings significant accounting and audit experience involving publicly listed companies during his years working with accounting standards. Since March 2021, Mr. Kiu has served as Group Accountant for BCM Alliance Bhd, Sanichi Technology Bhd and Trive Property Group Bhd. His responsibility is on group consolidation issues. From June 2019 to February 2021, Mr. Kiu served as Manager in SBY & Partners PLT (formerly known as Siew Boon Yeong & Associates) an established professional accounting organization providing a comprehensive range of services ranging from audit and assurance, taxation and accounting where he specialized in auditing matters. From June 2017 to February 2019, Mr. Kiu served as a Senior Auditor with Siew Boon Yeong & Associates. Prior to that, from December 2016 to June 2017, Mr. Kiu served as a semi-senior auditor at the corporate compliance firm, Z. AMIN and he started his career in 2013 until December 2016 with YTS & Associate. Mr. Kiu graduated from Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur in the year 2013 with a bachelors degree (Honors) in accounting and from Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University College with a Diploma in Accounting in 2009.
Doris Wong Sing Ee brings more than 20 years of experience in management across various industries ranging from oil and gas, property development, solar, engineering, advertising and food and beverages. She specialized in business development, strategic consultancy and corporate advisory in mergers and acquisition and joint venture across Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan, Thailand and Indonesia. Since October 2020, Ms. Wong has been serving as Executive Director of Metronic Global Bhd, an investment holding company, where she was optimizing financial operations, establishing business goals, advising the board of directors on organizational activities and executing special business projects. She has also involved in various investment opportunities in business diversification, generating new revenue and increasing shareholders’ wealth. From January 2019 to September 2020, Ms. Wong served as Chief Corporate Officer in Metronic Engineering Sdn Bhd where she oversaw the HR operation, set objectives for HR team and helped to shape up brand strategy for company.
Ms. Wong served as General Manager from 2015 to 2016 in Dai-Ichi Kikaku Sdn Bhd where she was overseeing and handling business development, client strategy and direction, creative, production, media planning, procurement and research. From 2012 to 2015, Ms. Wong served as Strategic Business Consultant of JLPW Law Firm where she handled mergers and acquisition and joint venture deals internationally for various industries. From 2002 to 2012, Ms. Wong started her career as a Managing Director of Niagamatic Sdn Bhd, where she controlled all business operations to give strategic guidance and directions to the board and staff to ensure the company achieved its financial vison, mission and long-term goals. Ms. Wong graduated from Multimedia University with a Bachelor of Science (with Honors) in Creative Multimedia majoring in Media Innovation in 2003. She obtained her masters degree in Corporate Governance and a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from HELP University in 2016.
Kwang Fock Chong is a Chartered Accountant in Malaysia, and he has more than 15 years of the working experience in auditing. His experiences include auditing of public listed companies, multinationals and private limited companies in various industries. Other than conducting statutory audit in Malaysia, he also performed audit for companies based in China and the region. He was also involved in Reporting Accountants’ engagement on initial public offering exercise, due diligence, reviewing financial forecast and projections. Mr. Chong served as Auditors and Partner of KHLC PLT where his main responsibility is reviewer and signing partner since October 2020. From July 2014 to September 2020, Mr. Chong was serving as Auditors and Partner of SBY Partners PLT, which is a company provides audit and assurance services. His main responsibility was reviewer and signing partner. Mr. Chong received his Diploma in 2002 at Tunku Abdul Rahman College in Financial Accounting Cum Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He achieved his ACCA certification in the year 2005.
Number and Terms of Office of Officers and Directors
The Energem Board consists of four members. Prior to our initial business combination, holders of Energem’s Founder Shares have the right to appoint all of our directors and remove members of the board of directors for any reason, and holders of Energem’s Public Shares and private placement shares do not have the right to vote on the appointment of directors during such time. These provisions of our Energem M&A may only be amended by a Special Resolution passed by the holders of at least 90% of the issued and outstanding Energem Class B Ordinary Shares. Subject to any other special rights applicable to the shareholders, any vacancies on the Energem Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present and voting at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Energem Board or by an Ordinary Resolution of the holders of Energem Ordinary Shares (or, prior to Energem’s initial business combination, an Ordinary Resolution of the holders of Founder Shares).
Our officers are appointed by the board of directors and serve at the discretion of the board of directors, rather than for specific terms of office. Our board of directors is authorized to nominate persons to the offices set forth in our second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association as it deems appropriate. Our second amended and restated memorandum and articles of association will provide that our officers may consist of one or more chairman of the board of directors, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, vice presidents, secretary, treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the board of directors.
Director Independence
The Nasdaq listing rules require that a majority of the Energem Board be independent within one year of Energem’s initial public offering. An “independent director” is defined generally as a person other than an officer or employee of the company or its subsidiaries or any other individual having a relationship with the company, which, in the opinion of the company’s board of directors, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. The Energem Board has determined that Kok Seong Wong, Doris Wong Sing Ee, and Kwang Fock Chong are independent directors under applicable SEC and Nasdaq rules. Energem expects a majority of the Combined Entity’s board of directors to be comprised of independent directors to comply with the majority independent board requirement in Rule 5605(b) of the Nasdaq listing rules.
Committees of the Board of Directors
Our board of directors have three standing committees: an audit committee, a compensation committee and a corporate governance and nominating committee. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of Nasdaq and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act require that the audit committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of Nasdaq require that the compensation committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors.
Audit Committee
We have established an audit committee of the board of directors. Kok Seong Wong and Kwang Fock Chong serve as members of our audit committee. Our board of directors has determined that each of Kok Seong Wong and Kwang Fock Chong meet the independent director standard under Nasdaq listing standards and under Rule 10-A-3(b)(1) of the Exchange Act. Kwang Fock Chong serves as the chairman of the audit committee. Each member of the audit committee is financially literate and our board of directors has determined that each qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in applicable SEC rules. We have adopted an audit committee charter, which details the principal functions of the audit committee, including:
● appointing, compensating and overseeing our independent registered public accounting firm;
● reviewing and approving the annual audit plan for the Company;
● overseeing the integrity of our financial statements and our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements;
● discussing the annual audited financial statements and unaudited quarterly financial statements with management and the independent registered public accounting firm;
● pre-approving all audit services and permitted non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm, including the fees and terms of the services to be performed;
● appointing or replacing the independent registered public accounting firm;
● establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints (including anonymous complaints) we receive concerning accounting, internal accounting controls, auditing matters or potential violations of law;
● monitoring our environmental sustainability and governance practices;
● establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by us regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or reports which raise material issues regarding our financial statements or accounting policies;
● approving audit and non-audit services provided by our independent registered public accounting firm;
● discussing earnings press releases and financial information provided to analysts and rating agencies;
● discussing with management our policies and practices with respect to risk assessment and risk management;
● reviewing any material transaction between our Chief Financial Officer that has been approved in accordance with our Code of Ethics for our officers, and providing prior written approval of any material transaction between us and our President; and
● producing an annual report for inclusion in our proxy statement, in accordance with applicable rules and regulations.
The audit committee is a separately designated standing committee established in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Exchange Act.
Compensation Committee
We have established a compensation committee of our board of directors. The members of our compensation committee are Kok Seong Wong and Kwang Fock Chong. Mr. Kok Seong Wong serves as chairman of the compensation committee. Under Nasdaq listing standards and governance rules and applicable SEC rules, we are required to have at least two members of the compensation committee, all of whom must be independent directors. Our board of directors has determined that each of Kok Seong Wong and Kwang Fock Chong is independent. We adopted a compensation committee charter, which details the principal functions of the compensation committee, including:
● reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to our President’s compensation, evaluating our President’s performance in light of those goals and objectives, and setting our President’s compensation level based on this evaluation;
● setting salaries and approving incentive compensation and equity awards, as well as compensation policies, for all other officers who file reports of their ownership, and changes in ownership, of the Company’s ordinary shares under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act (the “Section 16 Officers”), as designated by our board of directors;
● making recommendations to the board of directors with respect to incentive compensation programs and equity-based plans that are subject to board approval;
● approving any employment or severance agreements with our Section 16 Officers;
● granting any awards under equity compensation plans and annual bonus plans to our President and the Section 16 Officers;
● approving the compensation of our directors; and
● producing an annual report on executive compensation for inclusion in our proxy statement, in accordance with applicable rules and regulations.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, as indicated above, other than the payment to an affiliate of our sponsor, of $10,000 per month, for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support, no compensation of any kind, including finders, consulting or other similar fees, will be paid to any of our existing shareholders, officers, directors or any of their respective affiliates, prior to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate the consummation of an initial business combination. Accordingly, it is likely that prior to the consummation of an initial business combination, the compensation committee will only be responsible for the review and recommendation of any compensation arrangements to be entered into in connection with such initial business combination.
The charter also provides that the compensation committee may, in its sole discretion, retain or obtain the advice of a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser and will be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of any such adviser. However, before engaging or receiving advice from a compensation consultant, external legal counsel or any other adviser, the compensation committee will consider the independence of each such adviser, including the factors required by Nasdaq and the SEC.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
None of our executive officers currently serves, and in the past year has not served, as a member of the compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving on our board of directors.
Guidelines for Selecting Director Nominees
The guidelines for selecting nominees, which we have specified in our charter adopted by us, generally provide that potential candidate nominations:
● should possess personal qualities and characteristics, accomplishments and reputation in the business community;
● should have current knowledge and contacts in the communities in which we do business and, in our industry, or other industries relevant to our business;
● should have the ability and willingness to commit adequate time to the board of directors and committee matters;
● should demonstrate ability and willingness to commit adequate time to the board of directors and committee matters;
● should possess the fit of the individual’s skills and personality with those of other directors and potential directors in building a board of directors that is effective, collegial and responsive to our needs; and
● should demonstrate diversity of viewpoints, background, experience, and other demographics, and all aspects of diversity in order to enable the board of directors to perform its duties and responsibilities effectively, including candidates with a diversity of age, gender, nationality, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Each year in connection with the nomination of candidates for election to the board of directors, the corporate governance and nominating committee will evaluate the background of each candidate, including candidates that may be submitted by our shareholders.
Code of Ethics
We have adopted a Code of Ethics applicable to our directors, officers and employees. We have filed a copy of our Code of Ethics and our audit committee charter with the SEC. You are able to review these documents by accessing our public filings at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, a copy of the Code of Ethics will be provided without charge upon request from us. We intend to disclose any amendments to or waivers of certain provisions of our Code of Ethics in a Current Report on Form 8-K.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
The following disclosure concerns the compensation of the Company’s officers and directors for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (i.e., pre-Business Combination).
None of our executive officers or directors have received any cash compensation for services rendered to us. In addition, our sponsor, executive officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates will be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made to our sponsor, executive officers or directors, or our or their respective affiliates. Any such payments prior to an initial business combination will be made using funds held outside the trust account. Other than quarterly audit committee review of such reimbursements, we do not expect to have any additional controls in place governing our reimbursement payments to our directors and executive officers for their out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with our activities on our behalf in connection with identifying and completing an initial business combination.
In addition, on September 7, 2021, our sponsor transferred 5,000 ordinary shares to Cu Seng Kiu, our Chief Financial Officer, and 2,500 ordinary shares to each of Li Sin Tan, our former independent director, Kok Seong Wong and Chong Kwang Fock at their original purchase price pursuant to executed securities assignment agreements. Following Ms. Tan’s resignation, the sponsor transferred the 2,500 ordinary shares owned by Ms. Tan to Ms. Doris Wong Sing Ee, our Executive Director. The founder shares will be worthless if we do not complete an initial business combination. Other than these payments and reimbursements, no compensation of any kind, including finder’s and consulting fees, will be paid by the Company to our sponsor, executive officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates, prior to completion of our initial business combination.
After the completion of our initial business combination, such as the Graphjet Business Combination, members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting or management fees from the combined company. All of these fees will be fully disclosed to shareholders, to the extent then known, in the proxy solicitation materials or tender offer materials furnished to our shareholders in connection with a proposed business combination. We have not established any limit on the amount of such fees that may be paid by the combined company to our members of management. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of the proposed business combination because the directors of the post-combination business will be responsible for determining executive officer and director compensation. Any compensation to be paid to our executive officers will be determined, or recommended to the board of directors for determination, either by a compensation committee constituted solely by independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors on our board of directors.
We do not intend to take any action to ensure that members of our management team maintain their positions with us after the completion of our initial business combination, although some of our executive officers and directors have negotiated employment or consulting arrangements to remain with us after our initial business combination. The existence or terms of these employment or consulting arrangements to retain their positions with us may influence our management’s motivation in identifying or selecting a target business but we do not believe that the ability of our management to remain with us after the completion of our initial business combination will be a determining factor in our decision to proceed with any potential business combination. We are not party to any agreements with our executive officers and directors that provide for benefits upon termination of employment.
The compensation committee has reviewed and discussed this Compensation Discussion and Analysis with management and, based upon its review and discussions, the compensation committee recommended to the board of directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in this Report.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Shareholder Matters.
The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our ordinary shares as of March 30, 2023, based on information obtained from the persons named below, with respect to the beneficial ownership of ordinary shares, by:
● each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding shares of ordinary shares;
● each of our executive officers and directors that beneficially owns shares of ordinary shares; and
● all our executive officers and directors as a group.
In the table below, percentage ownership is based on 5,298,556 of our ordinary shares, consisting of (i) 2,423,556 shares of Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, issued and outstanding (including 1,895,481 shares subject to possible redemption), and (ii) 2,875,000 shares of our Class B ordinary shares, issued and outstanding as of March 30, 2023. On all matters to be voted upon, except for the election of directors of the board, holders of the shares of Class A ordinary shares and shares of Class B ordinary shares vote together as a single class. Currently, all of the shares of Class B ordinary shares are convertible into Class A ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis.
Unless otherwise indicated, we believe that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of ordinary shares beneficially owned by them. The following table does not reflect record or beneficial ownership of the private placement warrants as these warrants are not exercisable within 60 days of the date of this Report.
Class A Ordinary Shares Class B Ordinary Shares
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(1)(3) Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned(2)
Approximate
Percentage of Class
Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned(2)
Approximate
Percentage of Class
Approximate Percentage of Outstanding Ordinary Share
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
Energem LLC(1)(2) 528,075 9.96 % 2,875,000 99.6 % 3.54 %
Kok Seong Wong - - - - -
Swee Guan Hoo(1) 528,075 9.96 % 2,875,000 100 % %
Cu Seng Kiu - - - -
Doris Wong Sing EE(1) 528,075 9.96 % 2,875,000 100 % %
Chong Kwang Fock - - - -
All five (5) executive officers and directors as a group (individuals) 528,075 9.96 % 2,875,000 100 % %
* Represents less than one percent (1%) of outstanding shares
(1) Energem LLC, our sponsor, is the record holder of the securities reported herein. Mr. Swee Guan Hoo, Chief Executive Officer of the company, and Ms. Doris Wong Sing EE, Executive Director of the company, own the sponsor on a 50:50 basis. By virtue of this relationship, Ms. Wong and Mr. Hoo may be deemed to share beneficial ownership of the securities held of record by our sponsor. Ms. Wong and Mr. Hoo each disclaim any such beneficial ownership except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interest. The business address of each of these entities and individuals is Level 3, Tower 11, Avenue 5, No. 8, Jalan Kerinchi, Bangsar South, 59200 Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
(2) Interests shown consist solely of founder shares, classified as Class B ordinary shares, as well as placement shares after this offering. founder shares are convertible into Class A ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment, as described in the section of this prospectus entitled “Description of Securities.”
(3) Does not include beneficial ownership of any Class A ordinary shares underlying outstanding placement rights as such shares are not issuable within 60 days of the date of this prospectus.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Table
None.
Changes in Control
For more information of the Graphjet Technology Merger and Share Purchase Agreement, see “Item 1. Business.”

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
On August 16, 2021, our sponsor paid an aggregate of $25,000, or approximately $0.009 per unit, for the purchase of 2,875,000 founder shares, par value $0.0001. The number of founder shares issued was determined based on the expectation that such founder shares would represent approximately 20% of the outstanding ordinary shares upon completion of the IPO (excluding the placement units and underlying securities).
The founder shares (including the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon exercise thereof) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holder. On September 7, 2021, our sponsor transferred 5,000 ordinary shares to Cu Seng Kiu, our Chief Financial Officer, and 2,500 ordinary shares to each of Li Sin Tan, our former independent director, Kok Seong Wong and Chong Kwang Fock at their original purchase price pursuant to executed securities assignment agreements. Following Ms. Tan’s resignation, the sponsor transferred the 2,500 ordinary shares owned by Ms. Tan to Ms. Doris Wong Sing Ee, our Executive Director. As a result, our sponsor currently owns 2,862,500 founder shares.
Our sponsor purchased 528,075 placement units for a purchase price of $10.00 per unit in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the closing of our IPO. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to the founder shares, placement shares or placement warrants, which will expire worthless if we do not consummate a business combination by August 18, 2023 (unless if extended). Commencing on the date of the IPO, we agreed to pay to Energem LLC, our sponsor, $10,000 per month for up to 18 months for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support. Upon completion of our initial business combination or our liquidation, we will cease paying these monthly fees.
No compensation of any kind, including any finder’s fee, reimbursement, consulting fee or monies in respect of any payment of a loan, will be paid by us to our sponsor, officers or directors or any affiliate of our sponsor, officers or directors prior to, or in connection with any services rendered to effectuate, the consummation of an initial business combination (regardless of the type of transaction that it is). However, these individuals will be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made to our sponsor, officers, directors or our or their affiliates and will determine which expenses and the amount of expenses that will be reimbursed. There is no cap or ceiling on the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such persons in connection with activities on our behalf.
In addition, to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our sponsor or an affiliate of our CEO or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds on a non-interest-bearing basis as may be required. If we complete an initial business combination, we will repay such loaned amounts. If the initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the trust account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our trust account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into units, at a price of $10.00 per unit at the option of the lender, upon consummation of our initial business combination. The units would be identical to the placement units. Other than as described above, the terms of such loans by our officers and directors, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans.
We do not expect to seek loans from parties other than our sponsor or an affiliate of our CEO as we do not believe third parties will be willing to loan such funds and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our trust account. We expect our primary liquidity requirements to include approximately $287,000 for legal, accounting, due diligence, travel and other expenses associated with structuring, negotiating and documenting successful business combinations; $60,000 for legal and accounting fees related to regulatory reporting requirements; $180,000 for office space, utilities and secretarial and administrative support; $253,000 for Director and Officer liability insurance premiums; and approximately $20,000 for working capital that will be used for miscellaneous expenses and reserves.
After our initial business combination, such as the Graphjet Merger, members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting, management, or other fees from the combined company with any and all amounts being fully disclosed to our shareholders, to the extent then known, in the tender offer or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, furnished to our shareholders. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of distribution of such tender offer materials or at the time of a shareholder meeting held to consider our initial business combination, as applicable, as it will be up to the directors of the post-combination business to determine executive and director compensation.
The holders of the founder shares, representative shares, placement units, and units that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans (and in each case holders of their component securities, as applicable) have (or will have) registration rights to require us to register a sale of any of our securities held by them pursuant to a registration rights agreement to be signed on January 13, 2022. These holders are entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that we register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders have “piggy-back” registration rights to include their securities in other registration statements filed by us.
We have entered into agreements with our officers and directors to provide contractual indemnification in addition to the indemnification provided for in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Our bylaws also permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director or employee for any liability arising out of his or her actions, regardless of whether Delaware law would permit such indemnification. We have purchased a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our officers and directors against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment in some circumstances and insures us against our obligations to indemnify our officers and directors.
Registration Rights
We have entered into the IPO Registration Rights Agreement with respect to the Founder Shares, Private Placement Units, the shares of common stock and Private Placement Rights underlying the Private Placement Units, and the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Private Placement Rights. Pursuant to the IPO Registration Rights Agreement, the Company Restricted Shareholders and their permitted transferees can demand that we register the Founder Shares. Holders of our Private Placement Units and their permitted transferees can demand that we register the Private Placement Units, the shares of common stock and Private Placement Rights underlying the Private Placement Units, and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Placement Rights. The holders of these securities are entitled to make up to two demands, excluding short form demands, that the Company register such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed after the consummation of the initial business combination. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.
Office Space and Related Support Services
The Company agreed, commencing on the date the Company Units are first listed on the Nasdaq, to pay the Sponsor, or an affiliate thereof, a total of $10,000 per month for office space, utilities, and secretarial and administrative support for up to 18 months. Upon completion of the Company’s initial business combination or the Company’s liquidation, the Company will cease paying these monthly fees. The Company incurred $110,000 in fees related to this service during the year ended December 31, 2022.
Related Party Loans
To finance transaction costs in connection with a business combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor, or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required. Such working capital loans would be evidenced by promissory notes. The notes may be repaid upon completion of a Business Combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $1,500,000 of the notes may be converted upon completion of a Business Combination into units at a price of $10.00 per unit. Such units would be identical to the Private Placement Units. If a Business Combination does not close, the Company may use a portion of proceeds held outside the Trust Account to repay any working capital loans, but no proceeds held in the Trust Account would be used to repay the working capital loans. As of December 31, 2022, there were no working capital loans outstanding.
On April 16, 2021, the Sponsor issued an unsecured promissory note to the Company, pursuant to which the Company may borrow up to an aggregate principal amount of $300,000, to be used for payment of costs related to the Company’s initial public offering. The note, as amended, was non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of (i) March 31, 2022, or (ii) the consummation of the Company’s initial public offering. The Company borrowed $88,542 under the promissory note as of December 31, 2022.
Founders’ Letter Agreement
On January 10, 2022, the Company, the Sponsor, and each of the Company Restricted Shareholders entered into a letter agreement, pursuant to which, each Company Restricted Shareholder party thereto agreed to waive certain of their redemption rights, transfer rights and liquidation rights with respect to their Founder Shares subject to the conditions set forth therein. Additionally, the Company Restricted Shareholders parties thereto agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any shares of common stock they may own. The Company Restricted Shareholders agreed (i) to vote their Founder Shares in favor of the adoption of any proposed business combination and the accompanying transaction and (ii) if the Company engages in a tender offer in connection with a proposed business combination, to not seek to sell any shares of common stock to the Company in connection with such tender offer. Additionally, each Company Restricted Shareholder party thereto has agreed to certain standstill obligations, in each case on terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein.
The letter agreement will terminate upon the earlier to occur of (x) the expiration of the Lock-Up periods or (y) the liquidation of the Company.
Shareholder Communications
Shareholders and interested parties may communicate with the Company’s Board, any committee chairperson or the non-management directors as a group by writing to the Company’s Board or committee chairperson at Energem Corp., at Level 3, Tower 11, Avenue 5, No. 8, Jalan Kerinchi, Bangsar South, 59200 Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and our telephone number is + (60) 3270 47622 (if sent before the Business Combination) or with the board of directors or any committee chairperson or the non-management directors as a group, Unit No. L4-E-8, Enterprise 4, Technology Park Malaysia, 5700 Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (if sent after the Business Combination). Each communication will be forwarded, depending on the subject matter, to the applicable board, the appropriate committee chairperson or all non-management directors.
Director Independence
Nasdaq listing standards require that a majority of our board of directors be independent. An “independent director” is defined generally as a person other than an officer or employee of the company or its subsidiaries or any other individual having a relationship which in the opinion of the company’s board of directors, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. We expect that our board of directors will determine that Kok Seong Wong and Kwang Fock Chong are “independent directors,” as defined in Nasdaq listing standards and applicable SEC rules prior to completion of this offering.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services.
The following is a summary of fees paid or to be paid to Adeptus Partners LLC, for services rendered.
Audit Fees. Audit fees consist of fees billed for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services that are normally provided by Adeptus Partners LLC in connection with regulatory filings. The aggregate fees billed by Adeptus Partners LLC for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual financial statements, and other required filings with the SEC for the year ended December 31, 2022, totaled $94,500 and for the period from August 6, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021 totaled $77,000. The above amounts include interim procedures and audit fees, as well as attendance at audit committee meetings.
Audit-Related Fees. Audit-related services consist of fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These services include attest services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards. We did not pay Adeptus Partners LLC for consultations concerning financial accounting and reporting standards for the period from August 6, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021, and the year ended December 31, 2022.
Tax Fees. We did not pay Adeptus Partners LLC for tax planning and tax advice for the period from August 6, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021, and the year ended December 31, 2022.
All Other Fees. We did not pay Adeptus Partners LLC for tax planning and tax advice for the period from August 6, 2021 (inception) through December 31, 2021, and for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Pre-Approval Policy
Our audit committee was formed upon the consummation of our initial public offering. As a result, the audit committee did not pre-approve all of the foregoing services, although any services rendered prior to the formation of our audit committee were approved by our board of directors. Since the formation of our audit committee, and on a going-forward basis, the audit committee has and will pre-approve all auditing services and permitted non-audit services to be performed for us by our auditors, including the fees and terms thereof (subject to the de minimis exceptions for non-audit services described in the Exchange Act which are approved by the audit committee prior to the completion of the audit).
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules.
(a) The following documents are filed as part of this Report:
(1) Financial Statements
Page(s)
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 3686)
Financial Statements:
Balance Sheets
Statement of Operations
Statement of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
Statement of Cash Flows
Notes to the Financial Statements
(2) Financial Statements Schedule
All financial statement schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the amounts are immaterial and not required, or the required information is presented in the financial statements and notes beginning on on this Report.
(3) Exhibits
We hereby file as part of this Report the exhibits listed in the attached Exhibit Index. Exhibits which are incorporated herein by reference can be inspected on the SEC website at sec.report.