SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-010584 to Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I (FERA, FERAU) (CIK 0002025401) (FERA)
Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I (FERA, FERAU) (CIK 0002025401)
Date: Sept. 19, 2024 · CIK: 0002025401 · Accession: 0000000000-24-010584
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September 19, 2024
Mitchell Mechigian
Chief Executive Officer
Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I
PO Box 1093 Boundary Hall
Cricket Square, Grand Cayman
KY1-1102, Cayman Islands
Re:Fifth Era Acquisition Corp I
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted July 26, 2024
CIK No. 0002025401
Dear Mitchell Mechigian:
We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the following
comments.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration statement on EDGAR.
If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an
amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to this letter and your amended
draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional
comments. Unless we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in our
July 15, 2024 letter.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Cover Page
Please revise to state the amount of compensation received or to be received by, and the
amount of securities issued or to be issued to, the sponsor, its affiliates, and promoters. In
this regard, we note your disclosure in the summary and on page 117 regarding repayment
of loans, fees for services, office space and administrative services, working capital loans,
fees for advisory services, and compensation that may be paid to Mr. Mechigian. Please
also revise to discuss whether the compensation to be paid and securities issued to the
sponsor, its affiliates, and promoters may result in a material dilution of the purchasers'
equity interests. Provide a highlighted cross-reference to all locations of the related 1.
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disclosures in the prospectus. See Regulation S-K, Item 1602(a)(3). Lastly, please also
include on the cover page the total percent interest that the Class B shares and private
placement warrants will represent after the completion of the offering.
2.We note your disclosure on page 83 that the non-managing sponsor investors have
expressed an interest in purchasing substantially all of the units in this offering. Please
revise here and elsewhere where applicable to disclose the maximum aggregate
percentage of the offering that could be purchased from these investors. In addition,
clarify whether the purchase of units in the offering is conditioned upon their potential
indirect purchase of private placement warrants and founder shares. In this regard, we
note your statement on page 22 that the non-managing sponsor investors will potentially
have different interests than the public shareholders because of their indirect ownership of
founder shares. Finally, please file any agreements or form of agreements with the non-
managing sponsor investors as exhibits or advise us why they are not material.
3.We note disclosure in the ninth and eighteenth paragraphs regarding potential conflicts of
interest. Please clearly state that there may be actual or potential material conflicts of
interest between the sponsor, its affiliates, or promoters as one group, and purchasers in
the offering as another group. See Item 1602(a)(5) of Regulation S-K.
4.Please revise your cross-references to the dilution and conflicts of interest disclosures to
provide a cross-reference to all the locations of related disclosures in the prospectus. See
Items 1602(a)(4) and (5) of Regulation S-K.
Summary
Our Sponsor, page 2
5.Please revise to balance your discussion of the SPAC experience of your management
team by briefly describing the material terms of the pending business combination
transaction between Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp I and Linqto, Inc. and any
related financing transaction(s). In addition, expand your discussion to explain that in
recent years, a number of target businesses have underperformed financially post-business
combination, as you further discuss on page 62.
Business Combination Criteria, page 6
6.We note your response to prior comment 1. Please revise your disclosure beginning on
page 6 to discuss how the terms of additional financings may impact investors. In this
regard, we note your disclosures that you intend to effectuate your initial business
combination using cash from, among other sources, the proceeds of the sale of your shares
pursuant to forward purchase agreements or backstop agreements, that you may raise
funds through the issuance of equity-linked securities, and that you intend to target an
initial business combination with an enterprise value between $1.0 and $3.0 billion. Refer
to Regulation S-K Item 1602(b)(5).
Sponsor Information, page 9
Please expand the table on page 10 to include the anti-dilution adjustment of the
founder shares and the nature and amount of compensation received or to be received by
Mr. Mechigian. Please also revise the table to reference the payment of consulting,
success or finder fees to your advisors and any salaries or fees to be paid to the sponsor 7.
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and/or its affiliates for their services in particular transactions in connection with the
initial business combination. See Regulation S-K Item 1602(b)(6).
8.In the disclosure appearing outside the table on page 10 where you discuss the dilutive
impact of the founder shares and the anti-dilution provisions in the founder shares, please
expand to discuss the extent to which the other items of compensation and any securities
issuances referenced in the table may result in a material dilution of the purchasers' equity
interests. See Item 1602(b)(6) of Regulation S-K.
9.Please revise the tables beginning on page 11 and 118 to disclose the lock-up agreement
with the underwriter. See Item 1603(a)(9) of Regulation S-K.
Ability to extend time to complete business combination, page 28
10.Please expand to disclose whether there are any limitations on extensions of time to
complete an initial business combination, including the number of times you may seek to
extend.
Conflicts of Interest, page 41
11.Please revise your disclosure in this section to clearly state the conflicts with purchasers in
the offering. See Item 1602(b)(7) of Regulation S-K.
12.Please provide the basis for your statements on pages 41, 42 and elsewhere that you do
not believe the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of your sponsor, officers, or
directors, or their conflicts of interest, will materially affect your ability to complete an
initial business combination.
Summary of Risk Factors, page 46
13.Please revise your second risk factor to indicate that if the non-managing sponsor
investors purchase the full amount of the units for which they have expressed an interest,
you may not need any public shares sold in this offering to be voted in favor of the
business combination, as you state on page 83.
Risk Factors
Risks Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business
Combination..., page 48
14.We note your response to prior comment 3. However, your registration statement still
indicates that your sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers and their affiliates may
elect to purchase shares or public warrants from public shareholders, which may influence
a vote on a proposed business combination. It is unclear how such purchases would
comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act. Refer to Tender
Offer Rules and Schedules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 166.01 for
guidance.
We may not be able to complete an initial business combination... , page 71
15.With a view toward disclosure, please tell us whether your sponsor is, is controlled
by, has any members who are, or has substantial ties with, a non-U.S. person. If so, revise
to address how this fact could impact your ability to complete your initial business
combination.
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The non-managing sponsor investors have expressed an interest to purchase substantially all of
the units in this offering..., page 83
16.Please expand your disclosure to clarify the basis for your statement that you do not
expect any purchase of units by the non-managing sponsor investors to negatively impact
your ability to meet Nasdaq listing eligibility requirements.
Dilution, page 101
17.We note that one assumption used to calculate the dilution table is that no ordinary shares
and convertible equity or debt securities are issued in connection with additional financing
in sought to facilitate an initial business combination. Please expand your disclosure to
highlight that you may need to do so as you intend to seek an initial business combination
with a target company with an enterprise value significantly greater than the net proceeds
of the offering and the sale of private placement warrants, as stated on page 6 of your
prospectus.
Sponsor Information, page 117
18.In your compensation table, please revise to include the anti-dilution adjustment of the
founder shares, the payment of consulting, success or finder fees to your advisors, and any
salaries or fees to be paid to the sponsor and/or its affiliates for their services in particular
transactions in connection with the initial business combination. See Item 1603(a)(6) of
Regulation S-K.
19.We note that the non-managing sponsor investors will hold membership interests in the
sponsor. Please disclose the persons or affiliated groups who may have direct or indirect
material interests in the sponsor, as well as the nature and amount of their interests. See
Item 1603(a)(7) of Regulation S-K.
Executive Officer and Director Compensation, page 144
20.We note your principal executive officer may receive compensation. Revise to provide all
information required by Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including a description of the
material terms of any plan or arrangement, whether written or unwritten, pursuant to
which Mr. Mechigian may be compensated. Also file the plan (or if not set forth in any
formal document, a written description thereof) as an exhibit pursuant to Regulation S-K
Item 601(b)(10)(iii)(A).
Please contact Kellie Kim at 202-551-3129 or Shannon Menjivar at 202-551-3856 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Catherine De Lorenzo at 202-551-3772 or Mary Beth Breslin at 202-551-3625 with any
other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction
September 19, 2024
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cc:Stuart Neuhauser, Esq.