SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-010485 to Artius II Acquisition Inc. (AACB, AACBU) (CIK 0002034334) (AACB)
Artius II Acquisition Inc. (AACB, AACBU) (CIK 0002034334)
Date: Sept. 16, 2024 · CIK: 0002034334 · Accession: 0000000000-24-010485
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September 16, 2024
Boon Sim
Chief Executive Officer
Artius II Acquisition Inc.
3 Columbus Circle, Suite 1609
New York, NY 10019
Re:Artius II Acquisition Inc.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted August 20, 2024
CIK No. 0002034334
Dear Boon Sim:
We have reviewed your 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.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Cover Page
1.We note your disclosure here and elsewhere that you "may" seek shareholder approval to
extend the time period in which to consummate the business combination. Please revise
the cover page and elsewhere as appropriate to clarify whether you may seek to extend the
time period without shareholder approval. Please also disclose whether there is any
limitation on the duration of the extension, the number of possible extensions, and
whether there are any conditions to an extension, such as additional payments to the trust.
Please revise the summary accordingly as required by 1602(b)(4). Please also revise your
cover page disclosure to describe when you will liquidate and distribute funds held in the
trust if you fail to complete a business combination.
When discussing the amount of compensation received or to be received, and securities
issued or to be issued, as required by Item 1602(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, please include
the price paid for the securities issued as well as all other compensation paid or to be paid 2.
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to the sponsor, its affiliates, and promoters. Please also discuss the anti-dilution provisions
that may increase the number of shares to be issuable upon conversion of founder shares
and the possible conversion of up to $1.5 million of loans from your sponsor or its
affiliates into private placement shares, as described on page 24. Please include cross-
references on the cover page to all related disclosures. This comment also applies to
disclosure in the prospectus summary and elsewhere, as required by Items 1602(b)(6) and
1603(a)(6).
Summary, page 1
3.We note your risk factor discussion of the possibility of additional financing including a
possible PIPE transaction, as well as disclosures on pages 32 and 113 that you may raise
funds through the issuance of shares or equity-linked securities, the use of forward
purchase agreements or backstops arrangements, loans, advances or other indebtedness
issued to a bank, other lenders or to the owners of the target, or a combination of the
foregoing. Please revise the summary to include a comprehensive discussion regarding
your plans to seek additional financing and describe the impact of any additional
financing on public shareholders. See Item 1602(b)(5) of Regulation S-K.
Acquisition Process, page 6
4.Please revise your summary to address how competition among other SPACs in pursuing
target companies may impact your ability to identify and evaluate a target company and
complete a business combination.
Initial Business Combination, page 7
5.We note disclosure on page 9 and elsewhere that you do not believe that conflicts of
interest relating to the interest of your sponsor, officers and directors in other SPACs,
businesses or investments would materially affect your ability to complete a business
combination transaction. Please disclose the reason for this belief.
Sponsor Information, page 9
6.Please revise the compensation and securities tables on pages 9 and 105 to include the
disclosures required by Item 1602(b)(6) of Regulation S-K for all compensation received
or to be received by and securities issued or to be issued to your sponsor, its affiliates and
promoters. For example, please revise the table to reflect the payment that such parties
may receive of any consulting, success, finder's or other fees, or salaries, as described on
page 35, and any other items you view as compensation. Also revise to include shares that
may be issued upon conversion of loans from the sponsor, its affiliates and promoters, the
anti-dilution adjustment of the founder shares and potential surrenders and forfeitures of
founder shares. In this regard, we note disclosure elsewhere in the filing regarding
possible forfeiture of founder shares as a result of the over-allotment option not being
exercised and upon distribution of the distributable shares underlying contingent rights.
Please also address the extent to which any such compensation and securities issuance
may result in a material dilution of shareholders' equity interests. Please also include the
nature and amount of all reimbursements to be paid to the sponsor, its affiliates and any
promoters. See Item 1602(b)(6) and Item 1603(a)(6) of Regulation S-K for guidance.
September 16, 2024
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7.Please revise the table on pages 10 and 106 showing restrictions on transfer of the founder
shares and private placement units to describe the lock-up agreement with the
underwriter. See Item 1603(a)(9) of Regulation S-K.
Risk Factors
Risks Relating to our Search for, and Consummation of or Inability to Consummate, a Business
Combination, page 44
8.We note your discussion on pages 53-55 of the risk that you may be deemed to be an
investment company and that the longer the funds in the trust are held in U.S. Treasury
bonds and money market accounts, the greater the risk you may be deemed to be an
investment company. Please revise your disclosure to clarify that notwithstanding the
duration of your investment of the proceeds of the offering in certain investment
instruments, the SPAC could be deemed to be an investment company at any stage of its
operation.
Risk Factors
Risks Relating to our Securities
The nominal purchase price paid by our sponsor for the founder shares may result in significant
dilution..., page 77
9.We note your disclosure of $7.57 for initial implied value per public share and $9.53 for
implied value per share upon consummation of initial business combination. Please revise
these amounts for accuracy or tell us how you derived these amounts.
Dilution, page 92
10.We note your disclosure in the second paragraph on page 92 states that "(iv) no value is
attributed to the rights" and "[t]he assumed automatic conversion of the rights would
cause the actual dilution to the public shareholders to be higher." These statements
appear to indicate that the dilution does not reflect the rights entitling the holder thereof to
receive one twenty-fifth (1/25) of one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of
an initial business combination. However, we refer you to the table on page 94, which
appears to include 1,000,000 or 1,150,000 shares underlying public rights and 8,000
shared underlying private placement rights. Please revise your narrative disclosure on
page 92 to address this apparent inconsistency, or tell us how the narrative disclosure is
consistent with your dilution calculation.
Executive Officer and Director Compensation, page 134
11.We note disclosure on page 9 that your independent directors will receive indirect
interests in founder shares through membership interests in the sponsor for their services
as directors. Please discuss these interests in this section. Please also clarify whether the
sponsor membership interests that the independent directors receive will also give them an
indirect interest in the private placement units. See Item 402(r)(3) of Regulation S-K.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, page F-2
12.Please obtain and file a signed audit report from your independent registered public
accounting firm.
September 16, 2024
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Notes to Financial Statements
Note 8 - Subsequent Events, page F-15
13.Please revise to populate the date through which you have evaluated subsequent events.
Please contact William Demarest at 202-551-3432 or Jennifer Monick at 202-551-3295 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Catherine De Lorenzo at 202-551-3772 or Pam Long at 202-551-3765 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction
cc:Natalia Rezai, Esq.