Senior Connect Acquisition Corp. I

06/22/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/22/2021 14:01

Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Report (Form 8-K)

Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Report.

On April 12, 2021, the Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Acting Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') together issued a statement regarding the accounting and reporting considerations for warrants issued by special purpose acquisition companies entitled 'Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies ('SPACs')' (the 'SEC Statement'). Specifically, the SEC Statement focused on certain terms and provisions which are similar to those contained in the warrant agreement, dated as of December 10, 2020, between Senior Connect Acquisition Corp. I (the 'Company') and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (the 'Warrant Agreement'). As a result of the SEC Statement, the Company reevaluated the accounting treatment of (i) the 20,700,000 redeemable warrants (the 'Public Warrants') that were included in the units issued by the Company in its initial public offering (the 'IPO') and (ii) the 10,280,000 redeemable warrants (together with the Public Warrants, the 'Warrants') that were issued to the Company's sponsor in a private placement that closed concurrently with the closing of the IPO consummated on December 15, 2020, and determined to classify the Warrants as derivative liabilities measured at fair value, with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings. While the Company has not generated any operating revenues to date and will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of its initial business combination, at the earliest, the change in fair value of the Warrants is a non-cash charge and will be reflected in the Company's statement of operations.

On June 22, 2021, the Company's management and the Audit Committee of the Company's Board of Directors (the 'Audit Committee') concluded that, in light of the SEC Statement, the Company's previously issued audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020 included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 (the 'Annual Report') should no longer be relied upon and that it is appropriate to restate the Annual Report, which will also include a revision to the audited balance sheet dated as of December 15, 2020 included in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 21, 2020.

Going forward, unless we amend the terms of the Warrant Agreement, we expect to continue to classify the Warrants as liabilities, which would require us to incur the cost of measuring the fair value of the Warrants, and which may have an adverse effect on our results of operations.

The Company's management and the Audit Committee have discussed the matters disclosed in this Current Report on Form 8-K pursuant to this Item 4.02 with Marcum LLP, the Company's independent registered public accounting firm.

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