Dune Acquisition Corp On May 14 Entered Unit Purchase Agreement
On May 14, 2023, Dune Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Dune”), entered into a Unit Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), by and among Global Gas Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Dune (“Holdings”), Global Hydrogen Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Global Hydrogen”), William Bennett Nance, Jr., an individual (“W. Nance”), Sergio Martinez, an individual (“S. Martinez”), and Barbara Guay Martinez, an individual (“B. Martinez” and, together with W. Nance and S. Martinez, the “Sellers”).
The board of directors of Dune (the “Board”) has unanimously (i) approved and declared advisable the Purchase Agreement and the other transactions contemplated thereby (the “Business Combination”) and (ii) resolved to recommend approval of the Purchase Agreement and related matters by the stockholders of Dune. W. Nance, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Hydrogen, is also a director of Dune. Mr. Nance was recused from, and did not participate in, the consideration or approval of the Purchase Agreement and the Business Combination by the Board.
Headquartered in New York and founded in 2023, Global Hydrogen is an industrial gas supplier targeting privately and publicly-funded hydrogen development and carbon recovery projects.
Consideration
In accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of the Purchase Agreement, at the closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”), (a) Dune will contribute to Holdings all of its assets (excluding its interests in Holdings and the aggregate amount of cash proceeds required to satisfy any redemptions by Dune’s public stockholders (“Dune Stockholder Redemptions”)), and in exchange therefor, Holdings will issue to Dune a number of common equity units of Holdings (“Holdings Common Units”) which will equal the number of total shares of Dune’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Dune Class A Common Stock”), issued and outstanding immediately after the Closing (taking into account any equity financing agreements entered into by Dune between the signing date of the Purchase Agreement and the Closing and giving effect to all Dune Stockholder Redemptions) (such transactions, the “SPAC Contribution”) and (b) immediately after the SPAC Contribution, the Sellers will transfer, convey, assign and deliver all of the limited liability company equity interests of Global Hydrogen (“Company Units”) to Holdings in exchange for shares of Dune’s Class B voting non-economic common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Dune Class B Common Stock” and, together with Dune Class A Common Stock, “Dune Common Stock”), and Holdings Common Units (together with the SPAC Contribution, the “Combination Transactions”), as a result of which, (i) each issued and outstanding Company Unit immediately prior to the Combination Transactions will be held by Holdings, (ii) each Seller will receive an aggregate number of Holdings Common Units and shares of Dune Class B Common Stock equal to the number of Company Units held by such Seller, multiplied by the Company Exchange Ratio (as defined below), and (iii) Dune will change its name to Global Gas Corporation (“New Global Hydrogen”) and New Global Hydrogen will be the publicly traded reporting company in an “Up-C” Structure (clauses (i) through (iii) collectively, and together with the Combination Transactions and the other transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, being referred to collectively hereafter as the “Transactions”).