Kismet Acquisition Three Corp. filed SEC Form 8-K: Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review
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Item 4.02. Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
In light of recent comment letters issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the management of Kismet Acquisition Three Corp. (the “Company”) has re-evaluated the Company’s application of ASC 480-10-S99-3A to its accounting classification of its redeemable shares of Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.001 per share (the “Public Shares”), issued as part of the units sold in the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO”) in February 2021. The Company has determined that, at the closing of its IPO, and in all of its subsequent periodic reports filed with the SEC, through and including the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2021, it had improperly valued its Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption. The Company had previously classified a portion of its Public Shares in permanent equity, or total shareholders’ equity to maintain shareholders’ equity greater than $5 million on the basis that the Company will not redeem its Public Shares in an amount that would cause its net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001, as described in the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (the “Charter”). Previously, the Company did not consider redeemable stock classified as temporary equity as part of net tangible assets. Following its re-evaluation, the Company revised this interpretation to include temporary equity in net tangible assets, regardless of the net tangible assets redemption limitation contained in the Charter. As a result, the Company has restated its previously filed financial statements to present all Public Shares as temporary equity and to recognize accretion from the initial book value to redemption value at the time of its IPO. In connection with the change in presentation of the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, the Company has revised its earnings per share calculation to allocate income and losses shared pro rata between the Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares.
As a result of the foregoing, on November 22, 2021, the audit committee of the Company’s board of directors concluded, after discussion with the Company’s management and WithumSmith+Brown, PC, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, that the Company’s previously issued (i) audited balance sheet as of February 22, 2021, as previously restated in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021, filed with SEC on June 25, 2021 (the “Q1 Form 10-Q”), (ii) unaudited interim financial statements included in the Q1 Form 10-Q and (iii) unaudited interim financial statements included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2021, filed with the SEC on August 13, 2021 (collectively, the “Affected Periods”), should no longer be relied upon and should be restated to report all Public Shares as temporary equity and to revise its earnings per share calculation as described above. As such, the Company has restated its financial statements for the Affected Periods in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021 (the “Q3 Form 10-Q”), which will be concurrently filed with the SEC.
The Company’s management has concluded that in light of the errors described above, a material weakness exists in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and that, because of this and the additional material weakness identified in the first and second quarters of 2021, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of September 30, 2021. The Company’s remediation plan with respect to such material weaknesses is described in more detail in the Q3 Form 10-Q.
The Company does not expect any of the above changes will have any impact on its cash position and cash held in the trust account established in connection with the IPO.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| KISMET acquisition THREE corp. | ||
| By: | /s/ Ivan Tavrin | |
| Name: Ivan Tavrin | ||
| Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||
Date: November 22, 2021
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