UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021

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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Enphys Acquisition Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cayman Islands	001-39706	87-2010879
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

216 East 45th Street, 13th Floor New York, NY		10017
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (646) 854-6565

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class:	Trading Symbol:	Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered:
Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share and a fraction of one redeemable warrant	NFYSU	New York Stock Exchange
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share	NFYS	New York Stock Exchange
Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50	NFYSW	New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer, “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
Emerging growth company	☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☒ No ☐

The registrant did not have an active trading market for its ordinary shares as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter; therefore, an aggregate market value of shares of voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates cannot be determined.

As of April 15, 2022, there were 34,500,000 Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, and 8,625,000 Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share, issued and outstanding.

Documents Incorporated by Reference: None.

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	CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS		3
PART I			4
	Item 1.	Business	4
	Item 1A.	Risk Factors	19
	Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	46
	Item 2.	Properties	46
	Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	46
	Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	46
PART II			46
	Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	46
	Item 6.	[Reserved].	47
	Item 7.	Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations	47
	Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	50
	Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	50
	Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	50
	Item 9B.	Other Information	51
	Item 9C.	Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections	51
PART III			51
	Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	51
	Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	58
	Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	60
	Item 14.	Principal Accountant Fees and Services	61
PART IV			62
	Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	62
	Item 16.	Form 10-K Summary	62

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CERTAIN TERMS

Unless otherwise stated in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Report”), references to:

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“amended and restated memorandum and articles of association” are to the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company;

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“Companies Law” are to the Companies Law (2020 Revision) of the Cayman Islands as the same may be amended from time to time;

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“company,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or “our company” are to Enphys Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company;

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“founder shares” are to our Class B ordinary shares initially issued to our sponsor in a private placement and the Class A ordinary shares that will be issued upon the automatic conversion of the Class B ordinary shares at the time of our initial business combination (for the avoidance of doubt, such Class A ordinary shares will not be “public shares”);

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“initial public offering” is to the initial public offering of 34,500,000 units, including the issuance of 4,500,000 units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option, which offering was consummated on October 8, 2021;

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“initial shareholders” are to our sponsor and each other holder of founder shares upon the consummation of our initial public offering;

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“management” or our “management team” are to our directors and officers;

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“ordinary shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares and our Class B ordinary shares;

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“our management team” are to our executive officers and directors;

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“private placement warrants” are to the warrants issued to our sponsor, if any;

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“public shareholders” are to the holders of our public shares, including our sponsor and management team to the extent our sponsor and/or members of our management team purchase public shares, provided that our sponsor’s and each member of our management team’s status as a “public shareholder” will only exist with respect to such public shares;

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“public shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares; and

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“sponsor” are to Enphys Acquisition Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the statements contained in this report may constitute “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this report may include, for example, statements about:

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our ability to select an appropriate partner business or businesses;

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our ability to complete our initial business combination;

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our expectations around the performance of a prospective partner business or businesses;

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our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination;

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our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination;

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our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination;

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our pool of prospective partner businesses;

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our ability to consummate an initial business combination due to the uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic;

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the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential business combination opportunities;

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our public securities’ liquidity and trading;

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the lack of a market for our securities;

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the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance;

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the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; or

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our financial performance.

The forward-looking statements contained in this report are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described under the heading “Risk Factors.” Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. We caution you that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that our actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and developments in the industry in which we operate may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this Report. In addition, even if our results or operations, financial condition and liquidity, and developments in the industry in which we operate are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this Report, those results or developments may not be indicative of results or developments in subsequent periods.

PART I

ITEM 1.

BUSINESS

Overview

We are a blank check company incorporated on March 3, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this report as our initial business combination. We consummated our initial public offering on October 8, 2021. To date, our efforts have been limited to identifying and completing a business combination. We have generated no operating revenues to date and we do not expect that we will generate operating revenues until we consummate our initial business combination.

While we may pursue a business combination target in any industry or geographical location, we currently intend to concentrate our efforts in identifying businesses which predominantly operate in Ibero-America and whose business strategy is aligned with energy transition and sustainability themes, in particular renewable energy.

We will seek to capitalize on more than 105 years of combined experience of our founders Jorge de Pablo, Carlos Guimarães, Pär Lindström and Matías de Buján. We believe that our founders’ distinctive and complementary backgrounds can have a transformative impact on a target business or businesses. Our management team will undertake a proactive, thematic sourcing strategy and focus our efforts on companies where we believe the combination of our founders’ operating experience, deal making and investing track record, professional relationships and sector expertise can be catalysts to enhance the growth potential and value of a target business and provide opportunities for an attractive return to our stakeholders.

Our Sponsor

Our sponsor is managed by affiliates of LAIG and includes affiliates of each of Fir Tree Capital Management, LP and i(x) Net Zero as passive financial partners.

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Our Management Team

Jorge de Pablo

Jorge de Pablo, our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors, has more than 20 years of experience in public and private investments and operations across Ibero-America, with a focus on energy, real estate and mobility. Mr. de Pablo is the founder of LAIG Investments, or LAIG, an investment company focused on the energy and mobility sectors across Ibero-America, and currently serves as its Managing Partner. Since 2008, LAIG has executed 15 private equity transactions with a total value of $3.5bn. Prior to that, Mr. de Pablo was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Amber Capital, where he led their $1.0 billion Latin America public and private equity portfolio from 2007 through 2008. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. de Pablo served as a Senior Investment Analyst at Sandell Asset Management, where he established and managed their $500 million Latin American and Iberian multi-strategy portfolio. Mr. de Pablo started his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent four year as a Proprietary Investment Analyst in the Equities Division in London and in New York, focusing on Latin American Risk Arbitrage. Mr. de Pablo is a graduate of Colegio Univeritario de Estudios Financieros in Madrid Spain, with a degree in business administration and finance.

Mr. de Pablo has also served as a founder, investor and as a director of companies in Latin America, as well as in Israel. Specifically, in the energy sector, Mr. de Pablo co-founded and built Genneia SA, or Genneia, a leading renewable energy company in Argentina and one of the largest renewable energy companies in Latin America, with over 1,178 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity between photovoltaic, wind and thermal assets. Approximately 90% of Genneia’s expected EBITDA for 2021 comes from long-term renewable energy contracts. From 2007 to 2015, Mr. de Pablo served on the executive committee and since 2007 he has been a member of their board of directors. Mr. de Pablo is the founder and Chairman of WiseHood Argentina S.A., or WiseHood, an energy efficiency company with different smart city projects in Argentina, Peru, Mexico and Brazil. Mr. de Pablo was an early investor in Pampa Energia S.A. (NYSE: PAM), the largest independent energy company in Argentina with 4,944 MW of installed capacity.Mr. de Pablo also co-lead the acquisition of San Antonio International, which at the time was the largest onshore oil and gas drilling and services company in Latin America, in one of the largest leveraged buyouts in the region at that time.Mr. de Pablo also co-founded and was a board and executive committee member of BRENCO, a Brazilian renewable energy company that produced ethanol and electricity from sugar cane. In the smart mobility sector, Mr. de Pablo is the co-founder, lead investor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gosmo, a fleet management solutions company in Mexico. He is also the founding investor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tactile Mobility, an Israeli artificial intelligence software company for the mobile industry. In the real estate sector, Mr. de Pablo co-founded and was a board and investment committee member of BR Properties S.A. (BVMF: BRPR3), one of the largest commercial property companies in Brazil; and was a member of the board of directors of Invest Tur Brasil, a pioneer in resort development in Brazil.

Carlos N. Guimarães

Carlos N. Guimarães, our Chairman of the Board of Directors, has more than 40 years’ experience in investment banking in Latin America. Mr. Guimarães has served as the Chairman of LAIG since 2009, and as the Chairman of the Board of WiseHood International, the parent company of WiseHood, since it was founded. From July 2007 to February 2009, he was the Chairman and Co-Founder of Invest Tur Brasil, a pioneer in resort developments in Brazil, which raised $507 million in the public markets and listed on the São Paulo stock exchange. Mr. Guimarães led Invest Tur Brasil’s merger with LA Hotels in 2009, which created Brazil Hospitality Group. Within one year of the merger, Brazil Hospitality Group became the third-largest hotel operator in Brazil with over 5,800 rooms under management. From January 2005 to December 2006, Mr. Guimarães was the Private Sector Coordinator for the Inter-American Development Bank, or IADB, in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction for all private sector activities of the IADB. Prior to that, from May 2000 to November 2004 he was a Managing Director, Head of Latin America Investment Banking and Senior Client Officer for Citigroup. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Guimarães was a Managing Director and head of Latin America Investment Banking for Lehman Brothers and was a member of the Global Investment Bank’s Operating Committee. Mr. Guimarães is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Gosmo, a fleet management solutions company in Mexico, and an independent director of ITHAX Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ITHX), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the leisure, hospitality and travel businesses. Mr. Guimarães received a B.S. in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Pär Lindström

Pär Lindström, our Chief Financial Officer and a member of our Board of Directors, has over 20 years of direct investment experience, in several industries including renewables, energy and infrastructure, in the United States, Europe and the Emerging Markets. Mr. Lindström is currently the Chief Investment Officer of i(x) Net Zero plc, or i(x) Net Zero, an investment company capitalized by 56 of the world’s leading families, co-founded by Trevor Nelson and Howard W. Buffet in 2015, which is focused on top tier returns with positive, scalable and measurable environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact. As a member of Enphys Acquisition Sponsor LLC, i(x) Net Zero seeks to align its capital with strong management teams that can create opportunities that are self-sustaining and provide long-term scalable impact, while addressing the global need for renewable energy and a tangible climate solution. Mr. Lindström has been Chief Investment Officer of i(x) Net Zero since inception and has invested in and developed several successful platforms in the renewables, biofuels, green real estate, media/ education and financial services sectors. Prior to i(x) Net Zero, Mr. Lindström was part of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) since its inception and spent over five years as a Principal in the Global Special Situations and Private Equity groups, where he led and structured direct investments across multiple asset classes focused on renewables, energy, industrials, technology and water/agriculture industries. Prior to ADIC, he was a Principal at Partners Capital in Boston and London, a firm backed by Lord Jacob Rothschild and Sir Ronald Cohen, where he headed up Private Equity, Growth Capital and Venture Capital investments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lindström was co-head of Applied Value’s New York office, a global turnaround advisory firm with a Growth Equity investment arm and a senior investment professional at the Wallenberg’s Investor AB - Investor Growth Capital in New York. Mr. Lindström has also held positions with Bain & Company’s Private Equity Groups in Europe and the U.S. where he led private equity due-diligence analyses in a variety of industries, and with KPMG Banking & Finance. Mr. Lindström holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and is a two-time Olympian in swimming.

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Matias de Bujan

Matias de Bujan, our Chief Operating Officer, for the past seven years has been a Managing Director at LAIG and has been the Chief Executive Officer of WiseHood for the last four years. Mr. de Buján has over 25 years of management and entrepreneurial experience in Latin America, including several chief executive officer positions in a period of eight years overseeing more than 500 employees. Prior to joining LAIG, Mr. de Buján co-founded and later successfully sold Kheiron Biotech, an equine cloning company and developer of cutting-edge reproductive technologies for worldwide horse breeders. Between 2006 and 2010, Mr. de Bujan was a Managing Director at Falcon Equity Partners in the Middle East. Prior to that, Mr. de Buján founded NDM Group, an Argentinian-based agribusiness, real estate and hospital conglomerate, which he sold in 2006. Mr. de Buján has an engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires.

Our independent directors include Hélio L. Magalhães, Federico Carrillo-Zürcher, Eva Redhe and José Antonio Aguilar Bueno.

Hélio L. Magalhães

Mr. Magalhães is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banco do Brasil S.A. (BVMF: BBAS3, OTCMKTS: BDORY), the largest bank in Latin America by assets, and UBS BB Investment Banking. Since 2020, Mr. Magalhães has served on the Board of Directors of Suzano SA (NYSE: SUZ), a forestry based publicly held company. He has also served on a number of other boards of directors in Latin America, with a focus on the energy, payments and financial sectors, as well as having been the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil. From 2012 to 2017, Mr. Magalhães served as Chief Executive Officer of Banco Citibank S.A., the Brazilian banking and investment subsidiary of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), and from 2001 to 2012 served in various positions with American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), including serving as President of Global Network Services for the Americas, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Express’s Mexico subsidiary, American Express Company (Mexico) S.A. de C.V., and President and Chief Executive Officer of American Express’ Brazilian subsidiary, American Express do Brasil Tempos Cia.

Federico Carrillo-Zürcher

Mr. Carrillo-Zürcher is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Imaginarium S.A., and the former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Economic Council of Costa Rica and as such, Mr. Carrillo-Zürcher served as a Governor of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Corporacion Andina de Fomento and was Executive Vice President of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, and Alternative Governor of the International Monetary Fund. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Costa Rica Stock Exchange, and was the Chief Executive Officer of Banco Internacional de Costa Rica S.A.

Eva Redhe

Ms. Redhe is currently a board member of Nordkinn Asset Management and Axel Christiernsson International AB and currently serves as a senior advisor at Bregal Milestone. Prior to that, Ms. Redhe served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Erik Penser Bank in Sweden.

José Antonio Aguilar Bueno

Mr. Aguilar is the Co-founder and Principal of Vive Energia, a leading renewable energy developer in Mexico, a former Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation, Deputy General for Investment Banking for Nacional Financiera, and as such was President of the Mexican Fund of Funds, and former Chief Executive Officer at Acciona Energia in Mexico.

Industry

Within the energy transition space we intend to focus on opportunities across the renewable, energy storage, mobility, advanced fuels and carbon mitigation sectors, as well as other adjacent services, industrials, and technologies, while remaining opportunistic across the energy value chain, including evaluating companies with a mixture of traditional power generation assets and renewable power generation assets, or firms which might be undergoing a transition towards renewable technologies. We believe this area of focus represents a favorable market opportunity, in particular in Ibero-America where a regional renewables player champion is yet to emerge.

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Furthermore, we believe that there is an opportunity to take advantage of the energy transition of the global energy sector from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption to zero-carbon renewable energy sources. The increasing penetration of renewables into the energy supply mix, the onset of electrification and improvements in energy storage are all key drivers of the energy transition.

The selection of our area of focus is driven by the long-term leadership and operational experience of our founders, by the structural changes brought by the energy transition movement in the global energy sector and by our view that there is significant risk-adjusted value generating potential for a firm in this space in accessing the global capital markets to continue funding its growth prospects and business strategy.

Some of the key themes we have identified in the Ibero-American energy transition space which has driven our area of focus include, but are not limited to:

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Climate change and zero-carbon emissions pledge. Strong momentum in the energy transition movement across corporate sectors, governments and investors as they continue to prioritize environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors. The focus on environmental issues has been fueled by the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, which has served as the principal catalyst for transformative change across the global energy spectrum. The aforementioned agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. The International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA, projects that investments in renewable generation will outlast non-renewable generation investments.

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Renewable power potential and resource diversification. Home to some of the world’s most plentiful wind and solar resources, Ibero-America is set to play a vital role in the energy transition movement in the coming years. Latin America, and the Caribbean in particular, has an enormous untapped potential to become a leader in renewable energy generation due to its natural resources.

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Attractive growth. Energy consumption per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean is currently well below the global per capita consumption average.Furthermore, the region has energy intensive industries that account for 5% of global energy consumption. The region’s total final energy consumption and total primary energy supply is expected to increase significantly in the future. In order to meet the increase in energy consumption and supply the region is expected to invest a significant amount of money to increase renewable energy generation installed capacity.

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Electrification and renewable energy. Electrification and renewable energy have become the backbone of the new energy economy, fostering the transition from fossil fuel dependency to a new zero-carbon emissions economy. It is expected that significant amounts of money will be spent annually on power grids, system flexibility and to adopt current infrastructure to the new energy era.

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Resilience through economic cycles. The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously dented global economic growth, and Ibero-America is no exception. The timing and pace of recovery remain unpredictable, however, we believe that the pandemic has the potential to change the priority of government policies, and that renewable energy will play a key role in Ibero-America’s rebound from the crisis. Despite these global challenges, renewable energy projects are still going ahead. On a global level, looking at the project pipeline through 2025, almost one-third of wind and solar PV projects are already contracted and/or financed, according to IRENA’s latest renewable energy market update.

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Business Strategy

We believe that our management team is well positioned to identify attractive business combination opportunities with a compelling industry position and an opportunity for strong growth. We plan to leverage our management team’s networks of potential transaction sources where we believe our management team’s industry relationships, knowledge and experience could positively affect existing businesses or assets. Members of our management team have developed, over the course of their individual career, a broad network of contacts and corporate relationships that we believe will serve as a useful source of acquisition opportunities. This international network encompasses management of public and private companies, investment professionals at private equity firms and other financial sponsors, owners of private businesses, government bodies, investment bankers, restructuring advisers, consultants, attorneys and accountants, which we believe should provide us with a number of business combination opportunities.

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investing in, managing and operating companies across many industries, such as energy, mobility, real estate and other infrastructure-related industries;

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attracting, selecting and retaining high-performing management teams with proven track records;

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developing and executing strategic and business plans to deliver value creation and operational efficiencies, enhancing the competitive position of companies;

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implementing an optimized capital structure that enables companies to achieve their next phase of growth;

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managing public company governance, with our founders having served in key roles on numerous public company boards; and

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operating and growing Ibero-American businesses throughout changing macroeconomic, legal, tax and regulatory environments.

Business Combination Criteria

Consistent with our business strategy, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses. We will use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating acquisition opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet these criteria and guidelines. We intend to focus on target businesses that we believe:

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stand to benefit from the energy transition and renewable energy generation trends as well as the electrification of Ibero-America;

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exhibit potential for strong growth and offer potential investment opportunities with attractive returns for our shareholders;

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are at an inflection point, such as requiring additional management expertise, are able to innovative through new operational techniques, or where we believe we can drive improved financial performance;

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exhibit unrecognized value or other characteristics, desirable returns on capital, and a need for capital to achieve the company’s growth strategy, that we believe have been misevaluated by the marketplace based on our analysis and due diligence review;

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can utilize the extensive networks and insights that our management team have built in the energy sector; and

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benefit from being publicly listed, having access to capital and are ready to operate under the scrutiny of public markets, thanks to strong management teams, corporate governance and reporting policies in place.

Acquisition Process

We have not selected any business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target.

Each of our directors (including our director nominees) and officers presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual duties to other entities pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to such entity. Accordingly, if any of our directors or officers becomes aware of a business combination opportunity that is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual duties, he or she may need to honor these fiduciary or contractual duties to present such business combination opportunity to such entity. In addition, our directors and officers are not required to commit any specified amount of time to our affairs, and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating management time among various business activities, including identifying potential business combinations and monitoring the related due diligence. We do not believe, however, that any of these fiduciary or contractual duties will materially affect our ability to identify and pursue business combination opportunities or complete our initial business combination.

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To address the matters set out above, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that we renounce, to the maximum extent permitted by law, our interest or expectancy in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in any business combination opportunity: (i) which may be a corporate opportunity for both us and our sponsor or its affiliates and any companies in which our sponsor or its affiliates have invested about which our sponsor or any of our officers or directors acquire knowledge; or (ii) the presentation of which would breach an existing legal obligation of a director or officer to another entity, and we will waive any claim or cause of action we may have in respect thereof. In addition, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association contain provisions to exculpate and indemnify, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such persons in respect of any liability, obligation or duty to our company that may arise as a consequence of such persons becoming aware of any business opportunity or failing to present such business opportunity.

Certain of our officers and directors have fiduciary or contractual relationships with other entities. For example, Mr. de Pablo and Mr. Guimarães are the Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board of Directors, respectively, of LAIG, and accordingly they owe certain fiduciary or contractual duties LAIG or to certain of its investment vehicles or portfolio companies or other companies in which it has invested. Similarly, Mr. Lindström is the Chief Investment Officer of i(x) Net Zero plc, and accordingly he owes certain fiduciary or contractual duties to such company. As a result, Messrs. de Pablo, Guimarães and Lindström may, in certain situations, have a duty to offer acquisition opportunities to certain funds, investment vehicles or portfolio companies of LAIG, i(x) Net Zero plc or other companies in which they have invested or to LAIG or (i)x) Investment, LLC, as applicable, before we can pursue such opportunities. However, we do not expect these duties to materially affect our search for an initial business combination and believe that this conflict of interest will be naturally mitigated, to some extent, by the differing nature of the acquisition targets that LAIG and i(x) Net Zero plc typically considers most attractive for their investment funds and the types of acquisitions that we expect to be most attractive for our company. As a result, we may become aware of a potential transaction that is not a fit for the activities of LAIG or i(x) Net Zero plc, but that is an attractive opportunity for our company.

Initial Business Combination

The rules of the NYSE require that our initial business combination must be with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the trust account (net of amounts disbursed to management for working capital purposes, if permitted, and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in trust). We refer to this as the “80% of net assets test.” If our Board of Directors is not able to independently determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We do not currently intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination, although there is no assurance that will be the case.

We anticipate structuring our initial business combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public shareholders own shares will own or acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses. We may, however, structure our initial business combination such that the post-transaction company owns or acquires less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target business in order to meet certain objectives of the target management team or shareholders or for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target business sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the Investment Company Act. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders prior to our initial business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding capital stock, shares or other equity securities of a target business or issue a substantial number of new shares to third-parties in connection with financing our initial business combination. In this case, we would acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our shareholders immediately prior to our initial business combination could own less than a majority of our issued and outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination. If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be valued for purposes of the 80% of net assets test. If our initial business combination involves more than one target business, the 80% of net assets test will be based on the aggregate value of all of the target businesses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if we are not then listed on the NYSE for whatever reason, we would no longer be required to meet the foregoing 80% of net assets test. In addition, we have agreed not to enter into a definitive agreement regarding an initial business combination without the prior consent of our sponsor.

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Status as a Public Company

We believe our structure will make us an attractive business combination partner to partner businesses. As an existing public company, we offer a partner business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination with us. In a business combination transaction with us, the owners of the partner business may, for example, exchange their capital stock, shares or other equity interests in the partner business for our Class A ordinary shares (or shares of a new holding company) or for a combination of our Class A ordinary shares and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers. We believe partner businesses will find this method a more expeditious and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering. The typical initial public offering process takes a significantly longer period of time than the typical business combination transaction process, and there are significant expenses in the initial public offering process, including underwriting discounts and commissions, that may not be present to the same extent in connection with a business combination with us.

Furthermore, once a proposed business combination is completed, the partner business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriters’ ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could delay or prevent the offering from occurring or have negative valuation consequences. Once public, we believe the partner business would then have greater access to capital, an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with shareholders’ interests and the ability to use its shares as currency for acquisitions. Being a public company can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees.

While we believe that our structure and our management team’s backgrounds make us an attractive business partner, some potential partner businesses may view our status as a blank check company, such as our lack of an operating history and our ability to seek shareholder approval of any proposed initial business combination, negatively.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial public offering, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our Class A ordinary shares that are held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during the prior three-year period.

Additionally, we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K. Smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years of audited financial statements. We will remain a smaller reporting company until the last day of the fiscal year in which (1) the market value of our ordinary shares held by non-affiliates is equal to or exceeds $250 million as of the prior June 30, and (2) our annual revenues equaled or exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year and the market value of our ordinary shares held by non-affiliates is equal to or exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30.

Financial Position

With funds available for a business combination immediately after our initial public offering in the amount of $353,900,000, exclusive of funds held outside the trust account to meet our expected working capital requirements and after payment of the expenses of our initial public offering and before the payment of approximately $12,075,000 of deferred underwriting fees, we offer a partner business a variety of options such as creating a liquidity event for its owners, providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening its balance sheet by reducing its debt ratio. Because we are able to complete our initial business combination using our cash, debt or equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use the most efficient combination that will allow us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the partner business to fit its needs and desires. However, we have not taken any steps to secure third-party financing and there can be no assurance it will be available to us.

Effecting Our Initial Business Combination

We are not presently engaged in, and we will not engage in, any operations for an indefinite period of time. We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of our initial public offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, our shares, debt or a combination of these as the consideration to be paid in our initial business combination. We may seek to complete our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.

If our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt, or not all of the funds released from the trust account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our initial business combination or the redemptions of our public shares, we may apply the balance of the cash released to us from the trust account for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction company, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital.

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We may seek to raise additional funds through a private offering of debt or equity securities in connection with the completion of our initial business combination, and we may effectuate our initial business combination using the proceeds of such offering rather than using the amounts held in the trust account.

In the case of an initial business combination funded with assets other than the trust account assets, our tender offer documents or proxy materials disclosing the business combination would disclose the terms of the financing and, only if required by law or we decide to do so for business or other reasons, we would seek shareholder approval of such financing. There are no prohibitions on our ability to raise funds privately or through loans in connection with our initial business combination. At this time, we are not a party to any arrangement or understanding with any third party with respect to raising any additional funds through the sale of securities or otherwise.

Selection of a target business and structuring of our initial business combination

The NYSE rules require that our initial business combination must be with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the trust account (net of amounts disbursed to management for working capital purposes, if permitted, and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in trust). We refer to this as the 80% of net assets test. The fair market value of the target or targets will be determined by our Board of Directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community, such as discounted cash flow valuation or value of comparable businesses. If our Board of Directors is not able independently to determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We do not currently intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination, although there is no assurance that will be the case. Subject to this requirement, our management will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting one or more prospective target businesses, although we will not be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination solely with another blank check company or a similar company with nominal operations.

In any case, we will only complete an initial business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target business sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. If less than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company, the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be valued for purposes of the 80% of net assets test. There is no basis for investors to evaluate the possible merits or risks of any target business with which we may ultimately complete our initial business combination.

To the extent we effect our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in such company or business. Although our management will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all significant risk factors.

In evaluating a prospective target business, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review which may encompass, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews, inspection of facilities, as well as a review of financial, operational, legal and other information, which will be made available to us.

The time required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete our initial business combination, and the costs associated with this process, are not currently ascertainable with any degree of certainty. Any costs incurred with respect to the identification and evaluation of a prospective target business with which our initial business combination is not ultimately completed will result in our incurring losses and will reduce the funds we can use to complete another business combination. In addition, we have agreed not to enter into a definitive agreement regarding an initial business combination without the prior consent of our sponsor.

Lack of business diversification

For an indefinite period of time after the completion of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely on the future performance of a single business. Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinations with multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations and mitigate the risks of being in a single line of business.

By completing our initial business combination with only a single entity our lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks. Further, we would not be able to diversify our operations or benefit from the possible spreading of risks or offsetting of losses, unlike other entities which may have the resources to complete several business combinations in different industries or different areas of a single industry.

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Accordingly, the prospects for our success may be:

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solely dependent upon the performance of a single business, property or asset; or

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dependent upon the development or market acceptance of a single or limited number of products, processes or services.

This lack of diversification may subject us to numerous economic, competitive and regulatory risks, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact upon the particular industry in which we may operate subsequent to our initial business combination.

Limited ability to evaluate the partner’s management team

Although we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial business combination with that business, our assessment of the target business’s management may not prove to be correct. In addition, the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company. Furthermore, the future role of members of our management team, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with any certainty. While it is possible that one or more of our directors will remain associated in some capacity with us following our initial business combination, it is unlikely that any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs subsequent to our initial business combination. Moreover, we cannot assure you that members of our management team will have significant experience or knowledge relating to the operations of the particular target business.

We cannot assure you that any of our key personnel will remain in senior management or advisory positions with the combined company. The determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business combination.

SEC Form 10-K filed by Enphys Acquisition Corp.