UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020

2021

OR

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

For the Transition Periodtransition period from         to

Commission File Number 001-39798

LOGO

CBRE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.

Altus Power, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware85-3448396

Delaware

85-3448396
(State or other jurisdiction of


incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer


Identification No.)

2100 McKinney Avenue

Suite 1250

Dallas, Texas

75201
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)Number)

(214) 979-6100

2200 Atlantic Street, 6th Floor
Stamford, CT 06902
(203) 698-0090
(Registrant’sAddress, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code)

code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)


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

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Symbol

Name of each exchange on which registered

SAILSM (Stakeholder Aligned Initial Listing) securities, each consisting of one share of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value and one-fourth of one redeemable warrant$0.0001 per shareCBAH.UAMPSNew York Stock Exchange
Class A common stock included as part of the SAILSM securitiesCBAHNew York Stock Exchange
Warrants included as part of the SAILSM securities, each whole warrant exercisable forto purchase one share of Class A common stock, each at an exercise price of $11.00CBAHAMPS WSNew 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 Act. Yes No


Indicate by check mark whether the registrantRegistrant (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 registrantRegistrant 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 registrantRegistrant 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 registrantRegistrant was required to submit 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 the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.





Large accelerated filerAccelerated filer
Non-accelerated filerSmaller reporting company
Non-accelerated filerSmaller 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)7(a)(2)(B) of the ExchangeSecurities 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 was not a public company as of June 30, 2020, and therefore it cannot calculate the aggregate market value of its voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates as of such date. The registrant’s SAILSM securities began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on December 15, 2020, and the registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, and warrants began trading separately on the New York Stock Exchange on February 1, 2021.

The aggregate market value of the registrant’sregistrant's Class A shares outstanding, other than shares held by persons who may be deemed affiliates of the registrant at December 31, 2020June 30, 2021, the last business day of the Registrant's most recently completed second quarter, was $420,508,000$390,730,400 (based on the closing sales price of the SAILSM securitiesClass A shares on December 31, 2020,June 30, 2021, of $10.45)$9.71).


As of February 28, 2021,March 10, 2022, there were 40,250,000153,648,830 shares of the company’sregistrant's Class A common stock par value $0.0001 per share, and 2,012,500 sharesoutstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Portions of the Company’s Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, issued and outstanding.

registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement to be filed for its 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders are incorporated by reference into the sections of this Form 10-K addressing the requirements of Part III of Form 10-K.





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CERTAIN TERMS

References to the “Company,” “our,” “us” or “we” refer to CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc., a blank check company incorporated

PART I

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The statements contained in Delaware on October 13, 2020, and references to:

“alignment shares” are to shares of our Class B common stock purchased in a private placement in connection with our Initial Public Offering;

“CBRE” are to CBRE Group, Inc. and include all of its consolidated subsidiaries, unless otherwise indicated or the context requires otherwise;

“common stock” are to our Class A common stock and our Class B common stock, collectively;

“initial stockholders” are to holders of our alignment shares prior to our Initial Public Offering;

“Initial Public Offering” refer to the initial public offering of CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc., which closed on December 15, 2020 (the “IPO Closing Date”);

“public shares” are to shares of our Class A common stock sold as part of the SAILSM securities (whether they were purchased in connection with the Initial Public Offering or thereafter in the open market);

“public stockholders” are to the holders of our public shares, including our Sponsor, officers and directors to the extent our Sponsor, officers or directors purchase public shares, provided that each of their status as a “public stockholder” shall only exist with respect to such public shares;

“Sponsor” refer to CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a subsidiary of CBRE; and

“warrants” refers to our Public Warrants and private placement warrants, as applicable.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Thisthis Annual Report on Form 10-K includes that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements. Our forward-looking statements withininclude, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the meaningfuture. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of Section 27Afuture events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the “Securities Act,” and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. The wordsterms “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “should,” “propose,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,“estimate,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,“outlook,“project,” “will”“future” and “project” and other similar terms and phrasesexpressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to identify forward-looking statements. Except fornot statements of historical information contained herein, the matters addressed in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are forward-looking statements.matters. These statements, which involve risks and uncertainties, relate to analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results and estimates of amounts not yet determinable. These statementsdeterminable and may also relate to our future prospects, developments and business strategies. These forward-looking statements are made based on our management’s current expectations and beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions concerning future events affecting us andevents.

Such forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, relating to our operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyondoutside our control. These uncertainties and factorscontrol that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements.

The following factors are among those, but are not only those, that may cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements:

statements. These risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors include, but are not limited to:

ourthe ability to consummate amaintain listing on the NYSE;

changes in applicable laws or regulations;
the possibility that we may be adversely affected by other economic, business, combination due to regulatory and/or competitive factors;
the uncertainty resulting fromimpact of COVID-19 and supply chain issues on our business;
and other factors detailed herein under the recent COVID-19 pandemic;

section entitled “Risk Factors.”

our ability to select an appropriate target business or businesses;

our ability to complete our business combination;

ourThese forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and current expectations, around the performance of a prospective target business or businesses;

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

our officersforecasts and directors allocating their time to other businessesassumptions, and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our business combination;

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

our pool of prospective target businesses;

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

judgments, risks and uncertainties. Important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated or implied by forward-looking statements such as those contained in documents we have filed with the SEC. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our public securities’ potential liquidityviews as of any subsequent date, and trading;

we do not undertake any obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the lackdate they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, our actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a discussion of the risks involved in our business and investing in our common stock, see the section entitled “Risk Factors.”
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
Market and Industry Data
This Annual Report on Form 10-K includes market and industry data and forecasts that Altus has derived from publicly available information, reports of governmental agencies, various industry publications, other published industry sources and internal data and estimates. All market and industry data used herein involve a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such estimates. Although we are responsible for our securities;

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

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

our financial performance; and

the other factors described elsewheredisclosure contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and we believe the information from industry publications and other third-party sources included under the headings “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussionherein is reliable, such information is inherently imprecise and Analysiswe have not had this information verified by any independent sources. The industry in which Altus operates is subject to a high degree of Financial Conditionuncertainty and Resultsrisk due to a variety of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies,” “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” or asfactors, including those described in the section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K entitled “Risk Factors.” These and other documentsfactors could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in the estimates made by the independent parties and reports we file with the SEC.

by us.

Forward-looking statements speak only as

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Item 1. Business
Each of the dateterms “Altus,” the statements are made. You should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation“Company,” “we,” “our,” “us,” and similar terms used herein refer collectively to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking information, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws. If we do update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that we will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning these and other risks and uncertainties is contained in our other periodic filings with the SEC.

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PART I

ITEM 1.

BUSINESS

Introduction

We are a blank-check company incorporated on October 13, 2020, asAltus Power Inc., a Delaware corporation, and formedits consolidated subsidiaries, unless otherwise stated.


Company Overview
Our mission is to create a clean electrification ecosystem, to drive the clean energy transition of our customers across the United States while simultaneously enabling the adoption of corporate environmental, social and governance, or ESG, targets. In order to achieve our mission, we develop, own and operate solar generation and energy storage facilities. We have the in-house expertise to develop, build and provide operations and maintenance and customer servicing for our assets. The strength of our platform is enabled by premier sponsorship from The Blackstone Group ("Blackstone"), which provides an efficient capital source and access to a network of portfolio companies, and CBRE Group, Inc. ("CBRE"), which provides direct access to their portfolio of owned and managed commercial and industrial (“C&I”) properties.
We are a developer, owner and operator of large-scale roof, ground and carport-based photovoltaic ("PV") and energy storage systems, serving commercial and industrial, public sector and community solar customers. We own systems across the United States from Hawaii to Vermont. Our portfolio consists of over 350 megawatts (“MW”) of solar PV. We have long-term power purchase agreements ("PPAs") with over 300 C&I entities and contracts with over 5,000 residential customers through community solar projects. We also participate in numerous renewable energy certificate (“REC”) programs throughout the country. We have experienced significant growth in the last 12 months as a product of organic growth and targeted acquisitions and currently operate in 18 states, providing clean electricity to our customers equal to the consumption of approximately 30,000 homes, displacing 255,000 tons of CO2 emissions per annum.
Through our strategic capital deployment, we are able to build and operate clean energy systems on commercial properties, schools and municipal buildings. The electricity we generate helps customers to reduce electricity bills, progress towards decarbonization targets and support resource management needs throughout the asset lifecycles. Our primary product offering is entering into leases or easements with building or landowners and revenue contracts to sell the power generated by the solar energy system to a various commercial, utility, municipal and community solar off takers. In addition to sale of clean power, we also addressing our customer's needs through EV charging and energy storage offerings.
Our offering provides multiple advantages to our customers relative to the status quo:
Lower electricity bills. Our streamlined process allows for solar energy credits to get directly applied to customer’s utility bill, which allows them to realize immediate savings. In addition, our PPAs are typically priced to include a day one savings as compared to the existing utility rates.
Increase accessibility of clean electricity. Through our use of community solar we are able to provide clean electricity to customers who otherwise would not have been able to construct on-site solar (e.g. apartment and condominium customers). This increases the total addressable market and enables energy security for all.
Supporting clean energy ecosystem. Demand for clean sources of electricity is anticipated to only increase. We strive to support our customers in their continued transition to the clean energy ecosystem through our solar PV and storage systems as well as our EV charging stations. We expect our continued growth and expansion of product offerings will allow us to support even more customers in this transition.

We own all of our solar systems, which we build and install, with equipment sourced from a wide variety of suppliers. We purchase all major components of the systems we construct, including solar modules, inverters, racking systems, transformers, medium voltage equipment, monitoring equipment and balance of system equipment. All of the labor for the construction of these systems is subcontracted under Altus’s standard contracts.
We believe our robust and actionable pipeline is the result of our deep network of developers and channel partners with local expertise, which is beneficial in the many markets where we are active. Our wholly-owned in-house construction company provides expertise in asset development that aids the success of our pipeline projects. Further, we believe that our ability to source deals, our strategic asset financing structure, combined with the demand for clean energy provide us with a competitive advantage and a unique position in the solar power industry.
Merger with CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. ("CBAH")
On December 9, 2021 (the "Closing Date"), CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. ("CBAH"), a special purpose acquisition company, consummated the business combination pursuant to the terms of the business combination agreement entered into on July 12, 2021 (the "Business Combination Agreement"), whereby, among other things, CBAH Merger Sub I, Inc. ("First Merger Sub") merged with and into Altus Power, Inc. (f/k/a Altus Power America, Inc.) ("Legacy Altus") with Legacy Altus continuing as the surviving corporation, and immediately thereafter Legacy Altus merged with and into CBAH Merger Sub II, Inc. ("Second
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Merger Sub") with Second Merger Sub continuing as the surviving entity and as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBAH (together with the merger with the First Merger sub, the “Merger”).
Our predecessor, CBAH, a blank check company, was established as a special purpose acquisition company, which completed its initial public offering on December 15, 2020. CBAH was incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, or assets (a “business combination”). Sinceand, prior to the consummation of our Initial Public Offering, we have reviewed, and continue to review, a number of opportunities to enter into a business combination with an operating business, including entering into discussions with potential target businesses, but we are not able to determine at this time whether we will complete a business combination with any ofMerger, the target businesses that we have reviewed or had discussions with or with any other target business. We also have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenue to date. Based on our business activities, we areCompany was a “shell company” as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”) because we haveit had no operations and nominal assets consisting solelyalmost entirely of cash and/or cash equivalents.

On October 13, 2020, our Sponsor purchased 100 shares of undesignated common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $100, or $1.00 per share. On November 6, 2020, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of our Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 of such shares were forfeited bycash. In connection with the holder thereof.Closing, CBAH changed its name to “Altus Power, Inc.” Prior to the initial investment in the Company of $25,000 by our Sponsor, the Company had no assets, tangible or intangible. In connection with our Initial Public Offering, our Sponsor sold 20,125 alignment shares and 18,417 private placement warrants (as defined below) to each of our directors (other than Ms. Giamartino and Mr. Sulentic), or their respective designees. In addition, our Sponsor sold 100,625 alignment shares and 36,833 private placement warrants to one of our officers, Cash J. Smith.

On December 15, 2020 we consummated our Initial Public Offering of 40,250,000Closing, CBAH’s SAILSM(Stakeholder (Stakeholder Aligned Initial Listing) securities, (the “SAILSM securities”), including the issuance of 5,250,000 SAILSM securities as a result of the underwriter’s exercise of its over-allotment option. Each SAILSM security consists of one shareshares of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value $0.0001 per share (the “ClassClass A common stock”stock) and CBAH’s public warrants (“Redeemable Warrants” or “Public Warrants”) were listed on the NYSE under the symbols “CBAH.U”, “CBAH” and one-fourth“CBAH WS”, respectively. Following the Closing, we continued the listing of one redeemable warrant (the “Public Warrants”), each whole Public Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at an exercise price of $11.00 per share.and Public Warrants on the NYSE under the symbols “AMPS” and “AMPS WS”, respectively.

Total Addressable Market
Electricity demand has been evolving for many years, but the evolution has accelerated with the renewable targets and decarbonization goals established by many corporations demanding a transition to clean electricity generation. The SAILSM securities were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per SAILSM security, generating gross proceeds of $402,500,000,demand is coming from multiple industry segments including the proceeds frompublic sector, the exerciseprivate sector and the residential customers. Historically the C&I market has been under-penetrated by traditional utility-scale solar PV providers due to the smaller scale of projects and difficulties associated with scaling nationally. We believe we are well equipped to drive the C&I growth segment of the underwriter’s over-allotment option. In connection withsolar PV market through our existing national partner footprint, efficient acquisition and deployment strategies and standardized approach to customer contracts and asset financing.
We believe the consummationconfluence of multiple clean energy trends creates a significant market opportunity. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (“EIA”), the U.S. spends $400 billion on electricity each year, of which $200 billion is spent on C&I. An additional $98 billion of investment will be required to meet the U.S.’s 2030 sustainability goals. Further, C&I customers are projected to spend over $6 trillion on electricity between now and 2050.
We believe it will be necessary to rapidly increase the scale and scope of renewable generation assets in the U.S. in order to meet the various targets and commitments set by corporations and governments and that through our strategic partnerships and market-leading financing, Altus is well equipped to help meet this demand and lead in the clean energy transition.
Commitment to Environmental, Social and Governance Leadership
Altus Power was founded to address the urgent need to transform the way we generate and consume power. Our mission – to create a clean electrification ecosystem that can provide renewable energy to every business, home and electric vehicle – is intrinsically linked to clean, renewable power as the foundation for a sustainable future.
We believe that leadership in environmental, social and governance ("ESG") practices is central to accomplishing our mission, so we continue to take steps to address the environmental and social risks of our Initial Public Offeringoperations and products. To this end, we have established a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee that is dedicated to implementing and improving upon already existing sustainability practices throughout our company. Our team is passionate about empowering communities and businesses to accelerate the global energy transition while also doing everything we can to foster a diverse, inclusive and innovative corporate culture at Altus Power.
Our sustainability efforts will be organized into the three ESG pillars: Environment, Social, and Governance. We plan to report how we oversee and manage ESG factors in an annual sustainability report. In this report we plan to follow the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards.
Our Environment Pillar will focus on providing clean, affordable energy to our customers; maintaining a robust environmental management program that ensures we protect the environment in the communities where we operate and build; and helping to make our energy infrastructure more resilient and sustainable.
Our Social Pillar will focus on attracting and retaining a team of talented individuals, while offering opportunities for growth and development; building a diverse and inclusive work force; and ensuring a safety-first workplace for our employees through proper training, policies and protocols.
Our Governance Pillar will focus on ensuring Board oversight and committee ownership of our enterprise risk management and sustaining a commitment to ethical business conduct, transparency, honesty, and integrity. We strive to support ethically sourced products and materials and encourage the partners in our supply-chain to abide by our Supplier Code of Conduct.
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All of our actions and each of our ESG pillars are underpinned by the goal of driving the clean energy transition of our customers across the United States.

Our Digital Platform
Altus Power leverages best in class enterprise software solutions to manage our operation as well as a series of proprietary capture and management tools. We leverage this suite of tools and interfaces to create value for customers with asset performance tracking, analytics, real time data generation and meet our forecast objectives. Altus is in the process of developing our next generation proprietary software stack to support our growth and increase our efficiency with digital tools that will enable our platforms to have full integration into our B2B and B2C lifecycles from origination through maintenance. Our production data sources ensure solar systems maximize performance and meet baseline forecasts as well as asset registration and customer data management. We warehouse our technology and project data, contracts and customer records and have the alert and monitoring systems developed to ensure we have maximum uptime.
Sales and Marketing
We sell our solar energy offerings through a scalable sales organization using a national developer base with local expertise, intermediaries that connect clients directly to Altus as well as our diverse partner network. We also generate sales volume through client referrals. Client referrals increase in relation to our penetration in a market and shortly after market entry become an increasingly effective way to market our solar energy systems. We believe that a customized, relationship-focused selling process is important before, during and after the sale of our solar services to maximize our sales success and customer experience and to generate relationships with developers that lead to repeat projects. We train our sales and marketing team in house to maximize this multi-pronged client development strategy.
Supply Chain
We purchase equipment, including solar panels, inverters and batteries from a variety of manufacturers and suppliers. If one or more of the suppliers and manufacturers that we rely upon to meet anticipated demand reduces or ceases production, it may be difficult to quickly identify and qualify alternatives on acceptable terms. In addition, equipment prices may increase in the coming years, or not decrease at the rates we historically have experienced, due to tariffs or other factors. For further information, please see the section entitled “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Intellectual Property
We have filed trademark applications for “Altus” and the issuanceAltus logo, application numbers 90/730,855 and sale of90/731,002, respectively. Altus has registered domain names, including www.altuspower.com. Information contained on or accessible through the SAILSM securities, we consummated the private placement of 7,366,667 warrants (the “private placement warrants”) atwebsite is not a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant, each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share, generating total proceeds of approximately $11,050,000.

The private placement warrants are substantially similar to the Public Warrants sold as part of the SAILSM securities in the Initial Public Offering, except that if held by our Sponsor, certain directors or officers of the Company or their permitted transferees (i) they will not be redeemable by the Company (except in certain circumstances when the Public Warrants are called for redemption and the $10.00 per share Class A common stock threshold is met, as described in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is incorporated herein by reference); (ii) they will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after and the completioninclusion of the Company’s business combination (except, among other limited exceptions, as describedwebsite address in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated hereinan inactive textual reference only. Altus does not currently have any issued patents. Altus intends to file patent applications as we continue to innovate through our research and development efforts.

Regulatory
Although we are not regulated as a public utility in the United States under applicable national, state or other local regulatory regimes where we conduct business, we compete primarily with regulated utilities. As a result, we have developed and are committed to maintaining a policy team to focus on the key regulatory and legislative issues impacting the entire industry. We believe these efforts help us better navigate local markets through relationships with key stakeholders and facilitate a deep understanding of the national and regional policy environment.
To operate our systems, we obtain interconnection permission from the applicable local primary electric utility. Depending on the size of the solar energy system and local law requirements, interconnection permission is provided by reference,the local utility directly to us and/or our customers. In almost all cases, interconnection permissions are issued on the basis of a standard process that has been pre-approved by the local public utility commission or other regulatory body with jurisdiction over net metering policies. As such, no additional regulatory approvals are required once interconnection permission is given.
Our operations are subject to stringent and complex federal, state and local laws, including regulations governing the occupational health and safety of our employees and wage regulations. For example, we are subject to the Company’s officersrequirements of the federal Occupational Safety and directorsHealth Act, as amended (“OSHA”), and comparable state laws that protect and regulate employee health and safety. We endeavor to maintain compliance with applicable OSHA and other personscomparable government regulations.
Government Incentives
Federal, state and local government bodies provide incentives to owners, distributors, system integrators and manufacturers of solar energy systems to promote solar energy in the form of rebates, tax credits, payments for RECs associated with renewable energy generation and exclusion of solar energy systems from property tax assessments. These incentives enable us to lower the price we charge customers for energy from, and to lease, our solar energy systems, helping to catalyze customer acceptance of
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solar energy as an alternative to utility-provided power. In addition, for some investors, the acceleration of depreciation creates a valuable tax benefit that reduces the overall cost of the solar energy system and increases the return on investment.
The federal government currently offers an investment tax credit (“ITC”) under Section 48(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code"), for the installation of certain solar power facilities owned for business purposes. If construction on the facility began before January 1, 2020, the amount of the ITC available is 30%, if construction began during 2020, 2021, or entities affiliated2022 the amount of the ITC available is 26%, and if construction begins during 2023 the amount of the ITC available is 22%. The ITC steps down to 10% if construction of the facility begins after December 31, 2023 or if the facility is not placed in service before January 1, 2026. The depreciable basis of a solar facility is also reduced by 50% of the amount of any ITC claimed. The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) provided taxpayers guidance in Notice 2018-59 for determining when construction has begun on a solar facility. This guidance is relevant for any facilities which we seek to deploy in future years but take advantage of a higher tax credit rate available for an earlier year. For example, we have sought to avail ourselves of the methods set forth in the guidance to retain the 30% ITC that was available prior to January 1, 2020 by incurring certain costs and taking title to equipment in 2019 or early 2020 and/or by performing physical work on components that will be installed in solar facilities. From and after 2023, we may seek to avail ourselves of the 26% credit rate by using these methods to establish the beginning of construction in 2021, or 2022 and we may plan to similarly further utilize the program in future years if the ITC step down continues.
President Biden’s administration has put forth various legislation, which if passed, is anticipated to include a stand-alone battery storage ITC, EV and EV charging infrastructure tax incentives and further solar ITC extension. These policy tailwinds serve to further support market expansion of clean energy and electrification. Nevertheless, we believe we are already competitive without government subsidies, with levelized cost of energy for solar reaching attractive rates as compared to traditional generation.
In additional to the incentives at the federal government, more than half of the states, and many local jurisdictions, have established property tax incentives for renewable energy systems that include exemptions, exclusions, abatements and credits. Approximately thirty states and the District of Columbia have adopted a renewable portfolio standard (and approximately eight other states have some voluntary goal) that requires regulated utilities to procure a specified percentage of total electricity delivered in the state from eligible renewable energy sources, such as solar energy systems, by a specified date. To prove compliance with such mandates, utilities must surrender solar renewable energy credits (“SRECs”) to the applicable authority. Solar energy system owners such as our investment funds often are able to sell SRECs to utilities directly or in SREC markets. While there are numerous federal, state and local government incentives that benefit our business, some adverse interpretations or determinations of new and existing laws can have a negative impact on our business.
Corporate Information
Altus Power, Inc. was originally formed as Altus Power America LLC as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware on September 4, 2013, converted to a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on October 10, 2014, and changed its name to Altus Power, Inc. on July 7, 2021. Altus Power, Inc. then changed its name to Altus Solar, Inc. on December 8, 2021, and on December 9, 2021, was merged with and into a subsidiary of CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. in connection with the closing of the Merger. At the same time, CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc., a corporation formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on October 13, 2020, was renamed Altus Power, Inc. on December 9, 2021. Our principal executive offices are located at 2200 Atlantic Street, 6th Floor, Stamford, CT 06902, and our telephone number is (203) 698-0090.
The Altus design logo, “Altus” and our other common law trademarks, service marks or trade names appearing in this prospectus are the property of Altus. Other trademarks and trade names referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of their respective owners.
Human Capital Resources
As of December 31, 2021, Altus had 44 employees, all of whom were full-time employees. As of December 31, 2021, none of Altus’s employees are represented by a labor union or are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. We believe that our employee relations are good.
In shaping our culture, we aim to combine a high standard of excellence, technological innovation and agility and operational and financial discipline. We believe that our flat and transparent structure and our collaborative and collegial approach enable our employees to grow, develop and maximize their impact on our organization. To attract and retain top talent in our highly competitive industry, we have designed our compensation and benefits programs to promote the retention and growth of our employees along with their health, well-being and financial security. Our short- and long-term incentive programs are aligned with key business objectives and are intended to motivate strong performance. Our employees are eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, a savings/retirement plan, life and disability insurance, and various wellness programs and we review the competitiveness of our compensation and benefits periodically. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified
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applicants receive consideration without regard to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age or any other legally protected status.
We seek to create an inclusive, equitable, culturally competent, and supportive environment where our management and employees model behavior that enriches our workplace. We plan to form a diversity and inclusion committee to help further these goals and objectives. This committee will focus on broadening recruitment efforts, increasing awareness of diversity and inclusiveness related issues through internal trainings and communications, and mentorship.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Investing in our securities involves risks. Before you make a decision to buy our securities, you should carefully consider the following risk factors in addition to the other information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including matters addressed in the section titled “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” As well as our audited financial statements and notes thereto. If any of the risks discussed herein actually occur, it may materially harm our business, operations, financial condition or prospects. As a result, the market price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. These risk factors are not exhaustive, and investors are encouraged to perform their own investigation with respect to Altus and its business, operations, financial condition and prospects. Altus may face additional risks and uncertainties that are not presently known to it, or that it currently deems immaterial, which may also impair Altus’s business, operations, financial condition or prospects.

Summary of Risks Related to Altus’s Business
Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including those highlighted in the section titled "Risk Factors," which represent challenges that we face in connection with the successful implementation of our strategy and growth of our business. The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances described in that section, alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may have a material adverse effect on our business, cash flows, financial condition and results of operations. These risk factors include, but are not limited to, the following:
Our growth strategy depends on the widespread adoption of solar power technology;
If we cannot compete successfully against other solar and energy companies, we may not be successful in developing our operations and our business may suffer;
With respect to providing electricity on a price-competitive basis, solar systems face competition from traditional regulated electric utilities, from less-regulated third party energy service providers and from new renewable energy companies;
A material reduction in the retail price of traditional utility-generated electricity or electricity from other sources could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects;
Due to the limited number of suppliers in our industry, the acquisition of any of these suppliers by a competitor or any shortage, delay, quality issue, price change, or other limitations in our ability to obtain components or technologies we use could result in adverse effects;
Although our business has benefited from the declining cost of solar panels in the past, our financial results may be harmed now that the cost of solar panels has increased, and our costs overall may continue to increase due to increases in the cost of solar panels and tariffs on imported solar panels imposed by the U.S. government;
Our market is characterized by rapid technological change, which requires us to continue to develop new products and product innovations. Any delays in such development could adversely affect market adoption of our products and our financial results;
Developments in alternative technologies may materially adversely affect demand for our offerings;
The operation and maintenance of our facilities are subject to many operational risks, the consequences of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects;
Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could suffer if we do not proceed with projects under development or are unable to complete the construction of, or capital improvements to, facilities on schedule or within budget; and
We face risks related to project siting, financing, construction, permitting, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements that may impede our development and operating activities.

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Business and Operational Risks
Our growth strategy depends on the widespread adoption of solar power technology.
The market for solar power products is emerging and rapidly evolving, and our future success is uncertain. If solar power technology proves unsuitable for widespread commercial deployment or if demand for solar power products fails to develop sufficiently, we would be unable to generate enough revenues to achieve and sustain profitability and positive cash flow. The factors influencing the widespread adoption of solar power technology include but are not limited to:
cost-effectiveness of solar power technologies as compared with conventional and non-solar alternative energy technologies;
performance and reliability of solar power products as compared with conventional and non-solar alternative energy products;
continued deregulation of the electric power industry and broader energy industry;
fluctuations in economic and market conditions which impact the viability of conventional and non-solar alternative energy sources, such as increases or decreases in the prices of oil and other fossil fuels; and
availability of governmental subsidies and incentives.

If we cannot compete successfully against other solar and energy companies, we may not be successful in developing our operations and our business may suffer.
The solar and energy industries are characterized by intense competition and rapid technological advances, both in the U.S. and internationally. We compete with solar companies with business models that are similar to ours. In addition, we compete with solar companies in the downstream value chain of solar energy. For example, we face competition from purely finance driven organizations that acquire customers and then subcontract out the installation of solar energy systems, from installation businesses that seek financing from external parties, from large construction companies and utilities, and increasingly from sophisticated electrical and roofing companies. Some of these competitors may provide energy at lower costs than we do. Further, some competitors are integrating vertically in order to ensure supply and to control costs. Many of our competitors also have significant brand name recognition and have extensive knowledge of our target markets. If we are unable to compete in the market, there will be an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
With respect to providing electricity on a price-competitive basis, solar systems face competition from traditional regulated electric utilities, from less- regulated third party energy service providers and from new renewable energy companies.
The solar energy and renewable energy industries are both highly competitive and continually evolving as participants strive to distinguish themselves within their markets and compete with large traditional utilities. We believe that our primary competitors are the traditional utilities that supply electricity to our potential customers. Traditional utilities generally have substantially greater financial, technical, operational and other resources than we do. As a result, these competitors may be able to devote more resources to the research, development, promotion, and sale of their products or respond more quickly to evolving industry standards and changes in market conditions than we can. Traditional utilities could also offer other value-added products or services that could help them to compete with us even if the cost of electricity they offer is higher than that of ours. In addition, a majority of utilities’ sources of electricity is non-solar, which may allow utilities to sell electricity more cheaply than electricity generated by our solar energy systems.
We also compete with companies that are not regulated like traditional utilities, but that have access to the traditional utility electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure pursuant to state and local pro-competitive and consumer choice policies. These energy service companies are able to offer customers electricity supply-only solutions that are competitive with our Sponsor); (iii)solar energy system options on both price and usage of renewable energy technology while avoiding the long-term agreements and physical installations that our current fund-financed business model requires. This may limit our ability to attract new customers, particularly those who wish to avoid long-term contracts or have an aesthetic or other objection to putting solar panels on their roofs.
As the solar industry grows and evolves, we will also face new competitors who are not currently in the market. Low technological barriers to entry characterize our industry and well-capitalized companies could choose to enter the market and compete with us. Our failure to adapt to changing market conditions and to compete successfully with existing or new competitors will limit our growth and will have a material adverse effect on our business and prospects.
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A material reduction in the retail price of traditional utility-generated electricity or electricity from other sources could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
We believe that a significant number of our customers decide to buy solar energy because they want to pay less for electricity than what is offered by the traditional utilities. However, distributed C&I solar energy has yet to achieve broad market adoption as evidenced by the fact that distributed solar has penetrated less than 5% of its total addressable market in the U.S. C&I sector.
The customer’s decision to choose solar energy may also be affected by the cost of other renewable energy sources. Decreases in the retail prices of electricity from the traditional utilities or from other renewable energy sources would harm our ability to offer competitive pricing and could harm our business. The price of electricity from traditional utilities could decrease as a result of:
construction of a significant number of new power generation plants, including plants utilizing natural gas, nuclear, coal, renewable energy or other generation technologies;
relief of transmission constraints that enable local centers to generate energy less expensively;
reductions in the price of natural gas;
utility rate adjustment and customer class cost reallocation;
energy conservation technologies and public initiatives to reduce electricity consumption;
development of new or lower-cost energy storage technologies that have the ability to reduce a customer’s average cost of electricity by shifting load to off-peak times; or
development of new energy generation technologies that provide less expensive energy

A reduction in utility electricity prices would make the purchase or the lease of our solar energy systems less economically attractive. If the retail price of energy available from traditional utilities were to decrease due to any of these reasons, or other reasons, we would be at a competitive disadvantage, we may be exercisedunable to attract new customers and our growth would be limited.
Due to the limited number of suppliers in our industry, the acquisition of any of these suppliers by a competitor or any shortage, delay, quality issue, price change, or other limitations in our ability to obtain components or technologies we use could result in adverse effects.
While we purchase our products from several different suppliers, if one or more of the suppliers that we rely upon to meet anticipated demand ceases or reduces production due to its financial condition, acquisition by a competitor, delays in receipt of component parts, or otherwise is unable to increase production as industry demand increases or is otherwise unable to allocate sufficient production to us, it may be difficult to quickly identify alternate suppliers or to qualify alternative products on commercially reasonable terms, and our ability to satisfy this demand may be adversely affected. At times, suppliers may have issues with the quality of their products, which may not be realized until the product has been installed at a customer site. This may result in additional cost incurred. There are a limited number of suppliers of solar energy system components and technologies. While we believe there are other sources of supply for these products available, transitioning to a new supplier may result in additional costs and delays in acquiring our solar products and deploying our systems. These issues could harm our business or financial performance. In addition, the acquisition of a component supplier or technology provider by one of our competitors could limit our access to such components or technologies and require significant redesigns of our solar energy systems or installation procedures, slow our growth, cause our financial results and operational metrics to suffer, and have a negative impact on our business.
There have also been periods of industry-wide shortages of key components, including solar panels, in times of industry disruption. The manufacturing infrastructure for some of these components has a long lead-time, requires significant capital investment and relies on the continued availability of key commodity materials, potentially resulting in an inability to meet demand for these components. The solar industry is frequently experiencing significant disruption and, as a result, shortages of key components, including solar panels, may be more likely to occur, which in turn may result in price increases for such components. Even if industry-wide shortages do not occur, suppliers may decide to allocate key components with high demand or insufficient production capacity to more profitable customers, customers with long-term supply agreements or customers other than us and our supply of such components may be reduced as a result. The supply of components from various locales is also uncertain due to COVID-19 that has resulted in travel restrictions, backlog in shipping and trucking, and shutdowns of businesses in various regions. We have accommodated such delays by pushing out our delivery dates in our timelines.
We purchase the components for our solar energy systems on both an as-needed basis as well as under long-term supply agreements. The vast majority of our purchases are denominated in U.S. dollars. Since our revenue is also generated in U.S.
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dollars we are mostly insulated from currency fluctuations. However, since our suppliers often incur a significant amount of their costs by purchasing raw materials and generating operating expenses in foreign currencies, if the value of the U.S. dollar depreciates significantly or for a prolonged period of time against these other currencies, this may cause our suppliers to raise the prices they charge us, which could harm our financial results. Since we purchase most of the solar PV panels we use from China, we are particularly exposed to exchange rate risk from increases in the value of the Chinese Renminbi.
On December 23, 2021, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act was passed, responding to human rights abuses and forced labor practices in the Xinjian Uyghur Autonomous Region of China (the “Xinjian Region”). It establishes a rebuttable presumption that the importation of any goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Region, or produced by certain entities, is prohibited by Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and that such goods, wares, articles, and merchandise are not entitled to entry to the United States. Approximately 50% of the global supply of polysilicon, an essential material in conventional solar modules, is from the Xinjian Region, which has caused some delays in the receipt of polysilicon, affecting the solar module supply chain. The presumption applies unless the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines that the importer of record has complied with specified conditions and, by clear and convincing evidence, that the goods, wares, articles, or merchandise were not produced using forced labor. We are mitigating the effects of this new legislation by procuring products only from those countries and regions that have proper documentation as reviewed and approved by the holdersU.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Any additional supply shortages, delays, quality issues, price changes or other limitations in our ability to obtain components we use, including due to COVID-19 and as a result of the Russia invasion of Ukraine, could limit our growth, cause cancellations or adversely affect our profitability, result in loss of market share and damage to our brand, and cause our financial results and operational metrics to suffer.
Although our business has benefited from the declining cost of solar panels in the past, our financial results may be harmed now that the cost of solar panels has increased, and our costs overall may continue to increase in the future, due to increases in the cost of solar panels and tariffs on imported solar panels imposed by the U.S. government.
The declining cost of solar panels and the raw materials necessary to manufacture them in the past has been a key driver in the pricing of our solar energy systems and customer adoption of this form of renewable energy. With the increase of solar panel and raw materials prices and because our costs overall may continue to increase, our growth could slow, and our financial results could suffer. Further, the cost of solar panels and raw materials could increase in the future due to tariffs, lingering issues of COVID, the Russia invasion of Ukraine, or other factors.
On February 4, 2022, the U.S. government imposed a protective tariff on solar panel components. The U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) released the following terms of the tariff:
Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4
Safeguard Tariff on Panels and Cells15%15%15%15%
Cells Exempted from Tariff5 gigawatts5 gigawatts5 gigawatts5 gigawatts

As indicated in the terms, the tariff will not apply to the first 5 gigawatts of solar cells imported in each of the four years. In addition, the tariff will not apply to bi-facial panels. Panels imported from China and Taiwan previously were subject to tariffs from a 2012 solar trade case. The current tariff applies to all countries. As a result of the protective tariffs, and if additional tariffs are imposed or other disruptions to the supply chain occur, our ability to purchase these products on competitive terms or to access specialized technologies from other countries could be limited. Any of those events could harm our financial results by requiring us to account for the cost of tariffs or to purchase solar panels or other system components from alternative, higher-priced sources.
On February 8 2022, Auxin Solar, a U.S. module manufacturer petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce to investigate whether crystalline silicon PV (CSPV) cells and modules assembled in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia are circumventing US anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders on cells and modules from China, which places a 100% to 250% tariff on such modules. If the U.S. Department of Commerce decides to grant the petition, this may lead to such tariffs being imposed imports from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia as well, which would have an adverse impact on our ability to source modules from those countries.
Our market is characterized by rapid technological change, which requires us to continue to develop new products and product innovations. Any delays in such development could adversely affect market adoption of our products and our financial results.
Continuing technological changes in battery and other EV technologies could adversely affect adoption of current EV charging technology and/or our products. Our future success will depend upon our ability to develop and introduce a variety of new capabilities and innovations to our existing product offerings, as well as introduce a variety of new product offerings, to
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address the changing needs of the EV charging market. As new products are introduced, gross margins have historically tended to decline until the products become more mature, with a more efficient manufacturing process. As EV technologies change, we may need to upgrade or adapt our charging station technology and introduce new products and services in order to serve vehicles that have the latest technology, in particular battery cell technology, which could involve substantial costs. Even if we are able to keep pace with changes in technology and develop new products and services, our research and development expenses could increase, our gross margins could be adversely affected in some periods and our prior products could become obsolete more quickly than expected.
We may not be able to release new products in a timely manner, or at all, and such new products may not achieve market acceptance. Delays in delivering new products that meet customer requirements could damage our relationships with customers and lead them to seek alternative providers. Delays in introducing products and innovations or the failure to offer innovative products or services at competitive prices may cause existing and potential customers to purchase our competitors’ products or services.
If we are unable to devote adequate resources to develop products or cannot otherwise successfully develop products or services that meet customer requirements on a cashless basis;timely basis or that remain competitive with technological alternatives, our products and services could lose market share, our revenue will decline, we may experience higher operating losses and our business and prospects will be adversely affected.
Developments in alternative technologies may materially adversely affect demand for our offerings.
Significant developments in alternative technologies, such as advances in other forms of distributed solar power generation, storage solutions such as batteries, the widespread use or adoption of fuel cells for residential or commercial properties or improvements in other forms of centralized power production may materially and adversely affect our business and prospects in ways we do not currently anticipate. Any failure by us to adopt new or enhanced technologies or processes, or to react to changes in existing technologies, could materially delay deployment of our solar energy systems, which could result in product obsolescence, the loss of competitiveness of our systems, decreased revenue and a loss of market share to competitors.
The operation and maintenance of our facilities are subject to many operational risks, the consequences of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
The operation, maintenance, refurbishment, construction and expansion of our facilities involve risks, including breakdown or failure of equipment or processes, fuel interruption and performance below expected levels of output or efficiency. Some of our facilities were constructed many years ago and may require significant capital expenditures to maintain peak efficiency or to maintain operations. There can be no assurance that our maintenance program will be able to detect potential failures in our facilities before they occur or eliminate all adverse consequences in the event of failure. In addition, weather- related interference, work stoppages and other unforeseen problems may disrupt the operation and maintenance of our facilities and may materially adversely affect us.
We have entered into ongoing maintenance and service agreements with the manufacturers of certain critical equipment. If a manufacturer is unable or unwilling to provide satisfactory maintenance or warranty support, we may have to enter into alternative arrangements with other providers. These arrangements could be more expensive to us than our current arrangements and this increased expense could have a material adverse effect on our business. If we are unable to enter into satisfactory alternative arrangements, our inability to access technical expertise or parts could have a material adverse effect on us.
While we maintain an inventory of, or otherwise make arrangements to obtain, spare parts to replace critical equipment and maintain insurance for property damage to protect against certain operating risks, these protections may not be adequate to cover lost revenues or increased expenses and penalties that could result if we were unable to operate our generation facilities at a level necessary to comply with sales contracts.
Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could suffer if we do not proceed with projects under development or are unable to complete the construction of, or capital improvements to, facilities on schedule or within budget.
Our ability to proceed with projects under development and to complete the construction of, or capital improvements to, facilities on schedule and within budget may be adversely affected by escalating costs for materials and labor and regulatory compliance, inability to obtain or renew necessary licenses, rights-of-way, permits or other approvals on acceptable terms or on schedule, disputes involving contractors, labor organizations, land owners, governmental entities, environmental groups, Native American and aboriginal groups, lessors, joint venture partners and other third parties, negative publicity, interconnection issues and other factors. If any development project or construction or capital improvement project is not completed, is delayed or is subject to cost overruns, certain associated costs may not be approved for recovery or otherwise be recoverable through regulatory mechanisms that may be available, and we could become obligated to make delay or termination payments or become obligated for other damages under contracts, could experience the loss of tax credits or tax incentives, or delayed or diminished returns, and could be required to write off all or a portion of its investment in the project. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
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We face risks related to project siting, financing, construction, permitting, governmental approvals and the negotiation of project development agreements that may impede their development and operating activities.
We own, develop, construct, manage and operate electric-generation facilities. A key component of our growth is our ability to construct and operate generation facilities to meet customer needs. As part of these operations, we must periodically apply for licenses and permits from various local, state, and federal regulatory authorities and abide by their respective conditions. Should we be unsuccessful in obtaining necessary licenses or permits on acceptable terms or resolving third-party challenges to such licenses or permits, should there be a delay in obtaining or renewing necessary licenses or permits or should regulatory authorities initiate any associated investigations or enforcement actions or impose related penalties or disallowances on us, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially adversely affected. Any failure to negotiate successful project development agreements for new facilities with third parties could have similar results.
Our business is subject to risks associated with construction, such as cost overruns and delays, and other contingencies that may arise in the course of completing installations such as union requirements, and such risks may increase in the future as we expand the scope of such services with other parties.
We do not typically install charging stations at customer sites. These installations are typically performed by our partners or electrical contractors with an existing relationship with the customer and/or knowledge of the site. The installation of charging stations at a particular site is generally subject to oversight and regulation in accordance with state and local laws and ordinances relating to building codes, safety, environmental protection and related matters, and typically requires various local and other governmental approvals and permits that may vary by jurisdiction. In addition, building codes, accessibility requirements or regulations may hinder EV charger installation because they end up costing the developer or installer more in order to meet the code requirements. Meaningful delays or cost overruns may impact our recognition of revenue in certain cases and/or impact customer relationships, either of which could impact our business. In addition, if any of our partners or electrical contractors are unable to provide timely, thorough and quality installation-related services, customers could fall behind their construction schedules leading to liability to us or cause customers to become dissatisfied with the solutions we offer.
We may not be able to effectively manage our growth.
Our future growth, if any, may cause a significant strain on our management and our operational, financial, and other resources. Our ability to manage our growth effectively will require us to implement and improve our operational, financial, and management systems and to expand, train, manage, and motivate our employees. These demands will require the hiring of additional management personnel and the development of additional expertise by management. Any increase in resources used without a corresponding increase in our operational, financial, and management systems could have a negative impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We may not realize the anticipated benefits of acquisitions, and integration of these acquisitions may disrupt our business and management.
We have in the past, and in the future we may, acquire companies, project pipelines, products or technologies or enter into joint ventures or other strategic initiatives. We may not realize the anticipated benefits of these acquisitions, and any acquisition has numerous risks. These risks include the following:
difficulty in assimilating the operations and personnel of the acquired company;
difficulty in effectively integrating the acquired technologies or products with our current technologies;
difficulty in maintaining controls, procedures and policies during the transition and integration;
disruption of our ongoing business and distraction of our management and employees from other opportunities and challenges due to integration issues;
difficulty integrating the acquired company’s accounting, management information, and other administrative systems;
inability to retain key technical and managerial personnel of the acquired business;
inability to retain key customers, vendors, and other business partners of the acquired business;
inability to achieve the financial and strategic goals for the acquired and combined businesses;
incurring acquisition-related costs or amortization costs for acquired intangible assets that could impact our operating results;
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potential failure of the due diligence processes to identify significant issues with product quality, intellectual property infringement, and other legal and financial liabilities, among other things;
potential inability to assert that internal controls over financial reporting are effective; and
potential inability to obtain, or obtain in a timely manner, approvals from governmental authorities, which could delay or prevent such acquisitions.
Acquisitions of companies, businesses and assets are inherently risky and, if we do not complete the integration of these acquisitions successfully and in a timely manner, we may not realize the anticipated benefits of the acquisitions to the extent anticipated, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
Our business is concentrated in certain markets, putting us at risk of region-specific disruptions.
As of December 31, 2021, a majority of our solar facilities were in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota and California. We expect our near-term future growth to occur in states such as Maryland, New York, California, and Hawaii, and to further expand our customer base and operational infrastructure. Accordingly, our business and results of operations are particularly susceptible to adverse economic, regulatory, political, weather and other conditions in such markets and in other markets that may become similarly concentrated.
Our growth depends in part on the success of our relationships with third parties.
A key component of our growth strategy is to develop or expand our relationships with third parties. For example, we are investing resources in establishing strategic relationships with market players across a variety of industries, including large retailers, to generate new customers. These programs may not roll out as quickly as planned or produce the results we anticipated. A significant portion of our business depends on attracting and retaining new and existing solar partners. Negotiating relationships with our solar partners, investing in due diligence efforts with potential solar partners, training such third parties and contractors, and monitoring them for compliance with our standards require significant time and resources and may present greater risks and challenges than expanding a direct sales or installation team. If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining our relationships with these third parties, our ability to grow our business and address our market opportunity could be impaired. Even if we are able to establish and maintain these relationships, we may not be able to execute on our goal of leveraging these relationships to meaningfully expand our business, brand recognition and customer base. This would limit our growth potential and our opportunities to generate significant additional revenue or cash flows.
Our relationship with CBRE is new and developing and may not result in profitable long-term contracts with their referred clients.
Our relationship with CBRE is new and developing. The Company expects some development opportunities to come from referrals from CBRE and Blackstone. Our success depends on profitable long-term contracts with any referred clients. We cannot assure you that new contracts and clients for our technologies, products and services will develop or that our existing market will grow. If a significant number of referred clients elect not to use our services or purchase our products, it could materially adversely affect our financial condition, business and results of operations.
The principal benefits expected to result from referrals from CBRE and Blackstone may not be fully achieved. Challenges we may face in this regard include, but are not limited to: (i) estimating the capital, personnel and equipment required for proper integration; (ii) minimizing potential adverse effects on existing business relationships; (iii) enhancing the technology platform; and (iv) successfully developing and marketing the Company’s products and services. Any difficulties we may experience in connection with referrals obtained could delay or prevent us from realizing expected benefits and enhancing our business, and our business, financial condition and results of operation could be materially and adversely impacted.
We have incurred operating losses before income taxes and may be unable to achieve or sustain profitability in the future.
We have incurred operating losses before income taxes in the past and may continue to incur operating losses as we increase our spending to finance the expansion of our operations, expand our installation, engineering, administrative, sales and marketing staffs, increase spending on our brand awareness and other sales and marketing initiatives, make significant investments to drive future growth in our business and implement internal systems and infrastructure to support our growth. We do not know whether our revenue will grow rapidly enough to absorb these costs and our limited operating history makes it difficult to assess the extent of these expenses or their impact on our results of operations. Our ability to sustain profitability depends on a number of factors, including but not limited to:
mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business;
growing our customer base;
maintaining or lowering our cost of capital;
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reducing the cost of components for our solar service offerings;
growing and maintaining our channel partner network;
maintaining high levels of product quality, performance, and customer satisfaction;
successfully integrating acquired businesses;
growing our direct-to-consumer business to scale;
reducing our operating costs by lowering our customer acquisition costs and optimizing our design and installation processes;
permitting and interconnection delays; and
supply chain logistics, such as accepting late deliveries.
We may be unable to achieve positive cash flows from operations in the future.
We are not currently regulated as an electric utility under applicable law in the jurisdictions in which we operate, but we may be subject to regulation as an electric utility in the future.
Most federal, state and municipal laws do not currently regulate us as an electric utility in the jurisdictions in which we operate, such as FERC rules for small power production and cogeneration facilities. As a result, we are not subject to the various regulatory requirements applicable to U.S. utilities. However, any federal, state, local or other applicable regulations could place significant restrictions on our ability to operate our business and execute our business plan by prohibiting or otherwise restricting our sale of electricity. These regulatory requirements could include restricting the structuring of our sale of electricity, as well as regulating the price of our solar service offerings. For example, Florida law does not permit a third-party solar developer to make retail sales of electricity to others. If we become subject to the same regulatory authorities as utilities in other states or if new regulatory bodies are established to oversee our business, our operating costs could materially increase.
Failure to hire and retain a sufficient number of employees and service providers in key functions would constrain our growth and our ability to timely complete customers’ projects and successfully manage customer accounts.
To support our growth, we need to hire, train, deploy, manage and retain a substantial number of skilled employees, engineers, installers, electricians, sales and project finance specialists. Competition for qualified personnel in our industry is increasing, particularly for skilled personnel involved in the installation of solar energy systems. We have in the past been, and may in the future be, unable to attract or retain qualified and skilled installation personnel or installation companies to be our solar partners, which would have an adverse effect on our business. We and our solar partners also compete with the homebuilding and construction industries for skilled labor. As these industries grow and seek to hire additional workers, our cost of labor may increase. The unionization of the industry’s labor force could also increase our labor costs. Shortages of skilled labor could significantly delay a project or otherwise increase our costs. Because our profit on a particular installation is based in part on assumptions as to the cost of such project, cost overruns, delays or other execution issues may cause us to not achieve our expected margins or cover our costs for that project. In addition, because we are headquartered in Connecticut, we compete for a limited pool of technical and engineering resources that requires us to pay wages that are competitive with relatively high regional standards for employees in these fields. Further, we need to continue to expand upon the training of our customer service team to provide high-end account management and service to customers before, during and following the point of installation of our solar energy systems. Identifying and recruiting qualified personnel and training them requires significant time, expense and attention. It can take several months before a new customer service team member is fully trained and productive at the standards that we have established. If we are unable to hire, develop and retain talented technical and customer service personnel, we may not be able to realize the expected benefits of this investment or grow our business.
In addition, to support the growth and success of our direct-to-consumer channel, we need to recruit, retain and motivate a large number of sales personnel on a continuing basis. We compete with many other companies for qualified sales personnel, and it could take many months before a new salesperson is fully trained on our solar service offerings. If we are unable to hire, develop and retain qualified sales personnel or if they are unable to achieve desired productivity levels, we may not be able to compete effectively.
If we or our solar partners cannot meet our hiring, retention and efficiency goals, we may be unable to complete customers’ projects on time or manage customer accounts in an acceptable manner or at all. Any significant failures in this regard would materially impair our growth, reputation, business and financial results. If we are required to pay higher compensation than we anticipate, these greater expenses may also adversely impact our financial results and the growth of our business.
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Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially adversely affected by work strikes or stoppages and increasing personnel costs.
Employee strikes or work stoppages could disrupt operations and lead to a loss of revenue and customers. Personnel costs may also increase due to inflationary or competitive pressures on payroll and benefits costs. These consequences could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
If we are unable to retain and recruit qualified technicians and advisors, or if our boards of directors, key executives, key employees or consultants discontinue their employment or consulting relationship with us, it may delay our development efforts or otherwise harm our business.
We may not be able to attract or retain qualified management or technical personnel in the future due to the intense competition for qualified personnel among solar, energy, and other businesses. Our industry has experienced a high rate of turnover of management personnel in recent years. If we are not able to attract, retain, and motivate necessary personnel to accomplish our business objectives, we may experience constraints that will significantly impede the successful development of any product candidates, our ability to raise additional capital, and our ability to implement our overall business strategy.
We are highly dependent on members of our management and technical staff. Our success also depends on our ability to continue to attract, retain and motivate highly skilled junior, mid-level, and senior managers as well as junior, mid-level, and senior technical personnel. The loss of any of our executive officers, key employees, or consultants and our inability to find suitable replacements could potentially harm our business, financial condition, and prospects. We may be unable to attract and retain personnel on acceptable terms given the competition among solar and energy companies. Certain of our current officers, directors, and/or consultants hereafter appointed may from time to time serve as officers, directors, scientific advisors, and/or consultants of other solar and energy companies. We do not maintain “key man” insurance policies on any of our officers or employees. Other than certain members of our senior management team, all of our employees are employed “at will” and, therefore, each employee may leave our employment and join a competitor at any time.
We plan to grant stock options, restricted stock grants, restricted stock unit grants, or other forms of equity awards in the future as a method of attracting and retaining employees, motivating performance, and aligning the interests of employees with those of our shareholders. If we are unable to implement and maintain equity compensation arrangements that provide sufficient incentives, we may be unable to retain our existing employees and attract additional qualified candidates. If we are unable to retain our existing employees and attract additional qualified candidates, our business and results of operations could be adversely affected. Currently the exercise prices of all outstanding stock options are greater than the current stock price.
As of December 31, 2021, we had 44 full-time employees and no part-time employees. We may be unable to implement and maintain an attractive incentive compensation structure in order to attract and retain the right talent. These actions could lead to disruptions in our business, reduced employee morale and productivity, increased attrition, and problems with retaining existing and recruiting future employees.
The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified board members and officers.
We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the listing requirements of the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations has increased our legal and financial compliance costs, made some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and increased demand on our systems and resources. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and results of operations and maintain effective disclosure controls, procedures, and internal controls over financial reporting. Maintaining our disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with this standard requires significant resources and management oversight. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business and results of operations. We will need to hire more employees in the future, which will increase our costs and expenses.
Our management has limited experience in operating a public company.
Our executive officers have limited experience in the management of a publicly traded company subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under federal securities laws. Our management team may not successfully or effectively manage our transition to a public company. Their limited experience in dealing with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies could be a significant disadvantage in that it is likely that an increasing amount of their time may be devoted to these activities which will result in less time being devoted to our management and growth. We may not have adequate personnel with the appropriate level of knowledge, experience and training in the accounting policies, practices or internal controls over financial reporting required of public companies in the United States. It is possible that will be required to expand its employee base and hire additional employees to support our operations as a public company, which will increase its operating costs in future periods.
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We may be materially adversely affected by negative publicity.
Our business involves transactions with customers. We and our solar partners must comply with numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations that govern matters relating to our interactions with customers, including those pertaining to privacy and data security and warranties. These laws and regulations are dynamic and subject to potentially differing interpretations, and various federal, state and local legislative and regulatory bodies may expand current laws or regulations, or enact new laws and regulations, regarding these matters. Changes in these laws or regulations or their interpretation could dramatically affect how we do business, acquire customers, and manage and use information we collect from and about current and prospective customers and the costs associated therewith. We strive to comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to our interactions with residential customers. It is possible, however, that these requirements may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another and may conflict with other rules or our practices. Noncompliance with any such laws or regulations, or the perception that we or our solar partners have violated such laws or regulations or engaged in deceptive practices that could result in a violation, could also expose us to claims, proceedings, litigation and investigations by private placement warrants (includingparties and regulatory authorities, as well as substantial fines and negative publicity, each of which may materially and adversely affect our business. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, significant expenses to comply with such laws and regulations, and increased regulation of matters relating to our business could require us to modify our operations and incur significant additional expenses, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Any investigations, actions, adoption or amendment of regulations relating to the sharesmarketing of Classour products to residential consumers of our community solar programs could divert management’s attention from our business, require us to modify our operations and incur significant additional expenses, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations or could reduce the number of our potential customers.
We cannot ensure that our sales professionals and other personnel will always comply with our standard practices and policies, as well as applicable laws and regulations. In any of the numerous interactions between our sales professionals or other personnel and our customers or potential customers, our sales professionals or other personnel may, without our knowledge and despite our efforts to effectively train them and enforce compliance, engage in conduct that is or may be prohibited under our standard practices and policies and applicable laws and regulations. Any such non-compliance, or the perception of non-compliance, has exposed us to claims and could expose us to additional claims, proceedings, litigation, investigations, or enforcement actions by private parties or regulatory authorities, as well as substantial fines and negative publicity, each of which may materially and adversely affect our business and reputation. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, significant expenses to comply with the laws, regulations and industry standards that apply to us.
Problems with product quality or performance may cause us to incur warranty expenses, damage our market reputation and prevent us from maintaining or increasing our market share.
Customers who enter into customer agreements with us sometimes are covered by production guarantees and roof penetration warranties. As the owners of the solar energy systems, we or our investment funds receive a warranty from the inverter and solar panel manufacturers, and, for those solar energy systems that we do not install directly, we receive workmanship and material warranties as well as roof penetration warranties from our solar partners. One or more of our third-party manufacturers or solar partners could cease operations and no longer honor these warranties, leaving us to fulfill these potential obligations to customers, or such warranties may be limited in scope and amount, and may be inadequate to protect us. We also provide a performance guarantee with certain solar service offerings pursuant to which we compensate customers on an annual basis if their system does not meet the electricity production guarantees set forth in their agreement with us. Customers who enter into customer agreements with us that are covered by production guarantees, typically have such guarantees equal to the length of the term of these agreements, typically 20 or 25 years. We may suffer financial losses associated if significant performance guarantee payments are triggered.
Because of our limited operating history and the length of the term of our customer agreements, we have been required to make assumptions and apply judgments regarding a number of factors, including the durability, performance and reliability of our solar energy systems. Our assumptions could prove to be materially different from the actual performance of our systems, causing us to incur substantial expense to repair or replace defective solar energy systems in the future or to compensate customers for systems that do not meet their production guarantees. Product failures or operational deficiencies also would reduce our revenue from power purchase or lease agreements because they are dependent on system production. Any widespread product failures or operating deficiencies may damage our market reputation and adversely impact our financial results.
Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects can be materially adversely affected by weather conditions, including, but not limited to, the impact of severe weather.
Weather conditions directly influence the demand for electricity and natural gas and other fuels and affect the price of energy and energy-related commodities. In addition, severe weather and natural disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, icing events and earthquakes, can be destructive and cause power outages and property damage, reduce revenue, affect the availability of fuel and water, and require us to incur additional costs, for example, to restore service and repair damaged
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facilities, to obtain replacement power and to access available financing sources. Furthermore, our physical plants could be placed at greater risk of damage should changes in the global climate produce unusual variations in temperature and weather patterns, resulting in more intense, frequent and extreme weather events, and abnormal levels of precipitation. A disruption or failure of electric generation, or storage systems in the event of a hurricane, tornado or other severe weather event, or otherwise, could prevent us from operating our business in the normal course and could result in any of the adverse consequences described above. Any of the foregoing could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
Where cost recovery is available, recovery of costs to restore service and repair damaged facilities is or may be subject to regulatory approval, and any determination by the regulator not to permit timely and full recovery of the costs incurred could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Changes in weather can also affect the production of electricity at power generation facilities.
Our results of operations may fluctuate from quarter to quarter, which could make our future performance difficult to predict and could cause our results of operations for a particular period to fall below expectations, resulting in a decline in the price of our common stock.
Our quarterly results of operations are difficult to predict and may fluctuate significantly in the future. We have experienced seasonal and quarterly fluctuations in the past and expect these fluctuations to continue. However, given that we are operating in a rapidly changing industry, those fluctuations may be masked by our recent growth rates and thus may not be readily apparent from our historical results of operations. As such, our past quarterly results of operations may not be good indicators of likely future performance.In addition to the other risks described in this “Risk Factors” section, as well as the factors discussed in the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the following factors, among others, could cause our results of operations and key performance indicators to fluctuate:
the expiration, reduction or initiation of any governmental tax rebates, tax exemptions, or incentive;
significant fluctuations in customer demand for our solar service offerings or fluctuations in the geographic concentration of installations of solar energy systems;
changes in financial markets, which could restrict our ability to access available and cost-effective financing sources;
seasonal, environmental or weather conditions that impact sales, energy production, and system installation;
the amount and timing of operating expenses related to the maintenance and expansion of our business, operations and infrastructure;
announcements by us or our competitors of new products or services, significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships or joint ventures;
capital-raising activities or commitments;
changes in our pricing policies or terms or those of our competitors, including utilities;
changes in regulatory policy related to solar energy generation;
the loss of one or more key partners or the failure of key partners to perform as anticipated;
our failure to successfully integrate acquired solar facilities;
actual or anticipated developments in our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape;
actual or anticipated changes in our growth rate;
general economic, industry and market conditions, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
changes to our cancellation rate.

In the past, we have experienced seasonal fluctuations in installations in certain states, particularly in the fourth quarter. This has been the result of weather-related installation delays. Our actual revenue or key operating metrics in one or more future quarters may fall short of the expectations of investors and financial analysts. If that occurs, the market price of our common stock issuable upon exercisecould decline and stockholders could lose part or all of such private placement warrants) are entitled to certain registration rights. The saletheir investment.
Our results of the private placement warrants was made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

On the IPO Closing Date, $402,500,000 of the gross proceeds from the Initial Public Offering (including the proceeds from the exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option) and the sale of the private placement warrants was deposited in a U.S. based trust account (the “trust account”), with Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company acting as trustee (the “Trustee”). Of the $11,050,000 held outside of the trust account, $8,050,000 was used to pay underwriting discounts and commissions, $215,316 was used to repay notes payable to our Sponsor and the balance was available to pay accrued offering and formation costs, business, legal and accounting due diligence costs on prospective acquisitions and continuing general and administrative expenses. The funds in the trust accountoperations have been and will continue to be invested only in specified U.S. government treasury bills with a maturityadversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the duration and extent to which it will impact our results of 185 daysoperations remains uncertain.

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A significant outbreak of epidemic, pandemic, or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations (collectively “permitted investments”). Funds will remaincontagious diseases in the trust account except forhuman population, such as the withdrawal of interest earned oncurrent COVID-19 pandemic, could result in a widespread health crisis that could adversely affect the funds that may be released to the Company to pay taxes. The proceeds from the Initial Public Offeringbroader economies, financial and the sale of the private placement warrants will not be released from the trust account until the earliest of (i) the completion of the business combination, (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the our second amendedcapital markets, commodity and restated certificate of incorporation (our “amendedenergy prices, and restated certificate of incorporation”) (A) to modify the substance or timing of the our obligation to allow redemption in connection with the business combination or to redeem 100% of the public shares if we do not complete the business combination within 24 months (or 27 months from the IPO Closing Date if we have executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreementoverall demand environment for our business combination within 24 months from the IPO Closing Date but have not completedproducts. A global health crisis could affect, and has affected, our business combination within such 24-month period) from the IPO Closing Date or (B) with respect to other specified provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity,workforce, customers and (iii) the redemption of all of the our public shares if we have not completed the business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, subject to applicable law. The remaining proceeds outside the trust account may be used to pay business, legal and accounting due diligence costs on prospective acquisitions, listing fees and continuing general and administrative expenses.

On January 29, 2021, we announced that the holders of our SAILSM securities may elect to separately trade the shares of Class A common stock and Public Warrants included in the SAILSM securities commencing on February 1, 2021 on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbols “CBAH” and “CBAH WS,” respectively. Any SAILSM securities not separated will continue to trade on NYSE under the symbol “CBAH.U.”

Business Strategy

Our strategy is to identify and acquire a privately held company with significant growth potential and to create value by supporting the company in the public markets. The company we acquire will operate in an industry that will benefit from the experience, expertise and operating skills of our management team and CBRE. We expect to be a new sponsorship pillar to CBRE’s build, buy, partner approach to expanding capabilities. We believe this new pillar will support CBRE’s delivery of innovative solutions to drive exceptional client outcomes. We believe our management team is well positioned to identify and execute a business combination as a preferred partner to a target. In selecting a business combination target, we are leveraging our strengths including:

Aligned Structure. We believe our ability to complete a business combination will be enhanced by how we have structured our Company. The structure of our Company incentivizes our Sponsor, directors and officers to invest in a business where CBRE expects to have a strategic partnership and ties the economic interests of our Sponsor, directors and officers to the long-term performance of the acquired company, not to short-term returns.

Market Intelligence and Industry Expertise. We believe our Sponsor, directors and officers have a deep understanding of the rapidly evolving real estate services landscape and how investor and occupier needs are best met by new and existing services and capabilitiesvendors, as well as opportunitieseconomies and financial markets globally, potentially leading to an economic downturn, which could decrease spending, adversely affecting the demand for growthour products.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state, local, and potential disruption.

Scale to Source Quality Targets. We believe we are positioned to identifyforeign governments put in place, and acquire a high-quality target due to our broad knowledge and insight across the real estate landscape, access to CBRE’s extensive supplier/client network and the business relationships cultivated by CBRE’s senior leaders around the world. In fact, CBRE’s top senior leaders are regularly engaged in seeking out attractive acquisitions within our sector.

Ability to Add Strategic Value. We believe we can accelerate a target’s growth by facilitating its access to CBRE’s industry expertise, scale and client and supplier relationships. Our blank-check company has been structured to closely align its interests with CBRE’s core principles and strategies, which will benefit all stakeholders by creating more alignment among our stockholders, management team and any potential target company.

Adept at Structuring Successful Acquisitions. Of the many acquisition opportunities that CBRE evaluates in the course of its business, many attractive targets have business models that do not fit within CBRE as a wholly owned and fully integrated enterprise. Nevertheless, they could benefit from CBRE’s investment, strategic advice and access to industry expertise and relationships. We believe our Company will be a vehicle for these business models to prosper and reach their full potential.

Acquisition Criteria

Our management team is deploying a proactive, thematic deal sourcing strategy and focusing on companies whose growth potential and value we believefuture may be enhanced by the combination of our, as well as CBRE’s, operating experience, deal-making ability and extensive professional relationships, providing opportunities for an attractive return to our stockholders. We are applying the following criteriaagain put in place, travel restrictions, quarantines, “stay at home” orders and guidelines, in evaluating prospective target businesses.

A Leading Position in a Segment with Favorable Secular Trends. We are seeking to acquire a business that has a leading or growing positionand similar government orders and restrictions, in an industry with favorable underlying secular trendsattempt to control the spread of the disease. Such restrictions or orders resulted in, and offers differentiated products or services. These secular trends include the growing adoption of outsourcing among large occupiers and investors in real estate, growing preference for businesses to rely on vendors who can provide end-to-end solutions, the accelerated digitalization of, and data proliferation within, the real estate industry, the growth of institutional investment in commercial real estate, with a corresponding increase in the need for the provision of high-quality services on a regionalfuture may result in, business closures, work stoppages, slowdowns and global basis,delays, among other effects that negatively impacted, and particularly in the wake of the novel strain of coronavirus (“COVID-19”), an increased focus on services that support employee and tenant health, well-being, engagement and satisfaction.

An Experienced Growth-Oriented Management Team. We are seeking to acquire a business with a highly capable and talented management team that has a proven record of driving growth and that can benefit from access to capital via the public markets and a strategic relationship with CBRE. We believe that the extensive experience offuture may negatively impact, our officers and directors in identifying and developing executives with leadership potential worldwide within CBRE,operations, as well as the collective mergers and acquisitions experienceoperations of our officerscustomers and directors,business partners. Such results have had and will help us evaluate potential management teams at target companies.

Demonstrated Recordcontinue to have a material adverse effect on our business, operations, financial condition, results of Delivering Both Consistent Revenue Growthoperations, and Superior Client Outcomes. Wecash flows.

Although we have continued to operate consistent with federal guidelines and state and local orders, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts our business, operations, financial results and financial condition will depend on numerous evolving factors which are seekinguncertain and cannot be predicted, including:
the duration and scope of the pandemic and associated disruptions;
a general slowdown in our industry;
governmental, business and individuals’ actions taken in response to acquire a business that has historically demonstrated anthe pandemic;
the effect on our customers and our customers’ demand for our products and installations;
the effect on our suppliers and disruptions to the global supply chain;
delays in the approval of permit and interconnection applications by utilities and municipalities;
our ability to generate consistently strong revenue growth by satisfying a marketplace need, while also providingsell and provide our products or services that deliver consistently exceptional client outcomes.

A Sustainable Market Position. We are seeking to acquire a business that has distinct competitive advantages thatand provide it with multiple avenues for growth and serve as barriers to entry. For instance, we are particularly focused on businesses that are providing products or services to CBRE’s client base, have demonstrated an ability to consistently deliver exceptional client outcomes or are positioned to effectively execute innovative or disruptive business models.

Positioned to Benefit from CBRE’s Strengths. We are seeking to acquire a business that will benefit from CBRE’s scale, client relationships, management expertise, industry knowledge and breadth of services, all of which will help to bolster its market position and its financial performance. For instance, we believe that there are many potential targets whose businesses could benefit from a strategic vendor relationship, or a highly aligned sales channel partnership, with CBRE.

We anticipate that prospective business targets may be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources,installations, including investment market participants, private equity groups, investment banking firms, industry consultants, accounting firms and large business enterprises. Also, members of our management team are communicating with their broad network of professional relationships to articulate our acquisition criteria, including the parameters of our search, and we have begun a disciplined process of reviewing and pursuing promising leads.

These criteria and guidelines are not intended to be exhaustive. We are willing to accept a high degree of situational, legal and/or capital structure complexity in a business combination if we believe that the potential opportunity justifies this additional complexity, particularly if these issues can be resolved in connection with anddisruptions as a result of travel restrictions and people working from home;

the ability of our customers to pay for our products;
delays in our projects due to closures of jobsites or cancellation of jobs; and
any closures of our and our suppliers’ and customers’ facilities.

In addition, COVID-19 has caused disruptions to the supply chain across the global economy, including within the solar industry, and we are working with our equipment suppliers to minimize disruptions to our operations. Certain suppliers have experienced, and may continue to experience, delays and increased costs related to a combinationvariety of factors, including logistical delays and component shortages from upstream vendors. We have developed contingency plans and continue to monitor the situation closely and work closely with us. Any evaluationour solar partners and suppliers to reinforce our contingency plans for potential operations and supply chain interruptions.
These effects of the merits of a particular business combination may be based,COVID-19 pandemic have led us to the extent relevant, on these general criteriaexperience, and guidelines as well as other considerations, factors, criteria and guidelines that our officers and directors may deem relevant.

Business Combination

The NYSE rules require thatcontinue to experience, disruptions to our business combination must be with one or more operating businesses or assets with a fair market value equalas we implement safety protocols and modifications to at least 80%travel. We are closely monitoring the impact of the net assets held inCOVID-19 pandemic, continually assessing its potential effects on our business. The extent to which our results are affected by the trust account (netCOVID-19 pandemic will largely depend on future developments, which cannot be accurately predicted and are uncertain, but the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have an adverse effect on our business, operations, financial condition, results of amounts disbursedoperations, and cash flows.

In addition, while we believe we have taken appropriate steps to managementmaintain a safe workplace to protect our employees from contracting and spreading the coronavirus, including following the guidance set out from both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we may not be able to completely prevent the spread of the virus among our employees. We may face litigation or other proceedings making claims related to unsafe working capital purposes, if any, and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in trust) at the timeconditions, inadequate protection of our signingemployees or other claims. Any of these claims, even if without merit, could result in costly litigation or divert management’s attention and resources.
Furthermore, we may face a definitive agreement in connection withsustained disruption to our business combination. If our board of directors (the “Board”) is not ableoperations due to independently determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of the

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) or from an independent accounting firm, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We do not currently intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our business combination, although there is no assurance that will be the case.

We anticipate structuring our business combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public stockholders own shares will own or acquire 100% of the outstanding equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses. We may, however, structure our 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 stockholders or for other reasons. However, we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50%one or more of the outstanding voting securitiesfactors described above. Even after the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, we may continue to experience adverse impacts to our business as a result of the targetany economic instability that has occurred or otherwise acquires a controlling interestmay occur in the targetfuture. Any of these events could amplify the other risks and

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uncertainties described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and could materially adversely affect our business, sufficient for it notoperations, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows or the market price of our common stock.
Adverse economic conditions may have negative consequences on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Unpredictable and unstable changes in economic conditions, including recession, inflation, increased government intervention, or other changes, may adversely affect our general business strategy. We rely upon our ability to be requiredgenerate additional sources of liquidity and we may need to register as an investment company underraise additional funds through public or private debt or equity financings in order to fund existing operations or to take advantage of opportunities, including acquisitions of complementary businesses or technologies. Any adverse change in economic conditions would have a negative impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition and on our ability to generate or raise additional capital on favorable terms, or at all.
Threats of terrorism and catastrophic events that could result from terrorism, cyberattacks or individuals and/or groups attempting to disrupt our business, or the Investment Company Actbusinesses of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or morethird parties, may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of the voting securities of the target, our stockholders prioroperations and prospects.
We are subject to the business combination may collectively own a minority interestpotentially adverse operating and financial effects of terrorist acts and threats, as well as cyberattacks and other disruptive activities of individuals or groups. There have been cyberattacks within the energy industry on energy infrastructure such as substations, gas pipelines and related assets in the post-business combination company, depending on valuations ascribed to the targetpast and usthere may be such attacks in the business combination transaction. For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares of Class A common stock in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we would acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target. However,future and these may increase as a result of the issuanceRussia invasion of a substantial numberUkraine. Our generation and fuel storage facilities, information technology systems and other infrastructure facilities and systems could be direct targets of, or otherwise be materially adversely affected by, such activities.
Terrorist acts, cyberattacks or other similar events affecting our systems and facilities, or those of third parties on which we rely, could harm our business, for example, by limiting our ability to generate, purchase or transmit power, natural gas or other energy-related commodities, by limiting our ability to bill customers and collect and process payments, and by delaying our development and construction of new shares,generation facilities or capital improvements to existing facilities. These events, and governmental actions in response, could result in a material decrease in revenues, significant additional costs (for example, to repair assets, implement additional security requirements or maintain or acquire insurance), significant fines and penalties, and reputational damage, could materially adversely affect our stockholders immediately prioroperations (for example, by contributing to disruption of supplies and markets for natural gas, oil and other fuels), and could impair our ability to raise capital (for example, by contributing to financial instability and lower economic activity). In addition, the implementation of security guidelines and measures has resulted in and is expected to continue to result in increased costs. Such events or actions may materially adversely affect our business, combinationfinancial condition, results of operations and prospects.
Our ability to obtain insurance and the terms of any available insurance coverage could own less than a majority of our outstanding common stock subsequent to our business combination. If less than 100% of the outstanding equity interestsbe materially adversely affected by international, national, state or assets of a target businesslocal events 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 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 and we will treat the target businesses togethercompany-specific events, as well as the business combination for purposesfinancial condition of a tender offerinsurers.
Insurance coverage may not continue to be available or for seeking stockholder approval,may not be available at rates or on terms similar to those presently available to us. Our ability to obtain insurance and the terms of any available insurance coverage could be materially adversely affected by international, national, state or local events or company-specific events, as applicable. Notwithstandingwell as the foregoing, iffinancial condition of insurers. If insurance coverage is not available or obtainable on acceptable terms, we are not then listed on the NYSE for whatever reason, we would no longermay be required to meetpay costs associated with adverse future events.
Our ability to be successful is dependent upon the foregoing 80%efforts of net asset test.

Our Acquisition Process

In evaluating a prospective targetcertain key personnel. The loss of key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our 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 wellits financial condition could suffer as a review of financial, operational, legal and other information which willresult.

Our ability to be made available to us. We will also utilize our operational and capital planning experience.

We are not prohibited from pursuing a business combination with a business thatsuccessful is affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors. Independent upon the event we seek to complete our business combination with a business that is affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent and disinterested directors, will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of the FINRA, or from an independent accounting firm, that our business combination is fair to our Company from a financial point of view.

Our officers and directors may directly or indirectly own sharesefforts of our common stock and/or private placement warrants, and, accordingly, may havekey personnel. Our success depends to a conflictsignificant degree upon the continued contributions of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with whichsenior management, certain of whom would be difficult to effectuate our business combination. Further, eachreplace. Departure by certain of our officers and directors maycould have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation of any such officers and directors was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect tomaterial adverse effect on our business, combination.

Each of our officersfinancial condition, or operating results.

We may need to raise additional funds and directors presently has, and any of themthese funds may not be available when needed.
We may need to raise additional capital in the future to further scale our business and expand to additional markets. We may haveraise additional fiduciaryfunds through the issuance of equity, equity-related or contractual obligations to other entities pursuant to which such officerdebt securities, through tax equity partnerships, or director isthrough obtaining credit from government or financial institutions. We cannot be certain that additional funds will be available on favorable terms when required, or at all. If we cannot raise additional funds when needed, our financial condition, results of operations, business and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. If we raise funds through the issuance of debt securities or through loan arrangements, the terms of which could require significant interest payments, contain covenants that restrict our business, or other unfavorable terms. Also, changes in tax law or market conditions could negatively impact the availability of tax equity or the terms on which investors are willing to presentacquire tax equity and therefore reduce our access to capital on favorable terms for new solar energy projects. In addition, to the extent we raise funds through the sale of additional equity securities, our stockholders would experience dilution.
Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be limited.
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As of December 31, 2021, we had U.S. federal and state net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) of approximately $177.4 million and $87.7 million, respectively, which begin expiring in varying amounts in 2034 and 2022, respectively, if unused. Under Sections 382 and 383 of the Code, if a business combination opportunitycorporation undergoes an “ownership change,” the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change NOLs and other pre-change tax assets, such entity. Accordingly,as tax credits, to offset its post-change income and taxes may be limited. In general, an “ownership change” occurs if any ofthere is a cumulative change in our officers or directors becomes aware ofownership by “5% shareholders” that exceeds 50 percentage points over a business combination opportunity that is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity. We expect that if an opportunity is presented to one of our officers or directors in his or her capacity as an officer or director of one of thoserolling three-year period. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws.
Additionally, states may impose other entities, such opportunity would be presented to such other entity and not to us. For more informationlimitations on the entities to which our officersuse of NOLs and directors

currently have fiduciary or contractual obligations, please refer to “Item 10. Directors, Executive Officerstax credit carryforwards. For example, California has recently imposed other limitations on the use of NOLs and Corporate Governance—Conflictslimited the use of Interest.” Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we renounce our interestcertain tax credits for taxable years beginning in any corporate opportunity offered to any director or officer unless2020 through 2022. Any such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Company and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for us to pursue. We do not believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors will materially affectlimitations on our ability to completeuse our NOLs and other tax assets could adversely impact our business, combination.

In addition, certainfinancial condition, and results of operations. We have not yet completed our analysis under Section 382 of the Code. Any limitation may result in the expiration of all or a portion of the net operating loss carryforwards and tax credit carryforwards before utilization.

Unanticipated changes in effective tax rates or adverse outcomes resulting from examination of our directors have fiduciaryincome or other tax returns could adversely affect our financial condition and contractual dutiesresults of operations.
We will be subject to CBREincome taxes in the United States, and its affiliates. Asour tax liabilities will be subject to the allocation of expenses in differing jurisdictions. Our future effective tax rates could be subject to volatility or adversely affected by a result, certainnumber of factors, including:
changes in the valuation of our directors willdeferred tax assets and liabilities;
expected timing and amount of the release of any tax valuation allowances;
tax effects of stock-based compensation;
costs related to intercompany restructurings;
changes in tax laws, regulations or interpretations thereof; or
lower than anticipated future earnings in jurisdictions where we have a duty to offer acquisition opportunities to CBRElower statutory tax rates and other entities and no duty to offer such opportunities to us unless presented to themhigher than anticipated future earnings in their capacity as our director. As a result, CBRE or any of their respective affiliates may compete with us for acquisition opportunities in the same industries and sectors asjurisdictions where we may target for our business combination. If any of them decide to pursue any such opportunity,have higher statutory tax rates.

In addition, we may be precluded from procuring such opportunities. In addition, investment ideas generated within CBRE or anysubject to audits of its affiliates, including by Robert E. Sulentic, William F. Concannon, Cash J. Smith, Emma E. Giamartinoour income, sales and other persons who may make decisions for the Company, may be suitable for both ustransaction taxes by taxing authorities. Outcomes from these audits could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and for CBRE or anyresults of its affiliates, and will be directed initially to CBRE or such persons rather than to us. None of our officers and directors, CBRE or any of its affiliates or members of our management team who are also employed by CBRE or any of its affiliates have any obligation to present us with any opportunity for a potential business combination of which they become aware unless it is offered to them solely in their capacity as our director or officer and after they have satisfied their contractual and fiduciary obligations to other parties. CBRE generally intends to offer investment opportunities that fit within the investment program of CBRE to CBRE before offering it to us, and may choose to allocate all or part of any such opportunity to any CBRE affiliate or any business in which a CBRE affiliate has invested instead of offering such opportunity to us.

The potential conflicts described above may limit our ability to enter into a business combination or other transactions. CBRE and its affiliates engage, and in the future will engage, in a broad spectrum of activities, including direct investment activities that are independent from, and may from time to time conflict or compete with, our activities. These circumstances could give rise to numerous situations where interests may conflict. There can be no assurance that these or other conflicts of interest with the potential for adverse effects on us and our investors will not arise.

In addition, CBRE and its affiliates, including our officers and directors who are affiliated with CBRE, may sponsor or form other blank check companies similar to ours during the period in which we are seeking a business combination. Any such companies may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an acquisition target. However, we do not believe that any such potential conflicts would materially affect our ability to complete our business combination.

Additionally, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any alignment shares and any public shares they hold in connection with the consummation of our business combination. Further, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any alignment shares held by them if we fail to complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date. However, if our Sponsor, officers and directors acquire public shares after the Initial Public Offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our business combination within the prescribed time period. If we do not complete our business combination within such applicable time period, the proceeds of the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares, and the private placement warrants will expire worthless. Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell (i) any of their alignment shares except to any permitted transferees and (ii) any of their Class A common stock deliverable upon conversion of the alignment shares for 30 days following the completion of our business combination. With certain limited exceptions, the private placement warrants and the Class A common stock underlying such warrants, will not be transferable, assignable or salable by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees until 30 days after the completion of our business combination. Since our Sponsor and officers and directors may directly or indirectly own common stock and warrants following the Initial Public Offering, our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our business combination.

operations.

Status as a Public Company

We believe our structure makes us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses. As an existing public company, we offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination. In this situation, the owners of the target business would exchange their shares of stock in the target business for shares of our common stock or for a combination of shares of our common stock and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers. Although there are various costs and obligations associated with being a public company, we believe target businesses will find this method a more certain and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public offering. In a typical initial public offering, there are additional expenses incurred in marketing, road show and public reporting efforts 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 target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public offering is always subject to the underwriter’s ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could delay or prevent the offering from occurring. Once public, we believe the target business would then have greater access to capital and an additional means of providing management incentives consistent with stockholders’ interests. It can offer further benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). We will remain an emerging growth company and smaller reporting company within the meaning of the Securities Act, we will utilize certain modified disclosure requirements, and we cannot be certain if these reduced requirements will make our common stock less attractive to investors.

We are an emerging growth company, and for as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may choose to take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are available to “emerging growth companies,” but not to other public companies, including:
not being required to have our independent registered public accounting firm audit our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended the ("Sarbanes-Oxley Act");
reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements; and
exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

We plan in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to continue to utilize the modified disclosure requirements available to emerging growth companies. As a result, our stockholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important. We could remain an “emerging growth company” until the earlier of (1) earliest of:
December 31, 2026;
the last day of the first fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our Initial Public Offering, (b) in which we have totalour annual gross revenue exceeds $1 billion;
the date that we become a “large accelerated filer” as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of at least $1.07 billion, or (c) in1934, which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which meanswould occur if the market value of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the June 30thlast business day of the prior year,our most recently completed second fiscal quarter; and (2) 
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the date on which we have issued more than $1.0$1 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three yearpreceding 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)(i) the market value of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds is greater than or equal to $250 million as of the June 30thend of the prior year, or (2)that fiscal year’s second fiscal quarter, and (ii) our annual revenues exceededare greater than or equal to $100 million during suchthe last completed fiscal year and the market value of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds is greater than or equal to $700 million as of the June 30thend of the prior year.

Financial Position

With $402,500,000 in gross proceeds from the Initial Public Offering (including the proceeds from the exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option) and the sale of the private placement warrants available for a business combination, assuming no redemptions and after payment of up to $14,087,500 in deferred underwriting fees, we offer a target 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 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 target 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 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 business combination using cash from the proceeds held in the trust account from our Initial Public Offering and sale of the private placement warrants, our capital stock, debt or a combination of these as the consideration. We may seek to complete our 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 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 business combination or used for redemptions of our Class A common stock, 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 business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital.

Since our Initial Public Offering, we have reviewed, and continue to review, a number of opportunities to enter into a business combination with an operating business, including entering into discussions with potential target businesses, but we are not able to determine at this time whether we will complete a business combination with any of the target businesses that we have reviewed or had discussions with or with any other target business. We anticipate that additional target business candidates will be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment bankers, venture capital funds, private equity funds, leveraged buyout funds, management buyout funds and other members of the financial community. Target businesses may be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being solicited by us through calls or mailings. These sources may also introduce us to target businesses in which they think we may be interested on an unsolicited basis, since many of these sources will have read our final prospectus dated December 11, 2020 relating to the Initial Public Offering and know what types of businesses we are targeting.

There will be no finder’s fees, reimbursements or cash payments made by us to our Sponsor, officers or directors, or our or their affiliates, for services rendered to us prior to or in connection with the completion of our business combination, other than the reimbursement of any out-pocket expenses related to identifying, investigating and completing a business combination, payment to an affiliate of our Sponsor of a total of $10,000 per month for up to 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable), for office space, administrative and support services or the repayment of loans that we may receive from time to time to fund our working capital needs, none of which will be made from the proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account prior to the completion of our business combination.

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

In the case of a 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 applicable law or we decide to do so for business or other reasons, we would seek stockholder approval of such financing. There are no prohibitions on our ability to raise funds privately or through loans in connection with a 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 Business Combination

The NYSE rules require that our 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 any, and excluding the amount of any deferred underwriting discount held in trust) at the time of our signing a definitive agreement in connection with our business combination. The fair market value of the target or targets will be determined by our Board 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 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 that is a member of FINRA, or from an independent accounting firm, with respect to the satisfaction of such criteria. We do not currently intend to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our 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 business combination solely with another blank check company or a similar company with nominal operations.

In any case, we will only complete a business combination in which we own or acquire 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquire 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 we own or acquire less than 100% of the outstanding equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses, the portion of such business or businesses that are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company 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 business combination.

fiscal year’s second fiscal quarter. To the extent we effecttake advantage of such reduced disclosure obligations, it may also make comparison of our financial statements with other public companies difficult or impossible.

If we fail to develop and maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting and other business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stagespractices, and of development or growthboard-level oversight, we may not be affected by numerous risks inherent in such companyable to report our financial results accurately 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 managementprevent and employees, document reviews, inspection of facilities, as well as a review of financial, operational, legaldetect fraud and other information which will be made availableimproprieties. Consequently, investors could lose confidence in our financial reporting, and this may decrease the trading price of our stock.

We must maintain effective internal controls to us.

The time required to select and evaluate a target businessprovide reliable financial reports and to structureprevent and completedetect fraud and other improprieties. We are responsible for reviewing and assessing our business combination,internal controls and the costs associated with thisimplementing additional controls when improvement is needed. The process are not currently ascertainable with any degree of certainty. Any costs incurred with respect to the identificationdesigning and evaluation ofimplementing effective internal controls is a prospective target business with which our 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.

Lack of Business Diversification

For an indefinite period of time after the completion of our 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 business combination with only a single entity, our lack of diversification may:

subject us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the particular industry in which we operate after our business combination; and

cause us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.

Limited Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management Team

Although we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our 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 business combination, it is unlikely that any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs subsequent to our 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 business combination.

Following our business combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business. We cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional managers will have the requisite skills, knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.

Stockholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve our Business Combination

We may conduct redemptions without a stockholder vote pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC subject to the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. However, we will seek stockholder approval if it is required by applicable law or stock exchange rule, or we may decide to seek stockholder approval for business or other reasons.

Under the NYSE’s listing rules, stockholder approval would be required for business combination if, for example:

we issue (other than in a public offering for cash) shares of Class A common stock that will either (a) be equal to or in excess of 20% of the number of shares of our Class A common stock then outstanding or (b) have voting power equal to or in excess of 20% of the voting power then outstanding;

any of our directors, officers or substantial security holders (as defined by the NYSE rules) has a 5% or greater interest, directly or indirectly, in the target business or assets to be acquired and if the number of shares of common stock to be issued, or if the number of shares of common stock into which the securities may be convertible or exercisable, exceeds either (a) 1% of the number of shares of common stock or 1% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any of our directors and officers or (b) 5% of the number of shares of common stock or 5% of the voting power outstanding before the issuance in the case of any substantial securityholders; or

the issuance or potential issuance of common stock will result in our undergoing a change of control.

The decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination in those instances in which stockholder approval is not required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on business reasons, which include a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:

the timing of the transaction, including in the event we determine stockholder approval would require additional time and there is either not enough time to seek stockholder approval or doing so would place the Company at a disadvantage in the transaction or result in other additional burdens on the Company;

the expected cost of holding a stockholder vote;

the risk that the stockholders would fail to approve the proposed business combination;

other time and budget constraints of the Company; and

additional legal complexities of a proposed business combination that would be time-consuming and burdensome to present to stockholders.

Permitted Purchases of our Securities

In the event we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates may purchase shares or warrants in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our business combination. There is no limit on the number of shares or warrants such persons may purchase or any restriction on the price that they may pay, which may be different than the amount per share a public stockholder would receive if it elected to redeem its shares in connection with our business combination. However, they have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions. In the event our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates determine to make any such purchases at the time of a stockholder vote relating to our business combination, such purchases could have the effect of influencing the

vote necessary to approve such transaction. None of the funds in the trust account will be used to purchase shares or warrants in such transactions. If they engage in such transactions, they will be restricted from making any such purchases when they are in possession of any material non-public information not disclosed to the seller or if such purchases are prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. We have adopted an insider trading policy which will requires insiders to: (i) refrain from purchasing securities during certain blackout periods and when they are in possession of any material non-public information; and (ii) clear all trades with a designated officer prior to execution. We cannot currently determine whether our insiders will make such purchases pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan, as it will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to, the timing and size of such purchases. Depending on such circumstances, our insiders may either make such purchases pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan or determine that such a plan is not necessary.

In the event that our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates purchase shares in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. We do not currently anticipate that such purchases, if any, would constitute a tender offer subject to the tender offer rules under the Exchange Act or a going-private transaction subject to the going-private rules under the Exchange Act; however, if the purchasers determine at the time of any such purchases that the purchases are subject to such rules, the purchasers will comply with such rules.

The purpose of such purchases would be to (i) vote such shares in favor of the business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of such business combination or (ii) satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a targetcontinuous effort that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing ofanticipate and react to changes in our business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. This may result in the completion of our business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.

In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our securities may be reduced and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, which may make it difficulteconomic and regulatory environments and to expend significant resources to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or tradinga system of internal controls that is adequate to satisfy our securities on a national securities exchange.

Our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors, and/or any of their affiliates anticipate that they may identify the stockholders with whom our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or any of their affiliates may pursue privately negotiated purchases by either the stockholders contacting us directly or by our receipt of redemption requests submitted by stockholders following our mailing of proxy materials in connection with our business combination. To the extent that our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or any of their affiliates enter into a private purchase, they would identify and contact only potential selling stockholders who have expressed their election to redeem their shares for a pro rata share of the trust account or vote against the business combination. Such persons would select the stockholders from whom to acquire shares based on the number of shares available, the negotiated price per share and such other factorsreporting obligations as any such person may deem relevant at the time of purchase. The price per share paid in any such transaction may be different than the amount per share a public stockholder would receive if it elected to redeem its shares in connection with our business combination. Our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or their affiliates will be restricted from purchasing shares if such purchases do not comply with Regulation M under the Exchange Act and the other federal securities laws.

Any purchases by our Sponsor, officers, directors and/or any of their affiliates who are affiliated purchasers under Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act will be restricted unless such purchases are made in compliance with Rule 10b-18, which is a safe harbor from liability for manipulation under Section 9(a)(2) and Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act. Rule 10b-18 has certain technical requirements that must be complied with in order for the safe harbor to be available to the purchaser. Our Sponsor, officers, directors and/or their affiliates will be restricted from making purchases of common stock if the purchases would violate Section 9(a)(2) or Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act.

Redemption Rights for Public Stockholders upon Completion of our Business Combination

We will provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A common stock upon the completion of our business combination at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the business combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein. The per-share amount we will distribute to investors who properly redeem their shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commissions totaling $14,087,500 that we will pay to the underwriter.The redemption rights will include the requirement that a beneficial holder must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares. There will be no redemption rights upon the completion of our business combination with respect to our warrants. Our Sponsor, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any alignment shares and any public shares they hold in connection with the completion of our business combination.

Manner of conducting redemptions

We will provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A common stock upon the completion of our business combination either (i) in connection with a stockholder meeting called to approve the business combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would require us to seek stockholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement. Asset acquisitions and stock purchases would not typically require stockholder approval while direct mergers with our Company where we do not survive and any transactions where we issue more than 20% of our outstanding common stock or seek to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation would typically require stockholder approval. We intend to conduct redemptions without a stockholder vote pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC unless stockholder approval is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements or we choose to seek stockholder approval for business or other reasons.

If a stockholder vote is not required and we do not decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other reasons, we will, pursuant to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation:

conduct the redemptions pursuant to Rule 13e-4 and Regulation 14E of the Exchange Act, which regulate issuer tender offers, and

file tender offer documents with the SEC prior to completing our business combination which contain substantially the same financial and other information about the business combination and the redemption rights as is required under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies.

Upon the public announcement of our business combination, we and our Sponsor will terminate any plan established in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 to purchase shares of our Class A common stock in the open market if we elect to redeem our public shares through a tender offer, to comply with Rule 14e-5 under the Exchange Act. At this time, no such plan currently exists.

In the event we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, our offer to redeem will remain open for at least 20 business days, in accordance with Rule 14e-1(a) under the Exchange Act, and we will not be permitted to complete our business combination until the expiration of the tender offer period. In addition, the tender offer will be conditioned on public stockholders not tendering more than a specified number of public shares that are not purchased by our Sponsor, which number will be based on the requirement that we may not redeem public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets, after payment of the deferred underwriting commissions, to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules) or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement which may be contained in the agreement relating to our business combination. If public stockholders tender more shares than we have offered to purchase, we will withdraw the tender offer and not complete such business combination.

If, however, stockholder approval of the transaction is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirement, or we decide to obtain stockholder approval for business or other reasons, we will, pursuant to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation:

conduct the redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, which regulates the solicitation of proxies, and not pursuant to the tender offer rules, and

file proxy materials with the SEC.

We expect that a final proxy statement would be mailed to public stockholders at least 10 days prior to the stockholder vote. However, we expect that a draft proxy statement would be made available to such stockholders well in advance of such time, providing additional notice of redemption if we conduct redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation. Although we are not required to do so, we currently intend to comply with the substantive and procedural requirements of Regulation 14A in connection with any stockholder vote even if we are not able to maintain our NYSE listing or Exchange Act registration.

In the event that we seek stockholder approval of our business combination, we will distribute proxy materials and, in connection therewith, provide our public stockholders with the redemption rights described above upon completion of the business combination.

If we seek stockholder approval, we will complete our business combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination (or, if the applicable rules of the NYSE then in effect require, a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock held by public stockholders are voted in favor of the business transaction). Unless restricted by NYSE rules, a quorum for such meeting will consist of the holders present in person or by proxy of shares of outstanding capital stock of the Company representing a majority of the voting power of all outstanding capital stock of our Company entitled to vote at such a meeting. Unless restricted by NYSE rules, our initial stockholders will count toward this quorum. Pursuant to the terms of a letter agreement entered into with us, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed (and their permitted transferees will agree) to vote any alignment shares and any public shares they hold in favor of our business combination. We expect that at the time of any stockholder vote relating to our business combination, our Sponsor, directors and officers and their respective permitted transferees will own approximately 5% of our outstanding common stock but will be entitled to 20% of the voting power of our common stock prior to our business combination. These quorum and voting thresholds and the letter agreement may make it more likely that we will consummate our business combination. Each public stockholder may elect to redeem their public shares without voting, and if they do vote, irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction. In addition, our Sponsor, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any alignment shares and any public shares they hold in connection with the completion of a business combination.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules ). Redemptions of our public shares may also be subject to a higher net tangible asset test or cash requirement pursuant to an agreement relating to our business combination. For example, the proposed business combination may require: (i) cash consideration to be paid to the target or its owners; (ii) cash to be transferred to the target for working capital or other general corporate purposes; or (iii) the retention of cash to satisfy other conditions in accordance with the terms of the proposed business combination. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all shares of Class A common stock that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combination or redeem any shares, and all shares of Class A common stock submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof, and we instead may search for an alternative business combination.

Limitation on redemption upon completion of our business combination if we seek stockholder approval

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and

restated certificate of incorporation provides that a public stockholder, together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares of Class A common stock sold in our Initial Public Offering, which we refer to as the “Excess Shares,” without our prior consent. We believe this restriction will discourage stockholders from accumulating large blocks of shares, and subsequent attempts by such holders to use their ability to exercise their redemption rights against a proposed business combination as a means to force us or our Sponsor or its affiliates to purchase their shares at a significant premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms. Absent this provision, a public stockholder holding more than an aggregate of 15% of the shares sold in the Initial Public Offering could threaten to exercise its redemption rights if such holder’s shares are not purchased by us or our Sponsor or its affiliates at a premium to the then-current market price or on other undesirable terms. By limiting our stockholders’ ability to redeem no more than 15% of the shares sold in the Initial Public Offering, we believe we will limit the ability of a small group of stockholders to unreasonably attempt to block our ability to complete our business combination, particularly in connection with a business combination with a target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. However, we would not be restricting our stockholders’ ability to vote all of their shares (including Excess Shares) for or against our business combination. Our Sponsor, officers and directors have, pursuant to a letter agreement entered into with us, waived their right to have any alignment shares or public shares redeemed in connection with our business combination. Unless any of our other affiliates acquires alignment shares through a permitted transfer from an initial stockholder, and thereby becomes subject to the letter agreement, no such affiliate is subject to this waiver. However, to the extent any such affiliate acquires public shares through open market purchases, it would be a public stockholder and subject to the 15% limitation in connection with any such redemption right.

Tendering stock certificates in connection with a tender offer or redemption rights

We may require our public stockholders seeking to exercise their redemption rights, whether they are record holders or hold their shares in “street name,” to either tender their certificates to our transfer agent prior to the date set forth in the tender offer documents or proxy materials mailed to such holders, or up to two business days prior to the scheduled vote on the proposal to approve the business combination in the event we distribute proxy materials, or to deliver their shares to the transfer agent electronically using The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian) system, rather than simply voting against the business combination. The tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our business combination will indicate whether we are requiring public stockholders to satisfy such delivery requirements, which will include the requirement that a beneficial holder must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares. Accordingly, a public stockholder would have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the close of the tender offer period, or up to two business days prior to the scheduled vote on the business combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable, to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights. Pursuant to the tender offer rules, the tender offer period will be not less than 20 business days and, in the case of a stockholder vote, a final proxy statement would be mailed to public stockholders at least 10 days prior to the stockholder vote. However, we expect that a draft proxy statement would be made available to such stockholders well in advance of such time, providing additional notice of redemption if we conduct redemptions in conjunction with a proxy solicitation. Given the relatively short exercise period, it is advisable for stockholders to use electronic delivery of their public shares.

There is a nominal cost associated with the above-referenced tendering process and the act of certificating the shares or delivering them through the DWAC system. The transfer agent will typically charge the tendering broker a fee of approximately $80.00 and it would be up to the broker whether or not to pass this cost on to the redeeming holder. However, this fee would be incurred regardless of whether or not we require holders seeking to exercise redemption rights to tender their shares. The need to deliver shares is a requirement of exercising redemption rights regardless of the timing of when such delivery must be effectuated.

The foregoing is different from the procedures used by many blank check companies. In order to perfect redemption rights in connection with their business combinations, many blank check companies would distribute proxy materials for the stockholders’ vote on a business combination, and a holder could simply vote against a proposed business combination and check a box on the proxy card indicating such holder was seeking to exercise his or her redemption rights. After the business combination was approved, the Company would contact such stockholder to

arrange for him or her to deliver his or her certificate to verify ownership. As a result, the stockholder then had an “option window” after the completion of the business combination during which he or she could monitor the price of the Company’s shares in the market. If the price rose above the redemption price, he or she could sell his or her shares in the open market before actually delivering his or her shares to the Company for cancellation. As a result, the redemption rights, to which stockholders were aware they needed to commit before the stockholder meeting, would become “option” rights surviving past the completion of the business combination until the redeeming holder delivered its certificate. The requirement for physical or electronic delivery prior to the meeting ensures that a redeeming holder’s election to redeem is irrevocable once the business combination is approved.

Any request to redeem such shares, once made, may be withdrawn at any time up to the date set forth in the tender offer materials or two business days prior to the date of the stockholder meeting set forth in our proxy materials, as applicable (unless we elect to allow additional withdrawal rights). Furthermore, if a holder of a public share delivered its certificate in connection with an election of redemption rights and subsequently decides prior to the applicable date not to elect to exercise such rights, such holder may simply request that the transfer agent return the certificate (physically or electronically). It is anticipated that the funds to be distributed to holders of our public shares electing to redeem their shares will be distributed promptly after the completion of our business combination.

If our business combination is not approved or completed for any reason, then our public stockholders who elected to exercise their redemption rights would not be entitled to redeem their shares for the applicable pro rata share of the trust account. In such case, we will promptly return any certificates delivered by public holders who elected to redeem their shares.

If our initial proposed business combination is not completed, we may continue to try to complete a business combination with a different target until 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date.

Redemption of public shares and liquidation if no business combination

We have only 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date to complete our business combination. If we have not completed our business combination within such 24-month period (or 27-month period, as applicable), we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than 10 business days thereafter, subject to lawfully available funds therefor, redeem 100% of the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any); and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to complete a business combination within the 24-month time period (or 27-month time period, as applicable).

Our Sponsor, officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have waived their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to their alignment shares if we fail to complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date. However, if our Sponsor, officers and directors acquire public shares, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our business combination within the allotted 24-month time period (or 27-month time period, as applicable).

Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date or (B) with respect to other specified provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity, unless we provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares of Class A common stock upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the

aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares. However, we may not redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules).

We expect that all costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from amounts remaining out of the approximately $625,916 of proceeds held outside the trust account (as of December 31, 2020), although we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient funds for such purpose. However, if those funds are not sufficient to cover the costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, to the extent that there is any interest accrued in the trust account not required to pay taxes, we may request the Trustee to release to us an additional amount of up to $100,000 of such accrued interest to pay those costs and expenses.

The proceeds deposited in the trust account could, however, become subject to the claims of our creditors which would have higher priority than the claims of our public stockholders. We cannot assure you that the actual per-share redemption amount received by stockholders will not be substantially less than $10.00. Under Section 281(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), our plan of dissolution must provide for all claims against us to be paid in full or make provision for payments to be made in full, as applicable, if there are sufficient assets. These claims must be paid or provided for before we make any distribution of our remaining assets to our stockholders. While we intend to pay such amounts, if any, we cannot assure you that we will have funds sufficient to pay or provide for all creditors’ claims.

Although we will seek to have all third parties, service providers (other than our independent auditors), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public stockholders, such parties may not execute such agreements, or even if they execute such agreements they may not be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account, including, but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account. If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative. Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver.

In addition, there is no guarantee that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason. Upon redemption of our public shares, if we have not completed our business combination within the prescribed time frame, or upon the exercise of a redemption right in connection with our business combination, we will be required to provide for payment of claims of creditors that were not waived that may be brought against us within the 10 years following redemption. Our Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third party (other than our independent auditors) for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the trust account to below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay our taxes, except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account and except as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriter our Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. Our Sponsor may not have sufficient funds available to satisfy those obligations. None of our officers or directors will indemnify us for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by third parties and prospective target businesses.

In the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay our taxes, and our Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its indemnification obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal action against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations. While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment may choose not to do so in any particular instance. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that due to claims of creditors the actual value of the per-share redemption price will not be substantially less than $10.00 per share.

Under the DGCL, stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution. The pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our public shares in the event we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date may be considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law. If the corporation complies with certain procedures set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL intended to ensure that it makes reasonable provision for all claims against it, including a 60-day notice period during which any third-party claims can be brought against the corporation, a 90-day period during which the corporation may reject any claims brought, and an additional 150-day waiting period before any liquidating distributions are made to stockholders, any liability of stockholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to the lesser of such stockholder’s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the stockholder, and any liability of the stockholder would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution.

Furthermore, if the pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our public shares in the event we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, is not considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption distribution, instead of three years, as in the case of a liquidating distribution. If we have not completed our business combination within such 24-month period (or 27-month period, as applicable), we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than 10 business days thereafter, subject to lawfully available funds therefor, redeem 100% of the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any); and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. Accordingly, it is our intention to redeem our public shares as soon as reasonably possible following our 24th month (or 27th month, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date and, therefore, we do not intend to comply with the procedures set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL. As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend well beyond the third anniversary of such date.

Because we will not be complying with Section 280 of the DGCL, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within the subsequent 10 years. However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations will be limited to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses. As described above, pursuant to the obligation contained in our underwriting agreement, we have and will continue to seek to have all vendors, service providers (other than our independent auditors), prospective target businesses or other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account. As a result of this obligation, the claims that could be made against us are significantly limited and the likelihood that any claim that would result in any liability extending to the trust account is remote. Further, our Sponsor may be liable only to

the extent necessary to ensure that the amounts in the trust account are not reduced below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account, due to reductions in value of the trust assets, in each case net of the amount of interest withdrawn to pay taxes and will not be liable as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriter of our Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.

If we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subject to the claims of third parties with priority over the claims of our stockholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, we cannot assure you we will be able to return $10.00 per share to our public stockholders. Additionally, if we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover some or all amounts received by our stockholders. Furthermore, our Board may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or may have acted in bad faith, and thereby exposing itself and our Company to claims of punitive damages, by paying public stockholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors. We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.

Our public stockholders will be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only upon the earliest to occur of: (i) the completion of our business combination, and then only in connection with those public shares that such stockholder properly elected to redeem; (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date or (B) with respect to other specified provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity; and (iii) the redemption of all of our public shares if we have not completed our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, subject to applicable law and as further described herein. In no other circumstances will a stockholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account. In the event we seek stockholder approval in connection with our business combination, a stockholder’s voting in connection with the business combination alone will not result in a stockholder’s redeeming its shares to us for an applicable pro rata share of the trust account. Such stockholder must have also exercised its redemption rights described above.

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains certain requirements and restrictions relating to our Initial Public Offering that apply to us until the completion of our business combination. If we seek to amend any provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation relating to the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date or stockholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity, we will provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their shares of Class A common stock upon approval of any such amendment. Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any alignment shares and any public shares they hold in connection with the consummation of our business combination. Specifically, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides, among other things, that:

prior to the consummation of our business combination, we shall either (i) seek stockholder approval of our business combination at a meeting called for such purpose at which stockholders may redeem all or a portion of their public shares upon the completion of our business combination, regardless of whether they vote for or against the proposed business combination, into their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in our trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable) or (2) provide our public stockholders with the opportunity to tender their shares to us by means of a tender offer (and thereby avoid the need for a stockholder vote) for an amount equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in our trust account, including interest (which interest shall be net of taxes payable) in each case subject to the limitations described herein;

we will consummate our business combination only if we have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 upon such consummation and, solely if we seek stockholder approval, a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination;

if we are unable to complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, then our existence will terminate and we will distribute all amounts in our trust account; and

prior to our business combination, we may not issue additional shares of common stock that would entitle the holders thereof to (i) receive funds from our trust account or (ii) vote on any business combination.

These provisions cannot be amended without the approval of the holders of at least 65% of our common stock. If we seek stockholder approval in connection with our business combination, we will complete our business combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock voted are voted in favor of the business combination.

Competition

We expect to encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including private equity groups, leveraged buyout funds, private and public operating companies and strategic buyers, other blank check companies and other entities, domestic and international, competing for the types of businesses we intend to acquire. Many of these entities are well-established and have extensive experience identifying and effecting, directly or indirectly, acquisitions of companies operating in or providing services to various industries. Moreover, many of these competitors possess greater financial, technical, human and other resources or more local industry knowledge than we do. Our ability to acquire larger target businesses will be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, our obligation to pay cash in connection with our public stockholders who exercise their redemption rights may reduce the resources available to us for our business combination and our outstanding warrants, and the future dilution they potentially represent, may not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses. Either of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating a business combination.company. If we are unable to completeestablish or maintain appropriate internal financial reporting controls and procedures, it could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations on a timely basis, result in material misstatements in our consolidated financial statements and harm our results of operations.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements regarding internal control over financial reporting, and other internal controls over business practices, are costly to implement and maintain, and such costs are relatively more burdensome for smaller companies such as us than for larger companies. We have limited internal personnel to implement procedures and rely on outside professionals including accountants and attorneys to support our control procedures. We are working to improve all of our controls but, if our controls are not effective, we may not be able to report our financial results accurately or prevent and detect fraud and other improprieties, which could lead to a decrease in the market price of our stock. Failure to implement any required changes to our internal controls or other changes we identify as necessary to maintain an effective system of internal controls could harm our operating results and cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information. Any such loss of confidence would have a negative effect on the market price of our common stock.
We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. If we are unable to remediate these material weaknesses, or otherwise fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, this may result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our periodic reporting obligations.
As a privately-held company, we were not required to evaluate our internal control over financial reporting in a manner that meets the standards of publicly traded companies required by Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. As a public company, we are required, pursuant to Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in our annual report for the year ended December 31, 2021. This assessment includes disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting.
A material weakness is a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting that we are currently working to remediate, which relate to: (a) insufficient qualified personnel, which caused management to be unable to appropriately define responsibilities to create an effective control environment; (b) the lack of a formalized risk assessment process; and (c) selection and development of control activities, including over information technology.
Our management has concluded that these material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting are due to the fact that prior to the Merger we were a private company with limited resources and did not have the necessary business processes and related internal controls formally designed and implemented coupled with the appropriate resources with the appropriate level of experience and technical expertise to oversee our business combination withinprocesses and controls.
Our management has developed a remediation plan which we have begun and will continue to implement. These remediation measures are ongoing and include: hiring additional accounting and financial reporting personnel and implementing
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additional policies, procedures and controls. The material weaknesses will be considered remediated when our management designs and implements effective controls that operate for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are effective. Our management will monitor the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidationeffectiveness of our trust accountits remediation plans and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share upon our liquidation.

Conflicts of Interest

Certain of our directors and officers have fiduciary and contractual dutiesmake changes management determines to CBRE and its affiliates. As a result, certain of our directors and officers will have a duty to offer acquisition opportunities to CBRE and other entities and no duty to offer such opportunities to us unless presented to them in their capacity as our director or officer. As a result, CBRE or any of their respective affiliates may compete with us for acquisition opportunities in the same industries and sectors asbe appropriate, however we may target forencounter problems or delays in completing the remediation of the material weaknesses. In connection with the material weaknesses identified in our business combination. internal control over financial reporting we determined that our internal control over financial reporting are not effective and were not effective as of December 31, 2021.

If anynot remediated, these material weaknesses could result in material misstatements to our annual or interim consolidated financial statements that might not be prevented or detected on a timely basis, or in delayed filing of them deciderequired periodic reports. If we are unable to pursue any such opportunity, we may be precluded from procuring such opportunities. In addition, investment ideas generated within CBREassert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or any of its affiliates, including by Robert E. Sulentic, William F. Concannon, Cash J. Smith, Emma E. Giamartino and other persons who may make decisions for the Company, may be suitable for both us and for CBRE or any of its affiliates, and will be directed initially to CBRE or such persons rather than to us. Our officers and directors, CBRE or any of its affiliates or members of our management team who are also employed by CBRE or any of its affiliates do not have any obligation to present us with any opportunity for a potential business combination of which they become aware unless it is offered to them solely in their capacity as our director or officer and after they have satisfied their contractual and fiduciary obligations to other parties. CBRE generally intends to offer investment opportunities that fit within the investment program of CBRE to CBRE before offering it to us, and may choose to allocate all or part of any such opportunity to any CBRE affiliate or any business in which a CBRE affiliate has invested instead of offering such opportunity to us.

The potential conflicts described above may limit our ability to enter into a business combination or other transactions. CBRE and its affiliates engage, andwhen required in the future, will engage,if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an unqualified opinion as to the effectiveness of the internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our common stock could be adversely affected and our company could become subject to litigation or investigations by NYSE, the SEC, or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources. Each of these material weaknesses could result in a broad spectrummisstatement of activities,account balances or disclosures that would result in a material misstatement to the annual or interim consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected.

In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting, we have expended, and anticipate that we will continue to expend, significant resources, including direct investment activitiesaccounting-related costs and significant management oversight. Our independent registered public accounting firm is not required to formally attest to the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting until after it is no longer an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, as amended (the "JOBS Act"). At such time, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue a report that is adverse in the event it is not satisfied with the level at which our internal control over financial reporting is documented, designed or operating. Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, and remediate identified material weaknesses could adversely affect our business and operating results and could cause a decline in the market price of our common stock.
The rules governing the standards that must be met for our management to assess our internal control over financial reporting are complex and require significant documentation, testing and possible remediation. Testing and maintaining internal controls may divert our management’s attention from other matters that are independent from, and may from time to time conflict or compete with, our activities. These circumstances could give rise to numerous situations where interests may conflict. There can be no assurance that these or other conflicts of interest with the potential for adverse effects on us and our investors will not arise.

In addition, CBRE and its affiliates, including our officers and directors who are affiliated with CBRE, may sponsor or form other blank check companies similar to ours during the period in which we are seeking a business combination. Any such companies may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an acquisition target. However, we do not believe that any such potential conflicts would materially affect our ability to complete our business combination.

Each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual obligations 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 officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity that is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity. We expect that if an opportunity is presented to one of our officers or directors in his or her capacity as an officer or director of one of those other entities, such opportunity would be presented to such other entity and not to us. For more information on the entities to which our officers and directors currently have fiduciary or contractual obligations, please refer to “Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance—Conflicts of Interest.” Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we renounce our interest in any corporate opportunity offered to any director or officer unless such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Company and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for us to pursue. We do not believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors will materially affect our ability to complete our business combination.

Employees

We currently have two officers and do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our business combination.

Members of our management team are not obligated to devote any specific number of hoursimportant to our matters but they intend to devote as much of their time as they deem necessary to our affairs until we have completed our business combination. The amount of time that members of our management will devote in any time period will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for our business combination andbusiness. Our testing, or the current stage of the business combination process.

Periodic Reporting and Financial Information

Our SAILSM securities, Class A common stock and warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and as a result we have reporting obligations, including the requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC. In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, our annual reports will contain financial statements audited and reported onsubsequent testing by our independent registered public accounting firm. The SEC maintains an internet sitefirm, may reveal additional deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov. Our annual, quarterly and current reports are available free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable through our corporate website address at https://cbreacquisitionholdings.com. The contents of this website is not incorporated into this filing. Further, our references to the uniform resource locators, or URLs, for these websites are intendeddeemed to be inactive textual references only.

We will provide stockholders with auditedmaterial weaknesses. A material weakness in internal controls could result in our failure to detect a material misstatement of our annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements or disclosures. We may not be able to conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404. If we are unable to conclude that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting, investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a material adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

Our historical financial results may not be indicative of what our actual financial position or results of operations would have been if we were a public company.
Our business has achieved rapid growth since we launched. Our net revenue was $71.8 million and $45.3 million for the prospective target business as partyears ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Our net income (loss) was $13.0 million and $(1.9) million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. However, our results of the tender offer materials or proxy solicitation materials sent to stockholders to assist themoperations, financial condition and cash flows reflected in assessing the target business. Theseour consolidated financial statements may not be requiredindicative of the results we would have achieved if we were a public company or results that may be achieved in future periods. Consequently, there can be no assurance that we will be able to generate sufficient income to pay our operating expenses and make satisfactory distributions to our shareholders, or any distributions at all.
Our reported financial results may be preparedaffected, and comparability of our financial results with other companies in accordance with, orour industry may be reconciled to,impacted, by changes in the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) or International Financing Reporting Standards, as promulgatedU.S.
Generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. are subject to change and interpretation by the InternationalFinancial Accounting Standards Board (“IFRS”FASB), dependingthe SEC, and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in these principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results and on the

financial results of other companies in our industry, and may even affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement or effectiveness of a change. For example, in June 2016 the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-13, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“
ASU No. 2016-13”), which replaces the current incurred loss impairment methodology with a current expected credit losses model. Other companies in our industry may be affected differently by the adoption of ASU No. 2016-13 or other new accounting standards, including timing of the adoption of new accounting standards, adversely affecting the comparability of financial statements. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which primarily changes the lessee’s accounting for operating leases by requiring recognition of lease right-of-use assets and lease liabilities. This standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15,

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2021. The Company expects to adopt this guidance in fiscal year 2022. The Company is continuing the analysis of the contractual arrangements that may qualify as leases under the new standard and expects the most significant impact will be the recognition of the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.
We may not successfully implement our business model.
Our business model is predicated on our ability to provide solar systems at a profit, and through organic growth, geographic expansion, and strategic acquisitions. We intend to continue to operate as we have previously with sourcing and marketing methods that we have used successfully in the past. However, we cannot assure that our methods will continue to attract new customers in the very competitive solar systems marketplace. In the event our customers resist paying the prices projected in our business plan to purchase solar installations, our business, financial condition, and results of operations will be materially and adversely affected.
Certain estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate.
From time to time, we make statements with estimates of the addressable market for our solutions and the historical financial statements that may be required to be auditedEV market in accordance with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”). These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rulesgeneral. Market opportunity estimates and complete our business combination within the prescribed time frame. While this may limit the pool of potential business combination candidates, we do not believe that this limitation will be material.

We will be required to evaluate our internal control procedures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filergrowth forecasts, whether obtained from third-party sources or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company, will we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. A target business may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls. The development of the internal controls of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.

In connection with our Initial Public Offering, we filed a Registration Statement on Form 8-A with the SEC to voluntarily register our securities under Section 12 of the Exchange Act. As a result, wedeveloped internally, are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates that may prove to be inaccurate. This is especially so at the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act. We have no current intention of filing a Form 15 to suspend our reporting or other obligations under the Exchange Act prior or subsequentpresent time due to the consummationuncertain and rapidly changing projections of the severity, magnitude and duration of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The estimates and forecasts relating to the size and expected growth of the target market, market demand and adoption, capacity to address this demand and pricing may also prove to be inaccurate. In particular, estimates regarding the current and projected market opportunity are difficult to predict. The estimated addressable market may not materialize for many years, if ever, and even if the markets meet the size estimates and growth forecasts, our business could fail to grow at similar rates.

Litigation and Regulatory Risks
Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may be materially adversely affected by the extensive regulation of our business combination.

Webusiness.

Our operations are an “emerging growth company,” as definedsubject to complex and comprehensive federal, state and other regulation. This extensive regulatory framework, portions of which are more specifically identified in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act. As such, we are eligible to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an “emerging growth company” can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We intend to take advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period.

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 common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the June 30th of the prior year, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities 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,risk factors, regulates, among other things providing only two yearsand to varying degrees, our industry, businesses, rates and cost structures, operation and licensing of audited financial statements. We will remain a smaller reporting company untilsolar power facilities, construction and operation of electricity generation facilities and acquisition, disposal, depreciation and amortization of facilities and other assets, decommissioning costs and funding, service reliability, wholesale and retail competition, and SRECs trading. In our business planning and in the last day of the fiscal year in which (1) the market valuemanagement of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $250 million asoperations, we must address the effects of the June 30th of the prior year,regulation on our business and any inability or (2) our annual revenues exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year and the market value of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the June 30th of the prior year.

Corporate Information

Our executive offices are located at 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1250, Dallas, Texas 75201 and our telephone number is (214) 979-6100. Our internet site is https://cbreacquisitionholdings.com. The content of this website is not incorporated into this filing.

ITEM 1A.

RISK FACTORS

RISK FACTORS

Certain factors mayfailure to do so adequately could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and financial operations. You should consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described below, in addition to the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including our financial statements and related notes, before making a decision to invest in our securities. If any of the following events occur, ourprospects. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and operating results mayprospects could be materially adversely affected. In that event,affected as a result of new or revised laws, regulations, interpretations or ballot or regulatory initiatives.

Our business is influenced by various legislative and regulatory initiatives, including, but not limited to, new or revised laws, including international trade laws, regulations, interpretations or ballot or regulatory initiatives regarding deregulation or restructuring of the trading priceenergy industry, and regulation of environmental matters, such as environmental permitting. Changes in the nature of the regulation of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business financial condition and operating results.

Summary of Risk Factors

An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances described in this section “Risk Factors,” alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. Such risks include, but are not limited to:

We are a recently incorporated company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on the economy, businesses and debt and equity markets could have a material adverse effect on our searchbusiness, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. We are unable to predict future legislative or regulatory changes, initiatives or interpretations, although any such changes, initiatives or interpretations may increase costs and competitive pressures on us, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

We are subject to FERC rules related to energy generation that are designed to facilitate competition on practically a nationwide basis by providing greater certainty, flexibility and more choices to power customers. We cannot predict the impact of changing FERC rules or the effect of changes in levels of wholesale supply and demand, which are typically driven by factors beyond our control. There can be no assurance that we will be able to respond adequately or sufficiently quickly to such rules and developments, or to any changes that reverse or restrict the competitive restructuring of the energy industry in those jurisdictions in which such restructuring has occurred. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
Any reductions or modifications to, or the elimination of, governmental incentives or policies that support solar energy, including, but not limited to, tax laws, policies and incentives, RPS or feed-in-tariffs, or the imposition of additional taxes or other assessments on solar energy, could result in, among other items, the lack of a satisfactory market for the development and/or financing of new solar energy projects, our abandoning the development of solar energy projects, a loss of our investments in solar energy projects and reduced project returns, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, combination,financial condition, results of operations and any target business withprospects.
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We depend heavily on government policies that support utility scale renewable energy and enhance the economic feasibility of developing and operating solar energy projects in regions in which we ultimately consummateoperate or plan to develop and operate renewable energy facilities. The federal government, a majority of state governments in the U.S. and portions of Canada provide incentives, such as tax incentives, RPS or feed-in-tariffs, that support or are designed to support the sale of energy from utility scale renewable energy facilities, such as wind and solar energy facilities. As a result of budgetary constraints, political factors or otherwise, governments from time to time may review their laws and policies that support renewable energy and consider actions that would make the laws and policies less conducive to the development and operation of renewable energy facilities. Any reductions or modifications to, or the elimination of, governmental incentives or policies that support renewable energy or the imposition of additional taxes or other assessments on renewable energy, could result in, among other items, the lack of a satisfactory market for the development and/or financing of new renewable energy projects, our abandoning the development of renewable energy projects, a loss of our investments in the projects and reduced project returns, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, combination.

financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

We and our tax equity partners have claimed and expect to continue to claim ITCs with respect to qualifying solar energy projects. In structuring tax equity partnerships and determining ITC eligibility, we have relied upon applicable tax law and published IRS guidance. However, there are a number of uncertainties regarding ITC eligibility and the application of law and guidance to the facts of particular solar energy projects, and there can be no assurance that the IRS will agree with our approach in the event of an audit. Furthermore, the IRS may issue additional guidance or modify existing guidance, possibly with retroactive effect. Lastly, the amount of ITCs as a percentage of qualifying investment is scheduled to step down in future years under current law, and as part of ongoing tax, infrastructure and budget debates Congress may amend or eliminate the ITC provisions. Any of the foregoing items could reduce the amount of ITCs available to us and our tax equity partners. In this event, we could be required to indemnify tax equity partners for disallowed ITCs, adjust the terms of future tax equity partnerships, or seek alternative sources of funding for solar energy projects, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

The absence of net energy metering and related policies to offer competitive pricing to our customers in our current markets, and adverse changes to net energy metering policies, may significantly reduce demand for electricity from our solar energy systems.
Each of the states where we currently serve customers has adopted a net energy metering policy. Net energy metering typically allows our customers to interconnect their on-site solar energy systems to the utility grid and offset their utility electricity purchases by receiving a bill credit at the utility’s retail rate for energy generated by their solar energy system that is exported to the grid in excess of the electric load used by the customers. At the end of the billing period, the customer simply pays for the net energy used or receives a credit at the retail rate if more energy is produced than consumed. Utilities operating in states without a net energy metering policy may receive solar electricity that is exported to the grid when there is no simultaneous energy demand by the customer without providing retail compensation to the customer for this generation. Each of the states where we currently serve customers has adopted a net energy metering policy. In addition to net metering policies, certain of our primary markets, including Massachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland have adopted programs specifically aimed at providing renewable energy benefits to specific customers, such as community solar and low and moderate income customers. Many of these programs are set-up with a finite capacity of MW installed. Historically, regulators in our primary markets have continuously rolled out new incentive programs as the caps on existing programs begin to fill to promote continued investment in renewables in order to meet the goals set forth in their Renewable Portfolio Standards, however the continuous roll-out of such programs is not guaranteed.
Our public stockholdersability to sell solar energy systems and the electricity they generate may be adversely impacted by the failure to expand existing limits on the amount of net energy metering in states that have implemented it, the failure to adopt a net energy metering policy where it currently is not in place, the imposition of new charges that only or disproportionately impact customers that utilize net energy metering, or reductions in the amount or value of credit that customers receive through net energy metering. If such charges are imposed, the cost savings associated with switching to solar energy may be significantly reduced and our ability to attract future customers and compete with traditional utility providers could be impacted. Our ability to sell solar energy systems and the electricity they generate also may be adversely impacted by the unavailability of expedited or simplified interconnection for grid- tied solar energy systems or any limitation on the number of customer interconnections or amount of solar energy that utilities are required to allow in their service territory or some part of the grid.
Limits on net energy metering, interconnection of solar energy systems and other operational policies in key markets could limit the number of solar energy systems installed in those markets. If the caps on net energy metering in jurisdictions are reached, and new caps are not put in place, or if the amount or value of credit that customers receive for net energy metering is significantly reduced, future customers will be unable to recognize the current cost savings associated with net energy metering. We rely substantially on net energy metering when we establish competitive pricing for our prospective customers and the absence of net energy metering for new customers would greatly limit demand for our solar energy systems.
Our business depends in part on the regulatory treatment of third-party-owned solar energy systems.
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Our power purchase agreements are third-party ownership arrangements. Sales of electricity by third parties face regulatory challenges in some states and jurisdictions. Other challenges pertain to whether third-party owned systems qualify for the same levels of rebates or other non-tax incentives available for customer-owned solar energy systems, whether third-party owned systems are eligible at all for these incentives, and whether third-party owned systems are eligible for net energy metering and the associated cost savings. Reductions in, or eliminations of, this treatment of these third-party arrangements could reduce demand for our systems, adversely impact our access to capital and could cause us to increase the price we charge our customers for energy.
Existing electric utility industry regulations, and changes to regulations, may present technical, regulatory and economic barriers to the purchase and use of solar energy offerings that may significantly reduce demand for our solar energy offerings.
Federal, state and local government regulations and policies concerning the electric utility industry, and internal policies and regulations promulgated by electric utilities, heavily influence the market for electricity generation products and services. These regulations and policies often relate to electricity pricing and the interconnection of customer-owned electricity generation. In the U.S., governments and utilities continuously modify these regulations and policies. These regulations and policies could deter customers from purchasing renewable energy, including solar energy systems. This could result in a significant reduction in the potential demand for our solar energy systems. For example, utilities commonly charge fees to larger, industrial customers for disconnecting from the electric grid or for having the capacity to use power from the electric grid for back-up purposes. These fees could increase our customers’ cost to use our systems and make them less desirable, thereby harming our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, depending on the region, electricity generated by solar energy systems competes most effectively with expensive peak-hour electricity from the electric grid, rather than the less expensive average price of electricity. Modifications to the utilities’ peak hour pricing policies or rate design, such as to a flat rate, would require us to lower the price of our solar energy systems to compete with the price of electricity from the electric grid.
In addition, any changes to government or internal utility regulations and policies that favor electric utilities could reduce our competitiveness and cause a significant reduction in demand for our products and services. For example, certain jurisdictions have proposed assessing fees on customers purchasing energy from solar energy systems or imposing a new charge that would disproportionately impact solar energy system customers who utilize net energy metering, either of which would increase the cost of energy to those customers and could reduce demand for our solar energy systems. It is possible charges could be imposed on not just future customers but our existing customers, causing a potentially significant consumer relations problem and harming our reputation and business.
Regulatory decisions that are important to us may be materially adversely affected by political, regulatory and economic factors.
The local and national political, regulatory and economic environment has had, and may in the future have, an adverse effect on regulatory decisions with negative consequences for us. These decisions may require, for example, us to cancel or delay planned development activities, to reduce or delay other planned capital expenditures or to pay for investments or otherwise incur costs that we may not be afforded an opportunityable to voterecover through rates, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our proposed business, combination, which meansfinancial condition, results of operations and prospects. Certain other subsidiaries of ours are subject to similar risks.
Compliance with occupational safety and health requirements and best practices can be costly, and noncompliance with such requirements may result in potentially significant monetary penalties, operational delays and adverse publicity.
The installation of solar energy systems requires our employees to work at heights with complicated and potentially dangerous electrical systems. The evaluation and modification of buildings as part of the installation process requires our employees to work in locations that may contain potentially dangerous levels of asbestos, lead, mold or other materials known or believed to be hazardous to human health. We also maintain a fleet of trucks and other vehicles to support our installers and operations. There is substantial risk of serious injury or death if proper safety procedures are not followed. Our operations are subject to regulation under the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, and equivalent state laws. Changes to OSHA requirements, or stricter interpretation or enforcement of existing laws or regulations, could result in increased costs. If we fail to comply with applicable OSHA regulations, even if no work-related serious injury or death occurs, we may completebe subject to civil or criminal enforcement and be required to pay substantial penalties, incur significant capital expenditures or suspend or limit operations. High injury rates could expose us to increased liability. In the past, we have had workplace accidents and received citations from OSHA regulators for alleged safety violations, resulting in fines. Any such accidents, citations, violations, injuries or failure to comply with industry best practices may subject us to adverse publicity, damage our reputation and competitive position and adversely affect our business.
We have previously been, and may in the future be, named in legal proceedings, become involved in regulatory inquiries or be subject to litigation, all of which are costly, distracting to our core business and could result in an unfavorable outcome or a material adverse effect on our business, combination even thoughfinancial condition, results of operations or the market price for our common stock.
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We are involved in legal proceedings and receive inquiries from government and regulatory agencies from time to time. In the event that we are involved in significant disputes or are the subject of a majorityformal action by a regulatory agency, we could be exposed to costly and time-consuming legal proceedings that could result in any number of outcomes. Although outcomes of such actions vary, any current or future claims or regulatory actions initiated by or against us, whether successful or not, could result in significant costs, costly damage awards or settlement amounts, injunctive relief, increased costs of business, fines or orders to change certain business practices, significant dedication of management time, diversion of significant operational resources, or otherwise harm our business, financial condition and results of operations or adversely affect the market price for our common stock. If we are not successful in our legal proceedings and litigation, we may be required to pay significant monetary damages, which could hurt our results of operations. Lawsuits are time-consuming and expensive to resolve and divert management’s time and attention. Although we carry general liability insurance, our insurance may not cover potential claims or may not be adequate to indemnify us for all liability that may be imposed. We cannot predict how the courts will rule in any potential lawsuit against us. Decisions in favor of parties that bring lawsuits against us could subject us to significant liability for damages, adversely affect our results of operations and harm our reputation.
We may be subject to claims arising from the operations of our public stockholders dovarious businesses for periods prior to the dates we acquired them.
We may be subject to claims or liabilities arising from the ownership or operation of acquired solar systems for the periods prior to our acquisition of them, including environmental, employee-related, indemnification for tax equity partnerships and other liabilities and claims not support such a combination.

covered by insurance. These claims or liabilities could be significant. Our ability to seek indemnification from the former owners of our acquired businesses for these claims or liabilities may be limited by various factors, including the specific time, monetary or other limitations contained in the respective acquisition agreements and the financial ability of the former owners to satisfy our indemnification claims. In addition, insurance companies may be unwilling to cover claims that have arisen from acquired businesses or locations, or claims may exceed the coverage limits that our acquired businesses had in effect prior to the date of acquisition. If we seek stockholder approvalare unable to successfully obtain insurance coverage of third-party claims or enforce our indemnification rights against the former owners, or if the former owners are unable to satisfy their obligations for any reason, including because of their current financial position, we could be held liable for the costs or obligations associated with such claims or liabilities, which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Product liability claims against us could result in adverse publicity and potentially significant monetary damages.
If our solar service offerings, including our racking systems, PV modules, batteries, inverters, or other products, injured someone, we would be exposed to product liability claims. Because solar energy systems and many of our other current and anticipated products are electricity-producing devices, it is possible that customers or their property could be injured or damaged by our products, whether by product malfunctions, defects, improper installation or other causes. We rely on third-party manufacturing warranties, warranties provided by our solar partners and our general liability insurance to cover product liability claims and have not obtained separate product liability insurance. Our solar systems, including our PV modules, batteries, inverters, and other products, may also be subject to recalls due to product malfunctions or defects. Any product liability claim we face could be expensive to defend and divert management’s attention. The successful assertion of product liability claims against us could result in potentially significant monetary damages that could require us to make significant payments, as well as subject us to adverse publicity, damage our reputation and competitive position and adversely affect sales of our systems and other products. In addition, product liability claims, injuries, defects or other problems experienced by other companies in the residential solar industry could lead to unfavorable market conditions to the industry as a whole, and may have an adverse effect on our ability to attract customers, thus affecting our growth and financial performance.
A failure to comply with laws and regulations relating to our interactions with current or prospective community solar customers could result in negative publicity, claims, investigations and litigation, and adversely affect our financial performance.
Approximately 20% of our business combination,focuses on contracts and transactions with residential customers via community solar. We must comply with federal, state, and local laws and regulations that govern matters relating to our Sponsor, officersinteractions with residential consumers, including those pertaining to privacy and directorsdata security and warranties. These laws and regulations are dynamic and subject to potentially differing interpretations, and various federal, state and local legislative and regulatory bodies may expand current laws or regulations, or enact new laws and regulations, regarding these matters. Changes in these laws or regulations or their interpretation could affect how we do business, acquire customers, and manage and use information we collect from and about current and prospective community solar customers and the costs associated therewith. We strive to comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to our interactions with residential customers. It is possible, however, that these requirements may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another and may conflict with other rules or our practices. Our non-compliance with any such law or regulations could also expose us to claims, proceedings, litigation and investigations by private parties and regulatory authorities, as well as fines and negative publicity, each of which may materially and adversely affect our business. We have agreedincurred, and will continue to voteincur, expenses to comply with such laws and regulations, and increased regulation of matters relating to our interactions with residential consumers
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could require us to modify our operations and incur additional expenses, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Changes in favor of such business combination, regardless of how our public stockholders vote.

Your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination will betax laws, guidance or policies, including but not limited to changes in corporate income tax rates, as well as judgments and estimates used in the exercisedetermination of your righttax-related asset and liability amounts, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Our provision for income taxes and reporting of tax-related assets and liabilities require significant judgments and the use of estimates. Amounts of tax-related assets and liabilities involve judgments and estimates of the timing and probability of recognition of income, deductions and tax credits, including, but not limited to, redeem your sharesestimates for potential adverse outcomes regarding tax positions that have been taken and the ability to utilize tax benefit carryforwards, such as net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Actual income taxes could vary significantly from us for cash, unless we seek stockholder approvalestimated amounts due to the future impacts of, such business combination.

The ability ofamong other things, changes in tax laws, guidance or policies, including changes in our public stockholders to redeem their shares for cash may makecorporate income tax rates, our financial condition unattractiveand results of operations, and the resolution of audit issues raised by taxing authorities. These factors, including the ultimate resolution of income tax matters, may result in material adjustments to potentialtax-related assets and liabilities, which could materially adversely affect our business, combination targets,financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Changes in laws, regulations or rules, or a failure to comply with any laws, regulations or rules, may adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We are subject to laws, regulations and rules enacted by national, regional and local governments and the NYSE. In particular, we are required to comply with certain SEC, NYSE and other legal or regulatory requirements. Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws, regulations and rules may be difficult, time consuming and costly. Those laws, regulations or rules and their interpretation and application may also change from time to time and those changes could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws, regulations or rules, as interpreted and applied, could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
Intellectual Property and Data Privacy Risks
If we are unsuccessful in developing and maintaining our proprietary technology, including our Gaia software, our ability to attract and retain solar partners could be impaired, our competitive position could be harmed and our revenue could be reduced.
Our future growth depends on our ability to continue to develop and maintain our proprietary technology that supports our solar service offerings, including our design and proposal software, Gaia. In addition, we rely, and expect to continue to rely, on licensing agreements with certain third parties for aerial images that allow us to efficiently and effectively analyze a customer’s rooftop for solar energy system specifications. In the event that our current or future products require features that we have not developed or licensed, or we lose the benefit of an existing license, we will be required to develop or obtain such technology through purchase, license or other arrangements. If the required technology is not available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, we may incur additional expenses in an effort to internally develop the required technology. If we are unable to maintain our existing proprietary technology, our ability to attract and retain solar partners could be impaired, our competitive position could be harmed and our revenue could be reduced.
Our business may be harmed if we fail to properly protect our intellectual property, and we may also be required to defend against claims or indemnify others against claims that our intellectual property infringes on the intellectual property rights of third parties.
We believe that the success of our business depends in part on our proprietary technology, including our software, information, processes and know-how. We rely on copyright, trade secret and other protections to secure our intellectual property rights. Although we may incur substantial costs in protecting our technology, we cannot be certain that we have adequately protected or will be able to adequately protect it, that our competitors will not be able to utilize our existing technology or develop similar technology independently or that foreign intellectual property laws will adequately protect our intellectual property rights. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for third parties to obtain and use our intellectual property without our consent. Unauthorized use of our intellectual property by third parties, and the expenses incurred in protecting our intellectual property rights, may adversely affect our business. In the future, some of our products could be alleged to infringe existing patents or other intellectual property of third parties, and we cannot be certain that we will prevail in any intellectual property dispute. In addition, any future litigation required to enforce our patents, to protect our trade secrets or know-how or to defend us or indemnify others against claimed infringement of the rights of third parties could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We use open source software, which may make it difficult forrequire that we release the source code of certain software subject to open source licenses or subject us to enter intopossible litigation or other actions that could adversely affect our business.
We utilize software that is licensed under so-called “open source,” “free” or other similar licenses. Open source software is made available to the general public on an “as-is” basis under the terms of a business combinationnon-negotiable license. We currently combine our
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proprietary software with open source software but not in a target.

The abilitymanner that we believe requires the release of the source code of our public stockholdersproprietary software to exercise redemptionthe public. However, our use of open source software may entail greater risks than use of third-party commercial software. Open source licensors generally do not provide support, warranties, indemnification or other contractual protections regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. In addition, if we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a certain manner, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the public. This would allow our competitors to create similar offerings with lower development effort and time.

We may also face claims alleging noncompliance with open source license terms or infringement or misappropriation of proprietary software. These claims could result in litigation, require us to purchase a costly license or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our software, any of which would have a negative effect on our business and results of operations. In addition, if the license terms for open source software that we use change, we may be forced to re-engineer our solutions, incur additional costs or discontinue the use of these solutions if re-engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis. Although we monitor our use of open source software to avoid subjecting our offerings to unintended conditions, few courts have interpreted open source licenses, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to use our proprietary software. We cannot guarantee that we have incorporated or will incorporate open source software in our software in a manner that will not subject us to liability or in a manner that is consistent with our current policies and procedures.
If we experience a significant disruption in our information technology systems, fail to implement new systems and software successfully or if we experience cyber security incidents or have a deficiency in cybersecurity, our business could be adversely affected.
We depend on information systems to process orders, manage inventory, process and bill customers and collect payments from our customers, respond to customer inquiries, contribute to our overall internal control processes, maintain records of our property, plant and equipment, and record and pay amounts due vendors and other creditors. These systems may experience damage or disruption from a number of causes, including power outages, computer and telecommunication failures, computer viruses, malware, ransomware or other destructive software, internal design, manual or usage errors, cyberattacks, terrorism, workplace violence or wrongdoing, catastrophic events, natural disasters and severe weather conditions. We may also be impacted by breaches of our third-party processors.
If we were to experience a prolonged disruption in our information systems that involve interactions with customers and suppliers, it could result in the loss of sales and customers and/or increased costs, which could adversely affect our overall business operation. Although no such incidents have had a direct, material impact on us, we are unable to predict the direct or indirect impact of any future incidents to our business.
In addition, numerous and evolving cybersecurity threats, including advanced and persistent cyberattacks, phishing and social engineering schemes, particularly on internet applications, could compromise the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data in our systems. The security measures and procedures we and our customers have in place to protect sensitive data and other information may not be successful or sufficient to counter all data breaches, cyberattacks, or system failures. Although we devote resources to our cybersecurity programs and have implemented security measures to protect our systems and data, and to prevent, detect and respond to data security incidents, there can be no assurance that our efforts will prevent these threats.
Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, or to disable or degrade systems change frequently, have become increasingly more complex and sophisticated, and may be difficult to detect for periods of time, we may not anticipate these acts or respond adequately or timely. These threats have increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and may increase as a result of the Russia invasion of Ukraine. As these threats continue to evolve and increase, we may be required to devote significant additional resources in order to modify and enhance our security controls and to identify and remediate any security vulnerabilities.
Any security breach or unauthorized disclosure or theft of personal information we gather, store and use, or other hacking and phishing attacks on our systems, could harm our reputation, subject us to claims or litigation and have an adverse impact on our business.
We receive, store and use personal information of customers, including names, addresses, e-mail addresses, credit information and other housing and energy use information, as well as the personal information of our employees. Unauthorized disclosure of such personal information, whether through breach of our systems by an unauthorized party, employee theft or misuse, or otherwise, could harm our business. In addition, computer malware, viruses, social engineering (predominantly spear phishing attacks), and general hacking have become more prevalent, have occurred on our systems in the past, and could occur on our systems in the future. Inadvertent disclosure of such personal information, or if a third party were to gain unauthorized access to the personal information in our possession, has resulted in, and could result in future claims or litigation arising from damages suffered by such individuals. In addition, we could incur significant costs in complying with the multitude of federal, state and local laws regarding the unauthorized disclosure of personal information. Our efforts to protect such personal information may be
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unsuccessful due to software bugs or other technical malfunctions; employees, contractor, or vendor error or malfeasance; or other threats that evolve. In addition, third parties may attempt to fraudulently induce employees or users to disclose sensitive information. The risks of these threats have increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and may increase as a result of the Russia invasion of Ukraine. Although we have developed systems and processes that are designed to protect the personal information we receive, store and use and to prevent or detect security breaches, we cannot assure you that such measures will provide absolute security. Any perceived or actual unauthorized disclosure of such information could harm our reputation, substantially impair our ability to attract and retain customers and have an adverse impact on our business.
Our business is subject to complex and evolving laws and regulations regarding privacy and data protection. Many of these laws and regulations are subject to change and uncertain interpretation, and could result in claims, increased cost of operations or otherwise harm our business.
The regulatory environment surrounding data privacy and protection is constantly evolving and can be subject to significant change. New data protection laws, including recent California legislation and regulation which affords California consumers an array of new rights, including the right to be informed about what kinds of personal data companies have collected and why it was collected, pose increasingly complex compliance challenges and potentially elevate our costs. Complying with respectvarying jurisdictional requirements could increase the costs and complexity of compliance, and violations of applicable data protection laws could result in significant penalties. Any failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with applicable data protection laws could result in proceedings or actions brought against us by governmental entities or others, subject us to significant fines, penalties, judgments and negative publicity, require us to change our business practices, increase the costs and complexity of compliance, and adversely affect our business.
Risks Relating to Our Financial Statements
A significant portion of our activities are conducted through variable interest entities (“VIEs”), and changes to accounting guidance, policies or interpretations thereof could cause us to materially change the presentation of our financial statements.
We fund a significant portion of our activities by means of tax equity partnerships. In many cases, we consolidate these tax equity partnerships as VIEs in which we hold a variable interest and of which we are deemed to be the primary beneficiary. We evaluate whether an entity is a VIE whenever reconsideration events as defined by the accounting guidance occur. We determine the value of noncontrolling interests in VIEs using the HLBV method, as described under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates.” Accounting for VIEs and noncontrolling interests is complex, subject to a large number of uncertainties, and dependent on assumptions and estimates. Any changes in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") guidance, policies or interpretation thereof could materially impact the presentation of our financial statements.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities
Concentration of ownership among existing executive officers, directors and their affiliates may prevent new investors from influencing significant corporate decisions.
Our directors, executive officers and their affiliates as a group beneficially own approximately 41% of the outstanding shares of our Class A common stock (including shares that may prevent us from completing desirable business combinations or optimizing our capital structure.

The abilitybe issued upon exercise of our public stockholdersoutstanding warrants but without giving effect to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of sharesthe warrants or any conversions of our Class AB common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Class B common stock" or "Alignment Shares"). As a result, these stockholders are able to exercise a significant level of influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors, any amendment of the certificate of incorporation and approval of significant corporate transactions. This influence could increasehave the risk that we are unable to close our business combinationeffect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in management and that you will have to wait formake the liquidationapproval of our trust account in order to redeem your stock.

The requirement that we complete our business combination withincertain transactions difficult or impossible without the prescribed time frame may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may limit the time we have to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets, in particular as we approach our dissolution deadline,support of these stockholders.

Our stock price will be volatile, which could undermine our ability to complete our business combination on terms that would produce value for our stockholders.

We may not be able to complete our business combination within the prescribed time frame, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate, in which case our public stockholders may only receive $10.00 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, and our warrants will expire worthless.

The securities in which we invest the proceeds held in the trust account could bear a negative rate of interest, which could reduce the interest income available for payment of taxes or reducecause the value of your investment to decline.

The market price of the assets heldcommon stock and warrants will be volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in trustresponse to various factors, some of which are beyond our control. These factors include:
actual or anticipated fluctuations in operating results;
failure to meet or exceed financial estimates and projections of the investment community or that we provide to the public;
issuance of new or updated research or reports by securities analysts or changed recommendations for the industry in general;
announcements of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, collaborations or capital commitments;
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operating and share price performance of other companies in the industry or related markets;
the timing and magnitude of investments in the growth of the business;
actual or anticipated changes in laws and regulations;
additions or departures of key management or other personnel;
increased labor costs;
disputes or other developments related to intellectual property or other proprietary rights, including litigation;
the ability to market new and enhanced solutions on a timely basis;
sales of substantial amounts of the common stock by our board of directors, executive officers or significant stockholders or the perception that such sales could occur;
changes in capital structure, including future issuances of securities or the incurrence of debt; and
general economic, political and market conditions.

In addition, the stock market in general, and the stock prices of technology companies in particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the per-share redemption amount received by stockholdersoperating performance of those companies. Broad market and industry factors may be less than $10.00 per share.

If we seek stockholder approvalseriously affect the market price of our common stock, regardless of actual operating performance. In addition, in the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market price of a particular company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against these companies. This litigation, if instituted, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources.

Anti-takeover provisions contained in our governing documents and applicable laws could impair a takeover attempt.
Our third amended and restated certificate of incorporation and second amended and restated bylaws afford certain rights and powers to the public company board of directors that could contribute to the delay or prevention of an acquisition that it deems undesirable. We are also subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL, and other provisions of Delaware law that limit the ability of stockholders in certain situations to effect certain business combination, our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisorscombinations. Any of the foregoing provisions and terms that has the effect of delaying or anydeterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of their affiliates may electcommon stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to purchase shares or warrants from public stockholders, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reducepay for the public “float” of our securities.

common stock.

If a stockholder fails to receive notice of our offer to redeem our public shares in connection with our business combination, or fails to comply with the procedures for tendering its shares, such shares may not be redeemed.

You will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. To liquidate your investment, therefore, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss.

You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.

The NYSE may delistnot continue to list our securities, from trading on its exchange, which could limit stockholder’sinvestors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.

If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public stockholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the claims of creditors in such proceeding may have priority over the claims of our stockholders and the per-share amount that would otherwise be received by our stockholders in connection with our liquidation may be reduced.

We are not registering the issuance of shares ofOur Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants under the Securities Act or any state securities laws at this time, and such registration may not be in place when an investor desires to exercise warrants, thus precluding such investor from being able to exercise its warrants except on a cashless basis and potentially causing such warrants to expire worthless.

If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

Our directors may decide not to enforce the indemnification obligations of our Sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public stockholders.

If we continue to take advantage of NYSE’s controlled company standards, we will be exempt from various corporate governance requirements.

We may not hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after the consummation of our business combination. Our public stockholders will not have the right to elect directors prior to the consummation of our business combination.

WeRedeemable Warrants are dependent upon our officers and directors and their departure could adversely affect our ability to operate.

Risks Relating to our Business, Business Strategy, and Ability to Consummate a Business Combination

We are a recently incorporated company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.

We are a recently incorporated blank check company with no operating results, and we will not commence operations until completing a business combination. Because we have no operating history, you have no basis upon which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective of completing our business combination with one or more target businesses. We have no current arrangements or understandings with any prospective target business concerning a business combination and may be unable to complete our business combination. If we fail to complete our business combination, we will never generate any operating revenues.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the impactcurrently listed on the economy, businesses and debt and equity markets could have a material adverse effect on our search for a business combination, and any target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a widespread health crisis that has adversely impacted the economies and financial markets worldwide, business operations and the conduct of commerce generally and specifically in the industries in which we may seek to identify a potential business combination target. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on commercial real estate markets throughout 2020. In addition, if office workers continue to work from home after the COVID-19 crises has passed, it may alter the demand for office space, particularly in major urban areas, which may in turn lead to a decline in other sectors of commercial real estate such as multi-family and retail. Many property owners and occupiers have put transactions on hold and withdrawn existing mandates, sharply reducing sales and leasing volumes. Real estate investment management and property development markets have also been—and are expected to continue to be—adversely affected by the abrupt macroeconomic, real estate and capital markets challenges brought about by COVID-19.NYSE. There iscan be no way of being certain how long these adverse impacts will last. COVID-19, or other disease outbreaks, could have a material adverse effect on the business of any potential target business with which we consummate a business combination. Furthermore, we may be unable to complete a business combination if concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to require restrictions on travel, having meetings with potential investors or the target company’s personnel. Furthermore, vendors and services providers that we expect to rely on may be unavailable to assist us with the analysis of potential acquisition targets and to negotiate and consummate a business combination in a timely manner. The extent to which COVID-19 impacts our search for a business combination will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions to contain COVID-19 or treat its impact, among others. If the disruptions posed by COVID-19 or other matters of global concern continue for an extensive period of time, it could have a material adverse effect on our ability to consummate a business combination, or the operations of a target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination.

In addition, our ability to consummate a business combination may be dependent on the ability to raise equity and debt financing and the COVID-19 pandemic and other related events could have a material adverse effect on our ability to raise adequate financing, including as a result of increased market volatility, decreased market liquidity and third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to us or at all.

Our public stockholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed business combination, which means we may complete our business combination even though a majority of our public stockholders do not support such a combination.

We may not hold a stockholder vote to approve our business combination unless the business combination would typically require stockholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements or if we decide to hold a stockholder vote for business or other reasons. For instance, the NYSE rules currently allow us to engage in a tender offer in lieu of a stockholder meeting but would still require us to obtain stockholder approval if we seek to issue more than 20% of our outstanding shares of common stock to a target business as consideration in any business combination. Therefore, if we structure a business combination that requires us to issue more than 20% of our outstanding shares of common stock, we will seek stockholder approval of such business combination. However, except as required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements, the decision as to whether we will seek stockholder approval of a proposed business combination or will allow stockholders to sell their shares to us in a tender offer will be made by us, solely in our discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors, such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require us to seek stockholder approval. Accordingly, we may consummate our business combination even if holders of a majority of our public shares do not approve of the business combination we consummate. Please refer to “Item 1. Business—Stockholders May Not Have the Ability to Approve our Business Combination” for additional information.

If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to vote in favor of such business combination, regardless of how our public stockholders vote.

Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed (and their permitted transferees will agree), pursuant to the terms of a letter agreement entered into with us, to vote any alignment shares and any public shares they hold, in favor of our business combination.

We expect that our Sponsor, directors and officers and their respective permitted transferees will own approximately 5% of our outstanding common stock at the time of any such stockholder vote but they will be entitled to 20% of the voting power of our common stock prior to our business combination. Accordingly, if we seek stockholder approval of our business combination, it is more likely that the necessary stockholder approval for the business combination will be received than would be the case if such persons agreed to vote their alignment shares in accordance with the majority of the votes cast by our public stockholders.

Your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination will be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash, unless we seek stockholder approval of such business combination.

Since our Board may complete a business combination without seeking stockholder approval, public stockholders may not have the right or opportunity to vote on the business combination, unless we seek such stockholder approval. Accordingly, if we do not seek stockholder approval, your only opportunity to affect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to exercising your redemption rights within the period of time (which will be at least 20 business days) set forth in our tender offer documents mailed to our public stockholders in which we describe our business combination.

The ability of our public stockholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into a business combination with a target.

We may seek to enter into a business combination transaction agreement with a prospective target that requires as a closing condition that we have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. If too many public stockholders exercise their redemption rights, we would not be able to meet such closing condition and, as a result, would not be able to proceed with the business combination. The amount of the deferred underwriting commissions payable to the underwriter will not be adjusted for any shares that are redeemed in connection with a business combination and such amount of deferred underwriting discount is not available for us to use as consideration in a business combination. If we are able to consummate a business combination, the per-share value of shares held by non-redeeming stockholders will reflect our obligation to pay and the payment of the deferred underwriting commissions. Furthermore, in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net

tangible assets, after payment of the deferred underwriting commissions, to be less than $5,000,001 (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules) or any greater net tangible asset or cash requirement which may be contained in the agreement relating to our business combination. Consequently, if accepting all properly submitted redemption requests would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 or such greater amount necessary to satisfy a closing condition as described above, we would not proceed with such redemption and the related business combination and may instead search for an alternate business combination. Prospective targets will be aware of these risks and, thus, may be reluctant to enter into a business combination transaction with us.

The ability of our public stockholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of shares of our Class A common stock may prevent us from completing desirable business combinations or optimizing our capital structure.

At the time we enter into an agreement for our business combination, we will not know how many stockholders may exercise their redemption rights, and therefore we will need to structure the transaction based on our expectations as to the number of shares that will be submitted for redemption. If our business combination agreement requires us to use a portion of the cash in the trust account to pay the purchase price, or requires us to have a minimum amount of cash at closing, we will need to reserve a portion of the cash in the trust account to meet such requirements, or arrange for third-party financing. In addition, if a larger number of shares is submitted for redemption than we initially expected, we may need to restructure the transaction to reserve a greater portion of the cash in the trust account or arrange for additional third-party financing. Raising additional third-party financing may involve dilutive equity issuances or the incurrence of indebtedness at higher than desirable levels. The above considerations may limit our ability to complete desirable business combinations or to optimize our capital structure.

The ability of our public stockholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of shares of our Class A common stock could increase the risk that we are unable to close our business combination and that you will have to wait for the liquidation of our trust account in order to redeem your stock.

If our business combination agreement requires us to use a portion of the cash in the trust account to pay the purchase price, or requires us to have a minimum amount of cash at closing, it could increase the risk that we are unable to complete our business combination. If we fail to consummate our business combination, you will not receive your pro rata portion of the funds in the trust account until we liquidate the trust account. If you are in need of immediate liquidity, you could attempt to sell your stock in the open market; however, at such time our stock may trade at a discount to the pro rata amount per share in the trust account. In either situation, you may suffer a material loss on your investment or lose the benefit of funds expected in connection with our redemption until we liquidate or you are able to sell your stock in the open market.

The requirement that we complete our business combination within the prescribed time frame may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may limit the time we have to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets, in particular as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to complete our business combination on terms that would produce value for our stockholders.

Any potential target business with which we enter into negotiations concerning a business combination will be aware that we must complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date. Consequently, such target business may obtain leverage over us in negotiating a business combination, knowing that if we do not complete our business combination with that particular target business, we may be unable to complete our business combination with a different target business. This risk will increase as we approach the end of the timeframe described above. In addition, we may have limited time to conduct due diligence and may enter into our business combination on terms that we might have rejected upon a more comprehensive investigation.

We may not be able to complete our business combination within the prescribed time frame, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate, in which case our public stockholders may only receive $10.00 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, and our warrants will expire worthless.

Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed that we must complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date. We may not be able to find a suitable target business and complete our business combination within such time period. Our ability to complete our business combination may be negatively impacted by general economic and market conditions, including volatility in the capital and debt markets and the other risks described herein. For example, the impact of COVID-19 continues to grow both in the United States and globally and, while the extent of the impact of the outbreak on our Company will depend on future developments, it could limit our ability to complete our business combination, including as a result of increased market volatility, decreased market liquidity and third-party financing being unavailable on terms acceptable to us or at all. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic may negatively impact businesses we may seek to acquire. If we have not completed our business combination within such 24-month period (or 27-month period), we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than 10 business days thereafter, subject to lawfully available funds therefor, redeem 100% of the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any), subject to applicable law; and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law, in which case our public stockholders may only receive $10.00 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, and our warrants will expire worthless. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

The securities in which we invest the proceeds held in the trust account could bear a negative rate of interest, which could reduce the interest income available for payment of taxes or reduce the value of the assets held in trust such that the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

The net proceeds of our Initial Public Offering (including the proceeds from the exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option) and certain proceeds from the sale of the private placement warrants, in the amount of $402,500,000, are held in an interest-bearing trust account. The proceeds held in the trust account may only be invested in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. While short-term U.S. treasury obligations currently yield a positive rate of interest, they have briefly yielded negative interest rates in recent years. Central banks in Europe and Japan have pursued interest rates below zero in recent years, and the Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve has not ruled out the possibility that it may in the future adopt similar policies in the United States. In the event of very low or negative yields, the amount of interest income (which we may use to pay our taxes, if any) would be reduced. In the event that we are unable to complete our business combination, our public stockholders are entitled to receive their pro-rata share of the proceeds then held in the trust account, plus any interest income (and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses). If the balance of the trust account is reduced below $402,500,000 as a result of negative interest rates, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public stockholders may be reduced below $10.00 per share.

If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination, our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or any of their affiliates may elect to purchase shares or warrants from public stockholders, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reduce the public “float” of our securities.

If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our Sponsor, directors, officers or any of their respective affiliates may purchase shares of our Class A common stock or warrants in privately negotiated transactions or in the open market either prior to or following the completion of our business combination, although they are under no obligation to do so. They have no current commitments, plans or intentions to engage in such transactions and have not formulated any terms or conditions for any such transactions. None of the funds in the trust account will be used

to purchase public shares or warrants in such transactions. See “Item 1. Business—Permitted Purchases of our Securities” for a description of how such persons will determine from which stockholders to seek to acquire shares. Such a purchase may include a contractual acknowledgement that such stockholder, although still the record holder of our shares is no longer the beneficial owner thereof and therefore agrees not to exercise its redemption rights. In the event that our Sponsor, directors or officers or their respective affiliates purchase shares of our Class A common stock in privately negotiated transactions from public stockholders who have already elected to exercise their redemption rights, such selling stockholders would be required to revoke their prior elections to redeem their shares. The price per share paid in any such transaction may be different than the amount per share a public stockholder would receive if it elected to redeem its shares in connection with our business combination. The purpose of such purchases could be to vote such shares in favor of the business combination and thereby increase the likelihood of obtaining stockholder approval of the business combination or to satisfy a closing condition in an agreement with a target that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash at the closing of our business combination, where it appears that such requirement would otherwise not be met. The purpose of any such purchases of Public Warrants could be to reduce the number of Public Warrants outstanding or to vote such warrants on any matters submitted to the warrant holders for approval in connection with our business combination. These actions may result in the completion of our business combination that may not otherwise have been possible.

In addition, if such purchases are made, the public “float” of our securities and the number of beneficial holders of our securities may be reduced, possibly making it difficult to maintain or obtain the quotation, listing or trading of our securities on a national securities exchange. Any such purchases will be reported pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Exchange Act to the extent such purchasers are subject to such reporting requirements. See “Item 1. Business—Permitted Purchases of our Securities” for a description of how our Sponsor, directors, officers, advisors or their affiliates will select which stockholders to purchase securities from in any private transaction.

If a stockholder fails to receive notice of our offer to redeem our public shares in connection with our business combination, or fails to comply with the procedures for tendering its shares, such shares may not be redeemed.

We will comply with the tender offer rules or proxy rules, as applicable, when conducting redemptions in connection with our business combination. Despite our compliance with these rules, if a stockholder fails to receive our tender offer or proxy materials, as applicable, such stockholder may not become aware of the opportunity to redeem its shares. In addition, the tender offer documents or proxy materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our business combination will describe the various procedures that must be complied with in order to validly tender or redeem public shares. In the event that a stockholder fails to comply with these procedures, such holder’s shares may not be redeemed. See “Item 1. Business—Redemption Rights for Public Stockholders upon Completion of our Business Combination—Tendering stock certificates in connection with a tender offer or redemption rights.”

You will not have any rights or interests in funds from the trust account, except under certain limited circumstances. To liquidate your investment, therefore, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss.

Our public stockholders will be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only upon the earliest to occur of: (i) the completion of our business combination, and then only in connection with those public shares that such stockholder properly elected to redeem, subject to the limitations described herein; (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to allow redemption in connection with our business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date or (B) with respect to other specified provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-business combination activity; and (iii) the redemption of all of our public shares if we have not completed our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, subject to applicable law and as further described herein. In addition, if we have not completed our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, compliance with Delaware law may require that we submit a plan of dissolution to our then existing stockholders for approval prior to the distribution of the proceeds held in our trust account. In that case, public stockholders may be forced to wait beyond 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date before they receive funds from our trust account. In no other circumstances will a public stockholder have any right or interest of any kind in

the trust account. Holders of warrants will not have any right to the proceeds held in the trust account with respect to the warrants. Accordingly, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your public shares or warrants, potentially at a loss.

You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.

Because we have net tangible assets in excess of $5,000,000 and have timely filed a Current Report on Form 8-K, including an audited balance sheet of the Company demonstrating this fact, we are exempt from rules promulgated by the SEC to protect stockholders in blank check companies, such as Rule 419. Accordingly, stockholders are not afforded the benefits or protections of those rules. Among other things, this means we will have a longer period of time to complete our business combination than do companies subject to Rule 419. Moreover, were we subject to Rule 419, that rule would prohibit the release of any interest earned on funds held in the trust account to us unless and until the funds in the trust account were released to us in connection with our completion of a business combination.

If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, and if you or a “group” of stockholders are deemed to hold in excess of 15% of our Class A common stock, you will lose the ability to redeem all such shares in excess of 15% of our Class A common stock.

If we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and we do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that a public stockholder, together with any affiliate of such stockholder or any other person with whom such stockholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Exchange Act), will be restricted from redeeming its shares of Class A common stock with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of such shares, which we refer to as the “Excess Shares,” without our prior consent. However, we would not be restricting our stockholders’ ability to vote all of their shares of Class A common stock (including Excess Shares) for or against our business combination. Your inability to redeem the Excess Shares will reduce your influence over our ability to complete our business combination and you could suffer a material loss on your investment in us if you sell Excess Shares in open market transactions. Additionally, you will not receive redemption distributions with respect to the Excess Shares if we complete our business combination. As a result, you will continue to hold that number of shares exceeding 15% and, in order to dispose of such shares, would be required to sell your shares in open market transactions, potentially at a loss.

Because of our limited resources and the significant competition for business combination opportunities, it may be difficult for us to complete our business combination. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of the trust account, or less in certain circumstances, upon our redemption of their shares, and our warrants will expire worthless.

We expect to encounter intense competition from other entities having a business objective similar to ours, including private investors (which may be individuals or investment partnerships), other blank check companies and other entities, domestic and international, competing for the types of businesses we intend to acquire. Many of these individuals and entities are well-established and have extensive experience in identifying and effecting, directly or indirectly, acquisitions of companies operating in or providing services to various industries. Many of these competitors possess similar or greater technical, human and other resources or more local industry knowledge than we do and our financial resources will be relatively limited when contrasted with those of many of these competitors. While we believe there are numerous target businesses we could potentially acquire with the net proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, our ability to compete with respect to the acquisition of certain target businesses that are sizable will be limited by our available financial resources. This inherent competitive limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of certain target businesses. Furthermore, because we are obligated to pay cash for the shares of Class A common stock which our public stockholders redeem in connection with our business combination and, in the event we seek stockholder approval of our business combination, we will repurchase shares of our Class A common stock, which will potentially reduce the resources available to us for our business combination. Any of these obligations may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully negotiating and consummating a business combination. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only

approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

If the net proceeds of our Initial Public Offering, sale of the private placement warrants not being held in the trust account and borrowing capacity under our second amended and restated promissory note are insufficient, it could limit the amount available to fund our search for a target business or businesses and complete our business combination and we may depend on loans from our Sponsor or management team to fund our search, to pay our taxes and to complete our business combination.

As of December 31, 2020, we had $625,916 available to us outside the trust account to fund our working capital requirements. On February 16, 2021, we entered into a second amended and restated promissory note (the “second amended and restated promissory note”) with our Sponsor, with borrowing capacity up to $3,000,000. See “See Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data—Note 4—Related Party Transactions—Notes Payable—Sponsor” for more information.

These funds may not be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least the 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) following the IPO Closing Date, assuming that our business combination is not completed during that time. We expect to incur significant costs in pursuit of our acquisition plans. Our plans to address this need for capital and potential loans from certain of affiliates of our affiliates are discussed further in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. However, our affiliates are not obligated to make loans to us in the future, and we may not be able to raise additional financing from unaffiliated parties necessary to fund our expenses. Any such event in the future may negatively impact the analysis regarding our ability to continue as a going concern at such time.

We believe that the funds available to us outside of the trust account, together with funds available from loans from our Sponsor and its affiliates will be sufficient to allow us to operate for at least the 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) following the IPO Closing Date; however, we cannot assure you that our estimate is accurate, and our Sponsor and its affiliates are under no obligation to advance funds to us in such circumstances. Of the funds available to us, we could use a portion of the funds available to us to pay fees to consultants to assist us with our search for a target business. We could also use a portion of the funds as a down payment or to fund a “no-shop” provision (a provision in letters of intent designed to keep target businesses from “shopping” around for transactions with other companies or investors on terms more favorable to such target businesses) with respect to a particular proposed business combination, although we do not have any current intention to do so. If we entered into a letter of intent where we paid for the right to receive exclusivity from a target business and were subsequently required to forfeit such funds (whether as a result of our breach or otherwise), we might not have sufficient funds to continue searching for, or conduct due diligence with respect to, a target business.

If we are required to seek additional capital, we would need to borrow funds from our Sponsor, its affiliates or other third parties to operate or may be forced to liquidate. Neither our Sponsor nor any of their affiliates is under any obligation to advance funds to, or invest in, us in such circumstances. Any such loans or advances may be repaid only from funds held outside the trust account or from funds released to us upon completion of our business combination. We do not expect to seek loans or advances from parties other than our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor as we do not believe third parties will be willing to provide such funds and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our trust account.

If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

Subsequent to the completion of our business combination, we may be required to subsequently take write-downs or write-offs, restructuring and impairment or other charges that could have a significant negative effect on our financial condition, results of operations and the price of our securities, which could cause you to lose some or all of your investment.

Even if we conduct extensive due diligence on a target business with which we combine, we cannot assure you that this diligence will identify all material issues that may be present with a particular target business, that it would be possible to uncover all material issues through a customary amount of due diligence, or that factors outside of the target business and outside of our control will not later arise. As a result of these factors, we may be forced to later write-down or write-off assets, restructure our operations, or incur impairment or other charges that could result in our reporting losses. Even if our due diligence successfully identifies certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. Even though these charges may be non-cash items and not have an immediate impact on our liquidity, the fact that we report charges of this nature could contribute to negative market perceptions about us or our securities. In addition, charges of this nature may cause us to violate net worth or other covenants to which we may be subject as a result of assuming pre-existing debt held by a target business or by virtue of our obtaining post-combination debt financing. Accordingly, any securityholders who choose to remain securityholders following our business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such securityholders are unlikely to have an adequate remedy for such reduction in value.

If we have not consummated our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) of the IPO Closing Date, our public stockholders may be forced to wait beyond such 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) before redemption from our trust account.

If we have not consummated our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, we will distribute the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account (and up to $100,000 of the net interest earned thereon to pay dissolution expenses), pro rata to our public stockholders by way of redemption and cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up of our affairs, as further described herein. Any redemption of public stockholders from the trust account shall be effected automatically by function of our amended and certificate of incorporation prior to any voluntary winding up. If we are required to wind up, liquidate the trust account and distribute such amount therein, pro rata, to our public stockholders, as part of any liquidation process, such winding up, liquidation and distribution must comply with the applicable provisions of the DGCL. In that case, investors may be forced to wait beyond the initial 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) before the redemption proceeds of our trust account become available to them and they receive the return of their pro rata portion of the proceeds from our trust account. We have no obligation to return funds to investors prior to the date of our redemption or liquidation unless, prior thereto, we consummate our business combination or amend certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, and only then in cases where investors have properly sought to redeem their common stock. Only upon our redemption or any liquidation will public stockholders be entitled to distributions if we have not completed our business combination within the required time period and do not amend certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation prior thereto.

Because we are not limited to a particular industry or any specific target businesses with which to pursue our business combination, you will be unable to ascertain the merits or risks of any particular target business’s operations.

We may seek to complete a business combination with an operating company in any industry, sector or location. While we may pursue a business combination opportunity in any industry, sector or location, we intend to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify, acquire and operate a business or businesses that can benefit from our management team’s established global relationships and operating experience. However, we will not, under our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, be permitted to effectuate our business combination solely with another blank check company or similar company with nominal operations. Because we have not yet selected any specific target business with respect to a business combination, there is no basis to evaluate the possible merits or risks of any particular target business’s operations, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity, financial condition or prospects. To the extent we complete our business combination, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the business operations with which we combine. For example, if we combine with a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by the risks inherent in the business and operations of a financially unstable or a development stage entity. Although our officers and directors will

endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors or that we will have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our SAILSM securities will not ultimately prove to be less favorable to investors than a direct investment, if such opportunity were available, in a business combination target. Accordingly, any securityholders who choose to remain securityholders following our business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such securityholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value of their securities.

Past performance by CBRE, our management team and their respective affiliates, may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in the Company.

Past performance by CBRE, our management team and their respective affiliates is not a guarantee either (i)assurance that we will be able to identify a suitable candidate for our business combination or (ii) of success with respect to any business combination we may consummate. You should not rely on the historical record of the performance of CBRE or our management team’s performance or the performance of their respective affiliates as indicative of our future performance or of an investment in the Company or the returns the Company will, or is likely to, generate going forward. Furthermore, an investment in us is not an investment in CBRE or any affiliate of CBRE.

We may seek acquisition opportunities in industries or sectors that may be outside of our management’s areas of expertise.

We will consider a business combination outside of our management’s areas of expertise if a business combination candidate is presented to us and we determine that such candidate offers an attractive acquisition opportunity for our Company. Although our management will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in any particular business combination target, we cannot assure you that we will adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors. We also cannot assure you that an investment in our SAILSM securities will not ultimately prove to be less favorable than a direct investment, if an opportunity were available, in a business combination target. In the event we elect to pursue an acquisition outside of the areas of our management’s expertise, our management’s expertise may not be directly applicable to its evaluation or operation, and the information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K regarding the areas of our management’s expertise would not be relevant to an understanding of the business that we elect to acquire. As a result, our management may not be able to adequately ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors related to such acquisition. Accordingly, any securityholders who choose to remain securityholders following our business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such securityholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

Although we have identified general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses, we may enter into our business combination with a target that does not meet such criteria and guidelines, and as a result, the target business with which we enter into our business combination may not have attributes consistent with our general criteria and guidelines.

Although we have identified general criteria and guidelines for evaluating prospective target businesses, it is possible that a target business with which we enter into our business combination will not have some or all of these positive attributes. If we complete our business combination with a target that does not meet some or all of these criteria and guidelines, such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a business that does meet all of our general criteria and guidelines. In addition, if we announce a prospective business combination with a target that does not meet our general criteria and guidelines, a greater number of stockholders may exercise their redemption rights, which may make it difficult for us to meet any closing condition with a target business that requires us to have a minimum net worth or a certain amount of cash. In addition, if stockholder approval of the transaction is required by applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements, or we decide to obtain stockholder approval for business or other reasons, it may be more difficult for us to attain stockholder approval of our business combination if the target business does not meet our general criteria and guidelines. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

We may seek acquisition opportunities with an early stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of revenue or earnings, which could subject us to volatile revenues or earnings or difficulty in retaining key personnel.

To the extent we complete our business combination with an early stage company, a financially unstable business or an entity lacking an established record of sales or earnings, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine. These risks include investing in a business without a proven business model and with limited historical financial data, volatile revenues or earnings, or intense competition and difficulties in obtaining and retaining key personnel. Although our officers and directors will endeavour to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors and we may not have adequate time to complete due diligence. Furthermore, some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely impact a target business. In addition, pursuant to a registration and stockholders rights agreement entered into prior to the IPO Closing Date, our Sponsor is entitled to nominate three individuals for election to our Board, as long as our Sponsor holds any securities covered by the registration and stockholder rights agreement, which is described in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference.

We are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm or from an independent accounting firm, and consequently, you may have no assurance from an independent source that the price we are paying for the business is fair to our Company from a financial point of view.

Unless we complete our business combination with an entity with our Sponsor, directors or officers, we are not required to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of FINRA, or from an independent accounting firm, that the price we are paying is fair to our Company from a financial point of view. If no opinion is obtained, our stockholders will be relying on the judgment of our Board, who will determine fair market value based on standards generally accepted by the financial community. The standards used for this determination will be disclosed in our tender offer documents or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, related to our business combination.

We may have a limited ability to assess the management of a prospective target business and, as a result, may complete our business combination with a target business whose management may not have the skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company, which could, in turn, negatively impact the value of our stockholder’s investment in us.

When evaluating the desirability of effecting our business combination with a prospective target business, our ability to assess the target business’s management may be limited due to a lack of time, resources or information. Our assessment of the capabilities of the target’s management, therefore, may prove to be incorrect and such management may lack the skills, qualifications or abilities we suspected. Should the target’s management not possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to manage a public company, the operations and profitability of the post-combination business may be negatively impacted. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbate these risks. Accordingly, any securityholders who choose to remain securityholders following our business combination could suffer a reduction in the value of their securities. Such securityholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

The officers and directors of an acquisition candidate may resign upon completion of our business combination. The departure of a business combination target’s key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business. The role of an acquisition candidates’ key personnel upon the completion of our business combination cannot be ascertained at this time. Although we contemplate that certain members of an acquisition candidate’s management team will remain associatedcomply with the acquisition candidate followingcontinued listing standards of NYSE. If NYSE delists our business combination, it is possible that members of the management of an acquisition candidate will not wish to remain in place.

We may issue notes or other debt securities, or otherwise incur substantial debt, to complete a business combination, which may adversely affect our leverage and financial condition and thus negatively impact the value of our stockholders’ investment in us.

Although we have no commitments as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K to issue any notes or other debt securities, or to otherwise incur outstanding debt, we may choose to incur substantial debt to complete our business combination. We have agreed that we will not incur any indebtedness unless we have obtained from the lender a waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to the monies held in the trust account. As such, no issuance of debt will affect the per-share amount available for redemption from the trust account. Nevertheless, the incurrence of debt could have a variety of negative effects, including:

default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after a business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;

acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we make all principal and interest payments when due if we breach certain covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;

our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt is payable on demand;

our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt is outstanding;

our inability to pay dividends on our common stock;

using a substantial portion of our cash flow to pay principal and interest on our debt, which will reduce the funds available for dividends on our common stock if declared, expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;

limitations on our flexibility in planning for and reacting to changes in our business and in the industry in which we operate;

increased vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation;

limitations on our ability to borrow additional amounts for expenses, capital expenditures, acquisitions, debt service requirements, and execution of our strategy; and

other purposes and other disadvantages compared to our competitors who have less debt.

In addition, CBRE and its affiliates engage in the business of originating, underwriting, syndicating, acquiring and trading loans and debt securities of corporate and other borrowers, and may provide or participate in any debt financing arrangement in connection with any acquisition of any target business that we may make. If CBRE or any of its affiliates provides or participates in any such debt financing arrangement it may present a conflict of interest and will have to be approved under our related person transaction policy or by our independent directors.

We may only be able to complete one business combination with the proceeds of our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants, which will cause us to be solely dependent on a single business which may have a limited number of products or services. This lack of diversification may negatively impact our operations and profitability.

We may effectuate our business combination with a single target business or multiple target businesses simultaneously or within a short period of time. However, we may not be able to effectuate our business combination with more than one target business because of various factors, including the existence of complex accounting issues and the requirement that we prepare and file pro forma financial statements with the SEC that present operating results and the financial condition of several target businesses as if they had been operated on a combined basis. By completing our 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. Accordingly, the prospects for our success may be:

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

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 business combination.

We may attempt to simultaneously complete business combinations with multiple prospective targets, which may hinder our ability to complete our business combination and give rise to increased costs and risks that could negatively impact our operations and profitability.

If we determine to simultaneously acquire several businesses that are owned by different sellers, we will need for each of such sellers to agree that our purchase of its business is contingent on the simultaneous closings of the other business combinations, which may make it more difficult for us, and delay our ability, to complete our business combination. With multiple business combinations, we could also face additional risks, including additional burdens and costs with respect to possible multiple negotiations and due diligence investigations (if there are multiple sellers) and the additional risks associated with the subsequent assimilation of the operations and services or products of the acquired companies in a single operating business. If we are unable to adequately address these risks, it could negatively impact our profitability and results of operations.

We may attempt to complete our business combination with a private company about which little information is available, which may result in a business combination with a business that is not as profitable as we expected, if at all.

In pursuing our acquisition strategy, we may seek to effectuate our business combination with a privately held company. Very little public information generally exists about private companies, and we could be required to make our decision on whether to pursue a potential business combination on the basis of limited information, which may result in a business combination with a business that is not as profitable as we expected, if at all.

We may seek business combination opportunities with a high degree of complexity that require significant operational improvements, which could delay or prevent us from achieving our desired results.

We may seek business combination opportunities with large, highly complex companies that we believe would benefit from operational improvements. While we intend to implement such improvements, to the extent that our efforts are delayed or we are unable to achieve the desired improvements, the business combination may not be as successful as we anticipate.

To the extent we complete our business combination with a large complex business or entity with a complex operating structure, we may also be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine, which could delay or prevent us from implementing our strategy. Although our management team will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business and its operations, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors until we complete our business combination. If we are not able to achieve our desired operational improvements, or the improvements take longer to implement than anticipated, we may not achieve the gains that we anticipate. Furthermore, some of these risks and complexities may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks and complexities will adversely impact a target business. Such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a smaller, less complex organization.

We do not have a specified maximum redemption threshold. The absence of such a redemption threshold may make it possible for us to complete a business combination with which a substantial majority of our stockholders do not agree.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation does not provide a specified maximum redemption threshold, except that in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets, after payment of the deferred underwriting commissions, to be less than $5,000,001 (such that we are not subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules), and the agreement relating to our business combination may have additional net tangible asset or cash requirements. As a result, we may be able to complete our business combination even though a substantial majority of our public stockholders do not agree with the transaction and have redeemed their shares or, if we seek stockholder approval of our business combination and do not conduct redemptions in connection with our business combination pursuant to the tender offer rules, have entered into privately negotiated agreements to sell their shares to our Sponsor, officers, directors, advisors or any of their affiliates. In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all shares of Class A common stock that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the business combination or redeem any shares, all shares of Class A common stock submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof, and we instead may search for an alternate business combination.

We may be unable to obtain additional financing to complete our business combination or to fund the operations and growth of a target business, which could compel us to restructure or abandon a particular business combination.

Although we believe that the net proceeds of our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants will be sufficient to allow us to complete our business combination, because we have not yet selected any target business we cannot ascertain the capital requirements for any particular transaction. If the net proceeds from our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants prove to be insufficient, either because of the size of our business combination, the depletion of the available net proceeds in search of a target business, the obligation to redeem for cash a significant number of shares from stockholders who elect redemption in connection with our business combination or the terms of negotiated transactions to purchase shares in connection with our business combination, we may be required to seek additional financing or to abandon the proposed business combination. We cannot assure you that such financing will be available on acceptable terms, if at all. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to complete our business combination, we would be compelled to either restructure the transaction or abandon that particular business combination and seek an alternative target business candidate. In addition, even if we do not need additional financing to complete our business combination, we may require such financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing could have a material adverse effect on the continued development or growth of the target business. None of our Sponsor, officers, directors or stockholders is required to provide any financing to us in connection with or after our business combination. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

A provision of our warrant agreement may make it more difficult for use to consummate a business combination.

Unlike most blank check companies, if we issue additional shares of common stock or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of our business combination at a newly issued price of less than $9.20 per share of Class A common stock, then the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted to be equal to 110% of the newly issued price. This may make it more difficult for us to consummate a business combination with a target business.

Because we must furnish our stockholders with target business financial statements, we may lose the ability to complete an otherwise advantageous business combination with some prospective target businesses.

The federal proxy rules require that a proxy statement with respect to a vote on a business combination meeting certain financial significance tests include target historical and/or pro forma financial statement disclosure in periodic reports. We will include the same financial statement disclosure in connection with our tender offer

documents, whether or not they are required under the tender offer rules. These financial statements may be required to be prepared in accordance with, or be reconciled to GAAP or IFRS, depending on the circumstances and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. These financial statement requirements may limit the pool of potential target businesses we may acquire because some targets may be unable to provide such financial statements in time for us to disclose such financial statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our business combination within the prescribed time frame.

Compliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate our business combination, require substantial financial and management resources, and increase the time and costs of completing an acquisition.

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we evaluate and report on our system of internal controls beginning with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2021. Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company, will we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting. The fact that we are a blank check company makes compliance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act particularly burdensome on us as compared to other public companies because a target business with which we seek to complete our business combination may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of its internal controls. The development of the internal control of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such acquisition.

After our business combination, substantially all of our assets may be located in a foreign country and substantially all of our revenue will be derived from our operations in such country. Accordingly, our results of operations and prospects will be subject, to a significant extent, to the economic, political, social and government policies, developments and conditions in the country in which we operate.

The economic, political and social conditions, as well as government policies, of the country in which our operations are located could affect our business. Economic growth could be uneven, both geographically and among various sectors of the economy and such growth may not be sustained in the future. If in the future such country’s economy experiences a downturn or grows at a slower rate than expected, there may be less demand for spending in certain industries. A decrease in demand for spending in certain industries could materially and adversely affect our ability to find an attractive target business with which to consummate our business combination and if we effect our business combination, the ability of that target business to become profitable.

Risks Related to our Securities

The NYSE may delist our securitiesRedeemable Warrants from trading on its exchange which could limit stockholder’s abilityfor failure to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.

We cannot assure you that our securities will continue to be listed on the NYSE in the future or prior to our business combination. In order to continue listing our securities on the NYSE prior to our business combination, we must maintain certain financial, distribution and stock price levels. Generally, we must maintain a minimum number of holders of our securities. Additionally, our SAILSM securities will not be traded after completion of our business combination and, in connection with our business combination, we will be required to demonstrate compliance with the NYSE’s initial listing requirements, which are more rigorous than the NYSE’s continued listing requirements, in order to continue to maintainmeet the listing ofstandards, our securities on the NYSE. For instance, among other requirements, in order for our Class A common stock to be listed upon the consummation of our business combination, at such time, our share price would generally be required to be at least $4.00 per share, our total market capitalization would be required to be at least $200,000,000, the aggregate market value of publicly-held shares would be required to be at least $40,000,000 and we would be required to have at least 400 round lot holders. We cannot assure you that we will be able to meet those initial listing requirements at that time.

If the NYSE delists any of our securities from trading on its exchange and we are not able to list our securities on another national securities exchange, we expect such securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market. If this were to occur, wesecurityholders could face significant material adverse consequences including:

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a limited availability of market quotations for our securities;

reduced liquidity for our securities;

a determination that our Class A common stock is a “penny stock” which will require brokers trading in our Class A common stocksuch securities to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our securities;

a limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and

a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.

The National Securities Markets Improvement Act


Our Redeemable Warrants (including the Private Placement Warrants) and Alignment Shares have been accounted for as derivative liabilities and have been recorded at fair value with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings, which may have an adverse effect on the market price of 1996, which is a federal statute, prevents or preemptsour common stock.
CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. ("CBAH") sold 10,062,500 Redeemable Warrants as part of the states from regulatingShareholder Aligned Initial Listing ("SAILSM")securities in the saleinitial public offering of certain securities, which are referred to as “covered securities.” Our SAILSM securities, Class A common stock and Public Warrants are listedCBAH (which traded separately on the NYSE and are covered securities under such statute. Although the states are preempted from regulating the sale of covered securities, the federal statute does allow the states to investigate companies if there is a suspicion of fraud, and, if there is a finding of fraudulent activity, then the states can regulate or bar the sale of covered securities in a particular case. While we are not aware of a state having used these powers to prohibit or restrict the sale of securities issued by blank check companies, other than the State of Idaho, certain state securities regulators view blank check companies unfavorably and might use these powers, or threaten to use these powers, to hinder the sale of securities of blank check companies in their states. Further, if we were no longer listed on the NYSE, our securities would not qualify as covered securities under such statute and we would be subject to regulation in each state in which we offer our securities.

If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public stockholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the claims of creditors in such proceeding may have priority over the claims of our stockholders and the per-share amount that would otherwise be received by our stockholders in connection with our liquidation may be reduced.

If, before distributing the proceeds in the trust account to our public stockholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, the proceeds held in the trust account could be subject to applicable bankruptcy law, and may be included in our bankruptcy estate and subjectsymbol “CBAH WS” prior to the claimsClosing, and following the Closing trade under the symbol "AMPS WS"). The Redeemable

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Warrants will be exercisable for an aggregate of third parties with priority over the claims of our stockholders. To the extent any bankruptcy claims deplete the trust account, the per-share amount that would otherwise be received by our stockholders in connection with our liquidation would be reduced.

We are not registering the issuance of10,062,500 shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exerciseat a purchase price of the warrants under the Securities Act or any state securities laws at this time, and such registration may not be in place when an investor desires to exercise warrants, thus precluding such investor from being able to exercise its warrants except on a cashless basis and potentially causing such$11.00 per share. CBAH also issued 7,366,667 warrants to expire worthless.

We are not registering the issuance of shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants under the Securities Act or any state securities laws at this time. However, under the terms of the warrant agreement, we have agreed that as soon as practicable, butCBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC (the "Sponsor") in no event later than twenty business days aftera private placement simultaneously with the closing of our business combination, we will use our commercially reasonable effortsCBAH's initial public offering and 2,000,000 warrants to filethe Sponsor in full settlement of a second amended and restated promissory note with the SEC a registration statement coveringSponsor (such warrants, the issuance of shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants. We will use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the same to become effective within 90 business days after the closing of our business combination and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement and a current prospectus relating those shares of Class A common stock, until the warrants expire or are redeemed. We cannot assure you that we will be able to do so if, for example, any facts or events arise which represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in such registration statement or prospectus, the financial statements contained or incorporated by reference therein are not current, complete or correct or the SEC issues a stop order. If the issuance of shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants are not registered under the Securities Act, we will be required to permit holders to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis. However, no warrant"Private Placement Warrants"). The Private Placement Warrants will be exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, and we will not be obligated to issue any shares to holders seeking to exercise their warrants, unless the issuancean aggregate of the shares upon such exercise is registered or qualified under the securities laws of the state of the exercising holder, or an exemption from registration or qualification is available. Notwithstanding the above, if our Class A common stock is at the time of any exercise of a warrant not listed on a national securities exchange such that it satisfies the definition of a “covered security” under Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act, we may, at our

option, require holders of Public Warrants who exercise their warrants to do so on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act and, in the event we so elect, we will not be required to file or maintain in effect a registration statement, or register or qualify the shares underlying the warrants under applicable blue sky laws, and in the event we do not so elect, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify the shares underlying the warrants under applicable blue sky laws to the extent an exemption is not available. In no event will we be required to issue securities (other than upon a cashless exercise as described herein) or other compensation in exchange for the warrants in the event that we are unable to register or qualify the shares underlying the warrants under applicable state securities laws and no exemption is available. If the issuance of the shares upon exercise of the warrants is not so registered or qualified or exempt from registration or qualification, the holder of such warrant shall not be entitled to exercise such warrant and such warrant may have no value and expire worthless. In such event, holders who acquired their warrants as part of a purchase of SAILSM securities will have paid the full SAILSM security purchase price solely for the shares of Class A common stock included in the SAILSM securities. If and when the warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying the shares of Class A common stock for sale under all applicable state securities laws. As a result, we may redeem the warrants as set forth above even if the holders are otherwise unable to exercise their warrants.

You may only be able to exercise your Public Warrants on a “cashless basis” under certain circumstances, and if you do so, you will receive fewer shares of Class A common stock from such exercise than if you were to exercise such warrants for cash.

The warrant agreement provides that in the following circumstances holders of warrants who seek to exercise their warrants will not be permitted to do so for cash and will, instead, be required to do so on a cashless basis in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act: (i) if the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants are not registered under the Securities Act in accordance with the terms of the warrant agreement; (ii) if we have so elected and the shares of Class A common stock is at the time of any exercise of a warrant not listed on a national securities exchange such that they satisfy the definition of “covered securities” under Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act; and (iii) if we have so elected and we call the Public Warrants for redemption. If you exercise your Public Warrants on a cashless basis, you would pay the warrant exercise price by surrendering the warrants for that number of shares of Class A common stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Class A common stock underlying the warrants, multiplied by the excess of the “fair market value” of9,366,667 shares of our Class A common stock (as defined in the next sentence) over the exerciseat a purchase price of $11.00 per share.

We have 1,408,750 Alignment Shares outstanding, all of which will be held by the warrants by (y)Sponsor, certain officers of CBAH (such officers, together with the fair market value.Sponsor, the "Sponsor Parties") and existing CBAH directors. The “fair market value” is the VWAP (as defined below) of theAlignment Shares will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock forbased upon the 10 trading days immediately priorTotal Return (as defined in Exhibit 4.4 to the datethis Form) on which the notice of exercise is received by the warrant agent or on which the notice of redemption is sent to the holders of warrants, as applicable. “VWAP” per share of our Class A common Stock on any trading day means the per share volume weighted average price as displayed under the heading Bloomberg VWAP on Bloomberg (or, if Bloomberg ceases to publish such price, any successor service reasonably chosen by the company) page “VAP” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the open of trading on the relevant trading day until the close of trading on such trading day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market price of one share of Class A common stock on such trading day determined, using a volume weighted average method, by an independent financial advisor retained for such purpose by the company). “VWAP” for a period of multiple trading days means the volume-weighted average of the respective VWAPs for the trading days in such period. As a result, you would receive fewer shares of Class A common stock from such exercise than if you were to exercise such warrants for cash.

The grant of registration rights to our initial stockholders and holders of our private placement warrants may make it more difficult to complete our business combination, and the future exercise of such rights may adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock.

Pursuant to an agreement entered in at the IPO Closing Date, at or after the time of our business combination, our Sponsor, directors and officers and their respective permitted transferees can demand that we register the resale of their shares of our Class A common stock that have been delivered upon conversion of their alignment shares. In addition, holders of our private placement warrants and their permitted transferees can demand that we register the resale of the private placement warrants and the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the private placement warrants, and holders of warrants that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans

may demand that we register the resale of such warrants or the Class A common stock issuable upon exerciseas of the relevant measurement date over each of the seven fiscal years following the Merger.

We account for the Redeemable Warrants and Alignment Shares as derivative liabilities, which are presented at fair value each reporting period, with changes in fair value recorded through earnings.
As the Redeemable Warrants (other than our Private Placement Warrants) are expected to continue to trade separately on the NYSE following the consummation of the Merger, we anticipate the fair value of the Redeemable Warrants will be determined based on the quoted trading price of those warrants.
The Private Placement Warrants have the same redemption and make-whole provisions as the Redeemable Warrants. Therefore, the fair value of the Private Placement Warrants is equal to the Redeemable Warrants. The fair value of the Private Placement Warrants is determined based on the quoted trading price of the Redeemable Warrants.
We estimate the fair value of our Alignment Share using a Monte Carlo simulation, which is based on various market inputs (e.g., measurement of our stock price after the consummation of the Merger).
As a result of the estimation processes involved in presenting these instruments at fair value, our financial statements and results of operations may fluctuate quarterly, based on various factors, many of which are outside of our control. If our stock price is volatile, we expect that we will recognize non- cash gains or losses on our Redeemable Warrants (including Private Placement Warrants) and Alignment Shares for each reporting period and that the amount of such warrants. We will bear the costgains or losses could be material. The impact of registering these securities. The registration and availability of such a significant number of securities for tradingchanges in the public marketfair value on earnings may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A common stock. In addition, the existence of the registration rights may make
Warrants will become exercisable for our business combination more costly or difficult to conclude. This is because the stockholders of the target business maycommon stock, which would increase the equity stake they seeknumber of shares eligible for future resale in the combined entity or askpublic market and result in dilution to our stockholders.
Each of our Private Placement Warrants and the Redeemable Warrants exercisable for more cash considerationone share of common stock at an exercise price of $11.00 per share. The shares of our common stock issued upon exercise of our warrants and other outstanding warrants will result in dilution to offset the negative impact onthen existing holders of common stock and increase the number of shares eligible for resale in the public market. Sales of substantial numbers of such shares in the public market could adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock that is expected when the securities owned by our initial stockholders, holders of our private placement warrants or holders of our working capital loans or their respective permitted transferees are registered for resale.

We may issue additional common stock or preferred stock to complete our business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our business combination. We may also issue a large number of shares of Class A common stock upon the conversion of the Class B common stock as a result of the conversion features of such alignment shares contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Any such issuances would dilute the interest of our stockholders and likely present other risks.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes the issuance of up to 250,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, 10,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share. As of December 15, 2020, following the completion of the Initial Public Offering, there were 209,750,000 and 7,987,500 authorized but unissued shares of Class A and Class B common stock, respectively, available for issuance, which amount takes into account the shares of Class A common stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of outstanding warrants but not the conversion of the Class B common stock. One tenth of the total outstanding alignment shares will convert into shares of our Class A common stock in each of the ten fiscal years following our business combination based on the total return on our outstanding equity capital as of the relevant measurement date above the price threshold. For more information regarding the conversion feature of our alignment shares, see “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities—Alignment Shares” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference. As of the IPO Closing Date, there are no shares of preferred stock outstanding.

We may issue a substantial number of additional shares of Class A common stock or preferred stock in order to complete our business combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of our business combination. We may also issue shares of Class A common stock upon conversion of the Class B common stock from time to time after our business combination as a result of the conversion features of the alignment shares contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. However, our amended and certificate of incorporation provides, among other things, that prior to our business combination, we may not issue additional shares of capital stock that would entitle the holders thereof to (i) receive funds from the trust account or (ii) vote as a class with our public shares on any business combination. The issuance of additional shares of common stock or preferred stock:

may significantly dilute the equity interest of public stockholders;

may subordinate the rights of holders of common stock if preferred stock is issued with rights senior to those afforded our common stock;

could cause a change in control if a substantial number of shares of our common stock are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors;

may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our SAILSM securities, Class A common stock and/or warrants; and

may not result in adjustment to the exercise price of our warrants.

Subsequent to the completion of our business combination, our alignment shares will be eligible for conversion into shares of our Class A common stock based on the total return of our outstanding equity capital. Any such issuance would dilute the interest of our stockholders and likely present other risks.

Our Sponsor, directors and officers hold 2,012,500 of our alignment shares. Shares of our Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of our Class A common stock from time to time after our business combination as a result of the conversion feature of the alignment shares contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. One tenth of the total number of outstanding alignment shares will convert into shares of our Class A common stock for each of the ten fiscal years following our business combination based on the total return on our outstanding equity capital as of the relevant measurement date above the price threshold. For more information regarding the conversion feature of our alignment shares, see “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference.

As a result of such conversion feature, we may issue a substantial number of additional shares of our Class A common stock to our Sponsor, directors and officers. The issuance of additional shares of our Class A common stock upon the conversion of Class B common stock may significantly dilute the equity interest of our public stockholders, may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our Class A common stock, warrants or other outstanding equity securities and may not result in adjustment to the exercise price of our warrants.

Resources could be depleted in researching acquisitions that are not completed, which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share, or less than such amount in certain circumstances, on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless.

We anticipate that the investigation of each specific target business and the negotiation, drafting and execution of relevant agreements, disclosure documents and other instruments will require substantial management time and attention and substantial costs for accountants, attorneys and others. If we decide not to complete a specific business combination, the costs incurred up to that point for the proposed transaction likely would not be recoverable. Furthermore, if we reach an agreement relating to a specific target business, we may fail to complete our business combination for any number of reasons including those beyond our control. Any such event will result in a loss to us of the related costs incurred which could materially adversely affect subsequent attempts to locate and acquire or merge with another business. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

The exercise price for the Public Warrants is higher than in many similar blank check company offerings in the past, and, accordingly, the warrants are more likely to expire worthless.

The exercise price of the Public Warrants is higher than is typical in many similar blank check companies in the past. Historically, the exercise price of a underlying warrant was generally a fraction of the purchase price of the units in the initial public offering. The exercise price for the Public Warrants underlying our SAILSM securities is $11.00 per share, subject to adjustment as provided herein. As a result, the Public Warrants are less likely to ever be in the money and more likely to expire worthless.

We may amend the terms of the warrants in a manner that may be adverse to holders of Public Warrants with the approval by the holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding Public Warrants.

Our warrants will be issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and us. The warrant agreement provides that the terms of the warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder to cure any ambiguity or correct any defective provision, but requires the approval by the holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding Public Warrants to make any change that adversely affects the interests of the registered holders of Public Warrants. Accordingly, we may amend the terms of the Public Warrants in a manner adverse to a holder if holders of at least 50% of the then outstanding Public Warrants approve of such amendment. Although our ability to amend the terms of the Public Warrants with the consent of at least 50% of the then outstanding Public Warrants is unlimited, examples of such amendments could be amendments to, among other things, increase the exercise price of the warrants, shorten the exercise period or decrease the number of shares of our Class A common stock purchasable upon exercise of a warrant.

We may redeem yourthe unexpired warrantsRedeemable Warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you,holders, thereby making yoursuch warrants worthless. Additionally, the exercise price for the warrants is $11.00 per share and the warrants may expire worthless unless the stock price is higher than the exercise price during the exercise period.

We have the ability to redeem outstanding warrantsRedeemable Warrants at any time after they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant; provided that the last reported sales price of our Class A common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a warrant as described below) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date we send the notice of such redemption to the warrant holders. If and when the warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws. As a result, we may redeem the warrants as set forth above even if the holders are otherwise unable to exercise their warrants. Redemption of the outstanding warrants could force youwarrant holders to (i) exercise yourtheir warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for youthem to do so, (ii) sell yourtheir warrants at the then-current market price when youthey might otherwise wish to hold yourtheir warrants or (iii) accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding warrantsRedeemable Warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially less than the market value of yourthe warrants. None of
In addition, if the private placement warrants will be redeemable by us pursuant to this redemption right (except as described in “—Warrants—Public stockholders’ warrants—Redemption of warrants when the per sharelast reported sale price of shares of our Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00” in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description$10.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of Securities”shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of this Annual Reporta warrant pursuant to the terms of the warrants) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on Form 10-Kthe third trading day prior to the date on which is incorporated herein by reference) so long as they are held by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees.

In addition,we send the notice of redemption to the warrant holders, we may redeem your warrantsthe Redeemable Warrants after they become exercisable for $0.10 per warrant upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemptionredemption; provided that holders will be able to exercise

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their warrants prior to redemption for a number of our Class A common stock determined based on the redemption date and the fair market value of our Class A common stock. Please see ““—Warrants—Public stockholders’ warrants—RedemptionHistorical trading prices for shares of warrants when the per share price ofour Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00” in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-Khave exceeded the $10.00 per share threshold at which is incorporated herein by reference.the Redeemable Warrants would become redeemable. Any such redemption may have similar consequences to a cash redemption described above. In addition, such redemption may occur at a time when the warrants are “out-of-the-money,“out-of-the-money, in which case youholders would lose any potential embedded value from a subsequent increase in the value of theour Class A common stock had yourtheir warrants remained outstanding.

Finally, the exercise price of the warrants is $11.00 per share, subject to adjustment. As a result, the warrants may expire worthless unless the stock price reaches that level during the exercise period.

Our

The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants except that, so long as they are held by our Sponsor, officers or directors or their respective permitted transferees, (i) they will not be redeemable by us (except in certain circumstances), (ii) they will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of the Merger (except, among other limited exceptions as described under CBAH's initial public offering registration statement’s section entitled “Principal Stockholders—Transfers of Alignment Shares and Private Placement Warrants,” to our officers and directors and other permitted transferees including persons or entities affiliated with the Sponsor), (iii) they may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis, and (iv) they (including the shares of our Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of these warrants) are entitled to registration rights. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by holders other than the Sponsor, officers or directors or their respective permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants will become redeemable by us in all redemption scenarios and exercisable by the holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants. Because the Private Placement Warrants may be redeemed only under limited circumstances, they may remain outstanding after all Redeemable Warrants have been redeemed or exercised. All Private Placement Warrants that are exercised will cause additional dilution for other stockholders, including any holders of shares of our Class A common stock issued pursuant to prior exercises of Redeemable Warrants. If the holders of the Private Placement Warrants elect to exercise their warrants and alignmenton a cashless basis we will not receive cash proceeds from the exercise of such warrants.
A significant portion of our Class A common stock is restricted from immediate resale, but may be sold into the market in the future. This could cause the market price of our Class A common stock to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.
Sales of a substantial number of shares may have an adverse effect onof our Class A common stock in the public market or the perception that these sales might occur could depress the market price of our Class A common stock and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities. We are unable to predict the effect that sales may have on the prevailing market price of our Class A common stock. Sales of significant number of shares of Class A common stock may make it more difficult for us to effectuate our business combination.

We issued Public Warrantssell equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that it deems reasonable or appropriate, and make it more difficult for you to purchase 10,062,500sell shares of our Class A common stock, at a price of $11.00 per share as part of the SAILSM securities in our Initial Public Offering and, instock. In connection with the InitialBusiness Combination Agreement, CBAH, the Founders (as defined in the Investor Rights Agreement (as defined below)), Blackstone, the Sponsor and certain other parties thereto entered into an investor rights agreement (the "Investor Rights Agreement"), pursuant to which such stockholders are entitled to, among other things, certain registration rights, including demand, piggy- back and shelf registration rights, subject to cut-back provisions. Additionally, the Private Investment in Public Offering, we issued private placement warrants to our Sponsor to purchase an aggregateEntity Investors ("PIPE Investors") are not restricted from selling any of 7,366,667the shares of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share (subject to adjustment as provided herein). Our Sponsor, officers and directors currently own an aggregatethey acquired in connection with the closing of 2,012,500 sharesthe Merger, other than by applicable securities laws. As such, sales of our Class B common stock in a private placement. The alignment shares are convertible intosubstantial number of shares of Class A common stock in the ten fiscal years followingpublic market could occur at any time. These sales, or the completionperception in the market that the holders of our business combination based upona large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the total return of our common equity. In addition, if our Sponsor, an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors make any working capital loans, up to $3,000,000 of such loans may be converted into warrants, at themarket price of $1.50 per warrant at the option of the lender. Such warrants would be identicalClass A common stock. Certain parties to the private placement warrants.

To the extent we issueInvestor Rights Agreement have agreed not to sell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of shares of Class A common stock they hold or receive for any reason, including to effectuatecertain time periods specified therein.

We may issue additional shares of Class A common stock or other equity securities without your approval, which would dilute your ownership interests and may depress the market price of your shares.
We may issue additional shares of Class A common stock or other equity securities of equal or senior rank in the future without stockholder approval in connection with, among other things, future acquisitions, repayment of outstanding indebtedness or under our equity plans and in a business combination, the potential for thenumber of other circumstances.
Our issuance of a substantial number of additional shares of Class A common stock upon exerciseor other equity securities of these warrantsequal or conversion rightssenior rank could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle to a target

have the following effects:

business. Any such issuance,your proportionate ownership interest will increase decrease;

the numberrelative voting strength of each previously outstanding share of common stock may be diminished; or
the market price of shares of our Class A common stock may decline.

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There is no guarantee that the Redeemable Warrants will ever be in the money, and reduce the value of the sharesthey may expire worthless.
The exercise price for Redeemable Warrants (including Private Placement Warrants) is $11.00 per share of Class A common stock issued to complete the business combination. Therefore, our warrants and alignment shares may make it more difficult to effectuate a business combination or increase the cost of acquiring the target business.

Because each SAILSM security contains one-fourth of one warrant and only a whole warrant may be exercised, the SAILSM securities may be worth less than SAILSM securities or similar units of other blank check companies.

Each SAILSM security contains one-fourth of one warrant. Pursuant to the warrant agreement, the warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares of Class A common stock, only a whole warrant may be exercised at any given time. This is different from other offerings similar to ours whose SAILSM securities or units include one share of common stock and one whole warrant to purchase one whole share. We have established the components of the SAILSM securities in this way in order to reduce the dilutive effect of the warrants upon completion of a business combination since the warrants will be exercisable in the aggregate for one-fourth of the number of shares compared to SAILSM securities or units that each contain a whole warrant to purchase one whole share, thus making us, we believe, a more attractive business combination partner for target businesses. Nevertheless, our SAILSM security structure may cause our SAILSM securities to be worth less than if they included a warrant to purchase one whole share.

Risks Relating to Indemnification, Litigation and Regulations

If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share.

Our placing of funds in the trust account may not protect those funds from third-party claims against us. Although we will seek to have all third parties, service providers (other than our independent auditors), prospective target businesses and other entities with which we do business execute agreements with us waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies held in the trust account for the benefit of our public stockholders, such parties may not execute such agreements, or even if they execute such agreements they may not be prevented from bringing claims against the trust account, including, but not limited to, fraudulent inducement, breach of fiduciary responsibility or other similar claims, as well as claims challenging the enforceability of the waiver, in each case in order to gain advantage with respect to a claim against our assets, including the funds held in the trust account. If any third party refuses to execute an agreement waiving such claims to the monies held in the trust account, our management will perform an analysis of the alternatives available to it and will only enter into an agreement with a third party that has not executed a waiver if management believes that such third party’s engagement would be significantly more beneficial to us than any alternative. Making such a request of potential target businesses may make our acquisition proposal less attractive to them, and, to the extent prospective target businesses refuse to execute such a waiver, it may limit the field of potential target businesses that we might pursue.

Examples of possible instances where we may engage a third party that refuses to execute a waiver include the engagement of a third party consultant whose particular expertise or skills are believed by management to be significantly superior to those of other consultants that would agree to execute a waiver or in cases where management is unable to find a service provider willing to execute a waiver. In addition, therestock. There is no guarantee that such entitiesthe Redeemable Warrants will agree to waive any claims they may haveever be in the futuremoney prior to their expiration, and as such, the Redeemable Warrants may expire worthless.

Our charter designates a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason. Upon redemption of our public shares, if we have not completed our business combinationstate court within the prescribed timeframe, or upon the exerciseState of a redemption right in connection with our business combination, we will be required to provide for payment of claims of creditors that were not waived that may be brought against us within the 10 years following redemption. Accordingly, the per-share redemption amount received by public stockholders could be less than the $10.00 per share initially held in the trust account, due to claims of such creditors.

Our Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by a third party (other than our independent auditors) for services rendered or products sold to us, or a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the trust account to below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which

may be withdrawn to pay our taxes, except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account and except as to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriter of our Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, our Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.

We have not independently verified whether our Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and believe that our Sponsor’s only assets are securities of our Company. We have not asked our Sponsor to reserve for such obligations, and therefore, we cannot assure you that our Sponsor would be able to satisfy any such obligations. As a result, if any such claims were successfully made against the trust account, the funds available for our business combination and redemptions could be reduced to less than $10.00 per public share. In such event, we may not be able to complete our business combination, and you would receive such lesser amount per public share in connection with any redemption of your public shares. None of our officers or directors will indemnify us for claims by third parties including, without limitation, claims by third parties and prospective target businesses.

Our directors may decide not to enforce the indemnification obligations of our Sponsor, resulting in a reduction in the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public stockholders.

In the event that the proceeds in the trust account are reduced below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay our taxes, and our Sponsor asserts that it is unable to satisfy its indemnification obligations or that it has no indemnification obligations related to a particular claim, our independent directors would determine whether to take legal action against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations.

While we currently expect that our independent directors would take legal action on our behalf against our Sponsor to enforce its indemnification obligations to us, it is possible that our independent directors in exercising their business judgment and subject to their fiduciary duties may choose not to do so in any particular instance. If our independent directors choose not to enforce these indemnification obligations, the amount of funds in the trust account available for distribution to our public stockholders may be reduced below $10.00 per share.

We may not have sufficient funds to satisfy indemnification claims of our directors and executive officers.

We have agreed to indemnify our officers and directorsDelaware, to the fullest extent permitted by law. However,law, as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit the ability of our stockholders to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or with our directors, officers and directors have agreed to waive any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the trust accountemployees and to not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason whatsoever (except to the extent they are entitled to funds from the trust account due to their ownership of public shares). Accordingly, any indemnification provided will be able to be satisfied by us only if (i) we have sufficient funds outside of the trust account or (ii) we consummate a business combination. Our obligation to indemnify our officers and directors may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit againstsuch claims.

Under our officers or directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions also may have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against our officers and directors, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders. Furthermore, a stockholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against our officers and directors pursuant to these indemnification provisions.

If, after we distribute the proceeds in the trust account to our public stockholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, a bankruptcy court may seek to recover such proceeds, and the members of our Board may be viewed as having breached their fiduciary duties to our creditors, thereby exposing the members of our Board and us to claims of punitive damages.

If, after we distribute the proceeds in the trust account to our public stockholders, we file a bankruptcy petition or an involuntary bankruptcy petition is filed against us that is not dismissed, any distributions received by stockholders could be viewed under applicable debtor/creditor and/or bankruptcy laws as either a “preferential transfer” or a “fraudulent conveyance.” As a result, a bankruptcy court could seek to recover some or all amounts received by our stockholders. In addition, our Board may be viewed as having breached its fiduciary duty to our creditors and/or having acted in bad faith by paying public stockholders from the trust account prior to addressing the claims of creditors, thereby exposing itself and us to claims of punitive damages.

If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may be required to institute burdensome compliance requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our business combination.

If we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, our activities may be restricted, including:

restrictions on the nature of our investments; and

restrictions on the issuance of securities,

each of which may make it difficult for us to complete our business combination.

In addition, we may have imposed upon us burdensome requirements, including:

registration as an investment company with the SEC;

adoption of a specific form of corporate structure; and

reporting, record keeping, voting, proxy and disclosure requirements and other rules and regulations that we are not currently subject to.

To be exempted from regulation as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we must ensure that (i) we are engaged primarily in a business other than investing, reinvesting or trading of securities and that our activities do not include investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading “investment securities” constituting more than 40% of our assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis or (ii) we qualify for another exemption. Our business will be to identify and complete a business combination and thereafter to operate the post-transaction business or assets for the long term. We do not plan to buy businesses or assets with a view to resale or profit from their resale. Moreover, we do not plan to buy unrelated businesses or assets or to be a passive investor.

We do not believe that our anticipated principal activities will subject us to the Investment Company Act. The proceeds held in the trust account may be invested by the Trustee only in United States “government securities” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act having a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds investing solely in United States Treasuries and meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act. Because the investment of the proceeds will be restricted to these instruments, we believe we will meet the requirements for the exemption provided in Rule 3a-1 promulgated under the Investment Company Act. Pursuant to the trust agreement, the Trustee is not permitted to invest in other securities or assets. By restricting the investment of the proceeds to these instruments, and by having a business plan targeted at acquiring and growing businesses for the long-term (rather than on buying and selling businesses in the manner of a merchant bank or private equity fund), we intend to avoid being deemed an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act. The trust account is intended as a holding place for funds pending the earliest to occur of either: (i) the completion of our business combination; (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly tendered in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of shares of our Class A common stock the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date or (B) with respect to other specified provisions relating to the rights of holders of shares of our Class A common stock; or (iii) absent our completing a business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, our return of the funds held in the trust account to our public stockholders as part of our redemption of the public shares. If we do not invest the proceeds as discussed above, we may be deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act. If we were deemed to be subject to the Investment Company Act, compliance with these additional regulatory burdens would require additional expenses for which we have not allotted funds and may hinder our ability to consummate a business combination. If we have not completed our business combination within the required time period, our public stockholders may receive only approximately $10.00 per share on the liquidation of our trust account and our warrants will expire worthless. In certain circumstances, our public stockholders may receive less than $10.00 per share on the redemption of their shares See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—If third parties bring claims against us, the proceeds held in the trust account could be reduced and the per-share redemption amount received by stockholders may be less than $10.00 per share” and other risk factors herein.

Our stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against us to the extent of distributions received by them upon redemption of their shares.

Under the DGCL, stockholders may be held liable for claims by third parties against a corporation to the extent of distributions received by them in a dissolution. The pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our public shares in the event we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date may be considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law. If a corporation complies with certain procedures set forth in Section 280 of the DGCL intended to ensure that it makes reasonable provision for all claims against it, including a 60-day notice period during which any third-party claims can be brought against the corporation, a 90-day period during which the corporation may reject any claims brought, and an additional 150-day waiting period before any liquidating distributions are made to stockholders, any liability of stockholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to the lesser of such stockholder’s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the stockholder, and any liability of the stockholder would be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution. However, it is our intention to redeem our public shares as soon as reasonably possible following the 24th month (or 27th month, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date in the event we do not complete our business combination and, therefore, we do not intend to comply with the foregoing procedures.

Because we are not complying with Section 280, Section 281(b) of the DGCL requires us to adopt a plan, based on facts known to us at such time that will provide for our payment of all existing and pending claims or claims that may be potentially brought against us within the 10 years following our dissolution. However, because we are a blank check company, rather than an operating company, and our operations are limited to searching for prospective target businesses to acquire, the only likely claims to arise would be from our vendors (such as lawyers, investment bankers, etc.) or prospective target businesses. If our plan of distribution complies with Section 281(b) of the DGCL, any liability of stockholders with respect to a liquidating distribution is limited to the lesser of such stockholder’s pro rata share of the claim or the amount distributed to the stockholder, and any liability of the stockholder would likely be barred after the third anniversary of the dissolution. We cannot assure you that we will properly assess all claims that may be potentially brought against us. As such, our stockholders could potentially be liable for any claims to the extent of distributions received by them (but no more) and any liability of our stockholders may extend beyond the third anniversary of such date. Furthermore, if the pro rata portion of our trust account distributed to our public stockholders upon the redemption of our public shares in the event we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date is not considered a liquidating distribution under Delaware law and such redemption distribution is deemed to be unlawful, then pursuant to Section 174 of the DGCL, the statute of limitations for claims of creditors could then be six years after the unlawful redemption distribution, instead of three years, as in the case of a liquidating distribution.

We are an emerging growth company and a smaller reporting company within the meaning of the Securities Act, and if we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available to emerging growth companies or smaller reporting companies, this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public companies.

We are an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. As a result, our stockholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any June 30 before that time, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of the following December 31. We cannot predict whether investors will find our securities less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our securities less

attractive as a result of our reliance on these exemptions, the trading prices of our securities may be lower than they otherwise would be, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the trading prices of our securities may be more volatile.

Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

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 common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $250 million as of the June 30th of the prior year, or (2) our annual revenues exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year and the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the June 30th of the prior year. To the extent we take advantage of such reduced disclosure obligations, it may also make comparison of our financial statements with other public companies difficult or impossible.

If our management following our business combination is unfamiliar with United States securities laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws, which could lead to various regulatory issues.

Following our business combination, any or all of our management could resign from their positions as officers of the company, and the management of the target business at the time of the business combination could remain in place. Management of the target business may not be familiar with United States securities laws. If new management is unfamiliar with United States securities laws, they may have to expend time and resources becoming familiar with such laws. This could be expensive and time-consuming and could lead to various regulatory issues which may adversely affect our operations.

Risks Related to our Management, Personnel and Sponosr

If we continue to take advantage of NYSE’s controlled company standards, we will be exempt from various corporate governance requirements.

NYSE listing rules generally define a “Controlled Company” as any company of which more than 50% of the voting power for the election of directors is held by an individual, a group or another company. Prior to the vote on our business combination, only holders of our alignment shares will have the right to vote on the election of directors. More than 50% of the alignment shares will be held by our Sponsor. Accordingly, prior to the vote on our business combination, we would likely satisfy the definition of being a controlled company. Since the IPO Closing Date, we have taken advantage of the relief available to a controlled company, such as exemptions from various NYSE corporate governance requirements, including the requirement to have a majority of independent directors and to have nominating/corporate governance and compensation committees comprised entirely of independent directors.

We may not hold an annual meeting of stockholders until after the consummation of our business combination. Our public stockholders will not have the right to elect directors prior to the consummation of our business combination.

In accordance with the NYSE’s corporate governance requirements, we will be required to hold an annual meeting no later than one year after our first full fiscal year end following our listing on the NYSE. Under Section 211(b) of the DGCL, we are, however, required to hold an annual meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing directors in accordance with our amended and restated bylaws unless such election is made by written consent in lieu of such a meeting. In addition, as holders of shares of our Class A common stock, our public stockholders will not have the right to vote on the election of directors. We may not hold an annual meeting of stockholders to elect new directors prior to the consummation of our business combination, and thus we may not be in compliance with 211(b) of the DGCL, which requires an annual meeting. Therefore, if our stockholders want us to hold an annual meeting prior to the consummation of our business combination, they may attempt to force us to hold one by submitting an application to the Delaware Court of Chancery in accordance with Section 211(c) of the DGCL. Our Board is divided into three classes, each of which will generally serve for a term of three years with only one class of directors being elected in each year (except for those directors appointed prior to our first annual meeting of stockholders).

We are dependent upon our officers and directors and their departure could adversely affect our ability to operate.

Our operations are dependent upon a relatively small group of individuals and, in particular, Mr. Concannon and our other officers and directors. We believe that our success depends on the continued service of our officers and directors, at least until we have completed our business combination. In addition, our officers and directors are not required to commit any specified amount of time to our affairs and, accordingly, will have conflicts of interest in allocating management time among various business activities, including identifying potential business combinations and monitoring the related due diligence. Moreover, certain of our officers and directors have time and attention requirements for other employers, including CBRE, and other third parties with which they are affiliated, and, in the case of our officers and directors affiliated with CBRE, may have time and attention requirements for other blank check companies that CBRE may sponsor in the future. We do not have an employment agreement with, or key-man insurance on the life of, any of our directors or officers. The unexpected loss of the services of one or more of our directors or officers could have a detrimental effect on us.

Our ability to successfully effect our business combination and to be successful thereafter will be dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel, some of whom may join us following our business combination. The loss of key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability of our post-combination business.

Our ability to successfully effect our business combination is dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel. The role of our key personnel in the target business, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of our key personnel may remain with the target business in senior management or advisory positions following our business combination, it is likely that some or all of the management of the target business will remain in place. While we intend to closely scrutinize any individuals we engage after our business combination, we cannot assure you that our assessment of these individuals will prove to be correct. These individuals may be unfamiliar with the requirements of operating a company regulated by the SEC, which could cause us to have to expend time and resources helping them become familiar with such requirements.

Our key personnel may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether a particular business combination is the most advantageous.

Our key personnel may be able to remain with the company after the completion of our business combination only if they are able to negotiate employment or consulting agreements in connection with the business combination. Such negotiations would take place simultaneously with the negotiation of the business combination and could provide for such individuals to receive compensation in the form of cash payments and/or our securities for services they would render to us after the completion of the business combination. The personal and financial interests of such individuals may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business, subject to his or her fiduciary duties under Delaware law. However, we believe the ability of such individuals to remain with us after the completion of our business combination will not be the determining factor in our decision as to whether or not we will proceed with any potential business combination. There is no certainty, however, that any of our key personnel

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

Our officers and directors will allocate their time to other businesses thereby causing conflicts of interest in their determination as to how much time to devote to our affairs. This conflict of interest could have a negative impact on our ability to complete our business combination.

Our officers and directors are not required to, and will not, commit their full time to our affairs, which may result in a conflict of interest in allocating their time between our operations and our search for a business combination and their other businesses. We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our business combination. Each of our officers is engaged in several other business endeavours for which he or she may be entitled to substantial compensation and our officers are not obligated to contribute any specific number of hours per week to our affairs. In particular, certain of our officers and directors are employed by CBRE or its affiliates, which may make investments in securities or other interests of or relating to companies in industries that we may target for our business combination. CBRE and its affiliates will not have any duty to offer acquisition opportunities to us. Our officers and directors also serve or may in the future serve as officers and board members for other entities. In addition, our officers and directors affiliated with CBRE may have time and attention requirements for other blank check companies that CBRE may sponsor in the future. If our officers’ and directors’ other business affairs require them to devote substantial amounts of time to such affairs in excess of their current commitment levels, it could limit their ability to devote time to our affairs which may have a negative impact on our ability to complete our business combination. For further discussion of our officers’ and directors’ other business affairs, please see “Item 1. Business—Conflicts of Interest.”

Certain of our officers and directors are now, and all of them may in the future become, affiliated with entities engaged in business activities similar to those intended to be conducted by us, including another blank check company, and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented.

Until we consummate our business combination, we intend to engage in the business of identifying and combining with one or more businesses. Our Sponsor and officers and directors are, or may in the future become, affiliated with entities that are engaged in a similar business, including another blank check company that may have acquisition objectives that are similar to ours or that is focused on a particular industry. Moreover, CBRE and its affiliates, including our officers and directors who are affiliated with CBRE, may sponsor or form other blank check companies similar to ours during the period in which we are seeking a business combination. Any such companies may present additional conflicts of interest in pursuing an acquisition target.

Our officers and directors also may become aware of business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us and the other entities to which they owe certain fiduciary or contractual duties. Accordingly, they may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. These conflicts may not be resolved in our favor and a potential target business may be presented to other entities prior to its presentation to us. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we renounce our interest in any corporate opportunity offered to any director or officer unless such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in their capacity as our director or officer and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for us to pursue. The purpose for the surrender of corporate opportunities is to allow officers, directors or other representatives with multiple business affiliations to continue to serve as an officer of our Company or on our board of directors. Our officers and directors may from time to time be presented with opportunities that could benefit both another business affiliation and us. In the absence of the “corporate opportunity” waiver in our charter, certain candidates would not be able to serve as an officer or director. We believe we substantially benefit from having representatives, who bring significant, relevant and valuable experience to our management, and, as a result, the inclusion of the “corporate opportunity” waiver in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides us with greater flexibility to attract and retain the officers and directors that we feel are the best candidates.

For further discussion of our officers’ and directors’ business affiliations and the potential conflicts of interest that you should be aware of, please see “Item 1. Business—Conflicts of Interest,” “Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance—Conflicts of Interest” and “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, and Director Independence.”

Involvement of members of our management and companies with which they are affiliated in civil disputes and litigation, governmental investigations or negative publicity unrelated to our business affairs could materially impact our ability to consummate a business combination.

Our directors and officers and companies with which they are affiliated have been, and in the future will continue to be, involved in a wide variety of business affairs, including transactions, such as sales and purchases of businesses, and ongoing operations. As a result of such involvement, members of our management and companies with which they are affiliated in have been, and may in the future be, involved in civil disputes, litigation, governmental investigations and negative publicity relating to their business affairs. Any such claims, investigations, lawsuits or negative publicity may be detrimental to our reputation and could negatively affect our ability to identify and complete a business combination in a material manner and may have an adverse effect on the price of our securities.

Our officers, directors, securityholders and their respective affiliates may have competitive pecuniary interests that conflict with our interests.

We have not adopted a policy that expressly prohibits our directors, officers, securityholders or affiliates from having a direct or indirect pecuniary or financial interest in any investment to be acquired or disposed of by us or in any transaction to which we are a party or have an interest. In fact, we may enter into a business combination with a target business that is affiliated with our Sponsor, our directors or officers. Nor do we have a policy that expressly prohibits any such persons from engaging for their own account in business activities of the types conducted by us, including the formation of, or participation in, one or more other blank check companies. For example, our officers and directors who are affiliated with CBRE or its affiliates, may sponsor or form other blank check companies similar to ours during the period in which we are seeking a business combination. Accordingly, such persons or entities may have a conflict between their interests and ours.

In particular, CBRE and its affiliates operate and have invested in numerous businesses. As a result, there may be substantial overlap between companies that would be a suitable business combination for us and companies that would make an attractive target for such other affiliates.

We may engage in a business combination with one or more target businesses that have relationships with entities that may be affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors which may raise potential conflicts of interest.

In light of the involvement of our Sponsor, officers and directors with other entities, we may decide to acquire one or more businesses affiliated with our Sponsor, officers and directors, including CBRE. Our officers and directors also serve as officers and board members for other entities, including, without limitation, those described under “Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance—Conflicts of Interest.” Such entities may compete with us for business combination opportunities. Although we will not be specifically focusing on, or targeting, any transaction with any affiliated entities, we would pursue such a transaction if we determined that such affiliated entity met our criteria for a business combination as set forth in “Item 1. Business—Selection of a Target Business and Structuring of our Business Combination” and such transaction was approved by a majority of our disinterested directors. Despite our agreement to obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of FINRA, or from an independent accounting firm, regarding the fairness to our Company from a financial point of view of a business combination with one or more domestic or international businesses affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors, potential conflicts of interest still may exist and, as a result, the terms of the business combination may not be as advantageous to our public stockholders as they would be absent any conflicts of interest.

The financial interests of our Sponsor, officers and directors may influence their motivation in identifying and selecting a target business combination.

As of December 31, 2020, our Sponsor, directors and officers collectively own a number of alignment shares equal to approximately 5% of our outstanding shares of common stock. In addition, as of December 31, 2020, our

Sponsor, directors and officers collectively own an aggregate of 7,366,667 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of our Class A common stock at a price of $11.00 per share. The alignment shares and private placement warrants represent nearly the entire investment that our Sponsor, directors and officers have made in our Company, and will be worthless if we do not complete a business combination. For more information regarding our alignment shares and private placement warrants, see “—Alignment Shares” and “—Warrants—Private Placement Warrants” incorporated herein by reference in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Accordingly, because our Sponsor, officer and directors stand to lose nearly their entire investment in our Company, if our business combination is not completed, a conflict of interest may arise in identifying and selecting a target business combination, completing a business combination and influencing the operation of the business following the business combination. This risk may become more acute as the 24-month (or 27-month, as applicable) deadline to complete our business combination following the IPO Closing Date approaches.

Our management may not be able to maintain control of a target business after our business combination. We cannot provide assurance that, upon loss of control of a target business, new management will possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to profitably operate such business.

We may structure our business combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public stockholders own shares will own or acquire less than 100% of the outstanding equity interests or assets of a target business, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target business sufficient for us not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. We will not consider any transaction that does not meet such criteria. Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our stockholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority interest in the post business combination 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 of Class A common stock in exchange for all of the outstanding capital stock of a target. In this case, we would acquire a controlling 100% interest in the target. However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our stockholders immediately prior to our business combination could own less than a majority of our outstanding common stock subsequent to our business combination. In addition, other minority stockholders may subsequently combine their holdings resulting in a single person or group obtaining a larger share of the company’s stock than we initially acquired. Accordingly, this may make it more likely that our management will not be able to maintain our control of the target business. We cannot provide assurance that, upon loss of control of a target business, new management will possess the skills, qualifications or abilities necessary to profitably operate such business.

Our initial stockholders will control the election of our Board until consummation of our business combination and will hold a substantial interest in us. As a result, they will elect all of our directors prior to our business combination and may exert a substantial influence on actions requiring a stockholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support.

As of December 31, 2020, our initial stockholders own approximately 5% of our outstanding shares of common stock but are entitled to 20% of the voting power of the common stock prior to our business combination. In addition, the alignment shares, all of which are held by our initial stockholders, will entitle the holders thereof to elect all of our directors prior to our business combination. Holders of our public shares will have no right to vote on the election of directors during such time. This director election amendment provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and other provisions related to pre-business combination activities may only be amended if approved by holders of at least 65% of our outstanding common stock entitled to vote thereon. As a result, you will not have any influence over the election of directors prior to our business combination.

Factors that would be considered in making such additional purchases would include consideration of the current trading price of our Class A common stock. In addition, as a result of their substantial ownership in our Company, our initial stockholders may exert a substantial influence on other actions requiring a stockholder vote, potentially in a manner that you do not support, including amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws and approval of major corporate transactions. If our initial stockholders purchase any

additional shares of Class A common stock in the aftermarket or in privately negotiated transactions, this would increase their influence over these actions. In addition, our Board, whose members were appointed by our Sponsor, is and will be divided into three classes, each of which will generally serve for a term of three years with only one class of directors being appointed in each year. We may not hold an annual general meeting to appoint new directors prior to the completion of our business combination, in which case all of the current directors will continue in office until at least the completion of the business combination. If there is an annual general meeting, as a consequence of our “staggered” Board, only a minority of the Board will be considered for appointment and our Sponsor, because of its ownership position, will control the outcome, as only holders of our Class B common stock will have the right to vote on the appointment of directors and to remove directors prior to our business combination. Accordingly, our initial stockholders will exert significant influence over actions requiring a stockholder vote at least until the completion of our business combination.

Risks Related to our Organizational Documents

In order to effectuate a business combination, blank check companies have, in the recent past, amended various provisions of their charters and modified governing instruments, including their warrant agreements. We cannot assure you that we will not seek to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or governing instruments in a manner that will make it easier for us to complete our business combination but that some of our stockholders may not support.

In order to effectuate a business combination, blank check companies have, in the recent past, amended various provisions of their charters and modified governing instruments, including their warrant agreements. For example, blank check companies have amended the definition of business combination, increased redemption thresholds, extended the time to consummate a business combination and, with respect to their warrants, amended their warrant agreements to require the warrants to be exchanged for cash and/or other securities. We cannot assure you that we will not seek to amend our charter or governing instruments, including their warrant agreements, in order to effectuate our business combination.

Certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that relate to our pre-business combination activity (and corresponding provisions of the agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account) may be amended with the approval of holders of at least 65% of our common stock, which is a lower amendment threshold than that of some other blank check companies. It may be easier for us, therefore, to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and the trust agreement to facilitate the completion of a business combination that some of our stockholders may not support.

Some other blank check companies have a provision in their charter which prohibits the amendment of certain of its provisions, including those which relate to a company’s pre-business combination activity, without approval by holders of a certain percentage of the company’s shares. In those companies, amendment of these provisions typically requires approval by holders holding between 90% and 100% of the company’s public shares. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide that any of its provisions related to pre-business combination activity (including the requirement to deposit proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the private placement of warrants into the trust account and not release such amounts except in specified circumstances, and to provide redemption rights to public stockholders, as described herein) may be amended if approved by holders of at least 65% of our common stock entitled to vote thereon, and corresponding provisions of the trust agreement governing the release of funds from our trust account may be amended if approved by holders of at least 65% of our common stock entitled to vote thereon. In all other instances our amended and restated certificate of incorporation may be amended by holders of a majority of our outstanding common stock entitled to vote thereon, subject to applicable provisions of the DGCL or applicable stock exchange rules. As of December 31, 2020, our Sponsor, directors and officers collectively beneficially own approximately 5% of our common stock but will be entitled to 20% of the voting power of the common stock prior to our business combination, may participate in any vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and/or trust agreement and will have the discretion to vote in any manner they choose. As a result, we may be able to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which govern our pre-business combination behaviour more easily than some other blank check companies, and this may increase our ability to complete a business combination with which you do not agree.

Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and Delaware law may inhibit a takeover of us, which could limit the price investors might be willing to pay in the future for our Class A common stock and could entrench management.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals that stockholders may consider to be in their best interests. These provisions include a staggered Board and the ability of the Board to designate the terms of and issue new series of preferred stock, which may make more difficult the removal of management and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities.

We are also subject to anti-takeover provisions under Delaware law, which could delay or prevent a change of control. Additionally, upon the occurrence of a change of control following our business combination, the prospective acquiror of the company will be required, by the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, to allow holders of the alignment shares to convert such shares into shares of our Class A common stock at a predetermined formula as set forth under “—Alignment Shares—Change of control” in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities—Alignment Shares” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference. Together these provisions may make the removal of management more difficult and may discourage transactions that could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities.

Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and Delaware law may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against our directors and officers.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation requires, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, sole and exclusive forum will be the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if such court does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) for:

any (i) derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii)behalf;
any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by, or any wrongdoing by, any current or former director, officer or stockholder to usemployee of the Company or our stockholders, (iii)the Company’s stockholders;
any action asserting a claim against us or any of our current or former directors, officers, employeesdirector or stockholdersofficer or other employee of ours arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our amended and restated certificateCertificate of incorporationIncorporation or bylaws (as either may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or (iv)waived from time to time); and
any action asserting a claim against us or any current or former director or officer or other employee of ours governed by the internal affairs doctrine, or any action asserting an “internal corporate claim” as that term is defined in Section 115 of the State of Delaware may be brought only in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware. DGCL.

These provisions shall not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

Although we believe this provision benefits us by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law in the types of lawsuits to which it applies, a court may determine that this provision is unenforceable,jurisdiction and to the extent it is enforceable, the provision may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against our directors and officers, although our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived ourcannot waive compliance with federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.

Unless Furthermore, unless we consent in writing to the selection ofon an alternative forum, to the fullest extent permittedprovided by law, the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for state and federal courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. There remains uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce our provision. Investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws, andincluding the rules and regulations thereunder. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of capital stockSecurities Act.

These provisions of our Company shall be deemedcharter could limit the ability of our stockholders to have noticeobtain a favorable judicial forum for certain disputes with us or with our current or former directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our current or former directors, officers and employees. Alternatively, if a court were to find these provisions of our charter inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the types of actions or proceedings listed above, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and consented to the forum provisions in our amended and restated certificateresults of incorporation.

operations.

General Risk Factors

Data privacy and security breaches, including, but not limited to, those resulting from cyber incidents or attacks, acts of vandalism or theft, computer viruses and/or misplaced or lost data, could result in information theft, data corruption, operational disruption, reputational harm, criminal liability and/or financial loss.

In searching for targetsA market for our business combination, we may depend on digital technologies, including information systems, infrastructure and cloud applications and services, including those of third parties with which we may deal. Sophisticated and deliberate attacks on, or privacy and security breaches in, our systems or infrastructure, or the systems or infrastructure of third parties or the cloud, could lead to corruption or misappropriation of our assets, proprietary information, and sensitive or confidential data. As an early stage company without significant investments in data privacy or security protection, wesecurities may not be sufficiently protected against such occurrencessustained, which would adversely affect the liquidity and therefore could be liable for privacy and security breaches, including potentially those caused by anyprice of our subcontractors. We may not have sufficient resources to adequately protect against, or to investigate and remediate any vulnerability to, cyber incidents or other incidents that result in a privacy or security breach. It is possible that any of these occurrences, or a combination of them, could have adverse consequences onsecurities.

An active trading market for our business and lead to reputational harm, criminal liability and/or financial loss.

If we effect our business combination with a company with operations or opportunities outside of the United States, we would be subject to a variety of additional risks that may negatively impact our operations.

We may pursue a business combination with a target business in any geographic location. If we effect our business combination with a company with operations or opportunities outside of the United States, we would be subject to any special considerations or risks associated with companies operating in an international setting, including any of the following:

costs and difficulties inherent in managing cross-border business operations and complying with difficult commercial and legal requirements of the overseas market;

rules and regulations regarding currency redemption;

complex corporate withholding taxes on individuals;

laws governing the manner in which future business combinations may be effected;

tariffs and trade barriers;

regulations related to customs and import/export matters;

longer payment cycles;

underdeveloped or unpredictable legal or regulatory systems;

corruption;

protection of intellectual property;

terrorist attacks or wars;

unexpected regulatory changes or requirements;

managing and staffing international operations;

regime change or political upheaval;

tax issues, such as tax law changes and variations in tax laws as compared to the United States;

currency fluctuations and exchange controls;

rates of inflation;

challenges in collecting accounts receivable;

cultural and language differences;

employment regulations;

crime, strikes, riots, civil disturbances, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, pandemics and wars;

deterioration of political relations with the United States; and

government appropriation of assets.

Wesecurities may not be ablesustained. In addition, the price of our securities can vary due to adequately address these additional risks. If we were unable to do so, wegeneral economic conditions and forecasts, our general business condition and the release of our financial reports. Additionally, if our securities become delisted from the NYSE for any reason, and are quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board, an inter-dealer automated quotation system for equity securities that is not a national securities exchange, the liquidity and price of our securities may be more limited than if the Company was quoted or listed on the NYSE or another national securities exchange. You may be unable to complete such combinationsell your securities unless a market can be established or sustained.

If, securities or industry analysts cease publishing research or reports about us, our business, or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our Class A common stock adversely, then the price and trading volume of our Class A common stock could decline.
The trading market for our Class A common stock will be influenced by the research and reports that industry or securities analysts may publish about us, our business and operations, our market, or our competitors. If any of the analysts who may cover us change their recommendation regarding our stock adversely, or provide more favorable relative recommendations about our competitors, the price of our Class A common stock would likely decline. If any analyst who may cover us were to cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we complete such combination,could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our operations might suffer, eitherstock price or trading volume to decline.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
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Item 2. Properties
Our corporate headquarters is located in Stamford, Connecticut, where we lease and occupy 33,000 square feet of which may adversely impactoffice space. The current term of our lease expires on May 1, 2032, with an option to continue thereafter for one term of five years. We believe that this facility is adequate to meet our current and near-term needs.
In addition, we own and operate solar generating facilities located in 18 states. We believe that no single solar generating facility is material to our business, results of operations andor financial condition.

Changes in laws or regulations, or a failure to comply with any laws and regulations, may adversely affect

The following table provides an overview of our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our business combination, investments and results of operations.

We are subject to laws and regulations enactedsolar generating facilities by national, regional and local governments. In particular, we will be required to comply with certain SEC and other legal requirements. Compliance with, and monitoring of, applicable laws and regulations may be difficult, time consuming and costly. Those laws and regulations and their interpretation and application may also change fromstate:

StateNameplate capacity, MWsShare, %
Massachusetts9426 %
New Jersey8925 %
Minnesota5615 %
California34%
Other8925 %
Total362100 %


Item 3. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, the Company is a party to a number of claims and those changes couldgovernmental proceedings which are ordinary, routine matters incidental to its business. In addition, in the ordinary course of business the Company periodically has disputes with vendors and customers. All current pending matters are not expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on our business, including our ability to negotiate and complete our business combination, investments andthe Company’s financial position or results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws or regulations, as interpreted

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.
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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and applied, could have a material adverse effectIssuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Our Class A common stock is listed on our business and results of operations.

We are subject to changing law and regulations regarding regulatory matters, corporate governance and public disclosure that have increased both our costs and the risk of non-compliance.

We are subject to rules and regulations by various governing bodies, including, for example, the SEC, which are charged with the protection of investors and the oversight of companies whose securities are publicly traded, and to new and evolving regulatory measures under applicable law. Our efforts to comply with new and changing laws and regulations have resulted in and are likely to continue to result in, increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from seeking a business combination target.

Moreover, because these laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance becomes available. This evolution may result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and additional costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to our disclosure and governance practices. If we fail to address and comply with these regulations and any subsequent changes, we may be subject to penalty and our business may be harmed.

New York Stock Exchange rate fluctuations and currency policies may cause a target business’ ability to succeed in the international markets to be diminished.

In the event we acquire a non-U.S. target, all revenues and income would likely be received in a foreign currency, and the dollar equivalent of our net assets and distributions, if any, could be adversely affected by reductions in the value of the local currency. The value of the currencies in our target regions fluctuate and are affected by, among other things, changes in political and economic conditions. Any change in the relative value of such currency against our reporting currency may affect the attractiveness of any target business or, following consummation of our business combination, our financial condition and results of operations. Additionally, if a currency appreciates in value against the dollar prior to the consummation of our business combination, the cost of a target business as measured in dollars will increase, which may make it less likely that we are able to consummate such transaction

ITEM 1B.

UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

ITEM 2.

PROPERTIES

Facilities

We currently maintain our executive offices at 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1250, Dallas, Texas 75201. The cost for this space is included in the $10,000 per month fee that we pay CBRE, Inc., an affiliate of our Sponsor. We consider our current office space adequate for our current operations.

ITEM 3.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

We are not currently subject to any material legal proceedings, nor, to our knowledge, is any material legal proceeding threatened against us or any of our officers or directors in their corporate capacity.

ITEM 4.

MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

None.

PART II

ITEM 5.

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

(a)

Market Information

Our SAILSM securities began trading on the NYSE under the symbol “CBAH.U”“AMPS”. Our Redeemable Warrants are listed on December 15, 2020. On January 29, 2021, we announced thatNew York Stock Exchange under the symbol “AMPS WS”.

Holders
As of March 10, 2022, there were approximately 74 holders of record of our SAILSM securities could elect to separately trade the shares of Class A common stock, and warrants included in the SAILSM securities, or continue to trade the SAILSM securities without separating them. On February 1, 2021, the shares8 holders of record of our Redeemable Warrants. The actual number of holders of our Class A common stock is greater than this number of record holders and warrants began trading on NYSE under the symbols “CBAH” and “CBAH WS,” respectively. Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchaseincludes stockholders who are beneficial owners but whose shares of one share ofour Class A common stock at a price of $11.00 per share, subject to adjustment as describedare held in our final prospectus dated December 11, 2020 related to the Initial Public Offering which was filed with the SEC. Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares of Class A common stockstreet name by banks, brokers and will become exercisable on the later of 30 days after the completion of our business combination or 12 months from the IPO Closing Date. Our warrants expire five years after the completion of our business combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation as described in “Item 1. Business.”

(b)

Holders

As of March 16, 2021, there was 1 holder of record for our SAILSM securities, 1 holder of record for our separately traded shares of Class A Common stock, 7 holders of record for our alignment shares and 8 holders of record for our separately traded warrants.

(c)

Dividends

We haveother nominees.

Dividend Policy
The Company has not paid any cash dividends on shares of our common stock to date and do not intend to pay any cash dividends prior to the completion of our business combination.date. The payment of cash dividends in the future will depend upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition subsequent to completion of our business combination.condition. The payment of any cash dividends subsequent to our business combination will be within the discretion of our Boardboard of directors at such time. Any payment of dividends or other distributions will be subject to consent of holders of a majority of the then outstanding shares of Class B common stock. Further, if we incur any indebtedness in connection with our business combination, our ability to declare dividends may be limited by restrictive covenants we may agree to in connection therewith. In addition, our Board is not currently contemplating and does not anticipate declaring any stock dividends in the foreseeable future.


(d)

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

None.

(e)

Performance Graph

The graph is not included because as of December 31, 2020, trading of our SAILSM securities was limited to a very short duration. Further, on January 29, 2021, the Company announced that the holders of the Company’s SAILSM securities could elect to separately trade the shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share and warrants included in the SAILSM securities commencing on February 1, 2021.

(f)

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Offerings

Unregistered Sales

On October 13, 2020, our Sponsor purchased 100 shares of undesignated common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $100, or $1.00 per share. On November 6, 2020, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of our Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 of such shares were forfeited by the holder thereof. Prior to the initial investment in the Company of $25,000 by our Sponsor, the Company had no assets, tangible or intangible. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, our Sponsor sold 20,125 alignment shares and 18,417 private placement warrants to each of our directors (other than Ms. Giamartino and Mr. Sulentic), or their respective designees. In addition, our Sponsor sold 100,625 alignment shares and 36,833 private placement warrants to one of our officers, Cash J. Smith. As of December 31, 2020, our Sponsor, directors and officers collectively own a number of alignment shares equal to approximately 5% of our outstanding shares of common stock as of the IPO Closing Date. Our Initial Public Offering was consummated on December 15, 2020.

In connection with the consummation of the Initial Public Offering and the issuance and sale of the SAILSM securities, we consummated the private placement of 7,366,667 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant, each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share, generating total proceeds of approximately $11,050,000.

The private placement warrants are substantially similar to the Public Warrants sold as part of the SAILSM securities in the Initial Public Offering, except that if held by our Sponsor, certain directors or officers of the Company or their permitted transferees (i) they will not be redeemable by the Company (except in certain circumstances when the Public Warrants are called for redemption and the $10.00 per share Class A common stock threshold is met, as described in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference); (ii) they will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of the Company’s business combination (except, among other limited exceptions, as described in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference, to the Company’s officers and directors and other persons or entities affiliated with our Sponsor); (iii) they may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis; and (iv) the private placement warrants (including the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of such private placement warrants) are entitled to certain registration rights. The sale of the private placement warrants was made pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

Item 6. [Reserved]











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Use of Proceeds

On December 10, 2020, our registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-249958) was declared effective by the SEC for the Initial Public Offering pursuant to which we sold an aggregate of 40,250,000 SAILSM securities, including the issuance of 5,250,000 SAILSM securities as a result of the underwriter’s exercise of its over-allotment option. The SAILSM securities were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per SAILSM security, generating gross proceeds of $402,500,000 (including the proceeds from the exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option).

After deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions (excluding the deferred underwriting discount held in the trust account, which amount will be payable upon the consummation of our business combination, if consummated) and the estimated offering expenses, the total net proceeds from our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants was $402,500,000 (or $10.00 per SAILSM security sold in the Initial Public Offering), which was placed in the trust account in the United States maintained by the Trustee.

Through December 15, 2020, we incurred $22,926,943 for costs and expenses related to the Initial Public Offering. At the IPO Closing Date, we paid a total of $8,050,000 in underwriting discounts and commissions. In addition, the underwriter agreed to defer $14,087,500 in underwriting commissions, which amount will be payable upon consummation of our business combination, if consummated. There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from our Initial Public Offering as described in our final prospectus dated December 15, 2020 which was filed with the SEC.

Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed, and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides, that we will have only 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date to complete our business combination. If we are unable to complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, we will: (i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than 10 business days thereafter, subject to lawfully available funds therefor, redeem 100% of the public shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes (and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidating distributions, if any); and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining stockholders and our Board, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to our obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.

As of December 31, 2020, $402,501,008 was held in the trust account, and we had approximately $625,916 of unrestricted cash available to us for our activities in connection with identifying and conducting due diligence of a suitable business combination, and for general corporate matters.

ITEM 6.

SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following table summarizes selected historical financial data and should be read in conjunction with “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our audited financial statements, and the notes and schedules related thereto, which are included in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Income Statement Data: Prior to the IPO Closing Date, we consummated the private placement of 7,366,667 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant, each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share, generating total proceeds of approximately $11,050,000.



   For the period
from October 13, 2020
(inception) to
December 31, 2020
 

Operating expenses

  $(270,533

Franchise tax expense

   (26,218
  

 

 

 

Loss from operations

   (296,751
  

 

 

 

Accrued interest income (from Trust Account)

   1,008 
  

 

 

 

Net loss

  $(295,743
  

 

 

 

Per Share Data:

Weighted average shares of Class A common stock outstanding – basic and diluted

8,553,125

Net loss per share of Class A common stock– basic and diluted

$(0.00)

Weighted average shares of Class B common stock outstanding – basic and diluted

1,484,249

Net loss per share of Class B common stock– basic and diluted

$(0.20)

Balance Sheet Data:

   As of
December 31,
2020
 

Working capital(1)

  $1,938,906 

Total assets(2)

  $404,573,961 

Total liabilities

  $(14,221,547) 

Stockholders’ equity

  $5,000,0001 

(1)

Includes $625,916 in cash, plus $1,447,037 of prepaid and other assets, less $134,047 of current liabilities.

(2)

Includes $625,916 in cash, $1,447,037 of prepaid and other assets plus $402,501,008 of assets held in the Trust Account.

ITEM 7.

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

ALTUS’S MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF

FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and operating results of operationsfor Altus Power, Inc. (as used in this section, “Altus” or the “Company”) has been prepared by Altus’s management. You should be read in conjunctionthe following discussion and analysis together with our audited consolidated financial statements and therelated notes related thereto which are includedappearing elsewhere in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Certain information contained Any references in the discussionthis section to “we,” “our” or “us” shall mean Altus. Our disclosure and analysis set forth below includesin this report contains forward-looking statements. Ourstatements which involve risks and uncertainties. Although the forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management’s current beliefs based on information currently available to management and upon assumptions which management believes to be reasonable, actual results may differ materially from those anticipatedstated in or implied by these forward-looking statements as a result offor many factors,reasons, including those set forth under “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” “Item 1A. Risk Factors”the risks faced by us described in the "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

10-K..


Overview

Our mission is to create a clean electrification ecosystem, to drive the clean energy transition of our customers across the United States while simultaneously enabling the adoption of corporate environmental, social and governance, or ESG, targets. In order to achieve our mission, we develop, own and operate solar generation and energy storage facilities. We have the in-house expertise to develop, build and provide operations and maintenance and customer servicing for our assets. The strength of our platform is enabled by premier sponsorship from The Blackstone Group ("Blackstone"), which provides an efficient capital source and access to a network of portfolio companies, and CBRE Group, Inc. ("CBRE"), which provides direct access to their portfolio of owned and managed commercial and industrial (“C&I”) properties.
We are a blank check company incorporated on October 13, 2020developer, owner and operator of large-scale roof, ground and carport-based photovoltaic ("PV") and energy storage systems, serving commercial and industrial, public sector and community solar customers. We own systems across the United States from Hawaii to Vermont. Our portfolio consists of over 350 megawatts (“MW”) of solar PV. We have long-term power purchase agreements ("PPAs") with over 300 C&I entities and contracts with over 5,000 residential customers through community solar projects. We also participate in numerous renewable energy certificate (“REC”) programs throughout the country. We have experienced significant growth in the last 12 months as a Delaware corporationproduct of organic growth and formed fortargeted acquisitions and currently operate in 18 states, providing clean electricity to our customers equal to the purposeconsumption of effectingapproximately 30,000 homes, displacing 255,000 tons of CO2emissions per annum.
Comparability of Financial Information
Our historical operations and statements of assets and liabilities may not be comparable to our operations and statements of assets and liabilities as a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similarresult of the recently completed business combination with one or more businesses or assets, which we referCBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. as described in Note 1, “General,” to throughoutour audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (the "Merger"), recent acquisitions as described in Note 7, “Acquisitions,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the cost becoming a public company.
As a result of becoming a public company, Altus is subject to additional rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a national securities exchange and compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Altus expects to hire additional employees to meet these rules and obligations, and incur higher expenses for investor relations, accounting advisory, directors' and officers’ insurance, and other professional services.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Our results of operations and our ability to grow our business over time could be impacted by a number of factors and trends that affect our industry generally, as well as new offerings of services and products we may acquire or seek to acquire in the future. Additionally, our business is concentrated in certain markets, putting us at risk of region-specific disruptions such as adverse economic, regulatory, political, weather and other conditions. See “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion of risks affecting our business. We believe the factors discussed below are key to our success:
Execution of Growth Strategies
We believe we are in the beginning stages of a market opportunity driven by a secular megatrend of transitioning away from traditional energy sources to renewable energy. We intend to leverage our competitive strengths and market position to become customers’ “one-stop-shop” for the clean energy transition by 1) Using our existing customer and developer networks to build out our EV charging and energy storage offerings and establish a position comparable to that of our C&I solar market position through our existing cross-sell opportunities and 2) partnering with Blackstone and CBRE to access their client relationships, portfolio companies, and their strong brand recognition, to increase the number of customers we can support.
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Competition
We compete in the C&I scale renewable energy space with utilities, developers, independent power producers, pension funds and private equity funds for new investment opportunities. We expect to grow our market share because of the following competitive strengths:
Exceptional Leadership: We have a strong executive leadership team who has extensive experience in capital markets, solar development and solar construction, with over 20 years of experience each. Moreover, through the transaction structure, management and employees will continue to own a significant interest in the Company.
Development Capability: We have established an innovative approach to the development process. From site identification and customer origination through the construction phase, we’ve established a streamlined process enabling us to further create the scalability of our platform and significantly reduce the costs and time in the development process. Part of our attractiveness to our customers is our ability to ensure a high level of execution certainty. We anticipate that this ability to originate, source, develop and finance projects will ensure we can continue to grow and meet the needs of our customers.
Long-Term Revenue Contracts: Our C&I solar generation contracts have a typical length of 20 years or longer. The average remaining life of our current contracts is approximately 18 years. These long-term value contracts create strong relationships with customers that allow us to cross-sell additional current and future products and services.
Flexible Financing Solutions: We have a market-leading cost of capital in an investment-grade rated scalable credit facility from Blackstone, which enables us to be competitive bidders in asset acquisition and development. In addition to our Blackstone term loan, we also have financing available through a construction to term loan facility. This facility has $200 million of committed capacity which as of December 31, 2021, carries a floating rate of 2.34% .
CBRE Partnership: Our partnership with CBRE, the largest global real estate services company, provides us with a clear path to creating new customer relationships. CBRE is the largest manager of data centers and 90% of the Fortune 100 are CBRE clients, providing a significant opportunity for us to expand our customer base.
Financing Availability
Our future growth depends in significant part on our ability to raise capital from third-party investors and lenders on competitive terms to help finance the origination of our solar energy systems. We have historically used a variety of structures including tax equity financing, construction loan financing, and term loan financing to help fund our operations. From September 4, 2013, our inception, to December 31, 2021, we have raised over $100 million of tax equity financing, $80 million in construction loan financing and $690 million of term loan financing. Our ability to raise capital from third-party investors and lenders is also affected by general economic conditions, the state of the capital markets, inflation levels and concerns about our industry or business.
Cost of Solar Energy Systems
Although the solar panel market has seen an increase in supply in the past few years, most recently, there has been upward pressure on prices due to lingering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, growth in the solar industry, regulatory policy changes, tariffs and duties and an increase in demand. As a result of these developments, we have been experiencing higher prices on imported solar modules. The prices of imported solar modules have increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and may increase as a result of the Russia invasion of Ukraine. If there are substantial increases, it may become less economical for us to serve certain markets. Attachment rates for energy storage systems have trended higher while the price to acquire has trended downward making the addition of energy storage systems a potential area of growth for us.
Seasonality
The amount of electricity our solar energy systems produce is dependent in part on the amount of sunlight, or irradiation, where the assets are located. Because shorter daylight hours in winter months and poor weather conditions due to rain or snow results in less irradiation, the output of solar energy systems will vary depending on the season and the overall weather conditions in a year. While we expect seasonal variability to occur, the geographic diversity in our assets helps to mitigate our aggregate seasonal variability.
Government Regulations, Policies and Incentives
Our growth strategy depends in significant part on government policies and incentives that promote and support solar energy and enhance the economic viability of distributed solar. These incentives come in various forms, including net metering, eligibility for accelerated depreciation such as modified accelerated cost recovery system, solar renewable energy credits (“SRECs”), tax abatements, rebate and renewable target incentive programs and tax credits, particularly the Section 48(a) ITC. We are a party to a variety of agreements under which we may be obligated to indemnify the counterparty with respect to certain matters. Typically, these obligations arise in connection with contracts and tax equity partnership arrangements, under which we
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customarily agree to hold the other party harmless against losses arising from a breach of warranties, representations, and covenants related to such matters as title to assets sold, negligent acts, damage to property, validity of certain intellectual property rights, non-infringement of third-party rights, and certain tax matters including indemnification to customers and tax equity investors regarding Commercial ITCs. The sale of SRECs has constituted a significant portion of our revenue historically. A change in the value of SRECs or changes in other policies or a loss or reduction in such incentives could decrease the attractiveness of distributed solar to us and our customers in applicable markets, which could reduce our growth opportunities. Such a loss or reduction could also reduce our willingness to pursue certain customer acquisitions due to decreased revenue or income under our solar service agreements. Additionally, such a loss or reduction may also impact the terms of and availability of third-party financing. If any of these government regulations, policies or incentives are adversely amended, delayed, eliminated, reduced, retroactively changed or not extended beyond their current expiration dates or there is a negative impact from the recent federal law changes or proposals, our operating results and the demand for, and the economics of, distributed solar energy may decline, which could harm our business.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Supply Chain Issues
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) a pandemic.
Our business operations have continued to function effectively during the pandemic. We are continuously evaluating the pandemic and are taking necessary steps to mitigate known risks. We will continue to adjust our actions and operations as appropriate in order to continue to provide safe and reliable service to our customers and communities while keeping our employees and contractors safe. Although we have been able to mitigate the impact to the operations of the Company to date, given that COVID-19 infections remain persistent in many states where we do business and the situation is evolving, we cannot predict the future impact of COVID-19 on our business. We considered the impact of COVID-19 on the use of estimates and assumptions used for financial reporting and noted there were no material impacts on our results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, as our business combination. We completedoperations and the delivery of our Initial Public Offering on December 15, 2020.

Since completingservices to our Initial Public Offering,customers has not been materially impacted. To date, we have reviewed,experienced some reductions in sales volumes across our businesses, but we do not anticipate any significant reductions in sales volumes going forward.

The service and installation of solar energy systems has continued during the COVID-19 pandemic. This continuation of service reflects solar services’ designation as an essential service in all of our service territories.Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen some impacts to our supply chain affecting the timing of delivery of certain equipment, including, but not limited to, solar modules, inverters, racking systems, and transformers. Although we have largely been able to ultimately procure the equipment needed to service and install solar energy systems, we have experienced delays in such procurement. We have established a geographically diverse group of suppliers, which is intended to ensure that our customers have access to affordable and effective solar energy and storage options despite potential trade, geopolitical or event-driven risks. We do anticipate continuing impacts to our ability to source parts for our solar energy systems or energy storage systems, which we are endeavoring to mitigate via advanced planning and ordering from our diverse network of suppliers. However, if supply chains become even further disrupted due to additional outbreaks of the COVID-19 virus or more stringent health and safety guidelines are implemented, our ability to install and service solar energy systems could become more adversely impacted.
There is considerable uncertainty regarding the extent and duration of governmental and other measures implemented to try to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, such as large-scale travel bans and restrictions, border closures, quarantines, shelter-in-place orders and business and government shutdowns. Some states that had begun taking steps to reopen their economies experienced a subsequent surge in cases of COVID-19, causing these states to cease such reopening measures in some cases and reinstitute restrictions in others. Restrictions of this nature have caused, and may continue to cause, us to experience operational delays and may cause milestones or deadlines relating to various project documents to be missed. To date, we have not received notices from our dealers regarding significant performance delays resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, worsening economic conditions could result in such outcomes over time, which would impact our future financial performance. Further, the effects of the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic may increase unemployment and reduce consumer credit ratings and credit availability, which may adversely affect new customer origination and our existing customers’ ability to make payments on their solar service agreements. Periods of high unemployment and a lack of availability of credit may lead to increased delinquency and default rates. We have not experienced a significant increase in default or delinquency rates to date. However, if existing economic conditions continue for a prolonged period of time or worsen, delinquencies on solar service agreements could increase, which would also negatively impact our future financial performance. Moreover, the Russia invasion of Ukraine may further exacerbate some of the supply chain issues.
We cannot predict the full impact the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia invasion of Ukraine, or the significant disruption and volatility currently being experienced in the capital markets will have on our business, cash flows, liquidity, financial condition and results of operations at this time due to numerous uncertainties. The ultimate impact will depend on future developments, including, among other things, the ultimate duration of the COVID-19 virus, the duration of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and associated sanctions, the distribution, acceptance and efficacy of the vaccine, the depth and duration of the economic downturn and other economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of governmental and other measures designed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, actions taken by governmental authorities, customers, suppliers,
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dealers and other third parties, our ability and the ability of our customers, potential customers and dealers to adapt to operating in a changed environment and the timing and extent to which normal economic and operating conditions resume. For additional discussion regarding risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, see “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Key Financial and Operational Metrics
We regularly review a number of opportunitiesmetrics, including the following key operational and financial metrics, to enter intoevaluate our business, measure our performance and liquidity, identify trends affecting our business, formulate our financial projections and make strategic decisions.
Megawatts Installed
Megawatts installed represents the aggregate megawatt nameplate capacity of solar energy systems for which panels, inverters, and mounting and racking hardware have been installed on premises in the period. Cumulative megawatts installed represents the aggregate megawatt nameplate capacity of solar energy systems for which panels, inverters, and mounting and racking hardware have been installed on premises.
As of December 31,
20212020Change
Megawatts installed362240122
Cumulative megawatts installed increased from 240 MW as of December 31, 2020 to 362 MW as of December 31, 2021.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA
We define adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) plus net interest expense, depreciation, amortization and accretion expense, income tax expense, acquisition and entity formation costs, non-cash compensation expense, and excluding the effect of certain non-recurring items we do not consider to be indicative of our ongoing operating performance such as, but not limited to, gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration, gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment, change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability, change in fair value of alignment shares, loss on extinguishment of debt, and other miscellaneous items of other income and expenses.
Adjusted EBITDA is a business combinationnon-GAAP financial measure that we use as a performance measure. We believe that investors and securities analysts also use adjusted EBITDA in evaluating our operating performance. This measurement is not recognized in accordance with GAAP and should not be viewed as an operating business, including entering into discussions with potential target businesses, but wealternative to GAAP measures of performance. The GAAP measure most directly comparable to adjusted EBITDA is net income. The presentation of adjusted EBITDA should not be construed to suggest that our future results will be unaffected by non-cash or non-recurring items. In addition, our calculation of adjusted EBITDA is not necessarily comparable to adjusted EBITDA as calculated by other companies.
We believe adjusted EBITDA is useful to management, investors and analysts in providing a measure of core financial performance adjusted to allow for comparisons of results of operations across reporting periods on a consistent basis. These adjustments are intended to exclude items that are not able to determine at this time whether we will complete a business combination with anyindicative of the target businesses thatongoing operating performance of the business. Adjusted EBITDA is also used by our management for internal planning purposes, including our consolidated operating budget, and by our board of directors in setting performance-based compensation targets. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered an alternative to but viewed in conjunction with GAAP results, as we have reviewedbelieve it provides a more complete understanding of ongoing business performance and trends than GAAP measures alone. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or had discussions with or with any other target business. Although we may pursue an acquisition in any industry or geography, we intend to capitalize on the abilityas a substitute for analysis of our management teamresults as reported under GAAP.

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Year Ended
December 31,
20212020
(in thousands)
Reconciliation of Net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA:
Net income (loss)$13,005 $(1,887)
Income tax expense295 83 
Interest expense, net19,933 14,073 
Depreciation, amortization and accretion expense20,967 11,932 
Non-cash compensation expense148 82 
Acquisition and entity formation costs1,489 1,015 
Gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration(2,800)— 
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment(12,842)— 
Change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability2,332 — 
Change in fair value of alignment shares liability(5,013)— 
Loss on extinguishment of debt3,245 — 
Other expense, net245 258 
Adjusted EBITDA$41,004 $25,556 
Adjusted EBITDA margin57 %56 %

Components of Results of Operations
The Company derives its operating revenues principally from power purchase agreements, net metering credit agreements, solar renewable energy credits, and performance based incentives.
Revenue under power purchase agreements. A portion of the broader CBRE platform to identify, acquire and operate a business that may provide opportunities for attractive risk-adjusted returns. We intend to effectuate our business combination using cash from the proceeds of our Initial Public Offering andCompany’s power sales revenues is earned through the sale of energy (based on kilowatt hours) pursuant to the private placement warrants, our common stock, debt,terms of PPAs. The Company’s PPAs typically have fixed or floating rates and are generally invoiced monthly. The Company applied the practical expedient allowing the Company to recognize revenue in the amount that the Company has a combinationright to invoice which is equal to the volume of cash, stock and debt.

Results of Operations

Forenergy delivered multiplied by the period from October 13, 2020 to December 31, 2020, we had a net loss of $295,743.applicable contract rate. As of December 31, 2020, we had neither engaged2021, PPAs have a weighted-average remaining life of 15 years.

Revenue from net metering credit agreements. A portion of the Company’s power sales revenues are obtained through the sale of net metering credits under net metering credit agreements (“NMCAs”). Net metering credits are awarded to the Company by the local utility based on kilowatt hour generation by solar energy facilities, and the amount of each credit is determined by the utility’s applicable tariff. The Company currently receives net metering credits from various utilities including Eversource Energy, National Grid Plc, and Xcel Energy. There are no direct costs associated with net metering credits, and therefore, they do not receive an allocation of costs upon generation. Once awarded, these credits are then sold to third party offtakers pursuant to the terms of the offtaker agreements. The Company views each net metering credit in any operations northese arrangements as a distinct performance obligation satisfied at a point in time. Generally, the customer obtains control of net metering credits at the point in time when the utility assigns the generated any revenuescredits to date. Our only activities priorthe Company account, who directs the utility to allocate to the customer based upon a schedule. The transfer of credits by the Company to the customer can be up to one month after the underlying power is generated. As a result, revenue related to NMCA is recognized upon delivery of net metering credits by the Company to the customer. As of December 31, 20202021, NMCAs have been organizational activitiesa weighted-average remaining life of 18 years.
Solar renewable energy certificate revenue. The Company applies for and receives SRECs in certain jurisdictions for power generated by solar energy systems it owns. The quantity of SRECs is based on the amount of energy produced by the Company’s qualifying generation facilities. SRECs are sold pursuant to agreements with third parties, who typically require SRECs to comply with state-imposed renewable portfolio standards. Holders of SRECs may benefit from registering the credits in their name to comply with these state-imposed requirements, or from selling SRECs to a party that requires additional SRECs to meet its compliance obligations. The Company receives SRECs from various state regulators including New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, and Maryland Public Service Commission. There are no direct costs associated with SRECs and therefore, they do not receive an allocation of costs upon generation. The majority of individual SREC sales reflect a fixed quantity and fixed price structure over a specified term. The Company typically sells SRECs to different customers from those necessarypurchasing the energy under PPAs. The Company believes the sale of each SREC is a distinct performance obligation satisfied at a point in time and that the performance obligation related to prepareeach SREC is satisfied when each SREC is delivered to the customer.

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Rental income. A portion of the Company’s energy revenue is derived from long-term PPAs accounted for as operating leases under ASC 840, Leases. Rental income under these lease agreements is recorded as revenue when the electricity is delivered to the customer.
Performance-Based Incentives. Many state governments, utilities, municipal utilities and co-operative utilities offer a rebate or other cash incentive for the Initial Public Offering. We will not generate any operating revenues until after completioninstallation and operation of our business combination,a renewable energy facility. Up-front rebates provide funds based on the cost, size or expected production of a renewable energy facility. Performance-based incentives provide cash payments to a system owner based on the energy generated by its renewable energy facility during a pre-determined period, and they are paid over that time period. The Company recognizes revenue from state and utility incentives at the earliest. Since completing our Initial Public Offering, we generate non-operating incomepoint in time in which they are earned.
Other Revenue. Other revenue consists primarily of sales of power on cashwholesale electricity market which are recognized in revenue upon delivery.
Cost of Operations (Exclusive of Depreciation and funds heldAmortization). Cost of operations primarily consists of operations and maintenance expense, site lease expense, insurance premiums, property taxes and other miscellaneous costs associated with the operations of solar energy facilities. Altus expects its cost of operations to continue to grow in the trust account in the formconjunction with its business growth. These costs as a percentage of interest income on cashrevenue will decrease over time, offsetting efficiencies and funds invested in specified U.S. government treasury obligations or in specified money market funds which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. There has been no significant change in our financial or trading positioneconomies of scale with inflationary increases of certain costs.
General and no material adverse change has occurred since the dateAdministrative. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of our last audited financial statements.We expectsalaries, bonuses, benefits and all other employee-related costs, including stock-based compensation, professional fees related to legal, accounting, human resources, finance and training, information technology and software services, marketing and communications, travel and rent and other office-related expenses.
Altus expects increased general and administrative expenses as it continues to grow its business but to decrease over time as a percentage of revenue. Altus also expects to incur increasedadditional expenses as a result of beingoperating as a public company, (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses. We cannot assure you that our plans to complete our business combination will be successful.

Subsequent to December 31, 2020, our activities mainly consisted of identifying and evaluating prospective acquisition candidates for a business combination. We believe that we have sufficient funds available to complete our efforts to effect a business combination with an operating business by December 15, 2022 (or March 15, 2023 if we have executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement for our business combination by December 15, 2022 but have not completed our business combination by such date). However, if our estimates of the costs of identifying a target business, undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating a business combination are less than the actual amountincluding expenses necessary to do so, we may have insufficient funds availablecomply with the rules and regulations applicable to operate our business prior to our business combination.

Liquiditycompanies listed on a national securities exchange and Capital Resources

On October 13, 2020, our Sponsor purchased 100 shares of undesignated common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $100, or $1.00 per share. On November 6, 2020, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of our Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 of such shares were forfeited by the holder thereof. Prior to the initial investment in the Company of $25,000 by our Sponsor, the Company had no assets, tangible or intangible.

On October 21, 2020, our Sponsor agreed to loan us up to $300,000 by the issuance of an unsecured promissory note to be used for a portion of the expenses related to the organization of our companycompliance and our Initial Public Offering. As of December 15, 2020 the outstanding balance on the loan was $215,316. This loan was non-interest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of June 30, 2021, and the closing of our Initial Public Offering. The loan was repaid in full upon the consummation of our Initial Public Offering out of the $1,500,000 of offering proceeds that had been allocated for the payment of offering expenses (other than underwriting commissions) not held in the trust account.

On December 15, 2020 we consummated our Initial Public Offering of 40,250,000 SAILSM, including the issuance of 5,250,000 SAILSM securities as a result of the underwriter’s exercise of its over-allotment option. Each SAILSM security consists of one share of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Class A common stock”), and one-fourth of one redeemable warrant (the “Public Warrants”), each whole Public Warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock at an exercise price of $11.00 per share. The SAILSM securities were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per SAILSM security, generating gross proceeds of $402,500,000, including the proceeds from the exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option. In connection with the consummation of the Initial Public Offering and the issuance and sale of the SAILSM securities, we consummated the private placement of 7,366,667 warrants (the “private placement warrants”) at a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant, each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share, generating total proceeds of approximately $11,050,000. After deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions (excluding the deferred underwriting discount held in the trust account, which amount will be payable upon the consummation of our business combination, if consummated) and the estimated offering expenses, the total net proceeds from our Initial Public Offering and the sale of the private placement warrants was $402,500,000 (or

$10.00 per SAILSM security sold in the Initial Public Offering), which was placed in the trust account in the United States maintained by the Trustee. The amount of proceeds not deposited in the trust account was $1,500,000 at the closing of our Initial Public Offering. Funds will remain in the trust account except for the withdrawal of interest earned on the funds that may be released to the us to pay taxes.

At December 31, 2020, we had $402,501,008 in the trust account and we had $625,916 in cash and cash equivalents outside the trust account, which is available to fund our working capital requirements. On February 16, 2021, we entered into a second amended and restated promissory note (the “second amended and restated promissory note”) with our sponsor, with borrowing capacity up to $3,000,000. in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended Business Combination. The note is non-interest bearing and the unpaid principal balance of the promissory note shall be payable on the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination and (ii) December 31, 2022. The principal amount of such loans may be convertible into private placement warrants of the post-Business Combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant at the option of our sponsor. These warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants. No amounts have been borrowed under the note by the Company as of March 31, 2021.

We intend to use substantially all of the funds held in the trust account, including any amounts representing interest earned on the trust account (excluding deferred underwriting commissions) to complete our business combination. We may withdraw interest to pay our taxes, if any. We estimate our annual franchise taxreporting obligations based on the number of shares of our common stock authorized and outstanding to be approximately $10,000, which is the maximum amount of annual franchise taxes payable by us as a Delaware corporation per annum. Our annual income tax obligations will depend on the amount of interest and other income earned on the amounts held in the trust account. To the extent that our capital stock or debt is used, in whole or in part, as consideration to complete our business combination, the remaining proceeds held in the trust account will be used as working capital to finance the operations of the target business or businesses, make other acquisitions and pursue our growth strategies.

Off-balance Sheet Financing Arrangements

We had no obligations, assets or liabilities which would be considered off-balance sheet arrangements at December 31, 2020. We do not participate in transactions that create relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as variable interest entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements.

We had not entered into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements, established any special purpose entities, guaranteed any debt or commitments of other entities, or entered into any non-financial agreements involving assets as of December 31, 2020.

Contractual Obligations

We did not have any long-term debt obligations, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations, purchase obligations or long-term liabilities at December 31, 2020. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, we entered into an administrative services agreement to pay monthly recurring expenses of $10,000 to CBRE, Inc., an affiliate of our Sponsor, for office space, administrative and support services. The administrative services agreement terminates upon the earlier of the completion of a business combination or the liquidation of the Company. The underwriter is entitled to underwriting discounts and commissions of 5.5%, of which 2.0% ($8,050,000) was paid at the IPO Closing Date, and 3.5% ($14,087,500) was deferred. The deferred underwriting commission will become payable to the underwriter from the amounts held in the trust account solely in the event that the Company completes a business combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement. The underwriter is not entitled to any interest accrued on the deferred underwriting discount.

A portion of the deferred underwriting commission, not to exceed 20% of the total amount of the deferred underwriting commissions held in the Trust Account, may be re-allocated or paid (a) to any underwriter from our Initial Public Offering in an amount (at the sole discretion of the Company’s management team) that is disproportionate to the portion of the aggregate deferred underwriting commission payable to such underwriter based on their participation in Initial Public Offering and/or (b) to third parties that did not participate in our Initial Public Offering (but who are members of FINRA) that assist the Company in consummating a Business

Combination. The election to re-allocate or make any such payments to third parties will be solely at the discretion of the Company’s management team, and such third parties will be selected by the management team in their sole and absolute discretion. The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.

Critical Accounting Policies

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the accounting and disclosure rules and regulations of the SecuritiesSEC. Further, Altus expects to incur higher expenses for investor relations, accounting advisory, directors' and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”),officers’ insurance, and reflect all adjustments, consisting onlyother professional services.

Depreciation, Amortization and Accretion Expense. Depreciation expense represents depreciation on solar energy systems that have been placed in service. Depreciation expense is computed using the straight-line composite method over the estimated useful lives of normal recurring adjustments, whichassets. Leasehold improvements are indepreciated over the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentationshorter of the Company’sestimated useful lives or the remaining term of the lease. Amortization includes third party costs necessary to enter into site lease agreements, third party costs necessary to acquire PPA and NMCA customers and favorable and unfavorable rate revenues contracts. Third party costs necessary to enter into site lease agreements are amortized using the straight-line method ratably over 15-30 years based upon the term of the individual site leases. Third party costs necessary to acquire PPAs and NMCA customers are amortized using the straight-line method ratably over 15-25 years based upon the term of the customer contract. Estimated fair value allocated to the favorable and unfavorable rate PPAs and REC agreements are amortized using the straight-line method over the remaining non-cancelable terms of the respective agreements. Accretion expense includes over time increase of asset retirement obligations associated with solar energy facilities.
Acquisition and Entity Formation Costs. Acquisition and Entity Formation Costs represent costs incurred to acquire businesses and form new legal entities. Such costs primarily consist of professional fees for banking, legal, accounting and appraisal services.
Fair Value Remeasurement of Contingent Consideration. In connection with the Solar Acquisition (as defined in Note 7, “Acquisitions,” to our audited consolidated annual financial position at December 31, 2020statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K), contingent consideration of up to an aggregate of $10.5 million may be payable upon achieving certain market power rates and actual power volumes generated by the resultsacquired solar energy facilities. The Company estimated the fair value of operations and cash flowsthe contingent consideration for the period presented. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates. We believe that the following critical accounting policies represent the areas where more significant judgments and estimates arefuture earnout payments using a Monte Carlo simulation model. Significant assumptions used in the preparationmeasurement include the estimated volumes of power generation of acquired solar energy facilities during the 18-36-month period since the acquisition date, market power rates during the 36-month period, and the risk-adjusted discount rate associated with the business.
Gain on Disposal of Property, Plant and Equipment. In connection with the Johnston Disposal (as defined in Note 5, “Property, Plant and Equipment,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements:

Emerging Growthstatements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K), the Company

Section 102(b)(1) recognized a gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment of $12.8 million, which represents the excess of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a classconsideration received over the carrying value of securities registered under the Securitiesnet assets and Exchange Actliabilities of 1934, as amended) are required to complythe disposed subsidiary.

Change in Fair Value of Redeemable Warrant Liability. In connection with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides thatMerger, the Company assumed a company can electredeemable warrant liability composed of publicly listed warrants (the "Redeemable Warrants") and warrants issued to opt outthe
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Sponsor in the private placement (the "Private Placement Warrants"). Redeemable Warrant Liability was remeasured as of December 31, 2021, and the resulting loss was included in the consolidated statements of operations. As our Redeemable Warrants (other than the Private Placement Warrants) continue to trade separately on the NYSE following the Merger, the Company determines the fair value of the extended transition periodRedeemable Warrants based on the quoted trading price of those warrants. The Private Placement Warrants have the same redemption and comply withmake-whole provisions as the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies,Redeemable Warrants. Therefore, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard.

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemptions

The Company accounts for its common stock as subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” Common stock subject to mandatory redemption is classified as a liability instrument and is measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that features redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, common stock subject to possible redemption is presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section of the Company’s balance sheet.

Net Loss per Share of Common Stock

Net loss per share of common stock is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period, plus to the extent dilutive, the incremental number of shares of common stock to settle warrants, as calculated using the treasury stock method. The Company has not considered the effect of the Private Placement Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 7,366,667 Class A common stock in the calculation of diluted loss per share, since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted loss per share of common stock is the same as basic loss per share of common stock for the period.

The Company’s statement of operations includes a presentation of income (loss) per share for common stock subject to redemption in a manner similarequal to the two-class methodRedeemable Warrants. The Company determines the fair value of income (loss) per share. Net income (loss) per common stock, basic and diluted for Class A common stock, is calculated by dividing the interest income earnedRedeemable Warrants, including Private Placement Warrants, based on the Trust Account, byquoted trading price of the weighted average numberRedeemable Warrants.

Change in Fair Value of Class A common stock outstanding for the period. Net

income (loss) per common stock, basic and diluted forAlignment Shares. Alignment shares represent Class B common stock is calculated by dividing net income (loss), less income attributable to Class A common stock, byof the weighted average number ofCompany which were issued in connection with the Merger. Class B common stock, outstandingpar value $0.0001 per share ("Alignment Shares") are accounted for as liability-classified derivatives, which were remeasured as of December 31, 2021, and the period presented.

The Company’s net loss is adjusted for the portion of income that is attributable to Class A common stock subject to redemption as these shares only participateresulting gain was included in the earningsconsolidated statements of operations. The Company estimates the Trust Account (less applicable taxes) and not income or losses of the Company.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation expense associated with the Company’s equity awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date and recognized over the requisite service period. To the extent a stock-based award is subject to a performance condition, the amount of expense recorded in a given period, if any, reflects an assessment of the probability of achieving such performance condition, with compensation recognized once the event is deemed probable to occur. The fair value of equity awards has been estimatedoutstanding Alignment Shares using a Monte Carlo simulation valuation model utilizing a distribution of potential outcomes based on a set of underlying assumptions such as stock price, volatility, and Binomial simulations. Forfeitures are recognized as incurred.

The Company sold an aggregaterisk-free interest rates.

Other Expense, Net. Other income and expenses primarily represent state grants and other miscellaneous items.
Interest Expense, Net. Interest expense, net represents interest on our borrowings under our various debt facilities, amortization of 2,300,000 alignment sharesdebt discounts and deferred financing costs, and unrealized gains and losses on interest rate swaps.
Loss on Extinguishment of Debt. Loss on extinguishment of debt represents the premium paid on early redemption related to the Sponsor on November 6, 2020. On November 27, 2020, the Sponsor sold 201,250 alignment shares to certainredemption of a portion of the Company’s directors, or their respective designees,Rated Term Loan (as defined in Note 9, "Debt and an officerDerivatives,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K) and the write off of the Companyunamortized deferred financing costs.
Income Tax (Expense) Benefit. We account for income taxes under Accounting Standards Codification 740, Income Taxes. As such, we determine deferred tax assets and forfeited 287,500 Alignment Shares dueliabilities based on temporary differences resulting from the different treatment of items for tax and financial reporting purposes. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates expected to an adjustment pursuantapply to taxable income in the Initial Public Offering. See “Note 3—Initial Public Offering—Alignment Shares” for additional details. years in which those temporary differences are expected to reverse. Additionally, we must assess the likelihood that deferred tax assets will be recovered as deductions from future taxable income. We have a partial valuation allowance on our deferred state tax assets because we believe it is more likely than not that a portion of our deferred state tax assets will not be realized. We evaluate the recoverability of our deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis.
As of December 31, 2020, 2,012,500 alignment shares were issued and outstanding.

On December 10, 2020,2021, the Company sold an aggregatehad U.S. federal net operating loss carryforwards of 7,366,667 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant$177.4 million available to the Sponsoroffset future federal taxable income which will begin to expire in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the Initial Public Offering. See “Note 3—Initial Public Offering—Private Placement Warrants” for additional details.

2034. The Company determined that the incremental fair value over the price paid for the alignment shares and private placement warrants would qualify as stock-based compensation within scopehas federal net operating loss carryforwards of ASC 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”) as a result of the services the Sponsor and directors and officers are providing to the Company through the date of a business combination.

Under ASC 718, stock-based compensation associated with equity-classified awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date and recognized over the requisite service period. The alignment shares and private placement warrants were granted subject to a performance condition (i.e., the occurrence of a business combination ), as well as various market conditions (i.e., stock price targets after consummation of the business combination). The various market conditions are considered in determining the grant date fair value of these instruments using Monte Carlo simulation. Compensation expense related to the alignment shares and private placement warrants is recognized only when the performance condition is probable of occurrence.$140.4 million, which can be carried forward indefinitely. As of December 31, 2020, the Company determinedhad state net operating losses of $80.3 million which will begin to expire in 2022, if not utilized. Deferred tax assets associated with state net operating losses that we believe are more likely than not to expire unutilized have been fully offset by a business combination is not considered probable,valuation allowance of $0.6 million and therefore, no stock-based compensation expense has been recognized$0.3 million as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

Net Loss Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests and Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests. Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests represents third-party interests in the net income or loss of certain consolidated subsidiaries based on HLBV (as defined below).
Results of Operations – Year Ended December 31, 2021 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2020

For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Operating revenues, net$71,800 $45,278 $26,522 58.6 %
Operating expenses
Cost of operations (exclusive of depreciation and amortization shown separately below)14,029 9,661 4,368 45.2 %
General and administrative16,915 10,143 6,772 66.8 %
Depreciation, amortization and accretion expense20,967 11,932 9,035 75.7 %
Acquisition and entity formation costs1,489 1,015 474 46.7 %
Gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration(2,800)— (2,800)-100.0 %
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment(12,842)— (12,842)-100.0 %
Total operating expenses$37,758 $32,751 $5,007 15.3 %
Operating income34,042 12,527 21,515 171.7 %
Other (income) expenses
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Change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability2,332 — 2,332 100.0 %
Change in fair value of alignment shares(5,013)— (5,013)-100.0 %
Other income, net245 258 (13)-5.0 %
Interest expense, net19,933 14,073 5,860 41.6 %
Loss on extinguishment of debt3,245 — 3,245 100.0 %
Total other expenses$20,742 $14,331 $6,411 44.7 %
Income (loss) before income tax expense$13,300 $(1,804)15,104 -837.3 %
Income tax expense(295)(83)(212)255.4 %
Net income (loss)$13,005 $(1,887)$14,892 -789.2 %
Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests7,099 (8,680)15,779 -181.8 %
Net income attributable to Altus Power, Inc.$5,906 $6,793 $(887)-13.1 %
Net income per share attributable to common stockholders
Basic$0.06 $0.08 $(0.02)-26.5 %
Diluted$0.06 $0.07 $(0.01)-18.2 %
Weighted average shares used to compute net income per share attributable to common stockholders
Basic92,751,839 88,741,089 4,011 4.5 %
Diluted96,603,428 90,858,718 5,745 6.3 %

Operating Revenues
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020Change%
(in thousands)
Revenue under power purchase agreements$15,731 $11,639 $4,092 35.2 %
Revenue from net metering credit agreements23,029 12,171 10,858 89.2 %
Solar renewable energy certificate revenue28,271 18,870 9,401 49.8 %
Rental income2,114 259 1,855 716.2 %
Performance-based incentives1,680 2,093 (413)(19.7)%
Other revenue975 246 729 296.3 %
Total$71,800 $45,278 $26,522 58.6 %
Operating revenues, net increased by $26.5 million, or 58.6%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to the increased number of solar energy facilities as a result of acquisitions and facilities placed in service during 2021.

Cost of Operations
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Cost of operations (exclusive of depreciation and amortization shown separately below)$14,029 $9,661 $4,368 45.2%
Cost of operations increased by $4.4 million, or 45.2%, during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to the increased number of solar energy facilities as a result of acquisitions and facilities placed in service during 2021.



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General and Administrative
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
General and administrative$16,915 $10,143 $6,772 66.8%

General and administrative expense increased by $6.8 million, or 66.8%, during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to increase in general personnel costs resulting from increased headcount in multiple job functions.

Depreciation, Amortization and Accretion Expense
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Depreciation, amortization and accretion expense$20,967 $11,932 $9,035 75.7%
Depreciation, amortization and accretion expense increased by $9.0 million, or 75.7%, during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to the increased number of solar energy facilities as a result of acquisitions and facilities placed in service during 2021.

Acquisition and Entity Formation Costs
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Acquisition and entity formation costs$1,489 $1,015 $474 46.7%
Acquisition and entity formation increased by $0.5 million, or 46.7% during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to the TrueGreen Acquisition (as defined in Note 7, “Acquisitions,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K) completed on August 25, 2021.

Gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration$2,800 $— $2,800 100.0%
Gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration is associated with the Solar Acquisition completed on December 22, 2020. Unrecognized stock-based compensation expenseGain on fair value remeasurement was recorded for the year ended December 31, 2021 due to changes in significant assumptions used in the measurement, including the estimated volumes of power generation of acquired solar energy facilities and market power rates.

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Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment$12,842 $— $12,842 100.0%
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment is associated with the Johnston Disposal which occurred on November 19, 2021. The gain was calculated as the excess of $250the consideration received over the carrying value of the net assets and liabilities of the disposed subsidiary.

Change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability$2,332 $— $2,332 100.0%
In connection with the Merger, the Company assumed a redeemable warrant liability which was remeasured as of December 31, 2021, and the resulting loss was included in the consolidated statements of operations.

Change in fair value of alignment shares
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Change in fair value of alignment shares$5,013 $— $5,013 100.0%
In connection with the Merger, the Company assumed a liability related to alignment shares, which was remeasured as of December 31, 2021, and the resulting gain was included in the consolidated statements of operations.

Other Expense, Net
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Other expense, net$245 $258 $(13)(5.0)%
Other income remained flat during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to $1.2 million wouldof financing costs related to the modified portion of the Amended Rated Term Loan (as defined in Note 9, “Debt and Derivatives,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K). Overall increase of other expenses was partially offset by $1 million of miscellaneous other income items.

Interest Expense, Net
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Interest expense, net$19,933 $14,073 $5,860 41.6%
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Interest expense increased by $5.9 million, or 41.6%, during the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to the increase of outstanding debt held by the Company during these periods, but offset by a lower blended interest rate on the Amended Rated Term Loan.

Loss on Extinguishment of Debt
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Loss on extinguishment of debt$3,245 $— $3,245 100.0%
Loss on extinguishment of debt recognized by the Company during the year ended December 31, 2021, was associated with the Rated Term Loan that the Company refinanced on August 25, 2021. The Amended Rated Term Loan added an additional $135.6 million to the facility and reduced a weighted average annual fixed rate from 3.70% to 3.51%. In conjunction with the refinancing, a portion of the Amended Rated Term Loan was extinguished. As a result, the Company expensed unamortized deferred financing costs of $1.8 million and $1.4 million premium paid on early redemption.

Income Tax Expense
For the Year Ended
December 31,
Change
20212020$%
(in thousands)
Income tax expense$(295)$(83)$(212)255.4%
For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded an income tax expense of $0.3 million in relation to a pretax income of $13.3 million, which resulted in an effective income tax rate of 2.2%. The effective income tax rate was primarily impacted by $1.1 million of the state income tax expense, $0.3 million of valuation allowance on state net operating losses, $1.5 million of income tax benefit due to income attributable to noncontrolling interests and $1.7 million of income tax benefit on transaction costs associated with the Merger.
For the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recorded an income tax expense of $0.1 million in relation to a pretax loss of $1.8 million, which resulted in an effective income tax rate of negative 4.6%. Effective income tax rate was primarily impacted by $1.8 million of income tax expense due to net losses attributable to noncontrolling interests, $1.7 million of state income tax expense, and $0.3 million of valuation allowance on state net operating losses.

Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests and Noncontrolling Interests
For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded net income attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests and noncontrolling interests of $7.1 million, compared to net loss attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests and noncontrolling interests of $8.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. Net income attribution during the year ended December 31, 2021, comparing to net loss attribution for the year ended December 31, 2020, was primarily driven by the Johnston Disposal in November 2021 and the attribution of the gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment to a noncontrolling interest holder.

Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of December 31, 2021, the Company had total cash and restricted cash of $330.3 million. For a discussion of our restricted cash, see Note 2, “Significant Accounting Policies, Restricted Cash,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We seek to maintain diversified and cost-effective funding sources to finance and maintain our operations, fund capital expenditures, including customer acquisitions, and satisfy obligations arising from our indebtedness. Historically, our primary sources of liquidity included proceeds from the issuance of redeemable preferred stock, borrowings under our debt facilities, third party tax equity investors and cash from operations. Additionally, the Company received cash proceeds of $293 million as a result of the Merger. Our business model requires substantial outside financing arrangements to grow the business and facilitate
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the deployment of additional solar energy facilities. We plan to seek additional required capital from borrowings under our existing debt facilities, third party tax equity investors and cash from operations.
The solar energy systems that are in service are expected to generate a positive return over the useful life, typically 32 years. Typically, once solar energy systems commence operations, they do not require significant additional capital expenditures to maintain operating performance. However, in order to grow, we are currently dependent on financing from outside parties. The Company will have sufficient cash and cash flows from operations to meet our working capital, debt service obligations, contingencies and anticipated required capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. However, we are subject to business and operational risks that could adversely affect our ability to raise additional financing. If financing is not available to us on acceptable terms if and when needed, we may be recognized atunable to finance installation of our new customers’ solar energy systems in a manner consistent with our past performance, our cost of capital could increase, or we may be required to significantly reduce the date a business combination is considered probable (i.e., upon consummation).

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

Management does not believe thatscope of our operations, any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted,of which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. In addition, our tax equity funds and debt instruments impose restrictions on our ability to draw on financing commitments. If we are unable to satisfy such conditions, we may incur penalties for non-performance under certain tax equity funds, experience installation delays, or be unable to make installations in accordance with our plans or at all. Any of these factors could also impact customer satisfaction, our business, operating results, prospects and financial condition.

Contractual Obligations and Commitments
We enter into service agreements in the Company’s financial statements basednormal course of business. These contracts do not contain any minimum purchase commitments. Certain agreements provide for termination rights subject to termination fees or wind down costs. Under such agreements, we are contractually obligated to make certain payments to vendors, mainly, to reimburse them for their unrecoverable outlays incurred prior to cancellation. The exact amounts of such obligations are dependent on current operationsthe timing of termination, and the exact terms of the Company. The impactrelevant agreement and cannot be reasonably estimated. As of any recently issued accounting standards will be re-evaluated on a regular basis or if a business combination is completed where the impact could be material.

ITEM 7A.

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Market risk is a broad term for the risk of economic loss due to adverse changes in the fair value of a financial instrument. These changes may be the result of various factors, including interest rates, foreign exchange rates, commodity prices and/or equity prices. Our business activities from October 13, 2020 to December 31, 2020 consisted solely of organizational activities and activities relating to our Initial Public Offering. We have not engaged in any hedging activities since our inception on October 13, 2020. We2021, we do not expect to engagecancel these agreements.

The Company has operating leases for land and buildings and has contractual commitments to make payments in accordance with site lease agreements.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
The Company enters into letters of credit and surety bond arrangements with lenders, local municipalities, government agencies and land lessors. These arrangements relate to certain performance-related obligations and serve as security under the applicable agreements. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had outstanding letters of credit and surety bonds totaling $10.6 million and $7.5 million, respectively. We believe the Company will fulfill the obligations under the related arrangements and do not anticipate any hedging activitiesmaterial losses under these letters of credit or surety bonds.

Debt
Rated Term Loan Facility
As part of the Blackstone Capital Facility, APA Finance, LLC (“APAF”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a $251 million term loan facility with respectBIS through a consortium of lenders, which consists of investment grade-rated Class A and Class B notes.
On August 25, 2021, APAF entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (“Amended Agreement”) to refinance the Rated Term Loan (hereby referred to as the “Amended Rated Term Loan”). The Amended Agreement added an additional $135.6 million (all of which was drawn as of December 31, 2021), to the market riskfacility, bringing the aggregate facility to $503 million. The Amended Rated Term Loan has a weighted average 3.51% annual fixed rate, reduced from the previous weighted average rate of 3.70%, and matures on February 29, 2056 (“Final Maturity Date”). Of the total proceeds of the refinancing, $126.4 million was used to fund the TrueGreen Acquisition, $8.8 million was used to fund the Beaver Run Acquisition, and $2.7 million was used to fund the Stellar HI Acquisition (as defined in Note 7, “Acquisitions,” to our audited consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K).
The Amended Rated Term Loan amortizes at an initial rate of 2.5% of outstanding principal per annum for a period of 8 years at which point the amortization steps up to 4% per annum until September 30, 2031 (“Anticipated Repayment Date”). After the Anticipated Repayment Date, the loan becomes fully-amortizing, and all available cash is used to pay down principal until the Final Maturity Date.
The Company incurred $5.2 million of issuance costs related to the refinancing, which have been deferred and recorded as a reduction to the Amended Rated Term Loan balance and are amortized as interest expense on a ten-year schedule until the Amended Rated Term Loan’s Anticipated Repayment Date. Additionally, in conjunction with the refinancing, the Company
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expensed $1.2 million of financing costs related to the modified portion of the Amended Rated Term Loan and included them in Other expenses, net in the consolidated statements of operations.
In conjunction with the refinancing, a portion of the Amended Rated Term Loan was extinguished. As a result, the Company expensed unamortized deferred financing costs of $1.8 million and $1.4 million premium paid on early redemption as loss on extinguishment of debt in the consolidated statements of operations.
As of December 31, 2021, the outstanding principal balance of the Rated Term Loan was $500 million less unamortized debt discount and loan issuance costs totaling $8.4 million. As of December 31, 2020, the outstanding principal balance of the Rated Term Loan was $362.7 million less unamortized debt discount and loan issuance costs totaling $5.9 million.
As of December 31, 2021, the Company was in compliance with all covenants, except the delivery of the APAF audited consolidated financial statements. for which the Company obtained a waiver to extend the financial statement reporting deliverable due date. The Company expects to deliver the audited financial statements before the extended reporting deliverable due date. As of December 31, 2020, the Company was in compliance with all covenants, except the delivery of the APAF audited consolidated financial statements, for which the Company obtained a waiver to extend the financial statement reporting deliverable due date. The Company delivered the audited financial statements on August 19, 2021, before the extended reporting deliverable due date.
Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility
On January 10, 2020, APA Construction Finance, LLC (“APACF”) a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a credit agreement with Fifth Third Bank, National Association and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch to fund the development and construction of future solar facilities (“Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility”). The Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility includes a construction loan commitment of $187.5 million and a letter of credit commitment of $12.5 million, which can be drawn until January 10, 2023.
The construction loan commitment can convert to a term loan upon commercial operation of a particular solar energy facility. In addition, the Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility accrued a commitment fee at a rate equal to .50% per year of the daily unused amount of the commitment. As of December 31, 2021, the outstanding principal balances of the construction loan and term loan were $5.6 million and $12.3 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2020, the outstanding principal balances of the construction loan and term loan were $20.6 million and $6.2 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had an unused borrowing capacity of $169.7 million and $160.7 million, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company incurred interest costs associated with outstanding construction loans totaling $0.3 million and zero, respectively, which were capitalized as part of property, plant and equipment. Also, on October 23, 2020, the Company entered into an additional letters of credit facility with Fifth Third Bank for the total capacity of $10.0 million. The Construction Loan to Term Loan includes various financial and other covenants for APACF and the Company, as guarantor. As of December 31, 2021, the Company was in compliance with all covenants. As of December 31, 2020, the Company was in compliance with all debt covenants, except the delivery of the audited financial statements of the Company, for which the Company obtained a waiver to extend the financial statement reporting deliverable due date. The Company delivered the audited financial statements on August 11, 2021, before the extended reporting deliverable due date.
Financing Lease Obligations
Zildjian XI
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company, through its subsidiary Zildjian XI, sold 8 solar energy facilities located in Massachusetts and Minnesota with the total nameplate capacity of 16.1 MW to a third party (“ZXI Lessor”) for a total sales price of $44.0 million. In connection with these transactions, the Company and ZXI Lessor entered into master lease agreement under which the Company agreed to lease back solar energy facilities for an initial term of ten years. The proceeds received from the sale-leaseback transactions net of transaction costs of $1.2 million and prepaid rent of $12.2 million amounted to $30.6 million.
The master lease agreement provides for a residual value guarantee as well as a lessee purchase option, both of which are forms of continuing involvement and prohibit the use of sale leaseback accounting under ASC 840. As a result, the Company accounts for the transaction using the financing method by recognizing the sale proceeds as a financing obligation and the assets subject to the sale-leaseback remain on the balance sheet of the Company and are being depreciated. The aggregate proceeds have been recorded as a long-term debt within the consolidated balance sheets.
TrueGreen Acquisition
As part of the TrueGreen Acquisition on August 25, 2021 (refer to Note 7 of our consolidated annual financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K) the Company assumed financing lease liability of $1.8 million associated with the sale-leaseback of a solar energy facility located in Connecticut with the total nameplate capacity of 1.2 MW.
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In accordance with the sale-leaseback arrangement the solar energy facility was sold and immediately leased back from a third-party lessor (“TGC Lessor”). The master lease agreement provides the lessee with a purchase option, which represents a form of continuing involvement and prohibits the use of sale leaseback accounting under ASC 840.

Cash Flows
For the Years Ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
The following table sets forth the primary sources and uses of cash and restricted cash for each of the periods presented below:
Year Ended
December 31,
20212020
(in thousands)
Net cash provided by (used in):
Operating activities$23,704 $12,296 
Investing activities(223,250)(171,342)
Financing activities491,661 165,115 
Net increase in cash and restricted cash$292,115 $6,069 
Operating Activities
During the year ended December 31, 2021 cash provided by operating activities of $23.7 million consisted primarily of net income of $13.0 million adjusted for net non-cash expense of $8.9 million and increase in net liabilities by $1.8 million.
During the year ended December 31, 2020 cash provided by operating activities of $12.3 million consisted primarily of net loss of $1.9 million adjusted for the net non-cash expense of $15.5 million and off-set by an increase in net liabilities by $1.3 million.
Investing Activities
During the year ended December 31, 2021, net cash used in investing activities was $223.3 million, consisting of $14.6 million of capital expenditures, $201.2 million of payments to acquire businesses, net of cash and restricted cash acquired, and $27.4 million to acquire renewable energy facilities from third parties, net of cash and restricted cash acquired, partially off-set by $19.9 million of proceeds from the disposal of property, plant and equipment.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, net cash used in investing activities was $171.3 million, consisting of $36.7 million of capital expenditures, $110.7 million of consideration paid, net of cash acquired, for the Solar Acquisition, $23.4 million to acquire renewable energy facilities from third parties, net of cash and restricted cash acquired, $0.9 million for customer and site lease acquisitions, and $0.3 million of other cash receipts from investing activities.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities was $491.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, which consisted primarily of $311.1 million of proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, $637.5 million of proceeds from the Merger, $82.0 million of proceeds from issuance of common stock and Series A preferred stock, and $3.8 million of contributions from noncontrolling interests. Cash provided by financing activities was partially off-set by $160.5 million to repay long-term debt, $2.6 million of debt issuance costs, $1.5 million of debt extinguishment costs, $55.4 million of transaction costs related to the Merger, $290.0 million of repayment of Series A preferred stock, $22.2 million of paid dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock, $5.3 million paid to redeem noncontrolling interests, and $5.0 million of distributions to noncontrolling interests.
Net cash provided by financing activities was $165.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, which consisted of $205.8 million of proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, $31.5 million proceeds from issuance of common stock and Series A preferred stock, and $23.9 million of contributions from noncontrolling interests. Net cash provided by financing activities was partially off-set by $55.8 million to repay long-term debt, $22.5 million distribution to common equity stockholder, $13.0 million of paid dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock, $1.6 million of debt issuance costs, $1.5 million paid to redeem noncontrolling interests, $1.3 million of distributions to noncontrolling interests, and $0.5 million of paid contingent consideration.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
Our management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is based on our consolidated annual financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, costs and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our financial statements. We base our estimates on historical experience, known trends and events and various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
While the Company’s significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 to its consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, it believes the following accounting policies and estimates to be most critical to the preparation of its consolidated financial statements.
Business Combinations and Acquisitions of Assets
The Company applies the definition of a business in ASC 805, Business Combinations, to determine whether it is acquiring a business or a group of assets. When the Company acquires a business, the purchase price is allocated to (i) the acquired tangible assets and liabilities assumed, primarily consisting of solar energy facilities and land, (ii) the identified intangible assets and liabilities, primarily consisting of favorable and unfavorable rate PPAs and REC agreements, (iii) asset retirement obligations (iv) non-controlling interests, and (v) other working capital items based in each case on their estimated fair values. The excess of the purchase price, if any, over the estimated fair value of net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. The fair value measurements of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed were derived utilizing an income approach and based, in part, on significant inputs not observable in the market. These inputs include, but are not limited to, estimates of future power generation, commodity prices, operating costs, and appropriate discount rates. These inputs required significant judgments and estimates at the time of the valuation. In addition, acquisition costs related to business combinations are expensed as incurred.
When an acquired group of assets does not constitute a business, the transaction is accounted for as an asset acquisition. The cost of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in asset acquisitions is allocated based upon relative fair value. The fair value measurements of the solar facilities acquired and asset retirement obligations assumed were derived utilizing an income approach and based, in part, on significant inputs not observable in the market. These inputs include, but are not limited to, estimates of future power generation, commodity prices, operating costs, and appropriate discount rates. These inputs required significant judgments and estimates at the time of the valuation. Transaction costs incurred on an asset acquisition are capitalized as a component of the assets acquired.
Revenue from Power Purchase Agreements
A portion of the Company’s power sales revenues is earned through the sale of energy (based on kilowatt hours) pursuant to terms of PPAs. PPAs that qualify as leases under ASC 840, Leases, or derivatives under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, are not material and the majority of the Company’s PPAs are accounted for under ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The Company’s PPAs typically have fixed or floating rates and are generally invoiced on a monthly basis. The Company typically sells energy and related environmental attributes (e.g., RECs) separately to different customers and considers the delivery of power energy under PPAs to represent a series of distinct goods that is substantially the same and has the same pattern of transfer measured by the output method. The Company applied the practical expedient allowing the Company to recognize revenue in the amount that the Company has a right to invoice which is equal to the volume of energy delivered multiplied by the applicable contract rate. For certain of the Company’s rooftop solar energy facilities, revenue is recognized net of immaterial pass-through lease charges collected on behalf of building owners.
Revenue from Net Metering Credit Agreements
A portion of the Company’s power sales revenues are obtained through the sale of net metering credits under NMCAs. Net metering credits are awarded to the Company by the local utility based on kilowatt hour generation by solar energy facilities, and the amount of each credit is determined by the utility’s applicable tariff. The Company currently receives net metering credits from various utilities including Eversource Energy, National Grid Plc, and Xcel Energy. There are no direct costs associated with net metering credits, and therefore, they do not receive an allocation of costs upon generation. Once awarded, these credits are then sold to third party offtakers pursuant to the terms of the offtaker agreements. The Company views each net metering credit in these arrangements as a distinct performance obligation satisfied at a point in time. Generally, the customer obtains control of net metering credits at the point in time when the utility assigns the generated credits to the Company, who directs the utility to allocate to the customer based upon a schedule. The transfer of credits by the Company to the customer can be up to one-month after the underlying power is generated. As a result, revenue related to NMCA is recognized upon delivery of net metering credits by the Company to the customer. The Company’s customers apply net metering credits as a reduction to their utility bills.
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Solar Renewable Energy Certificate Revenue
The Company applies for and receives SRECs in certain jurisdictions for power generated by solar energy systems it owns. The quantity of SRECs is based on the amount of energy produced by the Company’s qualifying generation facilities. SRECs are sold pursuant to agreements with third parties, who typically require SRECs to comply with state-imposed renewable portfolio standards. Holders of SRECs may benefit from registering the credits in their name to comply with these state-imposed requirements, or from selling SRECs to a party that requires additional SRECs to meet its compliance obligations. The Company receives SRECs from various state regulators including: New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, and Maryland Public Service Commission. There are no direct costs associated with SRECs, and therefore, they do not receive an allocation of costs upon generation. The majority of individual SREC sales reflect a fixed quantity and fixed price structure over a specified term. The Company typically sells SRECs to different customers from those purchasing the energy under PPAs. The Company believes the sale of each SREC is a distinct performance obligation satisfied at a point in time and that the performance obligation related to each SREC is satisfied when each SREC is delivered to the customer.
Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in the consolidated financial statements. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the differences between the financial statements and tax basis of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. The effect of a change in tax rate on deferred tax assets and liabilities is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.
The Company records net deferred tax assets to the extent it believes these assets will more likely than not be realized. In evaluating if a valuation allowance is warranted, the Company considers all available positive and negative evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, tax planning strategies and recent financial operations, refer to Note 18 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires the Company to report information regarding its exposure to various tax positions taken by the Company. The Company is required to determine whether a tax position of the Company is more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by the applicable taxing authority, including the resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The uncertain tax position to be recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than fifty percent likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement, which could result in the Company recording a tax liability that would reduce net assets. The Company reviews and evaluates tax positions and determines whether or not there are uncertain tax positions that require financial statement recognition. Generally, tax authorities can examine all tax returns filed for the last three years.
Management believes that the Company has adequately addressed all relevant tax positions and that there are no unrecorded tax liabilities. As a result, no income tax liability or expense related to uncertain tax positions have been recorded in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.
The Company’s income tax expense, deferred tax assets and liabilities reflect management’s best assessment of estimated future taxes to be paid.
Noncontrolling Interests and Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests in Solar Facility Subsidiaries
Noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests represent third parties’ tax equity interests in the net assets of certain consolidated Solar Facility Subsidiaries, which were created to finance the costs of solar energy facilities under long-term operating agreements. The tax equity interests are generally entitled to receive substantially all the accelerated depreciation tax deductions and investment tax credits arising from Solar Facility Subsidiaries pursuant to their contractual shareholder agreements, together with a portion of these ventures’ distributable cash. The tax equity interests’ claim to tax attributes and distributable cash from Solar Facility Subsidiaries decreases to a small residual interest after a predefined ‘flip point’ occurs, typically the expiration of a time period or upon the tax equity investor’s achievement of a target yield. Because the tax equity interests’ participation in tax attributes and distributable cash from each Solar Facility Subsidiary is not consistent over time with their initial capital contributions or percentage interest, the Company has determined that the provisions in the contractual arrangements represent substantive profit-sharing arrangements. In order to reflect the substantive profit-sharing arrangements, the Company has determined that the appropriate methodology for attributing income and loss to the noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests each period is a balance sheet approach referred to as the Hypothetical Liquidation at Book Value (“HLBV”) method. Under the HLBV method, the amounts of income and loss attributed to the noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests in the consolidated statements of operations reflect changes in the amounts the third parties would hypothetically receive at each balance sheet date based on the liquidation provisions of the respective operating partnership agreements. HLBV assumes that the proceeds available for distribution are equivalent to the unadjusted, stand-alone net assets of each respective partnership, as determined under GAAP. The third parties’
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noncontrolling interest in the results of operations of these subsidiaries is determined as the difference in the noncontrolling interests’ and redeemable noncontrolling interests’ claims under the HLBV method at the start and end of each reporting period, after considering any capital transactions, such as contributions or distributions, between the subsidiaries and third parties. The application of HLBV generally results in the attribution of pre-tax losses to tax equity interests in connection with their receipt of accelerated tax benefits from the Solar Facility Subsidiaries, as the third-party investors’ receipt of these benefits typically reduces their claim on the partnerships’ net assets.
Attributing income and loss to the noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests under the HLBV method requires the use of significant assumptions and estimates to calculate the amounts that third parties would receive upon a hypothetical liquidation. Changes in these assumptions and estimates can have a significant impact on the amount that third parties would receive upon a hypothetical liquidation. The use of the HLBV methodology to allocate income to the noncontrolling and redeemable noncontrolling interest holders may create volatility in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations as the application of HLBV can drive changes in net income available and loss attributable to noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests from quarter to quarter.
The Company classifies certain noncontrolling interests with redemption features that are not solely within the control of the Company outside of permanent equity on its consolidated balance sheets. Estimated redemption value is calculated as the discounted cash flows attributable to the third parties subsequent to the reporting date. Redeemable noncontrolling interests are reported using the greater of their carrying value at each reporting date as determined by the HLBV method or their estimated redemption value in each reporting period. Estimating the redemption value of the redeemable noncontrolling interests requires the use of significant assumptions and estimates. Changes in these assumptions and estimates can have a significant impact on the calculation of the redemption value. See Note 12, “Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest” to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on 10-K.

Emerging Growth Company Status
In April 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act, was enacted. Section 107 of the JOBS Act provides that an “emerging growth company,” or an EGC, can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, for complying with new or revised accounting standards. Thus, an EGC can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. Altus has elected to use the extended transition period for new or revised accounting standards during the period in we remain an EGC.
We expect to remain an EGC until the earliest to occur of: (1) the last day of the fiscal year in which we, as applicable, have more than $1.07 billion in annual revenue; (2) the date we qualify as a “large accelerated filer,” with at least $700.0 million of equity securities held by non-affiliates; (3) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period; and (4) the last day of the fiscal year ending after the fifth anniversary of our initial public offering.
Additionally, we are exposed.

a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K. We will remain a smaller reporting company until the last day of the fiscal year in which (i) the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is greater than or equal to $250 million as of the end of that fiscal year's second fiscal quarter, or (ii) our annual revenues are greater than or equal to $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year and the market value of our stock held by non-affiliates is greater than or equal to $700 million as of the end of that fiscal year's second fiscal quarter. If we are a smaller reporting company at the time we cease to be an emerging growth company, we may continue to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are available to smaller reporting companies. Specifically, as a smaller reporting company we may choose to present only the two most recent fiscal years of audited financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and, similar to emerging growth companies, smaller reporting companies have reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation.


Recent Accounting Pronouncements
A description of recently issued accounting pronouncements that may potentially impact our financial position and results of operations is disclosed in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
We are exposed to various market risks in our normal business activities. Market risk is the potential loss that may result from market changes associated with our business or with an existing or forecasted financial or commodity transactions.
Interest Rate Risk
Changes in interest rates create a modest risk because certain borrowings bear interest at floating rates based on LIBOR plus a specified margin. We sometimes manage our interest rate exposure on floating-rate debt by entering into derivative instruments to hedge all or a portion of our interest rate exposure on certain debt facilities. We do not enter into any derivative instruments for trading or speculative purposes. Changes in economic conditions could result in higher interest rates, thereby increasing our interest expense and operating expenses and reducing funds available to capital investments, operations and other purposes. A hypothetical 10% increase in our interest rates on our variable debt facilities would not have a material impact on the value of the Company’s cash, cash equivalents, debt, net loss or cash flows.
Credit Risk
Financial instruments which potentially subject Altus to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and restricted cash. Our investment policy requires cash and restricted cash to be placed with high-quality financial institutions and limits the amount of credit risk from any one issuer. We additionally perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers’ financial condition whenever deemed necessary and generally do not require collateral.

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

ITEM 8.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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CBRE Acquisition Holdings, of Altus Power, Inc.:

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheetsheets of CBRE Acquisition Holdings,Altus Power, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company)"Company") as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders’stockholders' equity (deficit) and cash flows, for each of the two years in the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) throughended December 31, 2020,2021, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the financial statements)"financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) throughended December 31, 2020,2021, in conformity with U.S.accounting principles generally accepted accounting principles.

in the United States of America.


Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’sCompany's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on thesethe Company's financial statements based on our audit.audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.


We conducted our auditaudits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audit of the financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our auditaudits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

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We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2020.

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Altus Power, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except share and per share data)


For the Year Ended
December 31,
20212020
Operating revenues, net$71,800 $45,278 
Operating expenses
Cost of operations (exclusive of depreciation and amortization shown separately below)14,029 9,661 
General and administrative16,915 10,143 
Depreciation, amortization and accretion expense20,967 11,932 
Acquisition and entity formation costs1,489 1,015 
Gain on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration(2,800)— 
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment(12,842)— 
Total operating expenses$37,758 $32,751 
Operating income34,042 12,527 
Other (income) expenses
Change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability2,332 — 
Change in fair value of alignment shares liability(5,013)— 
Other expense, net245 258 
Interest expense, net19,933 14,073 
Loss on extinguishment of debt3,245 — 
Total other expense$20,742 $14,331 
Income (loss) before income tax expense$13,300 $(1,804)
Income tax expense(295)(83)
Net income (loss)$13,005 $(1,887)
Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests7,099 (8,680)
Net income attributable to Altus Power, Inc.$5,906 $6,793 
Net income per share attributable to common stockholders
Basic$0.06 $0.08 
Diluted$0.06 $0.07 
Weighted average shares used to compute net income per share attributable to common stockholders
Basic92,751,839 88,741,089 
Diluted96,603,428 90,858,718 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Altus Power, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

December 31, 2020

ASSETS

  

Current Assets:

  

Cash

  $625,916 

Prepaid and other current assets

   1,447,037 
  

 

 

 

Total Current Assets

   2,072,953 

Assets held in Trust Account

   402,501,008 
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

  $404,573,961 
  

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

  

Current Liabilities:

  

Accounts payable

  $4,835 

Due to related party

   6,144 

Franchise tax payable

   26,218 

Accrued expenses

   96,850 
  

 

 

 

Total Current Liabilities

   134,047 

Deferred underwriting commission

   14,087,500 
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

   14,221,547 

Commitments and contingencies

   —   

Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, 38,535,241 shares at December 31, 2020 at a redemption value of $10.00 per share

   385,352,413 

Stockholders’ Equity

  

Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized, none issued and outstanding

   —   

Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 250,000,000 shares authorized, 1,714,759 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 38,535,241 shares subject to redemption)

   171 

Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized, 2,012,500 shares issued and outstanding

   201 

Additional paid-in capital

   5,295,372 

Accumulated deficit

   (295,743
  

 

 

 

Total Stockholders’ Equity

   5,000,001 
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

  $404,573,961 
  

 

 

 

SHEETS

(In thousands, except share and per share data)


As of December 31,
20212020
Assets
Current assets:
Cash$325,983 $33,832 
Current portion of restricted cash2,544 3,465 
Accounts receivable, net9,218 5,752 
Other current assets6,659 1,748 
Total current assets344,404 44,797 
Restricted cash, noncurrent portion1,794 909 
Property, plant and equipment, net745,711 519,394 
Intangible assets, net16,702 11,758 
Goodwill601 — 
Other assets4,037 4,702 
Total assets$1,113,249 $581,560 
Liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interests, and stockholders' equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$3,591 $1,571 
Interest payable4,494 2,665 
Purchase price payable— 2,638 
Current portion of long-term debt21,143 35,209 
Other current liabilities3,663 1,369 
Total current liabilities32,891 43,452 
Redeemable warrant liability49,933 — 
Alignment shares liability127,474 — 
Long-term debt, net of unamortized debt issuance costs and current portion524,837 353,934 
Intangible liabilities, net13,758 4,647 
Asset retirement obligations7,628 4,446 
Deferred tax liabilities, net9,603 11,001 
Other long-term liabilities5,587 6,774 
Total liabilities$771,711 $424,254 
Commitments and contingent liabilities (Note 13)00
Redeemable noncontrolling interests15,527 18,311 
Stockholders' equity
Common stock $0.0001 par value; 988,591,250 shares authorized as of December 31, 2021 and 2020; 153,648,830 and 89,999,976 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively15 
Preferred stock $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; zero shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021 and 2020— — 
Additional paid-in capital406,259 205,772 
Accumulated deficit(101,356)(80,802)
Total stockholders' equity$304,918 $124,979 
Noncontrolling interests21,093 14,016 
Total equity$326,011 $138,995 
Total liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interests, and stockholders' equity$1,113,249 $581,560 



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The following table presents the assets and liabilities of the consolidated variable interest entities (Refer to Note 8).

As of December 31,
(In thousands)20212020
Assets of consolidated VIEs, included in total assets above:
Cash$7,524 $7,288 
Current portion of restricted cash1,763 3,106 
Accounts receivable, net2,444 2,842 
Other current assets1,400 846 
Restricted cash, noncurrent portion1,122 352 
Property, plant and equipment, net363,991 344,140 
Intangible assets, net6,909 6,477 
Other assets739 358 
Total assets of consolidated VIEs$385,892 $365,409 
Liabilities of consolidated VIEs, included in total liabilities above:
Accounts payable419 876 
Current portion of long-term debt, net2,457 — 
Other current liabilities776 1,118 
Long-term debt, net of current portion34,022 — 
Intangible liabilities, net2,420 1,020 
Asset retirement obligations3,988 3,390 
Other long-term liabilities548 351 
Total liabilities of consolidated VIEs$44,630 $6,755 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.


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Altus Power, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)
(In thousands, except share data)

Class A Common StockAdditional Paid-in CapitalRetained
Earnings
(Accumulated Deficit)
Total Stockholders'
Equity (Deficit)
Non
Controlling Interests
Total
Equity (Deficit)
SharesAmount
As of 12/31/2019 (as previously reported)1,029 $1 $163 $(47,339)$(47,175)$8,430 $(38,745)
Retroactive application of recapitalization89,998,947 167,433 — 167,441 — 167,441 
As of December 31, 2019, effect of reverse acquisition (Note 3)89,999,976 $9 $167,596 $(47,339)$120,266 $8,430 $128,696 
Issuance of Series A preferred stock— — 31,500 — 31,500 — 31,500 
Cash contributions from noncontrolling interests— — — — — 13,246 13,246 
Accretion of Series A preferred stock— — 2,166 (2,166)— — — 
Stock-based compensation— — 82 — 82 — 82 
Accrued dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— — 15,590 (15,590)— — — 
Payment of dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— — (12,950)— (12,950)— (12,950)
Cash distributions to a common equity stockholder— — — (22,500)(22,500)— (22,500)
Cash distributions to noncontrolling interests— — — — — (896)(896)
Redemption of noncontrolling interests— — 417 — 417 (1,465)(1,048)
Non-cash redemption of noncontrolling interests— — 1,371 — 1,371 (1,389)(18)
Noncontrolling interests assumed through acquisitions— — — — — 5,020 5,020 
Net income (loss)— — — 6,793 6,793 (8,930)(2,137)
As of December 31, 202089,999,976 $9 $205,772 $(80,802)$124,979 $14,016 $138,995 
Issuance of Series A preferred stock— — 82,000 — 82,000 — 82,000 
Cash contributions from noncontrolling interests— — — — — 3,846 3,846 
Accretion of Series A preferred stock— — 8,417 (8,417)— — — 
Stock-based compensation— — 148 — 148 — 148 
Accrued dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— — 18,043 (18,043)— — — 
Payment of dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— — (22,207)— (22,207)— (22,207)
Issuance of Class A common stock upon the Merger, net of redemptions and equity issuance costs63,648,854 401,709 — 401,715 — 401,715 
Redemption of Series A preferred stock— — (290,000)— (290,000)— (290,000)
Cash distributions to noncontrolling interests— — — — — (3,891)(3,891)
Redemption of noncontrolling interests— — 1,346 — 1,346 (4,613)(3,267)
Redemption of redeemable noncontrolling interests— — 1,031 — 1,031 — 1,031 
Noncontrolling interests assumed through acquisitions— — — — — 4,315 4,315 
Net income (loss)— — — 5,906 5,906 7,420 13,326 
As of December 31, 2021153,648,830 $15 $406,259 $(101,356)$304,918 $21,093 $326,011 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.


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CBRE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.

STATEMENT



Altus Power, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

For the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020

Operating expenses

  $270,533 

Franchise tax expense

   26,218 
  

 

 

 

Loss from operations

   296,751 
  

 

 

 

Other income:

  

Interest income earned on assets held in Trust Account

   1,008 
  

 

 

 

Loss before income tax expense

  $(295,743

Provision for income taxes

   —   
  

 

 

 

Net loss

  $(295,743) 
  

 

 

 

Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock

   8,553,125 
  

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A common stock

  $0.00 
  

 

 

 

Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock

   1,484,249 
  

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B common stock

  $(0.20
  

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

Year ended December 31,
20212020
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income (loss)$13,005 $(1,887)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash from operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization and accretion20,967 11,932 
Unrealized (gain) loss on interest rate swaps(324)82 
Deferred tax expense219 60 
Amortization of debt discount and financing costs2,873 2,538 
Loss on extinguishment of debt3,245 — 
Change in fair value of redeemable warrant liability2,332 — 
Change in fair value of alignment shares liability(5,013)— 
Remeasurement of contingent consideration(2,800)— 
Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment(12,842)— 
Stock-based compensation148 82 
Other104 780 
Changes in assets and liabilities, excluding the effect of acquisitions
Accounts receivable162 (1,287)
Due from related parties— 
Other assets(4,647)495 
Accounts payable2,001 (1,477)
Interest payable1,909 1,769 
Other liabilities2,365 (794)
Net cash provided by operating activities23,704 12,296 
Cash flows from investing activities
Capital expenditures(14,585)(36,677)
Payments to acquire businesses, net of cash and restricted cash acquired(201,175)(110,691)
Payments to acquire renewable energy facilities from third parties, net of cash and restricted cash acquired(27,364)(23,381)
Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment19,910 — 
Payments for customer and site lease acquisitions— (893)
Other(36)300 
Net cash used for investing activities(223,250)(171,342)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt311,053 205,808 
Repayments of long-term debt(160,487)(55,754)
Payment of debt issuance costs(2,628)(1,584)
Payment of debt extinguishment costs(1,477)— 
Distributions to common equity stockholder— (22,500)
Proceeds from the Merger and PIPE financing637,458 — 
Payment of transaction costs related to the Merger(55,442)— 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock and Series A preferred stock82,000 31,500 
Repayment of Series A preferred stock(290,000)— 
Payment of dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock(22,207)(12,950)
Payment of contingent consideration(153)(501)
Contributions from noncontrolling interests3,846 23,927 
Redemption of noncontrolling interests(5,324)(1,524)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests(4,978)(1,307)
Net cash provided by financing activities491,661 165,115 
Net increase in cash and restricted cash292,115 6,069 
Cash and restricted cash, beginning of year38,206 32,137 
Cash and restricted cash, end of year$330,321 $38,206 
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Year ended December 31,
20212020
Supplemental cash flow disclosure
Cash paid for interest, net of amounts capitalized$15,015 $9,736 
Cash paid for taxes103 38 
Non-cash investing and financing activities
Asset retirement obligations$3,024 $3,763 
Debt assumed through acquisitions5,920 16,020 
Initial recording of noncontrolling interest4,569 9,400 
Contribution of noncontrolling interest by common equity stockholder— 1,389 
Acquisitions of property and equipment included in other current liabilities234 635 
Acquisition of business, contingent consideration obligations at fair value— 5,100 
Accrued dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— 4,163 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.




CBRE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

For

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Altus Power, Inc.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)
1.General
Company Overview
Altus Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or "Altus"), headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, develops, owns, constructs and operates small-scale utility, commercial, industrial, public sector and community photovoltaic solar energy generation and storage facilities for the period from October 13, 2020 (inception)purpose of producing and selling electricity to credit worthy counterparties under long-term contracts. The Solar energy facilities are owned by the Company in project specific limited liability companies (the “Solar Facility Subsidiaries”).
On December 31, 2020

   Common Stock   Additional
Paid-in

Capital
  Accumulated
Deficit
  Stockholders’
Equity
 
   Class A  Class B 
   Shares  Amount  Shares   Amount 

Balance at October 13, 2020 (inception)

   —    $     —     $     $    $    $   

Issuance of Class B common stock to Sponsor, net of forfeiture, at $0.0001 per share(1)

   —     —     2,012,500    201    24,899   —     25,100 

Sale of Private Placement Warrants to Sponsor

   —     —     —      —      11,050,000   —     11,050,000 

Proceeds from initial public offering of units on December 10, 2020 at $10.00 per unit

   40,250,000   4,025   —      —      402,495,975   —     402,500,000 

Offering costs

   —     —     —      —      (22,926,943  —     (22,926,943

Class A common stock subject to possible redemption

   (38,535,241  (3,854  —      —      (385,348,559  —     (385,352,413

Net loss attributable to common stock

   —     —     —      —      —     (295,743  (295,743
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2020

   1,714,759  $171   2,012,500   $201   $5,295,372  $(295,743 $5,000,001 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

(1)

On October 13, 2020, CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC (the “Sponsor”) purchased 100 undesignated shares of common stock for a purchase price of $100, or $1 per share, and advanced $25,000 to CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) in exchange for a promissory note. On November 6, 2020, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share, paid through the cancellation of an equivalent outstanding amount under the promissory note between the Company and the Sponsor, and the tender to the Company of all 100 shares of the Company’s undesignated common stock held by the Sponsor. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 shares of Class B common stock were forfeited by the Sponsor. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor sold an aggregate of 201,250 alignment shares to certain of the Company’s directors, or their respective designees, and an officer of the Company.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

CBRE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

For the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) to December 31, 2020

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

  

Net loss

  $(295,743

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:

  

Accrued interest income (from Trust Account)

   (1,008

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

  

Prepaid and other current assets

   (1,447,037

Accounts payable

   4,835 

Due to related party

   6,144 

Franchise tax payable

   26,218 

Accrued expenses

   96,850 
  

 

 

 

Net cash used in operating activities

  $(1,609,741
  

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

  

Proceeds deposited in Trust Account

  $(402,500,000
  

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

  $(402,500,000
  

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

  

Proceeds from initial public offering

  $402,500,000 

Proceeds from issuance of private placement warrants

   11,050,000 

Proceeds from note payable – Sponsor

   240,416 

Repayment of note payable – Sponsor

   (215,316

Payment of offering related costs

   (8,839,443
  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

  $404,735,657 
  

 

 

 

Increase in cash

   625,916 

Cash at beginning of period

   —   
  

 

 

 

Cash at end of period

  $625,916 
  

 

 

 

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

  

Extinguishment of note payable for issuance of Class B common stock

  $25,100 

Deferred underwriting commissions in connection with the initial public offering

  $14,087,500 

Change in Class A common stock subject to possible redemption

  $385,352,413 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc.

Notes to the Financial Statements

NOTE 1—DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Organization and General

9, 2021 (the "Closing Date"), CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. ("CBAH"), a special purpose acquisition company, consummated the business combination pursuant to the terms of the business combination agreement entered into on July 12, 2021 (the “Company”"Business Combination Agreement"), whereby, among other things, CBAH Merger Sub I, Inc. ("First Merger Sub") was incorporatedmerged with and into Altus Power, Inc. (f/k/a Altus Power America, Inc.) ("Legacy Altus") with Legacy Altus continuing as the surviving corporation, and immediately thereafter Legacy Altus merged with and into CBAH Merger Sub II, Inc. ("Second Merger Sub") with Second Merger Sub continuing as the surviving entity and as a Delaware corporation on October 13, 2020. The Company was formed forwholly owned subsidiary of CBAH (together with the purpose of effecting a merger share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”the First Merger sub, the “Merger). The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”).

On October 13, 2020, the Company was funded by its Sponsor (as defined below) in the amount of $25,100, purchasing 100 undesignated shares of common stock for $100 and advancing $25,000 in exchange for a promissory note. The registration statement for the Company’s initial public offering (the “Initial Public Offering”) was declared effective on December 10, 2020. On December 15, 2020, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering (as described below). All activity for the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020 relates to the Company’s formation, the Initial Public Offering and since the Initial Public Offering. The Company will not generate operating revenues prior to the completion of its Business Combination and will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on permitted investments from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. See “The Trust Account” below. The Company has selected December 31st as its fiscal year end.

Sponsor

The Company’s sponsor is CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”). On November 6, 2020, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of Class B common stock (“Class B common stock” or “Alignment Shares”) for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share, paid through the cancellation of an equivalent outstanding amount under the promissory note between the Company and the Sponsor, and the tender to the Company of all 100 shares of the Company’s undesignated common stock held by the Sponsor. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 shares of Class B common stock were forfeited by the Sponsor. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Company amended and restated its certificate of incorporation to reclassify its Class B common stock. See “Note 3—Initial Public Offering—Alignment Shares” below. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor sold an aggregate of 201,250 Alignment Shares to certain of the Company’s directors, or their respective designees, and an officer of the Company.

Initial Public Offering

The Company intends to finance a Business Combination with proceeds of $402,500,000 from the Initial Public Offering of 40,250,000 SAILSM securities (including the full exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option) consisting of one share of Class A of common stock, $0.0001 par value, of the Company (“Class A common stock”) and one-fourth of one warrant and approximately $11,050,000 from the sale of 7,366,667 Private Placement Warrants (as defined below) at $1.50 per warrant. Approximately $402,500,000 was held in a Trust Account (as defined below) as of the closing of the Initial Public OfferingMerger, CBAH changed its name to "Altus Power, Inc."

COVID-19
The spike of a novel strain coronavirus (“COVID-19”) in the first quarter of 2020 caused significant volatility in the U.S. markets that remain ongoing. There is significant uncertainty around the breadth and duration of business disruptions and restrictions related to COVID-19, as well as its impact on the sale of Private Placement Warrants.U.S. economy. To date, there has not been a material impact on the Company’s business operations and financial performance. The underwriter’s over-allotment option, which was exercised in full by the underwriter on December 11, 2020 included 5,250,000 SAILSM securities consisting of 5,250,000 shares of Class A common stock and 1,312,500 warrants which were issued to cover over-allotments.

The Trust Account

Of the $413,550,000 in proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and the saleextent of the Private Placement Warrants, $402,500,000 was depositedimpact of COVID-19 on the Company’s operational and financial performance will depend in an interest-bearing U.S. based trust account (“Trust Account”). The fundspart, on the length and severity of these restrictions and on the Company’s ability to conduct business in the Trust Account will be invested only in specified U.S. government treasury bills with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations (collectively “permitted investments”).

ordinary course.


Funds will remain in the Trust Account except for the withdrawal of interest earned on the funds that may be released to the Company to pay taxes. The proceeds from the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (i) the completion of a Business Combination, (ii) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to allow redemption in connection with the Company’s Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the public shares if the Company does not complete a Business Combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the closing of the Initial Public Offering or (B) with respect to other specified provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-Business Combination activity, and (iii) the redemption of all of the Company’s public shares if it has not completed a Business Combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, subject to applicable law.

The remaining proceeds outside the Trust Account may be used to pay business, legal and accounting due diligence costs on prospective acquisitions, listing fees and continuing general and administrative expenses.

Business Combination

The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering, although substantially all of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering are intended to be generally applied toward consummating a Business Combination with (or acquisition of) a target business. As used herein, a Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses that together have an aggregate fair market value equal to at least 80% of the balance in the Trust Account (less any deferred underwriting commissions and taxes payable on interest earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the Company signing a definitive agreement.

After signing a definitive agreement for a Business Combination, the Company will provide the public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their shares of Class A common stock either (i) in connection with a stockholder meeting to approve the Business Combination or (ii) by means of a tender offer. Each public stockholder may elect to redeem their public shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the Business Combination at a per share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Business Combination including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, subject to the limitations described herein. The amount in the Trust Account is initially anticipated to be approximately $10.00 per public share. The per-share amount the Company will distribute to investors who properly redeem their shares will not be reduced by the deferred underwriting commissions payable to the underwriter. The decision as to whether the Company will seek stockholder approval of the Business Combination or will allow stockholders to sell their shares in a tender offer will be made by the Company, solely in its discretion, and will be based on a variety of factors such as the timing of the transaction and whether the terms of the transaction would otherwise require the Company to seek stockholder approval under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements. If the Company seeks stockholder approval, it will complete its Business Combination only if a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock voted are voted in favor of the Business Combination (or, if the applicable rules of the NYSE then in effect require, a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock held by public stockholders are voted in favor of the business transaction). However, in no event will the Company redeem its public shares in an amount that would cause its net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001, after payment of the deferred underwriting commission. In such an instance, the Company would not proceed with the redemption of its public shares and the related Business Combination, and instead may search for an alternate Business Combination.

The Company has 24 months from the closing date of the Initial Public Offering to complete its Business Combination (or 27 months, as applicable). If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within this period, it shall (i) cease all operations except for the purposes of winding up; (ii) as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, subject to lawfully available funds therefore, redeem the public shares, at a per share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account,

including interest earned on the funds in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay its taxes (and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses) divided by the number of then outstanding public shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of the remaining stockholders and the board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in each case to the Company’s obligations under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law. The Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have entered into a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they will waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to their Alignment Shares if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering (or 27 months, as applicable). However, if the Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors acquire public shares after the Initial Public Offering, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to such public shares if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the allotted 24 month period (or 27 month period, as applicable).

The underwriter has agreed to waive its rights to any deferred underwriting commission held in the Trust Account in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination and those amounts will be included with the funds held in the Trust Account that will be available to fund the redemption of the Company’s public shares.

If the Company fails to complete a Business Combination, the redemption of the Company’s public shares will reduce the book value of the shares held by the Sponsor and the Company’s directors and officers, who will be the only remaining stockholders after such redemptions.

If the Company holds a stockholder vote or there is a tender offer for shares in connection with a Business Combination, a public stockholder will have the right to redeem its shares for an amount in cash equal to its pro rata share of the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to the Company to pay taxes. As a result, such shares have been recorded at their redemption amount and classified as temporary equity in accordance with FASB2.Significant Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”

Going Concern Consideration

In connection with the Company’s assessment of going concern considerations in accordance with FASB’s Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-15, “Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,” management has determined that the Company has access to additional funds from the Sponsor that are sufficient to fund the working capital needs of the Company for at least one year from the issuance of these financial statements. See “Note 4—Related Party Transactions—Notes Payable—Sponsor” for further information.

NOTE 2—SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Policies

Basis of Presentation

and Principles of Consolidation

The accompanyingCompany prepares its consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”GAAP) and pursuant to the accounting and disclosure rules and regulations of the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”("SEC"), and reflect all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the. The Company’s consolidated financial position at December 31, 2020 andstatements include the results of operationswholly-owned and cash flowspartially-owned subsidiaries in which the Company has a controlling interest with all intercompany balances and transactions eliminated in consolidation.
Legacy Altus was deemed the accounting acquirer in the Merger based on an analysis of the criteria outlined in Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 805. This determination was primarily based on evaluation of the following facts and circumstances:
a.Stockholders of Legacy Altus have over 50% of the voting interest in the post-merger company;
b.the board of directors of the post-combination company comprises one director designated by the holders of the Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Class B common stock" or the "Alignment shares") (including the Sponsor), one director designated by Blackstone (an existing stockholder of Altus), one director designated by ValueAct Capital Management, L.P. and five additional directors determined by the existing Altus stockholders;
c.Management of Legacy Altus holds all executive management roles (including the Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, among others) of the post-combination company and is responsible for the period presented.

Emerging Growth Company

Section 102(b)(1)day-to-day operations;

d.the largest individual minority stockholder of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companiespost-combination company was an existing stockholder of Altus;
e.Altus has significantly more revenue-generating activities than CBAH, which comprises all of the activities conducted by the post-combination company; and
f.the objective of the Merger was to create an operating public company, with management continuing to use Altus’s platform and assets to grow the business under the name of Altus Power, Inc.
Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the Merger was treated as the equivalent of Legacy Altus issuing stock for the net assets of CBAH, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of CBAH are stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.
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While CBAH was the legal acquirer in the Merger, because Legacy Altus was deemed the accounting acquirer, the historical financial statements of Legacy Altus became the historical financial statements of the combined company, upon the consummation of the Merger. As a result, the financial statements of Altus Power, Inc. reflect (i) the historical operating results of Legacy Altus prior to the Merger; (ii) the combined results of the Company and Legacy Altus following the closing of the Merger; (iii) the assets and liabilities of Legacy Altus at their historical cost; and (iv) the Company’s equity structure for all periods presented.
In accordance with guidance applicable to these circumstances, the equity structure has been restated in all comparative periods up to the Closing Date, to reflect the number of shares of the Company's common stock, $0.0001 par value per share issued to Legacy Altus's stockholders in connection with the recapitalization transaction. As such, the shares and corresponding capital amounts and earnings per share related to Legacy Altus common stock and Series A preferred stock prior to the Merger have been retroactively restated as shares reflecting the exchange ratio (the "Exchange Ratio") established in the Business Combination Agreement.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from being requiredthose estimates.
In recording transactions and balances resulting from business operations, the Company uses estimates based on the best information available. Estimates are used for such items as the fair value of net assets acquired in connection with accounting for business combinations, the useful lives of the solar energy facilities, and inputs and assumptions used in the valuation of asset retirement obligations (“AROs”), contingent considerations, and alignment shares.
Variable Interest Entities
The Company consolidates all variable interest entities ("VIEs") in which it holds a variable interest and is deemed to complybe the primary beneficiary of the variable interest entity. Generally, a variable interest entity, or VIE, is an entity with newat least one of the following conditions: (a) the total equity investment at risk is insufficient to allow the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support, or revised(b) the holders of the equity investment at risk, as a group, lack the characteristics of having a controlling financial accounting standards until private companies (thatinterest. The primary beneficiary of a VIE is thosean entity that have not hadhas a Securities Act registration statement declared effectivevariable interest or do nota combination of variable interests that provide that entity with a controlling financial interest in the VIE. An entity is deemed to have a classcontrolling financial interest in a VIE if it has both of securities registered under the Securitiesfollowing characteristics: (a) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance, and

Exchange Act (b) the obligation to absorb losses of 1934,the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. The Company evaluates whether an entity is a VIE whenever reconsideration events as amended)defined by the accounting guidance occur. See Note 8.

Segment Information
Operating segments are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides thatdefined as components of a company can electabout which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to opt outallocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company’s chief operating decision makers are the co-chief executive officers. Based on the financial information presented to and reviewed by the chief operating decision makers in deciding how to allocate the resources and in assessing the performance of the extended transition period and comply withCompany, the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected notdetermined it operates as a single operating segment and has one reportable segment. The Company’s principal operations, revenue and decision-making functions are located in the United States.
Cash and Restricted Cash
Cash includes all cash balances on deposit with financial institutions that are denominated in U.S. dollars. Pursuant to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies,the budgeting process, the Company as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard.

Cash

Cash and cash equivalents includemaintains certain cash on hand and on deposit at banking institutions as well as all highly liquid short-term investments with original maturities of 90 days or less. for possible equipment replacement related costs.

The Company did not have anyrecords cash equivalentsthat is restricted as to withdrawal or use under the terms of certain contractual agreements as restricted cash. Restricted cash is included in current portion of restricted cash and restricted cash, noncurrent portion on the consolidated balance sheets and includes cash held with financial institutions for cash collateralized letters of credit pursuant to various financing and construction agreements.
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The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and restricted cash reported within the consolidated balance sheets. Cash and restricted cash consist of the following:
As of December 31,
20212020
Cash$325,983$33,832
Current portion of restricted cash2,5443,465
Restricted cash, noncurrent portion1,794909
Total$330,321$38,206

Accounts Receivable
Management considers the carrying value of accounts receivable to be fully collectible. If amounts become uncollectible, they are charged to operations in the period in which that determination is made. U.S. GAAP requires that the allowance method be used to recognize bad debts. As of December 31, 2020.

Assets Held in Trust Account

The Company invests in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less or in any open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money market fund selected by2021, the Company meetingdetermined that the conditions of paragraphs (d)(2), (d)(3) and (d)(4) of Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company.

allowance for uncollectible accounts receivable was $0.4 million. As of December 31, 2020, the assets heldallowance for uncollectible accounts receivable was not significant.

Concentration of Credit Risk
The Company maintains its cash in bank deposit accounts which, at times, may exceed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limits. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts and believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk on cash balances.
The Company had two customers that individually accounted for 16.0% and 11.7% of total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2021 and 3.4% and 11.7% of revenues for the year then ended, respectively. The Company had one customer that individually accounted for 12.4% of total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2020 and 10.4% of total revenue for the year then ended.
Economic Concentrations
The Company and its subsidiaries own and operate solar generating facilities installed on buildings and land located across the United States. Future operations could be affected by changes in the Trust Accounteconomy, other conditions in those geographic areas or by changes in the demand for renewable energy.
Fair Value Measurements
The Company measures certain assets and liabilities at fair value, which is defined as the price that would be received from the sale of an asset or paid to transfer a liability (i.e., an exit price) on the measurement date in an orderly transaction between market participants in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability. Our fair value measurements use the following hierarchy, which prioritizes valuation inputs based on the extent to which the inputs are comprisedobservable in the market.
Level 1 - Valuation techniques in which all significant inputs are unadjusted quoted prices from active markets for assets or liabilities that are identical to the assets or liabilities being measured.
Level 2 - Valuation techniques in which significant inputs include quoted prices from active markets for assets or liabilities that are similar to the assets or liabilities being measured and/or quoted prices for assets or liabilities that are identical or similar to the assets or liabilities being measured from markets that are not active. Also, model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable in active markets are Level 2 valuation techniques.
Level 3 - Valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs are unobservable. Such inputs reflect our estimate of $402,500,000 investedassumptions that market participants would use to price an asset or liability.

The Company holds various financial instruments that are not required to be recorded at fair value. For cash, restricted cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and short-term debt the carrying amounts approximate fair value due to the short maturity of these instruments.
Long-term debt
The estimated fair value of the long-term debt, including current portion, as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 was $562.1 million and $400.9 million, respectively, using a discounted cash flow analysis of both outstanding principal and future interest payments
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until such time the Company has the ability to repay the loan. The long-term debt securitiesis considered a Level 2 financial liability under the fair value hierarchy.
Contingent consideration
In connection with the Solar Acquisition (as defined below) on December 22, 2020, contingent consideration of up to an aggregate of $10.5 million may be payable upon achieving certain market power rates and $1,008actual power volumes generated by the acquired solar energy facilities. The Company estimated the fair value of interest receivablethe contingent consideration for future earnout payments using a Monte Carlo simulation model. Significant assumptions used in the measurement include the estimated volumes of power generation of acquired solar energy facilities during the 18-36-month period since the acquisition date, market power rates during the 36-month period, and the risk-adjusted discount rate associated with those investments.the business. As the inputs are not observable, the overall fair value measurement of the contingent consideration is classified as Level 3. The Company classifiesliability related to the marketable debt securities heldcontingent consideration is included in Other long-term liabilities in the Trust Account as available for sale. Available for sale debt securities are carriedconsolidated balance sheets at theirthe estimated fair value of $2.3 million as of December 31, 2021 and any difference between cost and$5.1 million as of December 31, 2020. Gain on fair value isremeasurement of contingent consideration of $2.8 million was recorded as an unrealized gain or loss, net ofwithin operating income taxes, and is reported as accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. The gain was recorded due to changes in the actual versus estimated volumes of power generation of acquired solar energy facilities and market power rates. No gain or loss on fair value remeasurement of contingent consideration was recorded for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Redeemable warrants and Alignment shares
CBAH sold 10,062,500 warrants as part of the SAILSM securities in the CBAH initial public offering (which traded separately on the NYSE under the symbol “CBAH WS” prior to the Merger, and following the Merger trade under the symbol “AMPS WS”) (such warrants, the "Redeemable warrants"). The Redeemable warrants will be exercisable for an aggregate of 10,062,500 shares of the Company's Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Class A common stock"), at a purchase price of $11.00 per share. CBAH also issued 7,366,667 warrants to CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC (the “Sponsor”) in a private placement simultaneously with the closing of the CBAH IPO and 2,000,000 warrants to the Sponsor in full settlement of a second amended and restated promissory note with the Sponsor (such warrants, the "Private Placement Warrants"). The Private Placement Warrants will be exercisable for an aggregate of 9,366,667 shares of CBAH Class A common stock at a purchase price of $11.00 per share.
Redeemable warrants, including Private Placement Warrants, are not considered to be “indexed to the Company’s own stock.” This provision precludes the Company from classifying the Redeemable warrants, including Private Placement Warrants, in stockholders’ equity. As the Redeemable warrants, including Private Placement Warrants, meet the definition of a derivative, the Company recorded these warrants as liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet at fair value, with subsequent changes in their respective fair values recognized in the consolidated statements of operations at each reporting date.
As the Redeemable warrants (other than our Private Placement Warrants) continue to trade separately on the NYSE following the Merger, the Company determines the fair value of the Redeemable warrants based on the quoted trading price of those warrants. As the inputs are observable and reflect quoted trading price, the overall fair value measurement of the Redeemable warrants, excluding Private Placement Warrants, is classified as Level 1. The Private Placement Warrants have the same redemption and make-whole provisions as the Redeemable warrants. Therefore, the fair value of the Private Placement Warrants is equal to the Redeemable warrants. Private Placement Warrants are considered Level 2 as they are measured at fair value using observable inputs for similar assets in an active market.
The Company has 1,408,750 Alignment shares outstanding, all of which are held by the Sponsor, certain former officers of CBAH (such officers, together with the Sponsor, the “Sponsor Parties”) and former CBAH directors. The Alignment shares will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock based upon the Total Return (as defined in Exhibit 4.4 to this Form) on the Class A common stock as of the relevant measurement date over each of the seven fiscal years following the Merger.
Upon the consummation of the Merger, Alignment shares have no continuing service requirement and do not create an unconditional obligation requiring the Company to redeem the instruments by transferring assets. In addition, the shares convert to a variable number of Class A common stock depending on the trading price of the Class A common stock and dividends paid/payable to the holders of Class A common stock. Therefore, the shares do not represent an obligation or a conditional obligation to issue a variable number of shares with a monetary value based on any of the criteria in ASC 480, Distinguishing Liabilities From Equity. The Company determined that the Alignment shares meet the definition of a derivative because they contain (i) an underlying (Class A common stock price), (ii) a notional amount (a fixed number of Class B common stock), (iii) no or minimal initial net investment (the Sponsor paid a de minimis amount which is less than the estimated fair value of the shares), and (iv) net settleable through a conversion of the Alignment shares into Class A shares. As such, the Company concluded that the Alignment shares meet the definition of a derivative, which will be presented at fair value each reporting period, with changes in fair value recorded through earnings.
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The Company estimates the fair value of outstanding Alignment shares using a Monte Carlo simulation valuation model utilizing a distribution of potential outcomes based on a set of underlying assumptions such as stock price, volatility, and risk-free interest rate. As volatility of 70% and risk-free interest rate of 1.4% are not observable inputs, the overall fair value measurement of Alignment shares is classified as Level 3. Unobservable inputs can be volatile and a change in those inputs might result in a significantly higher or lower fair value measurement of Alignment shares.
Upon the Merger, the Company assumed $47.6 million of redeemable warrant liability which was remeasured as of December 31, 2021 to $49.9 million and included in the consolidated balance sheet. Loss on fair value remeasurement of redeemable warrant liability of $2.3 million was recorded on the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Upon the Merger, the Company assumed $132.5 million of Alignment shares liability which was remeasured as of December 31, 2021 to $127.5 million and included in the consolidated balance sheet. Gain on fair value remeasurement of Alignment shares liability of $5.0 million was recorded on the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Property, Plant and Equipment
The Company reports property, plant and equipment at cost, less accumulated depreciation. Costs include all costs incurred during the construction and development of the solar energy facilities, including land, development costs and site work. Repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. The Company begins depreciating the property, plant and equipment when the assets are placed in service. Depreciation expense is computed using the straight- line composite method over the estimated useful lives of assets. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the estimated useful lives or the remaining term of the lease. The estimated useful life of an asset is reassessed whenever applicable facts and circumstances indicate a change in the estimated useful life of such asset has occurred.
Business Combinations and Acquisitions of Assets
The Company applies the definition of a business in ASC 805, Business Combinations, to determine whether it is acquiring a business or a group of assets. When the Company acquires a business, the purchase price is allocated to (i) the acquired tangible assets and liabilities assumed, primarily consisting of solar energy facilities and land, (ii) the identified intangible assets and liabilities, primarily consisting of favorable and unfavorable rate power purchase agreements ("PPAs") and renewable energy credit ("REC") agreements, (iii) asset retirement obligations (iv) non-controlling interests, and (v) other working capital items based in each case on their estimated fair values. The excess of the purchase price, if any, over the estimated fair value of net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. The fair value measurements of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed were derived utilizing an income approach and based, in part, on significant inputs not observable in the market. These inputs include, but are not limited to, estimates of future power generation, commodity prices, operating costs, and appropriate discount rates. These inputs required significant judgments and estimates at the time of the valuation. In addition, acquisition costs related to business combinations are expensed as incurred.
When an acquired group of assets does not constitute a business, the transaction is accounted for as an asset acquisition. The cost of securitiesassets acquired and liabilities assumed in asset acquisitions is allocated based upon relative fair value. The fair value measurements of the solar facilities acquired and asset retirement obligations assumed were derived utilizing an income approach and based, in part, on significant inputs not observable in the market. These inputs include, but are not limited to, estimates of future power generation, commodity prices, operating costs, and appropriate discount rates. These inputs required significant judgments and estimates at the time of the valuation. Transaction costs incurred on an asset acquisition are capitalized as a component of the assets acquired.
Intangible Assets, Intangible Liabilities and Amortization
Intangible assets and intangible liabilities include favorable and unfavorable rate PPAs, net metering credit agreements (“NMCAs”), and REC agreements as well as site lease issuance costs, and fees paid to third parties for acquiring customers. PPAs, NMCAs and REC agreements obtained through acquisitions are recorded at the estimated fair value as of the acquisition date and the difference between the contract price and current market price is recorded as an intangible asset or liability.
Amortization of intangible assets and liabilities is recorded within depreciation, amortization and accretion in the consolidated statements of operations. Third party costs necessary to enter into site lease agreements are amortized using the straight-line method ratably over 15-30 years based upon the term of the individual site leases. Third party costs necessary to acquire PPAs and NMCA customers are amortized using the straight-line method ratably over 15-25 years based upon the term of the customer contract. Estimated fair value allocated to the favorable and unfavorable rate PPAs and REC agreements are amortized using the straight-line method over the remaining non-cancelable terms of the respective agreements. The straight-line method of amortization is used because it best reflects the pattern in which the economic benefits of the intangibles are consumed or
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otherwise used up. The amounts and useful lives assigned to intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed impact the amount and timing of future amortization. See Note 6 - Intangible Assets and Intangible Liabilities.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company reviews its long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the asset may not be recoverable. These events and changes in circumstances may include a significant decrease in the market price of a long-lived asset; a significant adverse change in the extent or manner in which a long-lived asset is being used or in its physical condition; a significant adverse change in the business climate that could affect the value of a long-lived asset; an accumulation of costs significantly in excess of the amount originally expected for the acquisition or construction of a long-lived asset; a current-period operating or cash flow loss combined with a history of such losses or a projection of future losses associated with the use of a long-lived asset; or a current expectation that, more likely than not, a long-lived asset will be sold or otherwise disposed of significantly before the end of its previously estimated useful life. For purposes of recognition and measurement of an impairment loss, long-lived assets are grouped with other assets and liabilities at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities.
When impairment indicators are present, recoverability is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of the asset to the future net undiscounted cash flow expected to be generated and any estimated proceeds from the eventual disposition. If the long-lived assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured at the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair market value as determined from an appraisal, discounted cash flows analysis, or other valuation technique. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no events or changes to circumstances that may indicate the carrying value of long-lived asset would not be recoverable, therefore, there was no impairment loss recognized for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
Site Lease Agreements
Certain Solar Facility Subsidiaries have entered into site lease agreements with third parties. Pursuant to the terms of certain of these lease agreements, the subsidiaries agreed to pay the third parties a fee escalating annually per the terms of the agreements. U.S. GAAP requires that lease expense be recorded on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, $2.1 million and $1.2 million, respectively, have been recorded as other long-term liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets relating to the difference between actual lease payments and straight-line lease expense.
Deferred Financing Costs
Deferred financing costs are capitalized and amortized to interest expense, net over the term of the related debt using the effective interest method for term loans or the straight-line method for revolving credit facilities. The unamortized balance of deferred financing costs is recorded in current portion of long- term debt and long-term debt, net of current (see Note 9) for term loans or in other current assets and other assets for revolving credit facilities and debt and equity transactions not yet completed, in the consolidated balance sheets.
Asset Retirement Obligations
Asset retirement obligations ("AROs") are retirement obligations associated with long-lived assets for which a legal obligation exists under enacted laws, statutes, and written or oral contracts, including obligations arising under the doctrine of promissory estoppel, and for which the timing and/or method of settlement may be conditional on a future event. The Company recognizes the fair value of a liability for an ARO in the period in which it is incurred and when a reasonable estimate of fair value can be made.
Upon initial recognition of a liability for an ARO, the asset retirement cost is capitalized by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset by the same amount. Over time, the liability is accreted to its future value, while the capitalized cost is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. The Company’s AROs are primarily related to the future dismantlement of equipment on leased property. The Company records AROs as part of other non-current liabilities on its balance sheet. See Note 16.
Revenue Recognition
The Company derives its operating revenues principally from power purchase agreements, net metering credit agreements, solar renewable energy credits (“SRECs”), and performance based incentives.
Revenue under power purchase agreements
A portion of the Company’s power sales revenues is earned through the sale of energy (based on kilowatt hours) pursuant to terms of PPAs. PPAs that do not qualify as leases under ASC 840, Leases, or derivatives under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging are accounted for under ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or Topic 606. A portion of PPAs that
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qualify as derivatives is not material. The Company’s PPAs typically have fixed or floating rates and are generally invoiced on a monthly basis and as of December 31, 2021 have a weighted-average remaining life of 15 years. The Company typically sells energy and related environmental attributes (e.g., RECs) separately to different customers and considers the delivery of power energy under PPAs to represent a series of distinct goods that is substantially the same and has the same pattern of transfer measured by the output method. The Company applied the practical expedient allowing the Company to recognize revenue in the amount that the Company has a right to invoice which is equal to the volume of energy delivered multiplied by the applicable contract rate. There was no change in the Company’s revenue recognition policy for PPAs as a result of adopting Topic 606. For certain of the Company’s rooftop solar energy facilities revenue is recognized net of immaterial pass-through lease charges collected on behalf of building owners.
Revenue from net metering credit agreements
A portion of the Company’s power sales revenues are obtained through the sale of net metering credits under NMCAs which have a weighted-average remaining life of 18 years as of December 31, 2021. Net metering credits are awarded to the Company by the local utility based on kilowatt hour generation by solar energy facilities, and the amount of each credit is determined by the utility’s applicable tariff. The Company currently receives net metering credits from various utilities including Eversource Energy, National Grid Plc, and Xcel Energy. There are no direct costs associated with net metering credits, and therefore, they do not receive an allocation of costs upon generation. Once awarded, these credits are then sold to third party offtakers pursuant to the terms of the offtaker agreements. The Company views each net metering credit in these arrangements as a distinct performance obligation satisfied at a point in time. Generally, the customer obtains control of net metering credits at the point in time when the utility assigns the generated credits to the Company, who directs the utility to allocate to the customer based upon a schedule. The transfer of credits by the Company to the customer can be up to one month after the underlying power is generated. As a result, revenue related to NMCA is recognized upon delivery of net metering credits by the Company to the customer. The Company’s customers apply net metering credits as a reduction to their utility bills. There was no change in the revenue recognition policy for net metering credits as a result of adopting Topic 606.
Solar Renewable Energy certificate revenue
The Company applies for and receives SRECs in certain jurisdictions for power generated by solar energy systems it owns. The quantity of SRECs is based on the specific identification method.amount of energy produced by the Company’s qualifying generation facilities. SRECs are sold pursuant to agreements with third parties, who typically require SRECs to comply with state-imposed renewable portfolio standards. Holders of SRECs may benefit from registering the credits in their name to comply with these state-imposed requirements, or from selling SRECs to a party that requires additional SRECs to meet its compliance obligations. The estimated fair valuesCompany receives SRECs from various state regulators including: New Jersey Board of marketable debt securities heldPublic Utilities, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, and Maryland Public Service Commission. There are no direct costs associated with SRECs, and therefore, they do not receive an allocation of costs upon generation. Generally, individual SREC sales reflect a fixed quantity and fixed price structure over a specified term. The contracts related to SREC sales with a fixed price and quantity have maturity dates ranging from 2022 to 2031. The Company typically sells SRECs to different customers from those purchasing the energy under PPAs. The Company believes the sale of each SREC is a distinct performance obligation satisfied at a point in time and that the Trust Accountperformance obligation related to each SREC is satisfied when each SREC is delivered to the customer.
Rental income

A portion of the Company’s energy revenue is derived from long-term PPAs accounted for as operating leases under ASC 840, Leases. Rental income under these lease agreements is recorded as revenue when the electricity is delivered to the customer.

Performance based incentives
Many state governments, utilities, municipal utilities and co-operative utilities offer a rebate or other cash incentive for the installation and operation of a renewable energy facility. Up-front rebates provide funds based on the cost, size or expected production of a renewable energy facility. Performance-based incentives provide cash payments to a system owner based on the energy generated by their renewable energy facility during a pre-determined period, and they are determined using available market information. Duringpaid over that time period. The Company recognizes revenue from state and utility incentives at the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) topoint in time in which they are earned.
Other revenue
Other revenue of $1.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, and $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, there have been no realized or unrealized gains or losses, or declinesconsists primarily of sales of power on wholesale electricity market which are recognized in value resulting from credit lossesrevenue upon delivery.
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Cost of Operations (Exclusive of Depreciation and Amortization)
Cost of operations primarily consists of operations and maintenance expense, site lease expense, insurance premiums, property taxes and other miscellaneous costs associated with the operations of solar energy facilities. Costs are charged to expense as incurred.
Stock-based Compensation
Stock-based compensation expense for equity instruments issued to employees is measured based on the debt securities held in the Trust Account. Interest and dividends on the debt securities held in the Trust Account are included in Interest income earned on assets held in Trust Account in the statement of operations.

As of December 31, 2020, the assets held in the Trust Account are comprised of $402,500,000 invested in marketable securities and $1,008 of interest receivable associated with those investments. During the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) to December 31, 2020, the Company did not withdraw any interest income from the Trust Account to pay its tax obligations.

Class A Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemptions

The Company accounts for its common stock as subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” Common stock subject to mandatory redemption is classified as a liability instrument and is measured atgrant-date fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that features redemption rights that are either within the controlvalue of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, common stock subject to possible redemption is presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the stockholders’ equity section of the Company’s balance sheet.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash accounts in a financial institution, which at times, may exceed the Federal depository insurance coverage of $250,000. The Company has not experienced losses on these accounts and management believes the Company is not exposed to significant risks on such accounts.

Financial Instruments

awards. The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,” approximates the carrying amounts represented in the balance sheet due to their short-term nature.

Fair Value Measurement

ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes and ranks the level of observability of inputs used to measure investments at fair value. The observability of inputs is impacted by a number of factors, including the type of investment, characteristics specific to the investment, market conditions and other factors. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level I measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level III measurements).

Investments with readily available quoted prices or for which fair value can be measured from quoted prices in active markets will typically have a higher degree of input observability and a lesser degree of judgment applied in determining fair value.

The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under ASC 820 are as follows:

Level I — Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical investments at the measurement date are used.

Level II — Pricing inputs are other than quoted prices included within Level I that are observable for the investment, either directly or indirectly. Level II pricing inputs include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar investments in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the investment, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

Level III — Pricing inputs are unobservable and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the investment. The inputs used in determination of fair value require significant judgment and estimation.

In some cases, the inputs used to measure fair value might fall within different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the investment is categorized in its entiretyeach restricted stock unit is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the investment. Assessing the significance of a particular input to the valuation of an investment in its entirety requires judgment and considers factors specific to the investment.Company’s stock on the date of grant. The categorizationfair value of an investment withineach time-based employee stock option is estimated on the hierarchy is based upondate of grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton stock option pricing transparencyvaluation model. The Company recognizes compensation costs using the straight-line method for all time-based equity compensation awards over the requisite service period of the investment andawards, which is generally the awards’ vesting period. The Company accounts for forfeitures of awards in the period they occur. The Company does not necessarily correspond tohave any performance-based equity compensation awards.

Use of the perceived riskBlack-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model requires the input of that investment.

Offering Costs

highly subjective assumptions, including (1) the expected term of the option, (2) the expected volatility of the price of the Company’s common stock, (3) risk-free interest rates and (4) the expected dividend yield of our common stock. The assumptions used in the option-pricing model represent management’s best estimates. These estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management’s judgment. If factors change and different assumptions are used, the Company’s stock-based compensation expense could be materially different in the future.

Income Taxes
The Company incurred $22,926,943 in offering costs in connection with the Initial Public Offering. Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred that are directly related to the Initial Public Offering. The Company complies with the requirements of ASC 340-10-S99-1 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A “Expenses of Offering.” These costs were charged to additional paid-in capital upon completion of the Initial Public Offering.

Income Taxes

Incomeaccounts for income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in accordance with the “Accounting for Income Taxes,” Topic of the FASB ASC (Topic 740). Deferredconsolidated financial statements. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on temporarythe differences between the financial reportingstatements and tax basis of assets and liabilities and operating loss and tax credit carry forwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured by applyingusing enacted tax rates and laws and are

released in effect for the yearsyear in which the temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled.reverse. The effect of a change in tax rate on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are provided against

The Company records net deferred tax assets whento the extent it believes these assets will more likely than not be realized. In evaluating if a valuation allowance is warranted, the Company considers all available positive and negative evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, tax planning strategies and recent financial operations, refer to Note 18 for further details.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires the Company to report information regarding its exposure to various tax positions taken by the Company. The Company is required to determine whether a tax position of the Company is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.

ASC 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by the applicable taxing authorities.authority, including the resolution of any related appeals orlitigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The uncertain tax position to be recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than fifty percent likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement, which could result in the Company recording a tax liability that would reduce net assets. The Company recognizes accrued interestreviews and penaltiesevaluates tax positions and determines whether or not there are uncertain tax positions that require financial statement recognition. Generally, tax authorities can examine all tax returns filed for the last three years.

Management believes that the Company has adequately addressed all relevant tax positions and that there are no unrecorded tax liabilities. As a result, no income tax liability or expense related to unrecognizeduncertain tax benefits as income tax expense.

On March 18, 2020,positions have been recorded in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCR Act”), and on March 27, 2020, the CARES Act were each enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. accompanying consolidated financial statements.

The FFCR Act and the CARES Act contain numerous tax provisions, such as net operating loss carryback periods, alternative minimum tax credit refunds, deferral of employer payroll taxes deferring payroll tax payments, establishing a credit for the retention of certain employees, relaxing limitations on the deductibility of interest, and updating the definition of qualified improvement property. This legislation currently has no material impact toCompany’s income tax expense, on the Company’s financial statements.

deferred tax assets and liabilities reflect management’s best assessment of estimated future taxes to be paid.

Basic and Diluted Net Loss perIncome Per Share of Common Stock

Net loss

Basic net income per share ofattributable to common stockstockholder is computedcalculated by dividing the net lossincome attributable to the common stockholder by the weightedweighted- average number of shares of common stock outstanding duringfor the period.
The diluted net income per share attributable to common stockholder is computed by giving effect to all potential common stock equivalents outstanding for the period plusdetermined using the treasury stock method or the if-converted method, as applicable. During periods in which the Company incurs a net loss attributable to common stockholder, stock options are considered to be common stock equivalents but are excluded from the calculation of diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholder as the effect is antidilutive. See Note 15 – Earnings per Share.
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(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

Noncontrolling Interests and Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests in Solar Facility Subsidiaries
Noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests represent third parties’ tax equity interests in the net assets of certain consolidated Solar Facility Subsidiaries, which were created to finance the costs of solar energy facilities under long-term operating agreements. The tax equity interests are generally entitled to receive substantially all the accelerated depreciation tax deductions and investment tax credits arising from Solar Facility Subsidiaries pursuant to their contractual shareholder agreements, together with a portion of these ventures’ distributable cash. The tax equity interests’ claim to tax attributes and distributable cash from Solar Facility Subsidiaries decreases to a small residual interest after a predefined ‘flip point’ occurs, typically the expiration of a time period or upon the tax equity investor’s achievement of a target yield. Because the tax equity interests’ participation in tax attributes and distributable cash from each Solar Facility Subsidiary is not consistent over time with their initial capital contributions or percentage interest, the Company has determined that the provisions in the contractual arrangements represent substantive profit-sharing arrangements. In order to reflect the substantive profit-sharing arrangements, the Company has determined that the appropriate methodology for attributing income and loss to the extent dilutive,noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests each period is a balance sheet approach referred to as the incremental numberHypothetical Liquidation at Book Value (“HLBV”) method. Under the HLBV method, the amounts of income and loss attributed to the noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests in the consolidated statements of operations reflect changes in the amounts the third parties would hypothetically receive at each balance sheet date based on the liquidation provisions of the respective operating partnership agreements. HLBV assumes that the proceeds available for distribution areequivalent to the unadjusted, stand-alone net assets of each respective partnership, as determined under U.S. GAAP. The third parties’ noncontrolling interest in the results of operations of these subsidiaries is determined as the difference in the noncontrolling interests’ and redeemable noncontrolling interests’ claims under the HLBV method at the start and end of each reporting period, after considering any capital transactions, such as contributions or distributions, between the subsidiaries and third parties. The application of HLBV generally results in the attribution of pre-tax losses to tax equity interests in connection with their receipt of accelerated tax benefits from the Solar Facility Subsidiaries, as the third-party investors’ receipt of these benefits typically reduces their claim on the partnerships’ net assets.
Attributing income and loss to the noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests under the HLBV method requires the use of significant assumptions and estimates to calculate the amounts that third parties would receive upon a hypothetical liquidation. Changes in these assumptions and estimates can have a significant impact on the amount that third parties would receive upon a hypothetical liquidation. The use of the HLBV methodology to allocate income to the noncontrolling and redeemable noncontrolling interest holders may create volatility in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations as the application of HLBV can drive changes in net income available and loss attributable to noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests from quarter to quarter.
The Company classifies certain noncontrolling interests with redemption features that are not solely within the control of the Company outside of permanent equity on its consolidated balance sheets. Estimated redemption value is calculated as the discounted cash flows attributable to the third parties subsequent to the reporting date. Redeemable noncontrolling interests are reported using the greater of their carrying value at each reporting date as determined by the HLBV method or their estimated redemption value in each reporting period. Estimating the redemption value of the redeemable noncontrolling interests requires the use of significant assumptions and estimates. Changes in these assumptions and estimates can have a significant impact on the calculation of the redemption value. See Note 12 - Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest.
Accounting Pronouncements
As a public company, the Company is provided the option to adopt new or revised accounting guidance as an “emerging growth company” under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”) either (1) within the same periods as those otherwise applicable to public business entities, or (2) within the same time periods as non-public business entities, including early adoption when permissible. The Company expects to elect to adopt new or revised accounting guidance within the same time period as non-public business entities, as indicated below.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement. This ASU removes some disclosure requirements, modifies others, and adds some new disclosure requirements. The guidance was effective January 1, 2020, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU No. 2018-13 as of January 1, 2020, which resulted in additional disclosures related to the financial assets classified as Level 3. See Fair Value Measurements in Note 2 for additional details.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which primarily changes the lessee’s accounting for operating leases by requiring recognition of lease right-of-use assets and lease liabilities. This standard is effective for annual
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reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2021. The Company expects to adopt this guidance in the financial statements for the year-ended December 31, 2022. The Company is continuing the analysis of the contractual arrangements that may qualify as leases under the new standard and expects the most significant impact will be the recognition of the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, and has since released various amendments including ASU No. 2019-04. The new standard generally applies to financial assets and requires those assets to be reported at the amount expected to be realized. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating whether this guidance will have a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements.

3.Reverse Recapitalization
On December 9, 2021, CBAH and Legacy Altus consummated the previously announced merger pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement. In accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Business Combination Agreement, (i) immediately prior to the consummation of the merger with First Merger Sub, each outstanding share of Legacy Altus preferred stock that was outstanding was redeemed in full for cash (refer to Note 11), and (ii) each outstanding share of Legacy Altus common stock, including shares that were subject to vesting conditions (the "Altus Restricted Shares") that was outstanding as of immediately prior to the merger with First Merger Sub was cancelled and automatically converted into the right to receive 87,464 shares of the Company's Class A common stock. Class A common stock issued in respect of Altus Restricted Shares are subject to the same vesting restrictions as in effect immediately prior to the merger with First Merger Sub (refer to Note 17).
Upon the closing of the Merger, the Company's certificate of incorporation was amended and restated to, among other things, authorize the issuance of 990,000,000 shares of common stock, to settle warrants,$0.0001 par value per share, including 988,591,250 shares of Class A common stock and 1,408,750 shares of Class B common stock, as calculated usingwell as 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share.
Contemporaneously with the treasury stock method. The Company has not considered the effectexecution of the Private Placement WarrantsBusiness Combination Agreement, certain accredited investors, who we refer to as the “PIPE Investors,” including the Sponsor and certain of our directors and officers, entered into subscription agreements, which we refer to as the “PIPE Subscription Agreements,” pursuant to which the PIPE Investors purchased 42,500,000 shares of Class A common stock, which we refer to as the “PIPE Shares,” at a purchase price per share of $10.00 and an aggregate purchase price of 7,366,667$425.0 million, which we refer to as the “PIPE Investment.” Pursuant to its PIPE Subscription Agreement, the Sponsor purchased shares of Class A common stock in an aggregate amount of $220.0 million.
The following table reconciles the calculationelements of diluted lossthe Merger to the consolidated statement of cash flows and the consolidated statement of stockholders’ equity for the year ended December 31, 2021 (amounts in thousands):
Recapitalization
Cash - CBAH's trust and cash (net of redemptions)$212,458 
Cash - PIPE425,000 
Non-cash net liabilities assumed from CBAH(186)
CBAH's deferred tax assets as of the Merger159 
Less: Fair value of assumed redeemable warrants47,601 
Less: Fair value of assumed Alignment shares132,487 
Less: transaction costs and advisory fees55,620 
Net the Merger$401,723 
Less: non-cash net liabilities assumed from CBAH(186)
Less: CBAH's deferred tax assets as of the Merger159 
Add: non-cash fair value of assumed redeemable warrants47,601 
Add: non-cash fair value of assumed Alignment shares132,487 
Add: accrued transaction costs and advisor fees178 
Net contributions from the Merger and PIPE financing$582,016 

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(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share since the exercise of the warrants are contingent upon the occurrence of future events and the inclusion of such warrants would be anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method. As a result, diluted loss per share of common stock is the same as basic loss per share of common stock for the period.

data, unless otherwise noted)


The Company’s statement of operations includes a presentation of income (loss) per share for common stock subject to redemption in a manner similar to the two-class method of income (loss) per share. Net income (loss) per common stock, basic and diluted for Class A common stock, is calculated by dividing the interest income earned on the Trust Account, by the weighted average number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding forissued immediately following the period. Net income (loss) per common stock, basic and diluted for Class B common stock, is calculated by dividing net income (loss), less income attributable to Class A common stock, byconsummation of the weighted averageMerger was as follows:
Shares
Common stock, outstanding prior to the Merger40,250,000 
Less: redemption of CBAH's shares(19,101,146)
Common stock of CBAH21,148,854 
Shares issued in PIPE financing42,500,000 
The Merger and PIPE Financing shares - Class A common stock63,648,854 
Legacy Altus shares - Class A common stock (1)
89,999,976 
Total shares of common stock immediately after the Merger and PIPE financing153,648,830 
(1) The number of Legacy Altus shares was determined from the 1,029 shares of Class BLegacy Altus common stock outstanding immediately prior to the closing of the Merger converted at the Exchange Ratio of 87,464. All fractional shares were rounded down.

4.Revenue and Accounts Receivable
Disaggregation of Revenue
The following table presents the detail of revenues as recorded in the consolidated statements of operations:
For the Year Ended
December 31,
20212020
Revenue under power purchase agreements$15,731 $11,639 
Revenue from net metering credit agreements23,029 12,171 
Solar renewable energy certificate revenue28,271 18,870 
Rental income2,114 259 
Performance based incentives1,680 2,093 
Other revenue975 246 
Total71,800 45,278 

Accounts receivable
The following table presents the detail of receivables as recorded in accounts receivable in the consolidated balance sheets:
As of December 31,
202120202019
Power purchase agreements$1,678 $1,388 $574 
Net metering credit agreements3,322 3,016 748 
Solar renewable energy certificates3,789 1,108 342 
Rental income350 37 
Performance based incentives135 70 
Other75 68 291 
Total9,218 5,752 2,030 
Payment is typically received within 30 days for invoiced revenue as part of PPAs and NMCAs. Receipt of payment relative to invoice date varies by customer for RECs. The Company does not have any other significant contract asset or liability balances related to revenues.

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5.Property, Plant and Equipment
As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, property, plant and equipment consisted of the following:
Estimated Useful
Lives (in Years)
As of December 31,
20212020
Land$6,985 $4,874 
Solar energy facilities25 - 32757,714 489,580 
Battery energy storage system203,873 — 
Site work155,801 5,801 
Leasehold improvements15 - 305,637 5,444 
Construction in progress21,195 48,877 
Property, plant and equipment801,205 554,576 
Less: Accumulated depreciation(55,494)(35,182)
Property, plant and equipment, net$745,711 $519,394 
For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, depreciation expense was $21.5 million and $11.9 million, respectively, and is recorded in depreciation, amortization and accretion expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
Disposal of Johnston
On November 19, 2021, the Company sold 100% of its membership interests in JO RI Solar, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company which owns and operates a solar energy facility located in Rhode Island with a nameplate capacity of 4.1 MW, for cash consideration of $19.9 million (the "Johnston Disposal"). As of that date, the carrying amount of the net assets and liabilities of JO RI Solar, LLC, which primarily consisted of the solar energy facility, was $7.1 million. The Company recognized a gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment of $12.8 million as a result of the transaction.

6.Intangible Assets and Intangible Liabilities
As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, intangible assets consisted of the following:
Weighted Average Amortization Period
(in Years)
As of December 31,
20212020
Cost:
Customer acquisition costs16 years$6,008 $5,928 
Site lease acquisition17 years1,657 1,013 
Favorable rate revenue contracts13 years11,222 6,272 
Favorable operation and maintenance contracts4 years135 0
Other5 years35 — 
Total intangible assets19,057 13,213 
Accumulated amortization:
Customer acquisition costs(1,015)(671)
Site lease acquisition(209)(142)
Favorable rate revenue contracts(1,120)(642)
Favorable operation and maintenance contracts(11)— 
Total accumulated amortization(2,355)(1,455)
Total intangible assets, net$16,702 $11,758 

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, intangible liabilities consisted of the following:
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Weighted Average Amortization Period
(in Years)
As of December 31,
20212020
Cost:
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts5 years$16,988 $6,183 
Accumulated amortization:
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts(3,230)(1,536)
Total intangible liabilities, net$13,758 $4,647 

For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, amortization expense was $0.9 million and $0.7 million, respectively, and was recorded in depreciation, amortization and accretion expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, amortization benefit was $1.7 million and $0.8 million, respectively, and was recorded in depreciation, amortization and accretion expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
Over the next five years, the Company expects to recognize annual amortization on its intangibles as follows:
(In thousands)20222023202420252026
Customer acquisition costs$369 $369 $369 $353 $353 
Site lease acquisition97 97 97 97 97 
Favorable rate revenue contracts878 878 763 705 705 
Favorable operation and maintenance contracts33 33 
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts(3,528)(2,307)(897)(843)(738)
Total net amortization (benefit) / expense$(2,151)$(930)$340 $320 $425 

7.Acquisitions
2021 Acquisitions
Acquisition of Gridley
On January 14, 2021, the Company acquired a portfolio of two solar energy facilities (the “Gridley Acquisition”) located in California with a combined nameplate capacity of 4.3 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $5.0 million, including $0.1 million of transaction related costs. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets, whereby the Company acquired $5.3 million of property, plant and equipment and assumed $0.3 million of other liabilities.
Acquisition of Stellar CNI
On July 29, 2021, the Company acquired a portfolio of three solar energy facilities located in Connecticut, Iowa and New York (the “Stellar CNI Acquisition”) with a combined nameplate capacity of 4.4 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $5.8 million, including $0.2 million of transaction related costs. As of December 31, 2021, $0.4 million of total consideration remained payable to the seller and was included in purchase price payables on the consolidated balance sheet. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets, whereby the Company acquired $5.9 million of property, plant and equipment and assumed $0.1 million of asset retirement obligations.
Acquisition of TrueGreen
On August 25, 2021, APA Finance, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired a 79 MW portfolio of twenty eight solar energy facilities operating across seven U.S. states. The portfolio was acquired from private equity funds managed by True Green Capital Management, LLC for total consideration of $197.4 million (“TrueGreen Acquisition”). The TrueGreen Acquisition was made pursuant to a purchase and sale agreement (the “PSA”) dated August 25, 2021, entered into by the Company to grow its portfolio of solar energy facilities. Pursuant to the PSA, the Company acquired 100% ownership interest in a holding entity that owns solar energy facilities. The Company accounted for the period presented.

TrueGreen Acquisition under the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations. Under the acquisition method, the assets acquired and liabilities assumed on August 25, 2021, were recognized generally based on their estimated fair values. All fair value measurements of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, including the non-controlling interests, were based on significant estimates and assumptions, including Level 3 (unobservable) inputs, which require judgment. Estimates and assumptions include the estimates of future power generation, commodity prices, operating costs, and appropriate discount rates.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

The Company’s net loss is adjustedaccounting for the portionTrueGreen Acquisition was finalized as of income that is attributableDecember 31, 2021. Subsequent to Class A common stock subjectthe acquisition date, the Company made certain measurement period adjustments to redemptionprovisional amounts recognized, which resulted in a decrease to the goodwill of $1.4 million. The decrease was primarily due to an increase in Property, plant and equipment and Intangible assets by $0.3 million and $0.5 million, respectively, due to the clarification of information utilized to determine fair value during the measurement period. Additionally, the Company recorded a measurement period adjustment of $0.5 million to reduce the fair value of consideration transferred as these shares only participate in the earningsa result of the Trust Account (less applicable taxes)reconciling working capital adjustment and not income or losses of the Company. Accordingly, basic and diluted net income per Class A common stock and net loss attributable to holders of Class B common stock is calculated as follows:

   For the period from
October 13, 2020
(inception) to
December 31, 2020
 

Interest income on Assets held in Trust Account

  $1,008 

Expenses available to be paid with interest income from Trust Account

   —   
  

 

 

 

Net income available to holders of Class A common stock

  $1,008 

Net loss

   (295,743

Less: income attributable to Class A common stock

   1,008 
  

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to holders of Class B common stock

  $(296,751
  

 

 

 

Weighted average shares outstanding of Class A common stock

   8,553,125 
  

 

 

 

   For the period from
October 13, 2020
(inception) to
December 31, 2020
 

Basic and diluted net income per share, Class A common stock

  $0.00 
  

 

 

 

Weighted average shares outstanding of Class B common stock

   1,484,249 
  

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net loss per share, Class B common stock

  $(0.20
  

 

 

 

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation expense associatedescrow accounts with the Company’s equity awards is measured at fair value uponseller. The final amounts recognized for the grant dateassets, liabilities and recognized over the requisite service period. To the extent a stock-based award is subjectnon-controlling interests pertaining to a performance condition, the amount of expense recorded in a given period, if any, reflects an assessment of the probability of achieving such performance condition, with compensation recognized once the event is deemed probable to occur. this business combination was as follows (in thousands):

Provisional accounting as of August 25, 2021Measurement period adjustmentsFinal amounts as of August 25, 2021
Assets
Accounts receivable$3,420$32$3,452
Other assets510510
Property, plant and equipment201,150310201,460
Intangible assets5,2255105,735
Total assets acquired210,305852211,157
Liabilities
Accounts payable23(23)
Long-term debt1,7951,795
Intangible liabilities10,115(10)10,105
Asset retirement obligation1,9981,998
Other liabilities93555990
Total liabilities assumed14,8662214,888
Non-controlling interests(1)
4,3154,315
Goodwill1,965(1,365)600
Total fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired$193,089$(535)$192,554

The fair value of equity awards has been estimated using Monte Carlo and Binomial simulations. Forfeitures are recognizedconsideration transferred, net of cash acquired, as incurred.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the dateAugust 25, 2021, is determined as follows:


Cash consideration to the seller on closing$136,689 $— $136,689 
Cash consideration paid to settle debt and interest rate swaps on behalf of the seller51,523 — 51,523 
Cash in escrow accounts2,738 (112)2,626 
Purchase price payable(2)
6,486 (423)6,063 
Total fair value of consideration transferred197,436(535)196,901 
Cash acquired229 — 229 
Restricted cash acquired4,118 — 4,118 
Total fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired$193,089 $(535)$192,554 

(1) The fair value of the financialnon-controlling interests was determined using an income approach representing the best indicator of fair value and was supported by a discounted cash flow technique.
(2) The Company paid the total purchase price payable after the acquisition date but prior to December 31, 2021.

The Company incurred approximately $0.9 million in acquisition costs related to the TrueGreen Acquisition, which are recorded as part of Acquisition and entity formation costs in the consolidated statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Refer to “Note 7—Stock-Based Compensation”operations for the valuationyear ended December 31, 2021.

The impact of our stock-based compensation.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements, if currently adopted, would have a material effectthe TrueGreen Acquisition on the Company’s financial statements.

NOTE 3—INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING

Pursuantrevenue and net income in the consolidated statements of operations was an increase of $8.4 million and increase of $5.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, respectively.


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Intangibles at Acquisition Date
The Company attributed the intangible asset and liability values to favorable and unfavorable rate revenue contracts to sell power and SRECs generated by acquired solar generating facilities as well as to O&M contracts and leases. The following table summarizes the estimated fair values and the weighted average amortization periods of the acquired intangible assets and assumed intangible liabilities as of the acquisition date:
Fair Value
(thousands)
Weighted Average Amortization Period
Favorable rate revenue contracts – PPA$4,500 20 years
Favorable rate revenue contracts – SREC450 7 years
Favorable O&M contracts135 4 years
Site lease acquisition650 13 years
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts – PPA(6,635)12 years
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts – SREC(3,470)2 years
Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Results of Operations
The following unaudited pro forma combined results of operations give effect to the Initial Public Offering,TrueGreen Acquisition as if it had occurred on January 1, 2020. The unaudited pro forma combined results of operations are provided for informational purposes only and do not purport to represent the Company sold 40,250,000 SAILSM securities (includingCompany’s actual consolidated results of operations had the full exerciseTrueGreen Acquisition occurred on the date assumed, nor are these financial statements necessarily indicative of the underwriter’s over-allotment option) atCompany’s future consolidated results of operations. The unaudited pro forma combined results of operations do not reflect the costs of any integration activities or any benefits that may result from operating efficiencies or revenue synergies.
For the year ended December 31, 2021
(unaudited)
For the year ended December 31, 2020
(unaudited)
Operating revenues$88,431 $68,702 
Net income20,020 3,174 
Acquisition of Beaver Run
On October 22, 2021, APA Finance, LLC, a price of $10.00 per unit (a “SAILSM security”). Each SAILSM security consists of one share of Class A common stockwholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, at $0.0001 par valueacquired a solar energy facility located in New Jersey (the “Beaver Run Acquisition”) with a nameplate capacity of 9.9 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $13.5 million. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets, whereby the Company acquired $13.5 million of property, plant and one-fourthequipment, $0.4 million of one redeemable warrant (or 10,062,500 redeemable warrantsother assets, and assumed $0.4 million of asset retirement obligations.
Acquisition of Stellar HI
On October 28, 2021, the Company acquired a 3.1 MW portfolio of seventeen solar projects and a 2.1 MW battery energy storage system located in Hawaii (the "Stellar HI Acquisition") from a third party for a total purchase price of $6.4 million. The Company accounted for the Stellar HI Acquisition under the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations. Under the acquisition method, the purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values, which equaled the consideration paid. Of the total purchase price, $10.6 million was allocated to property, plant and equipment, $0.2 million to cash, $0.3 million to restricted cash, $0.2 million to accounts receivable, $4.1 million to financing lease obligations, $0.7 million to intangible liabilities, and $0.1 million to asset retirement obligations. The purchase accounting for the Stellar HI Acquisition was finalized as of December 31, 2021.
The Company incurred approximately $0.1 million in acquisition costs related to the Stellar HI Acquisition, which are recorded as part of Acquisition and entity formation costs in the aggregate) (the “Redeemable Warrants”). Underconsolidated statements of operations for the termsyear ended December 31, 2021.
The Company attributed the intangible liability values to unfavorable rate revenue contracts to sell power generated by acquired solar generating facilities. As of the warrant agreement,acquisition date, estimated fair values and the weighted average amortization period of the assumed intangible liabilities were $0.7 million and 11 years, respectively.
The impact of the Stellar HI Acquisition on the Company’s revenue and net income in the consolidated statements of operations was an increase of $0.2 million and 0 for the year ended December 31, 2021, respectively.
Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Results of Operations
The following unaudited pro forma combined results of operations give effect to the Stellar HI Acquisition as if it had occurred on January 1, 2020. The unaudited pro forma combined results of operations are provided for informational purposes only and do not purport to represent the Company’s actual consolidated results of operations had the Stellar HI Acquisition occurred on the
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date assumed, nor are these financial statements necessarily indicative of the Company’s future consolidated results of operations. The unaudited pro forma combined results of operations do not reflect the costs of any integration activities or any benefits that may result from operating efficiencies or revenue synergies.
For the year ended December 31, 2021
(unaudited)
For the year ended December 31, 2020
(unaudited)
Operating revenues$73,088 $46,268 
Net income (loss)13,199 (1,704)
Acquisition of Landmark
On December 31, 2021, the Company has agreedacquired a solar energy facility located in Illinois (the "Landmark Acquisition") with a nameplate capacity of 2.6 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $3.6 million. The transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of a variable interest entity that did not meet the definition of a business, therefore the assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at their fair values, which equaled the consideration paid. Of the total purchase price, $3.6 million was allocated to use its commercially reasonable effortsproperty, plant and equipment, $0.2 million to fileother assets, $0.1 million to asset retirement obligations, and $0.3 million to redeemable non-controlling interest.

2020 Acquisitions
Acquisition of FUSE
On February 28, 2020, the Company acquired a registration statementportfolio of three solar energy facilities (the “FUSE Acquisition”) located in New Jersey with a combined nameplate capacity of 1.9 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $2.4 million in cash. The facilities are contracted under long-term PPAs with a local utility. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets, whereby the Securities ActCompany acquired $2.9 million of property, plant and equipment, $0.1 million of cash and $0.3 million of restricted cash. The Company also assumed long-term debt of $0.9 million.
Acquisition of SunPeak
On August 12, 2020, the Company acquired a portfolio of twenty two solar energy facilities located in California and one located in Massachusetts (the “SunPeak Acquisition”) with a combined nameplate capacity of 21.9 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $10.9 million, including $0.4 million of transaction related costs. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets.
The following table presents the completionallocation of the Business Combination coveringpurchase price to the assets acquired based on their relative fair values as well as fair value of liabilities assumed and noncontrolling interest on August 12, 2020 (in thousands):
Accounts receivable$384 
Other current assets71 
Property, plant and equipment24,983 
Intangible assets716 
Accounts payable(141)
Other current liabilities(918)
Long-term debt(15,051)
Asset retirement obligation(400)
Noncontrolling interest(925)
Total cash and transaction costs paid net of cash acquired(1)
$8,719 

(1)The Company acquired cash of $0.4 million and restricted cash of $1.8 million as of the acquisition date.
Acquisition of Beltline
On August 14, 2020, BT GA Solar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired a portfolio of twenty one solar energy facilities located in Georgia (the “Beltline Acquisition”) with a combined nameplate capacity of 4.0 MW from a third party for a total purchase price of $6.1 million. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets, whereby the Company acquired $6.0 million of property, plant and equipment and $0.1 million of other assets.

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(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

Acquisition of Charlotte Solar
On October 30, 2020, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of common stock issuable upon exerciseof a Nevada corporation, which owns 100% of the Redeemable Warrants. Each whole Redeemable Warrant entitlesmembership interest in a solar energy facility located in Vermont with anameplate capacity of 2.4 MW (the “Charlotte Acquisition”). The total cash consideration amounted to $8.0 million, including $0.1 million of transaction related costs. This transaction was accounted for as an acquisition of assets.
The following table presents the holderallocation of the purchase price to the assets acquired based on their relative fair values and fair values of liabilities assumed on October 30, 2020 (in thousands):
Accounts receivable$50 
Property, plant and equipment6,293 
Intangible assets911 
Accounts payable(12)
Deferred tax liabilities(805)
Asset retirement obligation(98)
Total cash and transaction costs paid net of cash acquired$6,339 
Solar Acquisition
On December 22, 2020, APA Finance, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired a portfolio of sixteen solar energy facilities with a combined nameplate capacity of 61.5 MW located in various states of the U.S. (“Solar Acquisition”) from a third party seller. The Solar Acquisition was made pursuant to a membership interest purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) dated December 22, 2020, entered into by the Company to grow its portfolio of solar energy facilities. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company acquired 100% ownership interest in seven managing members of partnerships that own solar energy facilities. The Company accounted for the Solar Acquisition under the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations. Under the acquisition method, the purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed on December 22, 2020 based on their estimated fair value. All fair value measurements of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, including the noncontrolling interests, were based on significant estimates and assumptions, including Level 3 (unobservable) inputs, which require judgment. Estimates and assumptions include the estimates of future power generation, commodity prices, operating costs, and appropriate discount rates.
The purchase accounting for the Solar Acquisition was finalized as of December 22, 2021. The final allocation of the acquisition-date fair values of assets, liabilities and non-controlling interests pertaining to this business combination as of December 22, 2020, was as follows (in thousands):
Assets
Accounts receivable$2,000
Other assets672
Property, plant and equipment128,050
Intangible assets960
Total assets acquired131,682
Liabilities
Accounts payable747
Intangible liabilities1,020
Asset retirement obligation2,571
Other liabilities441
Total liabilities assumed4,779
Noncontrolling interests(1)
8,475
Total fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired$118,428

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(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

The fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired, as of December 22, 2020, is determined as follows:
Cash consideration paid to the seller$29,849 
Cash consideration paid to settle debt84,883 
Cash consideration payable to the seller(2)
7,176 
Contingent consideration5,100 
Total fair value of consideration transferred127,008 
Cash acquired4,868 
Restricted cash acquired3,712 
Total fair value of consideration transferred, net of cash acquired$118,428 

(1)The fair value of the non-controlling interests was determined using an income approach representing the best indicator of fair value and was supported by a discounted cash flow technique.
(2)The Company paid $4.5 million of the purchase price payable after the acquisition date but prior to December 31, 2020. The remaining purchase price payable of $2.6 million was paid during the year ended December 31, 2021.

The contingent consideration is related to the estimated earnout cash payments of a maximum of $10.5 million dependent on actual market power rates during the 36-month period since the acquisition date and actual power generation of acquired solar generating facilities during the 18–36-month period since the acquisition date. The Company determined the estimated fair value of the contingent consideration at the acquisition date using a Monte Carlo simulation model. The inputs include the estimated power generation volumes and power rates, and a risk-adjusted discount rate. The inputs are significant inputs not observable in the market, which are referred to as Level 3 inputs, refer to Note 2. The estimated fair value of contingent consideration of $2.3 million and $5.1 million was recorded as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, within other long-term liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets.
Additionally, the Company incurred approximately $0.5 million in acquisition-related costs related to the Solar Acquisition, which are recorded as part of Acquisition and entity formation costs in the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020.
The amounts of the acquired projects’ revenues, operating income, net income (loss) and net income (loss) attributable to the Common equity stockholder included in the consolidated statements of operations for the period from December 23, 2020 through December 31, 2020 were not material.
Intangibles at Acquisition Date
The Company attributed the intangible asset and liability values to favorable and unfavorable rate revenue contracts to sell power and SRECs generated by acquired solar generating facilities. The following table summarizes the estimated fair values and the weighted average amortization periods of the acquired intangible assets and assumed intangible liabilities as of the acquisition date:
Fair Value
(thousands)
Weighted Average Amortization Period
Favorable rate revenue contracts – NMC$960 5 years
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts – NMC(270)23 years
Unfavorable rate revenue contracts – SREC(750)3 years
Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Results of Operations
The following unaudited pro forma combined results of operations give effect to the acquisition of the Solar Acquisition as if it had occurred on January 1, 2019. The unaudited pro forma combined results of operations are provided for informational purposes only and do not purport to represent the Company’s actual consolidated results of operations had the Solar Acquisition occurred on the date assumed, nor are these financial statements necessarily indicative of the Company’s future consolidated results of operations. The unaudited pro forma combined results of operations do not reflect the costs of any integration activities or any benefits that may result from operating efficiencies or revenue synergies.
For the year ended December 31,
20202019
Operating revenues$55,528 $43,269 
Net loss(2,840)(8,713)
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8.Variable Interest Entity
The Company consolidates all VIEs in which it holds a variable interest and is deemed to be the primary beneficiary of the variable interest entity. Generally, a VIE is an entity with at least one of the following conditions: (a) the total equity investment at risk is insufficient to allow the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support, or (b) the holders of the equity investment at risk, as a group, lack the characteristics of having a controlling financial interest. The primary beneficiary of a VIE is required to consolidate the VIE and to disclose certain information about its significant variable interests in the VIE. The primary beneficiary of a VIE is the entity that has both 1) the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance and 2) the obligations to absorb losses or receive benefits that could potentially be significant to the VIE.
The Company participates in certain partnership arrangements that qualify as VIEs. Consolidated VIEs consist of tax equity financing arrangements and partnerships in which an investor holds a noncontrolling interest and does not have substantive kick-out or participating rights. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is the primary beneficiary of such VIEs because as the manager, it has the power to direct the day-to-day operating activities of the entity. In addition, the Company is exposed to economics that could potentially be significant to the entity given its ownership interest and, therefore, has consolidated the VIEs as of December 31, 2021 and 2020. No VIEs were deconsolidated during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
The obligations of the consolidated VIEs discussed in the following paragraphs are nonrecourse to the Company. In certain instances where the Company establishes a new tax equity structure, the Company is required to provide liquidity in accordance with the contractual agreements. The Company has no requirement to provide liquidity to purchase assets or guarantee performance of the VIEs unless further noted in the following paragraphs. The Company made certain contributions during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 as determined in the respective operating agreement.
The carrying amounts and classification of the consolidated VIE assets and liabilities included in consolidated balance sheets are as follows:
As of December 31,
20212020
Current assets$13,131 $14,082 
Non-current assets372,761 351,327 
Total assets$385,892 $365,409 
Current liabilities$3,652 $1,994 
Non-current liabilities40,978 4,761 
Total liabilities$44,630 $6,755 
The amounts shown in the table above exclude intercompany balances which are eliminated upon consolidation. All of the assets in the table above are restricted for settlement of the VIE obligations, and all of the liabilities in the table above can only be settled using VIE resources.
The Company has not identified any VIEs during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 for which the Company determined that it is not the primary beneficiary and thus did not consolidate.
The Company considered qualitative and quantitative factors in determining which VIEs are deemed significant. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company consolidated NaN and 16 VIEs, respectively of which one entity, Zildjian Solar V, LLC was deemed to be significant for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020. Zildjian Solar V, LLC represented 12.9% of the total assets as of December 31, 2020. No VIEs were deemed significant as of December 31, 2021.
Zildjian Solar V, LLC is a tax equity partnership whose purpose is to own and operate fifteen solar energy facilities in Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Vermont. The Company was determined to be the primary beneficiary of Zildjian Solar V, LLC because, as the manager, it has the power to direct the day-to-day operating activities of this entity. In addition, as holder of 100% of the management membership interests, the Company is exposed to economics that could potentially be significant to the entity. As such, the Company consolidated Zildjian Solar V, LLC under the VIE model as of December 31, 2021 and 2020.

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9.Debt and Derivatives
As of December 31,Interest TypeWeighted average interest rate
20212020
Long-term debt
Rated term loan$499,750 $362,685 Fixed3.51 %
Construction loans5,593 25,484 Floating2.34 %
Term loans12,818 7,218 Floating2.34 %
Financing lease obligations37,601 — Imputed3.64 %
Total principal due for long-term debt555,762 395,387 
Unamortized discounts and premiums(176)(292)
Unamortized deferred financing costs(9,606)(5,952)
Less: Current portion of long-term debt21,143 35,209 
Long-term debt, less current portion$524,837 $353,934 
Rated Term Loan
As part of the Blackstone Credit Facility, APA Finance, LLC (“APAF”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a $251 million term loan facility with Blackstone Insurance Solutions ("BIS") through a consortium of lenders, which consists of investment grade-rated Class A common stock atand Class B notes (the "Rated Term Loan").
On August 25, 2021, APAF entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with BIS to refinance the Rated Term Loan (hereby referred to as the “Amended Rated Term Loan”). The Amended Rated Term Loan added an additional $135.6 million to the facility (all of which was drawn as of December 31, 2021), bringing the aggregate facility to $503.0 million. The Amended Rated Term Loan has a priceweighted average 3.51% annual fixed rate, reduced from the previous weighted average rate of $11.00 per share subject to adjustment as provided herein. The warrants will become exercisable3.70%, and matures on February 29, 2056 (“Final Maturity Date”). Of the later of 30 days after the completiontotal proceeds of the Business Combination or 12 months fromrefinancing, $126.4 million was used to fund the closingTrueGreen Acquisition, $8.8 million was used to fund the Beaver Run Acquisition, and $2.7 million was used to fund the Stellar HI Acquisition.
The Amended Rated Term Loan amortizes at an initial rate of 2.5% of outstanding principal per annum for a period of 8 years at which point the amortization steps up to 4% per annum until September 30, 2031 (“Anticipated Repayment Date”). After the Anticipated Repayment Date, the loan becomes fully-amortizing, and all available cash is used to pay down principal until the Final Maturity Date. The Amended Rated Term Loan is secured by the membership interests in the Company's subsidiaries.
The Company incurred $5.2 million of issuance costs related to the refinancing, which have been deferred and recorded as a reduction to the Amended Rated Term Loan balance and are amortized as interest expense on a ten-year schedule until the Amended Rated Term Loan’s Anticipated Repayment Date. Additionally, in conjunction with the refinancing, the Company expensed $1.2 million of financing costs incurred related to the modified portion of the Initial Public OfferingAmended Rated Term Loan and will expire five years afterrecorded these costs in Other expenses, net in the completionconsolidated statements of operations.
In conjunction with the refinancing, a portion of the Business Combination or earlier uponAmended Rated Term Loan was extinguished. As a result, the Company expensed unamortized deferred financing costs of $1.8 million and $1.4 million premium paid on early redemption or liquidation. Only whole warrants may be exercised and no fractional warrants will be issued upon separationas loss on extinguishment of debt in the consolidated statements of operations.
As of December 31, 2021, the outstanding principal balance of the SAILSM securitiesAmended Rated Term Loan was $500.0 million, less unamortized debt discount and only whole warrants will trade. The Company granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 5,250,000 SAILSM securities to cover over-allotments, which was exercised in full by the underwriter on December 11, 2020.

Alignment Shares

loan issuance costs totaling $8.4 million. As of December 31, 2020, the Sponsor and the Company’s directors and officers hold 2,012,500 Alignment Shares. The Alignment Shares are designated as shares of Class B common stock and were reclassified in connection with the Initial Public Offering by the Company’s second amended and restated certificate of incorporation, filed on December 10, 2020. As discussed further in Note 4, the Sponsor purchased the shares of Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000 or approximately $0.01 per share. The purchase priceoutstanding principal balance of the Alignment SharesRated Term Loan was determined by dividing the amount contributed to the Company by the number of Alignment Shares issued. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor sold an aggregate of 201,250 Alignment Shares to certain of the Company’s directors, or their respective designees,$362.7 million, less unamortized debt discount and an officer of the Company. The Alignment Shares are entitled to 20% of the voting power of the Company’s common stock prior to the completion of the Company’s Business Combination.

The Alignment Shares are designated as shares of Class B common stock and are different from the shares of Class A common stock included in the SAILSM securities in several important ways, including that:

Only holders of the Alignment Shares have the right to vote on the election of directors prior to the Business Combination;

The Alignment Shares are subject to certain transfer restrictions, as described in more detail below;

The Sponsor and the Company’s officers and directors have entered a letter agreement with the Company, pursuant to which they have agreed (i) to waive their redemption rights with respect to any Alignment Shares and public shares they hold in connection with the completion of the Business Combination, (ii) to waive their redemption rights with respect to any Alignment Shares and public shares they hold in connection with a stockholder vote to approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of its public shares if the Company has not consummated a Business Combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the closing of the Initial Public Offering or with respect to other specified provisions relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-Business Combination activity; and (iii) to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any Alignment Shares they hold if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the closing of the Initial Public Offering, although they are entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to any public shares they hold if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within such time period. If the Company submits the Business Combination to the public stockholders for a vote, the Sponsor and the Company’s directors and officers have agreed, pursuant to such letter agreement, to vote their Alignment Shares and any public shares purchased during or after the Initial Public Offering in favor of the Business Combination; and

The 2,012,500 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, will convert as follows: on the last day of each measurement period, which will occur annually over ten fiscal years following the consummation of the Business Combination (and, with respect to any measurement period in which the Company undergoes a change of control or in which the Company is liquidated, dissolved or wound up, on the business day immediately prior to such event instead of on the last day of such measurement period), 2,012,500 Alignment Shares will automatically convert, subject to adjustment as described herein, into shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (“conversion shares”), as follows:

If the sum (such sum, the “Total Return”) of (i) the VWAP, calculated in accordance with “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities—Alignment Shares—Volume weighted average price” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference, of shares of Class A common stock for the final fiscal quarter in such measurement period and (ii) the amount per share of any dividends or distributions paid or payable to holders of Class A common stock on the record date for which is on or prior to the last day of the measurement period does not exceed the price threshold (as defined below), the number of conversion shares for such measurement period will be 2,013 shares of Class A common stock;

If the Total Return exceeds the price threshold but does not exceed an amount equal to 130% of the price threshold, then the number of conversion shares for such measurement period will be the greater of (i) 2,013 shares of Class A common stock and (ii) 20% of the difference between the Total Return and the price threshold, multiplied by (A) the sum (such sum (as proportionally adjusted to give effect to any stock splits, stock capitalizations, stock combinations, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations or any such similar transactions), the “Closing Share Count”) of (x) the number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding immediately after the closing of the Initial Public Offering (including any exercise of the over-allotment option) and (y) if in connection with the Business Combination there are issued any shares of Class A common stock or Equity-Linked Securities (as defined below), the number of shares of Class A common stock so issued and the maximum number of shares of Class A common stock issuable (whether settled in shares or in cash) upon conversion or exercise of such Equity-Linked Securities, divided by (B) the Total Return; and

If the Total Return exceeds an amount equal to 130% of the price threshold, then the number of conversion shares for such measurement period will be the greater of (i) 2,013 shares of Class A common stock and (ii) the sum of (x) 20% of the difference between an amount equal to 130% of the price threshold and the price threshold and (y) 30% of the difference between the Total Return and an amount equal to 130% of the price threshold, multiplied by (A) the Closing Share Count, divided by (B) the Total Return.

The term “measurement period” means (i) the period beginning on the date of the Company’s Business Combination and ending with, and including, the first fiscal quarter following the end of the fiscal year in which the Company consummates the Business Combination and (ii) each of the nine successive four-fiscal-quarter periods. The “price threshold” will initially equal $10.00 for the first measurement period and will thereafter be adjusted at the beginning of each subsequent measurement period to be equal to the greater of (i) the price threshold for the immediately preceding measurement period and (ii) the VWAP for the immediately preceding measurement period (in each case, as proportionally adjusted to give effect to any stock splits, stock capitalizations, stock combinations, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations or any such similar transactions). “Equity-Linked Securities” means securities issued by the Company and/or any entities that (after giving effect to completion of the Business Combination) are subsidiaries of the Company that are directly or indirectly convertible into or exercisable for shares of Class A common stock, or for a cash settlement value in lieu thereof. The foregoing calculations will be based on the Company’s fiscal year and fiscal quarters, which may change as a result of the Business Combination.

Upon a change of control occurring after the Business Combination (but not in connection with the Business Combination), for the measurement period in which the change of control transaction occurs, the 201,250 Alignment Shares will automatically convert into conversion shares (on the business day immediately prior to such event), as follows:

If, prior to the date of such change of control, the Alignment Shares have already cumulatively converted into a number of shares of Class A common stock equal in the aggregate to at least 5% of the Closing Share Count (the “5% Threshold Amount”), the number of conversion shares will equal the greater of (i) 2,013 shares of Class A common stock and (ii) the number of shares of Class A common stock that would be issuable based on the excess of the Total Return above the price threshold as described above with such Total Return calculated based on the purchase price or deemed value agreed upon in the change of control transaction rather than the VWAP for the final fiscal quarter in the relevant measurement period;

If, prior to the date of the change of control, the Alignment Shares have not already cumulatively converted into a number of shares of Class A common stock equal in the aggregate to at least the 5% Threshold Amount, the number of conversion shares will equal the greater of (i) the 5% Threshold Amount less any shares of Class A common stock previously issued upon conversion of Alignment Shares and (ii) the number of shares that would be issuable based on the excess of the Total Return above the price threshold described above with the Total Return calculated based on the purchase price or deemed value agreed upon in the change of control transaction rather than the VWAP for the final fiscal quarter in the relevant measurement period; and

To the extent any remaining tranches of 201,250 Alignment Shares remain outstanding, each remaining tranche of 201,250 Alignment Shares will automatically convert into 2,013 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock.

The Company’s Sponsor, directors and officers have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell (i) any of their respective Alignment Shares except to any permitted transferees and (ii) any of their respective shares of Class A common stock deliverable upon conversion of the Alignment Shares for 30 days following the completion of the Company’s Business Combination.

Private Placement Warrants

On December 10, 2020 the Sponsor purchased from the Company an aggregate of 7,366,667 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant (approximately $11,050,000 in the aggregate), in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the Initial Public Offering (the “Private Placement Warrants’’). Each Private Placement Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share, subject to adjustment. A portion of the purchase price of the Private Placement Warrants were added to the proceeds from the Initial Public Offering to be held in the Trust Account such that at the time of closing $402,500,000 are held in the Trust Account. The Private Placement Warrants are not redeemable by the Company so long as they are

held by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by holders other than the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants are redeemable by the Company and exercisable by the holders on the same basis as the warrants included in the SAILSM securities being sold in the Initial Public Offering. The Sponsor, or its permitted transferees, have the option to exercise the Private Placement Warrants on a cashless basis. The Private Placement Warrants are not transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination.

If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering (or 27 months, as applicable), the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Warrants held in the Trust Account will be used to fund the redemption of the Company’s public shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law) and the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.

Registration and Stockholder Rights

The registration and stockholder rights agreement of the Company (the “Registration and Stockholder Rights Agreement”) provides that holders of the Alignment Shares, Private Placement Warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans, if any, have registration rights to require the Company to register a sale of any of the Company’s securities held by such holders. These holders are entitled to make demands that the Company register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights to include such securities in other registration statements filed by the Company and rights to require the Company to register for resale such securities pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. The Company will bear theloan issuance costs and expenses incurred in connection with filing any such registration statements. Pursuant to the Registration and Stockholder Rights Agreement, the Sponsor is entitled to nominate three individuals for election to the Company’s board of directors, as long as the Sponsor holds any securities covered by the Registration and Stockholder Rights Agreement.

Indemnity

The Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to the Company if and to the extent any claims by a third-party vendor (other than the Company’s independent auditors) for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or a prospective target business with which the Company discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduces the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below (i) $10.00 per public share or (ii) such lesser amount per public share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest which may be withdrawn to pay taxes, except as to any claims by a third party who executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account and except as to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriter of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. The Company has not independently verified whether the Sponsor has sufficient funds to satisfy its indemnity obligations and believes that the Sponsor’s only assets are securities of the Company and, therefore, the Sponsor may not be able to satisfy those obligations. The Company has not asked the Sponsor to reserve for such eventuality as the Company believes the likelihood of the Sponsor having to indemnify the Trust Account is limited because the Company will endeavor to have all third party vendors (other than the Company’s independent auditors) and prospective target businesses as well as other entities execute agreements with the Company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.

NOTE 4—RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Shares of Common Stock

On October 13, 2020, the Sponsor purchased 100 undesignated shares of common stock for a purchase price of $100, or $1 per share, and advanced $25,000 in exchange for a promissory note. Prior to the Sponsor’s initial investment in the Company, the Company had no assets. On November 6, 2020, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share, paid through the cancellation of an equivalent outstanding amount under the promissory note between the Company and the Sponsor, and the tender to the Company of all 100 shares of the Company’s undesignated

totaling $5.9 million.

common stock held by the Sponsor. See “Note payable—Sponsor” and “Note 6—Stockholders’ Equity” below. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 shares of Class B common stock were forfeited by the Sponsor. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor sold an aggregate of 201,250 Alignment Shares to certain of the Company’s directors, or their respective designees, and an officer of the Company. As of December 31, 2020, the Sponsor and the Company’s directors and officers hold 2,012,500 Alignment Shares.

Private Placement Warrants Purchase

On December 10, 2020, the Sponsor purchased from the Company an aggregate of 7,366,667 Private Placement Warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant or approximately $11,050,000 in the aggregate. See “Note 3—Initial Public Offering—Private Placement Warrants.” Approximately $3,000,000 of proceeds of the Private Placement Warrants purchase were added to the capital of the Company.

Note Payable—Sponsor

On October 13, 2020, the Sponsor advanced $25,000 to the Company in exchange for a promissory note. On November 6, 2020, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share, paid through the cancellation of an equivalent outstanding amount under the promissory note between the Company and the Sponsor, and the tender to the Company of all 100 shares of the Company’s undesignated common stock held by the Sponsor. Prior to the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor loaned the Company $215,316 pursuant to an amended and restated unsecured promissory note to cover expenses related to the Company’s Initial Public Offering. These loans were noninterest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of June 30, 2021 and the closing of the Initial Public Offering. The $215,316 loan made pursuant to the amended and restated unsecured promissory note was repaid upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering out of the offering proceeds that have been allocated for the payment of offering expenses (other than underwriting commissions) not held in the Trust Account.

On February 16, 2021, the Company entered into a Second Amended and Restated Promissory Notewas in compliance with all covenants, except the Sponsor, with borrowing capacity up to $3,000,000, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended Business Combination. The note is non-interest bearing and the unpaid principal balancedelivery of the promissory note shall be payable on the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination and (ii) December 31, 2022. The principal amount of such loans may be convertible into Private Placement Warrants of the post-Business Combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant at the option of our sponsor. These warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants. No amounts have been borrowed under the note byAPAF audited consolidated financial statements. for which the Company as of March 31, 2021.

Administrative Service Agreement

On December 10, 2020,obtained a waiver to extend the Company entered into an agreement to pay $10,000 a month for office space, administrative and support services to an affiliate of the Sponsor and will terminate the agreement upon the earlier of a Business Combination or the liquidation of the Company.financial statement reporting deliverable due date. The Company recorded $6,144 of expense relatedexpects to this agreement, which is included in Operating expenses ondeliver the Statement of Operations and Due to related party onaudited financial statements before the Balance Sheet.

NOTE 5— COMMITMENT AND CONTINGENCIES

Underwriting Agreement

The underwriter was entitled to underwriting discounts and commissions of $0.55 per unit, or $22,137,500, of which $8,050,000 was paid at closing of the Initial Public Offering.extended reporting deliverable due date. As of December 31, 2020, the Company was in compliance with all covenants, except the delivery of the APAF audited consolidated financial statements, for which the Company obtained a waiver to extend the financial statement reporting deliverable due date. The Company delivered the audited financial statements on August 19, 2021, before the extended reporting deliverable due date.

Construction Facilities
Seminole Funding Resources, LLC
In the past various Company’s subsidiaries entered into loan agreements with Seminole Funding Resources, LLC to fund construction of certain solar energy facilities in Minnesota (“FastSun Loans”). The FastSun Loans had $14,087,500a 6-month term, are non-
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(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

amortizing, and accrue interest at a rate of 6.50%. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company repaid the total outstanding of the loan in the amount of $4.9 million.
Interest accrued offeringunder the FastSun loans prior to placed-in-service was capitalized as part of the cost of solar energy facilities and depreciated over the useful life thereafter. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 the Company incurred interest costs under the agreements totaling $0.1 million and $0.7 million, respectively, which were capitalized as part of property, plant and equipment.
Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility and Letters of Credit facilities
On January 10, 2020, APA Construction Finance, LLC (“APACF”) a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a credit agreement with Fifth Third Bank, National Association and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch to fund the development and construction of future solar facilities (“Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility”). The Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility includes a construction loan commitment of $187.5 million and a letter of credit commitment of $12.5 million, which can be drawn until January 10, 2023.
The construction loan commitment can convert to a term loan upon commercial operation of a particular solar energy facility. In addition, the Construction Loan to Term Loan Facility accrued a commitment fee at a rate equal to .50% per year of the daily unused amount of the commitment. As of December 31, 2021, the outstanding principal balances of the construction loan and term loan were $5.6 million and $12.3 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2020, the outstanding principal balances of the construction loan and term loan were $20.6 million and $6.2 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had an unused borrowing capacity of $169.7 million and $160.7 million, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company incurred interest costs associated with outstanding construction loans totaling $0.3 million and 0, respectively, which were capitalized as part of property, plant and equipment. Also, on October 23, 2020, the Company entered into an additional letters of credit facility with Fifth Third Bank for the total capacity of $10.0 million. Outstanding amounts under the Construction to Term Loan Facility are secured by a first priority security interest in all of the property owned by APACF and each of its project companies, including all of the solar energy facility assets under construction a first priority security interest in all of the property owned by APACF and each of its project companies, including all of the solar energy facility assets under construction. The Construction Loan to Term Loan includes various financial and other covenants for APACF and the Company, as guarantor. As of December 31, 2021, the Company was in compliance with all covenants. As of December 31, 2020, the Company was in compliance with all covenants, except the delivery of the audited financial statements of the Company, for which the Company obtained a waiver to extend the financial statement reporting deliverable due date. The Company delivered the audited financial statements on August 11, 2021, before the extended reporting deliverable due date.
As of December 31, 2021, the total letters of credit outstanding with Fifth Third Bank and Deutsche Bank were $10.0 million and $0.6 million, respectively, with an unused capacity of 0 and $11.9 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2020, the total letters of credit outstanding with Fifth Third Bank and Deutsche Bank were $7.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively, with an unused capacity of $2.8 million and $12.2 million, respectively. To the extent liabilities are incurred as a result of the activities covered by the letters of credit, such liabilities are included on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. From time to time, the Company is required to post financial assurances to satisfy contractual and other requirements generated in the normal course of business. Some of these assurances are posted to comply with federal, state or other government agencies’ statutes and regulations. The Company sometimes uses letters of credit to satisfy these requirements and these letters of credit reduce the Company’s borrowing facility capacity.
Financing Lease Obligations
Zildjian XI
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company, through its subsidiary Zildjian XI, sold 8 solar energy facilities located in Massachusetts and Minnesota with the total nameplate capacity of 16.1 MW to a third party (“ZXI Lessor”) for a total sales price of $44.0 million. In connection with these transactions, the Company and ZXI Lessor entered into master lease agreement under which the Company agreed to lease back solar energy facilities for an initial term of ten years. The proceeds received from the sale-leaseback transactions net of transaction costs of $1.2 million and prepaid rent of $12.2 million amounted to $30.6 million.
The master lease agreement provides for a residual value guarantee as well as a lessee purchase option, both of which are forms of continuing involvement and prohibit the use of sale leaseback accounting under ASC 840. As a result, the Company accounts for the transaction using the financing method by recognizing the sale proceeds as a financing obligation and the assets subject to the sale-leaseback remain on the balance sheet of the Company and are being depreciated. The aggregate proceeds have been recorded as a long-term debt within the consolidated balance sheets.
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TrueGreen Acquisition
As part of the TrueGreen Acquisition on August 25, 2021 (refer to Note 7) the Company assumed financing lease liability of $1.8 million associated with the sale-leaseback of a solar energy facility located in Connecticut with the total nameplate capacity of 1.2 MW. In accordance with the sale-leaseback arrangement the solar energy facility was sold and immediately leased back from a third-party lessor (“TGC Lessor”). The master lease agreement provides the lessee with a purchase option, which represents a form of continuing involvement and prohibits the use of sale leaseback accounting under ASC 840.
Presentation and minimum lease payments
As of December 31, 2021, the Company has recorded a financing obligation of $36.5 million, net of $1.1 million of deferred transaction costs, in the accompanyingconsolidated balance sheet, representingsheet. Payments of $0.5 million were made under the financing obligation for the year ended December 31, 2021. Interest expense, inclusive of the amortization of deferred underwriting commissions that will become payabletransaction costs for the year ended December 31, 2021, was $0.4 million.

The table below shows the minimum lease payments under the financing lease obligations for the years ended:

2022$2,245 
20232,336 
20242,340 
20252,353 
20262,336 
Thereafter14,993 
Total$26,603 

The difference between the outstanding financing lease obligation of $37.6 million and $26.6 million of minimum lease payments, including the residual value guarantee, is due to $13.2 million of investment tax credits claimed by the Lessor, less $2.6 million of the implied interest on financing lease obligation included in minimum lease payments. The remaining difference of $0.4 million is due to the underwriter fromdifference between the amounts heldminimum lease payments and the fair value of the finance lease obligations acquired in the Trust Account solely inStellar HI Acquisition.
Principal Maturities of Long-Term Debt
As of December 31, 2021, the event that the Company completes the Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement. A portion of such amount, not to exceed 20% of the total amount of the deferred underwriting commissions held in the Trust Account, may be re-allocated or paid (a) to any underwriter from the Company’s Initial Public Offering in an amount (at the

sole discretionprincipal maturities of the Company’s management team)long-term debt, excluding financing lease obligations, were as follows:


2022$18,898 
202313,290 
202413,136 
202513,111 
202613,126 
Thereafter446,600 
Total principal payments$518,161 
Derivatives
The Company’s derivative instrument consists of an interest rate swap that is disproportionatenot designated as a cash flow hedge or a fair value hedge under accounting guidance. The Company uses the interest rate swap to the portion of the aggregate deferred underwriting commission payablemanage its net exposure to such underwriter based on their participationinterest rate changes. Changes in Initial Public Offering and/or (b) to third parties that did not participatefair value are recorded in interest expense, net in the Company’s Initial Public Offering (but who are membersconsolidated statements of FINRA) that assistoperations. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the derivative instrument was not significant.

10.Equity
As of December 31, 2021, the Company in consummating a Business Combination. The election to re-allocate or make any such payments to third parties will be solely at the discretion of the Company’s management team,had authorized and such third parties will be selected by the management team in their soleissued 988,591,250 and absolute discretion. The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.

NOTE 6—STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Common Stock

The Company is authorized to issue 250,000,000 shares153,648,830 of Class A common stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share.respectively. As of December 31, 2020, there were 1,714,759authorized and outstanding common stock of 10,000 and 1,029 shares, of respectively, was retroactively restated as shares reflecting the Exchange Ratio established in the Business Combination Agreement. Class A common stock issued and outstanding, excluding 38,535,241 sharesentitles the holder to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of Class A common stock subject to possible redemption.

The Company is authorized to issue 10,000,000 shares of Class B common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share. As of December 31, 2020, there were 2,012,500 shares of Class B common stock issued and outstanding.

The underwriter’s over-allotment option, which was exercisedthe Company’s stockholders. Common

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(Dollar amounts in full by the underwriter on December 11, 2020, included 5,250,000 SAILSM securities consisting of 5,250,000 shares of Class A common stock and 1,312,500 warrants which were issued to cover over-allotments.

Preferred Stock

The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.0001thousands, except per share with such designations, voting and other rights and preferencesdata, unless otherwise noted)


stockholders are entitled to receive dividends, as may be determined from time to timedeclared by the Company’s board of directors. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no sharescommon stock dividends have been declared.

11.Redeemable Preferred Stock
GSO Preferred Stock
As discussed in Note 3, immediately prior to the consummation of the Merger, the Company redeemed outstanding Series A preferred stock issued or outstanding.

Warrants

Uponby Legacy Altus in full for cash. As Series A preferred stock does not represent the closingcapital of the Initial Public Offering,legal parent (the accounting acquiree) the Company simultaneously issuedretroactively restated redeemable preferred stock with the Private Placement Warrants. corresponding adjustment to additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheets.

The Private Placement Warrantschanges in the components of Series A preferred stock are not redeemablepresented in the table below:

UnitsAmount
As of December 31, 2019176,500 $167,441 
Issuance of Series A preferred stock31,500 31,500 
Accretion of Series A preferred stock— 2,166 
Accrued dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— 15,590 
Payment of dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— (12,950)
As of December 31, 2020208,000 $203,747 
Issuance of Series A preferred stock82,000 82,000 
Accretion of Series A preferred stock— 8,417 
Accrued dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— 18,043 
Payment of dividends and commitment fees on Series A preferred stock— (22,207)
Redemption of Series A preferred stock(290,000)(290,000)
As of December 31, 2021— $— 
Redemption Rights and Dividend Provisions
Series A preferred stock carried a fixed rate dividend of 8% which was required to be paid by the Company so long as they are held by the Sponsorin bi-annual installments, whether or its permitted transferees. If the Private Placement Warrants are held by holders other than the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the Private Placement Warrants are redeemable by the Companynot declared, and exercisable by the holders on the same basis as the warrants includedthus accrued in the SAILSM securities being sold inconsolidated financial statements. Series A preferred stock could be redeemed at the Initial Public Offering. The Sponsor, or its permitted transferees, have the option to exercise the Private Placement Warrants on a cashless basis. The Private Placement Warrants are not transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination. If the Company does not complete the Business Combination within 24 months from the closing of this offering (or 27-months, as applicable), the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Warrants held in the Trust Account will be used to fund the redemption of the Company’s public shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law) and the Private Placement Warrants will expire worthless.

NOTE 7—STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

The Company sold an aggregate of 2,300,000 Alignment Shares to the Sponsor on November 6, 2020. On November 27, 2020, the Sponsor sold 201,250 Alignment Shares to certain of the Company’s directors, or their respective designees, and an officer of the Company and forfeited 287,500 Alignment Shares due toat any time. GSO Capital Partners ("GSO") has an adjustment pursuantoptional redemption on or after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date or upon a change of control, event of default or an acceleration of debt under the credit agreement of the Rated Term Loan. The redemption price shall be equal to the Initial Public Offering. See “Note 3—Initial Public Offering—Alignment Shares” for additional details. Asoutstanding capital balance plus any accrued dividend. Series A preferred stock is not convertible. The Company accreted the carrying value of the Series A preferred stock to the redemption value and records accretion as the increase of accumulated deficit.

During the year ended December 31, 2020, 2,012,500 Alignment Shares were issued2021 and outstanding.

On December 10, 2020, the Company sold an aggregaterecorded total Series A preferred stock dividends of 7,366,667 Private Placement Warrants at a price$17.8 million and $15.0 million, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2021, $21.8 million was paid, of $1.50 per warrant to the Sponsor in a private placement that occurred simultaneously with the completion of the Initial Public Offering. See “Note 3—Initial Public Offering—Private Placement Warrants” for additional details.

The Company determined that the incremental fair value over the price paid for the Alignment Shares and Private Placement Warrants would qualify as stock-based compensation within scope of ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”) as a result of the services the Sponsor and directors and officers are providing to the Company through the date of a Business Combination.

Under ASC 718, stock-based compensation associated with equity-classified awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date and recognized over the requisite service period. The Alignment Shares and Private Placement Warrants were granted subject to a performance condition (i.e., the occurrence of a Business Combination ), as well as various market conditions (i.e., stock price targets after consummation of the Business Combination). The various market conditions are considered in determining the grant date fair value of these instruments using Monte Carlo simulation. Compensation expensewhich $17.8 million related to the Alignment Shares and Private Placement Warrants is recognized only when the performance condition is probable of occurrence. As of December 31, 2020, the Company determined that a Business Combination is not considered probable, and, therefore, no stock-based compensation expense has been recognizeddividends accrued during the year ended December 31, 2021, and $4.0 million related to the dividends accrued as of December 31, 2020. Unrecognized stock-based compensationAs of December 31, 2021 and 2020, zero and $4.0 million, respectively, remained unpaid and were added to the outstanding balance of the Series A preferred stock.

As consideration for GSO’s commitment to purchase Series A preferred stock, the Company agreed to pay GSO a commitment fee of 0.50% per annum on the portion of unfunded committed Series A preferred stock. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded costs of $0.3 million and $0.6 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, zero and $0.1 million remained unpaid, respectively.
Preferred stock of Altus Power Inc.
The Company had also authorized for issuance 10,000,000 of preferred stock but as of December 31, 2021, no stock was issued.

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12.Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests
The changes in the components of redeemable noncontrolling interests are presented in the table below:
For the year ended December 31,
20212020
Redeemable noncontrolling interest, beginning balance$18,311 $3,411 
Cash contributions— 10,681 
Cash distributions(1,087)(411)
Assumed noncontrolling interest through business combination254 4,380 
Redemption of redeemable noncontrolling interests(1,630)— 
Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest(321)250 
Redeemable noncontrolling interest, ending balance$15,527 $18,311 

13.Commitments and Contingencies
Legal
The Company is a party to a number of claims and governmental proceedings which are ordinary, routine matters incidental to its business. In addition, in the ordinary course of business the Company periodically has disputes with vendors and customers. The outcomes of these matters are not expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
Performance Guarantee Obligations
The Company guarantees certain specified minimum solar energy production output under the Company’s PPA agreements, generally over a term of 10, 15 or 25 years. The solar energy systems are monitored to ensure these outputs are achieved. The Company evaluates if any amounts are due to customers based upon not meeting the guaranteed solar energy production outputs at each reporting period end. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the guaranteed minimum solar energy production has been met and the Company has recorded no performance guarantee obligations.
Leases
The Company has operating leases for land and buildings. The following schedule represents the expected annual future minimum payments under site leases:
2022$6,035 
20236,486 
20246,578 
20256,564 
20266,620 
Thereafter85,494 
Total lease payments$117,777 
For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded site lease expenses under these agreements totaling $4.4 million and $3.1 million, respectively of which are recorded in cost of operations (exclusive of total depreciation and amortization) in the consolidated statements of operations.

14.Related Party Transactions
There were no amounts due to or from related parties as of December 31, 2021 and 2020. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the Company conducts transactions with affiliates:
Blackstone Subsidiaries as Rated Term Loan Lender and Preferred Equity Holder
The Company incurs interest expense on the Rated Term Loan. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 the total related party interest expense on the Rated Term Loan was $14.9 million and $9.5 million, respectively, and is recorded as interest expense in excessthe accompanying consolidated statements of $250operations. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, interest payable of $4.5 million would be recognizedand $2.6 million, respectively, was due under the Rated Term Loan was recorded as interest payable on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

PIPE Subscription Agreements
In conjunction with the PIPE Investment discussed in Note 3, William Concannon, Director, Gregg Felton, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Lars Norell, Co-Chief Executive Officer, entered into PIPE Subscription Agreements pursuant to which each of them purchased 100,000 shares of Class A common stock at a purchase price per share of $10.00 and an aggregate purchase price of $1.0 million. The PIPE Investment was issued to the Sponsor, Mr. Concannon, Mr. Felton, and Mr. Norell on the same terms and conditions as all other PIPE Investors.
GSO Promissory Note
On November 22, 2019, the Company issued a promissory note to GSO in exchange for a loan totaling $4.0 million, the proceeds of which were primarily used to fund reserve requirements under the Rated Term Loan. The full promissory note plus accrued interest was repaid in full by the Company on March 3, 2020.
Other Related Parties
On February 21, 2020, the Company entered into a purchase agreement to acquire the remaining assets of Sound Solar Systems, LLC, a related party of the Company through common ownership, for $0.3 million. During the year ended December 31, 2021 the Company incurred no costs and $0.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2020 for design, engineering and construction services provided by Sound Solar Systems, LLC. As a result of the Sound Solar Acquisition, the Company acquired tangible and intangible assets related to the design and engineering of solar photovoltaic projects for the cash consideration of $0.3 million.

15.Earnings per Share
The calculation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 was as follows (in thousands, except share and per share amounts):
For the year ended December 31,
20212020
Net income attributable to Altus Power, Inc.$5,906 $6,793 
Income attributable to participating securities(90)(108)
Net income attributable to common stockholders - basic and diluted5,816 6,685 
Class A Common Stock
Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding - basic(1)
92,751,839 88,741,089 
Dilutive RSUs2,596,702 866,075 
Dilutive restricted stock1,254,887 1,251,554 
Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding - diluted(2)
96,603,428 90,858,718 
Net income attributable to common stockholders per share - basic$0.06 $0.08 
Net income attributable to common stockholders per share - diluted$0.06 $0.07 

(1) Excludes 1,259,887 shares of Company Class A common stock provided to holders of Altus Restricted Shares. Such Company Class A common stock is subject to the same vesting restrictions placed on the Altus Restricted Shares as in effect immediately prior to the Merger, including restrictions on dividends and voting rights. As the shares are still subject to vesting, they are excluded from basic weighted average shares of common stock outstanding.
(2) Excludes 10,062,500 Redeemable Warrants and Private Placement Warrants. The Redeemable Warrants and Private Placement Warrants are exercisable at $11.00 per share. As the warrants are deemed anti-dilutive, they are excluded from the calculation of earnings per shares.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

16.Asset Retirement Obligations
AROs consist primarily of costs to remove solar energy system assets at the date a Business Combination is considered probable (i.e., upon consummation).

NOTE 8—FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

end of their useful lives and costs to restore the solar energy system sites to the original condition, which are estimated based on current market rates. The following table presents information about the Company’s assets that are measuredchanges in AROs as recorded in other long-term liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets:

For the year ended December 31,
20212020
Balance at beginning of year$4,446 $683 
Additional obligations incurred3,024 3,689 
Accretion expense174 74 
Liabilities settled or disposed in the current year(16)— 
Balance at end of year$7,628 $4,446 

17.Stock-based Compensation
Legacy Incentive Plans
Stock-based compensation expense is recognized in selling, general, and administrative expense on a recurring basis asthe consolidated statements of operations. The Company recognized $0.1 million and $0.1 million of stock-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, the Company had $0.2 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to unvested restricted units, which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted-average period of approximately two years.
Prior the Merger, Altus maintained the APAM Holdings LLC Restricted Units Plan, adopted in 2015 (the “APAM Plan”), which provided for the grant of restricted units that were intended to qualify as profits interests to employees, officers, directors and consultants. Further, Holdings adopted the 2021 Profits Interest Incentive Plan (the “Holdings Plan”, and together with the APAM Plan, the “Legacy Incentive Plans”), which similarly provided for the grant of restricted units that were intended to qualify as profits interests to employees, officers, directors and consultants. Awards under the Legacy Incentive Plans are subject to a 3-to-4-year vesting schedule and are treated as stock-based compensation which gets expensed to the Company. In connection with the Merger, vested restricted units previously granted under the Legacy Incentive Plans were exchanged for shares of Class A Common Stock, and unvested Altus Restricted Shares under each of the Legacy Incentive Plans were exchanged for restricted Class A Common Stock with the same vesting conditions. After the Merger, no further awards will be made under the Legacy Incentive Plans. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, 244,328 and indicates731,905 shares of Class A Common Stock were restricted under the APAM Plan, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, 840,000 and zero shares of Class A Common Stock were restricted under the Holdings Plan, respectively.
The fair value hierarchy of the granted units was determined using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing model and relied on assumptions and inputs provided by the Company. All option models utilize the same assumptions with regard to (i) current valuation, techniques that(ii) volatility, (iii) risk-free interest rate, and (iv) time to maturity. The models, however, use different assumptions with regard to the strike price which vary by award.
Omnibus Incentive Plan
On July 12, 2021, the Company utilizedentered into the Management Equity Incentive Letter with each of Mr. Felton and Mr. Norell pursuant to determinewhich, on February 15, 2022, the Compensation Committee granted to Mr. Felton and Mr. Norell, together with other senior executives, including Anthony Savino, Chief Construction Officer, and Dustin Weber, Chief Financial Officer, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) under the Omnibus Incentive Plan (the "Incentive Plan") that are subject to time-based and, for the named executive officers and certain other executives, eighty percent (80%) of such fair value.

Description

  Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
(Level 1)
   Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
   Significant Other
Unobservable Inputs
(Level 3)
 

Money market fund held by Trust Account

  $402,500,000    —      —   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $402,500,000    —      —   

NOTE 9—INCOME TAXES

TheRSUs also further subject to performance-based vesting, with respect to an aggregate five percent (5%) of the Company’s financial statements include total net loss before taxesClass A common stock on a fully diluted basis, excluding the then-outstanding shares of approximately $295,743the Company’s Class B common stock or any shares of the Company’s Class A common stock into which such shares of the Company’s Class B common stock are or may be convertible. Subject to continued employment on each applicable vesting date, the time-based RSUs generally vest 33 1/3% on each of the third, fourth and fifth anniversaries of the Closing, and the performance-based RSUs vest with respect to 33 1/3% of the award upon the achievement of the above time-based requirement and the achievement of a hurdle representing a 25% annual compound annual growth rate measured based on an initial value of $10.00 per share.

No RSUs were granted and no stock-based compensation expense was recognized in relation to the Incentive Plan for the year ended December 31, 2020. The income tax provision consists2021.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan
On December 9, 2021, we adopted the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which provides a means by which eligible employees may be given an opportunity to purchase shares of the Company’s Class A common stock. No shares of the Company’s Class A common stock were issued and no stock-based compensation expense was recognized in relation to the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan for the year ended December 31, 2021.

18.Income Taxes
Income tax expense is composed of the following:

December 31, 2020

Federal

—  

Current

—  

Deferred

—  

State and local

—  

Current

—  

Deferred

—  

Income tax provision (benefit)

—  

For the year ended December 31,
20212020
Current:
Federal$— $— 
State76 23 
Total current expense76 23 
Deferred:
Federal(1,518)1,851 
State1,737 (1,791)
Total deferred expense$219 $60 
Income tax expense$295 $83 

The following table presents a reconciliation of the income tax benefit computed at the U.S. federal statutory rate and the Company’s income tax expense / (benefit) (in thousands):
For the year ended December 31,
20212020
Income tax benefit – computed as 21% of pretax loss$2,793 $(379)
Effect of noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests(1,491)1,823 
State tax, net of federal benefit1,138 (1,736)
State valuation allowance294 339 
Transaction costs related to the Merger(1,713)— 
Effect of tax credits(28)(153)
Change in fair value of redeemable warrant and alignment shares liability(563)— 
Other(135)189 
Income tax expense$295 $83 
Effective income tax rate2.2 %(4.6)%
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the provision/(benefit)carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income taxestax purposes. As of December 31, 2021 and income taxes at2020, the statutory U.S. federal income tax rate is as follows:

   December 31, 2020 
   Amount   Percent of Pretax
Income
 

Current tax at U.S. statutory rate

   (62,106   21

Valuation allowance activity

   62,106    -21

Total income tax provision/(benefit)

   —      0
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The components ofCompany’s deferred tax assets and liabilities asare comprised of December 31, 2020 are as follows:

December 31, 2020

Asset (Liability)

Net Operating Losses

5,294

Capitalized Costs

56,812

Deferred Taxes Before Valuation

62,106

Allowance

—  

Valuation allowance

(62,106

Net deferred tax assets/(liabilities), net of allowance

—  

the following:

As of December 31,
20212020
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating losses$42,814 $20,000 
Intangible liabilities807 1,206 
Deferred financing costs271 277 
Tax credits615 810 
Deferred site lease528 73 
Asset retirement obligation2,018 1,154 
Stock-based compensation73 50 
Sec. 163(j) interest limitation11,776 7,947 
Total deferred tax assets$58,902 $31,517 
Valuation allowance(633)(339)
Net deferred tax assets$58,269 $31,178 
Deferred tax liabilities:
Property, plant and equipment$(34,918)$(18,537)
Intangible assets(784)(1,089)
Investments in partnerships(32,170)(22,553)
Total deferred tax liabilities(67,872)(42,179)
Net deferred tax liability$(9,603)$(11,001)

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had US federal net operating loss carryforwards of $177.4 million and $80.3 million, respectively, available to offset future federal taxable income which will begin to expire in 2034. The Company has concluded thatfederal net operating loss carryforwards of $140.4 million, which can be carried forward indefinitely. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had $48.4 million of US federal net operating loss subject to limitation under Internal Revenue Code Section 382. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had state net operating loss $87.7 million and $48.6 million, respectively, which will begin to expire in 2022, if not utilized.
The Company regularly assesses the realizability of its deferred tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that some or all of its deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company evaluates and weighs all available positive and negative evidence such as historic results, future reversals of existing deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, as well as prudent and feasible tax-planning strategies. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company will not realize the benefithas recorded a valuation allowance of $0.6 million and $0.3 million, respectively, for its deferred tax assets associated with capitalized start-up costs. Start-up costs cannot be amortized until the Company starts business operations. Therefore, a full valuation allowance has been established, as future events such as business combinations cannot be considered when assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets. Accordingly, thestate net deferred tax assets have been fully reserved.

We utilize a two-step approachoperating losses that are more likely than not to recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the available evidence indicates there is more than a 50% likelihood that the position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount which is more than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement. expire.

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company doeshad, under IRC Sec. 163(j), a gross interest expense limitation carryforward of $45.4 million and $31.0 million, respectively with an indefinite carryforward period.
The Company applies the applicable authoritative guidance which prescribes a comprehensive model for a manner in which a company should recognize, measure, present and disclose in its financial statements all material uncertain tax positions that the Company has taken or expects to take on a tax return. As of December 31, 2021, the Company has no uncertain tax positions. No amounts of interest and penalties were recognized in the Company’s financial statements and the Company’s policy is to present interest and penalties as a component of income tax expense.
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) was enacted and signed into law in the United States. The CARES Act includes measures to assist companies, including temporary changes to income and non-income-based tax laws. The Company did not receive a stimulus payment related to the CARES Act and the new law did not have any uncertain tax positions.

a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Our continuing practice is to recognize potential accrued interest and/or penalties related toThe Company files federal income tax matters withinreturns and state income tax expense. For the period from October 13, 2020 (inception) to December 31, 2020, we did not accrue any interest and penalties.returns in multiple jurisdictions. The Company is currently not awarestatute of any issues under review that could resultlimitation remains open for tax years after 2014.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Dollar amounts in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position.

NOTE 10—SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

thousands, except per share data, unless otherwise noted)


19.Subsequent Events

Management

The Company has evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date up tofrom December 31, 2021 through March 31, 2021,24, 2022, which is the date the audited consolidated financial statements were available to be issued. Other than the promissory note described in Note 4, the Company did not identify anyThere are no subsequent events that would have required adjustmentrequiring recording or disclosure toin the consolidated financial statements.

ITEM 9.

CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES

None.

ITEM 9A.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Rule 13a-15


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Item 9. Changes in and 15(d)-15(e)Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Under the Exchange Act, as amended, requires thatsupervision and with the participation of our management, including our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, we conductconducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2021, as such term is defined in Rules 13a‐15(e) and 15d‐15(e) under the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K,Securities and we have a disclosure policy in furtherance of the same. This evaluation isExchange Act, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).

Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that all corporate disclosure is complete and accurate in all material respects. The evaluation is further designed to ensure that all information required to be disclosed in our SECExchange Act reports is accumulated and communicated to management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures and recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods and in the manner specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Any controlsforms, and procedures, no matter how well designedthat such information is accumulated and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. Our Chiefcommunicated to our management, including our Co-Chief Executive OfficerOfficers and Chief Financial Officer, superviseas appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Based on this evaluation of our disclosure controls and participate in this evaluation.

We conducted the required evaluation, andprocedures, our Chiefmanagement, including our Co-Chief Executive OfficerOfficers and Chief Financial Officer, have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined by Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) and 15(d)-15(e))were not effective as of December 31, 2020.

Internal Control over Financial Reporting

This Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal control over financial reporting or an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm due to a transition period established by rules2021, because of the SEC for newly public companies.

During the most recently completed fiscal year, there has been no changematerial weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting described below.


Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Based on our management’s evaluation (with the participation of our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer), of the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021, which was based on the framework in the Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, our Co-Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, our internal control over financial reporting were not effective as of December 31, 2021, because of the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting described below.

An effective internal control system, no matter how well designed, has inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error or overriding controls, and therefore can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to reliable financial reporting. Because of its inherent limitations, our internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect all misstatements, including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or fraud. Effective internal controls can only provide reasonable assurance with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements.

In connection with the preparation of our financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, prior to our initial public offering, we identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

We have identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting that we are currently working to remediate, which relate to: (a) insufficient qualified personnel, which caused management to be unable to appropriately define responsibilities to create an effective control environment; (b) the lack of a formalized risk assessment process; and (c) selection and development of control activities, including over information technology. These material weaknesses result in an increased risk of material misstatement in the financial statements.

We have concluded that these material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting are due to Altus’s previous status as a private company with limited resources and which did not have the necessary business processes and related internal controls formally designed and implemented coupled with the appropriate resources with the appropriate level of experience and technical expertise to oversee business processes and controls.

Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm

This Annual Report on Form 10‐K does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm on internal control over financial reporting due to an exemption established by the JOBS Act for “emerging growth companies”.

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Remediation Plan
With the oversight of senior management and our audit committee, we are taking the steps below and plan to take additional measures to remediate the underlying causes of the material weaknesses:
We have proceeded with steps intended to remediate the insufficient qualified personnel material weakness, including hiring additional finance department employees with appropriate expertise, including a Technical Accounting Manager, Accounts Payable Manager, and Tax Director;

We have hired a SOX Manager that specializes in internal controls and organizational risk assessment, identification of control activities, controls documentation and the enhancement of ongoing monitoring activities related to the internal controls over financial reporting to address the lack of a formalized risk assessment process; and

We have proceeded with steps intended to remediate the selection and development of control activities material weakness through the documentation of processes and controls in the financial statement close, reporting and disclosure processes while working to deploy a new enterprise resource planning system designed to improve the accuracy and controls over financial reporting. The new system enhancements and activities are designed to enable us to broaden the scope and quality of our internal reviews of information supporting financial reporting and to formalize and enhance our internal control procedures.

We cannot assure you that the measures we have taken to date, and are continuing to implement, will be sufficient to remediate the material weaknesses we have identified or avoid potential future material weaknesses.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

As discussed above, we implemented certain measures to remediate the material weaknesses identified in the design and operation of our internal control over financial reporting. Other than those measures, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 2021 that have materially affected, or isare reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

ITEM 9B.

OTHER INFORMATION

None.


Item 9B. Other Information

None.

Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
None.
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PART III

ITEM 10.

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Our current


Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
The information required by this Item 10 of Form 10-K regarding Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance will be included in the Proxy Statement to be filed for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and is incorporated herein by reference.
We adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to all of our directors, officers and directorsemployees, including our principal executive officers, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, which is available on our website. Our code of business conduct is a “code of ethics,” as defined in Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K. We will make any legally required disclosures regarding amendments to, or waivers of, provisions of our code of ethics on the investors’ section of our website, https://investors.altuspower.com/.
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
The information required by this Item 11 of Form 10-K regarding Executive Compensation will be included in the Proxy Statement to be filed for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
The information required by this Item 12 of Form 10-K regarding Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters will be included in the Proxy Statement to be filed for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
The information required by this Item 13 of Form 10-K regarding Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence will be included in the Proxy Statement to be filed for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services.
The information required by this Item 14 of Form 10-K regarding Principal Accounting Fees and Services will be included in the Proxy Statement to be filed for our 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and is incorporated herein by reference.

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PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

(a)(1) and (a)(2) Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules:

Reference is made to the Index to Financial Statements of the Company under Item 8 of Part II. All financial statement schedules are omitted because they are not applicable, or the amounts are immaterial, not required, or the required information is presented in the financial statements and notes thereto in Item 8 of Part II above.

(b) Exhibits.

Exhibits: The exhibits listed in the accompanying index to exhibits are filed or incorporated by reference as follows:

part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Exhibits not incorporated by reference to a prior filing are designated by an asterisk (*); all exhibits not so designated are incorporated by reference to a prior filing as indicated.

Name

Exhibit No.
Age

Title

Description

Robert E. Sulentic

64Director and Chair

William F. Concannon

65Chief Executive Officer, Director

Cash J. Smith

44President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

Emma E. Giamartino

37Director

David S. Binswanger

44Director

Sarah E. Coyne

29Director

Jamie J. Hodari

39Director

Michael J. Ellis

64Director

Robert E. Sulentic serves as the Chair of our Board of Directors and has been President & Chief Executive Officer of CBRE since December 2012. Mr. Sulentic began his real estate career with Trammell Crow Company in 1984 as an Industrial Leasing Agent in Houston, Texas. Over the next 23 years he served in various leadership positions at Trammell Crow Company and rose to President and CEO in 2000 and Chair of the Board in 2002. He served in those roles when Trammell Crow Company merged with CBRE in late 2006. Mr. Sulentic is a member of the CBRE Board of Directors and also served as the independent Chair of the Board of Staples, Inc. until its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in 2017. Mr. Sulentic received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Iowa State University. He was selected to serve on our Board due to his experience as a leader in the real estate industry.

William F. Concannon serves as our Chief Executive Officer and a Director. Mr. Concannon is CBRE’s Global Group President, Clients and Business Partners, where he drives the firm’s engagement strategy for CBRE’s largest occupier and investor clients, as well as with key strategic partners. He has been with CBRE since its acquisition of the Trammell Crow Company in 2006. Before assuming his current role, he served as Global CEO of CBRE’s GWS business segment, a global, integrated, full-service real estate outsourcing business serving the world’s largest real estate occupiers. He serves on the board of Charles Rivers Associates (NASDAQ: CRAI). Mr. Concannon received a B.S. from Providence College. He was selected to serve on our Board due to his experience as a leader in the real estate industry.

Cash J. Smith serves as our President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Mr. Smith joined CBRE in 2012 and was Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions with responsibility for CBRE’s mergers and acquisitions activity globally. He was also responsible for CBRE’s property technology and venture-capital investments, including serving on multiple boards related to CBRE’s direct investments. Mr. Smith received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology. He was selected to serve as an officer due to his experience in the real estate industry and in sourcing, diligencing, negotiating, closing and integrating mergers and acquisitions.

Emma E. Giamartino serves as a Director. Ms. Giamartino is CBRE’s Global Chief Investment Officer. She began her career at CBRE in February 2018, as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions in the Americas and later as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to joining CBRE, Ms. Giamartino served as Director of Corporate Development at Verizon Communications, from 2015 to 2018, where she completed transactions across telematics, IoT, media, software and the core network. Previously, she worked in Nomura’s technology, media and telecommunications investment banking group, covering a wide range of sectors, including data and information services, software, media and digital content platforms, from 2010 to 2015. Ms. Giamartino received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.S.E. from Duke University. She was selected to serve on our Board due to her experience in sourcing, diligencing, negotiating, closing and integrating mergers and acquisitions.

David S. Binswanger serves as a Director. He is Senior Executive Vice President at Lincoln Property Company (“LPC”), an international real estate firm. At LPC, Mr. Binswanger is responsible for the firm’s operations and principal acquisition and development projects throughout the U.S. west region. He also directs the delivery of all services to LPC’s clients in the west, including commercial real estate owners, investors, lenders and occupiers. Mr. Binswanger joined LPC in 1998 and has held various senior level positions within operations and finance,

including Vice President of Finance and Executive Vice President overseeing the firm’s Southern California business unit. He received a B.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He was selected to serve on our Board due to his experience as a real estate operator, with responsibility for significant acquisition and development projects.

Sarah E. Coyne serves as a Director. She is Vice President at ValueAct Capital (“ValueAct”), an investment company. At ValueAct, Ms. Coyne is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities and managing a diverse portfolio of investments and has been with the firm since September 2017. Prior to ValueAct, she served as Associate in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications private equity group at KKR, from July 2015 to July 2017, and before that, a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications investment banking group at Goldman Sachs, from July 2013 to March 2015. Ms. Coyne received a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Ms. Coyne was selected to serve on our Board due to her experience in public and private investments, finance, accounting and mergers and acquisitions.

Jamie J. Hodari serves as a Director. Mr. Hodari is CEO and Co-founder of Industrious National Management Company, LLC (“Industrious”), a flexible workspace provider. Since 2013 at Industrious, he has led the growth to over 90 locations across more than 45 cities. Prior to this role, he served as CEO of Kepler from 2011 to 2013, a hedge fund analyst at Birch Run Capital from 2010 to 2011, a corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell from 2009 to 2010, and a reporter for the Times of India from 2004 to 2005. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.P. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Columbia University. Mr. Hodari was selected to serve on our Board due to his experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital financing and the evolving commercial real estate industry.

Michael J. Ellis serves as a Director. He is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer & Digital Officer at Johnson Controls, an international conglomerate that produces fire, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and security equipment for buildings. At Johnson Controls, which he joined in 2019, Mr. Ellis oversees digital strategy, innovation and execution, working closely with customers to drive new growth and value opportunities across the globe. Prior to this role, he served as Global Managing Director of Accenture, from 2018 to 2019, and, before that, was President, Chairman and CEO of ForgeRock, a global digital security software company, from 2012 to 2018. Mr. Ellis received B.S. and B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Ellis was selected to serve on our Board due to his experiences in the global ecosystem of smarter buildings and the digitalization of the operations of commercial real estate.

Number, Terms of Office, Actions and Election of Officers and Director

Our Board consists of seven members. Each of our directors will generally hold office for a three-year term. Subject to any other special rights applicable to the stockholders, any vacancies on our Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors of our Board or by a majority of the holders of our common stock (or, prior to our business combination, a majority of the holders of our alignment shares). Our Sponsor is entitled to nominate three individuals for election to our Board, as long as our Sponsor holds any securities covered by the registration and stockholder rights agreement.

Our officers are elected by the Board and serve at the discretion of the Board, rather than for specific terms of office. Our Board is authorized to appoint persons to the offices set forth in our amended and restated bylaws as it deems appropriate. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that our officers may consist of a Chair, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Vice Presidents, Secretary, Assistant Secretaries, Treasurer and such other offices as may be determined by the Board.

Independent Director Meetings

Our independent directors meet in executive session without management present if circumstances warrant when the full Board convenes for a regularly scheduled meeting or a special meeting. The independent directors present at such executive sessions shall designate an independent director to preside over the executive session.

Communications with our Board

Stockholders and interested parties who would like to communicate with, or otherwise make his or her concerns known directly to the chair of any committee of the Board, or the director designated by the independent directors as

the presiding director at executive sessions, or to the non-management or independent directors as a group, may do so by addressing such communications or concerns to: Chair of the Board of Directors of CBRE Acquisition Holdings, Inc. at 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1250, Dallas, Texas 75201.

Committees of the Board of Directors

Our Board has three standing committees: an audit committee; a compensation committee; and a nominating and corporate governance committee. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of the NYSE and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act require that the audit committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors. Subject to phase-in rules and a limited exception, the rules of the NYSE require that the compensation committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee of a listed company be comprised solely of independent directors. Each committee operates under a charter that has been approved by our Board and have the composition and responsibilities described below. The charter of each committee is available on our website.

Audit Committee

Our Board has established an audit committee of the Board. The members of our audit committee consist of Ms. Coyne and Messrs. Binswanger and Ellis. Ms. Coyne serves as the chair of the audit committee.

Each member of the audit committee meets the financial literacy requirements of the NYSE and our Board has determined that Mr. Binswanger qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in applicable SEC rules and has accounting or related financial management expertise.

The primary purposes of our audit committee are to assist the Board’s oversight of:

audits of our financial statements;

the integrity of our financial statements;

our process relating to risk management and the conduct and systems of internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures;

the qualifications, engagement, compensation, independence and performance of our independent registered public accounting firm; and

the performance of our internal audit function.

The audit committee is governed by a charter that complies with the rules of the NYSE. A copy of our audit committee charter is posted on our website.

Compensation Committee

Our Board has established a compensation committee of the Board. The members of our compensation committee consist of Messrs. Ellis and Hodari. Mr. Ellis serves as the chair of the compensation committee.

The primary purposes of our compensation committee are to assist the Board in overseeing our management compensation policies and practices, including:

determining and approving the compensation of our executive officers; and

reviewing and approving incentive compensation and equity compensation policies and programs.

The compensation committee is governed by a charter that complies with the rules of the NYSE. A copy of our compensation committee charter is posted on our website.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Our Board has established a nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board. The members of our nominating and corporate governance consist of Ms. Coyne and Messrs. Binswanger and Hodari. Mr. Binswanger serves as chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee.

The primary purposes of our nominating and corporate governance committee are to assist the Board in:

identifying, screening and reviewing individuals qualified to serve as directors and recommending to the Board candidates for nomination for election at the annual meeting of stockholders or to fill vacancies on the Board;

developing, recommending to the Board and overseeing implementation of our corporate governance guidelines;

coordinating and overseeing the annual self-evaluation of the Board, its committees, individual directors and management in the governance of the Company; and

reviewing on a regular basis our overall corporate governance and recommending improvements as and when necessary.

The nominating and corporate governance committee is governed by a charter that complies with the rules of the NYSE. A copy of our nominating and corporate governance committee charter is posted on our website.

Director Nominations

Our nominating and corporate governance committee will recommend to the Board candidates for nomination for election at the annual meeting of the stockholders. Prior to our business combination, the Board will also consider director candidates recommended for nomination by holders of our alignment shares during such times as they are seeking proposed nominees to stand for election at an annual meeting of stockholders (or, if applicable, a special meeting of stockholders). Prior to our business combination, holders of our public shares will not have the right to recommend director candidates for nomination to our Board.

We have not formally established any specific, minimum qualifications that must be met or skills that are necessary for directors to possess. In general, in identifying and evaluating nominees for director, the Board considers educational background, diversity of professional experience, knowledge of our business, integrity, professional reputation, independence, wisdom, and the ability to represent the best interests of our stockholders.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

None of our officers currently serves, and in the past year has not served, (i) as a member of the compensation committee or Board of another entity, one of whose executive officers served on our compensation committee, or (ii) as a member of the compensation committee of another entity, one of whose executive officers served on our Board.

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applicable to our directors, officers and employees that complies with the rules of the NYSE. A copy of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is available on our website at https://cbreacquisitionholdings.com. Any amendments to or waivers of certain provisions of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics will be disclosed on our website promptly following the date of such amendment or waiver.

Corporate Governance Guidelines

Our Board has adopted corporate governance guidelines in accordance with the corporate governance rules of the NYSE that serve as a flexible framework within which our Board and its committees operate. These guidelines cover a number of areas including board membership criteria and director qualifications, director responsibilities, board agenda, roles of the chair of the board, chief executive officer and presiding director, meetings of independent

directors, committee responsibilities and assignments, board member access to management and independent advisors, director communications with third parties, director compensation, director orientation and continuing education, evaluation of senior management and management succession planning. A copy of our corporate governance guidelines is posted on our website.

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our officers, directors and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent of our common stock to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC. These reporting persons are also required to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. Based solely upon a review of such Forms, we believe that during the year ended December 31, 2020 there were no delinquent filers.

Conflicts of Interest

In general, officers and directors of a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware are required to present business opportunities to a corporation if:

the corporation could financially undertake the opportunity;

the opportunity is within the corporation’s line of business; and

it would not be fair to our Company and its stockholders for the opportunity not to be brought to the attention of the corporation.

Each of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual obligations 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 officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity that is suitable for an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such entity. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we renounce our interest in any corporate opportunity offered to any director or officer unless such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Company and such opportunity is one we are legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for us to pursue. We do not believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors will materially affect our ability to complete our business combination.

Below is a table summarizing the entities to which our officers and directors currently have fiduciary duties or contractual obligations that may present a conflict of interest:

2.1

Individual

Entity

Entity’s

Affiliation

William F. Concannon Combination Agreement, dated July 12, 2021, by and among CBRE Group,Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Real EstateGlobal Group President
CRA International,, CBAH Merger Sub I, Inc.ConsultingLead Director
Cash J. SmithCBRE Group,, CBAH Merger Sub II, LLC, Altus Power America Holdings, LLC, APAM Holdings LLC and Altus Power, Inc.Real EstateFormer Global Head (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of
Mergers & Acquisitions
Worksmith, Inc.TechnologyDirector
Robert E. SulenticCBRE Group, Inc.Real EstatePresident, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
Industrious National Management Company, LLCReal EstateManager
British America Business

Membership

Organization

Advisory Board Member

Emma E. GiamartinoCBRE Group, Inc.Real EstateGlobal Chief Investment Officer
Industrious National Management Company, LLCReal EstateManager
David S. Binswanger*Lincoln Property CompanyReal EstateSenior Executive Vice President
Sarah E. CoyneValueAct CapitalSecurities BrokerageVice President
Jamie J. HodariIndustrious National Management Company, LLCReal EstateChief Executive Officer and Manager
Michael J. EllisJohnson Controls International plcBuilding ServicesExecutive Vice President and Chief Customer & Digital Officer

*

David S. Binswanger is a limited partner in over 60 private partnerships formed to hold individual real estate assets.

Potential investors should also be aware of the following other potential conflicts of interest:

None of our officers or directors is required to commit his or her full time to our affairs and, accordingly, may have conflicts of interest in allocating his or her time among various business activities.

In the course of their other business activities, our officers and directors may become aware of investment and business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us as well as the other entities with which they are affiliated. Our management may have conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented. For a complete description of our management’s other affiliations, see “Item 1. Business—Conflicts of Interest,” and “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, and Director Independence.”

Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any alignment shares and any public shares they hold in connection with the consummation of our business combination. Additionally, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any alignment shares held by them if we fail to complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date. However, if our Sponsor, officers and directors acquire public shares, they will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to such public shares if we fail to complete our business combination within the prescribed time period. If we do not complete our business combination within such applicable time period, the proceeds of the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares, and the private placement warrants will expire worthless. Our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed not to transfer, assign or sell (i) any of their alignment shares except to any permitted transferees and (ii) any of their Class A common stock deliverable upon conversion of the alignment shares for 30 days following the completion of our business combination. With certain limited exceptions, the private placement warrants and the Class A common stock underlying such warrants, will not be transferable, assignable or salable by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees until 30 days after the completion of our business combination. Since our Sponsor and officers and directors may directly or indirectly own common stock and warrants following our Initial Public Offering, our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate our business combination.

Our officers and directors may negotiate employment or consulting agreements with a target business in connection with a particular business combination. These agreements may provide for them to receive compensation following our business combination and as a result, may cause them to have conflicts of interest in determining whether to proceed with a particular business combination.

Our officers and directors may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation of any such officers and directors was included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our business combination.

The conflicts described above may not be resolved in our favor.

Accordingly, as a result of multiple business affiliations, our officers and directors may have similar legal obligations relating to presenting business opportunities meeting the above-listed criteria to multiple entities.

We are not prohibited from pursuing a business combination with a business that is affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors. In the event we seek to complete our business combination with such a business, we, or a committee of independent and disinterested directors, would obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm that is a member of FINRA, or from an independent accounting firm, that such a business combination is fair to our Company from a financial point of view.

In addition, our Sponsor or any of its affiliates may make additional investments in the Company in connection with the business combination, although our Sponsor and its affiliates have no obligation or current intention to do so. If our Sponsor or any of its affiliates elect to make additional investments, such proposed investments could influence our Sponsor’s motivation to complete a business combination.

In the event that we submit our business combination to our public stockholders for a vote, our Sponsor, officers and directors have agreed, pursuant to the terms of a letter agreement entered into with us, to vote any alignment shares held by them (and their permitted transferees will agree) and any public shares they hold in favor of our business combination.

Limitation on Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that our officers and directors will be indemnified by us to the fullest extent authorized by Delaware law, as it now exists or may in the future be amended. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that our directors will not be personally liable for monetary damages to us or our stockholders for breaches of their fiduciary duty as directors, except to the extent such limitation on or exemption from liability is not permitted under the DGCL or unless they violated their duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders, acted in bad faith, knowingly or intentionally violated the law, authorized unlawful payments of dividends, unlawful stock purchases or unlawful redemptions, or derived an improper personal benefit from their actions as directors.

We have entered into agreements with our officers and directors to provide contractual indemnification in addition to the indemnification provided for in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. Our amended and restated bylaws also permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director or employee for any liability arising out of his or her actions, regardless of whether Delaware law would permit such indemnification. We have obained a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our officers and directors against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment in some circumstances and insures us against our obligations to indemnify our officers and directors. We believe that these provisions, the insurance and indemnity agreements are necessary to attract and retain talented and experienced officers and directors.

These provisions may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against our directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions also may have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against officers and directors, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders. Furthermore, a stockholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against officers and directors pursuant to these indemnification provisions.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

ITEM 11.

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

During 2020, none of our executive officers or directors received any cash compensation for services rendered to us. Each director not affiliated with our Sponsor was paid $50,000 in the first quarter of 2021 for board service from December 15, 2020 to December 14, 2021. Our Sponsor, officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates, will be reimbursed for any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. We have entered into an agreement with an affiliate of our Sponsor, pursuant to which we will pay a total of $10,000 per month for office space, administrative and support services to such affiliate. See “Item 12. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence—Administrative Services Agreement” for additional information about this agreement. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by us to our Sponsor, officers, directors or our or any of their affiliates.

After the completion of our business combination, directors or members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting, management or other fees from the combined company. All of these fees will be fully disclosed to stockholders, to the extent then known, in the tender offer materials or proxy solicitation materials furnished to our stockholders in connection with a proposed business combination. We have not established any limit on the amount of such fees that may be paid by the combined company to our directors or members of management. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time such materials are distributed, because the directors of the post-combination business will be responsible for determining officer and director compensation. Any compensation to be paid to our officers after the completion of our business combination will be determined by a compensation committee constituted solely by independent directors.

The existence or terms of any employment or consulting arrangements may influence our management’s motivation in identifying or selecting a target business but we do not believe that the ability of our management to remain with us after the consummation of our business combination will be a determining factor in our decision to proceed with any potential business combination. We are not party to any agreements with our officers and directors that provide for benefits upon termination of employment.

ITEM 12.

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

We have no compensation plans under which equity securities are authorized for issuance.

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of March 29, 2021 held by:

each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding shares of common stock;

each of our officers, directors and director nominees that beneficially own shares of common stock; and

all our officers, directors and director nominees as a group.

Unless otherwise indicated, we believe that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock beneficially owned by them. The following table does not reflect record or beneficial ownership of the private placement warrants as these warrants are not exercisable within 90 days of December 15, 2020. Approximate percentage of voting control represents the combined voting power of power of Class A common stock and Class B common stock beneficially owned by such person. Holders of shares of Class A common stock and shares of Class B common stock vote together as a single class. Currently, all of the shares of Class B common stock are convertible into shares of Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis.

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(1)

  Class A Common Stock  Class B Common Stock(2)  Approximate
Percentage
of Voting
Control(3)
 
  Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned
   Approximate
Percentage
of Class
  Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned
   Approximate
Percentage
of Class
 

CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC(4)

   —      *   1,811,250    90  4.3

D1 Capital Partners L.P.(5)

   3,000,000    7.5  —      —     7.1

Empyrean Capital Overseas Master Fund, Ltd.(6)

   2,064,511    5.1  —      —     4.9

Integrated Core Strategies (US) LLC(7)

   2,502,600    6.2  —      —     5.9

Robert E. Sulentic(8)

   10,000    *   —      —     —   

William F. Concannon

   —      *   20,125    1  * 

Emma E. Giamartino

   —      *   —      —     —   

Cash J. Smith

   —      *   100,625    5  * 

David S. Binswanger(9)

   —      *   20,125    1  * 

Sarah E. Coyne(10)

   —      *   20,125    1  * 

Jamie J. Hodari(11)

   —      *   20,125    1  * 

Michael J. Ellis

   —      *   20,125    1  * 

All directors, officers and director nominees as a group (eight individuals)

   —      *   201,250    10  —   

*

Less than one percent.

(1)

Unless otherwise noted, the business address of each of the following entities or individuals is 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1250, Dallas, Texas 78201.

(2)

Interests shown consist solely of alignment shares, classified as shares of Class B common stock. The alignment shares will convert into shares of Class A common stock from time to time after our business combination, based on the conversion features described in the entitled “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual CBAH’s Current Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference.

8-K, filed with the SEC on July 13, 2021).
(3)

Assuming the automatic conversion of alignment shares designated as shares of Class B common stock into the shares of Class A common stock at the time of the Company’s business combination.

(4)

Represents the interests directly held by CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC. The sole member of CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC is CBRE Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBRE.

(5)

Includes Class A common stock beneficially held by D1 Capital Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and Mr. Daniel Sundheim, a United States citizen. The business address of each of the aforementioned beneficial holders is 9 West 57th Street, 36th Floor New York, New York 10019.

(6)

Includes Class A common stock beneficially held by Empyrean Capital Overseas Master Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company, Empyrean Capital Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership and Mr. Amos Meron, a United States citizen. The business address of each of the aforementioned beneficial holders is 10250 Constellation Boulevard, Suite 2950, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

(7)

Includes Class A common stock beneficially held by Integrated Core Strategies (US) LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Riverview Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, ICS Opportunities, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company, Millennium International Management LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Millennium Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Millennium Group Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and Mr. Israel A. Englander, a United States citizen. The business address of each of the aforementioned beneficial holders is 666 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10103.

(8)

Represents the interests directly held by Sulentic Family Holdings, LLC. Mr. Sulentic is a direct beneficial owner of 10,000 shares held by Sulentic Family Holdings, LLC.

(9)

Interests shown are held by the R&DBIG Trust.

(10)

Interests shown are held by ValueAct Capital Master Fund, L.P. Ms. Coyne disclaims beneficial ownership of shares of our Class B common stock for purposes of Section 16 under the Exchange Act.

(11)

Interests shown are held by Pine Ridge 287, LLC.

As of December 31, 2020, our initial stockholders beneficially owned 100% of the then outstanding shares of Class B common stock and have the right to elect all of our directors prior to our business combination as a result of holding all of the alignment shares. Holders of our public shares will not have the right to elect any directors to our Board prior to our business combination. In addition, because of their ownership block, our initial stockholders may be able to effectively influence the outcome of all other matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including amendments to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and approval of significant corporate transactions. As of December 31, 2020, our Sponsor, directors and officers and their respective permitted transferees own approximately 5% of our outstanding common stock.

In connection with the consummation of our Initial Public Offering, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 7,366,667 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per warrant ($11,050,000 in the aggregate) in a private placement. Our Sponsor immediately sold an aggregate of 128,918 of such private placement warrants to certain of our directors and officers. Each private placement warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of our Class A common stock at a price of $11.00 per share, subject to adjustment as provided herein. If we do not complete our business combination within 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable) from the IPO Closing Date, the proceeds of the sale of the private placement warrants held in the trust account will be used to fund the redemption of our public shares, and the private placement warrants will expire worthless. The private placement warrants are identical to our Public Warrants except that, so long as they are held by our Sponsor or its permitted transferees, (i) they will not be redeemable by us (except as described in “—warrants—Public stockholders’ warrants—Redemption of warrants when the per share price of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00” in “Item 15. Exhibits, and Financial Statement Schedules—Exhibit 4.5 Description of Securities” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K which is incorporated herein by reference.), (ii) they (including the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of these warrants) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by our Sponsor until 30 days after the completion of our business combination, (iii) they may be exercised by the holders on a cashless basis and (iv) they (including the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of these warrants) are entitled to registration rights.

Our Sponsor and our officers and directors are deemed to be our “promoters” as such term is defined under the federal securities laws. See “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, and Director Independence” for additional information regarding our relationships with our promoters.

Transfers of Alignment Shares and private placement warrants

The alignment shares, private placement warrants and any shares of Class A common stock issued upon conversion or exercise thereof are each subject to transfer restrictions pursuant to lock-up provisions in the letter agreement with us entered into by our Sponsor, officers and directors. Those lock-up provisions provide that such securities are not transferable, assignable or salable (i) in the case of the alignment shares, except to any permitted transferees, and (ii) in the case of the private placement warrants and the Class A common stock underlying such warrants and the alignment shares, until 30 days after the completion of our business combination, except in each case (a) to our officers or directors, any affiliates or family members of any of our officers or directors, any members of our Sponsor, or any affiliates of, or service providers for, our Sponsor, (b) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of the individual’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization; (c) in the case of an individual, by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (d) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (e) by private sales or transfers made in connection with the consummation of a business combination at prices no greater than the price at which the securities were originally purchased; (f) in the event of our liquidation prior to our completion of our business combination; (g) by virtue of the laws of the State of Delaware or our Sponsor’s limited liability company agreement upon dissolution of our Sponsor; or (h) in the event of our liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of our stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of common stock for cash, securities or other property subsequent to our completion of our business combination; provided, however, that in the case of clauses (a) through (e) these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement agreeing to be bound by these transfer restrictions.

ITEM 13.

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

Alignment Shares and Private Placement Warrants

On October 13, 2020, our Sponsor purchased 100 shares of undesignated common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $100, or $1.00 per share. On November 6, 2020, our Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 2,300,000 shares of our Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.01 per share. On November 27, 2020, 287,500 of such shares were forfeited by the holder thereof. Prior to the initial investment in the Company of $25,000 by our Sponsor, the Company had no assets, tangible or intangible. In connection with the Initial Public Offering, our Sponsor sold 20,125 alignment shares and 18,417 private placement warrants (as defined below) to each of our directors (other than Ms. Giamartino and Mr. Sulentic), or their respective designees. In addition, our Sponsor sold 100,625 alignment shares and 36,833 private placement warrants to one of our officers, Cash J. Smith. As of December 31, 2020, our Sponsor, directors and officers collectively owned approximately 5% of our outstanding shares of common stock, but will be entitled to 20% of the voting power of the common stock and will have the right to elect all of our directors prior to our business combination.

In connection with the consummation of the Initial Public Offering and the issuance and sale of the SAILSM securities, we consummated the private placement of 7,366,667 private placement warrants at a price of $1.50 per private placement warrant, each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.00 per share, generating total proceeds of approximately $11,050,000. The private placement warrants (including the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the private placement warrants) may not, subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by it until 30 days after the completion of our business combination.

The alignment shares, private placement warrants and any shares of Class A common stock issued upon conversion or exercise thereof are each subject to transfer restrictions pursuant to certain lock-up provisions. See “Item 12. Transfers of Alignment Shares and private placement warrants.”

Related Party Notes

Prior to the IPO Closing Date, our Sponsor agreed to loan us up to $300,000 to be used for a portion of the expenses related to the organization of our Company and the Initial Public Offering. As of December 15, 2020 the outstanding balance on the loan was $215,316. This loan is non-interest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of June 30, 2021 and the IPO Closing Date. This loan was repaid upon the consummation of our Initial Public Offering out of the $1,500,000 of offering proceeds that had been allocated for the payment of offering expenses (other than underwriting commissions) not held in the trust account.

On February 16, 2021, the Company entered into a Second Amended and Restated Promissory Note with our sponsor, with borrowing capacity up to $3,000,000, in order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended Business Combination. The note is non-interest bearing and the unpaid principal balance of the promissory note shall be payable on the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business Combination and (ii) December 31, 2022. The principal amount of such loans may be convertible into private placement warrants of the post-Business Combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant at the option of our sponsor. These warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants. No amounts have been borrowed under the note by the Company as of March 31, 2021.

In order to fund working capital deficiencies or to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended business combination, our Sponsor, an affiliate of our Sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us additional funds as may be required. If we complete our business combination, we may repay such loaned amounts out of the proceeds of the trust account released to us. Otherwise, such loans may be repaid only out of funds held outside the trust account. In the event that our business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the trust account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our trust account would be used to repay such loaned amounts. Up to $3,000,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants of the post-business combination entity at a price of $1.50 per warrant at the option of the

lender. The warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants issued to our Sponsor. The terms of such loans, if any, have not been determined and no written agreements exist with respect to such loans. We do not expect to seek loans from parties other than our Sponsor or an affiliate of our Sponsor as we do not believe third parties will be willing to loan such funds and provide a waiver against any and all rights to seek access to funds in our trust account.

Our Sponsor, officers and directors, or any of their respective affiliates, will be reimbursed for any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with activities on our behalf such as identifying potential target businesses and performing due diligence on suitable business combinations. Our audit committee will review on a quarterly basis all payments that were made by us to our Sponsor, officers, directors or our or any of their affiliates and will determine which expenses and the amount of expenses that will be reimbursed. There is no cap or ceiling on the reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such persons in connection with activities on our behalf.

After our business combination, members of our management team who remain with us may be paid consulting, management or other fees from the combined company with any and all amounts being fully disclosed to our stockholders, to the extent then known, in the tender offer or proxy solicitation materials, as applicable, furnished to our stockholders. It is unlikely the amount of such compensation will be known at the time of distribution of such tender offer materials or at the time of a stockholder meeting held to consider our business combination, as applicable, as it will be up to the directors of the post-combination business to determine executive and director compensation.

Registration Rights

The holders of the alignment shares, private placement warrants and warrants that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans, if any, have registration rights that require us to register a sale of any of our securities held by them pursuant to a registration and stockholder rights agreement entered into in connection with the consummation of our Initial Public Offering. These holders are entitled to make demands that we register such securities for sale under the Securities Act. In addition, these holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights to include such securities in other registration statements filed by us and rights to require us to register for resale such securities pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. We will bear the costs and expenses incurred in connection with filing any such registration statements.

Administrative Services Agreement

We have entered into an agreement with an affiliate of our Sponsor, pursuant to which we will pay a total of $10,000 per month for office space, administrative and support services to such affiliate. Upon completion of our business combination or our liquidation, we will cease paying these monthly fees. Accordingly, in the event the consummation of our business combination takes the maximum 24 months (or 27 months, as applicable), an affiliate of our Sponsor will be paid a total of $240,000 or $270,000, if applicable ($10,000 per month) for office space, administrative and support services and will be entitled to be reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses.

Director Independence

The NYSE listing standards require that a majority of our Board be independent within one year of our Initial Public Offering. An “independent director” is defined generally as a person that, in the opinion of the Company’s board of directors, has no material relationship with the listed company (either directly or as a partner, stockholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with the company). Our Board has determined that Ms. Coyne and Messrs. Binswanger and Ellis are independent under applicable SEC and NYSE rules. Our independent directors will have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.

Policy for Approval of Related Party Transactions

Our Audit Committee must review and approve any related person transaction we propose to enter into. Our Audit Committee charter details the policies and procedures relating to transactions that may present actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest and may raise questions as to whether such transactions are consistent with the best interest of our company and our stockholders. A summary of such policies and procedures is set forth below.

Any potential related party transaction that is brought to the Audit Committee’s attention will be analyzed by the Audit Committee, in consultation with outside counsel or members of management, as appropriate, to determine whether the transaction or relationship does, in fact, constitute a related party transaction. At its meetings, the Audit Committee will be provided with the details of each new, existing or proposed related party transaction, including the terms of the transaction, the business purpose of the transaction and the benefits to us and to the relevant related party.

In reviewing a Related Person Transaction or proposed Related Person Transaction, the Audit Comment shall consider all relevant facts and circumstances, including without limitation:

the relationship of the Related Person to the Company;

the nature and extent of the Related Person’s interest in the transaction;

the material terms of the transaction;

the importance and fairness of the transaction both to the Company and to the Related Person;

the business rationale for engaging in the transaction;

whether the transaction would likely impair the judgment of a director or executive officer to act in the best interest of the Company;

whether the value and the terms of the transaction are substantially similar as compared to those of similar transactions previously entered into by the Company with non-Related Persons, if any; and

any other matters that management or the Approving Body shall deem appropriate.

ITEM 14.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES

Fees for professional services provided by our independent registered public accounting firm since October 13, 2020 include:

   For the Period
from

October 13, 2020
December 31, 2020
 

Audit Fees(1)

  $300,000 

Audit-Related Fees(2)

   —   

Tax Fees(3)

   —   

All Other Fees(4)

   —   
  

 

 

 

Total

  $300,000 
  

 

 

 

(1)

Audit Fees. Audit fees consist of fees billed for professional services rendered for the audit of our year-end financial statements and services that are normally provided by our independent registered public accounting firm in connection with statutory and regulatory filings.

(2)

Audit-Related Fees. Audit-related fees consist of fees billed for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to performance of the audit or review of our year-end financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These services include attest services that are not required by statute or regulation and consultation concerning financial accounting and reporting standards.

(3)

Tax Fees. Tax fees consist of fees billed for professional services relating to tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice.

(4)

All Other Fees. All other fees consist of fees billed for all other services.

Policy on Board Pre-Approval of Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of the Independent Auditors

The audit committee is responsible for appointing, setting compensation and overseeing the work of the independent auditors. In recognition of this responsibility, the audit committee shall review and, in its sole discretion, pre-approve all audit and permitted non-audit services to be provided by the independent auditors as provided under the audit committee charter.

PART IV

ITEM 15.

EXHIBITS, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

(a)

The following documents are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:

Financial Statements: The financial statements listed in “Index to the Financial Statements” at “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

(b)

Exhibits: The exhibits listed in the accompanying index to exhibits are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

3.1

Exhibit

Number

Description

  3.1
3.2
4.1
4.2
  3.2Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 15, 2020).
  4.1Specimen SAILSM Security Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 filed with the Form S-1/A filed by the Registrant on November 27, 2020).
  4.2
4.3
  4.3
4.4*
  4.410.1
10.2
  4.5*10.3
10.4
10.1*10.5
10.6
10.2Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated December 10, 2020, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer  & Trust Company, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 15, 2020).
10.3Registration and Stockholder Rights Agreement, dated December  10, 2020, among the Company, CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC, and certain other security holders named therein (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 15, 2020).
10.4Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated December  10, 2020, between the CompanyHoldings, Inc., a Delaware corporation and CBRE Acquisition Sponsor, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s CurrentCBAH’s Annual Report on Form 8-K10-K, filed with the SEC on December 15, 2020)March 31, 2021).
10.7
10.5

10.8

Exhibit

Number

Description

10.6
10.9
10.7
10.10
10.8
10.11
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24.110.12
10.13
31.1*10.14
10.15
10.16
10.17
10.18
10.19
10.20
10.21
21.1
23.1*
31.1*
31.2*
31.2*
32*
32*
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Filed herewith.

ITEM 16.

FORM 10-K SUMMARY

Not applicable.



Item 16. Form 10–K Summary.


None.
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SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrantregistrant has duly caused this Reportreport to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


Altus Power, Inc.

Date: March 24, 2022By:CBRE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC./s/ Gregg J. Felton
Name:
Date: March 31, 2021By:

/s/  William F. Concannon

Gregg J. Felton
Title:William F. Concannon
ChiefCo-Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints William F. Concanon and Cash J. Smith and each or any one of them, such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.



Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this Annual Report on Form 10-Kreport has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrantregistrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


NamePositionDate

Name

/s/ Gregg J. Felton

Title

Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director

Date

March 24, 2022
Gregg J. Felton

/s/ William F. Concanon

William F. Concanon

Lars R. Norell

ChiefCo-Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

and Director
March 31, 202124, 2022
Lars R. Norell

/s/  Cash J. Smith

Cash J. Smith

President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)March 31, 2021

/s/ Robert E. Sulentic

Robert E. Sulentic

Dustin L. Weber
Chair of the BoardChief Financial OfficerMarch 31, 202124, 2022
Dustin L. Weber

/s/  David S. Binswanger

David S. Binswanger

DirectorMarch 31, 2021

/s/ Sarah E. Coyne

Sarah E. Coyne

Christine R. Detrick
DirectorChairperson of the BoardMarch 31, 202124, 2022
Christine R. Detrick

/s/  Michael J. Ellis

Michael J. Ellis

DirectorMarch 31, 2021

/s/ Emma E. Giamartino

Emma E. Giamartino

Richard N. Peretz
DirectorMarch 31, 202124, 2022
Richard N. Peretz

/s/ Jamie J. Hodari

Jamie J. Hodari

Sharon R. Daley
DirectorMarch 31, 202124, 2022
Sharon R. Daley
/s/ William F. ConcannonDirectorMarch 24, 2022
William F. Concannon
/s/ Robert M. HornDirectorMarch 24, 2022
Robert M. Horn
/s/ Sarah E. CoyneDirectorMarch 24, 2022
Sarah E. Coyne

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