As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 20, 2023January 16, 2024

No. 333-     333-276173

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Aeries Technology, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

60 Paya Lebar Road, #08-13

Paya Lebar Square

Singapore 409051

Telephone: (919) 228-6404

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Sudhir Appukuttan Panikassery

Chief Executive Officer

c/o Aeries Technology, Inc.

190 Elgin Avenue,

George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9008

Telephone: (919) 228-6404

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

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The registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be issued until the registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and does not constitute the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED DECEMBER 20, 2023JANUARY 16, 2024

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

AERIES TECHNOLOGY, INC.

31,901,380 Class A Ordinary Shares Upon Exercise of Exchange Rights

21,027,801 Class A Ordinary Shares Upon Exercise of Warrants

13,485,870 Class A Ordinary Shares

9,527,810 Warrants to Purchase Class A Ordinary Shares

This prospectus relates to the issuance by us and the resale from time to time by the Selling Securityholders or their permitted transferees (each a “Selling Securityholder” and, collectively, the “Selling Securityholders”) of (i) up to 31,901,380 Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A ordinary shares” and such shares issued upon exchange, the “Exchanged Shares”), of Aeries Technology, Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Aeries,” “ATI” “we,” “our” or “us”), at an implied price of $10.10 per share, upon exchange (at the Exchange Rate, as defined herein) of shares of Aark Singapore Pte. Ltd., a Singapore private company limited by shares (“AARK”), or Aeries Technology Group Business Accelerators Private Limited, an Indian private company limited by shares (“ATG”), pursuant to the Exchange Agreements (as defined herein); and (ii) up to 21,027,801 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of the (a) 11,499,991 redeemable warrants (“Public Warrants”) to purchase Class A ordinary shares that were issued by Worldwide Webb Acquisition Corp. (“WWAC”) as part of the units at a price of $10.00 per unit in its initial public offering (the “IPO”) and (b) 9,527,810 redeemable warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants” and, together with the Public Warrants, the “Warrants”) to purchase Class A ordinary shares originally issued to Worldwide Webb Acquisition Sponsor, LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company ("Sponsor"Sponsor"), at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant in a private placement that closed simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO. Each Warrant is exercisable to purchase for $11.50 one Class A ordinary share, subject to adjustment.

This prospectus also relates to the offer and resale from time to time by the Selling Securityholders of an aggregate of (i) 13,485,870 Class A ordinary shares consisting of (a) 1,500,000 Class A ordinary shares originally issued to the Sponsor in a private placement prior to the consummation of WWAC’s IPO at an effective price of approximately $0.004 per share; (b) 1,250,000 Class A ordinary shares purchased by certain anchor investors in WWAC’s IPO from the Sponsor at a price of $0.005 per share; (c) 1,024,335 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain third-parties (which were issued for no cash consideration but in connection withconsideration for the Selling Securityholders entering into agreements not to redeem their Class A ordinary shares pursuant to certain non-redemption agreements (“Non-Redemption Agreements”), dated on and around March 31, 2023 and November 3, 2023;2023); (d) 3,711,667 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain investors in a private placement pursuant to certain subscription agreements, dated on and around November 5, 2023 and November 6, 2023 (“Subscription Agreements”) (which were issued for no cash consideration but in consideration for the Selling Securityholders entering into the forward purchase arrangement with the Company (see “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information—Description of the Business Combination”); (e) 5,638,530 Class A ordinary shares issued to Innovo Consultancy DMCC, a company incorporated in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (“Innovo”), (which were issued for no cash consideration but in accordance withconsideration for the Sole Shareholder causing AARK to enter into an amendment to the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2023 (as amended, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among WWAC, WWAC Amalgamation Sub Pte. Ltd., a Singapore private company limited by shares, and AARKAARK) and (f) 361,338 Class A ordinary shares to certain vendors and third parties in lieu of cash as consideration for expenses incurred in connection with the Business Combination (as defined below); at an implied purchase price range between $2.32 and $2.43 per share; and (ii) 9,527,810 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) originally issued to the Sponsor at a purchase price of $1.00 per warrant in a private placement that closed simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO.

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of Class A ordinary shares or Warrants by the Selling Securityholders pursuant to this prospectus. We will receive any proceeds from the exercise of the Warrants (if any) for cash, but not from the sale of the Class A ordinary shares issuable upon such exercise. Our Warrants are exercisable at a price of $11.50 per share, which means that the Warrants are currently out of the money. Therefore, there is a high likelihood that the warrant holders will not exercise their Warrants unless the market price of our Class A ordinary shares increases above the exercise price of the Warrants.

We are registering the securities for resale pursuant to the Selling Securityholders’ registration rights under certain agreements between us and the Selling Securityholders. Our registration of the securities covered by this prospectus does not mean that the Selling Securityholders will offer or sell any of the Class A ordinary shares or Warrants. The Selling Securityholders may offer, sell or distribute all or a portion of their Class A ordinary shares or Warrants publicly or through private transactions at prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices. The Selling Securityholders will bear all commissions and discounts, if any, attributable to their sales of the Class A ordinary shares.

The 66,415,051 Class A ordinary shares being offered for resale pursuant to this prospectus by the Selling Securityholders exceed the number of Class A ordinary shares constituting our public float and would represent approximately 425.2% of the Class A ordinary shares outstanding as of January 11, 2024 and 96.9% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants. However, all of the Exchange Shares are subject to certain exchange conditions, and 25,521,104 of the Exchange Shares may not be exchanged prior to April 1, 2024. 2,200,000 of the Class A ordinary shares being offered for resale pursuant to this prospectus by the Selling Securityholders are subject to a contractual Lock-Up period, and may not be sold until 150 days after the completion of the Business Combination. Given the substantial number of Class A ordinary shares being registered pursuant to this prospectus, the sale of such shares, or the perception in the market of the potential for the sale of a large number of shares, could increase the volatility of the market price of our Class A ordinary shares or result in a significant decline in the public trading price of our Class A ordinary shares. Even if the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares is significantly below $10.00, the offering price for the units offered in WWAC’s IPO, certain Selling Securityholders may still have an incentive to sell the Class A ordinary shares they hold because they purchased or received their shares at implied prices lower than the prices paid by the public investors or the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares as of the date hereof, or for other reasons. While the Selling Securityholders may experience a positive rate of return on their investment in our Class A ordinary shares, other public shareholders may not experience a similar rate of return, or may experience a negative rate of return, on the securities they purchased due to differences in purchase prices and the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares. See “Risk Factors—The Class A ordinary shares being offered in this prospectus represent a substantial percentage of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares, and the sales of such shares, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our Class A ordinary shares to decline significantly.”

We provide more information about how the Selling Securityholders may sell the Class A ordinary shares or Warrants in the section entitled “Plan“Plan of Distribution.Distribution.”

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and are subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. This prospectus complies with the requirements that apply to an issuer that is an emerging growth company.

Our Class A ordinary shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange (“Nasdaq”) and trades under the symbol “AERT.” On December 19,January 11, 2024, 2023, the closing sale price of our Class A ordinary shares was $2.45$2.51 per share. Our Public Warrants are listed on Nasdaq and trade under the symbol “AERTW.” On December 19, 2023,January 11, 2024, the closing sale price of our Public Warrants was $0.0879$0.0911 per warrant. Our Warrants are exercisable at a price of $11.50 per share, which means that the Warrants are currently out of the money. Therefore, there is a high likelihood that the warrant holders will not exercise their Warrants unless the market price of our Class A ordinary shares increases above the exercise price of the Warrants. The cash proceeds associated with the exercise of the Warrants are dependent on the number of Warrants exercised. If the warrant holders do not exercise their Warrants, we will not receive any additional proceeds from the Warrants to fund our operations.

INVESTING IN OUR SECURITIES INVOLVES RISKS THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE “RISK FACTORS” SECTION BEGINNING ON PAGE 15 OF THIS PROSPECTUS.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of the securities to be issued under this prospectus or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

The date of this prospectus is               , 2023.2024.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. No one has been authorized to provide you with information that is different from that contained in this prospectus. This prospectus is dated as of the date set forth on the cover hereof. You should not assume that the information contained in this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than that date.

For investors outside the United States: We have taken no actions that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. You are required to inform yourselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to this offering and the distribution of this prospectus.

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form S-1 that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) using the “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf registration process, the Selling Securityholders may, from time to time, sell the securities offered by them described in this prospectus. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale by Selling Securityholders of the securities offered by them.

Neither we nor the Selling Securityholders (1) have authorized anyone to provide you with any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus or any applicable prospectus supplement or any free writing prospectuses prepared by or on behalf of us or to which we have referred you; (2) take responsibility for, or provide assurances as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you; and (3) will make an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement or any related free writing prospectus. This prospectus is not an offer to sell securities, and it is not soliciting an offer to buy securities, in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement is accurate only as of the date on the front of those documents, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or any applicable prospectus supplement, or any sale of a security. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since those dates.

For investors outside the United States: neither we nor the Selling Securityholders have done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. Persons outside the United States who come into possession of this prospectus must inform themselves about, and observe any restrictions relating to, the offering of our securities and the distribution of this prospectus outside the United States.

We may provide a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment to the registration statement to add information to, or update or change information contained in, this prospectus. Any statement contained in this prospectus will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in such prospectus supplement modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified will be deemed to constitute a part of this prospectus only as so modified, and any statement so superseded will be deemed not to constitute a part of this prospectus. You should read both this prospectus and any supplement or post-effective amendment with the additional information to which we refer you in the section of this prospectus entitled “Where You Can Find More Information.” You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement or any related free writing prospectus.

MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA

Information contained in this prospectus concerning the market and the industry in which Aeries competes, including its market position, general expectations of market opportunity and market size, is based on information from various third-party sources, on assumptions made by Aeries based on such sources and Aeries’ knowledge of the markets for its services and solutions. Any estimates provided herein involve numerous assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such information. Third-party sources generally state that the information contained in such source has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable but that there can be no assurance as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. The industry in which Aeries operates is subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk. As a result, the estimates and market and industry information provided in this prospectus are subject to change based on various factors, including those described in the sections entitled “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we are responsible for the information provided in this prospectus.

TRADEMARKS

This document contains references to trademarks, trade names and service marks belonging to other entities. Solely for convenience, trademarks, trade names and service marks referred to in this prospectus may appear without the^® or TM symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that the applicable licensor will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, its rights to these trademarks and trade names. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ trade names, trademarks or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.

SELECTED DEFINITIONS

Unless otherwise stated in this prospectus or the context otherwise requires, references to:

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this prospectus may constitute “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws, including within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Forward-looking statements include statements relating to our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and the timing of events to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements:

The forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described under the heading “Risk Factors.” Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Some of these risks and uncertainties may in the future be amplified by the COVID-19 outbreak and there may be additional risks that we consider immaterial or which are unknown. It is not possible to predict or identify all such risks. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

RISK FACTORS

You should carefully review and consider the following risk factors and the other information contained in this prospectus, including the financial statements and notes to the financial statements included herein. The following risk factors apply to the business of Aeries, the operation of the business by Aeries and will also apply to the business and operations of Aeries following the completion of the Business Combination. The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances described in these risk factors, alone or in combination with other events or circumstances may have a material adverse effect on the business, cash flows, financial condition and results of operations of ATI. You should carefully consider the following risk factors in addition to the other information included in this prospectus, including matters addressed in the section entitled “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” ATI may face additional risks and uncertainties that are not presently known to us, or that we currently deem immaterial, which may also impair ATI’s business or financial condition. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes to the financial statements included herein. Unless the context requires otherwise, as used herein, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” and “ours” refer both to the business of Aeries and its subsidiaries as presently conducted, as well as the business of ATI and its subsidiaries following the Business Combination.

Risks Related to Macro-Economic, Geographical and Political Conditions

Global economic and political conditions could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects.

Our results of operations may vary based on the impact of changes in the global economy and political environment on us and our clients. The technology services industry is particularly sensitive to the economic environment and tends to decline during general economic downturns. Unfavorable economic conditions would adversely affect the demand for some of our clients’ products and services and therefore could cause a decline in the demand for our services and solutions. Our business growth largely depends on continued demand for our services and solutions from clients in the U.S. and other countries that we may target in the future. In addition, our clients may be particularly susceptible to economic downturns. If the U.S. economy further weakens or slows, or a negative or an uncertain political climate persists, pricing for our services and solutions may be depressed and our clients may reduce or postpone their spending significantly. Lower demand for our services and solutions and price pressure from our clients could negatively affect our revenues and profitability.

Natural events, health pandemics or epidemics and other acts of violence involving any of the countries in which we or our clients have operations could adversely affect our operations.

Natural events (such as floods, tsunamis and earthquakes), health pandemics or epidemics, wars, widespread civil unrest, terrorist attacks and other acts of violence could result in significant disruptions to our business. Such events could adversely affect global economies, worldwide financial markets and our clients’ levels of business activity and could potentially lead to economic recession, which could impact our clients’ purchasing decisions and reduce demand for our services and solutions and, consequently, adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Any disaster or series of disasters in areas where we have a concentration of sites, such as India or Mexico, could significantly disrupt our operations and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including the resulting global economic uncertainty and measures taken in response to the pandemic, may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The extent to which the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic especially related to new and more virulent variants may adversely impact our business and results of operations will depend on numerous evolving factors that are difficult to predict and outside of our control, including: the continuing effect of the sustained COVID-19 pandemic on our clients and client demand for our services and solutions; the ability of our employees to successfully work remotely without suffering productivity issues due to distractions at home and/or unreliable or unstable internet connections; and our ability to fully resume operations in our sites.

Further, even with respect to clients who have consented to work-at-home arrangements for some or all of their programs, there is no guarantee that these clients will continue to permit so and revocation by any clients of their consent could also result in loss of revenue in the future. We may experience reluctance of the workforce to return to our sites during the sustained COVID-19 pandemic due to concerns related to returning to a communal workplace. All these factors may adversely impact our business.

Risks Related to Aeries’ Industry and Business

We operate in a rapidly evolving industry, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth included in this prospectus may prove to be inaccurate.

The technology services industry is competitive and continuously evolving, subject to rapidly changing demands and constant technological developments. As a result, success and performance metrics are difficult to predict and measure in our industry. Because services and technologies are rapidly evolving and each company within the industry can vary greatly in terms of the services it provides, its business model, and its results of operations, it can be difficult to predict how any company’s services, including ours, will be received in the market. Neither our past financial performance nor the past financial performance of any other company in the technology services industry is indicative of how our company will fare financially in the future. Our growth is subject to many factors, including our success in implementing our business strategy, which is subject to many risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, the forecasts of market growth included in this prospectus should not be taken as indicative of our future growth. Our future profits may vary substantially from those of other companies and those we have achieved in the past, making an investment in our company risky and speculative. If our clients’ demand for our services declines as a result of economic conditions, market factors or shifts in the technology industry, our business would suffer and our results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected.

We face intense competition and the failure to stand out could adversely affect our business.

The market for technology and information technology services is intensely competitive, highly fragmented and subject to rapid change and evolving industry standards and we expect competition to intensify. Our primary competitors include next-generation IT service providers, digital agencies and consulting companies and in-house development and information technology departments of our clients. Many of our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources and greater name recognition than we do. As a result, they may be able to compete more aggressively on pricing or devote greater resources to the development and promotion of technology and information technology services. Further, there is a risk that our clients may elect to increase their internal resources to satisfy their services needs as opposed to relying on a third-party service providers, such as us. The technology services industry may also undergo consolidation, which may result in increased competition in our target markets from larger firms that may have substantially greater financial, marketing or technical resources, may be able to respond faster to new technologies or processes and changes in client demands. Increased competition could also result in price reductions, reduced operating margins and loss of our market share.

Pricing pressure may reduce our revenue or gross profits and adversely affect our financial results.

The prices for our services and solutions may decline for a variety of reasons, including pricing pressures from our competitors, pricing leverage from clients, anticipation of the introduction of new solutions by our competitors, or promotional programs offered by us or our competitors. We may face increased pricing pressure from our key clients as we grow the existing services and solutions we provide to our key clients or expand our business with them by cross-selling new services and solutions. In addition, competition continues to increase in the markets in which we operate, and we expect competition to further increase in the future. If we are unable to maintain our pricing due to competitive pressures or other factors, our margins will be reduced and our gross profits, business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected.

Our business depends on a strong brand and corporate reputation and the impairment of the brand could adversely impact our business.

We believe the brand name and our reputation are important corporate assets that help distinguish our services from those of our competitors and also contribute to our efforts to recruit and retain talented professionals. However, our corporate reputation is susceptible to damage by actions or statements made by current or former employees or clients, competitors, vendors and adversaries in legal proceedings, as well as members of the investment community and the media. There is a risk that negative information about our company, even if based on false information or misunderstanding, could adversely affect our business. Damage to our reputation could reduce the value and effectiveness of our brand name and could reduce investor confidence in us and adversely affect our operating results.

We may face difficulties and be subject to increased business and economic risks as we expand our operations into countries in which we have no prior operating experience which could impact our results of operations.

We expect to continue to expand our international operations in order to maintain an appropriate cost structure and meet our clients’ needs, which may include opening sites in new jurisdictions and providing our services and solutions in additional languages. It may involve expanding into less developed countries, which may have less political, social or economic stability and less developed infrastructure and legal systems. As we expand our business into new countries, we may encounter economic, regulatory, personnel, technological and other difficulties that increase our expenses or delay our ability to start up our operations or become profitable in such countries. This may affect our relationships with our clients and could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. In addition, our ability to manage our business and conduct our operations internationally requires considerable management attention and resources and is subject to the particular challenges of supporting a rapidly growing business in an environment of multiple languages, cultures, customs, legal and regulatory systems, and commercial markets. Operating internationally subjects us to new risks and may increase risks that we currently face.

Our success largely depends on our ability to achieve our business strategies, and our results of operations and financial condition may suffer if we are unable to continually develop and successfully execute our strategies.

While we believe that our strategic plans reflect opportunities that are appropriate and achievable, the execution of our strategy may not result in long-term growth in revenue or profitability due to a number of factors, such as:

The failure to continually develop and execute optimally on our business strategies could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. To manage the expected domestic and international growth of our operations and personnel, we will need to continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls, our reporting systems and procedures, and our utilization of real estate. If we fail to successfully scale our operations and increase productivity, we may be unable to execute our business plan, and such failure could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We have and may continue to experience a long selling and implementation cycle with respect to certain projects that require us to make significant resource commitments prior to realizing revenue for our services.

Before committing to use our services, potential clients may require us to expend substantial time and resources educating them on the value of our services and our ability to meet their requirements. Therefore, our selling cycle is subject to many risks and delays over which we have little or no control, including our clients’ decision to choose alternatives to our services. Our current and future clients may not be willing or able to invest the time and resources necessary to implement our services, and we may fail to close sales with potential clients to which we have devoted significant time and resources. If our sales cycle unexpectedly lengthens for one or more projects, it would negatively affect the timing of our revenue and hinder our revenue growth.

We may need additional capital, and a failure by us to raise additional capital on terms favorable to us, or at all, could limit our ability to grow our business or enhance our service offerings.

We believe that our current cash balances, cash flow from operations, credit facilities and the proceeds from the PIPE Financing should be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months. We may, however, require additional cash resources due to changed business conditions or other future developments, including any investments or acquisitions we may decide to pursue. If these resources are insufficient to satisfy our cash requirements, we may seek to sell additional equity or debt securities, draw down on our credit facility or obtain another credit facility. The sale of additional equity securities could result in dilution to our shareholders. The incurrence of indebtedness would result in increased debt service obligations and could require us to agree to operating and financing covenants that would restrict our operations.

The benefits to customers of our services could be reduced or supplanted by artificial intelligence, which may materially and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results.

The benefits to customers of our services could be reduced or supplanted by artificial intelligence technologies. We cannot be sure that artificial intelligence technologies will not match or exceed the benefits of our services or be more cost effective than our services. The development of any alternative technology that can compete with or supplant our services may materially and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results in ways we do not currently anticipate. Any failure by us to develop new or enhanced processes, or to react to changes in existing technologies, could result in the loss of competitiveness of our services, decreased revenue and a loss of market share to competitors. Our efforts may not be sufficient to adapt to changes in artificial intelligence technology.

Our ability to expand our business and procure new contracts or enter into beneficial business arrangements could be affected to the extent we enter into agreements with clients containing non-competition clauses.

Our ability to expand our business and procure new contracts or enter into beneficial business arrangements in the future could be affected to the extent we enter into agreements with clients containing non-competition clauses.

Our unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information may not be representative of our future results.

The pro forma financial information included in this prospectus is constructed from our historical consolidated financial statements and such financial statements may not be indicative of our future operations. The pro forma financial information is based, in part, on certain assumptions that we believe are reasonable; however, we cannot assure you that our assumptions will prove to be accurate over time. Accordingly, the pro forma financial information included in this prospectus does not purport to be indicative of what our results of operations and financial condition would have been had we been a combined entity during the periods presented, or what our results of operations and financial condition will be in the future.

The Aeries projected financial information included in this prospectus is forward looking and reflects numerous estimates, beliefs and assumptions, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. If these assumptions prove to be incorrect, our actual operating results may be materially different from the forecasted results.

Fluctuations against the U.S. dollar in the local currencies in the countries in which we operate could have a material effect on our results of operations.

A majority of our revenues are in U.S. Dollars and our costs are primarily in local currencies, including the U.S. Dollar, Indian Rupee and Mexican Peso. An appreciation of local currencies against the U.S. Dollar would cause a net adverse impact to our profitability. Because our financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars and revenues are primarily generated in U.S. dollars, any significant unhedged fluctuations in the currency exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and the currencies of countries in which we incur costs in local currencies will affect our results of operations and financial statements. This may also affect the comparability of our financial results from period to period, as we convert our subsidiaries’ statements of financial position into U.S. dollars from local currencies at the period-end exchange rate, and income and cash flow statements at average exchange rates for the year.

Changes in the exchange rate of the Indian rupee versus the U.S. dollar result in earnings volatility and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

Our functional currency is the Indian rupee, and our financial statements are converted to U.S. dollars when preparing our financial statements. Changes in the exchange rate between the two currencies can cause reported financial results to fluctuate and a weakening Indian rupee relative to the U.S. dollar would impact our earnings.

We are subject to foreign exchange and currency risks that could adversely affect our operations, and our ability to mitigate our foreign exchange risk may be limited.

Our results of operations could be adversely affected by certain movements in exchange rates, particularly if the Indian rupee or other currencies in which we incur expenses appreciate against the U.S. dollar or if the currencies in which we receive revenues, such as the euro, depreciate against the U.S. dollar. If the Indian rupee or other currencies in which we incur expenses appreciate against the U.S. dollar, we may have to consider additional means of maintaining profitability, including by increasing pricing, which may or may not be achievable.

We may acquire other companies in pursuit of growth, which may divert our management’s attention, result in dilution to our shareholders and consume resources that are necessary to sustain our business.

As part of our business strategy, we regularly review potential strategic transactions, including potential acquisitions, dispositions, consolidations, joint ventures or similar transactions. Negotiating these transactions can be time-consuming, difficult and expensive, and our ability to complete these transactions may be subject to conditions or approvals that are beyond our control, including anti-takeover and antitrust laws in various jurisdictions. Consequently, these transactions, even if undertaken and announced, may not close.

An acquisition, investment or new business relationship may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. In particular, we may encounter difficulties assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, services, products, personnel or operations of acquired companies. Moreover, the anticipated benefits of any merger, acquisition, investment or similar partnership may not be realized or we may be exposed to unknown liabilities, including litigation against the companies we may acquire, for example from failure to identify all of the significant risks or liabilities associated with the target business. These integration activities are complex and time-consuming, and we may encounter unexpected difficulties or incur unexpected costs. Any of these risks could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

We may be unable to effectively manage our rapid growth or achieve anticipated growth, which could place significant strain on our management personnel, systems and resources.

As we add new delivery sites, introduce new services or enter into new markets, we may face new market, technological and operational risks and challenges with which we are unfamiliar, and we may not be able to mitigate these risks and challenges to successfully grow those services or markets. We may not be able to achieve our anticipated growth or successfully execute large and complex projects, which could materially adversely affect our revenue, results of operations, business and prospects. As our company grows, and we are required to add more employees and infrastructure to support our growth, we may find it increasingly difficult to maintain our corporate culture. If we fail to maintain a culture that fosters career development, innovation, creativity and teamwork, we could experience difficulty in hiring and retaining the trained professionals. Failure to manage growth effectively could have a material adverse effect on the quality of the execution of our engagements, our ability to attract and retain the trained professionals and our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We may be unable to maintain adequate resource utilization rates and productivity levels, which may adversely impact our profitability.

Our profitability and the cost of providing our services are affected by our utilization rates of our employees in our delivery locations. If we are not able to maintain appropriate utilization rates for our employees involved in delivery of our services, our profit margin and our profitability may suffer. Our revenue could also suffer if we misjudge demand patterns and do not recruit sufficient employees to satisfy demand. Employee shortages could prevent us from completing our contractual commitments in a timely manner and cause us to lose contracts or clients.

We are dependent on members of our senior management team and other key employees.

Our future success heavily depends upon the continued services of our senior management team, particularly Mr. Sudhir Appukuttan Panikassery, our Chief Executive Officer, and other key employees. We currently do not maintain key man life insurance for any of the members of our senior management team or other key employees. We have employment agreements and consultancy contracts with our key employees. If one or more of our senior executives or key employees are unable or unwilling to continue in their present positions, it could disrupt our business operations, and we may not be able to replace them easily, on a timely basis or at all. In addition, competition for senior executives and key employees in our industry is intense, and we may be unable to retain our senior executives and key employees, in which case our business may be severely disrupted. If any of our senior management team or key employees joins a competitor or forms a competing company, we may lose clients, suppliers, know-how and information technology professionals and staff members to them. Any non-competition, non-solicitation or non-disclosure agreements we have with our senior executives or key employees might not provide effective protection to us in light of legal uncertainties associated with the enforceability of such agreements.

Our management team has limited experience managing a public company.

Most members of our management team have limited experience managing a publicly traded company, interacting with public company investors, and complying with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies. Our management team may not successfully or efficiently manage our transition to being a public company that is subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under the federal securities laws and the continuous scrutiny of securities analysts and investors. These new obligations and constituents will require significant attention from our senior management and could divert their attention away from the day-to-day management of our business, which could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may fail to attract, hire, train and retain sufficient numbers of skilled employees in a timely fashion at our sites to support our operations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Our business relies on large numbers of trained and skilled employees at our sites, and our success depends to a significant extent on our ability to attract, hire, train and retain skilled employees. The outsourcing industry as well as the technology industry generally experience high employee turnover. Increased competition for skilled employees, in our industry or otherwise, particularly in tight labor markets, could have an adverse effect on our business. Additionally, a significant increase in the turnover rate among trained employees could increase our costs and decrease our operating profit margins and could have an adverse effect on our ability to complete existing contracts in a timely manner, meet client objectives and expand our business.

Our failure to attract, train and retain personnel with the experience and skills necessary to fulfil the needs of our existing and future clients or to assimilate new employees successfully into our operations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

In particular, competition for qualified employees, particularly in the United States, India and Mexico, remains high and we expect such competition to continue. In many locations in which we operate, there is a limited pool of employees who have the skills and training needed to do our work. If our business continues to grow, the number of people we will need to hire will increase. Significant competition for employees could have an adverse effect on our ability to expand our business and service our clients, as well as cause us to incur greater personnel expenses and training costs.

Our failure to detect and deter criminal or fraudulent activities or other misconduct by our employees could result in loss of trust from our clients and negative publicity, which would have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Because we have access to our clients’ sensitive and confidential information in the ordinary course of our business, our employees could engage in criminal, fraudulent or other conduct prohibited by applicable law, client contracts or internal policy. The remote work environment implemented in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our inability to maintain access controls on physical space has reduced our ability to monitor employee conduct and has elevated the risk of our employees engaging in such conduct undetected by us. Although we terminate employees when our investigations establish misconduct and have implemented measures designed to identify and deter such misconduct, such as fraud prevention training, there can be no assurance that such measures will prevent or detect further employee misconduct. If our employees use their access to our and our clients’ systems as a conduit for criminal activity or other misconduct, our clients and their customers may not consider our services and solutions safe and trustworthy, and we could receive negative press coverage or other public attention as a result. Such loss of trust and negative publicity could cause our existing clients to terminate or reduce the scope of their dealings with us and harm our ability to attract new clients, which would have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations. Further, we may be subject to claims of liability by our clients or their customers based on the misconduct or malfeasance of our employees, and our insurance policies may not cover all potential claims to which we are exposed or indemnify us for all liability.

Our business is heavily dependent upon our international operations, particularly in India and Mexico, and any disruption to those operations would adversely affect us.

Our business and future growth depend largely on continued demand for our services performed in India and Mexico. Various factors, such as changes in the central or state governments, could trigger significant changes in India’s economic liberalization and deregulation policies and disrupt business and economic conditions in India generally and our business in particular. Our business and our international operations may also be affected by actual or threatened trade war or tariffs or other trade controls. If we are unable to continue to leverage the skills and experience of our international workforce, particularly in India and Mexico, we may be unable to provide our solutions at an attractive price and our business could be materially and negatively impacted.

We have significant fixed costs related to lease facilities.

We have made and continue to make significant contractual commitments related to our leased facilities. These expenses will have a significant impact on our fixed costs, and if we are unable to grow our business and revenue proportionately, our operating results may be negatively affected.

Our sites operate on leasehold property, and our inability to renew our leases on commercially acceptable terms or at all may adversely affect our results of operations.

Our sites operate on leasehold property. Our leases are subject to renewal and we may be unable to renew such leases on commercially acceptable terms or at all, which may have an adverse impact on our operations. In addition, in the event of non-renewal of our leases, we may be unable to locate suitable replacement properties for our sites or we may experience delays in relocation that could lead to a disruption in our operations.

Our business is dependent on key clients, and the loss of a key client could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

We derive a substantial portion of our revenue from a small number of key clients who generally retain us across multiple service offerings. Our top five clients accounted for 57% and 64% of our revenue for the year ended March 31, 2022 and the six months ended September 30, 2022, respectively, and 63% and 53% of our revenue for the year ended March 31, 2023 and the six months ended September 30, 2023, respectively. The loss of all or a portion of our business with, or the failure to retain a significant amount of business with, any of our key clients could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, our ability to maintain, increase and collect revenue from our top clients depends in part on the financial condition of those clients. Further, our reliance on any individual client for a significant portion of our revenue may give that client a certain degree of pricing leverage against us when negotiating contracts and terms of service and solutions.

Although we have executed auto-renewal contracts with our clients, they have the right to terminate the same.

Although we have executed auto-renewal service agreements with our clients, the clients may choose to terminate or not renew such agreements. In the event our clients terminate the agreements without cause or not renew the agreement, adequate notice period (ranging from 90 days to 180 days as negotiated) needs to be provided by the client. Additionally, a termination fee component (based on commercial margin) is payable by the clients in the event of such termination without cause or non-renewal.

Our ability to maintain continuing relationships with our major clients and successfully obtain payment for our services and solutions is essential to the growth and profitability of our business.

The consolidation or corporate actions of our clients or potential clients may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Our clients may engage in certain corporate actions such as potential mergers, consolidations, divestment, disposal of assets or joint ventures or similar transactions, some of which may be material. Any of these client actions may result into change of ownership of our client and could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Some of our contracts could be unprofitable, which could adversely impact our business.

We perform our services primarily under time-and-materials contracts (where materials costs consist of travel and other indirect expenses). We charge out the services performed by our employees under these contracts at monthly rates that are agreed at the time at which the contract is entered. The rates and other pricing terms negotiated with our clients are highly dependent on our internal forecasts of our operating costs and predictions of increases in those costs influenced by wage inflation and other marketplace factors, as well as the volume of work provided by the client. Our predictions are based on limited data and could turn out to be inaccurate, resulting in contracts that may not be profitable.

In addition to our time-and-materials contracts, we undertake some engagements on a fixed-price basis and also provide managed services in certain cases. Moreover, some of our client contracts do not have minimum volume requirements, and the profitability of each client contract or work order may fluctuate, sometimes significantly, throughout various stages of the program.

If our current insurance coverage is or becomes insufficient to protect against losses incurred, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected.

We provide services and solutions that are integral to our clients’ businesses. If we were to default in the provision of any contractually agreed-upon services or solutions, our clients could suffer significant damages and make claims against us for those damages. Any defects or errors or failure to meet clients’ expectations in the performance of our contracts could result in claims for substantial damages against us. Our contracts generally limit our liability for damages that arise from negligent acts, error, mistakes or omissions in rendering services to our clients. However, we cannot be sure that these contractual provisions will protect us from liability for damages in the event we are sued. In addition, certain liabilities, such as claims of third parties for intellectual property infringement and breaches of data protection and security requirements, for which we may be required to indemnify our clients, could be substantial. The successful assertion of one or more large claims against us in amounts greater than those covered by our current insurance policies could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We currently carry cyber and errors and omissions liability coverage in an amount we consider appropriate for all of the services we provide. To the extent client damages are deemed recoverable against us in amounts substantially in excess of our insurance coverage, or if our claims for insurance coverage are denied by our insurance carriers, there could be a material adverse effect on our revenue, business, financial condition and results of operations.

Although we maintain professional liability insurance, product liability insurance, commercial general and property insurance, business interruption insurance, workers’ compensation coverage, and umbrella insurance for certain of our operations, our insurance coverage does not insure against all risks in our operations or all claims we may receive. Damage claims from clients or third parties brought against us or claims that we initiate due to a data security breach, the disruption of our business, litigation, or natural disasters, may not be covered by our insurance, may exceed the limits of our insurance coverage, and may result in substantial costs and diversion of resources even if insured. Some types of insurance are not available on reasonable terms or at all in some countries in which we operate, and we cannot insure against damage to our reputation. The assertion of one or more large claims against us, whether or not successful and whether or not insured, could materially adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.

If we do not continue to innovate and remain at the forefront of emerging technologies and related market trends, we may lose clients and not remain competitive.

Our success depends on delivering innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies and emerging market trends to drive increased revenue. Technological advances and innovation are constant in the technology services industry. As a result, we must continue to invest significant resources to stay abreast of technology developments so that we may continue to deliver solutions that our clients will wish to purchase. If we are unable to anticipate technology developments, enhance our existing services or develop and introduce new services to keep pace with such changes and meet changing client needs, we may lose clients and our revenue and results of operations could suffer. Our competitors may be able to offer engineering, design and innovation services that are, or that are perceived to be, substantially similar or better than those we offer. This may force us to reduce our rates and to expend significant resources in order to remain competitive, which we may be unable to do profitably or at all. Because many of our clients and potential clients regularly contract with other information technology service providers, these competitive pressures may be more acute than in other industries.

In our innovation, we may incur capital expenditures in product development, technology and communications infrastructure, which may not necessarily maintain our competitiveness.

In our innovation, we anticipate that it will be necessary to continue to invest in product development, technology and communications infrastructure to ensure reliability and maintain our competitiveness. This is likely to result in capital expenditures for maintenance as well as growth as we continue to grow our business. There can be no assurance that any of our information systems will be adequate to meet the emerging market or the client’s future needs or that we will be able to incorporate new technology to enhance and develop our existing solutions. Moreover, investments in technology, including future investments in upgrades and enhancements to hardware or software, may not necessarily maintain our competitiveness. Our future success will also depend in part on our ability to anticipate and develop information technology solutions that keep pace with evolving industry standards and changing client demands.

Risks Related to Regulation, Legislation and Legal Proceedings

Changes in laws and regulations related to the internet or the internet infrastructure may diminish the demand for our services, and could have a negative impact on our business.

The future success of our business depends upon the continued use of the internet as a primary medium for commerce, communication and business applications. Federal, state or foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting the use of the internet as a commercial medium. Changes in these laws or regulations could adversely affect the demand for our services or require us to modify our solutions in order to comply with these changes. In addition, government agencies or private organizations may begin to impose taxes, fees or other charges for accessing the internet or commerce conducted via the internet. These laws or charges could limit the growth of internet-related commerce or communications generally, resulting in reductions in the demand for technology services such as ours. In addition, the use of the internet as a business tool could be adversely affected due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards and protocols to handle increased demands of internet activity, security, reliability, cost, ease of use, accessibility, and quality of service. The performance of the internet and its acceptance as a business tool have been adversely affected by “ransomware,” “viruses,” “worms,” “malware,” “phishing attacks,” “data breaches” and similar malicious programs, behavior and events. If the use of the internet is adversely affected by these or any other issues, demand for our services and solutions could suffer.

Regulatory, legislative or self-regulatory/standard developments regarding privacy and data security matters could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business.

We, along with a significant number of our clients, are subject to laws, rules, regulations and industry standards related to data privacy and cyber security, and restrictions or technological requirements regarding the collection, use, storage, protection, retention or transfer of data across the jurisdictions where we operate.

Globally, governments and agencies have adopted and could in the future adopt, modify, apply or enforce laws, policies, regulations, and standards covering user privacy, data security, technologies such as cookies that are used to collect, store and/or process data, marketing online, the use of data to inform marketing, the taxation of products and services, unfair and deceptive practices, and the collection (including the collection of information), use, processing, transfer, storage and/or disclosure of data associated with unique individual internet users. New regulation or legislative actions regarding data privacy and security (together with applicable industry standards) may increase the costs of doing business and could have a material adverse impact on our operations and cash flows. Any failure or perceived failure (including as a result of deficiencies in our policies, procedures, or measures relating to privacy, data protection, marketing, or client communications) by us to comply with laws, regulations, policies, legal or contractual obligations, industry standards, or regulatory guidance relating to privacy or data security, may result in governmental investigations and enforcement actions, litigation, fines and penalties or adverse publicity, and could cause our clients and partners to lose trust in us, which could have an adverse effect on our reputation and business. We expect that there will continue to be new proposed laws, regulations and industry standards relating to privacy, data protection, marketing, consumer communications and information security in the United States, the European Union and other jurisdictions, and we cannot determine the impact such future laws, regulations and standards may have on our business. Future laws, regulations, standards and other obligations or any changed interpretation of existing laws or regulations could impair our ability to develop and market new services and maintain and grow our client base and increase revenue.

Changes and uncertainties in the tax system in the countries in which we have operations, could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

We conduct business globally and file income tax returns in multiple jurisdictions. Our consolidated effective income tax rate could be materially adversely affected by several factors, including: changing tax laws, regulations and treaties, or the interpretation thereof; tax policy initiatives and reforms under consideration; the practices of tax authorities in jurisdictions in which we operate; the resolution of issues arising from tax audits or examinations and any related interest or penalties.

We are unable to predict what tax reforms may be proposed or enacted in the future or what effect such changes would have on our business, but such changes, to the extent they are brought into tax legislation, regulations, policies or practices in jurisdictions in which we operate, could increase the estimated tax liability that we have expensed to date and paid or accrued on our balance sheets, and otherwise affect our financial position, future results of operations, cash flows in a particular period and overall or effective tax rates in the future in countries where we have operations, reduce post-tax returns to our shareholders and increase the complexity, burden and cost of tax compliance.

Tax authorities may disagree with our positions and conclusions regarding certain tax positions, or may apply existing rules in an arbitrary or unforeseen manner, resulting in unanticipated costs, taxes or non-realization of expected benefits.

Tax authorities may disagree with certain tax positions we have taken, which could result in increased tax liabilities. Similarly, a tax authority could assert that we are subject to tax in a jurisdiction where we believe we have not established a taxable connection, which assertion, if successful, could increase our expected tax liability in one or more jurisdictions. Contesting tax assessments by applicable taxing authorities may be lengthy and costly and if we were unsuccessful in disputing such assessments, if applicable, the implications could increase our anticipated effective tax rate, where applicable.

Unauthorized or improper disclosure of personal or other sensitive information, or security breaches and incidents, could result in liability and harm our reputation, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

Our clients provide data and systems that our employees use to provide services to those clients. Internal or external attacks on either our or our clients’ technology infrastructure, data, equipment, or systems could disrupt the normal operations of our and our clients’ businesses. While we believe we take reasonable measures to protect the security of, and against unauthorized or other improper access to, our technology infrastructure, data, equipment, and systems, including with respect to personal and proprietary information, it is possible that our security controls and practices may not prevent unauthorized or other improper access to our infrastructure and underlying personal or proprietary information. In addition, we rely on systems provided by third parties, which may also suffer security breaches or incidents. Any unauthorized access, acquisition, use, or destruction of data we collect, store, process or transmit could expose us to significant liability under our contracts, as well as to regulatory actions, litigation, investigations, remediation obligations, and reputational damage, which could adversely affect our business.

Our business is subject to a variety of U.S. and international laws and regulations, including those regarding privacy and data security, and we or our clients may be subject to regulations related to the handling and transfer of certain types of sensitive and confidential information. Any failure to comply with applicable privacy and data security laws and regulations could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We and our clients are subject to privacy and data security-related laws and regulations that impose obligations in connection with the collection, use, storage, transfer, dissemination, security, and/or other processing of personal information. Such privacy- and information security-related laws and regulations are rapidly evolving and subject to potentially differing interpretations, and may be inconsistent among countries and jurisdictions in which we operate, or conflict with other rules. Therefore, it may be costly for us to comply with these laws and regulations. If our privacy or data security measures fail to comply with current or future laws, regulations, policies, legal obligations or industry standards, we may be subject to litigation, regulatory investigations, fines or other liabilities, as well as negative publicity and a potential loss of business.

We are subject to laws and regulations in the United States and other countries in which we operate, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws, as well as export control laws, import and customs laws, trade and economic sanctions laws. Compliance with these laws requires significant resources and non-compliance may result in civil or criminal penalties and other remedial measures.

Our operations are subject to anti-corruption laws, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”), the U.S. domestic bribery statute contained in 18 U.S.C. §201, the U.S. Travel Act, and other anti-corruption laws that apply in countries where we do business. FCPA and these other laws generally prohibit us and our employees and intermediaries from authorizing, promising, offering, or providing, directly or indirectly, improper or prohibited payments, or anything else of value, to government officials or other persons to obtain or retain business or gain some other business advantage. We may also be liable for failing to prevent a person associated with us from committing a bribery offense. We operate in a number of jurisdictions that pose a high risk of potential FCPA violations. In addition, we cannot predict the nature, scope or effect of future regulatory requirements to which our international operations might be subject or the manner in which existing laws might be administered or interpreted. We are also subject to other laws and regulations governing our international operations, including regulations administered by the governments of the United States, applicable export control regulations, economic sanctions and embargoes on certain countries and persons, anti-money laundering laws, import and customs requirements and currency exchange regulations, collectively referred to as the trade control laws. We may not be completely effective in ensuring our compliance with all such applicable laws, which could result in our being subject to criminal and civil penalties, disgorgement and other sanctions and remedial measures, and legal expenses. Likewise, any investigation of any potential violations of such laws by United States or other countries’ authorities could also have an adverse impact on our reputation, our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Litigation or legal proceedings could expose us to significant liabilities and have a negative impact on our reputation or business.

From time to time, we have been and may be party to various claims and litigation proceedings, including class actions. Although we are not currently party to any litigation that we consider material, actual outcomes or losses may differ materially from our assessments and estimates.

Even when these claims are not meritorious, defending these claims may divert our management’s attention, and may result in significant expenses. The results of litigation and other legal proceedings are inherently uncertain, and adverse judgments may result in adverse monetary damages, penalties or injunctive relief against us, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial position. Any claims or litigation, even if fully indemnified or insured, could damage our reputation and make it more difficult to compete effectively or to obtain adequate insurance in the future.

We may be subject to liability claims if we breach our contracts and our insurance may be inadequate to cover our losses.

We are subject to numerous obligations in our contracts with our clients. Despite the procedures, systems and internal controls we have implemented to comply with our contracts, we may breach these commitments, whether through a weakness in these procedures, systems and internal controls, negligence or the willful misconduct of an employee or contractor. While we maintain insurance for certain potential liabilities, such insurance does not cover all types and amounts of potential liabilities and is subject to various exclusions as well as caps on amounts recoverable. Even if we believe a claim is covered by insurance, insurers may dispute our entitlement to recovery for a variety of potential reasons, which may affect the timing and, if the insurers prevail, the amount of our recovery. Further, our insurance may not cover all claims made against us and defending a suit, regardless of its merit, could be costly and divert management’s attention. In addition, such insurance may not be available to us in the future on economically reasonable terms, or at all.

From time to time, some of our employees spend significant amounts of time at our client’s sites, often in foreign jurisdictions, which exposes us to certain risks.

Some of our projects require a portion of the work to be undertaken at our clients’ facilities, which are often located outside of our employees’ country of residence. The ability of our employees to work in locations around the world may depend on their ability to obtain the required visas and work permits, and this process can be lengthy and difficult. Immigration laws are subject to legislative change, as well as to variations in standards of application and enforcement due to political forces, economic conditions and international travel, which may be adversely affected by regional or global circumstances or travel restrictions also affects our employees’ ability to work in foreign jurisdictions. In addition, we may become subject to taxation in jurisdictions where we would not otherwise be so subject as a result of the amount of time that our employees spend in any such jurisdiction in any given year. There can be no assurance that we will successfully monitor and comply with the various local requirements in the jurisdictions where our employees may be located in.

Our business operations and financial condition could be adversely affected by negative publicity about offshore outsourcing or anti-outsourcing legislation in the countries in which our clients operate.

Concerns that offshore outsourcing has resulted in a loss of jobs and sensitive technologies and information to foreign countries have led to negative publicity concerning outsourcing in some countries. Current or prospective clients may elect to perform in-house services that we offer, or may be discouraged from transferring these services to offshore providers. As a result, our ability to compete effectively with competitors that operate primarily out of facilities located inside these countries could be harmed.

It may be difficult for you to enforce any judgment obtained in the United States against us, our directors or executive officers or our affiliates.

Aeries is incorporated under the laws of India and many of our directors and executive officers reside outside the United States. A substantial portion of our assets and the assets of many of these persons are also located outside the United States. As a result, you may be unable to effect service of process upon us outside of India or upon such persons outside of India. In addition, you may be unable to enforce against us in courts outside of India, or against such persons outside the jurisdiction of their residence, judgments obtained in courts of the United States, including judgments predicated solely upon the federal securities laws of the United States.

We have been advised by our Indian counsel that the United States and India do not currently have a treaty providing for reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments, other than arbitration awards, in civil and commercial matters. India has reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters with a limited number of jurisdictions, which include, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, UAE and Hong Kong. A judgment from certain specified courts located in a jurisdiction with reciprocity must meet certain requirements of Section 44A of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (“Civil Code”). Therefore, a final judgment for the payment of money rendered by any federal or state court in the United States on civil liability, whether or not predicated solely upon the federal securities laws of the United States, would not be enforceable in India. However, Section 44A of the Civil Code is applicable only to monetary decrees not being of the same nature as amounts payable in respect of taxes, other charges of a like nature or of a fine or other penalties.

However, the party in whose favor such final judgment is rendered may bring a new suit in a competent court in India based on a final judgment that has been obtained in the United States. The suit must be brought in India within three years from the date of the judgment in the same manner as any other suit filed to enforce a civil liability in India. It is possible that a court in India may not award damages on the same basis as a foreign court if an action is brought in India.

Furthermore, it is unlikely that an Indian court would enforce a foreign judgment if it viewed the amount of damages awarded as excessive or inconsistent with Indian practice or that would contravene or violate Indian law. A party seeking to enforce a foreign judgment in India is required to obtain approval from the Reserve Bank of India under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, to execute such a judgment or to repatriate any amount recovered.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property, Technology Solutions, Software Usage and Cyber Security

Our business relies heavily on owned and third-party technology and computer systems, which subjects us to various uncertainties.

We rely heavily on sophisticated and specialized communications and computer technology coupled with third-party telecommunications and bandwidth providers to provide high-quality and reliable real-time solutions. We also rely on the data services provided by local communication companies in the countries in which we operate. Our operations, therefore, depend on the proper functioning of our and third parties’ equipment and systems, including hardware and software.

Any disruptions in the delivery of our services due to the failure of our systems, hardware or software, whether provided and maintained by third parties or our in-house teams, or due to interruptions in our data services or those of third parties that adversely affect the quality or reliability (or perceived quality or reliability) of our solutions, may result in reduction in revenue. These types of interruptions or failures could also adversely impact our timekeeping, scheduling, and workforce management applications. The occurrence of any such interruption or unplanned investment could materially adversely affect our business, financial positions, operating results and prospects.

Others could claim that we infringe, violate, or misappropriate their intellectual property rights, which may result in substantial costs, diversion of resources and management attention and harm to our reputation.

We may be subject to claims that our services and solutions infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights of third parties. Any such claims, whether or not they have merit or are successful, may result in substantial costs, divert management attention and other resources, harm our reputation and prevent us from offering our solutions to clients. In our contracts, we agree to indemnify our clients for expenses and liabilities resulting from third parties claiming our solutions infringe, misappropriate, or violate their intellectual property rights. In some instances, the amount of these indemnity obligations may be greater than the revenues we receive from the client under the applicable contract. A successful infringement claim against us could materially and adversely affect our business.

We also license software from third parties. Other parties may claim that our use of such licensed software infringes their intellectual property rights. Although we seek to secure indemnification protection from our software vendors to protect us against such claims, it is possible that such vendors may not honor those obligations or that we may have a costly dispute.

If we fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary information in the United States and abroad, our competitive position could be impaired and we may lose valuable assets, experience reduced revenues and incur costly litigation to protect our rights.

We believe that our success is dependent, in part, upon protecting our intellectual property rights and proprietary information, including trade secrets. We rely on a combination of intellectual property rights, including trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, contractual restrictions and technical measures to establish and protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary information. However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary information may provide only limited protection and may not now or in the future provide us with a competitive advantage. Furthermore, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights are uncertain. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy our technology and use information that we regard as proprietary to create products and services that compete with our solutions, which may cause us to lose market share or render us unable to operate our business profitably.

We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants and enter into confidentiality agreements with our directors, advisory board members and with the parties with whom we have strategic relationships and business alliances, as well as our clients. We also enter into confidentiality agreements with third parties that receive access to our proprietary or confidential information. No assurance can be given that these agreements will be effective in controlling access to or the distribution of our proprietary information. Further, these agreements will not prevent potential competitors from independently developing technologies that may be substantially equivalent or superior to ours. We may not be successful in defending against any claim by our current or former employees or independent contractors challenging our exclusive rights over the use of works those employees or independent contractors created, or their requesting additional compensation for our use of such works.

While our contracts with our clients provide that we retain the ownership rights to our pre-existing proprietary intellectual property, in some cases we may assign to clients intellectual property rights in and to some aspects of the work product developed specifically for these clients in connection with these projects. If we assign intellectual property rights to clients that may be more broadly useful in our business, that would limit or prevent our ability to use such intellectual property rights in our solutions.

We may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, including to protect our trade secrets. Such litigation could be costly, time consuming and distracting to management. Our inability to protect our proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costly litigation that we may enter into to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights, could make it more expensive for us to do business and adversely affect our operating results by delaying further sales or the implementation of our technologies, impairing the functionality of our solutions, delaying introductions of new features or applications or injuring our reputation.

Our solutions use open source software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more applicable open source licenses could adversely affect our business, subject us to litigation, and create potential liability.

Some of our solutions use software made available under open source licenses, and we expect to continue to incorporate open source software in our solutions in the future. Open source software is typically freely available, but is licensed under various requirements that bind the licensee. While the use of open source software may reduce development costs and speed up the development process, it may also present certain risks, that may be greater than those associated with the use of third-party commercial software. We cannot guarantee we comply with all obligations under these licenses. Any non-compliance claim by the owner of the copyright could require us to incur significant expenses defending against such allegations, may be subject to the payment of damages, enjoined from further use of the software, require us to comply with conditions of the license (which may include releasing the source code of our proprietary software to third parties without charge), or force us to devote additional resources to re-engineer all or a portion of our solutions to avoid using the open source software. Any of these events could create liability for us, damage our reputation, and have an adverse effect on our revenue, and operations.

We use third-party software, hardware and software-as-a-service, or SaaS, technologies from third parties that may be difficult to replace or that may cause errors or defects in, or failures of, the services or solutions we provide.

We rely on software and hardware from various third parties to deliver our services and solutions, as well as hosted SaaS applications from third parties. If any of these software, hardware or SaaS applications become unavailable due to extended outages, interruptions or because they are no longer available on commercially reasonable terms, it could result in delays in the provisioning of our services until equivalent technology is either developed or obtained and integrated, which could increase our expenses or otherwise harm our business. In addition, any errors or defects in or failures of this third-party software, hardware or SaaS applications could result in errors or defects in or failures of our services and solutions, which could harm our business and be costly to correct.

We expect that we are a passive foreign investment company, or “PFIC,” for our taxable year ending December 31, 2023 and we may be a PFIC in future taxable years, which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. Holders.

If we are a passive foreign investment company (a “PFIC”“PFIC”) for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. Holder (as defined in the section of this prospectus captioned “Unitedentitled “United States Federal Income Tax Considerations for U.S. Holders”Holders”), the U.S. Holder may be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences and may be subject to additional reporting requirements. Due to the nature of our business prior to the Business Combination and the timing of the Business Combination, we expect to be a PFIC for our taxable year ending December 31, 2023. However, based on the nature of our business after the Business Combination, our financial statements, our expectations about the nature and amount of our income, assets and activities following the Business Combination, we do not expect to be a PFIC for our taxable year ending December 31, 2024. Our actual PFIC status for any taxable year, however, will not be determinable until after the end of such taxable year. Accordingly, there can be no assurances with respect to our status as a PFIC for our current taxable year or any subsequent taxable year. Moreover, if we determine we are a PFIC for any taxable year, we will endeavor to provide to a U.S. Holder such information as the Service (as defined in the section of this prospectus captioned “Unitedentitled “United States Federal Income Tax Considerations for U.S. Holders”Holders”) may require, including a PFIC Annual Information Statement in order to enable the U.S. Holder to make and maintain a “qualified electing fund” election, but there can be no assurance that we will timely provide such required information, and such election would likely be unavailable with respect to our Warrants in all cases. U.S. Holders should consult their tax advisers regarding the possible application of the PFIC rules. For a more detailed explanation of the tax consequences of PFIC classification to U.S. Holders, see the section of this prospectus captioned “Unitedentitled “United States Federal Income Tax Considerations for U.S. Holders—Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.Rules.”

Risks Related to Finance and Accounting

Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter due to various factors.

Our operating results may vary significantly from one quarter to the next and our business may be impacted by factors such as client loss, the timing of new contracts and of new service or solution offerings, termination of existing contracts, variations in the volume of business from clients resulting from changes in our clients’ operations, the business decisions of our clients regarding the use of our solutions, start-up costs, delays or difficulties in expanding our operating sites and infrastructure, delays or difficulties in recruiting, changes to our revenue mix or to our pricing structure or that of our competitors, inaccurate estimates of resources and time required to complete ongoing projects, currency fluctuation and seasonal changes in the operations of our clients. The financial benefit of gaining a new client may not be recognized at the intended time due to delays in the implementation of our solutions or negatively impacted due to an increase in the start-up costs. These factors may cause differences in revenues and income among the various quarters of any financial year, which means that the individual quarters of a year may not be predictive of our financial results in any other period.

Our cash flows and results of operations may be adversely affected if we are unable to collect on billed and unbilled receivables from clients.

Our business depends on our ability to effectively bill and successfully obtain payment from our clients of the amounts they owe us for work performed. Despite our evaluation of the financial condition of our clients, actual losses on client balances could differ from those that we currently anticipate and, as a result, we may need to adjust our provisions. Macroeconomic conditions may result in financial difficulties for some of our clients and could result in financial difficulties of other clients, including limited access to the credit markets, insolvency or bankruptcy. During weak economic periods, there is an increased risk that our clients will file for bankruptcy protection, which may harm our revenue, profitability, and results of operations. We also face risk from international clients that file for bankruptcy protection in foreign jurisdictions, particularly given that the application of foreign bankruptcy laws may be more difficult to predict. In addition, we may determine that the cost of pursuing any creditor claim outweighs the recovery potential of such claim. Therefore, we might experience delays in the collection of or be unable to collect our client balances, which would adversely affect our results of operations and could adversely affect our cash flows. Similarly, our cash flows could be adversely affected, which in turn could adversely affect our ability to make necessary investments and, therefore, could affect our results of operations.

We track certain operational metrics with internal systems and tools and do not independently verify such metrics. Certain of our operational metrics are subject to inherent challenges in measurement, and real or perceived inaccuracies in such metrics may harm our reputation and negatively affect our business.

Our internal systems and tools have a number of limitations, and our methodologies for tracking operational metrics may change over time, which could result in unexpected changes to our results and metrics we publicly disclose. If the internal systems and tools we use to track these metrics undercount or overcount performance or contain algorithmic or other technical errors, the data we report may not be accurate.

In addition, some of these metrics are expected to fluctuate significantly from period to period based on timing of one or more client purchase decisions or other factors, which makes it difficult for us to accurately predict such metrics for any future period. Limitations or errors with respect to the data or how we measure it could impact our understanding of certain details of our business, which could affect our long-term strategies. If our operating metrics are not accurate representations of our business or if we discover material inaccuracies with respect to these figures, our reputation may be significantly harmed, and our operating and financial results could be adversely affected. Our operating metrics are not necessarily indicative of the historical performance of our business or the results that may be expected for any future period.

Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Ordinary Shares

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or publish negative reports about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our Class A ordinary shares will depend, in part, on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts or the content that they publish about us. If our financial performance fails to meet analyst estimates or one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our Class A ordinary shares or change their opinion of our Class A ordinary shares, our share price would likely decline.

We may not pay dividends during the medium term and, as a result, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation in the price of our Class A ordinary shares.

We may retain any future earnings to finance the growth and development of the business and, therefore, we may not pay any cash dividends on our ordinary shares in the medium term. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will be dependent upon our future financial condition, results of operations and capital requirements, general business conditions and other relevant factors. Accordingly, investors must rely on sales of their Class A ordinary shares after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments.

There has been no prior market for our Class A ordinary shares and an active trading market for such securities may never develop or be sustained, which may cause our shares to trade at a discount and make it difficult to sell the shares.

Prior to the Business Combination, there was not a public trading market for our Class A ordinary shares. We cannot predict the extent to which investor interest in our company will lead to the development of an active trading market or how liquid that market might become. An active public market for our Class A ordinary shares may not develop or be sustained, which would make it difficult for you to sell your Class A ordinary shares at a price that is attractive to you, or at all. The market price of our Class A ordinary shares may decline below the current price.

The market price of our Class A ordinary shares may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, which could cause the value of your investment to decline.

The market price of our Class A ordinary shares may be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations. This market volatility, as well as general economic, market or political conditions, could reduce the market price of our Class A ordinary shares regardless of our operating performance. In addition, our operating results may fail to match our past performance and could be below the expectations of public market analysts and investors due to a number of potential factors. As a result, you may be unable to resell your shares at a desirable price.

Stock markets have recently experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations. In the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market price of a company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against these companies. This litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources.

The Class A ordinary shares being offered in this prospectus represent a substantial percentage of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares, and the sales of such shares, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our Class A ordinary shares to decline significantly.

This prospectus relates to the issuance by us and the resale from time to time by the Selling Securityholders of (i) up to 31,901,380 Class A ordinary shares, at an implied price of $10.10 per share, upon exchange of shares of AARK or ATG pursuant to the Exchange Agreements, which represents 204.2% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 46.5% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants; and (ii) up to 21,027,801 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants, which represents 134.6% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 30.7% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants.

This prospectus also relates to the resale from time to time by the Selling Securityholders of an aggregate of (i) 1,500,000 Class A ordinary shares originally issued to the Sponsor in a private placement prior to the consummation of WWAC’s IPO at an effective price of approximately $0.004 per share, which represents 9.6% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 2.2% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants; (ii) 1,250,000 Class A ordinary shares purchased by certain anchor investors in WWAC’s IPO from the Sponsor at a price of $0.005 per share, which represents 8.0% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 1.8% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants; (iii) 3,711,667 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain investors in a private placement pursuant to Subscription Agreements (which were issued for no cash consideration but in consideration for the Selling Securityholders entering into the forward purchase arrangement with the Company), which represents 23.8% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 5.4% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants; (iv) 1,024,335 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain third-parties (which were issued for no cash consideration but in consideration for the Selling Securityholders entering into agreements not to redeem their Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the Non-Redemption Agreements), which represents 6.6% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 1.5% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants; (v) 5,638,530 Class A ordinary shares issued to Innovo (which were issued for no cash consideration but in consideration for the Sole Shareholder causing AARK to enter into an amendment to the Business Combination Agreement), which represents 36.1% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 8.2% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants; and (vi) 361,338 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain vendors and third parties in lieu of cash as consideration for expenses incurred in connection with the Business Combination at an implied purchase price range between $2.32 and $2.43 per share, which represents 2.3% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares as of January 11, 2024 and 0.5% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants.

The 66,415,051 Class A ordinary shares being offered for resale pursuant to this prospectus by the Selling Securityholders exceeds the number of Class A ordinary shares constituting our public float and would represent approximately 425.2% of our Class A ordinary shares outstanding as of January 11, 2024 and 96.9% of our outstanding Class A ordinary shares assuming the issuance of all 52,929,181 Class A ordinary shares issuable upon full exercise of exchange rights and full exercise of the Warrants. The sale of such shares by the Selling Securityholders, or the perception that these sales could occur, could depress the market price of our Class A ordinary shares. A reduction in the market price of our Class A ordinary shares could materially and adversely affect our ability to raise capital, which in turn could adversely affect our ability to make necessary investments and, therefore, could affect our results of operations.

Even if our trading price continues to trade significantly below $10.00 per share, the offering price for the units sold in WWAC’s IPO, certain of the Selling Securityholders may still have an incentive to sell our Class A ordinary shares because they may still experience a positive rate of return on their securities due to the differences in the purchase prices described herein and the public trading price of our Class A ordinary shares. While these Selling Securityholders may, on average, experience a positive rate of return based on the current market price of their Class A ordinary shares, other public securityholders may not experience a similar rate of return on the Class A ordinary shares they purchased due to differences in the purchase prices and the current trading price of our Class A ordinary shares. Despite the closing price being $2.51 per share as of January 11, 2024, the Selling Securityholders may still experience a positive rate of return on the shares purchased by them due to the lower implied price per share at which they received or purchased their Class A ordinary shares. For example, based on the closing price of our Class A ordinary shares of $2.51 as of January 11, 2024, (i) the holders of the 1,500,000 Class A ordinary shares originally issued to the Sponsor in a private placement prior to the consummation of WWAC’s IPO at an effective price of approximately $0.004 per share would experience a potential profit of up to approximately $2.506 per share, or up to approximately $3.8 million in the aggregate, for selling all 1,500,000 Class A ordinary shares held by them; (ii) the holders of the 1,250,000 Class A ordinary shares purchased by certain anchor investors in WWAC’s IPO from the Sponsor at a price of $0.005 per share would experience a potential profit of up to approximately $2.505 per share, or up to approximately $3.1 million in the aggregate, for selling all 1,250,000 Class A ordinary shares held by them; (iii) the holders of the 1,024,335 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain third-parties (which were issued for no cash consideration but in consideration for the Selling Securityholders entering into agreements not to redeem their Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the Non-Redemption Agreements) would experience a potential profit of up to approximately $2.51 per share, or up to approximately $2.6 million in the aggregate, for selling all 1,024,335 Class A ordinary shares held by them; and (iv) the holders of the 361,338 Class A ordinary shares issued to certain vendors and third parties in lieu of cash as consideration for expenses incurred in connection with the Business Combination at an implied purchase price range between $2.32 and $2.43 per share would experience a potential profit of up to approximately $0.19 per share, or up to approximately $0.1 million in the aggregate, for selling all 361,338 Class A ordinary shares held by them. Other Selling Securityholders paid more, or an amount approximately equivalent to the trading price of $2.51 per share as of January 11, 2024, and may experience a comparatively smaller, or negative, rate of return.

We are an “emerging growth company” and we cannot be certain if the reduced reporting and disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our Class A ordinary shares less attractive to investors.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in 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, the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved, and, if we qualify as a foreign private issuer in the future, we will not be required to provide detailed compensation disclosures or file proxy statements. We cannot predict if investors will find our Class A ordinary shares less attractive if we choose to rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our Class A ordinary shares less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our Class A ordinary shares and our Class A ordinary share price may be more volatile.

We may be required to make a cash payment or issue additional Class A ordinary shares in respect of approximately 4 million Class A ordinary shares to the investors with whom we entered into Forward Purchase Agreements in connection with the Closing, which would reduce the amount of cash available to us to fund our operations or dilute the percentage ownership held by the investors.

On and around November 3, 2023 and November 5, 2023, WWAC entered into Forward Purchase Agreements with certain investors (together, the “FPA holders”), pursuant to which WWAC (now Aeries following the Closing) agreed to make a cash payment in respect of up to approximately 4 million Class A ordinary shares then held by the FPA holders (subject to certain conditions set forth in the Forward Purchase Agreements), at the end of the contract period of one year (the “Maturity Date”). Pursuant to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreements, each FPA holder further agreed not to redeem any of the WWAC Class A ordinary shares owned by it at such time.

If the FPA holders hold some or all of the approximately 4 million Forward Purchase Agreement shares on the Maturity Date, then we will be required to make a cash payment of $2.00 per Forward Purchase Agreement share then held or issue additional Class A ordinary shares to such FPA holders at a price of $2.50 per share. If we are required to make any such payments, the amount of cash on hand to fund our operations would be reduced accordingly, which could adversely affect our ability to make necessary investments, and, therefore, could affect our results of operations. If we are required to issue additional Class A ordinary shares in respect of the Forward Purchase Agreement shares, the ownership percentage held by our investors will be diluted.

We are a “controlled company” within the meaning of Nasdaq listing rules and, as a result, qualify for exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements. Our shareholders may not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to such requirements.

The Class V Shareholder has voting rights equal to 51% of the total issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and Class V ordinary shares voting together as a class in connection with the appointment or removal of directors. As a result, as long as the Class V ordinary share remains outstanding, we will be a “controlled company” under the Nasdaq listing rules. As a controlled company, we will be exempt from certain corporate governance requirements, including those that would otherwise require our board of directors to have a majority of independent directors and require that we either establish compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees, each comprised entirely of independent directors, or otherwise ensure that the compensation of our executive officers and nominees of directors are determined or recommended to our board of directors by independent members of our board of directors. Although we do not intend to rely on these exemptions following the Closing, if we do determine to rely on one or more of these exemptions in the future, our shareholders will not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all of the Nasdaq corporate governance requirements.

We identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. If we are not able to remediate the material weakness and otherwise maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, the reliability of our financial reporting, investor confidence in us and the value of our Class A ordinary shares could be adversely affected.

As a public company, we are required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal controls. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“Section 404”404”) requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting and provide a management report on 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 annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected and corrected on a timely basis.

On December 11, 2023, the Company concluded that it should restate certain of its previously issued carve-out consolidated financial statements of AARK Singapore Pte. Ltd. and subsidiaries to correct the misreporting of basic and diluted earnings per share and number of issued and paid-up common stock, resulting from one of the material weaknesses described below.

AARK identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting that are primarily attributable to improper segregation of duties, inadequate processes for timely recording of significant events and material transactions and inadequate design and implementation of information and communication policies and procedures and monitoring activities. In addition, prior to the Business Combination, we identified a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting related to the process of recording accruals.

While management is working to remediate the material weaknesses, there is no assurance that these remediation efforts, when economically feasible and sustainable, will successfully remediate the identified material weaknesses. If we are unable to establish and maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, the reliability of our financial reporting, investor confidence in us and the value of our Class A ordinary shares could be materially and adversely affected and the Company could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities. Effective process and controls over financial reporting is necessary for us to provide reliable and timely financial reports and are designed to reasonably detect and prevent fraud. Any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered in their implementation could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. For as long as we are a “smaller reporting company” under the U.S. securities laws, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404. An independent assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting could detect problems that our management’s assessment might not. Undetected material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting could lead to financial statement restatements and require us to incur the expense of remediation.

Moreover, we do not expect that process and controls over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. The failure of our control systems to prevent error or fraud could materially adversely impact us.

If our operating and financial performance in any given period does not meet any guidance that we provide to the public, the market price of our Class A ordinary shares may decline.

We may, but are not obligated to, provide public guidance on our expected operating and financial results for future periods. Any such guidance will be comprised of forward-looking statements subject to the risks and uncertainties described in this prospectus and in our other public filings and public statements. Our actual results may not always be in line with or exceed any guidance we have provided, especially in times of economic uncertainty. If operating or financial results for a particular period do not meet any guidance we provide or the expectations of investment analysts, or if we reduce our guidance for future periods, the market price of our Class A ordinary shares may decline.

You may be diluted by the future issuance of Class A ordinary shares registered pursuant to this prospectus, including pursuant to the Exchange Agreements and upon the exercise of the Warrants, as well as any additional Class A ordinary shares issued in connection with our incentive plans, acquisitions, the Forward Purchase Agreements or otherwise.

As of the date of this Prospectus,prospectus, we had approximately 484,7472,334 Class A ordinary shares authorized but unissued. Our Memorandum and Articles of Association authorizes us to issue these shares and options, rights, warrants and appreciation rights relating to the shares for the consideration and on the terms and conditions established by our board of directors in its sole discretion, whether in connection with acquisitions or otherwise. Pursuant to the Exchange Agreements, from and after the date thereof and prior to April 1, 2024, (i) with respect to the Aeries Shares (as defined therein), up to 20% of the number of Aeries Shares held by such Shareholdershareholder as of the date thereof (subject to adjustment as described therein) and (ii) with respect to the AARK Ordinary Sharesordinary shares (as defined therein), up to 20% of the number of AARK Ordinary Sharesordinary shares held by such Shareholdershareholder as of the date thereof (subject to adjustment as described therein), and (y) from and after April 1, 2024, certain Aeries shareholders have the right, subject to the satisfaction of certain exercise conditions set forth therein, to elect to exchange their respective interests in Aeries and AARK for Class A ordinary shares of ATI after Closing, which may dilute the percentage ownership of ATI shareholders. We are registering up to 31,901,380 Class A ordinary shares for resale pursuant to this prospectus that may be issued pursuant to the Exchange Agreements. Additionally, we are registering 21,027,801 Class A ordinary shares that may be issued upon the exercise of the Warrants. Furthermore, we have reserved certain Class A ordinary shares (subject to certain adjustments) for issuance under our 2023 Equity Incentive Plan. Moreover, we may issue Class A ordinary shares or other equity securities as consideration for our future acquisitions or other transactions. We may also be required to issue additional Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreements. Any Class A ordinary shares that we issue, including those registered pursuant to this prospectus and those under our 2023 Equity Incentive Plan or other equity incentive plans that we may adopt in the future, or the Forward Purchase Agreements, may dilute the percentage ownership held by the investors.

The Sole Shareholder, certain employees and certain founder shareholders may have interests that conflict with other shareholders and the employees may sell additional shares, or the market perception of such sale may cause the market price of our ordinary shares to decline.

The Sole Shareholder, certain employees and certain founder shareholders have equity ownership in our company, which could give them certain amount of personal wealth. Likewise, we have certain employees whose equity awards are fully vested, and who will be unrestricted in their ability to sell our Class A ordinary shares in the open market following expiration or waiver of any applicable lock-up restrictions, with the exception of the resale of shares held by affiliates under Rule 144. These employees may have an economic interest in their ownership of our shares that conflicts with other shareholders, because they may be motivated to sell their shares to obtain cash rather than investing into the growth of the business and the potential higher price of our Class A ordinary shares in the long-term. The risk that our employees may sell Class A ordinary shares in the open market may be made more acute as we do not anticipate paying dividends for the foreseeable future, meaning open market sales may be our employees’ only means of generating liquidity from their ownership of our securities. As a result, sales of our Class A ordinary shares by our employees in the open market or the perception that such sales could occur may negatively impact the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.

In the future, we may also issue our securities in connection with investments or acquisitions. The amount of ordinary shares issued in connection with an investment or acquisition could constitute a material portion of our then outstanding shares. As restrictions on resale end, the market price of our shares could drop significantly if the holders of these restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them.

Your unexpired warrants may be redeemed prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby significantly diminishing the value of your warrants.

We will have the ability to redeem outstanding warrants at any time once they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant provided that the last reported sales price of the underlying Class A ordinary shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which ATI sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders and provided certain other conditions are met. If and when the warrants become redeemable by ATI, it may exercise its redemption right even if it is unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws. As a result, ATI may redeem the Public Warrants as set forth above even if the holders are otherwise unable to exercise the warrants. Redemption of the outstanding warrants could force you (i) to exercise your warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so, (ii) to sell your warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your warrants or (iii) to accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding warrants are called for redemption, we expect would be substantially less than the market value of your warrants. As of September 30, 2023, there were 11,500,000 Public Warrants outstanding, which had an estimated aggregated value of approximately $492,200 based on the closing price of $0.0428 per Public Warrant on Nasdaq on September 29, 2023. None of the private placement warrants will be redeemable by us except under certain circumstances. See “Description of Shares—Redeemable Warrants—Public Warrants” and “Description“Description of Shares—Redeemable Warrants—Private Placement Warrants” for further information.

In addition, ATI may redeem your warrants after they become exercisable for a number of Class A ordinary shares determined based on the redemption date and the fair market value of the Class A ordinary shares. 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,” in which case you would lose any potential embedded value from a subsequent increase in the value of the Class A ordinary shares had your warrants remained outstanding.

We have no obligation to notify holders of the warrants that the warrants have become eligible for redemption. However, in the event ATI elects to redeem the warrants, it will fix a date for the redemption and, pursuant to the terms of the Warrant Agreement, mail a notice of redemption by first class mail, with postage prepaid, not less than 30 days prior to the redemption date to the registered holders of the warrants. Under the terms of the Warrant Agreement, the warrants may be exercised for cash at any time after notice of redemption has been given by ATI.

The Warrants may never be in the money, and may expire worthless.

The exercise price of the Warrants is $11.50 per share. If the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares is less than $11.50 per share, we believe holders of the Warrants will be unlikely to exercise the Warrants. Given the current trading price of our Class A ordinary shares ($2.51 per share as of January 11, 2024), it is unlikely warrant holders will exercise their Warrants unless the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares significantly increases. There is no guarantee that the Warrants will be in the money following the time they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, and as such, the Warrants may expire worthless and we may receive no proceeds from the exercise of the Warrants. As a result, we do not expect to be able to rely on proceeds from the exercise of the Warrants to fund our operations, which could adversely affect our ability to make necessary investments and, therefore, could affect our results of operations.

We may be required to 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 share price of our securities.

We cannot assure you that the due diligence conducted in relation to AARK and Aeries has identified all material issues or risks associated with Aeries, its business or the industry in which it competes. As a result of these factors, we may incur additional costs and expenses and 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 us reporting losses. Even if our due diligence has identified certain risks, unexpected risks may arise and previously known risks may materialize in a manner not consistent with our preliminary risk analysis. If any of these risks materialize, this could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations and could contribute to negative market perceptions about our securities. Accordingly, our securityholders could suffer a reduction in the value of their shares and warrants. Such securityholders are unlikely to have a remedy for such reduction in value.

We have a dual class ordinary share structure that has the effect of concentrating voting control with the Class V Shareholder. The Class V ordinary share has multiple votes per share, and this ownership will limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or other major corporate transactions requiring shareholder approval, and that may adversely affect the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares.

We have a dual class ordinary share structure and the Class V Shareholder holds the Class V ordinary share. Such Class V ordinary share has no economic rights, but has voting rights equal to (1) 26.0% of the total issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and Class V ordinary share voting together as a single class (subject to a proportionate reduction in voting power in connection with the exchange by the Sole Shareholder of AARK ordinary shares for Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the AARK Exchange Agreement); provided, however, that such proportionate reduction will not affect the voting rights of the Class V ordinary share in the event of (i) a threatened or actual Hostile Change of Control (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) and/or (ii) the appointment and removal of a director on the Company Board) and (2) in certain circumstances, including the threat of a hostile change of control of ATI, 51% of the total issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and Class V ordinary share voting together as a class. This concentrated control may limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets or other major corporate transactions requiring shareholder approval. In addition, this concentrated control may prevent or discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or offers for our shares that you may feel are in your best interest as one of our shareholders. As a result, such concentrated control may adversely affect the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.

If 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 the proceeds distributed from the trust account to the public shareholders, and WWAC and the WWAC Board may be exposed to claims of punitive damages.

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

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”“IRS”) or the Income Tax Department, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, including without limitation, any court, tribunal or other authority, in each case that is competent to impose or adjudicate tax in the Republic of India (the “Indian“Indian Taxation Authority”Authority”) may disagree regarding the tax treatment of the Business Combination and the other transactions that were undertaken in connection with the Business Combination, which could have a material adverse effect on the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.

None of WWAC, AARK or Aeries intends to or has sought any rulings from the IRS or the Indian Tax Authority regarding the tax consequences of the Business Combination and the other transactions that were undertaken in connection with the Business Combination. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that the IRS or Indian Tax Authority will not assert, or that a court of competent jurisdiction will not sustain, a position contrary to the intended tax treatment. Any such determination could subject you to adverse tax consequences that would be different from those described in the proxy statement/prospectus filed in connection with the business combination and have a material adverse effect on our business and the market price of our Class A ordinary shares.

USE OF PROCEEDS

All of the Class A ordinary shares and Warrants offered by the Selling ShareholdersSecurityholders pursuant to this prospectus will be sold by the Selling ShareholdersSecurityholders for their respective accounts. We will not receive any of the proceeds from these sales.the sales of Class A ordinary shares or Warrants or from the issuance of Exchange Shares.

The Selling ShareholdersSecurityholders will pay any underwriting fees, discounts, selling commissions, stock transfer taxes and certain legal expenses incurred by such Selling StockholdersSecurityholders in disposing of their Class A ordinary shares, and we will bear all other costs, fees and expenses incurred in effecting the registration of the Class A ordinary shares covered by this prospectus, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, Nasdaq listing fees and fees and expenses of our counsel and our independent registered public accountants.

With respect to the Class A ordinary shares underlying the Warrants, we will not receive any proceeds from such shares except with respect to amounts received by us upon exercise of such Warrants (if any) to the extent such Warrants are exercised for cash. We intend to use any such proceeds for general corporate purposes. If the trading price of our Class A ordinary shares is below $11.50, then the holders of the Warrants are not likely to exercise their Warrants. Given the current trading price of our Class A ordinary shares ($2.51 per share as of January 11, 2024), it is not likely that holders of the Warrants will exercise their Warrants, and we therefore do not intend to rely on cash proceeds from such exercises to fund our operations.

DETERMINATION OF OFFERING PRICE

We cannot currently determine the price or prices at which shares of Class A ordinary shares or Warrants may be sold by the Selling ShareholdersSecurityholders under this prospectus.

DIVIDEND POLICY

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our shares. We currently intend to retain all available funds and future earnings, if any, to fund the development and growth of the business, and therefore, do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends on our Class A ordinary shares in the foreseeable future. Any future determination related to our dividend policy will be made at the discretion of our board of directors after considering our business prospects, results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements and availability, debt repayment obligations, capital expenditure needs, contractual restrictions, covenants in the agreements governing current and future indebtedness, industry trends, the provisions of Delaware law affecting the payment of dividends and distributions to stockholders and any other factors or considerations the board of directors deems relevant.

MARKET INFORMATION

Our Class A ordinary shares and Warrants are listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “AERT” and “AERTW,” respectively. Prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, the Class A ordinary shares, units and warrants were listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “WWAC,” “WWACU” and “WWACW,” respectively. As of December 19, 2023,January 11, 2024, there were 117115 holders of record of our Class A ordinary shares and 4 holders of record of our Warrants. The actual number of shareholders of our Class A ordinary shares and the actual number of holders of our Warrants is greater than the number of record holders and includes holders of our Class A ordinary shares or Warrants whose Class A ordinary shares or Warrants are held in street name by brokers and other nominees.

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Defined terms included below shall have the same meaning as terms defined and included elsewhere in this amended report.

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is provided to aid you in your analysis of the financial aspects of the Business Combination.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements are based on WWAC’s historical financial statements and AARK’s carve-out consolidated financial statements, as adjusted to give effect to the Business Combination. The historical financial statements of WWAC were prepared based on a December 31 fiscal year-end and the historical financial statements of AARK were prepared based on a March 31 fiscal year end. Following the consummation of the Business Combination, Aeries Technology, Inc. will have a March 31 fiscal year end.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2023 combines the historical balance sheet of WWAC as of September 30, 2023 and the historical balance sheet of AARK as of September 30, 2023, on a pro forma basis as if the Business Combination had been consummated on September 30, 2023. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the six months ended September 30, 2023 and the year ended December 31, 2022 give pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it was completed on January 1, 2022, the beginning of the earliest period presented. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 combines the historical operations of WWAC for the year ended December 31, 2022 and the historical statements of operations of AARK for the year ended March 31, 2023. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the six months ended September 30, 2023 combines the historical operations of WWAC and the historical statements of operations of AARK for the six months ended September 30, 2023. The historical statements of operations of WWAC for the six months ended September 30, 2023 were derived by adding the historical statements of operations of WWAC for the three months ended June 30, 2023 to the historical statements of operations of WWAC for the three months ended September 30, 2023.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet does not purport to represent, and is not necessarily indicative of, what the actual financial condition of the combined company would have been had the Business Combination taken place on September 30, 2023, nor is it indicative of the financial condition of the combined company as of any future date. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations do not purport to represent, and are not necessarily indicative of, what the actual results of operations of the combined company would have been had the Business Combination taken place on January 1, 2022, nor are they indicative of the results of operations of the combined company for any future period. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information was derived from and should be read in conjunction with the following:

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared to illustrate the effect of the Business Combination. It has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X and is for informational purposes only and is subject to a number of uncertainties and assumptions as described in the accompanying notes. The historical financial statements have been adjusted in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information to give effect to pro forma events that are (1) directly attributable to the Business Combination, (2) factually supportable and (3) with respect to the statement of operations, expected to have a continuing impact on the results of the combined company.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements are presented considering the final redemption scenario.

Description of the Business Combination

On March 11, 2023, WWAC and AARK entered into the Business Combination Agreement. Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Business Combination Agreement, atAt the Closing, WWAC and AARK will consummateconsummated the Business Combination.Combination, following the approval by the Company’s shareholders at the annual general meeting of shareholders held on November 2, 2023. Pursuant to the Amalgamation, all AARK ordinary shares that arewere issued and outstanding prior to the effective time of the amalgamation (the “Effective Time will”) remain issued and outstanding following the Effective Time and continue to be held by the Sole Shareholder, and all of the shares of Amalgamation Sub that arewere issued and outstanding as of the Effective Time will bewere automatically converted into a number of AARK ordinary shares dependent upon available cash of WWAC after redemptions and net of all WWAC liabilities, including WWAC unpaid transaction expenses.shares. The Combined Company will ownowns these converted AARK ordinary shares directly. The number of AARK ordinary shares to be issued in connection with the Amalgamation will bewas based on an assumed price of $10.10 per share. Based on a pre-transaction equity value of Aeries of $349 million, AARK’s ownership of 85.31% of the issued and outstanding Aeries Shares and the other Aeries Holders’ 14.69% ownership of the issued and outstanding Aeries Shares. WWAC will acquireacquired 38.24% of the economic interest in AARK while the Sole shareholderShareholder and Aeries Holders will collectively retain 61.76%retained 61.76 % of the economic interests in AARK, pursuant to the aforesaid Business Combination Agreement and actual redemption scenario.

As used in this unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information, the “Company” refers to WWAC as a Cayman Islands exempted company which, in conjunction with the Business Combination, will continuecontinued and changechanged its corporate name to “Aeries Technology, Inc.” The adjustments presented in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been identified and presented to provide relevant information necessary for an understanding of the combined entity uponfollowing completion of the Business Combination. The pro forma adjustments set forth in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements and described in the notes thereto reflect, among other things, the completion of the Business Combination, transaction costs in connection with the Business Combination, and the impact of certain pro forma adjustments (and their tax effect at the estimated effective income tax rate applicable to such adjustments).

The Business Combination has been accounted for as a reverse recapitalization because AARK has been determined to be the accounting acquirer under Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification Topic 805, Business Combinations (“ASC 805”805”). Under this method of accounting, WWAC is treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded, in accordance with GAAP. AARK has been determined to be the accounting acquirer based on the evaluation of the following facts and circumstances taken into consideration:

Concurrently with the closing of the Business Combination, the outstanding 79,776 Class A ordinary shares of the Company that were not redeemed prior to the Closing Date have beenwere converted into an equal number of Class A ordinary shares plus an additional 87,133 Class A ordinary shares (“Bonus Shares”Shares”) of the Company in aggregate.

Further, certain Class A ordinary shareholders entered into non-redemption agreement executed on 3rd and 5th November, 2023 to reverse the redemption for an aggregate of 1,652,892 Class A ordinary shares while waiving their right to receive any Shareholder Bonus Shares issued under the Business Combination Agreement. Similarly, in connection with Forward Purchase Agreements (“FPA”(each, an “FPA”), the parties to the FPA purchased 288,333 Class A ordinary shares through the open market or via redemption reversals (“Recycled Shares”Shares”).

Also, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company will issueissued to NewGen Advisors and Consultants DWC-LLC, a company incorporated in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (the “Class“Class V Shareholder”Shareholder”), one Class V ordinary share of the Company (the “Class“Class V Ordinary Share”Share”), which ATI Class V Ordinary Share will havehas voting rights equal to (1) 26.0% of the total issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and ATI Class V ordinary share voting together as a single class (subject to a proportionate reduction in voting power in connection with the exchange by the Sole Shareholder of AARK ordinary shares for ATI Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the AARK Exchange Agreement) and (2) in certain circumstances, including the threat of a hostile change of control of the Company, 51.0% of the total issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares and Class V ordinary share voting together as a class; provided, however, that such proportionate reduction will not affect the voting rights of the ATI Class V ordinary share in the event of (i) a threatened or actual Hostile Change of Control (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) and/or (ii) the appointment and removal of a director on the Company Board). The Class V Shareholder is owned by a business associate of the Sole Shareholder. The Sole Shareholder does not have control over the Class V Shareholder, and the Class V shareholderShareholder will not receive any compensation in connection with its ownership of the ATI Class V ordinary share. Although the Class V Shareholder is not required by contract or otherwise to vote in a manner that is beneficial to the Sole Shareholder and may vote the Class V ordinary share in its sole discretion, given the business relationship between the Class V Shareholder and the Sole Shareholder, the Sole Shareholder believes that the Class V Shareholder could protect the interests of the Sole Shareholder from extraordinary events, such as a hostile takeover or board contest, prior to the exchange of AARK ordinary shares by the Sole Shareholder. The ATI Class V ordinary share may not be transferred, and any attempted transfer of the ATI Class V ordinary share will be void.

On June 30, 2023, WWAC and AARK entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Business Combination Agreement (the “First Amendment”) to (i) revise the pre-transaction equity value of the company to be $349,000,000, (ii) increase the redemption threshold percentage from 85.00% to 89.15%, (iii) provide that 50,000 bonus shares, from the 3,750,000 bonus share pool, will be issued to certain employees of AARK, and modify the Exchange Rate, per the Exchange Agreement, from 14.28 to 14.40 in the case of Aeries Shares and from 2,227 to 2,246 in the case of AARK Ordinary Shares.ordinary shares.

On October 8, 2023 and October 10, 2023, the Company and its Sponsor entered into non-redemption agreements (each, a “Non-Redemption Agreement”“Non-Redemption Agreement”) with certain unaffiliated third parties (each, a “Holder,“Holder,” and collectively, the “Holders”“Holders”) in exchange for the Holder or Holders agreeing either not to request redemption in connection with the Company’s extension or to reverse any previously submitted redemption demand in connection with the Extension with respect to an aggregate of 3,733,263 Class A ordinary shares par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A ordinary shares”, and such shares subject to each Non-Redemption Agreement, the “Non-Redeemed Shares”), of the Company sold in its initial public offering (the “IPO”)IPO at the extraordinary general meeting called by the Company to, among other things, approve an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which the Company must (1) consummate a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “business combination”), (2) cease its operations except for the purpose of winding up if it fails to complete such business combination, and (3) redeem all of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares sold in the Company’s IPO, from 24 months from the closing of our IPO to 25 months from the closing of our IPO or such earlier date as is determined by our Board of Directors (the “Board”“Board”) to be in the best interests of the Company (such date, the “Extended Date”“Extended Date”), and to allow the Company, without another shareholder vote, by resolution of our Board, to elect to further extend the Extended Date in one-month increments up to five additional times (with each such extension being upon five days’ advance notice in writing), for a total of up to 30 months from the closing of our IPO, unless the closing of a business combination will have occurred prior thereto (each an “Extension”“Extension”).

On October 9, 2023, WWAC and AARK entered into Amendment No. 2 to the Business Combination Agreement to increase the number of Employee Merger Consideration Shares (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) from 50,000 to 52,600.

On October 16, 2023, the Company had an extraordinary meeting and in connection with such meeting, the Company received shareholder approval to amend the Trust Agreement and extended the date by which the Company must (1) consummate a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “business combination”), (2) cease its operations except for the purpose of winding up if it fails to complete such business combination, and (3) redeem all of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares sold in the Company’s initial public offering that was consummated on October 22, 2021 (the “IPO”).IPO. In connection with the extension proposal, holders of 938,987 Class A ordinary shares exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.66 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $10.0 million. As a result, approximately $40.3 million will remain in the Company’s trust account and 3,779,067 Class A ordinary shares remain outstanding.

On October 26, 2023, the Company, the Sponsor and the other parties thereto (the “Holders”“Holders”) entered into an amendment (the “Registration Rights Agreement Amendment”) to that certain registration rights agreement, dated October 19, 2021, among the Company, the Sponsor and the Holders (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), to, among other things, amend the definition of “Founder Shares Lock-up Period” to provide that the transfer restrictions applicable to the Founder Shares shall apply to only 80% of the Founder Shares.

On October 28, 2023, November 5, 2023, and November 6, 2023, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company entered into a subscription agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”“Subscription Agreement”) with a certain investor (the “PIPE Investor”“PIPE Investor”), pursuant to which, among other things, the PIPE Investor has agreed to subscribe for and purchase Class A ordinary shares from the Company. The Subscription Agreement contains customary conditions to closing, including the consummation of the Business Combination. Refer to Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 6, 2023.

On October 29, 2023, WWAC and AARK entered into Amendment No. 3 to the Business Combination Agreement (the “Third Amendment”“Third Amendment”) to, among other things, provide that the Employee Merger Consideration Shares (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) may be issued to employees of AARK in the joint discretion of the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of AARK, and that any Remaining Bonus Shares (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement will be issued to Innovo Consultancy DMCC, a company incorporated in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (“Innovo”), that is wholly owned by the Sole Shareholder.Innovo. The Third Amendment also providesprovided that 3,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares willordinary shares would be issued to Innovo at the closing of the Business Combination. In addition, the Third Amendment contemplatescontemplated certain amendments to the Exchange Agreements that provideprovided that from and after the date of the Exchange Agreements and prior to April 1, 2024, each holder of Company Ordinary Sharesordinary shares and AARK Ordinary Sharesordinary shares may exchange up to 20% of the number of Company Ordinary Sharesordinary shares or AARK Ordinary Shares,ordinary shares, as applicable, held by such holder for Parent Class A Ordinary Sharesordinary shares or cash, in each case as provided in the Exchange Agreements.

On November 3, 2023, and November 5, 2023, WWAC had entered into Forward Purchase Agreements (“FPA”(each, an “FPA”) with Sandia Investment Management LP, Sea Otter Trading, LLC, YA II PN, Ltd and Meteora Capital Partners, LP (collectively known as “FPA holders”the “FPA holders”). The FPA stipulatesFPAs stipulate issuance of 4 million Class A ordinary shares (held with escrow agent) to the FPA holders at the redemption price.price of approximately $10.69 per share. The shares to be so issued shall be reduced by shares purchased by the FPA holders in the open market or via redemption reversals (“Recycled Shares”Shares”). The FPA holders recycled around 0.3 million shares through open market or via redemption reversals, resulting in reduction of overall redemptions of Class A ordinary shares. The redemption value of such Recycled Shares amounting to $3 million has been transferred to the accounts held by the respective FPA Holderholder funds. For the balance 3.7 million shares, a fresh issuance of Class A ordinary shares was made, resulting in a receivable. If the FPA holders deliver an OET Notice (as defined in the FPA) specifying that the FPA will be terminated with respect to a number of Class A ordinary shares, then such FPA holders are required to make a payment to the Company equal to the Early Termination Obligation (as defined in the FPA) associated with the OET Notice. It is highly unlikely the Company will receive any such payment if the price per share of our Class A ordinary shares is less than the redemption price of $10.69 per share. At end of the contract period of one year, WWAC would be required to pay the Maturity Consideration (approximately $8 million in cash or a number of Class A ordinary shares valued at $2.50 per share) for the unsold shares held by the FPA holders. The consequential liability and receivable for issuance of FPA shares represent a derivative asset which has been initially measured at $32.4 million.

On November 3, 2023 and November 5, 2023, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company entered into non-redemption agreements with certain investors (the “NRA Investors”“NRA Investors”), pursuant to which, among other things, the NRA Investors agreed to reverse the redemptions of up to an aggregate of 1,652,892 Class A ordinary shares of the Company. Refer to Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 3, 2023 and November 6, 2023.

Upon consummation of the Business Combination, the holders of AARK ordinary shares and Aeries Technology Group Business Accelerators Private Limited (“Aeries”), a consolidated subsidiary of AARK, ordinary shares willShares each enterentered into anthe Exchange Agreement with the Company, Aeries and AARK (such exchange agreements collectively, the “Exchange Agreements”).Agreements. Pursuant to the Exchange Agreements, from and after April 1, 2024 and subject to certain exercise conditions, the Company shall have the right to exercise the ATI Call Exchange. In addition, each shareholder of Aeries and AARK ordinary shares shall have the right to exercise the ATI Put Exchange. Each share of AARK may be exchanged for 2,246 Class A ordinary shares of Aeries Technology, Inc. and each Aeries shareShare may be exchanged for 14.40 Class A ordinary shares of Aeries Technology, Inc., as adjusted for (a) any subdivision (by any share split, share distribution, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) or combination (by reverse share split, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) of the AARK and Aeries ordinary shares that is not accompanied by an identical subdivision or combination of the Class A Ordinary Sharesordinary shares or (b) any subdivision (by any stock split, stock dividend or distribution, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) or combination (by reverse stock split, reclassification, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) of the Class A Ordinary Sharesordinary shares that is not accompanied by an identical subdivision or combination of the AARK and Aeries ordinary shares.

The tables below represent the sources and uses of funds as it relates to the Business Combination:

Sources and Uses (Based on actual redemptions)

The following summarizes the pro forma ownership of Class A ordinary shares of Aeries Technology, Inc. following the Business Combination and prior to the exchange of interests in connection with the Exchange agreements:

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is for illustrative purposes only. You should not rely on the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information as being indicative of the historical results that would have been achieved had the Business Combination occurred on the dates indicated or the future results that the Aeries Technology, Inc. will experience. AARK and WWAC havedid not hadhave any historical relationship prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate activities between the companies.

The pro forma adjustments are based on the information currently available and the assumptions and estimates underlying the pro forma adjustments are described in the accompanying notes. Actual results may differ from the assumptions used to present the accompanying unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements. Aeries Technology, Inc. will incur additional costs after the Business Combination is consummated in order to satisfy its obligations as a public company registrant. In addition, we anticipate the adoption of a new Employee Stock Option Plan for employees, officers and directors. No adjustments to the unaudited pro forma statement of operations have been made for these items as such amounts are not yet known.

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEET

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

(In thousands, Except Per Share Data)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2022

(In thousands, Except Share Data)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

(In thousands, Except Share Data)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 1 — Basis of presentation

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been prepared assuming the Business Combination is accounted for as a reverse recapitalization. Under this method of accounting, WWAC is treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded, in accordance with GAAP. AARK has been determined to be the accounting acquirer because AARK, as a group, after giving effect to the Exchange Agreements, will retain a majority of the outstanding shares of ATI, AARK’s management will comprisecomprises the majority of ATI management, AARK represents a significant majority of the assets of ATI, and AARK’s business will comprisecomprises the ongoing operations of ATI.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2023 gives effect to the Business Combination as if it occurred on September 30, 2023. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the six months ended September 30, 2023 and for the year ended December 31, 2022 give effect to the Business Combination as if it occurred on January 1, 2022. These periods are presented on the basis that AARK is the acquirer for accounting purposes.

The pro forma adjustments represent management’s estimates based on information available as of the date of the filing of the condensed combined financial statements and do not reflect possible adjustments related to restructuring or integration activities that have yet to be determined or transaction or other costs following the Business Combination that are not expected to have a continuing impact on the statement of operations. Further, one-time transaction-related expenses incurred prior to, or concurrently with the consummation of the Business Combination may not have been included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations.

Upon consummation of the Business Combination, WWAC will adoptadopted AARK’s accounting policies. As a result of the adoption, there are no significant changes in accounting policies expected and no pro forma adjustments related to the alignment of the accounting policies of WWAC and AARK. As part of the preparation of these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements, certain reclassifications were made to align WWAC and AARK’s financial statement presentation. Following the consummation of the Business Combination, Aeries Technology, Inc. would havehas a March 31 fiscal year-end.

Note 2 — Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet adjustments

The pro forma adjustments to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2023 are as follows:

Out of the total WWAC transaction costs, approximately $9.4 million are already incurred and reflected in the historical statements of operations of WWAC as of September 30, 2023 while an additional $1.1 million not reflected is expensed through accumulated deficit. Out of the total transactions costs incurred by AARK of $7.4 million. Transaction costs directly attributable to the Business Combination of $3.7 million have been recorded as additional paid-in capital, which resulted in a reduction of $3.3 million of deferred transaction costs, a reduction of $0.7 million to accounts payable and a reduction of $0.7 million to other current liabilities.

The remaining transaction costs of $3.7 million is not considered directly attributable and hence is expensed out. Out of the $3.7 million, $2.1 million is already reflected in the historical financial statements and balance of $1.6 million has been affected through retained earnings.

At end of the contract period of one year, WWAC would be required to pay the Maturity Consideration for the unsold shares held by the FPA holders. The consequential liability and receivable for issuance of FPA shares represent a net derivative asset which has been initially measured at $32.4 million after considering a potential liability on redemption of $10 million based on maximum expected payable amount. Such derivative will be remeasured subsequently with changes being recognised through additional paid in capital in future periods. The accounting for the forward purchase agreement and valuation of the derivative are still under evaluation and may be subject to change.

Note 3 — Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statements of Operations adjustments

The pro forma adjustments included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 and six months ended September 30, 2023 are as follows:

Note 4 — Net income (loss) per share

Pro Forma weighted-average ordinary shares outstanding-basic and diluted is calculated as follows for the year ended December 31, 2022 and the six months ended September 30, 2023.

Ordinary shares that were excluded from the computation of diluted net income (loss) per share attributable to shareholders for the period presented because including them would have an antidilutive effect or the issuance of such shares is contingent upon the satisfaction of certain conditions which were not satisfied by the end of the period were as follows:

AERIES’ MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Throughout this section, unless otherwise noted “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” “AARK” and “Aeries” refer to the Aark Singapore Pte Ltd. and its consolidated subsidiaries, which relate to the management consultancy business, and excludes the legacy financial technology and investing business activities associated with Aark Singapore Pte Ltd.

The following discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations of Aeries should be read in conjunction with the Condensed Carve-out Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes of Aark Singapore Pte Ltd included elsewhere in this proxy statement/prospectus. In addition to historical information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding our expectations for future performance, liquidity and capital resources that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations. Our actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause such differences include those identified below and those described under “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” and elsewhere in this proxy statement/prospectus. We assume no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements.

Overview

Aeries is a global professional and management services partner offering range of management consultancy services for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies with engagement models that are designed to provide a mix of deep vertical specialty, functional expertise, and digital systems and solutions to scale, optimize and transform a client’s business operations.

We support and drive our client’s global growth by providing a range of management consultancy services involving professional advisory services and operations management services to build and manage dedicated delivery centers in appropriate locations based on customer business needs. With a focus towards digital enterprise enablement, these dedicated delivery centers act as a seamless extension of the client organization, with access to the best resources. It empowers them to be competitive and nimble to achieve their goals of enduring cost efficiencies, operational excellence, and value creation, without sacrificing functional control and flexibility.

Advisory service to customers involves active participation of senior leadership recommending strategies, best practices as it relates to operating model design, right approach, consultation on various areas, market availability for resources with appropriate skillsets required for specific roles contemplated in the service model, regulations to be complied with, optimization of tax structure and any other similar services specific to our customers’ needs. The customer decides on services from options provided and Aeries subsequently firms up the execution plan with the customer.

Our customers also use our services to manage their organizational operations including software development, information technology, cybersecurity, finance and accounting, human resources, customer service and operations. Aeries hires talent based on customer needs for deployment on customer operations. We work with our customers in a collaborative manner to select the appropriate candidates and create functional alignment with the customers’ organizations. While our talent becomes an extension of our clients’ team, Aeries continues to provide them with opportunity for promotion, recognition and career path progression, resulting in higher employee satisfaction and lower voluntary attrition rates. We manage the regulatory, tax, recruiting, HR compliances, and branding for the centers of excellence. This differentiated business model delivers overall cost and operational efficiencies with the ability to deliver digital transformation services and solutions tailor made for our customers’ growth strategies.

This purpose-built business model aims to create a more flexible and less expensive talent pool for deployment on customers’ operations. It creates innovation through strategic alignment at senior levels and visibility across the organization. It aims to insulate our clients from regulatory and tax issues. It provides flexibility in scaling teams up or down as per changing business needs. It delivers best practices with visibility to winning playbooks from multiple companies and aims to eliminate the deficiencies of the traditional outsourcing and offshoring models.

As of March 31, 2023 and September 30, 2023, Aeries had more than 30 clients spanning across industry segments, including companies in the industries of e-commerce, telecom, security, healthcare, engineering and others. With over a decade of experience catering to private equity firms and their portfolio companies, Aeries had revenues of $53.1 million and $41.0 million, net income of $1.7 million and $4.7 million, and net income margin of 3.2% and 11.5%, for the years ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Aeries had an adjusted EBITDA of $8.7 million and $7.3 million (a non-GAAP measure comparable to GAAP net income margin) and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 16.4% and 17.8% for the years ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Aeries had a revenue of $33.9 million and $25.3 million, a net income of $1.4 million and $1.1 million, and a net income margin of 4.1% and 4.3%, for six months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Aeries had an adjusted EBITDA of $5.8 million and $3.4 million (a non-GAAP measure comparable to GAAP net income margin) and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 17.2% and 13.5% for six months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

The Business Combination Transaction

We entered into the Business Combination Agreement with WWAC on March 11, 2023. On November 6, 2023, as contemplated in the Business Combination Agreement, the Company consummated the Business Combination, following the approval by the Company’s shareholders at the annual meeting of shareholders held on November 2, 2023.

The Business Combination is accounted for as a reverse recapitalization. Under this method of accounting, AARK (the legal acquiree) will be the accounting acquirer and WWAC (the legal acquirer) will be deemed the accounting acquiree for accounting and financial reporting purposes. The financial statements of the combined company represent a continuation of the financial statements of AARK wherein the net assets of AARK will be stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. See the section titledentitled “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information” for additional information.

Key Factors Affecting Performance and Comparability

Market Opportunity

Our target market is North America. Within this region we are focused on two primary areas which includes the private equity ecosystem, and the mid-market enterprises. Based on the CompTIA – IDC Industry Outlook Report 2023, the industry has been seeing strong tailwinds favoring the growth of digital tech businesses with the global IT spend in 2023 estimated to be $4.6 trillion, and based on calculations conducted by Aeries, we estimate that the Aeries Total Available Market (“TAM”TAM”) in this marketplace could be at $420 billion to $504 billion.

Companies are looking out for service providers who not only have the experience and expertise in providing the right-sized solution in this age of ever shortening business cycles but also a trusted partner with a transparent engagement model to lead the customers through the digital transformation journey. Aeries’ model is purpose-built to provide this experience, expertise and transparent engagement model to accelerate and enhance our clients’ businesses.

Private Markets

As private market investing evolves and the landscape of venture-backed and late-stage private growth companies transforms, our service offerings will adapt accordingly, aligning with the shifting dynamics of potential investors and portfolio companies seeking our expertise. While periods of macroeconomic growth in the United States, particularly in private equity markets, typically foster an upsurge in overall investment activity, any economic slowdowns, downturns, or volatility in the broader market and private equity landscape could potentially dampen this growth momentum.

Macro-economic headwinds

Our operational performance is influenced by prevailing economic conditions, including macroeconomic conditions, the overall inflationary climate and business sentiment. During the six months ended September 2023, there was persistent economic and geopolitical uncertainty in many markets around the world, including concerns over wage inflation, the potential of decelerating global economic growth and increased volatility in foreign currency exchange rates. These factors have impacted and may continue to impact our business operations.

The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, especially related to new and more virulent variants, have not adversely impacted our business and results of operations or the client demand for our services and solutions, which is evident in our robust revenue growth rate ranging 30% y-o-y.

Taxes

We are incorporated in Singapore and have operations in India, USA and Mexico. Our effective tax rate has historically varied and will continue to vary from year to year based on the tax rate in the jurisdiction of our organization, the geographical sources of our earnings and the tax rates in those countries, the tax relief and incentives available to us, the financing and tax planning strategies employed by us, changes in tax laws or the interpretation thereof, and movements in our tax reserves, if any.

Currently, the Company is liable to pay income tax in India, USA, Mexico and Singapore. In India, the Company has chosen to pay taxes according to the newly introduced tax regime in 2019 while forgoing some exemptions and deductions. Consequently, the Company calculates its consolidated provision for income taxes based on the asset and liability method. This involves determining deferred tax assets and liabilities based on temporary differences between the condensed carve-out consolidated financial statements and income tax bases of assets and liabilities. These deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the enacted tax rates that are expected to apply to taxable income in the year in which these temporary differences are anticipated to be settled or recovered. If there is evidence that indicates some portion or all of the recorded deferred tax assets will not be realized in future periods, the deferred tax assets are recorded net of a valuation allowance. The Company evaluates uncertain tax positions to determine if they are likely to be sustained upon examination, and a liability is recorded when such uncertainties fail to meet the “more likely than not” threshold.

Financing Costs

We regularly evaluate our variable and fixed-rate debt obligations. We have historically used short and long-term debt to finance our working capital requirements, capital expenditures and other investments. In May 2023, Aeries amended its revolving credit facility (“Amended Credit Facility”Facility”), whereby the total borrowing capacity was increased to $3.9 million (at the exchange rate in effect on September 30, 2023), with Kotak Mahindra Bank. The revolving facility is available for Aeries’ operational requirements. The interest rate equal to the 6 months Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate plus a margin of 0.80% and 1.20 % as of September 30, 2023 and March 31, 2023, respectively. Aeries is required to pay interest on the outstanding balance of the credit facility at this financing cost basis, calculated based on the actual number of days for which the funds are utilized. Any changes in the prevailing MCLR rates and the interest rate charged by the bank will affect the financing cost basis and the overall cost of borrowing.

Aeries also has an outstanding unsecured loan from a director in the amount of $0.8 million at an interest rate of 10% per annum from a director. The principal amount of the loan was outstanding in entirety as of the period ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, and year ended March, 31, 2023.

The Company also has an outstanding four-year auto loan of $0.1 million at the exchange rate in effect on September 30, 2023 at 10.75% per annum.

Refer to the notes to our condensed carve-out consolidated financial statements titledentitled “Short-term borrowings” and “Long-term debt” included elsewhere in this proxy/prospectus for additional information on debt.

For information about the risks we face, see — “Risk Factors.“Risk Factors.”

Components of Results of Operations

Overview

The Company has one operating segment and presents and discusses revenues by customer location. The Company believes this disaggregation best depicts how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of our revenues and cash flows are affected by industry, market and other economic factors.

The following table shows the disaggregation of the Company’s revenues by major customer location. Substantially all of the revenue in our North America region relates to business with customers in USA.

Our revenues were primarily earned in U.S. dollars. Our costs were primarily incurred in Indian rupees, as well as in U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos. We bear a substantial portion of the risk of inflation and fluctuations in currency exchange rates, and therefore our operating results could be negatively affected by adverse changes in inflation rates and foreign currency exchange rates.

Year Ended March 31, 2023 versus Year Ended March 31, 2022

The following table presents selected financial data for the year ended March 31, 2023, and March 31, 2022 (in thousands, except percentages):

Revenue, net

Revenue, net for the year ended March 31, 2023 was $53.1 million, a $12.1 million or a 29% increase compared to revenue, net of $41.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2022. This change is explained by a $14.3 million increase in revenues resulting from the strengthened demand for our services from our existing clients and a $2.3 million increase in revenues generated from new clients. The increase was offset by a $4.5 million loss in revenue due to a customer exiting a contract for convenience.