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Common Stock Warrants
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Common Stock Warrants  
Common Stock Warrants


Warrants Classified as Equity

Public Warrants

The Company has outstanding warrants that are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) (the “Public Warrants”) under the ticker EVEXW. Each Public Warrant entitles its holder to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, to be exercised only for a whole number of shares of our common stock. The Public Warrants are exercisable provided that we have an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act) covering the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available (or we permit holders to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis under the circumstances specified in the warrant agreement) and such shares are registered, qualified or exempt from registration under the securities, or blue sky, laws of the state of residence of the holder. The Public Warrants expire five years after the consummation of the Company's business combination on May 9, 2022 (“Closing”) or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. We may redeem the outstanding Public Warrants at a price of $0.01 per warrant, if the last sale price of our common stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading days period ending on the third business day before the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders. 


In connection with the 2024 Private Placement, investors agreed to cancel 3,296,470 Public Warrants in exchange for 1,318,588 shares of common stock of the Company. As of September 30, 2024, there were 8,203,407 Public Warrants outstanding. 

New Warrants

The Company has entered into warrant agreements with certain strategic private investment in public equity investors (“Strategic PIPE Investors”), pursuant to which and subject to the terms and conditions of each applicable warrant agreement. The Company has issued or has agreed to issue to the Strategic PIPE Investors warrants (the “New Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate amount of (i) 24,095,072 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $0.01 per share (“Penny Warrants”), (ii) 12,000,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $15.00 per share, and (iii) 5,000,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $11.50 per share. Warrants with exercise prices of $15.00 per share are defined as Market Warrants. 


In connection with the 2024 Private Placement, 2,500,000 Penny Warrants were issued contingent upon first type certification for the eVTOL in compliance with certain airworthiness authorities. These new Penny Warrants are included in the definition of New Warrants. Additionally, another investor agreed to cancel 5,000,000 warrants with an exercise price of $11.50 in exchange for 2,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company. 


Because the cash received for the common stock and New Warrants is significantly different from their fair value, management considers such warrants to have been issued other than at fair market value. Accordingly, such warrants represent units of account separate from the shares of common stock that were issued to the Strategic PIPE Investors in connection with their respective investment and therefore require separate accounting treatment.


Terms related to the issuance and exercisability of the New Warrants differ among the Strategic PIPE Investors and each New Warrant is independently exercisable such that the exercise of any individual warrant does not depend on the exercise of another. As such, management has concluded that all New Warrants meet the criteria to be legally detachable and separately exercisable and therefore freestanding.


The New Warrants were issued or issuable to the following types of parties:

(a) Potential customers: Market and Penny Warrants issued or issuable to potential customers were determined to be within the scope of ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation, for classification and measurement and ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, for recognition. In accordance with ASC 718, these warrants were determined to be equity-classified. Market Warrants issued at Closing vested immediately and have no contingencies. The Penny Warrants can be separated into two categories: (i) contingently issuable warrants (the “Contingent Warrants”) and (ii) warrants that immediately vested upon Closing (“Vested Warrants”). The Contingent Warrants are measured at fair value on the grant date and will be recognized as variable consideration (a reduction of revenue) under ASC 606 when and if there are related revenue transactions or as expense if there are not yet related revenue transactions. The Vested Warrants were accounted for akin to a non-refundable upfront payment to a potential customer and were recognized as expense as the Company has no current revenue or binding contracts in place. 

(b) Potential suppliers: Penny Warrants issued or issuable to potential suppliers, which are subject to the satisfaction of certain specified conditions, are accounted for under ASC 718 and were determined to be equity-classified. Under ASC 718, the fair value of these warrants will be recognized as expense as products and/or services are received from the suppliers as if the Company paid cash for the respective transactions.

(c) 2024 Private Placement: Penny Warrants issued or issuable to investors that participated in the 2024 Private Placement are contingent upon receipt of the first type certification for the eVTOL and were accounted for under ASC 718. Refer to Note 7 for more information regarding the 2024 Private Placement.

For the Contingent Warrants, the issuance and vesting of such warrants occurs upon the achievement of certain milestones, which include, as applicable, (a) receipt of the first type certification for the eVTOL in compliance with certain airworthiness authorities, (b) receipt of the first binding commitment from a third-party to purchase an eVTOL jointly developed by Embraer and a certain Strategic Investor, (c) being a supplier at entry into service, (d) receipt of binding commitments from certain Strategic Investors for an aggregate 700 eVTOLs, (e) the time at which ten vertiports that have been developed or implemented with the services of a certain Strategic Investor have entered operation or are technically capable of entering operation and (f) receipt of services and support agreements.

 

As of September 30, 2024, there were New Warrants to purchase an aggregate 34,022,536 shares of common stock outstanding. The New Warrants were measured at fair value on the grant date (May 9, 2022), except for cases where there has been a modification, where fair value is remeasured on the modification date. The fair value of Penny Warrants was calculated by subtracting $0.01 from Company’s common stock share price on the grant date or modification date. The Company used a modified Black-Scholes model to value the Market Warrants with an exercise price of $15.00. The valuation model utilizes management judgment and pricing inputs from observable and unobservable markets with less volume and transaction frequency than active markets. Significant deviations from these estimates and inputs could result in a material change in fair value. Forfeitures of New Warrants within the scope of ASC 718 are estimated by the Company and reviewed when circumstances change. 


The following table summarizes the Black-Scholes model inputs and assumptions:





May 9,


Market Warrants with exercise price of $15.00



2022


Share Price (S0)


$

11.32


Maturity Date



12/31/2025


Time (T) - Years



3.63


Strike Price (X)


$

15.00


Risk-free Rate (r)



2.85

%

Volatility (σ)



7.93

%

Dividend Yield (q)



0.00

%

Warrant Value


$

0.11


Warrants Classified as Liabilities

Private Warrants

The Company has outstanding warrants issued in private placements (the Private Warrants), which are recorded in the “Derivative financial instruments” line of the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Each Private Warrant entitles its holder to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to conditions as defined in the respective warrant agreement. The Private Warrants have similar terms as the Public Warrants, except for the $0.01 cash redemption feature. However, in the event a Private Warrant is transferred to a third-party not affiliated with the Company (referred to as a non-permitted transferee), the warrant becomes a Public Warrant and is subject to the $0.01 cash redemption feature. If this occurs, the calculation changes for the settlement amount of the Private Warrants. Since the settlement amount depends solely on who holds the instrument, which is not an input to the fair value of a fixed-for-fixed option or forward on equity shares, the Private Warrants are liability classified. As of September 30, 2024, there were 14,250,000 Private Warrants outstanding.