UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
SOUTHPORT ACQUISITION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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TOTAL LIABILITIES, COMMON STOCK SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE REDEMPTION AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | $ | | $ | | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SOUTHPORT ACQUISITION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
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Basic and diluted net income per share, redeemable Class A common stock (see Note 2) | $ | | $ | | ||
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Basic and diluted net (loss) income per share, non-redeemable Class A and Class B common stock (see Note 2) | $ | ( | $ | | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SOUTHPORT ACQUISITION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN COMMON STOCK SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE REDEMPTION AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SOUTHPORT ACQUISITION CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
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Excess fair value of Class B common stock transferred by Sponsor | $ | — | $ | | ||
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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SOUTHPORT ACQUISTION CORPORATION
NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
Note 1.Description of Organization and Business Operations
Southport Acquisition Corporation (the “Company”, “SAC”, or “Southport”) is a blank check company formed in Delaware on April 13, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of effectuating a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses (the “Business Combination”). The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies. Sigma Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, was formed in Delaware on September 9, 2024. The Company’s condensed financial statements include Merger Sub and are presented on a consolidated basis.
As of March 31, 2025, the Company had not yet commenced any operations. All activity from inception through March 31, 2024 related to the Company’s formation, initial public offering (the “IPO”), and pursuit of a target company to effect a Business Combination.
The registration statement for the Company’s IPO was declared effective on December 9, 2021. On December 14, 2021, the Company consummated the IPO, which involved the Company’s sale of
Following the closing of the IPO on December 14, 2021, $
On June 9, 2023 (the “First Extension Special Meeting”), the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the “First Extension Amendment Proposal”) to extend the time that the Company has to consummate its initial Business Combination (the “First Extension”) from June 14, 2023 to September 14, 2023 and to allow the board of directors of the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to further extend the date to consummate an initial Business Combination after September 14, 2023 up to six times, by an additional month each time, up to March 14, 2024.
Prior to the First Extension Special Meeting, on May 25, 2023, the Company and the Sponsor entered into voting and non-redemption agreements (the “Non-Redemption Agreements”) with unaffiliated third parties in exchange for such third parties agreeing (i) not to redeem an aggregate of
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transferred to such third parties promptly upon consummation of the First Extension, and an additional
In connection with the First Extension Special Meeting and the entry into the Non-Redemption Agreements, on May 25, 2023, pursuant to the terms of the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Company, the Sponsor converted
Prior to March 31, 2024, the board of directors of the Company approved six monthly extensions to extend the time the Company had to consummate an initial Business Combination from September 14, 2023 to March 14, 2024. In connection with each of the six monthly extensions, the Sponsor transferred
In addition, on March 14, 2024 (the “Second Extension Special Meeting”), the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to further extend the time that the Company has to consummate its initial Business Combination from March 14, 2024 to December 14, 2024 (the “Second Extension”).
In connection with the Second Extension Special Meeting, the holders of
On April 8, 2024, the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) filed a Form 25 to delist the Company’s Class A common stock, warrants, with each whole warrant exercisable for
On September 11, 2024, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Merger Sub and Angel Studios, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (“Angel Studios”). The Merger Agreement provides that, among other things and upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, (i) at the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Closing”), upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, and in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended, Merger Sub will merge with and into Angel Studios, with Angel Studios continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Southport (the “Merger”); (ii) at the Closing, all of the outstanding capital stock of Angel Studios (other than shares subject to Angel Studios options, shares held in treasury and any dissenting shares) will be converted into the right to receive shares of common stock, par value $
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outstanding Southport public warrants automatically will convert into
On September 11, 2024, Southport also entered into a Sponsor Support Agreement (the “Sponsor Support Agreement”), by and among Southport, the Sponsor, and Angel Studios, pursuant to which the Sponsor has agreed to, among other things, (i) vote in favor of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and (ii) not redeem its shares of Southport Common Stock in connection therewith. In addition, the Sponsor has agreed to forfeit all of the Southport private placement warrants held by it at the Closing for no additional consideration. The Sponsor has also agreed to cover certain expenses incurred by Southport that are unpaid and payable at the Closing in excess of a specified cap. The Sponsor Agreement will terminate upon the earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement or written agreement by the parties.
On September 11, 2024, Southport also entered into a Stockholder Support Agreement (the “Angel Studios Stockholder Support Agreement”) by and among Southport, Angel Studios and certain stockholders of Angel Studios (the “Key Stockholders”). Under the Angel Studios Stockholder Support Agreement, the Key Stockholders agreed, with respect to the outstanding shares of Angel Studios common stock held by such Key Stockholders, to vote their shares or execute and deliver a written consent adopting the Merger Agreement and related transactions and approving the Merger Agreement and transactions contemplated thereby.
On October 2, 2024, the Company filed a definitive proxy statement with respect to a third special meeting of stockholders (the “Third Extension Special Meeting”) to obtain stockholder approval to further amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to extend the time by which the Company must consummate its initial Business Combination from December 14, 2024 to September 30, 2025, as contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Third Extension Amendment Proposal”). On October 11, 2024, the Company received a redemption report from the Trustee indicating that, as of October 11, 2024, the holders of
On October 29, 2024, the Company filed an amendment to the Original Filing that amends and restates the Original Filing to: 1) reschedule the Third Extension Special Meeting originally scheduled for October 15, 2024 and postponed to October 22, 2024 (as previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 15, 2024) to November 13, 2024 and 2) reflect the addition of the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal.
On November 13, 2024, the Company held the Third Extension Special Meeting, at which the Company’s stockholders approved the Third Extension Amendment Proposal and the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal. In connection with the vote to approve the Third Extension Amendment Proposal and the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal, the holders of
On January 15, 2025, certain third-party investors in the Company transferred an aggregate of
On February 14, 2025, SAC, Angel Studios and Merger Sub entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Merger Agreement (the “Merger Agreement Amendment”), which amended the Merger Agreement to (i) remove the closing condition that SAC have at least $
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Agreement Amendment) and “Transaction Expenses” (as defined in the Merger Agreement Amendment) and (iii) amend the provision regarding expense statements.
Risks and Uncertainties
Management is currently evaluating the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war, the conflicts in the Middle East, tariffs and trade restrictions, interest rate fluctuations, and the recently adopted Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) rules and amendments affecting special purpose acquisition corporations like the Company, and has concluded that while it is reasonably possible that such matters could have a negative effect on the Company’s financial position, cash flows, results of its operations and/or search for a target company, the specific impacts are not readily determinable as of March 31, 2025. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
On August 16, 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IR Act”) was signed into federal law. The IR Act provides for, among other things, a new U.S. federal 1% excise tax on certain repurchases (including redemptions) of stock by publicly traded domestic (i.e., U.S.) corporations and certain domestic subsidiaries of publicly traded foreign corporations. The excise tax is imposed on the repurchasing corporation itself, not its stockholders from whom shares are repurchased. The amount of the excise tax is generally 1% of the fair market value of the shares repurchased at the time of the repurchase. However, for purposes of calculating the excise tax, repurchasing corporations are permitted to net the fair market value of certain new stock issuances against the fair market value of stock repurchases during the same taxable year. In addition, certain exceptions apply to the excise tax. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has been given authority to provide regulations and other guidance to carry out and prevent the abuse or avoidance of the excise tax. The IR Act applies only to repurchases that occur after December 31, 2022.
On July 7, 2023,
Going Concern
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had cash of $
Note 2.Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X of the SEC. Certain information or footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes necessary for a complete presentation of
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financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of a normal recurring nature, which are necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results and cash flows for the periods presented.
The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 as filed with the SEC on April 15, 2025, which contains the audited financial statements and notes thereto. The financial information as of December 31, 2024 is derived from the audited financial statements presented in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. The interim results for the three months ended March 31, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025 or for any future interim periods.
Basis of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and Merger Sub. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
Emerging Growth Company
The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company, which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
Making estimates requires management to exercise significant judgment. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of a condition, situation or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the financial statements, which management considered in formulating its estimate, could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events. Accordingly, the actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had $
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Marketable Securities Held in Trust Account
Following the closing of the IPO on December 14, 2021, an amount of $
In connection with the First Extension Special Meeting, the holders of
In connection with the Second Extension Special Meeting, the holders of
In connection with the Third Extension Special Meeting, the holders of
Accordingly, as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there was $
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurement” (“ASC 820”), approximates the carrying amounts represented in the accompanying condensed balance sheets, primarily due to their short-term nature.
Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received for sale of an asset or paid to transfer of a liability, in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. GAAP establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). These tiers include:
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| ● | Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and |
| ● | Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. |
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Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company evaluates its financial instruments to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives in accordance with ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value on the grant date and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statements of operations. The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period. Derivative liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether or not net-cash settlement or conversion of the instrument could be required within 12 months of the balance sheet date. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, derivative liabilities are comprised of the warrant liability of $
Warrant Liability
The Company accounts for warrants for the Company’s common stock that are not indexed to its own shares as liabilities at fair value on the balance sheet. The warrants are subject to remeasurement at each balance sheet date and any change in fair value is recognized as a component of other income (expense), net on the statement of operations. The Company will continue to adjust the liability for changes in fair value until the earlier of the exercise or expiration of the common stock warrants. At that time, the portion of the warrant liability related to the common stock warrants will be reclassified to additional paid-in capital.
Common Stock Subject to Possible Redemption
The Company accounts for its common stock subject to possible redemption in accordance with the guidance in ASC Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.” Common stock subject to mandatory redemption (if any) is classified as a liability instrument and is measured at fair value. Conditionally redeemable common stock (including common stock that feature redemption rights that are either within the control of the holder or subject to redemption upon the occurrence of uncertain events not solely within the Company’s control) is classified as temporary equity. At all other times, common stock is classified as stockholders’ equity. The Company’s common stock features certain redemption rights that are considered to be outside of the Company’s control and subject to the occurrence of uncertain future events. Accordingly, at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024,
The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and adjusts the carrying value of redeemable common stock to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Such changes are reflected in additional paid-in capital, or in the absence of additional capital, in accumulated deficit. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company has recorded accretion of $
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Class A common stock, classified as temporary equity in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, are reconciled in the following tables:
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Income Taxes
The Company complies with the accounting and reporting requirements of ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes,” which requires an asset and liability approach to financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are computed for differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or
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deductible amounts, based on enacted tax laws and rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
ASC Topic 740 prescribes a recognition threshold and a measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits, if any, as income tax expense. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals, or material deviation from its position, other than a change in accounting estimate related to the Company’s 2024 Delaware franchise tax accrual. The Company has adjusted the 2024 Delaware franchise tax accrual from $
Net Income (Loss) Per Common Stock
The Company complies with accounting and disclosure requirements of ASC Topic 260, “Earnings Per Share”. The condensed statements of operations include a presentation of income per Class A redeemable common stock and income (loss) per non-redeemable common stock following the two-class method of income (loss) per common stock. In order to determine the net income (loss) attributable to both the Class A redeemable common stock and non-redeemable common stock, the Company first considered the total income allocable to both sets of stock. This is calculated using the total net income (loss) less any dividends paid. For purposes of calculating net income (loss) per share, any remeasurement of the Class A common stock subject to possible redemption was treated as dividends paid to the public stockholders. Subsequent to calculating the total income (loss) allocable to both sets of stock, the Company split the amount to be allocated using the weighted average shares outstanding ratio for the Class A redeemable common stock and for the non-redeemable Class A and Class B common stock for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 as a result of shareholder redemptions.
The following table reflects the calculation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per common stock (in dollars, except per share amounts):
| For the Three Months Ended | ||
March 31, 2025 | |||
Net loss | $ | ( | |
Less: Remeasurement of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value |
| ( | |
Net loss including accretion of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value | $ | ( | |
For the Three Months Ended |
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March 31, 2025 |
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| Redeemable Shares |
| Non-redeemable shares |
| Total |
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Total number of shares | | | | |||||||
Ownership percentage |
| | % | | % | | % | |||
Net loss allocated based on ownership percentage | ( |
| ( |
| ( | |||||
Less: Remeasurement of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value based on ownership percentage |
| ( |
| ( |
| ( | ||||
Plus: Accretion applicable to remeasurement of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value |
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| — |
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Total income (loss) based on ownership percentage | $ | | $ | ( | $ | ( | ||||
Weighted average shares outstanding |
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Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share | $ | | $ | ( |
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For the Three Months Ended | |||
| March 31, 2024 | ||
Net income | $ | | |
Plus: Trust Account withdrawals for tax payments |
| | |
Less: Remeasurement of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value | ( | ||
Net income including accretion of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value | $ | | |
For the Three Months Ended |
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March 31, 2024 |
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| Class A | Class A and Class B | ||||||||
Redeemable Shares |
| Non-redeemable shares |
| Total | ||||||
Total number of shares | | | | |||||||
Weighted average shares ratio |
| | % | | % | | % | |||
Net income allocated based on weighted average shares ratio |
| $ | |
| $ | |
| $ | | |
Plus: Trust Account withdrawals for tax payments based on weighted average shares ratio | ||||||||||
Less: Remeasurement of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value based on weighted average shares ratio | ( | ( | ( | |||||||
Less: Accretion applicable to Trust Account withdrawals for tax payments |
| ( |
| — |
| ( | ||||
Plus: Accretion applicable to remeasurement of Class A redeemable shares to redemption value |
| |
| — |
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Total income based on weighted average shares ratio | $ | | $ | | $ | | ||||
Weighted average shares outstanding |
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Basic and diluted net income per share | $ | | $ | |
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Related Parties
Parties, which can be a corporation or individual, are considered to be related if the Company has the ability, directly or indirectly, to control the other party or exercise significant influence over the other party in making financial and operational decisions. Companies are also considered to be related if they are subject to common control or common significant influence.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of a cash account in a financial institution, which, at times, may exceed the Federal Depository Insurance Coverage of $
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standard Update 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (“ASU 2023-07”), which is intended to improve reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through additional disclosures about significant segment expenses. The standard was effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. We adopted this ASU for the annual period ended December 31, 2024 and applied the provisions retrospectively to each period presented in the financial statements. Adoption of the new standard did not have a material impact on our financial statements.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), which will require the Company to disclose specified additional information in its income tax rate reconciliation and provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. ASU 2023-09 will also require the Company to disaggregate its income taxes paid disclosure by federal, state and foreign taxes, with further disaggregation required for significant
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individual jurisdictions. ASU 2023-09 will become effective for Annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is currently assessing the impact, if any, that ASU 2023-09 would have on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Note 3.Initial Public Offering
At the closing of the IPO on December 14, 2021, the Company sold
Upon the closing of the IPO on December 14, 2021, $
Transaction costs of the IPO amounted to $
Note 4.Private Placement
The Sponsor purchased an aggregate of
Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable for
Note 5.Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
On May 27, 2021, the Company issued an aggregate of
The Sponsor agreed, subject to certain limited exceptions, not to transfer, assign or sell any of its Founder Shares until the earlier to occur of: (A) one year after the completion of a Business Combination or (B) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange or similar transaction that results in the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of common stock for cash, securities or other property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the closing price of the Company’s
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Class A common stock equals or exceeds $
Related Party Loans
The Sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $
In addition, in order to fund working capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with a Business Combination, the Company’s Sponsor, an affiliate of the Sponsor, or the Company’s officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required (the “Working Capital Loans”). The Working Capital Loans would either be repaid upon consummation of a Business Combination, without interest, or, at the lender’s discretion, up to $
Sponsor Promissory Note
On October 3, 2024, the Sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $
Due to Related Party
The Sponsor has made tax payments, payments to various vendors on behalf of the Company, and transferred funds to the Company. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company owed $
Administrative Support Agreement
Commencing on December 10, 2021 and until completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination or liquidation, the Company is required to pay the Sponsor $
Sponsor Cash Capital Contribution
As of March 31, 2025, the Sponsor made capital contributions of $
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Sponsor Support Agreement
On September 11, 2024, the Company also entered into a Sponsor Support Agreement (the “Sponsor Support Agreement”), by and among the Company, the Sponsor and Angel Studios, pursuant to which the Sponsor has agreed to, among other things, (i) vote in favor of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and (ii) not redeem its shares of the Company’s common stock in connection therewith. In addition, the Sponsor has agreed to forfeit all of the private placement warrants held by it at the Closing for no additional consideration. The Sponsor has also agreed to cover certain expenses incurred by the Company that are unpaid and payable at the Closing in excess of a specified cap. The Sponsor Support Agreement will terminate upon the earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement or written agreement by the parties.
Note 6.Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred stock — The Company is authorized to issue up to
Class A common stock — The Company is authorized to issue up to
Accordingly, at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there were
Class B common stock — The Company is authorized to issue up to
The shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at the time of the Business Combination on a
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Business Combination and any warrants issued upon the conversion of Working Capital Loans. Holders of shares of Class B common stock may also elect to convert their shares of Class B common stock into an equal number of shares of Class A common stock, subject to adjustment as provided above, at any time prior to a Business Combination.
The Company may issue additional common stock or preferred stock to complete its Business Combination or under an employee incentive plan after completion of its Business Combination.
Note 7.Warrants
The Company accounts for
Warrants – Public Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the Public Warrants. The Public Warrants will become exercisable
The Company is not obligated to deliver any Class A common stock pursuant to the exercise of a Public Warrant and will have no obligation to settle such Public Warrant exercise unless a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants is then effective and a prospectus relating thereto is current, subject to the Company satisfying its obligations with respect to registration, or a valid exemption from registration is available. No Public Warrants are exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, and the Company is not obligated to issue any shares of Class A common stock to holders seeking to exercise their Public Warrants, unless the issuance of the shares upon such exercise is registered or qualified under the securities laws of the state of residence of the exercising holder, or an exemption from registration is available.
The registration statement for the IPO (the “IPO Registration Statement”) registered the sale for the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants. The Company has agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than
Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $
| ● | in whole and not in part; |
| ● | at a price of $ |
| ● | upon a minimum of |
| ● | if, and only if, the last reported sale price of the Class A common stock equals or exceeds $ |
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Redemption of warrants when the price per Class A common stock equals or exceeds $
| ● | in whole and not in part; |
| ● | at a price of $ |
| ● | upon a minimum of |
| ● | if, and only if, the last reported sale price of the Class A common stock equals or exceeds $ |
| ● | if the last reported sale price of the Class A common stock for any |
The Company will not redeem the warrants as described above unless a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the sale of the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is then effective and a current prospectus relating to those shares of Class A common stock is available throughout the
If the Company calls the Public Warrants for redemption, the Company’s management will have the option to require or permit all holders that wish to exercise the Public Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, extraordinary dividend or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Combination Period and the Company liquidates the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of warrants will not receive any of such funds with respect to their warrants, nor will they receive any distribution from the Company’s assets held outside of the Trust Account with respect to such warrants. Accordingly, the warrants may expire worthless.
In addition, if (x) the Company issues additional shares of Class A common stock or equity-linked securities for capital raising purposes in connection with the closing of its initial Business Combination at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $
The Private Placement Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants included in the Units sold in the IPO, except that the Private Placement Warrants and the shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants will not be
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transferable, assignable or saleable until
If a tender offer, exchange or redemption offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of the Class A common stock and upon completion of such offer, the offeror owns beneficially more than 50% of the outstanding Class A common stock, the holder of the warrant shall be entitled to receive the highest amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would actually have been entitled as a stockholder if such warrant had been exercised, accepted such offer and all of the Class A common stock held by such holder had been purchased pursuant to the offer. If less than 70% of the consideration receivable by the holders of the Class A common stock in the applicable event is payable in the form of common equity in the successor entity that is listed on a national securities exchange or is quoted in an established over-the-counter market, and if the holder of the warrant properly exercises the warrant within thirty days following the public disclosure of the consummation of the applicable event by the Company, the warrant exercise price shall be reduced by an amount equal to the difference (but in no event less than zero) of (i) the warrant price in effect prior to such reduction minus (ii) (A) the Per Share Consideration (as defined in the warrant agreement) minus (B) the value of the warrant based on the Black-Scholes Warrant Value for a Capped American Call on Bloomberg Financial Markets.
The Company expects to account for the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants as liabilities in accordance with the guidance contained in ASC 815-40, “Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity”. Because the Company does not control the occurrence of events, such as a tender offer or exchange, that may trigger cash settlement of the warrants where not all of the stockholders also receive cash, the warrants do not meet the criteria for equity treatment thereunder, as such, the warrants must be recorded as derivative liability.
Additionally, certain adjustments to the settlement amount of the Private Placement Warrants are based on a variable that is not an input to the fair value of a “fixed-for-fixed” option as defined under ASC 815-40, and thus the Private Placement Warrants are not considered indexed to the Company’s own stock and not eligible for an exception from derivative accounting.
The accounting treatment of derivative financial instruments requires that the Company record a derivative liability upon the issuance of the warrants at the closing of this offering. Accordingly, the Company classifies each warrant as a liability at its fair value. The Public Warrants will be allocated a portion of the proceeds from the issuance of the Units equal to its fair value determined with the assistance of a professional independent valuation firm. The warrant liability is subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date. With each such re-measurement, the warrant liability will be adjusted to fair value, with the change in fair value recognized in the Company’s statement of operations. The Company reassess the classification of the warrants at each balance sheet date. If the classification changes as a result of events during the period, the warrants will be reclassified as of the date of the event that causes the reclassification. There has been no change in the classification of the warrants as of March 31, 2024.
Note 8.Commitments and Contingencies
Registration Rights
The holders of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and any warrants that may be issued upon conversion of the Working Capital Loans (and in each case holders of the underlying securities thereof, as applicable) are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement signed on December 9, 2021, requiring the Company to register such securities for resale (in the case of the Founder Shares, only after conversion to our Class A common stock). The holders of these securities are entitled to make up to
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Underwriting Agreement
The Company granted the underwriter a
Non-redemption Agreements
On May 25, 2023, the Company and the Sponsor entered into Non-Redemption Agreements with unaffiliated third parties in exchange for such third parties agreeing (i) not to redeem an aggregate of
The Company previously extended the deadline six times, to March 14, 2024, resulting in a total of
On January 15, 2025, certain third-party investors in the Company transferred an aggregate of
The Company accounted for the Non-Redemption Agreements in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5T (“SAB Topic 5T”). The Company considered the Sponsor’s transfer of Class B common stock to the unaffiliated third parties in exchange for the Non-Redemption Agreements as a capital contribution by the Sponsor, and recognized the excess fair value of the transferred Class B common stock as a non-redemption agreement expense on the condensed statements of operations. The Company determined the excess fair value of the
Note 9.Fair Value Measurements
Recurring Fair Value Measurements
The following table presents information about the Company’s assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value at March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs the Company utilized to determine such fair value:
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Assets: |
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Marketable securities held in trust account | $ | | $ | — | $ | — | |||
Liabilities: |
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Public Warrants | $ | — | $ | | $ | — | |||
Private Placement Warrants | $ | — | $ | | $ | — | |||
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December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| (Level 1) |
| (Level 2) |
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Assets: |
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Marketable securities held in trust account |
| $ | |
| $ | — |
| $ | — |
Liabilities: |
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Public Warrants |
| $ | — |
| $ | |
| $ | — |
Private Placement Warrants |
| $ | — |
| $ | |
| $ | — |
The following table presents the changes in the fair value of the Company’s liabilities classified as Level 2 as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
| Warrant Liabilities | ||
Level 2 Derivative warrant liabilities as of December 31, 2023 | $ | | |
Change in fair value of Private Placement Warrant liability |
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Transfer of Public Warrant liability to Level 2 |
| | |
Level 2 Derivative warrant liabilities as of December 31, 2024 |
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Change in fair value of warrant liabilities |
| ( | |
Level 2 Derivative warrant liabilities as of March 31, 2025 | $ | | |
The Public Warrants were reclassified from Level 1 to Level 2 as a result of the delisting of the Company’s Class A common stock and Public Warrants from the NYSE on March 21, 2024.
At March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, the Company’s warrant liability was valued at $
The following table presents fair value information for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and 2024, of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that were accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques the Company utilized to determine such fair value. The Company’s Private Placement Warrant liability is based on a valuation model utilizing 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.
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| Liability | ||||
Derivative warrant liabilities as of December 31, 2024 | $ | | $ | | $ | | |||
Change in fair value |
| ( | ( | ( | |||||
Derivative warrant liabilities as of March 31, 2025 | $ | | $ | | $ | | |||
For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 | |||||||||
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| Warrants |
| Warrants |
| Liability | ||||
Derivative warrant liabilities as of December 31, 2023 | $ | | $ | | $ | | |||
Change in fair value | ( | ( | ( | ||||||
Derivative warrant liabilities as of March 31, 2024 | $ | | $ | | $ | | |||
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Measurement
The Company established the initial fair value for the warrants on December 14, 2021, the date of the consummation of the Company’s IPO. The Company allocated the proceeds received from (i) the sale of Units (which is inclusive of
The key inputs into the Monte Carlo simulation formula used to value the Private Placement Warrants were as follows at March 31, 2025 and 2024:
March 31, | |||||||
Inputs: |
| 2025 |
| 2024 |
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Common stock price | $ | | $ | |
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Exercise price | $ | | $ | | |||
Risk-free rate of interest |
| | % |
| | % | |
Volatility |
| | % |
| | % | |
Term |
| |
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Warrant to buy one share | $ | | $ | | |||
Dividend yield |
| | % |
| | % | |
Non-recurring Fair Value Measurements
On May 25, 2023, the Company and the Sponsor entered into Non-Redemption Agreements with unaffiliated third parties (see Note 8). The Company accounts for the excess fair value of the Class B shares transferred from the Sponsor to the unaffiliated third parties as a capital contribution by the Sponsor and recorded a non-redemption agreement expense in accordance with SAB Topic 5T. The Company estimated the fair value of the
The fair value of the Class B shares was determined by multiplying the underlying stock price of the Company’s Class A common stock by the estimated probability of an Initial Business Combination and applying a discount for lack of marketability (“DLOM”). The Company utilized June 9, 2023, the date of the consummation of the First Extension, as the measurement date for the transfer of the
The following are the key inputs into the calculations at the measurement dates:
| June 9, |
| September 30, | October 11, |
| November 14, | December 13, | January 12, |
| February 12, | ||||||||||||
Inputs: |
| 2023 |
| 2023 |
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Common stock price | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | ||||||||
Estimated probability of an Initial Business Combination |
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Estimated volatility |
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Note 10.Income Taxes
The Company utilized the discrete method for estimating its interim income tax provision. During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded an income tax provision of $
The Company has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon its ability to realize its deferred tax assets, which primarily consist of capitalized startup costs. The Company considered the history of cumulative net losses, estimated future taxable income and prudent and feasible tax planning strategies, and has concluded that it is more likely than not that the Company will not realize the benefits of its deferred tax assets. As such, the Company recorded a full valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets as of March 31, 2025.
Note 11. Segment Information
ASC Topic 280, “Segment Reporting,” establishes standards for companies to report in their financial statement information about operating segments, products, services, geographic areas, and major customers. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise that engage in business activities from which it may recognize revenues and incur expenses, and for which separate financial information is available that is regularly evaluated by the Company’s chief operating decision maker, or group, in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance.
The Company’s CODM has been identified as the Chief Executive Officer, who reviews the assets, operating results, and financial metrics for the Company as a whole to make decisions about allocating resources and assessing financial performance. Accordingly, management has determined that there is only
The CODM assesses performance for the single segment and decides how to allocate resources based on net income or loss that also is reported on the statements of operations as net income or loss. The CODM uses net income or loss to manage the business and forecasts to ensure enough capital is available to complete a business combination or similar transaction within the business combination period. The CODM also reviews significant expenses, which are consistent with those reported on the statements of operations, to manage, maintain, and enforce contractual agreements to ensure costs are aligned with agreements and the budget. The measure of segment assets is reported on the balance sheets as total assets. All segment items included in net income or loss are reported on the statements of operations and described within their respective disclosures.
Note 12. Subsequent Events
On April 25, 2025, the Company filed its 2024 federal tax return. The Company did
On April 28, 2025, the Company filed its 2024 Delaware franchise tax report. The Company paid $
The Company determined that these events represent conditions that existed as of the balance sheet date and have been adjusted for in the financial statements as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Refer to Note 2 and Note 10.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, references in this quarterly report to (i) the “Company,” “SAC,” “Southport,” “us,” or “we” are to Southport Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation; (ii) “founder shares” are to shares of our Class B common stock initially purchased by our Sponsor in a Private Placement (as defined herein) prior to our IPO (as defined herein), and the shares of our Class A common stock issued upon the conversion thereof; and (iii) “Sponsor” are to Southport Acquisition Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto contained elsewhere in this report. Certain information contained in the discussion and analysis set forth below includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This quarterly report, including statements under this “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not a forward-looking statement. Such forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance, but reflect management’s current beliefs, based on information currently available. A number of factors could cause actual events, performance or results to differ materially from the events, performance and results discussed in the forward-looking statements. For information identifying some of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the discussion under the headings “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The Company’s securities filings can be accessed on the EDGAR section of the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Except as expressly required by applicable securities law, we disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Overview
We are a blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation on April 13, 2021 and formed for the purpose of effectuating a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds from our IPO and the Private Placement, our capital stock, debt or a combination of cash, capital stock and debt. Sigma Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, was formed in Delaware on September 9, 2024. The Company’s condensed financial statements include Merger Sub and are presented on a consolidated basis.
On December 14, 2021, we completed our IPO of 23,000,000 units (including 3,000,000 units pursuant to the exercise in full of the underwriter’s over-allotment option) and the Private Placement of an aggregate of 11,700,000 private placement warrants. An aggregate of $234,600,000 in proceeds from our IPO and the Private Placement has been placed in the Trust Account.
Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to us to pay our tax obligations (less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), the proceeds deposited in the Trust Account will not be released from the Trust Account until the earliest of (a) the completion of our initial business combination, (b) the redemption of any public shares properly submitted in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation (i) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide our public stockholders the right to have their public shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by September 30, 2025 or during an extended time that the Company has to consummate its initial business combination as approved by the stockholders (an “Extension Period”) or (ii) with respect to any other provision relating to stockholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity, and (c) the redemption of all of our public shares if we are unable to complete our initial business combination by September 30, 2025 or during any Extension Period, subject to applicable law. The proceeds held in the Trust Account may only be
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invested in U.S. government securities with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations.
Extensions
On June 9, 2023, at the First Extension Special Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to extend the time that the Company has to consummate its initial business combination from June 14, 2023 to September 14, 2023 and to allow the board of directors of the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to further extend the date to consummate an initial business combination after September 14, 2023 up to six times, by an additional month each time, up to March 14, 2024, providing the Company a 21-month period (or up to 27-month period) from the closing of the IPO to consummate its initial business combination.
Prior to the First Extension Special Meeting, on May 25, 2023, the Company and our sponsor entered into the Non-Redemption Agreements with the unaffiliated third party investors (“Third-Party SAC Investors”) in exchange for the Third-Party SAC Investors agreeing (i) not to redeem the Non-Redeemed Shares in connection with the First Extension Special Meeting and (ii) to vote in favor of the First Extension Amendment Proposal and the First Extension at the First Extension Special Meeting (other than with respect to certain shares acquired or to be acquired pursuant to the Non-Redemption Agreements). In exchange for the foregoing commitments, our sponsor agreed to transfer to the Third-Party SAC Investors an aggregate of up to 1,499,996 shares of our Class B common stock held by our sponsor, with 500,000 of such shares to be transferred to the Third-Party SAC Investors promptly upon consummation of the First Extension, and an additional 166,666 shares to be transferred to the Third-Party SAC Investors monthly beginning on September 14, 2023 and up to, and including, February 14, 2024, if the board of directors of SAC elects to further extend the deadline to consummate an initial business combination at or prior to such date, in each case, if the Third-Party SAC Investors continue to hold such Non-Redeemed Shares through the First Extension Special Meeting.
In connection with the First Extension Special Meeting and the entry into the Non-Redemption Agreements, on May 25, 2023, pursuant to the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our sponsor converted 4,200,000 shares of our Class B common stock held by it on a one-for-one basis into shares of our Class A common stock. After giving effect to the Conversion, we had an aggregate of 27,200,000 shares of our Class A common stock issued and outstanding, comprised of 4,200,000 shares held by our sponsor and not subject to possible redemption and 23,000,000 shares of our Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, and 1,550,000 shares of our Class B common stock issued and outstanding.
In connection with the First Extension Special Meeting, the holders of 18,849,935 shares of Class A common stock properly exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash, resulting in 4,150,065 shares of Class A common stock issued and outstanding and subject to possible redemption.
The board of directors of the Company approved six monthly extensions to extend the time the Company had to consummate an initial business combination from September 14, 2023 to March 14, 2024. In connection with each of the six monthly extensions, our sponsor transferred 166,666 shares of our Class B common stock held by the sponsor to the Third-Party SAC Investors in accordance with the Non-Redemption Agreements.
In addition, on March 14, 2024, at the Second Extension Special Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved a proposal to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation to further extend the time that the Company has to consummate its initial business combination from March 14, 2024 to December 14, 2024.
In connection with the Second Extension Special Meeting, the holders of 2,986,952 shares of Class A common stock properly exercised their right to redeem their shares for an aggregate redemption amount of $32,214,591, resulting in 1,163,113 shares of Class A common stock issued and outstanding and subject to possible redemption.
On March 21, 2024, the Company received correspondence from the staff of NYSE Regulation of the NYSE indicating that the staff has determined to commence proceedings to delist our Class A common stock, SAC Public Warrants and SAC Units, because the Company had fallen below the NYSE’s continued listing standard requiring a listed acquisition company to maintain an average aggregate global market capitalization attributable to its publicly held shares over a consecutive 30 trading day period of at least $40.0 million.
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On April 8, 2024, the NYSE filed a Form 25 to delist our Class A common stock, SAC Public Warrants and SAC Units, and to remove such securities from registration under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act. The delisting became effective ten days after the filing of the Form 25, and the deregistration became effective 90 days after the Form 25 filing. Our Class A common stock, SAC Public Warrants and SAC Units remain registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and began trading on the OTC Pink Marketplace on or about March 22, 2024 under the ticker symbols “PORT,” “PORTW” and “PORTU,” respectively.
On October 2, 2024, the Company filed a definitive proxy statement with respect to the Third Extension Special Meeting to obtain stockholder approval of the Third Extension Amendment Proposal. On October 11, 2024, the Company received a redemption report from the Trustee indicating that, as of October 11, 2024, the holders of 985,170 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock had properly exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $11.08 per share. On October 14, 2024, the Company determined to postpone the Third Extension Special Meeting originally scheduled for October 15, 2024, to October 22, 2024, to allow additional time for the Company to engage with its stockholders and solicit redemption reversals. On October 21, 2024, the Company cancelled the Third Extension Special Meeting and announced that it intended to file an amendment to the definitive proxy statement to reflect the addition of the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal. Accordingly, the redemptions indicated on the October 11, 2024 redemption report from the Trustee in connection with the Third Extension Special Meeting were not processed.
On October 29, 2024, the Company filed an amendment to the Original Filing that amends and restates the Original Filing to: 1) reschedule the Third Extension Special Meeting originally scheduled for October 15, 2024 and postponed to October 22, 2024 (as previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 15, 2024) to November 13, 2024 and 2) reflect the addition of the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal.
On November 12, 2024, the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4 with the SEC in connection with the Business Combination with Angel Studios.
On November 13, 2024, the Company held the Third Extension Special Meeting, at which the Company’s stockholders approved the Third Extension Amendment Proposal and the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal. In connection with the vote to approve the Third Extension Amendment Proposal and the Redemption Limitation Amendment Proposal, the holders of 1,125,126 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock properly exercised their right to redeem their shares (and did not withdraw their redemption) for cash at a redemption price of approximately $11.15 per share of Class A common stock, for an aggregate redemption amount of $12,543,118.
On January 15, 2025, certain third-party investors in the Company transferred an aggregate of 262,502 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, which had previously been transferred by the Sponsor to such investors, back to the Sponsor for no additional consideration in connection with the liquidation of certain of such investors’ investment vehicles.
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Proposed Business Combination
Merger Agreement
On September 11, 2024, the Company entered into the Merger Agreement, by and among the Company, Merger Sub, and Angel Studios. The Merger Agreement provides that, among other things and upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, (i) at the Closing, upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, and in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended, Merger Sub will merge with and into Angel Studios, with Angel Studios continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of SAC; (ii) at the Closing, all of the outstanding capital stock of Angel Studios (other than shares subject to Angel Studios options, shares held in treasury and any dissenting shares) will be converted into the right to receive shares of our common stock, in an aggregate amount equal to (x) $1,500,000,000 plus the aggregate gross proceeds of any capital raised by Angel Studios prior to the Closing, divided by (y) $10.00; (iii) at the Closing, all of the outstanding options to acquire capital stock of Angel Studios will be converted into comparable options to acquire shares of our common stock (subject to appropriate adjustments to the number of shares of our common stock underlying such options and the exercise price of such options); (iv) subject to the approval of the holders of SAC’s public warrants, SAC will amend its public warrants so that, immediately prior to the Closing, each of the issued and outstanding SAC public warrants automatically will convert into 0.1 newly issued share of our Class A common stock and such warrants will cease to be outstanding; and (v) at the Closing, SAC will be renamed “Angel Studios, Inc.”
The Merger Agreement is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain customary closing conditions, including, among others, (i) the absence of any law or injunction prohibiting the consummation of the Business Combination, (ii) the effectiveness of the registration statement on Form S-4 filed by SAC in connection with the transaction, (iii) the approval of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby by the respective stockholders of SAC and Angel Studios, and (iv) the receipt of approval for listing on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market (or any other nationally recognized stock exchange in the United States as may be agreed by Angel Studios and SAC) of our Class A common stock (including shares issued in the transaction).
Each party’s obligations to consummate the Business Combination are also conditioned upon the accuracy of the other party’s representations and warranties, subject to customary materiality and material adverse effect qualifiers, and the performance in all material respects by the other party of its covenants in the Merger Agreement to be performed as of or prior to the Closing.
The Merger Agreement contains additional covenants, including, among others, providing for (i) the parties to conduct their respective businesses in the ordinary course through the Closing, (ii) the parties to not initiate any negotiations or enter into any agreements for certain alternative transactions, (iii) SAC to prepare and file a registration statement on Form S-4, including a joint proxy statement/prospectus, and take certain other actions to obtain the requisite approval of SAC stockholders of certain proposals regarding the Business Combination and SAC warrant holders regarding the warrant conversion, and (iv) the parties to use reasonable best efforts to obtain necessary approvals from governmental agencies.
The Merger Agreement contains customary representations and warranties by SAC, Merger Sub and Angel Studios. The representations and warranties of the respective parties to the Merger Agreement generally will not survive the Closing.
The Merger Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing (i) by written consent of SAC and Angel Studios, (ii) by either Angel Studios or SAC, if certain approvals of the stockholders of SAC or Angel Studios, to the extent required under the Merger Agreement, are not obtained as set forth therein, (iii) by Angel Studios, if there is a Modification in Recommendation (as defined in the Merger Agreement), or by SAC, if there is a Company Modification in Recommendation (as defined in the Merger Agreement), and (iv) by either SAC or Angel Studios in certain other circumstances set forth in the Merger Agreement, including (a) if any governmental authority shall have issued or otherwise entered a final, non-appealable order making consummation of the Merger illegal or otherwise preventing or prohibiting consummation of the Merger, (b) in the event of certain uncured material breaches by the other party or (c) if the Closing has not occurred on or before September 30, 2025.
On February 14, 2025, SAC, Angel Studios and Merger Sub entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Merger Agreement (the “Merger Agreement Amendment”), which amended the Merger Agreement to (i) remove the closing condition that SAC have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets upon the Closing, (ii) amend the definitions of “Acquiror Expense Cap” (as defined in the Merger Agreement Amendment) and “Transaction Expenses” (as defined in the Merger Agreement Amendment) and (iii) amend the provision regarding expense statements.
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In connection with the Merger Agreement and subject to the approval of the holders of Southport’s Public Warrants, Southport will amend its Public Warrants so that, immediately prior to the Closing, each of the issued and outstanding Public Warrants automatically will convert into 0.1 newly issued share of Southport Class A common stock and such warrants will cease to be outstanding. Additionally, in connection with the Sponsor Support Agreement (defined below), the Sponsor has agreed to forfeit all of the Private Placement Warrants held by it at the Closing for no additional consideration.
Support Agreement
On September 11, 2024, SAC entered into a Sponsor Support Agreement (the “Sponsor Support Agreement”), by and among SAC, our sponsor and Angel Studios, pursuant to which our sponsor has agreed to, among other things, (i) vote in favor of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and (ii) not redeem its shares of our common stock in connection therewith. In addition, our sponsor has agreed to forfeit all of the private placement warrants held by it at the Closing for no additional consideration. Our Sponsor has also agreed to cover certain expenses incurred by SAC that are unpaid and payable at the Closing in excess of a specified cap. The Sponsor Agreement will terminate upon the earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement or written agreement by the parties.
Angel Studios Stockholder Support Agreement
On September 11, 2024, SAC entered into a Stockholder Support Agreement (the “Angel Studios Stockholder Support Agreement”) by and among SAC, Angel Studios and certain stockholders of Angel Studios (the “Key Stockholders”). Under the Angel Studios Stockholder Support Agreement, the Key Stockholders agreed, with respect to the outstanding shares of Angel Studios common stock held by such Key Stockholders, to vote their shares or execute and deliver a written consent adopting the Merger Agreement and related transactions and approving the Merger Agreement and transactions contemplated thereby.
Registration Rights Agreement
The Merger Agreement contemplates that, at the Closing, SAC, our sponsor, certain equity holders of Angel Studios, Jared Stone and the other parties thereto, will enter into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which SAC will grant customary registration rights to the other parties thereto, including to register for resale, pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, certain shares of SAC common stock that are held by the other parties thereto.
Lock-Up Agreement
The Merger Agreement contemplates that, at the Closing, SAC and the Key Holders (as defined in the Merger Agreement) will enter into a Lock-Up Agreement (the “Lock-Up Agreement”). The Lock-Up Agreement contains certain restrictions on transfer with respect to shares of SAC common stock held by the Key Holders immediately following the Closing (other than shares purchased in the public market after the Closing) and the shares of SAC common stock issued to directors and executive officers of the combined company upon settlement or exercise of stock options or other equity awards outstanding as of immediately following the Closing in respect of awards of Angel Studios outstanding immediately prior to the Closing (the “Lock-Up Shares”). Such restrictions begin at the Closing and end on the earlier of (i) one year after the Closing and (ii) (a) for 33% of the Lock-Up Shares, the date on which the last reported sale price of SAC common stock equals or exceeds $12.50 per share for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 30 days after the Closing and (b) for an additional 50% of the Lock-Up Shares, the date on which the last reported sale price of SAC common stock equals or exceeds $15.00 per share for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 30 days after the Closing.
Results of Operations and Known Trends or Future Events
Our entire activity from inception through March 31, 2025 relates solely to our formation, our IPO, and pursuit of an initial business combination. We have not generated any operating revenues to date, and we will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination. We will generate non-operating income in the form of interest income on cash and cash equivalents. There has been no significant change in our financial or trading position and no material adverse change has occurred since the date of our audited financial statements. We have incurred and expect to continue to incur increased expenses as a result of being a public company (for legal, financial reporting, accounting and auditing compliance), as well as for due diligence expenses.
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For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we had net loss of $101,682, which consisted of $4,494 dividend income on marketable securities held in the Trust Account, a $58,900 gain on the change in fair value of warrant liability, and a $186,364 gain on the adjustment of franchise tax expense, offset by, $174,317 in legal and accounting expenses, and $88,327 provision for income tax, $63,766 of administrative expenses (of which $45,000 are due to related party), $24,867 of insurance expense, and $163 of formation and operating costs.
For the three months ended March 31, 2024, we had net income of $261,607, which consisted of $559,907 dividend income on marketable securities held in the Trust Account and a $447,950 gain on the change in fair value of warrant liability and offset by a non-redemption agreement expense of $274,973 related to the excess fair value of Class B common stock transferred by the Sponsor, provision for income tax of $64,703, $60,546 in legal and accounting expenses, $75,874 of franchise tax expense, $151,749 of administrative expenses (of which $45,000 are due to related party), $95,151 of insurance expense, $21,250 of listing fees, and $2,004 of bank fees.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, we had cash of $354,346 and $494,974, respectively, and working capital deficit of $4,027,523 and $3,862,447, respectively.
As of March 31, 2025, net cash used in by operating activities was $341,803. Net loss of $101,682 was increased by a $58,900 gain on the change in fair value of warrant liability, $1,541 of accrued dividends on marketable securities held in the Trust Account and a $179,680 decrease in changes in operating assets and liabilities.
As of March 31, 2024, net cash used in by operating activities was $1,989,167. Net income of $261,607 was increased by a non-redemption agreement expense of $274,973 related to the transfer of Class B shares by the Sponsor, and decreased by a $447,950 gain on the change in fair value of warrant liability, $175,923 of accrued dividends on marketable securities held in the Trust Account, and $1,901,874 decrease in changes in operating assets and liabilities.
As of March 31, 2025 and 2024, we had marketable securities held in the Trust Account of $433,645 and $429,151, respectively, consisting of securities held in a money market fund that invests in U.S. Treasury securities with a maturity of 185 days or less.
As of March 31, 2025 and 2024, we had cash of $354,346 and $494,974, respectively, held outside the Trust Account. We intend to use the funds held outside the Trust Account primarily to identify and evaluate target businesses, perform business due diligence on prospective target businesses, travel to and from the offices, plants or similar locations of prospective target businesses or their representatives or owners, review corporate documents and material agreements of prospective target businesses, and structure, negotiate and complete a business combination.
The sponsor has committed to making capital contributions to the Company in order to fund its search for and consummation of an initial business combination. The sponsor has provided cash contributions of $0 and $235,647 for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
On October 3, 2024, the sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $1,000,000 to cover expenses related to the Business Combination (the “Sponsor Promissory Note”). The Sponsor Promissory Note is non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of September 30, 2025 or the date on which the Company consummates an initial business combination. If the Company does not consummate a business combination, the Sponsor Promissory Note will not be repaid and all amounts owed under the Sponsor Promissory Note will be forgiven except to the extent that the Company as funds available to it outside of the Trust Account. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company drew $643,132 and $439,004, respectively, under the Sponsor Promissory Note.
We do not believe we will have sufficient funds in order to meet the expenditures required for operating our business prior to our initial business combination. We expect to incur significant costs related to identifying a target business, undertaking in-depth due diligence and negotiating an initial business combination. These conditions raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a period of time within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. In order to fund working capital deficiencies or finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial business combination, our sponsor or an affiliate of our sponsor or certain of our officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan us funds as may be required. If we complete our initial
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business combination, we would repay such loaned amounts. In the event that our initial business combination does not close, we may use a portion of the working capital held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts but no proceeds from our Trust Account would be used for such repayment. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into warrants of the post-business combination entity at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender. The warrants would be identical to the private placement warrants. However, the Sponsor Support Agreement provides that if there are any amounts outstanding under any working capital loan extended to SAC by the Sponsor as of the Closing, then notwithstanding the terms of any such working capital loan, SAC will repay such outstanding amounts to the Sponsor at the Closing solely in cash, and not in the form of SAC common stock or any other form.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have no obligations, assets or liabilities, which would be considered off-balance sheet arrangements as of March 31, 2025 or December 31, 2024. We do not participate in transactions that create relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, often referred to as variable interest entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements. We have not entered into any off-balance sheet financing arrangements, established any special purpose entities, guaranteed any debt or commitments of other entities, or purchased any non-financial assets.
Contractual Obligations
We do not have any long-term debt, capital lease obligations, operating lease obligations or long-term liabilities as of March 31, 2025 or December 31, 2024.
Pursuant to the underwriting agreement for our IPO, the underwriter of our IPO was entitled to a deferred fee of $0.35 per unit, or $8,050,000 in the aggregate, payable to the underwriter from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that we complete a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement. However, on August 22, 2022, the underwriter delivered a letter to the Company pursuant to which the underwriter waived its entitlement to the payment of the deferred underwriting fee.
We have entered into a letter agreement with our Sponsor pursuant to which we are required to pay our Sponsor a total of $15,000 per month for office space, utilities, and secretarial and administrative services, commencing on December 10, 2021, the date that our securities were first listed on the NYSE, through the earlier of our initial Business Combination and our liquidation.
On October 3, 2024, the sponsor agreed to loan the Company an aggregate of up to $1,000,000 to cover expenses related to the Business Combination. The Sponsor Promissory Note is non-interest bearing and payable on the earlier of September 30, 2025 or the date on which the Company consummates an initial business combination. If the Company does not consummate a business combination, the Sponsor Promissory Note will not be repaid and all amounts owed under the Sponsor Promissory Note will be forgiven except to the extent that the Company as funds available to it outside of the Trust Account.
Commitments and Contingencies
Registration rights
The holders of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Warrants and any warrants that may be issued upon conversion of working capital loans (and in each case holders of the underlying securities thereof, as applicable) are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement signed on December 9, 2021, requiring the Company to register such securities for resale (in the case of the Founder Shares, only after conversion to our Class A common stock). The holders of these securities are entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form registration demands, that the Company register such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggy-back” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the Company’s consummation of a Business Combination and rights to require the Company to register for resale such securities pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). However, the registration rights agreement provides that the Company is not required to effect or permit any registration or cause any registration statement to become effective until termination of the applicable lock-up period with respect to such securities. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.
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Underwriting Agreement
We granted the underwriter a 45-day option from the date of our IPO to purchase up to 3,000,000 additional Units to cover over-allotments, if any, at the IPO price less the underwriting discount. On December 13, 2021, the underwriter exercised the option in full, closing the sale of the 3,000,000 additional Units on December 14, 2021. The underwriter was paid an underwriting commission of $4,600,000 upon the closing of our IPO. In addition, the underwriter was entitled to a deferred fee of $0.35 per unit, or $8,050,000 in the aggregate, payable to the underwriter from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that we complete a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
On August 22, 2022, the underwriter delivered a letter to the Company pursuant to which the underwriter waived its entitlement to the payment of the deferred underwriting fee. The $8,050,000 waived fee was recorded to accumulated deficit.
Non-redemption Agreements
On May 25, 2023, the Company and the Sponsor entered into Non-Redemption Agreements with unaffiliated third parties in exchange for such third parties agreeing (i) not to redeem an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares of Class A common stock sold in its initial public offering (the “Non-Redeemed Shares”) in connection with the First Special Meeting and (ii) to vote in favor of the First Extension Amendment Proposal and the First Extension at the First Extension Special Meeting (other than with respect to certain shares acquired or to be acquired pursuant to the Non-Redemption Agreements). In exchange for the foregoing commitments, the Sponsor has agreed to transfer to such third parties an aggregate of up to 1,499,996 shares of Class B common stock held by the Sponsor, with 500,000 of such shares to be transferred to such third parties promptly upon consummation of the First Extension, and an additional 166,666 shares to be transferred to such third parties monthly beginning on September 14, 2023 and up to, and including, February 14, 2024, if the board of directors of the Company elects to further extend the deadline to consummate an initial Business Combination at or prior to such date, in each case, if such third parties continue to hold such Non-Redeemed Shares through the First Extension Special Meeting. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had extended the deadline to complete the business combination six times, to March 14, 2024, resulting in a total of 1,499,996 shares of Class B common stock being transferred to such third parties.
On January 15, 2025, certain third-party investors in the Company transferred an aggregate of 262,502 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, which had previously been transferred by the Sponsor to such investors, back to the Sponsor for no additional consideration in connection with the liquidation of certain of such investors’ investment vehicles.
The Company accounted for the Non-Redemption Agreements in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5T (“SAB Topic 5T”). The Company considered the Sponsor’s transfer of Class B common stock to the unaffiliated third parties in exchange for the Non-Redemption Agreements as a capital contribution by the Sponsor, and recognized the excess fair value of the transferred Class B common stock as a non-redemption agreement expense on the condensed statements of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The Company determined the excess fair value of the 1,499,996 Class B shares transferred to such third parties to be $1,209,879.
Critical Accounting Estimates
The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and income and expenses during the periods reported. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates. We have not identified any critical accounting estimates as of March 31, 2025.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies of the Notes to the Financial Statements.
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures Regarding Market Risk
We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and are not required to provide the information otherwise required under this item. The net proceeds from our IPO and the Private Placement held in the Trust Account are invested in U.S. government securities with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. Due to the short-term nature of these investments, we believe there will be no associated material exposure to interest rate risk.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act, such as this report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our Chief Executive Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management evaluated, with the participation of our current Chief Executive Officer who also acts as our principal accounting officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2024, pursuant to Rule 13a 15(b) under the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer concluded that, as of March 31, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective due to material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, related to the fact that the Company has not yet designed and maintained effective controls relating to the presentation of our statement of cash flows and recognition of excise tax liability.
As previously disclosed in Part II, Item 9A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, as of December 31, 2022, we identified a material weakness related to the fact that we had not yet designed and maintained effective controls relating to the presentation of our statements of cash flows, which continues to exist as of March 31, 2025. As previously disclosed in Part II, Item 9A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, as of December 31, 2023, we identified a material weakness related to the fact that we had not yet designed and maintained effective controls relating to the recognition of excise tax liability within our financial statements, which continues to exist as of March 31, 2025. As previously disclosed in Part II, Item 9A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as of December 31, 2024, we identified a material weakness related to the fact that we had not yet designed and maintained effective controls relating to our process for recording accrued liabilities, which continues to exist as of March 31, 2025.
We do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
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Remediation Activities
As previously disclosed in Part II, Item 9A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, we implemented a remediation plan to address the material weakness identified as of December 31, 2022. Our Chief Executive Officer will continue to perform additional post-closing review procedures including consulting with subject matter experts related to the accounting for marketable securities and stockholder redemptions. We implemented a remediation plan to address the material weakness identified as of December 31, 2023. Our Chief Executive Officer will continue to perform additional post-closing review procedures including consulting with tax and legal subject matter experts related to the accounting for stockholder redemptions. We plan to implement a remediation plan to address the material weakness identified as of December 31, 2024. Our Chief Executive Officer will continue to perform additional post-closing review procedures including confirmation with vendors of amounts owed and outstanding at each period end. The Company’s management has expended, and will continue to expend, a substantial amount of effort and resources for the remediation and improvement of our internal control over financial reporting. While we have processes to properly identify and evaluate the appropriate accounting technical pronouncements, we have improved, and will continue to improve, these processes to ensure that transactions are effectively evaluated in the context of the increasingly complex accounting standards. We plan to continue to enhance our review procedures of evaluating and implementing the accounting standards that apply to our financial statements, including additional analyses by our personnel and third-party professionals with whom we consult regarding complex accounting, tax and legal matters. The elements of our remediation plan can only be accomplished over time, and we can offer no assurance that these initiatives will ultimately have the intended effects.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Except as disclosed above, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2025 covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
To the knowledge of our management, there is no material litigation, arbitration or governmental proceeding currently pending against us, any of our officers or directors in their capacity as such or against any of our property.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in this quarterly report are any of the risks described in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC. Any of these factors could result in a significant or material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.
As of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, there have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
We did not sell any unregistered equity securities during the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
Use of Proceeds from our IPO
On December 14, 2021, we consummated our IPO of 23,000,000 Units, which included 3,000,000 Units issued pursuant to the exercise in full by BofA Securities, Inc., the underwriter, of its over-allotment option, which option was granted to the underwriter under the underwriting agreement for our IPO. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, and our IPO generated gross proceeds of $230,000,000. The securities sold in our IPO were registered under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-261370). The SEC declared the registration statement effective on December 9, 2021.
At the time of the consummation of our IPO, we paid a total of $4,600,000 in underwriting fees related to our IPO. In addition, the underwriter agreed to defer $8,050,000 in underwriting fees. On August 22, 2022, the underwriter delivered a letter to the Company pursuant to which the underwriter waived its entitlement to the payment of the deferred underwriting fee.
On December 14, 2021, a total of $234,600,000 of the net proceeds from our IPO and the Private Placement were deposited in the Trust Account. The net proceeds deposited into the Trust Account remain on deposit in the Trust Account and are available for a Business Combination, assuming no redemptions, before fees and expenses associated with our initial Business Combination. The proceeds held in the Trust Account will be invested only in U.S. government securities with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations.
Through December 14, 2021, we incurred $1,285,218 for other costs and expenses related to our IPO.
In connection with the vote to approve the Extension Amendment Proposal, the holders of 18,849,935 shares of Class A common stock properly exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.49 per share of Class A common stock, for an aggregate redemption amount of $197,694,657. The Trustee redeemed $197,694,657 of marketable securities held in the Trust Account to pay the holders redeeming 18,849,935 shares of Class A common stock on July 7, 2023.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers during the Quarter Ended March 31, 2024
None.
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Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information.
Item 6. Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Exhibit No. |
| Description |
31.1* | ||
32.1** | ||
101.INS* | XBRL Instance Document | |
101.CAL* | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document | |
101.SCH* | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document | |
101.DEF* | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document | |
101.LAB* | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document | |
101.PRE* | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document | |
104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
* | Filed herewith |
** | Furnished herewith |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
May 15, 2025 | Southport Acquisition Corporation | |
By: | /s/ Jeb Spencer | |
Name: Jeb Spencer | ||
Title: Chief Executive Officer (and Principal Financial Officer) | ||
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