Learn CW’s Extraordinary General Meeting of
Shareholders to Approve the Business Combination Expected to be
Held on September 30, 2024
Innventure LLC, an enterprise growth engine (“Innventure”), and
Learn CW Investment Corporation, a special purpose acquisition
company (Nasdaq: LCW) (“Learn CW”), today announced that the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has declared effective
the registration statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the
“Registration Statement”) filed in connection with the previously
announced proposed business combination between Innventure and
Learn CW (the “Business Combination”). Learn CW is sponsored by
CWAM LC Sponsor LLC, an affiliate of Learn Capital, LLC (“Learn
Capital”), and Commonwealth Asset Management, a Los Angeles-based
asset management platform founded in June 2019.
Learn CW expects to hold an extraordinary general meeting of its
shareholders on September 30, 2024 to seek approval of the Business
Combination and certain other related matters. In addition,
Innventure will solicit written consents of its members to approve
the Business Combination and certain other related matters.
“We’re thrilled to reach this critical milestone on our path to
becoming a publicly traded company,” said Bill Haskell, CEO of
Innventure. “We believe this transaction will better position us to
advance our current family of companies and identify new
technologies that can be the foundation for future growth. We look
forward to offering shareholders access to disruptive companies
that we believe offer early-stage economics with late-stage
risk.”
Subject to satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions
set forth in the business combination agreement (the “BCA”) and
upon closing of the Business Combination, the combined company will
be renamed Innventure, Inc., and its common stock and warrants are
expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker
symbols “INV” and “INVW,” respectively.
Innventure uses operational expertise to take breakthrough
technologies sourced from multinational corporations to market. In
the process, Innventure builds and scales companies around these
technologies using a systematic, quantitative and repeatable
analysis. Innventure has launched three such companies since its
inception: PureCycle Technologies, AeroFlexx and Accelsius.
PureCycle became a publicly traded company in 2021, and Innventure
currently owns less than 2% of PureCycle.
About Innventure Innventure founds, funds, and operates
companies with a focus on transformative, sustainable technology
solutions acquired or licensed from multinational corporations. As
owner-operators, Innventure takes what it believes to be
breakthrough technologies from early evaluation to scaled
commercialization utilizing an approach designed to help mitigate
risk as it builds disruptive companies it believes have the
potential to achieve a target enterprise value of at least $1
billion. Innventure defines ‘‘disruptive’’ as innovations that have
the ability to significantly change the way businesses, industries,
markets and/or consumers operate.
About Learn CW Investment Corporation Learn CW is a blank
check company that was formed as a Cayman Islands exempted company
for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset
acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business
combination with one or more businesses. Learn CW is sponsored by
CWAM LC Sponsor LLC, an affiliate of Learn Capital and Commonwealth
Asset Management. Learn Capital is a leading venture capital firm
focused on early- and mid-stage investments in the $5.4 trillion
global education sector. Learn Capital was founded in 2008 by Rob
Hutter and Greg Mauro, who formerly managed an affiliate of
Founders Fund. The firm possesses decades of founding, operating,
and investing experience in the education, consumer, hard tech, and
enterprise technology sectors. Commonwealth Asset Management is a
Los Angeles-based asset management platform founded in June 2019
and led by Adam Fisher, who is the former Head of Global Macro and
Real Estate at Soros Fund Management LLC and the former founder and
Chief Investment Officer of Commonwealth Opportunity Capital, GP
LLC.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
including statements regarding the parties’ or the parties’
respective management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs,
intentions, plans, prospects or strategies regarding the future,
including the Business Combination, the parties’ ability to close
the Business Combination, the anticipated benefits of the Business
Combination, including revenue growth and financial performance,
product expansion and services, and the financial condition,
results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of Innventure
and/or Learn CW, including, in all cases, statements for the period
following the consummation of the Business Combination. Any
statements contained herein that are not statements of historical
fact are forward-looking statements. 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. Forward-looking
statements are typically identified by words such as “anticipate,”
“believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,”
“intend,” “may,” “might,” “outlook,” “plan,” “possible,”
“potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” and
other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words
does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are
based on the current expectations and beliefs of the management of
Learn CW and Innventure in light of their respective experience and
their perception of historical trends, current conditions and
expected future developments and their potential effects on Learn
CW and Innventure as well as other factors they believe are
appropriate in the circumstances. There can be no assurance that
future developments affecting Learn CW or Innventure will be those
that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve
a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond the
control of the parties) or other assumptions that may cause actual
results or performance to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including
those discussed and identified in the public filings made or to be
made with the SEC by Learn CW, including in the final prospectus
relating to Learn CW’s initial public offering, which was filed
with the SEC on October 12, 2021 under the heading “Risk Factors,”
or made or to be made by Learn SPAC Holdco, Inc., including in the
Registration Statement. These risks and uncertainties include:
expectations regarding Innventure’s strategies and future financial
performance, including its future business plans, expansion and
acquisition plans or objectives, prospective performance and
opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services,
pricing, operating expenses, product and service acceptance, market
trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital
expenditures, and Innventure’s ability to invest in growth
initiatives; the implementation, market acceptance and success of
Innventure’s business model and growth strategy; Innventure’s
future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash; that
Innventure will have sufficient capital upon the approval of the
Business Combination to operate as anticipated; Innventure’s
ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth;
developments and projections relating to Innventure’s competitors
and industry; the occurrence of any event, change or other
circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the BCA;
the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against
Learn SPAC Holdco, Inc., Learn CW or Innventure following
announcement of the BCA and the transactions contemplated therein;
the inability to complete the Business Combination due to, among
other things, the failure to obtain Learn CW shareholder approval;
regulatory approvals; the risk that the announcement and
consummation of the Business Combination disrupts Innventure’s
current plans; the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of
the Business Combination; unexpected costs related to the Business
Combination; the amount of any redemptions by existing holders of
Learn CW’s common stock being greater than expected; limited
liquidity and trading of Learn CW’s securities; geopolitical risk
and changes in applicable laws or regulations; the possibility that
Learn CW and/or Innventure may be adversely affected by other
economic, business, and/or competitive factors; the potential
characterization of Innventure as an investment company subject to
the Investment Company Act of 1940; operational risk; and the risk
that the consummation of the Business Combination is significantly
delayed or does not occur. Should one or more of these risks or
uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove
incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those
projected in these forward-looking statements. All forward-looking
statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof,
based on information available to Learn CW and Innventure as of the
date hereof, and Learn CW and Innventure assume no obligation to
update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required
under applicable law.
Additional Information and Where to Find It In connection
with the Business Combination, Learn SPAC Holdco, Inc. has filed
the Registration Statement with the SEC containing a preliminary
proxy statement of Learn CW, a preliminary consent solicitation
statement of Innventure and a preliminary prospectus with respect
to the combined company’s securities to be issued in connection
with the Business Combination. The Registration Statement has been
declared effective and a definitive proxy statement/consent
solicitation statement/prospectus relating to the Business
Combination is being mailed to Learn CW shareholders and will be
sent to Innventure unitholders. This press release does not contain
all the information that should be considered concerning the
Business Combination and is not intended to form the basis of any
investment decision or any other decision in respect of the
Business Combination. Learn CW’s shareholders, Innventure’s
unitholders and other interested persons are urged to read the
definitive proxy statement/consent solicitation
statement/prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and
any other documents filed in connection with the Business
Combination, as these materials will contain important information
about Innventure, Learn CW, the combined company and the Business
Combination. The definitive proxy statement/consent
solicitation statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for
the Business Combination will be mailed to shareholders of Learn CW
as of a record date to be established for voting on the Business
Combination. Such shareholders will also be able to obtain copies
of the definitive proxy statement/consent solicitation
statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC,
without charge, once available, at the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to Learn CW Investment
Corporation, 11755 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2320, Los Angeles,
California 90025.
Participants in the Solicitation Innventure, Learn CW and
their respective directors, executive officers, other members of
management, and employees, under SEC rules, may be deemed to be
participants in the solicitation of proxies of Learn CW’s
shareholders in connection with the Business Combination.
Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be
deemed participants in the solicitation of Learn CW’s shareholders
in connection with the Business Combination are set forth in the
Registration Statement and will also be set forth in the definitive
proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus when
available. Investors and security holders may obtain more detailed
information regarding the names and interests in the Business
Combination of Learn CW’s directors and officers in Learn CW’s
filings with the SEC and such information is also set forth in the
Registration Statement and will be included in the proxy statement
of Learn CW in connection with the Business Combination.
No Offer or Solicitation This press release shall not
constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy
any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor
shall there be any sale of any such securities in any state or
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. This press
release does not constitute either advice or a recommendation
regarding any securities. No offering of securities shall be made
except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or an exemption therefrom.
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