BUSINESS OF PACE AND CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT PACE
General
Pace
is a blank check company incorporated on February 14, 2017 as a Cayman Islands exempted company and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination
with one or more businesses. Pace also has neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenue to date. Based on its business activities, Pace is a shell company as defined under the Exchange Act because it has no operations and
nominal assets consisting almost entirely of cash.
Prior to the Pace IPO, on February 22, 2017, Pace Sponsor purchased 11,500,000
Founder Shares for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or approximately $0.002 per share. On June 19, 2017, Pace Sponsor transferred 40,000 Founder Shares to each of Paces five independent directors at their original purchase price.
On August 14, 2017, Pace Sponsor forfeited 250,000 Founder Shares on the expiration of the unexercised portion of the underwriters over-allotment option. At June 30, 2019, Pace Sponsor and five independent directors, collectively,
held 11,250,000 Founder Shares.
On June 30, 2017, Pace consummated the Pace IPO of 45,000,000 Public Units (which included the
purchase of 5,000,000 Public Units subject to the underwriters 6,000,000 Public Unit over-allotment option) at a price of $10.00 per Public Unit, generating gross proceeds of $450,000,000 before underwriting discounts and expenses. Each Public
Unit consists of one Public Share and one-third of one Public Warrant. Each Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one-third of one Public Share for $11.50 per
share. Simultaneous to the closing of the Pace IPO, Pace completed the private placement of an aggregate 7,333,333 Private Placement Warrants to Pace Sponsor, each exerciseable to purchase one Public Share for $11.50 per share, at a price of $1.50
per Private Placement Warrant.
Pace received gross proceeds from the Pace IPO and the sale of the Private Placement Warrants of
$450,000,000 and $11,000,000, respectively, for an aggregate of $461,000,000. $450,000,000 of the gross proceeds was deposited in the Trust Account with the Trustee. At the closing of the Pace IPO, the remaining $11,000,000 was held outside of the
Trust Account, of which $9,000,000 was used to pay underwriting discounts and $300,000 was used to repay notes payable to Pace Sponsor, with the balance reserved to pay accrued offering and formation costs, business, legal and accounting due
diligence on prospective acquisitions and continuing general and administrative expenses. In the future, a portion of interest income on the funds held in the Trust Account may be released to Pace to pay tax obligations. On January 2, 2018,
Pace invested the funds held in the Trust Account in a money market account invested in permitted United States government securities within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, having a maturity of 180
days or less, or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act. As of June 30, 2019, proceeds and interest totaling approximately $461,300,000 were held
in the Trust Account.
On August 17, 2017, Pace announced that, commencing August 18, 2017, holders of the 45,000,000
Public Units sold in the Pace IPO may elect to separately trade the Public Shares and Public Warrants included in the Public Units. Those Public Units not separated continue to trade on the NYSE under the symbol TPGH.U and the Public
Shares and Public Warrants that are separated trade on the NYSE under the symbols TPGH and TPGH.WS, respectively.
The mailing address of Paces principal executive office is 301 Commerce Street, Suite 3300, Fort Worth, Texas 76102, and its telephone
number is (212) 405-8458.
The Proposed Business Combination
As previously announced, Pace, certain shareholders of Accel set forth in Schedule 1 of the Transaction Agreement and David Ruttenberg and
Gordon Rubenstein, each in their capacity as a shareholder representative
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