As of August 2021, PSTH has about 11 months remaining to enter into a letter of intent for its initial business combination.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
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What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2021-08-19. Under PSTH's charter, the deadline for signing a letter of intent was 24 months after its July 2020 IPO, about July 2022. True: PSTH's charter or prospectus shows a letter-of-intent deadline of about 11 months after 19 August 2021 (between about mid-June and late July 2022). Mostly true: the deadline existed, with a remaining window of about 10 to 12 months. Mostly false: the remaining time was materially different, or the deadline was for a definitive agreement or closing rather than a letter of intent and the time differs. False: there was no such deadline, or the time remaining was very different.
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Evidence (3)
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E1 10-K - SEC.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), filed by Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, Ltd. Own record
“obligation to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if it does not complete its Initial Business Combination by July 24, 2022 (or January 24, 2023 if it has executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement”
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E2 10-K - SEC.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), filed by Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, Ltd. Own record
“Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that we have only 24 months (or 30 months from the closing of the initial public offering if we have executed a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement”
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E3 10-K - SEC.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), filed by Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, Ltd. Own record
“On July 24, 2020, the Company consummated its Initial Public Offering of 200,000,000 units”
Reasoning
PSTH's 10-K shows that its IPO closed on July 24, 2020 (E3). Under its charter, it had to redeem public shares unless it completed a business combination by July 24, 2022. That date moved to January 24, 2023 if a letter of intent, agreement in principle or definitive agreement had been signed (E1, E2). In practice, a letter of intent had to be signed by about July 24, 2022, roughly 11 months after August 19, 2021. However, the charter sets this date as a deadline for completing the deal, with signing a letter of intent only extending it, not as a separate letter-of-intent deadline. That gap in framing is why the verdict is mostly true rather than true.
Cite this claim
Bill Ackman, “As of August 2021, PSTH has about 11 months remaining to enter into a letter of intent for its initial business combination.” (said 19 August 2021). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_4db09242febd, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4db09242febd
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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