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BIG ROCK PARTNERS ACQUISITION CORP.
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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| Report of Independent Registered Pubic Accounting Firm | F-2 | |
| Balance Sheet | F-3 | |
| Notes to Financial Statements | F-4 |
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and
Rock Partners Acquisition Corp.
audited the accompanying balance sheet of Big Rock Partners
Acquisition Corp. (the Company ) as of November 22,
2017. The balance sheet is the responsibility of the
Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on the balance sheet based on our audit.
conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards
require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable
assurance about whether the balance sheet is free of material
misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we
engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial
reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control
over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures
that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose
of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Company's internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and
disclosures in the balance sheet, assessing the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as
well as evaluating the overall balance sheet presentation. We
believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion, the balance sheet referred to above presents fairly, in
all material respects, the financial position of Big Rock Partners
Acquisition Corp. as of November 22, 2017, in conformity with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
BIG ROCK PARTNERS ACQUISITION CORP.
| ASSETS | |
| Current Assets | |
| Cash | $ 741,476 |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 24,500 |
| Total Current Assets | 765,976 |
| Cash held in Trust Account | 60,000,000 |
| Total Assets | $ 60,765,976 |
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | |
| Current liabilities | |
| Accounts payable and accrued expenses | $ 21,960 |
| Accrued offering costs | 20,000 |
| Promissory notes - related parties | 147,625 |
| Total Liabilities | 189,585 |
| Commitments | |
| Common stock subject to possible redemption, 5,557,639 shares at redemption value | 55,576,390 |
| Stockholders' Equity | |
| Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding | |
| Common stock, $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 2,537,361 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 5,557,639 shares subject to possible redemption) | 2,537 |
| Additional paid-in capital | 4,998,754 |
| Accumulated deficit | (1,290 ) |
| Total Stockholders' Equity | 5,000,001 |
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | $ 60,765,976 |
accompanying notes are an integral part of the balance
BIG ROCK PARTNERS ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO BALANCE SHEET
1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Rock Partners Acquisition Corp. (the Company ) is a
newly organized blank check company incorporated in Delaware on
September 18, 2017. The Company was formed for the purpose of
acquiring, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset
acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, recapitalization, or
other similar business transaction, one or more operating
businesses or entities that the Company has not yet identified (a
Business Combination ). Although the Company is not
limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes
of consummating a Business Combination, the Company intends to
focus on businesses in the senior housing and care industry in the
November 22, 2017, the Company had not yet commenced operations.
All activity through November 22, 2017 relates to the
Company's formation and its initial public offering
( Initial Public Offering ), which is described
registration statements for the Company's Initial Public
Offering were declared effective on November 20, 2017. On November
22, 2017, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of
6,000,000 units ( Units and, with respect to the
common stock included in the Units being offered, the Public
Shares ), generating gross proceeds of $60,000,000, which is
described in Note 3.
the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated
the sale of 250,000 units (the Private Placement
Units ) at a price of $10.00 per Unit in a private placement
to Big Rock Partners Sponsor, LLC (the Sponsor ),
generating gross proceeds of $2,500,000, which is described in Note
closing of the Initial Public Offering on November 22, 2017, an
amount of $60,000,000 ($10.00 per Unit) from the net proceeds of
the sale of the Units in the Initial Public Offering and the
Private Placement Units was placed in a trust account ( Trust
Account ) which may be invested in U.S. government
securities, within the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(16) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the Investment
Company Act ), with a maturity of 180 days or less or in any
open-ended investment company that holds itself out as a money
market fund selected by the Company meeting the conditions of Rule
2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, as determined by the Company,
until the earlier of: (i) the consummation of a Business
Combination or (ii) the distribution of the Trust Account, as
amounted to $1,947,419, consisting of $1,500,000 of underwriting
fees and $447,419 of Initial Public Offering costs. In addition,
$741,476 of cash was held outside of the Trust Account and is
available for working capital purposes.
November 29, 2017, in connection with the underwriters'
exercise of their over-allotment option in full, the Company
consummated the sale of an additional 900,000 Units, and the sale
of an additional 22,500 Private Placement Units at $10.00 per unit,
generating total gross proceeds of $9,225,000. A total of
$9,000,000 of the net proceeds were deposited in the Trust Account,
bringing the aggregate proceeds held in the Trust Account to
$69,000,000 (see Note 8).
Company's management has broad discretion with respect to the
specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public
Offering and Private Placement Units, although substantially all of
the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward
consummating a Business Combination. The Company's initial
Business Combination must be with one or more target businesses
that together have a fair market value equal to at least 80% of the
balance in the Trust Account (excluding taxes payable on income
earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the signing an
agreement to enter into a Business Combination. The Company will