Specimen Unit Certificate

EX-4.1 5 fs12018a1ex4-1_alberton.htm SPECIMEN UNIT CERTIFICATE

Exhibit 4.1

 

CERTIFICATE NUMBER U- _________ UNITS_________

 

ALBERTON ACQUISITION CORPORATION

 

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

 

UNITS

 

 

SEE REVERSE FOR CUSIP [*]         

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

 

UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE ORDINARY SHARE AND

ONE RIGHT TO RECEIVE ONE-TENTH OF ONE ORDINARY SHARE

 

THIS CERTIFIES THAT _________________________________ is the owner of _____________________________________ Units.

 

Each Unit (“Unit”) consists of one ordinary share, no par value, of Alberton Acquisition Corporation, a British Virgin Islands company (the “Company”), and one right (“Right”) to receive one-tenth (1/10) of an ordinary share. Every ten Rights entitles the holder thereof to receive one ordinary share upon consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination. The ordinary shares and Rights comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to the ninetieth (90th) day after the date of the prospectus relating to the Company’s initial public offering, unless Chardan Capital Markets LLC (“Chardan”) determines that an earlier date is acceptable, but in no event will the ordinary shares and Rights be traded separately until the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a current report on Form 8-K which includes an audited balance sheet reflecting the receipt by the Company of the gross proceeds from its initial public offering including the proceeds received by the Company from the exercise of the over-allotment option thereto, if the over-allotment option is exercised. If Chardan allows separate trading of the ordinary shares and Rights prior to the 90th day after the date of the prospectus relating to the Company’s initial public offering, the Company will issue a press release and file a Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC announcing when such separate trading shall begin.

 

The terms of the Rights are governed by a rights agreement (the “Rights Agreement”), dated as of [●], 2018, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as the rights agent, and are subject to the terms and provisions contained therein, all of which terms and provisions the holder of this certificate consents to by acceptance hereof. Copies of the Rights Agreement are on file at the office of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company at 1 State Street, 30th Floor, New York, NY 10004, and are available to any Rights holder, respectively, on written request and without cost.

 

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and Registrar of the Company.

 

Witness the facsimile seal of the Company and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

 

This Unit Certificate shall be governed and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

[Seal]

 

By:   By:  
  Chairman     Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

Alberton Acquisition Corporation

 

The Company will furnish without charge to each shareholder who so requests, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of shares or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the Units represented thereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issue of the Units (copies of which may be obtained from the Company), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents.

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM - as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

 

Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

For value received,                                               , hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

 

 

 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)

 

                                                                                                                                                     Units represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________, Attorney to transfer the said Units on the books of the within named Corporation will full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Signature(s) Guaranteed:                                                                                                               Dated                           

 

NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

 

THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15).

 

The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds with respect to the underlying ordinary shares from the trust fund only in the event of the Company’s liquidation upon failure to consummate a business combination or if the holder seeks to convert his or her respective ordinary shares underlying the unit upon consummation of such business combination or in connection with certain amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. In no other circumstances shall the holder have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust fund.