CEA Acquisition Corporation Unit Certificate Representing Common Stock and Warrants
This certificate represents ownership of units in CEA Acquisition Corporation, each consisting of one share of common stock and two warrants to purchase additional shares. The warrants allow the holder to buy one share each at $5.00 per share, subject to adjustment, and become exercisable after the company completes a business combination or a specified date in 2004, expiring in 2007 unless exercised or redeemed earlier. The units cannot be separated into individual securities before a specified date in 2003, except at the discretion of EarlyBirdCapital, Inc.
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Exhibit 4.1
NUMBER | UNITS | |||
U- | ||||
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS | CEA ACQUISITION CORPORATION |
CUSIP
UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF COMMON STOCK AND TWO WARRANTS EACH TO PURCHASE ONE SHARE
OF COMMON STOCK
THIS CERTIFIES THAT
is the owner of Units.
Each Unit ("Unit") consists of one (1) share of common stock, par value $.0001 per share ("Common Stock"), of CEA Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and two warrants (the "Warrants"). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) share of Common Stock for $5.00 per share (subject to adjustment). Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of the Company's completion of a business combination or , 2004 and will expire unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on , 2007, or earlier upon redemption (the "Expiration Date"). The Common Stock and Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to , 2003, subject to earlier separation in the discretion of EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. The terms of the Warrants are governed by a Warrant Agreement, dated as of , 2003, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Warrant 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 Warrant Agreement are on file at the office of the Warrant Agent at 17 Battery Place, New York, New York 10004, and are available to any Warrant holder 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 signature of its duly authorized officers.
By | Chairman of the Board | Secretary |
CEA Acquisition Corporation
The Company will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.
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 | UNIF GIFT MIN ACT | Custodian | |||||||
TEN ENT | as tenants by the entireties | (Cust) | (Minor) | |||||||
JT TEN | as joint tenants with right of survivorship | under Uniform Gifts to Minors | ||||||||
and not as tenants in common | Act (State) |
Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
For value received, hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE | ||||
(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 Company will full power of substitution in the premises. |
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. |
Signature(s) Guaranteed: | ||
THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD 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. |
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