Specimen Unit Certificate
Exhibit 4.1
SPECIMEN UNIT CERTIFICATE
NUMBER U[ ] | [ ] UNITS | |
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS | CUSIP [ ] |
KNIGHTSWAN ACQUISITION CORPORATION
UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK AND
ONE-HALF OF ONE REDEEMABLE PUBLIC WARRANT, EACH WHOLE PUBLIC
WARRANT ENTITLING THE HOLDER TO PURCHASE ONE SHARE OF
CLASS A COMMON STOCK
THIS CERTIFIES THAT [ ] is the owner of Units.
Each unit (Unit) consists of one (1) share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (Class A Common Stock), of KnightSwan Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Corporation), and one-half (1/2) of one redeemable public warrant (each whole public warrant, a Public Warrant). Each whole Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) share (subject to adjustment) of the Class A Common Stock for $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment). Only whole Public Warrants are exercisable. Each whole Public Warrant will become exercisable thirty (30) days after the Corporations completion of a merger, consolidation, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (each, a Business Combination) and will expire unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date that is five (5) years after the date on which the Corporation completes its initial Business Combination, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation (the Expiration Date). The Class A Common Stock and Public Warrants comprising the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to [ ], 2022, unless RBC Capital Markets, LLC elects to allow earlier separate trading, subject to the Corporations filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission containing an audited balance sheet reflecting the Corporations receipt of the gross proceeds of the Corporations initial public offering and issuing a press release announcing when separate trading will begin. No fractional Public Warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole Public Warrants will trade. The terms of the Public Warrants are governed by that certain public warrant agreement, dated as of [ ], 2022 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Public Warrant Agreement), by and between the Corporation and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent (in such capacity, the 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 Public Warrant Agreement are on file at the office of the Warrant Agent at One State Street, 30th Floor, New York, New York 10004, and are available to any holder of a Public Warrant on written request and without cost.
Upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination, the Units represented by this certificate will automatically separate into the shares of the Class A Common Stock and the Public Warrants comprising such Units.
This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, in its capacity as the transfer agent, and registered by the registrar of the Corporation.
This certificate shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York.
Witness the facsimile signature of its duly authorized officers.
By: | By: | |||||||
Name: | Name: | |||||||
Title: | Title: |
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KNIGHTSWAN ACQUISITION CORPORATION
The Corporation will furnish without charge to each holder of the Units 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 Corporation 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 and not as tenants in common | under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (State) |
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
For value received, hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
(PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER(S) OF ASSIGNEE(S))
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES), INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE(S))
Units represented by the within certificate, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
Attorney to transfer the said Units on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: _____________________
Notice: The signature(s) 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 whatsoever. |
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Signature(s) Guaranteed: |
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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 UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE). |
As more fully described in the Corporations final prospectus, dated [ ], 2022, the holder(s) of the Class A Common Stock shall be entitled to receive a pro rata portion of certain funds held in the trust account established in connection with the Corporations initial public offering only in the event that (i) the holder(s) seek(s) to redeem for cash his, her or its respective shares of the Class A Common Stock in connection with a tender offer (or proxy solicitation, solely in the event the Corporation seeks stockholder approval of the proposed initial business combination) setting forth the details of a proposed initial business combination, (ii) the Corporation redeems the shares of the Class A Common Stock sold in its initial public offering in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Corporations amended and restated certificate of incorporation (as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Certificate of Incorporation) to modify the substance or timing of the Corporations obligation to allow redemptions in connection with an initial business combination or to redeem one-hundred percent (100%) of the Class A Common Stock if it does not consummate an initial business combination by [ ] (or a later date, if such period is extended pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Certificate of Incorporation) or with respect to any other material provision relating to stockholders rights or pre-initial business combination activity or (iii) the Corporation redeems the shares of the Class A Common Stock sold in its initial public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial business combination by [ ] (or a later date, if such period is extended pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Certificate of Incorporation). In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.
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