Fintech Acquisition Corporation IV

Fintech Acquisition Corporation IV

Oct 19, 2020 by Roman Developer

PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION: Perella Weinberg Partners

ENTERPRISE VALUE: TBD  Equity Value: $977 million
ANTICIPATED SYMBOL: PWP

FinTech Acquisition Corp. IV proposes to combine with Perella Weinberg Partners (“PWP”), a leading global independent financial advisory firm. This transaction reflects an implied equity value for the Company of approximately $975 million. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company (the “Company”) will operate as Perella Weinberg Partners and will be listed on NASDAQ under the new symbol “PWP.”

Founded in 2006 by Joseph R. Perella, Peter Weinberg and Terry Meguid, PWP provides independent strategic and financial advice to a broad client base globally, including corporations, institutions, governments, sovereign wealth funds and private equity investors. The firm offers a wide range of advisory services to clients in the most active industry sectors and global markets. With approximately 560 employees, PWP currently maintains offices in New York, Houston, London, Calgary, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Paris, Munich and San Francisco. The PWP management team, led by Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Weinberg, will continue to execute upon its growth strategy as a public company.

PWP Highlights:

  • Expanding market for advisory services
    • Demand for advisory services is expanding as clients navigate a period of significant change and increased complexity
    • Proven independent advisory model poised to continue to gain market share
  • Talented team of strategic advisors with a culture of collaboration
    • Recognized for thought leadership across industries, geographies and products
    • Highly collaborative culture that is fundamental to the firm’s success
    • Track record of attracting, training and retaining top talent
  • Clear strategy to drive growth
    • Significant opportunity to grow in existing, core markets
    • Adjacencies and white space offer additional growth opportunities
  • Strong and recognized brand in the advisory marketplace globally
    • Highly regarded brand with a reputation for highest level of trust, quality and integrity
    • Expansive network that provides access to a broad range of clients globally
  • Full alignment with all shareholders
    • Significant ownership by working partners and employees drives highly aligned incentives to drive shareholder returns through growth, margin expansion and disciplined return of capital

TRANSACTION

The aggregate consideration to be paid in the Transactions will consist of:

  • An estimated $230 million in cash (assuming no redemptions)
  • $125 million through a fully committed PIPE
    • Up to approximately $110 million of net proceeds will be used to redeem a portion of ownership interests tendered for redemption by certain non-working PWP equity holders

The cash consideration will be funded from the cash held in the Company’s trust account (after permitted redemptions) and the proceeds of the PIPE Investment from various institutional investors.

 


PIPE

  • The company entered into subscription agreements with certain investors (collectively, the “PIPE Investors”) pursuant to, and on the terms and subject to the conditions of which, the PIPE Investors have collectively subscribed for 12,500,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock for an aggregate purchase price equal to $125,000,000 (the “PIPE Investment”), a portion of which is expected to be funded by one or more affiliates of Sponsor.
    • Private Placement coming from leading institutional investors including Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, Wellington Management and Strategic Investor Korea Investment & Securities

EARNOUT

  • Sponsor promote shares separated into 5 tranches, each 20% of the 6.8M sponsor promote shares.
    • 20% not subject to price-based transfer restrictions
    • Remaining promote shares cannot be sold or transferred until closing stock price exceeds $12.00, $13.50, $15.00 and $17.00 for 20 out of any 30 consecutive trading days. Each tranche worth 20% of the total 6.8M sponsor promote shares

FORFEITURE

  • 1.0M Sponsor promote shares will be forfeited at closing.

NOTABLE CONDITIONS TO CLOSING

  • The Closing is subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions precedent, including, among others, that Company Cash equal or exceed $200,000,000 in cash from the Company’s trust account after giving effect to the PIPE Investment (and after giving effect to the exercise by the Company’s public stockholders of the redemption rights).

NOTABLE CONDITIONS TO TERMINATION

  • The Outside Date is June 30, 2021.

ADVISORS

  • Perella Weinberg Partners LP is serving as exclusive capital markets and financial advisor to PWP.
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal counsel to PWP.
  • Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Financial Technology Partners are serving as financial advisors to FinTech IV.
  • Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a Stifel Company, is serving as buy side advisor to FinTech IV.
  • Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., JMP Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as capital markets advisors to FinTech IV.
  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP is acting as legal counsel to FinTech IV.
  • Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are acting as private placement agents to FinTech IV.
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is acting as legal counsel to the private placement agents.

 


MANAGEMENT & BOARD


Executive Officers

Daniel G. Cohen, 51
Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Cohen currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of FinTech III since March 2017, as Chairman of the board of directors of INSU (NASDAQ: INSU) since December 2018 and as Chairman of the board of directors of INSU II since January 2019. Mr. Cohen served as a director and Chief Executive Officer of FinTech II from May 2015 until July 2018. He previously served as a director of FinTech I from November 2013 until July 2016, as FinTech I’s President and Chief Executive Officer from August 2014 until July 2016, and as FinTech I’s Executive Vice President from July 2014 through August 2014. He has been the Chairman of Bancorp and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bancorp’s Board of Directors since its inception in 1999. Mr. Cohen is Vice-Chairman of Bancorp Bank’s Board of Directors and Chairman of its Executive Committee. He had previously been Chairman of Bancorp Bank’s Board of Directors from September 2000 to November 2003 and, from July 2000 to September 2000, had been Bancorp Bank’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cohen has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Board of Managers of Cohen & Company, LLC, and has, since September 16, 2013, served as the President and Chief Executive of the European Business of Cohen and Company Inc. (NYSE: COHN), a financial services company with approximately $2.63 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2020, and as President, a director and the Chief Investment Officer of Cohen and Company Inc.’s indirect majority owned subsidiary, Cohen & Company Financial Limited (formerly known as EuroDekania Management Limited), a Financial Conduct Authority regulated investment advisor and broker dealer focusing on the European capital markets. Mr. Cohen served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Board of Managers of Cohen & Company, LLC from September 16, 2013 to February 21, 2018. Mr. Cohen served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Cohen and Company Inc. from December 16, 2009 to September 16, 2013 and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors from October 6, 2006 to September 16, 2013. Mr. Cohen served as the executive Chairman of Cohen and Company Inc. from October 18, 2006 to December 16, 2009. In addition, Mr. Cohen served as the Chairman of the Board of Managers of Cohen & Company, LLC from 2001 to September 16, 2013, as the Chief Investment Officer of Cohen & Company, LLC from October 2008 to September 16, 2013, and as Chief Executive Officer of Cohen & Company, LLC from December 16, 2009 to September 16, 2013. Mr. Cohen served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of J.V.B. Financial Group, LLC (formerly C&Co/PrinceRidge Partners LLC), Cohen and Company Inc.’s indirect broker dealer subsidiary (“JVB”), from July 19, 2012 to September 16, 2013. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of RAIT from December 2006, when it merged with Taberna Realty Finance Trust, to February 2009, and served as a trustee from the date RAIT acquired Taberna until his resignation from that position in February 2010. Mr. Cohen was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Taberna Realty Finance Trust from its inception in March 2005 until its December 2006 acquisition by RAIT, and its Chief Executive Officer from March 2005 to December 2006. Mr. Cohen served as a director of Star Asia, a joint venture investing in Asian commercial real estate, from February 2007 to February 2014 and as a director of Muni Funding Company of America, LLC, a company investing in middle-market non-profit organizations, from April 2007 to June 2011. Mr. Cohen is a member of the Academy of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Visiting Committees for the Humanities and a member of the Paris Center of the University of Chicago. Mr. Cohen is also a Trustee of the List College Board of the Jewish Theological Seminary, a member of the board of the Columbia Global Center in Paris, a Trustee of the Paideia Institute and a Trustee of the Arete Foundation.


James J. McEntee, III, 62
President

James McEntee III currently serves as the President and Chief Financial Officer of FinTech III since March 2017. Previously Mr. McEntee served as our Chief Financial Officer from May 2019 to August 2020. He also served as President and Chief Financial Officer of FinTech II from May 2015 until July 2018. He served as FinTech I’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer from August 2014 to July 2016. He has served as the Managing Principal of StBWell, LLC, an owner and operator of real estate, since June 2010. Mr. McEntee has been a director of both Bancorp and its wholly-owned subsidiary Bancorp Bank since September 2000 and was a director of T-Rex Group, Inc., a provider of risk analytics software for investors in renewable energy, from November 2014 to January 2018. Mr. McEntee was the Chief Executive Officer of Alesco Financial, Inc. from the date of its incorporation in 2006 until its merger with Cohen & Company in December 2009 and was the Chief Operating Officer of Cohen & Company from March 2003 until December 2009, and was a managing director of COHN and was the Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer of JVB Financial through October 2013. Mr. McEntee was a principal in Harron Capital, L.P., a media and communications venture capital fund, from 1999 to September 2002. From 1990 through 1999, Mr. McEntee was a stockholder at Lamb McErlane, PC, and from 2000 until 2004 was of counsel to Lamb McErlane. Mr. McEntee was previously a director of Pegasus Communications Corporation, a publicly held provider of communications and other services, and of several other private companies. Mr. McEntee has served since 2008 as a director of The Chester Fund, a nonprofit organization, and served as its Chairman from July 2012 to January 2018.


Douglas Listman, 49
Chief Financial Officer

Douglas Listman has served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Cohen & Company, Inc. since December 2009 and Chief Accounting Officer of Cohen & Company, LLC since 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Listman served as an associate for Resources Global Professionals (a worldwide accounting services consulting firm). From 1992 to 2003, Mr. Listman served in various accounting and finance positions including: senior accountant with KPMG; Assistant Corporate Controller of Integrated Health Services (a publicly traded provider of skilled nursing services; NYSE: IHS); Controller of Integrated Living Communities (a publicly traded provider of assisted living services; NASDAQ: ILCC); Chief Financial Officer of Senior Lifestyles Corporation (a private owned provider of assisted living services); and Chief Financial Officer of Monarch Properties (a privately owned health care facility real estate investment company). Mr. Listman is a Certified Public Accountant and graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in accounting.


 

Board of Directors

Betsy Z. Cohen, 78
Chairman of the Board

Betsy Cohen currently serves as the Chairman of the board of directors of FinTech III, a position she has held since March 2017, and Chairman of the board of directors of FTAC Olympus, a position she has held since June 2020. Mrs. Cohen served as Chairman of FinTech II’s board of directors from August 2016 until July 2018. She served as a director of FinTech I and its successor, Card Connect Corp., a provider of payment processing solutions to merchants, from November 2013 until May 2017, and previously served as Chairman of the board of directors of FinTech I from July 2014 through July 2016 and as FinTech I’s Chief Executive Officer from July 2014 through August 2014. She served as Chief Executive Officer of Bancorp and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bancorp Bank, from September 2000 and Chairman of Bancorp Bank from November 2003, and resigned from these positions upon her retirement in December 2014. She served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and as a trustee of RAIT Financial Trust (NYSE: RAS), a real estate investment trust, from its founding in August 1997, through her resignation as of December 31, 2010 and served as RAIT’s Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2006. Mrs. Cohen served as a director of Hudson United Bancorp (a bank holding company), the successor to JeffBanks, Inc., from December 1999 until July 2000 and as the Chairman of the Jefferson Bank Division of Hudson United Bank (Hudson United Bancorp’s banking subsidiary) from December 1999 through March 2000. Before the merger of JeffBanks, Inc. with Hudson United Bancorp in December 1999, Mrs. Cohen was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JeffBanks, Inc. from its inception in 1981 and also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of each of its subsidiaries, Jefferson Bank, which she founded in 1974, and Jefferson Bank New Jersey, which she founded in 1987. From 1985 until 1993, Mrs. Cohen was a director of First Union Corp. of Virginia (a bank holding company) and its predecessor, Dominion Bancshares, Inc. In 1969, Mrs. Cohen co-founded a commercial law firm and served as a senior partner until 1984. Mrs. Cohen also served as a director of Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET), an insurance company, from 1994 until May 2018.


Brittain Ezzes, 44
Director 

Brittany Ezzes has served as a director since May 2019. Since April 2020, Ms. Ezzes has served as Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Small Cap Value and Mid Cap Value funds at Mutual of America. Previously, Ms. Ezzes served as a Portfolio Manager and Senior Research Analyst at Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, an equity investment company, where she was responsible for investing portfolios and recommending stocks for a variety of industries. She served as the Co-Portfolio Manager of the CRM Small/Mid Cap Value Strategy from 2014 to April 2020 and as Co-Portfolio Manager of the CRM Mid Cap Value Strategy from 2016 to April 2020. Ms. Ezzes joined Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn in 2010 as an investment analyst. Ms. Ezzes began her career in public equities in 2003 and previously worked at MissionPoint Capital and Iridian Asset Management. From 1999 until 2003 she worked in private equity at SG Capital Partners where she was a member of the investment team focused on leveraged buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations and growth equity investments. She started her career in 1998 as a Business Analyst with Price Waterhouse, LLP. She has served as a director of FinTech III since November 2018. Ms. Ezzes holds a B.A. in International Relations and Russian Studies from Brown University.


Madelyn Antoncic, 67
Director

Madelyn Antoncic currently serves as a director of FinTech III since November 2018. Since December 2019, Dr. Antoncic has served as Managing Partner of Global A.I. Co., a big data company that uses statistical and artificial intelligence models to produce insights, signals and alternative data on sustainability issues. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of Global Algorithmic Institute, a not-for-profit think tank within Global A.I. with a mission of conducting research to develop innovative quantitative models and tools and alternative data that increase the stability of the global financial markets and mitigate systemic risk. From February 2019 until November 2019, Dr. Antoncic served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), where she oversaw a team charged with developing and maintaining robust, financially material sustainability reporting standards. From October 2015 to October 2017, Dr. Antoncic served as Executive Director and a member of the Operating Committee of Principal Global Investors, a global asset management company. Before that, from July 2011 to July 2015, Dr. Antoncic served as Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank (WB), where, in addition to her financial responsibilities, she oversaw several technical assistance and capacity building programs working with developing and emerging economies. Dr. Antoncic began her career in 1983 as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, followed by 12 years at Goldman Sachs, holding several leadership roles including more than seven years trading structured mortgage products, two years as a Director at Barclays Capital, and ten years at Lehman Brothers. Dr. Antoncic is on the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medicine and an independent member of the board of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global, Inc. She is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York. She holds a Ph.D. in economics with a minor in finance from NYU Stern School, was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Fellow and has taught economics and finance at Stern’s Graduate and Undergraduate Schools.


Laura S. Kohn, 50
Director

Laura Kohn will serve as an independent director immediately upon the effective date of this prospectus. Ms. Kohn is an independent investor and entrepreneur focused primarily on real estate investments. Previously, Ms. Kohn was Vice President and Head of Institutional Strategy at Charles Schwab from 2009 to 2012 and Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Wells Fargo from 2007 to 2009. Prior to that Ms. Kohn served as Senior Principal at the Parthenon Group, a provider of strategy consulting, where she directed consulting engagements and developed relationships with client executives at Fortune 500 companies, mid-tier companies and start-up ventures.  Ms. Kohn began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, where she provided strategic consulting services to executive management of Fortune 500 companies.  She holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Behavior from Rice University and a B.A. in Psychology from Binghamton University.


Jan Rock Zubrow, 63
Director

Jan Rock Zubrow will serve as an independent director immediately upon the effective date of this prospectus. Ms. Rock Zubrow is a leader of non-profit organizations active in international development and education.  She has served as Chair of the Board of Women for Women International, an organization that provides vocational and life skills to women in war-torn countries, since 2015.  In addition, Ms. Rock Zubrow has served on the board of New Leaders, an organization that trains educators to be transformational school leaders who can help bridge the achievement gap in the nation’s inner-city schools, since 2013.  From 1998 to 2015, Ms. Rock Zubrow was president of MedCapital, LLC, a venture capital firm that she founded that invested in early stage healthcare companies.  Before starting MedCapital, Ms. Rock Zubrow managed significant consumer franchises at Johnson & Johnson, Tambrands, Inc. and the Procter and Gamble Company.  Ms. Rock Zubrow is a trustee emeritus of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and served as Chair of Cornell’s Executive Committee from 2011-2018.  Additionally, she chaired the Presidential Search Committee for Cornell’s thirteenth and fourteenth presidents. Previously, she served as Co-Chair of Cornell’s $6 billion capital campaign and the task-force which led to the establishment of the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. Ms. Rock Zubrow received a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.