Item 4.02. Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related
Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
On February 9, 2022, the audit committee of the board of directors (the "Audit
Committee") of Leo Holdings Corp. II (the "Company") concluded that due to a
reclassification of the Company's temporary and permanent equity, the Company's
previously issued (i) audited balance sheet as of January 12, 2021 included in
the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") on January 19, 2021 (the "Audited Balance Sheet"), (ii)
unaudited interim financial statements included in the Company's Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021, filed with
the SEC on June 10, 2021, (iii) unaudited interim financial statements included
in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
June 30, 2021, filed with the SEC on August 16, 2021, and (iv) unaudited interim
financial statements included in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021, filed with the SEC on
November 12, 2021 ((ii) through (iv) collectively, the "Affected Periods"),
should no longer be relied upon. Since the Company's initial public offering
("IPO"), the Company has considered its Class A ordinary shares subject to
possible redemption to be equal to the redemption value of $10.00 per Class A
ordinary share while also taking into consideration that a redemption cannot
result in net tangible assets being less than $5,000,001. Previously, the
Company did not consider redeemable shares classified as temporary equity as
part of net tangible assets. Upon further analysis, the Company's management has
determined that the Class A ordinary shares issued in the IPO can be redeemed or
become redeemable subject to the occurrence of future events considered outside
of the Company's control. Therefore, the Company's management concluded that the
redemption value should include all Class A ordinary shares subject to possible
redemption, resulting in the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible
redemption being equal to their redemption value.
The Company does not expect any of the above changes will have any impact on its
cash position and cash held in the trust account established in connection with
the IPO.
As such, the Company plans to restate (i) its financial statements for the
Affected Periods in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A for the
quarterly period ended September 30, 2021 (the "Q3 Form 10-Q/A") and (ii) the
Audited Balance Sheet, each to be filed with the SEC.
The Company's management has concluded that in light of the classification error
described above, a material weakness exists in the Company's internal control
over financial reporting and that the Company's disclosure controls and
procedures were not effective. The Company's remediation plan with respect to
such material weakness will be described in more detail in the Q3 Form 10-Q/A.
The Company's management and the Audit Committee have discussed the matters
disclosed in this Current Report on Form 8-K with WithumSmith+Brown, PC, the
Company's independent registered public accounting firm.
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