Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp.
ALUS · NYSE
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Nothing left to do
The purchase completed and the shares became shares in the company it bought. There is no deadline left to miss.
Cash at settlement
No cash-per-share figure was filed for this vehicle before it finished.
Last close
Daily close
No price history on file yet — daily closes accumulate from the market data feed.
Trust settled · There is no line to draw here. This vehicle has finished: the cash was paid back or spent closing the deal, so the last filed figure describes an account that no longer exists and would be a floor under nothing.
SpacBrain’s read
Trust settled
The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).
In plain terms
- What it is
- A SPAC from Alussa Energy Sponsor LLC, listed on NYSE in November 2019.
- What it's doing now
- It agreed in June 2021 to buy FREYR AS, a Battery cell manufacturing company. That purchase completed, and it stopped being a SPAC — the shares became shares in the business it bought.
- What you should know
- This SPAC has finished. The purchase completed, and the shares became shares in the company it bought — anyone who wanted the cash instead asked for it at the vote, so there is no cash left here to claim and no deadline left to miss.
At a glance
- Where it stands
- Closed (deSPAC)
- The business it bought
- FREYR AS
- Industry
- Battery cell manufacturing (clean energy/batteries)
- Deal value
- not stated in the filings we hold
- announced 14 June 2021
- Price vs cash at settlement
- no live price on file
- Cash in trust when it settled
- not yet extracted into a snapshot — the filings below may state it
- the last trust total filed while this was still a SPAC — the account has since been paid out or used to close the deal
- IPO
- 27 November 2019
- size not on file · 100.0% of each $10 unit into trust
- Headquarters
- PO BOX 500, 71 FORT STREET, GRAND CAYMAN, E9, KY11106
- registered in the Cayman Islands
- Lead underwriter
- not extracted from the prospectus yet
- Key officers
- Wu John (Director) · Dijols Maurice (Director) · Barcelo Daniel (CEO and President)
- Listed securities
- ALUS common
This vehicle has finished, so there is no window to file a cash-per-share figure for and none will follow. No estimate is shown in its place.
Nothing dated is on file. That is an absence in the record, not a statement that nothing is coming.
Yield to redemption
Nothing left to redeem — no yield to compute.
This SPAC has finished — its trust was paid back or used to close the deal, so there is nothing left to redeem and no yield to compute. A yield to redemption is a claim that you can hand these shares back for the trust cash. That account is closed, so this page will not print a number here.
What happened to the cash
The reasoning behind the verdict above, in the order the filings establish it.
- The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).
What has happened, and what is coming
2 dated milestonesEvery dated step from the day it listed to the next date you may have to act on. Where you have to do something, the day your broker needs the instruction is marked too.
- 27 November 2019IPOpassed
IPO size not on file
- 14 June 2021Deal announcedpassed
Combination with FREYR AS
The deal
terms as filedWhat it is buying, on what terms, and how much of the combined company new shares take from you.
- FREYR AS— · announced 14 June 2021closedBattery cell manufacturingpost-close FREYSEC primary
- FREYR Battery (FREYR AS)— · announced 14 June 2021closedClean battery cell manufacturingpost-close FREYSEC primary
The score
deterministic, from filed fieldsALUS is not in the scored universe, so no score is shown. A withheld score is a fact about the record, not a verdict about the company.
The score is only published for names that carry both a price and a filed cash-per-share figure — 292 of the tracked fleet today. The rest keep an empty dial rather than a modelled one, and fill in by themselves as the fields land.
The company
from SEC filingsRead the full profile
Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ALUS) was a blank-check company whose IPO was priced on November 27, 2019, according to a 424B prospectus. The company's common ticker ALUS appeared on the cover page of an 8-K filed on June 30, 2021. The vehicle completed a business combination and no longer files as a separate entity. Its closure was established by Form 25 filed on July 8, 2021, under 17 CFR 240.12d2-2(a)(3), reflecting that its shares came to evidence other securities in substitution therefor — specifically Redeemable Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one Ordinary Share at an exercise price of $11.50. The successor registrant, FREYR Battery, filed an 8-K carrying Item 2.01 (Completion of Acquisition) naming Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp., confirming that the SPAC merged into a new registrant and filed no closing report of its own.
Material findings
from the full read of every filingEvery document this company files gets read whole — body and exhibits. These are the ones the read flagged as material, newest first, each citing its filing.
An Alussa holder ends up in a Luxembourg company by way of one Cayman merger and two Norwegian ones, and the exchange itself is one-for-one: each Class A and each Class B ordinary share becomes the right to receive one Pubco Ordinary Share, with dissenting shareholders' rights preserved separately. Each unit first separates into one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one Alussa Public Warrant. The target's wind farm business is carved out to FREYR's own shareholders through the demerger before the first closing, so it does not come across.
Substantial doubt about going concern is disclosed and carries an auditor explanatory paragraph, tied to November 29, 2021, the date operations must cease if no combination closes. The shell is effectively out of unrestricted money: under $400,000 of cash against $3.4 million of payables, so sponsor working capital loans or the deal closing are the only paths. Trust equates to roughly $10.08 per public share, of which about $2,334,000 is interest and unrealised gain available for taxes.
From January 10, 2020 the share and the warrant carry independent quotes, so the share can be priced against trust value rather than only as part of a bundled unit. The over-allotment was exercised in full, which fixes the public share count at 28,750,000 and caps public warrants at 14,375,000 whole warrants — larger than the $250,000,000 trust shown on the company's November 29, 2019 audited balance sheet, which was struck before that exercise.
This is the audited post-IPO balance sheet whose filing on Form 8-K is one of the conditions for the units to separate. The trust holds $250,000,000 and redemption value is carried at exactly $10.00 per share, so the floor equals the unit price at issue. Up to 937,500 of the 7,187,500 founder shares remained subject to forfeiture at this date, meaning the over-allotment had not been exercised in full. With $2,968,000 of cash outside the trust the company was self-funding; the $8,750,000 deferred underwriting fee is payable only on a closing.
The call is $0.01 on 30 days' notice once the last sale price holds at or above $18.00 for 20 of 30 trading days ending three trading days before notice - and that $18.00 resets to 180% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price if the company funds its combination with cheap equity, so the trigger is a formula rather than a number. The $18.00 is separately adjustable for share splits, capitalisations, RIGHTS ISSUANCES and subdivisions. A second $12.00 test 150 days after the combination governs other securities and is not the call.
Filings
live EDGAR feedEverything this company has filed with the SEC recently, newest first, each with a plain summary of what changed and why it matters.
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The sponsor
The people who set this company up, what they have done before, and the advisers around the deal.
Alussa Energy Sponsor LLCnamed as sponsor in this SPAC’s filings — but with no researched track record behind it yet.
A missing score, not a score of zero — why
A Sponsor Score is only published once the sponsor’s prior vehicles have been verified on EDGAR and their post-close outcomes priced. That record does not exist for this sponsor yet, so no number and no tier is shown. That is a missing score, not a score of zero — and not a neutral 50 either.
Coverage so far: 301 of 1284 tracked SPACs (23%) are attached to a scored sponsor. This card fills in by itself as the research lands.
The record
The reference detail — how the shares were structured at listing, how thinly they trade, and where the company is registered.
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Unit structure
Unit: U = S + W/2 · 100.0% of the $10 unit
from 424B4 0001213900-19-024877
Trading & liquidity
Company profile
Directors & officers
- Wu JohnDirector
- Dijols MauriceDirector
- Barcelo DanielCEO and President
- Cura GermanDirector
- Musselman James C.Director
- Kalugin MavrikyChief Operations Officer
- De'Ath NicholasChief Technology Officer
Institutional holders
from SC 13G/13DFunds that have declared a stake above 5%. Heavy ownership by arbitrage funds usually means heavy cash-outs at the next vote.
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10 filers with a stake on file · 0 re-affirmed in the last 12 months. A stake with no amendment since is the filer’s last word on it, not proof it is still held — and percentages filed in different years are percentages of different floats, because this vehicle’s share count collapses at every redemption.
- Sylebra Capital Ltdwith 2 other reporting persons on the same schedule34.8% · SC 13GAug 10, 2021 stale
- Alussa Energy Sponsor LLCwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule20.0% · SC 13GFeb 11, 2020 stale
- Encompass Capital Advisors LLCwith 4 other reporting persons on the same schedule7.4% · SC 13GFeb 19, 2021 stale
- PERISCOPE CAPITAL INC.6.7% · SC 13GFeb 16, 2021 stale
- ADAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS GP, L.L.C.with 2 other reporting persons on the same schedule6.3% · SC 13GDec 6, 2019 stale
- HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC5.5% · SC 13GJun 4, 2021 stale
- Candlestick Capital Management LPwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule5.2% · SC 13GJun 22, 2021 stale
- GLAZER CAPITAL, LLCwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule0.0% · SC 13G/AFeb 14, 2022 stale
- Feis Lawrence Michaelwith 1 other reporting person on the same schedule0.0% · SC 13G/AJul 9, 2021 stale
- RP Investment Advisors LPwith 3 other reporting persons on the same schedule0.0% · SC 13G/AFeb 16, 2021 stale
One line per filer, not per reporting person: a joint schedule names the management company, its funds and often the individual who controls them, and all of them report the same shares. Click a name for that filer’s whole footprint across every SPAC it has declared a stake in.
Sources on file
harvested pages, kept in fullEvery public page we have read about this company, stored in full so a source can never go missing.
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37 full SEC filing texts archived — searchable, never lost.
- Vault note — ALUS (Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp.)
vault-note · /vault/tickers/ALUS
- Vault deal note — FREYR Battery (FREYR AS) (ALUS)
vault-note · /vault/deals/freyr-battery-freyr-as
- Vault deal note — FREYR AS (ALUS)
vault-note · /vault/deals/freyr-as
In plain English
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No floor / floorlessthe cash guarantee is gone — the price is unprotected
A SPAC's downside protection is not the cash in trust; it is your right to demand that cash. Once the redemption window closes, the cash stays with the company and the share can trade anywhere.
Redemption deadlinethe last day to hand shares back for cash
Set by the filing that calls the meeting. Tender after it and the company is under no obligation to pay you the trust value.
Broker action datethe day your broker needs the instruction — earlier than the official date
Brokers batch redemption instructions to the transfer agent, so the practical cutoff is roughly two business days before the published deadline. This is the date that actually costs people the floor.
Cash in trust / trust per sharethe cash the company is holding for each public share
Filed quarterly in the 10-Q's XBRL. It earns interest between filings, so the figure on a given day is slightly higher than the last filed one — where we show that we label it an estimate.
Trust discountbuying below the cash held for you
Only meaningful while a redemption right exists. On a floorless name the same arithmetic is not a discount, it is the market pricing distress, and this product will not call it a yield.
Dilutionhow much of the company new shares take from you
Sponsor promote, PIPE shares, warrants and rights all issue stock that did not pay $10 for it. The headline deal value is before that; the effective value is after.
Pro-forma equitywhat the company is valued at once the deal closes
The combined company's equity value assuming the announced terms and the redemptions that have actually happened.
ARShow much upside you get per unit of downside
SpacBrain's asymmetric-return score. It is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same number — and it is capped, not zeroed, when the floor is gone.
De-SPACthe day the SPAC becomes the real company
The shares stop being a claim on a pot of cash and start being equity in an operating business. Roughly 80% of recent de-SPACs traded below $10 within a year.
Outside datethe contractual long-stop for closing the deal
A deadline between the SPAC and its target, not between the SPAC and you. It confers no right to cash, which is exactly why it must never be counted as a redemption window.
Accession numberthe SEC's unique id for one filing
Every figure on this page carries the accession of the filing that states it, so you can open the primary document rather than trust us.
Accreted NAV (estimate)the last filed cash figure, plus the interest it should have earned since
A model, not a filing: last filed value compounded at the 3-month T-bill for the days elapsed. Always shown in italic with the word estimate, and never printed beside a filed number without it.
Ask the brain
from its filingsData provenance & audit trail8 internal entries
Written by SpacBrain’s data agents whenever a figure is captured, corrected or flagged, and kept verbatim so every number on this page can be traced back to the filing that states it. This is a running log, not the current record: an early entry may be superseded by a later correction — the panels above always hold the current values.
admitted from the HISTORICAL census (EDGAR's SIC 6770 registrant list, walked in full: 3,325 registrants, 1,167 of which ever priced an IPO). The live discovery job cannot reach this registrant — it reads the filing tape, and this one stopped filing. Admission rule: src/lib/universe-admit.ts. SIC 6770 (Blank Checks); 424B 0001213900-19-024877 priced 2019-11-27; common ticker ALUS off 8-K 0001213900-21-035104 (2021-06-30); lifecycle EXITED. Ending PROVEN, not inferred: CLOSED per Form 25 0000876661-21-001021 (2021-07-08) — Form 25 filed under 17 CFR 240.12d2-2(a)(3) — the rule for securities that "have come to evidence other securities in substitution therefor", i.e. the shares became the successor's (class: Redeemable Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one Ordinary Share at an exercise price of $11.50); the successor registrant FREYR Battery (CIK 0001844224) filed an 8-K carrying item 2.01 (Completion of Acquisition) naming "Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp." — the SPAC merged into a new registrant and so filed no closing report of its own. ipoSizeM and deadline left NULL: gross-proceeds prose conflates the over-allotment with the offering, and a charter deadline belonging to a vehicle that has ended is a date nobody can act on. ipoDate is the 424B pricing date.
sponsor "Alussa Energy Sponsor LLC" (SEC CIK 0001781385) sourced from Form 3 reportingOwner (10% owner) acc 0001213900-19-024652.
AI-extracted target (z-ai/glm-5.2, conf 0.95)
target recovered for a completed de-SPAC
entity created from the filed target name; no About paragraph on file, so every other field awaits a sourced read
AI-extracted target (z-ai/glm-5.2, conf 0.95)
target recovered for a completed de-SPAC
entity created from the filed target name; no About paragraph on file, so every other field awaits a sourced read