CC Neuberger Principal III : Current Report (Form 8-K)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 2, 2021

CC Neuberger Principal Holdings III

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cayman Islands	001-39984	98-1552405
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

200 Park Avenue, 58th Floor New York, NY	10166
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

[phone]

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:

Title of each class		Trading Symbol(s)		Name of each exchange on which registered
Units, each consisting of one Class A ordinary share and one-fifth of one redeemable warrant		PRPC.U		New York Stock Exchange
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share		PRPC		New York Stock Exchange
Redeemable warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50		PRPC WS		New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company x

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Item 4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Report.

In connection with the preparation of its financial statements as of September 30, 2021, the management of CC Neuberger Principal Holdings III (the "Company"), in consultation with its advisors, identified an error made in certain of its previously issued financial statements, arising from the manner in which, as of the closing of the Company's initial public offering (the "IPO"), the Company classified its Class A ordinary shares (the "Public Shares") subject to possible redemption. The Company previously determined the value of such Public Shares to be equal to the redemption value of such shares, after taking into consideration the terms of the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, under which a redemption cannot result in net tangible assets being less than $5,000,001. Management has now determined, after consultation with its advisors, that the Public Shares underlying the units issued during its IPO can be redeemed or become redeemable subject to the occurrence of future events considered to be outside the Company's control. Therefore, management has concluded that the redemption value of its Public Shares subject to possible redemption should reflect the possible redemption of all Public Shares. As a result, management has noted a reclassification error related to temporary equity and permanent equity, which has resulted in a restatement of the initial carrying value of the Public Shares subject to possible redemption, with the offset recorded to additional paid-in capital (to the extent available), accumulated deficit and Public Shares.

In connection with the change in presentation for the Public Shares, the Company revised its earnings per share calculation to allocate income and losses shared pro rata between the two classes of shares. This presentation differs from the previously presented method of earnings per share, which was similar to the two-class method.

Therefore, on December 2, 2021, the Company's management and the audit committee of the Company's board of directors (the "Audit Committee"), concluded that the Company's previously issued, (i) 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 May 25, 2021; (ii) 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 (iii) footnote 2 to the unaudited interim financial statements and Item 4 of Part 1 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 10, 2021 (collectively, the "Affected Periods"), should be restated to report all Public Shares as temporary equity and make other related changes and should no longer be relied upon. As such, the Company will restate its financial statements for the Affected Periods in a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021 (the "Q3 Form 10-Q/A"), as will be described therein.

None of the above changes will have any impact on its cash position and cash held in the trust account established in connection with the Company's IPO (the "Trust Account").

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.

The Company's management and the Audit Committee have discussed the matters disclosed in this Current Report on Form 8-K pursuant to this Item 4.02 with WithumSmith+Brown, PC ("Withum"), the Company's independent registered public accounting firm.

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Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This report includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, including relating to the filing of an amendment to the 10-K, other than statements of historical fact included in this report are forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company or its management team, identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company's management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors detailed in the Company's filings with the SEC. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as it may be amended, filed with the SEC. Copies of such filings are available on the SEC's website, www.sec.govor may be obtained free of charge at the Company's website at http://hpxcorp.com. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	CC Neuberger Principal Holdings III
Date: December 2, 2021	By:	/s/ Matthew Skurbe
	Name:	Matthew Skurbe
	Title:	Chief Financial Officer