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

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has recently expressed concern about a number of matters relating to special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs"). The discussions surrounding these concerns has caused many SPACs, including M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. (the "Company"), to review their financial statements for prior reporting periods and consider whether amendments are appropriate in order to ensure that such financial statements are compliant with various SEC rules and practices.

In reviewing its financial statements for prior reporting periods, management of the Company has determined that the following modifications are appropriate:

? In connection with the initial public offering (the "IPO") of the Company, the

underwriter was granted a customary overallotment option which permitted it to

purchase up to an additional 15% of the Units sold in IPO within 45-days

following the closing of the IPO. At the time of the IPO and in its financial

statements for reporting periods thereafter, the Company failed to record an

approximately $1.4 million liability for the value of the overallotment option,

as contemplated by FASB ASC 480, "Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity" and

to derecognize that liability when the overallotment option expired without

being exercised on April 19, 2021.

? As had previously been disclosed, a subsidiary of the Company and one of its

subsidiaries entered into a merger agreement with Syniverse Corporation on

August 16, 2021 and subsequently announced on February 9, 2022 that the merger

agreement had been terminated by mutual agreement of the parties. In connection

with the transaction contemplated by that merger agreement, the Company

incurred a variety of expenses, which the Company disclosed in the proxy

statement relating to the merger transaction were projected to be approximately

$17.1 million in the aggregate. Included in these projected expenses was

approximately $5.4 million in fees for a professional in connection with the

proposed merger transaction for which payment would be due upon the closing of

the transaction. Those professional fees were not, however, shown as accrued

expenses on the Company's financial statements for the relevant reporting

periods.

On April 14, 2022, the audit committee of the board of directors of the Company (the "Audit Committee") determined, after considering information provided by the Company's management and the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, Marcum LLP, that (a) the value of the overallotment option described above should have been recorded as a liability at the time of the IPO and then reversed upon expiry of such option and (b) the Company's professional fees relating to the proposed merger with Syniverse should have been reflected as accrued expenses during the relevant reporting periods. As a result of these omissions, the Audit Committee also determined that the Company's audited balance sheet as of March 8, 2021 as reported in the Company's Form 8-K filed on March 12, 2021 and the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for all periods thereafter should no longer be relied upon due to these changes and should be restated.

Because the overallotment option has expired prior to the date hereof and the professional fees relating to the proposed Syniverse merger transaction ultimately will not be payable by the Company, the Company does not anticipate that these changes will have an effect upon future reporting periods.

The Company also does not expect any of the above changes will have any impact on its cash position or the cash held in the trust account.




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