Item 4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related
Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
(a) On April 12, 2021, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC Staff") issued a public statement entitled "Staff Statement on Accounting
and Reporting Considerations for Warrants issued by Special Purpose Acquisition
Companies ("SPACs")" (the "SEC Staff Statement"). Historically, Golden Falcon
Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") reflected the warrants issued in December 2020
in connection with the Company's initial public offering as a component of
equity as opposed to liabilities on the balance sheet, and the statement of
operations did not include the subsequent non-cash changes in estimated fair
value of the warrants, based on the Company's application of Financial
Accounting Standards Board (the "FASB") Accounting Standards Codification
("ASC") Topic 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging-Contracts in Entity's Own Equity
("ASC 815-40"), which addresses equity versus liability treatment and
classification of equity-linked financial instruments, including warrants, and
states that a warrant may be classified as a component of equity only if, among
other things, the warrant is indexed to the issuer's common stock.
In light of the SEC Staff Statement, the Company's management, in consultation
with the audit committee of the Company's board of directors (the "Audit
Committee"), further evaluated its warrants under ASC 815-40. On May 27, 2021,
the Company's management and the Audit Committee discussed the matters disclosed
pursuant to this Item 4.02(a) with the Company's independent registered public
accounting firm, Marcum LLP, and the Audit Committee concluded that the
Company's audited balance sheet as of December 22, 2020 and its audited
financial statements as of and for the period from August 24, 2020 (inception)
through December 31, 2020, as reported in the Company's Form 8-K filed on
December 29, 2020 (the "Form 8-K"), and Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2021 (the
"Form 10-K"), should no longer be relied upon and should be restated due to the
misapplication in the guidance around accounting for the Company's outstanding
warrants. In addition, the audit report of Marcum LLP, included in the Company's
Form 8-K and Form 10-K, defined above, should no longer be relied upon.
Consequently, the Company has announced that, concurrently with the filing of
this Current Report on Form 8-K, it will file an amendment to its Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2020 reflecting the
reclassification of its warrants as a liability.
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 or its operating expenses.
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