Item 4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related
Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.
On April 12, 2021, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC") issued a public statement entitled "Staff Statement on Accounting and
Reporting Considerations for Warrants issued by Special Purpose Acquisition
Companies" ("SPACs") (the "Statement"). In the Statement, the SEC staff
expressed its view that certain terms and conditions common to SPAC warrants may
require the warrants to be classified as liabilities on the SPAC's balance sheet
as opposed to equity. Since issuance on December 5, 2017, the outstanding
warrants ("Warrants") to purchase common stock of Leisure Acquisition Corp. (the
"Company") were accounted for as equity within the Company's financial
statements, and after discussion and evaluation, including with the Company's
independent auditors, the Company has concluded that its Private Placement
Warrants and Forward Purchase Warrants and other private warrants (the "Private
Warrants") should be presented as liabilities as of the IPO date or date of
issuance, if issued subsequent to the IPO Date, reported at fair value with
subsequent fair value remeasurement at each reporting period. The Company is
continuing to evaluate whether the public warrants issued pursuant to its
initial public offering (the "Public Warrants") should be presented as equity or
liabilities.
On May 13, 2021, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company
concluded, after discussion with the Company's management, that the Company's
(i) audited financial statements as of and for the period ended September 11,
2017 (inception) to December 31, 2017 and for the years ending December 31,
2018, 2019 and 2020, and as of December 5, 2017; and (ii) unaudited interim
financial statements as of and for the periods ended March 31, 2018, June 30,
2018, September 30, 2018, March 31, 2019, June 30, 2019, September 30, 2019,
March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020 (collectively, the
"Non-Reliance Period") should no longer be relied upon due to changes required
to reclassify the Private Warrants as liabilities to align with the requirements
set forth in the Statement. The Company has discussed this approach with its
independent registered public accounting firm, Marcum LLP ("Marcum"), and will
file an amendment (the "Amended Form 10-K") to its Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2020 filed with the SEC on March 15, 2021
("Original Form 10-K") reflecting this reclassification of the Private Warrants
for the Non-Reliance Period after it has finalized its determination as to the
treatment of its Public Warrants.
Similarly, press releases, earnings releases, Annual Reports on Form 10-K for
the year (or period) ended December 31, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 , Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2018, June 30,
2018, September 30, 2018, March 31, 2019, June 30, 2019, September 30, 2019,
March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020 filed with the SEC and
investor presentations or other communications describing the Company's
financial statements and other related financial information covering the
Non-Reliance Period should no longer be relied upon. In addition, the audit
report of Marcum included in the Company's Original Form 10-K and the Company's
Form 10-K for the year (or period) ended December 31, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and
the Company's Form 8-K date December 11, 2021 should no longer be relied upon.
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