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Filed by Acamar Partners Acquisition Corp. pursuant to Rule 425

under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,

and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended

 

Subject Company: CarLotz Inc.

Commission File No.: 001-38818

 

This filing relates to a proposed business combination involving Acamar Partners Acquisition Corp. and CarLotz, Inc.

 

The following is a press release that was published on Reuters.com on October 22, 2020

 

Used car consignment store CarLotz agrees deal to go public

By Joshua Franklin

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CarLotz Inc said on Thursday it has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check acquisition company Acamar Partners Acquisition Corp ACAM.O which values the U.S. consignment store for used vehicles at $827 million, including debt.

 

CarLotz would be the third major U.S. online car seller to go public this year after Vroom Inc VRM.O and Shift Technologies Inc SFT.O, as online vehicle sales accelerate during the coronavirus pandemic.

 

As part of the deal, CarLotz will receive an injection of up to $321 million which it plans to use to expand beyond its eight sale and distribution locations.

 

“We feel like it’s time to now go and take the giant leap forward, expand nationally, become a fully national, multi-billion dollar player in this industry,” CarLotz co-founder and Chief Executive Michael Bor said in an interview.

 

“In order to do that we needed to raise a significant amount of capital,” Bor said.

 

Reuters reported Acamar was nearing a deal to buy CarLotz on Wednesday.

 

Unlike Vroom and Shift which buy and then sell used cars, Richmond, Virginia-based CarLotz operates a consignment platform whereby it splits profits from sales made on its platform with owners.

 

CarLotz, which was founded in 2011, is “run-rate” profitable, Bor said, citing a measure that extrapolates annual levels from a smaller amount of data.

 

Acamar Partners is a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition (SPAC), led by private equity investors Juan Carlos Torres Carretero and Luis Ignacio Solorzano Aizpuru.

 

SPACs are shell companies which use initial public offering (IPO) proceeds to acquire an unidentified private company, which becomes public as a result.

 

Merging with a SPAC has become a popular alternative to going public in a traditional IPO, as it involves less regulatory scrutiny and more certainty over the market valuation and funds raised.

 

For the deal, investors including Fidelity Management, car auction service provider KAR Auction Services KAR.N and ex-General Motors Co GM.N CEO Rick Wagoner have committed to invest $125 million in a private investment in public equity (PIPE).

 

Acamar’s ticker on Nasdaq will change to “LOTZ” after the deal closes.

 

 

 

 

Online sales only account for around 1% of the roughly $840 billion Americans spend annually on used cars. But after numerous U.S. states went into COVID-19 lockdowns, the advantage of socially distant online sales has come into focus.

 

“We’ve probably seen an acceleration in the shift in consumer willingness to do the vehicle transaction totally online,” Bor said.

 

CarLotz, which has around 125 employees, took a $1.7 million U.S. government loan under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which the company expects to pay back, Bor said.

 

Reporting by Joshua Franklin in New York; Editing by Richard Chang

 

Important Additional Information and Where to Find It

 

This communication is being made in respect of the proposed merger transaction involving Acamar Partners and CarLotz. Acamar Partners intends to file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which will include a proxy statement of Acamar Partners, a prospectus of Acamar Partners and a consent solicitation statement of CarLotz, and will file other documents with the SEC regarding the proposed transaction. A definitive proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement will also be sent to the stockholders of Acamar Partners and CarLotz, seeking any required stockholder approval. Before making any voting or investment decision, investors and security holders of Acamar Partners and CarLotz are urged to carefully read the entire registration statement and proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement, when they become available, and any other relevant documents filed with the SEC, as well as any amendments or supplements to these documents, because they will contain important information about the proposed transaction. The documents filed by Acamar Partners with the SEC may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the documents filed by Acamar Partners may be obtained free of charge from Acamar Partners at www.acamarpartners.com. Alternatively, these documents, when available, can be obtained free of charge from Acamar Partners upon written request to Acamar Partners Acquisition Corp., 1450 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2130, Miami, Florida 33131, or by calling 786-264-6680.

 

Participants in the Solicitation

 

Acamar Partners, CarLotz and certain of their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of Acamar Partner in connection with the proposed merger. Information regarding Acamar Partners’ directors and executive officers is contained in Acamar Partners’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, which has been filed with the SEC and is available at the SEC website at www.sec.gov.

 

Additional information regarding the interests of these participants and other persons who may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation may be obtained by reading the registration statement and the proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement and other relevant documents filed with the SEC when they become available. Free copies of these documents may be obtained as described in the preceding paragraph.

 

This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such other jurisdiction.

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

This communication contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Generally, forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical facts, such as statements concerning possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events or results of operations, including statements regarding Acamar Partners’ and CarLotz’ expectations or predictions of future financial or business performance or conditions. Forward-looking statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “plans,” “scheduled,” “anticipates” or “intends” or similar expressions.

 

 

 

 

Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. Certain of these risks are identified and discussed in Acamar Partners’ Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 under “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A and in Acamar Partners’ Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2020 and Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2020 under “Risk Factors” in Part II, Item 1A. These risk factors will be important to consider in determining future results and should be reviewed in their entirety.

 

In addition to risks previously disclosed in Acamar Partners’ reports filed with the SEC and those identified elsewhere in this communication, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: ability to meet the closing conditions to the merger, including approval by stockholders of Acamar Partners and CarLotz on the expected terms and schedule and the risk that regulatory approvals required for the merger are not obtained or are obtained subject to conditions that are not anticipated; delay in closing the merger; failure to realize the benefits expected from the proposed transaction; the effects of pending and future legislation; risks related to management’s focus on the proposed transaction rather than on the ongoing business operations of CarLotz; business disruption following the transaction; risks related to Acamar Partners’ or CarLotz’ indebtedness; other consequences associated with mergers, acquisitions and legislative and regulatory actions and reforms; risks of the automotive and used vehicle industries; the potential impact of COVID-19 on the used vehicle industry and on the CarLotz business; litigation, complaints, product liability claims or adverse publicity; the impact of changes in consumer spending patterns, consumer preferences, local, regional and national economic conditions, crime, weather, demographic trends and employee availability; new entrants in the consignment-to-retail used vehicle business; technological disruptions, privacy or data breaches, the loss of data or cyberattacks; and the ability to compete successfully with new and existing market participants.

 

Any financial projections in this communication are forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions that are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond Acamar Partners’ and CarLotz’ control. While all projections are necessarily speculative, Acamar Partners and CarLotz believe that the preparation of prospective financial information involves increasingly higher levels of uncertainty the further out the projection extends from the date of preparation. The assumptions and estimates underlying the projected results are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the projections. The inclusion of projections in this communication should not be regarded as an indication that Acamar Partners and CarLotz, or their representatives, considered or consider the projections to be a reliable prediction of future events.

 

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Acamar Partners and CarLotz are under no obligation, and expressly disclaim any obligation, to update, alter or otherwise revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Readers should carefully review the statements set forth in the reports that Acamar Partners has filed or will file from time to time with the SEC. Forward-looking statements are expressed in good faith, and Acamar Partners and CarLotz believe there is a reasonable basis for then. However, there can be no assurance that the events, results or trends identified in these forward-looking statements will occur or be achieved.

 

Annualized, pro forma, projected and estimated numbers are used for illustrative purpose only, are not forecasts and may not reflect actual results.

 

This communication is not intended to be all-inclusive or to contain all the information that a person may desire in considering an investment in Acamar Partners and is not intended to form the basis of an investment decision in Acamar Partners. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning Acamar Partners and CarLotz, the proposed transaction or other matters and attributable to Acamar Partners and CarLotz or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above.