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, Kismet
Acquisition One Corp (the "Company") reflected the private placement warrants
issued in August 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 private placement 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 private placement warrants under ASC 815-40.
On June 7, 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, and the Audit Committee concluded that the
Company's audited balance sheet as of August 10, 2020, its unaudited financial
statements as of June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020 and its audited financial
statements as of and for the period from June 3, 2020 (inception) through
December 31, 2020, as reported in the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed
on August 14, 2020, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed on September 21, 2020
and November 10, 2020 and Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2021,
should no longer be relied upon and should be restated because of a
misapplication in the guidance around accounting for the Company's outstanding
private placement warrants. The Company has prepared an amendment to its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2020 (the "Amended Form
10-K"), reflecting the reclassification of its private placement warrants as a
liability. Concurrently with the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K, the
Company is filing the Amended Form 10-K which includes restated financial
statements that reflect the revised valuation of the private placement warrants.
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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