16 Dec 2024substantial holder notice● Neutral
CR Financial Holdings, Inc. disclosed a new substantial New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. shareholding (7.43% of votes).
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16 Dec 2024substantial holder notice● Neutral
John Lipman disclosed a new substantial New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. shareholding (6.41% of votes).
12 Dec 2024business combination● NeutralMajor
Full disclosure of the completed merger: only 4.9M ROCL shares were outstanding at record date (most public shareholders had redeemed out), NEH security holders received 8.9M shares of the combined company, and $2.4M in bridge-financing debentures converted into equity -- confirming this was a small, redemption-drained SPAC deal.
10 Dec 2024capital raising announcement▼ BadMajor
The moment the merger closed, the company signed a $75M Equity Purchase Facility with an institutional investor plus $10M in senior secured convertible notes (7% original issue discount, secured by all company assets) -- a dilutive, toxic-style financing structure typical of a cash-strapped post-SPAC company.
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
Philip Kornbluth became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. director and company insider (initial ownership filing).
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
Charles Lawrence Nelson became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. director and company insider (initial ownership filing).
9 Dec 2024business combination▲ GoodMajor
The SPAC merger closed: Roth CH Acquisition V and New Era Helium Corp completed their business combination, and the surviving public company was renamed New Era Helium Inc., trading on Nasdaq as NEHC/NEHCW under CEO E. Will Gray II.
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
William Flores became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. director and company insider (initial ownership filing).
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
Stanley Borowiec became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. director and company insider (initial ownership filing).
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
Joel G Solis became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. 10%+ owner and company insider (initial ownership filing).
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
Everett Willard Gray II became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. Chief Executive Officer and company insider (initial ownership filing).
9 Dec 2024director interest notice● Neutral
Michael J. Rugen became a New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. Chief Financial Officer and company insider (initial ownership filing).
6 Nov 2024securities registration● Neutral
New ERA Energy & Digital, Inc. filed the final prospectus for a registered offering.
1 Nov 2024business combination▼ BadMajor
Amendment No. 5 disclosed that Roth CH V had filed a preliminary proxy on 25 October seeking up to six one-month extensions of its completion window, from 4 December 2024 out to 4 June 2025 -- a week after the previous amendment warned that going past the Nasdaq 36-month limit would trigger suspension and delisting. Audited accounts for the new Nevada holding company, incorporated on 24 June 2024, were added.
23 Oct 2024business combination▼ BadMajor
Amendment No. 4 added the hard stop. Nasdaq rule IM-5101-2 gives a blank-cheque company 36 months from its listing to complete a combination; the filing states that extending beyond 30 November 2024 would breach the rule and bring immediate suspension and delisting, after which the stock could be treated as a penny stock under Rule 419. The proposed charter also lifts authorised capital from 50 million shares of common stock to 70 million common plus 5 million preferred that the board may issue on terms it sets itself.
4 Oct 2024business combination▼ Bad
Amendment No. 3 carried two further deal amendments -- an 11 September third amendment again restating the "Company Merger Shares" and "Net Debt" definitions, and a 30 September fourth amendment extending the outside date to 30 November 2024 -- and disclosed that New Era had been drawing bridge debentures to keep going: $125,000 in July, $825,000 in August and $1,130,000 in September. Directors of the combined company are to be paid $200,000 a year, $60,000 cash and $140,000 in stock granted after a year's service.
13 Sept 2024business combination● Neutral
Amendment No. 2 set out the deal's amendment history: a first amendment on 5 June 2024 that stretched the outside date to 270 days from signing and inserted the Nevada redomestication, and a second on 8 August that pushed the outside date to 31 October 2024 and rewrote the definitions of "Company Merger Shares" and "Net Debt" -- the two terms that decide how many shares New Era's owners actually receive. It also conceded that no commitments or definitive agreements for the transaction financing had been signed.
9 Aug 2024business combination● Neutral
Amendment No. 1 restructured the transaction: a redomestication merger was put in front of it, moving Roth CH V out of Delaware into a newly formed Nevada holding company so the parent would share New Era Helium's home state. It also recorded that New Era had told the blank-cheque company in late May it was working toward raising at least $45 million in a private placement, and showed the deferred underwriting fee as a share of the shrinking public float at each redemption level.
28 June 2024business combination● NeutralMajor
Roth CH Acquisition V, a blank-cheque company with roughly $17.5 million left in trust after earlier redemptions, registered the shares for its merger with New Era Helium, which holds the mature Pecos Slope gas field in New Mexico and intends to build its own processing plant there. New Era's owners take a fixed 9,000,000 shares, adjusted by a tenth of a share for every dollar its net debt lands above or below $37.3 million -- about 41.5% of the company, against 15.4% for the sponsor and only 7.3% for the blank-cheque company's remaining public shareholders, whose trust was worth about $11.06 a share.