On September 16, 2021, Ginkgo
Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Soaring Eagle
Acquisition Corp.) (the “
”) consummated the transactions contemplated by that certain
agreement and plan of merger, dated as of May 11, 2021, as
amended on May 14, 2021 (the “
”), by and among Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a Delaware
corporation (“
”), SEAC Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation (“
”), and Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“
”). As contemplated by the Merger Agreement, SRNG effected a
deregistration under the Cayman Islands Companies Act (As Revised)
and a domestication under Section 388 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law, as amended (the “
”), pursuant to which SRNG’s jurisdiction of incorporation was
changed from the Cayman Islands to the State of Delaware (the “
”), and, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in
the Merger Agreement and in accordance with the DGCL, Merger Sub
merged with and into Ginkgo, with Ginkgo surviving the merger as a
wholly owned subsidiary of SRNG (the “
” and, together with the Domestication, the “
”). In addition, in connection with the consummation of the
Business Combination, SRNG was renamed “Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings,
Inc.”