I looked at this before and it seems Dean and Jay agreed to give some of their free sponsor shares (gxii class b) and warrants to a group controlling 5% (anchor investors) So that they would not redeem thus allowing the merger deal to go through. I believe they all sold out on the first day on nasdaq.
28,506,605 shares of gxii were redeemed at the merger. That left 1,493,395 or 5% that remained. Of the 5% that remained, who were they?
The answer: They were called anchor investors.
The anchor investors purchased 1.8 million shares of gxii class A for a value of ($18,000,000) during the ipo
They agreed not to redeem before the merger and they would receive a percentage of the free sponsor shares/warrants