Material Relationships with Selling Shareholders
The following summaries do not purport to be complete and are subject, and qualified in entirety by reference, to the applicable documents incorporated by reference herein. We urge you to read these documents because they, and not the following summaries, outline the material relationships with the selling shareholders.
Backstop Commitment Letters
On or about March 4, 2020, we entered into the Amended and Restated Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letters (as amended, restated, modified, or supplemented from time to time, the “Backstop Commitment Letters”), pursuant to which each of the selling shareholders named herein severally agreed, subject to certain terms and conditions, to purchase up to an aggregate amount of shares of our common stock equal to $9.0 billion in the event that we were unable to raise sufficient proceeds from the Equity Offerings to finance the transactions contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization. As consideration for their obligations under the Backstop Commitment Letters, we agreed to issue 169,000,000 shares of our common stock to the selling shareholders, subject to adjustment, if applicable, as set forth in the Backstop Commitment Letters. On July 1, 2020, the Backstop Shares were issued to the selling shareholders pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act set forth in Section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Greenshoe Backstop
On June 25, 2020, we entered into an underwriting agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the “Common Stock Underwriters”), pursuant to which we agreed to sell 423,372,629 shares of our common stock at a public offering price of $9.50 per share (the “Common Stock Offering”). In connection with the Common Stock Offering, we granted the Common Stock Underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 42,337,263 shares of our common stock. In addition, on June 25, 2020, we entered into an underwriting agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the “Units Underwriters” and, together with the Common Stock Underwriters, the “Equity Underwriters”), pursuant to which we agreed to sell 14,545,455 prepaid forward stock purchase contracts (the “Purchase Contracts”) to the Units Underwriters in order for the Units Underwriters to sell 14,545,455 equity units (the “Units”), with each Unit having a stated amount of $100.00 (the “Units Offering” and, together with the Common Stock Offering, the “Equity Offerings”). In connection with the Units Offering, we granted the Units Underwriters a 30-day option (the “Units Over-Allotment Option”) to purchase up to an additional 1,454,545 Purchase Contracts to be used by the Units Underwriters to create up to an additional 1,454,545 Units. The Common Stock Offering and the Units Offering closed on July 1, 2020 and we issued and sold a total of 423,372,629 shares of our common stock and 14,545,455 Units.
On June 19, 2020, we entered into Forward Stock Purchase Agreements (the “Forward Stock Purchase Agreements”) with the selling shareholders, pursuant to which the selling shareholders severally agreed, subject to certain terms and conditions, to purchase up to an aggregate amount of shares of our common stock equal to $522,727,273 (the “Aggregate Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amount”), at a price per share equal to $9.50 (the “Settlement Price”), in order to backstop the options we have granted to the Equity Underwriters to purchase additional securities in the Equity Offerings. On July 24, 2020, the Units Underwriters exercised in full the Units Over-Allotment Option, pursuant to which PG&E expects to issue an additional 1,454,545 Purchase Contracts to be used by the Units Underwriters to create an additional 1,454,545 Units (such issuance, the “Additional Units Issuance”). The Common Stock Underwriters’ option to purchase up to an additional 42,337,263 shares of our common stock expired without exercise. We expect to settle the Additional Units Issuance on August 3, 2020. Accordingly, on August 3, 2020 and pursuant to the terms of the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements, we expect (i) to redeem a portion of the rights under the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements to receive shares of our common stock and return approximately $120,523,000 to the selling shareholders and (ii) to issue and deliver to the selling shareholders 42,337,173 shares of common stock (such issuance, the “Greenshoe Backstop”),
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