| Item 1.01 | Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 30, 2024, SiriusPoint Ltd. (“SiriusPoint”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with CM Bermuda Limited (the “Seller”). The Securities Purchase Agreement provides that, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain customary conditions set forth therein, SiriusPoint will repurchase all common shares of SiriusPoint, par value $0.10 per share held by the Seller (the “Common Shares”), and all warrants to purchase Common Shares held by the Seller (the “Warrants” and, together with the Common Shares, the “Securities”).
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions in the Securities Purchase Agreement, SiriusPoint will repurchase (i) 20,991,337 Warrants at $3.56 per warrant (the “Warrant Purchase”) and (ii) 45,720,732 Common Shares at $14.25 per Common Share (together with the Warrant Purchase, the “Purchase”). The aggregate amount payable by SiriusPoint under the Securities Purchase Agreement will be approximately $733.0 million, including certain costs and expenses. Following the closing of the Purchase, the Seller will have no remaining ownership interest in SiriusPoint. The Common Shares will be purchased into treasury and the Warrants will be cancelled at the closing of the Purchase. The Securities Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants of the parties. Consummation of the Purchase is subject only to the representations and warranties of each party being true and correct as of the closing date.
The closing of the Purchase is expected to be completed on or before February 28, 2025. The Securities Purchase Agreement contemplates that payment thereunder be made in two tranches. The first payment of $250.0 million was made concurrently with the execution of the Securities Purchase Agreement. At the closing of the Purchase, SiriusPoint will pay an additional $483.0 million to the Seller.
Under the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement, SiriusPoint will acquire all Securities at the closing. SiriusPoint has placed, and the Seller has consented to, a stop transfer order on all of the Securities during the pendency of the transaction. The Seller has also placed executed transfer delivery instructions and lien releases in respect of the Securities into escrow. In addition, the Securities Purchase Agreement provides that, prior to closing, in the event that the board of directors of SiriusPoint (the “Board”) has made a good faith determination that the Seller or China Construction Bank Corporation (“CCB”) (i) has transferred any Securities to anyone other than SiriusPoint, (ii) has instructed, or sought to cause the transfer of, any Securities to anyone other than SiriusPoint or (iii) has authorized or directed any lien to be placed on any of the Securities that would not be released by the terms of the escrowed lien releases or automatically upon consummation of the Purchase without any additional action of the Seller or SiriusPoint (any of the foregoing an “Impermissible Transfer Event”), SiriusPoint can unilaterally direct the transfer of 17,070,147 Common Shares (the “Covered Securities”) to its treasury. The Seller and CCB have agreed to pay SiriusPoint an aggregate of $250.0 million under certain circumstances where an Impermissible Transfer Event has occurred and the Securities Purchase Agreement is subsequently terminated. If the conditions to closing of the Purchase are satisfied and SiriusPoint fails to make the second $483.0 million payment to the Seller by February 28, 2025, the Securities Purchase Agreement may be terminated by the Seller and SiriusPoint will forfeit (A) the $250.0 million paid to the Seller on the date hereof and (B) the right to acquire any of the Securities (and, if applicable, must return any Covered Securities that have been acquired by SiriusPoint).
In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement, the parties have agreed that, effective and contingent upon the closing of the Purchase: (i) Meng Tee Saw will resign from the Board and each committee of the Board of which he is a member; and (ii) SiriusPoint and the Seller will terminate that certain Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2021, by and between SiriusPoint and the Seller (the “IRA”). The Seller has similarly placed an executed resignation letter and IRA termination agreement into escrow. Via the termination of the IRA, the Seller will no longer have observer rights on the Board.
For more information on the Seller’s and its affiliate, CMIG International Holding Pte. Ltd.’s relationship to SiriusPoint, please refer to SiriusPoint’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed on April 9, 2024.
The above description of the Securities Purchase Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Securities Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is expected to be filed as an exhibit to SiriusPoint’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
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