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CUSIP No. G73268149 | | Page 7 of 13 |
The Bracebridge Funds entered into an agreement (together with all exhibits, annexes and schedules thereto, the “Transaction Support Agreement”, attached as Exhibit 99.2 hereto), dated as of December 5, 2022, with (i) the Issuer, (ii) other holders of the Issuer’s outstanding Senior Secured Notes issued under that certain Indenture, dated as of October 14, 2016 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Senior Secured Notes Indenture”), by and among the Issuer, the guarantors party thereto, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, representing all holders of the Senior Secured Notes and (iii) other holders of the Issuer’s convertible notes (the “Convertible Notes”) issued under that certain Indenture, dated as of May 26, 2021 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Convertible Notes Indenture” and together with the Senior Secured Notes Indenture, the “Indentures”), by and among the Issuer, the guarantors party thereto, and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee representing more than 99% of all holders of the Convertible Notes (such holders of the Senior Secured Notes and Convertible Notes, including, the Bracebridge Funds, collectively, the “Consenting Noteholders”), whereby the Consenting Noteholders have agreed to support a restructuring of the Issuer’s balance sheet, which is intended to be effectuated pursuant to a set of transactions to be commenced by the Issuer (collectively, the “Transactions”).
In connection with the Transactions, all of the Issuer’s outstanding equity securities (including its Ordinary Shares, preferred shares, options and warrants) are expected to be extinguished and cancelled for no consideration (or nominal consideration if required as a matter of Jersey law). Accordingly, the Issuer intends to delist its Ordinary Shares from the NASDAQ Global Market as soon as practicable. The Transactions are intended to reduce the Issuer’s debt obligations and inject liquidity into the Issuer’s business as necessary to effectuate its strategy shift.
Under the Transaction Support Agreement, the Issuer and the Consenting Noteholders have agreed to act in good faith to consummate the Transactions and have undertaken other customary commitments to one another. The Consenting Noteholders have also agreed to forbear from exercising, for so long as the Transaction Support Agreement is in full force and effect, any and all rights and remedies in contravention of the Transaction Support Agreement, which are or become available to them in respect of the Senior Secured Notes, the Convertible Notes or any other claims or interests in connection therewith.
The Transaction Support Agreement contains certain deadlines relating to the Transactions, including deadlines (collectively, the “Milestones”) for implementing the Transactions either through (i) the filing of a petition for relief under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in order to effect a plan of reorganization (the “Plan”) that implements a fully consensual restructuring or such other method of implementation of the Transactions as the Requisite Consenting Holders (as defined below) direct, subject to the Fiduciary Out (as defined below) (the “Consensual Transaction”) or (ii) parallel creditor schemes of arrangements in England and Jersey (the “Fallback Scheme”), in each case as described in, and contemplated under, the Implementation Steps Memorandum attached to the Transaction Support Agreement as Exhibit B (the “Implementation Steps Memo”), as well as an outside date of May 1, 2023 for the consummation of a Consensual Transaction or Fallback Scheme (such date, the “Outside Date”).
If the board of directors of the Issuer (the “Board”) reasonably determines, after considering the advice of outside counsel, that taking certain actions, or refraining to take certain actions, is reasonably required for the Board to comply with its fiduciary duties (including if such actions would require expenditures in excess of the Issuer’s available liquidity), the Transaction Support Agreement provides that the Board may elect not to take, or refrain to take, such actions (such election, the “Fiduciary Out”). The Issuer may terminate the Transaction Support Agreement upon, among other circumstances, uncured material breaches of the Transaction Support Agreement by a Consenting Noteholder or a determination by the Board that termination is required pursuant to the Fiduciary Out.