INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT ON FORM 6-K
Subscription Agreement, Indenture and Notes
On March 1, 2022, LumiraDx Limited (the “Company”) entered into privately negotiated subscription agreements (the “Subscription Agreements”) with certain investors (the “Investors”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and the Investors agreed to purchase from the Company (the “Notes Offering”) $56.5 million aggregate principal amount of 6.00% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”), in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The lead investor in the Notes Offering was UBS O’Connor, with participation from Ron Zwanziger, the founder of the Company. The Subscription Agreements contain certain customary representations, warranties and covenants by and for the benefit of the parties thereto. The purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to the Subscription Agreements are expected to occur on March 3, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), subject to customary closing conditions. The Company ended 2021 with approximately $135 million in cash, and with the estimated gross proceeds from the Notes Offering, its pro forma cash balance as of December 31, 2021 would have been $191.5 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Notes Offering for general corporate purposes.
The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture (the “Indenture”), to be entered into by the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”), on the Closing Date. The Notes will be senior subordinated unsecured obligations of the Company, subordinated in right of payment to certain specified designated senior indebtedness of the Company, including indebtedness and borrowings under the Company’s existing senior secured loan agreement, and will bear interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum from, and including, the Closing Date, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2022. In certain circumstances, the Company may be required to pay additional amounts as a result of any applicable tax withholding or deductions required in respect of payments on the Notes. The Notes will mature on March 1, 2027, unless earlier converted by the holders or repurchased or redeemed by the Company.
Subject to the terms of the Indenture, the Notes will be convertible at the option of each holder at an initial conversion rate of 108.4346 common shares, $0.0000028 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Shares”) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (the “Conversion Rate”), which is equal to an initial conversion price of approximately $9.22 per Common Share (the “Conversion Price”). Upon conversion, the Notes may be settled in cash, Common Shares or a combination of cash and Common Shares, at the Company’s election (subject to certain limitations). The Conversion Rate may be increased on March 3, 2023 and March 3, 2024, if the average of the daily volume weighted average prices of the Common Shares over the 20 consecutive trading days immediately preceding either date is below a specified level, provided that the Conversion Rate may not be increased to a rate that exceeds 137.9310 Common Shares per $1,000 principal amount (the “Ceiling Conversion Rate”). The Conversion Rate (including the Ceiling Conversion Rate) will be subject to adjustment for certain events or distributions but will not be adjusted for any accrued and unpaid interest. Following certain specified transactions or events (each of which will be included in the definition “Make-Whole Fundamental Change” in the Indenture), the Company will increase the Conversion Rate for a holder who elects to convert its Notes in connection with any such transaction or event in certain circumstances.
The Company may redeem for cash all of the Notes in connection with certain tax-related events (any such redemption, a “Tax Redemption”). In addition, the Company may redeem (any such redemption, an “Optional Redemption”) for cash any or all of the Notes, at its option, on or after the later of September 1, 2022 and the date that is 30 days after the initial effectiveness of a registration statement contemplated by the registration rights agreement described below (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), but only if (1) the last reported sale price per Common Share exceeds 130% of the Conversion Price on (x) each of at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the Company sends the applicable notice of redemption (the “Redemption Notice Date”); and (y) the trading day immediately before the Redemption Notice Date; and (2) unless the Company elects (x) to settle all conversions of Notes called for Optional Redemption in cash and (y) to pay any owed Interest Make-Whole Payment (as defined herein) in cash, in each case, with respect to conversions of Notes during the related redemption period that have been called for redemption after the first anniversary of the Closing Date, a registration statement registering the resale of all shares constituting Registrable Securities (as defined herein) (subject to certain requirements with