calendar days since Snap One has mailed its information statement to its stockholders, (iv) the absence of any law or judgment prohibiting or making illegal the Merger, (v) there having not occurred a material adverse effect on Snap One, as defined in the Merger Agreement and (vi) other customary conditions. The closing of the Merger is not subject to any financing contingency.
Each of Snap One and the Company has agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Merger to be consummated, including to obtain consents and authorizations with respect to the HSR Act and any other applicable regulatory laws, subject to the limitations set forth in the Merger Agreement. In lieu of filing a proxy statement and holding a stockholders’ meeting, the Merger Agreement contemplates that Snap One will seek a written consent from its principal stockholders immediately following the signing of the Merger Agreement, who hold in excess of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of Snap One Common Stock, which such consent shall approve and adopt the Merger Agreement (the “Written Consent”). As of the date hereof, the Written Consent has been executed and delivered by the principal stockholders.
The Merger Agreement contains certain termination rights for each of the parties, including, without limitation, (i) by mutual written consent of Snap One, the Company and Merger Sub, (ii) by either the Company or Snap One if the closing of the Merger has not occurred on or prior to October 15, 2024, as may be extended to January 15, 2025 in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement (the “Outside Date”) or (iii) by either the Company or Snap One if the other party has breached its representations, warranties or covenants, subject to certain negotiated materiality qualifications and cure periods as set forth in the Merger Agreement. Upon termination of the Merger Agreement under specified circumstances, Snap One will be required to pay the Company a termination fee of $26,348,250 in cash.
In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the parties to Snap One’s tax receivable agreement have executed a waiver and termination letter providing that such agreement will be terminated at the Effective Time, with no payments owing or being made thereunder, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein.
This summary of the Merger Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.
The Merger Agreement has been included in this report to provide investors with information regarding its terms and conditions. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about the Company or Snap One, or any of their respective subsidiaries. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement were made only for purposes of that agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Merger Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company, Snap One or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures.
Investment Agreement and Preferred Stock Terms
On April 14, 2024, in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company entered into an investment agreement (the “Investment Agreement”) with CD&R Channel Holdings, L.P. (the “CD&R Stockholder” and, together with its affiliated funds, the “CD&R Investors”) and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund XII, L.P. (“CD&R Fund”) (solely for the purpose of limited provisions therein) providing for the purchase by the CD&R Stockholder of shares of Series A Cumulative Convertible Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”) in order to partially finance the aggregate Merger Consideration (the “Investment”). The Preferred Stock will be convertible perpetual participating preferred stock of the Company, with an initial conversion price equal to $26.92, and accrue dividends at a rate of 7.0% per annum, compounded quarterly (payable in cash or in-kind, as described
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