Legacy BlackSky’s founders, Jason and Marian Joh Andrews, (collectively, the “Founders”) have retained legal counsel in connection with claims they assert relating to the closing of Legacy BlackSky’s debt financings on October 31, 2019. The Founders claim that these October 2019 financings triggered a prepayment obligation to them under the subordinated promissory notes entered into with each of Jason Andrews and Marian Joh, the founders of BlackSky on November 13, 2018 (the “Andrews Notes”), in an aggregate amount of $2.5 million. To date, the Founders have not filed a lawsuit and have taken no further legal action. The Company believes that these claims are without merit and, as such, they would not result in a probable material adverse effect on its financial position. Accordingly, the Company has not recorded a contingency loss. Also, on April 27, 2021, with the consent of Legacy BlackSky’s senior lenders, Legacy BlackSky entered into an agreement with the Founders under which BlackSky paid the Founders $750,000 towards the principal of the Andrews Notes on April 28, 2021 and paid $1.75 million towards the principal of the Andrews Notes upon the closing of the merger.
On June 7, 2021, a derivative lawsuit was filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by a purported Osprey stockholder in connection with the Business Combination: Luster v. Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp., et al., Index No. 653633/2021 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty.). The complaint named Osprey and members of Osprey’s pre-Business Combination board of directors as defendants. The complaint alleged breach of fiduciary duty claims against Osprey’s board of directors in connection with the Business Combination and an aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary claim against Osprey. The complaint alleged that the Proxy Statement was materially incomplete and misleading, and that the merger consideration was unfair. The complaint sought rescission of the Business Combination, damages, corrective supplemental disclosures in the Proxy Statement, and attorneys’ fees. As the surviving company following the Business Combination, BlackSky inherited the litigation after the Closing.
The Osprey board of directors also received six demands from putative stockholders of Osprey dated May 20, 2021, May 24, 2021, July 26, 2021, July 26, 2021, August 12, 2021, and August 19, 2021 (together, the “Demands”). Five of the Demands alleged that the Proxy Statement was materially misleading and/or omitted material information concerning the merger and sought the issuance of corrective supplemental disclosures. One of the five Demands also asserted that the merger consideration was inadequate and that an increase in consideration should be negotiated by the parties. The sixth Demand regarded the voting in connection with the vote concerning one of the proposals in the Proxy Statement.
Prior to Closing, Osprey reached agreements with Luster and the six putative stockholders that Osprey’s supplemental disclosures and a modification to the authorized shared proposal fairly resolved their claims. BlackSky has not yet reached agreements with these stockholders on attorney’s fees.
As of September 13, 2021, with the exception of the items above, the Company was not aware of any additional pending, or threatened, governmental actions or legal proceedings to which the Company is, or will be, a party that, if successful, would result in an impact to its business or financial condition or results of operations.
Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters
The information set forth in the section of the Proxy Statement entitled “Price Range of Securities and Dividends” beginning on page 330 is incorporated herein by reference. Additional information regarding holders of the Company’s securities is set forth below in the section of this Current Report on Form 8-K entitled “Description of the Company’s Securities.”
The Class A Common Stock, Warrants and Osprey’s units (consisting of one share of Class A Common Stock and one-half of one warrant, the “Units”) were historically quoted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “SFTW”, “SFTW.WS” and “SFTW.U”, respectively. At the Effective Time, the Units automatically separated into the component securities and, as a result, no longer trade as a separate security. On September 10, 2021, the Class A Common Stock and Warrants began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the new trading symbols “BKSY and “BKSY.W”, respectively.
As of the Closing Date, the Company had 115,149,075 shares of Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding and 24,137,495 Warrants, each exercisable for one share of Class A Common Stock, at a price of $11.50 per share.
Dividends
The Company has not paid any cash dividends on the Class A Common Stock to date. The Company may retain future earnings, if any, for future operations, expansion and debt repayment and has no current plans to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of the board of directors and will depend on, among other things, the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors that the board of directors may deem relevant. In addition, the Company’s ability to pay dividends may be limited by covenants of any existing and future outstanding indebtedness the Company or its subsidiaries incur. The Company does not anticipate declaring any cash dividends to holders of the Class A Common Stock in the foreseeable future.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Reference is made to the disclosure set forth below under Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K concerning the issuance and sale by the Company of certain unregistered securities, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.
Description of the Company’s Securities
The description of the Company’s securities is set forth in the section of the Proxy Statement entitled “Description of New BlackSky Capital Stock” beginning on page 315, and that information is incorporated herein by reference.
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