DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS MultiPlan Corporation, formerly known as Churchill Capital Corp III (formerly known as Butler Acquisition Corp), was incorporated in Delaware on October 30, 2019. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Business Combination On October 8, 2020 (the " Closing Date "), Churchill consummated the previously announced Business Combination. Upon the consummation of the Business Combination: (i) First Merger Sub was merged with and into MultiPlan Parent with MultiPlan Parent being the surviving company in the merger and (ii) immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, MultiPlan Parent was merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Churchill. Holders of 8,693,855 shares of the Company's Class A common stock sold in its Initial Public Offering (as defined below) properly exercised their right to have such shares redeemed for a full pro rata portion of the Trust Account (as defined below) holding the proceeds from the Company's Initial Public Offering, calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, or approximately $10.03 per share and $87.2 million in the aggregate. In connection with the consummation of the Business Combination, among other things, and pursuant to the Merger Agreement the Company issued to the former indirect owners of Polaris Parent Corp. an aggregate of 415,700,000 shares of Class A common stock. In July 2020, the Company entered into subscription agreements (collectively, the “ Subscription Agreements ”) pursuant to which certain investors agreed to: (a) subscribe for (x) 130,000,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share for an aggregate commitment of $1,300,000,000 and (y) warrants to purchase 6,500,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock (for each share of the Company’s Class A common stock subscribed, the investor was entitled to receive 1/20th of a warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s Class A common stock, with each whole warrant having a strike price of $12.50 per share and a 5-year maturity from the closing of the Business Combination) (collectively, the “ Common PIPE Investment ”). The Common PIPE Investment was subject to an original issue discount (payable in additional shares of the Company’s Class A common stock) of 1% for subscriptions of $250,000,000 or less and 2.5% for subscriptions of more than $250,000,000, which resulted in an additional 2,050,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock being issued on the Closing Date, and (b) buy $1,300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of 6.00% / 7.00% convertible senior PIK toggle notes due 2027 (the “ Convertible Notes ”) with an original issue discount of 2.5% (the “ Convertible PIPE Investment ” and, together with the Common PIPE Investment, the “ PIPE Investments ”). At the closing of the Business Combination (the “ Closing ”), the Company (i) consummated the Common PIPE Investment and issued 132,050,000 shares of its Class A common stock and warrants to purchase 6,500,000 shares of its Class A common Stock for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,300,000,000 and (ii) issued $1,300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Convertible Notes for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,267,500,000. In accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, on the Closing Date, Polaris Intermediate Corp. entered into a supplemental indenture to the indenture governing the Convertible Notes pursuant to which Polaris Intermediate Corp. agreed to guarantee the Company’s obligations under the Convertible Notes. At the Closing, the entirety of the placement fee owed to The Klein Group, LLC was paid in cash. After giving effect to the Transactions and the redemption of public shares as described above, there are currently 667,461,269 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock issued and outstanding, excluding the 9,094,876 shares purchased by a subsidiary of MultiPlan in August 2020, which shares are held by the Company as treasury shares. Business Prior to the Business Combination Prior to the Business Combination, the Company’s subsidiaries were comprised of First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub. All activity through September 30, 2020 relates to the Company’s formation, the initial public offering (the “ Initial Public Offering ”), which is described below, identifying a target company for a business combination, and consummating the Transactions. The registration statements for the Company’s Initial Public Offering were declared effective on February 13, 2020. On February 19, 2020, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 110,000,000 units (the “ Units ” and, with respect to the shares of Class A common stock included in the Units sold, the “ Public Shares ”), which includes the full exercise by the underwriters of the over-allotment option to purchase an additional 10,000,000 Units, at $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $1,100,000,000, which is described in Note 3. Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of 23,000,000 warrants (the “ Private Placement Warrants ”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Placement Warrant in a private placement to Churchill Sponsor III LLC, (the “ Sponsor ”), generating gross proceeds of $23,000,000 which is described in Note 4. Transaction costs amounted to $57,620,020 consisting of $18,402,000 of underwriting fees, $38,500,000 of deferred underwriting fees and $718,020 of other offering costs. |