| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
As previously disclosed, on July 13, 2022, Unity Software Inc., a Delaware Corporation (“Unity”) entered into an investment agreement (the “Investment Agreement”) with Silver Lake Alpine II, L.P. and Silver Lake Partners VI, L.P. (together, the “Initial SL Signatories”) and Sequoia Capital Fund, L.P. (the “Sequoia Purchaser” and, together with the Initial SL Signatories, the “Initial Signatories”) relating to the issuance and sale to the Initial Signatories of $1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Unity’s 2.0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”). On November 8, 2022, SLP VI Union Holdings, L.P., SLP VI Union Holdings II, L.P. and SLA Union Holdings, L.P. (the “Silver Lake Purchasers” and, together with the Initial Signatories, the “Investors”) each executed a joinder to the Investment Agreement (the “Joinder”) to assume the obligations of the Initial SL Signatories to purchase $940 million of the Notes, and each Silver Lake Purchaser agreed to become “Silver Lake Purchasers” under the Investment Agreement, and to be fully bound by, and subject to, all covenants, terms, conditions, obligations and provisions of the Investment Agreement applicable to the “Silver Lake Purchasers,” as set forth in the Joinder. The closing under the Investment Agreement occurred and all of the Notes were issued to the Investors, with $940 million of the Notes issued to the Silver Lake Purchasers and $60 million of the Notes issued to the Sequoia Purchaser, on November 8, 2022.
In connection with the issuance of the Notes, on November 8, 2022, Unity entered into an indenture, dated as of November 8, 2022 (the “Indenture”), between Unity and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Notes bear interest at a rate of 2.0% per annum and interest on the Notes will be payable semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15, commencing on May 15, 2023. The Notes mature on November 15, 2027 (the “Maturity Date”), subject to earlier conversion or repurchase. The Notes are convertible at the option of the holder at any time until the trading day prior to the Maturity Date. The Notes are convertible into cash, shares of Unity common stock or a combination thereof, based on an initial conversion rate of 20.4526 shares of Unity common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes (which is equal to an initial conversion price of approximately $48.89 per share), in each case subject to customary anti-dilution and other adjustments, including in connection with any make-whole adjustment (as described in the Indenture) as a result of certain extraordinary transactions. The proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Notes are expected to be used to partially fund the repurchase of up to $2,500,000,000 of shares of Unity common stock in open market transactions.
The Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of Unity and rank equally with all of Unity’s existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness outstanding from time to time.
With certain exceptions, upon a change of control of Unity, the approval by Unity’s stockholders of a plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of Unity or the failure of the Unity Common Stock to be listed on certain stock exchanges (a “Fundamental Change”), the holders of the Notes may require that Unity repurchase all or part of the principal amount of the Notes at a purchase price of par plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change repurchase date.
The Indenture includes customary covenants and sets forth certain events of default after which the Notes may be declared immediately due and payable and sets forth certain types of bankruptcy or insolvency events of default involving Unity after which the Notes become automatically due and payable. The following events are considered “events of default” under the Indenture:
| | (1) | default in any payment of interest on the Notes when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 days; |
| | (2) | default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise; |
| | (3) | failure by Unity to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with the Indenture upon exercise of a holder’s conversion right; |
| | (4) | failure by Unity to comply with its obligations under the Indenture in respect of any consolidation, merger and sale of all or substantially all of Unity’s assets; |
| | (5) | failure by Unity to issue a Fundamental Change notice or notice of a make-whole Fundamental Change, in each case, in accordance with the Indenture when due; |
| | (6) | failure by Unity to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or the Indenture, for a period of 60 days after written notice of such failure from the Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding has been received; |
| | (7) | default by Unity or any of its significant subsidiaries (as defined in the Indenture) with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be |
