Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION VERSION
Confidential
SUBSCRIPTION AND BACKSTOP AGREEMENT
This SUBSCRIPTION AND BACKSTOP AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into as of June 10, 2022, by and between Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), BC Cyan Investment Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with its affiliates and subsidiaries, “BC Cyan”), Blue Nile, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Blue Nile”), and the undersigned funds affiliated with Mudrick Capital Management, L.P., to be designated prior to Closing (collectively, the “Subscriber”). Defined terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Business Combination Agreement (as defined below).
WHEREAS, substantially concurrently with the execution of this Subscription Agreement, the Company, BC Cyan and the other parties named therein are entering into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, modified, supplemented or waived from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “Business Combination Agreement”), pursuant to which, inter alia, the Company will enter into a business combination transaction with BC Cyan, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein (the “Transaction”);
WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, the Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Company a number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Company Common Stock”), set forth on the signature page hereto, for a purchase price of $10.15 per share (the “PIPE Shares”), and the Company desires to issue and sell to the Subscriber the PIPE Shares in consideration of the payment of the aggregate applicable purchase price set forth on the Subscriber’s signature page hereto (the “Applicable Purchase Price”) by or on behalf of the Subscriber to the Company prior to the Closing (as defined below) in accordance with Section 3.1 herein, all on the terms and conditions set forth herein;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, the Subscriber is committing up to $68,000,000 in cash (the “Backstop Commitment”) to subscribe for up to 6,699,507 shares of Company Common Stock (the “Backstop Shares” and, together with the PIPE Shares, the “Shares”) at a price per share of $10.15 to the extent that the Available Closing Buyer Cash (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement), without taking into consideration any amount of the Backstop Commitment funded to the Company pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, would be less than $195,500,000 (such lesser amount, the “Available Capital”, and the occurrence of the Available Capital being less than $195,500,000, the “Backstop Triggering Event”), on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and
WHEREAS, the Subscriber or one or more of its affiliates is a lender holding not less than $66,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of term loans (such term loans, the “Subscriber Term Loans” and such amount, the “Subscriber Term Loan Amount” under that certain Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of February 17, 2017 (as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of December 23, 2019, as further amended by that certain Amendment No. 2 to Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of January 18, 2022, as further amended by that certain Amendment No. 3 to Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of April 8, 2022, and as further amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Term Loan Facility”), by and among BC Cyan Parent Inc., Blue Nile, the lenders party thereto from time to time, Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as administrative agent, and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as collateral agent.