Exhibit 10.1
Institutional Investor Form
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into this __________ day of February, 2021, by and among Li-Cycle Holdings Corp., a company incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada and a wholly owned subsidiary of Li-Cycle (as defined below) (the “Issuer”), Peridot Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Peridot”), and ____________________________________________ (“Subscriber”).
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement, the Issuer entered into a Business Combination Agreement (as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among Peridot, Li-Cycle Corp., an Ontario corporation (“Li-Cycle”), and the Issuer, pursuant to which, among other things, (i) holders of Peridot’s issued and outstanding Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Shares”), will receive the Issuer’s common shares (the “Common Shares”), (ii) holders of the issued and outstanding warrants to purchase Class A Shares of Peridot will receive warrants of the Issuer to purchase Common Shares at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, and (iii) the Issuer will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Li-Cycle from Li-Cycle shareholders in exchange for Common Shares (such transaction and the other transactions consummated pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, the “Transaction”);
WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Subscription Agreement, Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Issuer, prior to or simultaneous with the closing of the Transaction, the number of Issuer’s Common Shares set forth on the signature page hereto (such Common Shares, the “Acquired Shares”) for a purchase price of $10.00 per share (the “Share Purchase Price”), or the aggregate purchase price set forth on the signature page hereto (the “Purchase Price”), and the Issuer desires to issue and sell the Acquired Shares to Subscriber in a private placement in consideration of the payment of the Purchase Price by or on behalf of Subscriber to the Issuer at or prior to the Closing Date; and
WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, certain other institutional “accredited investors” (as such term is defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”, and each such institutional “accredited investor”, an “Other Subscriber”)), have entered into subscription agreements with the Issuer substantially similar to this Subscription Agreement, pursuant to which such Other Subscribers have agreed to subscribe for and purchase, and the Issuer has agreed to issue and sell to such Other Subscribers, on the Closing Date, a total of at least ________________ Common Shares at the Share Purchase Price (the “Other Subscription Agreements”).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1. | Subscription. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Subscriber hereby agrees to subscribe for and purchase, and the Issuer hereby agrees to issue and sell to Subscriber, upon the payment of the Purchase Price, the Acquired Shares (such subscription and issuance, the “Subscription”). The undersigned understands and agrees that the undersigned’s subscription for the Acquired Shares shall be deemed to be accepted by the Issuer only when this Subscription Agreement is signed by a duly authorized person by or on behalf of the Issuer. The Issuer may sign this Subscription Agreement in counterpart form. In the event of the termination of this subscription in accordance with the terms hereof, this Subscription Agreement shall be null and void and have no force or effect. |