Committee, reminded the Board that he was a limited partner in certain investment funds managed by Monarch, which held a majority of the Company’s Notes, noting that these investments were not material to him from a financial perspective. Following the meeting, the Company’s management distributed a list of such principals, as requested by the Board, and each of the members of the Board and the Company’s management subsequently confirmed that no such conflict of interest existed. Following departure of the representatives of Venable from the meeting, the Board further discussed the indications of interest received on behalf of the Company and conducted the Board’s regular quarterly meeting agenda items.
The disclosure on page 42 of the Definitive Proxy Statement is modified as follows:
On January 3, 2024, the confidentiality agreement, dated as of December 12, 2023, between the Company and Haveli was amended to clarify that certain additional representatives and advisors of Haveli would be covered by the confidentiality agreement; but the confidentiality agreement with Haveli and such persons remained in substantially the same form as those entered into by other potential bidders.
Also on January 5, 2024, the Company and Stifel entered into an agreement to confirm that, at the closing of a change in control or financing transaction, the Company would pay Stifel $999,999 and the Company’s engagement of Stifel as a financial advisor would terminate and that the Company would be released from any future obligations to pay fees or other compensation to Stifel under all prior engagement letters.
The disclosure on page 45 of the Definitive Proxy Statement is modified as follows:
Also on January 26, 2024, representatives of Haveli delivered to Piper Sandler a non-binding letter of intent to acquire 100% of the equity interests of the Company for an all-cash purchase price based on a total enterprise value of $318 million, representing a price of $0.90 per share of Company common stock, assuming a fully- diluted share count of 143.4 million shares of Company common stock. The letter of intent also stated that Haveli was willing to provide a full-equity backstop for the transaction. The letter of intent also indicated Haveli’s interest in working with the management team and that it anticipated implementing a meaningful go-forward management incentive plan, as is typical for Haveli’s investments, and that Haveli was willing to discuss the details of any such plan at the appropriate time. The letter of intent also requested an exclusivity period until 9:29 a.m., Eastern Time, on January 29, 2024. Haveli’s letter of intent also stated that the non-binding proposal would terminate at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 26, 2024, unless accepted in writing by the Company at or prior to such time. Representatives of Haveli also sent an initial draft of its form of equity commitment letter and limited guarantee to representatives of Piper Sandler.
The section of the Definitive Proxy Statement entitled “The Merger—Opinion of Piper Sandler” is amended and supplemented as follows:
The disclosure on page 57 of the Definitive Proxy Statement in the first paragraph below the subheading “Valuation Methodologies” is modified by adding the following new text to the end of such paragraph:
Because Piper Sandler considered ZeroFox as two independent businesses, it did not perform a selected M&A transactions analysis for the whole company. Additional contributing factors were the unprofitability of the Platform business, OPM concentration and ZeroFox’s significant debt burden relative to its market capitalization.
The disclosure on page 58 of the Definitive Proxy Statement below the subheading “Valuation Methodologies– Platform Business–Selected Public Companies Analysis” is modified by:
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Platform Business: Selected Public Comparables Analysis
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$ in million | | | | | Revenue | | | EV / Revenue | |
| | EV | | | CY2023 | | | CY2024 | | | CY2023 | | | CY2024 | |
Backblaze | | $ | 407 | | | $ | 101 | | | $ | 124 | | | | 4.0x | | | | 3.3x | |
Copperleaf Technologies | | $ | 298 | | | $ | 60 | | | $ | 72 | | | | 4.9x | | | | 4.1x | |
FiscalNote | | $ | 419 | | | $ | 133 | | | $ | 146 | | | | 3.2x | | | | 2.9x | |
Thinkific Labs | | $ | 148 | | | $ | 59 | | | $ | 67 | | | | 2.5x | | | | 2.2x | |
Weave Communications | | $ | 985 | | | $ | 169 | | | $ | 194 | | | | 5.8x | | | | 5.1x | |
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