Company Holders Support Agreement
On July 14, 2021, RTPY entered into the Voting and Support Agreements (the “Company Holders Support Agreements”) , in each case, with Merger Sub and an Aurora stockholder party thereto, pursuant to which each Aurora stockholder party has agreed, among other things, to vote in favor of the adoption and approval of the Merger Agreement and the other documents to which Aurora is a party contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby.
Transfer Restrictions and Registration Rights
The Merger Agreement contemplates that, at the Closing, Aurora Innovation, the Sponsor, certain equityholders of Aurora and certain of their respective affiliates, as applicable, and the other parties thereto, will enter into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which Aurora Innovation will agree to register for resale, pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), certain shares of Aurora Innovation Class A common stock that are held by the parties thereto from time to time.
The Merger Agreement contemplates that, at the Closing, Aurora Innovation and the Major Company Equityholders (as defined in the Merger Agreement) will enter into a Lock-Up Agreement (the “Lock-Up Agreement”). The Lock-Up Agreement contains certain restrictions on transfer with respect to shares of Aurora Innovation common stock held by the Major Company Equityholders immediately following the Closing (other than shares purchased in the public market or in the PIPE Investment) and the shares of Aurora Innovation common stock issuable to directors, officers and employees of Aurora Innovation upon settlement or exercise of equity awards outstanding as of immediately following the Closing in respect of awards of Aurora outstanding immediately prior to the Closing (the “Major Company Equityholders Lock-up Shares”). Such restrictions begin at the Closing and end in tranches of 25% of the Major Company Equityholders’ Lock-up Shares at each of (i) the one-year anniversary of Closing, (ii) the two-year anniversary of the Closing, (iii) the three-year anniversary of the Closing and (iv) the four-year anniversary of the Closing. If, after Closing, Aurora Innovation completes a transaction that results in a change of control, the Major Company Equityholders Lock-up Shares are released from restriction immediately prior to such change of control. Pursuant to the Sponsor Agreement, the shares of Aurora Innovation common stock (other than shares purchased in the public market or in the PIPE Investment) held by Sponsor are subject to the same restrictions and releases as the Major Company Equityholder Lock-up Shares in addition to the additional vesting thresholds described in therein.
The proposed bylaws of Aurora Innovation also contain restrictions on transfer for a period of 180 days following the Closing with respect to shares of Aurora Innovation common stock issued to holders of Aurora capital stock in the Merger and issuable to directors and executives officers of Aurora Innovation upon settlement or exercise of equity awards of Aurora Innovation outstanding as of immediately following the Closing in respect of equity awards of Aurora outstanding immediately prior to the Closing (the “Bylaw Lock-up Shares”).
The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the Sponsor Agreement and the Company Holders Support Agreements, and the transactions and documents contemplated thereby, is not complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, the form of Subscription Agreement, the Sponsor Support Agreement and the Sponsor Agreement, copies of which are filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 2.1, Exhibit 10.1, Exhibit 10.2, Exhibit 10.3, and Exhibit 10.4 respectively, and the terms of which are incorporated by reference herein.
The Merger Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the Sponsor Agreement and the Company Holders Support Agreements have been included to provide investors with information regarding its terms. They are not intended to provide any other factual information about RTPY or its affiliates. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreements, the Sponsor Agreements, the Company Holders Support Agreements and the other documents related thereto were made only for purposes of such agreements as of the specific dates therein, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreements, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to such agreements instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Merger Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the Sponsor Agreement or the Company Holders Support Agreements should not rely on the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the parties thereto or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of representations and warranties may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the Sponsor Agreement or the Company Holders Support Agreement, as applicable, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the RTPY’s public disclosures.