Neither 222 Investments nor Sponsor will have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any monies in the Company’s trust account held for its public stockholders, and has agreed not to, and has waived any right to, make any claim against the trust account (including any distributions therefrom). The requirement of the Company to issue any Backstop Shares is subject to, among other items, the consummation of the Business Combination. The Backstop Agreements will automatically terminate pursuant to their terms upon a termination of the Merger Agreement.
In connection with the Backstop Agreements, the Company has agreed to update the form of Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be filed by the Company at the closing of the Business Combination (the “Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”) and the form of Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement to be entered into at the closing of the Business Combination (the “Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement”). As a result of such updates to the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has agreed to file a resale registration statement for shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Backstop Shares within 30 days after the closing of the Business Combination and to use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof. Both the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement are attached as annexes to Amendment No. 2.
The foregoing description of the 222 Backstop Agreement, the Sponsor Commitment Letter, the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the terms and conditions of the Backstop Agreement, the Sponsor Commitment Letter, the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement and the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.2, 10.3, Annex I to Amendment No. 2 and Annex II to Amendment No. 2, respectively, and are incorporated by reference.
Amendment to the Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement
As previously disclosed, on December 13, 2021, the Company, Gores Sponsor VIII LLC (the “Sponsor”), and each other holder of Class F common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (the “Class F Stock”) entered into a waiver and share surrender agreement (as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to the Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement, dated as of May 20, 2022, the “Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement”), pursuant to which Sponsor agreed to irrevocably surrender 1,751,925 shares of Class F Stock, in connection with, and subject to, the closing of the Business Combination.
On September 5, 2022, the parties to the Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement entered into Amendment No. 2 to the Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement (the “Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement Amendment No. 2”), pursuant to which the Sponsor has agreed to irrevocably surrender a total of 2,502,750 shares of Class F Stock, in connection with, and subject to, the closing of the Business Combination.
The foregoing description of the Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement Amendment No. 2 does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Waiver and Share Surrender Agreement Amendment No. 2, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Subscription Agreements; Termination of Sponsor Subscription Agreement; August Convertible Note Financing; Footprint Class D Financing
As previously disclosed, concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company entered into subscription agreements with certain investors, including certain individuals, institutional investors and Sponsor (such agreements collectively, the “Subscription Agreements” and such investors party thereto collectively, the “Subscribers”), pursuant to which the Subscribers agreed to purchase an aggregate of 28,555,000 shares of Class A Stock in a private placement for $10.00 per share (the “PIPE Investment”). As part of the PIPE Investment, the Sponsor agreed to purchase 9,450,000 shares of Class A Stock, at a price per share of $10.00 for an aggregate purchase price of $94,500,000 (the “Sponsor Subscription Agreement”).
In connection with the execution of Amendment No. 2 to the Merger Agreement, certain Subscribers agreed to amend the terms of the Subscription Agreements (“Subscription Agreement Amendments”) to consent to (i) the terms of Amendment No. 2 to the Merger Agreement and (ii) amend the terms of the Subscription Agreement such that each Subscription Agreement will terminate with no further force and effect upon the earliest to occur of: (a) such date and time as the Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms; (b) upon the mutual written agreement of the parties to such Subscription Agreement; (c) if any of the conditions to closing set forth in such Subscription Agreement are not satisfied or waived on or prior to the closing and, as a result thereof, the transactions contemplated by such Subscription Agreement are not consummated at the closing; and (d) 30 days after the October 31, 2022, if the closing of the Business Combination shall not have occurred by such date other than as a result of a breach of the investor’s obligations under the Subscription Agreement, unless further extended by the subscribers to the PIPE Investment.
As a result of the Subscription Agreement Amendments and the Termination Agreement (as defined below), the aggregate number of shares to be purchased in the PIPE Investment will be 9,090,000 shares of Class A Stock at $10.00 per share for an aggregate purchase price equal to $90,900,000.
The foregoing description of the Subscription Agreements, as amended by the Subscription Agreement Amendments does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Subscription Agreements and the Subscription Agreement Amendments, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibits 10.5 and 10.6 and is incorporated by reference.