Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Merger Agreement
Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. (“KVSA”) is a blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. On June 9, 2021, KVSA entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Valo Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Valo”), Valo Health, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Valo Holdco” and, together with Valo, the “Valo Parties”) and Killington Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of KVSA (“Merger Sub”).
The Merger
The Merger Agreement provides that, among other things and upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, the following transactions will occur (together with the other agreements and transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the “Business Combination”):
(i) no later than one business day prior to the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Closing”) and subject to the conditions of the Merger Agreement, Valo Holdco and Valo shall consummate the Pre-Closing Restructuring (as defined in the Merger Agreement), pursuant to which, amongst other things, Valo Holdco will, in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, merge with and into Valo, with Valo being the surviving corporation and, after giving effect to such merger, the former holders of all of the outstanding Valo Holdco Units (as defined in the Merger Agreement) will collectively own all of the outstanding shares of Valo common stock;
(ii) at the Closing, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Merger Agreement, in accordance with the DGCL, Merger Sub will merge with and into Valo, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub will cease and Valo will be the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of KVSA (the “Merger”);
(iii) as a result of the Merger, among other things, all outstanding shares of capital stock of Valo will be canceled in exchange for the right to receive, in the aggregate, 225,000,000 shares of KVSA Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per shares (“KVSA Common Stock”) (including those shares that underlie equity awards), reduced for the shares underlying outstanding equity awards of KVSA that are issued in exchange for all outstanding equity awards of Valo; and
(iv) upon the effective time of the Business Combination, KVSA will immediately be renamed “Valo Health, Inc.”
The Board of Directors of KVSA (the “Board”) has unanimously (i) approved and declared advisable the Merger Agreement, the Business Combination and the other transactions contemplated thereby and (ii) resolved to recommend approval of the Merger Agreement and related matters by the stockholders of KVSA.
Conditions to Closing
The Merger Agreement is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain customary closing conditions, including, among others, (i) approval of the Business Combination and related agreements and transactions by the stockholders of KVSA and equityholders of Valo and Valo Holdco, (ii) effectiveness of the proxy statement / registration statement on Form S-4 to be filed by KVSA in connection with the Business Combination, (iii) expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, (iv) receipt of approval for listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market the shares of KVSA Common Stock to be issued in connection with the Merger, (v) that KVSA have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets upon Closing (vi) the absence of any injunctions enjoining or prohibiting the Merger, and (vii) the completion of the Pre-Closing Restructuring no later than one business day prior to the Closing.
Other conditions to Valo’s obligations to consummate the Merger include, among others, that as of the Closing, (i) the Anti-Dilution Waiver (as defined below) being in full force and effect, and (ii) the amount of (x) cash available in the trust account into which substantially all of the proceeds of KVSA’s initial public offering and private placements of its common stock have been deposited for the benefit of KVSA, certain of its public stockholders and the underwriters of KVSA’s initial public offering (the “Trust Account”), after deducting the amount required to