Item 2.01 | Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets. |
On October 13, 2022, P10 Intermediate Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Buyer”), and P10, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“P10” or the “Company”), completed its previously announced acquisition (the “Acquisition”) of all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of Westech Investment Advisors LLC, a California limited liability company (“WTI”), in accordance with the terms and conditions of the previously announced Sale and Purchase Agreement, dated August 25, 2022 (the “Sale and Purchase Agreement”).
The purchase price paid at the closing of the Acquisition, which is subject to certain customary closing adjustments, consisted of $97,000,008 in cash and an aggregate of 3,916,666 membership units representing limited liability company interests of the Buyer (“Buyer Units”). Subject to certain conditions, the Buyer Units will be exchangeable into shares of Class A Common Stock of the Parent on a one-for-one basis, pursuant to that certain Exchange Agreement entered into on August 25, 2022, by and among the Buyer, the Parent and the other signatory parties thereto (the “Exchange Agreement”). The Class A Units of P10 acquired under the Exchange Agreement are subject to a restricted period in which the holder cannot offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, such Class A Common Stock beneficially owned. The restricted period terminates as follows: (i) with respect to one-third of the Class A Common Stock held by such stockholder, on October 21, 2022; (ii) with respect to two-thirds of the Class A Common Stock held by such stockholder, on October 21, 2023; and (iii) with respect to all of the Class A Common Stock held by such stockholder, on October 21, 2024.
In addition, the Seller Recipients (as defined in the Sale and Purchase Agreement) are eligible to receive additional consideration upon the achievement of certain earn-out milestones during the earn-out period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2027 (as may be extended in certain events) pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement, subject to potential reduction in accordance with the terms of the Sale and Purchase Agreement, and employees of WTI are eligible to receive bonus compensation for achievement of these earn-out milestones from an employee retention bonus plan established at closing. The earn-out milestones and aggregate consideration and bonuses payable is as follows: (i) $35,000,000 in consideration in the aggregate (without interest) based upon the achievement of $20,000,000 in EBITDA in any such four-quarter period; (ii) $17,500,000 in consideration in the aggregate (without interest) based upon the achievement of $22,500,000 in EBITDA in any such four-quarter period; and (iii) $17,500,000 in consideration in the aggregate (without interest) based upon the achievement of $25,000,000 in EBITDA in any such four-quarter period. Pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement, any future earn-out payments payable to the Seller Recipients will be forfeited in the event such Seller Recipient’s employment with WTI or one of its Affiliates is terminated by WTI for Cause (as defined in his Employment Agreement) or by such Seller Recipient without Good Reason (as defined in his Employment Agreement) prior to the last day of a quarter in which any applicable earn-out milestone is achieved. Any earn-out payment will be paid in cash; provided, that up to 50% of the earn-out payments payable to the Seller Recipients pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement, at a Seller Recipient’s option, will be paid in Units of Buyer which may be converted into shares of Class A common stock of P10.