Exchange Agreement
At the Closing, SCS will enter into an exchange agreement with ProKidney and ProKidney’s continuing unitholders from time to time party thereto (the “Exchange Agreement Unitholders,” and such agreement, the “Exchange Agreement”). Pursuant to the Exchange Agreement and subject to the procedures and restrictions therein, from and after the waiver or expiration of any contractual lock-up period (including pursuant to the Lock-Up Agreement (described below)), each Exchange Agreement Unitholder will be entitled to exchange each of its ProKidney Common Units (together with one share of SCS Class B Common Stock) for one share of SCS Class A Common Stock (an “Exchange”). Under certain circumstances, and subject to certain exceptions, SCS may instead settle all or a portion of any Exchange in cash, in lieu of shares of SCS Class A Common Stock, based on a volume-weighted average price of a share of SCS Class A Common Stock.
Registration Rights Agreement
At the Closing, SCS, the Sponsor, certain unitholders of ProKidney, certain of their respective affiliates and the other parties thereto, will enter into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which SCS will agree to register for resale, pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), certain shares of SCS Class A Common Stock that are held by the parties thereto from time to time.
Lock-Up Agreement
At the Closing, SCS, the Sponsor, certain unitholders of ProKidney and certain of their respective affiliates, and the other parties thereto, will enter into a Lock-Up Agreement (the “Lock-Up Agreement”). The Lock-Up Agreement contains certain restrictions on transfer (i) with respect to the Sponsor, certain directors of SCS and their respective permitted transferees, the shares of SCS Common Stock held by such person immediately following the Closing (other than shares of SCS Common Stock purchased in the PIPE Investment (“PIPE Shares”) or shares of SCS Common Stock acquired in the public market) and (ii) with respect to certain unitholders of ProKidney, (a) the shares of SCS Common Stock, ProKidney Common Units and other equity interests of ProKidney held by such person immediately following the Closing, including any PIPE Shares but excluding any shares of SCS Common Stock acquired in the public market, (b) shares of SCS Common Stock, ProKidney Common Units or other equity interests of ProKidney issued upon settlement or exercise of profits interests, restricted stock units, stock options or other equity awards of SCS, ProKidney or their respective subsidiaries outstanding as of immediately following the Closing and (c) shares of SCS Common Stock and ProKidney Common Units, if any, issued pursuant to the Earnout (the “Earnout Shares”) (the shares of SCS Common Stock subject to such restrictions, the “Lock-up Shares”). Such restrictions begin at the Closing and end on the earlier of (i) the date that is 180 days after the Closing and (ii)(a) for 33% of the Lock-up Shares (other than the Earnout Shares and the Sponsor Private Placement Shares (as defined below), the date on which the last reported sale price of SCS Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $12.50 per share for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 30 days after the Closing and (b) for an additional 50% of the Lock-up Shares (other than the Earnout Shares and the Sponsor Private Placement Shares), the date on which the last reported sale price of SCS Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $15.00 per share for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing at least 30 days after the Closing. Notwithstanding the above, (i) the lock-up period for any Earnout Shares will expire not earlier than 180 days after such Earnout Shares are issued; (ii) 50% of the Lock-up Shares held by certain ProKidney unitholders and their affiliates will remain locked up until the earlier of four years following the Closing and the date that ProKidney receives notice of any regulatory market authorization, including full or conditional authorization, to market its lead product candidate, Renal Autologous Cell Therapy (but, in any event, not earlier than 180 days following the Closing or (in the case of Earnout Shares) the date of issuance); and (iii) the lock-up period for the shares of SCS Class A Common Stock that were issued to the Sponsor in a private placement concurrently with SCS’s initial public offering (the “Sponsor Private Placement Shares”) will expire 30 days after the Closing. The restrictions on transfer set forth in the Lockup Agreement are subject to customary exceptions.
The foregoing description of the Business Combination Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the ProKidney Unitholder Support Agreement, the ProKidney Partnership Agreement, the Tax Receivable Agreement, the Exchange Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Lock-Up Agreement and the transactions and documents contemplated thereby, is not complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the Business Combination Agreement, the form of Subscription Agreement for institutional investors, the form of Subscription Agreement for individual investors, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the ProKidney Unitholder Support Agreement, the ProKidney Partnership Agreement, the Tax Receivable Agreement, the Exchange Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Lock-Up Agreement, copies of which are filed
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