CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Agreements with Shareholders
Series C Financing and Related Agreements
On August 1, 2019, Babylon sold 187,681,013 of its Series C Shares to certain purchasers, including entities affiliated with the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”), Invik S.A. (“Kinnevik”), and VNV (Cyprus) Limited (“VNV”), each of whom are beneficial owners of or affiliated with entities owning greater than 5% of Babylon’s voting securities, for an aggregate of $320.3 million, and issued an additional 39,699,132
Series C Shares to Kinnevik and VNV upon conversion of an aggregate of $57.1 million in convertible notes, all pursuant to a Subscription Agreement among Babylon and the purchasers (the “Series C Financing”). In connection with the Series C Financing, Babylon was party to transfer letters pursuant to which certain shareholders, including Kinnevik, VNV, Hanging Gardens Limited (“HGL”) and NNS Holdings S.a.r.l. (“NNS”) transferred 40,556,932 of Babylon’s then class B ordinary shares to ALP Partners Limited (“ALP”), an entity owned by Dr. Parsadoust, our Founder, Chief Executive Officer and member of our board of directors, in order to mitigate the dilutive effect of the Series C Financing on ALP’s holdings. In September 2020, in an extension of the Series C Financing, Babylon issued an additional 6,976,194 Series C Shares to Photenalo Limited and Atlas Peak Capital II, L.P., each of whom granted a voting power of attorney over their Babylon shares in favor of VNV, such that those shares would be voted as directed by VNV (or Babylon in the event that VNV ceased to be a Babylon shareholder). This voting power of attorney has since been terminated.
Convertible Notes
Pursuant to a loan note instrument constituting up to £17 million unsecured convertible loan notes, dated June 8, 2018, as amended on September 7, 2018, Babylon issued £10 million and £7 million of unsecured convertible loan notes to affiliates of Kinnevik and VNV (Cyprus) Limited, an entity affiliated with VNV, respectively.
On April 25, 2019, Babylon issued unsecured convertible loan notes (the “April Notes”) to Kinnevik Online AB for an amount of £6 million, VNV (Cyprus) Limited for an amount of £6 million and NNS for an amount of £12 million, for an aggregate amount of £24 million. On July 5, 2019, Babylon issued unsecured convertible loan notes (the “July Notes”) to Kinnevik Online AB for an amount of £12 million and VNV (Cyprus) Limited for an amount of £6 million, for an aggregate amount of £18 million. On August 1, 2019, Babylon issued 23,523,669 Series C Shares to Kinnevik Online AB in connection with the conversion of $34,042,400 of Kinnevik’s April Notes and July Notes (in the aggregate) and 16,175,463 Series C Shares to VNV (Cyprus) Limited in connection with the conversion of $23,100,200 VNV (Cyprus) Limited’s April Notes and July Notes (in the aggregate). Pursuant to a loan note waiver, dated August 1, 2019, between Babylon and NNS, the converting notes did not include those notes held by NNS.
Pursuant to a loan note instrument, dated November 12, 2020, constituting unsecured convertible loan notes (in the aggregate, the “VNV Notes”), Babylon issued two tranches of notes: (i) $30 million in the aggregate consisting of (a) $15 million of notes on November 16, 2020 to Global Health Equity AB (publ), which were subsequently transferred to Global Health Equity (Cyprus) Ltd., and (b) $15 million of notes on December 2, 2020 issued to Global Health Equity (Cyprus) Limited (collectively the “Tranche 1 Notes”), and (ii) $70 million in the aggregate issued on December 21, 2020, to Global Health Equity (Cyprus) Limited (the “Tranche 2 Notes”).
On December 30, 2020, the entire amount of the Tranche 1 Notes converted into 17,708,792 Series C Shares (including interest payable in respect of the Tranche 1 Notes).
On June 30, 2021, the Tranche 2 Notes converted into 41,012,358 Series C Shares in connection with the conversion of all $70 million outstanding in Tranche 2 Notes. No interest was payable in respect of the Tranche 2 Notes.
We originally anticipated agreement on the Business Combination several months earlier than it occurred due to market conditions. As such, we obtained bridge financing to address short-term cash flow needs pending consummation of the Business Combination. Accordingly, on July 15, 2021, we entered into a loan agreement with VNV Group for $15.0 million. The interest rate on the loan was 14%. This loan was repaid upon consummation of the Business Combination.