The Merger Consideration will not be paid in respect of (i) any shares of Class A Common Stock, Class B common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, of Vacasa (the “Class B Common Stock”) and Class G Common Stock held by Vacasa as treasury stock or owned by Parent or Merger Subs and any such shares owned by any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent or Merger Subs, in each case as of immediately prior to the Company Merger Effective Time (and excluding any Rollover Shares (as defined below)), which will cease to be outstanding, be automatically cancelled without payment of any consideration therefor or any conversion thereof and cease to exist, (ii) certain shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Rollover Stockholders (the “Rollover Shares”), which will be contributed to Parent immediately prior to the Vacasa LLC Units Redemption pursuant to the Support Agreements entered into in connection with the Merger Agreement (such contribution of Rollover Shares together with the contribution to Parent of certain Common Units (such contributed Common Units, the “Rollover Units”), the “Rollover”) and (iii) shares of Class A Common Stock held by holders who have not consented to the adoption of the Merger Agreement in writing and who have properly exercised appraisal rights with respect to their shares in accordance with, and who have complied with, Section 262 of the DGCL.
In connection with the Merger Agreement, MHRE STR II, LLC, TRT Investors 37, LLC and Roofstock, Inc. (the “Guarantors”) have delivered to Vacasa (i) a limited guarantee in favor of Vacasa and pursuant to which the Guarantors are guaranteeing certain obligations of Parent and Merger Subs in connection with the Merger Agreement and (ii) an executed equity commitment letter between Parent and the Guarantors pursuant to which the Guarantors have, together, committed to invest sufficient funds in Parent to finance a portion of the Merger Consideration.
The board of directors of Vacasa (the “Board”) formed a special committee of the Board comprised solely of disinterested and independent directors (the “Special Committee”), which, among other things, reviewed, evaluated and negotiated the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the Mergers, in consultation with its independent legal and financial advisors and, where appropriate, with Vacasa’s management and Vacasa’s legal advisors. The Special Committee, as more fully described in the accompanying Proxy Statement (as defined below), unanimously (i) determined that the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Vacasa and the holders of Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Class G Common Stock (“Company Stock”) (in their capacity as such), excluding the Rollover Stockholders (collectively, the “Unaffiliated Stockholders”), (ii) recommended that the Board approve and declare advisable the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers, and determined that the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Vacasa and the Unaffiliated Stockholders and (iii) recommended that, subject to Board approval, the Board submit the Merger Agreement to the stockholders of Vacasa for their adoption and recommend that the stockholders of Vacasa vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement.
The Board (acting on the unanimous recommendation of the Special Committee) has (i) determined that the Merger Agreement, the Support Agreements and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the Mergers, are fair to, and in the best interests of, Vacasa, the Unaffiliated Stockholders, Vacasa LLC and its members, (ii) approved and declared advisable the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers, (iii) authorized and approved the execution, delivery and performance by Vacasa and Vacasa LLC of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of transactions contemplated thereby, including the Mergers, upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained therein, (iv) directed that the adoption of the Merger Agreement be submitted to a vote of the stockholders of Vacasa at a meeting of the stockholders of Vacasa, and (v) recommended that the stockholders of Vacasa vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement.
Concurrently with the filing of this Transaction Statement, the Company is filing with the SEC a proxy statement (the “Proxy Statement”) under Regulation 14A of the Exchange Act, pursuant to which the Board is soliciting proxies from stockholders of the Company in connection with the Mergers. The Proxy Statement is attached hereto as Exhibit (a)(1). A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached to the Proxy Statement as Annex A and is incorporated herein by reference. As of the date hereof, the Proxy Statement is in preliminary form, and is subject to completion or amendment. Terms used but not defined in this Transaction Statement have the meanings assigned to them in the Proxy Statement.
Pursuant to General Instruction F to Schedule 13E-3, the information in the Proxy Statement, including all annexes thereto, is expressly incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, and responses to each item herein