| On February 5, 2025, the Issuer entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the "2025 Stock Purchase Agreement") with TPHS Lender and Steel IP Investments, LLC (the "Purchaser"), an affiliate of Steel Partners Holdings L.P., pursuant to which the Purchaser has agreed to purchase from TPHS Lender, and TPHS Lender has agreed to sell to Purchaser, 25,862,245 shares of Common Stock (the "Seller Shares") in accordance with the terms and conditions of the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement. The aggregate consideration payable to TPHS Lender is $2,586,200 for the Seller Shares and certain agreements pursuant to the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement.
At the closing of the transactions contemplated by the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement, the Issuer, TPHS Lender and the Purchaser will enter into certain ancillary agreements as further described in the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement. The transactions contemplated by the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement are herein referred to as the "Transactions." The obligations of TPHS Lender and the Purchaser to consummate the Transactions are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions, including:
- with respect to the Purchaser, among other things: (a) the assumption by TPHS Lender of the Issuer's guarantee under a loan relating to the Issuer's property in Paramus, New Jersey (the "New Jersey Property") owned by JV, (b) the Issuer shall have received waivers from certain service providers of the Issuer with respect to legacy fees incurred by the Issuer (the "Waiver Condition"), (c) the Issuer and the Purchaser shall have entered into the Purchaser Stockholders' Agreement described in the Issuer's Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 5, 2025 and attached thereto as Exhibit 10.1, (d) the partial termination by the Issuer and TPHS Lender of the Stock Purchase Agreement, except for any provisions of the Stock Purchase Agreement which would cause an impairment or termination of TPHS Lender's representation and warranty insurance policy obtained concurrently with the Stock Purchase Agreement, and the termination and cancellation of the TPHS Lender's right to receive penny warrants of the Issuer equivalent to 5% of the Common Stock and (e) the termination and forfeiture of registration rights held by certain securityholders of the Issuer; and
- with respect to TPHS Lender, among other things, (a) the JV Operating Agreement shall be amended, to, among other things, remove any Issuer decision-making and/or consent rights with respect to the New Jersey Property and the JV, (b) the Issuer shall have released the JV's obligation to pay, call capital and/or otherwise reserve for any such D&O insurance coverage (including insurance tail coverage) and the TPHS Lender's obligation to hold back proceeds from the sale of property for any insurance policies of the Issuer, (c) the Issuer shall (i) have provided TPHS Lender with an irrevocable written right to cause the Issuer, at any time after the date that is 90 days following the date of the closing of the transaction contemplated by the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement (the "Closing Date"), to convey all of the Issuer's 95% ownership interest in the JV and its right to distributions under the JV Operating Agreement, into a trust established for the benefit of the Issuer's shareholders of record on a date to be determined and (ii) have entered into a termination agreement to that certain Asset Management Agreement, dated as of February 14, 2024, between TPH Asset Manager LLC (an Issuer subsidiary) and the JV Entity, on the date that is 45 days following the Closing Date, and waives the JV Entity's remaining obligations thereunder and (d) the Waiver Condition is satisfied.
The 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement may be terminated by either party if the closing of the transactions contemplated thereby has not have occurred within 30 days; provided that the terminating party cannot terminate if the breach by such party is the principal cause.
The sale of the Seller Shares is expected to close upon satisfaction of all closing conditions set forth in the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement. Such closing conditions include customary closing conditions and other closing conditions that, as of the date of this filing, have either already been satisfied or will be satisfied subject solely upon the passage of time. As a result, the Reporting Persons no longer beneficially own any securities of the Issuer.
The foregoing description of the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement. For further information regarding the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement, reference is made to the full text of the 2025 Stock Purchase Agreement, which has been filed as Exhibit 99.7 hereto and incorporated by reference herein. |