| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Amended and Restated Equity Distribution Agreement
On December 18, 2019, Mitcham Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an amended and restated equity distribution agreement (the “Equity Distribution Agreement”) with Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. (the “Agent”), pursuant to which the Company may sell up to 500,000 shares of the Company’s 9.00% Series A Cumulative Preferred Stock, liquidation preference $25.00 per share, par value $1.00 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), from time to time to or through the Agent. The Equity Distribution Agreement amends, restates and replaces in its entirety the equity distribution agreement dated October 7, 2016 between the Company and the Agent, pursuant to which 433,564 of the 500,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock covered by Equity Distribution Agreement have been previously sold.
Pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Series A Preferred Stock may be offered and sold through the Agent by any method permitted by law deemed to be an“at-the-market” offering as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including without limitation sales made directly on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, on any existing trading market for the Series A Preferred Stock or to or through a market maker other than on an exchange or, if specified in a placement notice from the Company, in negotiated transactions. Under the terms of the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Company may also sell Series A Preferred Stock to the Agent as principal for its own account at a price agreed upon at the time of sale. Under the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to compensation of up to 2.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Series A Preferred Stock sold through the Agent from time to time pursuant to the terms of the Equity Distribution Agreement. The Company has no obligation to sell any of the Series A Preferred Stock under the Equity Distribution Agreement and may at any time suspend solicitations and offers under the Equity Distribution Agreement.
The Series A Preferred Stock will be issued pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on FormS-3 (FileNo. 333-233984), declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on October 3, 2019. The Company is filing a prospectus supplement, dated December 18, 2019, to the prospectus, with the SEC in connection with the offering and sale by the Company of up to 66,436 shares of the Series A Preferred Stock.
Relationships
The Agent and its affiliates may from time to time in the future provide to the Company and its affiliates certain commercial banking, financial advisory, investment banking and other services in the ordinary course of their business, for which they would receive customary fees and commissions. In addition, Peter H. Blum, who serves as a director on the Company’s Board of Directors, is alsoCo-Chief Executive Officer andCo-President of the Agent. From time to time the Agent and its affiliates may effect transactions for their own account or the account of customers, and hold on behalf of themselves or their customers, long or short positions in the Company’s debt or equity securities or loans, and may do so in the future.
The foregoing description of the Equity Distribution Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Equity Distribution Agreement, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.
