Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On January 6, 2023, MSP Recovery, Inc., a Delaware corporation d/b/a LifeWallet (Nasdaq: LIFW) (the “Company”) entered into a Company Common Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with YA II PN, Ltd. (“YAII”). YAII is a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors Global, LP, (“Yorkville”) headquartered in Mountainside, New Jersey.
Upon the satisfaction of the conditions to Yorkville’s purchase obligation set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the Company will have the right, but not the obligation, from time to time at the Company’s discretion until the first day of the month following the 36-month anniversary of the date of the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement related to the Purchase Agreement (unless earlier terminated), to direct Yorkville to purchase up to the lesser of (i) $1 billion of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 (“Common Stock”), in the aggregate, and (ii) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that would be issued pursuant to Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby would exceed 650,000,000 shares of Common Stock (or, if less, 19.99% of the voting power or number of shares of combined Common Stock and Class V Common Stock of the Company issued and outstanding immediately prior to the execution of Purchase Agreement (the “Exchange Cap”), except as may otherwise be provided for in the Purchase Agreement, (each such sale, a “VWAP Purchase”) by delivering written notice to Yorkville (each, an “VWAP Purchase Notice.”). The shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to a VWAP Purchase will be purchased at a price equal to 98.0% of the VWAP on the effective date of the applicable VWAP Purchase Notice. “VWAP” means, for any trading day, the daily volume weighted average price of the Company’s common stock for such date as reported by Bloomberg L.P. during regular trading hours.
While there is no mandatory minimum amount for any individual VWAP Purchase, it may not exceed the greater of(i) a number of shares of Common Stock, which, when aggregated with all other shares of Common Stock then beneficially owned by Yorkville and its affiliates (as calculated pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and Rule 13d-3 promulgated thereunder), would result in beneficial ownership by Yorkville of more than 4.99% of the outstanding voting power or shares of Common Stock, and (ii) a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 33% of the aggregate shares of Common Stock traded on its principal market on the trading day of the applicable VWAP Purchase Notice. No more than 1 billion shares of Common Stock may be sold pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
Concurrently with entering into the Purchase Agreement, the Company also entered into a registration rights agreement with Yorkville (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) one or more registration statements (each, a “Registration Statement”) as necessary to register for sale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), Common Stock that may be issued to Yorkville under the Purchase Agreement.
The foregoing is a summary description of certain terms of the Purchase Agreement and Registration Rights Agreement. For a full description of all terms, please refer to copies of the Purchase Agreement and Registration Rights Agreement that are filed herewith as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and each of which is incorporated herein by reference.
This Current Report on Form 8-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
In addition, on January 6, 2023, the Company agreed to (i) terminate that certain (x) Purchase Agreement, dated May 17, 2022, with CF Principal Investments LLC (“CFPI”) and (y) confirmation (the “Confirmation”), dated May 17, 2022 for an OTC Equity Prepaid Forward Transaction by and between CFPI and the Company and (ii) amend the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 13, 2020, between the Company and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., an affiliate of CFPI (“CF&CO”), to pay up to $3,622,500 in shares of Common Stock, less any shares of Common Stock that have already been paid to CF&CO (the “Deferred Fee Shares”).