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Company Overview
We are the leading vacation rental management platform in North America with over six million Nights Sold (as defined below) during the year ended December 31, 2023. Our integrated technology and operations platform is designed to optimize vacation rental income and home care for homeowners, offers guests a seamless, reliable, and high-quality experience and provides distribution partners with a variety of home listings. Our marketplace aggregates more than 40,000 home listings in hundreds of destinations across the United States and in Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Our guests are able to search, discover, and book properties on Vacasa.com, our guest app, and on the booking sites of distribution partners including, but not limited to, Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we generated approximately $2.3 billion in Gross Booking Value from over six million total number of nights stayed by guests in homes hosted on our platform over the period (“Nights Sold”).
Vacasa, Inc. was originally formed on July 1, 2021 under the name Voyage Newco, Inc., for purposes of consummating a business combination with TPG Pace Solutions Corp. (“TPG Pace”), a blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated on January 4, 2021. In July 2021, Voyage Newco, Inc. changed its name to Vacasa, Inc. On December 6, 2021, we consummated the business combination (the “Business Combination”) contemplated by that certain business combination agreement, dated as of July 28, 2021, by and among TPG Pace, Vacasa Holdings LLC (“Vacasa Holdings”), Turnkey Vacations, Inc., certain other Vacasa Holdings equity holders, us, and certain other parties, pursuant to which, among other things, TPG Pace merged with and into us, following which the separate corporate existence of TPG Pace ceased and we became the surviving corporation.
Our principal executive offices are located at 850 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209, and our telephone number is (503) 946-3650. Our website address is www.vacasa.com. Information contained on our website is not a part of this registration statement, and the inclusion of our website address in this prospectus is an inactive textual reference only.
Senior Secured Convertible Notes
On August 7, 2024, we entered into a note purchase agreement (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) by and among the Company, its subsidiaries Vacasa Holdings, as guarantor, and V-Revolver Sub LLC (“Borrower”), a Delaware limited liability company, as borrower, DK VCSA Lender LLC (“DK”), an affiliate of Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP and certain existing holders of Class A Common Stock, as purchaser, the other purchasers from time to time party thereto and Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent, providing for the issuance and sale of up to $75.0 million aggregate principal amount of first lien senior secured convertible notes due 2029 (the “Convertible Notes”) to DK. The Convertible Notes are comprised of: (i) $30.0 million of Convertible Notes (the “Initial Notes”) issued on August 7, 2024 (“the Funding Date”); (ii) up to $20.0 million of Convertible Notes to be issued pursuant to an option granted by the Borrower to DK, which is exercisable at DK’s option within six months after the Funding Date, on the same terms and conditions as the Initial Notes (the “DK Option Notes”); and (iii) up to $25.0 million of Convertible Notes to be issued pursuant to the mutual agreement of the Borrower and DK any time after the Funding Date, but before the Maturity Date (as defined below), on the same terms and conditions as the Initial Notes (together with the DK Option Notes, the “Additional Notes”). In the event DK does not exercise its option to purchase the DK Option Notes, then the Borrower may issue the DK Option Notes to a third-party purchaser pursuant to the terms of the Note Purchase Agreement.
The Convertible Notes bear interest at an annual rate of 11.25%, which is payable in kind through September 30, 2026, by adding the amount of such accrued interest to the principal amount of the Convertible Notes; provided that, at the Borrower’s election, interest may be paid in cash at an annual rate of 9.75%. From and after December 31, 2026, the Convertible Notes will bear interest at an annual rate equal to 9.75% payable in cash. The Convertible Notes