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13. Debt Exit Facility Agreement In connection with the emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases, on the Effective Date, the DIP Facility converted to the Exit Note Purchase Agreement, for an aggregated principal amount of $28.0 million, including accrued and unpaid interest subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Exit Note Purchase Agreement by and among the Operating Subsidiary, as the issuer, the Guarantors, Purchaser and the Collateral Agent (each as defined in the Exit Note Purchase Agreement). The Exit Note Purchase Agreement provides for: (i) a roll up of $12.6 million DIP New Money Notes (plus any accrued unpaid interest); (ii) a roll up of $8.0 million of DIP Roll Up Notes (plus any accrued unpaid interest) (collectively with the roll up of the $12.6 million DIP New Money Notes, the “Exit Roll Up Notes”); and (iii) an additional $7.0 million of Exit New Money Notes and, together with the Exit Roll Up Notes, the “Notes”, of which $3.0 million was drawn, less $0.2 million of debt issuance costs, with the remaining $4.0 million available to be drawn upon as of December 31, 2023. The Exit Note Purchase Agreement also provides for a $10.0 million uncommitted incremental facility. The proceeds of the net $2.8 million of Exit New Money Notes were used to fund restructuring expenses and for working capital, for general corporate purposes and to pay interest, premiums, fees and expenses payable under the other Note Documents (as defined in the Exit Note Purchase Agreement). The Notes bear interest at a rate equal to the Adjusted Term SOFR (as defined in the Exit Note Purchase Agreement) plus 7.00% per annum. A portion of the interest on the Notes is paid-in-kind until the third year following the Effective Date. The Exit Roll Up Notes mature on December 7, 2026, and the Exit New Money Notes mature on December 7, 2025. The Notes issued pursuant to the Exit Note Purchase Agreement are secured by a lien on substantially all of the present and future property and assets of Operating Subsidiary and each Guarantor, subject to customary exceptions and exclusions. The Exit Note Purchase Agreement also includes conditions precedent, representations and warranties, affirmative and negative covenants, events of default, and other customary provisions, including financial covenants with respect to minimum consolidated liquidity and minimum consolidated adjusted EBITDA. As of March 31, 2024, the Company was not in compliance with the minimum consolidated adjusted EBITDA covenant contained in the Exit Note Purchase Agreement. In anticipation of such default, the Company obtained a waiver from the Purchaser and the Collateral Agent on March 27, 2024. There can be no assurance that the Purchase and the Collateral Agent will waive any future defaults that may occur. If future defaults occur, the Purchaser and the Collateral Agent can exercise their rights and remedies under the Exit Note Purchase Agreement (and other security related documents), including a right to accelerate the maturity of the Company’s repayment obligations under the Notes. On June 28, 2024, the Company entered into the First Amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Exit Note Purchase Agreement. The First Amendment provides for: (i) the amendment of the minimum consolidated adjusted EBITDA financial covenant to (a) allow adjustment for costs related to the restatement of, or other adjustments to, the financial statements of the Company for the period beginning on the Closing Date (as defined in the Exit Note Purchase Agreement) and ending at the end of the 2025 Fiscal Year and (b) the minimum consolidated adjusted EBITDA financial covenant to be first tested at the quarter ended September 30, 2024, (ii) the amendment of the minimum consolidated liquidity financial covenant to (a) reduce the minimum consolidated liquidity to $1,000,000 from September 30, 2024 to March 30, 2025 and (b) defer the testing of the minimum consolidated liquidity financial covenant to September 30, 2024 and (iii) the extension of the deadline for the delivery of the Company’s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 (the “fiscal 2024 financial statements”) to September 27, 2024 and the removal of the covenant that the fiscal 2024 financial statements be accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant which is not subject to any “going concern” or like qualification. The minimum consolidated liquidity covenant will be tested at all times from and after September 30, 2024, and requires the Company and its subsidiaries to maintain a minimum average Consolidated Liquidity (as defined in the First Amendment) during any seven consecutive day period of no less than: (i) from September 30, 2024 to March 30, 2025, $1,000,000; (ii) from March 31, 2025 to June 29, 2025, $2,500,000; (iii) from June 30, 2025 to September 29, 2025, $3,000,000; (iv) from September 30, 2025 to March 30, 2026, $3,500,000; and (v) from March 31 2026 to December 7, 2026, $4,000,000. The minimum consolidated adjusted EBITDA covenant will be tested on the last day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with September 30, 2024, and will require the Company and its subsidiaries to maintain a minimum consolidated adjusted EBITDA (as defined in the First Amendment) as at the end of any fiscal quarter (i) from the Closing Date until September 30, 2024, for the period of the fiscal quarters then ended in such calendar year and (ii) from October 1, 2024, for the four fiscal quarter period then ended, to be less than the correlative amount indicated below (with corresponding calendar quarters also included as reference): | | Fiscal Quarter Ending | Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA | September 30, 2024 | $2,500,000 | December 31, 2024 | $4,000,000 | March 31, 2025 | $5,000,000 | June 30, 2025 | $5,500,000 | September 30, 2025 | $6,000,000 | December 31, 2025 | $6,500,000 | March 31, 2026 | $8,000,000 | June 30, 2026 | $8,000,000 | September 30, 2026 | $8,000,000 |
As of December 31, 2023, the Company has recorded $24.1 million within Exit new money notes, net, non-current on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. Interest expense related to the Notes during the three and nine months ended December 31, 2023 was $1.1 million for both periods. Three-Year Term Note On February 4, 2019, the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement (as amended, the “Note Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto as guarantors, the Collateral Agent and any other purchasers party thereto from time to time (collectively, the “Purchaser”). On October 1, 2020, the Company entered into an Amended & Restated Note Purchase Agreement (the “A&R Note Purchase Agreement”). As of March 31, 2023, the Company had borrowings under the Note Purchase Agreement of $51.0 million. The A&R Note Purchase Agreement contained a covenant, among others requiring the Company to have at all times a liquidity (the “Liquidity Covenant”) of at least $9.0 million. On April 21, 2023, the Company breached the Liquidity Covenant when its total funds in accounts subject to account control agreements fell below $9.0 million. On July 3, 2023, the Company failed to make an interest payment. On July 6, 2023, the Company entered into a Fourth Amendment (the “Fourth Amendment”) to the A&R Note Purchase Agreement by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P. (as successor in interest to Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Holdings, Inc.), as Collateral Agent and the purchaser party thereto (the “Purchaser”). The Fourth Amendment provides for (i) the waiver by the Purchaser and the Collateral Agent of the Company’s breach of the minimum consolidated liquidity covenant contained in the A&R Note Purchase Agreement, the failure to make the interest payment and certain other breaches specified therein; (ii) the extension of the maturity of the $50 million aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding pursuant to the A&R Note Purchase Agreement from October 1, 2023 to September 1, 2024; (iii) an amendment fee payable by the Company at maturity equal to 1.00% of the principal balance of the Notes on the effective date of the Fourth Amendment (the “Fourth Amendment Effective Date”); (iv) a due date for the next interest payment on the date that is 30 days from the Fourth Amendment Effective Date, which interest payment was originally due on July 3, 2023; (v) following the Company’s entry into a TSA, the payment-in-kind of the quarterly interest payments that are due following the next the interest payment; (vi) a new minimum consolidated liquidity covenant requirement of $4.0 million, commencing on July 14, 2023, which amount will increase to $4.5 million on August 16, 2023 and to $6.0 million on August 31, 2023; (vii) the replacement of the Adjusted LIBO Rate with a Term SOFR interest rate benchmark; (viii) the ability for the Collateral Agent to either (A) force a conversion of the interest rate benchmark to Base Rate or (B) impose default interest during an Event of Default; (ix) the right for one designated Collateral Agent board observer to attend the meetings of the Company’s Board of Directors (and committees thereof) in a non-voting capacity, subject to certain customary exceptions; and (x) the amendment to certain provisions of the A&R Note Purchase Agreement, including to add a number of new covenants. Those new covenants include requirements that the Company (i) enter into a TSA within 30 days of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date; (ii) subject to necessary stockholder approvals, execute and deliver, or reach agreement on substantially final versions of, the definitive documentation with respect of the transactions specified in the TSA in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent within 45 days after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date; (iii) close the transactions specified by the TSA by September 15, 2023; and (iv) provide a Section 382 analysis (i.e., an analysis relating to the potential limitation of the use of the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards due to ownership changes, which loss carryforwards the Company understands may be potentially valuable in one or more transaction structures) to the Collateral Agent on a quarterly basis. The Fourth Amendment also imposes restrictions on the Company’s ability to (i) pay professional fees for 30 days in excess of $2,000,000 in the aggregate; (ii) make certain other cash disbursements in excess of thresholds set forth in the Fourth Amendment; and (iii) amend existing, or enter into new, employment agreements or pay or incur any bonus or severance payment. On August 16, 2023, the Company entered into a Fifth Amendment (the “Fifth Amendment”) to the A&R Note Purchase Agreement by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Purchaser. The Fifth Amendment provides for (i) the waiver by the Purchaser and the Collateral Agent of the Company’s breach of a covenant contained in the A&R Note Purchase Agreement to enter into a TSA with one or more lenders in form and substance mutually satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and the Company within 30 days of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date and the failure to make an interest payment within 30 days of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date; (ii) a due date for the next interest payment on August 22, 2023 or such later date as is agreed to by the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion, which interest payment was originally due within 30 days Fourth Amendment Effective Date to the A&R Note Purchase Agreement; (iii) a minimum Consolidated Liquidity covenant requirement of $3.5 million, commencing on July 14, 2023 and operative through September 1, 2024; and (iv) the amendment of the milestones with respect of the TSA to require that the Company (A) agree to the terms and form of the TSA (which may include a structure including bankruptcy proceedings) with one or more lenders in form and substance mutually satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and the Company by August 22, 2023 or such later date as is agreed to by the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion,(B) subject to any necessary stockholder approvals, execute and deliver, or reach agreement on substantially final versions of, the definitive documentation with respect of the transactions specified in the TSA in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent by August 31, 2023 or such later date as is agreed to by the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion, and (C) that the Company shall have closed the transactions specified by the TSA by September 15, 2023 or such later date as is agreed by the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion. On September 22, 2023, the Company entered into a Sixth Amendment (the “Sixth Amendment”) to the A&R Note Purchase Agreement among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, the Collateral Agent and the purchaser. Pursuant to the Sixth Amendment, the Company issued and the Purchaser purchased for $3,000,000 in cash additional senior secured notes on September 22, 2023 (the “Additional Notes”). The Additional Notes bear interest at the SOFR Rate plus 8.75% per annum, payable-in-kind on the last day of each interest period of one-, two-, three- or six-months (but, in the case of a six-month interest period, every three-months). The entire principal amount of the Additional Notes is due and payable on September 1, 2024 (the “Maturity Date”). The Additional Notes do not amortize and the entire principal balance is due in a single payment on the Maturity Date. On the Petition Date, the principal balance of the A&R Note Purchase Agreement of $53.0 million, including accrued interest of $3.5 million and $0.5 million of issuance costs, were classified as LSTC on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. The Company has suspended accruing and paying interest and amortizing deferred financing costs, discounts and premiums, as applicable. During the third quarter of Fiscal 2024, $18.0 million of the LSTC balance, including accrued interest of $1.3 million, was rolled up into the Debtor-in-Possession financing agreement and recorded within Exit new money notes, net, non-current on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023. Interest expense related to the Term note payable, current during the three and nine months ended December 31, 2023 was zero and $3.3 million, respectively. Gain on Extinguishment of Debt The Company incurred a $35.3 million gain as a result of the debt amendment related to emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 7, 2023. The gain is recorded within Reorganization items, net on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.
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