Item 1.01.
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
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On
December 1, 2020, FuelCell Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) and several selling stockholders of the Company identified below (the “Selling
Stockholders”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with J.P.
Morgan Securities LLC, as representative of the several underwriters named in Schedule 1 thereto (the “Underwriters”),
pursuant to which (i) the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Underwriters 19,822,219 shares of the Company’s common
stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), plus up to 5,177,781 shares of Common Stock pursuant to an
option to purchase additional shares (for a total of 25,000,000 shares of Common Stock), and (ii) the Selling Stockholders agreed
to sell to the Underwriters 14,696,320 shares of Common Stock, in each case at a price to the public of $6.50 per share.
The Underwriters exercised their option to purchase 5,177,781 additional shares from the
Company in full on December 2, 2020, resulting in the issuance and sale by the Company at the closing of the offering of a total
of 25,000,000 shares. The offering closed on December 4, 2020.
Gross
proceeds from the sale by the Company of a total of 25,000,000 shares of Common Stock were approximately $162.5 million. The
Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale by the Selling Stockholders of 14,696,320 shares of Common Stock. After
the closing of the offering, the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding was 319,706,758. After the closing of the
offering, the Selling Stockholders continue to hold outstanding warrants, which were issued pursuant to the Orion Credit Agreement
(as defined below), to purchase up to 2,700,000 shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.242 per share.
Under
the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company and the Selling Stockholders paid underwriting discounts and commissions of
$0.2275 per share (for a price to the Underwriters of $6.2725 per share). Accordingly, net proceeds to the Company were approximately
$156.3 million after deducting other estimated Company expenses.
Under
the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company and the Selling Stockholders have agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against
certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The
Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, covenants, obligations of the parties and termination provisions.
In
addition, in connection with the offering, the Company and its directors and officers entered into a customary 90-day lock-up agreement
with the Underwriters. As part of the offering, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC waived lock-up restrictions entered into in accordance
with the common stock offering consummated on October 2, 2020 with respect to all of the shares sold in this offering by the Company
and the Selling Stockholders. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC also waived all remaining lock-up restrictions applicable to the Selling
Stockholders, including with respect to the warrants to purchase up to 2,700,000 shares of Common Stock (which warrants were issued
pursuant to the Orion Credit Agreement), and the Selling Stockholders did not enter into new lock-up agreements
in connection with the offering.
The
Selling Stockholders are Orion Energy Credit Opportunities Fund II, L.P., Orion Energy Credit Opportunities Fund II GPFA,
L.P., Orion Energy Credit Opportunities Fund II PV, L.P., and Orion Energy Credit Opportunities FuelCell Co-Invest, L.P. These
Selling Stockholders are the lenders under the Orion Credit Agreement.
As
previously disclosed, on October 31, 2019, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries as guarantors entered into a Credit
Agreement (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Orion Credit
Agreement”) with Orion Energy Partners Investment Agent, LLC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (the
“Orion Agent”), and certain lenders affiliated with the Orion Agent for a $200.0 million senior secured credit
facility (the “Orion Facility”), structured as a delayed draw term loan to be provided by the lenders primarily
to fund certain of the Company’s construction and related costs for fuel cell projects which meet the requirements of
the Orion Facility. The Orion Credit Agreement was amended on November 22, 2019, January 20, 2020, February 11, 2020, April
30, 2020, and June 8, 2020.
On November 30, 2020, the Company, its
subsidiary guarantors, and the Orion Agent entered into a payoff letter with respect to the Orion Credit Agreement (the “Payoff
Letter”). The Payoff Letter specifies that, provided that the repayment in full of all of the Company’s obligations,
including the prepayment premium and accrued interest through the repayment date, occurs on or before December 11, 2020, the aggregate
prepayment premium set forth in the Orion Credit Agreement shall be reduced from approximately $14.9 million to $4 million and,
the Orion Agent, on behalf of itself and the lenders, agrees that (i) the payment by the Company of an aggregate prepayment premium
of $4 million shall constitute all of the obligations of the Company and the other loan parties in respect of the prepayment premium
under the Orion Credit Agreement and (ii) any portion of the prepayment premium that would otherwise be required to be paid pursuant
to the Orion Credit Agreement in excess of the amount specified above shall be deemed waived by the Orion Agent and the lenders.
The Payoff Letter further specifies that, in the event that the Company does not payoff the obligations on or before December 11,
2020, the conditional waiver of a portion of the prepayment premium contemplated by the Payoff Letter shall cease to be effective
and, accordingly, if the Company shall make any prepayment of the obligations following December 11, 2020, the Company shall be
obligated to pay the entire prepayment premium in full as contemplated by the Orion Credit Agreement.
Concurrently
with the Orion Agent’s receipt of full payment pursuant to the Payoff Letter, or as reasonably practicable as possible
thereafter, the Orion Agent shall deliver to the Company any necessary mortgage satisfactions, releases of liens, discharges,
terminations and other release documentation (including, without limitation terminations and/or releases relating to any
existing deposit account control agreements) executed by it releasing the Orion Agent’s liens and security interests in
all of the assets and property of the Company and its subsidiaries as guarantors.
The
foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement and the lock-up agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to
the Underwriting Agreement (including the Form of Lock-Up Agreement which is attached as Exhibit B to the Underwriting
Agreement), a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by
reference. The foregoing description of the Payoff Letter is qualified in its entirety
by reference to the Payoff Letter, a copy of which was previously filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K
filed by the Company on December 1, 2020.
The
offering was made pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-251054) and the prospectus supplement,
dated December 1, 2020, and accompanying prospectus, dated December 1, 2020, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act.
The
legal opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the shares of Common Stock in the
offering is attached as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
This
Current Report on Form 8-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any shares of Common Stock,
nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of shares of Common Stock in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other
jurisdiction.