Item 1.01 |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
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On September 13, 2022, Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into Securities Purchase Agreements (the “Purchase Agreements”) with an institutional investor (the “Institutional Purchaser”) and the Company’s co-chairman
and chief executive officer, Greg Beard (together with the Institutional Purchaser, the “Purchasers”), for the purchase and sale of 2,274,350 and 602,409 shares,
respectively, of Class A Common Stock (collectively, the “Shares”), par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”) at a purchase price of $1.60 and $1.66, respectively, and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 5,602,409 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”), at an initial exercise price of $1.75 per share (subject to adjustments). Subject to certain ownership limitations, the Warrants are
exercisable upon issuance. The Warrants will be exercisable for five and a half years commencing upon the date of issuance. The Institutional Purchaser also agreed
to purchase pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,725,650 shares of Common Stock (the “Pre-funded Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.60 per Pre-funded Warrant. The Pre-funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.0001 per warrant share. The
transaction closed on September 19, 2022. The gross proceeds, before deducting offering expenses, from the sale of the Shares, the Warrants and the Pre-funded Warrants was approximately $9.0 million. The Company intends to use the proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include future acquisition of Bitcoin miners.
In connection with the Purchase Agreements, the Company entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with the Institutional Purchaser
(the “Registration Rights Agreement”) whereby it agreed to, among other things, file within 30 days of closing of the offering a resale registration statement (the “Resale Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) covering all shares of Common Stock sold to the Institutional Purchaser and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and the Pre-funded Warrants purchased by the Institutional Purchaser, and to cause the Resale
Registration Statement to become effective within the timeframes specified in the Registration Rights Agreement; failure to do so will result in certain penalties as set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.
Subject to certain exceptions, until 30 days after the effective date of the Resale Registration Statement (the “Effective Date”), the
Company will be prohibited from issuing, entering into any agreement to issue or announcing the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or securities convertible or exercisable into Common Stock, or filing, amending or supplementing
certain other registration statements. Until 6 months after the Effective Date, the Company will also be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance involving a variable rate transaction.
The Shares, the Warrants and the Pre-funded Warrants are being sold and issued without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act as sales to accredited
investors, and in reliance on similar exemptions under applicable state laws.
The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreements were made solely for the benefit of the parties to
the Purchase Agreements. In addition, such representations, warranties and covenants: (i) are intended as a way of allocating the risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreements and not as statements of fact, and (ii) may apply standards of
materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material by stockholders of, or other investors in, the Company. Accordingly, the Purchase Agreements are filed with this report only to provide investors with information regarding the
terms of transaction, and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the Company. Information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Purchase Agreements, which
subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreements, Registration Rights Agreement, Warrants and Pre-funded Warrants does not purport
to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text thereof, which are filed as exhibits to this report and are incorporated by reference herein.