Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On April 25, 2022, Arcosa, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Arcosa”), entered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Triarc Tanks Bidco, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Buyer”), an affiliate of BDCM Opportunity Fund V, L.P. (the “Sponsor”), pursuant to which Buyer agreed to acquire from Arcosa all of the issued and outstanding limited liability company interests of Arcosa Tank, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and subsidiary of Arcosa (the “Company”), for a cash purchase price of approximately $275 million, subject to the adjustments set forth therein (the “Transaction”). The Company and the Asset Sellers (as defined below) are engaged in the business of manufacturing, distributing, selling, reselling, reconditioning and repairing certain steel vessels, tanks and cylinders for, among others, the storage and transportation of gases and liquids (the “Business”).
Prior to the closing of the Transaction, Arcosa is required to effect a restructuring whereby its subsidiaries OFE, S. de R.L. de C.V., a Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (“OFE” ), and Arcosa Industries de Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V., a Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Arcosa Mexico” and, together with OFE, the “Asset Sellers”) will transfer certain assets used in the Business to a subsidiary of the Company, and Arcosa Mexico and Servicios Corporativos Tatsa, S. de R.L. de C.V., a Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V., will transfer their respective equity interests in Asistencia Profesional Corporativa, S. de R.L. de C.V., a Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V., to certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Restructuring”).
The Purchase Agreement includes customary representations, warranties and covenants. The closing of the Transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including, among others, (i) the expiration or termination of applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, (ii) the receipt of the authorization of the Transaction by the Mexican Competition Law (Ley Federal de Competencia Económica), (iii) the completion of the Restructuring, (iv) the absence of legal restraints preventing the consummation of the Transaction, and (v) the receipt of certain permits by a subsidiary of the Company. In connection with the Transaction, Buyer received a commitment from an insurer to bind a representations and warranties insurance policy issued in the name of Buyer.
The Purchase Agreement contains certain termination rights for Arcosa and Buyer, including the right to terminate the Purchase Agreement if the Transaction has not been consummated by October 25, 2022 or, if certain permits have not been obtained by a subsidiary of the Company by such date, January 25, 2023 (unless a breach of the Purchase Agreement by the party seeking termination is the cause of the failure of the closing to occur on or prior to such date). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Sponsor delivered to Arcosa an equity commitment letter pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to make an equity commitment to Buyer in connection with the Transaction, and a guarantee pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to guarantee Buyer’s obligation to pay a $22,000,000 reverse termination fee if the Purchase Agreement is terminated by Arcosa in certain circumstances where Buyer fails to consummate the Transaction.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Purchase Agreement, which will be filed as an exhibit to Arcosa’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
The Purchase Agreement will be included as an exhibit to Arcosa’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 to provide investors and security holders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Arcosa, the Company or any of their respective businesses, subsidiaries or affiliates. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement (a) were made by the parties thereto only for purposes of that agreement and as of specific dates; (b) were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement; (c) may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures exchanged between the parties in connection with the execution of the Purchase Agreement (such disclosures may include information that has been included in public disclosures, as well as additional non-public information); (d) may have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts; and (e) may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of Arcosa, the Company or any of their respective businesses, subsidiaries or affiliates. Additionally, the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions and other terms of the Purchase Agreement may be subject to subsequent waiver or modification. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in Arcosa’s public disclosures. The Purchase Agreement should not be read alone, but should instead be read in conjunction with the other information regarding the Company and Arcosa that is or will be contained in, or
incorporated by reference into, the Forms 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other documents that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.