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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date earliest event reported):

May 13, 2021 (May 7, 2021)

 

 

BLADE AIR MOBILITY, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware 001-39046 84-1890381
(State or other jurisdiction
Of incorporation)
(Commission
File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

499 East 34th Street

New York, NY 10016

(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)

 

(212) 967-1009

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing  is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading
Symbol(s)
  Name of each exchange on which registered

Class A common stock, par value $0.0001

  BLDE   The Nasdaq Stock Market

Warrants, each exercisable for one share of Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share

  BLDEW   The Nasdaq Stock Market

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company x

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

 

On May 7, 2021 (the “Closing Date”), the registrant consummated the previously announced transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated December 14, 2020, by and among Experience Investment Corp., a Delaware corporation (“EIC”), Experience Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EIC (“Merger Sub”), and Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Blade”). The Merger Agreement provided for the acquisition of Blade by the registrant pursuant to the merger of Merger Sub with and into Blade (the “Merger”), with Blade continuing as the surviving entity and a wholly owned subsidiary of the registrant.

 

In connection with the closing of the Merger (the “Closing”), the registrant changed its name from Experience Investment Corp. to Blade Air Mobility, Inc. Unless the context otherwise requires, “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company,” “the registrant” and “New Blade” refer to Blade Air Mobility, Inc., as the combined company following the Merger, together with its subsidiaries, “EIC” refers to the registrant prior to the Closing and “Blade” refers to Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc., prior to the Closing.

 

At the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), among other things, (a) each of the then issued and outstanding Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of EIC (the “EIC Class A Common Stock”), and Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of EIC (the “EIC Class B Common Stock” and, together with the EIC Class A Common Stock, the “EIC Common Stock”), automatically converted, on a one-for-one basis, into a share of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of New Blade (the “New Blade Class A Common Stock”); (b) each then issued and outstanding warrant of EIC (the “EIC warrants”) automatically converted into a warrant to acquire one share of New Blade Class A Common Stock (the “New Blade Warrants”); and (c) each of the then issued and outstanding units of EIC that had not been previously separated into the underlying EIC Class A Common Stock and underlying EIC warrants separated into to one share of New Blade Class A Common Stock and one-third of one New Blade Warrant. No fractional shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock will be issued upon exercise of the New Blade Warrants.

 

At the Effective Time, each stockholder or option holder of Blade received, as applicable: (a) 10,024,296 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock for each outstanding share of Blade common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, (including shares that were subject to vesting conditions) outstanding as of the Effective Time (the “Blade Common Stock”), (b) 16,101,172 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock for each outstanding share of Blade Series Seed Preferred Stock, Blade Series A Preferred Stock and Blade Series B Preferred Stock, each par value $0.00001 per share, outstanding as of the Effective Time (collectively, the “Blade Preferred Stock” and together with the Blade Common Stock, the “Blade Stock”) and/or (c) 9,689,826 options to purchase a number of shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock at an exercise price calculated pursuant to the Merger Agreement for each option to acquire Blade Common Stock outstanding as of the Effective Time (each, a “Blade Option”), as calculated pursuant to the Merger Agreement.

 

In connection with the Merger Agreement, certain accredited investors (the “PIPE Investors”), including an affiliate of Experience Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), entered into subscription agreements (the “PIPE Subscription Agreements”) pursuant to which the PIPE Investors agreed to purchase 12,500,000 shares (the “PIPE Shares”) of New Blade Class A Common Stock at a purchase price per share of $10.00 and an aggregate purchase price of $125,000,000 (the “PIPE Investment”). The PIPE Investment was consummated substantially concurrently with the Closing.

 

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Immediately after giving effect to the Merger and the PIPE Investment, there were 78,903,021 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock and 14,166,667 New Blade Warrants outstanding. New Blade’s Class A Common Stock and New Blade’s Warrants trade on The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbols “BLDE” and “BLDEW,” respectively.

 

The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement and the Subscription Agreement is a summary only and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1, and the Subscription Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4. A more detailed description of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Merger and the Merger Agreement can be found beginning on pages 88 and 118, respectively, of the proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement filed with the SEC on April 6, 2021 (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement”) and are incorporated herein by reference. A description of the Subscription Agreements is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement, beginning on page 129, and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

 

In connection with the Closing, New Blade entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and executive officers as determined by the board of directors of New Blade (the “Board”). Each indemnification agreement provides for indemnification and advancements by New Blade of certain expenses and costs, if the basis of the indemnitee’s involvement was by reason of the fact that the indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of New Blade or any of its subsidiaries or was serving at New Blade’s request in an official capacity for another entity, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the state of Delaware.

 

The foregoing description of the indemnification agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the indemnification agreements, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.27 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated into this Item 2.01 by reference.

 

The Merger was approved by EIC’s stockholders at a special meeting of the EIC’s stockholders held on May 5, 2021 (the “Special Meeting”). At the Special Meeting, 19,442,673 shares of the EIC’s Common Stock were voted in favor of the proposal to approve the Merger, 1,087,824 shares of EIC’s Common Stock were voted against the proposal to approve the Merger and holders of 35,420 shares of EIC’s Common Stock abstained from voting on the proposal to approve the Merger. In connection with the Closing, 3,596,979 shares of EIC Class A Common Stock were redeemed at a per price share of approximately $10.07. The Merger was completed on May 7, 2021.

 

In addition, in connection with the Closing, all of the 6,875,000 outstanding shares of EIC Class B Common Stock held by the Sponsor (the “Founder Shares”) were converted into shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock on a one-for-one basis.

 

FORM 10 INFORMATION

 

Prior to the Closing, EIC was a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) with no operations, formed as a vehicle to effect a business combination with one or more operating businesses. After the Closing, EIC became a holding company whose only assets consist of equity interests in Blade.

 

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

This Current Report on Form 8-K and the documents incorporated herein include forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, the plans, strategies and prospects, both business and financial, of the Company. These statements are based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions about future events and are based on currently available information as to the outcome and timing of future events. Although we believe our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Generally, statements that are not historical facts, including statements concerning possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events or results of operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this Current Report on Form 8-K, the words “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “plans,” “scheduled,” “anticipates” or “intends” or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward looking statements contain such identifying words.

 

Forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K and the documents incorporated by reference herein include, but are not limited to, statements about our ability to:

 

· realize the benefits expected from the Merger;

 

· execute our geographic expansion strategy;

 

· achieve the expected revenue growth and effectively manage growth;

 

· achieve and maintain profitability in the future;

 

· innovate and expand our technological leadership;

 

· increase our service offerings and price optimization;

 

· effectively promote our brand and increase brand awareness;

 

· enhance future operating and financial results;

 

· acquire and protect intellectual property;

 

· attract, train and retain key personnel, including sales and customer service personnel;

 

· acquire and integrate other companies and technologies;

 

· remediate material weakness in internal control over financial reporting;

 

· comply with laws and regulations applicable to our business;

 

· successfully defend litigations; and

 

· successfully deploy the proceeds from the Merger and PIPE Investment.

 

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. You should not place undue reliance on these statements, which speak only as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K. You should understand that the following important factors, in addition to those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement and elsewhere, could affect our future results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ material from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K:

 

· risks related to disruption of management’s time from ongoing business operations due to the Merger;

 

· risks of the air mobility and transportation industries;

 

· litigation, complaints or adverse publicity;

 

· the impact of changes in consumer spending patterns, consumer preferences, local, regional and national economic conditions, crime, weather, demographic trends and employee availability;

 

· the availability, or lack thereof, of new technologies in the aerospace community, such as Electric Vertical Aircraft (“EVA”, or as it’s otherwise known, Electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft (“eVTOL”))

 

· the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic;

 

· the availability and performance of third-party operators;

 

· technological disruptions, privacy or data breaches, the loss of data or cyberattacks; and

 

· the ability to compete successfully with new market participants.

 

These and other factors that could cause actual result to differ from those implied by the forward looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K are more fully described under the heading “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement and the documents incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K. The risks described under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement are not exhaustive. Other sections of this Current Report on Form 8-K and the documents incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K describe additional factors that could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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New risks emerge from time to time and it is not possible to predict all such risks, nor can we assess the impact of those risks on our business or the extent to which any risk or combination of risks may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any subsequent date, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

 

Market, ranking and industry data used throughout the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement and the documents incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K are based on the good faith estimates of our management, which in turn are based upon our management’s review of internal surveys, independent industry surveys and publications, including reports by third party research analyses and publicly available information. These data involve a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such estimates. While we are not aware of any misstatements regarding the industry data presented herein or therein, our estimates involved risks and uncertainties and are subject to change based on various factors, including those discussed under the headings “Risk Factors” and “Blade’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement.

 

Business and Properties

 

The business and properties of EIC and Blade prior to the Merger are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the sections titled “Information About EIC” beginning on page 167 and “Information About Blade” beginning on page 205, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Risk Factors

 

The risks associated with the Company’s business are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 44, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Selected Historical Financial Information

 

The selected historical financial information of Blade for the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 and the three months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 are included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Blade’s Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Information” beginning on page 149 and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Combined Financial Information

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company for the year ended September 30, 2020 and for the three months ended December 31, 2020 is set forth in Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

Management’s discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations of Blade prior to the Merger is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Blade’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” beginning on page 194, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Executive Compensation

 

Information with respect to the executive compensation of the Company’s directors and executive officers immediately following the Closing is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Executive Compensation of EIC Following the Business Compensation” beginning on page 188, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

 

The following table sets forth information known to New Blade regarding the beneficial ownership of New Blade’s Class A Common Stock as of May 7, 2021, after giving effect to the Closing and the PIPE Investment, by:

 

  ·   each person who is known by New Blade to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of any class of New Blade’s Class A Common Stock;

 

  ·   each current executive officer and director of New Blade; and

 

  ·   all current executive officers and directors of New Blade, as a group.

 

Beneficial ownership for the purposes of the following table is determined in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. A person is a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares “voting power,” which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting of the security, or “investment power”, which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of the security or has the right to acquire such powers within 60 days.

 

The beneficial ownership percentages set forth in the table below are based on 78,903,021 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding as of May 7, 2021 (after giving effect to the Closing and the PIPE Investment) and do not take into account the issuance of any shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock upon the exercise of New Blade Warrants to purchase up to 14,166,667 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock that remain outstanding.

 

Unless otherwise noted in the footnotes to the following table, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons and entities named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to their beneficially owned New Blade Class A Common Stock.

 

Name of Beneficial Owners(1)   Number of
Shares of
Class A Common
Stock
Beneficially
Owned(2)
    Percentage
of
Outstanding
Class A Common
Stock
 
5% Stockholders:                
Experience Sponsor LLC(3)     13,925,000       27.6 %
Robert S. Wiesenthal(4)     10,109,546       20.0 %
Colony Capital, Inc.(5)     6,794,512       15.0 %
ColPE Blade Investor, LLC(6)     6,233,498       13.7 %
HG Vora Capital Management, LLC(7)     5,376,471       11.8 %
David Zaslav(8)     3,082,428       6.8 %
Executive Officers and Directors:                
Eric Affeldt(9)            
Jane Garvey            
Kenneth Lerer(10)     1,235,418       2.7 %
Susan Lyne            
Edward Philip(9)            
David Zaslav(7)     3,082,428       6.8 %
Robert S. Wiesenthal(4)     10,109,546       20.0 %
William A. Heyburn(11)     935,540       2.0 %
Melissa M. Tomkiel(12)     1,496,021       3.2 %
Amir Cohen            
Brandon Keene(13)     520,553       1.1 %
All directors and executive officers as a group (14 individuals)(14)     17,379,506       35.8 %

 

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* Indicates less than 1 percent.
   
(1) Unless otherwise noted, the business address for each executive officer and director of New Blade is 499 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10016.

 

(2) The beneficial ownership of New Blade as of May 7, 2021 is based shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock outstanding as of such date.

 

(3) Includes 8,925,000 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock and Private Placement Warrants exercisable for 5,000,000 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock. Steele ExpCo Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is the managing member and 100% owner of Experience Sponsor LLC. KSL Capital Partners V GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is the managing member of Steele ExpCo Holdings, LLC. Eric Charles Resnick is the managing member of KSL Capital Partners V GP, LLC. As such, Steele ExpCo Holdings, LLC, KSL Capital Partners V GP, LLC and Mr. Resnick may be deemed to have or share voting and dispositive power of the stock held directly by Experience Sponsor LLC. In addition, Steele ExpCo Holdings, LLC beneficially owns 2,050,000 additional shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock through the consummation of the PIPE Investment. Mr. Resnick disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares except to the extent of his individual pecuniary interest in such shares, directly or indirectly. The address for each entity is c/o KSL Capital Partners, 100 St. Paul Street, Suite 800, Denver, Colorado 80206.

 

(4) Interests shown consist of 4,922,862 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock and vested Blade Options exercisable for an aggregate of 5,186,684 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock.

 

(5) Interests shown consist of 6,233,498 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by ColPE Blade Investor, LLC, and 561,014 of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by JustBlade, LLC. Colony Capital Operating Company LLC is the beneficial owner of shares held by ColPE Blade Investor, LLC and JustBlade, LLC. Colony Capital, Inc. is the managing member and 90% owner of Colony Capital Operating Company, LLC, and as such may be deemed to share voting and dispositive power of the New Blade Class A Common Stock held by ColPE Blade Investor, LLC and Just Blade, LLC. The business address for Colony Capital, Inc. is 750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 210, Boca Raton, Florida 33487

 

(6) Interests shown consist of 6,233,498 shares of New Blade Class A common stock. Colony Capital Operating Company, LLC is the beneficial owner of ColPE Blade Investor, LLC and as such may be deemed to share voting and dispositive power of the New Blade Class A Common Stock held by ColPE Blade Investor, LLC. Colony Capital, Inc. is the managing member and 90% holder of Colony Capital Operating Company, LLC. The business address for this investor is 750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 210, Boca Raton, Florida 33487.

 

(7) Includes 2,500,000 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock, and also includes 5,376,453 shares of New Blade Class A common stock purchased in the PIPE Investment or received in exchange for shares of Blade Preferred Stock by HG Vora Capital Management, LLC. Panag Vora is the managing member of HG Vora Capital Management, LLC, and as such may be deemed to have voting and dispositive power of the New Blade Class A Common Stock held by HG Vora Capital Management, LLC. The business address for this investor is 330 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York, NY 10017.

 

(8) Interests shown consist of 3,082,428 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock, which includes 100,000 shares purchased in the PIPE Investment, held by Snickers Holdings LLC. Mr. Zaslav, one of the members of the New Blade Board, is the managing member of Snickers Holdings LLC. The business address for this investor is 115 Central Park West #17C, New York, NY 10023.

 

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(9) Messrs. Affeldt, Witherow, Pastor and Philip each have an economic interest (or deemed economic interest) in shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock and/or Private Placement Warrants through their respective ownership of membership interests in Experience Sponsor LLC, but do not beneficially own any shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock or Private Placement Warrants. The indirect ownership interest via Experience Sponsor LLC is reflected solely under the rows for Experience Sponsor LLC. The economic interests (or deemed economic interests) of these individuals in the Class A common stock and/or Private Placement Warrants held by Experience Sponsor LLC are as shown below:

 

    Class A Common Stock    

Private Placement Warrants

 
Eric Affeldt     605,250       350,000  
Brian C. Witherow     50,000       -  
Rafael Pastor     50,000       -  
Edward Philip     50,000       -  

 

(10) Interests shown consist of: 50,963 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by Mr. Lerer, 111,506 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by Lerer Investments II LLC, 374,009 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by Lerer Hippeau Ventures Select Fund, LP and 698,940 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by Lerer Hippeau Ventures V, LP. Mr. Lerer, who is a member of the New Blade Board, is the Managing Member of each of the investors, and may be deemed to beneficially own all of the shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held by Lerer Investments II LLC, Lerer Hippeau Ventures Select Fund, LP and Lerer Hippeau Ventures V, LP. The business address for each of the investors is 100 Crosby Street, Suite 201, New York, NY 10012.

 

(11) Interests shown consist of 218,414 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held and 717,126 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of vested Blade Options.

 

(12) Interests shown consist of 221,938 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held and 1,274,083 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of vested Blade Options.

 

(13)  

Interests shown consist of 10,920 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held and 509,633 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of vested Blade Options.

 

(14) Interests shown consist of 9,691,980 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock held and 7,687,526 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of vested Blade Options.  

 

Directors and Executive Officers

 

Except as disclosed below, information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers immediately following the Closing is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 183, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

In connection with the consummation of the Merger, each of EIC’s officers and directors tendered their resignations, except that Eric Affeldt and Edward Philip remained as directors of New Blade.

 

Directors

 

Effective as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, in connection with the Merger, the size of the Board was increased from five members to seven members. Effective as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, Eric Affeldt, Jane Garvey, Susan Lyne, Edward Philip and David Zaslav were appointed to serve as directors of New Blade. John Borthwick and Justin Chang resigned as directors of the New Blade. Kenneth Lerer and Robert S. Wiesenthal are continuing to serve as a directors of New Blade. Messrs. Philip and Zaslav were appointed to serve as Class I directors, with terms expiring at New Blade’s annual meeting of stockholders following the Closing; Messrs. Affeldt and Lerer were appointed to serve as Class II directors, with terms expiring at New Blade’s second annual meeting of stockholders following the Closing; and Ms. Garvey, Ms. Lyne and Mr. Wiesenthal were appointed to serve as Class III directors, with terms expiring at New Blade’s third annual meeting of stockholders following the Closing. Biographical information for these individuals is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 183, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Independence of Directors

 

Nasdaq listing rules require that a majority of the board of directors of a company listed on Nasdaq be composed of “independent directors,” which is defined generally as a person other than an officer or employee of the company or its subsidiaries or any other individual having a relationship that, in the opinion of the company’s board of directors, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. Based on information provided by each director concerning his or her background, employment and affiliations, including family relationships, the Board has determined that each of Eric Affeldt, Jane Garvey, Kenneth Lerer, Susan Lyne, Edward Philip and David Zaslav is an independent director under the Nasdaq listing rules and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act.

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

Effective as of as of the Effective Time, the standing committees of the Board consist of an audit committee (the “Audit Committee”), a compensation committee (the “Compensation Committee”) and a nominating and corporate governance committee (the “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee”). Each of the committees reports to the Board.

 

Effective as of the Effective Time, the Board appointed Mr. Philip, Ms. Garvey and Ms. Lyne to serve on the Audit Committee, with Mr. Philip as chairperson and the audit committee financial expert. The Board appointed Ms. Lyne, Mr. Philip, Mr. Lerer and Mr. Affeldt to serve on the Compensation Committee, with Ms. Lyne as chairperson. Ms. Garvey, Mr. Zaslav and Mr. Affeldt were appointed to serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, with Ms. Garvey as chairperson.

 

Executive Officers

 

On May 7, 2021, the Board appointed Amir Cohen as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company. Each of Robert S. Wiesenthal, our Chief Executive Officer, Melissa M. Tomkiel, our President and General Counsel, William A. Heyburn, our Chief Financial Officer and Brandon Keene, our Chief Technology Officer, remained as executive officers of New Blade after consummation of the Merger.

 

Amir Cohen has served as our Chief Accounting Officer since May 2021. Prior to Blade, Mr. Cohen served in various capacities at WPP plc, a multinational communications and advertising company, most recently as Senior Vice President of Finance for its Wunderman Thompson network. Prior to WPP, Mr. Cohen was a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. Mr. Cohen is a Certified Public Accountant, holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and a B.A. in Economics and Accounting from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 

 

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

The certain relationships and related party transactions of EIC and Blade are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions” beginning on page 241, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

Information about legal proceedings is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the sections titled “Information about EIC – Legal Proceedings” on page 174 and “Information About Blade—Legal Proceedings” on page 217, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters

 

Prior to the business combination, EIC’s Class A Common Stock, warrants and units (consisting of one share of Class A Common Stock and one-third of a warrant) were quoted on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “EXPC,” “EXPCW” and “EXPCU,” respectively. At the Effective Time, the units automatically separated into the component securities and, as a result, no longer trade as a separate security. On May 10, 2021, New Blade’s Class A Common Stock and New Blade Warrants began trading on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbols “BLDE” and “BLDEW,” respectively.

 

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As of the Closing Date and following completion of the Merger (and after giving effect to the Closing and the PIPE Investment), New Blade had 78,903,021 shares of New Blade Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding held of record by 78 holders and 14,166,667 New Blade Warrants, each exercisable for one share of New Blade’s Class A Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share, held of record by one holder.

 

The information set forth in the section titled “Price Range of Securities and Dividends” on page 234 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

The information set forth in the “Introductory Note” above and under Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to the issuance of the PIPE Shares pursuant to the PIPE Investment is incorporated herein by reference. The PIPE Shares were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The subscribers to the PIPE Investment are accredited investors as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D.

 

In May 2019, the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 7,187,500 shares (the “Founder Shares”) of EIC’s Class B common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000 (up to 937,500 of which were subject to forfeiture by the Sponsor depending on the extent to which the underwriters’ option to purchase additional EIC units was exercised).

 

The number of Founder Shares issued was determined based on the expectation that the Founder Shares would represent 20% of EIC’s outstanding shares of common stock upon completion of EIC’s initial public offering. On September 17, 2019, as a result of the underwriters’ election to partially exercise their option to purchase additional units, 312,500 Founder Shares were forfeited and 625,000 Founder Shares are no longer subject to forfeiture, resulting in an aggregate of 6,875,000 Founder Shares that were issued and outstanding. The Founder Shares automatically converted into shares of New Blade’s Class A Common Stock upon the consummation of the Merger. The Founder Shares were issued in connection with EIC’s organization pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The Sponsor is an accredited investor for purposes of Rule 501 of Regulation D.

 

Simultaneously with the consummation of the EIC initial public offering, the Sponsor entered into a purchase agreement with EIC to purchase from EIC an aggregate of 5,000,000 warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.50 per warrant for an aggregate purchase price of $7,500,000. Each Private Placement Warrant is exercisable to purchase one whole share of New Blade’s Class A Common Stock at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as provided in the warrant agreement attached as Exhibit 4.3 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Description of Registrant’s Securities

 

Common Stock

 

A description of New Blade’s Class A Common Stock is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Description of EIC’s Securities” beginning on page 218, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Warrants

 

Public Warrants

 

A description of New Blade’s public shareholders’ warrants is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the section titled “Description of EIC’s Securities - Warrants” beginning on page 218, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Private Placement Warrants

 

A description of New Blade’s private placement warrants is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement, in the section titled “Description of EIC’s Securities - Warrants” beginning on page 218, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

The information set forth under Item 9.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” and Item 2.01 – “Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities” above is incorporated herein by reference. The New Blade Class A common stock issued in connection with the PIPE Investment were not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

 

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders

 

On May 7, 2021, in connection with the consummation of the Merger, New Blade filed its amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the “A&R Certificate of Incorporation”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and adopted its amended and restated bylaws (the “A&R Bylaws”).

 

Copies of the A&R Certificate of Incorporation and the A&R Bylaws are included as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.01 Changes in Control of the Registrant

 

The information set forth above under “Introductory Note” and “Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets” is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

The information set forth above in the sections titled “Directors and Officers” and “Certain Relationships and Related-Party Transactions” in Item 2.01 to this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference. In addition, the information set forth in Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws

 

The disclosure set forth in Item 3.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.06 Change in Shell Company Status

 

As a result of the Merger, which fulfilled the definition of a business combination set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of EIC, New Blade ceased to be a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act) as of the Closing Date. The material terms of the Merger are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus/Consent Solicitation Statement in the sections titled “The Merger” and “The Merger Agreement” beginning on pages 88 and 118, respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference. Further, the information set forth in the “Introductory Note” and under Item 2.01 to this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(a) Financial Statements of Business Acquired

 

The historical unaudited condensed financial statements of Blade as of December 31, 2020 and for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus beginning on page F-47 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The historical audited financial statements of Blade as of and for the year ended September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus beginning on page F-21 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The historical audited financial statements of EIC as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 and the related notes are included in the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus beginning on page F-3 of the Proxy Statement/Consent Solicitation Statement/Prospectus and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

(b) Pro Forma Financial Information

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and for the year ended September 30, 2020 and for the three months ended December 31, 2020 is set forth in Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

     
Exhibit
No.
  Description
   
2.1+   Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 14, 2020, by and among Blade, Merger Sub, Inc. and EIC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 15, 2020)
   
3.1   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Blade Air Mobility, Inc., dated as of May 7, 2021
   
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws of Blade Air Mobility, Inc., dated as of May 7, 2021
   
4.1   Specimen Class A Common Stock Certificate of Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 10, 2021)  
     
4.2   Specimen Warrant Certificate of Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 10, 2021)  
     
4.3   Warrant Agreement, dated September 12, 2019, by and between Experience Investment Corp. and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, as warrant agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 18, 2019) 
     
10.1   Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)
   
10.2   Sponsor Letter Agreement, dated as of December 14, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)
   
10.3   Form of Support Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  

 

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10.4   Form of PIPE Subscription Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.5   Fly Blade, Inc. Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated January 30, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.6   Fly Blade, Inc. Amended and Restated Right of First Refusal Co-Sale Agreement, dated January 30, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.7   Fly Blade, Inc. Amended and Restated Voting Agreement, dated January 30, 2018 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.8   Fly Blade, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.9*   First Use Agreement, dated April 30, 2015, by and between Air Pegasus Heliport, Inc. and Fly Blade, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.10*   Second Use Agreement, dated January 28, 2016, by and between Air Pegasus Heliport, Inc. and Fly Blade, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.11*   Amended Use Agreement, dated June 1, 2017, by and between Air Pegasus Heliport, Inc. and Fly Blade, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.12*   Restrictive Covenant Agreement, dated June 1, 2017, by and among Air Pegasus Heliport, Inc., Fly Blade, Inc. and Rob Wiesenthal (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.13   Asset Purchase Agreement, dated May 2018, by and among Fly Blade, Inc., Sound Aircraft Flight Enterprises, Inc. and Cindy Herbst (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.14*   Airport Lease and Operating Agreement, dated June 29, 2018, by and between the Town of Nantucket, acting by and through the Nantucket Memorial Airport Commission, and Fly Blade, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.15*   Office Agreement, dated September 12, 2018, by and between Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. and White Plains Aviation Partners LLC (d/b/a Million Air) (as amended by the Lease Amendment dated December 23, 2019) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.16   Office Lease, dated November 6, 2019, by and between Turnberry Airport Holdings, LLC and Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  

 

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10.17*   Joint Venture Agreement, dated as of March 24, 2019, by and among Hunch Ventures and Investments Private Limited, Blade US, LLC, and FlyBlade India Private Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.18*   First Amendment to Joint Venture Agreement, dated as of February 25, 2020, by and among Hunch Ventures and Investments Private Limited, Blade US, LLC, and FlyBlade India Private Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.19*   License Agreement, dated March 24, 2019, by and between FlyBlade India Private Limited and Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.19 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.20*   First Amendment to License Agreement, dated February 25, 2020, by and between FlyBlade India Private Limited and Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.21*   License Agreement, dated December 1, 2019, by and between Macquarie Aviation North America 2, Inc. (d/b/a Atlantic Aviation Metroport) and Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.22   Note dated April 8, 2020, by and between Fly Blade, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.23   Strategic Alliance Agreement, dated January 7, 2021, by and between BLADE Urban Air Mobility, Inc. and Ross Aviation Operations, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021)  
     
10.24*   Alliance Agreement, dated February 17, 2021, by and between Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. and Helicopters, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 10, 2021)  
     
10.25   Alliance Agreement, dated February 17, 2021, by and between Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. and Vertiport PropCo, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.25 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 10, 2021)  
     
10.26   Form of 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (attached to the proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement which forms a part of Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on January 29, 2021 as Annex E)  
     
10.27   Form of Director and Officer Indemnification Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 10, 2021)  
     
10.28   Form of Lockup Agreement (Employee) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.28 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 26, 2021)  
     
10.29   Form of Lockup Agreement (Non-Employee Option Holder) incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 26, 2021)  
     
10.30   Form of Lockup Agreement (Non-Employee Stockholder) incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.30 to Experience Investment Corp.’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on March 26, 2021)

 

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99.1   Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated combined financial information of Blade Air Mobility, Inc. for the year ended September 30, 2020 and for the three months ended December 31, 2020
   
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

 

+ The schedules and exhibits to this agreement have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. A copy of any omitted schedule and/or exhibit will be furnished to the SEC upon request.

 

* Portions of this exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

  BLADE AIR MOBILITY, INC.
     
  By: /s/ Melissa M. Tomkiel
    Name: Melissa M. Tomkiel
    Title: President and General Counsel

Date: May 12, 2021

 

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Exhibit 3.1

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF

Experience Investment Corp.

* * * * *

 

The present name of the corporation is Experience Investment Corp. (the “Corporation”). The Corporation was incorporated by the filing of the Corporation’s original Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 24, 2019. This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), which restates and integrates and also further amends the provisions of the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and restated, was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

The Certificate of Incorporation is being amended and restated in connection with the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 14, 2020, by and among the Corporation, Experience Merger Sub, Inc. and BLADE Urban Air Mobility, Inc. (as amended, modified, supplemented or waived from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”). As part of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, all shares of the Class B Common Stock of the Corporation were converted on a 1-for-1 basis into shares of Class A Common Stock of the Corporation such that, at the effectiveness of this Certificate of Incorporation, only Class A Common Stock remains outstanding. All Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding prior to the effectiveness of this Certificate of Incorporation and all Class A Common Stock issued as part of the Merger Agreement and the Subscription Agreements contemplated by the Merger Agreement shall be Common Stock for all purposes of this Certificate of Incorporation.

 

The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and restated, is hereby amended, integrated and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

 

Article I

NAME

 

The name of the Corporation is Blade Air Mobility, Inc.

 

Article II
REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT

 

The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 251 Little Falls Drive, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware, 19808, and the name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

 

 

 

 

Article III

PURPOSE

 

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may now or hereafter be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”).

 

Article IV
CAPITAL STOCK

 

The total number of shares of all classes of stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 402,000,000, which shall be divided into two classes as follows:

 

(i) 400,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”); and

 

(ii) 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Stock”).

 

A.                Capital Stock.

 

1. The board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) is hereby expressly authorized, by resolution or resolutions, at any time and from time to time, to provide, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, for one or more series of Preferred Stock and, with respect to each such series, to fix, without further stockholder approval, the number of shares constituting such series and the designation of such series, the powers (including voting powers), preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such series of Preferred Stock. The powers (including voting powers), preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of each series of Preferred Stock, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding.

 

2. Each holder of record of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held of record by such holder on all matters on which stockholders are entitled to vote generally, including the election or removal of directors. Except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) or pursuant to the DGCL.

 

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3. Except as otherwise required by law, holders of any series of Preferred Stock shall be entitled to only such voting rights, if any, as shall expressly be granted thereto by this Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to such series of Preferred Stock).

 

4. Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock or any class or series of stock having a preference over or the right to participate with the Common Stock with respect to the payment of dividends, dividends may be declared and paid ratably on the Common Stock out of the assets of the Corporation that are legally available for this purpose at such times and in such amounts as the Board of Directors in its discretion shall determine.

 

5. Upon the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Corporation and subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock or any class or series of stock having a preference over or the right to participate with the Common Stock with respect to the distribution of assets of the Corporation upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders ratably in proportion to the number of shares held by them.

 

6. The number of authorized shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), and no vote of the holders of any of the Common Stock or the Preferred Stock voting separately as a class shall be required therefor, unless a vote of any such holder is required pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock).

 

Article V
AMENDMENT OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS

 

A.                The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend, change, add to, rescind or repeal, in whole or in part, the bylaws of the Corporation (as in effect from time to time, the “Bylaws”) without the assent or vote of the stockholders in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware, this Certificate of Incorporation or the Investor Rights Agreement.

 

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Article VI

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

A.                Except as otherwise provided in this Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. Except as otherwise provided for or fixed pursuant to the Investor Rights Agreement or any certificate of designation with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, the total number of directors shall be determined from time to time exclusively by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors. The directors (other than those directors elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series or together with one or more other such series, as the case may be) shall be divided into three classes designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Each class shall consist, as nearly as possible, of one-third of the total number of such directors. Class I directors shall initially serve for a term expiring immediately following the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year ended December 31, 2021, Class II directors shall initially serve for a term expiring immediately following the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year ended December 31, 2022 and Class III directors shall initially serve for a term expiring immediately following the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year ended December 31, 2023. Commencing with the annual meeting of stockholders for the calendar year ended December 31, 2021, the directors of the class to be elected at each annual meeting shall be elected for a three year term. If the number of such directors is changed, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned among the classes so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, and any such additional director of any class elected to fill a newly created directorship resulting from an increase in such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class, but in no case shall a decrease in the number of directors remove or shorten the term of any incumbent director. Any such director shall hold office until the annual meeting at which his or her term expires and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. The Board of Directors is authorized to assign members of the Board of Directors already in office to their respective class.

 

B.                 Without limiting the rights of any party to the Investor Rights Agreement, any newly-created directorship on the Board of Directors that results from an increase in the number of directors and any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors (whether by death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other cause) may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director or by the stockholders. Any director elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal.

 

C.                 Without limiting the rights of any party to the Investor Rights Agreement, any or all of the directors (other than the directors elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation, voting separately as a series or together with one or more other such series, as the case may be) may be removed at any time either with or without cause by the affirmative vote of a majority in voting power of all outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class.

 

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D.                Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws shall so provide.

 

E.                 During any period when the holders of any series of Preferred Stock have the right to elect additional directors, then upon commencement and for the duration of the period during which such right continues: (i) the then otherwise total authorized number of directors of the Corporation shall automatically be increased by such specified number of directors, and the holders of such Preferred Stock shall be entitled to elect the additional directors so provided for or fixed pursuant to said provisions, and (ii) each such additional director shall serve until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s right to hold such office terminates pursuant to said provisions, whichever occurs earlier, subject to such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal. Except as otherwise provided by the Board of Directors in the resolution or resolutions establishing such series, whenever the holders of any series of Preferred Stock having such right to elect additional directors are divested of such right pursuant to the provisions of such stock, the terms of office of all such additional directors elected by the holders of such stock, or elected to fill any vacancies resulting from the death, resignation, disqualification or removal of such additional directors, shall forthwith terminate (in which case each such director thereupon shall cease to be qualified as, and shall cease to be, a director) and the total authorized number of directors of the Corporation shall automatically be reduced accordingly.

 

F.                  As used in this Article VI only, the term “Affiliate” means a Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another Person, and the term “Person” means any individual, corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, association or any other entity.

 

Article VII
LIMITATION OF DIRECTOR LIABILITY

 

A.                To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty owed to the Corporation or its stockholders.

 

B.                 Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article VII, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, nor, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, any modification of law shall eliminate, reduce or otherwise adversely affect any right or protection of a current or former director of the Corporation existing at the time of such amendment, repeal, adoption or modification.

 

Article VIII
CONSENT OF STOCKHOLDERS IN LIEU OF MEETING, ANNUAL AND SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

A.                Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of such holders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such holders; provided, however, that any action required or permitted to be taken by the holders of Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series or separately as a class with one or more other such series, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, to the extent expressly so provided by the applicable certificate of designation relating to such series of Preferred Stock.

 

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B.                 Except as otherwise required by law and subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time only by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

 

C.                 An annual meeting of stockholders for the election of directors to succeed those whose terms expire and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting, shall be held at such place, if any, on such date, and at such time as shall be fixed exclusively by resolution of the Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof.

 

Article IX
COMPETITION AND CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES

 

A.                In recognition and anticipation that (i) certain directors, principals, officers, employees and/or other representatives of the Original Sponsor and its Affiliates (as defined below) may serve as directors, officers or agents of the Corporation, (ii)  the Original Sponsor and its Affiliates, including (I) any portfolio company in which they or any of their respective investment fund Affiliates have made a debt or equity investment (and vice versa) or (II) any of their respective limited partners, non-managing members or other similar direct or indirect investors may now engage and may continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Corporation, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Corporation, directly or indirectly, may engage, and (iii) members of the Board of Directors who are not employees of the Corporation (“Non-Employee Directors”) and their respective Affiliates, including (I) any portfolio company in which they or any of their respective investment fund Affiliates have made a debt or equity investment (and vice versa) or (II) any of their respective limited partners, non-managing members or other similar direct or indirect investors may now engage and may continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Corporation, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Corporation, directly or indirectly, may engage, the provisions of this Article IX are set forth to regulate and define the conduct of certain affairs of the Corporation with respect to certain classes or categories of business opportunities as they may involve any of the Original Sponsor, the Non-Employee Directors or their respective Affiliates and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Corporation and its directors, officers and stockholders in connection therewith.

 

B.                 None of (i)  the Original Sponsor or (ii) any Non-Employee Director (including any Non-Employee Director who serves as an officer of the Corporation in both his or her director and officer capacities) or his or her Affiliates (the Persons (as defined below) identified in (i) and (ii) above being referred to, collectively, as “Identified Persons” and, individually, as an “Identified Person”) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have any duty to refrain from directly or indirectly (1) engaging in and possessing interests in other business ventures of every type and description, including those engaged in the same or similar business activities or lines of business in which the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries now engages or proposes to engage or (2) competing with the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, on its own account, or in partnership with, or as an employee, officer, director or shareholder of any other Person, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, no Identified Person shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders or to any Affiliate of the Corporation for breach of any fiduciary duty solely by reason of the fact that such Identified Person engages in any such activities. To the fullest extent permitted from time to time by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Corporation hereby renounces any interest or expectancy in, or right to be offered an opportunity to participate in, any business opportunity that may be a corporate opportunity for an Identified Person and the Corporation or any of its Affiliates, except as provided in Section (C) of this Article IX. Subject to said Section (C) of this Article IX, in the event that any Identified Person acquires knowledge of a potential transaction or matter that may be a corporate or other business opportunity for such Identified Person or any of such Identified Person’s Affiliates, and the Corporation or any of its Affiliates, such Identified Person shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have no duty (fiduciary, contractual or otherwise) to communicate or present such transaction or matter to the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, as the case may be and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders or to any subsidiary of the Corporation for breach of any duty (fiduciary, contractual or otherwise) as a stockholder, director or officer of the Corporation by reason of the fact that such Identified Person, directly or indirectly, pursues or acquires such opportunity for itself, herself or himself, directs such opportunity to another Person or does not present such opportunity to the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries.

 

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C.                 The Corporation does not renounce its interest in any corporate opportunity offered to any Non-Employee Director (including any Non-Employee Director who serves as an officer of this Corporation) if such opportunity is expressly offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation, and the provisions of Section (B) of this Article IX shall not apply to any such corporate opportunity.

 

D.                In addition to and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article IX, a corporate opportunity shall not be deemed to be a potential corporate opportunity for the Corporation if it is a business opportunity that (i) the Corporation is neither financially or legally able, nor contractually permitted to undertake, (ii) from its nature, is not in the line of the Corporation’s business or is of no practical advantage to the Corporation or (iii) is one in which the Corporation has no interest or reasonable expectancy.

 

E.                 For purposes of this Article IX, (i) “Affiliate” shall mean (a) in respect of the Original Sponsor, any Person that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by the Original Sponsor (as applicable), controls the Original Sponsor (as applicable) or is under common control with (as applicable) and shall include any principal, member, director, partner, stockholder, officer, employee or other representative of any of the foregoing (other than the Corporation and any entity that is controlled by the Corporation), (b) in respect of a Non-Employee Director, any Person that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by such Non-Employee Director (other than the Corporation and any entity that is controlled by the Corporation) and (c) in respect of the Corporation, any Person that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by the Corporation; and (ii) “Person” shall mean any individual, corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, association or any other entity.

 

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F.                  To the fullest extent permitted by law, any Person purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Article IX.

 

Article X
DGCL SECTION 203 AND BUSINESS COMBINATIONS

 

A.                The Corporation hereby expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL.

 

B.                 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall not engage in any business combination (as defined below), at any point in time at which the Corporation’s Common Stock is registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, with any interested stockholder (as defined below) for a period of three (3) years following the time that such stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless:

 

1. prior to such time, the Board of Directors approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, or

 

2. upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock (as defined below) of the Corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock outstanding (but not the outstanding voting stock owned by the interested stockholder) those shares owned by (i) persons who are directors and also officers and (ii) employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer, or

 

3. at or subsequent to such time, the business combination is approved by the Board of Directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation that is not owned by the interested stockholder, or

 

4. the stockholder became an interested stockholder inadvertently and (i) as soon as practicable divested itself of ownership of sufficient shares so that the stockholder ceased to be an interested stockholder and (ii) was not, at any time within the three-year period immediately prior to a business combination between the Corporation and such stockholder, an interested stockholder but for the inadvertent acquisition of ownership.

 

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C.                 For purposes of this Article X, references to:

 

1. affiliate” means a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another person.

 

2. associate,” when used to indicate a relationship with any person, means: (i) any corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity of which such person is a director, officer or partner or is, directly or indirectly, the owner of 20% or more of any class of voting stock; (ii) any trust or other estate in which such person has at least a 20% beneficial interest or as to which such person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity; and (iii) any relative or spouse of such person, or any relative of such spouse, who has the same residence as such person.

 

3. business combination,” when used in reference to the Corporation and any interested stockholder of the Corporation, means:

 

(i) any merger or consolidation of the Corporation or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Corporation (a) with the interested stockholder, or (b) with any other corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity if the merger or consolidation is caused by the interested stockholder and as a result of such merger or consolidation Section (B) of this Article X is not applicable to the surviving entity;

 

(ii) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of transactions), except proportionately as a stockholder of the Corporation, to or with the interested stockholder, whether as part of a dissolution or otherwise, of assets of the Corporation or of any direct or indirect majority- owned subsidiary of the Corporation which assets have an aggregate market value equal to 10% or more of either the aggregate market value of all the assets of the Corporation determined on a consolidated basis or the aggregate market value of all the outstanding stock of the Corporation;

 

(iii) any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the Corporation or by any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Corporation of any stock of the Corporation or of such subsidiary to the interested stockholder, except: (a) pursuant to the exercise, exchange or conversion of securities exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into stock of the Corporation or any such subsidiary which securities were outstanding prior to the time that the interested stockholder became such; (b) pursuant to a merger under Section 251(g) of the DGCL; (c) pursuant to a dividend or distribution paid or made, or the exercise, exchange or conversion of securities exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into stock of the Corporation or any such subsidiary which security is distributed, pro rata to all holders of a class or series of stock of the Corporation subsequent to the time the interested stockholder became such; (d) pursuant to an exchange offer by the Corporation to purchase stock made on the same terms to all holders of said stock; or (e) any issuance or transfer of stock by the Corporation; provided, however, that in no case under items (c)-(e) of this subsection (iii) shall there be an increase in the interested stockholder’s proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the Corporation or of the voting stock of the Corporation (except as a result of immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments);

 

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(iv) any transaction involving the Corporation or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Corporation that has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series, or securities convertible into the stock of any class or series, of the Corporation or of any such subsidiary that is owned by the interested stockholder, except as a result of immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments or as a result of any purchase or redemption of any shares of stock not caused, directly or indirectly, by the interested stockholder; or

 

(v) any receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit, directly or indirectly (except proportionately as a stockholder of the Corporation), of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges, or other financial benefits (other than those expressly permitted in subsections (i)-(iv) above) provided by or through the Corporation or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary.

 

4. control,” including the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with,” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting stock, by contract, or otherwise. A person who is the owner of 20% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity shall be presumed to have control of such entity, in the absence of proof by a preponderance of the evidence to the contrary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a presumption of control shall not apply where such person holds voting stock, in good faith and not for the purpose of circumventing this Article X, as an agent, bank, broker, nominee, custodian or trustee for one or more owners who do not individually or as a group have control of such entity.

 

5. interested stockholder” means any person (other than the Corporation or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Corporation) that (i) is the owner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation, (ii) is an affiliate or associate of the Corporation and was the wner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation at any time within the three (3) year period immediately prior to the date on which it is sought to be determined whether such person is an interested stockholder or (iii) the affiliates and associates of any such person described in clauses (i) and (ii); provided, however, that “interested stockholder” shall not include any person whose ownership of shares in excess of the 15% limitation set forth herein is the result of any action taken solely by the Corporation; provided, that such person specified in this clause (b) shall be an interested stockholder if thereafter such person acquires additional shares of voting stock of the Corporation, except as a result of (x) further corporate action not caused, directly or indirectly, by such person or (y) an acquisition of a de minimis number of such additional shares. For the purpose of determining whether a person is an interested stockholder, the voting stock of the Corporation deemed to be outstanding shall include stock deemed to be owned by the person through application of the definition of “owner” below but shall not include any other unissued stock of the Corporation that may be issuable pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options, or otherwise.

 

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6. owner,” including the terms “own” and “owned,” when used with respect to any stock, means a person that individually or with or through any of its affiliates or associates:

 

(i) beneficially owns such stock, directly or indirectly; or

 

(ii) has (a) the right to acquire such stock (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or options, or otherwise; provided, however, that a person shall not be deemed the owner of stock tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by such person or any of such person’s affiliates or associates until such tendered stock is accepted for purchase or exchange; or (b) the right to vote such stock pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding; provided, however, that a person shall not be deemed the owner of any stock because of such person’s right to vote such stock if the agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such stock arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given in response to a proxy or consent solicitation made to ten (10) or more persons; or

 

(iii) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except voting pursuant to a revocable proxy or consent as described in item (b) of subsection (ii) above), or disposing of such stock with any other person that beneficially owns, or whose affiliates or associates beneficially own, directly or indirectly, such stock.

 

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7. person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity.

 

8. stock” means, with respect to any corporation, capital stock and, with respect to any other entity, any equity interest.

 

9. voting stock” means stock of any class or series entitled to vote generally in the election of directors and, with respect to any entity that is not a corporation, any equity interest entitled to vote generally in the election of the governing body of such entity. Every reference in this Article X to a percentage of voting stock shall refer to such percentage of the votes of such voting stock.

 

Article XI
MISCELLANEOUS

 

A.                Forum.

 

1. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if such court does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) shall be the sole and exclusive forum for: (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation; (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director or officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders; (iii) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director or officer or other employee of the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws (as either may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or waived from time to time); (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director or officer or other employee of the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine; or (v) any action asserting an “internal corporate claim” as that term is defined in Section 115 of the DGCL. For the avoidance of doubt, this Article XI(A)(1) shall not apply to any action or proceeding asserting a claim under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) or the Exchange Act.

 

2. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the sole and exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act.

 

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B.                 Consent to Jurisdiction. If any action the subject matter of which is within the scope of Article XI(A) above is filed in a court other than a court located within the State of Delaware (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder shall be deemed to have consented to (i) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce Article XI(A) above (an “FSC Enforcement Action”) and (ii) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such FSC Enforcement Action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such stockholder.

 

C.                 Severability. If any provision or provisions in the Certificate of Incorporation shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any person or entity or circumstance for any reason whatsoever, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the validity, legality and enforceability of such provision or provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions in the Certificate of Incorporation and the application of such provision or provisions to other persons or entities and circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

D.                Any person (as defined in Article X) purchasing or otherwise acquiring or holding any interest in any security of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and provided consent to this Article XI.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be executed by its duly authorized officer on this 7th day of May, 2021.

 

  Experience Investment Corp.

 

  By:  
  Name: Charlie Martin
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 3.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF

 

Blade Air Mobility, Inc.

 

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Article I

Offices

 

Section 1.01        Registered Office. The registered office and registered agent of Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (the “Corporation”) shall be as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation (as defined below). The Corporation may also have offices in such other places in the United States or elsewhere (and may change the Corporation’s registered agent) as the board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) may, from time to time, determine or as the business of the Corporation may require as determined by any officer of the Corporation.

 

Article II

Meetings of Stockholders

 

Section 2.01        Annual Meetings. Annual meetings of stockholders may be held at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as the Board of Directors shall determine and state in the notice of meeting. The Board of Directors may, in its sole discretion, determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication, including by webcast as described in Section 2.11 of these Amended and Restated Bylaws (these “Bylaws”), in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). The Board of Directors may postpone, reschedule or cancel any annual meeting of stockholders previously scheduled by the Board of Directors.

 

Section 2.02        Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders may only be called in the manner provided in the Corporation’s second amended and restated certificate of incorporation as then in effect (as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time, the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and may be held, at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such time and date as the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board of Directors shall determine and state in the notice of such meeting. The Board of Directors may, in its sole discretion, determine that special meetings of stockholders shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as described in Section 2.11 of these Bylaws in accordance with Section 211(a)(2) of the DGCL. The Board of Directors may postpone, reschedule or cancel any special meeting of stockholders previously scheduled by the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

 

 

 

Section 2.03        Notice of Stockholder Business and Nominations.

 

(A)             Annual Meetings of Stockholders.

 

(1)               Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only (a) as provided in the Investor Rights Agreement (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation), (b) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) delivered pursuant to Section 2.04, (c) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any authorized committee thereof, or (d) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) was a stockholder of record at the time the notice provided for in this Section 2.03 was given, on the record date for the determination of stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting, and at the time of the meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (iii) subject to ‎Section 2.03(C)(4), complies with the notice procedures set forth in these Bylaws as to such business or nomination. This Section 2.03(A)(1)(d) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations (other than pursuant to Section 2.03(A)(1)(a)) or submit other business before an annual meeting of stockholders (other than pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)).

 

(2)               For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to Section 2.03(A)(1)(d), the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing and otherwise in proper form in accordance with this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors, such other business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action under applicable law. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary not earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th calendar day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting nor later than the Close of Business on the 90th calendar day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which first anniversary date shall, for purposes of the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders (or special meeting in lieu thereof) held after the shares of the Corporation’s common stock are first publicly traded (the “First Annual Meeting”), be deemed to be May 5, 2022); provided, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 calendar days before or more than 70 calendar days after the anniversary date of the preceding year’s annual meeting, or if no annual meeting was held in the preceding year (other than in connection with the First Annual Meeting), notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th calendar day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the Close of Business on the later of the 90th calendar day prior to the date of such annual meeting or the tenth calendar day following the calendar day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above. For the avoidance of doubt, a stockholder shall not be entitled to make additional or substitute nominations following the expiration of the time periods set forth in these Bylaws. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.03(A)(2) to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting is increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least 100 calendar days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.03 shall be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the Close of Business on the tenth calendar day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.

 

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(3)               To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice delivered to the Secretary pursuant to this Section 2.03 must:

 

(a)               set forth, as to each person whom the Noticing Stockholder (as defined herein) proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, (i) the name, age, business address and residence address of such person, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of such person (present and for the past five years), (iii) the Ownership Information (as defined herein) for such person and any member of the immediate family of such person, or any Affiliate or Associate (as such terms are defined herein) of such person, or any person acting in concert therewith, (iv) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected) and (v) a complete and accurate description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings (whether written or oral) during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among the Holders and/or any Stockholder Associated Person (as such terms are defined herein), on the one hand, and each proposed nominee and any member of the immediate family of such proposed nominee, and his or her respective Affiliates and Associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all biographical and related party transaction and other information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to the federal and state securities laws, including Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K (the “Regulation S-K”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) (or any successor provision), if any Holder and/or any Stockholder Associated Person were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant;

 

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(b)               if the notice relates to any business other than nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, (ii) the text, if any, of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), (iii) the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person in such business, and (iv) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder;

 

(c)               set forth, as to the stockholder giving the notice (the “Noticing Stockholder”) and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (collectively with the Noticing Stockholder, the “Holders” and each, a “Holder”): (i) the name and address as they appear on the Corporation’s books and records of each Holder and the name and address of any Stockholder Associated Person, (ii) (A) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person (provided, however, that for purposes of this Section 2.03(A)(3), any such person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of the Corporation as to which such person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future), (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived, in whole or in part, from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation or otherwise (a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person has a right to vote or has granted a right to vote any shares of any security of the Corporation, (D) any Short Interest held by each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person presently or within the last 12 months in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 2.03 a person shall be deemed to have a “Short Interest” in a security if such person, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security), (E) any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) between and among each Holder, any Stockholder Associated Person, on the one hand, and any person acting in concert with any such person, on the other hand, the intent or effect of which may be to transfer to or from any such person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation or to increase or decrease the voting power of any such person with respect to any security of the Corporation, (F) any direct or indirect legal, economic or financial interest (including Short Interest) of each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person in the outcome of any vote to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation or any other entity with respect to any matter that is substantially related, directly or indirectly, to any nomination or business proposed by any Holder under this Section 2.03, (G) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (H) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership or limited liability company or similar entity in which any Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns any interest in a general partner or is the manager or managing member or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns any interest in the manager or managing member of a limited liability company or similar entity, and (I) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice (Sub-clauses (A) through (I) above of this Section 2.03(A)(3)(c)(ii) shall be referred, collectively, as the “Ownership Information”), (iii) a representation by the Noticing Stockholder that such stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting, will continue to be a stockholder of record of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting through the date of such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, (iv) a representation as to whether any Holder and/or any Stockholder Associated Person intends or is part of a group which intends (A) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (B) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or nomination, (v) a certification that each Holder and any Stockholder Associated Person has complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with its acquisition of shares or other securities of the Corporation and such person’s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation, (vi) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (vii) a representation as to the accuracy of the information set forth in the notice, and (viii) with respect to each person nominated for election to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement and any and all other information required by Section 2.03(D).

 

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(4)               A Noticing Stockholder shall further update and supplement its notice of any nomination or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.03(A) shall be true and correct (a) as of the record date for the meeting and (b) as of the date that is 15 calendar days prior to the meeting or any adjournment, recess, rescheduling or postponement thereof. Such update and supplement shall be delivered to the Secretary not later than three Business Days after the later of the record date or the date notice of the record date is first publicly announced (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of the record date for the meeting) and not later than seven Business Days prior to the date for the meeting, if practicable (or, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the meeting), or any adjournment, recess, rescheduling or postponement thereof (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of ten Business Days prior to the meeting or any adjournment, recess, rescheduling or postponement thereof).

 

(5)               The Corporation may also, as a condition to any such nomination or business being deemed properly brought before an annual meeting, require any Holder or any proposed nominee to deliver to the Secretary, within five Business Days of any such request, such other information as may reasonably be requested by the Corporation, including such other information as may be reasonably required by the Board of Directors, in its sole discretion, to determine (a) the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation, (b) whether such nominee qualifies as an “independent director” or “audit committee financial expert” under applicable law, securities exchange rule or regulation, or any publicly disclosed corporate governance guideline or committee charter of the Corporation and (c) such other information that the Board of Directors determines, in its sole discretion, could be material to a reasonable stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.

 

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(B)              Special Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting under Section 2.02. At any time that the stockholders are not prohibited from filling vacancies or newly created directorships on the Board of Directors, nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors to fill any vacancy or newly created directorship may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which any proposal to fill any vacancy or newly created directorship is to be presented to the stockholders (1) as provided in the Investor Rights Agreement, (2) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof or (3) by any stockholder of the Corporation who (a) was a stockholder of record at the time the notice provided for in this Section 2.03 was given, on the record date for the determination of stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting, and at the time of the meeting, (b) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (c) subject to Section 2.03(C)(4), complies with the notice procedures set forth in these Bylaws as to such business or nomination, including delivering the stockholder’s notice required by Section 2.03(A) with respect to any nomination (including the completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.03(D)) to the Secretary not earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th calendar day prior to such special meeting, nor later than the Close of Business on the later of the 90th calendar day prior to such special meeting or the tenth calendar day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees, if any, proposed by the Board of Directors to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of a special meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

(C)              General.

 

(1)               Except as provided in Section 2.03(C)(4) only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.03 or the Investor Rights Agreement shall be eligible to be elected at an annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at an annual or special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the chairman of the meeting shall, in addition to making any other determination that may be appropriate for the conduct of the meeting, have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with these Bylaws, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the chairman of the meeting. The Board of Directors may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board of Directors, the chairman of the meeting shall have the right and authority to convene and (for any or no reason) to recess and/or adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board of Directors or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (i) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (ii) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (iii) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall determine; (iv) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; (v) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants and on stockholder approvals; and (vi) restricting the use of cell phones, audio or video recording devices and similar devices at the meeting. The chairman of the meeting’s rulings on procedural matters shall be final. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03, unless otherwise required by law, if the Noticing Stockholder (or a qualified representative thereof) does not appear at the annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present a nomination or business, such nomination shall be disregarded and such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation. For purposes of this Section 2.03, to be considered a qualified representative of the Noticing Stockholder, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such Noticing Stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such Noticing Stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such Noticing Stockholder to act for such Noticing Stockholder as proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting of stockholders. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board of Directors or the chairman of the meeting, the meeting of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure.

 

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(2)               For purposes of these Bylaws,

 

(a)               Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any specified Person, any Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person, through one or more intermediaries or otherwise. The term “control” means the ownership of a majority of the voting securities of the applicable Person or the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the applicable Person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms “controlled” and “controlling” have meanings correlative thereto; provided, that, in no event shall the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries be considered an Affiliate of any portfolio company (other than the Corporation and its subsidiaries) of any investment fund affiliated with any direct or indirect equityholder of the Corporation nor shall any portfolio company (other than the Corporation and its subsidiaries) of any investment fund affiliated with any direct or indirect equityholder of the Corporation be considered to be an Affiliate of the Corporation or its subsidiaries.

 

(b)               Associate(s)” shall have the meaning attributed to such term in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(c)               Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, NY are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

 

(d)               Close of Business” shall mean 5:00 p.m. local time at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, and if an applicable deadline falls on the Close of Business on a day that is not a Business Day, then the applicable deadline shall be deemed to be the Close of Business on the immediately preceding Business Day.

 

(e)               delivery” of any notice or materials by a stockholder as required to be “delivered” under this Section 2.03 shall be made by both (i) hand delivery, overnight courier service, or by certified or registered mail, return receipt required, in each case, to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, and (ii) electronic mail to the Secretary at such email address as may be specified in the Corporation’s proxy statement for the annual meeting of stockholders immediately preceding such delivery of notice or materials.

 

(f)                person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, joint stock company, governmental agency or instrumentality or other entity of any kind.

 

(g)               public announcement” shall mean any method (or combination of methods) of disclosure that is reasonably designed to provide broad, non-exclusionary distribution of the information to the public or the furnishing or filing of any document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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(h)               Stockholder Associated Person” shall mean as to any Holder (i) any person acting in concert with such Holder, (ii) any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Holder or any of their respective Affiliates and Associates, or person acting in concert therewith and (iii) any member of the immediate family of such Holder or an affiliate or associate of such Holder.

 

(3)               Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 2.03; provided, however, that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any references in these Bylaws to the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit any requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to Section 2.03(A) and Section 2.03(B). Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to affect any rights of (a) stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or any other applicable federal or state securities law with respect to that stockholder’s request to include proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement, or (b) the holders of any class or series of stock having a preference over the Common Stock (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) as to dividends or upon liquidation to elect directors under specified circumstances.

 

(4)               Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.03, for as long as the Investor Rights Agreement remains in effect with respect to the Sellers or the Sponsor (each as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation), neither the Sponsor nor any Seller (to the extent then subject to the Investor Rights Agreement) shall be subject to the notice procedures set forth in Section 2.03(A)(2), ‎Section 2.03(A)(3), Section 2.03(A)(4), ‎Section 2.03(A)(5), Section 2.03(B) or Section 2.03(D) with respect to any annual or special meeting of stockholders in respect of any matters that are contemplated by the Investor Rights Agreement.

 

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(D)             Submission of Questionnaire. Representation and Agreement. To be eligible to be a nominee for election or re-election as a director of the Corporation pursuant to Section 2.03(A)(1)(d), a proposed nominee must deliver in writing (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under this Section 2.03) to the Secretary (1) a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request of any stockholder of record identified by name within five Business Days of such written request), (2) an irrevocable, contingent resignation to the Board of Directors, in a form acceptable to the Board of Directors, and (3) a written representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request of any stockholder of record identified by name within five Business Days of such request) that such person (a) is not and will not become a party to (i) any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether written or oral) with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a Director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation or (ii) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person’s ability to comply, if elected as a Director of the Corporation, with such person’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, (b) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a director that has not been disclosed to the Corporation, (c) in such person’s individual capacity and on behalf of any person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, would be in compliance, if elected as a director of the Corporation, and will comply with all applicable rules of the exchanges upon which the securities of the Corporation are listed and all applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines of the Corporation and (d) in such person’s individual capacity and on behalf of any Holder on whose behalf the nomination is being made, intends to serve a full term if elected as a director of the Corporation.

 

Section 2.04        Notice of Meetings. Whenever stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, a timely notice in writing or by electronic transmission, in the manner provided in Section 232 of the DGCL, of the meeting, which shall state the place, if any, date and time of the meeting, the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, if such date is different from the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be mailed to or transmitted electronically by the Secretary of the Corporation to each stockholder of record entitled to vote thereat as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the notice of any meeting shall be given not less than ten nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting.

 

Section 2.05        Quorum. Unless otherwise required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or the rules of any stock exchange upon which the Corporation’s securities are listed, the holders of record of a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a separate vote by a class or series or classes or series is required, a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of such class or series or classes or series, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to the vote on that matter. Once a quorum is present to organize a meeting, it shall not be broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholders.

 

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Section 2.06        Voting. Except as otherwise provided by or pursuant to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, each stockholder entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by such stockholder which has voting power upon the matter in question. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy in any manner provided by applicable law, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and if, and only as long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A stockholder may revoke any proxy which is not irrevocable by attending the meeting and voting in person or by delivering to the Secretary of the Corporation a revocation of the proxy or a new proxy bearing a later date. Unless required by the Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law, or determined by the chairman of the meeting to be advisable, the vote on any question need not be by ballot. On a vote by ballot, each ballot shall be signed by the stockholder voting, or by such stockholder’s proxy, if there be such proxy. When a quorum is present or represented at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one upon which, by express provision of applicable law, of the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, of any regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, of the Certificate of Incorporation or of these Bylaws, a different vote is required, in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence and subject to the Certificate of Incorporation, all elections of directors shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast in respect of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors.

 

Section 2.07        Chairman of Meetings. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, if one is elected, or, in his or her absence or disability or refusal to act, the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, or in the absence, disability or refusal to act of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, a person designated by the Board of Directors shall be the chairman of the meeting and, as such, preside at all meetings of the stockholders.

 

Section 2.08        Secretary of Meetings. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as Secretary at all meetings of the stockholders. In the absence, disability or refusal to act of the Secretary, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint a person to act as Secretary at such meetings.

 

Section 2.09        Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote only to the extent permitted by and in the manner provided in the Certificate of Incorporation and in accordance with applicable law.

 

Section 2.10        Adjournment. At any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, if less than a quorum be present, the chairman of the meeting or stockholders holding a majority in voting power of the shares of stock of the Corporation, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time without notice other than announcement at the meeting until a quorum shall be present. Any business may be transacted at the adjourned meeting that might have been transacted at the meeting originally noticed. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board of Directors shall fix as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting as of the record date so fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

 

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Section 2.11        Remote Communication. If authorized by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion, and subject to such guidelines and procedures as the Board of Directors may adopt, stockholders and proxy holders not physically present at a meeting of stockholders may, by means of remote communication:

 

(A)             participate in a meeting of stockholders; and

 

(B)              be deemed present in person and vote at a meeting of stockholders whether such meeting is to be held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication, provided that

 

(i)                 the Corporation shall implement reasonable measures to verify that each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means of remote communication is a stockholder or proxyholder;

 

(ii)              the Corporation shall implement reasonable measures to provide such stockholders and proxyholders a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and to vote on matters submitted to the stockholders, including an opportunity to read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with such proceedings; and

 

(iii)            if any stockholder or proxyholder votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication, a record of such vote or other action shall be maintained by the Corporation.

 

Section 2.12        Inspectors of Election. The Corporation may, and shall if required by law, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors of election, who may be employees of the Corporation, to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof and to make a written report thereof. The Corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. In the event that no inspector so appointed or designated is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath to execute faithfully the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspector or inspectors so appointed or designated shall (i) ascertain the number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation outstanding and the voting power of each such share, (ii) determine the shares of capital stock of the Corporation represented at the meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots, (iii) count all votes and ballots, (iv) determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspectors, and (v) certify their determination of the number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation represented at the meeting and such inspectors’ count of all votes and ballots. Such certification and report shall specify such other information as may be required by law. In determining the validity and counting of proxies and ballots cast at any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, the inspectors may consider such information as is permitted by applicable law. No person who is a candidate for an office at an election may serve as an inspector at such election

 

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Article III

Board of Directors

 

Section 3.01        Powers. Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of its Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may exercise all such authority and powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not, by law or the Certificate of Incorporation, directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

 

Section 3.02        Number and Term; Chairman. Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation and the Investor Rights Agreement, the total number of directors shall be determined from time to time exclusively by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors. The term of each director shall be as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation. Directors need not be stockholders. The Board of Directors shall elect a Chairman of the Board, who shall have the powers and perform such duties as provided in these Bylaws and as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors at which he or she is present. If the Chairman of the Board is not present at a meeting of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer (if the Chief Executive Officer is a director and is not also the Chairman of the Board) shall preside at such meeting, and, if the Chief Executive Officer is not present at such meeting or is not a director, a majority of the directors present at such meeting shall elect one of their members to preside over such meeting.

 

Section 3.03        Resignations. Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Secretary of the Corporation. The resignation shall take effect at the time or the happening of any event specified therein, and if no time or event is specified, at the time of its receipt. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective unless otherwise expressly provided in the resignation.

 

Section 3.04        Removal. Subject to the Investor Rights Agreement, directors of the Corporation may be removed in the manner provided in the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law.

 

Section 3.05        Vacancies and Newly Created Directorships. Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the Investor Rights Agreement, vacancies occurring in any directorship (whether by death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other cause) and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors shall be filled in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation. Any director elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his or her successor shall be elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal.

 

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Section 3.06        Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such places and times as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, the President of the Corporation or the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and shall be called by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Secretary of the Corporation if directed by the Board of Directors and shall be at such places and times as they or he or she shall fix. Notice need not be given of regular meetings of the Board of Directors. At least 24 hours before each special meeting of the Board of Directors, either written notice, notice by electronic transmission or oral notice (either in person or by telephone) of the time, date and place of the meeting shall be given to each director. Unless otherwise indicated in the notice thereof, any and all business may be transacted at a special meeting.

 

Section 3.07        Quorum, Voting and Adjournment. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the act of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of the directors present thereat may adjourn such meeting to another time and place. Notice of such adjourned meeting need not be given if the time and place of such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting so adjourned.

 

Section 3.08        Committees; Committee Rules. Subject to the Investor Rights Agreement, the Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, including but not limited to an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, each such committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee to replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors establishing such committee, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to the following matters: (a) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter (other than the election or removal of directors) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval or (b) adopting, amending or repealing any Bylaw of the Corporation. Each committee of the Board of Directors may fix its own rules of procedure and shall hold its meetings as provided by such rules, except as may otherwise be provided by a resolution of the Board of Directors designating such committee. Unless otherwise provided in such a resolution, the presence of at least a majority of the members of the committee shall be necessary to constitute a quorum unless the committee shall consist of one or two members, in which event one member shall constitute a quorum; and all matters shall be determined by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting of the committee at which a quorum is present. Unless otherwise provided in such a resolution, in the event that a member and that member’s alternate, if alternates are designated by the Board of Directors, of such committee is or are absent or disqualified, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member.

 

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Section 3.09       Action Without a Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission. The writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions shall be filed in the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors in accordance with applicable law.

 

Section 3.10        Remote Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, members of the Board of Directors, or any committee designated by the Board of Directors, may participate in a meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment in which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation in a meeting by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

Section 3.11        Compensation. The Board of Directors shall have the authority to fix the compensation, including fees and reimbursement of expenses, of directors for services to the Corporation in any capacity.

 

Section 3.12        Reliance on Books and Records. A member of the Board of Directors, or a member of any committee designated by the Board of Directors shall, in the performance of such person’s duties, be fully protected in relying in good faith upon records of the Corporation and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Corporation by any of the Corporation’s officers or employees, or committees of the Board of Directors, or by any other person as to matters the member reasonably believes are within such other person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Corporation.

 

Article IV

Officers

 

Section 4.01        Number. The officers of the Corporation shall include a Chief Executive Officer, a President and a Secretary, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors and who shall hold office for such terms as shall be determined by the Board of Directors and until their successors are elected and qualify or until their earlier resignation or removal. In addition, the Board of Directors may elect one or more Vice Chairmen and Vice Presidents, including one or more Executive Vice Presidents or Senior Vice Presidents, a Treasurer and one or more Assistant Treasurers and one or more Assistant Secretaries, who shall hold their respective offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

Section 4.02        Other Officers and Agents. The Board of Directors may appoint such other officers and agents as it deems advisable, who shall hold their office for such terms and shall exercise and perform such powers and duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.

 

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Section 4.03        Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall have general executive charge, management, and control of the business and affairs of the Corporation in the ordinary course of its business, with all such powers as may be reasonably incident to such responsibilities or that are delegated to him or her by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors has not elected a Chairman of the Board or in the absence, inability or refusal to act of such elected person to act as the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall exercise all of the powers and discharge all of the duties of the Chairman of the Board, but only if the Chief Executive Officer is a director of the Corporation. He or she shall have power to sign all contracts and other instruments of the Corporation and shall have general supervision and direction of all of the other officers, employees and agents of the Corporation.

 

Section 4.04        Vice Chairman. The Vice Chairman of the Corporation shall perform all duties as customarily pertain to that office, with all such powers with respect to such management and control as may be reasonably incident to such responsibilities or that are delegated to him or her by the Board of Directors. The Vice Chairman of the Corporation shall have power to sign all stock certificates, contracts and other instruments of the Corporation which are authorized and shall have general supervision of all of the other officers, employees and agents of the Corporation.

 

Section 4.05        President. The President shall have general responsibility for the management and control of the operations of the Corporation and shall perform all duties, with all such powers with respect to such management and control as may be reasonably incident to such responsibilities or that are delegated to him or her by the Board of Directors. The President shall have power to sign all stock certificates, contracts and other instruments of the Corporation which are authorized and shall have general supervision of all of the other officers (other than the Chief Executive Officer), employees and agents of the Corporation.

 

Section 4.06        Vice Presidents. Each Vice President, if any are elected, of whom one or more may be designated an Executive Vice President or Senior Vice President, shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board of Directors.

 

Section 4.07        Treasurer. The Treasurer, if any is elected, shall have custody of the corporate funds, securities, evidences of indebtedness and other valuables of the Corporation and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation. The Treasurer shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors or its designees selected for such purposes. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the Corporation, taking proper vouchers therefor. The Treasurer shall render to the Chief Executive Officer, the President and the Board of Directors, upon their request, a report of the financial condition of the Corporation. If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such amount and with such surety as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.

 

In addition, the Treasurer shall have such further powers and perform such other duties incident to the office of Treasurer as from time to time are assigned to him or her by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board of Directors.

 

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Section 4.08        Secretary. The Secretary shall: (a) cause minutes of all meetings of the stockholders and directors to be recorded and kept properly; (b) cause all notices required by these Bylaws or otherwise to be given properly; (c) see that the minute books, stock books, and other nonfinancial books, records and papers of the Corporation are kept properly; and (d) cause all reports, statements, returns, certificates and other documents to be prepared and filed when and as required. The Secretary shall have such further powers and perform such other duties as prescribed from time to time by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board of Directors.

 

Section 4.09        Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries. Each Assistant Treasurer and each Assistant Secretary, if any are elected, shall be vested with all the powers and shall perform all the duties of the Treasurer and Secretary, respectively, in the absence or disability of such officer, unless or until the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board of Directors shall otherwise determine. In addition, Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board of Directors.

 

Section 4.10        Corporate Funds and Checks. The funds of the Corporation shall be kept in such depositories as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors or its designees selected for such purposes. All checks or other orders for the payment of money shall be signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary or such other person or agent as may from time to time be authorized and with such countersignature, if any, as may be required by the Board of Directors.

 

Section 4.11        Contracts and Other Documents. The Chief Executive Officer, the President and the Secretary, or such other officer or officers as may from time to time be authorized by the Board of Directors or any other committee given specific authority in the premises by the Board of Directors during the intervals between the meetings of the Board of Directors, shall have power to sign and execute on behalf of the Corporation deeds, conveyances and contracts, and any and all other documents requiring execution by the Corporation.

 

Section 4.12        Ownership of Stock of Another Corporation. Unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary, or such other officer or agent as shall be authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have the power and authority, on behalf of the Corporation, to attend and to vote at any meeting of securityholders of any entity in which the Corporation holds securities or equity interests and may exercise, on behalf of the Corporation, any and all of the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such securities or equity interests at any such meeting, including the authority to execute and deliver proxies and consents on behalf of the Corporation.

 

Section 4.13        Delegation of Duties. In the absence, disability or refusal of any officer to exercise and perform his or her duties, the Board of Directors may delegate to another officer such powers or duties.

 

Section 4.14        Resignation and Removal. Any officer of the Corporation may be removed from office for or without cause at any time by the Board of Directors. Any officer may resign at any time in the same manner prescribed under Section 3.03 of these Bylaws.

 

Section 4.15        Vacancies. Subject to the Investor Rights Agreement, the Board of Directors shall have the power to fill vacancies occurring in any office.

 

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Article V

Stock

 

Section 5.01        Shares With Certificates.

 

The shares of stock of the Corporation shall be uncertificated and shall not be represented by certificates, except to the extent as may be required by applicable law or as otherwise authorized by the Board of Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, shares of stock represented by a certificate and issued and outstanding on May 7, 2021 shall remain represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Corporation.

 

If shares of stock of the Corporation shall be certificated, such certificates shall be in such form as is consistent with the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law. Every holder of stock in the Corporation represented by certificates shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Corporation by, any two authorized officers of the Corporation (it being understood that each of the Chief Executive Officer, the Vice Chairman, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, and any Assistant Secretary of the Corporation shall be an authorized officer for such purpose), certifying the number and class of shares of stock of the Corporation owned by such holder. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. The Board of Directors shall have the power to appoint one or more transfer agents and/or registrars for the transfer or registration of certificates of stock of any class, and may require stock certificates to be countersigned or registered by one or more of such transfer agents and/or registrars. The name of the holder of record of the shares represented thereby, with the number of such shares and the date of issue, shall be entered on the books of the Corporation. With respect to all uncertificated shares, the name of the holder of record of such uncertificated shares represented, with the number of such shares and the date of issue, shall be entered on the books of the Corporation.

 

Section 5.02        Shares Without Certificates. If the Board of Directors chooses to issue shares of stock without certificates, the Corporation, if required by the DGCL, shall, within a reasonable time after the issue or transfer of shares without certificates, send the stockholder a statement of the information required by the DGCL. The Corporation may adopt a system of issuance, recordation and transfer of its shares of stock by electronic or other means not involving the issuance of certificates, provided that the use of such system by the Corporation is permitted in accordance with applicable law.

 

Section 5.03        Transfer of Shares. Shares of stock of the Corporation shall be transferable upon its books by the holders thereof, in person or by their duly authorized attorneys or legal representatives, upon surrender to the Corporation by delivery thereof (to the extent evidenced by a physical stock certificate) to the person in charge of the stock and transfer books and ledgers. Certificates representing such shares, if any, shall be cancelled and new certificates, if the shares are to be certificated, shall thereupon be issued. Shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are not represented by a certificate shall be transferred in accordance with any procedures adopted by the Corporation or its agent and applicable law. A record shall be made of each transfer. Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of the transfer if, when the certificates are presented, both the transferor and transferee request the Corporation to do so. The Corporation shall have power and authority to make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or proper concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates for shares of stock of the Corporation.

 

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Section 5.04        Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Certificates. A new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares may be issued in the place of any certificate previously issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may, in its discretion, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his or her legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond, in such sum as the Corporation may direct, in order to indemnify the Corporation against any claims that may be made against it in connection therewith. A new certificate or uncertificated shares of stock may be issued in the place of any certificate previously issued by the Corporation that has become mutilated upon the surrender by such owner of such mutilated certificate and, if required by the Corporation, the posting of a bond by such owner in an amount sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against it in connection therewith.

 

Section 5.05        List of Stockholders Entitled To Vote. The Corporation shall prepare, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than ten days before the date of the meeting, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date), arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting at least ten days prior to the meeting (a) on a reasonably accessible electronic network; provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of meeting or (b) during ordinary business hours at the principal place of business of the Corporation. In the event that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then a list of stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof and may be examined by any stockholder who is present. If the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote communication, then the list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, the stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the list of stockholders required by this Section 5.05 or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.

 

Section 5.06        Fixing Date for Determination of Stockholders of Record.

 

(A)             In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than 60 nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting. If the Board of Directors so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board of Directors determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance herewith at the adjourned meeting.

 

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(B)              In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall not be more than 60 days prior to such action. If no such record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

(C)              Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, in order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than ten days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If no record date for determining stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting is fixed by the Board of Directors, (i) when no prior action of the Board of Directors is required by law, the record date for such purpose shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation in accordance with applicable law, and (ii) if prior action by the Board of Directors is required by law, the record date for such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

 

Section 5.07        Registered Stockholders. Prior to the surrender to the Corporation of the certificate or certificates for a share or shares of stock or notification to the Corporation of the transfer of uncertificated shares with a request to record the transfer of such share or shares, the Corporation may treat the registered owner of such share or shares as the person entitled to receive dividends, to vote, to receive notifications and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of an owner of such share or shares. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Corporation shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof.

 

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Article VI

 

Notice and Waiver of Notice

 

Section 6.01        Notice. If mailed, notice to stockholders shall be deemed given when deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. Other forms of notice shall be deemed given as provided in the DGCL. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders may be given by electronic transmission in the manner provided in Section 232 of the DGCL.

 

Section 6.02        Waiver of Notice. A written waiver of any notice, signed by a stockholder or director, or waiver by electronic transmission by such person, whether given before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to the notice required to be given to such person. Neither the business nor the purpose of any meeting need be specified in such a waiver. Attendance at any meeting (in person or by remote communication) shall constitute waiver of notice except attendance for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

Article VII

Indemnification

 

Section 7.01        Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 7.03 with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses or with respect to any compulsory counterclaim brought by such indemnitee, the Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors. Any reference to an officer of the Corporation in this Article VII shall be deemed to refer exclusively to the Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chairman, President, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation appointed pursuant to Article IV of these Bylaws, and to any Vice President, Assistant Secretary, Assistant Treasurer, other officer of the Corporation appointed by the Board of Directors pursuant to Article IV of these Bylaws or other person designated by the title of “Vice President” of the Corporation, and any reference to an officer of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise shall be deemed to refer exclusively to an officer appointed by the board of directors or equivalent governing body of such other entity pursuant to the certificate of incorporation and bylaws or equivalent organizational documents of such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise.

 

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Section 7.02        Right to Advancement of Expenses. In addition to the right to indemnification conferred in Section 7.01, an indemnitee shall also have the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses (including attorney’s fees) incurred by the indemnitee in appearing at, participating in or defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition or in connection with a proceeding brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Article VII (which shall be governed by Section 7.03) (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”); provided, however, that, if the DGCL requires or in the case of an advance made in a proceeding brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification or advancement, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made solely upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified or entitled to advancement of expenses under Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 or otherwise.

 

Section 7.03        Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 7.01 or Section 7.02 is not paid in full by the Corporation within (i) 60 days after a written claim for indemnification has been received by the Corporation or (ii) 20 days after a claim for an advancement of expenses has been received by the Corporation, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim or to obtain advancement of expenses, as applicable. To the fullest extent permitted by law, if successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including by its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including by its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article VII or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.

 

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Section 7.04        Indemnification Not Exclusive.

 

(A)             The provision of indemnification to or the advancement of expenses and costs to any indemnitee under this Article VII, or the entitlement of any indemnitee to indemnification or advancement of expenses and costs under this Article VII, shall not limit or restrict in any way the power of the Corporation to indemnify or advance expenses and costs to such indemnitee in any other way permitted by law or be deemed exclusive of, or invalidate, any right to which any indemnitee seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses and costs may be entitled under any law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such indemnitee’s capacity as an officer, director, employee or agent of the Corporation and as to action in any other capacity.

 

(B)              Given that certain jointly indemnifiable claims (as defined below) may arise due to the service of the indemnitee as a director or officer of the Corporation at the request of the indemnitee-related entities (as defined below), the Corporation shall be fully and primarily responsible for the payment to the indemnitee in respect of indemnification or advancement of expenses in connection with any such jointly indemnifiable claims, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this Article VII, irrespective of any right of recovery the indemnitee may have from the indemnitee-related entities. Under no circumstance shall the Corporation be entitled to any right of subrogation or contribution by the indemnitee-related entities and no right of advancement or recovery the indemnitee may have from the indemnitee-related entities shall reduce or otherwise alter the rights of the indemnitee or the obligations of the Corporation hereunder. In the event that any of the indemnitee-related entities shall make any payment to the indemnitee in respect of indemnification or advancement of expenses with respect to any jointly indemnifiable claim, the indemnitee-related entity making such payment shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of the indemnitee against the Corporation, and the indemnitee shall execute all papers reasonably required and shall do all things that may be reasonably necessary to secure such rights, including the execution of such documents as may be necessary to enable the indemnitee-related entities effectively to bring suit to enforce such rights. Each of the indemnitee-related entities shall be third-party beneficiaries with respect to this Section 7.04(B) of Article VII, entitled to enforce this Section 7.04(B) of Article VII.

 

For purposes of this Section 7.04(B) of Article VII, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

(1)               The term “indemnitee-related entities” means any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise (other than the Corporation or any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise for which the indemnitee has agreed, on behalf of the Corporation or at the Corporation’s request, to serve as a director, officer, employee or agent and which service is covered by the indemnity described herein) from whom an indemnitee may be entitled to indemnification or advancement of expenses with respect to which, in whole or in part, the Corporation may also have an indemnification or advancement obligation.

 

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(2)               The term “jointly indemnifiable claims” shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, any action, suit or proceeding for which the indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification or advancement of expenses from both the indemnitee-related entities and the Corporation pursuant to Delaware law, any agreement or certificate of incorporation, bylaws, partnership agreement, operating agreement, certificate of formation, certificate of limited partnership or comparable organizational documents of the Corporation or the indemnitee-related entities, as applicable.

 

Section 7.05        Nature of Rights. The rights conferred upon indemnitees in this Article VII shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators. Any amendment, alteration or repeal of this Article VII that adversely affects any right of an indemnitee or its successors shall be prospective only and shall not limit, eliminate, or impair any such right with respect to any proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

Section 7.06        Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.

 

Section 7.07        Indemnification of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article VII with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the Corporation.

 

Article VIII

Miscellaneous

 

Section 8.01        Electronic Transmission. For purposes of these Bylaws, “electronic transmission” means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, including the use of, or participation in, one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved, and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process.

 

Section 8.02        Corporate Seal. The Board of Directors may provide a suitable seal, containing the name of the Corporation, which seal shall be in the charge of the Secretary. If and when so directed by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof, duplicates of the seal may be kept and used by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or by an Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer.

 

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Section 8.03        Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors. Unless otherwise fixed by the Board of Directors, the fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year.

 

Section 8.04        Section Headings. Section headings in these Bylaws are for convenience of reference only and shall not be given any substantive effect in limiting or otherwise construing any provision herein.

 

Section 8.05        Inconsistent Provisions. In the event that any provision of these Bylaws is or becomes inconsistent with any provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, the DGCL or any other applicable law, such provision of these Bylaws shall not be given any effect to the extent of such inconsistency but shall otherwise be given full force and effect.

 

Section 8.06        Severability. If any provision or provisions in these Bylaws shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any person or entity or circumstance for any reason whatsoever, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the validity, legality and enforceability of such provision or provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions in these Bylaws and the application of such provision or provisions to other persons or entities and circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any security of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this Section 8.06.

 

Article IX

Amendments

 

Section 9.01        Amendments. The Board of Directors is authorized to make, repeal, alter, amend and rescind, in whole or in part, these Bylaws without the assent or vote of the stockholders in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware, the Certificate of Incorporation or the Investor Rights Agreement.

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA

CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Defined terms included below shall have the same meaning as terms defined and included elsewhere in this this Current Report on Form 8-K and, if not defined in the Form 8-K, the proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 6, 2020. Unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, references to the “Combined Entity” refer to Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (f/k/a Experience Investment Corp.) and its consolidated subsidiaries after the Closing, “EIC” refers to Experience Investment Corp. prior to the Closing, and “Blade” refers to Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. prior to the Closing.

 

Introduction

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2020, combines the historical audited condensed balance sheet of EIC as of December 31, 2020, with the historical unaudited consolidated balance sheet of Blade as of December 31, 2020, giving effect to the Transactions, as summarized below, as if they had been consummated on December 31, 2020.

 

EIC and Blade have different fiscal years. EIC’s fiscal year ends on December 31, whereas Blade’s fiscal year ends on September 30. As the fiscal year end of the Combined Entity will be September 30, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared using September 30 as the fiscal year end. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020 combines the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the three months ended December 31, 2020 with the historical unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations of Blade for the three months ended December 31, 2020. The historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the three months ended December 31, 2020 was derived by subtracting the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 from the historical audited statement of operations of EIC for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 combines the unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 with the historical audited consolidated statement of operations of Blade for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020. The unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 was derived by adding the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and the historical audited statement of operations for EIC for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, and subtracting the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through September 30, 2019. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations of the Combined Entity for the three months ended December 31, 2020 and twelve months ended September 30, 2020 are presented on a pro forma basis as if the Transactions, as summarized below, had been consummated on October 1, 2019.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information was derived from, and should be read in conjunction with, the following historical financial statements, the accompanying notes and other specified information:

 

The historical audited financial statements and the related notes of EIC as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, the historical unaudited condensed financial statements and the related notes of EIC as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through September 30, 2019, and the historical audited financial statements of EIC as of December 31, 2019 and for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, which are incorporated by reference into the Form 8-K to which this Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information is attached;

 

the historical unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes of Blade as of and for the three months ended December 31, 2020, and the historical audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes of Blade as of and for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020, which are incorporated by reference into the Form 8-K to which this Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information is attached;; and

 

other information relating to EIC and Blade included in the proxy statement/prospectus/consent solicitation statement, including the description of the Merger, the terms of the Merger Agreement and the terms of the other agreements relating to the Transactions set forth under the sections titled “The Merger,” “The Merger Agreement” and “Certain Other Agreements Relating to the Transactions,” respectively, which are incorporated by reference into the Form 8-K to which this Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information is attached.

 

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The foregoing historical financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared based on the aforementioned historical financial statements and the assumptions and adjustments as described in the notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information. Additionally, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information contains estimated adjustments, based upon available information and certain assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is presented for illustrative purposes only. The financial results may have been different had the companies been combined as of the dates presented. You should not rely on the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information as being indicative of the historical results that would have been achieved had Blade and EIC been combined as of the dates presented or the future results that the Combined Entity will experience. EIC and Blade have not had any historical relationship prior to the Transactions. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate activities between Blade and EIC.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information should also be read together with the accompanying notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements, EIC’s and Blade’s unaudited and audited financial statements and related notes, “EIC’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Blade’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and other financial information which are incorporated by reference into the Form 8-K to which this Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information is attached;

 

Description of the Merger

 

On December 14, 2020, EIC, entered into the Merger Agreement, providing for, among other things, and subject to the terms and conditions therein, a business combination between Blade and EIC pursuant to the proposed merger of Merger Sub with and into Blade, with Blade continuing as the surviving entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of EIC.

 

Pursuant to EIC’s current certificate of incorporation, EIC’s public stockholders may demand that EIC redeem all or a portion of their public shares of EIC Class A common stock for cash upon the completion of the Merger at a per share price equal to a full pro rata portion of the funds held in the trust account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the Merger. The unaudited condensed combined pro forma financial statements reflect actual redemption of 3,596,979 shares of EIC’s Class A common stock at $10.07 per share.

 

The related Transactions that are given pro forma effect include:

 

(a) each share of Blade Common Stock that is issued and outstanding as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (other than treasury stock) were cancelled and automatically converted into the right to receive a number of shares of EIC Class A common stock equal to the quotient of (i) (A) the sum of $356,250,000 plus the aggregate exercise prices of all in the money Blade Options outstanding as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger divided by (B) the fully-diluted number of shares of Blade Common Stock (as calculated pursuant to the Merger Agreement and including the aggregate number of shares of Blade Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of Blade Preferred Stock and the aggregate number of Blade Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the in the money Blade Options (the “Closing Per Share Exchange Amount”) divided by (ii) the Reference Price of $10.00 per share (rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares of EIC Class A common stock, with no cash being payable for any fractional share eliminated by such rounding) (the “Closing Per Share Stock Consideration”).

 

(b) each share of Blade Preferred Stock that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger were cancelled and automatically converted into the right to receive a number of shares of EIC Class A common stock equal to the Closing Per Share Stock Consideration multiplied by the number of shares of Blade Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of such share of Blade Preferred Stock; and

 

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(c) each Blade Option that is outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger, whether vested or unvested, were assumed by EIC and automatically converted into an EIC Option to purchase a number of shares of EIC Class A common stock equal to the product of (1) the number of shares of Blade Common Stock that were issuable upon exercise of such Blade Option immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger multiplied by (2) the Closing Per Share Stock Consideration (rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares of EIC Class A common stock, with no cash being payable for any fractional share eliminated by such rounding), at an exercise price per share of EIC Class A common stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the exercise price per share of Blade Common Stock under such Blade Option immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger by the Closing Per Share Stock Consideration (rounded up to the nearest whole cent).

 

For purposes of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information presented below, an aggregate of 35,815,294 shares of EIC Class A common stock were issued in connection with the closing of the Merger, consisting of (a) 26,125,468 shares of EIC Class A common stock issued in exchange for outstanding shares of Blade Common Stock and Blade Preferred Stock and (b) 9,689,826 shares of EIC Class A common stock were issued upon the exercise of EIC Options at a weighted average exercise price of $0.19 per share (which EIC Options were issued pursuant to the adoption and conversion of Blade Options to purchase an aggregate of 13,310,087 shares of Blade Common Stock at a weighted average exercise price of $0.14 per share) and assuming that the payment of the exercise price for such EIC Options was net settled. Options granted under the 2015 Plan vest over a period of time determined by Blade’s board of directors, subject to the option holder’s continuous service through each applicable vesting date. Consummation of the Merger will not automatically cause the vesting of options under the 2015 Plan but the Blade Board approved that vesting of all options outstanding under the 2015 Plan that were granted before December 14, 2020 and are held by current employees or other service providers will be accelerated upon the Merger; provided that, to the extent (if at all) necessary to avoid an excise tax under Code Section 4999 or lost deductibility under Code Section 280G, certain vesting will be subject to approval of Blade’s stockholders. As a result, the shares of EIC Class A common stock underlying the EIC Options will be considered issued and outstanding as of the closing of the Merger for purposes of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information presented below.

 

Accounting for the Transactions

 

The Transactions will be accounted for as a reverse recapitalization in accordance with GAAP. Under this method of accounting, EIC will be treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes. This determination was based primarily on Blade having the ability to appoint a majority of the initial Board of the Combined Entity, Blade’s senior management comprising the senior management of the Combined Entity, and Blade’s operations comprising the ongoing operations of the Combined Entity. Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the financial statements of the Combined Entity will represent a continuation of the financial statements of Blade with the Transactions treated as the equivalent of Blade issuing stock for the net assets of EIC, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of EIC will be stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. Operations prior to the Transactions will be presented as those of Blade in future reports of the Combined Entity.

 

Basis of Pro Forma Presentation

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses.” The adjustments in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information have been identified and presented to provide relevant information necessary for an illustrative understanding of the effect of the Merger and has been prepared for informational purposes only. Assumptions and estimates underlying the unaudited pro forma adjustments set forth in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information are described above and in the accompanying notes.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been presented for illustrative purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the operating results and financial position of the post-combination company, and do not reflect adjustments for any anticipated synergies, operating efficiencies, tax savings or cost savings that may be associated with the Merger. The unaudited pro forma adjustments represent Blade management’s estimates based on information available as of the date of this unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information and is subject to change as additional information becomes available and analyses are performed.

 

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The unaudited condensed combined pro forma financial statements reflect actual redemption of 3,596,979 shares of EIC’s Class A common stock at $10.07 per share.

 

The following summarizes the pro forma EIC Class A common stock issued and outstanding immediately after consummation of the Transactions:

 

    Shares Outstanding
(millions)
   

Percentage(1)

 
EIC’s public stockholders (other than the PIPE Investors)     23.9       30.3 %
PIPE Investors (other than the Sponsor and its affiliates)     10.5       13.3 %
Sponsor (and its affiliates)     8.9       11.3 %
Current holders of Blade Stock and Blade Options(2)     35.6       45.1 %
Total EIC Class A common stock outstanding     78.9       100.0 %

 

 

(1) Reflects the shares of EIC Class A common stock underlying the EIC Options as issued and outstanding as of the closing of the Merger. The number of shares issued assumes that the payment of the exercise price for such EIC Options is net settled.
(2) Certain Blade stockholders purchased an aggregate of 210,000 shares of EIC Class A common stock in the PIPE Investment. Those shares are excluded from the ownership amounts for current holders of Blade Stock and Blade Options.

 

Other Events in connection with the Transactions

 

  Other events that occurred in connection with the Transactions are summarized below:
   
  the PIPE Investment was funded in full and 12,500,000 shares of EIC Class A common stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share were issued, of which 2,005,000 shares were purchased by Steele ExpCo;
     
  the estimated transaction costs of approximately $32.0 million incurred with the Transactions are capitalized. These costs relate to $1.4 million of deferred recapitalization costs incurred by Blade, $9.6 million of deferred underwriting fees and offering costs previously incurred by EIC, and approximately $21.0 million of legal, PIPE Investment, and other fees which are direct and incremental to the Transactions and are adjusted against additional paid in capital;
     
  no Working Capital Warrants were issued;
     
  all 6,875,000 outstanding shares of EIC Class B common stock were converted to shares of EIC Class A common stock on a one for one basis; and
     
  the repayment of Blade’s PPP Loan in the principal amount of $1.2 million.

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet
As of December 31, 2020

 

(In thousands)  

Historical
Blade

   

Historical
EIC

   

Pro Forma
Transaction
Accounting

Adjustments

    Pro Forma
Combined
 
    (a)     (b)              
Assets                                
Current assets                                
                                 
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 10,216     $ 846     $ 240,721 (c)   $ 345,021  
                      125,000 (d)        
                      (30,597 )(e)        
                      (1,165 )(j)        
Restricted cash     121                   121  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     1,386       50             1,436  
Accounts receivable     1,545                   1,545  
Total current assets     13,268       896       333,959       384,123  
                                 
Non-current assets                                
                                 
Marketable securities held in Trust Account             276,943       (276,943 )(c)      
Deferred recapitalization costs      1,403             (1,403 )(e)      
Investment in joint venture     200                   200  
Other non-current assets     110                   110  
Intangible assets, net     989                   989  
Operating right-of-use asset     662                   662  
Property and equipment, net     1,700                   1,700  
Total assets   $ 18,332     $ 277,839     $ 55,613     $ 351,784  

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet
As of December 31, 2020

 

(in thousands)  

Historical
Blade

   

Historical
EIC

   

Pro Forma
Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments

   

Pro Forma
Combined

 
      (a)       (b)                  
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity                                
Current liabilities                                
                                 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses   $ 2,139     $ 159     $     $ 2,298  
Accrued offering costs           26       (26 )(e)      
Income taxes payable           206             206  
Deferred revenue     4,418                   4,418  
Operating lease liability, current     403                   403  
Note payable     1,165             (1,165 )(j)      
Total current liabilities     8,125       391       (1,191 )     7,325  
                                 
Non-current liabilities                                
Deferred underwriting fee payable           9,625       (9,625 )(e)      
Warrant liabilities           36,766             36,766  
Operating lease liability, long-term     211                   211  
Total liabilities     8,336       46,782       (10,816 )     44,302  
                                 

Commitments and contingencies:

                               
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption             226,057       (36,222 )(c)      
                      (189,835 )(f)      
                                 
Stockholders’ Equity                                
Class A Common stock, $0.0001 par value                 4 (g)     8  
                      2 (f)        
                      1 (d)        
                      1 (i)        
Class B Common stock, $0.0001 par value           1       (1 )(i)      
Preferred stock – Series Seed, $0.00001 par value                        
Preferred stock – Series A, $0.00001 par value                        
Preferred stock – Series B, $0.00001 par value                        
Common stock, $0.00001 par value                        
Additional paid in capital     49,495       23,190       124,999 (d)     347,532  
                      (4 )(g)        
                      189,833 (f)        
                      (22,349 )(e)        
                      (18,191 )(h)        
                      559 (k)        
(Accumulated deficit) Retained earnings     (39,499 )     (18,191 )     18,191 (h)     (40,058 )
                  (559 )(k)      
Total stockholders’ equity     9,996       5,000       292,486       307,482  
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity   $ 18,332     $ 277,839     $ 55,613     $ 351,784  

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations

For the Three Months Ended December 31, 2020

 

(in thousands, except share data)  

Historical
Blade

   

Historical
EIC

   

Pro Forma
Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments

   

Pro Forma

Combined

 
    (aa)     (bb)              
Revenue   $ 7,986     $     $     $ 7,986  
Operating expenses                                
Cost of revenue     6,322                   6,322  
Software development     186                   186  
General and administrative     3,411       257             3,668  
Selling and marketing     435                   435  
Total operating expenses     10,354       257             10,611  
                                 
Loss from operations     (2,368 )     (257 )           (2,625 )
Other non-operating income (expense)                                
Interest income     7       5       (5 )(cc)     7  
Change in fair value of warrant liabilities           (18,242 )           (18,242 )
Total other income (expense)     7       (18,237 )     (5 )     (18,235 )
                                 
Income (loss) before income taxes     (2,361 )     (18,494 )     (5 )     (20,860 )
Benefit (provision) for income taxes           (86 )     1 (cc)     (85 )
Net loss    $ (2,361 )   $ (18,580 )   $ (4 )   $ (20,945 )
                                 
Weighted average shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding, basic and diluted             8,214,508               78,903,021  
Net loss per share of Class A Common Stock, basic and diluted           $ (2.26 )           $ (0.27 )
Weighted average shares of Blade Common Stock outstanding, basic and diluted     12,616,039                          
Net loss per share of Blade Common Stock, basic and diluted   $ (0.19 )                        

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations

For the Twelve Months Ended September 30, 2020

 

(in thousands, except share data)   Historical Blade     Historical
EIC
    Pro Forma
Transaction
Accounting
Adjustments
    Pro Forma
Combined
 
    (aaa)     (bbb)              
Revenue   $ 23,434     $     $     $ 23,434  
Operating expenses                                
Cost of revenue     21,107                   21,107  
Software development     861                   861  
General and administrative     9,292       646       559 (ddd)     10,497  
Selling and marketing     2,533                   2,533  
Total operating expenses     33,793       646       559       34,998  
Loss from operations     (10,359 )     (646 )     (559 )     (11,564 )
Other non-operating income (expense)                                
Interest income     200       2,104       (2,104 )(ccc)     200  
Change in fair value of warrant liabilities     0       (558 )           (558 )
Interest expense     (1 )                 (1 )
Total other income (expense)     199       1,546       (2,104 )     (359 )
Income (loss) before income taxes     (10,160 )     901       (2,663 )     (11,923 )
Benefit (provision) for income taxes           (306 )     559 (eee)     253  
Net income (loss)   $ (10,160 )   $ 594     $ (2,104 )   $ (11,670 )
Weighted average shares of Class A                                
Common Stock outstanding, basic                                
and diluted     8,208,043               78,903,021          
Net loss per share of Class A Common Stock, basic and                                
diluted   $ 0.07             $ (0.15 )        
Weighted average shares of Blade                                
Common Stock outstanding, basic                                
and diluted     12,512,567                          
Net loss per share of Blade Common
Stock, basic and diluted
  $ (0.81 )                        

 

 

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

1. Introduction

 

The pro forma adjustments have been prepared as if the Transactions had been consummated on December 31, 2020, in the case of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet, and as if the Transactions had been consummated on October 1, 2019, the beginning of the earliest period presented in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared assuming the following methods of accounting in accordance with GAAP.

 

Transactions will be accounted for as a reverse recapitalization in accordance with GAAP. Under this method of accounting, EIC will be treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes. Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the financial statements of the Combined Entity will represent a continuation of the financial statements of Blade with the Transactions treated as the equivalent of Blade issuing stock for the net assets of EIC, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of EIC will be stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. Operations prior to the Transactions will be presented as those of Blade in future reports of the Combined Entity.

 

As the fiscal year end of the Combined Entity will be September 30, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared using September 30 as the fiscal year end. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020 combines the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the three months ended December 31, 2020 with the historical unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations of Blade for the three months ended December 31, 2020. The historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the three months ended December 31, 2020 was derived by subtracting the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 from the historical audited statement of operations of EIC for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 combines the unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 with the historical audited consolidated statement of operations of Blade for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020. The unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 was derived by adding the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and the historical audited statement of operations for EIC for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, and subtracting the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through September 30, 2019.

 

The pro forma adjustments represent management’s estimates based on information available as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K and are subject to change as additional information becomes available and additional analyses are performed. Management considers this basis of presentation to be reasonable under the circumstances.

 

One-time direct and incremental transaction costs incurred prior to, or concurrent with, the closing of the Transactions are reflected in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as a direct reduction to the proceeds from the recapitalization transaction, which are reflected in the Combined Entity’s additional paid-in capital and are assumed to be cash settled.

  

2. Adjustments to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2020

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2020 reflects the following adjustments:

 

(a) Represents the Blade historical unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2020.
     
(b) Represents the EIC historical audited balance sheet as of December 31, 2020.
     
(c) Represents the reclassification of $240.7 million of marketable securities held in the trust account of EIC that becomes available for transaction consideration, transaction expenses, and the operating activities in conjunction with the Transactions. Furthermore, $36.2 million in cash was paid to redeeming shareholders for the 3,596,979 shares of EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share that were redeemed at a per share redemption price of $10.07.

 

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(d) Represents the proceeds of $125.0 million from the issuance of 12,500,000 shares of EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 from the PIPE Investment.
     
(e) Represents the pro forma adjustment to record estimated transaction costs of $32.0 million incurred with the Transactions. These costs relate to $1.4 million of deferred recapitalization costs incurred by Blade, $9.6 million of deferred underwriting fees and offering costs incurred by EIC, and approximately $21.0 million of legal, PIPE Investment, and other fees which are direct and incremental to the Transactions and are adjusted against additional paid in capital.
     
(f) Represents the pro forma adjustments to reclassify $226.1 million of EIC Class A common stock subject to possible redemption to EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 and to additional paid in capital. In connection with the Transactions, EIC’s public stockholders were issued 27,500,000 shares of EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001.
     
(g) Represents the pro forma adjustments to issue 35,815,294 shares of EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share to Blade’s stockholders in connection with the Transactions. The Blade Board approved that vesting of all options outstanding under the 2015 Plan that were granted before December 14, 2020 and are held by current employees or other service providers will be accelerated upon the Merger; provided that, to the extent (if at all) necessary to avoid an excise tax under Code Section 4999 or lost deductibility under Code Section 280G, certain vesting will be subject to approval of Blade’s stockholders. As a result, the shares of EIC Class A common stock underlying the EIC Options will be considered issued and outstanding as of the closing of the Merger. The number of shares issued assumes that the payment of the exercise price for such EIC Options is net settled.
     
(h) Represents the pro forma adjustment to reclassify the retained earnings of EIC to additional paid in capital.
     
(i) Represents the pro forma adjustment to reclassify EIC Class B common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share to EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001. In connection with the Transactions, the Sponsor was issued 6,875,000 shares of EIC Class A common stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share.
     
(j) Represents the pro forma adjustment to record the repayment of Blade’s PPP Loan prior to the closing of the Merger.
     
(k) Represents the pro forma adjustment to retained earnings and additional paid in capital related to the accelerated vesting of Blade Options subject to triggering excise tax under Code Section 4999 and loss of deduction under Code Section 280G, as approved by the Blade Board upon the consummation of the Merger. This is a nonrecurring event.
     
3. Adjustments to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2020

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020 reflects the following adjustments:

 

(aa) Represents the Blade historical unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020.

 

(bb) Represents the EIC historical unaudited condensed statement of operations for the three month period ended December 31, 2020 derived by subtracting the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 from the historical audited statement of operations of EIC for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. See reconciliation of EIC’s historical unaudited condensed statement of operations at Note 5.

 

(cc) Reflects the pro forma adjustment to eliminate the interest income and the related tax provision, calculated at the estimated statutory federal income tax rate of approximately 21%, on the marketable securities held in the trust account of EIC.

 

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4. Adjustments to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations for the Twelve Months Ended September 30, 2020

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 reflects the following adjustments:

 

(aaa) Represents the Blade historical audited consolidated statement of operations for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020.

 

(bbb) Represents the EIC historical unaudited condensed statement of operations for the twelve month period ended September 30, 2020 derived by adding the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, and the historical audited statement of operations for EIC for the for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, and subtracting the historical unaudited condensed statement of operations of EIC for the for the period from May 24, 2019 (inception) through September 30, 2019. See reconciliation of EIC’s historical unaudited condensed statement of operations at Note 5.

 

(ccc) Reflects the pro forma adjustment to eliminate the interest income on the marketable securities held in the trust account of EIC.

 

(ddd) Represents the pro forma adjustment to record the remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to the accelerated vesting of Blade Options subject to triggering excise tax under Code Section 4999 and loss of deduction under Code Section 280G, as approved by the Blade Board upon the consummation of the Merger. This is a nonrecurring event.

 

(eee) Reflects the pro forma adjustment to record the related tax provision, calculated at the estimated statutory federal income tax rate of approximately 21%.

 

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5. Reconciliation of EIC’s Historical Unaudited Condensed Statement of Operations

 

A reconciliation of EIC’s historical unaudited condensed statement of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2020 is as follows: 

 

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

  

    Year Ended     Nine Months Ended     Three Months Ended  
(in thousands)   December 31, 2020     September 30, 2020     December 31, 2020  
Formation and operating costs. .   $ 678     $ 421     $ 257  
Loss from operations     (678 )     (421 )     (257 )
Other income:                        
Interest income on marketable                        
securities held in Trust                        
Account     1,016       1,011       5  
Change in fair value of warrant liabilities     (20,650 )     (2.408 )     (18,242 )
                         
Income before income taxes     (20,312 )     (1,818 )     (18,494 )
Benefit (provision) for income                        
taxes     (210 )     (124 )     (86 )
Net income   $ (20,522 )   $ (1,942 )   $ (18,580 )

  

A reconciliation of EIC’s historical unaudited condensed statement of operations for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020 is as follows:

 

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

  

    Nine Months Ended     For the Period
from May 24, 2019
(inception) through
    For the Period from
May 24, 2019
(inception) through
    Twelve Months Ended  
(in thousands)   September 30, 2020     December 31, 2019     September 30, 2019     September 30, 2020  
Formation and operating costs   $ 421     $ 268     $ 44     $ 646  
Transaction costs     -       637       637       -  
Loss from operations     (421 )     (905 )     (681 )     (646 )
Other income:                                
Interest income on marketable                                
securities held in Trust                                
Account     1,011       1,262       168       2,104  
Change in fair value of warrant liabilities     (2,408 )     2,183       333       (558 )
                                 
Income before income taxes     (1,819 )     2,540       (179 )     901  
Benefit (provision) for income                                
taxes     (124 )     (209 )     (26 )     (306 )
Net income   $ (1,942 )   $ 2,331     $ (205 )   $ 594  

  

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