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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-K

 

 

(Mark One)

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021

OR

 

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM                      TO                     

Commission File Number: 001-41336

 

 

STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   85-4759355

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

38 Chauncy Street, Suite 200

Boston, MA

  02111
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 861-8300

 

 

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 per share   STRY   The New York Stock Exchange
Warrants to purchase 1.2415 shares of Class A common stock, each at an exercise price of $11.50 per 1.2415 shares of Class A common stock   STRY WS   The New York Stock Exchange

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

None

(Title of class)

 

 

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.    YES  ☐    NO  ☒

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    YES  ☐    NO  ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    YES  ☒    NO  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    YES  ☒    NO  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer      Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer      Smaller reporting company  
     Emerging growth company  

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.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    YES  ☐    NO  ☒

The registrant was not a public company as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter and, therefore, cannot calculate the aggregate market value of its voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates as of such date.

The number of shares of the registrant’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001, outstanding as of March 29, 2022 was 157,054,774. The number of shares of the registrant’s Class X common stock, par value $0.0001, outstanding as of March 29, 2022 was 9,268,335.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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SUMMARY RISK FACTORS

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PART I

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS.

     1  

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.

     17  

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS.

     44  

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES.

     45  

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

     46  

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.

     47  

PART II

     48  

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

     48  

ITEM 6. [RESERVED]

     48  

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

     49  

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

     66  

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.

     67  

ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

     68  

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

     69  

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION.

     71  

ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.

     72  

PART III

     73  

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

     73  

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.

     79  

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.

     83  

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.

     86  

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.

     91  

PART IV

     92  

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

     92  

ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY.

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including statements regarding the financial position, business strategy and the plans and objectives of management for our future operations, are forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “could,” “intend,” “target,” “project,” “contemplate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “would” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. The forward-looking statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are only predictions and are based largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those described under the sections in this Annual Report on Form 10-K entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks, including, without limitation, the following:

 

   

our ability to realize the benefits expected from the Business Combination (as defined below);

 

   

our ability to maintain the listing of our Class A common stock and warrants on the New York Stock Exchange;

 

   

the limited liquidity and trading of our securities;

 

   

the costs related to being a public company;

 

   

our ability to raise additional capital in the future and our ability to comply with restrictive covenants related to our existing long-term indebtedness or any new debt we incur;

 

   

the fact that we have incurred significant operating losses in the past and may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability in the future;

 

   

our limited operating history;

 

   

our ability to expand existing product and service offerings into new markets or to launch new product or service offerings;

 

   

our ability to effectively compete in the competitive broadband industry;

 

   

our ability to maintain or obtain rights to use licensed spectrum in markets in which we provide or intend to provide service and any declines in the value of our Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) licenses;

 

   

our ability to maintain or obtain rights to provide our services in apartment buildings and to install our equipment on vertical assets;

 

   

the unavailability, reduction, elimination or adverse application of government subsidies, including through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and Emergency Broadband Benefit program;

 

   

the success of our marketing efforts and ability to attract customers in a cost-effective manner;

 

   

our ability to maintain and enhance our reputation and brand and differentiate our offerings from our competitors;

 

   

the success of our strategic relationships with third parties;

 

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our dependence on a limited number of third-party suppliers, manufacturers and licensors to supply some of the hardware and software necessary to provide some of our services, and any disruption in our relationships with these parties;

 

   

any failure by suppliers to deliver components according to schedules, prices, quality and volumes that are acceptable to us;

 

   

our ability to comply with extensive governmental legislation and regulation and the cost of doing so;

 

   

any disruption or failure of, or defects in, the network and information systems on which our business relies;

 

   

the enforceability of our intellectual property, including our patents, and our potential infringement on the intellectual property rights of others, cybersecurity risks or potential breaches of data security;

 

   

our ability to maintain an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting;

 

   

our ability to retain or recruit, or adapt to changes required in, our founders, executive officers, key personnel or directors;

 

   

the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and

 

   

other factors detailed in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including those in the section entitled “Risk Factors.”

Because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified and some of which are beyond our control, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in our forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Moreover, we operate in an evolving environment. New risk factors and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all risk factors and uncertainties. Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.

You should read this Annual Report on Form 10-K completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements.

 

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SUMMARY RISK FACTORS

Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including those described in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. You should carefully consider these risks and uncertainties when investing in our common stock. The principal risks and uncertainties affecting our business include the following:

 

   

We have a history of losses, and may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future.

 

   

We have experienced rapid growth since inception, which may not be indicative of our future growth, and, if we continue to grow rapidly, we may not be able to manage our growth effectively.

 

   

Our limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and future prospects.

 

   

Our financial projections may not prove accurate.

 

   

Our decision to expand existing product and service offerings into new markets or to launch new product or service offerings may consume significant financial and other resources and may not achieve the desired results.

 

   

We operate in a highly competitive business environment, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

 

   

If we do not maintain or obtain rights to use licensed spectrum in markets in which we provide or intend to provide service, we may be unable to operate in these markets, which could harm our business and our ability to execute our business strategy.

 

   

Our business is dependent on successfully maintaining or obtaining rights to provide our services in apartment buildings and to install our equipment on vertical assets.

 

   

The value of our spectrum licenses could decline, which could materially affect our ability to raise capital, and could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

 

   

The unavailability, reduction, elimination or adverse application of government subsidies, including through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and Emergency Broadband Benefit program, could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

 

   

Our business model and growth strategy depends on our marketing efforts and ability to attract customers in a cost-effective manner.

 

   

Our reputation, brand and ability to differentiate our offerings from our competitors is important to our success, and if we are not able to maintain and enhance our reputation and brand and differentiate our offerings from our competitors, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected.

 

   

Our growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with third parties.

 

   

A significant portion of our expenses are fixed, and we may not be able to adapt our cross structure to offset declines in revenue.

 

   

Our business is subject to extensive governmental legislation and regulation, which could adversely affect our business, increase our operational and administrative expenses and limit our revenues.

 

   

Increasing regulation of our internet-based products and services could adversely affect our ability to provide new products and services.

 

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We rely on network and information systems for our operations and a disruption or failure of, or defects in, those systems may disrupt our operations, damage our reputation with customers and adversely affect our results of operations.

 

   

Cyber security risks, data loss or other breaches of our network security could materially harm our business and results of operations, and the processing, storage, use and disclosure of personal or sensitive information could give rise to liabilities and additional costs as a result of governmental regulation, litigation and conflicting legal requirements relating to personal privacy rights.

 

   

Our management has limited experience operating as a public company.

 

   

We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting and may identify additional material weaknesses in the future or fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, which may result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our periodic reporting obligations.

 

   

We may need additional capital to pursue our business objectives and respond to business opportunities, challenges or unforeseen circumstances, and we cannot be sure that additional financing will be available.

 

   

For the year ended December 31, 2021, our independent registered public accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph relating to our ability to continue as a going concern in its report on our audited financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and there can be no guarantee that we will continue as a going concern absent the ability to raise additional capital within the next 12 months.

 

   

The Starry Credit Agreement contains restrictive and financial covenants that may limit our operating flexibility.

 

   

Our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer will control a significant percentage of our voting power and will be able to exert significant control over the direction of our business.

 

   

Because we will be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NYSE rules, our stockholders may not have certain corporate governance protections that are available to stockholders of companies that are not controlled companies.

 

   

Other risks and uncertainties described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including those under the section entitled “Risk Factors.”

 

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PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS.

Background

We were incorporated on September 17, 2021 as Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (“Starry Group”, “us”, “we” or the “Company”), a Delaware corporation and then wholly-owned subsidiary of Starry, Inc. (“Starry”), a Delaware corporation, for the purpose of effecting the SPAC Merger (defined below) and serving as the publicly traded parent company of Starry following the closing of the Acquisition Merger (defined below).

FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. (“FirstMark”) was formed on August 13, 2020 as a blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation. FirstMark completed an initial public offering (the “IPO”) on October 8, 2020, following which the management of FirstMark undertook a search for a business combination. On October 6, 2021, the disinterested members of the board of directors of FirstMark approved, and on March 16, 2022, the shareholders of FirstMark approved, the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 6, 2021 (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among FirstMark, Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of FirstMark (“Merger Sub”), Starry and Starry Group.

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the business combination was effected in two steps: (a) on March 28, 2022 (the “SPAC Merger Effective Time”), FirstMark merged with and into Starry Group (the “SPAC Merger”), with Starry Group surviving the SPAC Merger as a publicly traded entity and became the sole owner of Merger Sub; and (b) on March 29, 2022 (the “Acquisition Merger Effective Date”), Merger Sub merged with and into Starry (the “Acquisition Merger” and, together with the SPAC Merger and all other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the “Business Combination”), with Starry surviving the Acquisition Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry Group.

Following the Business Combination, substantially all of the Company’s assets and operations are held and conducted by Starry and its subsidiaries, and the Company’s only assets are equity interests in Starry. Unless the context otherwise requires, “we,” “us,” “our,” “Starry Group” and the “Company” refer to Starry, Inc. and its subsidiaries prior to the consummation of the Business Combination and to Starry Group Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries following the consummation of the Business Combination.

Overview

We have developed a unique and innovative solution to provide last mile fixed broadband using a proprietary fixed wireless technology stack operating in licensed spectrum. We design and build our own fixed wireless equipment, cloud-based network control plane and billing and operations support systems to run our network and provide our service. We deploy this technology across a variety of markets to provide a robust and competitively-priced broadband service to customers. The integration of our own technology and service delivery allows us to efficiently deploy new competitive broadband networks to connect communities across the country.

Since our inception, we have developed the technology, optimized the unit economics, acquired spectrum and deployed our network and acquired subscribers in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Columbus.

We are Solving Hard and Important Problems

Our founders came together with a simple but ambitious goal to fundamentally change the broadband experience. They knew that if they could make broadband more accessible and affordable it would meaningfully improve people’s lives and have a transformative effect on society. The broadband industry is uncompetitive and internet infrastructure deployment is slow, resulting in legacy infrastructure that cannot keep pace with rapid technological change, and leaving millions of people unconnected or under-connected to the internet. Our founders knew that they could build something better, and they understood that there is a significant market opportunity if they solve these key issues: speed of deployment, cost of deployment and customer experience.

 

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Solving these problems requires new technology and a new broadband economic model with an intense focus on the customer. And this is what we deliver — our solution is to build a low-cost gigabit broadband platform that can be deployed rapidly, and with the highest customer satisfaction among the major broadband providers.

Our ability to dramatically reduce the cost of gigabit connectivity is a result of our unique vertical integration. We are an innovative wireless equipment and software developer, investing tens-of-millions of dollars in research and development; a network operator, deploying gigabit digital infrastructure to communities across the country; and a service provider, with the goal of bringing broadband to millions of consumers and small businesses. This is an incredibly unique strategy that few providers have attempted, especially at a national scale, but we believe this is the only path to a generational change in broadband.

As a research and development company, we created our own technology stack for gigabit, last-mile, fixed wireless connectivity, including smart antennas, phased arrays, transceivers, low noise amplifiers, monolithic microwave integrated circuits and a cloud-based network control plane. As a digital infrastructure owner and deployer, we have built a gigabit network that covered approximately 5.3 million households as of December 31, 2021. And as a service provider, we are bringing a new kind of consumer-oriented broadband service to tens-of-thousands of subscribers.

This new platform is not just technical and physical — it’s an entirely new approach to building digital infrastructure. We work with communities directly to meet their needs; we find new partners that have an interest in improving people’s lives; we put digital equity at the center of our mission; and we deploy a technology that blankets communities in gigabit broadband within months, not years.

This transformation of physical and virtual connectivity infrastructure makes people’s lives better and fulfills our mission to solve large societal problems. And although transforming broadband from the ground up with a new technological solution is incredibly hard, we are already making an impact and are just getting started.

Broadband Is Essential

The world changed when Vint Cerf and Bob Khan developed transmission control protocol and internet protocol, enabling data communications over wire, and when Tim Berners Lee opened the world to the power of the internet through the World Wide Web. Ever since, humanity, economics and global power have become digitized and physically and virtually interconnected in almost every way.

Robust internet access is now essential to participating in modern society. This is not just about streaming content, it is about accessing education, health care and work. Broadband’s criticality has been obvious for years, but it was made clearer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Connectivity empowers people. It provides economic freedom, connects us with friends and families, and is the gateway to culture and entertainment. Despite this, existing providers offer most people extremely poor broadband, and millions of people still lack any access to broadband.

We believe competition, especially from new and rapidly growing providers, is the solution. Giving people new choices helps connect the unconnected, forces new investment in infrastructure and drives down prices. Without competition, the broadband industry will continue to trend towards consolidation, and the unconnected and under-connected will be left behind forever.

This is what motivates us to constantly be better.

The Need for a New Platform

Broadband economics are largely static. Deploying a new fiber broadband network at scale with incumbent technology requires a generational investment. So, when we decided to tackle the problem of building a new competitive gigabit broadband network, we knew we had to transform the economic dynamics. Competing with incumbent cable and telecommunications companies at scale using traditional wired delivery solutions like fiber or coaxial cable would require a massive capital investment. It would also take far too long to deploy — potentially decades. And even if time and capital were solved, it would be hard to achieve the subscriber penetration necessary to pay back the investment. We knew we needed a different solution. We needed to go wireless.

 

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A wireless solution could leverage billions of dollars in investment from others, could leverage existing baseband radio technologies with broad adoption and low-cost profiles, and would allow us to control the majority of the cost structure. We also needed to recoup our investment within a reasonable time but with relatively low penetration. And for our customers, we needed a new service model that was designed to genuinely put them first.

And we wanted to bring our innovations to as much of the market as possible, improving digital equity for everyone.

The Starry Platform

Our platform is a hybrid network that leverages our own fixed wireless technologies to provide gigabit coverage across a wide area, while keeping costs low and customer satisfaction high. Here is how we do it:

 

   

Use Licensed Millimeter Wave Spectrum. Fixed wireless solves the high-cost challenges of building out new fiber or coax networks, which is why we have acquired licenses in millimeter wave spectrum. This spectrum has the wide-channel bandwidths necessary to achieve low latency and gigabit capacity. It is also less expensive than acquiring lower band spectrum. Licensed spectrum is critical because the FCC permits licensees to operate at high transmit power and grants licensees protected rights in frequency and geography, allowing us to economically deploy a network that covers tens-of-millions of homes. And millimeter wave spectrum is ideal for fixed wireless networks deployed from rooftops above obstructions.

 

   

Employ 802.11 Radios in Licensed Spectrum. Wi-Fi is one of the world’s most prevalent wireless technologies. It is based on a robust and frequently upgraded industry standard that enables high capacity and low-latency wireless connections. So instead of building a new radio technology or using the expensive mobile industry 5G ecosystem, we built our technology stack on top of Wi-Fi’s 802.11 standard. We then developed key intellectual property around the use of this radio technology in licensed spectrum domains with a combination of ultra-high spectral-efficiency smart-antenna technologies. The combination of proprietary front ends and global volume of Wi-Fi-based components allows us to achieve incredible cost advantages with a robust roadmap for capacity enhancements over time.

 

   

Design and Build the Fixed Wireless Technology and Deploy it on Telecommunications Infrastructure. We knew early on that we needed to own our core technology to control our economic and technical destiny. Having spent nearly $200 million to develop and prove this technology, we can now iterate and upgrade rapidly as we continuously drive down the costs of our own equipment rather than paying inflated vendor margins to acquire third-party equipment. This also allows us to deploy our technology on existing infrastructure such as towers, rooftops and dark fiber. Sharing this infrastructure allows us to access a huge portfolio of assets at market rates instead of making massive investments in all new infrastructure.

 

   

Control the Network with a Natively Cloud-Based Core. Broadband network owners are behind the curve on leveraging the scalable benefits of cloud-based software platforms. Incumbent systems are built on old legacy technologies that are difficult to upgrade and expensive to maintain. We built our entire network control system — in telecommunications terms, our network core, operations support system and business support system — on a custom cloud platform. Critically, this dynamic platform can flexibly scale as our business grows and lets us drive the control plane all the way into our customers’ homes to serve them better.

 

   

Create a Unique Partner Ecosystem. We are building a partner ecosystem of like-minded organizations that are motivated to play an active role in improving broadband in their communities. This ecosystem includes building owners that want better broadband for their residents, including in affordable housing communities; electric utilities that want to help ensure their communities can grow and prosper; construction firms with large craft labor teams to help build the next generation of digital infrastructure; housing owners and managers that want to make sure all people have access to quality broadband; digital equity organizations with missions to improve equity, inclusion and access; and government institutions that are working to improve connectivity in their communities.

 

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This is our platform, which allows us to build our network in a community with very low up-front capital investment, scale the customer network and our capital expenditures on a success basis as new customers come online, become EBITDA breakeven with only a projected four percent penetration rate across our network footprint and provide a service that consumers use hours a day with a net promoter score unrivaled by any broadband provider today.

Starry’s Service

Transforming broadband requires providing customers with better technology and ensuring our service truly meets their needs.

We were frustrated broadband customers. Our intense customer focus is informed by decades of our own personal experiences. We believe in no more wait times, no more hidden fees and no more pricing games or anti-consumer service bundling. Our service is simple, straightforward, affordable and designed for our customers.

 

LOGO

We also take our customers’ privacy very seriously and have a modern and customer-oriented privacy policy that protects customer data rather than monetizes it. We are not a big data company or a digital ad platform. We collect as little data as we feel is necessary and use it only to offer and market our service. We feel the same way about net neutrality; our customers should have access to the entire legal internet, so we do not block or prioritize any content and do not cap the amount of data our consumers use.

And our customers love the service and experience.

Customer Response

Our intense focus on the customer experience leads to very happy customers. Our historic net promoter score (NPS) taken across all customers who have responded to our NPS survey since 2018 is 61. Our NPS through the end of 2021 is 69. This is dramatically better than other broadband providers, which have an average NPS of 0. In fact, it puts us on par with some of the most beloved consumer brands in the world.

 

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LOGO

This is a point of incredible pride in Starry across our entire workforce. From the beginning, our mission has been about delivering a new broadband experience that is designed around the customer. Not surprisingly, focusing on the customer, delivering a great experience and being transparent and honest leads to a very positive relationship with customers.

Digital Equity and Inclusion

We believe that broadband is transformational, and that it should be available to everyone. But across both urban and rural America, entire communities have been left unserved or underserved, written off by incumbent providers as too expensive to connect or not profitable enough to serve. We take a different view and incorporate digital equity into our mission in two principal ways.

First, we built a program specifically for people living in public and affordable housing: Starry Connect. Historically, lower income individuals have been subjected to unreasonable examinations of their personal finances in order to participate in low-income broadband programs. With Starry Connect we work with these communities, which are largely underserved and ignored, to better meet their digital connectivity needs. We lowered cost barriers and removed qualification barriers, such as credit checks and requirements that residents qualify for other federal welfare subsidy programs in order to participate. Our goal is to get people the broadband access they needed without stripping them of their dignity. Existing low-cost programs often require credit checks and lengthy application processes that are cumbersome at best and demeaning at worst. We knew we could do better.

By partnering with public and affordable housing owners, Starry Connect ties eligibility to the premise and not an individual, which enables blanket eligibility across a qualified housing community. Persons living in eligible communities do not need to apply to qualify for Starry Connect service because our low-cost service plan option is automatically available to anyone living in these communities.

Since launching Starry Connect in 2018 we have signed agreements with over 62 public and private affordable housing owners and managers representing more than 55,000 apartment units.

As part of our effort, we also partner with other organizations focused on digital equity including Microsoft and PCs for People to improve connectivity and lower barriers to device access and digital literacy programs. For example, we have worked with Microsoft to help fund our network deployment in several public housing communities in Los Angeles and New York City. We work creatively with our partners to devise connectivity solutions that meet the needs of its residents. In Colorado, for example, we are partnering with Aurora Public Schools to make our Starry Connect program available to students identified as unconnected or under-connected in select neighborhoods.

 

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Second, we participate in targeted programs to expand broadband access and improve broadband affordability. In 2020, we participated in the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (“RDOF”) auction to help accelerate our service delivery to locations that lack service today. We won $268 million in federal subsidies over ten years to deploy service to more than 100,000 locations in nine states. This is an integral part of our mission to connect all communities to better broadband, in both urban and rural areas. The FCC is currently reviewing our long-form applications prior to its final approval of the subsidy.

We are also a participating provider in the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit program since 2021, which provides a subsidy of up to $50 per month to qualifying households to cover the cost of broadband during the COVID-19 pandemic. We were approved to participate through our Starry Connect program, making all current and future customers living in these Starry Connect communities in our existing markets eligible for the program across all available speed tiers. Even though our Starry Connect service is low cost, we believe every bit of savings helps households in need. For the year ended December 31, 2021, we have recognized approximately $0.6 million in revenue related to subsidies through the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit program.

Digital equity and inclusion are at the core of our mission, and we will continue to pursue strategies that align with those values as we scale our network to more communities nationwide, including expansion of our Starry Connect program and continued participation in targeted government programs and partnerships that extend broadband access and affordability to more communities across the country.

Our Technology Stack and Intellectual Property

Our network technology is fundamental to our unique and disruptive network economics. In 2015, we set out to build a new kind of wireless technology specifically designed for gigabit fixed wireless service using licensed millimeter wave spectrum. Since our founding, we have spent nearly $200 million on research and development and commercialization of our technology. This investment serves the dual goals of increasing our network capacity and improving our unit economics.

Broadband has historically been immune to technological disruption because it is complicated and requires an extensive investment of capital and time. Historically, broadband companies tried to use technology before it was mature or tried to innovate in the wrong places. We believe that true broadband disruption requires a technological solution that reduces the cost of the coverage network that require less capital and lower customer penetration.

 

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We began developing our technology on the front edge of the global 5G evolution because the compute power and core wireless components were developed enough to make it economically and technically feasible to build high-capacity, low-cost equipment that uses millimeter wave spectrum.

But we did not want to rely on the global 5G ecosystem for two reasons. First, we wanted to control our own technical and economic destiny. We did not want to become beholden to specific vendors or a technology stack controlled by mobile providers. Instead, we use design and contract manufacturing partners to control our costs. Second, the 5G ecosystem was not evolved enough to support our use case. This is still true today. Mobile carrier equipment that operates in millimeter wave spectrum under the mobile 5G standard (called 5G NR) does not support standalone two-way connections in millimeter wave spectrum.

For these reasons, we built our own technology stack from the ground up. We use 802.11 standard radios, which are supported by a robust global supply chain and research and development cycle that is focused on continually increased capacity and lower cost. These radios have similar characteristics of mobile 5G chips, most importantly multi-user MIMO, which is a technology that allows the radio to serve multiple end points simultaneously. We take these radios and upconvert the signal from unlicensed 5 GHz spectrum (spectrum in which Wi-Fi operates) to the licensed millimeter wave bands in which we operate. This is one of the most unique parts of the Starry technical stack — using a powerful off the shelf baseband radio and combining it with our own proprietary technology to convert the signal into licensed millimeter wave spectrum. From there, we build our own antenna systems for beamforming and beamsteering to direct our gigabit signal to end user locations. Combined, this technology stack allows us to transmit a gigabit signal over one mile and we believe creates a robust protective intellectual property moat.

Network Architecture

Below is a simplistic diagram of our network architecture.

 

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We deploy our base stations, called Titans, at high elevations above the clutter of the physical environment. We use whatever vertical infrastructure is available, including building rooftops, cell towers and utility poles, which we rent from the asset owners or managers, including the large tower companies. These are the transmitting sites that serve customer premises. Each Titan is connected to fiber backhaul or fixed wireless backhaul, which routes our network traffic back to a local internet point-of-presence in the market.

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region is routed and consolidated, and from where we connect with other networks to exchange data traffic, either through direct connections or through Internet exchange points. Internet exchange points are generally not- for-profit neutral associations through which networks exchange traffic. The data centers in which these internet points-of-presence are located are operated by third parties with whom we contract for access and use. In certain large markets we utilize more than one internet point-of-presence, primarily to ensure redundancy in the case of power outages that may affect a data center.

We primarily lease dark fiber from third parties and occasionally build our own fixed wireless links. In some instances, these fiber providers are companies that solely provide communications infrastructure services to internet service providers like us and in some instances these providers offer these services in addition to providing their own internet access services to retail and business customers. The number of available fiber backhaul providers varies by market. We generally contract with between two and four different providers in a market depending on the conditions in that market and the design of our network. In most markets, while we use multiple fiber providers, we lease the majority of our fiber from one provider. However, the fiber backhaul market is relatively competitive in urban areas, which is where we target our network deployment today. For example, there are at least seven fiber providers each in Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles; eight providers in Columbus; and ten providers each in New York City and Washington, D.C. Accordingly, we believe that if any current fiber backhaul provider in a market terminated or did not renew our leases with them, we would be able to find one or more alternative providers to ensure adequate access to fiber backhaul in that market. Because fiber providers generally lease fiber backhaul to customers like us on market-based terms and conditions, we do not believe that the terms and conditions for leasing fiber from a new provider would be materially worse than the terms and conditions of our current contracts. In most instances, we lease fiber for a set period of time, typically between 36 and 60 months, in exchange for a monthly fee. At the end of the term of a lease, we seek to renew the lease or let the lease terminate depending on the specific needs of the network at that time and our access to other fiber and the costs associated with it.

We generally design our transmitting sites to have diverse backhaul paths, which means that we typically have in place an alternative backhaul method for routing our network traffic if we lose access to fiber backhaul for any reason. The last mile network is Starry owned, and we primarily lease dark fiber for backhaul and site our Titans on rooftops and towers managed by third parties under commercial agreements with those infrastructure owners.

The Titan base stations serve our two kinds of customer terminals, which we call Trident and Comet. We install Tridents on larger apartment buildings (usually 60 units and greater). We install one Trident on the roof of the building, and then use the existing building wiring to distribute our service to subscribers within the building. We typically deploy our service without building out any of our own wiring in a building. Comet is our terminal for smaller buildings and single-family homes. A Comet has the same capacity as a Trident, but in a smaller form factor. We designed Comet to be easy to install — it requires only a single coax cable — and can serve up to 16 customers.

And we provide customers with a Wi-Fi router that runs our own network software. We believe this enhances the customer experience because the custom router provides us with network visibility all the way into the home network. Among other things, this allows us to monitor network uptime as a function of router uptime, which is a measure of actual customer experience and troubleshoot any issues in a more comprehensive way than simply asking what lights are blinking or asking the customer to unplug and reboot the router.

Finally, we have a mobile application that provides each customer with a suite of data self-help tools to help enhance their own control over their Wi-Fi network and help resolve any issues that arise.

The entire network is run on our own cloud-based core. Unlike traditional broadband providers, we do not have complicated and expensive vendor-run or legacy billing and operating systems. We built our entire control plane from the ground up. It is natively cloud-based and highly scalable. This system runs customer billing, network management, customer care and network operations. As a result, we do not have to maintain traditional network operations centers. Our network operations can access the entire network from their mobile devices with appropriate authentication and other access controls.

 

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Network Capacity

We invest heavily in research and development to both drive down the cost of our network and improve its capacity over time. While our current network technology is already gigabit, we are continuing to expand and upgrade our network with the maximum capacity improvements to meet expected future consumer demand.

Importantly, unlike traditional coax networks, our network is designed to be high capacity in both the downstream and upstream directions. As many consumers experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic when working from home, upstream capacity is important for live video streaming, large file transfers and cloud applications.

As the chart below shows, our network is designed to be high capacity today, with an upgrade path to multiples of today’s capacity over the next five years. While the amount of bandwidth we may use is fixed (160 megahertz or 200 megahertz) we take advantage of the ability to operate simultaneous spatial streams, which allows us to reuse the same spectrum six, eight or fourteen times, effectively multiplying our bandwidth without requiring additional spectrum.

 

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Starry Today

We spent approximately three years building our initial commercial technology stack and developing intellectual property, while creating and testing our business model and executing our spectrum strategy. This created a two-track trajectory where our network and subscriber base expanded, while we reduced our unit economics through additional investments in research and development. As a result, we now have a large and growing broadband platform with differentiated and improving economics.

Our company is a unique combination — we are an equipment developer, network owner and service provider. This structure is a key component of our new broadband economics. By developing our own equipment, owning our own network and offering our own service we believe we generate significant cost advantages relative to incumbent networks.

Network Coverage

We build out our network at high elevations to maximize the coverage from each base station location. The area that a base station or group of base stations at the same location covers is our “Homes Serviceable,” which is the total number of households that we could potentially technologically and commercially serve from any base station or site. Within that universe, we either have single family homes or smaller apartment buildings that we can directly serve, or for larger multiple dwelling units (“MDUs”), we have “Large MDU Units” and “Activated MDU Units” which are larger apartments to which we can market our service because the building is addressable, serviceable and has one of our transceivers installed. And from that universe we derive our customer relationship.

 

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As of year-end 2021, we had approximately 5.3 million homes serviceable under our network across six live markets: Boston, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; and Washington, D.C.

 

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In all of our markets except Columbus, Ohio, we built our network incrementally while we shifted from a pure research and development function as we finalized our technology, to the active deployment of our network, to the acquisition of subscribers and provision of services. We iteratively deployed our network, designed operational

 

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systems, built teams and injected our learnings back into this process. We conceptualize this as applying iterative software development techniques to network deployment. This had inefficiencies early on, but ultimately resulted in an accelerated learning curve. We applied these learnings to our Columbus network, where we built our entire initial network within a 12-month period.

Going forward, we intend to build every new market in the same manner as Columbus — build the coverage network first and then launch service.

Between 2018 and 2021, we focused aggressively on continuing to reduce the network coverage capital expenditure allocation per subscriber by driving down the cost of our base stations and on developing our low cost customer terminal with a unit cost that allows us to target smaller multifamily dwelling units and single family homes while preserving our unique cost advantage.

Comet, our new customer terminal for medium and small multifamily dwelling units and single-family homes, now allows us to efficiently serve households of all types, dramatically changing our ability to acquire subscribers within our existing network coverage and within the footprint of every new transmitting site we build.

Subscribers

While we have built significant network coverage since beginning operations, until recently we have purposefully constrained our subscriber acquisition generally to only larger apartment buildings. We did this to optimize unit economics and efficiently deploy capital. Our technology development roadmap was focused on building our base stations and reducing their cost, while launching a customer terminal that would allow us to serve the largest number of customers at a location at the lowest unit cost. As a result, our unit economics were optimized for larger apartment buildings within our network footprint.

 

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We ended 2021 with 63,230 customer relationships. Within the MDUs that we provided service to as of the end of 2021, we achieved significant penetration with a steady penetration ramp as the buildings matured. We achieved 12% penetration in MDUs on average within thirty days of launching a building, 25% on average for buildings that were launched one or more years ago, and 32% on average for buildings that were launched three or more years ago.

 

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As our operations in a market mature, our penetration rate across the entire market grows. Prior to launching Comet in 2021, which as described in more detail below allows us to target all serviceable households, we targeted our deployment and sales at MDUs that were thirty units or larger. As an example of how our penetration of a market matures over time within the serviceable footprint that we target our sales, and even as the denominator — homes serviceable — continues to grow, the graph below shows the penetration of buildings that are thirty units or larger in a single market over time.

 

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In the second quarter of 2021, we launched Comet. This new customer terminal now enables us to serve every serviceable household. As a result, we are no longer constraining our subscriber acquisition to large apartment buildings.

 

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Partners

We are developing unique and highly accretive partnerships that we believe will help us build and scale our network while reducing our capital expenditure intensity.

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expansion. In 2020, we entered into a strategic alliance agreement with AEP Ventures, LLC (“AEPV”), a wholly owned subsidiary of American Electric Power, to deploy our network in Columbus, Ohio. Under our arrangement, AEPV absorbs the capital expenditures necessary to construct and maintain our coverage network and the capital expenditures for customer installations, while we operate the network, market our service, acquire subscribers and manage subscriber relationships. In exchange for this collaborative approach, we pay AEPV a portion of the revenue we receive from customers in the Columbus market.

In 2021, we entered into a strategic alliance with Quanta Services, Inc. (“Quanta”), a specialized contracting services company, delivering comprehensive infrastructure solutions for the communications, utility, renewable energy and underground industries Quanta has a wealth of expertise, a large, trained workforce and project management expertise built around large-scale infrastructure partnerships. Under our arrangement, Quanta will be our preferred partner in building and/or project managing the expansion of our network in portions of our network footprint.

In addition, we work collaboratively with residential and commercial property owners to deploy our network and acquire subscribers. These arrangements take the form of agreements with individual building owners to install our service in their buildings, agreements with large real estate portfolio owners to install our service across their portfolios, and agreements to allow us to install and operate our base stations on their building rooftops. Most notably, we have a commercial relationship with Related Companies, a global real estate and lifestyle company with over $60 billion in assets owned or under development, to deploy our network and service within their communities, including their affordable communities within our Starry Connect program.

Our Growth Strategy

Spectrum

We hold spectrum licenses in the 24 GHz band. We won licenses in the 24 GHz band in FCC Auction 102, spending approximately $48 million to acquire 200 megahertz of spectrum in 49 Partial Economic Areas (“PEAs”), the geographic unit used by the FCC and 300 megahertz in two PEAs. The 24 GHz band is the lowest frequency licensed millimeter wave spectrum that the FCC has made available through auction. This is important because the lower frequency achieves better propagation with the same power. Technically, this allows us to cover more area with fewer base station sites. These license rights were granted for an initial 10-year term with an expectation of renewal subject to network buildout requirements, consistent with typical FCC rules for licensed spectrum bands.

We also have spectrum rights to the lower 37 GHz band. In 2016, the FCC established a lower 37 GHz band as a licensed coordinated shared band. At the time the FCC sought to create a millimeter wave band on a license basis that could be used with low barriers to entry in order to stimulate new innovation in 5G and other technologies. The fact that the band is licensed, but not auctioned, means that equipment can operate at higher transmit power — the same as mobile 5G — but the spectrum is not reserved only for those with deep pockets at auction. While the FCC finalizes its rules for the use of this band, it has authorized us to deploy our technology and operate our network in a number of markets under an experimental license. Upon promulgation of final rules by the FCC for use of the lower 37 GHz band, we will pursue permanent licensed rights through the FCC’s process.

Growth

We intend to scale our network and subscriber base in coordination with residential property owners, affordable housing owners and managers, and digital equity partners. We intend to establish additional utility partnerships like our AEPV arrangement within additional markets in our footprint in order to continue to accelerate our network deployment and reduce our capital expenditure intensity. In addition, we intend to leverage our Quanta arrangement by building Quanta’s teams into our planning, design and deployment process as we build out our entire network footprint.

Competition

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competitors include large national and regional providers of fixed broadband services such as AT&T, Comcast, Charter, CableOne, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier, TDS Cox, RCN and Altice, providers of mobile broadband services such as AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon, and numerous small fixed broadband providers in local areas. In any market, we may face one or more competitive providers. In some instances, our competitors have easier access to financing, greater resources, greater operating capabilities and efficiencies of scale, stronger brand-name recognition, longstanding relationships with regulatory authorities and customers, and more customers. This provides these competitors with certain advantages in competing against us, including the ability to aggressively promote and price their services in markets in which we may compete. This competition creates pressure on our pricing and may affect our ability to add and retain customers.

We believe our technology and business model enables us to compete effectively against incumbent providers on price, service quality and customer experience. Our service is offered at a price point that is generally at or below the promotional price of an incumbent, and in almost every case is below the “rack rate” price for an incumbent service. We also focus on price transparency. When a customer signs up for our service, the price they pay each month is what we quote to them. There are no hidden fees or charges. We charge our customers on a monthly basis, do not require long-term contracts and do not impose early termination fees. Our service speeds are better than existing cable incumbents in upload and can compete with fiber providers in most cases. On average, we provide our customers with speeds that are at or above their speed plans. Price and service are ultimately components of customer experience. We focus relentlessly on the customer experience and we have an industry-leading NPS as a result.

While we believe our service to be highly competitive, most incumbent broadband communications companies, which already have wired networks and an existing customer base and other operational functions in place, may offer their services at promotional prices comparable to or lower than our services. In addition, to the extent that these providers’ networks are more ubiquitously deployed, such as traditional telephone networks, they may be in a better position to offer internet services to consumers and businesses passed by their networks on a more economic or timely basis than we can, even if the services they offer are arguably inferior. They may also increasingly have the ability to offer a combination of video services, mobile services and telephone and internet services to their customers as a bundle, either directly or through co-marketing agreements with other service providers. As an internet-only company, we do not currently offer any bundled services that could compete with these offerings.

Mobile broadband providers may be able to provide services that substitute for our fixed broadband service. Current and future fixed and mobile internet services, such as services provided on LTE and 5G networks (and variants), other unlicensed fixed wireless broadband networks and devices such as mobile hot spots, tablets and smartphones, and mobile wireless routers that connect to such devices, may also compete with our broadband services both for in-premises broadband service and mobile broadband. All major wireless carriers offer various kinds of unlimited data plans, which could, in some cases, become a substitute for the fixed broadband services we provide. In addition, the FCC is likely to continue to make additional radio frequency spectrum available for these wireless internet access services, which in time could expand the quality and reach of these services.

Our competitive risks are heightened by the rapid technological change inherent in our business, evolving consumer preferences and the need to acquire, develop and adopt new technology to differentiate our products and services from those of our competitors, and to meet consumer demand. We may need to anticipate far in advance which technology we should use for the development of new products and services or the enhancement of existing products and services. New emerging technologies, including low earth orbit satellite, may impact a portion of our potential network expansion, to the extent such technologies come to fruition and are adopted in the marketplace. Consolidation and cooperation in our industry may allow our competitors to acquire service capabilities or offer products that are not available to us or offer similar products and services at prices lower than ours.

Government Regulation

We are a wireless technology developer, wireless service provider, broadband internet service provider and will be an interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) service provider in the future. As a result, we are subject to various federal telecommunications regulations that govern the spectrum that we utilize, the certification of our wireless equipment and the placement of our wireless facilities. In the future, we will be subject to additional federal and state telecommunications regulations governing voice service, including and participation in Universal Service Fund programs as a result of our participation in the FCC’s RDOF program.

 

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In addition, as an eligible telecommunications carrier in areas of certain states, we are subject to state regulations, particularly regarding the provision of voice services and billing. We are also subject to local and state regulations governing the construction and installation of wireless facilities in some circumstances where not preempted by federal regulations.

Furthermore, because we receive, store and use personally identifiable information received from or generated by our customers, we are also subject to federal and state laws and regulations governing data privacy, use of personal data and cybersecurity.

Intellectual Property

We rely on trademarks, domain names, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, contractual provisions and restrictions on access and use to establish and protect our proprietary rights.

As of December 31, 2021, we had 19 U.S. and foreign trademark registrations and applications, including registrations for “Starry” and the Starry logo. As of December 31, 2021, we had 12 U.S. pending non-provisional patent applications and nine U.S. granted patent applications covering various technologies. In addition, as of December 31, 2021, we had two Patent Cooperation Treaty international patent applications pending and 14 foreign patent applications and three foreign granted patent application covering various technologies.

We are the registered holder of a variety of domestic domain names, including “starry.com.”

In addition to the protection provided by our intellectual property rights, we enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements with certain of our employees, consultants, contractors and business partners. Certain of our employees and contractors are also subject to invention assignment agreements.

Human Capital Resources

Our People

Solving hard problems requires committed and dedicated teams with a shared vision and passion. Our team takes tremendous pride in building networks and providing a quality broadband service that improves people’s lives. Our management is focused on creating a work environment that leads to employee satisfaction and retention, and strives to build a culture around trust, honesty and entrepreneurial spirit.

As of December 31, 2021, we had a total of 736 employees, 721 of which were located in the United States. Our installation team, which consisted of 83 employees as of December 31, 2021, works directly with our customers to install our service in their premises. Our construction team, which consisted of 77 employees as of December 31, 2021, works to install and maintain our equipment in multiple dwelling units, on rooftops, towers and utility poles to build out and maintain our network. Our field teams are backed by our central team employees who work in our offices or remotely. This group, which consisted of 230 employees as of December 31, 2021, is composed of engineers, product managers, marketers, operations leads, finance professionals, human resources and legal personnel.

We have 291 employees in Boston (including corporate and field staff), 54 in Columbus, 51 in Denver, 93 in Los Angeles, 92 in New York (including corporate and field staff), 61 in D.C. and 94 remote employees. We have a fluctuating number of part time employees, most of which serve as field sales representatives. Our employees are not currently represented by a union.

Our Culture

Our culture has grown and evolved along with our people. We started in 2016 as a research and development company working on designing our own technology to transform how broadband is delivered. Today we operate across six markets and both coasts. We continue to run a large research and development operation, we run a large and growing field operation, we have an effective sales and marketing team, and we are aggressively

 

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signing up subscribers. Even with all this scale, we still maintain the entrepreneurial spirit that drove us in our early days. We hold ourselves accountable to the values we’ve grown into as a company, which guide our decision making as we work towards our shared culture:

 

   

First and foremost, we are driven by delivering a great service at a fair price, and are obsessed with customer satisfaction. We push ourselves to go above and beyond because doing the bare minimum is an anathema to our culture.

 

   

We have a bias for action; we empower all employees at every level of our company to make smart and quick decisions when confronted with problems or opportunities.

 

   

We trust that our colleagues make decisions that are anchored in a customer-first focus, and that those decisions are thoughtful and help drive us towards achieving our shared goals.

 

   

We use data and analytics to help make smart and strategic decisions, but we do not let data and analytics overwhelm us and create paralysis or inaction.

 

   

We have a passion for innovation and encourage intellectual curiosity. Innovation in the pursuit of solving hard problems is our motivation and we bring a conscientious and intentional approach to our solutions.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Our culture is also one of inclusion. We actively work to dismantle inequities within our policies, systems, programs and services to ensure that Starry Group is a space where no one feels the need to edit their identity. We continuously aspire to be a more equitable, safe and welcoming work environment for all of our team members, and a better advocate to the communities we serve. We provide equal opportunities for growth, promotion, learning and development to all employees. We encourage employee engagement through LGBTQ and women employee resource groups, along with opportunities to discuss gender, race and LGBTQ issues.

Seasonality

Our customers today are all residential subscribers, and the majority of our customers in the future will continue to be residential subscribers. There are some seasonal trends that affect our customer acquisition activities, and they can vary by market. Examples include markets with larger college and university student populations, which tend to move in and move out of residences within the same time frame. In addition, consumers naturally consider their broadband provider at the time at which they move to a new residence. To the extent that the velocity of moving changes over time, it would impact our subscriber acquisition and revenue. Our capital expenditures and working capital may also be subject to seasonality based on regional weather and natural events that may impact our ability to construct the network in certain circumstances.

Additional Information

Our principal executive offices are located at 38 Chauncy Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02111 and our telephone number is (617) 861-8300. Our website is www.starry.com. Under the investor relations page of the Company’s website, www.starry.com/investors, we make available free of charge a variety of information for investors, including our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file that material with or furnish it to the SEC. The information found on our website is not part of this or any other report we file with, or furnish to, the SEC.

 

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.

Our business involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The occurrence of any of the events described below could harm our business, operating results, financial condition, liquidity, or prospects. In any such event, the market price of our Class A Common Stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us, or that we currently deem immaterial, may also impair our business. See “Forward-Looking Statements.”

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

We have a history of losses, and we may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future.

We have experienced net losses in each year since our inception. We incurred net losses of $166.5 million and $125.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. We had an accumulated deficit of $501.4 million and $334.8 million as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. We expect to continue to make future investments in developing and expanding our business. In particular, we expect to invest approximately $350 million to expand our network and acquire subscribers to drive revenue growth. In order to fund this investment, we may be required to raise additional equity or debt capital, which we may not be able to do on favorable terms or at all. These investments may not result in the projected increased revenue or growth in our business, which would impact our ability to turn EBITDA positive within the time frame we project or at all. If we fail to manage our losses or to grow our revenue sufficiently to keep pace with our investments and other expenses, our business will not become cash-flow positive in the time frame we project or at all, we may be required to raise additional funding and our business be harmed.

We have experienced rapid growth since inception, which may not be indicative of our future growth, and, if we continue to grow rapidly, we may not be able to manage our growth effectively.

We have experienced rapid growth and demand for our products since inception. We expect that, in the future, even if our revenue increases, our rate of growth may decline. In any event, we will not be able to grow as fast or at all if we do not, among other things:

 

   

increase the number of customers using our service;

 

   

increase our market share within existing markets and expand into new markets;

 

   

expand our service offerings, including offering service to small and medium sized businesses;

 

   

increase our brand awareness;

 

   

retain our spectrum licenses;

 

   

retain adequate availability of financing sources if necessary; and

 

   

obtain any additional necessary capital to meet our business objectives.

Furthermore, in order to preserve our market position, we will expand into new markets and launch new products and services in existing and new markets. Expanding into new markets may prove to be challenging as some markets may have very different characteristics than the markets in which we currently operate, and these different characteristics may be unanticipated or unknown to us. These differences may result in slower network deployment, poor network coverage performance, slower subscriber growth or slower subscriber penetration than we project.

Our limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and future prospects.

Our business model and technology are still nascent compared to the business models of the large incumbents in the fixed U.S. broadband industry. We launched our first market in 2018 and do not have a long history operating as a commercial company. Our operating results are not predictable and our historical results may

 

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not be indicative of our future results. While there are several established and well-performing broadband providers, few peer companies with our model exist and none have yet established long-term track records at scale that might assist us in predicting whether our business model and strategy can be implemented and sustained over an extended period of time. It may be difficult for you to evaluate our potential future performance without the benefit of established long-term track records from companies implementing a similar business model. We may encounter unanticipated problems as we continue to refine our business model and technology and may be forced to make significant changes to our anticipated sales and revenue models to compete with our competitors’ offerings, which may adversely affect our results of operations and profitability.

Our financial projections may not prove accurate.

In connection with the Business Combination, we presented certain forecasted financial information for our business following the Business Combination. The forecasts were based on numerous potential variables identified and assumptions made by us at the time of preparation. Such variables and assumptions are inherently uncertain and many are beyond our control, and actual events and results may differ materially from what was projected. Important factors that may affect actual results and cause the forecasts to not be achieved include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to our business (including our ability to achieve strategic goals, objectives and targets over applicable periods), industry performance, the competitive environment, changes in technology and general business and economic conditions. Various assumptions underlying the forecasts may prove to not have been, or may no longer be, accurate. The forecasts may not be realized, and actual results may be significantly higher or lower than projected in the forecasts. The forecasts also reflect assumptions as to certain business strategies or plans that are subject to change. As a result, such forecasts should not be relied on as “guidance” or otherwise predictive of actual future events, and actual results may differ materially from the forecasts.

Our decision to expand existing product and service offerings into new markets or to launch new product or service offerings may consume significant financial and other resources and may not achieve the desired results.

We regularly evaluate expanding our services into new markets or launching new product offerings in existing or new markets. Any expansion or new offering requires significant expenses and the time of our key personnel, particularly at the outset of the process. We typically experience increased losses in new markets as we invest to build our network and brand presence within those markets before we have any customers within those markets. Our plans to expand and deepen our market share in our existing markets and possibly expand into additional markets is subject to a variety of risks and challenges. These risks and challenges include execution, the varying economic and demographic conditions of each market, competition from national and regional providers of broadband services, our ability to obtain and retain new customers and pricing pressures. We cannot assure you that we will be able to build our network in a timely or cost-effective manner, efficiently acquire customers or achieve target subscriber penetration rates, better than or as well as in our more mature existing markets.

New markets and new product offerings may also subject us to new regulatory environments, which could increase our costs as we evaluate and implement compliance with new regulations. Notwithstanding the expenses and time devoted to expanding an existing product offering into a new market or launching a new product offering, we may fail to achieve the financial and market share goals associated with the expansion. If we cannot manage our expansion efforts efficiently, our market share gains could take longer than planned and our related costs could exceed our expectations. In addition, we could incur significant costs to seek to expand our market share, and still not succeed in attracting sufficient customers to offset such costs.

We operate in a highly competitive business environment which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

We operate in a highly competitive, consumer-driven industry and we compete against providers that offer a variety of fixed broadband services, including cable, terrestrial fixed wireless service, DSL, fiber and fixed satellite. We also compete against providers of mobile broadband service to the extent that a consumer considers mobile broadband service a substitute for fixed broadband service. Our competitors include large national and regional providers of fixed broadband services such as AT&T, Comcast, Charter, CableOne, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier, TDS Cox, RCN and Altice, providers of mobile broadband services such as AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon, and numerous small fixed broadband providers in local areas.

 

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Most incumbent broadband communications companies, which already have wired networks and an existing customer base and other operational functions in place, offer broadband over DSL, cable or FTTH/FTTP. These services may be offered at promotional prices comparable to or lower than our services. In addition, to the extent that these providers’ networks are more ubiquitously deployed, such as traditional telephone networks, they may be in a better position to offer internet services to consumers and businesses passed by their networks on a more economic or timely basis than we can, even if the services they offer are arguably inferior. They may also increasingly have the ability to offer a combination of video services, mobile services and telephone and internet services to their customers as a bundle, either directly or through co-marketing agreements with other service providers. As an internet-only company, we do not currently offer any bundled services that could compete with these offerings.

Mobile broadband providers may be able to provide services that substitute for our fixed broadband service. Current and future fixed and mobile internet services, such as services provided on LTE and 5G networks (and variants), other unlicensed fixed wireless broadband networks and devices such as mobile hot spots, tablets and smartphones, and mobile wireless routers that connect to such devices, may also compete with our broadband services both for in-premises broadband service and mobile broadband. All major wireless carriers offer various kinds of unlimited data plans, which could, in some cases, become a substitute for the fixed broadband services we provide. In addition, the FCC is likely to continue to make additional radio frequency spectrum available for these wireless internet access services, which in time could expand the quality and reach of these services.

In some instances, our competitors have easier access to financing, greater resources, greater operating capabilities and efficiencies of scale, stronger brand-name recognition, longstanding relationships with regulatory authorities and customers, and more customers. This provides these competitors with certain advantages in competing against us, including the ability to aggressively promote and price their services in markets in which we may compete. This competition creates pressure on our pricing and may affect our ability to add and retain customers, which in turn adversely affects our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our competitive risks are heightened by the rapid technological change inherent in our business, evolving consumer preferences and the need to acquire, develop and adopt new technology to differentiate our products and services from those of our competitors, and to meet consumer demand. We may need to anticipate far in advance which technology we should use for the development of new products and services or the enhancement of existing products and services. The failure to accurately anticipate such changes may adversely affect our ability to attract and retain customers, which in turn could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Consolidation and cooperation in our industry may allow our competitors to acquire service capabilities or offer products that are not available to us or offer similar products and services at prices lower than ours.

New emerging technologies, including low earth orbit satellite, may impact a portion of our potential network expansion, to the extent such technologies come to fruition and are adopted in the marketplace.

If we do not maintain or obtain rights to use licensed spectrum in markets in which we provide or intend to provide service, we may be unable to operate in these markets, which could harm our business and our ability to execute our business strategy.

We offer our services using spectrum licensed by the FCC in the 24 GHz band and lower 37 GHz band. As a result, we depend on our ability to acquire and maintain sufficient rights to use spectrum in each of the markets in which we operate or intend to operate. While our future projections are based on spectrum for which we currently hold licensed rights, we may not be able to maintain the spectrum necessary to execute our business strategy, including the spectrum we hold rights to today. In addition, we have in the past and may continue to spend significant resources to acquire spectrum in additional or existing markets.

Using licensed spectrum, whether owned today or in the future or leased in the future poses additional risks to our business, including:

 

   

our inability to satisfy build-out or service deployment requirements on which some of our spectrum licenses or leases are, or may be, conditioned, which may result in the loss of our rights to the spectrum subject to the requirements;

 

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changes to regulations governing our spectrum rights that could adversely affect our ability to utilize the spectrum as required in our business;

 

   

our inability to use a portion of the spectrum we have acquired or leased or to acquire additional spectrum due to interference from licensed or unlicensed operators in the spectrum bands in which we have rights or in adjacent bands;

 

   

the refusal by the FCC to recognize our acquisition or lease of spectrum licenses from others or our investments in other license holders, to the extent we enter into future agreements to acquire or lease spectrum;

 

   

our inability to offer new services or to expand existing services to take advantage of new capabilities of our network resulting from advancements in technology due to regulations governing our spectrum rights;

 

   

our inability to obtain or lease more spectrum in the future due to the possible imposition of limits or caps on our spectrum holdings, which could prevent us from expanding our service in existing or new markets;

 

   

our inability to control or retain leased spectrum due to contractual disputes with, or the bankruptcy or other reorganization of, the license holders, or third parties;

 

   

the failure of the FCC to renew our spectrum licenses or those held by the parties from whom we lease spectrum as they expire;

 

   

our failure to obtain extensions or renewals of spectrum leases, or our inability to renegotiate those leases, on terms acceptable to us before they expire, which may result in the loss of spectrum we need to operate our network in the market covered by the spectrum leases;

 

   

increases in spectrum prices, because of increased competition for the limited supply of licensed spectrum in the United States, which could limit our ability to acquire new spectrum rights, and could in turn prevent us from expanding our service in existing or new markets; and

 

   

the invalidation of our authorization to use all or a significant portion of our spectrum, resulting in, among other things, impairment charges related to assets recorded for such spectrum.

We operate using spectrum in the lower 37 GHz band in all of our current markets and have rights to use that spectrum band in other markets in which we intend to expand under an experimental license issued by the FCC while the FCC finalizes the regulations that will dictate the ultimate use of this spectrum band. This experimental license must be renewed by the FCC for us to continue to operate on the same basis in which we operate today. In the future, the FCC may not renew our experimental license for all or some of the markets in which we currently have rights to operate. The FCC may also adopt final regulations for this spectrum band that remove or limit our ability to continue to operate in this spectrum band. If the FCC does not renew our experimental license for some or all of our existing and expansion markets or adopts final regulations that adversely impacts our ability to operate in the lower 37 GHz band, and we are unable to acquire rights to use other spectrum in those markets, it would have a material adverse effect on our ability to continue to operate our business in those markets, our ability to grow our network and subscribers in those markets, and our results of operations and financial condition.

If we do not maintain or obtain rights to provide our services in apartment buildings, it will harm our business.

We enter into access agreements with owners of multi-dwelling properties pursuant to which the owner grants us permission to install our receiving equipment on the roof and provide services to residents in the property. In many instances, the owner may terminate the agreement on short notice. If an owner of a property terminates the access agreement or it expires and is not renewed, we would lose the ability to service customers in that building, which would negatively impact our business.

 

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If we do not maintain or obtain rights to vertical asset and communications infrastructure used in the operation of our network, such as access to rooftops, towers, and fiber or wireless backhaul, it could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

We lease space on vertical assets like buildings and towers to attach our transmitting equipment. This transmitting equipment delivers our service wirelessly to properties in which we have customers. In the event that a lease for a vertical asset is terminated or expires at the end of the term, there is no guarantee that we will be able to find another vertical asset to continue servicing the properties currently served by the existing vertical asset. In this case, we would lose the ability to service some customers in the market, which would negatively impact our business.

Each unit of our transmitting equipment that serves customer premises is connected to fiber backhaul or fixed wireless backhaul, or both, which routes our network traffic back to a local internet point-of presence in the market. An internet point-of-presence is the network interface point, typically located in a data center, housing servers, routers, switches, and other networking equipment that enables connectivity between networks. These are the locations to which our network traffic in a region is routed and consolidated, and from where we connect with other networks to exchange data traffic, either through direct connections or through Internet exchange points. We require backhaul from our transmission sites, therefore, in order to provide access to the Internet to customers served by our transmission sites.

We generally design our transmitting sites to have diverse backhaul paths, which means that we typically have in place an alternative backhaul method for routing our network traffic if we lose access to fiber backhaul for any reason. Where we use fixed wireless backhaul, we build and operate the necessary equipment ourselves. However, at some transmitting sites where we use fiber backhaul, we may not have an alternative backhaul method in place. We generally contract with between two and four different third-party fiber providers in a market depending on the conditions in that market and the design of our network. In most markets, while we use multiple fiber providers, we lease the majority of our fiber from one provider. In the event that one of our fiber providers decided to no longer lease access to fiber to us and we rely on that fiber as the exclusive method for backhaul at a transmission site, we would be required to find an alternative fiber provider for backhaul to the affected transmission site. Because in most markets we lease the majority of our fiber from one provider, in the event that primary provider in a market decided to no longer lease access to fiber to us, the potential number of transmission sites impacted in the relevant market could be significant.

In some cases, the fiber providers from which we lease access to fiber are our competitors, such as AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and RCN. In some of our markets, such as Boston and Washington, D.C., the majority of fiber we lease is provided by our competitors. It is possible that in the future these competitors will decide not to continue to lease access to fiber to us. In that event, we would be required to find alternative fiber providers for backhaul.

While most markets in which we operate have alternative fiber providers, and we have the ability to use fixed wireless backhaul as an alternative backhaul solution, there is no guarantee that we will be able to come to terms with a new provider on terms that are as beneficial as our existing arrangements or at all, or that we would be able to build fixed wireless backhaul. In these events, we would no longer be able to operate the transmission site and would not be able to service our customers that are served by that transmission site. In the event that the terms with a new provider are not as beneficial as the terms of our existing fiber leases in the market, it would have an adverse effect on our financial results from that market. In addition, even if we were able to find another provider to replace an existing fiber provider or utilize fixed wireless backhaul, there is no guarantee that we would be able to redesign our network to utilize fiber from this new provider or deploy a fixed wireless backhaul in a timely manner, in which case our existing customers served by the affected transmission site would likely cancel service, which would have an adverse impact on our financial result from that market.

 

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The value of our spectrum licenses could decline, which could materially affect our ability to raise capital, and could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

While spectrum license values have historically not declined, a future decline in the value of our 24 GHz band spectrum licenses could negatively impact our ability to raise capital both privately and in the public markets and could significantly reduce the value of our spectrum assets. The value of any or all of our spectrum licenses could decrease as a result of many factors, including:

 

   

increases in supply of spectrum that provides similar functionality;

 

   

new technology in unlicensed bands that provides the same capability as our network;

 

   

a decrease in the demand for services offered with any of our spectrum licenses;

 

   

lower values placed on similar spectrum licenses in future FCC spectrum auctions;

 

   

regulatory limitations on the use, leases, transfer or sale of rights in any of our spectrum licenses;

 

   

changes to the licensing, service or technical rules to the spectrum bands covered by our spectrum licenses; or

 

   

bankruptcy or liquidation of any comparable companies.

Many of these factors depend on circumstances beyond our control. The occurrence of any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our ability to generate revenues and on our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.

The unavailability, reduction, elimination or adverse application of government subsidies, including through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and Emergency Broadband Benefit program, could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

The FCC’s efforts in recent years to expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities across the United States have included the provision of federal subsidies and other incentives to broadband providers. For example, in 2020, we participated in the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (“RDOF”) auction, which provides a federal subsidy for the support of high-speed fixed broadband and voice networks in unserved areas across the United States. In that auction, we won $268 million in funding, payable over 10 years, to provide gigabit fixed internet and voice services to unserved locations in nine states. As a winner in the auction, we had to file with the FCC a long-form application that includes information about our qualifications, funding and the network that we intend to use to meet our obligations to provide service to the locations for which we will receive subsidy payments. Our long-form application is currently pending before the FCC. The FCC may find all or part of our application insufficient, or we may in the future fail to meet the necessary service obligations on which the receipt of the subsidy is conditioned, which would result in the loss of some or all of the subsidy that we won in the RDOF auction. In addition, even if we retain some or all of the subsidy that we won, the construction of the network that we will be required to build to meet our service obligations may significantly exceed our modeled costs that were the basis for our bidding in the auction, which would materially and adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.

In addition, we are a participant in the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit (“EBB”) program, a program to help families and households struggling to afford internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a participant in EBB, we receive reimbursement from the federal government for up to $50 in subscriber fees per month per qualifying subscriber during the course of the program. These repayments could be delayed, the government may find that some or all of our qualifying subscribers no longer qualify, or the government may audit our participation and find deficiencies that could result in fines or other adverse outcomes. If that occurs, we may lose customers that rely on this program to pay for our service, which could have a material adverse effect on our growth, results of operations and financial condition.

 

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Because we intend to participate in future government subsidy and benefit programs, any reduction, elimination or discriminatory application of future government subsidies and economic incentives resulting from policy changes, the reduced need for such subsidies or other reasons such as our inability to satisfy the compliance requirements of the subsidy or benefit program, could materially and adversely affect the growth of expansion of the broadband market and our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results.

Our business model and growth strategy depend on our marketing efforts and ability to attract customers in a cost-effective manner.

Our long-term success depends in part on our ability to continue to attract more customers in each of our markets to our service. Our marketing efforts may not succeed for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to, changes to search engine algorithms, ineffective campaigns across marketing channels and limited experience in certain marketing channels, like traditional media. External factors beyond our control may also affect the success of our marketing initiatives, such as filtering of our targeted communications by email servers, potential customers failing to respond to our marketing initiatives and competition from third parties. Any of these factors could reduce the number of customers choosing us as their internet provider.

Our business model relies on our ability to scale rapidly and to decrease incremental customer acquisition costs as we grow. If we are unable to recover our marketing costs or if our marketing campaigns are not successful or are terminated, it could have a material adverse effect on our growth, results of operations and financial condition.

Our reputation, brand and ability to differentiate ourselves from our competitors is important to our success, and if we are not able to maintain and enhance our reputation and brand and differentiate ourselves from our competitors, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected.

Maintaining a positive reputation and brand image are important factors impacting our ability to sell our products and services. The speed at which negative publicity is disseminated has increased dramatically through the use of electronic communication, including social media, websites and blogs. Our success in maintaining our brand image depends on our ability to adapt to this rapidly changing media environment. Adverse publicity or negative commentary in any media outlet could damage our reputation and reduce the demand for our products and services, which would adversely affect our business. Our reputation or brand image could be adversely impacted by negative publicity, commentary or communications (whether or not valid), particularly if we are unable to maintain service levels expected by our customers or to timely and adequately respond to network failures that negatively impact our customers’ ability to access the internet. In addition, our reputation and brand image could be further adversely impacted by: our failure to maintain high ethical and social practices in all of our operations and activities; our failure to be perceived as appropriately addressing matters of social responsibility; our use of social media; or public perception of statements or positions made or taken by us, including our executives and associates.

We rely on the experience and expertise of our senior management team, key technical employees and other highly skilled personnel and the failure to retain, motivate or integrate any of these individuals could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operation.

Our operational results have depended, and our future results will depend, upon the retention and continued performance of our management team, in particular Chaitanya Kanojia, one of our co-founders and our Chief Executive Officer. The competitive environment for management talent in the broadband communications industry could adversely impact our ability to retain and hire new key employees for management positions. The loss of the services of key members of management and the inability or delay in hiring new key employees could adversely affect our ability to manage our business and our future operational and financial results.

Our business is concentrated in certain geographic markets. Exposure to local economies, regional downturns or severe weather or catastrophic occurrences or other disruptions or events could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

Today, we operate in six markets across the United States. Local and regional conditions in these markets may differ significantly from prevailing conditions in the United States or other parts of the country. As a result, our business is currently more susceptible to regional conditions than the operations of more geographically diversified competitors, and we are vulnerable to economic downturns in the markets in which we operate. Any events or circumstances that negatively affect these areas could materially adversely affect our revenues and profitability.

 

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We depend on a limited number of third-party suppliers, manufacturers and licensors to supply some of the hardware and software necessary to provide some of our services, and any disruption in our relationships with these parties could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

We depend on a limited number of third-party service providers, suppliers and licensors to supply some of the services, hardware, software and operational support necessary to provide some of our services. Some of our hardware, software and operational support vendors, and service providers represent our sole source of supply or have, either through contract or as a result of intellectual property rights, a position of some exclusivity. If any of these parties breach or terminate or elect not to renew their agreements with us or otherwise fail to perform their obligations in a timely manner, demand exceeds these vendors’ capacity, tariffs are imposed that impact vendors’ ability to perform their obligations or significantly increase the amount we pay, they experience operating or financial difficulties, they significantly increase the amount we are required to pay for necessary products or services, or they cease production of any necessary product due to lack of demand, profitability or a change in ownership or are otherwise unable to provide the equipment or services we need in a timely manner, at our specifications and at reasonable prices, our ability to provide some services might be materially adversely affected, or the need to procure or develop alternative sources of the affected materials or services might interrupt or delay our ability to serve our customers. In addition, the existence of only a limited number of vendors of key technologies can lead to less product innovation and higher costs. These events could materially and adversely affect our ability to retain and attract customers and our operations, business, financial results and financial condition.

Our growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with third parties.

We have certain strategic relationships and intend to establish additional strategic relationships in the future. in connection with the expansion of our business. In 2020, we entered into a commercial arrangement with AEP Ventures, LLC (“AEPV”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Electric Power Company, Inc., a major investor-owned electric utility in the United States, to deploy our network in Columbus, Ohio. Under our arrangement, AEPV absorbs the capital expenditures necessary to construct and maintain our coverage network and the capital expenditures for customer installations, while we operate the network, market our service, acquire subscribers and manage subscriber relationships. In exchange for this collaborative approach, we pay AEPV a portion of the revenue we receive from customers in the Columbus market. Under our arrangement, AEPV has the ability to terminate our agreement after a period of time for any reason. In the event AEPV terminates our arrangement, our ability to continue to expand our business the Columbus market and other markets in Ohio may be adversely impacted. Moreover, our ability to develop similar relationship with other electric utilities may be harmed.

Our ability to control our expenses and grow our business in a cost-effective manner depends in part on our ability to partner with electric utilities or other new strategic partners to build out our network in new markets.

We intend to pursue strategic relationships with electric utilities and other new strategic partners to help us build out our network in certain of the markets in which we intend to expand. We are seeking to structure these relationships to be similar to our arrangement with AEPV, which means that we would seek to have our partners absorb the capital expenditures necessary to construct and maintain our coverage network and the capital expenditures for customer installations in the relevant markets. We would in turn operate the network, market our service, acquire subscribers and manage subscriber relationships. If we are not able to partner with electric utilities or other new strategic partners to build out our network in this way, our capital expenditures will be significantly higher as we expand because we will incur some or all of the expenses to construct our coverage network and install customers in our new markets, which would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. In addition, if our expenses are higher than we expect, we may be required to reduce the number of new markets into which we expand and/or raise new capital to fund our planned expansion into new markets, which will have a material adverse effect on our growth, results of operations and financial condition.

 

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Our suppliers may fail to deliver components according to schedules, prices, quality and volumes that are acceptable to us, or we may be unable to manage these components effectively.

Our equipment contain hundreds of parts that we purchase globally from suppliers, some of which are single-source direct suppliers, generally without long-term supply agreements. This exposes us to multiple potential sources of component shortages. Unexpected changes in business conditions, materials pricing, labor issues, wars, governmental changes, tariffs, natural disasters, health epidemics such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, trade and shipping disruptions and other factors beyond our or our suppliers’ control could also affect these suppliers’ ability to deliver components to us or to remain solvent and operational. For example, a global shortage of microchips has been reported since early 2021, which has forced us in some instances to redesign certain of our equipment to omit the chips that we cannot source cost effectively. Other impacts of this microchip shortage are as yet unknown. The unavailability of any component or supplier could result in production delays, idle manufacturing facilities, product design changes and loss of access to important technology and tools for producing and supporting our equipment. Moreover, significant increases in our production or product design changes by us have required and may in the future require us to procure additional components in a short amount of time. Our suppliers may not be willing or able to sustainably meet our timelines or our cost, quality and volume needs, or to do so may cost us more, which may require us to replace them with other sources. While we believe that we will be able to secure additional or alternate sources or develop our own replacements for most of our components, there is no assurance that we will be able to do so quickly or at all. Additionally, we may be unsuccessful in our efforts to negotiate with existing suppliers to obtain cost reductions and avoid unfavorable changes to terms, source less expensive suppliers for certain parts and redesign certain parts to make them less expensive to produce. Any of these occurrences would harm our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results.

As the scale of our equipment production increases, we will also need to accurately forecast, purchase, warehouse and transport components to our manufacturing facilities. If we are unable to accurately match the timing and quantities of component purchases to our actual needs or successfully implement inventory management and other systems to accommodate the increased complexity in our supply chain and parts management, we may incur unexpected production disruption, storage, transportation and write-off costs, which would harm our business and operating results.

In 2021, we entered into a commercial arrangement with Quanta, a leading specialized contracting services company with one of the largest skilled labor forces in North America. We intend to utilize Quanta as our construction partner in certain markets, either to build all or a portion of the network in those markets directly or to project manage the network construction. To date, we have only utilized Quanta in the Columbus market. As a result, we do not know whether we will achieve some or all of the benefits of leveraging Quanta’s expertise in our future market expansion. If our arrangement with Quanta does not yield the benefits that we anticipate, it could negatively impact our ability to expand our services to new markets in a cost-effective and efficient manner, which could have a material adverse effect on our growth, results of operations and financial condition.

If we are unsuccessful in maintaining successful relationships with AEPV, Quanta or any of our other strategic commercial partners, or if we are unable to develop similar relationship with new strategic commercial partners, our ability to grow our existing business, expand to new markets or to grow our revenues could be impaired and our operating results may suffer. Even if we are successful, we cannot assure you that these relationships will result in increased customer usage of our services or increased revenues.

Our exposure to the economic conditions of our current and potential customers, vendors and third parties could adversely affect our cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.

We are exposed to risks associated with the economic conditions of our current and potential customers, the potential financial instability of our customers and their financial ability to pay for our service. If there were a general economic downturn, we may experience increased cancelations or non-payment by our customers. In addition, our ability to gain new customers is dependent to some extent on growth in occupied housing in our service areas, which is influenced by both national and local economic conditions. These events may adversely affect our cash flow, results of operations and financial condition if a downturn were to occur.

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same economic conditions that may affect our customers, as well as volatility and disruption in the capital and credit markets, also could adversely affect vendors and third parties and lead to significant increases in prices, reduction in output or the bankruptcy of our vendors or third parties upon which we rely. Any interruption in the services provided by our vendors or by third parties could adversely affect our cash flow, results of operation and financial condition.

A significant portion of our costs and expenses are fixed, and we may not be able to adapt our cost structure to offset declines in our revenue.

A significant portion of our expenses are fixed and do not vary proportionately with fluctuations in revenues. In markets in which we provide our service we lease space on vertical assets like buildings and towers to attach our operating equipment under long-term leases that, with very limited exceptions, do not contain early termination provisions. Our leases generally provide for fixed monthly payments. In addition, to provide our service we lease access to fiber to connect our equipment to the internet. These leases require us to pay for access to the leased fiber regardless of whether we use the fiber or not. As a result, if we do not have sufficient customers in a market, our fixed costs in a market may exceed our revenue in that market.

International expansion of our business would expose us to business, regulatory, political, operational, financial and economic risks associated with doing business outside of the United States.

Our financial and operational projections do not anticipate international expansion. However, if we do expand internationally, we will become subject to the laws and regulations of the foreign jurisdictions in which we operate. The varying laws and rapidly changing regulations may impact our operations and ability to ensure compliance. Failure by us to comply with the evolving regulatory framework in any jurisdiction could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Seasonality may cause fluctuations in our sales and results of operations.

Our business is subject to some seasonal and cyclical variations. Our results are impacted by the velocity of residential moving, and there may be seasonality of such velocity for certain market segments, including college students living in off campus housing. Our capital expenditures and working capital may also be subject to seasonality based on regional weather and natural events that may impact our ability to construct the network in certain circumstances.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could materially affect our financial condition and results of operations.

COVID-19 and measures to prevent its spread, may have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The severity and timing of the impact will depend on a number of factors, including the level and rapidity of infection, duration of containment measures, changes in consumer spending patterns, measures imposed or taken by governmental authorities in response to the pandemic, macroeconomic conditions in our markets and negative effects on the financial condition of our customers.

Under difficult economic conditions, including prolonged unemployment and employment furloughs, demand for our products and services could decline and some customers may be unable or unwilling to pay for our products and services, especially when or if not otherwise offset by federal government support. The occupancy rates in some apartment buildings may decline significantly, particularly in buildings where the population has an alternative housing location such as a second home or parental housing. Additionally, in order to prioritize the demands of the business, we may delay certain capital investments or in other new initiatives, products or services, which may adversely affect our business in the future. If these events occur and were to continue, our revenue may be reduced materially which could result in reduced operating margins and a reduction in cash flows.

Governmental and non-governmental initiatives to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, such as the imposition of restrictions on work and public gatherings and the promotion of social distancing, along with new government service, collection, have impacted and could continue to impact our operations and financial results. Our suppliers and vendors also may be affected by such measures in their ability to provide products and services to us and these measures could also make it more difficult for us to serve our customers.

 

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During 2019 and 2020, some vertical asset owners implemented restrictions on our ability to enter their buildings to perform construction work to install our equipment on their premises in an attempt to limit the transmission of COVID-19. Similarly, some owners and property managers of apartment buildings implemented restrictions on our ability to enter their buildings to market our service to residents of the buildings. If these restrictions are implemented in the future, our network deployment, network coverage, subscriber growth and subscriber penetration could be lower than we project.

Also, the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic may have on our business, financial condition and results of operations could exacerbate the other risks identified in this section.

We rely on network and information systems and other technology, and a disruption or failure of such networks, systems or technology as a result of cybersecurity incidents, as well as outages, natural disasters (including extreme weather), terrorist attacks, accidental releases of information or similar events, may disrupt our business.

Physical and electronic networks and information systems and other technologies are critical to our operating activities, both to internal uses and in supplying services to our customers. Network or information system shutdowns or other service disruptions caused by cyber-attacks, such as distributed denial of service attacks, ransomware, dissemination of malware and other malicious activity, pose increasing risks. Both unsuccessful and successful cyber-attacks on companies, including ours, have continued to increase in frequency, scope and potential harm in recent years and, because the techniques used in such attacks have become more sophisticated and change frequently, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative measures. From time to time, third parties make malicious attempts to access our network or the networks of third-party vendors we use. Cyber-attacks could result in an unauthorized release of information, degradation to our network and information systems or disruption to our services, all of which could adversely affect our reputation and results of operations.

Our network and information systems are also vulnerable to damage or interruption from power outages, natural disasters (including extreme weather arising from short-term weather patterns or any long-term changes), pandemics, terrorist attacks and similar events, and the individuals responsible for such systems may also be imperiled by certain such events. Any of these events could have an adverse impact on us or our customers in the future, including degradation of service, service disruption, excessive call volume to call centers and damage to our or our customers’ equipment and data. Large expenditures may be necessary to repair or replace damaged property, networks or information systems or to protect them from similar events in the future.

Risks Related to Government Regulation and Litigation

Our business is subject to extensive governmental legislation and regulation, which could adversely affect our business, increase our operational and administrative expenses and limit our revenues.

Regulation of the broadband industry can increase broadband providers’ operational and administrative expenses and limit their revenues. Broadband providers are subject to numerous laws and regulations including those covering net neutrality and transparency, data protection and customer and employee privacy, and infrastructure siting and permitting.

Many aspects of these regulations are currently the subject of judicial proceedings and administrative or legislative proposals. There are also efforts to amend or expand the federal, state and local regulation of broadband, which may compound the regulatory risks we already face, and proposals that might make it easier for our employees to unionize. The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act prohibits many taxes on internet access service, but certain states and localities are considering new taxes and fees on cable, broadband and telecommunications services that could increase operating expenses. Certain states are also considering adopting energy efficiency regulations governing the operation of equipment that we use, which could constrain innovation. Congress periodically considers whether to rewrite the entire Communications Act to account for changes in the communications marketplace or to adopt more focused changes. Congress has in the past considered, and continues to consider, additional regulations on broadband providers to address specific consumer or customer issues. In response to recent data breaches and increasing concerns regarding the protection of consumers’ personal information, Congress, states and regulatory agencies are considering the adoption of new privacy and data security laws and regulations that could result in additional privacy, as well as network and information security, requirements for our business. These new laws, as well as existing legal and regulatory obligations, could require significant expenditures.

 

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As a winner in the RDOF auction, we have a long form application currently pending before the FCC. The FCC may deny the application in whole or in part, which will reduce the amount of regulatory revenue we project over the next decade. In addition, if the long-form application is granted, we will be subject to significant state and federal regulations governing the construction of our required network and the services that we must offer; there is a risk that these rules and requirements may change, and a risk that we fail to construct the required network within the required time frames.

Increasing regulation of our internet-based products and services could adversely affect our ability to provide new products and services.

On February 26, 2015, the FCC adopted a new “net neutrality” or open internet order (the “2015 Order”) that: (1) reclassified broadband internet access service from an information service to a Title II common carrier service, (2) applied certain existing Title II provisions and associated regulations to broadband internet access services; (3) forbore from applying a range of other existing Title II provisions and associated regulations, but to varying degrees indicated that this forbearance may be only temporary and (4) issued new rules expanding disclosure requirements and prohibiting blocking, throttling, paid prioritization and unreasonable interference or disadvantage with the ability of end users and edge providers to reach each other. The 2015 Order also subjected broadband providers’ internet traffic exchange rates and practices to potential FCC oversight and created a mechanism for third parties to file complaints regarding these matters. While we strive to comply with the measures adopted in the 2015 Order, to the extent they are still applicable or are reintroduced in the future, the 2015 Order could have had a material adverse impact on our business by limiting our ability to manage our systems beyond what we do today. In December 2017, the FCC adopted an order (the “2017 Order”) that in large part reversed the 2015 Order and reestablished the “information service” classification for broadband services. The 2017 Order was affirmed in part on appeal in October 2019 insofar as it classified broadband internet access services as information services subject to lesser federal regulation. However, the 2017 Order was also vacated in part on appeal insofar as it preempted states from subjecting broadband internet access services to any requirements more stringent than the federal requirements. As a result, the precise extent to which state rules may impose such requirements on broadband internet access service providers is not fully settled. Additionally, Congress and some states are considering legislation that may codify “net neutrality” rules, which could include prohibitions on blocking, throttling and prioritizing internet traffic. A number of states, including California, have adopted legislation and/or executive orders that apply “net neutrality” rules to internet service providers. The California legislation is currently being challenged in court. Additionally, the FCC may revisit the appropriate regulatory classification of broadband in 2022.

While regulatory reclassification by itself would not materially harm our ability to provide broadband service, it may restrict our unplanned ability to enter new market segments or offer new services that may be permitted today.

Offering telephone services will subject us to additional federal and state regulatory burdens, causing us to incur additional costs, and changes may require us to modify existing services, potentially increase our costs or prices we charge customers and otherwise harm our business.

We will offer interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) telephone services over our broadband network through a third party. The FCC has ruled that competitive telephone companies that support VoIP services, such as those that we will offer to our customers, are entitled to interconnect with incumbent providers of traditional telecommunications services, which ensures that our VoIP services can operate in the market. However, the scope of these interconnection rights is being reviewed in a current FCC proceeding, which may affect our ability to compete in the provision of telephony services or result in additional costs.

The FCC has already extended certain traditional telecommunications requirements, such as E-911, Universal Service Fund (“USF”) contributions, Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (“CALEA”) compliance, measures to protect Customer Proprietary Network Information, certain levels of access users with disabilities, number porting, battery back-up, network outage reporting, rural call completion reporting, illegal robocall mitigation and other regulatory requirements. If additional telecommunications regulations are applied to our VoIP service, it could cause us to incur additional costs and may otherwise materially adversely impact our operations with respect to our VoIP service.

 

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Expanding our offering of these services may require us to obtain certain authorizations, including federal and state authorizations. We may not be able to obtain such authorizations in a timely manner, or conditions could be imposed upon such authorizations that may not be favorable to us. Furthermore, state regulations and federal regulations may require us to contribute to state universal service and related programs, pay E-911 surcharges and pay other surcharges and fees that fund various programs. We may pass USF fees, E-911 fees and Telecommunications Relay Services and other surcharges through to our customers, which may result in our subscriptions becoming more expensive or require that we absorb these costs. Furthermore, in the future, state public utility commissions may expand their jurisdiction over interconnected VoIP services to regulate the rates that we may charge, which may materially impact our ability to economically provide VoIP service.

The failure of our platform and products to comply, or delays in compliance, with various existing and evolving regulations could delay or interrupt our introduction of new products, subject us to fines or other imposed penalties, or harm our reputation, any of which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or operating results.

We may be materially adversely affected by regulatory, legal and economic changes relating to our physical facilities.

Our systems depend on physical facilities, including transmitting equipment that we install on vertical assets and transceiving equipment that we install on customer premises. The placement of the transmitting equipment is subject to federal, state and local regulations. In some cases, portions of our physical facilities occupy public rights-of-way and are subject to local ordinances and governmental regulations. Other portions occupy private property under express or implied easements. No assurances can be given that we will be able to maintain and use our facilities in their current locations and at their current costs. Changes in governmental regulations or changes in these relationships could have a material adverse effect on our business and our results of operations.

We may be liable for the material that content providers distribute over our networks.

The law in most cases limits the liability of private network operators for information carried on, stored on or disseminated through their networks. However, these limitations on liability are subject to certain exceptions and the contours of those exceptions are not fully settled. Among other things, the limitation of copyright liability for network operators with respect to materials transmitted over their networks is conditioned upon the network operators’ terminating the accounts of repeat infringers in certain circumstances, and the law is unsettled as to the circumstances in which such termination is required to maintain the operator’s limitation of liability. As such, we could be exposed to legal claims relating to content disseminated on our networks and/or asserting that we are not eligible for statutory limitations on liability for network operators with respect to such content. Claims could involve matters such as defamation, invasion of privacy or copyright infringement. If we need to take costly measures to reduce our exposure to these risks or are required to defend ourselves against such claims, our business, reputation, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

Unfavorable outcomes in legal proceedings in which we may be involved may adversely affect our business and operating results.

We may become involved in legal proceedings such as intellectual property, consumer, employment, contractual and other litigation that may arise from time to time in the course of our business. We may also be affected by legal proceedings between third parties (such as challenges to spectrum auctions, subsidy programs or intellectual property disputes between third parties). Litigation is inherently unpredictable, and the outcome of some of these proceedings and other contingencies could require us to take or refrain from taking actions which could adversely impact our business or could result in excessive verdicts. Additionally, involvement in these lawsuits and related inquiries and other proceedings may involve significant expense, divert management’s attention and resources from other matters and negatively affect our reputation.

 

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Unfavorable legislative outcomes may adversely affect our industry, our business and our operating results.

Generally as a new entrant competitive provider, legislative outcomes are likely to have a positive or neutral impact, however, there may be circumstances where legislative outcomes at the federal or state level may adversely affect our business or operating results. For example, while unlikely, a federal law that requires the regulation of our rates. Legislation that provides federal or state subsidies for new broadband networks could adversely affect our business to the extent we do not capture such subsidies and they are instead awarded to a competing provider for an area in which we are, or will be, operating a portion of our network.

Risks Related to Information Technology, Cybersecurity and Intellectual Property

We rely on network and information systems for our operations and a disruption or failure of, or defects in, those systems may disrupt our operations, damage our reputation with customers and adversely affect our results of operations.

Network and information systems are essential to our ability to conduct our business and deliver our services to our customers. While we, and our vendors, have in place multiple security systems designed to protect against intentional or unintentional disruption, failure, misappropriation or corruption of our network and information systems, there can be no assurance that our efforts, or our vendors’ efforts, to protect our network and information systems will prevent any of the problems identified above. A problem of this type might be caused by events such as computer hacking, computer viruses, worms and other destructive or disruptive software, “cyber-attacks,” phishing attacks and other malicious activity, defects in the hardware and software comprising our network and information systems, as well as natural disasters, power outages, terrorist attacks and similar events. Such events could have an adverse impact on us and our customers, including degradation of service, service disruption, excessive call volume to call centers, theft and damage to our plant, equipment and data, costs associated with remediation, notification and potential damages to third parties affected by such malicious activities. Operational or business delays may result from the disruption of network or information systems and the subsequent remediation activities. Moreover, these events may create negative publicity resulting in reputation or brand damage with customers and our results of operations could suffer.

We also use certain vendors to supply some of the hardware, software and support of our network, some of which have been customized or altered to fit our business needs. Certain of these vendors and suppliers may have leverage over us considering that there are limited suppliers of certain products and services, or that there is a long lead time and/or significant expense required to transition to another provider. In addition, some of these vendors and suppliers do not have a long operating history or may not be able to continue to supply the equipment and services we desire. Some of our hardware, software and operational support vendors and some of our service providers represent our sole source of supply or have, either through contract or as a result of intellectual property rights, a position of some exclusivity. In addition, because of the pace at which technological innovations occur in our industry, we may not be able to obtain access to the latest technology on reasonable terms. Any delays or the termination or disruption in these relationships as a result of contractual disagreements, operational or financial failures on the part of our vendors and suppliers, or other adverse events that prevent such vendors and suppliers from providing the equipment or services we need, with the level of quality we require, in a timely manner and at reasonable prices, could result in significant costs to us and have a negative effect on our ability to provide services and rollout advanced services. Our ability to replace such vendors and suppliers may be limited and, as a result, our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity could be materially adversely affected.

Cyber security risks, data loss or other breaches of our network security could materially harm our business and results of operations, and the processing, storage, use and disclosure of personal or sensitive information could give rise to liabilities and additional costs as a result of governmental regulation, litigation and conflicting legal requirements relating to personal privacy rights.

Network and information systems technologies are critical to our operating activities, both for our internal uses, such as network management and supplying services to our customers, including customer service operations and programming delivery. Network or information system shutdowns or other service disruptions caused by events such as computer hacking, phishing, dissemination of computer viruses, worms and other destructive or disruptive software, “cyber-attacks,” process breakdowns, denial of service attacks and other malicious activity pose increasing risks. Both unsuccessful and successful “cyber-attacks” on companies have continued to increase in frequency,

 

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scope and potential harm in recent years. While we develop and maintain systems seeking to prevent systems-related events and security breaches from occurring, the development and maintenance of these systems is costly and requires ongoing monitoring and updating as techniques used in such attacks become more sophisticated and change frequently. We, and the third parties on which we rely, may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventive measures. While from time to time attempts have been made to access our network, these attempts have not as yet resulted in any material release of information, degradation or disruption to our network and information systems.

Our network and information systems are also vulnerable to damage or interruption from power outages, telecommunications failures, accidents, natural disasters (including extreme weather arising from short-term or any long-term changes in weather patterns), terrorist attacks and similar events. Our system redundancy may be ineffective or inadequate, and our disaster recovery planning may not be sufficient for all eventualities.

Any of these events, if directed at, or experienced by, us or technologies upon which we depend, could have adverse consequences on our network, our customers and our business, including degradation of service, service disruption, excessive call volume to call centers and damage to our or our customers’ equipment and data. Large expenditures may be necessary to repair or replace damaged property, networks or information systems or to protect them from similar events in the future. Moreover, the amount and scope of insurance that we maintain against losses resulting from any such events or security breaches may not be sufficient to cover our losses or otherwise adequately compensate us for any disruptions to our business that may result. Any such significant service disruption could result in damage to our reputation and credibility, customer dissatisfaction and ultimately a loss of customers or revenue. Any significant loss of customers or revenue, or significant increase in costs of serving those customers, could adversely affect our growth, financial condition and results of operations.

Furthermore, our operating activities could be subject to risks caused by misappropriation, misuse, leakage, falsification or accidental release or loss of information maintained in our information technology systems and networks and those of our third-party vendors, including customer, personnel and vendor data. We provide certain confidential, proprietary and personal information to third parties in connection with our business, and there is a risk that this information may be compromised.

We process, store and transmit large amounts of data, including the personal information of our customers. Ongoing increases in the potential for misuse of personal information, the public’s awareness of the importance of safeguarding personal information, and the volume of legislation that has been adopted or is being considered regarding the protection, privacy and security of personal information have resulted in increases to our information-related risks. We could be exposed to significant costs if such risks were to materialize, and such events could damage our reputation, credibility and business and have a negative impact on our revenue. We could be subject to regulatory actions and claims made by consumers in private litigations involving privacy issues related to consumer data collection and use practices. We also could be required to expend significant capital and other resources to remedy any such security breach.

If we experience a significant data security breach or fail to detect and appropriately respond to a significant data security breach, our results of operations and reputation could suffer.

In the ordinary course of our business, we electronically maintain confidential, proprietary and personal information in our information technology systems and networks and those of third-party vendors, including customer, personnel and vendor data. These systems may be targets of attack by cyber criminals or other wrongdoers seeking to steal such information for financial gain or to harm our business operations or reputation. The loss, misuse, compromise, leakage, falsification or accidental release of such information has resulted, and may in the future result, in costly investigations, remediation efforts and notification to affected consumers, personnel and/or vendors. Cyber-attacks may in the future consume internal resources, and they could also adversely affect our operating results and result in government investigations, fines and penalties, litigation or potential liability for us and otherwise harm our business.

Various federal, state and international laws and regulations govern the collection, use, retention, sharing and security of consumer data and sensitive personal information that could be used to commit identity theft. This area of the law is evolving, and interpretations of applicable laws and regulations differ. Legislative and regulatory activity in the privacy area may result in new laws that are relevant to our operations, for example, use of consumer

 

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data for marketing or advertising. Claims of failure to comply with our privacy policies or applicable laws or regulations could form the basis of governmental or private-party actions against us. Such claims and actions may cause damage to our reputation and could have an adverse effect on our business.

We also are subject to stringent data security and data retention requirements that apply to website operators and online services directed to children under 13 years of age, or that knowingly collect or post personal information from children under 13 years of age. Other privacy-oriented laws have been extended by courts to online video providers and are increasingly being used in privacy lawsuits, including class actions, against providers of video materials online. Most states have security breach notification laws that generally require a business to give notice to consumers and government agencies when certain information has been disclosed due to a security breach, and the FCC has adopted security breach rules for voice services. Several states have also enacted general data security requirements to safeguard consumer information, including the proper disposal of consumer information. We cannot predict whether, when or to what extent these obligations may impose costs on or otherwise adversely affect our business.

Our fraud detection processes and information security systems may not successfully detect all fraudulent activity by third parties aimed at our employees or customers, which could adversely affect our reputation and business results.

Third-party actors have attempted in the past, and may attempt in the future, to conduct fraudulent activity by engaging with our customers. Though we have sophisticated fraud detection processes and have taken other measures to identify fraudulent activity on our mobile applications, websites and internal systems, we may not be able to detect and prevent all such activity. Similarly, the third parties we use to effectuate these transactions may fail to maintain adequate controls or systems to detect and prevent fraudulent activity. Persistent or pervasive fraudulent activity may cause customers and partners to lose trust in us and decrease or terminate their usage of our products, or could result in financial loss, thereby harming our business and results of operations.

We may fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights or may be accused of infringing upon intellectual property rights of third parties.

We rely on our patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as licenses and other agreements with our vendors and other parties, to use our technologies, conduct our operations and sell our products and services. Our intellectual property rights may be challenged and invalidated by third parties and may not be strong enough to provide meaningful commercial competitive advantage. Third parties have in the past, and may in the future, assert claims or initiate litigation related to exclusive patent, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights to technologies and related standards that are relevant to us. Because of the existence of a large number of patents in the networking field, the secrecy of some pending patents and the rapid rate of issuance of new patents, we believe it is not possible to determine in advance whether a product or any of its components infringes or will infringe on the patent rights of others. Asserted claims and/or initiated litigation can include claims against us or our manufacturers, suppliers or customers, alleging infringement of their proprietary rights with respect to our existing or future products and/or services or components of those products and/or services.

Regardless of the merit of these claims, they can be time-consuming, result in costly litigation and diversion of technical and management personnel, or require us to modify our business, develop a non-infringing technology, be enjoined from use of certain intellectual property, use alternate technology or enter into license and royalty agreements. There can be no assurance that licenses will be available on acceptable terms and conditions, if at all, or that our indemnification by our suppliers will be adequate to cover our costs if a claim were brought directly against us or our customers. Furthermore, because of the potential for high court awards that are not necessarily predictable, it is not unusual to find even arguably unmeritorious claims settled for significant amounts. If any infringement or other intellectual property claim made against us by any third party is successful, if we are required to indemnify a customer with respect to a claim against the customer, or if we fail to modify our business, develop non-infringing technology, use alternate technology or license the proprietary rights on commercially reasonable terms and conditions, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

 

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Intellectual property and proprietary rights of others could prevent us from using necessary technology to provide our services or subject us to expensive intellectual property litigation.

We have in the past received claims from third parties alleging that our network technology infrastructure infringes the intellectual property rights of others. We may continue to be subject to similar claims as they relate to our business. Addressing these claims is a time-consuming and expensive endeavor, regardless of the merits of the claims. In order to resolve such a claim, we could determine the need to change our method of doing business, enter into a licensing agreement or incur substantial monetary liability. It is also possible that our business could be enjoined from using the intellectual property at issue, causing us to significantly alter our operations. If any such claims are successful, then the outcome would likely affect our services utilizing the intellectual property at issue and could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.

Risks Related to Our Financial Reporting

Our management has limited experience in operating a public company.

Our executive officers have some, but relatively limited experience in the management of a publicly traded company. Our management team may not successfully or effectively manage our transition to a public company that will be subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under federal securities laws. Their limited experience in dealing with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies could be a significant disadvantage in that it is likely that an increasing amount of their time may be devoted to these activities which will result in less time being devoted to the management and growth of the post-combination company. We may not have adequate personnel with the appropriate level of knowledge, experience and training in the accounting policies, practices or internal control over financial reporting required of public companies. Our management will need to continually assess our staffing and training procedures to improve our internal control over financial reporting. Further, the development, implementation, documentation and assessment of appropriate processes, in addition to the need to remediate any potential deficiencies, will require substantial time and attention from management. The development and implementation of the standards and controls necessary for us to achieve the level of accounting standards required of a public company may require costs greater than expected. It is possible that we will be required to expand our employee base and hire additional employees to support our operations as a public company which will increase its operating costs in future periods.

We rely on assumptions, estimates and business data to calculate our key performance indicators and other business metrics, and real or perceived inaccuracies in these metrics may harm our reputation and negatively affect our business.

We use tools and manual processes to determine the households covered and households that are serviceable by our deployed network, and the related amount of capital expenditure necessary to cover the target households and provide service to the projected subscribers. This analysis involves estimates in some circumstances that, if inaccurate could affect the profitability of deployed network assets because they may provide service to fewer households than anticipated or require more capital expenditures than expected. Inaccuracies in network design may also result in fewer subscribers overall, and associated lower financial performance indicators. Our forward projections are based on an analysis of the total addressable market and include estimates on the amount of network coverage, network serviceability and subscriber penetration and churn rates that we may achieve. They also include estimates on the average revenue per user over time. Combined, inaccuracies in this data can affect our subscribers, revenue and associated financial metrics.

Our results of operations and financial condition are subject to management’s accounting judgments and estimates, as well as changes in accounting policies.

The preparation of our financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions affecting the reported amounts of our assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. If these estimates or assumptions are incorrect, it could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. Generally accepted accounting principles in the United States are subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the SEC and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in these principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results, and could affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement of a change.


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We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting and may identify additional material weaknesses in the future or fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, which may result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our periodic reporting obligations.

We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The material weaknesses relate to (i) the lack of maintaining a sufficient complement of accounting and financial reporting resources commensurate with our financial reporting requirements, (ii) the lack of maintaining an effective risk assessment process, which led to improperly designed controls, (iii) the lack of maintaining appropriate control activities to support the appropriate segregation of duties over the review of account reconciliations, manual journal entries and rights over access administrative controls and (iv) the failure to document, thoroughly communicate and monitor control processes and relevant accounting policies and procedures.

We have engaged a third-party consultant to assist us in the process of designing and implementing measures to improve our internal control over financial reporting to remediate these material weaknesses. Our remediation efforts are focused on (i) hiring of personnel with technical accounting and financial reporting experience; (ii) implementation of improved accounting and financial reporting processes; and (iii) implementation of systems to improve the completeness, timeliness and accuracy of our financial reporting. We believe the measures described above should remediate the material weaknesses identified and strengthen our internal control over financial reporting. The remediation initiatives outlined above are estimated to take place over the next 12 to 18 months. While we continue the challenging and costly process to implement our plan to remediate the material weaknesses, we cannot predict the success of such plan or the outcome of our assessment of this plan until the remediation initiatives have been completed and have been operating effectively for a sufficient period of time. We can give no assurance that these measures will remediate the deficiencies in internal control or that additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting will not be identified in the future. Our failure to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could result in errors in our financial statements that may lead to a restatement of our financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations.

As a public company, we will be required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting for future annual reports on Form 10-K to be filed with the SEC. This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting. Our independent registered public accounting firm will also be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in future annual reports report on Form 10-K to be filed with the SEC. We will be required to disclose changes made in our internal controls and procedures on a quarterly basis. Failure to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could potentially subject us to sanctions or investigations by the SEC, the applicable stock exchange or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources. We have begun the process of compiling the system and processing documentation necessary to perform the evaluation needed to comply with Section 404 in the future, but we may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion.

We are currently an “emerging growth company” and a “smaller reporting company” under the Securities Act, and to the extent we have taken advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available to emerging growth companies or smaller reporting companies, this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public companies.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including, but not limited to, not being required to


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comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in their periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a registration statement under the Securities Act declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparability of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

Additionally, we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K. Smaller reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years of audited financial statements. We will remain a smaller reporting company until the last day of the fiscal year in which either (a)(i) the market value of the shares of our Class A Common Stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $250 million as of the prior June 30, and (ii) our annual revenue exceeded $100 million during such completed fiscal year, or (b) the market value of the shares of our Class A Common Stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30. To the extent we take advantage of such reduced disclosure obligations, it may also make comparison of our financial statements with other public companies difficult or impossible

Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be limited.

We have incurred net losses since our inception and we may never achieve or sustain profitability. Generally, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, net operating losses incurred will carry forward. Net operating loss carryforwards generated prior to January 1, 2018, however, are subject to expiration for U.S. federal income tax purposes. As of December 31, 2021, we had federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $485.1 million, of which $49.5 million will begin to expire in 2034 and $435.6 million can be carried forward indefinitely. As of December 31, 2021, we had a total state net operating loss carryforward of $488.8 million, which will begin to expire in 2034.

Under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50% change by value in its equity ownership by certain shareholders over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-ownership change net operating loss carryforwards and other pre-ownership change tax attributes to offset its post-ownership change income or taxes may be limited. Similar provisions of state tax law may also apply to limit the use of our state net operating loss carryforwards and other state tax attributes. We have not performed an analysis to determine whether our past issuances of equity and other changes in our ownership may have resulted in one or more ownership changes. If it is determined that we have in the past experienced an ownership change, or if we undergo one or more ownership changes as a result of the transactions contemplated in connection with the Business Combination or future transactions in our stock, which may be outside our control, then our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be materially limited. As a result, even if we earn taxable income, we may be unable to use a material portion of our net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes, which could adversely affect our future cash flows. There is also a risk that regulatory changes, such as suspensions on the use of net operating losses or other unforeseen reasons, may result in our existing net operating loss carryforwards expiring or otherwise becoming unavailable to offset future taxable income. For these reasons, we may not be able to use a material portion of our net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes even if we attain profitability.


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Risks Related to Our Liquidity and Capital Resources

We may need additional capital to pursue our business objectives and respond to business opportunities, challenges or unforeseen circumstances, and we cannot be sure that additional financing will be available.

Our business is capital intensive. Operating and maintaining our network requires significant amounts of cash payments to third parties. Capital expenditures were $68.9 million and $35.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and primarily included payments for customer premise equipment, network infrastructure, support and other costs.

The amount of capital raised through the Business Combination may not be enough to fund our anticipated network expansion and customer acquisition costs. As a result, we may be required to raise additional equity or debt capital, which we may not be able to do on favorable terms or at all. If we raise additional equity capital it would dilute the ownership of our existing shareholders. If we raise additional debt capital it may place significant restrictions on our ability to operate in the manner we would like and require on-going interest payments that could place a strain on our liquidity. We expect our future capital expenditures to continue to be significant as we further expand our network and enhance our service offerings. We may have substantial future capital commitments in the form of long-term contracts that require substantial payments over a period of time. In the longer term, our ability to fund our operations, make planned capital expenditures, make scheduled payments on our indebtedness and repay our indebtedness (to the extent any remains) depends on our future operating performance and cash flows and our ability to access the capital markets, which, in turn, are subject to prevailing economic conditions and to financial, business and other factors, some of which are beyond our control. Competition, market disruptions or deterioration in economic conditions could lead to lower demand for our products, as well as lower levels of advertising, and increased incidence of customers’ inability to pay for the services we provide. These events would adversely impact our results of operations, cash flows and financial position. As such, we may not be able to generate sufficient cash internally to fund anticipated capital expenditures, make ongoing interest payments and repay our indebtedness at maturity. Accordingly, we may have to do one or more of the following:

 

   

refinance existing obligations to extend maturities;

 

   

raise additional capital, through bank loans, debt or equity issuances or a combination thereof;

 

   

cancel or scale back current and future spending programs; or

 

   

sell assets or interests in one or more of our businesses.

However, we may not be able to refinance existing obligations or raise any required additional capital on terms acceptable to us or at all. Borrowing costs related to future capital raising activities may be significantly higher than our current borrowing costs and we may not be able to raise additional capital on favorable terms, or at all, if financial markets experience volatility. If we are unable to pursue our current and future spending programs, we may be forced to cancel or scale back those programs. Our choice of which spending programs to cancel or reduce may be limited. Failure to successfully pursue our capital expenditure and other spending plans could materially and adversely affect our ability to compete effectively. It is possible that in the future we may also engage in extraordinary transactions and such transactions could result in the incurrence of substantial additional indebtedness.

For the year ended December 31, 2021, our independent registered public accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph relating to our ability to continue as a going concern in its report on our audited financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and there can be no guarantee that we will continue as a going concern absent the ability to raise additional capital within the next 12 months.

The report from our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended December 31, 2021 includes an explanatory paragraph stating that our losses and negative cash flows from operating activities since inception and the fact that we may be unable to remain in compliance with certain financial covenants required by our Credit Agreement, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty. If we are unable to obtain sufficient funding, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations will be materially and adversely affected and we may be


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unable to continue as a going concern. If we are unable to continue as a going concern, we may have to liquidate our assets and may receive less than the value at which those assets are carried on our audited financial statements, and it is likely that investors would lose part or all of their investment. Future reports from our independent registered public accounting firm may also contain statements expressing substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. If there remains substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, investors or other financing sources may be unwilling to provide additional funding to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, and our business may be harmed.

The Starry Credit Agreement contains restrictive and financial covenants that may limit our operating flexibility.

The Starry Credit Agreement contains certain restrictive covenants that either limit our ability to, or require a mandatory prepayment in the event we, among other things, incur additional indebtedness, issue guarantees, create liens on assets, make certain investments, merge with or acquire other companies, change business activities, pay dividends or make certain other restricted payments, transfer or dispose of assets, enter into transactions with affiliates and enter into various specified transactions. The Starry Credit Agreement also contains a financial covenant that requires us to maintain a minimum cash balance of $15 million at all times and certain financial reporting requirements. Our obligations under the Starry Credit Agreement are secured by all of our assets, with certain exceptions. We may not be able to generate sufficient liquidity or revenue to meet the financial covenant or pay the principal and interest when due. Furthermore, future working capital, borrowings or equity financing could be unavailable to repay or refinance the amounts outstanding under the Starry Credit Agreement. In the event of a liquidation, all outstanding principal and interest would have to be repaid prior to distribution of assets to unsecured creditors, and the holders of our Class A Common Stock.

If we are unable to comply with the restrictive and financial covenants in the Starry Credit Agreement, there would be a default under the terms of that agreement, and this could result in an acceleration of payment of funds that have been borrowed.

If we were unable to comply with the restrictive and financial covenants in the Starry Credit Agreement, there would be a default under the terms of that agreement. As a result, any borrowings under other instruments that contain cross-acceleration or cross default provisions may also be accelerated and become due and payable. If any of these events occur, there can be no assurance that we would be able to make necessary payments to the lenders or that we would be able to find alternative financing. Even if we were able to obtain alternative financing, there can be no assurance that it would be on terms that are acceptable.

Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities

The price of our securities may be volatile.

The market price of our Class A Common Stock and warrants may fluctuate significantly, depending on many factors, some of which may be beyond our control, including:

 

   

actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results due to factors related to our business;

 

   

failure to meet or exceed financial estimates and projections of the investment community or that we provide to the public;

 

   

the failure of securities analysts to cover, or maintain coverage of, our Class A Common Stock;

 

   

issuance of new or updated research or reports by securities analysts or changed recommendations for the industry in general;

 

   

operating and share price performance of other companies in the industry or related markets;

 

   

the timing and magnitude of investments in the growth of the business;

 

   

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our ability to obtain financing as needed;

 

   

announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, dispositions or strategic investments;

 

   

additions or departures of our key management or other personnel;

 

   

sales of substantial amounts of our common stock by our directors, executive officers or significant stockholders or the perception that such sales could occur;

 

   

changes in capital structure, including future issuances of securities or the incurrence of deb

 

   

changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles;

 

   

investor perception of us and our industry;

 

   

overall market fluctuations;

 

   

results from any material litigation or government investigation;

 

   

changes in laws and regulations (including tax laws and regulations) affecting our business;

 

   

changes in capital gains taxes and taxes on dividends affecting stockholders; and

 

   

general economic conditions and other external factors.

Low trading volume for our Class A Common Stock, which may occur if an active trading market is not sustained, among other reasons, would amplify the effect of the above factors on our stock price volatility.

Stock markets in general can experience volatility that is unrelated to the operating performance of a particular company. These broad market fluctuations could adversely affect the trading price of our Class A Common Stock and our warrants.

An active, liquid trading market for our securities may not develop or be sustained.

There can be no assurance that an active trading market for our Class A Common Stock and warrants will develop, or, if such a market develops, that we will be able to maintain an active trading market for those securities on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) or any other exchange in the future. If an active market for our securities does not develop or is not maintained, or if we fail to satisfy the continued listing standards of the NYSE for any reason and our securities are delisted, it may be difficult for our securityholders to sell their securities without depressing the market price for the securities or at all. An inactive trading market may also impair our ability to both raise capital by selling shares of capital stock, attract and motivate employees through equity incentive awards and acquire other companies, products or technologies by using shares of capital stock as consideration.

We do not intend to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future.

The timing, declaration, amount and payment of future dividends to stockholders falls within the discretion of our board of directors (the “Board”). Our Board’s decisions regarding the amount and payment of future dividends will depend on many factors, including our financial condition, earnings, capital requirements of our business and covenants associated with debt obligations, as well as legal requirements, regulatory constraints, industry practice and other factors that our Board deems relevant. There can be no assurance that we will continue to pay any dividend in the future.


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Future resales of our Class A Common Stock may cause the market price of our securities to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.

Subject to certain exceptions, FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC (the “Sponsor”), those receiving our Class A Common Stock as consideration pursuant to the Merger Agreement and our directors, officers and employees receiving our Class A Common Stock upon the settlement or exercise of warrants, stock options or other equity awards outstanding immediately following the closing of the Business Combination, will be restricted from selling or transferring any of their respective shares of our Class A Common Stock (not including the shares of our Class A Common Stock issued in the sale of the PIPE Shares pursuant to the terms of their respective subscription agreements). In the case of the shares that are restricted pursuant to our bylaws, such restrictions end on the date that is 180 days after the closing of the Business Combination. In the case of the shares restricted pursuant to the sponsor support agreement, by and among FirstMark, the holders of FirstMark’s Class B common stock (the “Initial Stockholders”), Starry and Starry Group, dated as of October 6, 2021 (the “Sponsor Support Agreement”), each Initial Stockholder agreed that such Initial Stockholder shall not transfer any shares of our common stock during the period commencing immediately after the Acquisition Merger Effective Date and ending upon the earlier to occur of (x) 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the date that is 12 months after (and excluding) the Acquisition Merger Effective Date and (y) the occurrence of an Earnout Triggering Event (as defined therein) without our prior written consent, subject to certain permitted transfers as provided in the Sponsor Support Agreement.

However, following the expiration of the applicable lock-up period, such equity holders will not be restricted from selling shares of our Class A Common Stock held by them, other than by applicable securities laws. Additionally, the purchasers of the PIPE Shares will not be restricted from selling any of their shares of our Class A Common Stock, other than by applicable securities laws. As such, sales of a substantial number of shares of our Class A Common Stock in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of our Class A Common Stock. As restrictions on resale end and registration statements (to provide for the resale of such shares from time to time) are available for use, the sale or possibility of sale of these shares could have the effect of increasing the volatility in the market price of our Class A Common Stock, and the market price of our Class A Common Stock could decline if the holders of currently restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them.

The provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation requiring exclusive forum in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the United States for certain types of lawsuits may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against our directors and officers.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, and unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, in the event that the Chancery Court does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware or other state courts of the State of Delaware) and any appellate court thereof will be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action, suit or proceeding brought on behalf of us, (ii) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer, stockholder or employee of ours to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action, suit or proceeding arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended (the “DGCL”) or our bylaws or certificate of incorporation (as each may be amended from time to time), (iv) any action, suit or proceeding as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or (v) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim against us or any current or former director, officer or stockholder governed by the internal affairs doctrine.

Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Accordingly, both state and federal courts have jurisdiction to entertain such Securities Act claims. To prevent having to litigate claims in multiple jurisdictions and the threat of inconsistent or contrary rulings by different courts, among other considerations, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act; however, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce such provision, and investors cannot waive compliance with federal securities laws and the rules and regulations


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thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the exclusive forum provision will not apply to suits brought to enforce any cause of action arising under the Securities Act, any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

These provisions may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against our directors and officers. The enforceability of similar choice of forum provisions in other companies’ certificates of incorporation has been challenged in legal proceedings, and it is possible that, in connection with any applicable action brought against us, a court could find the choice of forum provisions contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in such action.

We cannot predict the impact our multi-class structure may have on the stock price of our Class A Common Stock.

We cannot predict whether our multi-class structure will result in a lower or more volatile market price of our Class A Common Stock or in adverse publicity or other adverse consequences. For example, certain index providers have announced restrictions on including companies with multiple-class share structures in certain of their indexes. S&P Dow Jones and FTSE Russell have announced changes to their eligibility criteria for inclusion of shares of public companies on certain indices, including the S&P 500, pursuant to which companies with multiple classes of shares of common stock are excluded. In addition, several stockholder advisory firms have announced their opposition to the use of multiple class structures. As a result, the multi-class structure of our common stock may cause stockholder advisory firms to publish negative commentary about our corporate governance practices or otherwise seek to cause us to change our capital structure. Any such exclusion from indices or any actions or publications by stockholder advisory firms critical of our corporate governance practices or capital structure could adversely affect the value and trading market of our Class A Common Stock.

Our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer controls a significant percentage of our voting power and will be able to exert significant control over the direction of our business.

Immediately following the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, Chaitanya Kanojia, our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer held shares of our Class A Common Stock that will entitle him to one vote per share and shares of our Class X Common Stock that will entitle him to 20 votes per share of our Class X Common Stock until a sunset date. Immediately following the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, he beneficially owned shares representing approximately 58.1% of the voting power of our common stock despite holding only approximately 13.8% of our total common stock.

Accordingly, for so long as Mr. Kanojia continues to control a significant percentage of the voting power of our common stock, he will be able to significantly influence the composition of our Board and management and the approval of actions requiring stockholder approval. The concentration of ownership could also deprive you of an opportunity to receive a premium for your shares of our Class A Common Stock as part of a sale of us and ultimately might affect the market price of our Class A Common Stock.

Because we will be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NYSE rules, our stockholders may not have certain corporate governance protections that are available to stockholders of companies that are not controlled companies.

So long as more than 50% of the voting power for the election of our directors is held by an individual, a group or another company, we will qualify as a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NYSE corporate governance standards. Immediately following the completion of the Business Combination, Chaitanya Kanojia controlled more than 50% of the voting power of our common stock. As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NYSE corporate governance standards and are not subject to the requirements of the applicable exchange that would otherwise require us to have: (i) a majority of independent directors; (ii) a compensation committee comprised solely of independent directors; (iii) a nominating committee comprised solely of independent directors; and (iv) director nominees selected, or recommended for our Board’s selection, by the


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nominating committee. To the extent we rely on any of these exemptions, holders of our Class A Common Stock will not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of the NYSE. Mr. Kanojia may have his interest in us diluted due to future equity issuances or his own actions in selling shares of our common stock, in each case, which could result in a loss of the “controlled company” exemption under the NYSE listing rules. We would then be required to comply with those provisions of the NYSE listing requirements.

Delaware law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain certain provisions, including anti-takeover provisions that limit the ability of stockholders to take certain actions and could delay or discourage takeover attempts that stockholders may consider favorable.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and the DGCL, contain provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult, delaying or preventing an acquisition that stockholders may consider favorable, including transactions in which stockholders might otherwise receive a premium for their shares. These provisions could also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our Class A Common Stock, and therefore depress the trading price. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to take certain actions, including electing directors who are not nominated by the incumbent members of our Board or taking other corporate actions, including effecting changes in our management. Among other things, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws include provisions that:

 

   

authorize our Class X Common Stock that will entitle Chaitanya Kanojia, our Chief Executive Officer and founder, to 20 votes per share of such stock until the Sunset Date (as defined in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation);

 

   

provide or a classified board of directors with staggered, three-year terms;

 

   

permit our Board to issue shares of preferred stock, including “blank check” preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquire;

 

   

prohibit cumulative voting in the election of directors, which limits the ability of minority stockholders to elect director candidates;

 

   

limit the liability of, and provide for the indemnification of, our directors and officers;

 

   

permit our Board to amend our bylaws, which may allow our Board to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend our bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt;

 

   

require a supermajority vote of stockholders to amend certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and a supermajority vote of stockholders in order to amend our bylaws;

 

   

limit our ability to engage in business combinations with certain interested stockholders without certain approvals; and

 

   

mandate advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply in order to nominate candidates to our Board or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which could preclude stockholders from bringing matters before annual or special meetings of stockholders and delay changes in our Board and also may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of our company.

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If analysts do not publish research about our business or if they publish inaccurate or unfavorable research, the price and trading volume of our securities could decline.

The trading market for our securities depends in part on the research and reports that analysts publish about our business. We do not have any control over these analysts, and the analysts who publish information about us may have relatively little experience with us or our industry, which could affect their ability to accurately forecast our results and could make it more likely that we fail to meet their estimates. If few or no securities or industry analysts cover us, the trading price for our securities would be negatively impacted. If one or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our securities, publishes incorrect or unfavorable research about us, ceases coverage of us, or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for and visibility of our securities could decrease, which could cause the price or trading volumes of our securities to decline.

We may be subject to securities class action litigation, which may harm our business and operating results.

Companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have been subject to securities class action litigation. We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future. Securities litigation against us could result in substantial costs and damages and divert our management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.

We may also be called on to defend ourselves against lawsuits relating to our business operations. Some of these claims may seek significant damages amounts. Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation, the ultimate outcome of any such proceedings cannot be accurately predicted. A future unfavorable outcome in a legal proceeding could have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, current and future litigation, regardless of its merits, could result in substantial legal fees, settlements or judgment costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources that are needed to successfully run our business.

We may redeem unexpired Public Warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making such warrants worthless.

We have the ability to redeem outstanding warrants to purchase shares of our Class A Common Stock (the “Public Warrants”) at any time after they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant; provided that the last sale price of our Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalizations, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) on each of 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which notice of such redemption is given. We will not redeem the Public Warrants unless an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering our Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants is effective and a current proxy statement/prospectus relating to those Class A Common Stock is available throughout the 30-day redemption period, except if the Public Warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis and such cashless exercise is exempt from registration under the Securities Act. If and when the Public Warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws. Redemption of the outstanding Public Warrants could force holders thereof to (i) exercise Public Warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for such holder to do so, (ii) sell Public Warrants at the then-current market price when such holder might otherwise wish to hold Public Warrants or (iii) accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding Public Warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially less than the market value of such Public Warrants. None of the private placement warrants will be redeemable by us so long as they are held by their initial purchasers or their permitted transferees.

In addition, we may redeem warrants after they become exercisable for a number of our Class A Common Stock determined based on the redemption date and the fair market value of our Class A Common Stock. Any such redemption may have similar consequences to a cash redemption described above. In addition, such redemption may occur at a time when the warrants are “out-of-the-money,” in which case holders thereof would lose any potential embedded value from a subsequent increase in the value of our Class A Common Stock had such warrants remained outstanding.


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The Public Warrants may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A Common Stock.

FirstMark issued 13,800,000 Public Warrants as part of the units offered in the IPO and, simultaneously with the closing of the IPO, FirstMark issued in a private placement an aggregate of 6,853,333 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of our Class A Common Stock at $11.50 per share. Such warrants, when exercised, will increase the number of issued and outstanding shares of our Class A Common Stock, reduce the value of our existing Class A Common Stock, result in dilution to our stockholders and increase the number of shares of Class A Common Stock eligible for resale in the public market. Sales of substantial numbers of such shares in the public market or the fact that such warrants may be exercised could adversely affect the market price of our Class A Common Stock.


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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES.

We lease 20,620 square feet of office space at our corporate headquarters in Boston, MA. We lease an additional 14,184 square feet of space in Boston, MA and 11,784 square feet of space in Lowell, MA used for manufacturing, warehousing and operations management. We also lease office and warehouse space for our local market teams in New York, NY (10,933 square feet); Secaucus, NJ (13,703 square feet); Arlington, VA (8,513 square feet); Columbus, OH (11,984 square feet); Centennial, CO (11,935 square feet); and Los Angeles, CA (10,700 square feet). We believe that our facilities are adequate to meet our needs for the immediate future, and that, should it be needed, suitable additional space will be available to accommodate any such expansion of our operations.

 

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

From time to time, we may become involved in legal or regulatory proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business, including intellectual property claims and commercial contract disputes. In addition, with respect to employees and others, we face and could in the future face a wide variety of claims, including discrimination (for example, based on gender, age, race or religious affiliation), sexual harassment, privacy, labor and employment, ERISA and disability claims. Often these cases raise complex factual and legal issues, which are subject to risks and uncertainties and could require significant management time and corporate resources to defend, could result in significant media coverage and negative publicity, and could be harmful to our reputation and our brand. Although the outcome of these and other claims cannot be predicted with certainty, we are not currently a party to any litigation or regulatory proceeding that we expect to have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial conditions or cash flows.

 

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.

Not Applicable.

 

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

Market Information

On March 29, 2022, our Class A common stock and warrants began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “STRY” and “STRY WS,” respectively. Prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, the Class A Common Stock, warrants and units of FirstMark, the public blank check company with which we merged in the Business Combination, were listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “FMAC”, “FMAC WS” and “FMAC.U,” respectively. There is no trading market for shares of our Class X Common Stock.

Holders

As of March 29, 2022, there were 361 holders of record of our Class A common stock and one holder of Class X common stock. The actual number of stockholders of our Class A common stock is greater than the number of record holders and includes stockholders whose Class A Common Stock or are held in street name by brokers and other nominees.

Dividend Policy

We have not paid any cash dividends on shares of our Class A common stock to date. The payment of cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition. The payment of any dividends will be within the discretion of our board of directors.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

On March 29, 2022, in conjunction with the Business Combination, the Company consummated the sale of 14,533,334 shares (the “PIPE Shares”) of Class A common stock to certain accredited investors pursuant to subscription agreements entered into on October 6, 2021 in conjunction with the Merger Agreement. The PIPE Shares were sold at a price of $7.50 per share and an aggregate purchase price of $109.0 million.

Also on March 29, 2022, in conjunction with the Business Combination, the Company consummated the sale of 4,133,333 shares (the “Series Z Shares”) of Series Z Preferred Stock to certain accredited investors affiliated with the Sponsor, pursuant to a subscription agreement entered into on October 6, 2021 in conjunction with the Merger Agreement and an additional subscription agreement entered into on March 25, 2022. The Series Z Shares were sold at a price of $7.50 per share and an aggregate purchase price of $31.0 million. The Series Z Shares were sold following the SPAC Merger and immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger. Upon the Acquisition Merger, each share of the then-outstanding Series Z Preferred Stock converted automatically into the right to receive shares of our Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis.

We issued the PIPE Shares and the Series Z Shares under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, as a transaction not requiring registration under Section 5 of the Securities Act. The parties receiving the securities represented their intentions to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution, and appropriate restrictive legends were affixed to the certificates representing the securities (or reflected in restricted book entry with our transfer agent). The parties also had adequate access, through business or other relationships, to information about the Company.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current plans, expectations and beliefs involving risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” and other factors set forth in other parts of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. A discussion of the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the year ended December 31, 2019 has been reported previously in our final prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) (File No. 333-260847), filed with the SEC on February 15, 2022, under the heading “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of Starry.”

Overview

We have developed a unique and innovative solution to provide last mile fixed broadband using a proprietary fixed wireless technology stack operating in licensed spectrum. We design and build our own fixed wireless equipment, cloud-based network control plane and billing and operations support systems to run our network and provide our service. We deploy this technology across a variety of markets to provide a robust and competitively-priced broadband service to customers. The integration of our own technology and service delivery allows us to efficiently deploy new competitive broadband networks to connect communities across the country.

Since our inception, we have developed the technology, optimized the unit economics, acquired spectrum and deployed our network and acquired subscribers in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Columbus.

Business Combination and Public Company Costs

On October 6, 2021, we entered into the Merger Agreement with FirstMark, Merger Sub and Starry. The Business Combination was consummated whereby: (a) on March 28, 2022, FirstMark merged with and into Starry Group, with Starry Group surviving the SPAC Merger as a publicly traded entity and became the sole owner of Merger Sub, and (b) on March 29, 2022, Merger Sub merged with and into Starry, with Starry surviving the Acquisition Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry Group.

Notwithstanding the legal form of the Business Combination pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Business Combination is expected to be accounted for as a reverse recapitalization in accordance with the United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Under this method of accounting, FirstMark is treated as the acquired company and Starry is treated as the accounting acquirer and the Business Combination is treated as the equivalent of Starry issuing stock for the net assets of FirstMark, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of FirstMark are stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded. The financial statements of the combined entity represent the continuation of the consolidated financial statements of Starry in many respects and the financial statements of the combined entity represent the continuation of the consolidated financial statements of Starry in many respects.

The most significant change in our future reported financial position and results are expected to be an estimated increase in cash (as compared to our balance sheet at December 31, 2021) of approximately $155.7 million, including $109.0 million in gross proceeds from the sale of the PIPE Shares and $31.0 million in gross proceeds from the sale of the Series Z Shares consummated substantially simultaneously with the Business Combination. Total direct and incremental transaction costs are estimated at approximately $18.5 million.

As a consequence of the Business Combination, we became an SEC-registered and NYSE-listed company, which has required and will continue to require us to hire additional personnel and implement procedures and processes to address public company regulatory requirements and customary practices. We expect to incur additional annual expenses as a public company for, among other things, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, director fees and additional internal and external accounting, legal and administrative resources, including increased audit and legal fees.

 

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Additionally, we expect both our capital and operating expenditures will increase significantly in connection with our ongoing activities, as we:

 

   

continue to invest in our technology to improve capacity and reduce cost;

 

   

deploy our network technology and capital equipment in additional domestic markets;

 

   

sign up new subscribers;

 

   

hire additional personnel;

 

   

obtain, maintain, expand, and protect our intellectual property and FCC spectrum license portfolio; and

 

   

operate as a public company.

Key Factors Affecting Operating Results

We believe that our performance and future success depend on several factors that present significant opportunities for us but also pose risks and challenges, including those discussed below and in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Network Deployment

We have deployed our fixed wireless network in six markets to date, covering approximately 5.3 million households by the end of the fourth quarter of 2021. The number of markets that we anticipate launching per year is variable and depends on our capital allocation strategy; the competitive environment for internet services nationally, regionally, and locally at a point in time; government obligations, including our obligations under RDOF and any additional subsidy programs in which we might participate; new partnerships and other factors. We anticipate launching our network in one to six or more markets per year over the near to medium term.

The deployment of fixed wireless networks involves installing our base stations on tall vertical assets, which are connected to the internet through backhaul connections to the base stations, routed through a point-of-presence in the market. These networks serve the end customer locations, at which we install a transceiver to receive the signal, and a Wi-Fi router in the premises to deliver the service. We then use these networks to provide service to our customers for a fee. The speed and scale of these deployments impact the universe of customers that we can serve, and therefore our revenues.

In order to effectively manage supply chain to help meet product demand, we had $3.8 million in prepaid inventory as of December 31, 2021.

Customer Demand

We sell a stand-alone broadband product for a flat monthly fee. Broadband demand continues to grow, and broadband plays an essential role in society — it is used for education, work, healthcare, and entertainment. Consumer demand for broadband is incredibly robust, and we expect it to continue to grow into the future. However, to the extent consumer sentiment towards broadband services changes, it would impact our customer penetration and therefore our revenues.

Customer Acquisition

We acquire customers through three primary sales strategies. First, for larger apartment and condominium buildings, we enter into simple access agreements with the building owners or associations, as applicable, giving us permission to install our transceiver and use the buildings’ wiring to provide the service to their residents. Then, we sell the service directly to the residents. We use a variety of marketing techniques for these sales and acquisition efforts, including in person events, email, and traditional mail. Second, for small apartment and condominium buildings and single-family homes we sell the service directly to the consumer through digital marketing channels, email, traditional mail, and outdoor media. We then obtain permission from the resident to install our transceiver at the building or single-family home as part of the account creation process. Third, for apartment and condominium

 

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buildings of various sizes, we enter into bulk billing agreements where the building owner, association, or other third party (e.g., a management company or short-term rental company) purchases the service for a specified number of units at the building and pays us directly for such services. We use a variety of marketing techniques for these sales and acquisition efforts, including in person meetings and email. To the extent that these efforts are unsuccessful, it would impact our customer penetration and therefore our revenues.

Seasonality and Housing Trends

Our customers today are all residential subscribers, and the majority of our customers in the future will continue to be residential subscribers. There are some seasonal trends that affect our customer acquisition activities, and they can vary by market. Examples include markets with larger college and university student populations, which tend to move in and move out of residences within the same time frame. In addition, consumers naturally consider their broadband provider at the time at which they move to a new residence. To the extent that the velocity of moving changes over time, it would impact our subscriber acquisition and revenues.

Incumbent Competition

We compete with several large incumbent fixed wireline providers, which can vary by market. In some instances, we also compete with mobile providers to the extent that an individual consumer considers a mobile service a substitute for a fixed service. We have built our business to allow us to compete effectively with very low penetration rates in any market, and by offering very competitive pricing. In any market, an incumbent provider may engage in promotional activities or price competition, which would impact our subscriber acquisition and revenues.

Basis of Presentation

We conduct business through one operating segment. See “Note 2—Summary of significant accounting policies” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Key Components of Statements of Operations

Revenues

We deliver high speed and competitively priced broadband service and related support on a subscription basis to our customers in the Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Washington, D.C. and Columbus markets using innovative and proprietary wireless technology. Our subscription rate for such services is a per-month fixed price, without data caps or additional fees. Most of our customers are month-to-month individual subscribers who do not have long-term commitments contracts with us, but a small number are building owners or property management companies who have a commercial arrangement with us whereby such customers compensate us directly for providing our internet services in their buildings.

We expect our revenues to continue to increase as we acquire new subscribers in existing markets and new markets we plan to enter, and as we introduce new products and services.

Cost of revenues

Cost of revenues includes, but is not limited to, costs incurred supporting national network service costs, fiber backhaul costs, site rent and utilities, customer care and national operations personnel, freight charges, deployed equipment costs, associated depreciation and vehicle-related expenses among other costs.

We expect our cost of revenues to continue to increase in absolute dollar terms for the foreseeable future as we continue to grow in our existing markets as well as expand into new markets. Historically, approximately 15% of our cost of revenues have been variable costs whereas approximately 85% have been fixed costs. Variable costs include direct costs related to subscriber growth as well as customer care, revenue share payments to building owners and credit card fees. The significant amount of equipment required to be deployed before we add subscribers results in substantial amounts of cost related to depreciation expense. We consider depreciation expense to be a fixed cost. These fixed costs have a significant impact on the minimum amount of revenues required to achieve gross profit, which would have been $79.8 million and $60.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

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Selling, general and administrative expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses primarily consist of personnel costs that include salaries and wages, commissions, payroll taxes, employee benefits, and certain employee expenses along with software and equipment expenses, recruiting expenses, professional fees, depreciation expenses, facilities related expenses, marketing expenses, and other fees.

We expect our selling, general and administrative expenses to increase in absolute dollar terms for the foreseeable future as we scale headcount to keep pace with the growth of our business, and as a result of operating as a public company, that includes the incremental costs associated with SEC compliance, legal, audit, insurance and investor relations activities and other administrative and professional services.

Research and development expenses

Research and development activities help to increase our network capacity over time and further improve our unit economics by reducing the cost of network elements.

Research and development expenses include, but are not limited to, costs incurred in performing engineering and prototype manufacturing activities relating to our products and services, including salaries, benefits, facilities, rent, software, depreciation, research-related overhead expenses, contracted services, license fees, and other external costs. Such expenses are critical to supporting our innovative low-cost hardware and cloud-based software solutions, including increasing capacity and decreasing cost over time.

We expect our research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollar terms for the foreseeable future as we invest in new technologies to achieve our operational and commercial goals of expanding our capacity and lowering costs.

Interest expense

Interest expense consists primarily of interest (both cash and non-cash) incurred on our debt obligations.

Other income (expense), net

Other income (expense), net consists primarily of the fair value adjustments related to our derivative liability and the loss on extinguishment of debt, partially offset by interest income earned on our interest-bearing accounts.

Results of Operations

Comparison for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020

The following table summarizes our results of operations on a consolidated basis for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 (in thousands, except shares):

 

     Years Ended December 31,      $      %  
     2021      2020      Change      Change  

Revenues

   $ 22,263      $ 12,826      $ 9,437        73.6

Cost of revenues

     (58,363      (38,529      (19,834      51.5
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Gross loss

     (36,100      (25,703      (10,397      40.5

Operating expenses:

           

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     (67,129      (55,240      (11,889      21.5

Research and development

     (26,308      (22,957      (3,351      14.6
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     (93,437      (78,197      (15,240      19.5
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (129,537      (103,900      (25,637      24.7

Other income (expense):

           

Interest expense

     (24,739      (19,382      (5,357      27.6

Other income (expense), net

     (12,269      (1,811      (10,458      577.5
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total other expense

     (37,008      (21,193      (15,815      74.6

Net loss

   $ (166,545    $ (125,093    $ (41,452      33.1
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net loss per share of voting and non-voting common stock, basic and diluted

   $ (0.84    $ (0.64    $ (0.20      31.3
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

     198,664,761        194,177,522        4,487,239        2.3
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Revenues

Revenues grew by $9.4 million, or 73.6%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, as a result of an increase in our customer relationships primarily driven by further network expansion in the markets we serve (i.e., an increase in homes serviceable) and increased penetration.

Cost of revenues

Cost of revenues increased by $19.8 million, or 51.5%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily due to increases of $9.7 million in deployed equipment depreciation related to our network expansion, $1.6 million in rental payments related to our base stations and revenue share payments to our building owners, $2.8 million related to headcount growth in customer service and national network operations, $2.4 million in fiber costs, $1.1 million in inventory reserves and write-offs and $0.6 million of incremental expenses related to additional fleet vehicles needed to expand our service capabilities in the markets we serve.

Selling, general and administrative expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $11.9 million, or 21.5%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily driven by increases of $5.9 million in salaries and benefits, $2.3 million in marketing costs, $0.9 million in software subscriptions, $0.7 million in outside consulting professional fees, $0.4 million in employee travel costs, $0.4 million in rent expense, $0.3 million in business insurance and $0.3 million in stock-based compensation expense.

Research and development expenses

Research and development expenses increased by $3.4 million, or 14.6%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily driven by increases of $1.7 million in salaries and benefits, $0.6 million in engineering related costs and $0.4 million in consulting services.

Interest expense

Interest expense increased by $5.4 million, or 27.6%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily driven by an increase in paid-in-kind interest expense of $2.7 million incurred on the Starry Credit Agreement (as defined below) and amortization of debt discounts of $1.1 million and $1.1 million, respectively, related to the beneficial conversion feature associated with the issuance of $31.2 million of the 2020 Notes (as defined below) in September 2020 and the detachable warrants issued with the Starry Credit Agreement. Such increase also included the amortization of deferred financing costs of $0.4 million.

 

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Other income (expense), net

Total other income (expense), net increased by $10.5 million, or 577.5%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020. This increase was primarily driven by the loss on extinguishment of debt and the fair value adjustment of the derivative liability recorded for the accelerated repayment feature on the Term Loans (as defined below). See “Note 4 — Debt” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Net loss

Net loss attributable to our shareholders increased by $41.5 million, or 33.1%, for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to the year ended December 31, 2020, primarily driven by the factors described above.

Key Business Metrics and Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We use the following metrics to evaluate our performance, identify trends, formulate financial projections, and make strategic decisions. We believe that these metrics provide useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our results of operations in the same manner as our management team.

The following table summarizes our key business metrics and non-GAAP financial measures for the periods indicated:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021     2020  

Addressable Households

     9,691,029       9,691,029  

Homes Serviceable

     5,307,453       4,162,009  

Customer Relationships

     63,230       34,495  

Penetration of Homes Serviceable

     1.19     0.83

Revenue (000s)

   $ 22,263     $ 12,826  

Average Revenue Per User (“ARPU”)

   $ 37.97     $ 39.68  

Net Loss (000s)

   $ (166,545   $ (125,093

Adjusted EBITDA (000s)

   $ (98,745   $ (83,590

Addressable Households

Addressable Households are the estimated total number of households within our service territory that we could serve in the markets where we intend to deploy or have deployed a network, assuming the network was fully built and we could serve every household. We calculate the Addressable Households by counting the total households within our spectrum license areas meeting a specified threshold of household density. Addressable Households grows as we begin to execute plans to expand our network in new markets or in new parts of existing markets, and will follow a growth trend as we expand the network. Growth in Addressable Households precedes growth in Homes Serviceable.

Addressable Households remained unchanged from December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2021 because we did not add new markets during such period and continued to expand within the existing markets we serve by deploying incremental network assets.

Homes Serviceable

Homes Serviceable are the estimated households that we could serve using the network that we have deployed in our markets at a given date. This is a subset of the Addressable Households and reflects the size of the network we have deployed as well as the households that we can technologically and commercially serve. Homes Serviceable is a count of all of the households that fall within the coverage area of our deployed network, and will grow as we continue to deploy our network in existing markets and as we deploy in new markets as we expand our Addressable Households.

Homes Serviceable increased by 1.1 million, or 27.5%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 in comparison to the year ended December 31, 2020. Such increase was primarily due to the deployment of incremental network assets within the markets that we serve.

 

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Customer Relationships

Customer Relationships include customers who have signed up for a service and all units that are billed under our bulk billing arrangements where a building owner, association, or other third-party is invoiced for a specific number of units within multiple dwelling unit buildings. Customer Relationships include Starry internet service, currently our only service, and will include unique relationships for small and medium size business service, voice service, and potentially other services in the future.

Customer Relationships increased by 28.7 thousand, or 83.3%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 in comparison to the year ended December 31, 2020. Such increase was primarily due to new customers signing up for our services and additional bulk billing arrangements for such services sold to third parties who manage or own multifamily dwelling unit buildings.

Penetration of Homes Serviceable

Penetration of Homes Serviceable is the ratio of the total number of Customer Relationships to the total number of Homes Serviceable and represents the percentage of households that can receive service with which we have developed a Customer Relationship. Penetration of Homes Serviceable grows as markets mature, but may fluctuate depending on the pace of our network expansion if growth in the denominator (Homes Serviceable) significantly outpaces the numerator (Customer Relationships).

Average revenue per user (“ARPU”)

We use ARPU to evaluate and monitor the amount of revenue generated by customers and analyze growth patterns. ARPU values represent total revenue divided by the average number of customer relationships at the beginning and end of each period, divided by the number of months in the period.

We believe ARPU is useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance. ARPU and similar measures with similar titles are common measures used by investors, analysts and peers to compare performance in our industry, although our measure of ARPU may not be directly comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

ARPU decreased by $1.71, or 4.3%, for the year ended December 31, 2021 in comparison to the year ended December 31, 2020 primarily due to the use of customer promotional plans to increase penetration in the markets that we serve.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure and is determined based on EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization), adjusted to exclude certain unusual or non-recurring items, certain non-cash items and other items that are not indicative of ongoing operations (including stock-based compensation expenses, loss on extinguishment of debt and the fair value adjustment of derivative liabilities). Adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by management, research analysts, investors and other interested parties to evaluate companies. We believe that this measure is helpful in highlighting trends in our operating results, because it excludes the impact of items that are outside the control of management or not reflective of our ongoing operations and performance.

Adjusted EBITDA is a measure not defined under GAAP. It has limitations, because it excludes certain types of expenses and it does not reflect changes in working capital needs. Furthermore, other companies may calculate adjusted EBITDA or similarly entitled measures differently, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.

Adjusted EBITDA is presented here as a supplemental measure only. You are encouraged to evaluate each adjustment.

 

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For a historical reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to its most directly comparable GAAP measure, net loss, please refer to the table below.

 

(in thousands)    Year ended
December 31,
2021
     Year ended
December 31,
2020
 

GAAP Net Loss

   $ (166,545    $ (125,093

Adjustments:

     

Add: Interest expense, net

     24,738        19,343  

Add: Depreciation and amortization

     29,463        19,350  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

EBITDA

     (112,344      (86,400

Adjustments:

     

Add: Fair value adjustment of derivative liability

     8,562        1,850  

Add: Loss on extinguishment of debt

     3,727        —    

Add: Share-based compensation

     1,310        960  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ (98,745    $ (83,590

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Overview

We are an early-stage growth company and have generated losses and negative cash flows from operating activities since inception. Our principal sources of liquidity have been generated through a combination of cash flows from borrowings and the issuances equity. We expect that our primary ongoing requirements for cash will be used to execute on our strategic initiatives through (i) investing in our technology, (ii) expanding our domestic footprint and (iii) hiring personnel. We require additional capital investment to execute the strategic business plan to grow its subscriber base in existing markets from already-deployed network assets and launch services in new markets. Management plans to raise additional capital through a combination of potential options, including but not limited to, equity and debt financings.

Additional equity financing may not be available on favorable terms and could be dilutive to current stockholders. Debt financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants and dilutive financing instruments.

Our ability to access capital when needed is not assured and, if capital is not available to us when, and in the amounts needed, we could be required to delay, scale back or abandon some or all of our expansion efforts and other operations, which could materially harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. Because of this uncertainty, there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for at least one year from the date that these consolidated financial statements were issued.

At December 31, 2021 our principal sources of liquidity were cash and cash equivalents of $29.4 million and consist of checking and interest-bearing accounts, of which $15.0 million cannot be accessed in accordance with the Starry Credit Agreement.

In March 2022, the Business Combination was consummated, resulting in gross proceeds of $36.2 million. Following the SPAC Merger Effective Time and immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, (a) the sale of the PIPE Shares was consummated, resulting in gross proceeds of $109.0 million, and (b) the sale of the Series Z Shares was consummated, resulting in gross proceeds of $31.0 million. Total direct and incremental transaction costs are estimated at approximately $18.5 million.

Starry Credit Agreement

In February 2019, we entered into a credit agreement among Starry, Starry Spectrum Holdings LLC, Starry (MA), Inc., Starry Spectrum LLC, Testco LLC, Widmo Holdings LLC and Vibrant Composites Inc., as borrowers, the lenders party thereto from time to time and ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC, as administrative agent, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Starry Credit Agreement”) to provide a total of $50.0 million in two separate loan tranches, $27.5 million and $22.5 million, and drew on the full amount of each tranche in February 2019 and June 2019, respectively. In December 2019, we amended the Starry Credit Agreement with a syndicate of lenders, providing for an additional loan tranche of $75.0 million, which we immediately drew upon in full (collectively, the “2019 Term Loans”).

 

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In June 2021, we entered into a Third Amendment and Waiver to the Starry Credit Agreement (the “Third Amendment and Waiver”). The Third Amendment and Waiver amended and restated two affirmative covenants that we were not in compliance with as of December 31, 2020, including extending the time period in which we are required to deliver audited financial statements without a “going concern” or like qualification, exception or emphasis and extending the time period in which we are required to deliver a budget for fiscal year 2021. The non-compliance with covenants is an event of default which would have required the outstanding long-term debt balance to be payable upon demand. In addition to the amendment and restatement, the Third Amendment and Waiver waived any events of default in existence on the Third Amendment and Waiver effective date. The lender has retained all other covenant requirements.

In conjunction with entering into the 2019 Term Loans, we issued warrants to the lender in two tranches in February 2019 and December 2019 of 17.6 million and 15.0 million, respectively.

In October 2021, we entered into the Fifth Amendment to the Starry Credit Agreement with a syndicate of lenders, providing for an additional tranche of $40.0 million which we immediately drew upon in full (“Tranche C Term Loan”) and up to an additional $10.0 million in delayed draw loans (“Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan”) (collectively, with the Tranche C Term Loan and 2019 Term Loans, the “Term Loans”).

In conjunction with entering into the Tranche C Term Loan, we entered into a Warrant Purchase Agreement as of October 6, 2021 (the “Warrant Purchase Agreement”), and issued to the lenders warrants to purchase 11.5 million shares (the “Initial Tranche C Warrants”). Warrants to purchase an additional 2.9 million shares are contingently issuable subject to our drawing down on the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan (the “Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants,” and together with the Initial Tranche C Warrants, the “Tranche C Warrants”). Upon issuance of such warrants, 25% immediately vested and became exercisable. As the Business Combination closed prior to April 15, 2022, the Tranche C Warrants are exercisable solely with respect to the 25% of the warrant shares that vested immediately upon issuance, whereas the remaining 75% of unvested warrants were forfeited. We determined the fair value per share of our underlying Common Stock of the Warrant Purchase Agreement to be $1.81 per the terms of the Business Combination.

The loans incur interest at a rate equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), subject to a floor of 2.0% plus an applicable margin of 9.0%, capped at 13.25% annually. Pursuant to the Starry Credit Agreement, we elected to pay the accrued interest on an in-kind basis by increasing the principal balance outstanding, payable in its entirety at maturity in February 2024. Outstanding borrowings plus accrued paid-in-kind interest were $202.7 million as of December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, we had deferred financing costs and discounts on warrants on these loans in the amount of $2.3 million and $14.7 million, respectively.

On March 26, 2022, the Company entered into a Seventh Amendment to the Credit Agreement. The Seventh Amendment to the Credit Agreement amended and restated an affirmative covenant requiring the Company to provide annual audited financial statements without a “going concern” or like qualification, exception or emphasis. In addition, the Seventh Amendment to the Credit Agreement redefined the term “Change in Control” to exclude the aforementioned Business Combination with respect to contemplating the prepayment penalty. As a result of such amendments, the Company was in compliance with all bank covenants as of December 31, 2021. Without such amendments the Company would have been in default and the outstanding long-term debt balance would be payable upon demand. The lender has retained all other covenant requirements.

Capital lease obligations

Throughout the period we entered into capital leases for vehicles and equipment with various vendors with payments due monthly extending through 2025. As of December 31, 2021, we owed $2.2 million under such lease obligations.

Strategic partner arrangement

In June 2020, we entered into a 10-year arrangement (the “Strategic Partner Arrangement”) with AEPV to jointly deploy a fixed wireless broadband network in a new market. AEPV has agreed to fund the equipment necessary to deliver the service in exchange for a revenue sharing arrangement whereby they will be entitled to a percentage of revenue earned by us in the new market. Pursuant to the arrangement, we will sell in exchange for

 

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cash consideration the equipment to AEPV and lease the equipment back. The seller-financing portion of the transaction created a form of continuing involvement which precludes sale-leaseback accounting until the related amounts due are paid in full. Accordingly, we accounted for the sale-leaseback as a financing transaction with AEPV, with the equipment remaining on our books at its then carrying value, the net cash proceeds received being reflected as a financing obligation, and the expected future payments under the revenue sharing agreement to the third party being treated as debt service applied to interest and principal over the initial 10-year term. The discount rate is calculated based on expected future payments under the revenue sharing agreement. AEPV has the right to terminate the arrangement for any reason no earlier than June 2023. In the event of an early termination, we are required to repurchase the equipment at a repurchase price equal to the net book value of the equipment as reflected on the third party’s balance sheet at the time of termination. We have made an accounting policy election to use the prospective method to account for changes in actual or estimated cash flows related to the debt service. See “Note 12 — Commitments and contingencies” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Purchase commitments

Throughout the period we entered into non-cancelable purchase commitments with various contract manufacturers to purchase materials and associated support to maintain and improve our existing distribution system as well as build out new networks and distribution systems. As of December 31, 2021, we had non-cancelable commitments totaling $33.4 million.

Convertible notes payable

In September 2020, we issued convertible notes (the “2020 Notes”) payable in exchange for cash totaling $31.2 million. The 2020 Notes bear interest of 3.0% annually and matured in June 2021. In 2021 and 2020, such notes accrued paid-in-kind interest of $0.3 million and $0.3 million, respectively. Such proceeds were used for building out the network and general working capital purposes.

One current shareholder who is a related party purchased approximately $2.3 million of the 2020 Notes. See “Note 4 — Debt” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.

In January 2021, we issued convertible notes (the “January 2021 Notes”) payable in exchange for cash totaling $6.0 million. The January 2021 Notes bear interest of 3.0% annually and mature in October 2021. In 2021, the January 2021 Notes accrued paid-in-kind interest of less than $0.1 million.

In March 2021, we issued convertible notes (the “March 2021 Notes” and, together with the January 2021 Notes, the “2021 Notes”) payable in exchange for cash totaling $5.0 million. The March 2021 Notes bear interest of 3.0% annually and mature in October 2021. In 2021, the March 2021 Notes accrued paid-in-kind interest of less than $0.1 million.

Two current shareholders who are related parties purchased $3.0 million and $5.0 million, respectively of the 2021 Notes. See “Note 4 — Debt” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.

In March 2021, we closed on an issuance of Starry Series E Preferred Stock (inclusive of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock, Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock and Starry Series E-3 Preferred Stock), generating cash proceeds, net of issuance costs, of approximately $119.9 million and converted all $42.8 million of our outstanding 2020 Notes and 2021 Notes into shares of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock and Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock, respectively.

Short term liquidity requirements

As a growth company, the net losses we have incurred since inception are in accordance with our strategy and forecast. We will continue to incur net losses in accordance with our operating plan as we continue to expand our platform development to improve our existing technology and expand into new markets.

 

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We incurred a net loss of $166.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and a net loss of $125.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2021, our current assets were $43.9 million, consisting primarily of cash and cash equivalents of $29.4 million, which are primarily deposited with financial institutions, prepaid expenses and other current assets of $7.1 million and deferred costs of $7.0 million, and our current liabilities were $33.1 million, consisting of accounts payable totaling $6.8 million, accrued expenses and other current liabilities totaling $23.2 million, unearned revenue totaling $1.6 million, and the current portion of our debt totaling $1.5 million.

Long term liquidity requirements

As a result of the consummation of the Business Combination, the sale of the PIPE Shares and the sale of the Series Z Shares, we successfully raised gross proceeds of $36.2 million, $109.0 million and $31.0 million, respectively. However, our existing capital resources may be insufficient to meet our long-term liquidity requirements. We may be required to raise additional capital to meet our long-term liquidity requirements through either further equity or debt financing. If we raise funds by issuing equity securities, dilution to existing stockholders may result. Any equity securities issued may also provide for rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing holders of our Common Stock, as applicable. If we raise funds by issuing debt securities, these debt securities would have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of holders of our Common Stock, as applicable. The terms of additional debt securities or borrowings could impose significant restrictions on our operations. The credit market and financial services industry have in the past, and may in the future, experience periods of upheaval that could impact the availability and cost of equity and debt financing.

Cash Flows

The following table summarizes our net cash provided by or used in operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities for the periods indicated and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021      2020  
     (in thousands)  

Net cash provided by (used in)

     

Operating activities

   $ (98,583    $ (78,945

Investing activities

     (68,903      (35,906

Financing activities

     171,417        63,316  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

   $ 3,931      $ (51,535
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net cash used in operating activities

For the year ended December 31, 2021, cash flows used in operating activities was $98.6 million. Such cash used primarily related to our net loss of $166.5 million, adjusted for non-cash expenses of $70.2 million, and changes in our working capital accounts of $2.3 million. The adjustments for non-cash expenses include (i) $29.5 million in depreciation, (ii) paid-in-kind interest on Term Loans, the 2020 Notes and 2021 Notes and the Strategic Partner Arrangement of $18.2 million, (iii) amortization of debt discounts and deferred charges of $5.4 million, (iv) conversion of the convertible debt discount of $1.0 million, (v) loss on extinguishment of debt of $3.7 million, (vi) fair value adjustment of the derivative liability of $8.6 million, (vii) loss on disposal of property and equipment of $2.2 million, (viii) $1.3 million in share-based compensation expense, (ix) accretion of asset retirement obligations of $0.2 million and (x) provision for doubtful accounts of less than $0.2 million. The changes in our working capital accounts include increases of (i) $3.5 million in accrued expenses and other current liabilities, (ii) $0.8 million in other liabilities, and (iii) $0.5 million in unearned revenue, offset by decreases of (i) $5.2 million in prepaid expenses and other current assets, (ii) $1.2 million in accounts payable, (iii) $0.3 million in accounts receivable and (iv) $0.2 million in other assets.

For the year ended December 31, 2020, cash flows used in operating activities was $78.9 million. Such cash used primarily related to our net loss of $125.1 million, adjusted for certain non-cash expenses of $43.2 million, and changes in our working capital accounts and certain non-cash expenses of $3.0 million. The

 

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adjustments for non-cash expenses include (i) $19.4 million in depreciation, (ii) paid-in-kind interest on Term Loans and the 2020 Notes of $15.4 million, (iii) amortization of debt discount of $3.8 million, (iv) loss on disposal of property and equipment of $1.5 million, (v) fair value adjustment to a derivative liability of $1.9 million, (vi) $1.0 million in share-based compensation expense, (vii) accretion of asset retirement obligations of $0.1 million and (viii) provision for doubtful accounts of $0.1 million. The changes in our working capital accounts include increases of (i) $1.2 million in other liabilities, (ii) $0.4 million in accrued expenses and other current liabilities, (iii) $0.7 million in accounts payable, (iv) $0.8 million in unearned revenue, (v) and $0.2 million in prepaid expenses and other current assets, offset by decreases of (i) $0.3 million in accounts receivable and (ii) less than $0.1 million in other assets.

Net cash used in investing activities

Net cash used in investing activities during the year ended December 31, 2021 totaled $68.9 million, primarily related to capital expenditures for our distribution system.

Net cash used in investing activities during the year ended December 31, 2020 totaled $35.9 million, primarily related to capital expenditures for our distribution system.

Net cash provided by financing activities

Net cash provided by financing activities during the year ended December 31, 2021 totaled $171.4 million, which was driven primarily by the proceeds raised from the issuance of Starry Series E Preferred Stock (inclusive of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock, Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock and Starry Series E-3 Preferred Stock), net of issuance costs, of $119.9 million, proceeds from Term Loans, net of issuance costs, of $38.5 million, proceeds from the issuance of $11.0 million of the 2021 Notes, proceeds from the strategic partner arrangement of $3.3 million and proceeds from the exercise of Starry Options (as defined below) of $0.8 million, offset by repayments of capital lease obligations of $0.8 million, payments of deferred transaction costs of $1.0 million and payments of third-party issuance costs of $0.3 million in connection with the Term Loans.

Net cash provided by financing activities during the year ended December 31, 2020 totaled $63.3 million, which was driven primarily by the proceeds raised from the (i) issuance of Starry Series D Preferred Stock, net of issuance costs, of $30.7 million, (ii) issuance of convertible notes of $31.2 million, (iii) proceeds from the strategic partner arrangement of $1.7 million and (iv) exercise of Starry Options of $0.2 million, partially offset by the repayment of capital lease obligations of $0.6 million.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of our consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the balance sheet date, as well as the reported expenses incurred during the reporting period. We evaluate our estimates and judgments on an ongoing basis. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates, and such differences could be material to our consolidated financial statements.

We believe that the accounting policies discussed below are critical to understanding our historical and future performance, as these policies relate to the more significant areas involving management’s judgments and estimates.

While our significant accounting policies are described in “Note 2—Summary of significant accounting policies” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we believe that the following accounting policies require a greater degree of judgment and complexity. Accordingly, these are the policies we believe are the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Estimating fair value of Starry’s Common Stock for Share-Based Compensation

As a company with no active public market for its common stock prior to the Business Combination, Starry’s board of directors periodically determines the fair value of Starry’s common stock at various dates, with the assistance of management and an independent third-party valuation specialist. In connection with establishing the exercise price for all share-based awards and estimating the fair value of Starry’s common stock for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, we obtained third-party valuations by an independent valuation firm. The valuations dated as of May 15, 2021, March 30, 2021, March 31, 2020 and March 6, 2019, were conducted in accordance with the framework of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Technical Practice Aid, Valuation of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation utilizing the income approach for the May 15, 2021 and March 31, 2020 valuation and the market approach for the March 30, 2021 and March 6, 2019 valuations. The market approach was chosen as the primary valuation process for the March 2021 and March 2019 valuations due to our entering into transactions relating to our stock around the dates of valuation. The income approach was chosen for the May 2021 and March 2020 valuations because no recent stock transactions had taken place around the valuation dates and the approach takes into consideration the expectation of future cash flows that drives value to our shareholders.

An income approach, specifically the discounted cash flow analysis incorporating our projections, our historical financials, and guideline company / industry growth and margin indications, was utilized. The income approach estimates our value based on the expectation of future cash flows that we will generate that are discounted to the present using a discount rate commensurate with the risk associated with us and our projections. The selected discount rate is based on a weighted average cost of capital as well as consideration given to historical venture capital rates commensurate with an expansion-stage to bridge-stage company. A discounted cash flow analysis was developed based on discussions with management, projected financial data prepared by us, historical financial statements, and guideline company and industry growth indicators.

The market approach measures the value of an asset or business through an analysis of recent sales or offerings of comparable investments or assets. When applied to the valuation of equity interests, consideration is given to the financial condition and operating performance of the entity being appraised relative to those publicly traded in similar lines of business. The valuation specialist applied the backsolve method to derive our implied equity value from a transaction involving our own securities. In deriving this value, specific consideration is given to the rights and preferences of each class of equity and solving for the total equity value implied by the recent transaction in our securities.

For all valuations, the implied equity value was then allocated between classes of the Starry Series A Preferred Stock, Starry Series B Preferred Stock, Starry Series C Preferred Stock, Starry Series D Preferred Stock, Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock, Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock, Starry Series E-3 Preferred Stock, Starry Series Seed Preferred Stock and Starry Series Z Preferred Stock (collectively, the “Starry Preferred Stock”) and Starry’s common stock using an Option Pricing Model (“OPM”), whereby the Starry Preferred Stock and Starry’s common stock were treated as call options on our equity value, with exercise prices based on the liquidation preferences of the stock class. The total value for each class of equity was then divided by the respective shares outstanding for that class to determine the per share value. A discount for lack of marketability was then applied to account for the lack of liquidity and marketability of the stock. The resulting value per share was the indicated present value, on a non-marketable and minority basis.

For the valuations used to establish the fair value of Starry’s common stock, the following assumptions were used:

 

     May 15,
2021
    March 30,
2021
    March 31,
2020
    March 6,
2019
 

Risk-free interest rate

     0.12     0.14     0.27     2.50

Volatility — DLOM

     95.00     90.00     90.00     65.00

Volatility

     75.00     70.00     60.00     50.00

Probability weighted time to exit

     1.6 years       1.75 years       2.7 years       2.7 years  

Lack of marketability

     25.00     25.00     36.00     37.00

Fair value of common stock

   $ 1.47     $ 0.89     $ 0.58     $ 0.53  

 

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There is inherent uncertainty in our forecasts and projections, and if we had made different assumptions and estimates than those described previously, the amount of our beneficial conversion feature, share-based compensation expense, net loss, and net loss per share amounts could have been materially different.

Subsequent to the close of the Business Combination on March 29, 2022, the fair value of our common stock at the time of each grant of a share-based award will be based on the market value at the time of each grant.

Revenue recognition

Our revenues are primarily generated by sales of our internet services. The timing of such revenue recognition is based on the period that such services are consumed by the customer. The transaction price associated with our contracts often includes variable consideration. This variable consideration we consider to be constrained and is included only to the extent we believe it is probable that a significant reversal of revenue will not occur.

Our contracts with customers also may include service level agreements that entitle the customer to receive service credits and refunds if it is deemed that minimum service levels are not met. We estimate the amount of such credits and refunds based on our assessment of legal enforceability, anticipated performance, and historical trends. Historically, we have not experienced significant incidents of not meeting service level requirements.

We have elected the practical expedient that permits an entity to not recognize a significant financing component on contracts that are less than one year. We also exclude sales taxes and other government-assessed and imposed taxes from its revenue, when applicable.

We use marketing incentives to solicit potential subscriber interest in our services, including the issuance of gift cards. Such promotional gift cards represent consideration paid to potential customers in anticipation of a contract and are recognized as a reduction to revenue.

Income taxes

For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 we recorded no income tax provision and have recorded a full valuation allowance for all periods. The valuation allowance relates to deferred tax attributes including federal and state net operating loss carryforwards and R&D tax credit carryforwards.

Our policy is to recognize interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions in income tax expense. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, there was no accrued interest or penalties related to uncertain tax positions and no amounts have been recognized in our consolidated statements of operations.

Share-based compensation

We account for share-based payments that involve the issuance of shares of Starry’s common stock to employees and nonemployees and meet the criteria for equity-classified awards as share-based compensation expense based on the grant-date fair value of the award. We issue awards of stock options to purchase shares of Starry common stock (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any warrants to purchase shares of Starry common stock, the “Starry Options”) to employees, members of the Starry board of directors, and non-employees under the Starry’s Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan, as amended (“Starry Stock Plan”). We believe the fair value of share-based awards granted to nonemployees is more readily determinable than the fair value of the services received.

We estimate the fair value of Starry Options granted at each grant date using the Black Scholes model which requires the input of the following subjective assumptions:

 

   

the length of time grantees will retain their vested Starry Options before exercising them for employees and the contractual term of the option for nonemployees (“expected term”);

 

   

the volatility of our common stock price over the expected term;

 

   

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the risk-free interest rate over the option’s expected term; and

 

   

the fair value of Starry’s common stock.

A summary of the significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value of Starry Options during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were as follows:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021     2020  

Expected volatility

     27.8% - 28.2     24.0% - 28.1

Expected term (in years)

     5.4 - 6.1       5.0 - 6.1  

Risk-free interest rate

     0.8% - 1.1     0.4% - 1.7

Expected dividend yield

   $ 0.00     $ 0.00  

 

   

Expected volatility — The expected volatility was determined by examining the historical volatilities of a group of industry peers, as we did not have any trading history for Starry’s common stock.

 

   

Expected term — For employees, the expected term is determined using the “simplified” method, as prescribed by the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, Share-Based Payment, to estimate on a formula basis the expected term of the Starry Options which are considered to have “plain vanilla” characteristics.

 

   

Risk-free interest rate — The risk-free interest rate was based upon quoted market yields for the United States Treasury instruments with terms that were consistent with the expected term of Starry Options and,

 

   

Expected dividend yield — The expected dividend yield was based on our history and management’s current expectation regarding future dividends.

If factors change, and we utilize different assumptions, share-based compensation cost on future award grants may differ significantly from share-based compensation cost recognized on past award grants. Higher volatility and longer expected terms result in an increase to share-based compensation determined at the date of grant. Future share-based compensation cost will increase to the extent that we grant additional share-based awards to employees and non-employees. If there are any modifications or cancelations of the underlying unvested securities, we may be required to accelerate any remaining unearned share-based compensation cost or incur incremental cost. Share-based compensation cost affects our selling, general and administrative expenses. Share-based compensation cost affects our selling, general and administrative expenses and our research and development expenses.

Based on our estimated fair value of Starry’s common stock of $1.81 as of December 31, 2021, the aggregate intrinsic value of the vested and unvested Starry Options outstanding as of December 31, 2021 was $58.5 million.

Beneficial conversion features associated with convertible notes

We issued convertible notes in September 2020, January 2021, and March 2021. Upon assessment of the embedded elements in these agreements, we identified that the automatic conversion feature upon maturity clauses contain a beneficial conversion feature that required separate accounting from the host contract.

In order to quantify the intrinsic value of the beneficial conversion feature, we compared the current fair value of the Starry Series D Preferred Stock to the contractual conversion price using the fair value of Starry’s common stock as of March 2021 and 2020. We used the input of the estimated fair value of Starry’s common stock as the midpoint between the valuations at each date during the period to arrive at the intrinsic value. The beneficial conversion features related to the 2020 Notes, the January 2021 Notes and the March 2021 Notes were $3.9 million, $1.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively. We recorded amortization of $1.8 million and $0.2 million in paid-in-kind interest for the year ended December 31, 2021.

 

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On March 31, 2021, we completed the initial closing of a new equity financing for Starry Series E Preferred Stock (inclusive of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock, Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock and Starry Series E-3 Preferred Stock). As a result of the closing, the 2020 Notes and the 2021 Notes converted to shares of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock and Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock, respectively. We concluded the conversion of the 2020 Notes was treated as an accounting conversion in accordance with the original terms of the 2020 Notes and as a result carrying value of the 2020 Notes was reclassified to Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock. The conversion of the 2021 Notes was treated as an extinguishment of the 2021 Notes which included marking the Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock to fair value by way of recording a charge to the capital account of $2.8 million representing the additional value provided to the holders of the 2021 Notes upon settlement. We recorded a loss of $2.4 million upon extinguishment of the 2021 Notes.

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets consist of spectrum licenses acquired through FCC Auction 102 in June 2019 (the “FCC licenses”). The FCC licenses provide us with the exclusive right to utilize certain radio frequency spectrum to provide wireless services. While the FCC licenses are issued for a fixed period of time, ten years for our licenses, the licenses are issued with a regulatory expectation of renewal which are routinely granted and with nominal cost.

At acquisition and each assessment period, we consider whether the FCC licenses should be definite or indefinite lived. The FCC licenses are not limited in their useful lives, nor is there an anticipation of another technology to replace the underlying technology. We believe that based on these factors that the FCC licenses are indefinite lived intangibles.

The FCC licenses are tested for potential impairment annually, as of October 1, or more frequently if impairment indicators are present. ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (“ASC 350”), provides the option to first perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is necessary to perform a quantitative impairment test. ASC 350 permits us to elect to bypass the qualitative assessment in any period and proceed directly to performing the quantitative impairment test. The quantitative assessment consists of comparing the estimated fair value of the FCC licenses to the aggregated carrying amount as of the test date. As of October 1, 2021, we elected to perform a quantitative assessment due to the passage of time and used a market-based approach that did not result in impairment. As of October 1, 2020, we performed a qualitative assessment that did not identify any indicators of impairment that would require a quantitative assessment to be performed.

Capitalization of internal labor costs

Our business is capital intensive and a large portion of our working capital is spent on activities associated with expanding our distribution system. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the net carrying amount of our distribution systems was $92.0 million and $67.3 million, respectively, representing approximately 42% and 41%, respectively, of our total assets.

Costs associated with distribution system construction and customer installations are capitalized as part of the asset cost. Such capitalized costs include materials, use tax, freight-in, third party labor, internal labor and the associated fringe benefits incurred to bring the distribution system to its intended use. We capitalize such internal labor costs by estimating the amount of time spent on such activities by employees who are responsible for our distribution system construction and customer installations. We capitalized internal labor costs of $17.8 million and $17.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

While we believe our existing capitalization policies are appropriate, a significant change in the nature or extent of our activities could affect management’s judgment about how we calculate and capitalize internal labor in the future. We monitor the appropriateness of our capitalization policies and perform updates to such policies when necessary to respond to changes in facts and circumstances, such as the development of new products and services which may impact the utilization of our employees who construct our distribution system and perform customer installations.

 

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Asset retirement obligation (“ARO”)

We lease space on vertical assets (“VA”) on which we install our Starry Titan base stations, and we enter into agreements with multiple dwelling unit (“MDU”) managers or owners to install our Starry Trident transceivers to provide service to the building. These agreements can include language regarding our responsibility to remove equipment and repair the asset to which the Starry equipment was attached (either a VA or a MDU) upon termination of the agreement. The agreements create an obligation associated with the future retirement of the equipment after normal operation of the equipment for the duration of the equipment’s life.

Asset retirement obligations are required to be recognized in the period in which they are incurred if a reasonable estimate of fair value can be established. Once the fair value of future cash flows has been discounted to present value, the liability is recorded with an offsetting increase to an ARO long-lived asset that is recorded within property and equipment. Subsequent changes to the assets and liabilities are recognized in the period they occur.

As the estimated life of the ARO lapses, we recognize depreciation expense for the ARO asset and accretion expense for the ARO liability.

If factors change, and we utilize different assumptions, ARO on future MDU and VA equipment installations may differ significantly from ARO on past MDU and VA equipment installations. Higher credit adjusted risk free rates and inflation rates result in an increase to ARO determined at the date of installation. The assumptions and inputs from management, based on information known to us as of each reporting period include:

 

   

the rate of inflation

 

   

the adjusted risk-free rate

 

   

the life of the lease

 

   

anticipated costs to of removal

 

   

anticipated costs of restoration

In future periods, we expect amortization of our long-lived assets associated with the ARO as well as accretion of the ARO to increase, due in part to our existing unrecognized amortization and accretion expense, as well as to the AROs associated with future equipment deployments.

New and Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) or other standard setting bodies that are adopted by us as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, we believe that the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.

See “Note 2—Summary of significant accounting policies — Recent Accounting Pronouncements issued, not yet adopted” in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information about recent accounting pronouncements, the timing of their adoption and our assessment, to the extent we made one, of their potential impact on our financial condition and results of operations.

JOBS Act Accounting Election

Section 107 of the JOBS Act allows emerging growth companies to take advantage of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards. Under Section 107, an emerging growth company can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. Any decision to opt out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards is irrevocable. We have elected to use the extended transition period available under the JOBS Act.

 

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily a result of exposure due to potential changes in inflation or interest rates. We do not hold financial instruments for trading purposes.

Interest Rate Risk

We hold cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash, for working capital purposes. As of December 31, 2021, we had a cash balance of $29.4 million (excluding restricted cash), consisting of checking and interest-bearing accounts, which are not significantly affected by changes in the general level of U.S. interest rates due to the short-term holding period of such balances. As a result, we do not have material exposure to interest rate risk with respect to cash and cash equivalents as these are all highly liquid investments with a maturity date of 90 days or less at the time of purchase.

As of December 31, 2021, outstanding borrowings plus accrued paid-in-kind interest pursuant to the Starry Credit Agreement were $202.7 million, which incur interest at a rate equal to LIBOR, subject to a floor of 2.0% plus an applicable margin of 9.0%, capped at 13.25% annually. An immediate 10% change in LIBOR would not have a material impact on our debt-related obligations, financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Inflation Risk

Based on our analysis of the periods presented, we believe that inflation has not had a material effect on our operating results. There can be no assurance that future inflation will not have an adverse impact on our operating results.

 

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.

The financial statements required to be filed pursuant to this Item 8 are appended to this report. An index of those financial statements is found in Item 15 of Part IV of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

Limitations on effectiveness of controls and procedures

In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.

Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures

Disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated, as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, due to the material weakness described below and in Part I, Item 1A. of this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2021. Notwithstanding the material weaknesses, our management has concluded that the financial statements included elsewhere in this report present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with GAAP.

Material Weaknesses

In connection with the audits of our consolidated financial statements, we identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. The material weaknesses relate to (i) the lack of maintaining a sufficient complement of accounting and financial reporting resources commensurate with our financial reporting requirements, (ii) the lack of maintaining an effective risk assessment process, which led to improperly designed controls, (iii) the lack of maintaining appropriate control activities to support the appropriate segregation of duties over the review of account reconciliations, manual journal entries and rights over access administrative controls and (iv) the failure to document, thoroughly communicate and monitor control processes and relevant accounting policies and procedures.

Remediation Activities

We have engaged a third-party consultant to assist us in the process of designing and implementing measures to improve our internal control over financial reporting to remediate these material weaknesses. Our remediation efforts are focused on (i) hiring of personnel with technical accounting and financial reporting experience; (ii) implementation of improved accounting and financial reporting processes; and (iii) implementation of systems to improve the completeness, timeliness and accuracy of our financial reporting. We believe the measures described above should remediate the material weaknesses identified and strengthen our internal control over financial reporting. The remediation initiatives outlined above are estimated to take place over the next 12 to 18 months. While we continue the challenging and costly process to implement our plan to remediate the material weaknesses, we cannot predict the success of such plan or the outcome of our assessment of this plan until the remediation initiatives have been completed and have been operating effectively for a sufficient period of time. We can give no assurance that these measures will remediate the deficiencies in internal control or that additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting will not be identified in the future. Our failure to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could result in errors in our financial statements that may lead to a restatement of our financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations.

 

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Management’s annual report on internal control over financial reporting

This Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) or an attestation report of our independent registered accounting firm due to a transition period established by rules of the SEC for newly public companies. Additionally, our independent registered accounting firm will not be required to opine on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 until we are no longer an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act.

Changes in internal control over financial reporting

Other than as described above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 2021 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION.

None.

 

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ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.

Not Applicable.

 

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PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

The following table provides information regarding our executive officers and members of our board of directors (ages as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K):

 

Name

  

Age

  

Position

Executive Officers      
Chaitanya Kanojia    52    Chief Executive Officer and Director
Komal Misra    54    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Joseph Lipowski    64    Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Alex Moulle-Berteaux    50    Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Virginia Lam Abrams    43    Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Strategic Advancement
William Lundregan    51    Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Jeremy MacKechnie    36    Executive Vice President, Head of People and Customer Experience
Brian Regan    39    Executive Vice President, Strategy and Chief of Staff
Non-Employee Directors      
James Chiddix (1)(3)    76    Director
Amish Jani (1)(2)(3)    44    Director
Elizabeth A. Graham (1)(2)(3)    52    Director
Robert L. Nabors II (2)(3)    51    Director

 

(1)

Member of the audit committee.

(2)

Member of the nominating and corporate governance committee.

(3)

Member of the compensation committee.

Executive Officers

Chaitanya Kanojia. Chaitanya Kanojia co-founded Starry and has served as our Chief Executive Officer, Starry’s President and as a member of our Board since June 2015. Prior to Starry, Mr. Kanojia founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Aereo, Inc., an internet streaming service that allowed subscribers to record and watch live high-definition broadcast television on connected devices via a cloud-based over-the-air antenna and DVR. Mr. Kanojia previously founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Navic Networks, an addressable advertising and interactive television technology provider to the cable and direct broadcast satellite industry that was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2008. Mr. Kanojia holds a M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Bhopal, India. In 2014, Aereo, Inc. filed a petition for voluntary reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Mr. Kanojia is qualified to serve as a director because of his experience founding Starry and serving as our Chief Executive Officer.

Komal Misra. Komal Misra has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2021. Prior to Starry, Ms. Misra was Global Head of Corporate Finance at IPsoft, (renamed as Amelia) a privately held Artificial Intelligence company. Prior to IPsoft, Ms. Misra was the Vice President of Corporate Development and Vice President of Finance at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., an American multinational technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. Ms. Misra holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a M.S. in Computer Science from Cleveland State University and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College in Kurukshetra, India.

Joseph Lipowski. Joseph Lipowski co-founded Starry and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since March 2015. Prior to Starry, Mr. Lipowski served as the Chief Technology officer for Aereo, Inc., an Internet streaming service that allowed subscribers to record and watch live high-definition broadcast television on connected devices via a cloud-based over-the-air antenna and DVR. Mr. Lipowski previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at LoJack Corporation, a manufacturer and distributor of stolen vehicle recovery systems.

 

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Prior to LoJack, Mr. Lipowski was Vice President of Research, Base Station Subsystems Group of Andrew Corporation, a manufacturer of hardware for communications networks. Mr. Lipowski holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, Aereo, Inc. filed a petition for voluntary reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Alex Moulle-Berteaux. Alex Moulle-Berteaux co-founded Starry and has served as our Chief Operating Officer since October 2018 and as Chief Marketing Officer from March 2015 to October 2018. Prior to Starry, Mr. Moulle-Berteaux served as Chief Commercial Officer for Aereo, Inc. Mr. Moulle-Berteaux previously served as Global Head of Marketing and Public Relations for Rockstar Games, the leading development and publishing label of publicly traded Take Two Interactive, a maker of video game franchises. Mr. Moulle-Berteaux holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston College. In 2014, Aereo, Inc. filed a petition for voluntary reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Virginia Lam Abrams. Virginia Lam Abrams is a co-founder of Starry and has served as our Senior Vice President Government Affairs and Strategic Advancement since 2020 and as our Senior Vice President, Communications and Government Relations from June 2015 to February 2020. Prior to Starry, Ms. Abrams served as Senior Vice President of Communications and Government Relations at Aereo, Inc. Ms. Abrams previously was Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Rubenstein Communications and served as deputy press secretary and spokesperson for New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during his second term. Ms. Abrams holds a B.S. in Journalism and Political Science from Northwestern University. Ms. Abrams was Senior Vice President of Communications and Government Relations of Aereo, Inc. In 2014, Aereo, Inc. filed a petition for voluntary reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

William Lundregan. William Lundregan has served as our General Counsel since July 2016 and as our Corporate Secretary since December 2017. Prior to joining Starry, Mr. Lundregan served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Esselte Group Holdings, an international manufacturer and distributor of office products. Mr. Lundregan holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School, an M.B.A. from Boston College Carroll School of Management and a B.A. in English from Georgetown University.

Jeremy MacKechnie. Jeremy MacKechnie is our Senior Vice President of People and Customer Experience. Prior to this role, Mr. MacKechnie was the Vice President of Subscriber Operations from December 2018 to July 2021 and the Director of Customer Care from August 2015 to December 2018. Previously, Mr. MacKechnie was the Director of Customer Care at DramaFever, Inc., an on-demand streaming service for international content, subtitled and made available in North America. The company was acquired by SoftBank in 2014. Mr. MacKechnie also served as the Senior Support Specialist at Aereo, Inc. in 2012. Mr. MacKechnie holds a B.A. in International Political Economy and Spanish Literature with a minor in Business Administration at Fordham University.

Brian Regan. Brian Regan has served as our Senior Vice President of Strategy and Chief of Staff since April 2021, and previously served as our Vice President and Senior Director of Legal, Policy and Strategy from March 2017 to April 2021. Mr. Regan previously served as the Associate Bureau Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, after holding several other positions at the FCC, including Chief of Staff and Senior Legal and Policy Advisor to the Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Mr. Regan holds a J.D. from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law with a Certificate in Communications Law Studies, and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Delaware.

Non-Employee Directors

Amish Jani. Amish Jani has been a member of our Board since 2014. Mr. Jani is a founder and partner of FirstMark Capital. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Mr. Jani served as a partner with Pequot Ventures. Mr. Jani holds both a B.S. and M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Jani is qualified to serve on our Board because of his experience with Starry and his extensive experience as an investor, director and officer of a number of technology companies.

 

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James Chiddix. James Chiddix has been a member of our Board since January 2017. Mr. Chiddix was previously Chairman and CEO at OpenTV Corp., a Nasdaq-listed software company from March 2004 to 2008. Previously, Mr. Chiddix was Chief Technology Officer at Time Warner Cable from 1986 to 2001, overseeing R&D, engineering and construction activities. Mr. Chiddix currently serves, or has served, on a number of public and private technology company boards including Arris, Inc., a role he held from July 2009 to April 2019, Vobile, Inc., a role he held from March 2017 to May 2020 and Virgin Media Inc., a role he held from August 2008 to May 2013. Mr. Chiddix attended the Cornell University College of Engineering.

Mr. Chiddix is qualified to serve on our Board because of his experience with Starry and his extensive experience as a leader in the broadband industry and with public companies.

Elizabeth A. Graham. Elizabeth Graham currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Indigo Ag. Inc., having served in that role since December 2020. She was previously the president of Notarize, Inc. from January 2020 to May 2020 and joined as Chief Operating Officer in January 2019. She was Vice President of Global Sales and Service at Wayfair LLC from May 2015 to December 2018. Prior to working in technology, she had a thirteen-year career in cable and telecommunications. Ms. Graham holds an A.B. from Harvard College, a M.St. from the University of Oxford, England, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Ms. Graham is qualified to serve on our Board because of her experience with company leadership roles in technology companies.

Robert L. Nabors II. Robert Nabors currently serves and has served as director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since January 2016. He was previously deputy chief of staff of The White House for the Obama administration from January 2013 to April 2015 and was deputy director for the United States Office of Management and Budget from January 2009 to February 2011. Mr. Nabors holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mr. Nabors is qualified to serve on our Board because of his experience in policy development, government relations, regulatory work and financial reporting.

Family Relationships

There are no familial relationships among our directors and executive officers.

Board Composition

Our Board comprises five directors and is divided into three classes with staggered three-year terms. Our directors are divided among the three classes as follows:

 

   

the Class I director is Elizabeth Graham and her term will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2023;

 

   

the Class II directors are James Chiddix and Robert Nabors and their terms will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2024; and

 

   

the Class III directors are Chaitanya Kanojia and Amish Jani and their terms will expire at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2025.

Directors in a particular class will be elected for three-year terms at the annual meeting of stockholders in the year in which their terms expire. As a result, only one class of directors will be elected at each annual meeting of our stockholders, with the other classes continuing for the remainder of their respective three-year terms. Each director’s term continues until the election and qualification of his or her successor, or the earlier of his or her death, resignation or removal.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws provide that only our Board can fill vacant directorships, including newly created seats. Any additional directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of directors would be distributed pro rata among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class would consist of one-third of the authorized number of directors.

 

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Controlled Company Exemption

Following the Business Combination, Mr. Kanojia beneficially owns more than 50% of the combined voting power for the election of our directors. As a result, we are be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of the NYSE and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance standards, including, but not limited to, the following requirements:

 

   

that a majority of our Board consist of directors who qualify as “independent” as defined under the rules of the NYSE;

 

   

that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee composed entirely of independent directors; and

 

   

that we have a compensation committee composed entirely of independent directors.

Although we do not currently do so, we may elect to utilize one or more of these exemptions for so long as we remain a “controlled company.” Accordingly, you may not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of these corporate governance requirements. In the event that we cease to be a “controlled company” and our shares continue to be listed on the NYSE, we will be required to comply with these provisions within the applicable transition periods.

Director Independence

Each member of our Board, other than Mr. Kanojia, qualifies as independent, as defined under the listing rules of the NYSE. In addition, we are subject to the rules of the SEC and NYSE relating to the memberships, qualifications, and operations of the audit committee, as discussed below.

Board Oversight of Risk

One of the key functions of our Board is the informed oversight of our risk management process. Our Board does not have a standing risk management committee, but rather administers this oversight function directly through our Board as a whole, as well as through various standing committees of our Board that address risks inherent in their respective areas of oversight. For example, our audit committee is responsible for overseeing the management of risks associated with our financial reporting, accounting, and auditing matters, and our compensation committee oversees the management of risks associated with our compensation policies and programs.

Board Committees

Our Board has established an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and corporate governance committee. Our Board may establish other committees to facilitate the management of our business. Our Board and its committees meet throughout the year and can also hold special meetings and act by written consent from time to time, as appropriate. Our Board delegates various responsibilities and authority to its committees as generally described below. The committees regularly report on their activities and actions to our full Board. Each member of each committee of our Board qualifies as an independent director in accordance with the listing standards of the NYSE. Each committee of our Board has a written charter approved by our Board. Copies of each charter are posted on our website at www.starry.com/investors. The inclusion of our website address in this Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include or incorporate by reference the information on our website into this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Members will serve on these committees until their resignation or until otherwise determined by our Board.

 

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Audit Committee

The members of our audit committee are James Chiddix, Elizabeth Graham and Amish Jani, each of whom can read and understand fundamental financial statements. Each of Mr. Chiddix and Ms. Graham is independent under the rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing standards of the NYSE applicable to audit committee members. Our board of directors determined that Mr. Jani does not satisfy the independence criteria set forth in Rule 10A-3. Accordingly, we are relying on the exemption from the independence requirements under Rule 10A-3(b)(1)(iv)(A) that permits a minority of the members of our audit committee to be exempt from the independence requirements for a period of time. Mr. Chiddix is chair of the audit committee. Mr. Chiddix qualifies as an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of SEC regulations and meets the financial sophistication requirements of the NYSE.

Our audit committee assists our Board with its oversight of the following: the integrity of our financial statements; our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; the qualifications, independence, and performance of our independent registered public accounting firm; and the design and implementation of our internal audit function and risk assessment and risk management. Among other things, our audit committee is responsible for reviewing and discussing with our management the adequacy and effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures. The audit committee also discusses with our management and independent registered public accounting firm the annual audit plan and scope of audit activities, scope and timing of the annual audit of our financial statements, and the results of the audit, and quarterly reviews of our financial statements and, as appropriate, initiates inquiries into certain aspects of our financial affairs. Our audit committee is responsible for establishing and overseeing procedures for the receipt, retention, and treatment of any complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls, or auditing matters, as well as for the confidential and anonymous submissions by our employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters. In addition, our audit committee has direct responsibility for the appointment, compensation, retention, and oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm. Our audit committee has sole authority to approve the hiring and discharging of our independent registered public accounting firm, all audit engagement terms and fees, and all permissible non-audit engagements with the independent auditor. Our audit committee reviews and oversees all related-person transactions in accordance with the our policies and procedures.

Compensation Committee

The members of our compensation committee are Amish Jani, James Chiddix, Elizabeth Graham and Robert Nabors. Ms. Graham is the chair of the compensation committee. Each member of our compensation committee is considered independent under the rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing standards of the NYSE applicable to compensation committee members.

Our compensation committee assists our Board in discharging certain of our responsibilities with respect to compensating our executive officers, and the administration and review of our incentive plans for employees and other service providers, including our equity incentive plans, and certain other matters related to our compensation programs.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

The members of our nominating and corporate governance committee are Elizabeth Graham, Amish Jani and Robert Nabors. Mr. Jani is the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee.

Our nominating and corporate governance committee assists our Board with its oversight of and identification of individuals qualified to become members of our Board, consistent with criteria approved by our Board, and selects, or recommends that our Board selects, director nominees, develops and recommends to our Board a set of corporate governance guidelines, and oversees the evaluation of our Board.

Code of Conduct and Ethics

We have adopted a Code of Conduct and Ethics that applies to all of our employees, officers and directors, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions, as well as all of our contractors, consultants, suppliers, and agents in connection with

 

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their work for us. The full text of our Code of Conduct and Ethics is posted on our website at www.starry.com/investors. We intend to disclose future amendments to, or waivers of, our Code of Conduct and Ethics, as and to the extent required by SEC regulations, at the same location on our website identified above or in public filings. Information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and you should not consider information contained on our website to be part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.

All share counts in this section are shown as of December 31, 2021, on a pre-Business Combination basis. In addition, this section provides compensation information pursuant to the scaled SEC disclosure rules applicable to “emerging growth companies.”

This section discusses the material components of the executive compensation program for our executive officers who are named in the “2021 Summary Compensation Table” below. In 2021, the “named executive officers” and their positions with Starry were as follows:

 

   

Chaitanya Kanojia, President and Chief Executive Officer;

 

   

Alex Moulle-Berteaux, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and

 

   

Joseph Lipowski, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

Following the Business Combination, our named executive officers have continued in their current positions.

This discussion may contain forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans, expectations and determinations regarding future compensation programs. Actual compensation programs that we adopt following the completion of the Business Combination may differ materially from the currently planned programs summarized in this discussion.

2021 Summary Compensation Table

The table below shows compensation of our named executive officers for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020.

 

Name and Principal Position    Year      Salary ($)      Bonus ($)      Total ($)  

Chaitanya Kanojia

     2021        300,861        100,000        400,861  

President and Chief Executive Officer

     2020        311,538        50,000        361,538  

Alex Moulle-Berteaux

     2021        300,000        89,977        389,977  

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

     2020        311,538        99,573        411,111  

Joseph Lipowski

     2021        250,809        50,025        300,834  

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

     2020        309,615        50,000        359,615  

2021 Salaries

The named executive officers receive a base salary to compensate them for services rendered to the Company. The base salary payable to each named executive officer is intended to provide a fixed component of compensation reflecting the executive’s skill set, experience, role and responsibilities.

2021 Bonuses

For 2021, the cash bonuses for our named executive officers were determined by our board of directors on a discretionary basis based on the board’s assessment of our overall performance and the individual executive’s contributions. The named executive officers other than Mr. Moulle-Berteaux received an annual bonus, paid in cash. For Mr. Moulle-Berteaux, the 2021 bonus amount was also discretionary but our board paid the bonus quarterly after reviewing the number of net subscribers as a percentage of a target for each quarter, which served as a reference point for our board in determining the discretionary amount to pay. The actual bonuses paid to each named executive officer for 2021 are set forth above in the Summary Compensation Table in the column entitled “Bonus.”

 

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Equity Compensation

Mr. Moulle-Berteaux currently holds stock options, which were granted pursuant to the Starry Stock Plan, which is summarized below. None of our named executive officers received any equity grants in 2021.

We adopted the Starry Group Holdings, Inc. 2022 Incentive Award Plan (the “Equity Incentive Plan”) to facilitate the grant of cash and equity incentives to directors, employees (including our named executive officers) and consultants of our company and certain of its affiliates and to enable our company and certain of its affiliates to obtain and retain services of these individuals, which is essential to our long-term success. For additional information about the Equity Incentive Plan, please see the section entitled “Equity Incentive Plan” below.

Outstanding Equity Awards at 2021 Fiscal Year-End

The figures in the table below show outstanding equity awards as of December 31, 2021, all of which were granted under the Starry Stock Plan. The number of shares subject to the awards, and the exercise prices for the options, reflect the actual shares and exercise prices as of December 31, 2021. The number of shares subject to Starry Options and Starry RSU Awards that are outstanding at the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, and the exercise price of such Starry Options, were subsequently adjusted to reflect the Business Combination.

 

            Option Awards  

Name

   Grant Date      Number of Securities
Underlying Unexercised
Options (#) Exercisable
    Number of Securities
Underlying Unexercised
Options (#) Unexercisable
     Option
Expiration
Price ($)
     Option
Expiration
Date
 

Alex Moulle-Berteaux

     07/31/2015        360,000  (1)      —          0.077        07/30/2025  
     10/23/2018        2,086,241  (1)      481,441        0.32        10/22/2028  

 

(1)

The options are subject to a four-year vesting schedule, with 25% of the shares subject to each stock option vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date and the remainder vesting in equal quarterly installments thereafter, subject to continued employment through each vesting date. The stock options granted to our named executive officers may be subject to accelerated vesting in the event of a Sale Event (as defined in the Starry Stock Plan) of the Company.

Executive Compensation Arrangements — Existing Agreements

We have entered into offer letters with each of our named executive officers.

Chaitanya Kanojia

On June 10, 2015, we entered into an offer letter with Mr. Kanojia, providing for his position as Chief Executive Officer (the “Kanojia Offer Letter”). Mr. Kanojia’s employment with the Company is at-will and either party may terminate the Kanojia Offer Letter without notice. The Kanojia Offer Letter provides that

Mr. Kanojia is entitled to a base salary of $300,000 per year. Mr. Kanojia has the opportunity to earn an annual bonus, determined in the sole discretion of our board of directors. Mr. Kanojia is also entitled to participate in our health and welfare plans.

Joseph Lipowski

On February 24, 2015, we entered into an offer letter with Mr. Lipowski, providing for his position as Chief Technology Officer (the “Lipowski Offer Letter”). Mr. Lipowski’s employment with the Company is at-will and either party may terminate the Lipowski Offer Letter without notice. The Lipowski Offer Letter provides that

Mr. Lipowski is entitled to a base salary of $170,000 per year. Mr. Lipowski is also entitled to participate in our health and welfare plans.

Alex Moulle-Berteaux

On February 24, 2015, we entered into an offer letter with Mr. Moulle-Berteaux, providing for his position as Head of Products and Marketing (the “Moulle-Berteaux Offer Letter”). Mr. Moulle-Berteaux’s employment with the Company is at-will and either party may terminate the Moulle-Berteaux Offer Letter without notice. The Moulle-

 

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Berteaux Offer Letter provides that Mr. Moulle-Berteaux is entitled to a base salary of $250,000 per year. Mr. Moulle-Berteaux has the opportunity to earn an annual bonus up to $50,000, determined in our sole discretion. Mr. Moulle-Berteaux is also entitled to participate in our health and welfare plans.

Retirement Plans

We maintain a 401(k) retirement savings plan for our employees, including our named executive officers, who satisfy certain eligibility requirements. Our named executive officers are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan on the same terms as other full-time employees. The Internal Revenue Code allows eligible employees to defer a portion of their compensation, within prescribed limits, on a pre-tax basis through contributions to the 401(k) plan. We believe that providing a vehicle for tax-deferred retirement savings though our 401(k) plan adds to the overall desirability of our executive compensation package and further incentivizes our employees, including our named executive officers, in accordance with our compensation policies. We have not provided a match under our 401(k) plan.

Termination and Change in Control Arrangements

The only rights our named executives have in connection with a termination or change in control arrangements relate to the acceleration of stock options as set forth in the “— Outstanding Equity Awards at 2020 Fiscal Year End”.

Equity Compensation Plans

Starry Stock Plan

We currently maintain the Starry, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan (the “Starry Stock Plan”). The Starry Stock Plan provides our employees (including the named executive officers), consultants, non-employee directors and other key persons and those of our any subsidiary the opportunity to participate in the equity appreciation of our business through the receipt of stock options to purchase shares of our common stock, restricted stock and restricted stock units. We believe that such awards encourage a sense of proprietorship and stimulate interest in our development and financial success. The Starry Stock Plan is no longer available for use for the grant of future awards, but will continue to govern the terms of awards that were previously granted and that remain outstanding.

Equity Incentive Plan

In connection with the Business Combination, our board adopted the Equity Incentive Plan, under which we may grant cash and equity incentive awards to directors, employees (including our named executive officers) and consultants in order to attract, motivate and retain the talent for which we compete. The Equity Incentive Plan became effective on March 29, 2022 and replaced the Starry Stock Plan.

ESPP

In connection with the Business Combination, our board adopted the Starry Group Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”), under which employees (including our named executive officers) may purchase our common stock through payroll deductions of up to 20% of their eligible compensation. The ESPP became effective on March 29, 2022.

Executive Compensation

We intend to develop an executive compensation program that is designed to align compensation with our business objectives and the creation of shareholder value, while enabling us to attract, retain, incentivize and reward individuals who contribute to our long-term success. Decisions regarding the executive compensation program will be made by our compensation committee.

Certain of our executive officers are eligible to receive a one-time lump sum cash bonus following the successful completion of the Business Combination. Mr. Kanojia is eligible to receive $500,000, Messrs. Lundregan and Regan are each eligible to receive $400,000 and Mr. Moulle-Berteaux and Mmes. Misra and Lam Abrams are each eligible to receive $325,000.

 

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Director Compensation

None of our directors for our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 or any prior fiscal years have received any compensation for their services as a director. We are evaluating our compensation program for non-employee directors and we intend to adopt a non-employee compensation program consistent with market practices to the extent appropriate. The compensation of Chaitanya Kanojia as named executive officer is set forth above under “Executive Compensation — 2021 Summary Compensation Table.”

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

None of the members of our compensation committee has ever been a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any other entity that has or has had one or more executive officers serving as a member of our Board or compensation committee.

 

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

The following table sets forth information known to us regarding the beneficial ownership of our Common Stock by:

 

   

each person who is our named executive officer or director;

 

   

all of our executive officers and directors as a group; and

 

   

each person who is a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our Class A Common Stock or our Class X Common Stock.

Beneficial ownership is determined according to the rules of the SEC, which generally provide that a person has beneficial ownership of a security if he, she, or it possesses sole or shared voting or investment power over that security, including options and warrants that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days and restricted stock units that may be settled within 60 days. Unless otherwise indicated, we believe that all persons named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to the voting securities beneficially owned by them.

The beneficial ownership of our Common Stock is based on 157,054,774 shares of Class A Common Stock and 9,268,335 shares of Class X Common Stock issued and outstanding as of March 29, 2022. Unless otherwise noted, the business address of those listed in the table below is c/o Starry Group Holdings, Inc., 38 Chauncy Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA.

 

Name and Address of Beneficial Owners

   Number of Shares
of Class A
Common Stock
     % of Shares of
Class A
Common Stock
     Number of
Shares of Class X
Common Stock
     % of Shares of
Class X
Common Stock
     % of Total
Voting
Power**
 

Five Percent Holders

              

Entities affiliated with FirstMark(1)

     24,565,818        15.6%        —          —          7.2%  

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC(2)

     22,781,403        14.5%        —          —          6.7%  

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP(3)

     22,011,021        14.0%        —          —          6.4%  

FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC(4)

     15,194,025        9.2%        —          —          4.3%  

Entities affiliated with Arrowmark(5)

     12,488,513        8.0%        —          —          3.6%  

QSI, Inc.(6)

     10,061,363        6.4%        —          —          2.9%  

Directors and Named Executive Officers

              

Chaitanya Kanojia(7)

     13,621,830        8.7%        9,268,335        100.0%        58.1%  

Komal Misra(8)

     184,078        *        —          —          *  

Joseph Lipowski

     5,522,633        3.5%        —          —          1.6%  

Alex Moulle-Bertreux(9)

     1,897,248        1.2%        —          —          *  

Amish Jani(1)(4)

     39,759,843        24.0%        —          —          11.3%  

James Chiddix(10)

     125,996        *        —          —          *  

Elizabeth Graham

     —          —          —          —          —    

Robert Nabors

     —          —          —          —          —    

All Directors and Executive Officers as a Group (12 Individuals)

     64,510,521        38.5%        9,268,335        100.0%        70.8%  

 

*

Less than one percent.

**

Percentage of total voting power represents the combined voting power with respect to all shares of Class A Common Stock and Class X Common Stock, voting as a single class. Each share of Class X Common Stock is entitled to 20 votes per share, subject to certain limitations described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and each share of Class A Common Stock is entitled to one vote per share.

(1)

Consists of (i) 9,565,341 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FirstMark Capital III, L.P., for itself and as nominee for FirstMark Capital III Entrepreneurs Fund, L.P.; (ii) 4,548,440 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FirstMark Capital OF I L.P.; (iii) 2,695,372 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FirstMark Capital OF II, L.P., for itself and as nominee for FirstMark Capital OF II-F, L.P.; (iv) 2,582,691 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FirstMark Capital OF III, L.P., for itself and as nominee for FirstMark Capital OF III-F, L.P.; (v) 3,893,974 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FirstMark Capital S1, L.P.; and (vi) 1,280,000 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FirstMark Capital S2, L.P. Richard Heitzmann and Amish Jani are the managing members of FirstMark Capital III GP, LLC, the general partner of FirstMark Capital III, L.P., the managing members of FirstMark Capital OF I GP, LLC, the general partner of FirstMark Capital OF I, L.P., the managing members of FirstMark Capital OF II GP, LLC, the general partner of FirstMark Capital OF II, L.P., the managing members of FirstMark Capital OF III GP, LLC, the general partner of FirstMark Capital OF III, L.P., the managing members of FirstMark Capital S1 GP, LLC, the general partner of FirstMark Capital S1, L.P. and the managing members of FirstMark Capital S2 GP, LLC, the general partner of FirstMark Capital S2, L.P. The address of each of the entities in this footnote is 100 Fifth Ave, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10011.

 

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(2)

Consists of (i) 225,690 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Booth & Co FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Blue Chip Growth K6 Fund; (ii) 3,860 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Booth & Co FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Flex Large Cap Growth Fund; (iii) 333,389 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Booth & Co FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity OTC Portfolio; (iv) 210,621 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Booth & Co., LLC FBO Variable Insurance Products Fund III: Growth Opportunities Portfolio; (v) 276,049 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by FLAPPER CO FBO FIAM Target Date Blue Chip Growth Commingled Fund; (vi) 1,433,321 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Mag & Co FBO Fidelity Advisor Series I: Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities Fund; (vii) 121,296 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Mag & Co FBO Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Commingled Pool; (viii) 7,149,820 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Mag & Co FBO Fidelity Growth Company Commingled Pool; (ix) 1,218,562 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Mag & Co FBO Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust: Fidelity Series Growth Company Fund; (x) 6,868 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Mag & Co FBO Fidelity OTC Commingled Pool; (xi) 3,163,204 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Mag & Co FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund; (xii) 6,890,907 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Powhatan & Co, LLC FBO Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust: Fidelity Growth Company Fund; (xiii) 1,338,789 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Powhatan & Co., LLC FBO Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust: Fidelity Growth Company K6 Fund; (xiv) 3,882 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by THISBE & Co: FBO Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Institutional Trust; (xv) 54,022 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by WARMWIND + CO FBO Fidelity Advisor Series I: Fidelity Advisor Series Growth Opportunities Fund; (xvi) 346,148 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by WAVECHART + CO FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Series Blue Chip Growth Fund; and (xvii) 4,975 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by THISBE & CO FBO Fidelity U.S. Growth Opportunities Investment Trust. These accounts are managed by direct or indirect subsidiaries of FMR LLC. Abigail P. Johnson is a Director, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer and the President of FMR LLC. Members of the Johnson family, including Abigail P. Johnson, are the predominant owners, directly or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR LLC, representing 49% of the voting power of FMR LLC. The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders have entered into a shareholders’ voting agreement under which all Series B voting common shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of Series B voting common shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common shares and the execution of the shareholders’ voting agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act, to form a controlling group with respect to FMR LLC. Neither FMR LLC nor Abigail P. Johnson has the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the shares owned directly by the various investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act (the “Fidelity Funds”) advised by Fidelity Management & Research Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC, which power resides with the Fidelity Funds’ Boards of Trustees. Fidelity Management & Research Company carries out the voting of the shares under written guidelines established by the Fidelity Funds’ Boards of Trustees. The address for each of the Fidelity entities identified in this footnote is 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210.

(3)

Consists of 20,677,688 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, L.P. and an affiliate of Tiger Global Management, LLC. Voting and dispositive power over such shares of Class A Common Stock is shared by other entities affiliated with Tiger Global Management, LLC. Tiger Global Management, LLC is controlled by Chase Coleman and Scott Shleifer. The business address for each of these entities and individuals is c/o Tiger Global Management, LLC, 9 West 57th Street, 35th Floor, New York, New York 10019.

(4)

Consists of (i) 2,557,500 shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Sponsor; (ii) 4,128,113 Earnout Shares; and (iii) 8,508,413 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. The managers of the Sponsor, Messrs. Heitzmann and Jani, by virtue of their shared control over the Sponsor, may be deemed to beneficially own shares held by the Sponsor. Messrs. Heitzmann and Jani are also the managers of the entities affiliated with FirstMark, and by virtue of their shared control over such entities, may be deemed to beneficially own shares held by such entities. The address of the Sponsor is c/o FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., 100 5th Ave, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10011.

(5)

Consists of 253,188 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (“ArrowMark”) and 13,807,842 shares of Class A Common Stock held by various entities and persons for which ArrowMark acts as the investment advisor with respect to such shares. None of the various entities and persons holding shares through accounts managed by ArrowMark is individually a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our Class A Common Stock. Mr. Corkins is the managing member of ArrowMark. The address for Arrow Colorado and Mr. Corkins is c/o ArrowMark Partners, 100 Fillmore St, Suite 325, Denver, CO 80206.

 

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(6)

Consists of 10,061,363 shares of Class A Common Stock owned by QSI, Inc. (“QSI”). QSI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Quanta Services, Inc. (“Quanta”). Quanta, a publicly traded company, holds ultimate voting and investment power over the shares of Class A Common Stock held by QSI. The address for QSI and Quanta is 2800 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 2600, Houston, TX 77056.

(7)

Consists of (i) 9,268,335 shares of Class X Common Stock held by Mr. Kanojia; (ii) 368,158 shares of Class A Common Stock held by Chaitanya Kanojia Qualified Annuity Interest Trust, of which Mr. Kanojia serves as trustee; (iii) 12,885,514 shares of Class A Common Stock held by Tracie Longman, Mr. Kanojia’s spouse; and (iv) 368,158 shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Tracie L. Longman Qualified Annuity Interest Trust, of which Ms. Longman serves as trustee.

(8)

Consists of 184,078 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of options or settlement of restricted stock units within 60 days.

(9)

Includes 479,841 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of options within 60 days.

(10)

Includes 55,223 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of options within 60 days.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

The following table provides information as of December 31, 2021 with respect to the shares of our common stock that may be issued under the Starry Stock Plan:

 

Plan category:

  Number of Securities
to be Issued Upon Exercise
of Outstanding Options,
Warrants, and RSUs (1)
    Weighted-Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding Options
and Warrants (2)
    Number of Securities Available
for Future Issuance Under
Equity Compensation Plans
(excludes securities reflected in
first column) (3)
 

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders

    92,868,415     $ 0.24       1,869,067  

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders

    —         —         —    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

    92,868,415     $ 0.24       1,869,067  

 

(1)

As of December 31, 2021, there were 43,769,767 options outstanding, 44,660,898 warrants outstanding and 4,437,750 RSUs outstanding under the Starry Stock Plan.

(2)

As of December 31, 2021, the weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options and warrants under the Starry Stock Plan was $0.47 and $0.01, respectively. The weighted average exercise price is calculated based solely on the exercise prices of the outstanding options and warrants, and does not reflect the shares that will be issued upon the vesting of outstanding RSUs, which have no exercise price.

(3)

As of December 31, 2021, an aggregate of 1,869,067 of common stock were available for issuance under the Starry Stock Plan. Subsequent to December 31, 2021, the Starry Stock Plan was terminated on March 29, 2022, upon which date the Equity Incentive Plan and ESPP became effective.

The number of shares initially available for issuance under awards granted pursuant to the Equity Incentive Plan is 22,775,288 shares of our common stock. The number of shares initially available for issuance will be increased on January 1st of each calendar year beginning in 2023 and ending on and including January 1, 2031, by an amount equal to the lesser of (a) 5% of the aggregate number of shares of our Class A Common Stock and our Class X Common Stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) such smaller number of shares as determined by our Board.

A total of 4,555,058 shares of our common stock were initially reserved for issuance under the ESPP. In addition, the number of shares available for issuance under the ESPP will be annually increased on January 1st of each calendar year beginning in 2023 and ending on and including January 31, 2031, by an amount equal to the lesser of (A) 1% of the aggregate number of shares of our Class A Common Stock and our Class X Common Stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (B) such smaller number of shares as is determined by our Board.

 

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.

Policies and Procedures for Approval of Related Person Transactions

Our Board has adopted a written related person transaction policy that sets forth the following policies and procedures for the review and approval or ratification of related person transactions.

A “Related Person Transaction” is a transaction, arrangement or relationship in which we or any of our subsidiaries was, is or will be a participant, the amount of which involved exceeds $120,000, and in which any related person had, has or will have a direct or indirect material interest. A “Related Person” means:

 

   

any person who is, or at any time during the applicable period was, one of our executive officers or a member of our Board;

 

   

any person who is known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our voting stock;

 

   

any immediate family member of any of the foregoing persons, which means any child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, spouse, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law of a director, officer or a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our voting stock and any person (other than a tenant or employee) sharing the household of such director, executive officer or beneficial owner of more than 5% of our voting stock; and

 

   

any firm, corporation or other entity in which any of the foregoing persons is a partner or principal or in a similar position or in which such person has a 10% or greater beneficial ownership interest.

We have policies and procedures designed to minimize potential conflicts of interest arising from any dealings it may have with its affiliates and to provide appropriate procedures for the disclosure of any real or potential conflicts of interest that may exist from time to time. Specifically, the audit committee will have the responsibility to review related person transactions.

Relationships and Transactions with Directors, Executive Officers and Significant Stockholders

Starry Series E Preferred Stock Financing

In March 2021, Starry sold an aggregate of (1) 18,700,445 shares of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock at the conversion price described below with respect to the conversion of convertible promissory notes; (2) 7,121,417 shares of Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock at the conversion price described below with respect to the conversion of convertible promissory notes; and (3) 68,452,380 shares of Starry Series E-3 Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $1.68, in each case to the related persons listed below. The following table summarizes these purchases by such related persons:

 

Name

   Shares of Starry
Series E-1
Preferred Stock
     Total Purchase
Price
 

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark(1)

     2,003,357      $ 2,864,814  

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital(2)

     1,670,162      $ 2,349,138  

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC(3)

     15,026,926      $ 21,140,327  

Name

   Shares of Starry
Series E-2
Preferred Stock
     Total Purchase
Price
 

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark(1)

     1,124,555      $ 1,506,904  

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital(2)

     2,249,110      $ 3,000,000  

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP(4)

     3,747,752      $ 5,021,988  

Name

   Shares of Starry
Series E-3
Preferred Stock
     Total Purchase
Price
 

QSI, Inc.(5)

     53,571,428      $ 90,000,000  

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC(3)

     14,880,952      $ 25,000,000  

 

(1)

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(2)

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

 

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(3)

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(4)

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(5)

QSI, Inc., a wholly owned affiliate of Quanta, held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

Convertible Note Financing

In certain cases, the payment of the total purchase price for shares of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock and Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock listed above consisted of, or included, the conversion of convertible promissory notes held by the related persons. In September 2020, Starry sold an aggregate of approximately $26.3 million in principal amount of convertible promissory notes to the related persons listed below. Interest on the principal amount of the convertible promissory notes accrued at the rate of 3% per year. The outstanding principal and accrued interest of such convertible promissory notes converted into shares of Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock at a discounted purchase price of $1.43 per share and are reflected in the above table. From January 2021 to March 2021, Starry sold an aggregate of approximately $9.5 million principal amount of convertible promissory notes to the related persons listed below. Interest on the principal amount of the convertible promissory notes accrued at the rate of 3% per year. The outstanding principal and accrued interest of such convertible promissory notes converted into shares of Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock at a discounted purchase price of $1.34 per share and are reflected in the above table. The following table summarizes the convertible promissory notes issued by Starry to such related persons:

 

Name   Principal Amount      Security Converted Into

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark (1)

  $ 2,818,710      Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark (1)

  $ 1,500,000      Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital (2)

  $ 2,349,138      Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital (2)

  $ 3,000,000      Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC (3)

  $ 21,140,327      Starry Series E-1 Preferred Stock

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP (4)

  $ 5,021,988      Starry Series E-2 Preferred Stock

 

(1)

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(2)

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(3)

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(4)

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

Starry Series D Preferred Stock Financing

From March 2019 to July 2020, Starry sold 82,280,095 shares of Starry Series D Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $1.43 to the related persons listed below. The following table summarizes these purchases by such related persons:

 

Name

   Shares of
Series D Preferred
Stock
     Total Purchase
Price
 

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark(1)

     6,993,008      $ 10,000,001  

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital(2)

     26,504,099      $ 37,900,862  

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC(3)

     34,167,603      $ 48,859,672  

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP(4)

     14,615,385      $ 20,900,001  

 

(1)

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(2)

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(3)

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(4)

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

 

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Starry Series C Preferred Stock Financing

From December 2017 to June 2018, Starry sold 93,614,426 shares of Starry Series C Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $0.922 to the related persons listed below. The following table summarizes these purchases by such related persons:

 

Name

   Shares of
Series C Preferred
Stock
     Total Purchase
Price
 

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark(1)

     13,015,185      $ 12,000,001  

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital(2)

     21,691,974      $ 20,000,000  

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC(3)

     18,980,477      $ 17,500,000  

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP(4)

     39,926,790      $ 36,812,500  

 

(1)

Entities affiliated with ArrowMark held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(2)

Entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(3)

Entities affiliated with FMR LLC held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

(4)

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP held more than 5% of Starry’s outstanding capital stock.

Merger Agreement and Related Agreements

Certain Sponsor affiliates held ownership interests in Starry and participated in the sale of the Series Z Shares. In addition to serving as FirstMark’s President and Chairman of FirstMark’s board of directors, Mr. Jani is affiliated with and/or possesses a financial interest in such investment entities and is a member of our Board.

This following description of the material terms of the Merger Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is incorporated by reference as an exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This summary does not purport to be complete and may not contain all of the information about the Merger Agreement.

The Business Combination was consummated pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement: (a) on the SPAC Merger Effective Time, FirstMark merged with and into Starry Group, with Starry Group surviving as a publicly traded entity and became the sole owner of Merger Sub; (b) on the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, Merger Sub merged with and into Starry, with Starry surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry Group.

In connection with the Merger Agreement, we, FirstMark, and entities affiliated with ArrowMark (which are affiliated with entities that collectively held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination) entered into a non-redemption agreement dated March 9, 2022. Pursuant to the non-redemption agreement, (1) such entities affiliated with ArrowMark agreed to not redeem a certain number of shares of Class A common stock of FirstMark beneficially owned by such entities, and (2) we agreed to issue to such entities with a number of shares of our Class A common stock equal to (i) the number of shares of Class A common stock of FirstMark beneficially owned by such entities multiplied by (ii) (a) 1.33 less (b) the Class A Exchange Ratio (as defined in the Merger Agreement); subject to a minimum amount of our Class A common stock.

PIPE Investment

Certain purchasers of the PIPE Shares related to Starry entered into subscription agreements with FirstMark and us, pursuant to which they have subscribed for shares of our Class A Common Stock in connection with the sale of the PIPE Shares. Such purchasers of the PIPE Shares include (i) entities affiliated with ArrowMark (2,666,667 shares), which are affiliated with entities that collectively held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination, (ii) Tiger Global Long Opportunities Master Fund, L.P. (1,333,333 shares), which is affiliated with entities that collectively held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination, (iii) entities affiliated with FMR LLC (4,000,000 shares), which are affiliated with entities that collectively held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination and (iv) QSI, Inc. (200,000 shares), which held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination.

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, we and FirstMark entered into the subscription agreements, as amended, with purchasers of the PIPE Shares, pursuant to which such purchasers agreed to purchase, in the aggregate, 14,533,334 shares of our Common Stock at $7.50 per share for an aggregate commitment amount of $109.0 million. The purchase of the PIPE Shares was consummated on the Acquisition Merger Effective Date.

The subscription agreements provide that no later than 15 business days after the consummation of the Business Combination, we shall file a shelf registration statement covering the resale of the shares of our Common Stock issued to the purchasers of the PIPE Shares and we shall use our commercially reasonable efforts to have such

 

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registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof but no later than the earlier of (i) 60 calendar days after the filing thereof (or 90 calendar days after the filing date thereof if the SEC notifies FirstMark that it will “review” such registration statement) and (ii) the 10th business day after the date FirstMark is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the SEC that such registration statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review.

The subscription agreements will terminate, and be of no further force and effect, upon the earlier to occur of (i) such date and time as the Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, (ii) upon the mutual written agreement of FirstMark and the applicable purchaser of PIPE Shares, (iii) if the conditions set forth therein are not satisfied or are not capable of being satisfied prior to the closing of the transactions contemplated by the subscription agreements and, as a result thereof, the transactions contemplated therein will not be or are not consummated at the closing of the transactions contemplated by the subscription agreements) or (iv) July 6, 2022.

Series Z Investment

Certain purchasers of the Series Z Shares related to Starry entered into subscription agreements with us, pursuant to which they have subscribed for shares of Starry’s Series Z Preferred Stock in connection with the sale of the Series Z Shares. Such purchasers of the PIPE Shares include (i) entities affiliated with FirstMark Capital (2,800,000 shares), which are affiliated with entities that collectively held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination,and (ii) Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, L.P. (1,333,333 shares), which is affiliated with entities that collectively held more than 5% of Starry’s capital stock prior to the Business Combination.

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, we entered into one or more subscription agreements, as amended, with purchasers of the Series Z Shares, pursuant to which such purchasers agreed to purchase, in the aggregate, 4,133,333 shares of our Common Stock at $7.50 per share for an aggregate commitment amount of $31.0 million. The purchase of the Series Z Shares was consummated on the Acquisition Merger Effective Date.

Registration Rights Agreement

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, FirstMark, the Company, certain equity holders of FirstMark (“FirstMark Equity holders”) and certain equity holders of Starry (“Starry Equity holders,” and together with FirstMark Equity holders, the “Equity holders”), entered into the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, pursuant to which we agreed to, within 30 days of the Acquisition Merger Effective Date, register for resale, pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, certain shares of our Common Stock and our other equity securities that are held by the parties thereto from time to time.

Under the Registration Rights Agreement, in connection with any underwritten offering of our equity securities each Equity holder that participates in the underwritten offering pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement agrees that it shall not transfer any shares of our Common Stock or our other equity securities (other than those included in such offering pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement), without our prior written consent, during the 90-day period beginning on the date of pricing of such offering or such shorter period during which we agree not to conduct an underwritten primary offering of our Common Stock, except in the event the underwriters managing the offering otherwise agree by written consent. Each such Equity holder agrees to execute a customary lock-up agreement in favor of the underwriters to such effect (in each case on substantially the same terms and conditions as all such Equity holders).

The Registration Rights Agreement will terminate with respect to any Equity holder on the date that such Equity holder no longer holds our equity securities.

Starry Warrants

In connection with entering into the Starry Credit Agreement in February 2019, its subsequent amendment and restatement in December 2019, and the fifth amendment to the Starry Credit Agreement in October 2021, Starry issued 18,446,845 Starry Warrants to persons and entities affiliated with ArrowMark. The Starry Warrants that were vested automatically converted into our Common Stock immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Date.

 

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Commercial Agreements and Partnerships

QSI, Inc., a beneficial owner of more than 5% of Starry’s voting stock, prior to the Business Combination, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Quanta. QSI and Starry are party to a Strategic Alliance Agreement dated as of March 30, 2021 pursuant to which Starry agreed to retain QSI and its affiliates as a preferred service provider to perform professional services and construction services on behalf of Starry.

Indemnification Agreements

We entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and executive officers. The indemnification agreements and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws require us to indemnify our directors and executive officers to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Executive Officer and Director Compensation Arrangements

See the section entitled “Executive Compensation” for information regarding compensation arrangements with our executive officers and directors, which include, among other things, employment, termination of employment and change in control arrangements, stock awards and certain other benefits.

Director Independence

Each member of our Board, other than Mr. Kanojia, qualifies as independent, as defined under the listing rules of the NYSE. In addition, we are subject to the rules of the SEC and NYSE relating to the memberships, qualifications, and operations of the audit committee, as discussed above.

 

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.

The following table summarizes the fees of Deloitte & Touche LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, billed to us for each of the last two fiscal years for audit services and billed to us for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 (dollars in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  

Fee Category

   2021      2020  

Audit Fees(1)

   $ 918      $ 783  

Audit-Related Fees(2)

     1,061        0  

Tax Fees

     0        0  

All Other Fees(3)

     2        2  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Fees

   $ 1,981      $ 785  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1)

Audit fees for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 for professional services provided for the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

(2)

Audit-related fees incurred in connection with the preparation and filing of registration statements with the SEC.

(3)

Other fees for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were for the Deloitte Accounting Research Tool (“DART”) software subscription.

Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policy and Procedures

The audit committee has adopted a policy (the “Pre-Approval Policy”) that sets forth the procedures and conditions pursuant to which audit and non-audit services proposed to be performed by the independent auditor may be pre-approved. The Pre-Approval Policy generally provides that we will not engage the independent auditor to render any audit, audit-related, tax or permissible non-audit service unless the service is either (i) explicitly approved by the audit committee (“specific pre-approval”) or (ii) entered into pursuant to the pre-approval policies and procedures described in the Pre-Approval Policy (“general pre-approval”). Unless a type of service to be provided by the independent auditor has received general pre-approval under the Pre-Approval Policy, it requires specific pre-approval by the audit committee or by a designated member of the audit committee to whom the committee has delegated the authority to grant pre-approvals. Any proposed services exceeding pre-approved cost levels or budgeted amounts will also require specific pre-approval. For both types of pre-approval, the audit committee will consider whether such services are consistent with the SEC’s rules on auditor independence. The audit committee will also consider whether the independent auditor is best positioned to provide the most effective and efficient service, for reasons such as its familiarity with the Company’s business, people, culture, accounting systems, risk profile and other factors, and whether the service might enhance the Company’s ability to manage or control risk or improve audit quality. All such factors will be considered as a whole, and no one factor should necessarily be determinative. On a periodic basis, the audit committee may review and generally pre-approve the services (and related fee levels or budgeted amounts) that may be provided by the independent auditor without first obtaining specific pre-approval from the audit committee. The audit committee may revise the list of general pre-approved services from time to time, based on subsequent determinations.

 

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PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

(a)(1) Financial Statements.

The following documents are included on pages F-1 through F-38 attached hereto and are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

     Page  

Starry, Inc.

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No. 34)

     F-2  

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020

     F-3  

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December  31, 2021 and 2020

     F-5  

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020

     F-6  

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December  31, 2021 and 2020

     F-7  

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

     F-8  

Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No. 34)

     F-35  

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December  31, 2021 and September 17, 2021

     F-36  

Notes to the Balance Sheets

     F-37  

(a)(2) Financial Statement Schedules.

All financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not applicable, not required or the information is shown in the financial statements or the notes thereto.

(a)(3) Exhibits.

The following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

    

Incorporated by Reference

  

Filed /
Furnished
Herewith

Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

  

Form

  

File No.

  

Exhibit

  

Filing Date

  2.1†    Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October  6, 2021, as amended, by and among FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., Starry Holdings, Inc. and Starry, Inc.    S-4    333-260847    2.1    February 9, 2022   
  3.1    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.                *
  3.2    Bylaws of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.                *
  4.1    Warrant Agreement, dated October 8, 2020, between FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. and Continental Stock Transfer  & Trust Company, as warrant agent.    8-K    001-39585    4.1    October 8, 2020   
  4.2    Warrant Assignment, Assumption and Amendment Agreement, dated March 28, 2022, by and among FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Starry Group Holdings, Inc., and Continental Stock Transfer  & Trust Company.                *
  4.3    Specimen Warrant Certificate of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.                *
  4.4    Description of Capital Stock.                *
10.1#    Form of Indemnification Agreement.                *
10.2    Form of the PIPE Subscription Agreement.    S-4    333-260847    10.3    February 9, 2022   
10.3    Form of Amendment and Waiver to PIPE Subscription Agreement.    8-K    001-41336    10.2    March 29, 2022   

 

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10.4    Form of the Series Z Subscription Agreement.    S-4    333-260847    10.4    February 9, 2022   
10.5    Waiver and Amendment to Series Z Subscription Agreement, dated March 28, 2022, by and among Starry, Inc. and certain investors affiliated with FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC.                *
10.6    Series Z Subscription Agreement, dated March 25, 2022, between Starry, Inc. and Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP.    8-K    001-41336    10.5    March 29, 2022   
10.7    Sponsor Support Agreement, dated as of October  6, 2021, by and among FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC, certain directors of FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Starry Holdings, Inc. and Starry, Inc.    S-4    333-260847    10.6    February 9, 2022   
10.8    Amendment to Sponsor Support Agreement, dated March  28, 2022, by and among FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC, certain directors of FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Starry Group Holdings, Inc., and Starry, Inc.    8-K    001-41336    10.4    March 29, 2022   
10.9    Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated March  28, 2022, by and among Starry Group Holdings, Inc., FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., certain equityholders of FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., and certain equityholders of Starry, Inc.                *
10.10    Merger Agreement Waiver, dated March  28, 2022, by and among FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., Starry Group Holdings, Inc., and Starry, Inc.    8-K    001-41336    10.1    March 29, 2022   
10.11    Form of Non-Redemption Agreement, dated March 9, 2022.                *
10.12    Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated December  13, 2019 (as conformed through the Fifth Amendment), by and among Starry, Inc., Starry Spectrum Holdings LLC, Starry (MA), Inc., Starry Spectrum LLC, Testco LLC, Widmo Holdings LLC and Vibrant Composites Inc., as borrowers, the lenders party thereto and ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC, as administrative agent.                *
10.13    Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 13, 2022.                *
10.14    Seventh Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2022.                *
10.15#    Starry, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan.    S-4    333-260847    10.9    December 20, 2021   
10.16#    March 2021 Amendment to the Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan.    S-4    333-260847    10.10    December 20, 2021   
10.17#    Form of Executive Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the Starry, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan.    S-4    333-260847    10.11    December 20, 2021   
10.18#    Form of Employee Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the Starry, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan.    S-4    333-260847    10.12    December 20, 2021   
10.19#    Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement under the Starry, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan.    S-4    333-260847    10.13    December 20, 2021   

 

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10.20#    Starry Group Holdings, Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan.                *
10.21#    Starry Group Holdings, Inc. 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.                *
10.22†+    Amended and Restated Master Access Agreement, dated May 22, 2018, by and between Starry, Inc. and Related Management Company, L.P.    S-4    333-260847    10.14    December 20, 2021   
10.23†+    Amended and Restated Strategic Alliance Agreement, dated May 11, 2021, by and between Starry, Inc. and AEP Ventures, LLC.    S-4    333-260847    10.15    December 20, 2021   
10.24†+    Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Strategic Alliance Agreement, dated September  14, 2021, by and between Starry, Inc. and AEP Ventures, LLC.    S-4    333-260847    10.16    December 20, 2021   
10.25†+    Strategic Alliance Agreement, dated March 30, 2021, by and between Starry, Inc. and QSI, Inc.    S-4    333-260847    10.17    December 20, 2021   
10.26†+    Manufacturing Services Agreement, dated March 1, 2021, by and between Starry, Inc. and Benchmark Electronics, Inc.    S-4    333-260847    10.18    December 20, 2021   
10.27†+    Master Services Agreement, dated December 8, 2021 between Starry, Inc. and Abside Networks, Inc.    S-4    333-260847    10.19    January 14, 2022   
10.28†+    Development Agreement, dated August 27, 2021 between Starry, Inc. and Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC.    S-4    333-260847    10.20    January 14, 2022   
10.29#    Offer Letter by and between Chaitanya Kanojia and Starry , Inc., dated as of June 10, 2015.                *
10.30#    Offer Letter by and between Joseph Lipowski and Starry, Inc., dated as of February 24, 2015.                *
10.31#    Offer Letter by and between Alex Moulle-Berteaux and Starry , Inc., dated as of February 24, 2015.                *
10.32#    Separation Agreement by and between Gregg Bien and Starry, Inc., dated September 3, 2020.                *
14.1    Code of Conduct and Ethics of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.                *
21.1    List of subsidiaries of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.    S-4    333-260847    21.1    February 9, 2022   
31.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a).                *
31.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a).                *
32.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.                **
32.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350.                **

 

*

Filed herewith.

**

Furnished herewith.

#

Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.

Certain of the exhibits and schedules to this exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5). The registrant agrees to furnish a copy of all omitted exhibits and schedules to the SEC upon its request.

+

Certain portions of this exhibit (indicated by “[***]”) have been omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item (601)(b)(10).

 

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ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY.

None.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

    STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.
Date: March 31, 2022     By:  

/s/    Chaitanya Kanojia        

      Chaitanya Kanojia
      Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

   Chief Executive Officer and Director   March 31, 2022
Chaitanya Kanojia    (principal executive officer)  

/s/ Komal Misra

   Chief Financial Officer   March 31, 2022
Komal Misra    (principal financial officer and
principal accounting officer)
 

/s/ James Chiddix

   Director   March 31, 2022
James Chiddix     

/s/ Amish Jani

   Director   March 31, 2022
Amish Jani     

/s/ Elizabeth A. Graham

   Director   March 31, 2022
Elizabeth A. Graham     

/s/ Robert L. Nabors II

   Director   March 31, 2022
Robert L. Nabors II     

 

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Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

 

     Page  

Starry, Inc.

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No. 34)

     F-2  

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020

     F-3  

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December  31, 2021 and 2020

     F-5  

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020

     F-6  

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December  31, 2021 and 2020

     F-7  

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

     F-8  

Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No. 34)

     F-35  

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December  31, 2021 and September 17, 2021

     F-36  

Notes to the Balance Sheets

     F-37  

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Starry, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Starry, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the related consolidated statement of operations, stockholders’ (deficit) equity, and cash flows, for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has generated losses and negative cash flows from operating activities since inception and may be unable to remain in compliance with certain financial covenants required by its Credit Agreement that raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regards to these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB and in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

March 31, 2022

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2019.

 

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Starry, Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     December 31,
2021
     December 31,
2020
 

Assets

     

Current assets:

     

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 29,384      $ 25,594  

Restricted cash

     —          110  

Accounts receivable, net

     380        264  

Deferred costs

     7,049        —    

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     7,079        1,840  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current assets

     43,892        27,808  

Property and equipment, net

     129,019        86,658  

Intangible assets

     48,463        48,463  

Restricted cash and other assets

     1,860        1,361  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 223,234      $ 164,290  

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity (deficit)

     

Current liabilities:

     

Accounts payable

   $ 6,832      $ 7,457  

Unearned revenue

     1,630        1,169  

Current portion of debt

     1,504        29,875  

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     23,177        13,073  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     33,143        51,574  

Debt, net of current portion

     191,596        133,932  

Asset retirement obligations

     2,387        1,399  

Warrant liabilities

     14,773        —    

Other liabilities

     12,412        3,068  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     254,311        189,973  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements

 

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Starry, Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     Year Ended
December 31,

2021
    Year Ended
December 31,

2020
 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)

    

Stockholders’ equity (deficit):

    

Seed series convertible preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 53,030,270 shares authorized; 53,030,260 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (liquidation preference of $7,000)

     6,990       6,990  

Series A convertible preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 91,549,300 shares authorized, issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (liquidation preference of $26,000)

     25,946       25,946  

Series B convertible preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 55,452,865 shares authorized, issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (liquidation preference of $30,000)

     29,910       29,910  

Series C convertible preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 108,459,871 shares authorized, issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (liquidation preference of $100,000)

     99,989       99,989  

Series D convertible preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 87,412,587 shares authorized, issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (liquidation preference of $125,000)

     124,915       124,915  

Series E convertible preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 104,841,877 shares authorized; 101,865,687 and 0 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively (liquidation preference of $162,784)

     165,434       —    

Common stock; $0.001 par value; 815,000,000 shares authorized; 201,972,619 and 196,415,008 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively

     14       9  

Additional paid-in capital

     17,096       21,384  

Accumulated deficit

     (501,371     (334,826
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ (deficit) equity

     (31,077     (25,683
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ (deficit) equity

   $ 223,234     $ 164,290  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements

 

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Starry, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     For the Years
Ended December 31,
 
     2021     2020  

Revenues

   $ 22,263     $ 12,826  

Cost of revenues

     (58,363     (38,529
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross loss

     (36,100     (25,703

Operating expenses:

    

Selling, general and administrative

     (67,129     (55,240

Research and development

     (26,308     (22,957
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     (93,437     (78,197
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (129,537     (103,900

Other income (expense):

    

Interest expense

     (24,739     (19,382

Other income (expense), net

     (12,269     (1,811
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total other expense

     (37,008     (21,193
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (166,545   $ (125,093
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss per share of voting and non-voting common stock, basic and diluted

   $ (0.84   $ (0.64
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

     198,664,761       194,177,522  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements

 

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Starry, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except share data)

 

    Series Seed Convertible
Preferred Stock
    Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
    Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
    Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock
    Series D Convertible
Preferred Stock
    Series E Convertible
Preferred Stock
    Common Stock     Additional
Paid-In
Capital
    Accumulated Stockholders’  
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Par Value     Deficit     (Deficit) Equity  

Balance at December 31, 2019

    53,030,260     $ 6,990       91,549,300     $ 25,946       55,452,865     $ 29,910       108,459,871     $ 99,989       65,909,090     $ 94,177       —       $ —         194,974,082     $ 6     $ 16,312     $ (209,733   $ 63,597  
                                 

Issuance of Series D convertible preferred stock, net of issuance costs of $12

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         21,503,497       30,738       —         —         —         —           —       $ 30,738  

Recognition of beneficial conversion feature on convertible notes

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         3,932       $ 3,932  

Issuance of common stock options

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         1,440,926       3       180       —       $ 183  

Share-based compensation

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         960       —       $ 960  

Net loss

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         (125,093   $ (125,093
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2020

    53,030,260     $ 6,990       91,549,300     $ 25,946       55,452,865     $ 29,910       108,459,871     $ 99,989       87,412,587     $ 124,915       —       $ —         196,415,008     $ 9     $ 21,384     $ (334,826   $ (25,683

Recognition of beneficial conversion feature on convertible notes

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —       $ —    

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of warrants

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         2,293,013       2       (2     —       $ —    

Issuance of common stock options

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         3,264,598       3       749       —       $ 752  

Issuance of Series E convertible preferred stock, net of issuance costs of $150

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         71,428,570       119,850       —         —         —         —       $ 119,850  

Conversion of convertible notes payable to Series E convertible preferred stock

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         30,437,117       45,584       —         —         —         —       $ 45,584  

Reclassification of 2019 warrants to liabilities

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         (6,345     —       $ (6,345

Share-based compensation

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         1,310       —       $ 1,310  

Net loss

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         —         (166,545   $ (166,545
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2021

    53,030,260     $ 6,990       91,549,300     $ 25,946       55,452,865     $ 29,910       108,459,871     $ 99,989       87,412,587     $ 124,915       101,865,687     $ 165,434       201,972,619     $ 14     $ 17,096     $ (501,371   $ (31,077
                                 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements

 

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Starry, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except share data)

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021     2020  

Operating activities:

    

Net loss

   $ (166,545   $ (125,093

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

    

Depreciation and amortization expense

     29,463       19,350  

Paid-in-kind interest on term loans, convertible notes payable and strategic partner obligations

     18,203       15,427  

Amortization of debt discount and deferred charges

     5,438       3,820  

Conversion of debt discount

     971       —    

Loss on extinguishment of debt

     3,727       —    

Fair value adjustment of derivative liability

     8,562       1,850  

Loss on disposal of property and equipment

     2,216       1,549  

Share-based compensation

     1,310       960  

Accretion of asset retirement obligations

     205       114  

Provision for doubtful accounts

     154       117  

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

    

Accounts receivable

     (270     (327

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     (5,240     162  

Other assets

     (248     (2

Accounts payable

     (1,249     676  

Unearned revenue

     461       832  

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     3,477       402  

Other liabilities

     782       1,218  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in operating activities

     (98,583     (78,945

Investing activities:

    

Purchases of property and equipment

     (68,903     (35,906
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (68,903     (35,906

Financing activities:

    

Proceeds from the issuance of convertible notes payable and beneficial conversion feature on convertible notes

     11,000       31,243  

Proceeds from Strategic Partner Arrangement

     3,342       1,722  

Proceeds from exercise of common stock options

     752       183  

Proceeds from issuance of Series D preferred stock, net of issuance costs

     —         30,738  

Proceeds from the issuance of Series E Preferred Stock, net of issuance costs

     119,850       —    

Proceeds from the issuance of term loans, net of issuance costs

     38,500       —    

Payments of third-party issuance costs in connection with Term Loans

     (264     —    

Payments of deferred transaction costs

     (975     —    

Repayments of capital lease obligations, net

     (788     (570
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     171,417       63,316  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash:

     3,931       (51,535

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period

     26,831       78,366  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period

   $ 30,762     $ 26,831  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements

 

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Starry, Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except share and per share data)

Note 1. Description of business

Starry, Inc. (“Starry” or “the Company”) was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. The Company is in the telecommunications industry and invests in the future of fixed wireless technology. Starry, Inc. delivers high-quality and affordable broadband access using innovative, proprietary wideband hybrid fiber wireless technology. Active phased arrays are used to amplify wireless signals and optimize service from multiple antennas deployed throughout a region. By using a fixed wireless network, reliance on municipal infrastructure is reduced, extensive installation times are bypassed, and network deployment is increased in comparison to its fiber competitors. Services are provided to customers in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Washington, D.C. and Columbus.

On September 17, 2021, Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (“New Starry”) was incorporated as a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry. New Starry was formed solely for the purpose of effectuating the SPAC Merger (defined below) and to serve as the publicly traded parent company of Starry following the closing of the Acquisition Merger (defined below). New Starry owns no material assets or liabilities and does not operate any business.

Business Combination

On October 6, 2021, FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp (“FirstMark”), Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of FirstMark (“Merger Sub”), Starry and New Starry entered into a merger agreement. Pursuant to the merger agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions contained therein, a business combination will be effected in two steps: (a) FirstMark will merge with and into New Starry, with New Starry surviving the merger as a publicly traded entity and becoming the sole owner of Merger Sub (referred to as the “SPAC Merger”), and (b) Merger Sub will merge with and into Starry, with Starry surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of New Starry (referred to as the “Acquisition Merger”) (collectively, referred to as the “Business Combination”).

PIPE Subscription Agreement

In connection with the execution of the merger agreement, FirstMark and New Starry entered into the PIPE subscription agreements with the PIPE investors, pursuant to which, among other things, the PIPE investors party thereto agreed to purchase an aggregate of 10,900,000 shares of New Starry Class A common stock following the close of the SPAC Merger and immediately prior to the close of the Acquisition Merger at a cash purchase price of $10.00 per share, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $109,000 in the PIPE investment. The PIPE subscription agreements contain customary representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of FirstMark and the PIPE investors and are subject to customary closing conditions and termination rights. The PIPE Investment is expected to close following the close of the SPAC Merger and immediately prior to the close of the Acquisition Merger.

Convertible Notes Subscription Agreement

In connection with the execution of the merger agreement, FirstMark entered into the Convertible Notes subscription agreements with the Convertible Notes investors, pursuant to which, among other things, the Convertible Notes investors agreed to purchase an aggregate of $150,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Acquisition Merger, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $150,000 in the Convertible Notes investment. The Convertible Notes subscription agreements contain customary representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of FirstMark and the Convertible Notes investors and are subject to customary closing conditions and termination rights. The Convertible Notes investment is expected to close immediately prior to the close of the Acquisition Merger.

Series Z Subscription Agreement

In connection with the execution of the merger agreement, Starry entered into the Series Z Subscription Agreement with the Series Z Investors (affiliates of FirstMark), pursuant to which the Series Z Investors agreed to subscribe and

 

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purchase, in the aggregate, 2,100,000 shares of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock at $10.00 per share for an aggregate commitment amount of $21,000. The closings under the Series Z Subscription Agreement will occur immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the closing date of the Acquisition Merger.

Starry shall take all actions necessary to cause each share of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition Merger to be converted into the right to receive a number of shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock equal to the number of shares of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock held by each holder of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition Merger.

On the closing date of the Acquisition Merger and immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition Merger, (a) each then-outstanding share of Starry Preferred Stock (excluding the Series Z Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share of Starry (“Starry Series Z Preferred Stock”) will convert automatically into a number of shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Starry (“Starry Common Stock”) at the then-effective conversion rate as calculated pursuant to the certificate of incorporation of Starry (the “Conversion”); and (b) each then-outstanding and unexercised warrant of Starry (the “Starry Warrants”) will automatically be exercised in exchange for shares of Starry Common Stock pursuant to the terms of such Starry Warrant and shall be automatically cancelled, extinguished and retired and cease to exist.

At the effective time of the Acquisition Merger, pursuant to the Acquisition Merger: (a) each then-outstanding share of Starry Common Stock, including shares of Starry Common Stock resulting from the Conversion, will be canceled and automatically converted into the right to receive (i) with respect to Chaitanya Kanojia, the number of shares of Class X common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of New Starry (the “New Starry Class X Common Stock”) and (ii) with respect to any other persons who hold Starry Common Stock, the number of shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock, in each case, equal to the applicable exchange ratio (determined in accordance with the merger agreement and as further described in the proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC and dated February 11, 2022); (b) each share of then-outstanding Starry Series Z Preferred Stock will convert automatically into the right to receive shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock on a one-to-one basis (c) each then-outstanding and unexercised option of Starry (a “Starry Option”) will be converted into an option exercisable for shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock (a “New Starry Option”), on the same terms and conditions as were applicable to such Starry Option, based on the exchange ratio (determined in accordance with the merger agreement and as further described in the proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC and dated February 11, 2022); and (d) each then-outstanding award of restricted stock units of Starry (a “Starry RSU Award”) will be converted into an award covering shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock (a “New Starry RSU Award”), on the same terms and conditions as were applicable to such Starry RSU Award, based on the exchange ratio (determined in accordance with the merger agreement and as further described in the proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC and dated February 11, 2022).

Going concern: Pursuant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) codification Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205, Presentation of Financial Statements, the Company is required to assess its ability to continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the date of the issuance of the consolidated financial statements.

Substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern exists when relevant conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, indicate that it is probable that the entity will be unable to meet its obligations as they become due within one year from the financial statement issuance date.

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and settlement of liabilities in the normal course of business. The Company is an early-stage growth company and has generated losses and negative cash flows from operating activities since inception. The Company requires additional capital investment to execute the strategic business plan to grow its subscriber base in existing markets from already-deployed network assets and launch services in new markets. Management plans to raise additional capital through a combination of potential options, including but not limited to, equity and debt financings.

Additional equity financing may not be available on favorable terms and could be dilutive to current stockholders. Debt financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants and dilutive financing instruments.

As of December 31, 2021, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenant required by the Credit Agreement. However, the inherent uncertainties described above may impact the Company’s ability to remain in compliance with this covenant over the next twelve months. If the Company breaches its financial covenant and fails to secure a waiver or forbearance from the third-party lender, such breach or failure could accelerate the repayment of the outstanding borrowing under the Credit Agreement or the exercise of other rights or remedies the third-party lender may have under applicable law. No assurance can be provided that a waiver or forbearance will be granted or the outstanding borrowing under the Credit Agreement will be successfully refinanced on terms that are acceptable to the Company.

 

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The Company’s ability to access capital when needed is not assured and, if capital is not available to the Company when, and in the amounts needed, the Company could be required to delay, scale back or abandon some or all of its expansion efforts and other operations, which could materially harm the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations. Because of this uncertainty, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for at least one year from the date that these consolidated financial statements are issued, and therefore, whether we realize our assets and settle our liabilities in the normal course of business and at the amounts stated in the accompanying consolidated financial statements. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty, nor do they include adjustments to reflect the future effects of the recoverability or classification of recorded asset amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

Note 2. Summary of significant accounting policies

Basis of presentation and principles of consolidation: The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and include the assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses of all majority-owned subsidiaries over which the Company exercises control. All material intercompany accounts, transactions and profits are eliminated in consolidation.

Emerging Growth Company: Section 102(b)(1) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (“JOBS Act”) exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard, until such time the Company is no longer considered to be an emerging growth company. At times, the Company may elect to early adopt a new or revised standard.

Use of estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, and the amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company’s most significant estimates and judgments involve valuation of share-based compensation, including the fair value of common stock, the valuation of warrants and derivative liabilities, the assessment of asset retirement obligations, internal labor capitalization, and impairment assessments. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Actual results may differ from management’s estimates if these results differ from historical experience or other assumptions prove not to be substantially accurate, even if such assumptions are reasonable when made.

Uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic: On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” and on March 11, 2020, declared it to be a pandemic. Actions taken around the world to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus include restrictions on travel, quarantines in certain areas and forced closures for certain types of public places and businesses. The coronavirus and actions taken to mitigate the spread of it have had and are expected to continue to have an adverse impact on the economies and financial markets of many countries, including the geographical area in which the Company operates. On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was enacted to, amongst other provisions, provide emergency assistance for individuals, families and businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, the Company believes the extent of the impact to its business, operating results, cash flows, liquidity and financial condition will be primarily driven by the severity and duration of the coronavirus pandemic, the pandemic’s impact on the U.S. and global economies and the timing, scope and effectiveness of federal, state and local governmental responses to the pandemic. Those primary drivers are beyond the Company’s knowledge and control, and as a result, at this time the Company is unable to predict the cumulative

 

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impact, both in terms of severity and duration, that the coronavirus pandemic will have on its business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition, but it could be material if the current circumstances continue to exist for a prolonged period of time. Although we have made our best estimates based upon current information, actual results could materially differ from the estimates and assumptions developed by management. Accordingly, it is reasonably possible that the estimates made in these consolidated financial statements have been, or will be, materially and adversely impacted in the near term as a result of these conditions, and if so, the Company may be subject to future impairment losses related to long-lived assets as well as changes to recorded reserves and valuations.

Segment information: Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 280, Segment Reporting, defines operating segments as components of an enterprise where discrete financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision-maker (“CODM”) in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company operates as a single operating segment. The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is the chief executive officer, who has ultimate responsibility for the operating performance of the Company and the allocation of resources.

Concentration of credit risk: Financial instruments which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and accounts receivable. At times, such cash may be in excess of the FDIC limit. At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had cash in excess of the $250,000 federally insured limit. The Company believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk on cash and cash equivalents as the Company’s cash and cash equivalents are placed with high-credit quality financial institutions and issuers, and at times exceed federally insured limits. To date, the Company has not experienced any credit loss relating to its cash and cash equivalents.

With respect to accounts receivable, the Company routinely assesses the financial strength of its customers and, as a consequence, believes that the receivable credit risk exposure is limited. Substantially all of the Company’s trade accounts receivables are with commercial customers. Concentration of credit risk are limited due to the number of the Company’s customers as well as their dispersion across different geographic regions.

Cash and cash equivalents: The Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less at the time of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents include cash held in banks and money market accounts. Cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates fair value due to their short-term nature.

Restricted cash: Restricted cash held at December 31, 2021 and 2020 consists of escrow deposits required for real estate lease agreements, a letter of credit for the corporate credit card and a customs bond. Such restrictions related to real estate lease agreements will terminate upon the lease expiration date, which expire at various dates through 2026. Restricted cash is classified as either a current or non-current asset on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets based on the terms of the lease agreement, letter of credit and customs bond.

Accounts receivable, net: Accounts receivable are stated at a gross invoice amount, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. The allowance for doubtful accounts is maintained at a level considered adequate to provide for potential account losses on the balance based on management’s evaluation of the anticipated impact of current economic conditions, changes in the character and size of the balance, past and expected future loss experience, among other pertinent factors. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, there was an allowance for doubtful accounts totaling $147 and $117, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2021 the provision was raised by $154, offset by $124 in write offs of customer balances. For the year ended December 31, 2020 the provision was raised in full, with no associated write offs.

Deferred costs: Deferred costs primarily consist of deferred transaction costs, which includes direct and incremental professional service fees related to the Company’s proposed Business Combination that are deferred as incurred. The deferred transaction costs will be offset against proceeds upon the consummation of the Business Combination. In the event the Business Combination is terminated, the deferred transaction costs will be expensed. The Company deferred $5,225 in deferred transaction costs as of December 31, 2021. No amounts were deferred as of December 31, 2020.

 

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As of December 31, 2021, deferred costs also consist of $1,824 in deferred charge assets, primarily comprised of the $1,695 in Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants contingently issuable in connection with the Fifth Amendment (see Note 4).

Fair value measurements: ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based upon assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, ASC 820 establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:

Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Company can access at the measurement date.

Level 2: Significant other observable inputs other than level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.

Level 3: Significant unobservable inputs that reflect the Company’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.

An asset’s or liability’s fair value measurement level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. Valuation techniques used need to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are based on one or more of the following three valuation techniques noted in ASC 820:

 

   

Market approach: Prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.

 

   

Cost approach: Amount that would be required to replace the service capacity of an asset (replacement cost).

 

   

Income approach: Techniques to convert future amounts to a single present value amount based upon market expectations (including present value techniques, option pricing and excess earnings models)

The Company believes its valuation methods are appropriate and consistent with those used by other market participants, however the use of different methodologies or assumptions to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a different fair value measurement at the reporting date.

The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses, term loans, convertible notes payable and warrant liabilities. The carrying value of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses and convertible notes payable approximate fair value because of the short-term nature of those instruments. Due to the variable rate nature of the Company’s term loans, the fair value of debt approximates the carrying value of debt.

The warrant liabilities were initially and subsequently measured at fair value using a Black-Scholes model at each measurement date based on Level 3 inputs. As of October 6, 2021 (the issuance date) and December 31, 2021, the fair value of the warrant liabilities was $14,773. The following table provides quantitative information regarding the Level 3 fair value measurement inputs:

 

     As of
October 6,
2021
    As of
December 31,
2021
 

Exercise price

   $ 0.01     $ 0.01  

Common stock fair value

   $ 1.81     $ 1.81  

Term (in years)

     10.0       9.8  

Volatility

     27.56     27.56

Risk-free interest rate

     1.53     1.52

Expected dividends

     0     0

 

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Prepaid expenses and other current assets: Prepaid expenses and other current assets include prepaid inventory, prepaid software, prepaid marketing, prepaid insurance, other prepaid expenses and amounts owed under the 2020 Strategic Partner Arrangement (see Note 12), all of which are expected to be recognized or realized within the next 12 months.

Property and equipment, net: Purchased and constructed property and equipment is recorded at cost. The estimated value of any associated legally or contractually required retirement obligation is also included in the cost basis. Employee-related costs for construction and installation of deployed equipment included within the distribution system are capitalized during the construction phase. On a periodic basis, costs within construction in progress are reviewed and a determination is made if the assets being developed will be put into use. If it is concluded that the asset will not be put into use, the costs will be expensed. If the asset will be put into use, the costs are transferred from construction in progress to distribution system when substantially all of the activities necessary to construct the assets for their intended use are completed. Depreciation commences upon completion.

Property and equipment are depreciated or amortized using the straight-line method, based upon the following estimated useful lives:

 

Equipment

  3 years

Furniture and fixtures

  3 years

Software

  3 years

Vehicles

  4 years

Leasehold improvements

  shorter of lease term or 5 years

Site acquisition costs

  5 years

Distribution system

  3 -10 years

Asset retirement obligation

  10 years

Construction-in-process

  N/A

Major renewals and improvements are capitalized while replacements and maintenance and repairs, which do not improve or extend the lives of the respective assets, are expensed as incurred. When property and equipment is retired or otherwise disposed of, the related cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts, and any gain or loss on the disposition is recorded in the consolidated statements of operations as a component of cost of revenues or selling, general and administrative expenses, depending on the nature of the property and equipment.

Impairment of long-lived assets: The Company reviews long-lived assets, including property and equipment, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that an asset group’s carrying amount may not be recoverable. The Company conducts its long-lived asset impairment analysis in accordance with ASC 360-10, Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, which requires the Company to group assets and liabilities at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities and evaluate the asset group against the sum of the undiscounted future cash flows. If the undiscounted cash flows do not indicate the carrying amount of the asset group is recoverable, an impairment charge is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset group exceeds its fair value. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, no impairments were recorded.

Intangible assets: Intangible assets consist of spectrum licenses acquired through a Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) auction in June 2019 (the “FCC licenses”). The FCC licenses provide the Company with the exclusive right to utilize certain radio frequency spectrum to provide wireless services. While the FCC licenses are issued for a fixed period of time, generally ten years, renewals within the industry have occurred routinely and at nominal cost. There are no legal, regulatory, contractual, competitive, economic or other factors that limit the useful lives of the FCC licenses. Accordingly, the FCC licenses were determined to be indefinite-lived intangible assets. The Company re-evaluates the useful life determination for the FCC licenses, annually, as of October 1 to determine whether events and circumstances continue to support an indefinite useful life.

 

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The FCC licenses are tested for potential impairment annually, as of October 1, or more frequently if impairment indicators are present. ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (“ASC 350”), provides the option to first perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is necessary to perform a quantitative impairment test. ASC 350 permits the Company to elect to bypass the qualitative assessment in any period and proceed directly to performing the quantitative impairment test. The quantitative assessment consists of comparing the estimated fair value of the FCC licenses to the aggregated carrying amount as of the test date. As of October 1, 2021, the Company elected to perform a quantitative assessment using a market-based approach that did not result in impairment. As of October 1, 2020, the Company performed a qualitative assessment that did not identify any indicators of impairment that would require a quantitative assessment to be performed.

Asset retirement obligations: The Company accounts for asset retirement obligations (“ARO”) in accordance with ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations, which requires the recognition of a liability for the fair value of a legally acquired asset retirement obligation when incurred if the liability’s fair value can be reasonably estimated. The Company’s ARO liabilities are associated with the removal of deployed equipment from properties where such assets reside, resulting from contractual obligations to restore the space to a condition specified in the contract.

The Company records the net present value of the ARO liability and a related capital asset, in an equal amount, for contracts which result in an ARO. The estimated ARO liability is based on a number of assumptions, including costs to remove deployed equipment, expected life, inflation rates and discount rates. Accretion expense related to the ARO liability is recognized as a component of selling, general and administrative expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Upon ARO fulfillment, any difference between actual retirement expense incurred and the recorded estimated ARO liability is recognized as a gain or loss in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations as a component of other income (expense).

For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no settlements of the ARO liabilities.

Revenues: The Company recognizes revenues in accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which provides a five-step model for recognizing revenue from contracts with customers as follows:

 

   

Identify the contract with a customer

 

   

Identify the performance obligations in the contract

 

   

Determine the transaction price

 

   

Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract

 

   

Recognize revenue when or as performance obligations are satisfied

The Company delivers high-quality and affordable broadband internet access to its customers using innovative, proprietary wideband hybrid fiber wireless technology and related support on a subscription basis. The Company’s subscription rate for such services is a per month fixed price for service without limitations on usage. The majority of customers are individual users who may also receive subsidized internet services through federal subsidies such as the Emergency Broadband Benefit (“EBB”) program, but a small amount are commercial arrangements where a building owner is the party who we contract with and pays for all the units in a building or for the units utilizing the service.

Income taxes: The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in the Company’s financial statements and tax returns. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based upon the differences between the financial statements carrying amounts and the tax bases of existing assets and liabilities and for loss and credit carryforwards, using enacted tax rates expected to be in effect in the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance if it is more likely than not that these assets may not be realized.

The Company provides reserves for potential payments of taxes to various tax authorities related to uncertain tax positions. Amounts recognized are based on a determination of whether a tax benefit taken by the Company in its tax filings or positions is “more likely than not” to be sustained on audit. The amount recognized is equal to the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be sustained. Interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions are recorded as a component of income tax expense.

 

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The Company uses a two-step approach for recognizing and measuring tax benefits taken or expected to be taken in a tax return regarding uncertainties in income tax positions. The first step is recognition: the Company determines whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. In evaluating whether a tax position has met the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Company presumes that the position will be examined by the appropriate taxing authority with full knowledge of all relevant information. The second step is measurement: a tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold is measured to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the financial statements. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Differences between tax positions taken in a tax return and amounts recognized in the financial statements will generally result in one or more of the following: an increase in a liability for income taxes payable, a reduction of an income tax refund receivable, a reduction in a deferred tax asset or an increase in a deferred tax liability. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company has not identified any uncertain tax positions for which reserves would be required.

Share-based compensation: The Company accounts for its share-based compensation awards in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”), under which share based payments that involve the issuance of common stock to employees and nonemployees and meet the criteria for equity-classified awards are recognized in the consolidated financial statements as share-based compensation expense based on the fair value on the date of grant. The Company issues stock-based awards to employees, directors and nonemployees, including stock option awards and restricted stock awards.

The Company or its assignees have the right, but not the obligation, upon the termination of employment of an employee or termination of the service relationship of a non-employee, in either case who holds shares of the Company’s common stock acquired upon exercise of options (“Purchased Shares”) to repurchase from such holder some or all (as determined by the Company) of such Purchased Shares. This repurchase right may be exercised by the Company within the later of six months following the date of termination of employment in the case of an employee, or termination of service relationship in the case of non-employee, or seven months after the acquisition of such Purchased Shares upon exercise of the underlying options. The Company assesses the probability of repurchasing shares on a grantee-by-grantee basis. To date, the Company has not exercised its rights to acquire Purchased Shares from any ex-employee or non-employee. Therefore, the Company has determined that it is not probable that it will repurchase Purchased Shares in the future and as a result such options are accounted for as equity awards.

The Company utilizes the Black-Scholes model, which requires the input of subjective assumptions to determine the fair value of stock-based awards. These assumptions include estimating (a) the length of time grantees will retain their vested stock options before exercising them for employees and the contractual term of the option for nonemployees (“expected term”), (b) the volatility of the Company’s common stock price over the expected term, (c) expected dividends, (d) the fair value of common stock and (e) the risk-free interest rate. The Company has elected to recognize forfeitures in the period in which they occur.

The Company recognizes compensation cost on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the awards for employees, which is typically the four-year vesting period of the award, and effective contract period specified in the award agreement for non-employee.

The assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model are management’s best estimates, but the estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management judgment (see Note 6). As a result, if other assumptions had been used, the recorded share-based compensation expense could have been materially different from that depicted in the consolidated financial statements.

Warrants: The Company applies relevant accounting guidance for warrants to purchase the Company’s stock based on the nature of the relationship with the counterparty. For warrants issued to investors or lenders in exchange for cash or other financial assets, the Company follows guidance issued within ASC 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (“ASC 480”), and ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (“ASC 815”), to assist in the determination of

 

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whether the warrants should be classified as liabilities or equity. Warrants that are determined to require liability classification are measured at fair value upon issuance and are subsequently re-measured to their then fair value at each subsequent reporting period, with changes in fair value recorded in current earnings. Warrants that are determined to require equity classification are measured at fair value upon issuance and are not subsequently remeasured unless they are required to be reclassified.

For warrants issued to nonemployees for goods or services, the Company follows guidance issued within ASC 718 to determine whether the share-based payments are equity or liability classified, and are measured at fair value on the grant date. The related expense is recognized in the same period and in the same manner as if the Company had paid cash for the goods or services.

Advertising costs: The Company expenses advertising costs as incurred. Such expenses for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 totaled $2,977 and $1,344, respectively, and are included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

Research and development expense: Research and development costs do not meet the requirements to be recognized as an asset as the associated future benefits were at best uncertain and there was no alternative future use at the time the costs were incurred. Research and development costs include, but are not limited to, costs incurred in performing research and development activities, including salaries, benefits, facilities, rent, software, depreciation, research-related overhead, contracted services, license fees and other external costs.

Sale-leasebacks: Sale-leasebacks are transactions through which the Company sells assets and subsequently leases them back. The resulting leases that qualify for sale-leaseback accounting are evaluated and accounted for as operating leases or capital leases. A transaction that does not qualify for sale-leaseback accounting as a result of a prohibited form of continuing involvement is accounted for as a financing transaction. For such financing transactions, the Company retains the “sold” assets within property and equipment and records a financing obligation equal to the amount of cash proceeds received. Rental payments under such transactions are recognized as a reduction of the financing obligation and as interest expense using an effective interest method.

Recent accounting pronouncements issued, not yet adopted:

In February 2016, the FASB issued a new accounting standard, ASC 842, Leases (“ASC 842”), to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheets. Most significant among the changes in the standard is the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous U.S. GAAP. Under the new standard, disclosures are required to meet the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. ASC 842 is effective for the annual period beginning January 1, 2022, and interim periods within the annual period beginning January 1, 2023, with early adoption permitted.

The Company is currently evaluating the impact the new guidance will have on its financial position and results of operations but expects to recognize lease liabilities and right of use assets at the time of adoption. The extent of the increase to assets and liabilities associated with these amounts remains to be determined pending the Company’s review of its existing lease contracts and service contracts which may contain embedded leases. The Company is currently assessing the potential impact to the financial statements. The Company is continuing to monitor potential changes to ASC 842 that have been proposed by the FASB and will assess any necessary changes to the implementation process as the guidance is updated.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses of Financial Instruments (“ASU 2016-13”), which, together with subsequent amendments, amends the requirement on the measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held to replace the incurred loss model for financial assets measured at amortized cost and require entities to measure all expected credit losses for financial assets held at the reporting date based on historical experience, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. ASU 2016-13 is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2023, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the effects of this pronouncement on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

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In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Debt – Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which simplifies the accounting for convertible instruments by reducing the number of accounting models available for convertible debt instruments. This guidance removes certain settlement conditions that are required for contracts to qualify for equity classification, eliminates the treasury stock method to calculate diluted earnings per share for convertible instruments and requires the use of the if-converted method. ASU 2021-06 is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effects of this pronouncement on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and the potential impact on the consolidated financial statements.

In October 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-10, Codification Improvements (“ASU 2020-10”), which clarifies and improves the consistency of the Codification by updating various disclosure requirements to align with the SEC’s regulations and ensure all guidance that requires or provides an option for an entity to provide information in the notes to financial statements is codified in the Disclosure Section of the Codification. ASU 2020-10 is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2022, and interim periods within the annual period beginning January 1, 2023, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effects of this pronouncement on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and the potential impact on the consolidated financial statements.

Note 3. Revenue recognition

The Company assesses the contract term as the period in which the parties to the contract have presently enforceable rights and obligations. The contract term can differ from the stated term in contracts that include certain termination or renewal rights, depending on whether there are penalties associated with those rights. Although customers are typically billed in advance for a month of service, the majority of the Company’s contracts (with residential customers) allow either party to cancel at any time without penalty and customers are entitled to a pro rata refund for services not yet rendered. However, in some instances the Company enters into non-cancellable and non-refundable contracts as part of commercial arrangements.

Nature of services: Revenues related to internet and related support services are recognized over time as the customer consumes the benefits of the services the Company performs. The Company stands ready to provide access to the service throughout the contract term. The timing of revenue recognition is based on a time-based measure of progress as the Company provides access to the service evenly over the course of the subscription period. The installation activities performed and essential customer premise equipment (“CPE”) required for delivering such service to the customer are not accounted for as distinct performance obligations, but rather components of the internet service offering because the installation activities and CPE are highly interdependent on such services. Based on the dependencies between such internet services, installation activities and CPE the revenues relating to the Company’s performance obligations are bundled and recognized over time.

Transaction price: The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring goods and services to the customer. Revenue from sales is recorded based on the transaction price, which includes estimates of variable consideration. The amount of variable consideration included in the transaction price is constrained and is included only to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved. The constraint arises when the Company believes such service level guarantees are not met or when a customer has rights to a refund for such services provided.

The Company’s contracts with customers may include service level agreements that entitle the customer to receive service credits, and in certain cases, service refunds, when defined service levels are not met. These arrangements represent a form of variable consideration, which is considered in the calculation of the transaction price. The Company estimates the amount of variable consideration at the expected value based on its assessment of legal enforceability, anticipated performance and a review of specific transactions, historical experience and market and economic conditions. The Company historically has not experienced any significant incidents affecting the defined levels of reliability and performance as required by the contracts.

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not enter into contracts in which the period between payment by the customer and the transfer of the promised goods or services to the customer is greater than 12 months. In addition, the Company excludes from revenue sales taxes and other government-assessed and imposed taxes on revenue-generating activities that are invoiced to customers, whenever applicable.

For individual customers who receive subsidized internet services through the EBB program, the transaction price includes the amounts due from the customer as well as the subsidy amount due from the government.

Gift card incentives: The Company uses marketing incentives to solicit potential subscriber interest in the Company’s services, primarily through the issuance of gift cards. Such promotional gift cards represent consideration paid to potential customers in anticipation of a contract. As such, the Company recognizes an asset upon issuance of the gift card that is recognized as a reduction in revenue as the expected services are transferred to the customer over the estimated life of the customer. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized $252 and $0 of such assets in other assets on the consolidated balance sheets and an insignificant amount of amortization was recognized as a reduction in revenue for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.

Unearned revenue: The timing of revenue recognition may not align with the right to invoice the customer. The Company records accounts receivable when it has the unconditional right to issue an invoice and receive payment, regardless of whether revenue has been recognized. If revenue has not yet been recognized, a contract or deposit liability (unearned revenue) is recorded.

 

Unearned Revenue  

December 31, 2020

   $ 1,169  

Change

     461  
  

 

 

 

December 31, 2021

   $ 1,630  

Note 4. Debt

At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the carrying value of debt was as follows:

 

     As of  
     December 31, 2021      December 31, 2020  

Term loans, net of unamortized discount at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 of $17,019 and $13,657, respectively

   $  185,652      $  131,220  

Convertible notes payable, net of unamortized discount at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 of $0 and $2,282, respectively

     —          29,256  

Strategic Partner Arrangement (see Note 12)

     5,227        1,722  

Capital lease obligations

     2,221        1,609  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     193,100        163,807  

Less current portion of debt

     (1,504      (29,875
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Debt, net of current portion

   $ 191,596      $ 133,932  

2019 Credit Agreement: In February 2019, the Company entered into a credit agreement with a new lender to provide for a total of $50,000, in the form of two separate term loan tranches of $27,500 and $22,500, respectively. The Company drew the first tranche of $27,500 in February 2019 and the second tranche of $22,500 in June 2019. In December 2019, the Company amended and restated the credit agreement (as amended and restated, the “Credit Agreement”) with a syndicate of lenders, with the new lenders providing for an additional term loan tranche of $75,000, which was immediately drawn by the Company (collectively, the “Term Loans”).

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accrued on a quarterly basis. Such interest rates were approximately 11.0% as of December 31, 2021 and 2020. As allowed in the Credit Agreement, the Company has elected to pay the interest accrued on an in-kind basis by increasing the principal balance outstanding. For the years ending December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company has incurred $17,794 and $15,132, respectively, of paid-in-kind interest on the Term Loans. Paid-in-kind interest is reflected as a component of the carrying value of the Term Loans as the payment of such interest would occur upon the settlement of the Term Loans.

The principal balance is payable in its entirety at maturity in February 2024. The Company may prepay the Term Loans, in whole or in part, at any time, subject to a premium. In addition, the lenders can require prepayment in certain circumstances, including a change of control, also subject to a premium. The premium for such prepayment ranges from 0% to 10% of the principal based on the timing of prepayment. A change of control is defined as the acquisition of direct or indirect ownership by a person other than existing stockholders of the Company of fifty percent or more of the voting or equity value of the Company.

The Term Loans are senior to all other debt and have a first priority lien on substantially all of the Company’s assets. The Term Loans contain customary conditions related to borrowing, events of default and covenants, including certain non-financial covenants and covenants limiting the Company’s ability to dispose of assets, undergo a change in control, merge with or acquire stock, and make investments, in each case subject to certain exceptions. There is a financial covenant with respect to the Term Loans that requires the Company to maintain a minimum cash balance of $15,000 at all times. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, in addition to the lenders being able to declare amounts outstanding under the Term Loans due and payable the lenders can elect to increase the interest rate by 2.0% per annum.

On June 2, 2021, the Company entered into a Third Amendment and Waiver to the 2019 Credit Agreement (as amended and restated, the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement amended and restated two affirmative covenants that the Company was not in compliance with as of December 31, 2020, which include the Company providing audited financial statements without a “going concern” or like qualification, exception or emphasis. The non-compliance with covenants is an event of default which would have required the outstanding long-term debt balance to be payable upon demand. The Credit Agreement also waived any events of default in existence on the Third Amendment and Waiver effective date. The lender has retained all other covenant requirements.

The Company assessed the embedded features of the Term Loans, including the accelerated repayment (redemption) features and the default rate of interest feature, noting that these features met the definition of a derivative under ASC 815 and were not clearly and closely related to the debt host instrument. The Company is required to remeasure these derivative features to their then fair value at each subsequent reporting period. The Company determined the fair value of these features to be $0 as of the respective issuance dates of the Term Loans. However, based on the previously defined change of control trigger the repayment feature was ascribed a fair value of $10,412 and $1,850, respectively, as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, recorded in other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets. The change in fair value is based on management’s assumption of the estimated probability that the accelerated repayment would be triggered prior to maturity. Such probability was deemed to be 100% as of December 31, 2021. The change in fair value of $8,562 and $1,850 for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, was recorded in other income (expense) on the consolidated statement of operations.

In connection with entering into the initial agreement in February 2019, the Company issued the lender a warrant to purchase 15,025,563 shares of the Company’s non-voting common stock. In addition, in connection with the Company entering into the Credit Agreement in December 2019, the Company issued the new participating lenders a warrant to purchase 17,625,662 shares of the Company’s non-voting common stock (see Note 5 for the accounting for these warrants). As the Company concluded the warrants were classified in stockholders’ equity, the Company allocated approximately $6,175 and $8,307 in value to the warrant issuances, respectively, on a relative fair value basis and recorded this allocated value as an increase to additional-paid-in capital and as a component of the discount recorded against the outstanding debt. On October 6, 2021, certain lenders who hold 3,525,132 of such warrants entered into the Convertible Note Subscription Agreement (see Note 16) which provides the lenders an exchange right to net cash settle the outstanding warrants. The Company re-assessed the classification of such warrants due to the exchange right and recorded a reclassification of $6,345 from additional-paid-in capital to warrant liabilities.    

 

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On October 6, 2021, the Company entered into the Fifth Amendment to the 2019 Credit Agreement (“Fifth Amendment”) with lenders to provide for a total of $40,000 in term loans which the Company immediately drew upon in full (“Tranche C Loan”) and up to an additional $10,000 in delayed draw loans (“Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan”) (together, the “Tranche C Loans”). Two lenders in the Tranche C Loans were also lenders in the Tranche B Loans, lending up to $6,000 and $1,500 respectively. The Fifth Amendment for such lenders was treated as an extinguishment. The Company recorded a loss on extinguishment of $1,366 reflected in other income (expense), net on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021.

In conjunction with the Fifth Amendment, the Company entered into the Warrant Purchase Agreement as of October 6, 2021. The Company issued to the lenders warrants to purchase 11,509,673 shares of Nonvoting Starry Common Stock valued at $6,733 (“Initial Tranche C Warrants”) and contingently issuable warrants to purchase 2,896,992 shares of Nonvoting Starry Common Stock valued at $1,695 (“Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants”) (together, the “Tranche C Warrants”). The Company concluded the Tranche C Warrants are liability classified and recorded the fair value as an increase to warrant liabilities and as a component of the discount recorded against the outstanding debt (for the Initial Tranche C Warrants) and deferred costs (for the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants) as the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan was not outstanding as of December 31, 2021. The Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants will be reclassified as a component of the discount recorded against the outstanding debt upon the draw down of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan, which subsequently occurred on January 11, 2022.

Term Loans debt issuance costs and discount: In connection with entering into the initial credit agreement in February 2019, the Company recorded a debt discount of $6,917, which was comprised of debt issuance costs of $742 and the allocated value of the warrants of $6,175. In connection with the second tranche drawn on in June 2019, the Company recorded a debt discount of $225 related to debt issuance costs. In connection with the Company entering into the amended and restated credit agreement in December 2019, the Company recorded a debt discount of $9,212, which was comprised of debt issuance costs of $905 and the allocated value of the warrants of $8,307. In connection with the Fifth Amendment, the Company recorded a debt discount of $7,053, which was comprised of debt issuance costs of $1,330 (net of $180 expensed as part of the loss on extinguishment) and the fair value of the warrants of $5,723 (net of $1,010 expensed as part of the loss on extinguishment). In connection with the loss on extinguishment, the Company also de-recognized $176 of deferred financing costs associated with the Tranche B Loans.

The Company is amortizing the debt discounts over the term of the Credit Agreement using the effective interest method (based on an effective interest rate of 16.9%, 11.2%, 14.2% and 19.1%, respectively). The amortization recorded for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 is $3,516 and $2,169, respectively, and is included within interest expense in the consolidated statements of operations. The remaining unamortized debt discount at December 31, 2021 and 2020 is $17,019 and $13,658, respectively, and is reflected net against the debt, net of current portion on the consolidated balance sheets.

2020 Convertible notes payable: In September 2020, the Company issued convertible notes payable in exchange for cash totaling $31,243 (the “2020 Notes”). One current shareholder who was a related party contributed $2,349 of the $31,243 2020 Notes balance. Such notes were subsequently converted into preferred stock as discussed below. The 2020 Notes bear interest at 3.0% per annum and mature on June 4, 2021. The 2020 Notes are only prepayable with the consent of the holder and are an unsecured obligation of the Company. The 2020 Notes include the following embedded features:

 

  (a)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon the closing of the next equity financing. The conversion price will be based on the next equity financing per share price with a 20% discount, provided that the conversion price is not less than the Series D preferred stock price ($1.43 per share) or greater than $1.57 per share. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the above mentioned conversion price.

 

  (b)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon maturity of the 2020 Notes into shares of Series D preferred stock. The number of Series D preferred stock shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the Series D preferred stock price.

 

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  (c)

Automatic redemption upon the Company closing a corporate transaction, or liquidation event (including an IPO, SPAC transaction or other change in control event). In such scenario, the majority noteholders would elect either (i) the repayment of the outstanding principal and accrued unpaid interest due upon the closing of the corporate transaction or (ii) the conversion of the 2020 Notes into the right to receive a cash payment as though the principal and unpaid accrued interest had converted into conversion shares. The conversion price will be based on the corporate transaction per share price with a 20% discount, provided that the conversion price is not less than the Series D preferred stock price ($1.43 per share) of greater than $1.57 per share. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the above mentioned conversion price.

 

  (d)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon the closing of an initial public offering. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the Series D preferred stock price.

 

  (e)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon an event of default under the Credit Agreement. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the Series D preferred stock price.

The Company assessed the embedded features within the 2020 Notes as detailed above and determined that the automatic conversion feature upon the next equity financing and the redemption upon a corporate transaction (in both cases, provided that the conversion price is not less than the Series D preferred stock price ($1.43 per share) or greater than $1.57 per share) met the definition of a derivative that would require separate accounting from the

2020 Notes. In estimating the fair value of these bifurcated embedded features, the Company concluded that such fair value was de minimis at issuance of the 2020 Notes. The automatic conversion feature upon maturity was assessed to contain a beneficial conversion feature that was recognized at its intrinsic value at the issuance date as a component of additional paid-in-capital and as a debt discount to the 2020 Notes totaling $3,933.

January 2021 Convertible notes payable: In January 2021, the Company issued convertible notes payable in exchange for cash totaling $11,000 (the “2021 Notes”). The 2021 Notes bear interest at 3.0% per annum and mature on October 29, 2021. The 2021 Notes are only prepayable with the consent of the holder and are an unsecured obligation of the Company. The 2021 Notes include the following embedded features:

 

  (a)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon the closing of the next equity financing. The conversion price will be based on the next equity financing per share price with a 20% discount, as long as it is not greater than $1.57 per share. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the above mentioned conversion price. This feature is effectively made up of two separate components, a share-settled redemption feature when the conversion price is not greater than $1.57 per share, and a traditional conversion option when the conversion price is greater than $1.57 per share.

 

  (b)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon maturity of the 2021 Notes into shares of Series D preferred stock. The number of Series D preferred stock shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the Series D preferred stock price.

 

  (c)

Automatic redemption upon the Company closing a corporate transaction. In such scenario, the majority noteholders would elect either (i) the repayment of the outstanding principal and accrued unpaid interest due upon the closing of the corporate transaction or (ii) the conversion of the 2021 Notes into the right to receive a cash payment as though the principal and unpaid accrued interest had converted into conversion shares. The conversion price will be based on the corporate transaction per share price with a 20% discount, provided it is not greater than $1.57. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the above mentioned conversion price. This feature is effectively made up of two separate components, a share-settled redemption feature when the conversion price is not greater than $1.57 per share, and a traditional conversion option when the conversion price is greater than $1.57 per share.

 

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  (d)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon the closing of an initial public offering. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the Series D preferred stock price.

 

  (e)

Automatic conversion of outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest upon an event of default under the Credit Agreement. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the Series D preferred stock price.

 

  (f)

In the event of a future non-equity financing prior to the full payment or conversion of the Notes, each lender will have the option to elect for the principal and unpaid accrued interest of each outstanding note to be converted into either (i) the instrument used in the non-equity financing on the same price, or (ii) conversion shares. The number of conversion shares to be issued shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the outstanding principal and unpaid accrued interest due by (ii) the conversion price.

The Company assessed the embedded features within the 2021 Notes as detailed above and determined that the automatic conversion feature upon the next equity financing and the redemption upon a corporate transaction (in both cases, when settled in shares at a conversion price less than $1.57 per share) met the definition of a derivative that would require separate accounting from the 2021 Notes. In estimating the fair value of these bifurcated embedded features, the Company concluded that such fair value was de minimis at issuance of the 2021 Notes. The automatic conversion feature upon maturity was assessed to contain a beneficial conversion feature that was recognized at its intrinsic value at the issuance date as a component of additional paid-in capital and as a debt discount to the 2021 Notes totaling $2,791. Two current shareholders who were related parties contributed $3,000 and $5,000, respectively, of the $11,000 2021 Notes balance.

The total amortization recorded for both the 2020 and 2021 Notes for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, was $1,750 and $1,651, respectively, and is included within interest expense in the consolidated statements of operations. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company incurred $246 and $295 of paid-in-kind interest as a component of the carrying value of the 2020 Notes and 2021 Notes.

On March 31, 2021, the Company completed the initial closing of a new equity financing for its Series E Preferred Stock. As a result of the closing, both the 2020 Notes and 2021 Notes, including accrued cash and paid-in-kind interest, converted to shares of Series E-1 and Series E-2 Preferred Stock respectively (see Note 5). The conversion of the 2020 Notes was treated as a conversion in accordance with the original terms of the 2020 Notes, and as such, carrying value of the 2020 Notes was reclassified to Series E-1 Preferred Stock. The conversion of the 2021 Notes was treated as an extinguishment of the 2021 Notes, with the Series E-2 Preferred Stock being recorded at its fair value (the reacquisition price of the 2021 Notes) and the Company recording a charge to the capital account of $2,791 representing the additional value provided to the holders of the 2021 Notes upon settlement. The Company recorded a loss on extinguishment of $2,361 reflected in the other income (expense), net on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020.

As a result of the 2020 Notes converting into shares of Series E Preferred Stock, the carrying value of the debt discount on the 2020 Notes was reversed and recognized as interest expense in the amount of $971 for the year ending December 31, 2021.

Capital lease obligations: The Company’s debt arising from capital lease obligations primarily relates to vehicles and equipment.

 

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The aggregate future maturities of debt are as follows:

 

Years Ended December 31,    Term loans      Capital lease
obligations
 

2022

   $ —      $ 1,092  

2023

     —          731  

2024

     202,671      452  

2025

     —          146  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     202,671        2,421  

Less: imputed interest

     —          (200
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total future maturities

   $ 202,671      $ 2,221  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Note 5. Stockholders’ equity

Convertible preferred stock

The Company has authorized the issuance of 503,246,770 shares of convertible preferred stock (“Preferred Stock”), of which 53,030,270 shares are designated as Series Seed Preferred Stock, 91,549,300 shares are designated as Series A Preferred Stock, 55,452,865 shares are designated as Series B Preferred Stock, 108,459,871 are designated as Series C Preferred Stock, 87,412,587 are designated as Series D Preferred Stock, 104,841,877 are designated as Series E Preferred Stock and 2,500,000 are designated as Series Z Preferred Stock (collectively, the “Preferred Stock”).

In July 2020, the Company issued 21,503,497 shares of Series D Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $1.43 per share, in exchange for gross cash proceeds of $30,750. In connection with this, the Company incurred issuance costs of approximately $12 during the year ended December 31, 2020.

On March 31, 2021, the Company completed a Series E Preferred Stock financing round whereby it issued shares of Series E-1 Preferred Stock, Series E-2 Preferred Stock, and Series E-3 Preferred Stock. The 2020 Notes had a carrying value of $31,752 and were converted into 22,204,490 shares of Series E-1 Preferred Stock, at a price per share of $1.43. The 2021 Notes had a carrying value of $13,832 and were converted into 8,232,627 shares of Series E-2 Preferred Stock, at a price per share of $1.34. The Company issued 71,428,570 shares of Series E-3 Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $1.68 per share, in exchange for gross cash proceeds of $120,000 and incurred issuance costs of $150.

The following summarizes the rights and preferences of the Preferred Stock (terms specific to each respective series of Preferred Stock are identified where relevant):

Distributions and liquidation preferences: The holders of Preferred Stock receive, in the event of a liquidation event and prior to any distribution to common stockholders, an amount equal to (i) the original issuance price per share for the Series Seed, A, B, C, D, E-1, E-2 and E-3 Preferred Stock equal to $0.132, $0.284, $0.541, $0.922, $1.43, $1.43, $1.34 and $1.68, respectively, adjusted as necessary, and (ii) any dividends declared and/or accrued, but unpaid. The Preferred Stockholders shall be entitled to receive the greater of the Original Issue Price plus any accrued and unpaid dividends or such amount per share that would have been payable had all of the Preferred Stock been converted in Common Stock. After payment of the preferred preference, the remaining proceeds are to be distributed to the holders of the common stock on a pro-rata basis.

Dividends: The holders of Preferred Stock are entitled to receive dividends when and if declared by the board of directors (the “Board”) from the Company’s legally available funds. The preferred stock dividends are given preference to any declaration or payment of any dividend on the Company’s common stock. The holders of Preferred Stock also are entitled to participate pro rata in any dividends paid on the Common Stock on an as-if-converted basis.

Conversion: Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder at any time after the date of issuance into a number of shares of voting common stock as determined by dividing the original issue price for the relevant series by the conversion price for such series. The conversion price per share for Series Seed, A, B, C, D, E-1, E-2, E-3 Preferred Stock is $0.132, $0.284, $0.541, $0.922, $1.43, $1.43, $1.34 and $1.68

 

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respectively, subject to adjustment, as defined. Conversion is automatic upon the earlier of (1) the Company’s sale of common stock in a firm commitment underwritten public offering provided that the offering price per share is at least $2.145 per share and the aggregate net proceeds are at least $25,000 or (2) at the election of the majority of preferred stockholders.

The conversion price will also be subject to proportional adjustment for events such as stock splits, stock dividends and recapitalization.

Voting: The holders of the Preferred Stock and voting common stock are entitled to vote together as a single class and not separate unless provided by law or other provisions of the articles of incorporation and receive one vote per voting common stock share equivalent. Each holder of Preferred Stock is entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of shares of voting common stock into which the shares of Preferred Stock would be convertible.

Redemption (deemed liquidation events): The Preferred Stock is not mandatorily redeemable. The Preferred Stock is only redeemable in the event of a deemed liquidation event and a majority of the preferred stockholders request such redemption in writing at least five days prior to the effective date of such deemed liquidation event. Shares of Preferred Stock shall be redeemed by the Company out of funds lawfully available at a price per share noted above plus any accrued or declared but unpaid dividends thereon. A deemed liquidation event includes each of the following unless the majority of preferred stockholders elect otherwise:

 

  a)

a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity, unless the shares of stock of the Company continue to represent or are converted into or exchanged for shares of capital stock that represent a majority of voting power of the surviving corporation; or

 

  b)

the sale, lease, transfer, exclusive license or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, of substantially all the assets of the Company.

The Company has evaluated the Preferred Stock offerings, its investor registration rights and the rights, preferences and privileges of each series of Preferred Stock and has concluded that there were no embedded features that met the definition of a derivative requiring bifurcation and separate accounting. Additionally, the Company assessed the conversion terms associated with its Preferred Stock and concluded that they did not include beneficial conversion features.

The Company has classified Preferred Stock as permanent equity as all deemed liquidation events are within the control of the Company as the common voting shareholders control four of the seven seats of the board of directors and the CEO holds the majority of the common voting shares. In addition, the Company does not currently believe that the related contingent events and the redemption of the Preferred Stock is probable to occur. Therefore, the Company is not currently accreting the Preferred Stock to redemption value, and will only do so if the Preferred Stock becomes probable of redemption in the future.

The redemption value of the Series Seed, A, B, C, D E-1, E-2, E-3 Preferred Stock at December 31, 2021 was $7,000, $26,000, $30,000, $100,000, $125,000, $31,752, $11,032, and $120,000 respectively. The Company has not declared any dividends related to the Preferred Stock.

Common stock

Voting common shares: The Company has authorized 700,000,000 shares of Voting Common Shares, par value $0.001 of which 190,012,330 are issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and 2020. Such shares confer upon holders the right to receive dividends out of any assets legally available, when and as declared by the Board, but subject to the prior right of the holders of the Preferred Shares as described above.

Non-voting common shares: The Company has authorized 115,000,000 shares of Non-Voting Common Shares, par value $0.001 of which 11,960,289 and 6,402,678 are issued and outstanding at December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

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The following shares of common stock are reserved for future issuance:

 

     Voting common
shares
     Non-voting
common shares
 

Conversion of redeemable, convertible preferred stock

     497,770,570        —    

Warrants issued and outstanding

     —          44,660,898  

Stock options issued and outstanding

     —          48,207,517  

Authorized for future grant under 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan

     —          1,869,067  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     497,770,570        94,737,482  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Warrants for non-voting common stock

In October 2021, the Company issued the Initial Tranche C Warrants to purchase 11,509,673 shares of non-voting common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share to a syndicate of lenders in connection with the Fifth Amendment to the Credit Agreement as discussed in Note 4. These non-voting common stock warrants expire in October 2031. Additionally, in connection with the Fifth Amendment to the Credit Agreement the Company had contingently issuable Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants to purchase 2,896,992 shares of non-voting common stock (not yet issued or outstanding as of December 31, 2021). The Tranche C Warrants will vest and become exercisable (i) with respect to 25% of the warrant shares, upon issuance thereof, (ii) with respect to 25% of the warrant shares, upon the earlier to occur of (x) termination of the merger agreement in accordance with its terms and (y) April 16, 2022 if the de-SPAC has not been consummated prior to such date, and (iii) with respect to 50% of the warrant shares, upon the earlier to occur of (1) termination of the merger agreement in accordance with its terms and (2) May 1, 2022 if the de-SPAC has not been consummated prior to such date. For the avoidance of doubt, if the closing of the de-SPAC occurs on or prior to April 15, 2022 then the Tranche C Warrants will be exercisable solely with respect to the 25% of the warrant shares that vest immediately upon issuance.

The Tranche C Warrants were assessed under ASC 480 and ASC 815 upon issuance and were determined to meet the requirements for liability classification due to the contingent exercisability conditions described above. Accordingly, the Company recorded the grant date fair value for the Tranche C Warrants to warrant liabilities upon the issuance date.

The weighted-average estimated grant date fair value of such Tranche C Warrants was $0.59 per share at issuance date (aggregate fair value of $8,428). For the 25% non-contingently exercisable warrant shares, the fair value approximated the estimated fair value of a share of the Company’s common stock on the date of issuance. For the 75% contingently exercisable warrant shares, the fair value approximated the estimated fair value of a share of the Company’s common stock on the date of issuance adjusted for management’s assumption of the probability of the de-SPAC occurring on or prior to April 15, 2022. The fair value of the Company’s common stock is based on certain factors as discussed further in Note 6. As of December 31, 2021, the Company concluded there was no change in the fair value of the Tranche C Warrants.

In February 2019 and December 2019, the Company issued warrants to purchase 15,025,563 and 17,625,662 shares of non-voting common stock (the “2019 Warrants”), respectively, at an exercise price of $0.001 per share to a lender in connection with the Credit Agreement discussed in Note 4. These non-voting common stock warrants expire in February 2029 and December 2029, respectively. The estimated grant date fair value of these non-voting common stock warrants was $0.53 per share at issuance date (aggregate fair value of $14,482), which approximated the estimated fair value of a share of the Company’s common stock on the respective dates of issuance. The fair value of the Company’s common stock is based on certain factors as further discussed in Note 6.

In 2018, the Company issued warrants to purchase shares of non-voting common stock at an exercise price of $0.922 per share (the “2018 Warrants”). These non-voting common stock warrants expire in March 2024. The total award could be exercised for 4,750,000 shares, of which 2,375,000 warrants were exercisable at issuance and 2,375,000 shares may become exercisable upon attaining performance requirements. The performance requirements are attained with each 2,000 residential living units in residential buildings, as defined in the warrant purchase agreement, become paying subscribers to the Company’s internet service, whereby 475,000 warrants vest. The estimated grant date fair value of these non-voting common stock warrants of $0.0066 per share was recognized at

 

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the issuance date (aggregate fair value of $31). During the year ended December 31, 2020, the performance requirements were met related to an additional 2,000 living units and accordingly, an incremental additional 475,000 warrants vested. In October 2021, the remaining unvested warrants were accelerated and vested in full and immediately exercised. The vesting of such warrants was considered probable both at issuance and at the acceleration date. As a result, no incremental share-based compensation expense was recognized with respect to the 2021 vesting.

In September 2017, the Company issued warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of non-voting common stock at an exercise price of $0.17 per share (the “2017 Warrants”). These non-voting common stock warrants expire in September 2027. The estimated grant date fair value of these non-voting common stock warrants was $0.0622 per share at issuance date (aggregate fair value of $31), which approximated the estimated fair value of a share of the Company’s common stock on the respective dates of issuance. The fair value of the Company’s common stock is based on certain factors as further discussed in Note 6.

The 2019, 2018 and 2017 Warrants were assessed under ASC 480 and ASC 815 upon each respective issuance and were determined to meet the requirements for equity classification. Accordingly, the Company recorded the grant date fair value for the 2018 Warrants and the allocated fair value for the 2019 Warrants (see Note 4) of each respective non-voting common stock warrant to additional paid in capital upon their issuance dates.

As of December 31, 2021, the following warrants to issue non-voting common shares of the Company remain outstanding:

 

Original issuance date

   Expiration date      Exercise
price
     Warrants
issued
     Warrants
currently
exercisable
 

September 2017

     September 2027      $ 0.170        500,000        500,000  

February 2019

     February 2029      $ 0.001        15,025,563        15,025,563  

December 2019

     December 2029      $ 0.001        17,625,662        17,625,662  

October 2021

     October 2031      $ 0.01        11,509,673        2,877,418  
        

 

 

    

 

 

 
           44,660,898        36,028,643  
        

 

 

    

 

 

 

Note 6. Share-based compensation expense

In December 2014, the Board of directors and stockholders approved the Starry, Inc. 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan, which was subsequently amended and restated in November 2016. The Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option and Grant Plan was amended further in December 2017, March 2019 and March 2021 (as amended, the “2014 Plan”), allowing the Company to grant up to 58,743,860 shares of the Company’s non-voting common shares. The 2014 Plan permits the granting of various awards including stock options (including both nonqualified options and incentive options) and restricted stock awards to employees, officers, directors and non-employee consultants of the Company. An aggregate of 11,960,289 non-voting common shares were available to issue under the 2014 Plan as of December 31, 2021.

The 2014 Plan is administered by the Board. The selection of participants, allotment of shares, determination of price and other conditions are determined by the Board at its sole discretion in order to attract and retain personnel instrumental to the success of the Company. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, only stock options and restricted stock awards have been granted to employees, directors, consultants and advisors.

Under the 2014 Plan, the option exercise price for all grantees equals the stock’s estimated fair value on the date of the grant. The Board determined the fair value of common stock at the time of grant by considering a number of objective and subjective factors, including independent third-party valuations of the Company’s common stock, operating and financial performance, the lack of liquidity of capital stock and general and industry-specific economic outlook, amongst other factors. The Company believes the fair value of stock options granted to nonemployees is more readily determinable than the fair value of services rendered.

 

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The fair value of the underlying common stock will be determined by the Company’s Board until such time the Company’s common stock is listed on an established exchange or national market system.

The fair value of each option is estimated on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model in order to measure the compensation cost associated with the award. This model incorporates certain assumptions for inputs including an expected volatility in the market value of the underlying common stock, expected term, a risk-free interest rate and the expected dividend yield of the underlying common stock.

The following assumptions were used for options issued during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     December 31,
     2021   2020

Expected volatility

   27.8% - 28.2%   24.0% - 28.1%

Expected term (in years)

   5.4 -  6.1   5.0 -  6.1

Risk-free interest rate

   0.8% - 1.1%   0.4% - 1.7%

Expected dividend yield

   $0.00   $0.00

 

   

Expected volatility: The expected volatility was determined by examining the historical volatilities of a group of industry peers, as the Company did not have any trading history for the Company’s common stock.

 

   

Expected term: For employees, the expected term is determined using the “simplified” method, as prescribed by the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, Share-Based Payment, to estimate on a formula basis the expected term of the Company’s employee stock options which are considered to have “plain vanilla” characteristics.

 

   

Risk-free interest rate: The risk-free interest rate was based upon quoted market yields for the United States Treasury instruments with terms that were consistent with the expected term of the Company’s stock options.

 

   

Expected dividend yield: The expected dividend yield was based on the Company’s history and management’s current expectation regarding future dividends.

Employee and nonemployee stock options generally vest over four years, with a maximum term of ten years from the date of grant. The awards become available to the recipient upon the satisfaction of a vesting condition based upon either a period of service or the achievement of a milestone, either of which may be accelerated at the discretion of the Board. Share-based compensation expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the applicable vesting period.

Stock options: A summary of stock option award activity for the year ended December 31, 2021 is presented below:

 

Options    Shares      Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
     Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
     Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 

Outstanding at January 1, 2021

     43,948,554      $ 0.33        7.3      $ 11,053  

Expired

     (361,887      0.44        

Granted

     7,037,000        1.33        

Exercised

     (3,264,598      0.23        

Cancelled or forfeited

     (3,589,302      0.58        
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2021

     43,769,767      $ 0.47        6.5      $ 58,469  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Exercisable at January 1, 2021

     25,070,044      $ 0.21        6.2      $ 9,371  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Exercisable at December 31, 2021

     28,589,479      $ 0.27        5.4      $ 44,060  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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There were no options with an exercise price greater than the market price on December 31, 2021 to exclude from the intrinsic value computation. The intrinsic value of stock options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 was $3,174 and $618, respectively, as determined on the date of exercise. There were no stock options awarded to non-employees during the years ended December 31, 2021.

Share-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $1,310 and $960, respectively, and is included within research and development as well as selling, general and administrative expense on the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. As of December 31, 2021, there was approximately $3,236 of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock options which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.4 years.

RSUs: In May 2021 and September 2021, pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Option Grant Plan, the Company granted 4,000,000 and 449,250 shares of restricted stock units (“RSUs”), respectively, to employees in exchange for employment services. The RSUs have a service condition of 4 years and performance condition that is linked to the occurrence of a liquidity event. The liquidity event requirement will be satisfied on the first to occur of: (1) the day following the expiration of the lock up period that is in effect following a listing event (defined below), provided that a termination event has not occurred prior to such time and (2) the consummation of a sale event. A listing event is defined as (i) an initial public offering or direct listing of any class of common stock of the Company or any parent or subsidiary or successor of the Company formed for the purpose of effecting such transaction or (ii) a merger (or similar transaction) with a special purpose acquisition company, the result of which is that any class of common stock of the Company or the parent or successor entity of the Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market or other securities exchange. The grant-date fair value of the RSUs is $1.47 per share. The Company has not recognized any compensation expense for the RSUs since the defined liquidity event has not occurred as of December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, there was approximately $6,536 of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to unvested RSUs, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.3 years.

Note 7. Property and equipment

Property and equipment consisted of the following at December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     December 31,  
     2021      2020  

Distribution system

   $ 142,202      $ 91,719  

Asset retirement obligation

     2,015        1,232  

Construction in progress

     28,493        12,496  

Equipment

     6,051        4,814  

Vehicles

     3,943        2,875  

Site acquisition costs

     3,155        2,547  

Furniture and fixtures

     1,267        1,163  

Software

     1,452        626  

Leasehold improvements

     691        596  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     189,269      118,068  

Less: accumulated depreciation

     (60,250      (31,410
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Property and equipment, net

   $ 129,019      $ 86,658  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 totaled approximately $29,463 and $19,350 respectively, and is included within cost of revenues, selling, general and administrative, and research and development expense on the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. The Company reported $26,372 and $16,676, in 2021 and 2020, respectively, of depreciation related to the deployed assets which comprise its distribution system.

 

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Note 8. Asset retirement obligations

The following table summarizes changes in the Company’s asset retirement obligations for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

Balance, January 1, 2020

   $ 703  

New asset retirement obligations

     582  

Accretion expense

     114  
  

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2020

     1,399  

New asset retirement obligations

     783  

Accretion expense

     205  
  

 

 

 

Balance, December 31, 2021

   $ 2,387  
  

 

 

 

Accretion expense associated with asset retirement obligations is included within selling, general and administrative expenses on the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

Note 9. Prepaid expenses and other current assets

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consisted of the following at December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     December 31,  
     2021      2020  

Receivable from 2021 Strategic Partner Arrangement (see Note 12)

   $ 219      $ 259

Prepaid inventory

     3,821        143  

Prepaid software

     797        553  

Contract Manufacturer

     674        565  

Prepaid rent

     709        —    

Other

     859        320  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 7,079      $ 1,840  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Note 10. Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following at December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     December 31, 2021      December 31, 2020  

Accrued compensation and benefits

   $ 4,773      $ 3,633  

Accrued sales and use tax

     5,860        3,327  

Accrued purchases of property and equipment

     3,339        2,257  

Accrued transaction costs

     3,693        —    

Other

     5,512        3,856  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 23,177      $ 13,073  

 

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Note 11. Income taxes

For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company did not record a tax provision or benefit due to current and historical losses incurred by the Company. The Company’s losses before income taxes consist primarily of losses from domestic operations.

The significant components of the Company’s deferred taxes as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:

 

     2021      2020  

Deferred tax assets:

     

Federal and state net operating loss carryforwards

   $ 134,609      $ 86,964  

Research and development tax credits

     6,531        5,269  

Debt

     2,884        —    

Capitalized research and development costs

     1,588        1,911  

Payroll tax deferral

     337        655  

Reserves and accruals

     705        354  

Other

     104        108  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred tax assets

     146,758        95,261  

Deferred tax liabilities:

     

Fixed Assets - Depreciation

     (3,743      (1,815

Other

     (224      (622
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred tax liabilities

     (3,967      (2,437

Valuation allowance

     (142,791      (92,824
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net deferred tax assets

   $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon its ability to realize the deferred tax assets. Management has considered the Company’s history of cumulative net losses incurred since inception and has concluded that it is more likely than not that the Company will not realize the benefits of the Company’s deferred tax assets. As a result, a full valuation allowance of $142,791 and $92,824, respectively, has been established against the deferred tax assets for both years. Management reevaluates the positive and negative evidence at each reporting period. The valuation allowance increased by $49,967 during the year ended December 31, 2021 primarily as a result of increases in the Company’s net operating losses.

The Company has federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $485,122 of which $49,477 will begin to expire in 2034 and $435,645 can be carried forward indefinitely. The Company also has state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $488,824, which will begin to expire in 2034. The Company also has federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of $4,326 and $2,792, respectively, which begin to expire in 2034 and 2029, respectively.

A reconciliation of the income tax expense computed using the federal statutory income tax rate to the Company’s effective income tax rate is as follows:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021     2020  

Federal statutory rate of 21%

     21.0     21.0

State taxes

     9.0       6.8  

Research & development credits

     0.5       1.0  

Other

     (0.5     (1.0

Change in valuation allowance

     (30.0     (27.8
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Effective tax rate

     0.0     0.0
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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The Company files a U.S. federal income tax return and various state returns. All tax years since inception remain open to examination by the major taxing jurisdictions to which the Company is subject, as carryforward attributes generated in years past may still be adjusted upon examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or other authorities if they have or will be used in a future period. The Company is not currently under examination by the IRS or any other jurisdictions for any tax years.

The Company’s ability to utilize a portion of its net operating loss and research and development carryforwards is subject to certain limitations under section 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and corresponding provision of state law, due to ownership change that have occurred previously or that could occur in the future. These ownership changes may limit the amount of net operating loss and research and development credit carryforwards that can be utilized annually to offset future taxable income and tax liabilities, respectively. The Company has not completed a study to assess whether a change of ownership has occurred, or whether there have been multiple ownership changes since its formation. Any limitation may result in expiration of a portion of the net operating loss carryforwards or research and development credit carryforward before utilization. Further, until a study is completed by the Company and any limitation is known, no amounts are being presented as an uncertain tax position.

As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company has not identified any uncertain tax positions for which reserves would be required. The Company will recognize interest and penalties, if any, related to uncertain tax positions in income tax expense. As of December 31, 2021, no interest or penalties have been accrued. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), was signed into law in the United States in March 2020. The CARES Act adjusted a number of provisions of the tax code, including the calculation and eligibility of certain deductions and the treatment of net operating losses and tax credits. The enactment of the CARES Act did not result in any material adjustments to the Company’s income tax provision for the year ended December 31, 2021, or to the Company’s net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2021.

Note 12. Commitments and contingencies

2020 Strategic Partner Arrangement: On June 19, 2020, the Company entered into a 10 year arrangement, renewable for an additional 5 years (the “Arrangement”) with a third party to jointly deploy a fixed millimeter wave broadband service in a new market, which will provide internet and voice over internet protocol (“VoIP”) services to Starry customers. The third party has agreed to fund the equipment necessary to deliver the service in exchange for a revenue sharing arrangement whereby the third party will be entitled to a percentage of revenue earned by the Company in the new market. Pursuant to the Arrangement, the Company will sell in exchange for cash consideration the equipment to the third party and lease the equipment back. The seller-financing portion of the transaction created a form of continuing involvement which precludes sale-leaseback accounting until the related amounts due are paid in full. Accordingly, the Company accounted for the sale-leaseback as a financing transaction with the third party, with the equipment remaining on our books at its then carrying value, the net cash proceeds received being reflected as a financing obligation, and the expected future payments under the revenue sharing agreement to the third party being treated as debt service and applied to interest and principal over the initial 10 year term. The discount rate is calculated based on expected future payments under the revenue sharing agreement. The third party has the right to terminate the Arrangement for any reason no earlier than June 2023. In the event of an early termination, the Company is required to repurchase the equipment at a repurchase price equal to the net book value of the equipment as reflected on the third party’s balance sheet at the time of the termination. The Company has made an accounting policy election to use the prospective method to account for changes in actual or estimated cash flows related to the debt service.

As of December 31, 2021, the financing obligation was $5,227, of which $525 and $4,702 was included in the current and non-current portion of debt, respectively, on the consolidated balance sheet. As of December 31, 2021, $219 of reimbursable expenses is owed by the third party and is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets on the consolidated balance sheet.

Operating leases: The Company has operating leases for its corporate offices and other facilities, roof rights, equipment leases and fiber networks, under various non-cancelable agreements. Future minimum rental

 

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commitments for operating leases with non-cancelable terms of one year or more at December 31, 2021, are as follows:

 

2022

   $ 12,546  

2023

     10,619  

2024

     6,784  

2025

     4,338  

2026

     2,574  

Thereafter

     1,521  
  

 

 

 
   $ 38,382  
  

 

 

 

Total rent expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $13,583 and $8,011, respectively.

Purchase Commitments: The Company entered into non-cancelable purchase commitments with various contract manufacturers during the year ended December 31, 2021 to purchase items to be installed in the Company’s distribution system. As of December 31, 2021, these purchase commitments totaled $33,351.

Advance deposit payments: The Company’s contractual commitments include an advance deposit payment received from a customer for the build out of a network in an underserved location. In the event the Company does not fulfill the obligation to construct the network such deposit is required to be refunded to the customer. As of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, such deposit payment totaled $2,000 and $0, respectively, and was recorded in other liabilities.

Legal Proceedings: The Company is periodically involved in legal proceedings, legal actions and claims arising in the normal course of business, including proceedings relating to product liability, intellectual property, safety and health, employment and other matters. Management believes that the outcome of such legal proceedings, legal actions and claims will not have a significant adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Letter of intent for Agreement and Planned Merger: In September 2021, the Company entered into a letter of intent with FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. a special purpose acquisition company, and subsequently entered into a merger agreement on October 6, 2021, as discussed in Note 1. As of December 31, 2021, the Company has recorded $5,225 in deferred costs related to the Business Combination.

Note 13. Net loss per share

The following table sets forth the computation of the basic and diluted net loss per share:

 

     December 31,  
     2021      2020  
Numerator:      

Net loss attributable to common stockholder

   $ (166,545    $ (125,093
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
Denominator:      

Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted

     198,664,761        194,177,522  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
Basic and diluted earnings per share:      

Voting common stock

   $ (0.84    $ (0.64
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Non-voting common stock

   $ (0.84    $ (0.64
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company’s potential dilutive securities, which include stock options, convertible preferred stock and vested warrants, have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share as the effect would be to reduce the net loss per share. Therefore, the weighted average number of common shares outstanding used to calculate both basic and diluted net loss per share is the same.

 

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The Company issued warrants that were contingently exercisable into shares of non-voting common stock upon meeting certain performance conditions or the occurrence of certain specified future events. The unvested warrants were not included in the computation of dilutive net loss per share for the periods presented as none of the performance conditions or certain specified future events had been satisfied as of December 31, 2021 or 2020. However, had the contingencies been satisfied as of December 31, 2021 or 2020, the warrants would have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share as the effect would be to reduce the net loss per share.

The Company issued convertible notes payable during 2020 that were contingently convertible into shares of non-voting common stock upon the occurrence of certain specified future events. The Company’s contingently convertible notes payable did not meet the condition to be converted to common stock as of December 31, 2020 and therefore were not included in the computation of dilutive net loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2020. However, had the contingency been satisfied as of December 31, 2020, the notes would have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share as the effect would be to reduce the net loss per share.

The number of shares underlying the Company’s outstanding stock options, redeemable, convertible preferred stock and warrants are summarized and disclose in Note 5.

Note 14. Supplemental cash flow information

The following tables provides a reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash reported in the balance sheets as of December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021      2020  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 29,384      $ 25,594  

Restricted cash

     —          110  

Restricted cash included in restricted cash and other assets

     1,378        1,127  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash shown in the consolidated statement of cash flows

   $ 30,762      $ 26,831  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The following table provides supplemental cash flow information for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021      2020  

Cash paid for interest

   $ 132      $ 136  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash paid for taxes

   $ —      $ —  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The following table provides supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

     Years Ended
December 31,
 
     2021      2020  

Purchases of property and equipment included within accounts payable and accrued expenses and other current liabilities

   $ 10,991      $  8,036  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Unpaid deferred transaction costs included within accounts payable and accrued expenses

   $ 4,250      $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Property and equipment acquired through capital lease obligations

   $ 1,399      $ 424  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Asset retirement obligations associated with deployed equipment

   $ 783      $ 582  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Conversion of convertible notes to Series E Preferred Stock

   $ 45,584      $ —  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Note 15. Retirement plan

The Company makes available a 401(k) defined contribution savings plan (the “401(k) Plan”) for its employees. The 401(k) Plan covers substantially all employees who meet minimum age and service requirements and allows participants to defer a portion of their annual compensation on a pretax basis, subject to legal limitations. Under such a plan, employees may make voluntary contributions. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there was no employer matching contribution made to the 401(k) Plan.

Note 16. Subsequent events

The Company evaluated all events or transactions that occurred after December 31, 2021 through March 31, 2022, the date the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued.

Fifth Amendment Delayed Draw

On January 11, 2022, the Company received proceeds of $10,000 in connection with the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan. In conjunction with the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan, the Company issued the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants to the lenders to purchase 2,896,992 shares of Nonvoting Starry Common Stock.

Merger Agreement Waiver

Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, the Business Combination was subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain customary closing conditions. At the time of the execution of the merger agreement, such closing conditions included, among others, that the amount equal to, as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition Merger (the “Acquisition Merger Effective Time”): (A) the funds contained in FirstMark’s trust account; plus (B) all other Cash and Cash Equivalents (as defined in the merger agreement) of New Starry; minus (C) the aggregate amount of cash proceeds required to satisfy the redemption of any shares of FirstMark’s Class A common stock pursuant to the redemption offer (to the extent not already paid as of immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time); plus (D) the PIPE Investment actually received by FirstMark or Holdings at or prior to the closing of the Acquisition Merger (the “Acquisition Merger Closing”); plus (E) net cash proceeds actually received by Starry in consideration for the issuance of Additional Funding Shares (as defined in the merger agreement) (including pursuant to the Series Z Subscription Agreements) prior to the Acquisition Merger Closing shall be at least $300.0 million (the “Minimum Cash Condition”). At the time of the execution of the merger agreement, the closing of the PIPE Investment and the Series Z Investment was also subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the closing of the offering of the Convertible Notes. Further, the merger agreement provided that Starry will use reasonable best efforts to deliver payoff letters and related documentation with respect to certain of its indebtedness at least two business days prior to the closing date of the Acquisition Merger. In addition, the terms of the merger agreement provide that, unless otherwise approved by Starry, FirstMark shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any waiver of, or provide consent to modify, any provision or remedy under any Subscription Agreements. On March 28, 2022, the parties to the merger agreement entered into a Merger Agreement Waiver (the “Merger Agreement Waiver”), pursuant to which they have agreed to waive such closing conditions. As a result of the Minimum Cash Condition not being met, the Convertible Notes (see Note 1) were not issued upon consummation of the Business Combination.

FirstMark Redemptions

Public shareholders redeemed 37,775,801 of FirstMark Class A Common Stock for an aggregate payment of $377,787, resulting in the Company receiving proceeds of $36,245 upon the consummation of the Business Combination on March 29, 2022.

PIPE Subscription Agreement

On March 25, 2022, the PIPE Subscription Agreement was amended such that the aggregate number of New Starry Class A Common Stock to be sold was increased from 10,900,000 to 14,533,334 New Starry Class A Common Stock and the purchase price per share was decreased from $10.00 to $7.50 per share.

On March 29, 2022, the PIPE investors purchased an aggregate of 14,533,334 shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock at $7.50 per share, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $109,000 in the PIPE investment.

Series Z Subscription Agreement

On March 25, 2022, the Series Z Subscription Agreement was amended such that the aggregate number of Series Z Preferred Stock to be sold was increased from 2,100,000 to 2,800,000 Series Z Preferred Stock and the purchase price per share was decreased from $10.00 to $7.50 per share.

In addition, on March 25, 2022, Starry and Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP (“Tiger”) entered into an additional Series Z Subscription Agreement (the “Tiger Series Z Subscription Agreement”) pursuant to which Tiger agreed to subscribe for 1,333,333 shares of Series Z Preferred Stock at a purchase price per share of $7.50 for a purchase price equal to approximately $10.0 million.

On March 29, 2022, the Series Z Investors purchased an aggregate of 4,133,333 shares of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock at $7.50 per share, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $31,000.

Seventh Amendment to Credit Agreement

On March 26, 2022, the Company entered into a Seventh Amendment to the Credit Agreement. The Seventh Amendment to the Credit Agreement amended and restated an affirmative covenant requiring the Company to provide annual audited financial statements without a “going concern” or like qualification, exception or emphasis. In addition, the Seventh Amendment to the Credit Agreement redefined the term “Change in Control” to exclude the aforementioned Business Combination with respect to contemplating the prepayment penalty. As a result of such amendments, the Company was in compliance with all bank covenants as of December 31, 2021. Without such amendments the Company would have been in default and the outstanding long-term debt balance would be payable upon demand. The lender has retained all other covenant requirements.

Tranche C Warrants

As the Business Combination occurred prior to April 15, 2022, approximately 75% of the Tranche C warrants, or 10,804,998 million warrants, were no longer subject to vest or become exercisable. See Warrants for non-voting common stock within Note 5.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholder and the Board of Directors of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statement

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021 and September 17, 2021, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statement”). In our opinion, the financial statement presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 and September 17, 2021, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Going Concern

The accompanying financial statement has been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statement, substantial doubt about Starry, Inc.’s (the Company’s parent or “Starry”) ability to continue as a going concern has been raised and because the Company is a direct and wholly owned subsidiary of Starry, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regards to these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statement does not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Basis for Opinion

This financial statement is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statement based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statement, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statement.

We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

March 31, 2022

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2021.

 

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Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

(a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry Inc.)

Balance Sheets

 

     December 31,
2021
    September 17,
2021
 

Assets:

    

Total assets

   $ —     $ —  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and stockholder’s equity:

    

Total liabilities

     —         —    

Commitments and contingencies

    

Stockholder’s equity:

    

Common stock, $0.01 par value; 100 shares issued and outstanding

     1       1  

Due from stockholder

     (1     (1
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholder’s equity

     —         —    

Total liabilities and stockholder’s equity

   $ —     $ —  

 

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Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

Notes to the Balance Sheets

Note 1: Background and Nature of Operations

Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (“the Company”), formerly Starry Holdings, Inc., is a direct and wholly owned subsidiary of Starry, Inc. (“Starry”) and was incorporated in Delaware on September 17, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of completing the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 6, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Starry, FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. (“FirstMark”) and Sirius Merger Sub Inc., a direct and wholly owned subsidiary of FirstMark (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions contained therein, the Merger will be effected in two steps:

(a) FirstMark will merge with and into the Company (the “SPAC Merger” and, the closing of the SPAC Merger, the “SPAC Merger Closing,” and, the time at which the SPAC Merger becomes effective, the “SPAC Merger Effective Time”), with the Company surviving the SPAC Merger as a publicly traded entity (such surviving entity, “New Starry”) and becoming the sole owner of Merger Sub; and

(b) after the SPAC Merger Effective Time, Merger Sub will merge with and into Starry (the “Acquisition Merger” and, together with the SPAC Merger and all other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the “Business Combination”), with Starry surviving the Acquisition Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of New Starry. The Business Combination will be effectuated in the following principal steps:

 

 

Certain third-party investors, will purchase an aggregate of 10,900,000 shares of Class A common stock of the Company, for an aggregate purchase price of $109 million, which is considered a private investment in public equity (“PIPE”);

 

 

The issuance of $150 million principal amount of Convertible Notes immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Acquisition Merger, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $150 million in the Convertible Notes Investment, pursuant to the Convertible Notes Subscription Agreements;

 

 

The issuance and sale of 2,100,000 shares of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock for a purchase price of $10.00 per share immediately prior to the consummation of the Acquisition Merger, generating gross proceeds of $21 million pursuant to the Series Z Subscription Agreements;

 

 

The shareholders of Starry will exchange their interests in Starry for Class A common stock in the Company.

Following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company will be the surviving publicly-traded corporation, and will own all of the equity interests in Starry. However, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement is subject to numerous conditions, including approval of the shareholders of Starry and FirstMark, and there can be no assurances that such conditions will be satisfied.

Going concern

Pursuant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) codification Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205, Presentation of Financial Statements, the Company is required to assess its ability to continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the date of the issuance of the consolidated financial statements.

The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry, an early stage growth company which has generated losses and negative cash flows from operations since inception. As such, additional capital investments are required in order to execute the strategic plan of Starry, Inc. While Starry, Inc. intends to raise additional capital through a combination of sources, there can be no assurances that such efforts will be successful. Accordingly, substantial doubt about Starry’s ability to continue as a going concern is raised and as the Company is a direct and wholly owned subsidiary of Starry, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for at least one year from the date this financial statement is issued. The balance sheet does not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty should Starry be unable to continue as a going concern.

 

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Note 2: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The balance sheets are presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Separate statements of income and comprehensive income, changes in stockholder’s equity and cash flows have not been presented because there have been no activities in this entity as of December 31, 2021.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the financial statement in conformity with GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the balance sheet. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Organization costs

Costs related to incorporation of the Company will be paid by Starry and recorded as an expense of Starry.

Note 3: Stockholder’s Equity

The Company’s authorized capital stock consists of 100 shares of common stock, with a par value of $0.01 per share. On September 17, 2021, the Company issued 100 shares of common stock for aggregate consideration of $1.

Note 4: Subsequent Events

The Company has evaluated subsequent events through November 5, 2021, the date on which the balance sheet as of September 17, 2021 was available for issuance and through March 31, 2022, the date on which the December 31, 2021 balance sheet was available for issuance.

Merger Agreement Waiver

Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, the Business Combination was subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain customary closing conditions. At the time of the execution of the merger agreement, such closing conditions included, among others, that the amount equal to, as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Acquisition Merger (the “Acquisition Merger Effective Time”): (A) the funds contained in FirstMark’s trust account; plus (B) all other Cash and Cash Equivalents (as defined in the merger agreement) of New Starry; minus (C) the aggregate amount of cash proceeds required to satisfy the redemption of any shares of FirstMark’s Class A common stock pursuant to the redemption offer (to the extent not already paid as of immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time); plus (D) the PIPE Investment actually received by FirstMark or Holdings at or prior to the closing of the Acquisition Merger (the “Acquisition Merger Closing”); plus (E) net cash proceeds actually received by Starry in consideration for the issuance of Additional Funding Shares (as defined in the merger agreement) (including pursuant to the Series Z Subscription Agreements) prior to the Acquisition Merger Closing shall be at least $300.0 million (the “Minimum Cash Condition”). At the time of the execution of the merger agreement, the closing of the PIPE Investment and the Series Z Investment was also subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the closing of the offering of the Convertible Notes. Further, the merger agreement provided that Starry will use reasonable best efforts to deliver payoff letters and related documentation with respect to certain of its indebtedness at least two business days prior to the closing date of the Acquisition Merger. In addition, the terms of the merger agreement provide that, unless otherwise approved by Starry, FirstMark shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any waiver of, or provide consent to modify, any provision or remedy under any Subscription Agreements. On March 28, 2022, the parties to the merger agreement entered into a Merger Agreement Waiver (the “Merger Agreement Waiver”), pursuant to which they have agreed to waive such closing conditions. As a result of the Minimum Cash Condition not being met, the Convertible Notes (see Note 1) were not issued upon consummation of the Business Combination.

FirstMark Redemptions

Public shareholders redeemed 37,775,801 of FirstMark Class A Common Stock for an aggregate payment of $377,787, resulting in the Company receiving proceeds of $36,245 upon the consummation of the Business Combination on March 29, 2022.

PIPE Subscription Agreement

On March 25, 2022, the PIPE Subscription Agreement was amended such that the aggregate number of New Starry Class A Common Stock to be sold was increased from 10,900,000 to 14,533,334 New Starry Class A Common Stock and the purchase price per share was decreased from $10.00 to $7.50 per share.

On March 29, 2022, the PIPE investors purchased an aggregate of 14,533,334 shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock at $7.50 per share, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $109,000 in the PIPE investment.

Series Z Subscription Agreement

On March 25, 2022, the Series Z Subscription Agreement was amended such that the aggregate number of Series Z Preferred Stock to be sold was increased from 2,100,000 to 2,800,000 Series Z Preferred Stock and the purchase price per share was decreased from $10.00 to $7.50 per share.

In addition, on March 25, 2022, Starry and Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP (“Tiger”) entered into an additional Series Z Subscription Agreement (the “Tiger Series Z Subscription Agreement”) pursuant to which Tiger agreed to subscribe for 1,333,333 shares of Series Z Preferred Stock at a purchase price per share of $7.50 for a purchase price equal to approximately $10.0 million.

On March 29, 2022, the Series Z Investors purchased an aggregate of 4,133,333 shares of Starry Series Z Preferred Stock at $7.50 per share, resulting in aggregate proceeds of $31,000.

 

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Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.

ARTICLE I

The name of the corporation is Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (the “Corporation”).

ARTICLE II

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware, 19801, and the name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE III

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

ARTICLE IV

The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 860,000,000, consisting of: (i) 800,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, having a par value of $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”); (ii) 50,000,000 shares of Class X common stock, having a par value of $0.0001 per share (the “Class X Common Stock” and together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”); and (iv) 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, having a par value of $0.0001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”).

ARTICLE V

The designations and the powers, privileges and rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof in respect of each class of capital stock of the Corporation are as follows:

A. COMMON STOCK

1. General. The voting, dividend, liquidation and other rights and powers of the Common Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights, powers and preferences of any series of Preferred Stock as may be designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) and outstanding from time to time.

2. Voting. Except as otherwise provided herein or expressly required by law, each holder of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to vote on each matter submitted to a vote of stockholders generally and shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Class A Common Stock and, until the Sunset Date, twenty votes for each share of Class X Common Stock, in each case, held of record by such holder as of the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote on such matter. From and after the Sunset Date, each share of Class X Common Stock will entitle the


record holder thereof to one vote on all matters on which stockholders generally are entitled to vote. Except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation (as defined below)) (this “Certificate of Incorporation”) that relates solely to the rights, powers, preferences (or the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof) or other terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock or other class of Common Stock if the holders of such affected series of Preferred Stock or class of Common Stock, as applicable, are entitled exclusively, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series or class, to vote thereon pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation) or pursuant to the DGCL.

Except as otherwise required pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation and subject to the rights of any holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, the number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock, Class X 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 of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto).

Except as otherwise required in this Certificate of Incorporation or by the DGCL, the holders of Common Stock will vote together as a single class on all matters (or, if any holders of Preferred Stock are entitled to vote together with such holders of Common Stock, as a single class with the holders of Preferred Stock).

3. Dividends.

(i) Subject to applicable law and the rights and preferences of any holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to the payment of dividends on the Common Stock when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors in accordance with applicable law.

(ii) Dividends of cash or property may not be declared or paid on any class of Common Stock unless a dividend of the same amount per share and same type of cash or property (or combination thereof) per share is concurrently declared or paid on the other classes of outstanding Common Stock.

(iii) In no event will any stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, combination of stock, subdivision, reclassification or recapitalization be declared or made on any class of Common Stock (each, a “Stock Adjustment”) unless a corresponding Stock Adjustment for all other classes of Common Stock at the time outstanding is made in the same proportion and the same manner (unless such requirement is waived in advance by the written consent or affirmative vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of any such other class of Common Stock (voting separately as a single class), in which event, no such Stock Adjustment need be made for such other class of Common Stock). Stock dividends with respect to each class of Common Stock may only be paid with shares of stock of the same class of Common Stock.

 

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4. Liquidation. Subject to the rights and preferences of any holders of any shares of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the funds and assets of the Corporation that may be legally distributed to the Corporation’s stockholders shall be distributed among the holders of the then outstanding Common Stock pro rata in accordance with the number of shares of Common Stock held by each such holder.

5. Merger, Consolidation, Tender or Exchange Offer. Except as expressly provided in this Article V, all shares of Common Stock shall, as among each other, have the same rights, preferences and privileges and rank equally, share ratably and be identical in all respects as to all matters (unless holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of any outstanding class of Common Stock (voting separately as a single class) waive such requirement in advance and in writing as to different treatment of such class of Common Stock, in which event different treatment may be permitted for such class of Common Stock). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless such requirement as to different treatment of such class of Common Stock is waived in advance by the affirmative vote or written consent of holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of any outstanding class of Common Stock (voting separately as a single class), in which event, different treatment may be permitted for such class of Common Stock, (1) in the event of a merger, consolidation or other business combination requiring the approval of the holders of the Corporation’s capital stock entitled to vote thereon (whether or not the Corporation is the surviving entity), the holders of any class of Common Stock shall have the right to receive, or the right to elect to receive, the same form of consideration, if any, as the holders of any other class of Common Stock, and the holders of any class of Common Stock shall have the right to receive, or the right to elect to receive, at least the same amount of consideration, if any, on a per share basis as the holders of any other class of Common Stock, and (2) in the event of (a) any tender or exchange offer to acquire any shares of Common Stock by any third party pursuant to an agreement to which the Corporation is a party or (b) any tender or exchange offer by the Corporation to acquire any shares of Common Stock, pursuant to the terms of the applicable tender or exchange offer, the holders of any class of Common Stock shall have the right to receive, or the right to elect to receive, the same form of consideration, if any, as the holders of any other class of Common Stock, and the holders of any class of Common Stock shall have the right to receive, or the right to elect to receive, at least the same amount of consideration, if any, on a per share basis as the holders of any other class of Common Stock; provided that, for the purposes of the foregoing clauses (1) and (2) and notwithstanding the first sentence of this Article V, Section A.5, in the event any such consideration includes securities, the consideration payable to holders of Class X Common Stock shall be deemed the same form of consideration and at least the same amount of consideration on a per share basis as the holders of Class A Common Stock on a per share basis if the only difference in the per share distribution to the holders of Class X Common Stock is that each share of the securities distributed to such holders has twenty times the voting power of each share of the securities distributed to the holder of a share of Class A Common Stock.

6. Transfer Rights. Subject to applicable law and the transfer restrictions set forth in Article VIII of the Bylaws of the Corporation (as such Bylaws may be amended from time to time, the “Bylaws”) and Article V, Section A.7 of this Certificate of Incorporation, shares of Common Stock and the rights and obligations associated therewith shall be fully transferable to any transferee.

 

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7. Conversion of Class X Common Stock.

(i) Voluntary Conversion. Each share of Class X Common Stock shall be convertible into one share of Class A Common Stock at the option of the holder thereof at any time upon written notice to the transfer agent of the Corporation.

(ii) Automatic Conversion. Each share of Class X Common Stock shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one share of Class A Common Stock upon a Transfer, other than to a Qualified Stockholder, of such share.

(iii) Automatic Conversion of All Outstanding Class X Common Stock. Each share of Class X Common Stock shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one share of Class A Common Stock upon the earlier of (such date, the “Sunset Date”): (a) the date that is nine months following the first date after the Acquisition Effective Time (as defined in that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 6, 2021, by and among the Corporation, FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Sirius Merger Sub, Inc. and Starry, Inc., as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Business Combination Agreement”)) on which Founder (1) is no longer providing services, whether upon death, resignation, removal or otherwise, to the Corporation as a member of the senior leadership team, officer or director and (2) has not provided any such services for the duration of such nine-month period; and (b) the first date after the Acquisition Effective Time as of which the Qualified Stockholders have Transferred, in the aggregate, more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the shares of Class X Common Stock that were held by the Qualified Stockholders immediately following the Acquisition Effective Time.

(iv) Final Conversion of Class X Common Stock. On the Sunset Date, each share of Class X Common Stock shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one share of Class A Common Stock. Following such conversion, the reissuance of shares of Class X Common Stock shall be prohibited, and such shares shall be retired and cancelled in accordance with Section 243 of the DGCL and the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware required thereby, and upon such retirement and cancellation, all references to Class X Common Stock in this Certificate of Incorporation shall be eliminated.

(v) Procedures. The Corporation may, from time to time, establish such policies and procedures relating to the conversion of Class X Common Stock into Class A Common Stock and the general administration of this multi-class stock structure, including the issuance of stock certificates (or the establishment of book-entry positions) with respect thereto, as it may deem reasonably necessary or advisable, and may from time to time request that holders of shares of Class X Common Stock furnish certifications, affidavits or other proof to the Corporation as it deems necessary to verify the ownership of Class X Common Stock and to confirm that a conversion into Class A Common Stock has not occurred. A determination in good faith by the Secretary of the Corporation that a Transfer results or has resulted in a conversion into Class A Common Stock shall be conclusive and binding.

(vi) Immediate Effect of Conversion. In the event of a conversion of shares of Class X Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to this Article V, Section A.7, including upon the Sunset Date, such conversion(s) shall be deemed to have been made at the

 

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time that the Transfer of shares occurred or immediately upon the Sunset Date at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, as applicable. Upon any conversion of Class X Common Stock into Class A Common Stock, all rights of the holder of shares of Class X Common Stock shall cease and the person or persons in whose names or names the certificate or certificates (or book-entry position(s)) representing the shares of Class A Common Stock are to be issued shall be treated for all purposes as having become the record holder or holders of such shares of Class A Common Stock. Shares of Class X Common Stock that are converted into shares of Class A Common Stock as provided in this Article V, Section A.7 shall be retired and may not be reissued.

(vii) Reservation of Stock. The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Class A Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the shares of Class X Common Stock, such number of shares of Class A Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all outstanding shares of Class X Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock.

8. No Further Issuances. Except for a dividend payable in accordance with Article V, Section A.3 or a Stock Adjustment effectuated in accordance with Article V, Section A.3, the Corporation shall not at any time after the Acquisition Effective Time issue any additional shares of Class X Common Stock, unless such issuance is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, voting as a separate class. After the Sunset Date, the Corporation shall not issue any additional shares of Class X Common Stock.

9. For purposes of this Article V, Section A, references to:

(i) “Change of Control Issuance” means the issuance, at any time after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, by the Corporation, in a transaction or series of related transactions, of voting securities to any person or persons acting as a group as contemplated in Rule 13d-5(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (or any successor provision) that immediately prior to such transaction or series of related transactions held fifty percent (50%) or less of the total voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the Corporation (assuming that the Class A Common Stock and Class X Common Stock each entitle the holder thereof to one vote per share), such that, immediately following such transaction or series of related transactions, such person or group of persons would hold more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the Corporation (assuming that the Class A Common Stock and Class X Common Stock each entitle the holder thereof to one vote per share).

(ii) “Change of Control Transaction” means, at any time after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, (a) the sale, lease, exclusive license, exchange, or other disposition (other than liens and encumbrances created in the ordinary course of business, including liens or encumbrances to secure indebtedness for borrowed money that are approved by the Board of Directors, so long as no foreclosure occurs in respect of any such lien or encumbrance) of all or substantially all of the Corporation’s property and assets (which shall for such purpose include the property and assets of any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Corporation), provided that any sale, lease, exclusive license, exchange or other disposition of property or assets exclusively between or among the Corporation and any direct or indirect subsidiary or subsidiaries of the Corporation shall not be deemed a “Change of Control Transaction”; (b) the merger, consolidation, business

 

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combination, or other similar transaction of the Corporation with any other entity, other than a merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction that would result in the voting securities of the Corporation outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the outstanding voting securities of the Corporation (or such surviving or parent entity) or more than fifty percent (50%) of the total number of outstanding shares of the Corporation’s (or such surviving or parent entity’s) capital stock, in each case as outstanding immediately after such merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction, and the stockholders of the Corporation immediately prior to the merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction continuing to own voting securities of the Corporation (or such surviving or parent entity) immediately following the merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction in substantially the same proportions (vis-à-vis each other) as such stockholders owned of the voting securities of the Corporation immediately prior to the transaction; (c) a recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, or other similar transaction involving the Corporation, other than a recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, or other similar transaction that would result in the voting securities of the Corporation outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the voting securities of the Corporation (or such surviving or parent entity) or more than fifty percent (50%) of the total number of outstanding shares of the Corporation’s (or such surviving or parent entity’s) capital stock, in each case as outstanding immediately after such recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction, and the stockholders of the Corporation immediately prior to the recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction continuing to own voting securities of the Corporation (or such surviving or parent entity) immediately following the recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction in substantially the same proportions (vis-à-vis each other) as such stockholders owned of the voting securities of the Corporation immediately prior to the transaction; and (d) any Change of Control Issuance.

(iii) “Dispositive Power” means the power to directly or indirectly cause a Transfer of the owner’s shares (including, without limitation, the power to direct a trustee of a Permitted Trust to Transfer such Permitted Trust’s shares).

(iv) “Family Member” means an individual’s spouse, ex-spouse, domestic partner, lineal (including by adoption) descendant or antecedent, brother or sister, or the spouse or domestic partner of any child, adopted child or grandchild (including by adoption) of such individual.

(v) “Founder” means Chaitanya Kanojia.

(vi) “Permitted Entity” means, with respect to a Qualified Stockholder, (a) a corporation in which such Qualified Stockholder directly, or indirectly through one or more Permitted Entities, owns shares with sufficient voting control in such corporation, or otherwise has legally enforceable rights, such that the Qualified Stockholder retains Dispositive Power and Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class X Common Stock held by such corporation; (b) a partnership in which such Qualified Stockholder directly, or indirectly through one or more

 

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Permitted Entities, owns partnership interests with sufficient voting control in the partnership, or otherwise has legally enforceable rights, such that the Qualified Stockholder retains Dispositive Power and Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class X Common Stock held by such partnership; or (c) a limited liability company in which such Qualified Stockholder directly, or indirectly through one or more Permitted Entities, owns membership interests with sufficient voting control in the limited liability company, or otherwise has legally enforceable rights, such that the Qualified Stockholder retains Dispositive Power and Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class X Common Stock held by such limited liability company.

(vii) “Permitted Foundation” means with respect to a Qualified Stockholder: a trust or private non-operating organization that is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Code”), so long as such Qualified Stockholder has Dispositive Power and Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class X Common Stock held by such trust or organization and the Transfer to such trust does not involve any payment of cash, securities, property or other consideration (other than an interest in such trust or organization) to such Qualified Stockholder.

(viii) “Permitted IRA” means an Individual Retirement Account, as defined in Section 408(a) of the Code, or a pension, profit sharing, stock bonus or other type of plan or trust of which a Qualified Stockholder is a participant or beneficiary and which satisfies the requirements for qualification under Section 401 of the Code; provided that in each case such Qualified Stockholder has Dispositive Power and Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class X Common Stock held in such account, plan or trust.

(ix) “Permitted Transfer” means, and is restricted to, any Transfer of a share of Class X Common Stock: (a) by a Qualified Stockholder to (1) any Permitted Trust of such Qualified Stockholder, (2) any Permitted IRA of such Qualified Stockholder, (3) any Permitted Entity of such Qualified Stockholder, and (4) any Permitted Foundation of such Qualified Stockholder; or (b) by a Permitted Trust, Permitted IRA, Permitted Entity or Permitted Foundation of a Qualified Stockholder to (1) such Qualified Stockholder, or (2) any other Permitted Entity of such Qualified Stockholder.

(x) “Permitted Trust” means with respect to a Qualified Stockholder a trust which (a) is held for the benefit of such Qualified Stockholder and/or one or more Family Members of the Qualified Stockholder in which no person other than such Qualified Stockholder and/or one or more Family Members of the Qualified Stockholder is then a beneficiary entitled to distributions of income or principal from such trust, and (b) confers upon the Qualified Stockholder a Dispositive Power and Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class X Common Stock held by such trust.

(xi) “Qualified Stockholder” means (a) Founder; (b) any other registered holder of a share of Class X Common Stock immediately following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time; (c) the initial registered holder of any shares of Class X Common Stock that are originally issued by the Corporation pursuant to the exercise, conversion or settlement of a Right (provided that such Right was issued to and at all times held by a holder who would have been a Qualified Stockholder if such Right had been a share and without reference to this clause (c)); (d) each natural person who Transfers shares of, or Rights for, Class X Common Stock to a Permitted

 

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Trust, Permitted IRA, Permitted Entity or Permitted Foundation that is or becomes a Qualified Stockholder in connection with such Transfer; or (e) a transferee of shares of Class X Common Stock received in a Transfer that constitutes a Permitted Transfer.

(xii) “Rights” means any option, restricted stock unit, warrant, conversion right or contractual right of any kind to acquire (through purchase, conversion or otherwise) shares of the Corporation’s authorized but unissued capital stock (or issued but not outstanding capital stock).

(xiii) “Transfer” means, with respect to a share of Class X Common Stock, any sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, hypothecation or other transfer or disposition of such share or any legal or beneficial interest in such share, whether or not for value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law, including, without limitation, a transfer to a broker or other nominee (regardless of whether there is a corresponding change in beneficial ownership), or the transfer of, or entering into a binding agreement with respect to, Voting Control over such share by proxy or otherwise; provided that the following shall not be considered a “Transfer”: (a) the granting of a revocable proxy to officers or directors or agents of the Corporation with the approval and at the request of the Board of Directors in connection with actions to be taken at an annual or special meeting of stockholders; (b) entering into a voting trust, agreement or arrangement (with or without granting a proxy) (1) solely with stockholders who are holders of Class X Common Stock that (A) is disclosed either in a Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, (B) either has a term not exceeding one year or is terminable by the holder of the shares subject thereto at any time and (C) does not involve any payment of cash, securities, property or other consideration to the holder of the shares subject thereto other than the mutual promise to vote shares in a designated manner, or (2) pursuant to a written agreement to which the Corporation is a party; (c) in connection with a Change of Control Transaction that has been approved by the Board of Directors, the entering into a support, voting, tender or similar agreement or arrangement (in each case, with or without the grant of a proxy) that has also been approved by the Board of Directors; (d) the pledge of shares of Class X Common Stock by a stockholder that creates a mere security interest in such shares pursuant to a bona fide loan or indebtedness transaction for so long as such stockholder (or the Founder) continues to exercise Voting Control over such pledged shares and no such Voting Control is exercised by the Person to whom the shares are pledged (other than the Founder if the Founder is the Person to whom the shares are pledged), provided that a foreclosure on such shares or other similar action by the pledgee shall constitute a “Transfer” unless such foreclosure or similar action qualifies as a “Permitted Transfer” or (e) the fact that, as of the Acquisition Merger Effective Time or at any time after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, the spouse of any holder of Class X Common Stock possesses or obtains an interest in such holder’s shares of Class X Common Stock arising solely by reason of the application of the community property laws of any jurisdiction, so long as no other event or circumstance shall exist or have occurred that constitutes a Transfer of such shares of Class X Common Stock (including a Transfer by operation of law pursuant to a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement or any other court order).

A Transfer shall also be deemed to have occurred with respect to a share of Class X Common Stock beneficially held by (x) an entity that is a Permitted Trust, Permitted IRA, Permitted Entity or Permitted Foundation, if there occurs any act or circumstance that causes such entity to no longer be a Permitted Trust, Permitted IRA, Permitted Entity or Permitted

 

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Foundation or if there occurs a Transfer on a cumulative basis, from and after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, of a majority of the voting power of the voting securities of such entity or any direct or indirect parent of such entity, other than a Transfer to parties that are, as of the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, holders of voting securities of any such entity or parent of such entity, or (y) an entity that is a Qualified Stockholder, if there occurs a Transfer on a cumulative basis, from and after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, of a majority of the voting power of the voting securities of such entity or any direct or indirect parent of such entity, other than a Transfer to parties that are, as of the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, holders of voting securities of any such entity or parent of such entity.

(xiv) “Voting Control” means, with the respect to a share of Class X Common Stock, the power (whether directly or indirectly) to vote or direct the voting of an equity interest, interest in a trust or other interest or security by proxy, voting agreement, or otherwise. For this purpose, the Voting Control with respect to shares transferred to and held in a Permitted Trust shall be deemed to be held exclusively by the trustee of such Permitted Trust; provided, however, if there is any individual powerholder who possesses the power to remove and replace the trustee of such Permitted Trust (a) without cause, (b) for any reason, and (c) not less often than once in any twelve (12) month period, then the Voting Control of such Permitted Trust’s shares shall be deemed to be held exclusively by such individual powerholder (and not the trustee of such Permitted Trust).

B. PREFERRED STOCK

Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, each of such series to have such terms as stated or expressed herein and in the resolution or resolutions providing for the creation and issuance of such series adopted by the Board of Directors as hereinafter provided.

Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors from time to time to issue the Preferred Stock in one or more series, and in connection with the creation of any such series, by adopting a resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of the shares thereof and by filing a certificate of designation relating thereto in accordance with the DGCL (a “Certificate of Designation”), to determine and fix the number of shares of such series and such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including without limitation thereof, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, and to increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series as shall be stated and expressed in such resolutions, all to the fullest extent now or hereafter permitted by the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the resolution or resolutions providing for the creation and issuance of any series of Preferred Stock may provide that such series shall be superior or rank equally or be junior to any other series of Preferred Stock to the extent permitted by law and this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation). Except as otherwise required by law, holders of any series of Preferred Stock shall be entitled only to such voting rights, if any, as shall expressly be granted thereto by this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation).

 

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ARTICLE VI

For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation it is further provided that:

A. Effective upon the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, the directors of the Corporation (other than Preferred Stock Directors (as defined below)) shall be classified with respect to the time for which they severally hold office into three classes, designated as Class I, Class II and Class III. Each class shall consist, as nearly as may be possible, of one third of the total number of directors constituting the whole Board of Directors. The initial Class I directors shall serve for a term expiring at the first annual meeting of the stockholders following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time; the initial Class II directors shall serve for a term expiring at the second annual meeting of the stockholders following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time; and the initial Class III directors shall serve for a term expiring at the third annual meeting following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time. At each annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation beginning with the first annual meeting of stockholders following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, the successors of the class of directors whose term expires at that meeting shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election. If the number of such directors (other than Preferred Stock 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 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 upon the effectiveness of this Article VI, Section A (the “Classification Effective Time”) to their respective class. Each director shall hold office until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal in accordance with this Certificate of Incorporation.

B. Except as otherwise expressly provided by the DGCL or this Certificate of Incorporation, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. The number of directors that shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed exclusively by one or more resolutions adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors in accordance with the Bylaws.

C. Subject to the special rights of the holders of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock to elect directors (“Preferred Stock Directors”), (i) until the Sunset Date, the Board of Directors or any individual director may be removed from office at any time, with or without cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors; provided that, after the Classification Effective Time, the director designated by FirstMark (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement may be removed by such affirmative vote only for cause, and (ii) following the Sunset Date, the Board of Directors or any individual director may be removed from office at any time only for cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors.

 

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D. Subject to the special rights of the holders of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, except as otherwise provided by law, any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, disqualification, retirement, removal or other causes and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors shall be filled (i) following the Sunset Date, only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even though less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director and, (ii) after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time and until the Sunset Date, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors. For avoidance of doubt, prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, vacancies and newly created directorships may be filled in any manner permitted by the DGCL.

E. Whenever the holders of any one or more series of Preferred Stock issued by the Corporation shall have the right, voting separately as a series or separately as a class with one or more such other series, to elect directors at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, the election, term of office, removal and other features of such directorships shall be governed by the terms of this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article VI, the number of directors that may be elected by the holders of any such series of Preferred Stock shall be in addition to the number fixed pursuant to paragraph B of this Article VI, and the total number of directors constituting the whole Board of Directors shall be automatically adjusted accordingly. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Designation(s) in respect of one or more series of Preferred Stock, 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 Certificate of Designation(s), the terms of office of all such additional directors elected by the holders of such series of Preferred 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. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws, without the assent or vote of the stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote with respect thereto in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware or this Certificate of Incorporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote of the stockholders, at any time after the Sunset Date, in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of stock of the Corporation required by applicable law or by this Certificate of Incorporation (including any Certificate of Designation(s) in respect of one or more series of Preferred Stock) or the Bylaws, the adoption, amendment or repeal of the Bylaws by the stockholders of the Corporation shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in an election of directors.

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ARTICLE VII

A. Until the Sunset Date, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation may be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders or may, except as otherwise required by applicable law or this Certificate of Incorporation, be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding shares of stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and shall be delivered to the Corporation in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL. Following the Sunset Date, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, and shall not be taken by written consent in lieu of a meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any action required or permitted to be taken by the holders of any series 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, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding shares of the relevant series of Preferred Stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and shall be delivered to the Corporation in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL.

B. Subject to the special rights of the holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock, and to the requirements of applicable law, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called for any purpose or purposes, at any time only by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer, in each case, in accordance with the Bylaws, and shall not be called by any other person or persons. Notwithstanding the foregoing, until the Sunset Date, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called for any purpose or purposes by the Secretary of the Corporation upon the request, in writing, of any holder of record of at least 25% of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation. Any such special meeting so called may be postponed, rescheduled or cancelled by the Board of Directors or other person calling the meeting.

C. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of other business proposed to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws. Any business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes identified in the notice of meeting.

ARTICLE VIII

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extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL as the same exists or hereafter may be amended. Any amendment, repeal or modification of this Article VIII, or the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VIII, shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to such amendment, repeal, modification or adoption. If the DGCL is amended after approval by the stockholders of this Article VIII to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as so amended.

ARTICLE IX

A. The Corporation hereby expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the DGCL. By operation of Section 203(b)(3) of the DGCL, the restrictions on business combinations (as defined in Section 203(c)(3) of the DGCL) under Section 203 of the DGCL shall continue to apply for twelve (12) months after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, at which time they shall cease to apply by virtue of the election set forth in the immediately preceding sentence (the “203 Opt-Out Effective Date”). The provisions of Article IX(B)-(D), including the restrictions on business combinations (as defined in Article IX(D)(3) below) set forth in Article IX(B) below, shall not apply before the 203 Opt-Out Effective Date. From and after the 203 Opt-Out Effective Date, the provisions of Article IX(B) – (D) below shall become effective if, and shall continue in effect for so long as, the Class A Common Stock is registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act.

B. The Corporation shall not engage in any business combination with any interested stockholder (as defined below) for a period of three 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;

(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 two-thirds (66 2/3%) of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation which is not owned by the interested stockholder.

 

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C. The restrictions contained in the foregoing Article IX(B) shall not apply if:

(1) a stockholder becomes an interested stockholder inadvertently and (i) as soon as practicable divests itself of ownership of sufficient shares so that the stockholder ceases to be an interested stockholder and (ii) would not, at any time, within the three-year period immediately prior to the business combination between the Corporation and such stockholder, have been an interested stockholder but for the inadvertent acquisition of ownership; or

(2) the business combination is proposed prior to the consummation or abandonment of and subsequent to the earlier of the public announcement or the notice required hereunder of a proposed transaction which (i) constitutes one of the transactions described in the second sentence of this Article IX(C)(2), (ii) is with or by a person who either was not an interested stockholder during the previous three years or who became an interested stockholder with the approval of the Board of Directors and (iii) is approved by a majority of the directors then in office (but not less than one) who were directors prior to any person becoming an interested stockholder during the previous three years or were recommended for election or elected to succeed such directors by a majority of such directors. The proposed transactions referred to in the preceding sentence are limited to (x) a merger or consolidation of the Corporation (except for a merger in respect of which, pursuant to Section 251(f) of the DGCL, no vote of the stockholders of the Corporation is required), (y) a sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, 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 (other than to any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary or to the Corporation) having an aggregate market value equal to fifty percent or more of either that 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 or (z) a proposed tender or exchange offer for 50% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation. The Corporation shall give not less than 20 days’ notice to all interested stockholders prior to the consummation of any of the transactions described in clause (x) or (y) of the second sentence of this Article IX(C)(2).

D. For purposes of this Article IX, 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 the voting power thereof; (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:

a. 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 subsection (B) of this Article IX is not applicable to the surviving entity;

 

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b. 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;

c. any transaction which 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: (i) 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; (ii) pursuant to a merger under Section 251(g) of the DGCL; (iii) 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; (iv) pursuant to an exchange offer by the Corporation to purchase stock made on the same terms to all holders of said stock; or (v) any issuance or transfer of stock by the Corporation; provided, however, that in no case under items (iii) through (v) of this subsection 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);

d. any transaction involving the Corporation or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Corporation which 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 which 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

e. 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 (a) through (d) above) provided by or through the Corporation or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary; provided that this subsection e. shall not apply to any benefits received (x) at or prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time or (y) by Sponsor, its Affiliates, any of its or their respective Representatives or any Representatives (as of immediately prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time) of the Corporation or Merger Sub, in each case of this clause (y), pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or their respective rights, if any, to exculpation, indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or liability insurance coverage under or required by this Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, the SPAC Organizational

 

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Documents or the Business Combination Agreement (each capitalized term used in this clause (y) and not otherwise defined herein, as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) (any benefit referred to in clauses (x) or (y), an “Exempt Benefit”); provided, further, that for so long as this Certificate of Incorporation restricts business combinations, the Corporation shall not amend this Certificate of Incorporation so as to result in an Exempt Benefit becoming subject to the restrictions on business combinations therein.

(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 a 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 subsection (D) of Article IX, 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, or (ii) is an affiliate or associate of the Corporation and was the owner of 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Corporation at any time within the three year period immediately prior to the date on which it is sought to be determined whether such person is an interested stockholder; and the affiliates and associates of such person; but “interested stockholder” shall not include (a) any Stockholder Party, any Stockholder Party Direct Transferee, any Stockholder Party Indirect Transferee or any of their respective affiliates or successors or any “group,” or any member of any such group, to which such persons are a party under Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act, or (b) 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, further, that in the case of clause (b) such person shall be an interested stockholder if thereafter such person acquires additional shares of voting stock of the Corporation, except as a result of further corporate action not caused, directly or indirectly, by such person. 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.

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

a. beneficially owns such stock, directly or indirectly;

b. has (i) 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

 

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associates until such tendered stock is accepted for purchase or exchange; or (ii) 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 10 or more persons; or

c. 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 (ii) of subsection (b) 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.

(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) “Stockholder Party” means any Qualified Stockholder.

(10) “Stockholder Party Direct Transferee” means any person that acquires (other than in a registered public offering) directly from any Stockholder Party or any of its successors or any “group,” or any member of any such group, of which such persons are a party under Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act ownership of 15% or more of the then outstanding voting stock of the Corporation.

(11) “Stockholder Party Indirect Transferee” means any person that acquires (other than in a registered public offering) directly from any Stockholder Party Direct Transferee or any other Stockholder Party Indirect Transferee ownership of 15% or more of the then outstanding voting stock of the Corporation.

(12) “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 to a percentage of voting stock shall be calculated on the basis of the aggregate number of votes applicable to all outstanding shares of such voting stock, and by allocating to each share of voting stock, that number of votes to which such share is entitled.

ARTICLE X

A. Subject to Article X(C), to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or 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 or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and

 

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reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful.

B. Subject to Article X(C), to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or 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 or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation; except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

C. Any indemnification under this Article X (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Article X(A) or Article X(B), as the case may be. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (i) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (ii) by a committee of such directors designated by a majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (iii) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or (iv) by the stockholders. Such determination shall be made, with respect to former directors and officers, by any person or persons having the authority to act on the matter on behalf of the Corporation. To the extent, however, that a present or former director or officer of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding described above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith, without the necessity of authorization in the specific case.

D. For purposes of any determination under Article X(C), a person shall be deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, to

 

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have had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful, if such person’s action is based on the records or books of account of the Corporation or another enterprise, or on information supplied to such person by the officers of the Corporation or another enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Corporation or another enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Corporation or another enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected with reasonable care by the Corporation or another enterprise. The provisions of this Article X(D) shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to limit in any way the circumstances in which a person may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Article X(A) or Article X(B), as the case may be.

E. Notwithstanding any contrary determination in the specific case under Article X(C), and notwithstanding the absence of any determination thereunder, any director or officer may apply to the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Delaware for indemnification to the extent otherwise permissible Article X(A) or Article X(B). The basis of such indemnification by the Corporation shall be a determination by such court that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Article X(A) or Article X(B), as the case may be. Neither a contrary determination in the specific case under Article X(C) nor the absence of any determination thereunder shall be a defense to such application or create a presumption that the director or officer seeking indemnification has not met any applicable standard of conduct. Notice of any application for indemnification pursuant to this Article X shall be given to the Corporation promptly upon the filing of such application. If successful, in whole or in part, the director or officer seeking indemnification shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such application.

F. Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a present or former director or officer in appearing at, participating in or defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or 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 X shall be paid by the Corporation upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article X. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by employees and agents of the Corporation or by persons acting at the request of the Corporation as directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Corporation deems appropriate.

G. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article X shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under this Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that indemnification of the persons specified in Article X(A) or Article X(B) shall be made to the fullest extent permitted by law. The provisions of this Article X shall not be deemed to preclude the indemnification of any person who is not specified in Article X(A) or Article X(B) but whom the Corporation has the power or obligation to indemnify under the provisions of the DGCL, or otherwise.

 

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H. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was a director or officer of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power or the obligation to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article X.

I. For purposes of this Article X, references to “the Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors or officers, so that any person who is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation, or is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article X with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued. The term “another enterprise” as used in this Article X shall mean any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which such person is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent. For purposes of this Article X, references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director or officer with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation” as referred to in this Article X.

J. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article X shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified as provided in this Article X, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

K. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article X to the contrary, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification (which shall be governed by Article X(E)), the Corporation shall not be obligated to indemnify any present or former director or officer (or his or her heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives) or advance expenses in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors.

 

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L. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to employees and agents of the Corporation and to persons serving at the request of the Corporation as directors, officers, employees and agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise similar to those conferred in this Article X to directors and officers of the Corporation.

M. Notwithstanding that a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation (collectively, the “Covered Persons”) may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by other persons (collectively, the “Other Indemnitors”), with respect to the rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance set forth herein, the Corporation: (i) shall be the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to Covered Persons are primary and any obligation of the Other Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by Covered Persons are secondary); and (ii) shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by Covered Persons and shall be liable for the full amount of all liabilities, without regard to any rights Covered Persons may have against any of the Other Indemnitors. No advancement or payment by the Other Indemnitors on behalf of Covered Persons with respect to any claim for which Covered Persons have sought indemnification from the Corporation shall affect the immediately preceding sentence, and the Other Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of Covered Persons against the Corporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the obligations of the Corporation under this Article X(M) shall only apply to Covered Persons in their capacity as Covered Persons.

N. Any repeal or amendment of this Article X by the Board of Directors or the stockholders of the Corporation or by changes in applicable law, or the adoption of any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article X, will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prospective only (except to the extent such amendment or change in applicable law permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights to Indemnitees on a retroactive basis than permitted prior thereto), and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision.

ARTICLE XI

A. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery (the “Chancery Court”) of the State of Delaware (or, in the event that the Chancery Court does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware or other state courts of the State of Delaware) and any appellate court thereof shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action, suit or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer, stockholder or employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or to the Corporation’s stockholders, (iii) any action, suit or proceeding arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or the Bylaws or this Certificate of Incorporation (as either may be amended from time to time), (iv) any action, suit or proceeding as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Chancery Court, or (v) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director, officer or stockholder governed by the internal affairs doctrine. If any action the subject matter of which is within the

 

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scope of the immediately preceding sentence is filed in a court other than the courts in the State of Delaware (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence and (b) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such stockholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this Article XI(A) shall not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts of the United States have exclusive jurisdiction.

B. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act.

C. For avoidance of doubt, any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any security of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this Article XI and each other Article of this Certificate of Incorporation.

ARTICLE XII

A. In recognition and anticipation that (a) certain directors, principals, officers, employees and/or other representatives of an Exempted Person (as defined below) and its Affiliates (as defined below) may serve as directors, officers or agents of the Corporation, (b) an Exempted Person and its Affiliates, including (i) any portfolio company in which it or any of its investment fund Affiliates have made a debt or equity investment (and vice versa) or (ii) any of its 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 (c) 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 XII 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 Exempted Person, Non-Employee Director or their respective Affiliates and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Corporation and its directors, officers and stockholders in connection therewith.

B. Neither (i) any Exempted Person nor (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 (other than the Corporation, any of its subsidiaries

 

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or their respective officers or employees) (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 fiduciary duty to refrain from directly or indirectly (A) 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 (B) competing with the Corporation or any of its Affiliates or subsidiaries, on its own account, or in partnership with, or as an employee, officer, director or shareholder of any other Person (other than the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries), 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 Article XI. Subject to Section C of Article XI, 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 itself, herself or himself, or any of its or his or her 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 or director 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 (or its Affiliates).

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 the Corporation in both his or her director and officer capacities) 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 XII shall not apply to any such corporate opportunity.

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

E. For purposes of this Article XII, (i) “Affiliate” means (a) in respect of an Exempted Person, any Person that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by such Exempted Person, controls such Exempted Person or is under common control with such Exempted Person 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

 

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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; (ii) “Exempted Person” means FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC and its Affiliates; and (iii) “Person” means any individual, corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, association or any other entity.

F. For avoidance of doubt, any Person purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any security of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Article XII and each other Article of this Certificate of Incorporation.

ARTICLE XII

A. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, in addition to any vote required by applicable law, the following provisions in this Certificate of Incorporation may not be amended, altered, repealed or rescinded, in whole or in part, and no provision inconsistent therewith or herewith may be adopted, without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (66 2/3%) of the total voting power of all the then outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class: Article V, Article VI, Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX, Article X, Article XI, Article XII and this Article XIII; provided, however, that, in addition to any other vote required by law or this Certificate of Incorporation, any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation that (x) increases the voting power of the Class X Common Stock pursuant to Article V, Section A.2 or (y) alters or changes Article V, Section A.7 in a manner that adversely affects the holders of Class A Common Stock shall not be approved, in each case, without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the total voting power of all then-outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting as a separate class.

B. If any provision or provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any circumstance for any reason whatsoever: (i) the validity, legality and enforceability of such provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in any way be affected or impaired thereby and (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, each such portion of any paragraph of this Certificate of Incorporation containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to permit the Corporation to protect its directors, officers, employees and agents from personal liability in respect of their good faith service to or for the benefit of the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

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Exhibit 3.2

Bylaws

of

Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

(a Delaware corporation)


Table of Contents

 

     Page  
Article I - Corporate Offices      1  

1.1

  

Registered Office

     1  

1.2

  

Other Offices

     1  
Article II - Meetings of Stockholders      1  

2.1

  

Place of Meetings

     1  

2.2

  

Annual Meeting

     1  

2.3

  

Special Meeting

     1  

2.4

  

Notice of Business to be Brought before a Meeting.

     2  

2.5

  

Notice of Nominations for Election to the Board of Directors.

     5  

2.6

  

Additional Requirements for Valid Nomination of Candidates to Serve as Director and, if Elected, to be Seated as Directors.

     8  

2.7

  

Notice of Stockholders’ Meetings

     9  

2.8

  

Quorum

     9  

2.9

  

Adjourned Meeting; Notice

     10  

2.10

  

Conduct of Business

     10  

2.11

  

Voting

     11  

2.12

  

Record Date for Stockholder Meetings and Other Purposes

     11  

2.13

  

Proxies

     12  

2.14

  

List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote

     12  

2.15

  

Inspectors of Election

     13  

2.16

  

Delivery to the Corporation.

     13  
Article III - Directors      14  

3.1

  

Powers

     14  

3.2

  

Number of Directors

     14  

3.3

  

Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors

     14  

3.4

  

Resignation and Vacancies

     14  

3.5

  

Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone

     14  

3.6

  

Regular Meetings

     15  

3.7

  

Special Meetings; Notice

     15  

3.8

  

Quorum

     15  

3.9

  

Board Action without a Meeting

     16  

3.10

  

Fees and Compensation of Directors

     16  
Article IV - Committees      16  

4.1

  

Committees of Directors

     16  

4.2

  

Meetings and Actions of Committees

     16  

4.3

  

Subcommittees

     17  
Article V - Officers      17  

5.1

  

Officers

     17  

5.2

  

Appointment of Officers

     17  

5.3

  

Subordinate Officers

     17  

5.4

  

Removal and Resignation of Officers

     17  

5.5

  

Vacancies in Offices

     18  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

     Page  

5.6

  

Representation of Shares of Other Corporations

     18  

5.7

  

Authority and Duties of Officers

     18  

5.8

  

Compensation

     18  
Article VI - Records      18  
Article VII - General Matters      19  

7.1

  

Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments

     19  

7.2

  

Stock Certificates

     19  

7.3

  

Special Designation of Certificates

     19  

7.4

  

Lost Certificates

     19  

7.5

  

Shares Without Certificates

     20  

7.6

  

Construction; Definitions

     20  

7.7

  

Dividends

     20  

7.8

  

Fiscal Year

     20  

7.9

  

Seal

     20  

7.10

  

Transfer of Stock

     20  

7.11

  

Stock Transfer Agreements

     20  

7.12

  

Lock-Up.

     21  

7.13

  

Registered Stockholders

     23  

7.14

  

Waiver of Notice

     23  
Article VIII - Notice      24  

8.1

  

Delivery of Notice; Notice by Electronic Transmission

     24  
Article IX - Indemnification      25  

9.1

  

Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings other than Those by or in the Right of the Corporation

     25  

9.2

  

Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings by or in the Right of the Corporation

     25  

9.3

  

Authorization of Indemnification

     25  

9.4

  

Good Faith Defined

     26  

9.5

  

Indemnification by a Court

     26  

9.6

  

Expenses Payable in Advance

     26  

9.7

  

Nonexclusivity of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses

     27  

9.8

  

Insurance

     27  

9.9

  

Certain Definitions

     27  

9.10

  

Survival of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses

     28  

9.11

  

Limitation on Indemnification

     28  

9.12

  

Indemnification of Employees and Agents

     28  

9.13

  

Primacy of Indemnification

     28  

9.14

  

Amendments

     29  
Article X - Amendments      29  
Article XI - Definitions      29  

 

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Bylaws

of

Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

 

 

Article I - Corporate Offices

1.1    Registered Office.

The address of the registered office of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (the “Corporation”) in the State of Delaware, and the name of its registered agent at such address, shall be as set forth in the Corporation’s certificate of incorporation, as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

1.2    Other Offices.

The Corporation may have additional offices at any place or places, within or outside the State of Delaware, as the Corporation’s board of directors (the “Board”) may from time to time establish or as the business of the Corporation may require.

Article II - Meetings of Stockholders

2.1    Place of Meetings.

Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place within or outside the State of Delaware, designated by the Board. The Board may, in its sole discretion, determine that a meeting of stockholders shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized by Section 211(a)(2) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). In the absence of any such designation or determination, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the Corporation’s principal executive office.

2.2    Annual Meeting.

The Board shall designate the date and time of the annual meeting. At the annual meeting, directors shall be elected and other proper business properly brought before the meeting in accordance with Section 2.4 of these bylaws may be transacted. The Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any previously scheduled annual meeting of stockholders.

2.3    Special Meeting.

Special meetings of the stockholders may be called, postponed, rescheduled or cancelled only by such persons and only in such manner as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation.

No business may be transacted at any special meeting of stockholders other than the business specified in the notice of such meeting.


2.4    Notice of Business to be Brought before a Meeting.

(i)    At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (i) specified in a notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the Board, (ii) if not specified in a notice of meeting, otherwise brought before the meeting by the Board or the Chairperson of the Board or (iii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder present in person who (A) (1) was a record owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Section 2.4 and at the time of the meeting, (2) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (3) has complied with this Section 2.4 in all applicable respects or (B) properly made such proposal in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (as so amended and inclusive of such rules and regulations, the “Exchange Act”). The foregoing clause (iii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to propose business to be brought before an annual meeting of the stockholders. For purposes of this Section 2.4, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the annual meeting of the Corporation, or a qualified representative of such proposing stockholder, appear at such annual meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or any other person authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such 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. Stockholders seeking to nominate persons for election to the Board must comply with Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and this Section 2.4 shall not be applicable to nominations except as expressly provided in Section 2.5 and Section 2.6.

(ii)    Without qualification, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to Section 2.4(i)(iii), the stockholder must (i) provide Timely Notice (as defined below) thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation and (ii) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.4. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the one-year anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (which, in the case of the first annual meeting of stockholders following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time (as defined in the Corporation’s Certification of Incorporation), the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting shall be deemed to be June 15, 2022); provided, however, that if the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered, or mailed and received, not later than the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting was first made by the Corporation (such notice within such time periods, “Timely Notice”). In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of Timely Notice as described above.

(iii)    To be in proper form for purposes of this Section 2.4, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth:

(a)    As to each Proposing Person (as defined below), (1) the name and address of such Proposing Person (including, if applicable, the name and address that appear on the Corporation’s books and records); and (2) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned of record or beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by such Proposing Person, except that such Proposing Person shall in all events be deemed to beneficially own any shares of any

 

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class or series of the Corporation as to which such Proposing Person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1) and (2) are referred to as “Stockholder Information”);

(b)    As to each Proposing Person, (1) the full notional amount of any securities that, directly or indirectly, underlie any “derivative security” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(c) under the Exchange Act) that constitutes a “call equivalent position” (as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1(b) under the Exchange Act) (“Synthetic Equity Position”) and that is, directly or indirectly, held or maintained by such Proposing Person with respect to any shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation; provided that, for the purposes of the definition of “Synthetic Equity Position,” the term “derivative security” shall also include any security or instrument that would not otherwise constitute a “derivative security” as a result of any feature that would make any conversion, exercise or similar right or privilege of such security or instrument becoming determinable only at some future date or upon the happening of a future occurrence, in which case the determination of the amount of securities into which such security or instrument would be convertible or exercisable shall be made assuming that such security or instrument is immediately convertible or exercisable at the time of such determination; and, provided, further, that any Proposing Person satisfying the requirements of Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (other than a Proposing Person that so satisfies Rule 13d-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act solely by reason of Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E)) shall not be deemed to hold or maintain the notional amount of any securities that underlie a Synthetic Equity Position held by such Proposing Person as a hedge with respect to a bona fide derivatives trade or position of such Proposing Person arising in the ordinary course of such Proposing Person’s business as a derivatives dealer, (2) any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (3) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding in which such Proposing Person is a party or material participant involving the Corporation or any of its officers or directors, or any affiliate of the Corporation, (4) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation or any affiliate of the Corporation, on the other hand, (5) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement of such Proposing Person with the Corporation or any affiliate of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement), (6) a representation that such Proposing Person intends or is part of a group which intends to deliver a proxy statement 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 otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal, (7) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to the nomination or proposal and/or the voting of shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation between or among the Proposing Persons, (8) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including without limitation any contract to purchase or sell, acquisition or grant of any option, right or warrant to purchase or sell, swap or other instrument) to which any Proposing Person is a party, the intent or effect of which may be (i) to transfer to or from any Proposing Person, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security of the Corporation, (ii) to increase or decrease the voting power of any Proposing Person with respect to shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation and/or (iii) to provide any Proposing Person, directly or indirectly, with the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from, or to otherwise benefit economically from, any increase or decrease in the value of any security of the Corporation

 

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and (9) any other information relating to such Proposing Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies or consents by such Proposing Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (1) through (9) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”); provided, however, that Disclosable Interests shall not include any such disclosures with respect to the ordinary course business activities of any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner; and

(c)    As to each item of business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, (1) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person, (2) the text 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 the bylaws of the Corporation, the language of the proposed amendment), (3) a reasonably detailed description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings (x) between or among any of the Proposing Persons or (y) between or among any Proposing Person and any other record or beneficial holder(s) or persons(s) who have a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future of the shares of any class or series of the Corporation or any other person or entity (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and (4) any other information relating to such item of business that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that the disclosures required by this paragraph (c) shall not include any disclosures with respect to any broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee who is a Proposing Person solely as a result of being the stockholder directed to prepare and submit the notice required by these bylaws on behalf of a beneficial owner.

For purposes of this Section 2.4, the term “Proposing Person” shall mean (i) the stockholder providing the notice of business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting, (ii) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of the business proposed to be brought before the annual meeting is made, and (iii) any participant (as defined in paragraphs (a)(ii)-(vi) of Instruction 3 to Item 4 of Schedule 14A) with such stockholder in such solicitation.

(iv)    A Proposing Person shall update and supplement its notice to the Corporation of its intent to propose business at an annual meeting, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to

 

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update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any proposal or to submit any new proposal, including by changing or adding matters, business or resolutions proposed to be brought before a meeting of the stockholders.

(v)    Notwithstanding anything in these bylaws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting that is not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 2.4. The Board or chairperson of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that the business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 2.4, and if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.4, if the Proposing Person (or a qualified representative of the Proposing Person) does not appear at the annual meeting to present the proposed business, such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such matter may have been received by the Corporation.

(vi)    This Section 2.4 is expressly intended to apply to any business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders other than any proposal made in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and included in the Corporation’s proxy statement. In addition to the requirements of this Section 2.4 with respect to any business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting, each Proposing Person shall comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act with respect to any such business. Nothing in this Section 2.4 shall be deemed to affect the rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.4, until the Sunset Date (as defined in the Certification of Incorporation), any holder of record of at least 25% in voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in an election of directors generally shall not be subject to the notice procedures set forth in the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.4 and may bring any business before an annual meeting of stockholders in person at the annual meeting, without prior notice.

(vii)    For purposes of these bylaws, “public disclosure” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service, in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or by such other means as is reasonably designed to inform the public or securityholders of the Corporation in general of such information including, without limitation, posting on the Corporation’s investor relations website.

2.5    Notice of Nominations for Election to the Board of Directors.

(i)    Subject in all respects to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, nominations of any person for election to the Board at an annual meeting or at a special meeting (but only if the election of directors is a matter specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling such special meeting) may be made at such meeting only (x) by or at the direction of the Board, including by any committee or persons authorized to do so by the Board or these bylaws, or (y) by a stockholder present in person (A) who was a record owner of shares of the Corporation both at the time of giving the notice provided for in this Section 2.5 and at the time of the meeting, (B) is entitled to vote at the meeting, and (C) has complied with this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 as to such notice and nomination. For purposes of this Section 2.5, “present in person” shall mean that the stockholder proposing that the business be brought before the meeting of the Corporation, or a qualified representative of such stockholder, appear at such meeting. A “qualified representative” of such proposing stockholder shall be a duly

 

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authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or any other person authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such 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. Except as may be otherwise provided by the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock with respect to the rights of holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, the foregoing clause (y) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board at an annual meeting or special meeting.

(ii)     Without qualification, for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board at an annual meeting, the stockholder must (1) provide Timely Notice (as defined in Section 2.4) thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation, (2) provide the information, agreements and questionnaires with respect to such stockholder and its candidate for nomination as required to be set forth by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and (3) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6.

(iii)    Without qualification, if the election of directors is a matter specified in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the person calling a special meeting in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation, then for a stockholder to make any nomination of a person or persons for election to the Board at a special meeting, the stockholder must (1) provide timely notice thereof in writing and in proper form to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, (2) provide the information with respect to such stockholder and its candidate for nomination as required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and (3) provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice for nominations to be made at a special meeting must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the 90th day prior to such special meeting or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure (as defined in Section 2.4) of the date of such special meeting was first made.

(iv)    In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or special meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

(v)    In no event may a Nominating Person provide notice with respect to a greater number of director candidates than are subject to election by stockholders at the applicable meeting. If the Corporation shall, subsequent to such notice, increase the number of directors subject to election at the meeting, such notice as to any additional nominees shall be due on the later of (i) (x) in the case of an annual meeting, the conclusion of the time period for Timely Notice or (y) in the case of a special meeting, the conclusion of the time period for Timely Notice as set forth in Section 2.5(iii), or (iii) the tenth day following the date of public disclosure (as defined in Section 2.4) of such increase.

(vi)    To be in proper form for purposes of this Section 2.5, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth:

(a)    As to each Nominating Person (as defined below), the Stockholder Information (as defined in Section 2.4(iii)(a), except that for purposes of this Section 2.5 the term “Nominating Person” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(iii)(a));

 

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(b)    As to each Nominating Person, any Disclosable Interests (as defined in Section 2.4(iii)(b), except that for purposes of this Section 2.5 the term “Nominating Person” shall be substituted for the term “Proposing Person” in all places it appears in Section 2.4(iii)(b) and the disclosure with respect to the business to be brought before the meeting in Section 2.4(iii)(b) shall be made with respect to the election of directors at the meeting); and

(c)    As to each candidate whom a Nominating Person proposes to nominate for election as a director, (A) all information with respect to such candidate for nomination that would be required to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice pursuant to this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 if such candidate for nomination were a Nominating Person, (B) all information relating to such candidate for nomination that is required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14(a) under the Exchange Act (including such candidate’s written consent to being named in the Corporation’s proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected), (C) a description of any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement between or among any Nominating Person, on the one hand, and each candidate for nomination or his or her respective associates or any other participants in such solicitation, on the other hand, including, without limitation, all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 under Regulation S-K if such Nominating Person were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the candidate for nomination were a director or executive officer of such registrant (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A) through (C) are referred to as “Nominee Information”), and (D) a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement as provided in Section 2.6(i).

For purposes of this Section 2.5, the term “Nominating Person” shall mean (i) the stockholder providing the notice of the nomination proposed to be made at the meeting, (ii) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of the nomination proposed to be made at the meeting is made, and (iii) any other participant in such solicitation.

(vii)    A stockholder providing notice of any nomination proposed to be made at a meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Section 2.5 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any nomination or to submit any new nomination.

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of the Exchange Act with respect to any such nominations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.5, until the Sunset Date, any holder of record of at least 25% in voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in an election of directors generally shall not be subject to the notice procedures set forth in the foregoing notice and nomination provisions of this Section 2.5 and Section 2.6 and may nominate any person for election at an annual meeting or at a special meeting in person at the annual or special meeting, without prior notice.

2.6    Additional Requirements for Valid Nomination of Candidates to Serve as Director and, if Elected, to be Seated as Directors.

(i)    To be eligible to be a candidate for election as a director of the Corporation at an annual or special meeting, a candidate must be nominated in the manner prescribed in Section 2.5 and the candidate for nomination, whether nominated by the Board or by a stockholder of record, must have previously delivered (in accordance with the time period prescribed for delivery in a notice to such candidate given by or on behalf of the Board), to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, (i) a completed written questionnaire (in a form provided by the Corporation) with respect to the background, qualifications, stock ownership and independence of such proposed nominee, and such additional information with respect to such proposed nominee as would be required to be provided by the Corporation pursuant to Schedule 14A if such proposed nominee were a participant in the solicitation of proxies by the Corporation in connection with such annual or special meeting and (ii) a written representation and agreement (in form provided by the Corporation) that such candidate for nomination (A) is not and, if elected as a director during his or her term of office, will not become a party to (1) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given and will not give any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such proposed nominee, if elected as a director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) or (2) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such proposed nominee’s ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Corporation, with such proposed nominee’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 or reimbursement for service as a director that has not been disclosed therein or to the Corporation, (C) if elected as a director of the Corporation, will comply with all applicable corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality, stock ownership and trading and other policies and guidelines of the Corporation applicable to directors and in effect during such person’s term in office as a director (and, if requested by any candidate for nomination, the Secretary of the Corporation shall provide to such candidate for nomination all such policies and guidelines then in effect), (D) if elected as director of the Corporation, intends to serve the entire term until the next meeting at which such candidate would face re-election and (E) consents to being named as a nominee in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-4(d) under the Exchange Act and any associated proxy card of the Corporation and agrees to serve if elected as a director.

(ii)    The Board may also require any proposed candidate for nomination as a Director to furnish such other information as may be requested by the Board in writing prior to the meeting of stockholders at which such candidate’s nomination is to be acted upon in order for the Board to determine the eligibility of such candidate for nomination to be an independent director of the Corporation in accordance with the Corporation’s Corporate Governance Guidelines, the Exchange Act and applicable stock exchange rules.

(iii)    A candidate for nomination as a director shall further update and supplement the materials delivered pursuant to this Section 2.6, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be true and correct as of the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any

 

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adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (or any other office specified by the Corporation in any public announcement) not later than five business days after the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of such record date), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or, if practicable, any adjournment or postponement thereof (and, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to the date to which the meeting has been adjourned or postponed) (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the obligation to update and supplement as set forth in this paragraph or any other Section of these bylaws shall not limit the Corporation’s rights with respect to any deficiencies in any notice provided by a stockholder, extend any applicable deadlines hereunder or enable or be deemed to permit a stockholder who has previously submitted notice hereunder to amend or update any proposal or to submit any new proposal, including by changing or adding nominees, matters, business or resolutions proposed to be brought before a meeting of the stockholders.    

(iv)    No candidate shall be eligible for nomination as a director of the Corporation unless such candidate for nomination and the Nominating Person seeking to place such candidate’s name in nomination has complied with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6, as applicable. The Board or chairperson of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that a nomination was not properly made in accordance with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6, and if he or she should so determine, he or she shall so declare such determination to the meeting, the defective nomination shall be disregarded and any ballots cast for the candidate in question (but in the case of any form of ballot listing other qualified nominees, only the ballots cast for the nominee in question) shall be void and of no force or effect. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Section 2.5, if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear at the meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present the nomination, such nomination shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such nomination may have been received by the Corporation.

(v)    Notwithstanding anything in these bylaws to the contrary, no candidate for nomination shall be eligible to be seated as a director of the Corporation unless nominated and elected in accordance with Section 2.5 and this Section 2.6.

2.7    Notice of Stockholders Meetings.

Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, the notice of any meeting of stockholders shall be sent or otherwise given in accordance with Section 8.1 of these bylaws not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. The notice shall specify the place, if any, date and time of the meeting, the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders 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 stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting) and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

2.8    Quorum.

Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, present in person, or by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of the stockholders, except that when specified business is to be voted on by a class or series of stock voting as a class, the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power

 

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of the outstanding shares of such class or series shall constitute a quorum of such class or series for the transaction of such business. A quorum, once established at a meeting, shall not be broken by the withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum. If, however, a quorum is not present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, then either (i) the person presiding over the meeting or (ii) a majority in voting power of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person, or by remote communication, if applicable, or represented by proxy, shall have power to recess the meeting or adjourn the meeting from time to time in the manner provided in Section 2.9 of these bylaws until a quorum is present or represented. At any recessed or adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present or represented, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed.

2.9    Adjourned Meeting; Notice.

When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, unless these bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time, place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At any adjourned meeting, the Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. 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 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 meeting as of the record date so fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

2.10    Conduct of Business.

The chairperson of each annual and special meeting shall be the Chairperson of the Board or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chief Executive Officer or if the Chief Executive Officer is not a director, the President (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President or if the President is not a director, such other person as shall be appointed by the Board. 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 chairperson of the meeting. The Board 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, the chairperson of the meeting of stockholders 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 (which need not be in writing) and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of the chairperson of the meeting, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the chairperson 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 (including, without limitation, rules and procedures for removal of disruptive persons from the meeting); (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 chairperson of the meeting shall determine; (iv) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (v) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. The chairperson of the meeting, in addition to making any other determinations that may be appropriate to the conduct of the meeting (including, without limitation, determinations with respect to the administration

 

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and/or interpretation of any of the rules, regulations or procedures of the meeting, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the chairperson of the meeting), shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a matter of business was not properly brought before the meeting and if such chairperson should so determine, such chairperson shall so declare to the meeting and any such matter or business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted or considered. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the chairperson of the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure. The secretary of each annual and special meeting of stockholders shall be the Secretary or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary so appointed to act by the chairperson of the meeting. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, the chairperson of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

2.11    Voting.

Except as may be otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws or the DGCL, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock held by such stockholder.

Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation and subject to the rights of the holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock, voting separately by class or series, to elect directors pursuant to the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock, at all duly called or convened meetings of stockholders at which a quorum is present, for the election of directors, a plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient to elect a director. Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, or applicable law or pursuant to any regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, each other matter presented to the stockholders at a duly called or convened meeting at which a quorum is present shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast (excluding abstentions and broker non-votes) on such matter.

2.12    Record Date for Stockholder Meetings and Other Purposes.

In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board 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, and which record date shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than 60 days nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If the Board 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 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, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be the close of business on the next day preceding the day on which notice is first 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 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.

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation, in order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action without a meeting, the Board 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, and which record date shall not be more than ten (10) days after the date upon

 

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which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board. If no record date for determining stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action without a meeting is fixed by the Board, (i) when no prior action of the Board is required by the DGCL, the record date for such purpose shall be the first date on which a signed 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 is required by the DGCL, the record date for such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment or any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, or for the purposes of any other lawful action, the Board 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 be not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no 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 adopts the resolution relating thereto.

2.13    Proxies.

Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy authorized by an instrument in writing or by a transmission permitted by law in any manner provided under Section 212(c) of the DGCL or as otherwise provided under applicable law and filed in accordance with the procedure established for the meeting, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. The revocability of a proxy that states on its face that it is irrevocable shall be governed by the provisions of Section 212 of the DGCL. A proxy may be in the form of an electronic transmission that sets forth or is submitted with information from which it can be determined that the transmission was authorized by the stockholder.

2.14    List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote.

The Corporation shall prepare, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than 10 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. The Corporation shall not be required to include electronic mail addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (i) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (ii) during ordinary business hours, at the Corporation’s principal executive office. 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 the list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected 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. Such list shall presumptively determine the identity of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and the number of shares held by each of them. 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 2.14 or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.

 

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2.15    Inspectors of Election.

Before any meeting of stockholders, the Corporation shall appoint an inspector or inspectors of election to act at the meeting or its adjournment and make a written report thereof. The Corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If any person appointed as inspector or any alternate fails to appear or fails or refuses to act, then the person presiding over the meeting shall appoint a person to fill that vacancy.

Such inspectors shall:

(i)    determine the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each, the number of shares represented at the meeting and the validity of any proxies and ballots;

(ii)    count all votes or ballots;

(iii)    count and tabulate all votes;

(iv)    determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspector(s); and

(v)    certify its or their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting and its or their count of all votes and ballots.

Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of inspector, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspection with strict impartiality and according to the best of such inspector’s ability. Any report or certificate made by the inspectors of election is prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. The inspectors of election may appoint such persons to assist them in performing their duties as they determine.

2.16    Delivery to the Corporation.

Whenever this Article II requires one or more persons (including a record or beneficial owner of stock) to deliver a document or information to the Corporation or any officer, employee or agent thereof (including any notice, request, questionnaire, revocation, representation or other document or agreement), such document or information shall be in writing exclusively (and not in an electronic transmission) and shall be delivered exclusively by hand (including, without limitation, overnight courier service) or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, and the Corporation shall not be required to accept delivery of any document not in such written form or so delivered. For the avoidance of doubt, the Corporation expressly opts out of Section 116 of the DGCL with respect to the delivery of information and documents to the Corporation required by this Article II.

 

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Article III - Directors

3.1    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 the Board.

3.2    Number of Directors.

Subject to the Certificate of Incorporation or any certificate of designation with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, the total number of directors constituting the Board shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, no reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director before that director’s term of office expires.

3.3    Election, Qualification and Term of Office of Directors.

Directors shall be elected by stockholders at the annual meeting, and the term of each director shall be as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation. Directors need not be stockholders. The Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws may prescribe qualifications for directors.

3.4    Resignation and Vacancies.

Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Corporation. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or upon the happening of an event specified therein, and if no time or event is specified, at the time of its receipt. When one or more directors so resigns and the resignation is effective at a future date or upon the happening of an event to occur on a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office as provided in Section 3.3.

Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, subject to the special rights of the holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, except as otherwise provided by applicable law, vacancies resulting from the death, resignation, disqualification or removal of any director, and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors shall be filled (i) following the Sunset Date, only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even though less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director and, (ii) after the Acquisition Merger Effective Time and until the Sunset Date, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at an election of directors. For avoidance of doubt, prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, vacancies and newly created directorships may be filled in any manner permitted by the DGCL.

3.5    Place of Meetings; Meetings by Telephone.

The Board may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or outside the State of Delaware.

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committee, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting pursuant to this bylaw shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

3.6    Regular Meetings.

Regular meetings of the Board may be held within or outside the State of Delaware and at such time and at such place as which has been designated by the Board and publicized among all directors, either orally or in writing, by telephone, including a voice-messaging system or other system designed to record and communicate messages, facsimile, telegraph or telex, or by electronic mail or other means of electronic transmission. No further notice shall be required for regular meetings of the Board.

3.7    Special Meetings; Notice.

Special meetings of the Board for any purpose or purposes may be held within or outside the State of Delaware and called at any time by the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Secretary or a majority of the total number of directors constituting the Board.

Notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be:

(i)    delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone;

(ii)    sent by United States first-class mail, postage prepaid;

(iii)    sent by facsimile or electronic mail; or

(iv)    sent by other means of electronic transmission,

directed to each director at that director’s address, telephone number, facsimile number or electronic mail address, or other address for electronic transmission, as the case may be, as shown on the Corporation’s records.

If the notice is (i) delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone, (ii) sent by facsimile or electronic mail, or (iii) sent by other means of electronic transmission, it shall be delivered or sent at least 24 hours before the time of the holding of the meeting. If the notice is sent by U.S. mail, it shall be deposited in the U.S. mail at least four days before the time of the holding of the meeting. The notice need not specify the place of the meeting (if the meeting is to be held at the Corporation’s principal executive office) nor the purpose of the meeting.

3.8    Quorum.

At all meetings of the Board, unless otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws. If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the Board, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

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3.9    Board Action without a Meeting.

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission. After an action is taken, the consent or consents relating thereto shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board, or the committee thereof, in the same paper or electronic form as the minutes are maintained. Such action by written consent or consent by electronic transmission shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of the Board.

3.10    Fees and Compensation of Directors.

Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, the Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation, including fees and reimbursement of expenses, of directors for services to the Corporation in any capacity.

Article IV - Committees

4.1    Committees of Directors.

The Board may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, 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 to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Each committee of the Board 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 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. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board or in these bylaws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board 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 that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority to (i) approve or adopt, or recommend 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 (ii) adopt, amend or repeal any bylaw of the Corporation.

4.2    Meetings and Actions of Committees.

Meetings and actions of committees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of:

(i)    Section 3.5 (place of meetings; meetings by telephone);

(ii)    Section 3.6 (regular meetings);

 

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(iii)    Section 3.7 (special meetings; notice);

(iv)    Section 3.9 (board action without a meeting); and

(v)    Section 7.14 (waiver of notice),

with such changes in the context of those bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the Board and its members.

4.3    Subcommittees.

Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, the resolutions of the Board designating the committee or the charter of such committee adopted by the Board, a committee may create one or more subcommittees, each subcommittee to consist of one or more members of the committee, and delegate to a subcommittee any or all of the powers and authority of the committee.

Article V - Officers

5.1    Officers.

The officers of the Corporation shall include a Chief Executive Officer, a President and a Secretary. The Corporation may also have, at the discretion of the Board, a Chairperson of the Board, a Vice Chairperson of the Board, a Chief Financial Officer, a Treasurer, one or more Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Treasurers, one or more Assistant Secretaries, and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of these bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person. No officer need be a stockholder or director of the Corporation.

5.2    Appointment of Officers.

The Board shall appoint the officers of the Corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 of these bylaws.

5.3    Subordinate Officers.

The Board may appoint, or empower the Chief Executive Officer or, in the absence of a Chief Executive Officer, the President, to appoint, such other officers and agents as the business of the Corporation may require. Each of such officers and agents shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these bylaws or as the Board may from time to time determine.

5.4    Removal and Resignation of Officers.

Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by the Board or, except in the case of an officer chosen by the Board, by any officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the Board.

Any officer may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Corporation. Any resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of that notice or at any later time specified in that notice. Unless otherwise specified in the notice of resignation, the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation is without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the Corporation under any contract to which the officer is a party.

 

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5.5    Vacancies in Offices.

Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation shall be filled as provided in Section 5.2 or Section 5.3, as applicable.

5.6    Representation of Shares of Other Corporations.

The Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President of this Corporation, or any other person authorized by the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, is authorized to vote, represent and exercise on behalf of this Corporation all rights incident to any and all shares or voting securities of any other corporation or other person standing in the name of this Corporation. The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by such person having the authority.

5.7    Authority and Duties of Officers.

All officers of the Corporation shall respectively have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the Corporation as may be provided herein or designated from time to time by the Board and, to the extent not so provided, as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the control of the Board.

5.8    Compensation.

The compensation of the officers of the Corporation for their services as such shall be fixed from time to time by or at the direction of the Board. An officer of the Corporation shall not be prevented from receiving compensation by reason of the fact that he or she is also a director of the Corporation.

Article VI - Records

A stock ledger consisting of one or more records in which the names of all of the Corporation’s stockholders of record, the address and number of shares registered in the name of each such stockholder, and all issuances and transfers of stock of the corporation are recorded in accordance with Section 224 of the DGCL shall be administered by or on behalf of the Corporation. Any records administered by or on behalf of the Corporation in the regular course of its business, including its stock ledger, books of account, and minute books, may be kept on, or by means of, or be in the form of, any information storage device, or method, or one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), provided that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time and, with respect to the stock ledger, that the records so kept (i) can be used to prepare the list of stockholders specified in Sections 219 and 220 of the DGCL, (ii) record the information specified in Sections 156, 159, 217(a) and 218 of the DGCL, and (iii) record transfers of stock as governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in the State of Delaware.

 

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Article VII - General Matters

7.1    Execution of Corporate Contracts and Instruments.

The Board, except as otherwise provided in these bylaws, may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

7.2    Stock Certificates.

The shares of the Corporation shall be uncertificated, provided that the Board by resolution may provide that some or all of the shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation shall be certificated. Certificates for the shares of stock, if any, shall be in such form as is consistent with the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law. Every holder of stock represented by a certificate shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Corporation by, any two officers authorized to sign stock certificates representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. The Chairperson or Vice Chairperson of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Corporation shall be specifically authorized to sign stock certificates. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

7.3    Special Designation of Certificates.

If the Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or on the back of the certificate that the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock (or, in the case of uncertificated shares, set forth in a notice provided pursuant to Section 151 of the DGCL); provided, however, that except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the DGCL, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face of back of the certificate that the Corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock (or, in the case of any uncertificated shares, included in the aforementioned notice) a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, the designations, the preferences and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

7.4    Lost Certificates.

Except as provided in this Section 7.4, no new certificates for shares shall be issued to replace a previously issued certificate unless the latter is surrendered to the Corporation and cancelled at the same time. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may, in addition to any other requirements as may be imposed by the Corporation, require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

 

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7.5    Shares Without Certificates

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 the use of such system by the Corporation is permitted in accordance with applicable law.

7.6    Construction; Definitions.

Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction and definitions in the DGCL shall govern the construction of these bylaws. Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural and the plural number includes the singular.

7.7    Dividends.

The Board, subject to any restrictions contained in either (i) the DGCL or (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of its capital stock. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock.

The Board may set apart out of any of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve. Such purposes shall include but not be limited to equalizing dividends, repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, and meeting contingencies.

7.8    Fiscal Year.

The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board and may be changed by the Board.

7.9    Seal.

The Corporation may adopt a corporate seal, which shall be adopted and which may be altered by the Board. The Corporation may use the corporate seal by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

7.10    Transfer of Stock.

Subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 7.12, shares of stock of the Corporation shall be transferred on the books of the Corporation only by the holder of record thereof or by such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, upon surrender to the Corporation of the certificate or certificates representing such shares endorsed by the appropriate person or persons (or by delivery of duly executed instructions with respect to uncertificated shares), with such evidence of the authenticity of such endorsement or execution, transfer, authorization and other matters as the Corporation may reasonably require, and accompanied by all necessary stock transfer stamps. No transfer of stock shall be valid as against the Corporation for any purpose until it shall have been entered in the stock records of the Corporation by an entry showing the names of the persons from and to whom it was transferred.

7.11    Stock Transfer Agreements.

The Corporation shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes or series of stock of the Corporation to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the Corporation of any one or more classes owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the DGCL or other applicable law.

 

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7.12    Lock-Up.

(i)    Subject to Section 7.12(ii), the holders (the “Lock-up Holders”) of the common stock of the Corporation issued (a) at the Acquisition Merger Effective Time upon conversion of the shares of common stock of Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Starry”), pursuant to the merger of Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), with and into Starry, with Starry surviving the merger (the “Starry Transaction”) or (b) to directors, officers and employees of the Corporation upon the settlement or exercise of restricted stock units, stock options or other equity awards outstanding as of immediately following the closing of the Starry Transaction in respect of awards of Starry common stock outstanding immediately prior to the closing of the Starry Transaction (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the SPAC Warrants (as defined in the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 6, 2021, by and among the Corporation, FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., Merger Sub, and Starry (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”))) (such shares referred to in this Section 7.12(i)(b), the “Starry Equity Award Shares”), may not Transfer any Lock-up Shares until the end of the Lock-up Period (the “Lock-up”).

(ii)    Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in Section 7.12(i), the Lock-up Holders or their respective Permitted Transferees may Transfer the Lock-up Shares during the Lock-up Period (a) to (i) the Corporation’s officers or directors, (ii) any affiliates or family members of the Corporation’s officers or directors, or (iii) the other Lock-up Holders or any direct or indirect partners, members or equity holders of the Lock-up Holders, any affiliates of the Lock-up Holders or any related investment funds or vehicles controlled or managed by such persons or entities or their respective affiliates; (b) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of the individual’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of the individual’s immediate family or an affiliate of such person or entity, or to a charitable organization; (c) in the case of an individual, by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (d) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (e) in connection with any bona fide mortgage, encumbrance or pledge to a financial institution in connection with any bona fide loan or debt transaction or enforcement thereunder, including foreclosure thereof; (f) to the Corporation; (g) to Qualified Stockholders (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) in the case of shares of Class X common stock, or (h) in connection with a liquidation, merger, stock exchange, reorganization, tender offer approved by the Board or a duly authorized committee thereof or other similar transaction which results in all of the Corporation’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of common stock for cash, securities or other property subsequent to the closing date of the Starry Transaction.

(iii)    Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in Section 7.12(i), if (A) at least 120 days have elapsed since the closing date of the Starry Transaction and (B) the Lock-up Period is scheduled to end during a Blackout Period or within five Trading Days prior to a Blackout Period (such period, the “Specified Period”), the Lock-up Period shall end 10 Trading Days prior to the commencement of the Blackout Period (the “Blackout-Related Release”); provided that the Corporation shall announce the date of the expected Blackout-Related Release through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Blackout-Related Release; and provided further that the Blackout-Related Release shall not occur unless the Corporation shall have publicly released its earnings results for the quarterly period during which the Closing occurred. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Lock-Up Period end earlier than 120 days after the Closing Date pursuant to the Blackout-Related Release.

 

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(iv)    Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in Section 7.12(i), if the last reported sale price of the Class A common stock on the exchange on which the Class A common stock is listed (the “Closing Price”) equals or exceeds $12.50 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) (the “Threshold Price”) for 20 out of any 30 consecutive Trading Days commencing at least 30 days after the Closing Date, including the last day of such 30 Trading Day period (any such 30 Trading Day period during which such condition is satisfied, the “Measurement Period”), then 50% of the Lock-up Holder’s Lock-Up Shares (including all outstanding shares and equity awards, determined as if, with respect to any Starry Equity Award Shares that can be net settled, such Starry Equity Award Shares are cash settled, and rounded down to the nearest whole share) that are subject to the Lock-Up Period, which percentage shall be calculated based on the number of Lock-Up Shares subject to the Lock-Up Period as of the last day of the Measurement Period, will be automatically released from such restrictions (an “Early Lock-Up Expiration”) immediately prior to the opening of trading on the exchange on which the Class A common stock is listed on the second Trading Day following the end of the Measurement Period (an “Early Lock-Up Expiration Date”); provided that if the Threshold Price equals or exceeds $15.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for 20 Trading Days during any Measurement Period, then the remaining 50% of the Lock-up Holder’s Lock-Up Shares (as calculated above) will be automatically released from such restrictions pursuant to the terms set forth above (100% of the Lock-Up Shares in the aggregate);

(v)    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7.12(iv), if, at the time of any Early Lock-Up Expiration Date, the Corporation is in a Blackout Period, the actual date of such Early Lock-Up Expiration shall be delayed (the “Early Lock-Up Expiration Extension”) until immediately prior to the opening of trading on the second Trading Day (the “Extension Expiration Date”) following the first date (such first date, the “Extension Expiration Measurement Date”) that (i) the Corporation is no longer in a Blackout Period under its insider trading policy and (ii) the Closing Price on the Extension Expiration Measurement Date is at least greater than the Threshold Price; provided, further, that, in the case of any of an Early Lock-Up Expiration or an Early Lock-Up Expiration Extension, the Corporation shall announce through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, the Early Lock-Up Expiration and the Early Lock-Up Expiration Date, or the Early Lock-Up Expiration Extension and the Extension Expiration Date, as the case may be, at least one full Trading Day prior to the opening of trading on the Early Lock-Up Expiration Date or the Extension Expiration Date, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that this Section 7.12(v) conflicts with the foregoing provisions, the Lock-Up Holders will be entitled to the earliest release date for the maximum number of Lock-Up Shares available.

(vi)    Notwithstanding the other provisions set forth in this Section 7.12, the Board may, in its sole discretion, determine to waive, amend, or repeal the Lock-up obligations set forth herein.

(vii)    For purposes of this Section 7.12:

(a)    the term “Blackout Period” means a broadly applicable and regularly scheduled period during which trading in the Corporation’s securities would not be permitted under the Corporation’s insider trading policy;

(b)    the term “Lock-up Period” means the period beginning on the closing date of the Starry Transaction and ending at 8:00 am Eastern Time on the date that is 180 days after (and excluding) the closing date (the “Closing Date”) of the Starry Transaction;

(c)    the term “Lock-up Shares” means the shares of common stock held by the Lock-up Holders immediately following the closing of the Starry Transaction (including warrants to purchase shares of common stock and any such shares issued upon exercise

 

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thereof, but excluding any shares of common stock or such warrants acquired in the public market, pursuant to a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or pursuant to a subscription agreement where the issuance of common stock occurs on or after the closing of the Starry Transaction) and the Starry Equity Award Shares; provided, that, for clarity, shares of common stock issued in connection with the PIPE Investment (as defined in the Merger Agreement), and shares of common stock issued prior to the Acquisition Merger Effective Time upon conversion of the Corporation’s ordinary shares into common stock pursuant to the Domestication (as defined in the Merger Agreement), shall not constitute Lock-up Shares;

(d)    the term “Permitted Transferees” means, prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, (x) any person or entity to whom such Lock-up Holder is permitted to transfer such shares of common stock prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period pursuant to Section 7.12(ii) or (y) solely with respect to shares of Class X common stock, any Qualified Stockholder (as such term is defined in the Certificate of Incorporation in effect as of immediately following the closing of the Starry Transaction);

(e)    the term “Trading Day” is a day on which the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market are open for the buying and selling of securities; and

(f)    the term “Transfer” means the (a) sale or assignment of, offer to sell, contract or agreement to sell, hypothecation, pledge, grant of any option to purchase, or other disposition of or agreement to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or the establishment or increase of a put equivalent position or liquidation with respect to or decrease of a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to, any security, (b) entry into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise, or (c) public announcement of any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (a) or (b), other than, with respect to shares of Class X common stock, any Permitted Transfer (as such term is defined in the Certificate of Incorporation in effect as of immediately following the closing of the Starry Transaction).

7.13    Registered Stockholders.

The Corporation:

(i)     shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and to vote as such owner; and

(ii)    shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Delaware.

7.14    Waiver of Notice.

Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the person entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall

 

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constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting 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. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written waiver of notice or any waiver by electronic transmission unless so required by the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws.

Article VIII - Notice

8.1    Delivery of Notice; Notice by Electronic Transmission.

Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provisions of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these bylaws may be given in writing directed to the stockholder’s mailing address (or by electronic transmission directed to the stockholder’s electronic mail address, as applicable) as it appears on the records of the Corporation and shall be deemed given (1) if mailed, when the notice is deposited in the U.S. mail, postage prepaid, (2) if delivered by courier service, the earlier of when the notice is received or left at such stockholder’s address or (3) if given by electronic mail, when directed to such stockholder’s electronic mail address unless the stockholder has notified the Corporation in writing or by electronic transmission of an objection to receiving notice by electronic mail. A notice by electronic mail must include a prominent legend that the communication is an important notice regarding the Corporation.

Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws shall be effective if given by a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given. Any such consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice or electronic transmission to the Corporation. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, the Corporation may give a notice by electronic mail in accordance with the first paragraph of this section without obtaining the consent required by this paragraph.

Any notice given pursuant to the preceding paragraph shall be deemed given:

 

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if by facsimile telecommunication, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice;

 

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if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specific posting, upon the later of (A) such posting and (B) the giving of such separate notice; and

 

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if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a notice may not be given by an electronic transmission from and after the time that (1) the Corporation is unable to deliver by such electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the Corporation and (2) such inability becomes known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or to the transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice, provided, however, the inadvertent failure to discover such inability shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.

 

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An affidavit of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or of the transfer agent or other agent of the Corporation that the notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

Article IX - Indemnification

9.1    Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings other than Those by or in the Right of the Corporation.

Subject to Section 9.3, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or 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 or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation , and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful.

9.2    Power to Indemnify in Actions, Suits or Proceedings by or in the Right of the Corporation.

Subject to Section 9.3, the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or 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 or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation; except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

9.3    Authorization of Indemnification.

Any indemnification under this Article IX (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 9.1 or Section 9.2, as the case may be. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (i) by a majority

 

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vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (ii) by a committee of such directors designated by a majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (iii) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or (iv) by the stockholders. Such determination shall be made, with respect to former directors and officers, by any person or persons having the authority to act on the matter on behalf of the Corporation. To the extent, however, that a present or former director or officer of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding described above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith, without the necessity of authorization in the specific case.

9.4    Good Faith Defined.

For purposes of any determination under Section 9.3, a person shall be deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, to have had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful, if such person’s action is based on the records or books of account of the Corporation or another enterprise, or on information supplied to such person by the officers of the Corporation or another enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Corporation or another enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Corporation or another enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected with reasonable care by the Corporation or another enterprise. The provisions of this Section 9.4 shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to limit in any way the circumstances in which a person may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 9.1 or 9.2, as the case may be.

9.5    Indemnification by a Court.

Notwithstanding any contrary determination in the specific case under Section 9.3, and notwithstanding the absence of any determination thereunder, any director or officer may apply to the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Delaware for indemnification to the extent otherwise permissible under Section 9.1 or 9.2. The basis of such indemnification by the Corporation shall be a determination by such court that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 9.1 or Section 9.2, as the case may be. Neither a contrary determination in the specific case under Section 9.3 nor the absence of any determination thereunder shall be a defense to such application or create a presumption that the director or officer seeking indemnification has not met any applicable standard of conduct. Notice of any application for indemnification pursuant to this Article IX shall be given to the Corporation promptly upon the filing of such application. If successful, in whole or in part, the director or officer seeking indemnification shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such application.

9.6    Expenses Payable in Advance.

Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a present or former director or officer in appearing at, participating in or defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or 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 IX shall be paid by the Corporation upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article IX. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by employees and agents of the

 

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Corporation or by persons acting at the request of the Corporation as directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Corporation deems appropriate.

9.7    Nonexclusivity of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses.

The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article IX shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under the Certificate of Incorporation, these bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that indemnification of the persons specified in Section 9.1 or 9.2 shall be made to the fullest extent permitted by law. The provisions of this Article IX shall not be deemed to preclude the indemnification of any person who is not specified in Section 9.1 or Section 9.2 but whom the Corporation has the power or obligation to indemnify under the provisions of the DGCL, or otherwise.

9.8    Insurance.

The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was a director or officer of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power or the obligation to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article IX.

9.9    Certain Definitions.

For purposes of this Article IX, references to “the Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors or officers, so that any person who is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation, or is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article IX with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued. The term “another enterprise” as used in this Article IX shall mean any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which such person is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent. For purposes of this Article IX, references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director or officer with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation” as referred to in this Article IX.

 

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9.10    Survival of Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses.

The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article IX shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified as provided in this Article IX, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

9.11    Limitation on Indemnification.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article IX to the contrary, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification (which shall be governed by Section 9.5), the Corporation shall not be obligated to indemnify any present or former director or officer (or his or her heirs, executors or personal or legal representatives) or advance expenses in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of the Corporation.

9.12    Indemnification of Employees and Agents.

The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board, provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to employees and agents of the Corporation and to persons serving at the request of the Corporation as directors, officers, employees and agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise similar to those conferred in this Article IX to directors and officers of the Corporation.

9.13    Primacy of Indemnification.

Notwithstanding that a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation (collectively, the “Covered Persons”) may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by other persons (collectively, the “Other Indemnitors”), with respect to the rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance set forth herein, the Corporation: (i) shall be the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to Covered Persons are primary and any obligation of the Other Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by Covered Persons are secondary); and (ii) shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by Covered Persons and shall be liable for the full amount of all liabilities, without regard to any rights Covered Persons may have against any of the Other Indemnitors. No advancement or payment by the Other Indemnitors on behalf of Covered Persons with respect to any claim for which Covered Persons have sought indemnification from the Corporation shall affect the immediately preceding sentence, and the Other Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of Covered Persons against the Corporation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the obligations of the Corporation under this Section 9.13 shall only apply to Covered Persons in their capacity as Covered Persons.

 

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9.14    Amendments. Any repeal or amendment of this Article IX by the Board or the stockholders of the Corporation or by changes in applicable law, or the adoption of any other provision of these bylaws inconsistent with this Article IX, will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prospective only (except to the extent such amendment or change in applicable law permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights to Covered Persons on a retroactive basis than permitted prior thereto), and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision.

Article X - Amendments

The Board is expressly empowered to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation. The stockholders also shall have power to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation; provided, however, that such action by stockholders shall require, in addition to any other vote required by the Certificate of Incorporation or applicable law, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (66 2/3%) of the voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation with the power to vote generally in an election of directors, voting together as a single class.

Article XI - Definitions

As used in these bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

An “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.

An “electronic mail” means an electronic transmission directed to a unique electronic mail address (which electronic mail shall be deemed to include any files attached thereto and any information hyperlinked to a website if such electronic mail includes the contact information of an officer or agent of the Corporation who is available to assist with accessing such files and information).

An “electronic mail address” means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, consisting of a unique user name or mailbox (commonly referred to as the “local part” of the address) and a reference to an internet domain (commonly referred to as the “domain part” of the address), whether or not displayed, to which electronic mail can be sent or delivered.

The term “person” means any individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, business trust, joint stock company, joint venture, unincorporated association, cooperative or association or any other legal entity or organization of whatever nature, and shall include any successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.

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Exhibit 4.2

Execution Version

WARRANT ASSIGNMENT, ASSUMPTION AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENT

among

FIRSTMARK HORIZON ACQUISITION CORP.,

STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.

and

CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY

Dated March 28, 2022

THIS WARRANT ASSIGNMENT, ASSUMPTION AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated March 28, 2022, is made by and among FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “SPAC”), Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (formerly Starry Holdings, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“New Starry”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (in such capacity, the “Warrant Agent”), and amends the Warrant Agreement (the “Existing Warrant Agreement”), dated October 5, 2020, by and between SPAC and the Warrant Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Existing Warrant Agreement.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Existing Warrant Agreement, the SPAC issued (a) 6,853,333 Private Placement Warrants to the Sponsor and (b) 13,800,000 Public Warrants;

WHEREAS, on October 6, 2021, the SPAC, New Starry, Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the SPAC, entered into an agreement and plan of merger (as amended, modified or supplemented, from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”);

WHEREAS, all of the Warrants are governed by the Existing Warrant Agreement;

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the SPAC will merge with and into New Starry, with New Starry surviving such merger (the “SPAC Merger”), and as a result of the SPAC Merger, the holders of shares of Common Stock of the SPAC shall become holders of shares of New Starry’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“New Starry Class A Common Stock”);

WHEREAS, upon consummation of the SPAC Merger, as provided in Section 4.5 of the Existing Warrant Agreement and Section 3.01(a)(iii) of the Merger Agreement, the Warrants will no longer be exercisable for shares of Common Stock of the SPAC but instead will be exercisable (subject to the terms of the Existing Warrant Agreement, as amended by this Agreement) for shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock;


WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the SPAC has determined that the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement will constitute a Business Combination;

WHEREAS, in connection with the SPAC Merger, the SPAC desires to assign all of its right, title and interest in the Existing Warrant Agreement to New Starry, and New Starry wishes to accept such assignment; and

WHEREAS, Section 9.8 of the Existing Warrant Agreement provides that the SPAC and the Warrant Agent may amend the Existing Warrant Agreement without the consent of any Registered Holders as the parties may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem shall not adversely affect the interest of the Registered Holders under the Existing Warrant Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 1. Assignment and Assumption; Consent.

1.1    Assignment and Assumption. As of and with effect on and from the SPAC Merger Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement): the SPAC hereby assigns to New Starry all of the SPAC’s right, title and interest in and to the Existing Warrant Agreement (as amended hereby); New Starry hereby assumes, and agrees to pay, perform, satisfy and discharge in full, as the same become due, all of the SPAC’s liabilities and obligations under the Existing Warrant Agreement (as amended hereby) arising on, from and after the SPAC Merger Effective Time.

1.2    Consent. The Warrant Agent hereby consents to (i) the assignment of the Existing Warrant Agreement by the SPAC to New Starry pursuant to this Section 1 and the assumption of the Existing Warrant Agreement by New Starry from the SPAC pursuant to Section 1 hereof, in each case effective as of the SPAC Merger Effective Time, and (ii) the continuation of the Existing Warrant Agreement (as amended hereby), in full force and effect from and after the SPAC Merger Effective Time.

Section 2. Amendment of Existing Warrant Agreement.

2.1    Effective as of the SPAC Merger Effective Time, the SPAC and the Warrant Agent hereby amend the Existing Warrant Agreement as provided in this Section 2, and acknowledge and agree that the amendments to the Existing Warrant Agreement set forth in this Section 2 are to provide for the delivery of Alternative Issuance pursuant to Section 4.5 of the Existing Warrant Agreement (in connection with the SPAC Merger and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement).

2.2    References to the Company”. All references to the “Company” in the Existing Warrant Agreement (including all Exhibits thereto) shall be references to New Starry.

2.3    References to Common Stock. All references to “Common Stock” in the Existing Warrant Agreement (including all Exhibits thereto) shall be references to shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock.


2.4    References to Business Combination. All references to “Business Combination” in the Existing Warrant Agreement (including all Exhibits thereto) shall be references to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and references to “the completion of its initial Business Combination,” “the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination” and all variations thereof in the Existing Warrant Agreement (including all Exhibits thereto) shall be references to the Acquisition Merger Closing (as defined in the Merger Agreement).

2.5    Warrant Certificate. Exhibit A to the Existing Warrant Agreement is hereby amended by deleting Exhibit A in its entirety and replacing it with a new Exhibit A attached hereto.

2.6    Notice Clause. Section 9.2 of the Existing Warrant Agreement is hereby deleted and replaced with the following:

Notices. Any notice, statement or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Warrant Agent or by the holder of any Warrant to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given when so delivered if by hand or overnight delivery or if sent by certified mail or private courier service within five (5) days after deposit of such notice, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Company with the Warrant Agent), as follows:

Starry Group Holdings, Inc.

c/o Starry, Inc.

38 Chauncey Street, 2nd Floor

Boston, MA 02111

Attn: Bill Lundregan, Chief Legal Officer

E-mail: wlundregan@starry.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

1271 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attn: Justin Hamill

E-mail: justin.hamill@lw.com

Attn: Chad Rolston

E-mail: Chad.Rolston@lw.com

Any notice, statement or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the holder of any Warrant or by the Company to or on the Warrant Agent shall be sufficiently given when so delivered if by hand or overnight delivery or if sent by certified mail or private courier service within five (5) days after deposit of such notice, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Warrant Agent with the Company), as follows:

Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company

One State Street, 30th Floor

New York, NY 10004

Attention: Compliance Department”


Section 3. Miscellaneous Provisions.

3.1    Effectiveness of the Amendment. Each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that the effectiveness of this Agreement shall be expressly subject to the occurrence of the SPAC Merger and substantially contemporaneous occurrence of the SPAC Merger Closing (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and shall automatically be terminated and shall be null and void if the Merger Agreement shall be terminated for any reason.

3.2    Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of New Starry, the SPAC or the Warrant Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.

3.3    Applicable Law and Exclusive Forum. The validity, interpretation, and performance of this Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New York. Subject to applicable law, each of New Starry and the SPAC hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive forum for any such action, proceeding or claim. Each of New Starry and the SPAC hereby waives any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum.

3.4    Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in the Warrants shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the forum provisions in this Section 3. If any action, the subject matter of which is within the scope the forum provisions above, is filed in a court other than a court located within the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (a “foreign action”) in the name of any warrant holder, such warrant holder shall be deemed to have consented to: (x) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce the forum provisions (an “enforcement action”), and (y) having service of process made upon such warrant holder in any such enforcement action by service upon such warrant holder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such warrant holder.

3.5    Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of original or facsimile counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. A signed copy of this Agreement delivered by facsimile, e-mail or other means of electronic transmission shall be deemed to have the same legal effect as delivery of an original signed copy of this Agreement.

3.6    Effect of Headings. The section headings herein are for convenience only and are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation thereof.


3.7    Severability. This Agreement shall be deemed severable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision hereof shall not affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or of any other term or provision hereof. Furthermore, in lieu of any such invalid or unenforceable term or provision, the parties hereto intend that there shall be added as a part of this Agreement a provision as similar in terms to such invalid or unenforceable provision as may be possible and be valid and enforceable.

(Signature Page Follows)


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

FIRSTMARK HORIZON ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

/s/ Amish Jani

  Name:   Amish Jani
  Title:   President
STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

/s/ William Lundregan

  Name:   William Lundregan
  Title:   President
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, as Warrant Agent
By:  

/s/ Ana Gois

  Name:   Ana Gois
  Title:   Vice President

[Signature Page to Warrant Assignment, Assumption and Amendment Agreement]


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE

See attached.


[Form of Warrant Certificate]

[FACE]

Number ___

Warrants

THIS WARRANT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO

THE EXPIRATION OF THE EXERCISE PERIOD PROVIDED FOR

IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT DESCRIBED BELOW

STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.

Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Delaware

CUSIP 85572U 110

Warrant Certificate

This warrant certificate (this “Warrant Certificate”) certifies that                 , or registered assigns, is the registered holder of                  warrant(s) evidenced hereby (the “Warrants,” and each, a “Warrant”) to purchase shares of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Starry Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). Each Warrant entitles the holder, upon exercise during the period set forth in the Warrant Agreement (as defined below), to receive from the Company that number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock as set forth below, at the exercise price (the “Exercise Price”) as determined pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, payable in lawful money of the United States of America (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Exercise Price at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent referred to below, subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement.

Each whole Warrant is initially exercisable for 1.2415 fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock. Fractional shares of Common Stock shall not be issued upon exercise of any Warrant. If, upon the exercise of Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share of Common Stock, the Company shall, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the warrantholder. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

The initial Exercise Price is equal to $11.50 per 1.2415 shares. The Exercise Price is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Subject to the conditions set forth in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrants may be exercised only during the Exercise Period and, to the extent not exercised by the end of such Exercise Period, such Warrants shall become void. The Warrants may be redeemed, subject to certain conditions, as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid unless countersigned by the Warrant Agent, as such term is used in the Warrant Agreement.

This Warrant Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

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STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, as Warrant Agent
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:


[Form of Warrant Certificate]

[Reverse]

The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants entitling the holder on exercise to receive shares of Common Stock and are issued or to be issued pursuant to a warrant agreement, dated as of October 5, 2020, as duly executed and delivered by FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. (“SPAC”) to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (the “Warrant Agent”), as amended by the Warrant Assignment, Assumption and Amendment Agreement, dated as of March 28, 2022, by and among SPAC, the Warrant Agent and the Company (as amended, the “Warrant Agreement”), which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties, and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company, and the holders (the words “holders” or “holder” meaning the Registered Holders or Registered Holder, respectively) of the Warrants. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the holder hereof upon written request to the Company.

Warrants may be exercised at any time during the Exercise Period set forth in the Warrant Agreement. The holder of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may exercise them by surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the form of Election to Purchase set forth hereon properly completed and executed, together with payment of the Exercise Price as specified in the Warrant Agreement (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent. In the event that upon any exercise of Warrants evidenced hereby the number of Warrants exercised shall be less than the total number of Warrants evidenced hereby, there shall be issued to the holder hereof or his, her, or its assignee, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of Warrants not exercised.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Warrant Certificate or the Warrant Agreement, no Warrant may be exercised unless, at the time of exercise, (i) a registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock to be issued upon exercise is effective under the Securities Act and (ii) a prospectus thereunder relating to the shares of Common Stock is current, except through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement.

The Warrant Agreement provides that, upon the occurrence of certain events, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants set forth on the face hereof may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. If, upon exercise of a Warrant, the holder thereof would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share of Common Stock, the Company shall, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the holder of the Warrant.

Warrant Certificates, when surrendered at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent by the Registered Holder thereof in person or by legal representative or attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants.

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent, a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee(s) in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder(s) hereof as the absolute owner(s) of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the holder(s) hereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any holder hereof to any rights of a shareholder of the Company.


Election to Purchase

(To Be Executed Upon Exercise of Warrant)

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, to _________ shares of Common Stock and herewith tenders payment for such shares of Common Stock to the order of the Company in the amount of $_________ in accordance with the terms hereof. The undersigned requests that a certificate for such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of _________, whose address is _________, and that such shares of Common Stock be delivered to _________ whose address is _________. If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of _________, whose address is _________, and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to _________, whose address is _________.

In the event that the Warrant has been called for redemption by the Company pursuant to Section 6.2 of the Warrant Agreement and a holder thereof elects to exercise its Warrant pursuant to a Make-Whole Exercise, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(c) or Section 6.2 of the Warrant Agreement, as applicable.

In the event that the Warrant is a Private Placement Warrant that is to be exercised on a “cashless basis” pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant is to be exercised on a “cashless basis” pursuant to Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant may be exercised, to the extent allowed by the Warrant Agreement, through cashless exercise (i) the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for would be determined in accordance with the relevant section of the Warrant Agreement which allows for such cashless exercise and (ii) the holder hereof shall complete the following: The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, through the cashless exercise provisions of the Warrant Agreement, to receive shares of Common Stock. If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder (after giving effect to the cashless exercise), the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of _________, whose address is _________, and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to _________, whose address is _________.

[Signature Page Follows]


Date:                 , 20__

 

 

(Signature)

 

 

 

(Address)

 

(Tax Identification Number)

Signature Guaranteed:

THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS, AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED).

 

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Exhibit 4.3

[Form of Warrant Certificate]

[FACE]

Number ___

Warrants

THIS WARRANT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO

THE EXPIRATION OF THE EXERCISE PERIOD PROVIDED FOR

IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT DESCRIBED BELOW

STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.

Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Delaware

CUSIP 85572U 110

Warrant Certificate

This warrant certificate (this “Warrant Certificate”) certifies that                 , or registered assigns, is the registered holder of                  warrant(s) evidenced hereby (the “Warrants,” and each, a “Warrant”) to purchase shares of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Starry Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). Each Warrant entitles the holder, upon exercise during the period set forth in the Warrant Agreement (as defined below), to receive from the Company that number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock as set forth below, at the exercise price (the “Exercise Price”) as determined pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, payable in lawful money of the United States of America (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Exercise Price at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent referred to below, subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement.

Each whole Warrant is initially exercisable for 1.2415 fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock. Fractional shares of Common Stock shall not be issued upon exercise of any Warrant. If, upon the exercise of Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share of Common Stock, the Company shall, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the warrantholder. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

The initial Exercise Price is equal to $11.50 per 1.2415 shares. The Exercise Price is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Subject to the conditions set forth in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrants may be exercised only during the Exercise Period and, to the extent not exercised by the end of such Exercise Period, such Warrants shall become void. The Warrants may be redeemed, subject to certain conditions, as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid unless countersigned by the Warrant Agent, as such term is used in the Warrant Agreement.

This Warrant Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

[Signature Pages Follow]


STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, as Warrant Agent
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:


[Form of Warrant Certificate]

[Reverse]

The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants entitling the holder on exercise to receive shares of Common Stock and are issued or to be issued pursuant to a warrant agreement, dated as of October 5, 2020, as duly executed and delivered by FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. (“SPAC”) to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (the “Warrant Agent”), as amended by the Warrant Assignment, Assumption and Amendment Agreement, dated as of March 28, 2022, by and among SPAC, the Warrant Agent and the Company (as amended, the “Warrant Agreement”), which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties, and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company, and the holders (the words “holders” or “holder” meaning the Registered Holders or Registered Holder, respectively) of the Warrants. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the holder hereof upon written request to the Company.

Warrants may be exercised at any time during the Exercise Period set forth in the Warrant Agreement. The holder of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may exercise them by surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the form of Election to Purchase set forth hereon properly completed and executed, together with payment of the Exercise Price as specified in the Warrant Agreement (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent. In the event that upon any exercise of Warrants evidenced hereby the number of Warrants exercised shall be less than the total number of Warrants evidenced hereby, there shall be issued to the holder hereof or his, her, or its assignee, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of Warrants not exercised.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Warrant Certificate or the Warrant Agreement, no Warrant may be exercised unless, at the time of exercise, (i) a registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock to be issued upon exercise is effective under the Securities Act and (ii) a prospectus thereunder relating to the shares of Common Stock is current, except through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement.

The Warrant Agreement provides that, upon the occurrence of certain events, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants set forth on the face hereof may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. If, upon exercise of a Warrant, the holder thereof would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share of Common Stock, the Company shall, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the holder of the Warrant.

Warrant Certificates, when surrendered at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent by the Registered Holder thereof in person or by legal representative or attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants.

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent, a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee(s) in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder(s) hereof as the absolute owner(s) of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the holder(s) hereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any holder hereof to any rights of a shareholder of the Company.


Election to Purchase

(To Be Executed Upon Exercise of Warrant)

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, to _________ shares of Common Stock and herewith tenders payment for such shares of Common Stock to the order of the Company in the amount of $_________ in accordance with the terms hereof. The undersigned requests that a certificate for such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of _________, whose address is _________, and that such shares of Common Stock be delivered to _________ whose address is _________. If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of _________, whose address is _________, and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to _________, whose address is _________.

In the event that the Warrant has been called for redemption by the Company pursuant to Section 6.2 of the Warrant Agreement and a holder thereof elects to exercise its Warrant pursuant to a Make-Whole Exercise, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(c) or Section 6.2 of the Warrant Agreement, as applicable.

In the event that the Warrant is a Private Placement Warrant that is to be exercised on a “cashless basis” pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant is to be exercised on a “cashless basis” pursuant to Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant may be exercised, to the extent allowed by the Warrant Agreement, through cashless exercise (i) the number of shares of Common Stock that this Warrant is exercisable for would be determined in accordance with the relevant section of the Warrant Agreement which allows for such cashless exercise and (ii) the holder hereof shall complete the following: The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, through the cashless exercise provisions of the Warrant Agreement, to receive shares of Common Stock. If said number of shares of Common Stock is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder (after giving effect to the cashless exercise), the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares of Common Stock be registered in the name of _________, whose address is _________, and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to _________, whose address is _________.

[Signature Page Follows]


Date:                 , 20__

 

 

(Signature)

 

 

 

(Address)

 

(Tax Identification Number)

Signature Guaranteed:

THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS, AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE) UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED).

 

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Exhibit 4.4

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following summary of the material terms of our capital stock is not intended to be a complete summary of the rights and preferences of such securities. The full text of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”) and Bylaws are included as exhibits to the Annual Report on Form 10-K. You are encouraged to read the applicable provisions of Delaware law, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws in their entirety for a complete description of the rights and preferences of our securities.

Authorized Capital Stock

The Charter authorizes the issuance of 860,000,000 shares of capital stock, of which 800,000,000 shares are shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), 50,000,000 shares are shares of Class X common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class X Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”), and 10,000,000 shares are shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Stock”).

Common Stock

Class A Common Stock

Voting Rights

Holders of Class A Common Stock are entitled to cast one vote per share. Generally, holders of all classes of our Common Stock vote together as a single class, and an action is approved by our stockholders if the number of votes cast in favor of the action exceeds the number of votes cast in opposition to the action. Holders of Class A Common Stock will not be entitled to cumulate their votes in the election of directors.

The Charter further provides that our Board (other than any directors elected by holders of any series of Preferred Stock) are divided into three classes, Class I, Class II and Class III, with each class serving staggered terms.

The Charter further provides that the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the total voting power of all then outstanding shares of our stock, voting as a single class, are required to amend, alter, repeal or rescind certain provisions of the Charter, including provisions relating to voting and dividend rights, the size and classifications of our Board, special meetings, director and officer indemnification, forum selection and amendments to the Charter. The affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of our voting stock, voting as a single class, are required to amend or repeal the bylaws, although the bylaws may be amended by a simple majority vote of our Board.

Dividend Rights

Each holder of Class A Common Stock will share ratably (based on the number of shares of Class A Common Stock held) if and when any dividend is declared by our Board out of funds legally available therefor, subject to restrictions, whether statutory or contractual (including with respect to any outstanding indebtedness), on the declaration and payment of dividends and to any restrictions on the payment of dividends imposed by the terms of any outstanding our Preferred Stock or any class or series of stock having a preference over, or the right to participate with, Class A Common Stock with respect to the payment of dividends.

Liquidation, Dissolution and Winding Up

In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, each holder of Class A Common Stock then outstanding will participate pro rata in our funds and assets that may be legally distributed to our stockholders, subject to the designations, preferences, limitations, restrictions and relative rights of any class or series of our Preferred Stock then outstanding.

Other Matters

No shares of Class A Common Stock are subject to redemption or have preemptive rights to purchase additional shares of Class A Common Stock. Holders of shares of Class A Common Stock do not have subscription, redemption or conversion rights.


Class X Common Stock

Voting Rights

Prior to the Sunset Date (defined below), holders of Class X Common Stock are entitled to cast 20 votes per share of Class X Common Stock. On the Sunset Date, each share of Class X Common Stock will automatically convert into one share of Class A Common Stock, and from and after the Sunset Date, holders thereof are entitled to one vote per share on all matters on which stockholders generally are entitled to vote. Generally, holders of all classes of our Common Stock vote together as a single class, and an action is approved by our stockholders if the number of votes cast in favor of the action exceeds the number of votes cast in opposition to the action. Holders of the Class X Common Stock will not be entitled to cumulate their votes in the election of directors.

Sunset Date” refers to the earlier of (a) the date that is nine months following the first date after the Acquisition Merger Effective Date on which Chaitanya Kanojia (1) is no longer providing services, whether upon death, resignation, removal or otherwise, to the Company as a member of the senior leadership team, officer or director and (2) has not provided any such services for the duration of such nine-month period; and (b) the first date after the Acquisition Merger Effective Date as of which the Qualified Stockholders (as defined in the Charter) have Transferred (as defined in the Charter), in the aggregate, more than 75% of the shares of Class X Common Stock that were held by Chaitanya Kanojia and other registered holders of Class X Common Stock immediately following the Acquisition Merger Effective Date.

Dividend Rights

Each holder of Class X Common Stock will share ratably (based on the number of shares of Class X Common Stock held) if and when any dividend is declared by our Board out of funds legally available therefor, subject to restrictions, whether statutory or contractual (including with respect to any outstanding indebtedness), on the declaration and payment of dividends and to any restrictions on the payment of dividends imposed by the terms of any outstanding Preferred Stock or any class or series of stock having a preference over, or the right to participate with, Class X Common Stock with respect to the payment of dividends.

Liquidation Rights

In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, each holder of Class X Common Stock then outstanding will participate pro rata in our funds and assets that may be legally distributed to our stockholders, subject to the designations, preferences, limitations, restrictions and relative rights of any class or series of our Preferred Stock then outstanding.

Transfers

Pursuant to the Charter, shares of Class X Common Stock are fully transferable to any transferee; provided, however, that such shares of Class X Common Stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A Common Stock upon certain transfers of such shares, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Charter, and upon the Sunset Date.

Other Matters

No shares of Class X Common Stock are subject to redemption or have preemptive rights to purchase additional shares of Class X Common Stock. Each share of Class X Common Stock is convertible into one share of Class A Common Stock at the option of the holder thereof at any time upon written notice to our transfer agent. Each share of Class X Common Stock will automatically convert into one share of Class A Common Stock (a) upon certain transfers of such shares, subject to exceptions set forth in the Charter or (b) on the Sunset Date.

Preferred Stock

The Charter provides that our Board has the authority, without action by the stockholders, to designate and issue shares of Preferred Stock in one or more classes or series, and the number of shares constituting any such class or series, and to fix the voting powers, designations, preferences, limitations, restrictions and relative rights of each class or series of Preferred Stock, including, without limitation, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, which rights may be greater than the rights of the holders of our Common Stock.


The purpose of authorizing our Board to issue Preferred Stock and determine the rights and preferences of any classes or series of Preferred Stock is to eliminate delays associated with a stockholder vote on specific issuances. The simplified issuance of Preferred Stock, while providing flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions, future financings and other corporate purposes, could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or could discourage a third party from seeking to acquire, a majority of our outstanding voting stock. Additionally, the issuance of Preferred Stock may adversely affect the holders of Class A Common Stock by restricting dividends on the Class A Common Stock, diluting the voting power of Class A Common Stock or subordinating the dividend or liquidation rights of Class A Common Stock. As a result of these or other factors, the issuance of our Preferred Stock could have an adverse impact on the market price of Class A Common Stock.

Warrants

Public Warrants

FirstMark assigned to us all of FirstMark’s right, title and interest in and to the Warrant Agreement, dated October 8, 2020, between FirstMark and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as amended, (the “Warrant Agreement”) and we assumed, and agreed to pay, perform, satisfy and discharge in full, all of FirstMark’s liabilities and obligations under the Warrant Agreement arising from and after the SPAC Merger Effective Date. From and after the SPAC Merger Effective Date, each whole warrant entitled the registered holder to purchase 1.2415 shares of Class A Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per 1.2415 shares, subject to adjustment as discussed below, at any time commencing 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination, except as described below. Pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, only a whole warrant may be exercised at a given time by a warrant holder. The warrants will expire five years after the completion of the Business Combination, at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.

We are not obligated to deliver any Class A Common Stock pursuant to the exercise of a warrant and have no obligation to settle such warrant exercise unless a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is then effective and a current prospectus relating thereto is current, subject to our satisfying our obligations described below with respect to registration, or a valid exemption from registration is available, including in connection with a cashless exercise permitted as a result of a notice of redemption described below under “— Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $10.00.” No warrant is exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, and we are not obligated to issue any shares to holders seeking to exercise their warrants, unless the issuance of the shares upon such exercise is registered or qualified under the securities laws of the state of the exercising holder, or an exemption is available. In the event that the conditions in the two immediately preceding sentences are not satisfied with respect to a warrant, the holder of such warrant is not entitled to exercise such warrant and such warrant may have no value and expire worthless. In the event that a registration statement is not effective for the exercised warrants, the purchaser of a unit containing such warrant will have paid the full purchase price for the unit solely for the share of Class A Common Stock underlying such unit.

We have agreed that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than 15 business days after the closing of the Business Combination, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a registration statement covering the issuance, under the Securities Act, of the Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, and we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the same to become effective within 60 business days after the closing of the Business Combination and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the warrants in accordance with the provisions of the Warrant Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, if our shares of Class A Common Stock are, at the time of any exercise of a warrant, not listed on a national securities exchange such that they satisfy the definition of a “covered security” under Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act, we may, at our option, require holders of public warrants who exercise their warrants to do so on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act and, in the event we so elect, we will not be required to file or maintain in effect a registration statement, but will use our commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify the shares under applicable blue sky laws to the extent an exemption is not available. In such event, each holder would pay the exercise price by surrendering the warrants for that number of shares of Class A Common Stock equal to the lesser of (A) the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock underlying the warrants, multiplied by the excess of the “fair market value” (defined below) less the exercise price of the warrants by (y) the fair market value and (B) 0.4481815. The “fair market value” as used in the preceding sentence shall mean the volume weighted average price of the shares of Class A Common Stock for the 10 trading days ending on the trading day prior to the date on which the notice of exercise is received by the warrant agent.


Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $18.00

Once the warrants become exercisable, we may redeem the warrants (except as described herein with respect to the private placement warrants):

 

   

in whole and not in part;

 

   

at a price of $0.01 per warrant;

 

   

upon not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption to each warrant holder;

 

   

if, and only if, the last reported sale price of our Class A Common Stock for any 20-trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which we send the notice of redemption to the warrant holders (which we refer to as the “Reference Value”) equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a warrant as described under the heading “— Warrants — Public Stockholders’ Warrants — Anti-dilution Adjustments”).

We will not redeem the warrants as described above unless a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the issuance of the shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants is then effective and a current prospectus relating to those shares of Class A Common Stock is available throughout the 30-day redemption period. If and when the warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws.

We have established the last of the redemption criterion discussed above to prevent a redemption call unless there is at the time of the call a significant premium to the warrant exercise price. If the foregoing conditions are satisfied and we issue a notice of redemption of the warrants, each warrant holder will be entitled to exercise his, her or its warrant prior to the scheduled redemption date. However, the price of the Class A Common Stock may fall below the $18.00 redemption trigger price (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a warrant as described under the heading “— Warrants — Public Stockholders’ Warrants — Anti-dilution Adjustments”) as well as the $11.50 (for whole shares) warrant exercise price after the redemption notice is issued.

Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $10.00

Once the warrants become exercisable, we may redeem the outstanding warrants:

 

   

in whole and not in part;

 

   

at $0.10 per warrant upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption provided that holders will be able to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis prior to redemption and receive that number of shares determined by reference to the table below, based on the redemption date and the “fair market value” of our Class A Common Stock (as defined below) except as otherwise described below;

 

   

if, and only if, the Reference Value (as defined above under “Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $18.00”) equals or exceeds $10.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a warrant as described under the heading “— Warrants — Public Stockholders’ Warrants — Anti-dilution Adjustments”); and

 

   

if the Reference Value is less than $18.00 per share (as adjusted for adjustments to the number of shares issuable upon exercise or the exercise price of a warrant as described under the heading “—Warrants — Public Stockholders’ Warrants — Anti-dilution Adjustments”), the private placement warrants must also be concurrently called for redemption on the same terms as the outstanding public warrants, as described above.

During the period beginning on the date the notice of redemption is given, holders may elect to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis. The numbers in the table below represent the number of shares of Class A Common Stock that a warrant holder will receive upon such cashless exercise in connection with a redemption by us pursuant to this redemption feature, based on the “fair market value” of Class A Common Stock on the corresponding redemption date (assuming holders elect to exercise their warrants and such warrants are not redeemed for $0.10 per warrant), determined for these purposes based on volume weighted average price of Class A Common Stock during the ten trading days immediately following the date on which the notice of redemption is


sent to the holders of warrants, and the number of months that the corresponding redemption date precedes the expiration date of the warrants, each as set forth in the table below. We will provide our warrant holders with the final fair market value no later than one business day after the 10-trading day period described above ends.

The share prices set forth in the column headings of the table below will be adjusted as of any date on which the number of shares issuable upon exercise of a warrant or the exercise price of a warrant is adjusted as set forth under the heading “— Anti-dilution Adjustments” below. If the number of shares issuable upon exercise of a warrant is adjusted, the adjusted share prices in the column headings will equal the share prices immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares deliverable upon exercise of a warrant immediately prior to such adjustment and the denominator of which is the number of shares deliverable upon exercise of a warrant as so adjusted. The number of shares in the table below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the number of shares issuable upon exercise of a warrant. If the exercise price of a warrant is adjusted, (a) in the case of an adjustment pursuant to the fifth paragraph under the heading “—Anti-dilution Adjustments” below, the adjusted share prices in the column headings will equal the unadjusted share price multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price as set forth under the heading “— Anti-dilution Adjustments” and the denominator of which is $10.00 and (b) in the case of an adjustment pursuant to the second paragraph under the heading “—Anti-dilution Adjustments” below, the adjusted share prices in the column headings will equal the unadjusted share price less the decrease in the exercise price of a warrant pursuant to such exercise price adjustment.

 

Redemption Date
(period to expiration
of warrants)
   Fair Market Value of Class A Common Stock  
   12.4150      13.6565      14.8980      16.1395      17.3810      18.6225      19.8640      21.1055      22.3470  

60 months

     0.3240315        0.3488615        0.3687255        0.3861065        0.4022460        0.4183855        0.4320420        0.4444570        0.4481815  

57 months

     0.3190655        0.3438955        0.3650010        0.3848650        0.4022460        0.4183855        0.4320420        0.4444570        0.4481815  

54 months

     0.3128580        0.3376880        0.3612765        0.3811405        0.3997630        0.4159025        0.4308005        0.4432155        0.4481815  

51 months

     0.3054090        0.3327220        0.3563105        0.3774160        0.3972800        0.4134195        0.4295590        0.4432155        0.4481815  

48 months

     0.2992015        0.3265145        0.3513445        0.3736915        0.3935555        0.4121780        0.4270760        0.4419740        0.4481815  

45 months

     0.2917525        0.3203070        0.3463785        0.3699670        0.3910725        0.4096950        0.4258345        0.4419740        0.4481815  

42 months

     0.2830620        0.3128580        0.3401710        0.3650010        0.3873480        0.4072120        0.4245930        0.4407325        0.4481815  

39 months

     0.2743715        0.3054090        0.3339635        0.3600350        0.3836235        0.4034875        0.4221100        0.4394910        0.4481815  

36 months

     0.2644395        0.2967185        0.3265145        0.3538275        0.3786575        0.4010045        0.4208685        0.4382495        0.4481815  

33 months

     0.2545075        0.2880280        0.3190655        0.3476200        0.3736915        0.3972800        0.4183855        0.4370080        0.4481815  

30 months

     0.2433340        0.2780960        0.3103750        0.3401710        0.3687255        0.3923140        0.4159025        0.4357665        0.4481815  

27 months

     0.2296775        0.2656810        0.3004430        0.3327220        0.3612765        0.3885895        0.4121780        0.4345250        0.4481815  

24 months

     0.2147795        0.2532660        0.2892695        0.3227900        0.3538275        0.3823820        0.4084535        0.4320420        0.4481815  

21 months

     0.1998815        0.2396095        0.2768545        0.3128580        0.3463785        0.3774160        0.4047290        0.4308005        0.4481815  

18 months

     0.1812590        0.2222285        0.2619565        0.3004430        0.3364465        0.3699670        0.3997630        0.4283175        0.4481815  

15 months

     0.1613950        0.2036060        0.2445755        0.2855450        0.3252730        0.3612765        0.3935555        0.4245930        0.4481815  

12 months

     0.1378065        0.1812590        0.2247115        0.2681640        0.3103750        0.3501030        0.3873480        0.4208685        0.4481815  

9 months

     0.1117350        0.1551875        0.2011230        0.2470585        0.2942355        0.3376880        0.3786575        0.4171440        0.4481815  

6 months

     0.0806975        0.1229085        0.1700855        0.2209870        0.2718885        0.3215485        0.3674840        0.4109365        0.4481815  

3 months

     0.0422110        0.0806975        0.1291160        0.1862250        0.2445755        0.3016845        0.3550690        0.4047290        0.4481815  

0 months

     —          —          0.0521430        0.1427725        0.2222285        0.2892695        0.3488615        0.4010045        0.4481815  

The exact fair market value and redemption date may not be set forth in the table above, in which case, if the fair market value is between two values in the table or the redemption date is between two redemption dates in the table, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be issued for each warrant exercised will be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of shares set forth for the higher and lower fair market values and the earlier and later redemption dates, as applicable, based on a 365 or 366-day year, as applicable. For example, if the volume weighted average price of Class A Common Stock during the 10 trading days immediately following the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to the holders of the warrants is $11.00 per share, and at such time there are 57 months until the expiration of the warrants, holders may choose to, in connection with this redemption feature, exercise their warrants for 0.3438955 shares of Class A Common Stock for each whole warrant. For an example where the exact fair market value and redemption date are not as set forth in the table above, if the volume weighted average price of Class A Common Stock during the 10 trading days immediately following the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to the holders of the warrants is $13.50 per share, and at such time there are 38 months until the expiration of the warrants, holders may choose to, in connection with this redemption feature, exercise their warrants for 0.3699670 shares of Class A Common Stock for each whole warrant. In no event will the warrants be exercisable in connection with this redemption feature for more than 0.4481815 shares of Class A Common Stock per warrant (subject to adjustment). Finally, as reflected in the table above, if the warrants are out of the money and about to expire, they cannot be exercised on a cashless basis in connection with a redemption by us pursuant to this redemption feature, since they will not be exercisable for any shares of Class A Common Stock.


This redemption feature differs from the typical warrant redemption features, which typically only provide for a redemption of warrants for cash (other than the private placement warrants) when the trading price for the applicable common stock exceeds $18.00 per share for a specified period of time. This redemption feature is structured to allow for all of the outstanding warrants to be redeemed when the shares of Class A Common Stock are trading at or above $10.00 per share, which may be at a time when the trading price of Class A Common Stock is below the exercise price of the warrants. We have established this redemption feature to provide us with the flexibility to redeem the warrants without the warrants having to reach the $18.00 per share threshold set forth above under “— Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $18.00.” Holders choosing to exercise their warrants in connection with a redemption pursuant to this feature will, in effect, receive a number of shares for their warrants based on an option pricing model with a fixed volatility input. This redemption right provides us with an additional mechanism by which to redeem all of the outstanding warrants, and therefore have certainty as to our capital structure as the warrants would no longer be outstanding and would have been exercised or redeemed. We will be required to pay the applicable redemption price to warrant holders if we choose to exercise this redemption right and it will allow us to quickly proceed with a redemption of the warrants if we determine it is in our best interest to do so. As such, we would redeem the warrants in this manner when we believe it is in our best interest to update our capital structure to remove the warrants and pay the redemption price to the warrant holders.

As stated above, we can redeem the warrants when the Class A Common Stock are trading at a price starting at $10.00, which is below the exercise price of $11.50, because it will provide certainty with respect to our capital structure and cash position while providing warrant holders with the opportunity to exercise their warrants on a cashless basis for the applicable number of shares. If we choose to redeem the warrants when the shares of Class A Common Stock are trading at a price below the exercise price of the warrants, this could result in the warrant holders receiving fewer shares of Class A Common Stock than they would have received if they had chosen to exercise their warrants for shares of Class A Common Stock if and when such shares of Class A Common Stock were trading at a price higher than the exercise price of $11.50.

No fractional shares of Class A Common Stock will be issued upon exercise. If, upon exercise, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, we will round down to the nearest whole number of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be issued to the holder. If, at the time of redemption, the warrants are exercisable for a security other than the shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, the warrants may be exercised for such security. At such time as the warrants become exercisable for a security other than the shares of Class A Common Stock, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to register under the Securities Act the security issuable upon the exercise of the warrants.

Redemption Procedures

A holder of a warrant may notify us in writing in the event it elects to be subject to a requirement that such holder will not have the right to exercise such warrant, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, such person (together with such person’s affiliates), to the warrant agent’s actual knowledge, would beneficially own in excess of 9.8% (or such other amount as a holder may specify) of the shares of Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise.

Anti-dilution Adjustments

If the number of issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock is increased by a stock dividend payable in shares of Class A Common Stock, or by a split-up of shares of Class A Common Stock or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such stock dividend, split-up or similar event, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable on exercise of each warrant will be increased in proportion to such increase in the issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock. A rights offering made to all or substantially all holders of Class A Common Stock entitling holders to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock at a price less than the “historical fair market value” (as defined below) will be deemed a share dividend of a number of shares of Class A Common Stock equal to the product of (1) the number of shares of Class A Common Stock actually sold in such rights offering (or issuable under any other equity securities sold in such rights offering that are convertible into or exercisable for shares of Class A Common Stock) and (2) one minus the quotient of (x) the price per share of Class A Common Stock paid in such rights offering and (y) the historical fair market value. For these purposes, (1) if the


rights offering is for securities convertible into or exercisable for shares of Class A Common Stock, in determining the price payable for Class A Common Stock, there will be taken into account any consideration received for such rights, as well as any additional amount payable upon exercise or conversion and (2) “historical fair market value” means the volume weighted average price of Class A Common Stock during the 10-trading day period ending on the trading day prior to the first date on which the shares of Class A Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive such rights.

In addition, if we, at any time while the warrants are outstanding and unexpired, pay to all or substantially all of the holders of Class A Common Stock a dividend or make a distribution in cash, securities or other assets to the holders of Class A Common Stock on account of such shares of Class A Common Stock (or other securities into which the warrants are convertible), other than (a) as described above, (b) any cash dividends or cash distributions which, when combined on a per share basis with all other cash dividends and cash distributions paid on the Class A Common Stock during the 365-day period ending on the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution does not exceed $0.50 (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) but only with respect to the amount of the aggregate cash dividends or cash distributions equal to or less than $0.50 per share or (c) to satisfy the redemption rights of the holders of Class A Common Stock in connection with a stockholder vote to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation with respect to any provision relating to stockholders’ rights, then the warrant exercise price will be decreased, effective immediately after the effective date of such event, by the amount of cash and/or the fair market value of any securities or other assets paid on each shares of Class A Common Stock in respect of such event.

If the number of issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock is decreased by a consolidation, combination, reverse stock split or reclassification of shares of Class A Common Stock or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such consolidation, combination, reverse stock split, reclassification or similar event, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable on exercise of each warrant will be decreased in proportion to such decrease in issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock.

Whenever the number of shares of Class A Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the warrants is adjusted, as described above, the warrant exercise price will be adjusted by multiplying the warrant exercise price immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction (x) the numerator of which will be the number of shares of Class A Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the warrants immediately prior to such adjustment and (y) the denominator of which will be the number of shares of Class A Common Stock so purchasable immediately thereafter.

In addition, because we issued additional shares of Class A common stock for capital raising purposes in connection with the Business Combination at an issue price of $7.75 per share of Class A common stock (the “Newly Issued Price”) and the aggregate gross proceeds from such issuances represented more than 60% of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of the Business Combination on the date of the completion of the Business Combination (net of redemptions), if the volume weighted average trading price of our shares of Class A common stock during the 20-trading day period starting on the trading day prior to the day on which we consummated the Business Combination (such price, the “Market Value”) is below $9.20 per share, the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 115% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price, and the $18.00 per share redemption trigger price described below under “Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $18.00” and “Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00” will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 180% of the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price and the $10.00 per share redemption trigger price described below under “Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00” will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to the higher of the Market Value and the Newly Issued Price.

In case of any reclassification or reorganization of the issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock (other than those that solely affects the par value of such shares of Class A Common Stock), or in the case of any merger or consolidation of us with or into another corporation (other than a merger or consolidation in which we are the continuing corporation and that does not result in any reclassification or reorganization of our issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock), or in the case of any sale or conveyance to another corporation or entity of the assets or other property of us as an entirety or substantially as an entirety in connection with which we are dissolved, the holders of the warrants will thereafter have the right to purchase and receive, upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions specified in the warrants and in lieu of the shares of our Class A Common Stock


immediately theretofore purchasable and receivable upon the exercise of the rights represented thereby, the kind and amount of shares, stock or other equity securities or property (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, reorganization, merger or consolidation, or upon a dissolution following any such sale or transfer, that the holder of the warrants would have received if such holder had exercised their warrants immediately prior to such event. However, if such holders were entitled to exercise a right of election as to the kind or amount of securities, cash or other assets receivable upon such merger or consolidation, then the kind and amount of securities, cash or other assets for which each warrant will become exercisable will be deemed to be the weighted average of the kind and amount received per share by such holders in such merger or consolidation that affirmatively make such election, and if a tender, exchange or redemption offer has been made to and accepted by such holders (other than a tender, exchange or redemption offer made by the company in connection with redemption rights held by stockholders of the company as provided for in the company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation) under circumstances in which, upon completion of such tender or exchange offer, the maker thereof, together with members of any group (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act) of which such maker is a part, and together with any affiliate or associate of such maker (within the meaning of Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act) and any members of any such group of which any such affiliate or associate is a part, own beneficially (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) more than 50% of the issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, the holder of a warrant will be entitled to receive the highest amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would actually have been entitled as a stockholder if such warrant holder had exercised the warrant prior to the expiration of such tender or exchange offer, accepted such offer and all of the shares of Class A Common Stock held by such holder had been purchased pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, subject to adjustment (from and after the consummation of such tender or exchange offer) as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments provided for in the Warrant Agreement. Additionally, if less than 70% of the consideration receivable by the holders of Class A Common Stock in such a transaction is payable in the form of Class A Common Stock in the successor entity that is listed for trading on a national securities exchange or is quoted in an established over-the-counter market, or is to be so listed for trading or quoted immediately following such event, and if the registered holder of the warrant properly exercises the warrant within 30 days following public disclosure of such transaction, the warrant exercise price will be reduced as specified in the warrant agreement based on the per share consideration minus Black-Scholes Warrant Value (as defined in the Warrant Agreement) of the warrant.

The warrants are issued in registered form under a Warrant Agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Warrant Agent, and us. The Warrant Agreement provides that (a) the terms of the warrants may be amended without the consent of any holder for the purpose of (i) curing any ambiguity or correcting any mistake or defective provision or (ii) adding or changing any provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the Warrant Agreement as the parties to the Warrant Agreement may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem to not adversely affect the rights of the registered holders of the warrants and (b) all other modifications or amendments require the vote or written consent of at least 65% of the then outstanding public warrants and, solely with respect to any amendment to the terms of the private placement warrants or any provision of the Warrant Agreement with respect to the private placement warrants, at least 65% of the then outstanding private placement warrants. You should review a copy of the Warrant Agreement, as well as a copy of the Warrant Assumption Agreement, each of which is filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, for a complete description of the terms and conditions applicable to the warrants.

The warrant holders do not have the rights or privileges of holders of Common Stock and any voting rights until they exercise their warrants and receive shares of Class A Common Stock. After the issuance of shares of Class A Common Stock upon exercise of the warrants, each holder will be entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters to be voted on by stockholders.

No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade.

Private Placement Warrants

The private placement warrants (including the shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the private placement warrants) will not be transferable, assignable or salable until 30 days after the completion of the Business Combination (except, among other limited exceptions to our directors and officers and other persons or entities affiliated with the Sponsor) and they will not be redeemable by us (except as described under “— Warrants — Public Warrants — Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $10.00”) so long as they are held by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees. The Sponsor, or its permitted


transferees, has the option to exercise the private placement warrants on a cashless basis and have certain registration rights described herein. Otherwise, the private placement warrants have terms and provisions that are identical to those of the public warrants. If the private placement warrants are held by holders other than the Sponsor or its permitted transferees, the private placement warrants will be redeemable by us in all redemption scenarios and exercisable by the holders on the same basis as the public warrants.

Except as described under “— Warrants — Public Warrants — Redemption of warrants when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $10.00,” if holders of the private placement warrants elect to exercise them on a cashless basis, they would pay the exercise price by surrendering his, her or its warrants for that number of shares of Class A Common Stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Class A Common Stock underlying the warrants, multiplied by the excess of the “historical fair market value” (defined below) less the exercise price of the warrants by (y) the historical fair market value. For these purposes, the “historical fair market value” shall mean the average last reported sale price of the Class A Common Stock for the 10 trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the notice of warrant exercise is sent to the Warrant Agent. We have policies in place that restrict insiders from selling our securities except during specific periods of time. Even during such periods of time when insiders will be permitted to sell our securities, an insider cannot trade in our securities if he or she is in possession of material non-public information. Accordingly, unlike Public Stockholders who could exercise their warrants and sell the shares of Class A Common Stock received upon such exercise freely in the open market in order to recoup the cost of such exercise, the insiders could be significantly restricted from selling such securities. As a result, we believe that allowing the holders to exercise such warrants on a cashless basis is appropriate.

Exclusive Forum

The Charter provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery (the “Chancery Court”) of the State of Delaware (or, in the event that the Chancery Court does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware or other state courts of the State of Delaware) and any appellate court thereof shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for: (1) any derivative action, suit or proceeding brought on our behalf; (2) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our current or former directors, officers, stockholders or employees of ours or our stockholders; (3) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, the bylaws or the Charter (as either may be amended from time to time); or (4) any action, suit or proceeding asserting a claim against us or any current or former director, officer or stockholder governed by the internal affairs doctrine.

The Charter provides that the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. If any such foreign action is filed in a court other than the courts in the State of Delaware in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce such actions and (b) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the foreign action as agent for such stockholder. The Charter also provides that any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any of our securities shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this choice of forum provision. It is possible that a court of law could rule that the choice of forum provision contained in our certificate of incorporation is inapplicable or unenforceable if it is challenged in a proceeding or otherwise. This choice of forum provision has important consequences for our stockholders.

Certain Anti-Takeover Provisions of Delaware Law and the Charter and Bylaws

We have opted out of Section 203 of the DGCL under the Charter and bylaws, but the Charter and bylaws have protections similar to those afforded by Section 203 of the DGCL, which prohibit us from engaging in any business combination with any stockholder for a period of three years following the time that such stockholder (the “interested stockholder”) came to own at least 15% of our outstanding voting stock (the “acquisition”), except if:

 

   

our Board approved the acquisition prior to its consummation;

 

   

the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the outstanding voting stock upon consummation of the acquisition; or

 

   

the business combination is approved by our Board, and by a two-thirds vote of the other stockholders in a meeting.


Generally, a “business combination” includes any merger, consolidation, asset or stock sale, or certain other transactions resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. Subject to certain exceptions, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with that person’s affiliates and associates, owns, or within the previous three years owned, 15% or more of our voting stock.

Under certain circumstances, these anti-takeover provisions will make it more difficult for a person who would be an “interested stockholder” to effect various business combinations with us for a three-year period. This may encourage companies interested in acquiring us to negotiate in advance with our Board because the stockholder approval requirement would be avoided if our Board approves the acquisition that results in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder.

This may also have the effect of preventing changes in our Board and may make it more difficult to accomplish transactions that stockholders may otherwise deem to be in their best interests.

Written Consent by Stockholders

Under the Charter and bylaws, subject to the rights of any series of Preferred Stock then outstanding, any action required or permitted to be taken by our stockholders (a) may be effected by a consent in writing by such stockholders until the Sunset Date and (b) following the Sunset Date, must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of our stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.

Special Meeting of Stockholders

Under the Charter and bylaws, special meetings of our stockholders may be called only by our Board, the chairperson of our Board or our chief executive officer, or, until the Sunset Date, our secretary upon a written request of any holder of record of at least 25% of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of our capital stock, and may not be called by any other person or persons. Only such business shall be considered at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been stated in the notice for such meeting.

Advance Notice Requirements for Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations

Under the bylaws, advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of our stockholders shall be given in the manner and to the extent provided in the bylaws.

Transfer Agent and Warrant Agent

The transfer agent for our Common Stock and the warrant agent for our warrants is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

Listing of Class A Common Stock and Warrants

Our Class A Common Stock and our warrants are listed on the NYSE under the symbols “STRY” and “STRY WS,” respectively.

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

INDEMNIFICATION AND ADVANCEMENT AGREEMENT

This Indemnification and Advancement Agreement (“Agreement”) is made as of             , 20     by and between Starry Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and                    , [a member of the Board of Directors/an officer/an employee/an agent/a fiduciary] of the Company (“Indemnitee”). This Agreement supersedes and replaces any and all previous agreements between the Company and Indemnitee covering indemnification and advancement.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) believes that highly competent persons have become more reluctant to serve publicly-held corporations as directors, officers, or in other capacities unless they are provided with adequate protection through insurance or adequate indemnification and advancement of expenses against inordinate risks of claims and actions against them arising out of their service to and activities on behalf of such corporations;

WHEREAS, the Board has determined that, in order to attract and retain qualified individuals, the Company will attempt to maintain on an ongoing basis, at its sole expense, liability insurance to protect persons serving the Company and its subsidiaries from certain liabilities. Although the furnishing of such insurance has been a customary and widespread practice among United States-based corporations and other business enterprises, the Company believes that, given current market conditions and trends, such insurance may be available to it in the future only at higher premiums and with more exclusions. At the same time, directors, officers, and other persons in service to corporations or business enterprises are being increasingly subjected to expensive and time-consuming litigation relating to, among other things, matters that traditionally would have been brought only against the Company or business enterprise itself. The amended and restated bylaws and amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Company (each as may be amended from time to time, the “Bylaws” and the “Certificate of Incorporation”, respectively) require indemnification of the officers and directors of the Company. Indemnitee may also be entitled to indemnification pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). The Bylaws, Certificate of Incorporation, and the DGCL expressly provide that the indemnification provisions set forth therein are not exclusive, and thereby contemplate that contracts may be entered into between the Company and members of the Board, officers and other persons with respect to indemnification and advancement of expenses;

WHEREAS, the uncertainties relating to such insurance, to indemnification, and to advancement of expenses may increase the difficulty of attracting and retaining such persons;

WHEREAS, the Board has determined that the increased difficulty in attracting and retaining such persons is detrimental to the best interests of the Company and its stockholders and that the Company should act to assure such persons that there will be increased certainty of such protection in the future;

WHEREAS, it is reasonable, prudent and necessary for the Company contractually to obligate itself to indemnify, and to advance expenses on behalf of, such persons to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law so that they will serve or continue to serve the Company free from undue concern that they will not be so indemnified;


WHEREAS, this Agreement is a supplement to and in furtherance of the Bylaws, Certificate of Incorporation and any resolutions adopted pursuant thereto, and is not a substitute therefor, nor diminishes or abrogates any rights of Indemnitee thereunder; and

WHEREAS, Indemnitee does not regard the protection available under the Bylaws, Certificate of Incorporation, DGCL and insurance as adequate in the present circumstances, and may not be willing to serve or continue to serve as an officer or director without adequate additional protection, and the Company desires Indemnitee to serve or continue to serve in such capacity. Indemnitee is willing to serve, continue to serve and to take on additional service for or on behalf of the Company on the condition that Indemnitee be so indemnified and be advanced expenses.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants contained herein, the Company and Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:

Section 1.    Services to the Company. Indemnitee agrees to serve or continue to serve as a director, officer, key employee, agent or fiduciary of the Company. Indemnitee may at any time and for any reason resign from such position (subject to any other contractual obligation or any obligation imposed by operation of law). This Agreement does not create any obligation on the Company to continue Indemnitee in such position and is not an employment contract between the Company (or any of its subsidiaries or any Enterprise) and Indemnitee.

Section 2.    Definitions. As used in this Agreement:

(a)    “Affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (as in effect on the date hereof).

(b)    “Agent” means any person who is authorized by the Company or an Enterprise to act for or represent the interests of the Company or an Enterprise, respectively.

(c)    “Beneficial Owner” has the meaning given to such term in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that Beneficial Owner excludes any Person otherwise becoming a Beneficial Owner by reason of the stockholders of the Company approving a merger of the Company with another entity.

(d)    A “Change in Control” occurs upon the earliest to occur after the date of this Agreement of any of the following events:

i.    Acquisition of Stock by Third Party. Any Person (as defined below), other than a Designated Person, is or becomes the Beneficial Owner (as defined below), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, unless (1) the change in relative beneficial ownership of the Company’s securities by any Person results solely from a reduction in the aggregate number of outstanding shares of securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors or (2) a reduction in the aggregate number of votes represented by the Company’s outstanding securities;

 

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ii.    Change in Board of Directors. During any period of two (2) consecutive years (not including any period prior to the execution of this Agreement), individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the Board, and any new director (other than a director designated by a person who has entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in Sections 2(c)(i), 2(c)(iii) or 2(c)(iv)) whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board;

iii.    Corporate Transactions. The effective date of a reorganization, merger or consolidation of the Company with any other entity, other than a reorganization, merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such reorganization, merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the surviving entity outstanding immediately after such reorganization, merger or consolidation and with the power to elect at least a majority of the board of directors or other governing body of such surviving entity;

iv.    Liquidation. The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets; and

v.    Other Events. There occurs any other event of a nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A (or a response to any similar item on any similar schedule or form) promulgated under the Exchange Act (as defined below), whether or not the Company is then subject to such reporting requirement.

(e)    “Corporate Status” describes the status of a person who is or was acting as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary, or Agent of the Company or an Enterprise.

(f)    “Designated Person” means Chaitanya Kanojia and his Affiliates and Related Parties (as defined below).

(g)    “Disinterested Director” means a director of the Company who is not and was not a party to the Proceeding in respect of which indemnification is sought by Indemnitee.

(h)    “Enterprise” means any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other entity for which Indemnitee is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, or Agent.

(i)    “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

 

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(j)    “Expenses” includes all reasonable attorneys’ fees, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of experts and other professionals, witness fees, travel expenses, duplicating costs, printing and binding costs, telephone charges, postage, delivery service fees, any federal, state, local or foreign taxes imposed on Indemnitee as a result of the actual or deemed receipt of any payments under this Agreement, ERISA excise taxes and penalties, and all other disbursements or expenses of the types customarily incurred in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be a witness in, or otherwise participating in, a Proceeding. Expenses also include (i) Expenses incurred in connection with any appeal resulting from any Proceeding, including without limitation the premium, security for, and other costs relating to any cost bond, supersedeas bond, or other appeal bond or its equivalent, and (ii) for purposes of Section 14(d) only, Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in connection with the interpretation, enforcement or defense of Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement, by litigation or otherwise. The parties agree that for the purposes of any advancement of Expenses for which Indemnitee has made written demand to the Company in accordance with this Agreement, all Expenses included in such demand that are certified by affidavit of Indemnitee’s counsel as being reasonable in the good faith judgment of such counsel will be presumed conclusively to be reasonable. Expenses, however, do not include amounts paid in settlement by Indemnitee or the amount of judgments or fines against Indemnitee.

(k)    “Independent Counsel” means a law firm, or a member of a law firm, that is experienced in matters of corporation law and neither presently is, nor in the past five years has been, retained to represent: (i) the Company or Indemnitee in any matter material to either such party (other than with respect to matters concerning the Indemnitee under this Agreement, or of other indemnitees under similar indemnification agreements), or (ii) any other party to the Proceeding giving rise to a claim for indemnification hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Counsel” does not include any person who, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would have a conflict of interest in representing either the Company or Indemnitee in an action to determine Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement.

(l)    “Person” has the meaning as set forth in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that Person excludes (i) the Company, (ii) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company, and (iii) any corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company.

(m)    The term “Proceeding” includes any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, claim, counterclaim, cross claim, arbitration, mediation, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, investigation, inquiry, administrative hearing or any other actual, threatened or completed proceeding, whether brought in the right of the Company or otherwise and whether of a civil, criminal, administrative, legislative, or investigative (formal or informal) nature, including any appeal therefrom, in which Indemnitee was, is or will be involved as a party, potential party, non-party witness or otherwise by reason of Indemnitee’s Corporate Status or by reason of any action taken by Indemnitee (or a failure to take action by Indemnitee) or of any action (or failure to act) on Indemnitee’s part while acting pursuant to Indemnitee’s Corporate Status, in each case whether or not serving in such capacity at the time any liability or Expense is incurred for which indemnification, reimbursement, or advancement of Expenses can be provided under this Agreement. A Proceeding also includes a situation the Indemnitee believes in good faith may lead to or culminate in the institution of a Proceeding.

 

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(n)    “Related Party” means, with respect to any Person, (i) any controlling stockholder, controlling member, general partner, subsidiary, spouse or immediate family member (in the case of an individual) of such Person, (ii) any estate, trust, corporation, partnership or other entity, the beneficiaries, stockholders, partners or owners of which consist solely of one or more of Chaitanya Kanojia and his Affiliates (other than the Company and its subsidiaries, if applicable) and Related Parties and/or such other Persons referred to in the immediately preceding clause (i), or (iii) any executor, administrator, trustee, manager, director or other similar fiduciary of any Person referred to in the immediately preceding clause (ii), acting solely in such capacity.

Section 3.    Indemnity in Third-Party Proceedings. The Company will indemnify Indemnitee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3 if Indemnitee is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant in any Proceeding, other than a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor. Pursuant to this Section 3, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law against all Expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of such Expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with such Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of a criminal Proceeding had no reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful.

Section 4.    Indemnity in Proceedings by or in the Right of the Company. The Company will indemnify Indemnitee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4 if Indemnitee is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant in any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor. Pursuant to this Section 4, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with such Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company. The Company will not indemnify Indemnitee for Expenses under this Section 4 related to any claim, issue or matter in a Proceeding for which Indemnitee has been finally adjudged by a court to be liable to the Company, unless, and only to the extent that, the Delaware Court of Chancery or any court in which the Proceeding was brought determines upon application by Indemnitee that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification.

Section 5.    Indemnification for Expenses of a Party Who is Wholly or Partly Successful. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding to the extent that Indemnitee is successful, on the merits or otherwise. If Indemnitee is not wholly successful in such Proceeding but is successful, on the merits or otherwise, as to one or more but less than all claims, issues or matters in such Proceeding, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by

 

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Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with or related to each successfully resolved claim, issue or matter to the fullest extent permitted by law. For purposes of this Section 5 and without limitation, the termination of any claim, issue or matter in such a Proceeding by dismissal, with or without prejudice, will be deemed to be a successful result as to such claim, issue or matter.

Section 6.    Indemnification for Expenses of a Witness. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with any Proceeding to which Indemnitee is not a party but to which Indemnitee is a witness, deponent, interviewee, or otherwise asked to participate.

Section 7.    Partial Indemnification. If Indemnitee is entitled under any provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for some or a portion of Expenses, but not, however, for the total amount thereof, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee for the portion thereof to which Indemnitee is entitled.

Section 8.    Additional Indemnification. Notwithstanding any limitation in Sections 3, 4, or 5, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (including but not limited to, the DGCL and any amendments to or replacements of the DGCL adopted after the date of this Agreement that expand the Company’s ability to indemnify its officers and directors) if Indemnitee is a party to or threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding (including a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor).

Section 9.    Exclusions. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement, the Company is not obligated under this Agreement to make any indemnification payment to Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding:

(a)    for which payment has actually been made to or on behalf of Indemnitee under any insurance policy or other indemnity provision, except to the extent provided in Section 15 (b) and except with respect to any excess beyond the amount paid under any insurance policy or other indemnity provision; or

(b)    for (i) an accounting of profits made from the purchase and sale (or sale and purchase) by Indemnitee of securities of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act or similar provisions of state statutory law or common law, (ii) any reimbursement of the Company by the Indemnitee of any bonus or other incentive-based or equity-based compensation or of any profits realized by the Indemnitee from the sale of securities of the Company, as required in each case under the Exchange Act (including any such reimbursements that arise from an accounting restatement of the Company pursuant to Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), or the payment to the Company of profits arising from the purchase and sale by Indemnitee of securities in violation of Section 306 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) or (iii) any reimbursement of the Company by Indemnitee of any compensation pursuant to any compensation recoupment or clawback policy adopted by the Board or the compensation committee of the Board, including but not limited to any such policy adopted to comply with stock exchange listing requirements implementing Section 10D of the Exchange Act; or

 

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(c)    initiated by Indemnitee, including any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by Indemnitee against the Company or its directors, officers, employees or other indemnitees, unless (i) the Proceeding or part of any Proceeding is to enforce Indemnitee’s rights to indemnification or advancement, of Expenses, including a Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated pursuant to Section 14 of this Agreement, (ii) the Board authorized the Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) prior to its initiation or (iii) the Company provides the indemnification, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Company under applicable law.

Section 10.    Advances of Expenses.

(a)    The Company will advance, to the extent not prohibited by law, the Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) not initiated by Indemnitee or any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by Indemnitee if (i) the Proceeding or part of any Proceeding is to enforce Indemnitee’s rights to obtain indemnification or advancement of Expenses from the Company or Enterprise, including a proceeding initiated pursuant to Section 14 or (ii) the Board authorized the Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) prior to its initiation. The Company will advance the Expenses within forty-five (45) days after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements requesting such advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of any Proceeding.

(b)    Advances will be unsecured and interest free. Indemnitee undertakes to repay the amounts advanced (without interest) to the extent that it is ultimately determined that Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company, thus Indemnitee qualifies for advances upon the execution of this Agreement and delivery to the Company. No other form of undertaking is required other than the execution of this Agreement. The Company will make advances without regard to Indemnitee’s ability to repay the Expenses and without regard to Indemnitee’s ultimate entitlement to indemnification under the other provisions of this Agreement.

Section 11.    Procedure for Notification of Claim for Indemnification or Advancement.

(a)    Indemnitee will notify the Company in writing of any Proceeding with respect to which Indemnitee intends to seek indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder as soon as reasonably practicable following the receipt by Indemnitee of written notice thereof. Indemnitee will include in the written notification to the Company a description of the nature of the Proceeding and the facts underlying the Proceeding and provide such documentation and information as is reasonably available to Indemnitee and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification following the final disposition of such Proceeding. Indemnitee’s failure to notify the Company will not relieve the Company from any obligation it may have to Indemnitee under this Agreement, and any delay in so notifying the Company will not constitute a waiver by Indemnitee of any rights under this Agreement. The Secretary of the Company will, promptly upon receipt of such a request for indemnification or advancement, advise the Board in writing that Indemnitee has requested indemnification or advancement.

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Section 12.    Procedure Upon Application for Indemnification.

(a)    Unless a Change of Control has occurred, the determination of Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification will be made:

i.    by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors, even though less than a quorum of the Board;

ii.    by a committee of Disinterested Directors designated by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors, even though less than a quorum of the Board;

iii.     if there are no such Disinterested Directors or, if such Disinterested Directors so direct, by written opinion provided by Independent Counsel selected by the Board; or

iv.    if so directed by the Board, by the stockholders of the Company.

(b)    If a Change in Control has occurred, the determination of Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification will be made by written opinion provided by Independent Counsel selected by Indemnitee (unless Indemnitee requests such selection be made by the Board).

(c)     The party selecting Independent Counsel pursuant to subsection (a)(iii) or (b) of this Section 12 will provide written notice of the selection to the other party. The notified party may, within ten (10) days after receiving written notice of the selection of Independent Counsel, deliver to the selecting party a written objection to such selection; provided, however, that such objection may be asserted only on the ground that the Independent Counsel so selected does not meet the requirements of “Independent Counsel” as defined in Section 2 of this Agreement, and the objection will set forth with particularity the factual basis of such assertion. Absent a proper and timely objection, the person so selected will act as Independent Counsel. If such written objection is so made and substantiated, the Independent Counsel so selected may not serve as Independent Counsel unless and until such objection is withdrawn or the Delaware Court has determined that such objection is without merit. If, within thirty (30) days after the later of submission by Indemnitee of a written request for indemnification pursuant to Section 11(a) hereof and the final disposition of the Proceeding, Independent Counsel has not been selected or, if selected, any objection to has not been resolved, either the Company or Indemnitee may petition the Delaware Court for the appointment as Independent Counsel of a person selected by such court or by such other person as such court designates. Upon the due commencement of any judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to Section 14(a) of this Agreement, Independent Counsel will be discharged and relieved of any further responsibility in such capacity (subject to the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing).

(d)    Indemnitee will cooperate with the person, persons or entity making the determination with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification, including providing to such person, persons or entity upon reasonable advance request any documentation or information which is not privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure and which is reasonably available to Indemnitee and reasonably necessary to such determination. The Company will advance and pay any Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in so cooperating with the person, persons or entity making the indemnification determination irrespective of the determination as to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification and the Company hereby indemnifies and agrees to hold Indemnitee

 

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harmless therefrom. The Company promptly will advise Indemnitee in writing of the determination that Indemnitee is or is not entitled to indemnification, including a description of any reason or basis for which indemnification has been denied and providing a copy of any written opinion provided to the Board by Independent Counsel.

(e)    If it is determined that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, the Company will make payment to Indemnitee within thirty (30) days after such determination.

Section 13.    Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings.

(a)    In making a determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification hereunder, the person or persons or entity making such determination will, to the fullest extent not prohibited by law, presume Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification under this Agreement if Indemnitee has submitted a request for indemnification in accordance with Section 11(a) of this Agreement, and the Company will, to the fullest extent not prohibited by law, have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption. Neither the failure of the Company (including by its directors or Independent Counsel) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of any action pursuant to this Agreement that indemnification is proper in the circumstances because Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct, nor an actual determination by the Company (including by its directors or Independent Counsel) that Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, will be a defense to the action or create a presumption that Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct.

(b)    If the determination of the Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification has not made pursuant to Section 12 within sixty (60) days after the later of (i) receipt by the Company of Indemnitee’s request for indemnification pursuant to Section 11(a) and (ii) the final disposition of the Proceeding for which Indemnitee requested Indemnification (the “Determination Period”), the requisite determination of entitlement to indemnification will, to the fullest extent not prohibited by law, be deemed to have been made and Indemnitee will be entitled to such indemnification, absent (i) a misstatement by Indemnitee of a material fact, or an omission of a material fact necessary to make Indemnitee’s statement not materially misleading, in connection with the request for indemnification, or (ii) a prohibition of such indemnification under applicable law. The Determination Period may be extended for a reasonable time, not to exceed an additional thirty (30) days, if the person, persons or entity making the determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification in good faith requires such additional time for the obtaining or evaluating of documentation and/or information relating thereto; and provided, further, the Determination Period may be extended an additional fifteen (15) days if the determination of entitlement to indemnification is to be made by the stockholders pursuant to Section 12(a)(iv) of this Agreement.

(c)    The termination of any Proceeding or of any claim, issue or matter therein, by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, will not (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement) of itself adversely affect the right of Indemnitee to indemnification or create a presumption that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company or, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful.

 

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(d)    For purposes of any determination of good faith, Indemnitee will be deemed to have acted in good faith if Indemnitee acted based on the records or books of account of the Company, its subsidiaries, or an Enterprise, including financial statements, or on information supplied to Indemnitee by the directors or officers of the Company, its subsidiaries, or an Enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Company, its subsidiaries, or an Enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Company or an Enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser, financial advisor or other expert selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Company, its subsidiaries, or an Enterprise. Further, Indemnitee will be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Company,” as referred to in this Agreement if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan. The provisions of this Section 13(d) is not exclusive and does not limit in any way the other circumstances in which the Indemnitee may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Agreement.

(e)    The knowledge and/or actions, or failure to act, of any director, officer, trustee, partner, managing member, fiduciary, agent or employee of the Enterprise may not be imputed to Indemnitee for purposes of determining Indemnitee’s right to indemnification under this Agreement.

Section 14.    Remedies of Indemnitee.

(a)    Indemnitee may commence litigation against the Company in the Delaware Court of Chancery to obtain indemnification or advancement of Expenses provided by this Agreement in the event that (i) a determination is made pursuant to Section 12 of this Agreement that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement, (ii) the Company does not advance Expenses pursuant to Section 10 of this Agreement, (iii) the determination of entitlement to indemnification is not made pursuant to Section 12 of this Agreement within the Determination Period, (iv) the Company does not indemnify Indemnitee pursuant to Section 5 or 6 or the second to last sentence of Section 12(d) of this Agreement within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of a written request therefor, (v) the Company does not indemnify Indemnitee pursuant to Section 3, 4, 7, or 8 of this Agreement within thirty (30) days after a determination has been made that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, or (vi) in the event that the Company or any other person takes or threatens to take any action to declare this Agreement void or unenforceable, or institutes any litigation or other action or Proceeding designed to deny, or to recover from, the Indemnitee the benefits provided or intended to be provided to the Indemnitee hereunder. Alternatively, at Company’s or Indemnitee’s option, parties may seek an award in arbitration to be conducted by a single arbitrator pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Indemnitee must commence such Proceeding seeking an adjudication or an award in arbitration within one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date on which Indemnitee first has the right to commence such Proceeding pursuant to this Section 14(a); provided, however, that the foregoing clause does not apply in respect of a Proceeding brought by Indemnitee to enforce Indemnitee’s rights under Section 5 of this Agreement. The Company will not oppose Indemnitee’s right to seek any such adjudication or award in arbitration.

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pursuant to this Section 14 will be conducted in all respects as a de novo trial, or arbitration, on the merits and Indemnitee may not be prejudiced by reason of that adverse determination. In any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14 the Company will have the burden of proving Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification or advancement of Expenses, as the case may be, and will not introduce evidence of the determination made pursuant to Section 12 of this Agreement.

(c)    If a determination is made pursuant to Section 12 of this Agreement that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, the Company will be bound by such determination in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14, absent (i) a misstatement by Indemnitee of a material fact, or an omission of a material fact necessary to make Indemnitee’s statement not materially misleading, in connection with the request for indemnification, or (ii) a prohibition of such indemnification under applicable law.

(d)    The Company is, to the fullest extent not prohibited by law, precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 14 that the procedures and presumptions of this Agreement are not valid, binding and enforceable and will stipulate in any such court or before any such arbitrator that the Company is bound by all the provisions of this Agreement.

(e)    It is the intent of the Company that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Indemnitee not be required to incur legal fees or other Expenses associated with the interpretation, enforcement or defense of Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement by litigation or otherwise because the cost and expense thereof would substantially detract from the benefits intended to be extended to the Indemnitee hereunder. The Company, to the fullest extent permitted by law, will (within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of a written request therefor) advance to Indemnitee such Expenses which are incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any action concerning this Agreement, Indemnitee’s right to indemnification or advancement of Expenses from the Company, or concerning any directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies maintained by the Company, and will indemnify Indemnitee against any and all such Expenses unless the court determines that each of the Indemnitee’s claims in such action were made in bad faith or were frivolous or are prohibited by law.

Section 15.    Non-exclusivity; Survival of Rights; Insurance; Subrogation.

(a)    The indemnification and advancement of Expenses provided by this Agreement are not exclusive of any other rights to which Indemnitee may at any time be entitled under applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, any agreement, a vote of stockholders or a resolution of directors, or otherwise. The indemnification and advancement of Expenses provided by this Agreement may not be limited or restricted by any amendment, alteration or repeal of this Agreement in any way with respect to any action taken or omitted by Indemnitee in Indemnitee’s Corporate Status occurring prior to any amendment, alteration or repeal of this Agreement. To the extent that a change in Delaware law, whether by statute or judicial decision, permits greater indemnification or advancement of Expenses than would be afforded currently under the Bylaws, Certificate of Incorporation, or this Agreement, it is the intent of the parties hereto that Indemnitee enjoy by this Agreement the greater benefits so afforded by such change. No right or remedy herein conferred is intended to be exclusive of any other right or

 

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remedy, and every other right and remedy is cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, will not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other right or remedy.

(b)    The Company hereby acknowledges that Indemnitee may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of Expenses and/or insurance provided by one or more other Persons with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated. The relationship between the Company and such other Persons, other than an Enterprise, with respect to the Indemnitee’s rights to indemnification, advancement of Expenses, and insurance is described by this subsection, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section 15 with respect to a Proceeding concerning Indemnitee’s Corporate Status with an Enterprise.

i.    The Company hereby acknowledges and agrees:

1)    the Company is the indemnitor of first resort with respect to any request for indemnification or advancement of Expenses made pursuant to this Agreement concerning any Proceeding;

2)     the Company is primarily liable for all indemnification and indemnification or advancement of Expenses obligations for any Proceeding, whether created by law, organizational or constituent documents, contract (including this Agreement) or otherwise;

3)    any obligation of any other Persons with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated to indemnify Indemnitee and/or advance Expenses to Indemnitee in respect of any proceeding are secondary to the obligations of the Company’s obligations;

4)    the Company will indemnify Indemnitee and advance Expenses to Indemnitee hereunder to the fullest extent provided herein without regard to any rights Indemnitee may have against any other Person with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated or insurer of any such Person; and

ii.    the Company irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases (A) any other Person with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated from any claim of contribution, subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration or indemnification, or any other recovery of any kind in respect of amounts paid by the Company to Indemnitee pursuant to this Agreement and (B) any right to participate in any claim or remedy of Indemnitee against any Person, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from any Person, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim, remedy or right.

iii.    In the event any other Person with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated or their insurers advances or extinguishes any liability or loss for Indemnitee, the payor has a right of subrogation against the Company or its insurers for all amounts so paid which would otherwise be payable by the Company or its insurers under this Agreement. In no event will payment by any other Person with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated or their insurers affect the obligations of the Company hereunder or shift primary liability for the Company’s obligation to indemnify or advance of Expenses to any other Person with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated.

 

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iv.    Any indemnification or advancement of Expenses provided by any other Person with whom or which Indemnitee may be associated is specifically in excess over the Company’s obligation to indemnify and advance Expenses or any valid and collectible insurance (including but not limited to any malpractice insurance or professional errors and omissions insurance) provided by the Company.

(c)    To the extent that the Company maintains an insurance policy or policies providing liability insurance for directors, officers, employees, or agents of the Company, the Company will obtain a policy or policies covering Indemnitee to the maximum extent of the coverage available for any such director, officer, employee or agent under such policy or policies, including coverage in the event the Company does not or cannot, for any reason, indemnify or advance Expenses to Indemnitee as required by this Agreement. If, at the time of the receipt of a notice of a claim pursuant to this Agreement, the Company has director and officer liability insurance in effect, the Company will give prompt notice of such claim or of the commencement of a Proceeding, as the case may be, to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company will thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of the Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such Proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies. Indemnitee agrees to assist the Company efforts to cause the insurers to pay such amounts and will comply with the terms of such policies, including selection of approved panel counsel, if required.

(d)    The Company’s obligation to indemnify or advance Expenses hereunder to Indemnitee for any Proceeding concerning Indemnitee’s Corporate Status with an Enterprise will be reduced by any amount Indemnitee has actually received as indemnification or advancement of Expenses from such Enterprise. The Company and Indemnitee intend that any such Enterprise (and its insurers) be the indemnitor of first resort with respect to indemnification and advancement of Expenses for any Proceeding related to or arising from Indemnitee’s Corporate Status with such Enterprise. The Company’s obligation to indemnify and advance Expenses to Indemnitee is secondary to the obligations the Enterprise or its insurers owe to Indemnitee. Indemnitee agrees to take all reasonably necessary and desirable action to obtain from an Enterprise indemnification and advancement of Expenses for any Proceeding related to or arising from Indemnitee’s Corporate Status with such Enterprise.

(e)    In the event of any payment made by the Company under this Agreement, the Company will be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee from any Enterprise or insurance carrier. Indemnitee will execute all papers required and take all action necessary to secure such rights, including execution of such documents as are necessary to enable the Company to bring suit to enforce such rights.

Section 16.    Duration of Agreement. This Agreement continues until and terminates upon the later of: (a) ten (10) years after the date that Indemnitee ceases to have a Corporate Status or (b) one (1) year after the final termination of any Proceeding then pending in respect of which Indemnitee is granted rights of indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder and of any Proceeding commenced by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 14 of this Agreement relating thereto.

 

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The indemnification and advancement of Expenses rights provided by or granted pursuant to this Agreement are binding upon and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns (including any direct or indirect successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Company), continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or of any other Enterprise, and inure to the benefit of Indemnitee and Indemnitee’s spouse, assigns, heirs, devisees, executors and administrators and other legal representatives.

Section 17.    Severability. If any provision or provisions of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement (including without limitation, each portion of any Section of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and remain enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law; (b) such provision or provisions will be deemed reformed to the extent necessary to conform to applicable law and to give the maximum effect to the intent of the parties hereto; and (c) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, each portion of any Section of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) will be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested thereby.

Section 18.    Interpretation. Any ambiguity in the terms of this Agreement will be resolved in favor of Indemnitee and in a manner to provide the maximum indemnification and advancement of Expenses permitted by law. The Company and Indemnitee intend that this Agreement provide to the fullest extent permitted by law for indemnification and advancement in excess of that expressly provided, without limitation, by the Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, vote of the Company stockholders or disinterested directors, or applicable law.

Section 19.    Enforcement.

(a)    The Company expressly confirms and agrees that it has entered into this Agreement and assumed the obligations imposed on it hereby in order to induce Indemnitee to serve as a director or officer of the Company, and the Company acknowledges that Indemnitee is relying upon this Agreement in serving or continuing to serve as a director or officer of the Company.

(b)    This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral, written and implied, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof; provided, however, that this Agreement is a supplement to and in furtherance of the Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws and applicable law, and is not a substitute therefor, nor to diminish or abrogate any rights of Indemnitee thereunder.

Section 20.    Modification and Waiver. No supplement, modification or amendment of this Agreement is binding unless executed in writing by the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement will be deemed or constitutes a waiver of any other provisions of this Agreement nor will any waiver constitute a continuing waiver.

 

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Section 21.    Notice by Indemnitee. Indemnitee agrees promptly to notify the Company in writing upon being served with any summons, citation, subpoena, complaint, indictment, information or other document relating to any Proceeding or matter which may be subject to indemnification or advancement of Expenses covered hereunder. The failure of Indemnitee to so notify the Company does not relieve the Company of any obligation which it may have to the Indemnitee under this Agreement or otherwise.

Section 22.    Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Agreement will be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given if (a) delivered by hand to the other party, (b) sent by reputable overnight courier to the other party or (c) sent by facsimile transmission or electronic mail, with receipt of oral confirmation that such communication has been received:

(a)    If to Indemnitee, at the address indicated on the signature page of this Agreement, or such other address as Indemnitee provides to the Company.

(b)    If to the Company to:

Starry Global Holdings, Inc.

38 Chauncy Street, Suite 200

Boston, MA 02111

Attention: William Lundregan, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

Email: wlundregan@starry.com

or to any other address as may have been furnished to Indemnitee by the Company.

Section 23.    Contribution. To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, if the indemnification provided for in this Agreement is unavailable to Indemnitee for any reason whatsoever, the Company, in lieu of indemnifying Indemnitee, will contribute to the amount incurred by Indemnitee, whether for judgments, fines, penalties, excise taxes, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement and/or for Expenses, in connection with any claim relating to an indemnifiable event under this Agreement, in such proportion as is deemed fair and reasonable in light of all of the circumstances of such Proceeding in order to reflect (i) the relative benefits received by the Company and Indemnitee as a result of the event(s) and/or transaction(s) giving cause to such Proceeding; and/or (ii) the relative fault of the Company (and its directors, officers, employees and agents) and Indemnitee in connection with such event(s) and/or transaction(s).

Section 24.    Applicable Law and Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement and the legal relations among the parties are governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Except with respect to any arbitration commenced by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 14(a) of this Agreement, the Company and Indemnitee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i) agree that any action or Proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement may be brought only in the Delaware Court of Chancery and not in any other state or federal court in the United States of America or any court in any other country, (ii) consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court for purposes of any action or Proceeding arising out of or in connection with

 

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this Agreement, (iii) waive any objection to the laying of venue of any such action or Proceeding in the Delaware Court, and (iv) waive, and agree not to plead or to make, any claim that any such action or Proceeding brought in the Delaware Court has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum.

Section 25.    Identical Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which will for all purposes be deemed to be an original but all of which together constitutes one and the same Agreement. Only one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforceability is sought needs to be produced to evidence the existence of this Agreement.

Section 26.    Headings. The headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute part of this Agreement or affect the construction thereof.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be signed as of the day and year first above written.

 

STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.       INDEMNITEE
By:  

                                         

     

                                                             

Name:         Name:  
Title:         Address:  

                                                             

         

                                         

         

                                         

Exhibit 10.5

Executed Version

WAIVER AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SERIES Z SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

THIS WAIVER AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SERIES Z SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) to that certain Series Z Subscription Agreement, dated as of October 6, 2021 (the “Series Z Subscription Agreement”), by and among each of the undersigned subscribers (each, a “Subscriber”) and Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Starry”), is made as of March 28, 2022 by and among the Subscribers and Starry. Capitalized terms used, but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Series Z Subscription Agreement.

WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 9(h) of the Series Z Subscription Agreement, the terms of the Series Z Subscription Agreement may be amended or waived only by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties thereto;

WHEREAS, the parties to the Transaction Agreement have acknowledged and agreed that the transactions contemplated by the Note Subscription Agreements (the “Note Financing”) shall not be consummated and have waived any rights such parties may have relating thereto under the Transaction Agreement (the “Note Waiver”);

WHEREAS, Section 9.03(e) of the Transaction Agreement provides that the obligation of Holdings and Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Starry Inc.”), to consummate the Mergers (as defined in the Transaction Agreement) is subject to the satisfaction or waiver by Starry Inc. of the condition that the Closing Surviving Corporation Cash (as defined in the Transaction Agreement) equal or exceed $300,000,000 (the “Minimum Cash Condition”);

WHEREAS, Starry Inc. (on behalf of itself and Holdings) has waived the Minimum Cash Condition (the “Minimum Cash Waiver”);

WHEREAS, the parties to the Transaction Agreement have acknowledged and agreed that the Subject Indebtedness (as defined in the Transaction Agreement) will not be repaid in connection with the consummation of the Mergers and have waived any rights such parties may have relating thereto under the Transaction Agreement, including any condition to such party’s obligation to consummate the Mergers relating thereto and any other parties’ compliance with or performance of the covenants in the Transaction Agreement relating to the payoff or extinguishment of the Subject Indebtedness (the “Indebtedness Payoff Waiver”);

WHEREAS, the Company and Holdings entered into certain Non-Redemption Agreements with shareholders of the Company pursuant to which (i) such shareholders agreed not to redeem their shares of Class A common stock of the Company and (ii) Holdings agreed to issue such investors an aggregate of 422,108 Class A Common Shares (the “NRA Issuances”); and

WHEREAS, each Subscriber and Starry desires to amend and waive certain terms of the Series Z Subscription Agreement in accordance with this Amendment.


NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1.    Amendment.

(a)    The “Per Share Price” definition, and the “Price Per Subscribed Share” listed on the signature page of the Subscription Agreement, is hereby amended such that the purchase price per share is decreased to $7.50 per share from $10.00 per share.

(b)    The number of Series Z Preferred Shares to be subscribed for and purchased by (i) FirstMark Capital OF III, L.P. is hereby amended to be increased from 1,100,000 to 1,466,667 and (ii) FirstMark Capital S1, L.P. is hereby amended to be increased from 1,000,000 to 1,333,333. All references to “Subscribed Preferred Shares” in the Series Z Subscription Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the amended number of Series Z Preferred Shares to be purchased by the Subscriber.

(c)    The Aggregate Purchase Price of the Subscribed Preferred Shares for (i) FirstMark Capital OF III, L.P. is hereby amended to $11,000,002.50 and (ii) FirstMark Capital S1, L.P. is hereby amended to $9,999,997.50.

2.    Waivers.

(a)    Each Subscriber hereby irrevocably waives any rights that such Subscriber may have (including in respect of any breach of representation or warranty by Starry), or any condition to such Subscriber’s obligation to consummate the Closing, under the Subscription Agreement relating to (A) the Minimum Cash Waiver or the failure to satisfy the Minimum Cash Condition, (B) the Note Waiver or the failure to consummate the Note Financing, (C) the Indebtedness Payoff Waiver or the failure to payoff or extinguish the Subject Indebtedness; provided that the foregoing waivers in respect of the Indebtedness Payoff Waiver or the failure to payoff or extinguish the Subject Indebtedness are conditioned upon the receipt of a consent to the Transactions for purposes of the Subject Indebtedness from the applicable holders of the Subject Indebtedness, (D) the NRA Issuances and (E) the amendment of the PIPE Subscription Agreements (as defined in the Transaction Agreement) to increase the aggregate number of Holdings Class A Common Stock issuable thereunder to 14,533,334 from 10,900,000, based on a purchase price per share equal to $7.50.

(b)    Each Subscriber hereby acknowledges that the parties to the Transaction Agreement anticipate that the Closing Date will occur on March 29, 2022, and each Subscriber hereby agrees to deliver its Aggregate Purchase Price by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to an account specified by Starry no later than March 25, 2022, such funds to be held in escrow by a third-party escrow provider until the Closing. Each Subscriber agrees that this Amendment shall constitute the Closing Notice and that such Closing Notice shall be deemed to have been timely given.

3.    Effect of Waiver and Amendment. Except as specifically amended or waived herein, the Series Z Subscription Agreement is hereby ratified and confirmed and shall remain in full force and effect. Each reference in the Series Z Subscription Agreement to “this Subscription Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof,” “herein” or words of like import, and each reference to the Series Z Subscription Agreement in the other documents entered into in connection with the Series Z Subscription Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Series Z Subscription Agreement, as amended and waived by this Amendment.

 

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4.    Miscellaneous. Section 7 of the Subscription Agreement shall apply to this Amendment mutatis mutandis.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned parties have executed this Amendment as of the date first written above.

 

STARRY, INC.
By:  

/s/ Chaitanya Kanjia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO WAIVER AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SERIES Z SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT


SUBSCRIBER:
FIRSTMARK CAPITAL OF III, L.P.
for itself and as nominee for
FirstMark Capital OF III-F, L.P.
By:   FIRSTMARK CAPITAL OF III GP, LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Eric Cheung

  Name: Eric Cheung
  Title: General Counsel

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO WAIVER AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SERIES Z SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT


SUBSCRIBER:
FIRSTMARK CAPITAL S2, L.P.
By:   FIRSTMARK CAPITAL S2 GP, LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Eric Cheung

  Name: Eric Cheung
  Title: General Counsel

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO WAIVER AND AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SERIES Z SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

Exhibit 10.9

Execution Version

AMENDED AND RESTATED

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March 28, 2022, is made and entered into by and among:

(i)    Starry Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”);

(ii)    FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“FirstMark”);

(iii)    certain equityholders of FirstMark as set forth on Schedule A hereto (the “Sponsor Equityholders”); and

(iv)    certain equityholders of Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Legacy Starry”), as set forth on Schedule B hereto (collectively, the “Starry Equityholders” and, together with the Sponsor Equityholders and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 of this Agreement, a “Holder” and collectively the “Holders”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, FirstMark and FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Sponsor”), are party to that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 5, 2020, with each of the other individuals party thereto (the “Original RRA”);

WHEREAS, the Company, FirstMark and Legacy Starry are party to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 6, 2021 (as it may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among FirstMark, Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of FirstMark (“Merger Sub”), Legacy Starry and the Company, pursuant to which (i) FirstMark will merge with and into the Company, with the Company being the surviving entity (the “SPAC Merger”) and (ii) following consummation of the SPAC Merger, Merger Sub will merge with and into Legacy Starry, with Legacy Starry being the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Acquisition Merger” and together with the SPAC Merger, the “Mergers”);

WHEREAS, in connection with the consummation of the transactions described above (the “Transactions”), FirstMark, Sponsor and the other parties to the Original RRA desire to amend and restate the Original RRA in its entirety as set forth herein, and FirstMark and the Holders desire to enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall grant the Holders certain registration rights with respect to the Registrable Securities (as defined below) on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, covenants and agreements contained herein, and certain other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1    Definitions. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:


Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or the Board, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of any prospectus and any preliminary prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed, declared effective or used, as the case may be, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.

Action” means any claim, action, suit, audit, examination, assessment, arbitration, mediation or inquiry, or any proceeding or investigation, by or before any Governmental Authority.

Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, (a) any Person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person or (b) in the event that the specified Person is a natural Person, a member of the immediate family of such Person; provided, that (i) the Company and each of its subsidiaries shall be deemed not to be Affiliates of any Holder and (ii) “portfolio companies” (as such term is customarily used among institutional investors) in which any Holder or any of its Affiliates has an investment (whether as debt or equity) shall not be deemed an Affiliate of such Holder. As used in this definition, the term “control” 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 ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Board” means the board of directors of the Company.

Block Trade” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.4.1.

Closing” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Closing Date” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Common Stock” shall mean the Class A common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share.

Company” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto and includes the Company’s successors by recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, reorganization or similar transaction.

Demanding Holder” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.4.

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time.

FINRA” the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Form S-1 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.1.

Form S-3 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.1.

 

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Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, provincial, municipal, local or foreign government, governmental authority, regulatory or administrative agency (which for the purposes of this Agreement shall include FINRA and the Commission), governmental commission, department, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, court or tribunal.

Governmental Order” means any order, judgment, injunction, decree, writ, stipulation, determination or award, in each case, entered by or with any Governmental Authority.

Holder Information” shall have the meaning given in Section 4.1.2.

Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto, for so long as such person or entity holds any Registrable Securities.

Immediate Family Member” means a child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, of a natural person referred to herein.

Law” means any statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation or Governmental Order, in each case, of any Governmental Authority.

Legacy Starry Warrants” means all warrants to purchase shares of Legacy Starry common stock.

Maximum Number of Securities” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.5.

Mergers” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Merger Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Minimum Takedown Threshold” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.4.

Misstatement” shall mean an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated in a Registration Statement or Prospectus or necessary to make the statements in a Registration Statement or Prospectus (in the case of a Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

Original RRA” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Other Coordinated Offering” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.4.1.

Permitted Transferees” shall mean, with respect to any Person, (i) any Affiliate, limited partner, member or stockholder of such Person, (ii) with respect to any Person that is an investment fund, vehicle or similar entity, (x) any other investment fund, vehicle or similar entity of which such Person or an Affiliate, advisor or manager of such Person serves as the general partner, manager or advisor and (y) any direct or indirect limited partner or investor in such investment fund, vehicle or similar entity or any direct or indirect limited partner or investor in any other investment fund, vehicle or similar entity of which such Person or an Affiliate, advisor or manager of such Person serves as the general partner, manager or advisor, (iii) in the case of any Person who is an individual, (w) by gift to an Immediate Family Member of such individual, (x) any successor by death or pursuant to any qualified domestic relations order, (y) any trust, partnership, limited liability company or similar entity solely for the benefit of such individual or such individual’s spouse or lineal descendants, provided that such individual acts as trustee, general partner or managing member and retains the sole power to direct the voting and disposition of the transferred

 

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Registrable Securities or (z) a nominee or custodian of a Person to whom a transfer would be permissible under this clause (iii), (iv) to any third-party pledgee in a bona fide transaction as collateral to secure obligations pursuant to lending or other arrangement between such third parties (or their Affiliates or designees) and such Person and/or its Affiliates or any similar arrangement relating to a financing arrangement for the benefit of such Person and/or its Affiliates, and (v) pursuant to a bona fide loan or pledge or as a grant or maintenance of a bona fide lien, security interests, pledge or other similar encumbrance of any such securities owned by such Person and/or its Affiliates to a nationally or internationally recognized financial institution in connection with a loan or such Person and/or its Affiliates.

Person shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company, association or other entity.

Piggyback Registration” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.2.1.

Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, as supplemented by any and all prospectus supplements and as amended by any and all post-effective amendments and including all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.

Registrable Security” shall mean (a) any outstanding shares of Common Stock and warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock held by a Holder immediately following the Closing (including shares of Common Stock distributable pursuant to the Merger Agreement and issuable upon the exchange or conversion of the Company’s Class B Common Stock), (b) any shares of Common Stock that may be acquired by Holders upon the exercise of a warrant or other right to acquire Common Stock held by a Holder immediately following the Closing, (c) any shares of Common Stock or warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock (including any shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of any such warrant) of the Company otherwise acquired or owned by a Holder following the date hereof to the extent that such securities are “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) or are otherwise held by an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company, and (d) any other equity security of the Company or any of its subsidiaries issued or issuable with respect to any securities referenced in clause (a), (b) or (c) above by way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, reorganization or similar transaction; provided, however, that, as to any particular Registrable Security, such securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities upon the earliest to occur of: (A) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such securities shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such securities shall have been sold, transferred, disposed of or exchanged in accordance with such Registration Statement by the applicable Holder; (B) such securities shall have been otherwise transferred, new certificates for such securities not bearing a legend restricting further transfer shall have been delivered by the Company and subsequent public distribution of such securities shall not require registration under the Securities Act; (C) such securities shall have ceased to be outstanding; (D) such securities may be sold without registration pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (but with no volume or other restrictions or limitations including as to manner or timing of sale); and (E) such securities have been sold to, or through, a broker, dealer or underwriter in a public distribution or other public securities transaction.

Registration” shall mean a registration, including any related Shelf Takedown, effected by preparing and filing a Registration Statement, prospectus or similar document in compliance with the requirements of the Securities Act, and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and such Registration Statement becoming effective.

 

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Registration Expenses” shall mean the expenses of a Registration, including, without limitation, the following:

(A)    all registration and filing fees (including fees with respect to filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.) and any national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed;

(B)    fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of outside counsel for the Underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities);

(C)    printing, messenger, telephone and delivery expenses;

(D)    reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company;

(E)    reasonable fees and disbursements of all independent registered public accountants of the Company incurred specifically in connection with such Registration;

(F)    the fees and expenses of any special experts retained by the Company in connection with such registration; and

(G)    reasonable and documented fees and expenses of one legal counsel selected by the majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders in an Underwritten Offering or Other Coordinated Offering (not to exceed $50,000 without the consent of the Company).

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement that covers Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, including the Prospectus included in such registration statement, amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registration statement, and all exhibits to and all material incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

Requesting Holders” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.5.

Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

Shelf” shall mean the Form S-1 Shelf, the Form S-3 Shelf or any Subsequent Shelf Registration, as the case may be.

Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration of securities pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Commission in accordance with and pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule then in effect).

Shelf Takedown” shall mean an Underwritten Shelf Takedown or any proposed transfer or sale using a Registration Statement, including a Piggyback Registration.

Starry Equityholders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Sponsor” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Sponsor Equityholders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

Subsequent Shelf Registration” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.2.

Transactions” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

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Transfer” shall mean the (a) sale of, offer to sell, contract or agreement to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant of any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agreement to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establishment or increase of a put equivalent position or liquidation with respect to or decrease of a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to, any security, (b) entry into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise, or (c) public announcement of any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (a) or (b).

Underwriter” shall mean a securities dealer who purchases any Registrable Securities as principal and not as part of such dealer’s market-making activities.

Underwritten Offering” shall mean a Registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an Underwriter in a firm commitment underwriting for distribution to the public.

Underwritten Shelf Takedown” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.4.

Withdrawal Notice” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.6.

ARTICLE II

REGISTRATIONS AND OFFERINGS

2.1    Shelf Registration.

2.1.1    Filing. The Company shall file within 30 days of the Closing Date, and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective as soon as practicable thereafter, a Registration Statement for a Shelf Registration on Form S-1 (the “Form S-1 Shelf”) or, if the Company is eligible to use a Registration Statement on Form S-3, a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 (the “Form S-3 Shelf”), in each case, covering the resale of all the Registrable Securities (determined as of two business days prior to such filing) on a delayed or continuous basis. Such Shelf shall provide for the resale of the Registrable Securities included therein pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, any Holder named therein. The Company shall maintain a Shelf in accordance with the terms hereof, and shall prepare and file with the SEC such amendments, including post-effective amendments, and supplements as may be necessary to keep a Shelf continuously effective, available for use and in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act until such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities. In the event the Company files a Form S-1 Shelf, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to convert the Form S-1 Shelf (and any Subsequent Shelf Registration) to a Form S-3 Shelf as soon as practicable after the Company is eligible to use Form S-3.

2.1.2    Subsequent Shelf Registration. If any Shelf ceases to be effective under the Securities Act for any reason at any time while Registrable Securities are still outstanding, the Company shall, subject to Section 3.4, use its commercially reasonable efforts to as promptly as is reasonably practicable cause such Shelf to again become effective under the Securities Act (including obtaining the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf), and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as promptly as is reasonably practicable amend such Shelf in a manner reasonably expected to result in the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf or file an additional registration statement as a Shelf Registration (a “Subsequent Shelf Registration”) registering the resale of all Registrable Securities (determined as of two business days prior to such filing), and pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, any Holder named therein. If a Subsequent Shelf Registration is filed, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) cause such Subsequent Shelf Registration to become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as is

 

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reasonably practicable after the filing thereof (it being agreed that the Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act) if the Company is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act) at the most recent applicable eligibility determination date) and (ii) keep such Subsequent Shelf Registration continuously effective, available for use and in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act until such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities. Any such Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be on Form S-3 to the extent that the Company is eligible to use such form. Otherwise, such Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be on another appropriate form.

2.1.3    Additional Registerable Securities. In the event that any Holder holds Registrable Securities that are not registered for resale on a delayed or continuous basis, the Company, upon request of a Starry Equityholder or a Sponsor Equityholder that holds at least five (5.0%) percent of the Registrable Securities, shall promptly use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the resale of such Registrable Securities to be covered by either, at the Company’s option, the Shelf (including by means of a post-effective amendment) or a Subsequent Shelf Registration and cause the same to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing and such Shelf or Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be subject to the terms hereof; provided, however, that the Company shall only be required to cause such Registrable Securities to be so covered twice per calendar year for the Starry Equityholders, on the one hand, and the Sponsor Equityholders, on the other hand.

2.1.4    Requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns. At any time and from time to time when an effective Shelf is on file with the Commission, any Starry Equityholder or Sponsor Equityholder (any of the Starry Equityholders or the Sponsor Equityholders being, in such case, a “Demanding Holder”) may request to sell all or any portion of its Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering (each, an “Underwritten Shelf Takedown”); provided that the Company shall only be obligated to effect an Underwritten Shelf Takedown if such offering shall include Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by the Demanding Holder (together with any other Demanding Holders and Holders requesting Piggyback Registration) with a total offering price reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $50 million (the “Minimum Takedown Threshold”). All requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns shall be made by giving written notice to the Company, which shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown. Subject to Section 2.4.4, the Company shall have the right to select the Underwriters for such offering (which shall consist of one or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks), subject to the initial Demanding Holder’s prior approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). The Starry Equityholders, on the one hand, and the Sponsor Equityholders, on the other hand, may each demand not more than two (2) Underwritten Shelf Takedowns pursuant to this Section 2.1.4 in any 12-month period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company may effect any Underwritten Offering pursuant to any then effective Registration Statement, including a Form S-3, that is then available for such offering.

2.1.5    Reduction of Underwritten Offering. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, in good faith, advises the Company, the Demanding Holders and the Holders requesting piggy back rights pursuant to this Agreement with respect to such Underwritten Shelf Takedown (the “Requesting Holders”) (if any) in writing that the dollar amount or number of Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) desire to sell, taken together with all other shares of Common Stock or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell and all other shares of Common Stock or other equity securities, if any, that have been requested to be sold in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to separate written contractual piggy-back registration rights held by any other stockholders, exceeds the maximum dollar amount or maximum number of equity securities that can be sold in the Underwritten Offering without adversely affecting the proposed offering price, the timing, the distribution method, or the probability of success of such offering (such maximum dollar amount or maximum number of such securities, as applicable, the “Maximum Number of Securities”), then the

 

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Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering, before including any shares of Common Stock or other equity securities proposed to be sold by Company or by other holders of Common Stock or other equity securities, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Demanding Holder and Requesting Holder (if any) has requested be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown and the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders and Requesting Holders have requested be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities. To facilitate the allocation of Registrable Securities in accordance with the above provisions, the Company or the Underwriters may round the number of shares allocated to any Holder to the nearest 100 shares. The Company shall not be required to include any Registrable Securities in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown unless the Holders accept the terms of the underwriting as agreed upon between the Company and its Underwriters.

2.1.6    Withdrawal. Prior to the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used for marketing such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating an Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall have the right to withdraw from such Underwritten Shelf Takedown for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification (a “Withdrawal Notice”) to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Shelf Takedown; provided that any Starry Equityholder or Sponsor Equityholder may elect to have the Company continue an Underwritten Shelf Takedown if the Minimum Takedown Threshold would still be satisfied by the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown by the Starry Equityholders, the Sponsor Equityholders or any of their respective Permitted Transferees, as applicable. If withdrawn, a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall constitute a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown for purposes of Section 2.1.4, unless either (i) the Demanding Holder has not previously withdrawn any Underwritten Shelf Takedown or (ii) the Holder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses with respect to such Underwritten Shelf Takedown; provided that, if a Starry Equityholder or a Sponsor Equityholder elects to continue an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence, such Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall instead count as an Underwritten Shelf Takedown demanded by the Starry Equityholders or the Sponsor Equityholders, as applicable, for purposes of Section 2.1.4. Following the receipt of any Withdrawal Notice, the Company shall promptly forward such Withdrawal Notice to any other Holders that had elected to participate in such Shelf Takedown. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Shelf Takedown prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.1.6, other than if a Demanding Holder elects to pay such Registration Expenses pursuant to clause (ii) of the second sentence of this Section 2.1.6.

2.2    Piggyback Registration.

2.2.1    Piggyback Rights. Subject to Section 2.4.3, if the Company or any Holder proposes to conduct a registered offering of, or if the Company proposes to file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act with respect to the Registration of, equity securities, or securities or other obligations exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into equity securities, for its own account or for the account of stockholders of the Company (or by the Company and by the stockholders of the Company including, without limitation, an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof), other than a Registration Statement (or any registered offering with respect thereto) (i) filed in connection with any employee stock option or other benefit plan, (ii) pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-4 (or similar form that relates to a transaction subject to Rule 145 under the Securities Act or any successor rule thereto), (iii) for an offering of debt that is convertible into equity securities of the Company or, (iv) for a dividend reinvestment plan, (v) for a rights offering, (vi) for a Block Trade, or (vii) for an Other Coordinated Offering, then the Company shall give written notice of such proposed offering to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities as soon as practicable but not less than ten (10) days before the anticipated filing date

 

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of such Registration Statement or, in the case of an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used for marketing such offering, which notice shall (A) describe the amount and type of securities to be included in such offering, the intended method(s) of distribution, and the name of the proposed managing Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, in such offering, and (B) offer to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities the opportunity to include in such registered offering such number of Registrable Securities as such Holders may request in writing within five (5) days after receipt of such written notice (such registered offering, a “Piggyback Registration”). Subject to Section 2.2.2, the Company shall, in good faith, cause such Registrable Securities to be included in such Piggyback Registration and, if applicable, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the managing Underwriter or Underwriters of such Piggyback Registration to permit the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to this Section 2.2.1 to be included therein on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities of the Company included in such registered offering and to permit the sale or other disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. The inclusion of any Holder’s Registrable Securities in a Piggyback Registration shall be subject to such Holder’s agreement to enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Sponsor may not exercise its “piggyback” registration rights after seven (7) years from the pricing date of FirstMark’s initial public offering.

2.2.2    Reduction of Piggyback Registration. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Offering that is to be a Piggyback Registration, in good faith, advises the Company and the Holders of Registrable Securities participating in the Piggyback Registration in writing that the dollar amount or number of shares of Common Stock or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, taken together with (i) the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration or a registered offering has been demanded pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities hereunder, (ii) the Registrable Securities as to which registration has been requested pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof, and (iii) the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration or a registered offering has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggy-back registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, then:

(a)    If the Registration or registered offering is undertaken for the Company’s account, the Company shall include in any such Registration or registered offering (A) first, the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.2.1, pro rata, based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Holder has requested be included in such Underwritten Offering and the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that the Holders have requested to be included in such Underwritten Offering, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration or a registered offering has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggy-back registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities;

(b)    If the Registration or registered offering is pursuant to a request by persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall include in any such Registration or registered offering (A) first, the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities, if any, of such requesting persons or entities, other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum

 

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Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.2.1, pro rata, based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Holder has requested be included in such Underwritten Offering and the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that the Holders have requested to be included in such Underwritten Offering, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (D) fourth, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A), (B) and (C), the shares of Common Stock or other equity securities for the account of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and

(c)    If the Registration or registered offering is pursuant to a request by Holder(s) of Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof, then the Company shall include in any such Registration or registered offering securities pursuant to Section 2.1.5.

2.2.3    Piggyback Registration Withdrawal. Any Holder of Registrable Securities (other than a Demanding Holder, whose right to withdrawal from an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, and related obligations, shall be governed by Section 2.1.6) shall have the right to withdraw from a Piggyback Registration for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of his, her or its intention to withdraw from such Piggyback Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to such Piggyback Registration or, in the case of a Piggyback Registration pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement with respect to such Piggyback Registration used for marketing such transaction. The Company (whether on its own good faith determination or as the result of a request for withdrawal by persons pursuant to separate written contractual obligations) may withdraw a Registration Statement filed with the Commission in connection with a Piggyback Registration (which, in no circumstance, shall include the Shelf) at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement (other than Section 2.1.6), the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with the Piggyback Registration prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.2.3.

2.2.4    Unlimited Piggyback Registration Rights. For purposes of clarity, subject to Section 2.1.6, any Piggyback Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof shall not be counted as a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown under Section 2.1.4 hereof.

2.3    Market Stand-off. In connection with any Underwritten Offering of equity securities of the Company (other than a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering), each Holder that participates in the Underwritten Offering pursuant to the terms of this Agreement agrees that it shall not Transfer any shares of Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company (other than those included in such offering pursuant to this Agreement), without the prior written consent of the Company, during the 90-day period beginning on the date of pricing of such offering or such shorter period during which the Company agrees not to conduct an underwritten primary offering of Common Stock, except in the event the Underwriters managing the offering otherwise agree by written consent. Each such Holder agrees to execute a customary lock-up agreement in favor of the Underwriters to such effect (in each case on substantially the same terms and conditions as all such Holders).

 

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2.4    Block Trades; Other Coordinated Offerings.

2.4.1    Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time and from time to time when an effective Shelf is on file with the Commission and effective, if a Demanding Holder wishes to engage in an underwritten block trade or similar transaction or other transaction with a two (2)-day or less marketing period (a “Block Trade”) or an otherwise coordinated registered offering through a broker, sales agent or distribution agent, whether as agent or principal (an “Other Coordinated Offering”), in each case, with an anticipated offering price of either (x) at least $10 million or (y) all remaining Registrable Securities held by the Demanding Holder, then such Demanding Holder needs to notify the Company of the Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering at least five (5) business days prior to the day such offering is to commence and the Company shall as expeditiously as possible use its commercially reasonable efforts to facilitate such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering; provided that the Demanding Holders representing a majority of the Registrable Securities wishing to engage in the Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering shall use commercially reasonable efforts to work with the Company and any Underwriters in order to facilitate preparation of the prospectus and other offering documentation related to the Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering.

2.4.2    Prior to the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used in connection with a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering, a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering shall have the right to submit a Withdrawal Notice to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a block trade prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.4.2.

2.4.3    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Section 2.2 hereof shall not apply to a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering initiated by a Demanding Holder pursuant to this Agreement.

2.4.4    The Demanding Holder in a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering shall have the right to select the Underwriters and any brokers, sale agents or placement agents (if any) for such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering (in each case, which shall consist of one or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks).

2.4.5    A Holder in the aggregate may demand no more than two (2) Block Trades or Other Coordinated Offerings pursuant to this Section 2.4 in any twelve (12) month period.

ARTICLE III

COMPANY PROCEDURES

3.1    General Procedures. In connection with any Shelf and/or Shelf Takedown, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such Registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended plan of distribution thereof (and including all manners of distribution in such Registration Statement as Holders may reasonably request and as permitted by law, including distribution of Registrable Securities to a Holder’s members, security holders or partners), and pursuant thereto the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible:

3.1.1    prepare and file with the Commission as soon as practicable a Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have ceased to be Registrable Securities;

 

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3.1.2    prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, and such supplements to the Prospectus, as may be reasonably requested by any Holder that holds at least five (5.0%) percent of the Registrable Securities registered on such Registration Statement or any Underwriter of Registrable Securities or as may be required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company or by the Securities Act or rules and regulations thereunder to keep the Registration Statement effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement are sold in accordance with the intended plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus;

3.1.3    prior to filing a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish without charge to the Underwriters, if any, and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration, and such Holders’ legal counsel, copies of such Registration Statement as proposed to be filed, each amendment and supplement to such Registration Statement (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each preliminary Prospectus), and such other documents as the Underwriters and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration or the legal counsel for any such Holders may request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holders;

3.1.4    prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement under such securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as any Holder of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement (in light of their intended plan of distribution) may reasonably request (or provide evidence satisfactory to such Holders that the Registrable Securities are exempt from registration or qualification) and (ii) take such action necessary to cause such Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental authorities as may be reasonably necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or advisable to enable the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify or take any action to which it would be subject to general service of process or taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then otherwise so subject;

3.1.5    cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each national securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed;

3.1.6    provide a transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, and registrar for all such Registrable Securities no later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

3.1.7    advise each seller of such Registrable Securities, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and promptly use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal if such stop order should be issued;

3.1.8    at least five (5) days prior to the filing of any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus (or such shorter period of time as may be necessary in order to comply with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, as applicable), furnish a copy thereof to each seller of such Registrable Securities or its counsel (excluding any exhibits thereto and any filing made under the Exchange Act that is to be incorporated by reference therein);

 

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3.1.9    notify the Holders at any time when a Prospectus relating to such Registration Statement is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes a Misstatement, and then to correct such Misstatement as set forth in Section 3.4 hereof;

3.1.10    permit a representative of the Holders, the Underwriters, if any, and any attorney or accountant retained by such Holders or Underwriter or other financial institutions facilitating such Underwritten Offering, Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering to participate, at each such person’s own expense, in the preparation of the Registration Statement, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, Underwriter, attorney or accountant in connection with the Registration; provided, however, that such representatives or Underwriters agree to confidentiality arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Company, prior to the release or disclosure of any such information;

3.1.11    obtain a “comfort” letter from the Company’s independent registered public accountants in the event of an Underwritten Offering, Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering that is registered pursuant to a Registration Statement, in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by “comfort” letters as the managing Underwriter or other similar type of sales agent or placement agent may reasonably request, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders;

3.1.12    on the date the Registrable Securities are delivered for sale pursuant to such Registration, obtain an opinion, dated such date, of counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such Registration, addressed to the Holders, the placement agent or sales agent, if any, and the Underwriters, if any, covering such legal matters with respect to the Registration in respect of which such opinion is being given as the Holders, placement agent, sales agent, or Underwriter may reasonably request and as are customarily included in such opinions and negative assurance letters, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders;

3.1.13    in the event of any Underwritten Offering, Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering that is registered pursuant to a Registration Statement, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, sales agreement or placement agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing Underwriter, sales agent or placement agent of such offering;

3.1.14    make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first day of the Company’s first full calendar quarter after the effective date of the Registration Statement which satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any successor rule then in effect), and which will be deemed to be satisfied if the Company timely files complete and accurate information on Forms 10-Q, 10-K and 8-K under the Exchange Act and otherwise complies with Rule 158 under the Securities Act;

3.1.15    in accordance with customary practice, make available for inspection by representatives of any Underwriters and any counsel or accountant retained by such Underwriters all relevant financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company and cause appropriate officers, managers, employees, outside counsel and accountants of the Company to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, underwriter, counsel or accountant in connection with their due diligence exercise, including through in-person meetings, but subject to customary privilege constraints;

 

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3.1.16    if the Registration involves the Registration of Registrable Securities involving an Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 2.1.4, use its reasonable efforts to make available senior executives of the Company to participate in customary “road show” presentations that may be reasonably requested by the Underwriter in such Underwritten Offering; and

3.1.17    otherwise, in good faith, cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the Holders, in connection with such Registration.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to provide any documents or information to an Underwriter or other sales agent or placement agent if such Underwriter or other sales agent or placement agent has not then been named with respect to the applicable Underwritten Offering or other coordinated offering that is registered pursuant to a Registration Statement.

3.2    Registration Expenses. The Registration Expenses of all Registrations shall be borne by the Company. It is acknowledged by the Holders that the Holders shall bear all incremental selling expenses relating to the sale of Registrable Securities, such as Underwriters’ or agents’ commissions and discounts, brokerage fees, Underwriter marketing costs and, other than as set forth in the definition of “Registration Expenses,” all reasonable fees and expenses of any legal counsel representing the Holders.

3.3    Requirements for Participation in Underwritten Offerings. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if any Holder does not timely provide the Company with its requested Holder Information, the Company may exclude such Holder’s Registrable Securities from the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus if the Company determines, based on the advice of counsel, that such information is necessary to effect the registration and such Holder continues thereafter to withhold such information. No person may participate in any Underwritten Offering or other coordinated offering for equity securities of the Company pursuant to a Registration initiated by the Company hereunder unless such person (i) agrees to sell such person’s securities on the basis provided in any arrangements approved by the Company and (ii) timely completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, lock-up agreements, underwriting or other agreements and other customary documents as may be reasonably required under the terms of such arrangements. The exclusion of a Holder’s Registrable Securities as a result of this Section 3.3 shall not affect the registration of the other Registrable Securities to be included in such Registration.

3.4    Suspension of Sales; Adverse Disclosure; Restrictions on Registration Rights.

3.4.1    Upon receipt of written notice from the Company that a Registration Statement or Prospectus contains a Misstatement, each of the Holders shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities until it has received copies of a supplemented or amended Prospectus correcting the Misstatement (it being understood that the Company hereby covenants to prepare and file such supplement or amendment as soon as practicable after the time of such notice), or until it is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed.

3.4.2    If the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement in respect of any Registration at any time would (a) require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure, (b) require the inclusion in such Registration Statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, or (c) in the good faith judgment of the majority of the Board such Registration, be seriously detrimental to the Company and the majority of the Board concludes as a result that it is essential to defer such filing, initial effectiveness or continued use at such

 

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time, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such Registration Statement for the shortest period of time determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose. In the event the Company exercises its rights under this Section 3.4.2, the Holders agree to suspend, immediately upon their receipt of the notice referred to above, their use of the Prospectus relating to any Registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities.

3.4.3    (a) During the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of, and ending on a date one hundred and twenty (120) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated Registration and provided that the Company continues to actively employ, in good faith, all commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the effectiveness of the applicable Shelf Registration Statement, or (b) if, pursuant to Section 2.1.4, Holders have requested an Underwritten Shelf Takedown and the Company and such Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of underwriters to firmly underwrite such offering, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay any other registered offering pursuant to Section 2.1.4 or 2.4.

3.4.4    The right to delay or suspend any filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3.4.2 or a registered offering pursuant to Section 3.4.3 shall be exercised by the Company, in the aggregate, on not more than two occasions or for more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days or more than one hundred and twenty (120) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve (12)-month period

3.4.5    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, the Company shall not provide any Holder with any material, nonpublic information regarding the Company other than to the extent that providing notice to such Holder hereunder constitutes material, nonpublic information regarding the Company.

3.5    Reporting Obligations. As long as any Holder shall own Registrable Securities, the Company, at all times while it shall be a reporting company under the Exchange Act, covenants to use commercially reasonable efforts to file timely (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and to promptly furnish the Holders with true and complete copies of all such filings; provided that any documents publicly filed or furnished with the Commission pursuant to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System shall be deemed to have been furnished or delivered to the Holders pursuant to this Section 3.5. The Company further covenants that it shall take such further action as any Holder may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Registrable Securities held by such Holder without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule then in effect). Upon the request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written certification of a duly authorized officer as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

4.1    Indemnification.

4.1.1    The Company agrees to indemnify, to the extent permitted by law, each Holder of Registrable Securities, its officers, directors, agents, partners, members, and each person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) and any broker-dealer or underwriter acting on a Holder’s behalf against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including

 

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without limitation reasonable and documented outside attorneys’ fees) caused by any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or any violation by the Company of the Securities Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder applicable to the Company and relating to action or inaction required of the Company in connection with any such registration; except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein.

4.1.2    In connection with any Registration Statement in which a Holder of Registrable Securities is participating, such Holder shall furnish to the Company in writing such information and affidavits as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such Registration Statement or Prospectus (the “Holder Information”) and, to the extent permitted by law, shall indemnify the Company, its directors, officers and agents and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including without limitation reasonable and documented outside attorneys’ fees) caused by any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the obligation to indemnify shall be several, not joint and several, among such Holders of Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Holder of Registrable Securities shall be in proportion to and limited to the net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. The Holders of Registrable Securities shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers, directors and each person who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to indemnification of the Company.

4.1.3    Any person entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not materially prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably delayed or withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

4.1.4    The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities. The Company and each Holder of Registrable Securities participating in an offering also agrees to make such provisions as are reasonably requested by any indemnified party for contribution to such party in the event the Company’s or such Holder’s indemnification is unavailable for any reason.

 

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4.1.5    If the indemnification provided under Section 4.1 hereof from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and out-of-pocket expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and out-of-pocket expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action; provided, however, that the liability of any Holder under this Section 4.1.5 shall be limited to the amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder in such offering giving rise to such liability. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 above, any legal or other fees, charges or out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 4.1.5 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation, which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 4.1.5. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 4.1.5 from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

5.1    Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person, (ii) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (iii) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service or (iv) when e-mailed during normal business hours (and otherwise as of the immediately following Business Day), addressed as follows. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be addressed, if to the Company, to Starry, Inc., 38 Chauncey Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02111, Attention: wlundregan@starry.com, and, if to any Holder, at such Holder’s address or facsimile number as set forth in the Company’s books and records. Any party may change its address for notice at any time and from time to time by written notice to the other parties hereto, and such change of address shall become effective thirty (30) days after delivery of such notice as provided in this Section 5.1.

5.2    Assignment; No Third Party Beneficiaries.

5.2.1    This Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of the Company hereunder may not be assigned or delegated by the Company in whole or in part.

5.2.2    A Holder may assign or delegate such Holder’s rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, to any person to whom it transfers Registrable Securities; provided that such Registrable Securities remain Registrable Securities following such transfer and such person agrees to become bound by the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

 

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5.2.3    No assignment by any party hereto of such party’s rights, duties and obligations hereunder shall be binding upon or obligate the Company unless and until the Company shall have received (i) written notice of such assignment as provided in Section 5.1 hereof and (ii) the written agreement of the assignee, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to be bound by the terms and provisions of this Agreement (which may be accomplished by an addendum or certificate of joinder to this Agreement).

5.2.4    Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. Any attempted assignment in violation of the terms of this Section 5.02 shall be null and void, ab initio.

5.2.5    This Agreement shall not confer any rights or benefits on any persons that are not parties hereto, other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement, Section 4.1.1 and Section 5.2 hereof.

5.3    Captions; Counterparts. The captions in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be considered a part of or affect the construction or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in two (2) or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including any electronic signature complying with the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (N.Y. State Tech. §§ 301-309), as amended from time to time, or other applicable law) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.

5.4    Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT, AND ALL CLAIMS OR CAUSES OF ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF, OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OR RULES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT SUCH PRINCIPLES OR RULES WOULD REQUIRE OR PERMIT THE APPLICATION OF LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

5.5    Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.

5.5.1    Any Action based upon, arising out of or related to this Agreement, or the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court declines to exercise jurisdiction, any federal or state court located in New York County, New York, and each of the parties irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in any such Action, waives any objection it may now or hereafter have to personal jurisdiction, venue or to convenience of forum, agrees that all claims in respect of the Action shall be heard and determined only in any such court, and agrees not to bring any Action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any other court. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of any party to serve process in any manner permitted by Law, or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any other party in any other jurisdiction, in each case, to enforce judgments obtained in any Action brought pursuant to this Section 5.5.1.

5.5.2    EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

5.6    Amendments and Modifications. Upon the written consent of (a) the Company and (b) the Holders of a majority of the total Registrable Securities, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants or

 

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conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that in the event any such waiver, amendment or modification would be adverse in any material respect to the material rights or obligations hereunder of (i) a Holder of at least five percent (5.0%) of the Registrable Securities, then the written consent of such Holder will also be required or (ii) the Sponsor Equityholders, so long as the Sponsor Equityholders and their affiliates hold, in the aggregate, at least fifty percent (50.0%) of the Registrable Securities held by such Sponsor Equityholders as of the date hereof, then the written consent of a majority-in-interest of the Sponsor Equityholders will also be required; provided further that in the event any such waiver, amendment or modification would be disproportionate and adverse in any material respect to the material rights or obligations hereunder of a Holder, the written consent of such Holder will also be required. No course of dealing between any Holder or the Company and any other party hereto or any failure or delay on the part of a Holder or the Company in exercising any rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of any rights or remedies of any Holder or the Company. No single or partial exercise of any rights or remedies under this Agreement by a party shall operate as a waiver or preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder by such party.

5.7    Termination of Existing Registration Rights. The registration rights granted under this Agreement shall supersede any registration, qualification or similar rights of the Holders with respect to any shares or securities of FirstMark or Legacy Starry granted under any other agreement, including, but not limited to, the Original RRA, the Legacy Starry Warrants and any of such preexisting registration, qualification or similar rights and such agreements shall be terminated and of no further force and effect.

5.8    Term. This Agreement shall terminate with respect to any Holder on the date that such Holder no longer holds any Registrable Securities. The provisions of Section 3.5 and Article IV shall survive any termination.

5.9    Holder Information. Each Holder agrees, if requested in writing, to represent to the Company the total number of Registrable Securities held by such Holder in order for the Company to make determinations hereunder.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

FIRSTMARK HORIZON ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

/s/ Amish Jani

Name:   Amish Jani
Title:   President
STARRY HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Jason Robins
By:  

/s/ Jason Robins

Name:   Jason Robins

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Luis Ubinas
By:  

/s/ Luis Ubinas

Name:   Luis Ubinas

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Frederik Ball
By:  

/s/ Frederick Ball

Name:   Frederick Ball

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Allison Goldberg
By:  

/s/ Allison Goldberg

Name:   Allison Goldberg

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FIRSTMARK HORIZON SPONSOR, LLC
A Delaware limited liability company
By:  

/s/ Daniel Gaisin

Name:   Daniel Gaisin
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FIRSTMARK HORIZON SPONSOR, LLC
A Delaware limited liability company
By:  

/s/ Daniel Gaisin

Name:   Daniel Gaisin
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Addition Ventures Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Ward Breeze

Name:   Ward Breeze
Title:   General Counsel

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Aneesh Chopra
By:  

/s/ Aneesh Chopra

Name:   Aneesh Chopra

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Chandler Reedy
By:  

/s/ Chandler Reedy

Name:   Chandler Reedy

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Decibel Holdings, LLC
By:  

/s/ Hari Ravichandran

Name:   Hari Ravichandran
Title:   CEO

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDERS:
HLVP III, LP
By: HLVP III GP, LLC, its general partner
By:  

/s/ Shana Fisher

Name:   Shana Fisher
Title:   Manager

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Jospeh G. Houston
By:  

/s/ Grant Houston

Name:   Grant Houston

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Levance LLC
By:  

/s/ Adrian Aoun

Name:   Adrian Aoun
Title:   Authorized Member

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
LFX Capital LLC
By:  

/s/ Ward Breeze

Name:   Ward Breeze
Title:   Manager

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
SMR Starry LLC
By:  

/s/ Richard O’Toole

Name:   Richard O’Toole
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FirstMark Capital III, LP, for itself and as nominee for FirstMark Capital III Entrepreneurs, LP
By:  

/s/ Amish Jani

Name:   Amish Jani
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FirstMark Capital OF I LP
By:  

/s/ Amish Jani

Name:   Amish Jani
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FirstMark Capital of II, L.P.
By:  

/s/ Amish Jani

Name:   Amish Jani
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FirstMark Capital of III, L.P.
By:  

/s/ Amish Jani

Name:   Amish Jani
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
FirstMark Capital S1, L.P.
By  

/s/ Amish Jani

Name:   Amish Jani
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
1992 Larsen Grandchildren’s Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
ArrowMark Equity Opportunity Fund
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
ArrowMark Fundamental Opportunity Fund, L.P.
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
CF Ascent, LLC
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Charles F. Urschel 1970 Trust FBO Wendy U. Larsen
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Corkins Family Foundation
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Intrepid Production Company
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Iron Home Investments, LLC
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Kathleen Kay Corkins 2013 Revocable Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Kathleen Kay Corkins 2014 Revocable Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Larsen Family, LP
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Lookfar Investments, LLC
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Meridian Growth Fund
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Michael E. Herman Revocable Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
Stolper Family Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
THB Iron Rose, LLC
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
The 2008 Miranda Bailey Irrevocable Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
The 2008 Ryan Tanner Bailey Irrevocable Trust
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
The Michael Stolper Living Trust #2
By:  

/s/ Blake Rice

Name:   Blake Rice
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


HOLDER:
AEP Investments, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Stephen T. Haynes

Name:   Stephen T. Haynes
Title:   Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


Schedule A

Sponsor Equityholders

FirstMark Horizon Sponsor LLC

Jason Robins

Luis Ubinas

Allison Goldberg

Frederick Ball

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


Schedule B

Starry Equityholders

1992 Larsen Grandchildren’s Trust

Addition Ventures Partners, LLC

AEP Investments, Inc.

Aneesh Chopra

ArrowMark Equity Opportunity Fund

ArrowMark Fundamental Opportunity Fund, L.P.

Booth & Co FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Blue Chip Growth K6 Fund

Booth & Co fbo Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Flex Large Cap Growth Fund

Booth & Co fbo Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity OTC Portfolio

Booth & Co., LLC fbo Variable Insurance Products Fund III: Growth Opportunities Portfolio

CF Ascent, LLC

Chandler Reedy

Charles F. Urschel 1970 Trust FBO Wendy U. Larsen

Corkins Family Foundation

Decibel Holdings, LLC

Evan Feinberg

FirstMark Capital III, LP, for itself and as nominee for FirstMark Capital III Entrepreneurs Fund, LP

FirstMark Capital OF I LP

FirstMark Capital of II, L.P.

FirstMark Capital of III, L.P.

FirstMark Capital S1, L.P.

FLAPPER CO fbo FIAM Target Date Blue Chip Growth Commingled Fund

Fred H. Bartlit Jr.

HLVP III, LP

Intrepid Production Company

Iron Horse Investments, LLC

James Chiddix

Joseph G. Houston

JS Capital LLC

Julius Genachowski

Kathleen Kay Corkins 2013 Revocable Trust

Kathleen Kay Corkins 2014 Irrevocable Trust

Kicking Horse Investment Holdings L.P.

Larsen Family, LP

Levance LLC

LFX Capital LLC

Lookfar Investments, LLC

Mag & Co fbo Fidelity Advisor Series I: Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities Fund

Mag & Co fbo Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Commingled Pool

Mag & Co fbo Fidelity Growth Company Commingled Pool

Mag & Co fbo Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust: Fidelity Series Growth Company Fund

Mag & Co fbo Fidelity OTC Commingled Pool

Mag & Co FBO Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund

Meridian Growth Fund

Meridian Small Cap Growth Fund

Michael E. Herman Revocable Trust

OldSlip Inv Holdings, LLC

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


Powhatan & Co, LLC fbo Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust: Fidelity Growth Company Fund

Powhatan & Co., LLC fbo Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust: Fidelity Growth Company K6 Fund

QSI, Inc.

Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd.

SMR Starry LLC

Stolper Family Trust

THB Iron Rose, LLC

The 2008 Miranda Bailey Irrevocable Trust

The 2008 Ryan Tanner Bailey Irrevocable Trust

The Gary Lauder Revocable Trust

The Michael Stolper Living Trust #2

THISBE & Co: FBO Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Institutional Trust

Tiger Global Private Investment Partners IX, LP

USANi, LLC

WARMWIND + CO fbo Fidelity Advisor Series I: Fidelity Advisor Series Growth Opportunities Fund

WAVECHART + CO fbo Fidelity Securities Fund: Fidelity Series Blue Chip Growth Fund

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

Exhibit 10.11

CONFIDENTIAL

Execution Version

FORM OF NON-REDEMPTION AGREEMENT

THIS NON-REDEMPTION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March [•], 2022, is made by and among FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“SPAC”), Starry Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“New Starry”), and the undersigned investor[, for and on behalf of itself and any investor account on behalf of which it is entering into this Agreement] (the “Investor”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement (as defined below).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, SPAC, Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Starry”), New Starry, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starry, and Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC (“Merger Sub”), entered into the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 6, 2021 (as may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which SPAC will merge with and into New Starry, with New Starry surviving as the publicly traded entity and becoming the sole owner of Merger Sub (the “SPAC Merger”), and Merger Sub will then merge with and into Starry, with Starry being the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of New Starry following the effective time of such merger (the “Acquisition Merger” and, together with the SPAC Merger, the “Mergers”).

WHEREAS, in consideration of the Investor’s commitment to, among other things, not redeem [•] shares of SPAC Class A Common Stock beneficially owned by the Investor (the “Investor Shares”), and subject to the conditions set forth herein, New Starry agrees to issue to the Investor a number of shares of fully paid, non-assessable New Starry Class A Common Stock equal to (rounded to the nearest whole share) (i) the number of Investor Shares multiplied by (ii) (a) 1.33 less (b) the Class A Exchange Ratio (the “New Investor Shares”) on or promptly after the consummation of the Acquisition Merger at the Acquisition Merger Effective Time; provided that, in no event will the New Investor Shares be less than [•] (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations and similar events).

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual promises and agreements contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree [(in the case of Investor, for and on behalf of itself and any investor account on behalf of which it is entering into this Agreement)] as follows:


ARTICLE 1

AGREEMENTS OF THE INVESTOR

Section 1.01. The Investor hereby irrevocably waives any right that it may have to elect to have SPAC redeem any Investor Shares and agrees, for the benefit of SPAC, not to redeem, or to submit a request to SPAC’s transfer agent to redeem or otherwise exercise any right to redeem, the Investor Shares and to reverse and revoke any prior redemption elections made with respect to the Investor Shares; provided that SPAC acknowledges and agrees that the Investor may own additional shares of SPAC Class A Common Stock in excess of the Investor Shares (the “Other Shares”) and nothing herein shall restrict any rights of the Investor with respect to such Other Shares, including, without limitation, the right to redeem, or to submit a request to SPAC’s transfer agent to redeem or otherwise exercise any right with respect to such Other Shares. During the period commencing on the date hereof until the earlier of (a) the SPAC redemption deadline and (b) the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms, the Investor shall not sell or otherwise transfer the Investor Shares to any person unless such person enters into an agreement in the form of this Agreement with each of SPAC and New Starry with respect thereto. The Investor shall deliver such documentation as is reasonably requested by SPAC or New Starry to evidence that no Investor Shares have been redeemed or transferred for the purpose of redemption.

ARTICLE 2

AGREEMENTS OF NEW STARRY AND SPAC

Section 2.01. In consideration of the Investor’s performance of its obligations described herein and upon satisfaction (or, if applicable, waiver) of the conditions set forth in Section 2.03 of this Agreement, effective as of and conditioned on the consummation of the Acquisition Merger, New Starry shall issue the New Investor Shares to the Investor promptly following the consummation of the Acquisition Merger at the Acquisition Merger Effective Time. The Investor may, no later than five (5) Business Days prior to Acquisition Merger Closing, designate in writing to New Starry any managed accounts or fund entities for which the Investor exercises investment discretion to receive the issuance of the New Investor Shares.

Section 2.02. New Starry and SPAC hereby agree that if, between the date hereof and the Acquisition Merger Closing Date, New Starry and SPAC grants any other person, in connection with such person’s agreement not to redeem its or their SPAC Class A Common Stock rights with respect to an issuance of New Starry Class A Common Stock, which rights are more favorable to such other person than the rights set forth in this Agreement in respect of the Investor, then New Starry and SPAC shall grant the Investor the same rights granted to such other person.

Section 2.03. After the Acquisition Merger Closing Date, if there is not an effective registration statement covering all of the New Investor Shares or the prospectus contained therein is not available for use and New Starry shall determine to prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement or offering statement relating to an offering for its own account or the account of others under the Securities Act of any of its equity securities (other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8 (each as promulgated under the Securities Act) or their then equivalents relating to equity securities to be issued solely in connection with any acquisition of any entity or business or equity securities issuable in connection with New Starry’s share option or other employee benefit plans), then New Starry shall deliver to the Investor a written notice of such determination and, if within two (2) days after the date of the delivery of such notice, the Investor shall so request in writing, the Company shall include in such registration statement or offering statement all or any part of such New Investor Shares the Investor requests to be registered; provided, however, New Starry shall not be required to register any New Investor Shares pursuant to this Section 2.03 that are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act without restriction (including, without limitation, volume restrictions) and without the need for current public information required by Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) or that are the subject of a then-effective registration statement.

 

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Section 2.04. The obligations of New Starry and SPAC pursuant to Section 2.01 of this Agreement shall be subject to the satisfaction, or valid waiver by New Starry and SPAC, of the following conditions:

(a) the Investor shall have fully complied with, performed and satisfied its obligations set out in Section 1.01, and shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all other covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Acquisition Merger Closing;

(b) the Acquisition Merger Closing shall have occurred; and

(c) all representations and warranties of the Investor contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Acquisition Merger Closing Date (except for representations and warranties made as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such date).

ARTICLE 3

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Section 3.01. Representations and Warranties of SPAC. SPAC represents and warrants as of the date hereof to the Investor as follows:

(a) SPAC is duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby are within SPAC’s corporate powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate actions on the part of SPAC. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by SPAC and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Investor, this Agreement constitutes a legally valid and binding obligation of SPAC, enforceable against SPAC in accordance with the terms hereof (except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws, other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies).

(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by SPAC does not, and the performance by SPAC of its obligations hereunder will not, (i) conflict with or result in a violation of the organizational documents of SPAC, (ii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree or (iii) require any consent or approval that has not been given or other action that has not been taken by any person, in each case to the extent such consent, approval or other action would prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by SPAC of its obligations under this Agreement. SPAC has full right and power to enter into this Agreement.

 

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(c) As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of SPAC consists of (i) 500,000,000 shares of Class A common stock par value $0.0001 per share (“SPAC Class A Shares”), (ii) 20,000,000 shares of Class B common stock par value $0.0001 per share (“SPAC Class B Shares”), and (iii) 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock par value $0.0001 per share (“SPAC Preferred Shares”). As of the date of this Agreement, (A) 41,400,000 SPAC Class A Shares are issued and outstanding, (B) 10,350,000 SPAC Class B Shares are issued and outstanding, and (C) no SPAC Preferred Shares are issued and outstanding. All issued and outstanding SPAC Class A Shares and SPAC Class B Shares have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and are non-assessable. Except as set forth above and pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, the SPAC Warrants, the Merger Agreement and the other agreements and arrangements referred to therein, and any report filed by SPAC with the SEC (the “SEC Reports”), as of the date hereof, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or acquire from SPAC any SPAC Class A Shares, SPAC Class B Shares, SPAC Preferred Shares or other equity interests in SPAC, or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such equity interests. There are no securities or instruments issued by or to which SPAC is a party containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the New Investor Shares pursuant to this Agreement. As of the date hereof, SPAC has no subsidiaries, other than Merger Sub, and does not own, directly or indirectly, interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. There are no shareholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which SPAC is a party or by which it is bound relating to the voting of any securities of SPAC, other than (1) as set forth in the SEC Reports, and (2) as contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

Section 3.02. Representations and Warranties of New Starry. New Starry represents and warrants as of the date hereof to the Investor as follows:

(a) New Starry is duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby are within New Starry’s corporate powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate actions on the part of New Starry. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by New Starry and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Investor, this Agreement constitutes a legally valid and binding obligation of New Starry, enforceable against New Starry in accordance with the terms hereof (except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws, other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies).

(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by New Starry does not, and the performance by New Starry of its obligations hereunder, including the issuance of the New Investor Shares, will not, (i) conflict with or result in a violation of the organizational documents of New Starry, (ii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree or (iii) require any consent or approval that has not been given or other action that has not been taken by any person, in each case to the extent such consent, approval or other action would prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by New Starry of its obligations under this Agreement. New Starry has full right and power to enter into this Agreement. Upon issuance in accordance herewith, the New Investor Shares, when issued, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights or liens with respect to the issue

 

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thereof, with the holders being entitled to all rights accorded to a holder of New Starry Class A Common Stock. Subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Investor in this Agreement, the offer and issuance by the New Starry of the New Investor Shares is exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Until the New Investor Shares are issued to the Investor (or its designee), New Starry shall maintain a reserve for the benefit of the Investor of 100% of the New Investor Shares to be issued to the Investor (or its designee) in accordance herewith.

(c) As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of New Starry consists of 100 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“New Starry Common Shares”), all of which are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement. All issued and outstanding New Starry Common Shares have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and are non-assessable. Except as set forth above and pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, the Merger Agreement and the other agreements and arrangements referred to therein, as of the date hereof, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or acquire from New Starry any New Starry Common Shares or other equity interests in New Starry, or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such equity interests. There are no securities or instruments issued by or to which New Starry is a party containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the New Investor Shares pursuant to this Agreement. As of the date hereof, New Starry has no subsidiaries and does not own, directly or indirectly, interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. There are no shareholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which New Starry is a party or by which it is bound relating to the voting of any securities of New Starry, other than as contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

(d) As of immediately following the Acquisition Merger Effective Time, the authorized capital stock of New Starry will consist of (i) 800,000,000 shares of New Starry Class A Common Stock, (ii) 50,000,000 shares of New Starry Class X Common Stock and (iii) 10,000,000 shares of New Starry Preferred Stock.

Section 3.03. Representations and Warranties of The Investor. The Investor represents and warrants as of the date hereof to New Starry and SPAC as follows:

(a) The Investor is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation or incorporation, and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby are within the Investor’s powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary actions on the part of the Investor. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Investor and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by New Starry and SPAC, this Agreement constitutes a legally valid and binding obligation of the Investor, enforceable against the Investor in accordance with the terms hereof (except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws, other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies).

 

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(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Investor does not, and the performance by the Investor of its obligations hereunder will not, (i) conflict with or result in a violation of the organizational documents of the Investor, (ii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree or (iii) require any consent or approval that has not been given or other action that has not been taken by any person, in each case to the extent such consent, approval or other action would prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by the Investor of its obligations under this Agreement.

(c) The Investor (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Annex A, (ii) is acquiring any New Investor Shares that may be issued to the Investor pursuant to this Agreement only for its own account and not for the account of others, or if the Investor is acquiring any New Investor Shares that may be issued to the Investor pursuant to this Agreement as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, each owner of such account is a qualified institutional buyer or institutional accredited investor (as the case may be) and the Investor has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account, and (iii) is not acquiring any New Investor Shares that may be issued to the Investor pursuant to this Agreement with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act (and shall provide the requested information on Annex A). The Investor is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring any New Investor Shares that may be issued to the Investor pursuant to this Agreement, unless such newly formed entity is an entity in which all of the investors are institutional accredited investors, and is an “institutional account” as defined by FINRA Rule 4512(c). The Investor is a sophisticated institutional investor, experienced in investing in private equity transactions and capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities. Accordingly, the Investor understands that the acquisition of any New Investor Shares that may be issued to the Investor pursuant to this Agreement meets (i) the exemptions from filing under FINRA Rule 5123(b)(1)(A) and (ii) the institutional customer exemption under FINRA Rule 2111(b).

(d) The Investor understands that any New Investor Shares that may be issued to the Investor pursuant to this Agreement are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the New Investor Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act. The Investor understands that the New Investor Shares may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by the Investor except (i) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, (ii) to the extent the Investor has delivered to the New Starry (if requested by New Starry) an opinion of counsel, in a form reasonably acceptable to New Starry, to the effect that such New Investor Shares to be sold, assigned or transferred may be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, or (iii) to the extent that such Investor provides the New Starry with reasonable assurance (which shall not include a legal opinion) that such New Investor Shares can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act (or a successor rule thereto) or (iv) otherwise pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the applicable states and other jurisdictions of the United States, and that any certificates or book-entry records representing the New Investor Shares shall contain a restrictive legend to

 

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such effect. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the New Investor Shares will be subject to these securities law transfer restrictions and, as a result of these transfer restrictions, the Investor may not be able to readily resell the New Investor Shares and may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the New Investor Shares for an indefinite period of time. The Investor understands that it has been advised to consult legal counsel prior to making any offer, resale, pledge or transfer of any of the New Investor Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the New Investor Shares may be pledged in connection with a bona fide margin account or other loan or financing arrangement secured by the New Investor Shares and such pledge of New Investor Shares shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the New Investor Shares hereunder, and the Investor, by effecting a pledge of New Investor Shares, shall not be required to provide New Starry with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to New Starry pursuant to this Agreement.

(e) In making its decision to invest in the New Investor Shares, the Investor has relied solely upon independent investigation made by the Investor and New Starry’s and SPAC’s representations, warranties and covenants contained herein. The Investor has not relied on any statements or other information provided by anyone other than New Starry and SPAC concerning SPAC, Starry, the Mergers, the New Investor Shares or the offer of the New Investor Shares. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Investor has received such information as the Investor deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the New Investor Shares, including with respect to Starry, SPAC and the Mergers, and made its own assessment and is satisfied concerning the relevant tax and other economic considerations relevant to the Investor’s investment in the New Investor Shares. The Investor represents and agrees that the Investor and the Investor’s professional advisor(s), if any, have had the full opportunity to ask such questions, receive such answers and obtain such information as the Investor and its professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the New Investor Shares. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Investor acknowledges that it has had an opportunity to review the SEC Reports.

(f) Investor became aware of the offering of the New Investor Shares solely by means of direct contact between the Investor, New Starry, SPAC or their representatives or affiliates. The Investor did not become aware of the offering of the New Investor Shares, nor were the New Investor Shares offered to the Investor, by any other means. The Investor acknowledges that New Investor Shares (i) were not offered by any form of general solicitation or general advertising and (ii) are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under the Securities Act or any state securities laws.

(g) Investor acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the ownership of the New Investor Shares. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the New Investor Shares, and the Investor has had an opportunity to seek, and has sought, such accounting, legal, business and tax advice as the Investor has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. The Investor is not relying on any statements or representations of New Starry or SPAC or any of its agents for legal, tax or investment advice with respect to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.

 

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(h) The Investor has fully considered the risks of an investment in the New Investor Shares and determined that the New Investor Shares are a suitable investment for the Investor and that the Investor is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of the Investor’s investment in the New Investor Shares. The Investor acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

(i) The Investor understands and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the New Investor Shares or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of this investment.

(j) No broker or finder has acted on behalf of the Investor in such a way as to create any liability on New Starry or SPAC in connection with this Agreement.

(k) The Investor is not entering into the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to create actual or apparent trading activity in the New Starry Class A Common Stock (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for New Starry Class A Common Stock) or to raise or depress or otherwise manipulate the price of the New Starry Class A Common Stock (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the New Starry Class A Common Stock) or otherwise in violation of the Exchange Act.

ARTICLE 4

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 4.01. Termination. This Agreement and all of its provisions shall terminate and be of no further force or effect upon the earliest to occur of (a) the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms, (b) the mutual written consent of the parties hereto and (c) if the special meeting to approve the Merger Agreement is not held on or before April 4, 2022. Upon such termination of this Agreement, all obligations of the parties under this Agreement will terminate, without any liability or other obligation on the part of any party hereto to any person in respect hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 4.01(a) shall not affect any liability on the part of any party for an intentional breach of this Agreement. This Article 4 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

Section 4.02. Trust Account Waiver. The Investor acknowledges that SPAC has established a trust account (the “Trust Account”) containing the proceeds of its initial public offering (“IPO”) and certain proceeds of the private placement (including interest accrued from time to time thereon) for the benefit of its public stockholders and certain other parties (including the underwriters of the IPO). For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Investor hereby agrees (on its own behalf and on behalf of its related parties) that it does not now and shall not at any time hereafter have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any assets held in the Trust Account, and it shall not make any claim against the Trust Account, regardless of whether such claim arises as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Agreement or any other matter, and regardless of whether such claim arises based on contract, tort, equity or any other theory of legal liability (any and all such claims are collectively referred to hereafter as the “Released Claims”); provided that the Released

 

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Claims shall not include any rights or claims of the Investor or any of its related parties as a shareholder of SPAC to the extent related to or arising from any shares of capital stock of SPAC other than the Investor Shares. The Investor hereby irrevocably waives (on its own behalf and on behalf of its related parties) any Released Claims that it may have against the Trust Account now or in the future as a result of, or arising out of, this Agreement and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account with respect to the Released Claims.

Section 4.03. Public Disclosure. SPAC shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, within four (4) Business Days following the date of this Agreement, file with the SEC a Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing all material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and any other material, nonpublic information that SPAC has provided to the Investor at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document. From and after the filing of the Disclosure Documents, SPAC shall have disclosed all material, non-public information (if any) provided to Investor by the SPAC, New Starry or any of their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. In addition, effective upon the filing of the Disclosure Documents, SPAC acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or similar obligations under any agreement, whether written or oral, between SPAC, New Starry or any of their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees or agents, on the one hand, and the Investor or any of its affiliates, on the other hand, shall terminate. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary and without implication that the contrary would otherwise be true, SPAC and New Starry expressly acknowledges and agrees that the Investor shall not have any duty of confidentiality with respect to, or a duty not to trade on the basis of, any material, non-public information regarding the SPAC, New Starry or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Investor agrees that SPAC shall have the right to publicly disclose the name of the Investor, the Investor’s beneficial ownership of the New Investor Shares and the nature of the Investor’s commitments, arrangements and understandings under and relating to this Agreement in any Form 8-K filed by SPAC with the SEC in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and any proxy statement, prospectus or registration statement filed or amended on or after the date of this Agreement, to the extent such disclosure is required by law; provided that, prior to making any such required public disclosure, SPAC shall use reasonable best efforts to (a) provide the Investor with three (3) Business Days to review the portion of the public disclosure that refers directly to the Investor’s commitment pursuant to this Agreement, and (b) incorporate any reasonable comments received from the Investor or its representatives within such three (3) Business Day period as to such public disclosures referring directly to the Investor’s commitment pursuant to this Agreement (it being understood, however, that with respect to the initial public disclosure as to the existence of this Agreement, such three (3) Business Day period may be reduced by SPAC to a one (1) Business Day period). Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, SPAC shall not publicly disclose or include the name of the Investor, its investment adviser or any of their respective affiliates in any press release or other marketing materials without the prior written consent of the Investor. The Investor shall promptly provide any information reasonably requested by SPAC for any regulatory application or filing made or approval sought in connection with the Mergers (including filings with the SEC).

 

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Section 4.04. Governing Law. This Agreement, the rights and duties of the parties hereto, and any disputes (whether in contract, tort or statute) arising out of, under or in connection with this Agreement will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the Laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to its principles or rules of conflict of laws to the extent such principles or rules would require or permit the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. The parties agree that all disputes, legal actions, suits and proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement must be brought exclusively in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Supreme Court of the State of New York and the federal courts of the United States of America located in the State of New York (collectively the “Designated Courts”). Each party hereby consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Designated Courts. No legal action, suit or proceeding with respect to this Agreement may be brought in any other forum. Each party hereby irrevocably waives all claims of immunity from jurisdiction, and any objection which such party may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding in any Designated Court, including any right to object on the basis that any dispute, action, suit or proceeding brought in the Designated Courts has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum or venue. Each of the parties also agrees that delivery of any process, summons, notice or document to a party hereof in compliance with Section 4.12 of this Agreement shall be effective service of process for any action, suit or proceeding in a Designated Court with respect to any matters to which the parties have submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above.

Section 4.05. Waiver of Jury Trial. To the extent not prohibited by applicable law that cannot be waived, each of the parties hereto irrevocably waives any right it may have to trial by jury in respect of any litigation based on, arising out of, under or in connection with this Agreement or any course of conduct, course of dealing, verbal or written statement or action of any party hereto or thereto, in each case, whether now existing or hereafter arising, and whether in contract, tort, statute, equity or otherwise. Each party hereby further agrees and consents that any such litigation shall be decided by court trial without a jury and that the parties to this Agreement may file a copy of this Agreement with any court as written evidence of the consent of the parties to the waiver of their right to trial by jury.

Section 4.06. Form W-9 or W-8. The Investor shall, on or prior to the Acquisition Merger Closing, execute and deliver to New Starry a completed IRS Form W-9 or Form W-8, as applicable.

Section 4.07. Withholding. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, New Starry and any of its agents and representatives, as applicable, shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from the New Investor Shares and any other amount payable pursuant to this Agreement any such taxes as may be required to be deducted and withheld from such amounts (and any other amounts treated as paid for applicable tax law) under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any other applicable tax law (as determined in good faith by the party so deducting or withholding in its sole discretion). To the extent that any amounts are so deducted and withheld, such deducted and withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the person in respect of which such deduction and withholding was made.

Section 4.08. Assignment. This Agreement and all of the provisions hereof will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors and permitted assigns. Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder will be assigned (including by operation of law) without the prior written consent of the non-assigning parties hereto.

 

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Section 4.09. Specific Performance. The parties agree that irreparable damage may occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are not performed in accordance with their specific terms or are otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that monetary damages may not be an adequate remedy for such breach and the non-breaching party shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief, in addition to any other remedy that such party may have in law or in equity, and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in the Designated Courts.

Section 4.10. Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended, changed, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified, except upon the execution and delivery of a written agreement executed by the parties hereto.

Section 4.11. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any provision of this Agreement held invalid or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to the extent not held invalid or unenforceable.

Section 4.12. Notices. All notices, consents, waivers and other communications under this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given (a) if personally delivered, on the date of delivery; (b) if delivered by express courier service of national standing for next day delivery (with charges prepaid), on the Business Day following the date of delivery to such courier service; (c) if delivered by telecopy (with confirmation of delivery), on the date of transmission if on a Business Day before 5:00 p.m. local time of the recipient party (otherwise on the next succeeding Business Day); (d) if delivered by electronic mail, on the date of transmission if on a Business Day before 5:00 p.m. local time of the business address of the recipient party (otherwise on the next succeeding Business Day); and (e) if deposited in the United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, on the date of delivery, in each case to the appropriate addresses set forth below (or to such other addresses as a party may designate by notice to the other parties in accordance with this Section 4.12):

If to SPAC:

100 5th Ave, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10011

Attention: Eric Cheung

Email: eric@firstmarkcap.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

525 University Avenue, Suite 1400

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Attn: Michael Mies

Email: michael.mies@skadden.com    

 

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If to New Starry:

Starry, Inc.

38 Chauncey Street, 2nd Floor

Boston, MA 02111

Attn: Bill Lundregan, Chief Legal Officer

Email: wlundregan@starry.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

1271 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attn: Justin Hamill

Email: Justin.Hamill@lw.com

Attn: Chad Rolston

Email: Chad.Rolston@lw.com

If to the Investor:

At the address set forth on the Investor’s signature page.

Section 4.13. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts (any of which may be delivered by electronic transmission), each of which shall constitute an original, and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and shall include images of manually executed signatures transmitted by electronic format (including, without limitation, “pdf,” “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including, without limitation, DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including, without limitation, any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Section 4.14. Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the agreements referenced herein constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties hereto to the extent that they relate in any way to the subject matter hereof.

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have each caused this Non-Redemption Agreement to be duly executed on their behalf as of the date first written above.

 

SPAC
FIRSTMARK HORIZON ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

                 

  Name: Amish Jani
  Title: President

[Signature Page to Non-Redemption Agreement]


NEW STARRY
STARRY GROUP HOLDINGS, INC.
By:  

                 

  Name:
  Title

[Signature Page to Non-Redemption Agreement]


INVESTOR
[•]
By:  

             

  Name:
  Title

Investor Address:

[Address]

Attention: [•]

Email: [•]

in each case, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

[Address]

Attention: [•]

Email: [•]

[Signature Page to Non-Redemption Agreement]


ANNEX A

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF INVESTOR

This page should be completed by the Investor

and constitutes a part of the Non-Redemption Agreement.

 

A.

QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS

  (Please check the applicable subparagraphs):

 

 

We are a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a “QIB”)).

OR

 

B.

INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS

    (Please

check the applicable subparagraphs):

 

  1.

☐ We are an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a))(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act, and have marked and initialed the appropriate box below indicating the provision under which we qualify as an “accredited investor.”

 

  2.

☐ We are not a natural person.

Rule 501(a), in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. The Investor has indicated, by marking and initialing the appropriate box below, the provision(s) below which apply to the Investor and under which the Investor accordingly qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

 

Any bank, registered broker or dealer, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, or small business investment company;

 

 

Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

 

Any employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, if a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

 

Any organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, corporation, similar business trust, or partnership, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

 

Any trust with assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed to acquire the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person; or

 

 

Any entity in which all of the equity owners are accredited investors meeting one or more of the above tests.

Exhibit 10.12

Conformed Through Fifth Amendment

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of December 13, 2019,

as amended by First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2020

as further amended by Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 28, 2021,

as further amended by Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2021,

as further amended by Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2021, and

as further amended by Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 6, 2021

among

Starry, Inc.,

Starry Spectrum Holdings LLC,

Starry (MA), Inc.,

Starry Spectrum LLC,

Testco LLC,

Widmo Holdings LLC,

Vibrant Composites Inc., as Borrowers,

the other Borrowers party hereto from time to time,

the Lenders party hereto from time to time

and

ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC,

as Administrative Agent

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  
ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS

     2  

SECTION 1.01.

  Defined Terms      2  

SECTION 1.02.

  Terms Generally      32  

SECTION 1.03.

  Accounting Terms; GAAP      33  

SECTION 1.04.

  Currency Translation      33  
ARTICLE II

 

THE FACILITIES

     33  

SECTION 2.01.

  Commitments      33  

SECTION 2.02.

  Loans and Borrowings      34  

SECTION 2.03.

  Requests for Borrowings      35  

SECTION 2.04.

  Funding of Borrowings      35  

SECTION 2.05.

  Termination and Reduction of Commitments      35  

SECTION 2.06.

  Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt      36  

SECTION 2.07.

  Repayment on Maturity Date      36  

SECTION 2.08.

  Prepayment of Loans      36  

SECTION 2.09.

  Fees      38  

SECTION 2.10.

  Interest      39  

SECTION 2.11.

  Alternate Rate of Interest      39  

SECTION 2.12.

  Increased Costs      40  

SECTION 2.13.

  Break Funding Payments      41  

SECTION 2.14.

  Taxes      41  

SECTION 2.15.

  Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs      44  

SECTION 2.16.

  Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders      45  

SECTION 2.17.

  Defaulting Lenders      46  

SECTION 2.18.

  Borrower Representative      47  
ARTICLE III

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     47  

SECTION 3.01.

  Organization; Powers      47  

SECTION 3.02.

  Authorization; Enforceability      47  

SECTION 3.03.

  Governmental Approvals; Absence of Conflicts      47  

SECTION 3.04.

  Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change      48  

SECTION 3.05.

  Properties      49  

SECTION 3.06.

  Litigation and Environmental Matters      49  

SECTION 3.07.

  Compliance with Laws and Agreements      49  

SECTION 3.08.

  Investment Company Act      50  

SECTION 3.09.

  Taxes      50  

SECTION 3.10.

  ERISA; Labor Matters      50  

SECTION 3.11.

  Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures; Ownership; Disqualified Equity Interests      51  

SECTION 3.12.

  Insurance      51  

SECTION 3.13.

  Solvency      51  

SECTION 3.14.

  Disclosure      51  

 

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SECTION 3.15.

  Collateral Matters      51  

SECTION 3.16.

  Federal Reserve Regulations      52  

SECTION 3.17.

  Material Contracts      52  

SECTION 3.18.

  Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws and Sanctions      53  

SECTION 3.19.

  FCC Licenses and Approvals      53  
ARTICLE IV

 

CONDITIONS

     53  

SECTION 4.01.

  Initial Closing Date      53  

SECTION 4.02.

  Closing Date      55  

SECTION 4.03.

  Each Credit Event      56  

SECTION 4.04.

  Additional Conditions to Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans      57  
ARTICLE V

 

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

     58  

SECTION 5.01.

  Financial Statements and Other Information      58  

SECTION 5.02.

  Notices of Material Events      61  

SECTION 5.03.

  Additional Subsidiaries      61  

SECTION 5.04.

  Information Regarding Collateral; Deposit and Securities Accounts      62  

SECTION 5.05.

  Existence; Conduct of Business      62  

SECTION 5.06.

  Payment of Obligations      63  

SECTION 5.07.

  Maintenance of Properties      63  

SECTION 5.08.

  Insurance      63  

SECTION 5.09.

  Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights      63  

SECTION 5.10.

  Compliance with Laws; Maintenance of FCC Licenses      64  

SECTION 5.11.

  Use of Proceeds      64  

SECTION 5.12.

  Further Assurances      65  

SECTION 5.13.

  Board Observation Rights      65  

SECTION 5.14.

  Post-Closing Obligations      65  
ARTICLE VI

 

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

     65  

SECTION 6.01.

  Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities      66  

SECTION 6.02.

  Liens      67  

SECTION 6.03.

  Fundamental Changes; Business Activities      69  

SECTION 6.04.

  Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions      70  

SECTION 6.05.

  Asset Sales      71  

SECTION 6.06.

  Sale/Leaseback Transactions      72  

SECTION 6.07.

  Hedging Agreements      73  

SECTION 6.08.

  Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness      73  

SECTION 6.09.

  Transactions with Affiliates      74  

SECTION 6.10.

  Restrictive Agreements      74  

SECTION 6.11.

  Amendment of Material Documents      75  

SECTION 6.12.

  Minimum Cash Balance      75  

SECTION 6.13.

  Fiscal Year and Accounting Methods      75  

SECTION 6.14.

  Mandatory Capital Infusion      75  

 

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ARTICLE VII

 

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

     75  

SECTION 7.01.

  Events of Default      75  

SECTION 7.02.

  Birch Grove-Directed Enforcement      78  

SECTION 7.03.

  Purchase Option      79  

SECTION 7.04.

  Buyout Premium and Residual Prepayment Premium      81  
ARTICLE VIII

 

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

     82  

SECTION 8.01.

  Appointment and Authority      82  

SECTION 8.02.

  Rights as a Lender      82  

SECTION 8.03.

  Exculpatory Provisions      82  

SECTION 8.04.

  Delegation of Duties      84  

SECTION 8.05.

  Resignation of Agent      84  

SECTION 8.06.

  Non-Reliance on the Agent and Other Lenders      85  

SECTION 8.07.

  Right to Realize on Collateral      85  
ARTICLE IX

 

MISCELLANEOUS

     87  

SECTION 9.01.

  Notices      87  

SECTION 9.02.

  Waivers; Amendments      87  

SECTION 9.03.

  Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver      90  

SECTION 9.04.

  Successors and Assigns      92  

SECTION 9.05.

  Survival      96  

SECTION 9.06.

  Signatures; Integration; Effectiveness      97  

SECTION 9.07.

  Severability      97  

SECTION 9.08.

  Right of Setoff      97  

SECTION 9.09.

  Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process      97  

SECTION 9.10.

  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL      98  

SECTION 9.11.

  Headings      98  

SECTION 9.12.

  Confidentiality      98  

SECTION 9.13.

  Interest Rate Limitation      99  

SECTION 9.14.

  Release of Liens and Guarantees      99  

SECTION 9.15.

  USA PATRIOT Act Notice      100  

SECTION 9.16.

  No Fiduciary Relationship      100  

SECTION 9.17.

  Non-Public Information      100  

SECTION 9.18.

  Judgment Currency      100  

SECTION 9.19.

  Excluded Swap Obligations      101  

SECTION 9.20.

  Publicity      102  

SECTION 9.21.

  Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers      102  

SECTION 9.22.

  Amendment and Restatement of Initial Credit Agreement      104  

 

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SCHEDULES:

 

Schedule 1.00       DQ List
Schedule 1.01       Material Intellectual Property
Schedule 2.01       Commitments (on file with the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof provided to the Borrowers)
Schedule 3.04       Specified Transactions
Schedule 3.06       Mortgaged Properties
Schedule 3.11A       Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures
Schedule 3.11B       Ownership; Disqualified Equity Interests
Schedule 3.12       Insurance
Schedule 3.17       Material Contracts
Schedule 3.19       FCC Licenses
Schedule 6.01       Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 6.02       Existing Liens
Schedule 6.04       Existing Investments
Schedule 6.09       Transactions with Affiliates
Schedule 6.10       Existing Restrictions
Schedule 7.03       Birch Grove Capital LP Notice Information
Schedule 7.04       Illustrative Example – Buyout Premium and Residual Prepayment Premium

EXHIBITS:

 

Exhibit A       Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit B       Form of Borrowing Request
Exhibit C       Form of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement
Exhibit D       Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit E       Form of Global Intercompany Note
Exhibit F       Form of Perfection Certificate
Exhibit G       Form of Supplemental Perfection Certificate
Exhibit H       Form of Warrant Purchase Agreement
Exhibit I       Form of Promissory Note
Exhibit J-1       Form of U.S. Tax Certificate for Non U.S. Lenders that are not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit J-2       Form of U.S. Tax Certificate for Non U.S. Lenders that are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit J-3       Form of U.S. Tax Certificate for Non U.S. Participants that are not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit J-4       Form of U.S. Tax Certificate for Non U.S. Participants that are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit K       Form of Joinder

 

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of December 13, 2019 (as amended by First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2020, as further amended by Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 28, 2021, as further amended by Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2021, as further amended by Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2021, and as further amended by Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 6, 2021), among Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each Subsidiary of the Company listed as a “Borrower” on the signature pages hereto (together with the Company and each other Person that executes a joinder hereto and becomes a “Borrower” hereunder, each a “Borrower” and collectively, the “Borrowers”), the Lenders party hereto from time to time and ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Administrative Agent.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, capitalized terms used in these recitals shall have the respective meanings set forth for such terms in Section 1.01;

WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the lenders party thereto (the “Initial Lenders”) were party to that certain Credit Agreement (the “Initial Credit Agreement”), dated as of February 14, 2019 (the “Initial Closing Date”), pursuant to which the Initial Lenders agreed to extend to the Borrowers credit in the form of (A) initial term loans in an original aggregate principal amount equal to $27,500,000 and (B) delayed draw term loans in an original aggregate principal amount up to $22,500,000, the proceeds of which were used to (i) fund the purchase price for the proposed acquisition (the “Spectrum Acquisition”) of FCC License(s) won within the 24 GHz frequency band (the “Spectrum”) in an FCC auction known as “Auction 102” (the “Auction”), including any escrow deposit required to participate in the Auction, (ii) pay fees, commissions and expenses in connection with the Spectrum Acquisition and the transactions contemplated therein, and (iii) to fund working capital needs of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as permitted therein;

WHEREAS, on June 13, 2019, the Delayed Draw Lenders extended Delayed Draw Loans to the Borrowers in the aggregate original principal amount of $22,500,000;

WHEREAS, on December 13, 2019, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Initial Lenders amended and restated the Initial Credit Agreement in its entirety and the Tranche B Lenders extended Tranche B Loans to the Borrowers in the aggregate principal amount of $75,000,000 for general corporate purposes as permitted herein and to pay fees, commissions and expenses in connection with the transactions contemplated herein;

WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested that the Initial Tranche C Lenders extend additional term loans to the Borrowers on the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date in an aggregate principal amount of $40,000,000 and the Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders extend additional term loans to the Borrowers after December 24, 2021 and prior to the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date in an aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000, in each case, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Guarantors, have agreed to guarantee the obligations of the Borrowers hereunder; and

WHEREAS, the Borrowers and the Guarantors have agreed to secure, and have secured, their respective Loan Document Obligations by granting to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a first priority Lien on substantially all of their respective assets, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Security Documents.


NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

2020 Convertible Notes” means those certain convertible promissory notes to be issued by the Company to the lenders party to the 2020 Note Purchase Agreement, each in the form attached as Exhibit A to the 2020 Note Purchase Agreement.

2020 Note Purchase Agreement” means that certain Note Purchase Agreement, to be entered into by and among the Company and certain lenders, in the form attached as Exhibit A to the First Amendment.

2020 Note Purchase Documents” means the 2020 Note Purchase Agreement and 2020 Convertible Notes.

Acceptance Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(f).

Acquisition Agreement” means that certain Merger Agreement, dated as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Company, the SPAC, Sirius Merger Sub, Inc. and Starry Holdings, Inc.

Administrative Agent” means ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, in its capacity as administrative agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Article VIII.

Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly or indirectly Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified; provided that for purposes of Section 6.09, the term “Affiliate” also means any Person that is a Governing Board member or an executive officer of the Person specified, any Person that directly or indirectly beneficially owns Equity Interests of the Person specified representing 25% or more of the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Person specified and any Person that would be an Affiliate of any such beneficial owner pursuant to this definition (but without giving effect to this proviso); and provided, further, that, portfolio companies of either venture capital or private equity investors holding Equity Interests of the Company as of the Closing Date shall not be deemed to be Affiliates hereunder.

AML Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to anti-money laundering.

Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption, including, but not limited to, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act 2010.

 

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Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any federal laws of the United States primarily relating to terrorism or money laundering, including but not limited to, Executive Order 13224, the USA Patriot Act and the regulations administered by OFAC, the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 5311 et seq.), the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 (18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 et seq.), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. §§ 1701 et seq.), and the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. §§ 1 et seq.).

Applicable Creditor” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.19(b).

Applicable Margin” means, for any day with respect to any Loan, 9.0% per annum.

Applicable Reserve Requirement” means, at any time, for any Eurocurrency Loan, the maximum rate, expressed as a decimal, at which reserves (including any basic marginal, special, supplemental, emergency or other reserves) are required to be maintained with respect thereto against “Eurocurrency liabilities” (as such term is defined in Regulation D) under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors or other applicable banking regulator. The rate of interest on Eurocurrency Loans shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the Applicable Reserve Requirement.

Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities and that is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender or (iii) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

ArrowMark” means, collectively, each Affiliate of ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC that is a Lender from time to time.

Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent, in each case with the consent of any Person whose consent is required by Section 9.04 and accepted by the Administrative Agent.

Auction” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, that such Person has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment; provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority; provided, however, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States of America or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any agreements made by such Person.

Bankruptcy Law” means the Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time and any other federal, state, or foreign law for the relief of debtors, or any arrangement, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium, assignment for the benefit of creditors, any other marshalling of the assets or liabilities of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or similar law affecting creditors’ rights generally.

 

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Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

Birch Grove” means each Affiliate of Birch Grove Capital LP that is a Lender from time to time.

Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) the date on which no Tranche C Loans are outstanding and (b) the date on which Affiliates of Birch Grove Capital LP hold interests (either by legal title or beneficially, by participation or otherwise) in Tranche C Loans comprising 50% or less of the outstanding principal amount of all Tranche C Loans.

Birch Grove Indemnitees” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).

Board of Governors” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.

Borrower” is defined in the preamble hereto.

Borrower Representative” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.18.

Borrowing” means Loans made or continued on the same date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower Representative for a Borrowing, which shall be, in the case of any such written request, in the form of Exhibit B or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in U.S. Dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

Buyout Premium” means the lesser of (a) the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date Prepayment Premium and (b) the Tranche C Prepayment Premium Realization Proceeds.

Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP; the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP, and the final maturity of such obligations shall be the date of the last payment of such amounts due under such lease (or other arrangement) prior to the first date on which such lease (or other arrangement) may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a premium or a penalty. For purposes of Section 6.02, a Capital Lease Obligation shall be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased and such property shall be deemed to be owned by the lessee.

 

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Cash Equivalents” means:

(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by (i) the United States of America (or any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America) or (ii) any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory, having a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody’s, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;

(b) investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at the date of acquisition thereof, the highest credit rating obtainable from S&P or Moody’s;

(c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and demand or time deposits, in each case maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof, issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than (i) is at least “adequately capitalized” (as defined in the regulations of its primary Federal banking regulator) and (ii) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) of not less than $1,000,000,000;

(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above;

(e) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000; and

(f) (i) instruments equivalent to those referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above denominated in pounds sterling, Canadian dollars or Euro or any other foreign currency comparable in credit quality and tenor and customarily used by corporations for cash management purposes in any jurisdiction outside the United States to the extent reasonably required in connection with any business conducted by any Subsidiary organized in such jurisdiction and (ii) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, such local currencies in those countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary transacts business from time to time in the ordinary course of business.

Casualty Event” means any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

CFC” means a Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code.

Change in Control” means (a) the failure by a Permitted Holder to own, beneficially and of record, Equity Interests of the Company representing at least 60% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Company owned by such Permitted Holder on the Initial Closing Date; (b) the ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Exchange Act and the rules of the SEC thereunder), other than a Permitted Holder or group of Permitted Holders, of Equity Interests of the Company representing 50% or more on a fully diluted basis of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Company; (c) a majority of the members of the Governing Board of the Company cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of the Governing Board of the Company on the Initial

 

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Closing Date, (ii) whose election or nomination to the Governing Board was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body, (iii) whose election or nomination to the Governing Board was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of the Governing Board or (iv) who were appointed by Company stockholders entitled to nominate Governing Board members pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated Voting Agreement dated as of December 8, 2017 (as may be amended and/or restated from time to time); (d) the acquisition of direct or indirect Control of the Company by any Person or group (within the foregoing meaning) other than a Permitted Holder; or (e) the failure by (i) the Company to own directly or indirectly, beneficially and of record, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Loan Parties and (ii) except as otherwise expressly permitted hereunder, a Borrower to own, directly or indirectly, beneficially and of record, 100% of the Equity Interests of each of its Domestic Subsidiaries.

Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any rule, regulation, treaty or other law, (b) any change in any rule, regulation, treaty or other law or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law,” regardless of the date enacted, adopted, promulgated or issued.

Charges” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.13.

Closing Date” means December 13, 2019.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral” means any and all assets, whether real or personal, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, on which Liens are purported to be granted pursuant to the Security Documents as security for the Secured Obligations (but excluding the Excluded Assets).

Collateral Agreement” means the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement among the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, together with all supplements thereto.

Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that:

(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Loan Parties either (x) a counterpart of the Collateral Agreement duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person or (y) in the case of any Person that becomes a Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Domestic Subsidiary that is a Foreign Holdco) that is directly owned by a Loan Party after the Initial Closing Date, a supplement to the Collateral Agreement, in the form specified therein, duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Person, together with documents and opinions of the type referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01 with respect to such Subsidiary;

 

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(b) (i) all Equity Interests of any Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Domestic Subsidiary that is a Foreign Holdco) directly owned by any Loan Party, (ii) 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests and 100% of the issued and outstanding nonvoting Equity Interests of each Foreign Holdco or CFC directly owned by any Loan Party, and (iii) 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each wholly-owned Foreign Subsidiary that is not a CFC that is directly owned by any Loan Party shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, and the Administrative Agent shall, to the extent required by the Collateral Agreement, have received certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests, together with undated stock powers, assignment of membership interests or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;

(c) (i) all Indebtedness of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that is owing to any other Loan Party shall be evidenced by the Global Intercompany Note and (ii) the Global Intercompany Note and any existing promissory note evidencing Indebtedness of any other Person in a principal amount of $100,000 or more that is owing to any Loan Party shall have been pledged pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, and the Administrative Agent shall, to the extent required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, have received the Global Intercompany Note and all such promissory notes, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;

(d) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create the Liens intended to be created by the Security Documents and perfect such Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, the Security Documents, shall have been filed, registered or recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent for filing, registration or recording;

(e) the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Mortgaged Property duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such Mortgaged Property, (ii) a policy or policies of title insurance issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid and enforceable first Lien on the Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any other Liens except as permitted under Section 6.02, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, (iii) if any Mortgaged Property is located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards, evidence of such flood insurance as may be required under applicable law, including Regulation H of the Board of Governors, and (iv) such surveys, abstracts, appraisals, legal opinions and other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgage or Mortgaged Property;

(f) the Administrative Agent shall have received a counterpart, duly executed and delivered by the applicable Loan Party and the applicable depositary bank or securities intermediary, as the case may be, of a Control Agreement with respect to (i) each deposit account maintained by any Loan Party with any depositary bank (other than any Excluded Deposit Account) and (ii) each securities account maintained by any Loan Party with any securities intermediary (other than any Excluded Securities Account), and the requirements of the Collateral Agreement relating to the concentration and application of collections on accounts shall have been satisfied;

(g) each Loan Party shall have obtained all landlord, warehouseman, agent, bailee and processor acknowledgments required to be obtained by it pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and all other consents and approvals required to be obtained by it in connection with the execution and delivery of all Security Documents to which it is a party, the performance of its obligations thereunder and the granting by it of the Liens thereunder.

 

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The foregoing definition shall not require the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, or the obtaining of title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables with respect to: (x) Excluded Assets, or (y) particular assets of the Loan Parties, or the provision of Guarantees by any Subsidiary of a Loan Party, if and for so long as the Company and the Administrative Agent reasonably agree in writing that the cost of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets, or obtaining such title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables in respect of such assets, or providing such Guarantees (taking into account any material adverse tax consequences to the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries), shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom. No actions in any non-U.S. jurisdiction or required by the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction shall be required in order to create any security interests in assets located or titled outside of the U.S. or to perfect any such security interests described above (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction). The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the creation and perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance, legal opinions or other deliverables with respect to particular assets or the provision of any Guarantee by any Subsidiary (including extensions beyond the Closing Date or in connection with assets acquired, or Subsidiaries formed or acquired, after the Closing Date) where it determines that such action cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required to be accomplished by this Agreement or the Security Documents.

Commitment” means an Initial Loan Commitment under the Initial Credit Agreement, a Delayed Draw Loan Commitment under the Initial Credit Agreement, a Tranche B Loan Commitment, an Initial Tranche C Commitment and/or a Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment (as the context requires).

Communications” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material provided by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein that is distributed to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by means of electronic communications pursuant to Section 9.01.

Communications Act” means the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor statute or statutes thereto, and all rules, regulations, written policies, orders and decisions of the FCC thereunder, in each case as from time to time in effect.

Compliance Certificate” means a Compliance Certificate in the form of Exhibit D or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to (i) to vote 50% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or managers of a Person or (ii) direct or cause the direction of the management or material strategic policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or through the operation of law. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

Control Agreement” means, with respect to any deposit account or securities account maintained by any Loan Party, a control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party and the depositary bank or the securities intermediary, as the case may be, with which such account is maintained.

 

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Convertible Note Subscription Agreement” means that certain Convertible Note Subscription Agreement, dated as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, by and among the SPAC and certain affiliates of Birch Grove Capital LP party thereto as subscribers.

Credit Party” means the Administrative Agent and each Lender.

De Facto Transfer Lease” means a lease of the FCC License (or any portion thereof) pursuant to Sections 1.9030 or 1.9035 of the FCC’s rules codified at 47 C.F.R. §§ 1.9030, 1.9035.

Default” means any event or condition that constitutes, or upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, constitute, an Event of Default.

Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, (i) to fund any portion of its Loans or (ii) to pay to any Loan Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified in such writing, including, if applicable, by reference to a specific Default) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified any Loan Party in writing that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good-faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified in such writing, including, if applicable, by reference to a specific Default) to funding a Loan cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit or (c) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event.

Delayed Draw Lenders” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Initial Credit Agreement.

Delayed Draw Loan Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01.

Delayed Draw Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make a Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan to the Borrowers after December 24, 2021 pursuant to clause (c) of Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1 to the Fifth Amendment under the caption “Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The initial aggregate amount of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date is $10,000,000.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date” shall mean the earliest of (a) the date on which the entire amount of the aggregate Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments of all Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders have been drawn, (b) the date on which the aggregate Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment has been terminated or reduced to zero pursuant to Section 2.05(b) and (c) February 28, 2022.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date” means the date on which Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans are made by a Delayed Draw Tranche C Lender.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Lender” means a Lender with a Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment or an outstanding Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan” means a loan made pursuant to clause (c) of Section 2.01.

 

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Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Purchase Agreement” means the Warrant Purchase Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit H, among the Company and the Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders as of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date, dated as of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Documents” means the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Purchase Agreement and all agreements and instruments required to be executed and delivered thereunder or otherwise in connection therewith.

Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants” means the warrants to purchase the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001, equal to 0.37% of the Company’s fully diluted common shares as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date issued to the Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders as of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date pursuant to the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Purchase Agreement.

Disposition” means any sale, transfer, lease, sublease, exchange of property or other disposition of assets by any Person.

Dispose” has the meaning correlative thereto.

Disqualified Equity Interest” means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest in such Person that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable, either mandatorily or at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event or condition:

(a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests of such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests), whether pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise;

(b) is convertible or exchangeable, either mandatorily or at the option of the holder thereof, for Indebtedness or Equity Interests (other than solely for Equity Interests of such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests); or

(c) is redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests of such Person that do not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests) or is required to be repurchased by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, in whole or in part, at the option of the holder thereof;

in each case, on or prior to the date 180 days after the Maturity Date (determined as of the date of issuance thereof or, in the case of any such Equity Interests outstanding on the Closing Date, the Closing Date); provided, however, that (i) an Equity Interest in any Person that would not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest but for terms thereof giving holders thereof the right to require such Person to redeem or purchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of an “asset sale” or a “change in control” (or similar event, however denominated) shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest if any such requirement would become operative only after repayment in full of all the Loans and all other Loan Document Obligations that are accrued and payable, the cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit and the termination or expiration of the Commitments and (ii) an Equity Interest in any Person that is issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees or by any such plan to such employees shall not constitute a Disqualified Equity Interest solely because it may be required to be repurchased by such Person or any of its subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability.

 

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Disqualified Institution” means, on any date, (a) any Person designated by the Company as a “Disqualified Institution” as set forth on the DQ List and (b) any other Person that is a competitor of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, which Person has been designated by the Borrower Representative as a “Disqualified Institution” by written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time, which designation shall become effective two (2) days after delivery of each such written designation to the Administrative Agent, but which shall not apply retroactively to disqualify any Persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation interest in a Loan and (c) in the case of clauses (a) and (b), any of their Affiliates that are clearly identifiable as such on the basis that such Affiliate’s name includes the name of the specified bank, financial institution, institutional lender, related fund or competitor (excluding any bona fide debt investment fund that constitutes an Affiliate thereof that is not a Disqualified Institution); provided that “Disqualified Institutions” shall exclude any Person that the Borrower Representative has designated as no longer being a “Disqualified Institution” by written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent from time to time. The DQ List shall be available for inspection upon request by any Lender.

DQ List” means the list of Disqualified Institutions provided by the Borrower Representative, as set forth on Schedule 1.00, and any updates thereto from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person, other than, in each case, a natural person or a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Affiliate of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person owning or controlling (i) any trade debt or Indebtedness of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries other than the Loan Document Obligations or (ii) any Equity Interests of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, ArrowMark shall be deemed to be an Eligible Assignee. For the avoidance of doubt, any Disqualified Institution is subject to Section 9.04(f).

Enforcement Action” means any of the following: (a) take from or for the account of any Loan Party, by set-off or in any other manner, the whole or any part of any moneys which may now or hereafter be owing by any Loan Party in respect of the Loan Document Obligations, (b) sue for payment of, or to initiate or participate with others or continue in any suit, action or proceeding against any Loan Party to (i) enforce payment of or to collect the whole or any part of the Loan Document Obligations or (ii) commence or continue judicial enforcement of any of the rights and remedies under the Loan Documents or applicable law with respect to the Loan Document Obligations, (c) accelerate the Loans, (d) exercise any put option or to cause any Loan Party to honor any redemption or mandatory prepayment obligation under any Loan Document, or (e) take any action under the provisions of any applicable law, including, without limitation, any Bankruptcy Law, or under any contract or agreement, including the Loan Documents, to enforce, foreclose upon, take possession of or sell any property or assets of any Loan Party, collect any payments due in respect therewith or otherwise exercise any remedies of a secured creditor with respect to Collateral.

Environmental Laws” means all applicable rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, judgments, orders, decrees, directives and other laws, and all injunctions or binding agreements, issued, promulgated or entered into by or with any Governmental Authority and relating in any way to the environment, to preservation or reclamation of natural resources, or to related health or safety matters.

 

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Environmental Liability” means any liability, obligation, loss, claim, action, order or cost, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties and indemnities), directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the presence, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

Equity Interests” means (a) shares of capital stock, partnership interests, limited liability company or membership interests, beneficial interests or other ownership interests, whether voting or nonvoting, in, or interests in the income or profits of, a Person, (b) securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for the interests described in clause (a) (including any warrants, options, convertible securities or debt) or for the aforementioned securities, or (c) any other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any of the foregoing.

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(m) or 414(o) of the Code.

ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived), (b) any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standard (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, in each case whether or not waived, (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA, of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan, (d) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code), (e) the incurrence by a Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan, (f) the receipt by a Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, (g) the incurrence by a Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, or (h) the receipt by a Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from a Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA.

Eurocurrency,” when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, shall bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate.

Events of Default” has the meaning set forth in Article VII.

Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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Excluded Deposit Accounts” means (a) any deposit account the funds in which are used solely for the payment of salaries and wages, workers’ compensation and similar expenses (including payroll taxes) in the ordinary course of business, (b) any deposit account that is a zero-balance disbursement account, (c) any deposit account the funds in which consist solely of (i) funds held by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in trust for any employee benefit plan maintained by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) funds representing deferred compensation for the Governing Board members and employees of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries except for amounts in excess of 10% of all compensation payable to such individuals, (d) any deposit account the funds in which consist solely of cash earnest money deposits or funds deposited under escrow or similar arrangements in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement for any transaction permitted hereunder, (e) deposit accounts the daily balance with respect to which all such deposit accounts in the aggregate does not at any time exceed $200,000 or the U.S. Dollar equivalent thereof, (f) deposit accounts established in respect of letters of credit issued to a landlord of a Loan Party as security for the security deposit obligations of such Loan Party so long as the funds in any such deposit account do not exceed 110% of the aggregate face amounts of the letters of credit to which such deposit account relates and (g) deposit accounts established in respect of employee business credit card programs as security for the obligations of a Loan Party thereunder so long as the funds in all such deposit accounts in the aggregate does not at any time exceed $200,000 or the U.S. Dollar equivalent thereof.

Excluded Securities Accounts” means any securities account the securities entitlements in which consist solely of (a) securities entitlements held by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in trust for any employee benefit plan maintained by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or (b) securities entitlements representing deferred compensation for the Governing Board members and employees of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries except for amounts in excess of 10% of all compensation payable to such individuals.

Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower Representative under Section 2.16(b)) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.14, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in such Loan or Commitment or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.14(f) and (d) any U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

Exercise Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(f).

Exigent Circumstances” means (a) an exercise by another creditor of enforcement rights or remedies with respect to a material portion of the Collateral or (b) an event or circumstance that imminently threatens the value of a material portion of the Collateral, such as fraudulent removal, concealment, destruction (other than to the extent covered by insurance) or material waste.

 

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Extraordinary Receipt” means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Person not in the ordinary course of business, including tax refunds, pension plan reversions, proceeds of insurance, settlements or judgments, indemnity payments and purchase price adjustments; provided that (a) any such cash received as a result of a Casualty Event shall not be considered an “Extraordinary Receipt” and (b) in no event shall the proceeds received by the Company from the sale of shares of its capital stock in a bona fide financing conducted for capital raising purposes (including, without limitation, the equity financing contemplated by Section 5.15) constitute an “Extraordinary Receipt.”

Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset other than cash, the value that has been fixed thereon pursuant to an instrument of transfer thereof or determined by a court or bankruptcy trustee or otherwise agreed to in writing by the transferee thereof, and if no such value has been fixed, then: (a) as to any securities traded on a national securities exchange, the average of the closing prices of such securities on such exchange over the 30-day period ending three (3) days prior to the date of determination; (b) as to any securities actively traded over-the-counter, the average of the closing bid or sale prices (whichever is applicable) over the 30-day period ending three (3) days prior to the date of determination; and (c) as to any securities or other asset for which there is no active public market, the value determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent after taking into account such factors as the Administrative Agent deems appropriate (which value will include premium for control and discount for minority interests, illiquidity and restrictions on transferability).

FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such sections of the Code, and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, or practices adopted pursuant to such intergovernmental agreement.

FCC” means the Federal Communications Commission or any successor federal governmental agency performing functions similar to those performed on the Closing Date by the Federal Communications Commission.

FCC Licenses” means all licenses and authorizations to use electromagnetic spectrum issued by the FCC pursuant to its authority granted under the Communications Act.

FCC Rules” means the rules, regulations and published and promulgated policy statements of the FCC, including any of the foregoing that may be contained in a letter ruling issued by any Bureau of the FCC, as in effect from time to time.

Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.

Fee Letters” means fee letter agreements entered into between the Company and the Administrative Agent from time to time in connection with the credit facilities made available under this Agreement.

 

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Fifth Amendment” means that certain Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 6, 2021, by and among the Borrowers, the Required Lenders, the Initial Tranche C Lenders, the Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders and the Administrative Agent.

Fifth Amendment Effective Date” means October 6, 2021.

Fifth Amendment Transactions” means (a) the execution, delivery and performance of the Fifth Amendment and the initial borrowing of Tranche C Loans thereunder, (b) the issuance of the Fifth Amendment Warrants and the Fifth Amendment Warrant Documents, (c) the issuance of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants and the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Documents, (d) execution, delivery and performance of the Acquisition Agreement and the consummation of the SPAC Transaction, (e) the consummation of all other transactions related to the foregoing as required or contemplated by this Agreement or the Acquisition Agreement to be concurrently consummated therewith and (f) the payment of fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing.

Fifth Amendment Warrant Purchase Agreement” means the Warrant Purchase Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit H, among the Company and the Initial Tranche C Lenders as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, to be dated as of the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.

Fifth Amendment Warrant Documents” means the Fifth Amendment Warrant Purchase Agreement and all agreements and instruments required to be executed and delivered thereunder or otherwise in connection therewith.

Fifth Amendment Warrants” means the warrants to purchase the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001, equal to 1.47% of the Company’s fully diluted common shares as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date issued to the Initial Tranche C Lenders as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date pursuant to the Fifth Amendment Warrant Purchase Agreement.

Financial Covenant” means the financial covenant set forth in Section 6.12.

Financial Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the chief financial officer, principal accounting or finance officer, treasurer or controller of such Person.

First Amendment” means that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2020, by and among the Company, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

Foreign Holdco” means any Domestic Subsidiary that owns (directly or through one or more disregarded entities) no material assets other than cash and the Equity Interests (including, for this purpose, any other instrument treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of one or more CFCs and/or Foreign Holdcos.

Foreign Lender” means (a) if a Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender, with respect to such Borrower, that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if a Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender, with respect to such Borrower, that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which such Borrower is resident for tax purposes.

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

Fourth Amendment” means that certain Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2021, by and among the Company, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

 

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GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, applied in accordance with the consistency requirements thereof.

Global Intercompany Note” means the Global Intercompany Note substantially in the form of Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower Representative.

Governing Board” means, with respect to any Person, the board of directors or board of managers (or similar governing body) of such Person.

Governmental Approvals” means all authorizations, consents, approvals, permits, licenses and exemptions of, registrations and filings with, and reports to, Governmental Authorities.

Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America or any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national body exercising such powers or functions).

Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or other obligation; provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The amount, as of any date of determination, of any Guarantee shall be the principal amount outstanding on such date of the Indebtedness or other obligation guaranteed thereby (or, in the case of (i) any Guarantee the terms of which limit the monetary exposure of the guarantor or (ii) any Guarantee of an obligation that does not have a principal amount, the maximum monetary exposure as of such date of the guarantor under such Guarantee (as determined, in the case of clause (i), pursuant to such terms or, in the case of clause (ii), reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Company)).

Guarantor” means (a) each Borrower, with respect to each other Borrower, (b) each Domestic Subsidiary of a Borrower (other than (i) a Borrower, (ii) a Domestic Subsidiary that is a Foreign Holdco or which is directly or indirectly owned by a CFC or (iii) any other Subsidiary with respect to which providing a Guarantee pursuant to the Collateral Agreement would result in a material adverse tax consequence as a result of the operation of Section 956 of the Code or any similar law or regulation in any applicable jurisdiction to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Company in consultation with the Administrative Agent)), and (c) each other Person which guarantees, pursuant to Section 5.03 or otherwise, all or any part of the Loan Document Obligations.

Hazardous Materials” means all explosive, radioactive, hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

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Hedging Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction, or any option or similar agreement, involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, prices of equity or debt securities or instruments, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value, or any similar transaction or combination of the foregoing transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former Governing Board members, officers, employees or consultants of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a Hedging Agreement.

HSR Act” means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.

Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person (excluding trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (including (i) obligations under any purchase price adjustment and (ii) to the extent stated as a liability on the balance sheet of the acquiring Person in accordance with GAAP, earn-out or similar payments, but excluding (x) current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business and (y) deferred compensation payable to Governing Board members, officers or employees of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries), (e) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) the maximum aggregate amount of all letters of credit and letters of guaranty in respect of which such Person is an account party, (g) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, (h) all Disqualified Equity Interests of such Person, (i) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed by such Person and (j) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other Person (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such other Person, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.

Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.

Indemnitee” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).

Initial Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Initial Credit Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Initial Lenders” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Initial Loan Commitments” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Initial Credit Agreement.

Initial Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01.

Initial Tranche B Lender” means a Lender with a Tranche B Loan Commitment as of the Closing Date.

 

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Initial Tranche C Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make an Initial Tranche C Loan to the Borrowers pursuant to clause (b) of Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1 to the Fifth Amendment under the caption “Initial Tranche C Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The initial aggregate amount of the Initial Tranche C Commitments is $40,000,000.

Initial Tranche C Lender” means a Lender with an Initial Tranche C Commitment or an outstanding Initial Tranche C Loan.

Initial Tranche C Loan” means a loan made pursuant to clause (b) of Section 2.01.

Intellectual Property” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement.

Interest Payment Date” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan, (a) the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and (b) the Maturity Date; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein the Interest Payment Dates for all Tranche B Loans and Tranche C Loans shall be the same.

Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is three months thereafter; provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period, (c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date and (d) the initial Interest Period for the Initial Tranche C Loans shall be equal to the unexpired portion of the Interest Period applicable to the outstanding Tranche B Loans immediately prior to the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent continuation of such Borrowing.

Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or debt or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing and any investment in the form of transfer of property for consideration that is less than the fair value thereof (as determined reasonably by a Financial Officer of the Company)) of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs Indebtedness of the type referred to in clause (j) of the definition of “Indebtedness” in respect of such other Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person. The amount, as of any date of determination, of (i) any Investment in the form of a loan or an advance shall be the principal amount thereof outstanding on such date, without any adjustment for write-downs or write-offs (including as a result of forgiveness of any portion thereof) with respect to such loan or advance after the date thereof, (ii) any Investment in the form of a Guarantee shall be determined in accordance with the definition of the term “Guarantee,” (iii) any Investment in the form of a purchase

 

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or other acquisition for value of any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of any Person shall be the fair value (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Company) of the consideration therefor (including any Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith), plus the fair value (as so determined) of all additions, as of such date of determination, thereto, and minus the amount, as of such date of determination, of any portion of such Investment repaid to the investor in cash as a repayment of principal or a return of capital, as the case may be, but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the time of such Investment, (iv) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) in the form of a transfer of Equity Interests or other property by the investor to the investee, including any such transfer in the form of a capital contribution, shall be the fair value (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Company) of such Equity Interests or other property as of the time of such transfer (less, in the case of any investment in the form of transfer of property for consideration that is less than the fair value thereof, the fair value (as so determined) of such consideration as of the time of the transfer), minus the amount, as of such date of determination, of any portion of such Investment repaid to the investor in cash as a return of capital, but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the time of such transfer, and (v) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above) in any Person resulting from the issuance by such Person of its Equity Interests to the investor shall be the fair value (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Company) of such Equity Interests at the time of the issuance thereof.

IP Security Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement.

IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

January 2021 Convertible Notes” means those certain convertible promissory notes to be issued by the Company to the lenders party to the January 2021 Note Purchase Agreement, each in the form attached as Exhibit A to the January 2021 Note Purchase Agreement.

January 2021 Note Purchase Agreement” means that certain Note Purchase Agreement, to be entered into by and among the Company and certain lenders, in the form attached as Exhibit A to the Second Amendment.

January 2021 Note Purchase Documents” means the January 2021 Note Purchase Agreement and January 2021 Convertible Notes.

Judgment Currency” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.18(b).

Lender” means each Person listed on Schedule 2.01 (on file with the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof provided to the Borrowers) and any other Person that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, in each case, that has a Commitment or an outstanding Loan, other than any such Person that has ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.

LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any Interest Period, a rate per annum equal to (a) the London interbank offered rate as administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for deposits in U.S. Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period as published on the Bloomberg LIBOR screen page that displays such rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period; provided, that if such rate does not appear on such page or service or such page or service shall not be available, then the rate per annum

 

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equal to the rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per annum at which deposits in U.S. Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate amount of the Loans with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by three major banks in the London interbank market at their request, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, divided by (b) an amount equal to (x) one minus (y) the Applicable Reserve Requirement; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the LIBO Rate shall at no time be less than 2.00%.

Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, charge, security interest or other encumbrance on, in or of such asset, including any agreement to provide any of the foregoing and any arrangement entered into for the purpose of making particular assets available to satisfy any Indebtedness or other obligation, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.

Loan” means a Tranche A Loan, a Tranche B Loan and/or a Tranche C Loan (as the context requires).

Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Fee Letters, the Collateral Agreement, the other Security Documents, any other Guarantee of all or a portion of the Loan Document Obligations, Hedging Agreements to which the Administrative Agent or a Lender is a party and, except for purposes of Section 9.02, any promissory notes delivered pursuant to Section 2.06(c).

Loan Document Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement.

Loan Parties” means the Borrowers and each other Guarantor.

Mandatory Capital Infusion” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.14.

Material Acquisition” means any acquisition, or a series of related acquisitions, of (a) Equity Interests of any Person if, after giving effect thereto, such Person will become a Subsidiary or (b) assets comprising all or substantially all the assets of (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of) any Person; provided that the aggregate consideration therefor (including Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment and, to the extent stated as a liability on the balance sheet of the acquiring Person in accordance with GAAP, earn-out or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) exceeds $5,000,000.

Material Adverse Effect” means an event or condition that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, liabilities, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Loan Parties to perform their obligations under the Loan Documents, (c) the legality, validity, binding effect, or enforceability against a Loan Party of any of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (d ) the Collateral or the validity, perfection or priority of the Administrative Agent’s Liens on the Collateral or (e) the rights of or benefits available to the Lenders under any Loan Document. In determining whether any individual event or condition of the foregoing types constitutes a Material Adverse Effect, notwithstanding that a particular event or condition is not itself such an effect, a Material Adverse Effect shall be deemed to have occurred if the cumulative effect of such event or condition and all other events and conditions of the foregoing types which have occurred, in the aggregate, is a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Material Contract” means (a) any contract or other arrangement to which a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party (other than the Loan Documents) for which breach, non-performance, cancellation or failure to renew would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) any license of Material Intellectual Property and (c) any contract or agreement to which a Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries is a party (including, without limitation, any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Indebtedness) requiring aggregate consideration payable to or by a Loan Party or such Subsidiary of $2,500,000 or more in any fiscal year (other than (i) purchase orders in the ordinary course of the business of a Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries and (ii) contracts that by their terms may be terminated by a Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of its business upon less than 90 days’ notice without penalty or premium).

Material Disposition” means any Disposition, or a series of related Dispositions, of (a) all or substantially all the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of any Person that are owned by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or (b) assets comprising all or substantially all the assets of (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of) any Person; provided that the aggregate consideration therefor (including Indebtedness assumed by the transferee in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment but excluding earn-out or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) exceeds $5,000,000.

Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Guarantees under the Loan Documents), or obligations in respect of one or more Hedging Agreements, of any a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000 or more. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Hedging Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that such Loan Party or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Hedging Agreement were terminated at such time.

Material Intellectual Property” means the Intellectual Property set forth on Schedule 1.01 and any other Intellectual Property the loss of which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; provided, that Material Intellectual Property shall not include any Intellectual Property that could be replaced by any Loan Party (or any Subsidiary thereof) by acquiring or licensing substitute Intellectual Property on commercially reasonable terms.

Maturity Date” means February 14, 2024.

Maximum Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.13.

MNPI” means material information concerning a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing or their securities that has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD. For purposes of this definition, “material information” means information concerning a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing, or any of their securities, that would reasonably be expected to be material for purposes of the United States federal and state securities laws and, where applicable, foreign securities laws.

 

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Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.

Mortgage” means a mortgage, deed of trust, assignment of leases and rents or other security document granting a Lien on any Mortgaged Property to secure the Secured Obligations. Each Mortgage shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

Mortgaged Property” means each parcel of real property owned in fee by a Loan Party, and the improvements thereto, that (together with such improvements) has a book or fair value of $500,000 or more.

Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

Net Proceeds” means, with respect to any event, (a) the cash (which term, for purposes of this definition, shall include Cash Equivalents) proceeds (including, in the case of any casualty, condemnation or similar proceeding, insurance, condemnation or similar proceeds) received in respect of such event, including any cash received in respect of any non-cash proceeds, but only as and when received, net of (b) the sum, without duplication, of (i) all fees and out-of-pocket expenses actually paid in connection with such event by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to Persons that are not Affiliates of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) in the case of a Disposition (including pursuant to a Sale/Leaseback Transaction or a casualty or a condemnation or similar proceeding) of an asset, the amount of all payments required to be made by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of such event to repay Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents) secured by such asset and (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or direct or indirect holders of Equity Interests of the Company, and the amount of any reserves established by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP to fund purchase price adjustment, indemnification and similar contingent liabilities (other than any earn-out obligations) reasonably estimated to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to the occurrence of such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer of the Company). For purposes of this definition, in the event any contingent liability reserve established with respect to any event as described in clause (b)(iii) above shall be reduced, the amount of such reduction shall, except to the extent such reduction is made as a result of a payment having been made in respect of the contingent liabilities with respect to which such reserve has been established, be deemed to be receipt, on the date of such reduction, of cash proceeds in respect of such event.

Non-Birch Grove Lender” means a Lender that is not a fund managed by an Affiliate of Birch Grove Capital LP.

Note Purchase Documents” means, collectively, the 2020 Note Purchase Documents and January 2021 Note Purchase Documents.

Observer Representative” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.14.

OFAC” means the United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Organizational Documents” means (a) for any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation, the bylaws, any certificate of determination or instrument relating to the rights of preferred shareholders of such corporation, and any shareholder rights agreement, (b) for any partnership, the partnership agreement and, if applicable, certificate of limited partnership, (c) for any limited liability company, the operating or limited liability company agreement and articles or certificate of formation or (d) any other document setting forth the manner of election or duties of the officers, directors, managers or other similar persons, or the designation, amount or relative rights, limitations and preference of the Equity Interests of a Person.

 

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Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan Document).

Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.16).

Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c)(ii).

Participants” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c)(i).

Payable Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to a Lender, the share of the total outstanding principal balance of Loans held by such Lender on the Realization Date.

PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA.

Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit F or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

Permitted Encumbrances” means:

(a) Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.06;

(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law (other than any Lien imposed pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303(k) of ERISA or a violation of Section 436 of the Code), arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 90 days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.06;

(c) pledges and deposits made (i) in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other forms of governmental insurance or benefits and (ii) in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations of the type set forth in clause (i) above;

(d) pledges and deposits made (i) to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for payment of Indebtedness), leases (other than Capital Lease Obligations), statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business and (ii) in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments issued for the account of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations of the type set forth in clause (i) above;

 

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(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments (other than for the payment of taxes, assessments or other governmental charges) that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VII;

(f) easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;

(g) banker’s liens, rights of setoff or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with depository institutions and securities accounts and other financial assets maintained with a securities intermediary; provided that such deposit accounts or funds and securities accounts or other financial assets are not established or deposited for the purpose of providing collateral for any Indebtedness and are not subject to restrictions on access by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of those required by applicable banking regulations;

(h) Liens arising by virtue of Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or similar filings under applicable law) regarding operating leases entered into by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(i) Liens representing any interest or title of a licensor, lessor or sublicensor or sublessor, or a licensee, lessee or sublicensee or sublessee, in the property subject to any lease (other than Capital Lease Obligations), license or sublicense or concession agreement permitted by this Agreement;

(j) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods; and

(k) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off;

provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness, other than Liens referred to clauses (c) and (d) above securing letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments.

Permitted Holder” means any Person (together with (i) any Affiliate thereof, (ii) investment funds or partnerships managed by any of the foregoing, but excluding, however, any portfolio company of any of the foregoing and any Person Controlled by any such portfolio company (including a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries) and (iii) any trusts established for the benefit of such Person or for such Person’s spouse or family) who owns as of the Initial Closing Date, beneficially and of record, Equity Interests of the Company representing at least 25% on a fully diluted basis of each of the aggregate ordinary voting power and aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Company.

Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

 

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Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan), that is subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which a Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

Prepayment Event” means:

(a) any Disposition (including by way of merger, consolidation or amalgamation), or an exclusive license, of any asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, including any sale or issuance to a Person other than a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of Equity Interests of any Subsidiary, other than (i) Dispositions described in clauses (a) through (f) of Section 6.05 and (ii) other Dispositions resulting in aggregate Net Proceeds not exceeding $500,000 during any fiscal year of the Company;

(b) any Casualty Event resulting in aggregate Net Proceeds of $500,000 or more;

(c) any Extraordinary Receipt resulting in aggregate Net Proceeds of $500,000 or more;

(d) the incurrence by the Borrowers or any other Subsidiary of any Indebtedness, other than any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by Section 6.01; or

(e) the failure by the Borrowers or any other Subsidiary to receive any FCC License for all or any portion of the Spectrum Acquisition; provided that the prepayment amount in connection with a Prepayment Event under this clause (e) shall only be equal to the amount paid by the Borrowers for the applicable FCC License that was not received.

Prepayment Premium” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.08(f).

Prepayment Premium Realization Proceeds” means the Realization Proceeds less Remaining Loan Document Liabilities ex-Prepayment Premium.

Private Side Lender Representatives” means, with respect to any Lender, representatives of such Lender that are not Public Side Lender Representatives.

Public Information” means any information that (a) has been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD and (b) does not constitute material information concerning a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

Public Side Lender Representatives” means, with respect to any Lender, representatives of such Lender that do not wish to receive MNPI.

Purchase Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(a).

Qualified Cash” means, as of any date of determination, the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties maintained in deposit accounts or securities accounts in the name of a Loan Party in the United States as of such date, which accounts are subject to Control Agreements.

Realization Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(a).

 

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Realization Proceeds” means the sum of (a) all cash (including all Pre-Realization Date Prepayment Premiums) and (b) the Fair Market Value of all securities and other assets received by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in respect of all Loan Document Obligations after the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the purchase price paid in respect of Buyout Tranche C Loans) and assuming, for this purpose, that each Lender that assigned any Loan after the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date was paid at par for such Loan.

Receivable Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to a seller of a Buyout Tranche C Loan, such seller’s share of the total outstanding principal balance of all Buyout Tranche C Loans as of the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date.

Recipient” means the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or any combination thereof (as the context requires).

Rectified” means, with respect to any Default or Event of Default, a change in condition or the taking of an action by a Loan Party such that, if such condition had existed or such action been taken prior to such Event of Default, such Event of Default would not have occurred.

Refinancing Indebtedness” means, in respect of any Indebtedness (the “Original Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness that extends, renews or refinances such Original Indebtedness (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof); provided that (a) the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not exceed the principal amount of such Original Indebtedness except by an amount no greater than accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such Original Indebtedness and any reasonable fees, premium and expenses relating to such extension, renewal or refinancing; (b) the stated final maturity of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be earlier than that of such Original Indebtedness, and such stated final maturity shall not be subject to any conditions that could result in such stated final maturity occurring on a date that precedes the stated final maturity of such Original Indebtedness; (c) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default or a change in control or as and to the extent such repayment, prepayment, redemption, repurchase or defeasance would have been required pursuant to the terms of such Original Indebtedness) prior to the earlier of (i) the maturity of such Original Indebtedness and (ii) the date 180 days after the Maturity Date, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, scheduled amortization payments (however denominated) of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be permitted so long as the weighted average life to maturity of such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be longer than the shorter of (x) the weighted average life to maturity of such Original Indebtedness remaining as of the date of such extension, renewal or refinancing and (y) the weighted average life to maturity of the Loans remaining as of the date of such extension, renewal or refinancing; (d) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not constitute an obligation (including pursuant to a Guarantee) of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that shall not have been (or, in the case of after-acquired Subsidiaries, shall not have been required to become pursuant to the terms of the Original Indebtedness) an obligor in respect of such Original Indebtedness, and shall not constitute an obligation of a Loan Party if such Loan Party shall not have been an obligor in respect of such Original Indebtedness, and, in each case, shall constitute an obligation of such Loan Party only to the extent of their obligations in respect of such Original Indebtedness; (e) if such Original Indebtedness shall have been subordinated to the Loan Document Obligations, such Refinancing Indebtedness shall also be subordinated to the Loan Document Obligations on terms not less favorable in any material respect to the Lenders; and (f) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset other than the assets that secured such Original Indebtedness (or would have been required to secure such Original Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof) or, in the event Liens securing such Original Indebtedness shall have been contractually subordinated to any Lien securing the Loan Document Obligations, by any Lien that shall not have been contractually subordinated to at least the same extent.

 

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Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(b).

Registration Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04(g).

Regulation D” means Regulation D of the Board of Governors, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

Regulation FD” means Regulation FD as promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act and Exchange Act as in effect from time to time.

Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the Governing Board members, officers, partners, members, trustees, employees, agents, administrators, managers, representatives and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping, injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or migration into or through the environment or within or upon any building, structure, facility or fixture.

Remaining Loan Document Liabilities” means the Total Loan Document Liabilities less the amount paid by Borrowers in respect of all Loan Document Obligations as of the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date.

Remaining Loan Document Liabilities ex-Prepayment Premium” means the Remaining Loan Document Liabilities less all amounts required to satisfy the obligation to pay the Prepayment Premium for Loans prepaid after the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date.

Required Lenders” means, at any time, ArrowMark and Lenders holding Loans and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum, at such time, of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Loans and (ii) the aggregate unused Commitments. The outstanding principal balance of all Loans and the unused Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time.

Required Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders” means, at any time, Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders holding Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans and unused Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum, at such time, of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans and (ii) the aggregate unused Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments. The outstanding principal balance of all Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans and the unused Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders at any time.

Required Tranche C Lenders” means, at any time, Tranche C Lenders holding Tranche C Loans and unused Tranche C Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum, at such time, of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Tranche C Loans and (ii) the aggregate unused Tranche C Commitments. The outstanding principal balance of all Tranche C Loans and the unused Tranche C Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Tranche C Lenders at any time.

 

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Residual Prepayment Premium” means the Prepayment Premium Realization Proceeds less the Buyout Premium.

Residual Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to a holder of a Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loan, the ratio of (a) the total principal balance of Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans held by such holder to (b) the outstanding principal balance of all Loans paid after the Tranche C Purchase Date (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans).

Responsible Officer” means, with respect to any Person, any Governing Board member, chief executive officer, president, executive vice president, chief financial officer, principal accounting or finance officer, vice president, treasurer or controller of such Person.

Restricted Payment” means (a) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any payment or distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, exchange, conversion, cancelation or termination of, or any other return of capital with respect to, any Equity Interests of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and (b) any management, monitoring, transaction, advisory or similar fees payable to the Permitted Holder or any of its Affiliates.

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Financial, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.

Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property owned by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries whereby such Loan Party or Subsidiary sells or transfers such property to any Person and a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries leases such property, or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred, from such Person or its Affiliates.

Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country or territory which is, or whose government is, the subject or target of any Sanctions.

Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, any Person who is the target of any Sanctions, including (a) any Person listed on the SDN List or any other Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the United States (including by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, or the U.S. Department of Commerce), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any of its member states, Her Majesty’s Treasury, Switzerland, Canada or any other relevant authority, (b) any Person located, organized or resident in, or any governmental entity or governmental instrumentality of, a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person 25% or more directly or indirectly owned by, controlled by, or acting for the benefit or on behalf of, any Person described in clauses (a) or (b) hereof.

Sanctions” means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes or restrictive measures enacted, imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, or the U.S. Department of Commerce, (b) the United Nations Security Council, (c) the European Union or any of its member states, (d) Her Majesty’s Treasury, (e) Switzerland, (f) Canada or (g) any other relevant authority.

SDN List” means OFAC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals & Blocked Persons.

SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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Second Amendment” means that certain Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 28, 2021, by and among the Company, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

Secured Obligations” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement.

Secured Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Collateral Agreement.

Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933.

Security Documents” means the Collateral Agreement, the IP Security Agreements, the Mortgages, the Control Agreements and each other security agreement or other instrument or document executed and delivered pursuant to Section 5.03 or 5.12 to secure the Secured Obligations.

Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, that (a) the fair value of the assets of such Person exceeds the debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability, on a consolidated basis, on the debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) such Person is not engaged in, and is not about to engage in, business for which such Person will have unreasonably small capital. For the purposes of the prior sentence, the amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that would reasonably be expected to become an actual and matured liability.

SPAC” means FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp.

SPAC Transaction” means the transaction or series of transactions as contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement that results in the direct or indirect acquisition of the Company by, or a merger or other combination of the Company with or investment in the Company from, the SPAC, irrespective of the voting power of the resulting entity held by the shareholders of the Company preceding such transaction or series of transactions.

Specified Bailees” means the following: (i) Benchmark Electronics, 100 Innovative Way, Nashua, NH 03062 and (ii) Gorilla Circuits, 2102 Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA 95131.

Specified Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.02(a).

Spectrum” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Spectrum Acquisition” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Spectrum Manager Lease” means a lease of the FCC Licenses (or any portion thereof) pursuant to Section 1.9020 of the FCC’s rules codified at 47 C.F.R. § 1.9020.

Standstill Period” means, with respect to a Specified Event of Default, the period (a) commencing on the first date after which both (i) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are notified in writing of the occurrence of such Specified Event of Default or Birch Grove otherwise becomes aware of the occurrence of such Specified Event of Default and (ii) Birch Grove provides written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intention to direct the Administrative Agent with respect to the enforcement of rights and exercise of remedies set forth in Section 7.01 and under the other Loan Documents pursuant to Section 7.02 hereof and (b) ending on the later of the date that is (x) the 60th day following Birch Grove’s delivery to the Administrative Agent of the notice referred to in clause (a)(ii) above and (y) ten (10) Business Days following the date of timely delivery of a Purchase Notice.

 

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Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date and (b) any other Person (i) of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity value or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, directly or indirectly, or (ii) that is, as of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of a Loan Party.

Supplemental Perfection Certificate” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit G or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Third Amendment” means that certain Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2021, by and among the Company, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

Total Loan Document Liabilities” means the total amount required to satisfy all Loan Document Obligations (excluding any unasserted obligations for the payment of, or reimbursement for, Taxes, indemnification liabilities or other obligations in respect of which no claim or demand for payment has been made or no notice for indemnification has been issued) arising at any time and over all time in connection with the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Trading with the Enemy Act” means the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto.

Tranche A Lender” means any Lender holding Tranche A Loans.

Tranche A Loans” means the Initial Loans and the Delayed Draw Loans.

Tranche B Lender” means any Lender holding Tranche B Loans.

Tranche B Loan” means a loan made pursuant to clause (a) of Section 2.01.

Tranche B Loan Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make a Loan to the Borrowers pursuant to clause (a) of Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 hereto (on file with the Administrative Agent) under the caption “Tranche B Loan Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The aggregate amount of the Tranche B Loan Commitments is $75,000,000.

Tranche C Commitment” means the Initial Tranche C Commitments and/or the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments, as the context requires.

 

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Tranche C Debt” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(e).

Tranche C Lender” means any Lender holding Tranche C Loans.

Tranche C Loan Buyout Date” means the date of consummation of the purchase of Tranche C Loans pursuant to Section 7.03.

Tranche C Loan Buyout Date Prepayment Premium” means the Prepayment Premium that Borrowers would have owed under this Agreement in respect of the Buyout Tranche C Loans if the Buyout Tranche C Loans were voluntarily prepaid by Borrowers on the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date.

Tranche C Loans” means the Initial Tranche C Loans and/or the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans, as the context requires.

Tranche C Prepayment Premium Realization Proceeds” means the product of (a) the ratio of the total outstanding principal balance of Buyout Tranche C Loans as of the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date to the sum of (x) the outstanding principal balance of all Loans immediately after the Tranche C Loan Purchase Date (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans but excluding any Buyout Tranche C Loans) and (y) the outstanding principal balance of Buyout Tranche C Loans as of the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date, and (b) the Prepayment Premium Realization Proceeds.

Tranche C Upfront Fee” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.09(b).

Transactions” means (a) the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the borrowing of Loans and the use of the proceeds thereof, and (b) the issuance of the Warrants pursuant to the Warrant Documents and the consummation of all other transactions related thereto as required or contemplated thereunder to be concurrently consummated therewith.

Treasury Rate” means, as of any date of determination, the yield to maturity as of such date of the United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to such date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from such date to the Maturity Date for such Loans; provided that if the period from such date to such Maturity Date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be used.

Triggering Event Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(a).

Unused Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.09(c).

U.S. Dollars” and the sign “$” mean the lawful money of the United States.

U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(f)(ii)(B)(3).

 

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USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.

Warrants” has the meaning assigned thereto in the applicable Warrant Purchase Agreement, or all such Warrants, collectively, as the context may require.

Warrant Purchase Agreements” means the Warrant Purchase Agreements among the Company and the Lenders dated on or prior to the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit H.

Warrant Documents” means the Warrant Purchase Agreements and all agreements and instruments required to be executed and delivered thereunder or otherwise in connection therewith.

wholly-owned,” when used in reference to a subsidiary of any Person, means that all the Equity Interests of such subsidiary (other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable law) are owned, beneficially and of record, by such Person, another wholly-owned subsidiary of such Person or any combination thereof.

Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

SECTION 1.02. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all real and personal, tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. The word “law” shall be construed as referring to all statutes, rules, regulations, codes and other laws (including official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply), and all judgments, orders, writs and decrees, of all Governmental Authorities. References to the “knowledge” or “awareness” of any Person, when used in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, means, if such Person is a natural Person, the actual knowledge or awareness of such Person, and, if such Person is not a natural Person, the actual knowledge or awareness of each Responsible Officer of such Person and its subsidiaries. Except as otherwise provided herein and unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) shall, except as otherwise provided herein, be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any definition of or reference to any statute, rule or regulation shall be construed as referring thereto as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor laws), and all references to any statute shall be construed as referring to all rules, regulations, rulings and official interpretations promulgated or issued thereunder, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all functions thereof, (d) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof and (e) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement.

 

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SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time; provided that (a) if the Company, by notice to the Administrative Agent, shall request an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, by notice to the Company, shall request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith and (b) notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, (i) without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, or any successor thereto (including pursuant to the Accounting Standards Codification), to value any Indebtedness of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries at “fair value,” as defined therein and (ii) without giving effect to any change to GAAP as a result of the issuance by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), or any other proposals issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in connection therewith, in each case if such change would require treating any lease (or similar arrangement conveying the right to use) as a capital lease where such lease (or similar arrangement) was not required to be so treated under GAAP prior to such change.

SECTION 1.04. Currency Translation. For purposes of any determination under Articles VI and VII, amounts incurred or outstanding, or proposed to be incurred or outstanding, in currencies other than U.S. Dollars shall be translated into U.S. Dollars at the currency exchange rates in effect on the date of such determination; provided that (a) for purposes of any determination under Sections 6.04, 6.05 and 6.06, the amount of each applicable transaction denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars shall be translated into U.S. Dollars at the applicable currency exchange rate in effect on the date of the consummation thereof, which currency exchange rates shall be determined in good faith by the Company, and (b) for purposes of the Financial Covenant, and the related definitions, amounts in currencies other than U.S. Dollars shall be translated into U.S. Dollars at the currency exchange rates then most recently used in preparing the consolidated financial statements of the Company.

ARTICLE II

The Facilities

SECTION 2.01. Commitments.

(a) On the Initial Closing Date, the Initial Lenders, pursuant to their respective Initial Loan Commitments (as defined in the Initial Credit Agreement), made loans to the Borrowers in an aggregate original principal amount of $27,500,000 (the “Initial Loans”). On June 13, 2019, the Delayed Draw Lenders, pursuant to their respective Delayed Draw Loan Commitments (as defined in the Initial Credit Agreement), made loans to the Borrowers in an aggregate original principal amount of $22,500,000 (the “Delayed Draw Loans”). The Initial Loans and the Delayed Draw Loans are referred to herein in the aggregate as the Tranche A Loans. The aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Tranche A Loans on the date hereof is $65,253,419.01 and accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date hereof is $740,912.70. On the Closing Date, the Initial Tranche B Lenders, pursuant to their respective Tranche B Loan Commitments, made loans to the Borrowers in an aggregate original principal amount of $75,000,000. The aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Tranche B Loans on the date hereof is

 

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$91,008,780.58 and accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date hereof is $583,973.01. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Tranche A Loans and the Tranche B Loans shall have the same terms and shall be treated as part of a single class of Loans.

(b) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Fifth Amendment and this Agreement, each Initial Tranche C Lender severally agrees to make to the Borrowers on the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date one or more Initial Tranche C Loans denominated in U.S. Dollars in an aggregate amount equal to such Initial Tranche C Lender’s Initial Tranche C Commitment on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. The Initial Tranche C Loans shall be a separate class of Loans from the Tranche A Loans and the Tranche B Loans.

(c) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Fifth Amendment and this Agreement, each Delayed Draw Tranche C Lender severally agrees to make Delayed Draw Tranche C Term Loans to the Borrowers denominated in U.S. Dollars on one (1) occasion at any time after December 24, 2021 until the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to such Lender’s Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. The Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans shall be a separate class of Loans from the Tranche A Loans and the Tranche B Loans.

SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings.

(a) Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make a Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Subject to Section 2.11, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of Eurocurrency Loans in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c) The Borrowing of Initial Tranche C Loans on the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date will be in an aggregate amount up to the aggregate Initial Tranche C Commitments, as requested by the Borrower Representative and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein.

(d) The Borrowing of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans will be in an aggregate amount equal to (but not less than) the aggregate Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments, as requested by the Borrower Representative and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein.

(e) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $250,000 and not less than $500,000; provided that a Eurocurrency Borrowing that results from a continuation of an outstanding Eurocurrency Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to such outstanding Borrowing. There shall not at any time be more than a total of five (5) Eurocurrency Borrowings outstanding; provided that after the establishment of any new class of Loans pursuant to the Fifth Amendment such number of Eurocurrency Borrowings shall increase by two.

 

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SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings.

(a) The Borrower Representative shall deliver by hand, facsimile or email (with telephonic confirmation) to the Administrative Agent an executed written Borrowing Request for (x) the Initial Tranche C Loans to be made on the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, and (y) each request to fund Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, at least ten (10) Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing. Any such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or facsimile to the Administrative Agent of an executed written Borrowing Request. Each telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02(e): (1) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; (2) the name of the Borrower to whom funds are to be disbursed; (3) whether such Borrowing is of Initial Tranche C Loans or Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans; (4) the amount of such Borrowing; (5) the initial Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and (6) the location and number of the account(s) to which funds are to be disbursed.

(b) Each Borrowing shall be a Eurocurrency Borrowing.

SECTION 2.04. Funding of Borrowings. Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 2:00 p.m., New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrowers by promptly remitting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of one or more Borrowers as specified by the Borrower Representative.

SECTION 2.05. Termination and Reduction of Commitments.

(a) The Tranche B Loan Commitments automatically terminated immediately after the Borrowing of the Tranche B Loans on the Closing Date. Unless previously terminated, the Initial Tranche C Commitments shall automatically terminate immediately after the Borrowing of the Initial Tranche C Loans on the date that is five Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date. The Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments shall automatically terminate on the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date and, upon the funding of any Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan, a portion of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments equal to the principal amount of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans so funded shall automatically terminate.

(b) At its option, the Borrower Representative may at any time prior to the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date terminate the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments in full (but not in part). The Borrower Representative shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any election to terminate or reduce the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower Representative pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments delivered by the Borrower Representative may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of another credit facility or the closing of a securities offering or the receipt of proceeds another transaction, in each case not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower Representative (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments shall be permanent. Any reduction of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments shall be made ratably among the Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders in accordance with their respective Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments.

 

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SECTION 2.06. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

(a) The Borrowers hereby unconditionally promise to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan of such Lender as provided in Section 2.07.

(b) The records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of the Borrowers in respect of the Loans, interest and fees due or accrued hereunder; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to maintain such records or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrowers to pay any amounts due hereunder in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrowers shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) substantially in the form of Exhibit I. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns).

SECTION 2.07. Repayment on Maturity Date. To the extent not previously repaid or prepaid, all Loans shall be due and payable on the Maturity Date.

SECTION 2.08. Prepayment of Loans.

(a) The Borrowers shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to the requirements of this Section.

(b) Upon any Change in Control, the Borrowers shall repay all Loans in full together with all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers then owed hereunder, and the Commitments shall automatically terminate.

(c) In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Prepayment Event, the Borrowers shall, on the first (1st) Business Day immediately following the day such Net Proceeds are received (or, in the case of a Prepayment Event described in clause (a), (b) or (e) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event,” within three Business Days after such Net Proceeds are received), prepay the Loans in an amount equal to such Net Proceeds; provided that, in the case of any event described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event,” if the Borrowers shall, prior to the date of the required prepayment, deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrowers to the effect that the Borrowers intend to cause the Net Proceeds from such event (or a portion thereof specified in such certificate) to be applied within 180 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds to acquire real property, equipment or other assets to be used in the business of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, and certifying that no Default has occurred and is continuing, then no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this paragraph in respect of the Net Proceeds from such event (or the portion of such Net Proceeds specified in such certificate, if applicable) except to the extent of any such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied by the end of such 180-day period (or within a period of 180 days thereafter if by the end of such initial 180-day period one or more of the Loan Parties shall have entered into an agreement with a third party to acquire

 

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such real property, equipment or other assets with such Net Proceeds), at which time a prepayment shall be required in an amount equal to the Net Proceeds that have not been so applied; provided further that (A) to the extent any such Net Proceeds shall be received in respect of assets owned by a Loan Party, such Net Proceeds may be reinvested only in assets owned by a Loan Party, and (B) to the extent any such Net Proceeds shall be received in respect of assets owned by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party but the Equity Interests of which constitute Collateral, such Net Proceeds may be reinvested only in assets owned by a Loan Party or assets owned by a Subsidiary the Equity Interests of which constitute Collateral. Prepayments from Net Proceeds in respect of any Prepayment Event in respect of a Foreign Subsidiary (“Foreign Net Proceeds”) will not be required unless and until cash is repatriated to the United States, in which event the Borrowers shall, within three (3) Business Days of such repatriation, prepay the Loans in an amount equal to the lesser of the amount of cash so repatriated and the aggregate amount of Foreign Net Proceeds in respect of which the Loans have not been prepaid. Any Lender may elect, by notice to the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery or facsimile) at least one Business Day (or such shorter period as may be established by the Administrative Agent) prior to the required prepayment date, to decline all or any portion of any prepayment of its Loans pursuant to this paragraph (c), in which case the aggregate amount of the payment that would have been applied to prepay the Loans but was so declined may be retained by the Borrowers.

(d) In the event and on each occasion that, as a result of the receipt of any cash proceeds by the Borrowers or any other Subsidiary in connection with any Disposition of any asset or any other event, the Borrowers or any other Loan Party would be required by the terms of any subordinated indebtedness to repay, prepay, redeem, repurchase or defease, or make an offer to repay, prepay, redeem, repurchase or defease, any subordinated indebtedness, then, prior to the time at which they would be required to make such repayment, prepayment, redemption, repurchase or defeasance or to make such offer, the Borrowers shall (i) prepay Loans in the amount of such required repayment, prepayment, redemption, repurchase or defeasance or (ii) acquire assets in one or more transactions permitted hereby, in each case in an amount that would be needed to eliminate such requirement.

(e) The Borrower Representative shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by hand delivery or facsimile) of any optional prepayment and, to the extent practicable, any mandatory prepayment hereunder, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date, the principal amount of the Loans to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment; provided that a notice of prepayment of the Loans pursuant to paragraphs (a) or (b) of this Section may state that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of one or more events specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower Representative (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified date of prepayment) if such condition is not satisfied. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of the Loans pursuant to Section 2.08(a) shall be in a minimum amount of $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each prepayment of the Loans shall be applied ratably to each Lender’s Loans. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.10.

(f) In the event that all or any portion of the Loans is repaid or prepaid (including payments made following acceleration of the Loans or after an Event of Default (including upon the occurrence of a bankruptcy or insolvency event or the acceleration of claims by operation of law) and payments of the purchase price in connection with the assignment of the Loans made pursuant to Section 2.16) pursuant to Section 2.08(a), (b) or (c) (due to a Prepayment Event of the type specified in clause (a), (d) or (e) of the definition thereof), such repayments or prepayments will be made in an amount equal to (x) with respect to a repayment or prepayment of a Loan other than a Tranche C Loan, (i) if such repayment or prepayment occurs prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, 115.0% of the amount repaid or prepaid,

 

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(ii) if such repayment or prepayment occurs on or after the first anniversary of the Closing Date but prior to December 24, 2021, 110.0% of the amount repaid or prepaid and (iii) if such repayment or prepayment occurs on or after December 24, 2021 but prior to the Maturity Date, 105.0% of the amount repaid or prepaid and (y) with respect to a repayment or prepayment of a Tranche C Loan, (i) if such repayment or prepayment occurs prior to December 24, 2021, 103.0% of the amount repaid or prepaid and (ii) if such repayment or prepayment occurs on or after December 24, 2021 but prior to the Maturity Date, 105.0% of the amount repaid or prepaid (the foregoing premiums in clauses (x) and (y), in each case, the “Prepayment Premium”). Such Prepayment Premium shall be paid by the Borrowers to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, on the date of such repayment or prepayment.

(g) If the Loans are accelerated or otherwise become due prior to the Maturity Date, in each case, as a result of an Event of Default (including upon the occurrence of a bankruptcy or insolvency event (including the acceleration of claims by operation of law)), the amount of principal of and premium on the Loans that becomes due and payable shall equal 100% of the principal amount of the Loans outstanding at such time plus the applicable Prepayment Premium in effect on the date of such acceleration, as if such acceleration were a voluntary prepayment of the Loans accelerated and the applicable Prepayment Premium shall constitute part of the Secured Obligations, in view of the impracticability and extreme difficulty of ascertaining actual damages and by mutual agreement of the parties as to a reasonable calculation of each Lender’s lost profits as a result thereof. Any premium payable above shall be presumed to be the liquidated damages sustained by each Lender as the result of the early prepayment or repayment and the Borrowers agree that it is reasonable under the circumstances currently existing. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Prepayment Premium is not intended to act as a penalty or to punish the Loan Parties for any repayment or prepayment of the Loans. THE BORROWERS EXPRESSLY WAIVE (TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THEY MAY LAWFULLY DO SO) THE PROVISIONS OF ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE STATUTE OR LAW THAT PROHIBITS OR MAY PROHIBIT THE COLLECTION OF THE PREPAYMENT PREMIUM IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUCH ACCELERATION. The Borrowers expressly agree (to the fullest extent they may lawfully do so) that: (A) the Prepayment Premium is reasonable and is the product of an arm’s-length transaction between sophisticated business people, ably represented by counsel; (B) the Prepayment Premium shall be payable notwithstanding the then prevailing market rates at the time payment is made; (C) there has been a course of conduct between the Lenders and the Borrowers giving specific consideration in this transaction for such agreement to pay the Prepayment Premium; (D) the Borrowers shall be estopped hereafter from claiming differently than as agreed to in this clause (g), (E) the agreement of the Borrowers to pay the Prepayment Premium is a material inducement to the Lenders to extend the Loans and (F) the Prepayment Premium represents a good-faith, reasonable estimate and calculation of the lost profits or damages of the Lenders and that it would be impractical and extremely difficult to ascertain the actual amount of damages to any Lender or profits lost by such Lender as a result of the repayment or prepayment of the Loans. For the avoidance of doubt, no Prepayment Premium shall be required to be paid by the Non-Birch Grove Lenders at the time of their purchase of the Tranche C Debt in accordance with Section 7.03.

SECTION 2.09. Fees.

(a) The Borrowers shall pay, or cause to be paid, the fees in the amounts, at the times, and to the Persons specified in the Fee Letters.

(b) The Borrowers agree to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of the Tranche C Lenders, an upfront fee equal to 3.00% of the amount of the Tranche C Commitments (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments) provided by each Tranche C Lender on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (the “Tranche C Upfront Fee”), which fee shall be earned and due and payable on the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date. The full amount of the Tranche C Upfront Fee due to any Tranche C Lender shall be offset against the amount of the Initial Tranche C Loans to be funded by such Tranche C Lender on the date that is five (5) Business Days after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date; provided that any such offset shall not reduce the principal amount of the Tranche C Loans outstanding hereunder.

 

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SECTION 2.10. Interest.

(a) The Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall bear interest at the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin; provided that interest applicable to such Eurocurrency Borrowing shall not exceed 13.25% per annum.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, all Loans and other outstanding obligations hereunder shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to 2.00% per annum plus the rate otherwise applicable to Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.

(c) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in kind in lieu of cash on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan by capitalizing and adding such interest to the outstanding principal amount of such Loan on such Interest Payment Date (or, at the option of the Borrowers, interest may be paid in cash in whole or in part); provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section shall be payable in cash on demand, (ii) to the extent paid in cash, accrued interest shall be paid ratably across all Loans which share an Interest Payment Date in proportion to the interest due on such Loans on such Interest Payment Date and (iii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan, accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable in cash on the date of such repayment or prepayment.

(d) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

SECTION 2.11. Alternate Rate of Interest. If, prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Administrative Agent reasonably determines in good faith (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period (including by means of an interpolated rate or because the LIBO Rate is not available or published on a current basis) then the Administrative Agent shall give notice (which may be by electronic communication pursuant to Section 9.01) thereof to the Borrower Representative and the Lenders as promptly as practicable. If at any time the Administrative Agent reasonably determines in good faith (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that (i) the circumstances set forth above have arisen and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary or continue for more than five (5) consecutive days or (ii) the circumstances set forth above have not arisen but the supervisor for the administrator of the LIBO Rate or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the LIBO Rate shall no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrower Representative shall endeavor in good faith to establish an alternate rate of interest to the LIBO Rate that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for syndicated loans in the United States at such time, and shall enter, with the consent of the Required Lenders, into an amendment to this Agreement to reflect such alternate rate of interest and such other related changes to this Agreement as may be applicable (it being understood that any such alternate rate of interest shall be effective only upon the effectiveness of such amendment).

 

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SECTION 2.12. Increased Costs.

(a) If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the LIBO Rate);

(ii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Loans made by such Lender; or

(iii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of the term “Excluded Taxes” and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or other Recipient of making, continuing or maintaining any Loan or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, from time to time upon request of such Lender or other Recipient, the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs or expenses incurred or reduction suffered.

(b) If any Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has had or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by such Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity), then, from time to time upon request of such Lender, the Borrowers will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section delivered to the Borrowers shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof.

(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or expenses incurred or reductions suffered more than 270 days prior to the date that such Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Borrowers of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

 

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SECTION 2.13. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the failure to borrow or continue any Eurocurrency Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, (c) the failure to prepay any Eurocurrency Loan on a date specified therefor in any notice of prepayment given by the Borrowers (whether or not such notice may be revoked in accordance with the terms hereof) or (d) the assignment of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.16, then, in any such event, the Borrowers shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. Such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount reasonably determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan (but not including the Applicable Margin applicable thereto), for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate such Lender would bid if it were to bid, at the commencement of such period, for U.S. Dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the London interbank market. A certificate of any Lender delivered to the Borrower Representative and setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 Business Days after receipt thereof.

SECTION 2.14. Taxes.

(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.14) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c) Evidence of Payment. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(d) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such

 

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Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower Representative by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 9.04(c)(ii) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).

(f) Status of Lenders. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.14(f)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Borrower is a U.S. Person:

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to such Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of such Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. Federal backup withholding tax;

(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to such Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of such Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

 

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(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

(2) executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of such Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or

(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J-3 or Exhibit J-4, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J-2 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to such Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of such Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. Federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit such Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to such Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by such Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by such Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for such Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.

 

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(E) Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify such Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(g) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph, in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

SECTION 2.15. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs.

(a) Each Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment (or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 5:00 PM, New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without any defense, setoff, recoupment or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to such account as may be specified by the Administrative Agent, except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents shall be made to the Persons specified therein. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payment received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments under each Loan Document shall be made in U.S. Dollars.

(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied towards payment of the amounts then due hereunder ratably among the parties entitled thereto, in accordance with the amounts then due to such parties.

 

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(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans, such Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof, and if the Administrative Agent determines that such payment has resulted in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then such Lender shall purchase participations (for cash at face value, which it shall be deemed to have purchased from each seller of a participation simultaneously upon the receipt by such seller of its portion of such payment) in the Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the amount of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amounts of principal of and accrued interest on their Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (for the avoidance of doubt, as in effect from time to time) or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any Person that is an Eligible Assignee (as such term is defined from time to time) pursuant to Section 9.04. Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.

(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from the Borrower Representative prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrowers shall not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers have made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it hereunder to or for the account of the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations in respect of such payment until all such unsatisfied obligations have been discharged or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender pursuant to Sections 2.03, 2.14(e), 2.15(d) and 9.03(c), in each case in such order as shall be determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.

SECTION 2.16. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.

(a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.12, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or to any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.14, then such Lender shall (at the request of the Borrowers) use commercially reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment and delegation (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.14, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment and delegation.

 

 

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(b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.12, (ii) the Borrowers are required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.14, (iii) any Lender has become a Defaulting Lender, or (iv) any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, discharge or termination that under Section 9.02 requires the consent of all the Lenders (or all the affected Lenders) and with respect to which the Required Lenders shall have granted their consent, then the Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.14) and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (or, in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a failure to provide a consent, all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as a Lender) to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment and delegation); provided that (A) the Borrowers shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, conditioned or delayed (B) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder (including, if applicable, the Prepayment Premium pursuant to Section 2.08(f) (with such assignment being deemed to be an optional prepayment for purposes of determining the applicability of such Section)) (if applicable, in each case only to the extent such amounts relate to its interest as a Lender) from the assignee (in the case of such principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts), (C) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.12 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.14, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments, (D) such assignment does not conflict with applicable law and (E) in the case of any such assignment and delegation resulting from the failure to provide a consent, the assignee shall have given such consent and, as a result of such assignment and delegation and any contemporaneous assignments and delegations and consents, the applicable amendment, waiver, discharge or termination can be effected. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver or consent by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation have ceased to apply. Each party hereto agrees that an assignment and delegation required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the assignee and that the Lender required to make such assignment and delegation need not be a party thereto.

SECTION 2.17. Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, (x) the Commitment and outstanding principal amount of Loans of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders or any other requisite Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 9.02) and (y) if applicable, the Unused Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Fee shall cease to accrue on the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment of such Lender for so long as it is a Defaulting Lender; provided that any amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or all Lenders affected thereby shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.02, require the consent of such Defaulting Lender in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

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SECTION 2.18. Borrower Representative. The Company hereby (i) is designated and appointed by each other Borrower as its representative and agent on its behalf (the “Borrower Representative”) and (ii) accepts such appointment as the Borrower Representative, in each case, for the purposes of delivering Borrowing Requests, delivering certificates including Compliance Certificates, giving instructions with respect to the disbursement of the proceeds of the Loans, giving and receiving all other notices and consents hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents and taking all other actions (including in respect of compliance with covenants, but without relieving any other Borrower of its joint and several obligations to pay and perform the Loan Document Obligations) on behalf of any Borrower or the Borrowers under the Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent and each Lender may regard any notice or other communication pursuant to any Loan Document from the Borrower Representative as a notice or communication from all Borrowers. Each warranty, covenant, agreement and undertaking made on behalf of a Borrower by the Borrower Representative shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by such Borrower and shall be binding upon and enforceable against such Borrower to the same extent as if the same had been made directly by such Borrower.

ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the Closing Date and as of each other date the representations and warranties are required to be or deemed made pursuant to this Agreement, that:

SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is (a) duly organized, validly existing and (to the extent the concept is applicable in such jurisdiction) in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has all requisite corporate or other organizational power and authority and all material Governmental Approvals required for the ownership and operation of its properties and the conduct of its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted and (c) is qualified to do business, and is in good standing, in every jurisdiction where such qualification is required, except in each case referred to in this clause (c), where the failure to be so, to have such or to do so, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions, the Spectrum Acquisition and the Fifth Amendment Transactions to be entered into by each Loan Party are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other organizational power and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action (including by the Governing Board) and, if required, action of the Equity Interest owners, of each Loan Party. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Borrower or such Loan Party, as the case may be, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; Absence of Conflicts. The Transactions, the Spectrum Acquisition and the Fifth Amendment Transactions (a) do not require any Governmental Approvals, except (i) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) such as to be issued by the FCC in accordance with the procedures and law applicable to the Auction concurrently with the consummation of the Spectrum Acquisition to the extent that the Company is the winning bidder in the Auction, (iii) filings necessary to perfect Liens created under the Loan Documents, and (iv) with respect to the issuance of the Warrants pursuant to the Warrant Documents, filings as may be required by any applicable

 

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federal or state securities or “blue sky” laws, (b) will not violate any applicable law, including any order of any Governmental Authority, in any material respect, except to the extent any such violations, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (c) will not violate the Organizational Documents of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (d) will not violate or result (alone or with notice or lapse of time, or both) in a default under any indenture or other agreement or instrument binding upon a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment, repurchase or redemption to be made by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or give rise to a right of, or result in, any termination, cancellation, acceleration or right of renegotiation of any obligation thereunder, in each case except to the extent that the foregoing, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (e) except for Liens created under the Loan Documents, will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.

(a) The Company has heretofore furnished to the Lenders (i) its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, and as of and for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2021, each certified by a Financial Officer and (ii) its consolidated pro forma balance sheet as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, adjusted to give effect to the Fifth Amendment Transactions. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) above. All books, records and accounts of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries are accurate and complete and are maintained in all material respects in accordance with good business practice and all applicable laws. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries maintain systems of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that: (i) transactions are executed in all material respects in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP in all material respects applied on a consistent basis and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the actual levels at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any material differences.

(b) Except as disclosed in the financial statements referred to above or the notes thereto, after giving effect to the Fifth Amendment Transactions (in each case, to the extent such transactions have occurred by the applicable date), none of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries has, as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, any material contingent liabilities, off-balance sheet liabilities or partnerships, unusual long-term commitments or unrealized losses.

(c) Since June 12, 2018, there has been no event or condition that has resulted, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.04 and as contemplated by the SPAC Transaction, from the date of the consolidated balance sheet of the Company referred to in clause (i) of Section 3.04(a) through the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries has conducted its business only in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices in all material respects, and during such period none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries has (i) declared or made, or agreed to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment or (ii) consummated any Material Acquisition or Material Disposition or any other transaction that would be prohibited by Section 6.03, 6.05, 6.07 or 6.09 if the covenants set forth therein were in effect during such period.

 

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SECTION 3.05. Properties.

(a) Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries has good and marketable title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its property material to its business (including its Mortgaged Properties), except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes.

(b) Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all Intellectual Property that is used in or necessary for the conduct of its business as currently conducted, and proposed to be conducted, and without conflict with the rights of any other Person, except to the extent any such conflict, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, technology, software, domain names or other Intellectual Property used by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the operation of its business infringes upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No claim or litigation regarding any patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, technology, software, domain names or other Intellectual Property owned or used by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is pending or, to the knowledge of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, threatened against a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Closing Date, and after giving effect to the Spectrum Acquisition, each patent, trademark, copyright, license, technology, software, domain name or other Intellectual Property that, individually or in the aggregate, is material to the business of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries (or to the business of the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries) is owned by the Company or its Domestic Subsidiaries.

(c) Schedule 3.05 sets forth the address of each real property that constitutes a Mortgaged Property as of the Closing Date and the proper jurisdiction for the filing of Mortgages in respect thereof. As of the Closing Date, none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (i) has received notice, or has knowledge, of any pending or contemplated condemnation proceeding affecting any Mortgaged Property or any Disposition thereof in lieu of condemnation or (ii) is or could be obligated under any right of first refusal, option or other contractual right to Dispose of any Mortgaged Property or any interest therein.

SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters.

(a) There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that (i) would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) involve any of the Loan Documents, the Transactions, the Spectrum Acquisition or the Fifth Amendment Transactions.

(b) Except with respect to any matters that, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.

SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements.

(a) Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is in compliance with all laws, including all orders of Governmental Authorities, applicable to it or its property and all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except to the extent any such non-compliance, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

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(b) To the extent applicable, each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, and (ii) the USA PATRIOT Act. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries or any Governing Board member, officer, employee, agent, or Affiliate of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is a Person that is, or is owned 50% or more, individually or in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, or controlled by Persons that are: (i) the subject or target of any Sanctions or (ii) located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, or otherwise made available (A) for any payments to any officer or employee of a Governmental Authority, or any Person controlled by a Governmental Authority, or any political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or (B) to any Person for the purpose of financing the activities of any Person currently subject to any United States sanctions administered by OFAC.

SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.

SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be timely filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it that have become due in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate, except where (i) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligations and (ii) each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, has set aside on its books reserves with respect thereto to the extent required by GAAP.

SECTION 3.10. ERISA; Labor Matters.

(a) No ERISA Events have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur that could, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $100,000 the fair value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715) did not, as of the date or dates of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed by more than $100,000 the fair value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans.

(b) As of the Closing Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries pending or, to their knowledge, threatened. The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Federal, state, local or foreign law relating to such matters. All material payments due from the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, or for which any claim may be made against a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or accrued as liabilities on the books of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries. The consummation of the Transactions and the Fifth Amendment Transactions will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement under which a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is bound.

 

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SECTION 3.11. Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures; Ownership; Disqualified Equity Interests.

(a) Schedule 3.11A sets forth, as of the Closing Date, the name and jurisdiction of organization of, and the number of units and percentage of each class, series and/or type of Equity Interests owned by (i) the Company in each of its Subsidiaries and (ii) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries in each joint venture or other Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests. The Equity Interests of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and, if constituting capital stock, non-assessable.

(b) Schedule 3.11B sets forth, as of the Closing Date, the number of units and percentage of each class, series and/or type of Equity Interests of the Company owned by each holder thereof.

(c) There are no outstanding Disqualified Equity Interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

SECTION 3.12. Insurance. Schedule 3.12 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date.

SECTION 3.13. Solvency. Immediately after the making of each Loan on the occasion of each Borrowing (other than as a result of continuing a Borrowing, regardless of a change in Interest Period) and the application of the proceeds thereof, and giving effect to the rights of subrogation and contribution under the Collateral Agreement, the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, will be Solvent; provided that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be deemed to be in breach of this Section 3.13 solely due to the funding of any escrow deposit required to participate in the Auction.

SECTION 3.14. Disclosure. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have disclosed to the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and all other matters known to the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, included herein or therein or furnished hereunder or thereunder, when taken as a whole, contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to forecasts or projected financial information, each of the Borrowers represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by it to be reasonable at the time made and at the time so furnished and, if furnished prior to the Closing Date, as of the Closing Date (it being understood that such forecasts and projections may vary from actual results and that such variances may be material).

SECTION 3.15. Collateral Matters.

(a) The Collateral Agreement, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto, will create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral (as defined therein) and (i) when the Collateral (as defined therein) constituting certificated securities (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code) is delivered to the Administrative Agent, together with instruments of transfer duly endorsed in blank, the security interest created under the Collateral Agreement will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right,

 

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title and interest of the pledgors thereunder in such Collateral, prior in right to any other Person, and (ii) when financing statements in appropriate form are filed in the applicable filing offices, the security interest created under the Collateral Agreement will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the remaining Collateral (as defined therein) to the extent perfection can be obtained by filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, prior to the rights of any other Person, except for rights secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.02.

(b) Each Mortgage, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto, will create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in all the applicable mortgagor’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged Properties subject thereto and the proceeds thereof, and when the Mortgages have been filed in the jurisdictions specified therein, the Mortgages will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the mortgagors in the Mortgaged Properties and the proceeds thereof, prior in right to any other Person, but subject to Liens permitted under Section 6.02.

(c) Upon the recordation of the IP Security Agreements with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, and the filing of the financing statements referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section, the security interest created under the Collateral Agreement will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the Intellectual Property in which a security interest may be perfected by filing in the United States of America, in each case prior in right to any other Person, but subject to Liens permitted under Section 6.02 (it being understood that subsequent recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office may be necessary to perfect a security interest in such Intellectual Property acquired by the Loan Parties after the Closing Date).

(d) Each Security Document, other than any Security Document referred to in the preceding paragraphs of this Section, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto and the making of the filings and taking of the other actions provided for therein, will be effective under applicable law to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral subject thereto, and will constitute a fully perfected security interest in all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the Collateral subject thereto, prior to the rights of any other Person, except for rights secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.02.

SECTION 3.16. Federal Reserve Regulations. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is engaged or will engage principally or as one of its important activities in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation (including on the part of any Lender) of any of the regulations of the Board of Governors, including Regulations U and X of the Board of Governors. Not more than 25% of the value of the assets subject to any restrictions on the Disposition of assets under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement to which any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender is party will at any time be represented by margin stock.

SECTION 3.17. Material Contracts. Schedule 3.17 contains a true, correct and complete list of all the Material Contracts in effect on the Closing Date, and, as of the Closing Date, all such Material Contracts are in full force and effect and no defaults exist thereunder (other than as described in Schedule 3.17).

 

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SECTION 3.18. Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws and Sanctions. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and their respective Governing Board members, officers, employees and agents are in compliance with AML Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws and all applicable Sanctions in all material respects. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with AML Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws and applicable Sanctions. Neither the Transactions nor the Fifth Amendment Transactions will violate AML Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws or applicable Sanctions.

SECTION 3.19. FCC Licenses and Approvals.

(a) Schedule 3.19 contains a true, correct and complete list of all FCC Licenses held by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and correctly sets forth the termination date, if any, of each such FCC License. Other than the FCC Licenses set forth on Schedule 3.19, none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and Affiliates hold any attributable or other interests in licenses, authorizations or permits issued by the FCC as of the Closing Date. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries has any knowledge of the occurrence of any event or the existence of any circumstance which, in the reasonable judgment of such Loan Party or Subsidiary, is likely to lead to the revocation of any FCC License. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries each have the right to use all FCC Licenses required for the operation of their respective businesses as presently conducted and are each in compliance with all terms and conditions set forth on the face of the FCC Licenses or that otherwise apply to the FCC Licenses pursuant to FCC Rules. Each such FCC License is in full force and effect and does not, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, conflict with the valid rights of others.

(b) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is a party to or has knowledge of any investigation, notice of apparent liability, violation, forfeiture or other order or complaint issued by or before any Governmental Authority or of any other proceedings that could in any manner threaten or adversely affect the validity or continued effectiveness of the FCC Licenses of any Loan Party or give rise to any order of forfeiture. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries has any reason to believe that the FCC Licenses set forth on Schedule 3.19 will not be renewed in the ordinary course following the expiration of their respective current terms. Each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries has filed in a timely manner all material reports, applications, documents, instruments and information required to be filed by it pursuant to applicable rules and regulations or requests of every Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over any of its FCC Licenses.

ARTICLE IV

Conditions

SECTION 4.01. Initial Closing Date. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans on the Initial Closing Date shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions shall be satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02):

(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each Loan Party a counterpart of the Initial Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party, signed on behalf of such party.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Initial Closing Date) of each of (i) Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties and (ii) Chapman and Cutler LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

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(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of each Loan Party, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Loan Parties, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Initial Closing Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Loan Parties, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in the first sentence of paragraph (f) of this Section and in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.03.

(e) The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Initial Closing Date, including, to the extent invoiced, payment or reimbursement of all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of Lender’s counsel and the Administrative Agent’s counsel, as set forth in an invoice delivered to the Company at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Initial Closing Date ) required to be paid or reimbursed by any Loan Party under any Loan Document.

(f) The Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been satisfied (subject to the penultimate sentence of this Section 4.01). The Administrative Agent shall have received a completed Perfection Certificate, dated the Initial Closing Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Loan Parties, together with all attachments contemplated thereby, including the results of a search of the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent) filings made with respect to the Loan Parties in the jurisdictions contemplated by the Perfection Certificate and copies of the financing statements (or similar documents) disclosed by such search and evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Liens indicated by such financing statements (or similar documents) are permitted under Section 6.02 or have been, or substantially contemporaneously with the initial funding of Loans on the Initial Closing Date will be, released.

(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that the insurance required by Section 5.08 is in effect, together with endorsements naming the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder to the extent required under Section 5.08.

(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received the annual financial projections for the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal years ended 2019 through 2023.

(i) The Lenders shall have received the financial statements, opinions and certificates referred to in Section 3.04.

(j) Immediately after giving effect to the Transactions, none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall have outstanding any Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness permitted pursuant to clause (i), (ii), (vii), (viii) or (xi) of Section 6.01(a).

(k) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Initial Closing Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of each of the Loan Parties, as to the solvency representation and warranty set forth in Section 3.13, in the form provided to the Loan Parties prior to the Closing Date.

(l) The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, including, without limitation, a duly executed IRS Form W-9 (or such other applicable IRS form)

 

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of the Borrowers, in each case to the extent request in writing at least ten (10) days prior to the Initial Closing Date. At least five (5) days prior to the Initial Closing Date, any Borrower that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall deliver a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Borrower.

(m) Each FCC License held by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall be in full force and effect.

(n) The Lenders shall have received the Warrant Documents, duly executed by the Company.

The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions shall have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on February 14, 2019 (and, in the event such conditions shall not have been so satisfied or waived, the Commitments shall terminate at such time).

SECTION 4.02. Closing Date. The effectiveness of this Agreement on the Closing Date and the obligation of each Tranche B Lender to make a Loan on the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(a) No Default shall have occurred and be continuing under the Initial Credit Agreement.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each Loan Party and the Lenders a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party.

(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each Loan Party a counterpart of the Reaffirmation of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and the other Loan Documents signed on behalf of such party.

(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received from the Borrowers any notes required pursuant to Section 2.06(c) signed on behalf of such party.

(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of each Loan Party, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Loan Parties, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(f) The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Closing Date, including, to the extent invoiced, payment or reimbursement of all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of Lender’s counsel and the Administrative Agent’s counsel, as set forth in an invoice delivered to the Company at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing Date ) required to be paid or reimbursed by any Loan Party under any Loan Document.

(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of each of the Loan Parties, as to the solvency representation and warranty set forth in Section 3.13, in the form provided to the Loan Parties prior to the Closing Date.

 

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(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received a written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Closing Date) of each of (i) Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties and (ii) Chapman and Cutler LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(i) The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, including, without limitation, a duly executed IRS Form W-9 (or such other applicable IRS form) of the Borrowers, in each case to the extent request in writing at least ten (10) days prior to the Closing Date. At least five (5) days prior to the Closing Date, any Borrower that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall deliver a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Borrower.

(j) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Loan Parties, confirming (x) that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement has been satisfied and (y) compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.03.

(k) Each FCC License held by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall be in full force and effect.

(l) The Lenders shall have received the Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed by the Company.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrowers shall have used commercially reasonable efforts to procure and deliver, but shall nevertheless be unable to deliver, any landlord, warehouseman, agent, bailee and processor acknowledgments required to be obtained by it in order to satisfy the requirements of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, such delivery shall not be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Lenders hereunder on the Closing Date, but shall be required to be accomplished as provided in Section 5.14.

On the Closing Date, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that the conditions specified in paragraph (a) of this Section has been satisfied.

SECTION 4.03. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing (other than as a result of continuing a Borrowing, regardless of a change in Interest Period) is subject to receipt of the request therefor in accordance herewith and to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(a) The representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct (i) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (ii) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case on and as of the date of such Borrowing, except in the case of any such representation and warranty that expressly relates to a prior date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be so true and correct on and as of such prior date.

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On the date of any Borrowing, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section have been satisfied.

SECTION 4.04. Additional Conditions to Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans. In addition to the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.03, the obligation of each Lender with a Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment to fund a Delayed Draw Tranche C Loan shall be subject to the satisfaction of each of the additional conditions precedent below:

(a) The SPAC’s registration statement on Form S-4 with respect to the SPAC Transaction (the “Registration Statement”) shall have been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act and shall remain effective as of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the date of the proposed Borrowing and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Loan Parties, confirming (x) that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement has been satisfied, (y) compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.03 and (z) that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Borrower Representative’s knowledge, threatened.

(c) The Convertible Note Subscription Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and no breach or default thereunder shall have occurred and be continuing.

(d) The Acquisition Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall not have been amended or modified, and no provision thereof shall have been waived, in either case in a manner adverse to the Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders, without Birch Grove’s prior written consent.

(e) The Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders shall have received the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated as of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date, duly executed by the Company and the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrants shall have been issued, or shall be issued substantially concurrently with the funding of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans, to the Tranche C Lenders as of the Tranche C Funding Date in accordance with the Delayed Draw Tranche C Warrant Purchase Agreement.

(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request as required by Section 2.03 with respect to the proposed Borrowing.

(g) No more than one (1) funding of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans shall have occurred after giving effect to the funding of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans requested by the applicable Borrowing Request.

(h) The funding of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans requested by the applicable Borrowing Request shall occur after December 24, 2021 but before the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date.

(i) The amount requested under the applicable Borrowing Request shall not exceed the remaining amount of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments and amounts paid or repaid in respect of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans may not be reborrowed.

 

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(j) The proceeds of the funding of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans will be used by Borrowers on the date of such funding to finance capital expenditures and working capital and for general corporate purposes.

(k) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of each of the Loan Parties, as to the solvency representation and warranty set forth in Section 3.13, in the form provided to the Loan Parties prior to the date hereof.

(l) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Loan Parties, confirming (x) that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement has been satisfied and (y) compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.03.

(m) Each FCC License held by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall be in full force and effect.

(n) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received the accrued fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Delayed Draw Tranche C Funding Date, including reimbursement or payment of all expenses (including legal fees and expenses) required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrowers hereunder or under any other Loan Documents.

ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants

Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, each Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrowers shall furnish to the Administrative Agent, on behalf of each Lender:

(a) within 547 days after the end of the fiscal year of the Company ending December 31, 2019, within 181 days after the end of the fiscal year of the Company ending December 31, 2020, and within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company thereafter, its consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the prior fiscal year, which financial statements shall, with respect to the balance sheet and related statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows, be audited by and accompanied by the opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification, exception or emphasis (other than (i) as a result of current debt maturity in the final year of the term of any Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 or (ii) concerning the liquidity of the Company for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2020) and without any qualification, exception or emphasis as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such year in accordance with GAAP and accompanied by (x) a narrative report containing management’s discussion and analysis of the financial position and financial performance for such fiscal year in reasonable form and detail and (y) an internally prepared reconciliation to the financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(b) for the fourth quarter of such fiscal year;

 

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(b) within 45 days (or, solely with respect to the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2019, 60 days) after the end of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Company, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2019, its consolidated balance sheet as of the end of such fiscal quarter, the related consolidated statements of income for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year and the related statements of cash flows for the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, in each case setting forth in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the prior fiscal year, and a comparison to the consolidated budget for such fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer of the Company as presenting fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and such portion of the fiscal year in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes, and accompanied by a narrative report containing management’s discussion and analysis of the financial position and financial performance for such fiscal quarter in reasonable form and detail;

(c) within 30 days after the end of each fiscal month of each fiscal quarter of the Company (or 45 days in the case of the third month of a fiscal quarter), its consolidated balance sheet and related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal month and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer of the Company as presenting fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of and for such fiscal month and such portion of the fiscal year in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;

(d) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (a) and (b) above, a completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Financial Officer of each Borrower, (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto and (ii) certifying that all notices required to be provided under Sections 5.03 and 5.04 have been provided;

(e) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (a) above, a report in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent outlining all material insurance coverage maintained as of the date of such report by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and all material insurance coverage planned to be maintained by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries for the remainder of such fiscal year;

(f) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (b) above, a completed Supplemental Perfection Certificate, signed by a Financial Officer of each Loan Party, setting forth the information required pursuant to the Supplemental Perfection Certificate;

(g) not more than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (or, in the case of the fiscal year of the Company ending December 31, 2020, not more than 181 days after the end of such fiscal year), a detailed consolidated budget for such fiscal year that has been approved by the Governing Board of the Company (including a projected consolidated balance sheet and related projected statements of income and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal year and setting forth the assumptions used for purposes of preparing such budget) and, promptly after the same become available, any significant revisions to such budget that have been approved by the Governing Board of the Company;

 

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(h) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries with the SEC or with any national securities exchange;

(i) promptly and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after any Material Contract of a Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries is prematurely terminated or amended in a manner that is materially adverse to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, a written statement describing such event, with copies of such material amendments, delivered to Administrative Agent, and an explanation of any actions being taken with respect thereto;

(j) prompt written notice of any change in the Company’s Governing Board; provided, that such notice shall not be required so long as the Lenders are entitled to appoint an Observer Representative;

(k) within ten (10) days after receipt thereof, copies of all environmental audits and reports with respect to any environmental matter which has resulted in or is reasonably likely to result in any material Environmental Liabilities of any Loan Party;

(l) within fifteen (15) days of demand by the Administrative Agent at any time following the filing thereof, copies of each federal income tax return filed by or on behalf of any Loan Party; and

(m) promptly after any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs, assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities) and financial condition of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, or compliance with the terms of any Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request.

Information required to be delivered pursuant to clause (a), (b) or (p) of this Section shall be deemed to have been delivered if such information, or one or more annual or quarterly reports containing such information, shall have been posted by the Administrative Agent on an IntraLinks or similar site to which the Lenders have been granted access or shall be available on the website of the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Information required to be delivered pursuant to this Section may also be delivered by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent. In the event any financial statements delivered under clause (a) or (b) above shall be restated, the Borrowers shall deliver, promptly after such restated financial statements become available, revised Compliance Certificates with respect to the periods covered thereby that give effect to such restatement, signed by a Financial Officer of each of the Borrowers.

The Company shall make its chief executive officer and a Financial Officer (or such other officers as agreed between the Borrowers and the Required Lenders) available to the Lenders for a telephonic conference call at least once per fiscal quarter (and for an in-person meeting at least once per fiscal year) to discuss the business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets and/or liabilities of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries; provided that any such information that is subject to attorney-client privilege, or would create a conflict of interest between the interests of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and those of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, need not be discussed.

 

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SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrowers shall furnish to the Administrative Agent written notice of the following promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days of:

(a) the occurrence of, or receipt by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of any written notice claiming the occurrence of, any Default or Event of Default;

(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any adverse determination in any such pending action, suit or proceeding not previously disclosed in writing by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, that in each case would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or, if successful, invalidate any Loan Document;

(c) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, would reasonably be expected to result in liability of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount of $200,000 or more;

(d) the occurrence of any Prepayment Event of the type described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of such term or any other casualty or other insured damage to any material portion of the Collateral or the commencement of any action or proceeding for the taking or expropriation of any material portion of the Collateral under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding;

(e) receipt of notice of (i) any forfeiture, non-renewal, cancellation, termination, revocation, suspension, impairment or material modification of any FCC License held by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any notice of default or forfeiture with respect to any such FCC License, or (ii) any refusal by any Governmental Authority to renew or extend any such FCC License (provided that for the avoidance of doubt, any delay in renewal or extension resulting from a shut-down of the federal government shall not constitute a “refusal”);

(f) any Borrower obtaining knowledge of (i) any Lien in respect of Taxes having been filed against any assets of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, (ii) any tax audit involving any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its businesses or operations, or (iii) any determination (whether preliminary, final or otherwise) of the IRS or any other Governmental Authority in respect of any tax audit of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its businesses or operations, and the Borrowers shall provide such additional information with respect to such matter as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may request;

(g) (i) any license of Material Intellectual Property owned by the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries to any Affiliate or made outside the ordinary course of business and (ii) any default or breach asserted by any Person to have occurred under, or any termination of, any license of Material Intellectual Property; and

(h) any other development that has resulted, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of each of the Borrowers setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

SECTION 5.03. Additional Subsidiaries. If any Subsidiary of a Loan Party is formed or acquired after the Closing Date (including as set forth in Section 6.03(c) or (d)), the Borrowers shall, as promptly as practicable, and in any event within 30 days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree to in writing), notify the Administrative Agent thereof and cause the Collateral and

 

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Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such Subsidiary and with respect to any Equity Interests of or Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owned by any Loan Party. At the election of the Administrative Agent, any such Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Holdco) shall be joined as a Borrower hereunder pursuant to a joinder in the form of Exhibit K.

SECTION 5.04. Information Regarding Collateral; Deposit and Securities Accounts.

(a) The Borrowers shall furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of any change in (i) the legal name of any Loan Party, as set forth in its organizational documents, (ii) the jurisdiction of organization or the form of organization of any Loan Party (including as a result of any merger, consolidation or amalgamation), (iii) the location of the chief executive office of any Loan Party or (iv) the organizational identification number, if any, or, with respect to any Loan Party organized under the laws of a jurisdiction that requires such information to be set forth on the face of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement, the Federal Taxpayer Identification Number of such Loan Party. The Borrowers agree not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all filings have been made under the Uniform Commercial Code or otherwise that are required in order for the Administrative Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all the Collateral.

(b) The Borrowers shall furnish to the Administrative Agent prompt written notice of (i) the acquisition by any Loan Party of, or any real property otherwise becoming, a Mortgaged Property after the Closing Date and (ii) the acquisition by any Loan Party of any other material assets with an individual value exceeding $500,000 after the Closing Date, other than any assets constituting Collateral under the Security Documents in which the Administrative Agent shall have a valid, legal and perfected security interest (with the priority contemplated by the applicable Security Document) upon the acquisition thereof.

(c) The Borrowers shall cause all cash owned by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries at any time, other than (i) cash in an aggregate amount not greater than $500,000 at any time held in payroll and other local operating accounts and (ii) cash held by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in payroll accounts or in trust for any employee benefit plan maintained by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, to be held in deposit accounts maintained in the name of one or more Loan Parties.

(d) The Borrowers shall, in each case as promptly as practicable, notify the Administrative Agent of the existence of any deposit account or securities account maintained by a Loan Party in respect of which a Control Agreement is required to be in effect pursuant to clause (f) of the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” but is not then in effect.

SECTION 5.05. Existence; Conduct of Business.

(a) Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names material to the conduct of its business; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any transaction permitted under Section 6.03 or 6.05.

(b) Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall take all actions reasonably necessary to protect all patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, technology, software, domain names and other Intellectual Property necessary to the conduct of its business as currently conducted, and proposed to be conducted, including (i) protecting the secrecy and confidentiality of the confidential information and trade secrets of such Loan Party or Subsidiary by having and enforcing a policy requiring all employees

 

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and consultants to execute confidentiality and invention assignment agreements, (ii) taking all actions reasonably necessary to ensure that none of the trade secrets of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall fall or has fallen into the public domain and (iii) protecting the secrecy and confidentiality of the source code of all computer software programs and applications owned or licensed by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries by having and enforcing a policy requiring any licensees of such source code (including any licensees under any source code escrow agreement) to enter into license agreements with appropriate use and nondisclosure restrictions, except in each case referred to in this Section 5.05(b) where the failure to take any such action, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 5.06. Payment of Obligations. Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall pay its obligations, including Tax liabilities, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) (i) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and the enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation and (ii) such Loan Party or Subsidiary has set aside on its books reserves with respect thereto to the extent required by GAAP or (b) (i) in the case of Tax liabilities, such unpaid Tax liabilities are not in excess of $250,000 or (ii) in the case of all other obligations, the failure to make payment would not, individually and in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 5.07. Maintenance of Properties. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.

SECTION 5.08. Insurance. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks as are customarily maintained by similarly situated companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations, including business interruption insurance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Each such policy of liability or casualty insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties shall (a) in the case of each liability insurance policy (other than workers’ compensation, director and officer liability or other policies in which such endorsements are not customary), name the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an additional insured thereunder, (b) in the case of each casualty insurance policy, contain a loss payable clause or endorsement that names the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as the loss payee thereunder and (c) provide for at least 30 days’ (or such shorter number of days as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of any cancellation of such policy. With respect to each Mortgaged Property that is located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards, the applicable Loan Party has obtained, and will maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, such flood insurance as is required under applicable law, including Regulation H of the Board of Governors.

SECTION 5.09. Books and Records; Inspection and Audit Rights. Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in accordance with GAAP and applicable law are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. While any Loan remains outstanding and unpaid (in whole or in part), each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall permit the Administrative Agent or any Lender, and any agent designated by any of the foregoing, upon reasonable prior notice and during normal business hours, (a) to visit and inspect its properties, (b) to examine and make extracts from its books and records (provided that, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such extracts shall be limited to books and records pertaining to Collateral or to financial information) and (c) to discuss its operations, business affairs, assets, liabilities (including contingent liabilities), prospects and financial condition with its officers,

 

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all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. Upon request, each Borrower agrees to promptly arrange discussions between the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ independent accountants (and the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall have the right to participate in such discussions) and hereby authorizes such accountants to disclose to the Administrative Agent any and all financial statements and other supporting financial data, including matters relating to the annual audit and copies of any management letter with respect to its business, financial condition and other affairs. All such visits and inspections shall be at the expense of the Loan Parties (provided that such visit and inspection expenses are reasonable), provided that the Loan Parties shall not be required to reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for more than one (1) such visit in any Fiscal Year unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

SECTION 5.10. Compliance with Laws; Maintenance of FCC Licenses. Each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall comply in all material respects with all laws, including all orders of any Governmental Authority, applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to result, individually and in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect. The Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries will maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents with AML Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism Laws and applicable Sanctions. Borrowers shall obtain and maintain, and cause their respective Subsidiaries to obtain and maintain in full force and effect, all Governmental Approvals necessary to own, acquire or dispose of their respective properties, to conduct their respective businesses or to comply with construction, operating and reporting requirements of the FCC, except where the failure to so maintain would not reasonably be expected to result, individually and in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect. The Loan Parties shall maintain, and cause their respective Subsidiaries to maintain in full force and effect, all FCC Licenses acquired by them, except where the failure to do so, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 5.11. Use of Proceeds.

(a) The proceeds of the Tranche A Loans shall be used solely to (i) fund, finance, or refinance the purchase price for the Spectrum Acquisition pursuant to the Auction, including any escrow deposit required to participate in the Auction, and the Borrowers shall fund such escrow deposit for the Auction with the proceeds of the Initial Loans, (ii) pay fees, commissions and expenses in connection with the Spectrum Acquisition and the transactions contemplated in the Initial Credit Agreement, and (iii) to the extent the amounts described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) is less than the full amount of the Tranche A Loans, to fund working capital needs, provided that the amount permitted to be used under this clause (iii) shall not exceed $10,000,000. The proceeds of the Tranche B Loans shall be used solely (i) for general corporate purposes of the Borrowers and (ii) to pay fees, commissions and expenses in connection with the transactions contemplated herein. The proceeds of the Initial Tranche C Loans shall be used solely (i) to finance capital expenditures and working capital and for general corporate purposes and (ii) to pay fees, commissions and expenses in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Fifth Amendment. The proceeds of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans shall be used solely to finance capital expenditures and working capital and for general corporate purposes.

(b) The Borrowers shall not request any Borrowing, and the Borrowers shall not use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its and their respective Governing Board members, officers, employees and agents shall not use, directly or indirectly, the proceeds of any Borrowing or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any other Person in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws or Anti-Terrorism Laws. The Borrowers will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the Loans, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to

 

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any other Loan Party, any Subsidiary of a Loan Party, or any joint venture partner or other Person, (i) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions or (ii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the Loans, whether as Administrative Agent, Lender, underwriter, advisor, investor, or otherwise).

SECTION 5.12. Further Assurances. Each Loan Party will execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements, fixture filings, mortgages, deeds of trust and other documents), that may be required under any applicable law, or that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in writing, to cause the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to be and remain satisfied at all times or otherwise to effectuate the provisions of the Loan Documents, all at the expense of the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall provide to the Administrative Agent, from time to time upon written request, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as to the perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Security Documents.

SECTION 5.13. Board Observation Rights. So long as any Loan remains unpaid, ArrowMark may collectively designate one representative to be present (whether in person or by telephone) in a non-voting observer capacity (the “Observer Representative”) at all meetings of the Governing Boards of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries. The Borrowers shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Observer Representative copies of all notices and agendas of such meetings, and all written materials distributed to the members of such Governing Boards in connection with such meetings, in each case at the same time and in the same manner as the members of such Governing Boards receive such notices or materials; provided, that the Observer Representative may be excluded from meetings (or a portion thereof) and materials provided to the Observer Representative in connection with such meetings may be redacted to the extent that the applicable Governing Board reasonably determines that such exclusion or redaction is necessary (i) to preserve attorney-client privilege, (ii) to avoid a conflict of interest between the interests of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, as applicable, and those of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, (iii) to avoid any circumstance where the Observer Representative’s participation could reasonably be deemed to violate applicable laws or (iv) to protect against disclosure of trade secrets or similar highly confidential information. The Loan Parties shall reimburse ArrowMark for the out-of-pocket expenses (including out-of-pocket travel expenses) incurred by the Observer Representative in attending any such meetings.

SECTION 5.14. Post-Closing Obligations. As promptly as practicable, and in any event within 60 days after the Closing Date (or such longer period permitted by the Administrative Agent in its discretion), each Loan Party will deliver all landlord, warehouseman, agent, bailee and processor acknowledgments (including with respect to the Specified Bailees) that would have been required to be delivered on the Closing Date but for the penultimate sentence of Section 4.02, in each case except to the extent otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to its authority as set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”

ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants

Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, each of the Borrowers covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

 

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SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities.

(a) None of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries will create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;

(ii) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 6.01 and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(iii) Indebtedness of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries owed to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that (A) such Indebtedness shall not have been transferred to any Person other than a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (B) any such Indebtedness owing by any Loan Party shall be unsecured and subordinated in right of payment to the Loan Document Obligations pursuant to the Global Intercompany Note, (C) any such Indebtedness owing by any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any Loan Party shall be incurred in compliance with Section 6.04, and (D) any such Indebtedness owing by Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties to the Loan Parties shall not exceed $300,000 or the U.S. Dollar equivalent thereof in the aggregate at any time outstanding;

(iv) Guarantees incurred in compliance with Section 6.04;

(v) Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries (A) incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations, provided that such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets (including reasonable fees and expenses relating thereto) or (B) assumed in connection with the acquisition of any fixed or capital assets, and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing; provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (v) shall not exceed $3,500,000 at any time outstanding;

(vi) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of a Loan Party (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary that is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the Closing Date, provided that (A) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged, consolidated or amalgamated) or such assets are acquired and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary (or such merger, consolidation or amalgamation) or such assets being acquired and (B) none of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (other than such Person or any special purpose merger Subsidiary with which such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated or the Person that so assumes such Person’s Indebtedness) shall Guarantee or otherwise become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness; provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vi) shall not exceed $500,000 at any time outstanding;

(vii) Indebtedness owed in respect of any overdrafts and related liabilities arising from treasury, depository and cash management services or in connection with any automated clearing-house transfers of funds; provided that such Indebtedness shall be repaid in full within five (5) Business Days of the incurrence thereof;

 

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(viii) Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees and similar instruments issued for the account of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business supporting obligations under (A) workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws and (B) bids, trade contracts, leases (including, without limitation, real estate leases), statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and obligations of a like nature;

(ix) Indebtedness in respect of Hedging Agreements permitted under Section 6.07;

(x) Indebtedness incurred by the Company in an Investment permitted under Section 6.04(n) constituting indemnification obligations or obligations in respect of purchase price (including earnouts) or other similar adjustments, provided that any such outstanding Indebtedness shall also be considered an Investment and must be permitted under Section 6.04(n);

(xi) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the purchase of Equity Interests from employees who have ceased their employment with the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries so long as such Indebtedness has been expressly subordinated in right of payment to all Indebtedness of such Loan Party under the Loan Documents by documentation that is in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and all interest accrued thereunder shall be payable in kind;

(xii) Indebtedness incurred by Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate outstanding principal amount not exceeding $250,000 at any time;

(xiii) Indebtedness of a Loan Party under employee business credit card programs in an aggregate amount not exceeding $200,000 at any time outstanding;

(xiv) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $500,000 at any time outstanding;

(xv) Indebtedness incurred under the Note Purchase Documents; and

(xvi) unsecured Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness) constituting a Mandatory Capital Infusion on terms reasonably acceptable to Birch Grove.

(b) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries will issue or permit to exist any Disqualified Equity Interests.

SECTION 6.02. Liens.

(a) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except:

(i) Liens created under the Loan Documents;

(ii) Permitted Encumbrances;

(iii) any Lien on any asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 6.02; provided that (A) such Lien shall not apply to any other asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and (B) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the Closing Date and any extensions, renewals and refinancings thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof and, in the case of any such obligations constituting Indebtedness, that are permitted under Section 6.01(a)(ii) as Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

 

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(iv) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries or existing on any asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary (or of any Person not previously a Subsidiary that is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into a Subsidiary in a transaction permitted hereunder) after the Closing Date prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged, consolidated or amalgamated); provided that (A) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary (or such merger, consolidation or amalgamation), (B) such Lien shall not apply to any other asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries (other than, in the case of any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation, the assets of any special purpose merger Subsidiary that is a party thereto) and (C) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary (or is so merged, consolidated or amalgamated), and any extensions, renewals and refinancings thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof and, in the case of any such obligations constituting Indebtedness, that are permitted under Section 6.01(a)(vi) as Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(v) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries; provided that (A) such Liens secure only Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01(a)(v) and obligations relating thereto not constituting Indebtedness and (B) such Liens shall not apply to any other asset of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the proceeds and products thereof); provided further that in the event purchase money obligations are owed to any Person with respect to financing of more than one purchase of any fixed or capital assets, such Liens may secure all such purchase money obligations and may apply to all such fixed or capital assets financed by such Person;

(vi) in connection with the sale or transfer of any Equity Interests or other assets in a transaction permitted under Section 6.05, customary rights and restrictions contained in agreements relating to such sale or transfer pending the completion thereof;

(vii) Liens on property of any Foreign Subsidiary securing Indebtedness of such Foreign Subsidiary permitted under Section 6.01(a) above;

(viii) Liens on deposit accounts described in clause (f) or (g) of the definition of “Excluded Deposit Accounts”; and

(ix) in the case of (A) any Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary or (B) the Equity Interests of any Person that is not a Subsidiary, any encumbrance or restriction, including any put and call arrangements, related to Equity Interests of such Subsidiary or such other Person set forth in the organizational documents of such Subsidiary or such other Person or any related joint venture, shareholders’ or similar agreement.

 

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SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes; Business Activities.

(a) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries will merge into, consolidate or amalgamate with any other Person or enter into a plan of arrangement or scheme of arrangement or corporate reconstruction with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into it or consolidate or amalgamate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) any other Loan Party may merge into the Company in a transaction in which the Company is the surviving entity, (ii) any other Loan Party may merge into a Borrower (other than the Company) in a transaction in which such Borrower is the surviving entity, (iii) any Person (other than a Borrower) may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with any Subsidiary of a Loan Party (other than a Subsidiary that is a Borrower) in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Subsidiary of a Loan Party (and, if any party to such merger, consolidation or amalgamation is a Guarantor, only if the surviving entity is a Guarantor), (iv) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party (other than a Subsidiary that is a Borrower) may merge into, consolidate or amalgamate with any Person (other than a Loan Party) in a transaction permitted under Section 6.05 in which, after giving effect to such transaction, the surviving entity is not a Subsidiary of a Loan Party, (v) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party (other than a Subsidiary that is a Borrower) may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrowers determine in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrowers and will not adversely affect the Lenders, so long as contemporaneously with the liquidation or dissolution thereof, the Administrative Agent and the parent of such Subsidiary shall enter into such Security Documents or amendments thereto as reasonably required by the Administrative Agent to maintain the Lien (and perfection thereof) in favor of the Administrative Agent in respect of the assets of such Subsidiary, including any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary thereof; provided that any such merger, consolidation or amalgamation involving a Person that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary immediately prior thereto shall not be permitted unless it is also permitted under Section 6.04 and (vi) any Loan Party (or any Subsidiary) may enter into or effect any such transaction if such transaction is conditioned upon, prior to or simultaneously with the closing of such transaction, the Loans (including all accrued and unpaid interest thereon) being repaid in full and all other outstanding Loan Document Obligations being paid in full, and prior to or simultaneously with the closing of such transaction, the Loans (including all accrued and unpaid interest thereon) are repaid in full and all other outstanding Loan Document Obligations are paid in full.

(b) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall engage in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries on the Closing Date and businesses reasonably related thereto or proposed to be conducted in written materials provided to the Administrative Agent prior to the Closing Date.

(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each of (x) Starry Spectrum Holdings LLC, Starry Spectrum LLC and Widmo Holdings LLC and (y) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party formed or acquired after the Closing Date for the purpose of owning FCC Licenses (the Loan Parties and/or Subsidiaries in clause (x) and (y), collectively, the “FCC License Parties”) (i) shall not engage in any business or activity other than (a) the ownership of FCC Licenses and activities incidental thereto (including, without limitation, the acquisition of additional FCC Licenses) or (b) the leasing of spectrum authorized under the FCC Licenses pursuant to Spectrum Manager Lease agreements (but not including De Facto Transfer Lease agreements) to their respective Affiliates or third parties in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course on commercially reasonable terms and (ii) will not own or acquire any assets (other than cash, Cash Equivalents or existing or additional FCC Licenses), incur any liabilities (other than Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by it under Section 6.01(a)(i), (iii) or (iv), leasing permitted pursuant to clause (i)(b) of this Section 6.03(c), liabilities imposed by applicable law, including liabilities in respect of Taxes, and other liabilities incidental to its existence and permitted business and activities) or create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any asset other than Permitted Encumbrances. No Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof (other than the FCC License Parties) shall own any FCC Licenses; provided, that, any Subsidiary of a Loan Party that is acquired after the Closing Date, owns FCC Licenses and does not meet the requirements of an FCC License Party, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to transfer all FCC Licenses owned by it to an FCC License Party within 60 days (excluding any days during which the FCC is not open for the conduct of regular business due to funding or budgetary issues affecting the government of the United States generally) after the date of its acquisition; and provided further that if any such Subsidiary is unable to transfer any such FCC License within the required time period due to the FCC not approving such transfer or otherwise, such Subsidiary shall within 60 days thereafter meet the requirements of an FCC License Party set forth in this Section 6.03(c).

 

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(d) For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

SECTION 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall purchase, hold, acquire (including pursuant to any merger, consolidation or amalgamation with any Person that was not a wholly-owned Subsidiary prior thereto), make or otherwise permit to exist any Investment in any other Person, except:

(a) Cash Equivalents;

(b) Investments existing on the Initial Closing Date in Subsidiaries, and other Investments existing on the Initial Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 6.04 (but not any additions thereto (including any capital contributions) made after the Initial Closing Date);

(c) Investments by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in Equity Interests of their Subsidiaries; provided that (i) such Subsidiaries are Subsidiaries of the Loan Parties prior to such investments, (ii) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party shall be pledged in accordance with the requirements of the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement,” and (iii) the aggregate amount of such investments by the Loan Parties in, and loans and advances by the Loan Parties to, and Guarantees by the Loan Parties of Indebtedness and other obligations of, Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (excluding all such investments, loans, advances and Guarantees existing on the Closing Date and permitted by clause (b)(iii) above) shall not exceed $300,000 at any time outstanding;

(d) loans or advances made by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to any Subsidiary of a Loan Party; provided that (i) the Indebtedness resulting therefrom is permitted by Section 6.01(a)(iii) and (ii) the amount of such loans and advances made by the Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (c) above;

(e) Guarantees by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of Indebtedness or other obligations of another Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that (i) a Subsidiary that is not a Borrower or that otherwise has not Guaranteed the Secured Obligations pursuant to the Collateral Agreement shall not Guarantee any Indebtedness or other obligations of any Loan Party and (ii) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness and other obligations of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party shall be subject to the limitation set forth in clause (c) above;

(f) (i) acquisitions by a Loan Party of any assets of another Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) acquisitions by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party of any assets of another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party;

 

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(g) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(h) Investments made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from a Disposition of any asset in compliance with Section 6.05;

(i) Investments by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that result solely from the receipt by such Loan Party or Subsidiary from any of its Subsidiaries of a dividend or other Restricted Payment in the form of Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (but not any additions thereto made after the date of the receipt thereof);

(j) Investments in the form of Hedging Agreements permitted under Section 6.07;

(k) payroll, travel and similar advances to Governing Board members and employees of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances to be treated as expenses of such Loan Party or Subsidiary for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business;

(l) loans or advances to Governing Board members and employees of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries made in the ordinary course of business; provided that the aggregate amount of such loans and advances outstanding at any time shall not exceed $100,000;

(m) Investments in Foreign Subsidiaries (including, if applicable, any Foreign Holdco) after the Closing Date in an aggregate amount not to exceed $250,000 at any time outstanding, provided that, at the time each such Investment is purchased, made or otherwise acquired, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom; and

(n) other Investments and other acquisitions; provided that, at the time each such Investment or acquisition is purchased, made or otherwise acquired, (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (B) the aggregate amount of all Investments made in reliance on this clause (n) outstanding at any time, together with the aggregate amount of all consideration paid in connection with all other acquisitions (including Indebtedness assumed in connection therewith, all obligations in respect of deferred purchase price (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment and, to the extent stated as a liability on the balance sheet of the acquiring Person in accordance with GAAP, earn-out or similar payments) and all other consideration payable in connection therewith (including payment obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements or other arrangements representing acquisition consideration)) made in reliance on this clause (n), shall not exceed $2,500,000 in the aggregate at any time.

SECTION 6.05. Asset Sales. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall Dispose of, or license, any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor shall any Subsidiary thereof issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than to a Loan Party in compliance with Section 6.04, and other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable law), except while no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries may make:

(a) Dispositions of inventory or used, obsolete, worn out or surplus equipment in the ordinary course of business or of cash and Cash Equivalents;

 

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(b) Dispositions to a Loan Party or any of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries; provided that any such Dispositions to a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be made in compliance with Sections 6.04 and 6.09;

(c) Dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and not as part of any accounts receivables financing transaction;

(d) Dispositions of assets subject to any Casualty Event (including Dispositions in lieu of condemnation);

(e) Dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property;

(f) non-exclusive licenses of Intellectual Property that does not constitute Material Intellectual Property; and

(g) Dispositions of assets that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section; provided that (i) the aggregate fair value of all assets Disposed of in reliance on this clause shall not exceed $500,000 during any fiscal year of the Company and (ii) all Dispositions made in reliance on this clause shall be made for fair value and at least 75% cash consideration; provided, however, that for the purposes of this clause (ii), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Company’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the payment in cash of the Loan Document Obligations, that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable Disposition and for which the Company and all of its Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing and (B) any securities received by the Company or the applicable Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Company or such Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable Disposition.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no Disposition or license of Material Intellectual Property shall be permitted and (ii) other than Dispositions to the Loan Parties in compliance with Section 6.04, and other than directors’ qualifying shares and other nominal amounts of Equity Interests that are required to be held by other Persons under applicable requirements of law, no such Disposition of any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall be permitted unless (x) such Equity Interests constitute all the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary held by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries and (y) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall otherwise be in compliance with Section 6.04.

In addition, any Loan Party (or any Subsidiary) may enter into any agreement to effect a Disposition if such Disposition is conditioned upon, prior to or simultaneously with the closing of such Disposition, the Loans (including all accrued and unpaid interest thereon) being repaid in full and all other outstanding Loan Document Obligations being paid in full, and prior to or simultaneously with the closing of such Disposition, the Loans (including all accrued and unpaid interest thereon) are repaid in full and all other outstanding Loan Document Obligations are paid in full.

SECTION 6.06. Sale/Leaseback Transactions. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction.

 

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SECTION 6.07. Hedging Agreements. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall enter into any Hedging Agreement, except (a) Hedging Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries has actual exposure (other than in respect of Equity Interests or Indebtedness of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries) and (b) Hedging Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from floating to fixed rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.

SECTION 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.

(a) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that (i) the Company may declare and pay dividends with respect to its Equity Interests payable solely in additional Equity Interests permitted hereunder, (ii) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party may declare and pay dividends or make distributions with respect to its capital stock, partnership or membership interests or other similar Equity Interests, or make other Restricted Payments in respect of its Equity Interests, in each case ratably to the holders of such Equity Interests (or, if not ratably, on a basis more favorable to the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries); provided that dividends paid by the other Borrowers to the Company may only be paid at such times and in such amounts as shall be necessary to permit the Company (A) to make Restricted Payments permitted to be made by it under this paragraph, (B) to make any Investment or acquisition permitted to be made by it under Section 6.04 or (C) to discharge its other permitted liabilities as and when due, (iii) the Company may repurchase Equity Interests upon the exercise of stock options if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options, (iv) the Company may make cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares representing insignificant interests in the Company in connection with the exercise of warrants, options or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Equity Interests of the Company, (v) the Company may make Restricted Payments, not exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate for any fiscal year, pursuant to and in accordance with incentive equity plans or other benefit plans or agreements for Governing Board members, officers or employees of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, (vi) the Company and any Subsidiary thereof may make Restricted Payments to pay Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(a)(x), provided that, at the time each such Restricted Payment is made, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (vii) the Company may make Restricted Payments to repurchase Equity Interests of the Company from former Governing Board members, officers and employees of and consultants to the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries not exceeding an aggregate amount of $100,000 per fiscal year, provided that, at the time each such Restricted Payment is made, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (viii) the Company and any Subsidiary thereof may make other Restricted Payments, provided that, at the time each such Restricted Payment is declared or made, (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (B) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made in reliance on this clause (a)(viii) shall not exceed $250,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year.

(b) None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries will make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, defeasance, cancelation or termination of any Indebtedness, except:

(i) payments of or in respect of Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;

 

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(ii) regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01;

(iii) refinancings of Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01 with the proceeds of other Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01;

(iv) payments of secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the assets securing such Indebtedness in transactions permitted hereunder; and

(v) payments of or in respect of Indebtedness made solely with Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Equity Interests).

SECTION 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall sell, lease, license or otherwise transfer any assets to, or purchase, lease, license or otherwise acquire any assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (a) transactions in the ordinary course of business that are at prices and on terms and conditions, on the whole, not less favorable to the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries than those that would prevail in arm’s-length transactions with unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among the Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (c) any Restricted Payment permitted under Section 6.08, (d) issuances by the Company of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests), and receipt by the Company of capital contributions, (e) compensation and indemnification of, and other customary and reasonable employment arrangements with, Governing Board members, officers and employees of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries entered in the ordinary course of business and that have been approved by the Governing Board of the Company, (f) loans and advances permitted under clauses (k) and (l) of Section 6.04, (g) contracts for financial, investment banking or similar advisory and consultancy services that have been approved by the Governing Board of the Company and (h) transactions existing as of the Initial Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 6.09.

SECTION 6.10. Restrictive Agreements. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its assets to secure any Secured Obligations or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary of a Loan Party to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or to Guarantee Indebtedness of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to (A) restrictions and conditions imposed by law or by any Loan Document or (B) restrictions and conditions existing on the Closing Date identified on Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (ii) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to (A) restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by clause (v) or (vi) of Section 6.01(a) if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the assets securing such Indebtedness or (B) customary provisions in leases and other agreements restricting the assignment thereof and (iii) clause (b) of the foregoing shall not apply to (A) customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary of a Loan Party, or a business unit, division, product line or line of business, that are applicable solely pending such sale, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary, or the business unit, division, product line or line of business, that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder and (B) restrictions and conditions imposed by agreements relating to Indebtedness of any Subsidiary of a Loan Party in existence at the time such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary of a Loan Party and otherwise permitted by clause (vi) of Section 6.01(a) (but shall apply to any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to such Subsidiary. No Borrower shall, or shall permit any other Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party to, enter into any contract or agreement which

 

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would violate the terms hereof or of any other Loan Document. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to modify the requirements set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” or the obligations of the Loan Parties under Sections 5.03, 5.04 or 5.12 or under the Security Documents.

SECTION 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents. None of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (i) any agreement or instrument governing or evidencing any Material Indebtedness, (ii) its Organizational Documents or (iii) the Note Purchase Documents, to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver would reasonably be expected to be adverse to the Lenders..

SECTION 6.12. Minimum Cash Balance. The Loan Parties shall not suffer or permit the aggregate Qualified Cash of the Loan Parties to be less than $15,000,000 at any time.

SECTION 6.13. Fiscal Year and Accounting Methods. The Loan Parties shall not, and will not permit any other Subsidiary to, change its fiscal year to end on a date other than December 31. The Loan Parties will not and will not permit any of their Subsidiaries to modify or change its method of accounting (other than as may be required to conform to GAAP).

SECTION 6.14. Mandatory Capital Infusion. If the SPAC Transaction has not been consummated prior to March 31, 2022, then on or prior to April 30, 2022, the Company shall obtain aggregate net proceeds of not less than $100,000,000 in cash (the “Mandatory Capital Infusion”) from (x) the issuance of its Equity Interests for cash and/or the receipt of cash contributions to the capital of the Company as cash common equity or other Equity Interests in a form reasonably acceptable to Birch Grove and/or (y) the incurrence of unsecured Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness) in each case on terms reasonably acceptable to Birch Grove.

ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

SECTION 7.01. Events of Default. If any of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur:

(a) the Borrowers shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;

(b) the Borrowers shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Section) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of three (3) Business Days;

(c) any representation, warranty or statement made or deemed made by or on behalf of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in any Loan Document or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other information provided pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made;

(d) a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (f), (g), (i), (k) or (l) of Section 5.01 or in Section 5.02, 5.05 (with respect to the existence of the Borrowers) or 5.08, 5.11 or 5.13 or in Article VI.

 

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(e) any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of this Section), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after the earlier of (i) any Responsible Officer of a Loan Party becoming aware of such failure and (ii) the Borrowers’ receipt of notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent in the case of any such notice from a Lender);

(f) [reserved];

(g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due or being terminated or required to be prepaid, repurchased, redeemed or defeased prior to its scheduled maturity, or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf, or, in the case of any Hedging Agreement, the applicable counterparty, to cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to terminate such Material Indebtedness or require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity; provided that this clause (g) shall not apply to (i) any secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the assets securing such Indebtedness or (ii) any Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of a voluntary refinancing thereof permitted under Section 6.01;

(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;

(i) a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation (other than any liquidation permitted by Section 6.03(a)(iv)), reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Section, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding or (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the Governing Board of any of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (or any committee thereof) shall adopt any resolution or otherwise authorize any action to approve any of the actions referred to above in this clause (i) or clause (h) of this Section;

(j) a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;

 

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(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $500,000 (other than any such judgment covered by insurance (other than under a self-insurance program) to the extent a claim therefor has been made in writing and liability therefor has not been denied by the insurer) shall be rendered against a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to enforce any such judgment;

(l) one or more judgments for injunctive relief shall be rendered against a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any combination thereof that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(m) one or more ERISA Events shall have occurred that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(n) any Lien purported to be created under any Security Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, a valid and perfected Lien on any material portion of the Collateral, with the priority required by the applicable Security Document, except as a result of (i) a sale or transfer of the applicable Collateral in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents, (ii) the release thereof as provided in the applicable Security Document or Section 9.14 or (iii) any action taken by the Administrative Agent or the failure by the Administrative Agent to take any action within its control;

(o) any Guarantee purported to be created under any Loan Document shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be, in full force and effect, except as a result of the release thereof as provided in the applicable Loan Document or Section 9.14;

(p) (i) any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is enjoined, restrained or in any way prevented by the order of any court or any Governmental Authority from conducting all or any material part of its business for more than 15 days; or (ii) any other cessation of a substantial part of the business of a Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries for a period which materially and adversely affects a Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries;

(q) any Loan Party or Affiliate of any Loan Party shall contest in any manner, or assist any Person party thereto to contest in any manner, the validity or enforceability thereof or deny that it has any further liability or obligation thereunder, or the Loan Document Obligations for any reason shall not have the priority contemplated by this Agreement; or

(r) any FCC License owned or held by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any other FCC License required for the lawful ownership, lease, control, use, operation, management or maintenance of any asset used in the business of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall be cancelled, terminated, rescinded, revoked, suspended, impaired, otherwise finally denied renewal, or otherwise modified in any material adverse respect, or shall be renewed on terms that materially and adversely affect the economic or commercial value or usefulness thereof, in any case the result of which would have a Material Adverse Effect; or any such FCC License, the loss of which would have a Material Adverse Effect, shall no longer be in full force and effect; the grant of any such FCC License, the loss of which would have a Material Adverse Effect, shall have been stayed, vacated or reversed, or modified in any material adverse respect, by judicial or administrative proceedings; or any administrative law judge of the FCC shall have issued a final, non-appealable decision in any non-comparative license renewal, license revocation or any comparative (multiple applicant) proceeding to the effect that any such FCC License, the loss of which would have a Material Adverse Effect, should be revoked or not be renewed; or any other

 

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proceeding shall have been instituted by or shall have been commenced before any court, the FCC or any other regulatory body that more likely than not will result in such cancellation, termination, rescission, revocation, impairment or suspension of any such FCC License or result in such modification of any such FCC License that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries described in clause (h) or (i) of this Section), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, and, subject to Section 7.02 below, at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Company, take any or all of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each of the Borrowers; and in the case of any event with respect to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries described in clause (h) or (i) of this Section 7.01, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers hereunder, shall immediately and automatically become due and payable, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each of the Borrowers. If at any time less than all of the Loans are declared to be due and payable, then a proportionate share (based on the outstanding principal balance thereof) of each of the Tranche A Loans, the Tranche B Loans and the Tranche C Loans, as a class, shall be declared to be due and payable.

SECTION 7.02. Birch Grove-Directed Enforcement.

(a) If an Event of Default described in clause (d) or (e) of Section 7.01 arising as result of non-compliance with Section 5.03, 5.05, 5.12, 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.04, 6.05, 6.06, 6.08, 6.09, 6.11, 6.12 and/or 6.14 (each, a “Specified Event of Default”) has occurred and is continuing and has not been Rectified, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 7.01 or otherwise in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent shall, from and after the expiration of the Standstill Period applicable to such Specified Event of Default until the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, promptly (provided, if Exigent Circumstances exist, as promptly as reasonably practicable under such circumstances) commence and thereafter diligently pursue Enforcement Actions as directed by Birch Grove, in good faith and otherwise in accordance with this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and applicable law; provided, however, the Administrative Agent will not be required to comply with any directive from Birch Grove if the Administrative Agent is then diligently pursuing Enforcement Actions in good faith with respect to a material portion of the Collateral or diligently attempting to vacate any stay or prohibition against pursuing such Enforcement Actions and thereafter is diligently pursuing Enforcement Actions in good faith with respect to a material portion of the Collateral; provided, further, that if Birch Grove has directed the Administrative Agent to stop pursuing all Enforcement Actions with respect to a Specified Event of Default (other than any such direction by Birch Grove in connection with Birch Grove’s entry into and/or continued good faith negotiations with the Company or its Affiliates to achieve a resolution with respect to such Specified Event of Default) then the Administrative Agent will not be required to comply with any further directives from Birch Grove with respect to such Specified Event of Default (but, for the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent shall be required to comply with any such further directives from Birch Grove related to any other Specified Event of Default to the extent otherwise required by this Section 7.02).

 

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(b) If the Administrative Agent materially breaches any such obligation to commence and diligently pursue Enforcement Actions as directed by Birch Grove, then Birch Grove may, but is under no obligation to, appoint itself (or its designee) to serve as a sub-agent of the Administrative Agent for the purposes of commencing and pursuing Enforcement Actions, and the Administrative Agent hereby irrevocably consents to any such appointment. Any such appointment to act as sub-agent must be unconditional and irrevocable, and such sub-agent will be deemed to (x) have assumed the responsibilities of, and the rights, benefits and protections afforded to (including with respect to the expense reimbursement, indemnity and exculpatory provisions hereof), the Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and (y) shall be deemed to be the “Administrative Agent” under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, in each case, solely with respect to the taking of Enforcement Actions that are the subject of the applicable appointment.

SECTION 7.03. Purchase Option.

(a) At any time during a Standstill Period, any one or more of the Non-Birch Grove Lenders (acting in their individual capacity or through one or more Affiliates) shall have the irrevocable right, but not the obligation, upon at least seven (7) Business Days’ advance written notice from such Non-Birch Grove Lenders (a “Purchase Notice”) to the Administrative Agent and Birch Grove Capital LP (at its contact information set forth on Schedule 7.03), to acquire from the Tranche C Lenders all (but not less than all) of the right, title and interest of the Tranche C Lenders in and to the Tranche C Debt (and to assume the entire amount of unfunded Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments); provided that the exercise of such right shall be subject to the participation rights of the other Non-Birch Grove Lenders with respect to such purchase option as set forth in Section 7.03(f). The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders in writing of its receipt of a Purchase Notice (a “Triggering Event Notice”) promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days) after the occurrence thereof. The purchase option set forth in this Section 7.03 may only be exercised by the Non-Birch Grove Lenders one (1) time during the term of this Agreement.

(b) On the date specified for such purchase in the Purchase Notice (which shall be no later than ten (10) Business Days after the receipt by the Administrative Agent of the Purchase Notice), the Tranche C Lenders shall sell to the purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders, and the purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders shall purchase from the Tranche C Lenders, all (but not less than all) of the Tranche C Debt.

(c) On the date of such purchase and sale, the purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders shall pay to the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Tranche C Lenders), as the purchase price therefor (the “Tranche C Purchase Price”), an amount equal to the sum of (i) all of the outstanding principal balance of the Tranche C Loans, (ii) all accrued and unpaid interest (including all interest accruing following commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency event) thereon and (iii) all accrued and unpaid reimbursable expenses owed to the Tranche C Lenders under the Loan Documents as of the date of purchase (including all such amounts accruing following the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency event) (the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii), the “Tranche C Debt”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Tranche C Purchase Price payable upon consummation of the purchase option contemplated by this Section 7.03 does not include any Prepayment Premium; provided that all or a portion of the Prepayment Premium may subsequently be owed to the Tranche C Lenders in the form of the Buyout Premium in accordance with Section 7.04. Such purchase price shall be remitted by wire transfer in U.S. Dollars to such bank account of the Administrative Agent designated in writing to the Non-Birch Grove Lenders for such purpose. The interest component of the Tranche C Debt shall be calculated to but excluding the Business Day on which such purchase and sale shall occur if the amounts so paid by the purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders to the bank account designated by the Administrative Agent are received in such bank account prior to 1:00 p.m., New York time, and interest shall be calculated to and including such Business Day if the amounts so paid by the purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders to the bank account designated by the Agent are received in such bank account later than 1:00 p.m., New York time.

 

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(d) Such purchase shall be effected by the execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement in the form of Exhibit A or such other agreement as the purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders, the Tranche C Lenders and the Administrative Agent may agree.

(e) The obligations of the Non-Birch Grove Lenders hereunder are several, not joint, and no Non-Birch Grove Lender shall be liable, directly or indirectly, for any act or omission of any other Non-Birch Grove Lender.

(f) Each Non-Birch Grove Lender shall have the right, exercisable as hereinafter provided, to participate in such purchase of Tranche C Debt contemplated hereby. The purchase option set forth in this Section 7.03 shall, as among the Non-Birch Grove Lenders (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Non-Birch Grove Lender(s) that delivered the Purchase Notice), be exercisable by each Non-Birch Grove Lender by delivery of irrevocable notice (an “Exercise Notice”) to such effect by an exercising Non-Birch Grove Lender to the Administrative Agent and Birch Grove Capital LP (at its contact information set forth on Schedule 7.03) within three (3) Business Days after the Lenders’ receipt of a Triggering Event Notice (the “Acceptance Period”). A Non-Birch Grove Lender’s failure to deliver an Exercise Notice by the expiration of the Acceptance Period shall be regarded as a rejection of such Non-Birch Grove Lender’s right to exercise its purchase option pursuant to this Section 7.03. The Non-Birch Grove Lenders that deliver an Exercise Notice shall mutually agree as amongst themselves and the Administrative Agent as to the proportion of the Tranche C Debt to be purchased by each Non-Birch Grove Lender. In the event of any disagreement as to the determination of the amount of Tranche C Debt that each Non-Birch Grove Lender is entitled to purchase, the Administrative Agent acting in good faith shall have the right to make the final allocations. Each of the Non-Birch Grove Lenders acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent shall have no liability to any Non-Birch Grove Lender in connection with acting as Administrative Agent under this Section 7.03 other than to the extent arising from its willful misconduct as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(g) The Borrower irrevocably consents to any assignment effected to one or more purchasing Non-Birch Grove Lenders pursuant to this Section 7.03.

(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 7.03, the Tranche C Lenders shall not be required to sell or otherwise assign the Tranche C Debt to the Non-Birch Grove Lenders pursuant to this Section 7.03 if during a Standstill Period Birch Grove shall have directed the Administrative Agent with respect to the enforcement of rights and exercise of remedies set forth in Section 7.01 and/or under the other Loan Documents in respect of a Specified Event of Default but prior to the consummation of any purchase of Tranche C Debt pursuant to this Section 7.03 Birch Grove rescinds or otherwise cancels such direction. For the avoidance of doubt, if Birch Grove rescinds or otherwise cancels such direction with respect to a particular Specified Event of Default Birch Grove shall not be permitted to subsequently direct the Administrative Agent with respect to the enforcement of rights and exercise of remedies set forth in Section 7.01 and/or under the other Loan Documents pursuant to this Section 7.03 in respect of such Specified Event of Default (but, for the avoidance of doubt, Birch Grove shall be permitted to subsequently direct the Administrative Agent with respect to the enforcement of rights and exercise of remedies set forth in Section 7.01 and/or under the other Loan Documents pursuant to this Section 7.03 in respect of any other Specified Event of Default).

(i) Each Tranche C Lender will retain all rights to indemnification and expense reimbursement provided in the relevant Loan Documents for all claims and other amounts relating to periods prior to the purchase of the Tranche C Debt pursuant to this Section 7.03.

 

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SECTION 7.04. Buyout Premium and Residual Prepayment Premium.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent to the extent it receives the same after the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date, and the Administrative Agent shall hold all payments it receives in respect of Prepayment Premium owed to Lenders in respect of Loans prepaid after the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date (all such proceeds, “Pre-Realization Date Prepayment Premiums”) in trust, for the benefit of the Lenders, and not distribute the same to the Lenders until obligated to do so pursuant to Section 7.04(b).

(b) Within two (2) Business Days after final satisfaction of all Loan Document Obligations (including on the Maturity Date or through final resolution thereof in connection with a Bankruptcy Event (the date on which final satisfaction occurs, the “Realization Date”)), each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, to the extent the Administrative Agent is not in possession of proceeds due and payable to such Lender, its Payable Pro Rata Share of the sum of (x) the Buyout Premium and (y) the Residual Prepayment Premium. Subject to, and within five (5) Business Days after, receipt of proceeds in respect of the Buyout Premium and Residual Prepayment Premium from the Borrowers and the Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall pay (i) to each seller of an outstanding Tranche C Loan that was sold on the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date (such Tranche C Loan, a “Buyout Tranche C Loan”), such seller’s Receivable Pro Rata Share of the Buyout Premium, and (ii) to each holder of a Loan (or portion thereof) prepaid for which Pre-Realization Date Prepayment Premiums were received (such Loan or portion thereof, a “Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loan”), such holder’s Residual Pro Rata Share of the Residual Prepayment Premium. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, each Lender shall be severally liable to each seller of a Buyout Tranche C Loan or holder of a Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loan for any failure to comply with its obligation to remit proceeds to the Administrative Agent as required by this Section 7.04, and each such seller or holder is a third-party beneficiary of this Section 7.04.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Realization Proceeds shall be applied to satisfy payment obligations to current and former Lenders (including sellers of Buyout Tranche C Loans and holders of Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans) as follows, in order of priority: (i) first, cash (if any) from Realization Proceeds will be applied to satisfy all Loan Document Obligations (other than obligations with respect to Prepayment Premiums), and if there is insufficient cash to satisfy this clause (i), then non-cash proceeds will be applied to satisfy all Loan Document Obligations (other than obligations with respect to Prepayment Premiums); (ii) second, in respect of the Administrative Agent’s obligation to make payments pursuant to Section 7.04(b), cash (if any) from Realization Proceeds shall be paid pro rata (based on the total outstanding principal balance of all Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans at the time they were prepaid and all Buyout Tranche C Loans on the Tranche C Loan Buyout Date), and if no cash remains after such application, then non-cash proceeds shall be paid pro rata, in each case, to (1) holders of Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans, on the one hand, and (2) sellers of Tranche C Buyout Loans, on the other hand, until the aggregate amount paid under clause (2) equals the Buyout Premium; and (iii) third, in respect of the Administrative Agent’s obligation to make payments pursuant to Section 7.04(b), remaining Realization Proceeds (cash and non-cash) shall be paid to the holders of Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans. For purposes of this Section 7.04, Loan Document Obligations shall exclude any amounts that would otherwise constitute Loan Document Obligations but which are attributable to Indebtedness incurred hereunder that is either junior in right of payment to the Term Loans and Commitments outstanding hereunder on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date or secured by Liens on the Collateral that rank junior in right of priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Term Loans and Commitments outstanding hereunder on the Fifth Amendment Effective Date.

 

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(d) For purposes of application of non-cash proceeds pursuant to Section 7.04(c), (i) non-cash proceeds will be valued at the Fair Market Value thereof, (ii) each holder of Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans will be paid proceeds in the same proportion as to each form of non-cash asset (i.e., classes of securities or property) as each other holder of Prepaid Pre-Realization Date Loans, and (iii) each seller of Buyout Tranche C Loans will be paid proceeds in the same proportion as to each form of non-cash asset (i.e., classes of securities or property) as each other seller of Buyout Tranche C Loans.

(e) An illustrative example of the calculation of the Buyout Premium and the Residual Prepayment Premium is attached to this Agreement as Schedule 7.04.

ARTICLE VIII

The Administrative Agent

SECTION 8.01. Appointment and Authority. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints the entity named as Administrative Agent in the heading of this Agreement and its successors to serve as administrative agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents, and authorizes the Administrative Agent to execute, deliver and administer the Loan Documents and to take such actions and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In addition, to the extent required under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America, each of the Lenders hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute any Security Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Lender’s behalf. Neither the Borrowers nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third-party beneficiary of any such provisions. The use of the term “agent” or any similar or equivalent term in connection with the appointment of the Administrative Agent hereunder is not intended to imply any fiduciary or other duties arising under legal principles governing agency relationships, and such appointment and all rights and duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be ministerial in nature.

SECTION 8.02. Rights as a Lender. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.

SECTION 8.03. Exculpatory Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, and its duties hereunder shall be administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing (and it is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law, and that such term is used as a matter of market custom and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties), (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or to exercise any discretionary power, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or (x) following the termination of the Standstill Period but prior to the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, Birch Grove in accordance with Section 7.03 and (y) such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary,

 

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or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion, could expose the Administrative Agent to liability or be contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Affiliate of any of the foregoing that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity and (d) the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Institutions. Without limiting the generality of the preceding clause (d), the Administrative Agent shall not (i) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Institution or (ii) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of Loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to any Disqualified Institution. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or (x) following the termination of the Standstill Period but prior to the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, Birch Grove in accordance with Section 7.03 and (y) such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment). The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof (stating that it is a “notice of default”) is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrowers or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or satisfaction of any condition that expressly refers to the matters described therein being acceptable or satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof). The Administrative Agent also shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof), and may act upon any such statement prior to receipt of written confirmation thereof. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who, subject to the applicable Rules of Professional Conduct, may be counsel for the Borrowers, provided, that no attorney-client relationship shall exist or be created among such counsel for the Borrowers, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, on the other hand, by any such consultation), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

 

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SECTION 8.04. Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any of and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any of and all their duties and exercise their rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.

SECTION 8.05. Resignation of Agent.

(a) Subject to the terms of this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time from its capacity as such. In connection with such resignation, the Administrative Agent shall give notice of its intent to resign to the Lenders and the Borrower Representative. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrowers, to appoint a successor; provided that in no event shall any such successor Administrative Agent be a Defaulting Lender or a Disqualified Institution. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank; provided that in no event shall any such successor Administrative Agent be a Defaulting Lender or a Disqualified Institution.

(b) Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed by the Borrowers and such successor.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, the retiring Administrative Agent may give notice of the effectiveness of its resignation to the Lenders and the Borrower Representative, whereupon, on the date of effectiveness of such resignation stated in such notice, (a) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, provided that, solely for purposes of maintaining any security interest granted to the Administrative Agent under any Security Document for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to be vested with such security interest as collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and, in the case of any Collateral in the possession of the Administrative Agent, shall continue to hold such Collateral, in each case until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and accepts such appointment in accordance with this paragraph (it being understood and agreed that the retiring Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation to take any further action under any Security Document, including any action required to maintain the perfection of any such security interest), and (b) the Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, provided that (i) all payments required to be made hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Person other than the Administrative Agent shall be made directly to such Person and (ii) all notices and other communications required or contemplated to be given or made to the Administrative Agent shall also directly be given or made to each Lender.

 

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(d) Following the effectiveness of the Administrative Agent’s resignation from its capacity as such, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03, as well as any exculpatory, reimbursement and indemnification provisions set forth in any other Loan Document, shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent and in respect of the matters referred to in the proviso under clause (a) above.

SECTION 8.06. Non-Reliance on the Agent and Other Lenders.

(a) Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, or any of the Related Parties of any of the foregoing, and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

(b) Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement and funding its Loans on the Closing Date, or delivering its signature page to an Assignment and Assumption or any other Loan Document pursuant to which it shall become a Lender hereunder, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be delivered to, or be approved by or satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders on the Closing Date. The signature page of each Lender to this Agreement shall be on file with the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof provided to the Borrowers.

SECTION 8.07. Right to Realize on Collateral.

(a) Except with respect to the exercise of setoff rights of any Lender in accordance with Section 9.08 or with respect to a Lender’s right to file a proof of claim in an insolvency proceeding, no Secured Party shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce any Guarantee of the Secured Obligations, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies under the Loan Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms thereof. In the event of a foreclosure by the Administrative Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale or other disposition, the Administrative Agent or any Lender may be the purchaser or licensor of any or all of such Collateral at any such sale or other disposition, and the Administrative Agent, as agent for and representative of the Secured Parties (but not any Lender or Lenders in its or their respective individual capacities unless the Required Lenders (following the termination of the Standstill Period but prior to the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, Birch Grove in accordance with Section 7.03) shall otherwise agree in writing) shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold at any such public sale, to use and apply any of the Loan Document Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any collateral payable by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties at such sale or other disposition. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation thereof, no Hedging Agreement the obligations under which constitute Secured Obligations will create (or be deemed to create) in favor of any Secured Party that is a party thereto any rights in connection with the management or release of any Collateral or of the obligations of any Loan Party under any Loan Document. By accepting the benefits of the Collateral, each Secured Party that is a party to any such Hedging Agreement shall be deemed to have appointed the Administrative Agent to serve as administrative agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents and agreed to be bound by the Loan Documents as a Secured Party thereunder, subject to the limitations set forth in this paragraph.

 

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(b) The Secured Parties irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 6.02(a)(v). The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have a duty to ascertain or inquire into any representation or warranty regarding the existence, value or collectability of the Collateral, the existence, priority or perfection of the Administrative Agent’s Lien thereon, or any certificate prepared by any Loan Party in connection therewith, nor shall the Administrative Agent be responsible or liable to the Lenders for any failure to monitor or maintain any portion of the Collateral.

(c) In case of the pendency of any proceeding with respect to any Loan Party under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrowers) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(A) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Secured Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim under Sections 2.09, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.03) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(B) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and

(C) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and each other Secured Party to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders or the other Secured Parties, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due to it, in its capacity as the Administrative Agent, under the Loan Documents (including under Section 9.03).

(d) The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and, except solely to the extent of the Borrowers’ rights to consent pursuant to and subject to the conditions set forth in this Article, none of the Borrowers or any other Loan Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any such provisions. Each Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, will be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Collateral and of the Guarantees of the Secured Obligations provided under the Loan Documents, to have agreed to the provisions of this Article.

 

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ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

SECTION 9.01. Notices.

(a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) of this Section), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by electronic communication, as follows:

(i) if to the Borrowers, to them c/o Starry, Inc., 38 Chauncy Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02111, Attention: General Counsel;

(ii) if to the Administrative Agent, to ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC, 100 Fillmore St., Denver, CO 80206, Attention: Katie Jones, Telephone: 303-398-2959, Email: agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112, Attention: Bijal N. Vira, Esq., Telephone: 212-653-8174, E-mail: BVira@sheppardmullin.com;

(iii) if to any Lender, to it at its notice address (or fax number) set forth on its signature page hereto or, if not there, then in its Administrative Questionnaire.

Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by fax shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient); and notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in paragraph (b) of this Section shall be effective as provided in such paragraph.

(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including email and Internet and intranet websites) pursuant to procedures set forth in this Agreement or at the electronic email addresses listed in Section 9.01(a) above; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices under Article II to any Lender if such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. Any notices or other communications to the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the recipient thereof prior thereto; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited or rescinded by any such Person by notice to each other such Person.

(c) Each of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers may change its address or fax number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each Lender may change its address or fax number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers.

SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments.

(a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

 

 

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(b) None of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement in writing entered into by the Borrowers (or, with the consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower Representative on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, in which case the other Borrowers hereby agree to be bound by any such agreement), the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto (provided that the Borrower Representative may enter into any such agreement on behalf of the other Borrowers, in which case the other Borrowers hereby agree to be bound by any such agreement), in each case with the consent of the Required Lenders (provided that the signature page of each Lender to any such agreement shall be on file with the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof provided to the Borrowers); provided that no such agreement shall:

(A) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.03 or of any Default, mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of any Commitment shall not constitute an increase of any Commitment of any Lender);

(B) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of interest thereon or reduce any fees (including any Prepayment Premium or other prepayment fees) payable, without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby; provided that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to waive any obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest at the default rate or change the amount of the default rate specified in Section 2.10(b);

(C) postpone the scheduled maturity date of any Loan, or the date of any scheduled payment of the principal amount of any Loan under Section 2.07, or any date for the payment of any interest or fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment affected thereby (it being understood that the waiver of any Default or any mandatory prepayment shall not constitute a postponement, waiver or excuse of any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts); provided that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to waive any obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest at the default rate or change the amount of the default rate specified in Section 2.10(b);

(D) change Section 2.15(b) or 2.15(c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender;

(E) change any of the provisions of this Section 9.02 (except as set forth in clause (b)(I), clause (b)(K) or clause (b)(L) below) or the percentage set forth in the definition of the term “Required Lenders” or “Required Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders (or the Lenders of any class) required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, in each case, without the written consent of each Lender (or each Lender of the applicable class);

 

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(F) release all or substantially all of the value of the Guarantees provided by the Guarantors (including, in each case, by limiting liability in respect thereof) created under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement without the written consent of each Lender (except as expressly provided in Section 9.14 or the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement (including any such release by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Disposition of any Subsidiary upon the exercise of remedies under the Security Documents), it being understood that an amendment or other modification of the type of obligations guaranteed under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall not be deemed to be a release or limitation of any Guarantee);

(G) release all or substantially all the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents, without the written consent of each Lender (except as expressly provided in Section 9.14 or the applicable Security Document (including any such release by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Disposition of the Collateral upon the exercise of remedies under the Security Documents), it being understood that an amendment or other modification of the type of obligations secured by the Security Documents shall not be deemed to be a release of the Collateral from the Liens of the Security Documents);

(H) contractually subordinate any of the Secured Obligations in right of payment to any other Indebtedness, or contractually subordinate any of the Liens on Collateral securing the Secured Obligations (in right of security) to any Lien on such Collateral securing any other Indebtedness, in each case, without the prior written consent of each directly and adversely affected Lender;

(I) (i) change or waive any condition precedent in Section 4.04 to any Borrowing of Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans, or (ii) after a Borrowing Request to fund Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans has been received by the Administrative Agent and before any Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans have been funded, waive any Default or Event of Default, in each case, without the written consent of the Required Delayed Draw Tranche C Lenders;

(J) postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment beyond the Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date, or modify the definition of “Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitment Termination Date,” in each case, without the written consent of each Delayed Draw Tranche C Lender;

(K) until the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, amend or modify (x) the definition of “Collateral,” “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” or any Security Document or (y) this clause (K) or clause (L) below, in each case, without the prior written consent of Birch Grove;

(L) until the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, (i) amend or modify any of Section 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.05(a), 5.09, 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.04, 6.05, 6.06, 6.08, 6.09, 6.11, 6.12, 6.14, 7.01, 7.02 or 7.03 (including, to the extent used therein, the definitions of capitalized terms defined in other provisions of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents), (ii) waive a Default or Event of Default arising from non-compliance with any of the foregoing provisions (unless such Default or Event of Default has been Rectified) or (iii) amend, modify or waive the provisions of Section 7.03(f) in a manner adverse to the Tranche C Lenders, in each case, without the prior written consent of Birch Grove;

(M) amend, modify or waive the provisions of Section 7.03(f) without the prior written consent of the Non-Birch Grove Lenders holding Loans (other than Tranche C Loans) and unused Commitments (other than Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments) representing more than 50% of the sum, at such time, of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all Loans (other than Tranche C Loans) held by the Non-Birch Grove Lenders and (ii) the aggregate unused Commitments (other than Delayed Draw Tranche C Commitments) held by the Non-Birch Grove Lenders (with the outstanding principal balance of all Loans and the unused Commitments of any Defaulting Lender being disregarded in making such determination at any time); or

 

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(N) amend, modify or waive the provisions of Section 7.04 in a manner adverse to Birch Grove (whether or not Birch Grove Capital LP or any of its Affiliates is a Lender hereunder at such time) without the prior written consent of (x) to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver is effected prior to the consummation of the purchase of the Tranche C Loans by the Non-Birch Grove Lenders pursuant to Section 7.03, the Required Tranche C Lenders and (y) to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver is effected prior to the consummation of the purchase of the Tranche C Loans by the Non-Birch Grove Lenders pursuant to Section 7.03, Birch Grove;

provided, further, that no such agreement shall amend, modify, extend or otherwise affect the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no consent with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be required of (x) any Defaulting Lender, except with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) above and then only in the event such Defaulting Lender shall be affected by such amendment, waiver or other modification or (y) in the case of any amendment, waiver or other modification referred to in the first proviso of this Section 9.02(b), any Lender that receives payment in full of the principal of and interest accrued on each Loan made by, and all other amounts owing to, such Lender or accrued for the account of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents at the time such amendment, waiver or other modification becomes effective and whose Commitments terminate by the terms and upon the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or other modification.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to the contrary, any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended, without the consent of any Lender (except as expressly set forth in such Sections), in the manner provided in Section 9.14, and each Lender hereby expressly authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent to enter into any amendment or other modification of this Agreement or other Loan Documents contemplated by any such Section.

SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

(a) The Borrowers shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of (x) one counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders taken as a whole, any special or regulatory counsel and one local counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders taken as a whole in each relevant jurisdiction that is material to the interests of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and solely in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the party affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel one additional counsel in each relevant jurisdiction to each group of similarly situated affected parties and (y) following the expiration of the Standstill Period but prior to the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, solely with respect to the taking of Enforcement Actions by Birch Grove or its designee that are the subject of the appointment described in Section 7.02(b), one counsel to each of Birch Grove and its designee, any special or regulatory counsel to each of AS Birch Grove BG and its designee and one local counsel for each of Birch Grove and its designee in each relevant jurisdiction that is material to the interests of Birch Grove or such designee, and solely in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the party affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel one additional counsel to each of Birch Grove and such designee in each relevant jurisdiction to each group of

 

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similarly situated affected parties) in connection with the structuring, arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, as well as the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated) and (ii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, or any Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any of the foregoing, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans.

(b) The Borrowers shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”), against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of (x) one counsel to all Indemnitees taken as a whole, any special or regulatory counsel and one local counsel for all Indemnitees taken as a whole in each relevant jurisdiction that is material to the interests of the Lenders, and solely in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel one additional counsel in each relevant jurisdiction to each group of similarly situated affected Indemnitees and (y) following the expiration of the Standstill Period but prior to the Birch Grove Enforcement Rights Termination Date, solely with respect to the taking of Enforcement Actions by Birch Grove or its designee that are the subject of the appointment described in Section 7.02(b), one counsel to Birch Grove Capital LP and each of its Affiliates that are Indemnitees (the “Birch Grove Indemnitees”) taken as a whole and one counsel to such designee and each of its Affiliates that are Indemnitees (the “Designee Indemnitees”), any special or regulatory counsel to the Birch Grove Indemnitees and the Designee Indemnitees and one local counsel for all Birch Grove Indemnitees taken as a whole and one local counsel for all Designee Indemnitees in each relevant jurisdiction that is material to the interests of Birch Grove, and solely in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the Birch Grove Indemnitee or Designee Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel one additional counsel in each relevant jurisdiction to each group of similarly situated affected Birch Grove Indemnitees or Designee Indemnitees) incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the structuring, arrangement and the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents of their obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated thereby, (ii) any Loan or the use of the proceeds therefrom, (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any Mortgaged Property or any other property currently or formerly owned or operated by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or any other Environmental Liability related in any way to a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and whether initiated against or by any party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any Affiliate of any of the foregoing or any third party (and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto); provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, (y) result from a claim brought by any Borrower against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if such Borrower has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (z) result from a claim not involving an act or omission of a Borrower and that is brought by an Indemnitee against another Indemnitee (other than against the arranger or the Administrative Agent in their capacities as such). This paragraph shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims or damages arising from any non-Tax claim.

 

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(c) To the extent that the Borrowers fail to indefeasibly pay any amount required to be paid by them under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of any of the foregoing (and without limiting their obligation to do so), each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or such sub-agent) in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such subagent) in connection with such capacity. For purposes of this Section, a Lender’s “pro rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the sum of the outstanding Loans and unused Commitments, in each case, at the time (or most recently outstanding and in effect).

(d) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrowers shall not assert, or permit any of their Affiliates or Related Parties to assert, and each hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee (i) for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), or (ii) on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the Transactions, the Fifth Amendment Transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof.

(e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.

SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns.

(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that (i) none of the Borrowers may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrowers without such consent shall be null and void ab initio) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the sub-agents of the Administrative Agent and the Related Parties of any of the Administrative Agent and any Lender) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) of:

(A) the Borrower Representative; provided that no consent of the Borrower Representative shall be required (1) for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, (2) for an assignment to any Person that has been approved by the Borrower Representative on or prior to the Fifth Amendment Effective Date or to such Person’s Affiliate and (3)

 

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if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, for any other assignment; provided further that the Borrower Representative shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten Business Days after having received notice thereof; and

(B) the Administrative Agent; provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of any Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund.

(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower Representative and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents; provided that no such consent of the Borrower Representative shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;

(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, provided that only one such processing and recordation fee shall be payable in the event of simultaneous assignments from any Lender or its Approved Funds to one or more other Approved Funds of such Lender; and

(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) all documentation and other information reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be required by applicable regulatory authorities required under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA Patriot Act, and (ii) an Administrative Questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, State and foreign securities laws.

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(v) of this Section, from and after the Closing Date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 9.03 and subject to the obligations of Section 9.12). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 9.04(c).

 

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(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and records of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers and, as to entries pertaining to it, any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior written notice; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, a Lender may only inspect the Register with respect to the Loans held by such Lender.

(v) Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of an Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), any “know your customer” information requested by the Administrative Agent and the processing and recordation fee referred to in this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register; provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to accept such Assignment and Assumption or so record the information contained therein if the Administrative Agent reasonably believes that such Assignment and Assumption lacks any written consent required by this Section or is otherwise not in proper form, it being acknowledged that the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation (and shall incur no liability) with respect to obtaining (or confirming the receipt) of any such written consent or with respect to the form of (or any defect in) such Assignment and Assumption, any such duty and obligation being solely with the assigning Lender and the assignee. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph, and following such recording, unless otherwise determined by the Administrative Agent (such determination to be made in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent, which determination may be conditioned on the consent of the assigning Lender and the assignee), shall be effective notwithstanding any defect in the Assignment and Assumption relating thereto. Each assigning Lender and the assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the Administrative Agent that all written consents required by this Section with respect thereto (other than the consent of the Administrative Agent) have been obtained and that such Assignment and Assumption is otherwise duly completed and in proper form, and each assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the assigning Lender and the Administrative Agent that such assignee is an Eligible Assignee.

(c) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more Eligible Assignees (“Participants”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and Loans); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and, subject to the confidentiality requirements herein, the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant or requires the approval of all the Lenders. The Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.12, 2.13 and 2.14 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.14(f) (it

 

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being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.14(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant (x) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 2.15 and 2.16 as if it were an assignee under paragraph (b) of this Section and (y) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.12 or 2.14, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrowers’ request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrowers to effectuate the provisions of Section 2.16(b) with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.15(c) as though it were a Lender.

(ii) Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments or Loans or its other obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment or Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(e) No assignment shall be made to the Loan Parties or any of their Affiliates or Subsidiaries.

(f) Disqualified Institutions. (i) No assignment or participation shall be made to any Person that was a Disqualified Institution as of the date (the “Trade Date”) on which the assigning Lender entered into a binding agreement to sell and assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to such Person (unless the Borrower Representative has consented to such assignment in writing in its sole and absolute discretion, in which case such Person will not be considered a Disqualified Institution for the purpose of such assignment or participation). For the avoidance of doubt, with respect to any assignee that becomes a Disqualified Institution after the applicable Trade Date the delivery of a notice pursuant to, and/or the expiration of the notice period referred to in, the definition of “Disqualified Institution”), such assignee shall not retroactively be considered a Disqualified Institution. Any assignment in violation of this clause (f)(i) shall not be void, but the other provisions of this clause (f) shall apply.

 

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(ii) If any assignment or participation is made to any Disqualified Institution without the Borrower Representative’s prior written consent in violation of clause (i) above, the Borrowers may upon notice to the applicable Disqualified Institution and the Administrative Agent, (A) terminate the Commitment of such Disqualified Institution and repay all obligations of the Borrowers owing to such Disqualified Institution in connection with such Commitment and/or (B) require such Disqualified Institution to assign, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in this Section), all of its interest, rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Assignees at the lesser of (x) the principal amount thereof and (y) the amount that such Disqualified Institution paid to acquire such interests, rights and obligations, in each case plus accrued interest, accrued fees and all other amounts (other than principal amounts) payable to it hereunder and the other Loan Documents; provided that (i) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee (if any) specified in Section 9.04(b) and (ii) such assignment does not conflict with applicable laws.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Disqualified Institutions (A) will not (x) have the right to receive information, reports or other materials provided to Lenders by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, (y) attend or participate in meetings attended by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, or (z) access any electronic site established for the Lenders or confidential communications from counsel to or financial advisors of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders and (B) (x) for purposes of any consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of, or any action under, and for the purpose of any direction to the Administrative Agent or any Lender to undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, each Disqualified Institution will be deemed to have consented in the same proportion as the Lenders that are not Disqualified Institutions consented to such matter, and (y) for purposes of voting on any plan of reorganization or plan of liquidation (a “Debtor Relief Plan”) pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of America, or any other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect (“Debtor Relief Laws”), each Disqualified Institution party hereto hereby agrees (1) not to vote on such Debtor Relief Plan, (2) if such Disqualified Institution does vote on such Debtor Relief Plan notwithstanding the restriction in the foregoing clause (1), such vote will be deemed not to be in good faith and shall be “designated” pursuant to Section 1126(e) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision in any other Debtor Relief Laws), and such vote shall not be counted in determining whether the applicable class has accepted or rejected such Debtor Relief Plan in accordance with Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision in any other Debtor Relief Laws) and (3) not to contest any request by any party for a determination by the Bankruptcy Court (or other applicable court of competent jurisdiction) effectuating the foregoing clause (2).

SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any Loan Document is executed and delivered or any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15(e), 7.04 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. The provisions of Section 9.12 shall survive and remain in full force and effect with respect to the Administrative Agent and each Lender until eighteen (18) months following the date that the Administrative Agent or such Lender, respectively, is no longer party to this Agreement.

 

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SECTION 9.06. Signatures; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed and delivered by facsimile, portable document format (.pdf) or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000 (including DocuSign), and in multiple counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof (but do not supersede any provisions of any separate agreements that do not by the terms thereof terminate upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect). In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement and those of any other Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall control; provided further that the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed a conflict or inconsistency with this Agreement. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of all the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each Affiliate thereof is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) or other amounts at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, or by such an Affiliate, to or for the credit or the account of the Borrowers against any of and all the obligations then due of the Borrowers now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations of the Borrowers are owed to a branch, office or Affiliate of such Lender different from the branch, office or Affiliate holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender and each Affiliate thereof under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender or Affiliate may have. Each Lender agrees to notify the Borrower Representative and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application; provided that the failure to give notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.

SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.

(a) This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.

 

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(b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the Borrowers hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document brought by it or any of its Affiliates shall be brought, and shall be heard and determined, exclusively in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each party hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any Loan Party or any of its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

(c) Each of the Borrowers hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Related Parties, including accountants, legal counsel and other agents and advisors, it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential, (b) to the extent required or requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable law or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing

 

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confidentiality undertakings substantially similar to those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its Related Parties) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries and its obligations (it being understood that the DQ List may be disclosed to any assignee or Participant, or prospective assignee or Participant, in reliance on this clause (f)), (g) on a confidential basis to (i) any rating agency in connection with rating the Borrowers or its Subsidiaries or the credit facilities provided for herein or (ii) the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers with respect to the credit facilities provided for herein; (h) with the consent of the Borrower Representative or (i) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrowers. For purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrowers relating to the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or their businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrowers; provided that, in the case of information received from the Borrowers after the Closing Date, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information. It is agreed that, notwithstanding the restrictions of any prior confidentiality agreement binding on the Administrative Agent, such parties may disclose Information as provided in this Section 9.12.

SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.

SECTION 9.14. Release of Liens and Guarantees.

(a) A Guarantor (other than a Borrower) shall automatically be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, and all security interests created by the Security Documents in Collateral owned by such Guarantor shall be automatically released, upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by this Agreement as a result of which such Guarantor ceases to be a Subsidiary of a Loan Party; provided that, if so required by this Agreement, the Required Lenders (or, subject to Section 7.03, Birch Grove) shall have consented to such transaction and the terms of such consent shall not have provided otherwise. Upon any sale or other transfer by any Loan Party (other than to the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries) of any Collateral in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest created under any Security Document in any Collateral pursuant to Section 9.02, the security interests in such Collateral created by the Security Documents shall be automatically released.

 

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(b) In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to any Loan Party, at such Loan Party’s expense, all documents that such Loan Party shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.

SECTION 9.15. USA PATRIOT Act Notice. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with such Act.

SECTION 9.16. No Fiduciary Relationship. Each of the Borrowers, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Borrowers, the other Subsidiaries and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications. The Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their Affiliates may be engaged, for their own accounts or the accounts of customers, in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Borrowers and their Affiliates, and none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or their Affiliates has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrowers or any of their Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each of the Borrowers hereby waives and releases any claims that it or any of its Affiliates may have against the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their Affiliates with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.

SECTION 9.17. Non-Public Information. Each Lender acknowledges that all information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent pursuant to or in connection with, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain MNPI. Each Lender represents to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent that (i) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of MNPI and that it will handle MNPI in accordance with such procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws, and (ii) it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain MNPI in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws.

SECTION 9.18. Judgment Currency.

(a) If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum owing hereunder in U.S. Dollars into another currency, each party hereto agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction U.S. Dollars could be purchased with such other currency on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which final judgment is given.

(b) The obligations of each party hereto in respect of any sum due to any other party hereto or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than U.S. Dollars, be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so

 

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due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction purchase U.S. Dollars with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of U.S. Dollars so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in U.S. Dollars, such party agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against such deficiency. The obligations of the parties contained in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder.

SECTION 9.19. Excluded Swap Obligations.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, no Guarantee by any Guarantor under any Loan Document shall include a Guarantee of any Secured Obligation that, as to such Guarantor, is an Excluded Swap Obligation, and no Collateral provided by any Guarantor shall secure any Secured Obligation that, as to such Guarantor, is an Excluded Swap Obligation. In the event that any payment is made pursuant to any Guarantee by, or any amount is realized from Collateral of, any Guarantor as to which any Secured Obligations are Excluded Swap Obligations, such payment or amount shall be applied to pay the Secured Obligations of such Loan Party as otherwise provided herein and in the other Loan Documents without giving effect to such Excluded Swap Obligations, and each reference in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the ratable application of such amounts as among the Secured Obligations or any specified portion of the Secured Obligations that would otherwise include such Excluded Swap Obligations shall be deemed so to provide.

(b) Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time to enable each other Loan Party to honor all of its obligations under the Loan Documents in respect of Swap Obligations (subject to the limitations on its Guarantee under the Collateral Agreement). The obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until its Guarantee under the Collateral Agreement is released. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section shall constitute a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Loan Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

(c) The following terms shall for purposes of this Section have the meanings set forth below:

Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, the Guarantee by such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor becomes effective with respect to such related Swap Obligation.

Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Guarantor that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or that otherwise constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder at the time such Swap Obligation is incurred (including as a result of the agreement in this Section or any other Guarantee or other support agreement in respect of the obligations of such Guarantor by another Person that constitutes an “eligible contract participant”).

 

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SECTION 9.20. Publicity. The Administrative Agent and ArrowMark may, with the Company’s prior written consent, make appropriate announcements of the financial arrangement entered into among the Loan Parties, Administrative Agent and Lenders, including, without limitation, announcements which are commonly known as tombstones, in such publications and to such selected parties as Administrative Agent or ArrowMark shall deem appropriate and which have been approved by the Company. The Administrative Agent and ArrowMark may, with the Company’s prior written consent, include any Loan Party’s name and logo in select transaction profiles and client testimonials prepared by Administrative Agent or ArrowMark for use in publications, company brochures and other marketing materials of Administrative Agent or ArrowMark.

SECTION 9.21. Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers.

(a) Each Borrower is accepting joint and several liability hereunder and under the other Loan Documents in consideration of the financial accommodations to be provided by the Lenders, for the mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of each Borrower and in consideration of the undertakings of the other Borrowers to accept joint and several liability for the Loan Document Obligations.

(b) Each Borrower, jointly and severally, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally accepts, not merely as a surety but also as a co-debtor, joint and several liability with the other Borrowers, with respect to the payment and performance of all of the Loan Document Obligations (including any obligations arising under this Section 9.21), it being the intention of the parties hereto that all the Loan Document Obligations shall be the joint and several obligations of each Borrower without preferences or distinction among them.

(c) If and to the extent that any Borrower shall fail to make any payment with respect to any of the Loan Document Obligations as and when due or to perform any of the Loan Document Obligations in accordance with the terms thereof, then in each such event the other Borrowers will make such payment with respect to, or perform, such Loan Document Obligation until such time as all of the Loan Document Obligations are paid in full.

(d) The obligations of each Borrower under the provisions of this Section 9.21 constitute the absolute and unconditional, full recourse obligations of such Borrower enforceable against such Borrower to the full extent of such Borrower’s Collateral, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the provisions of this Agreement (other than this Section 9.21(d)) or any other circumstances whatsoever.

(e) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each Borrower hereby waives notice of acceptance of its joint and several liability, notice of any Loans, notice of the occurrence of any Default, or of any demand for any payment under this Agreement, notice of any action at any time taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders under or in respect of any of the Loan Document Obligations, any requirement of diligence or to mitigate damages and, generally, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all demands, notices and other formalities of every kind in connection with this Agreement, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. Each Borrower hereby assents to, and waives notice of, any extension or postponement of the time for the payment of any of the Loan Document Obligations, the acceptance of any payment of any of the Loan Document Obligations, the acceptance of any partial payment thereon, any waiver, consent or other action or acquiescence by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders at any time or times in respect of any default by any Borrower in the performance or satisfaction of any term, covenant, condition or provision of this Agreement, any and all other indulgences

 

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whatsoever by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in respect of any of the Loan Document Obligations, and the taking, addition, substitution or release, in whole or in part, at any time or times, of any security for any of the Loan Document Obligations or the addition, substitution or release, in whole or in part, of any Borrower. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Borrower assents to any other action or delay in acting or failure to act on the part of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders with respect to the failure by any Borrower to comply with any of its respective Loan Document Obligations, including, without limitation, any failure strictly or diligently to assert any right or to pursue any remedy or to comply fully with applicable laws or regulations thereunder, which might, but for the provisions of this Section 9.21 afford grounds for terminating, discharging or relieving any Borrower, in whole or in part, from any of its obligations under this Section 9.21, it being the intention of each Borrower that, so long as any of the Loan Document Obligations hereunder remain unsatisfied, the obligations of each Borrower under this Section 9.21 shall not be discharged except by performance and then only to the extent of such performance. The obligations of each Borrower under this Section 9.21 shall not be diminished or rendered unenforceable by any winding up, reorganization, arrangement, liquidation, reconstruction or similar proceeding with respect to any other Borrower or the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

(f) Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that such Borrower is currently informed of the financial condition of the other Borrowers and of all other circumstances which a diligent inquiry would reveal and which bear upon the risk of nonpayment of the Loan Document Obligations. Each Borrower further represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that such Borrower has read and understands the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents. Each Borrower hereby covenants that such Borrower will continue to keep informed of the other Borrowers’ financial condition and of all other circumstances which bear upon the risk of nonpayment or nonperformance of the Loan Document Obligations.

(g) The provisions of this Section 9.21 are made for the benefit of each Secured Party, and its successors and assigns, and may be enforced by it or them from time to time against any or all Borrowers as often as occasion therefor may arise and without requirement on the part of such Secured Party, or any of its successors or assigns first to marshal any of its or their claims or to exercise any of its or their rights against any Borrower or to exhaust any remedies available to it or them against any Borrower or to resort to any other source or means of obtaining payment of any of the Loan Document Obligations hereunder or to elect any other remedy. The provisions of this Section 9.21 shall remain in effect until all of the outstanding Loan Document Obligations shall have been paid in full or otherwise fully satisfied. If at any time, any payment, or any part thereof, made in respect of any of the Loan Document Obligations, is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Administrative Agent or any Lender upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Borrower, or otherwise, the provisions of this Section 9.21 will forthwith be reinstated in effect, as though such payment had not been made.

(h) Each Borrower hereby agrees that it will not enforce any of its rights of contribution or subrogation against any other Borrower with respect to any liability incurred by it hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, any payments made by it to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders with respect to any of the Loan Document Obligations or any collateral security therefor until such time as all of the outstanding Loan Document Obligations have been paid in full in cash. Any claim which any Borrower may have against any other Borrower with respect to any payments to any Secured Party hereunder are hereby expressly made subordinate and junior in right of payment, without limitation as to any increases in the Loan Document Obligations arising hereunder or thereunder, to the prior payment in full in cash of the Loan Document Obligations and, in the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceeding under the laws of any jurisdiction relating to any Borrower, its debts or its assets, whether voluntary or involuntary, all such Loan Document Obligations shall be paid in full in cash before any payment or distribution of any character, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any other Borrower therefor.

 

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(i) Each Borrower hereby agrees that after the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, such Borrower will not demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect any indebtedness of any other Borrower owing to such Borrower until the outstanding Loan Document Obligations shall have been paid in full in cash. If, notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, such Borrower shall collect, enforce or receive any amounts in respect of such indebtedness, such amounts shall be collected, enforced and received by such Borrower as trustee for the Administrative Agent, and such Borrower shall deliver any such amounts to the Administrative Agent for application to the Loan Document Obligations in accordance with this Agreement.

SECTION 9.22. Amendment and Restatement of Initial Credit Agreement. As of the Closing Date, this Agreement shall amend, restate and supersede the Initial Credit Agreement in its entirety, except as provided in this Section 9.22. Each Loan Party ratifies, reaffirms and acknowledges that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are in full force and effect as the amendment and restatement of the Initial Credit Agreement. The rights and obligations of the parties evidenced by the Initial Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the grant of security interest in the Collateral by the Loan Parties under the Security Documents shall continue thereunder but as amended by this Agreement, and shall not in any event be terminated, extinguished or annulled but shall hereafter be governed by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. All references to the Initial Credit Agreement in the Loan Documents (other than this Agreement) shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement. This Agreement is an amendment and restatement only and not a novation. This Agreement shall not release or affect the liability of any guarantor of any promissory note or credit facility executed in reference to this Agreement or release any owner of collateral granted as security for this Agreement.

[Signature pages follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

STARRY, INC., as a Borrower
By:  

    /s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President
STARRY SPECTRUM HOLDINGS LLC,
as a Borrower
By Starry, Inc., its Sole Member

            /s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President
STARRY (MA), INC., as Borrower

            /s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President
STARRY SPECTRUM LLC, as a Borrower
By Starry, Inc., its Sole Member

            /s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President
TESTCO LLC, as a Borrower
By Starry, Inc., its Sole Member

            /s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


WIDMO HOLDINGS LLC, as a Borrower
By Starry, Inc., its Sole Member

            /s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Name:   Chaitanya Kanojia
Title:   President

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


VIBRANT COMPOSITES INC., as a Borrower
By:  

    /s/ William Lundregan

Name:   William Lundregan
Title:   President
ARROWMARK AGENCY SERVICES, LLC,
as Administrative Agent
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


ARROWMARK FUNDAMENTAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, L.P., as a Lender
By: its General Partner
ArrowMark Partners GP, LLC
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Managing Member
Notice Address:
ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC
100 Fillmore St.
Denver, CO 80206
Attention: Katie Jones
Telephone: 303.398.2959
Email:   agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


ARROWMARK SPECIALTY FINANCE LLC, as a Lender
By: its Managing Member
ArrowMark Specialty Finance MM LLC
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Managing Member
Notice Address:
ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC 100 Fillmore St.
Denver, CO 80206
Attention: Katie Jones
Telephone: 303.398.2959
Email:   agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


THB IRON ROSE LLC, as a Lender
By: its Investment Adviser
ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Managing Member
Notice Address:
ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC
100 Fillmore St.
Denver, CO 80206
Attention: Katie Jones
Telephone: 303.398.2959
Email:   agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


IRON HORSE INVESTMENT, LLC, as a Lender
By: its Investment Adviser
ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Managing Member
Notice Address:
ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC
100 Fillmore St.
Denver, CO 80206
Attention: Katie Jones
Telephone: 303.398.2959
Email:   agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


ARROWMARK INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND, L.P., as a Lender
By: its General Partner
ArrowMark Partners GP3, LLC
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Managing Member
Notice Address:
ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC
100 Fillmore St.
Denver, CO 80206
Attention: Katie Jones
Telephone: 303.398.2959
Email:   agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


ARROWMARK INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND QP, L.P., as a Lender
By: its General Partner
ArrowMark Partners GP5, LLC
By:  

    /s/ David Corkins

Name:   David Corkins
Title:   Managing Member
Notice Address:
ArrowMark Agency Services, LLC
100 Fillmore St.
Denver, CO 80206
Attention: Katie Jones
Telephone: 303.398.2959
Email:   agencynotices@arrowmarkpartners.com

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]


SG-Starry, LLC
By: Sturm Group, LLC, its Manager
By:  

    /s/ Donald L. Sturm

  Donald L. Sturm
  Chairman and CEO
Notice Address:
3033 E. 1st Avenue, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80206

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]

Exhibit 10.13

SIXTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

THIS SIXTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of January 13th, 2022 (this “Amendment”), is made by and among Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or “Borrower Representative”), the lenders listed on the signature pages hereto and ARROWMARK AGENCY SERVICES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Arrowmark”), in its capacity as Administrative Agent.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:

WHEREAS, the Company, each Subsidiary of the Company listed as a “Borrower” on the signature pages thereto, the Administrative Agent and the financial institutions listed on the signature pages thereto as Lenders (the “Lenders”) are party to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 13, 2019 (as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”; capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement);

WHEREAS, the Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, has requested that the Administrative Agent and Required Lenders amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.02 thereof, the Credit Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, Birch Gove, the Required Lenders and the Administrative Agent; and

WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent, Birch Grove and Required Lenders are willing to amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Amendment.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Amendments. On the Sixth Amendment Effective Date, the Credit Agreement is amended as follows:

(a) Section 6.01(a)(v) of the Credit Agreement is amended by replacing “$3,500,000” with “$5,500,000”.

2. [Reserved.]

3. Representations and Warranties of the Borrowers. The Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and Required Lenders as of the date hereof as follows:

(a) The Borrower Representative is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Amendment and to perform its obligations hereunder;

 

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(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower Representative of this Amendment and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby is within the Borrower Representative’s corporate or other organizational power and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action (including by the Governing Board) and, if required, action of the Equity Interest owners, of the Borrower Representative. This Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower Representative and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower Representative, as the case may be, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;

(c) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower Representative of this Amendment and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (i) do not require any Governmental Approvals except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) will not violate any applicable law, including any order of any Governmental Authority, in any material respect, except to the extent any such violations, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) will not violate the Organizational Documents of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and (iv) will not violate or result (alone or with notice or lapse of time, or both) in a default under any indenture or other agreement or instrument binding upon a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment, repurchase or redemption to be made by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or give rise to a right of, or result in, any termination, cancellation, acceleration or right of renegotiation of any obligation thereunder, in each case except to the extent that the foregoing, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(d) The representations and warranties of the Borrowers contained in the Credit Agreement and in each other Loan Document qualified by materiality are true and correct, and those not so qualified are true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof and after giving effect to this Amendment, in each case, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties are true and correct as of such earlier date); and

(e) No Default or Event of Default exists or would result immediately after giving effect to this Amendment.

4. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the first date (the “Sixth Amendment Effective Date”) when each of the following conditions precedent have been satisfied (or duly waived):

(a) The Borrowers shall have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent this Amendment and such other documents as the Administrative Agent may request;

(b) The representations and warranties set forth in Section 3 are true and correct; and

(c) The Borrowers shall have paid all fees, costs and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent that is due and payable under the Loan Documents.

5. Affirmation. Each of the Loan Parties as issuer, debtor, guarantor, assignor, grantor, pledgor, or in other any other similar capacity in which such Loan Party grants liens or security interests in its property or otherwise acts as accommodation party or guarantor, as the case may be (including pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and the other Security Documents), hereby (i) ratifies and reaffirms all of its payment and performance obligations, contingent or otherwise, under each of the Loan Documents to which

 

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it is a party (after giving effect to this Amendment), (ii) to the extent such Loan Party guaranteed the Secured Obligations under or with respect to the Loan Documents, ratifies and reaffirms such guarantee and (iii) to the extent such Loan Party granted liens on or security interests in any of its property pursuant to the Security Documents as security for or otherwise guaranteed the Secured Obligations under or with respect to the Security Documents, ratifies and reaffirms such guarantee and prior grant of security interests and liens and confirms and agrees that such security interests and liens, shall continue, unimpaired in full force and effect after giving effect to this Amendment and hereafter secure all of the Secured Obligations. Each of the Loan Parties hereby consents to this Amendment and acknowledges that each of the Loan Documents, as amended, remains in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and reaffirmed. The execution of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Administrative Agent or Lenders, constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Loan Documents or serve to effect a novation of the Secured Obligations. This Amendment shall not constitute a novation of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Documents.

6. No Other Modification. Nothing contained herein constitutes a waiver of compliance with any term or condition contained in the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or constitute a course of conduct or dealing among the parties hereto. Except as expressly stated herein, the Administrative Agent and Lenders reserve all rights, privileges and remedies under the Loan Documents. Except as expressly provided herein, the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents remain unmodified and in full force and effect. This Amendment is a Loan Document, and all references in the Loan Documents to the Credit Agreement are deemed to be references to the Credit Agreement as modified by this Amendment.

7. Signatures; Counterparts; Integration. This Amendment may be executed and delivered by facsimile, portable document format (.pdf) or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000 (including DocuSign), and in multiple counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same contract. This Amendment and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof (but do not supersede any provisions of any separate agreements that do not by the terms thereof terminate upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect). In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this Amendment and those of any other Loan Document, the provisions of this Amendment shall control; provided further that the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed a conflict or inconsistency with this Amendment.

8. Successors and Assigns. This Amendment shall be binding on, and shall inure to the benefit of, the successors and permitted assigns of the parties hereto.

9. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The jurisdiction, consent to service of process and waiver of jury trial provisions set forth in Sections 9.09 and 9.10 of the Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference, mutatis mutandis.

 

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10. Severability. Any provision of this Amendment held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

11. Further Assurances. Each of the parties shall execute such documents and perform such further acts (including, without limitation, obtaining any consents, exemptions, authorizations, or other actions by, or giving any notices to, or making any filings with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person) as may be reasonably required or desirable to carry out or to perform the provisions of this Amendment.

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed and delivered by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

 

“Borrower Representative”
STARRY, INC., as a Borrower
By:  

/s/ William Lundregan

  Name: William Lundregan
  Title: Senior Vice President

[Signature Page to Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement]


“Administrative Agent”
ARROWMARK AGENCY SERVICES LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
“Required Lenders”
ARROWMARK FUNDAMENTAL
OPPORTUNITY FUND, L.P.
  By: its General Partner,
  ArrowMark Partners GP, LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
IRON HORSE INVESTMENTS LLC
  By: its Investment Advisor,
  ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
ARROWMARK SPECIALTY FINANCE LLC
  By: its Managing Member, ArrowMark Specialty
  Finance MM LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory

[Signature Page to Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ARROWMARK INCOME OPPORTUNITY
FUND, L.P.
  By: its General Partner,
  ArrowMark Partners GP3, LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
ARROWMARK INCOME OPPORTUNITY
FUND QP, L.P.
  By: its General Partner,
  ArrowMark Partners GP5, LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
“Birch Grove”
BIRCH GROVE CREDIT STRATEGIES
MASTER FUND LP,
By:  

/s/ Todd A. Berry

Name: Todd A. Berry
Title: COO
BIRCH GROVE PRIVATE CREDIT
OPPORTUNITIES MASTER FUND III LP
By:  

/s/ Todd A. Berry

Name: Todd A. Berry
Title: COO

[Signature Page to Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement]

Exhibit 10.14

SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

THIS SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of March 26, 2022 (this “Amendment”), is made by and among Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company” or “Borrower Representative”), the lenders listed on the signature pages hereto and ARROWMARK AGENCY SERVICES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Arrowmark”), in its capacity as Administrative Agent.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:

WHEREAS, the Company, each Subsidiary of the Company listed as a “Borrower” on the signature pages thereto, the Administrative Agent and the financial institutions listed on the signature pages thereto as Lenders (the “Lenders”) are party to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 13, 2019 (as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”; capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement);

WHEREAS, the Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, has requested that the Administrative Agent, Birch Grove and Required Lenders amend and waive certain provisions of the Credit Agreement;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.02 thereof, the Credit Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, Birch Gove, the Required Lenders and the Administrative Agent; and

WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent, Birch Grove and the Required Lenders are willing to amend and waive certain provisions of the Credit Agreement in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Amendment.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Amendments. On the Seventh Amendment Effective Date (as defined below), the Credit Agreement is amended as follows:

(a) Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the capitalized term “Change in Control”:

“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the SPAC Transaction shall not constitute a Change in Control.”

(b) Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is amended by replacing “and” with “,” immediately prior to clause (d) of the capitalized term “Interest Period” and adding the following after the end of such clause (d):

“and (e) the initial Interest Period for the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans shall commence on the date of the initial Borrowing of the Delayed Draw Tranche C Loans and end concurrently with the termination of the then existing Interest Period for the Initial Tranche C Loans.”

 

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(c) Section 6.01 of the Credit Agreement is amended by restating clause (xvi) therein in its entirety as follows:

“(xvi) unsecured Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness) in an amount not to exceed $15 million on terms, including with respect to subordination, acceptable to the Administrative Agent.”

(d) Section 6.14 of the Credit Agreement is amended by deleting “(x)” and “and/or (y) the incurrence or unsecured Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness) in each case on terms reasonably acceptable to Birch Grove”.

2. Waivers.

(a) The Administrative Agent, Birch Gove and the Required Lenders hereby (i) waive any Default or Event of Default whether in existence or not on the Seventh Amendment Effective Date (immediately before giving effect to this Amendment) due to the Borrowers’ non- compliance with or breach of Section 5.01(g) of the Credit Agreement as it relates to the Borrowers’ obligation to deliver to the Administrative Agent a detailed consolidated budget for the Borrowers’ fiscal year ending December 31, 2022 on or prior to March 1, 2022, and (ii) agree to extend the deadline by which the Borrowers must deliver to the Administrative Agent a detailed consolidated budget for the fiscal year of the Borrowers ending December 31, 2022 satisfying the requirements of Section 5.01(g) of the Credit Agreement to May 30, 2022.

(b) The Administrative Agent, Birch Grove and the Required Lenders hereby waive the requirement that the audited financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) of the Credit Agreement for the fiscal year of the Company ending December 31, 2021 must not contain a “going concern” or like qualification, exception or emphasis (other than as a result of current debt maturity in the final year of the term of any Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Credit Agreement).

3. Representations and Warranties of the Borrowers. The Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent, Birch Grove and the Required Lenders as of the date hereof as follows:

(a) The Borrower Representative is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Amendment and to perform its obligations hereunder;

(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower Representative of this Amendment and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby is within the Borrower Representative’s corporate or other organizational power and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action (including by the Governing Board) and, if required, action of the Equity Interest owners, of the Borrower Representative. This Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower Representative and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower Representative, enforceable against the Borrower Representative in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;

 

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(c) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower Representative of this Amendment and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (i) do not require any Governmental Approvals except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) will not violate any applicable law, including any order of any Governmental Authority, in any material respect, except to the extent any such violations, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) will not violate the Organizational Documents of a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and (iv) will not violate or result (alone or with notice or lapse of time, or both) in a default under any indenture or other agreement or instrument binding upon a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment, repurchase or redemption to be made by a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or give rise to a right of, or result in, any termination, cancellation, acceleration or right of renegotiation of any obligation thereunder, in each case except to the extent that the foregoing, individually and in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(d) The representations and warranties of the Borrowers contained in the Credit Agreement and in each other Loan Document qualified by materiality are true and correct, and those not so qualified are true and correct in all material respects, in each case as of the date hereof and after giving effect to this Amendment, in each case, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties are true and correct (or true and correct in all material respects, as applicable) as of such earlier date); and

(e) No Default or Event of Default exists or would result immediately after giving effect to this Amendment.

4. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the first date (the “Seventh Amendment Effective Date”) when each of the following conditions precedent have been satisfied:

(a) The Borrower Representative shall have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent this Amendment and such other documents as the Administrative Agent may request;

(b) The representations and warranties set forth in Section 3 are true and correct;

(c) The Borrowers shall have paid all fees, costs and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent and Birch Grove that is due and payable under the Loan Documents or this Amendment; and

(d) The amount of the Closing Surviving Corporation Cash (as such term is defined in the Acquisition Agreement) following the consummation of the SPAC Transaction will equal or exceed $160 million.

 

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5. Affirmation. The Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, as issuer, debtor, guarantor, assignor, grantor, pledgor, or in other any other similar capacity in which such Loan Party grants liens or security interests in its property or otherwise acts as accommodation party or guarantor, as the case may be (including pursuant to the Collateral Agreement and the other Security Documents), hereby (i) ratifies and reaffirms all of its payment and performance obligations, contingent or otherwise, under each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party (after giving effect to this Amendment), (ii) to the extent such Loan Party guaranteed the Secured Obligations under or with respect to the Loan Documents, ratifies and reaffirms such guarantee and (iii) to the extent such Loan Party granted liens on or security interests in any of its property pursuant to the Security Documents as security for or otherwise guaranteed the Secured Obligations under or with respect to the Security Documents, ratifies and reaffirms such guarantee and prior grant of security interests and liens and confirms and agrees that such security interests and liens, shall continue, unimpaired in full force and effect after giving effect to this Amendment and hereafter secure all of the Secured Obligations. The Borrower Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers, hereby consents to this Amendment and acknowledges that each of the Loan Documents, as amended, remains in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and reaffirmed. The execution of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Administrative Agent or Lenders, constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Loan Documents or serve to effect a novation of the Secured Obligations. This Amendment shall not constitute a novation of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Documents.

6. No Other Modification. Except as provided in Section 2 hereof, nothing contained herein constitutes a waiver of compliance with any term or condition contained in the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or constitute a course of conduct or dealing among the parties hereto. Except as expressly stated herein, the Administrative Agent and Lenders reserve all rights, privileges and remedies under the Loan Documents. Except as expressly provided herein, the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents remain unmodified and in full force and effect. This Amendment is a Loan Document, and all references in the Loan Documents to the Credit Agreement are deemed to be references to the Credit Agreement as modified by this Amendment.

7. Expenses. The Borrowers agree to reimburse the Lenders and the Administrative Agent for their reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by them in connection with this Amendment, including the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of (i) Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, counsel for Birch Grove, and (ii) Sheppard Mullin LLP, counsel for the Administrative Agent, in the case of this clause (ii) as and when required by Section 9.03 of the Credit Agreement

8. Signatures; Counterparts; Integration. This Amendment may be executed and delivered by facsimile, portable document format (.pdf) or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000 (including DocuSign), and in multiple counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same contract. This Amendment and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof (but do not supersede any provisions of any separate agreements that do not by the terms thereof terminate

 

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upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect). In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this Amendment and those of any other Loan Document, the provisions of this Amendment shall control; provided further that the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed a conflict or inconsistency with this Amendment.

9. Successors and Assigns. This Amendment shall be binding on, and shall inure to the benefit of, the successors and permitted assigns of the parties hereto.

10. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The jurisdiction, consent to service of process and waiver of jury trial provisions set forth in Sections 9.09 and 9.10 of the Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference, mutatis mutandis.

11. Severability. Any provision of this Amendment held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

12. Further Assurances. Each of the parties shall execute such documents and perform such further acts (including, without limitation, obtaining any consents, exemptions, authorizations, or other actions by, or giving any notices to, or making any filings with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person) as may be reasonably required or desirable to carry out or to perform the provisions of this Amendment.

13. Headings. The headings of this Amendment are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed and delivered by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

 

Borrower Representative”
      STARRY, INC., as a Borrower
      By:  

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

  Name: Chaitanya Kanojia
  Title: CEO

[Signature Page to Seventh Amendment]


“Administrative Agent”
ARROWMARK AGENCY SERVICES LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
“Required Lenders”
ARROWMARK FUNDAMENTAL
OPPORTUNITY FUND, L.P.
      By: its General Partner,
      ArrowMark Partners GP, LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
IRON HORSE INVESTMENTS LLC
      By: its Investment Advisor,
      ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
ARROWMARK SPECIALTY FINANCE LLC
      By: its Managing Member,
      ArrowMark Specialty Finance MM LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory

[Signature Page to Seventh Amendment]


ARROWMARK INCOME OPPORTUNITY
FUND, L.P.
      By: its General Partner,
      ArrowMark Partners GP3, LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory
ARROWMARK INCOME OPPORTUNITY
FUND QP, L.P.
      By: its General Partner,
      ArrowMark Partners GP5, LLC
By:  

/s/ Rick Grove

Name: Rick Grove
Title: Authorized Signatory

[Signature Page to Seventh Amendment]


“Birch Grove”
BIRCH GROVE CREDIT STRATEGIES
MASTER FUND LP,
By:  

/s/ Todd Berry

Name: Todd Berry
Title: Chief Operating Officer
BIRCH GROVE PRIVATE CREDIT
OPPORTUNITIES MASTER FUND III LP
By:  

/s/ Todd Berry

Name: Todd Berry
Title: Chief Operating Officer

[Signature Page to Seventh Amendment]


ASCRIBE INVESTMENTS IV, LLC
By:  

/s/ Todd Berry

      

By: /s/ Rodd Evnonsy

Name: Todd Berry     Name: Rodd Evonsky
Title: Chief Operating Officer     Title: Chief Financial Officer
SWISS CAPITAL BG OL PRIVATE DEBT
FUND LP
By:  

/s/ Todd Berry

Name: Todd Berry
Title: Chief Operating Officer
SWISS CAPITAL BG OL PRIVATE DEBT
OFFSHORE SPC
By:  

/s/ Todd Berry

Name: Todd Berry
Title: Chief Operating Officer

[Signature Page to Seventh Amendment]

Exhibit 10.20

Execution Version

 

STARRY HOLDINGS, INC.

2022 INCENTIVE AWARD PLAN

ARTICLE I.

PURPOSE

The Plan’s purpose is to enhance the Company’s ability to attract, retain and motivate persons who make (or are expected to make) important contributions to the Company by providing these individuals with equity ownership opportunities and/or equity-linked compensatory opportunities. Capitalized terms used in the Plan are defined in Article XI.

ARTICLE II.

ELIGIBILITY

Service Providers are eligible to be granted Awards under the Plan, subject to the limitations described herein.

ARTICLE III.

ADMINISTRATION AND DELEGATION

3.1    Administration. The Plan is administered by the Administrator. The Administrator has authority to determine which Service Providers receive Awards, grant Awards and set Award terms and conditions, subject to the conditions and limitations in the Plan. The Administrator also has the authority to take all actions and make all determinations under the Plan, to interpret the Plan and Award Agreements and to adopt, amend and repeal Plan administrative rules, guidelines and practices as it deems advisable. The Administrator may correct defects and ambiguities, supply omissions and reconcile inconsistencies in the Plan or any Award as it deems necessary or appropriate to administer the Plan and any Awards. The Administrator’s determinations under the Plan are in its sole discretion and will be final and binding on all persons having or claiming any interest in the Plan or any Award.

3.2    Appointment of Committees. To the extent Applicable Laws permit, the Board may delegate any or all of its powers under the Plan to one or more Committees. The Board may abolish any Committee or re-vest in itself any previously delegated authority at any time.

ARTICLE IV.

STOCK AVAILABLE FOR AWARDS

4.1    Number of Shares. Subject to adjustment under Article VII and the terms of this Article IV, Awards may be made under the Plan covering up to the Overall Share Limit. Shares issued under the Plan may consist of authorized but unissued Shares, Shares purchased on the open market or treasury Shares.

4.2    Share Recycling. If all or any part of an Award expires, lapses or is terminated, exchanged for or settled in cash, surrendered, repurchased, canceled without having been fully exercised or forfeited, in any case, in a manner that results in the Company acquiring Shares at a price not greater than the price (as adjusted to reflect any Equity Restructuring) paid by the Participant for such Shares or not issuing any Shares covered by the Award, the unused Shares covered by the Award will, as applicable, become or again be available for Award grants under the Plan. Further, Shares delivered (either by actual delivery or attestation) to the Company by a Participant to satisfy the applicable exercise or purchase price of an Award and/or to satisfy any applicable tax withholding obligation (including Shares retained by the Company from


the Award being exercised or purchased and/or creating the tax obligation) will, as applicable, become or again be available for Award grants under the Plan. The payment of Dividend Equivalents in cash in conjunction with any outstanding Awards shall not count against the Overall Share Limit.

4.5    Incentive Stock Option Limitations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no more than 22,775,288 Shares may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options.

4.6    Substitute Awards. In connection with an entity’s merger or consolidation with the Company or the Company’s acquisition of an entity’s property or stock, the Administrator may grant Awards in substitution for any options or other stock or stock-based awards granted before such merger or consolidation by such entity or its affiliate in accordance with Applicable Laws. Substitute Awards may be granted on such terms as the Administrator deems appropriate, notwithstanding limitations on Awards in the Plan. Substitute Awards will not count against the Overall Share Limit (nor shall Shares subject to a Substitute Award be added to the Shares available for Awards under the Plan as provided above), except that Shares acquired by exercise of substitute Incentive Stock Options will count against the maximum number of Shares that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options under the Plan. Additionally, in the event that a company acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary or with which the Company or any Subsidiary combines has shares available under a pre-existing plan approved by stockholders and not adopted in contemplation of such acquisition or combination, the shares available for grant pursuant to the terms of such pre-existing plan (as adjusted, to the extent appropriate, using the exchange ratio or other adjustment or valuation ratio or formula used in such acquisition or combination to determine the consideration payable to the holders of common stock of the entities party to such acquisition or combination) may be used for Awards under the Plan and shall not reduce the Shares authorized for grant under the Plan (and Shares subject to such Awards shall not be added to the Shares available for Awards under the Plan as provided above); provided that Awards using such available shares shall not be made after the date awards or grants could have been made under the terms of the pre-existing plan, absent the acquisition or combination, and shall only be made to individuals who were not Service Providers prior to such acquisition or combination.

4.7    Non-Employee Director Compensation. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Plan, the Administrator may establish compensation for non-employee Directors from time to time, subject to the limitations in the Plan. The Administrator will from time to time determine the terms, conditions and amounts of all such non-employee Director compensation in its discretion and pursuant to the exercise of its business judgment, taking into account such factors, circumstances and considerations as it shall deem relevant from time to time, provided that the sum of any cash compensation, or other compensation, and the value (determined as of the grant date in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718, or any successor thereto) of Awards granted to a non-employee Director as compensation for services as a non-employee Director during any fiscal year of the Company may not exceed $500,000. The Administrator may make exceptions to these limits for individual non-employee Directors in extraordinary circumstances, as the Administrator may determine in its discretion, provided that the non-employee Director receiving such additional compensation may not participate in the decision to award such compensation or in other contemporaneous compensation decisions involving non-employee Directors.

ARTICLE V.

STOCK OPTIONS AND STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS

5.1    General. The Administrator may grant Options or Stock Appreciation Rights to Service Providers subject to the limitations in the Plan, including any limitations in the Plan that apply to Incentive Stock Options. The Administrator will determine the number of Shares covered by each Option and Stock

 

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Appreciation Right, the exercise price of each Option and Stock Appreciation Right and the conditions and limitations applicable to the exercise of each Option and Stock Appreciation Right. A Stock Appreciation Right will entitle the Participant (or other person entitled to exercise the Stock Appreciation Right) to receive from the Company upon exercise of the exercisable portion of the Stock Appreciation Right an amount determined by multiplying the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of one Share on the date of exercise over the exercise price per Share of the Stock Appreciation Right by the number of Shares with respect to which the Stock Appreciation Right is exercised, subject to any limitations of the Plan or that the Administrator may impose and payable in cash, Shares valued at such Fair Market Value or a combination of the two as the Administrator may determine or provide in the Award Agreement.

5.2    Exercise Price. The Administrator will establish each Option’s and Stock Appreciation Right’s exercise price and specify the exercise price in the Award Agreement. Unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, the exercise price will not be less than 100% of the Fair Market Value on the grant date of the Option or Stock Appreciation Right.

5.3    Duration. Each Option or Stock Appreciation Right will be exercisable at such times and as specified in the Award Agreement, provided that, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator in accordance with Applicable Laws, the term of an Option or Stock Appreciation Right will not exceed ten years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant, prior to the end of the term of an Option or Stock Appreciation Right, violates the non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality or other similar restrictive covenant provisions of any employment contract, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement or other agreement between the Participant and the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the right of the Participant and the Participant’s transferees to exercise any Option or Stock Appreciation Right issued to the Participant shall terminate immediately upon such violation unless the Administrator otherwise determines.

5.4    Exercise. Options and Stock Appreciation Rights may be exercised by delivering to the Company a written notice of exercise, in a form the Administrator approves (which may be electronic), signed by the person authorized to exercise the Option or Stock Appreciation Right, together with, as applicable, payment in full (i) as specified in Section 5.5 for the number of Shares for which the Award is exercised and (ii) as specified in Section 9.5 for any applicable taxes. Unless the Administrator otherwise determines, an Option or Stock Appreciation Right may not be exercised for a fraction of a Share.

5.5    Payment Upon Exercise. Subject to Section 10.8, any Company insider trading policy (including blackout periods) and Applicable Laws, the exercise price of an Option must be paid by:

(a)    cash, wire transfer of immediately available funds or by check payable to the order of the Company, provided that the Company may limit the use of one of the foregoing payment forms if one or more of the payment forms below is permitted;

(b)    if there is a public market for Shares at the time of exercise, unless the Company otherwise determines, (A) delivery (including electronically or telephonically to the extent permitted by the Company) of an irrevocable and unconditional undertaking by a broker acceptable to the Company to deliver promptly to the Company sufficient funds to pay the exercise price, or (B) the Participant’s delivery to the Company of a copy of irrevocable and unconditional instructions to a broker acceptable to the Company to deliver promptly to the Company cash or a check sufficient to pay the exercise price; provided that such amount is paid to the Company at such time as may be required by the Administrator;

(c)    to the extent permitted by the Administrator, delivery (either by actual delivery or attestation) of Shares owned by the Participant valued at their Fair Market Value;

 

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(d)    to the extent permitted by the Administrator, surrendering Shares then issuable upon the Option’s exercise valued at their Fair Market Value on the exercise date;

(e)    to the extent permitted by the Administrator, delivery of a promissory note or any other property that the Administrator determines is good and valuable consideration; or

(f)    to the extent permitted by the Company, any combination of the above payment forms approved by the Administrator.

ARTICLE VI.

RESTRICTED STOCK; RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS

6.1    General. The Administrator may grant Restricted Stock, or the right to purchase Restricted Stock, to any Service Provider, subject to the Company’s right to repurchase all or part of such shares at their issue price or other stated or formula price from the Participant (or to require forfeiture of such shares) if conditions the Administrator specifies in the Award Agreement are not satisfied before the end of the applicable restriction period or periods that the Administrator establishes for such Award. In addition, the Administrator may grant to Service Providers Restricted Stock Units, which may be subject to vesting and forfeiture conditions during the applicable restriction period or periods, as set forth in an Award Agreement. The Administrator will determine and set forth in the Award Agreement the terms and conditions for each Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Award, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in the Plan.

6.2    Restricted Stock.

(a)    Dividends. Participants holding shares of Restricted Stock will be entitled to all ordinary cash dividends paid with respect to such Shares, unless the Administrator provides otherwise in the Award Agreement. In addition, unless the Administrator provides otherwise, if any dividends or distributions are paid in Shares, or consist of a dividend or distribution to holders of Common Stock of property other than an ordinary cash dividend, the Shares or other property will be subject to the same restrictions on transferability and forfeitability as the shares of Restricted Stock with respect to which they were paid.

(b)    Stock Certificates. The Company may require that the Participant deposit in escrow with the Company (or its designee) any stock certificates issued in respect of shares of Restricted Stock, together with a stock power endorsed in blank.

(c)    Section 83(b) Election. If a Participant makes an election under Section 83(b) of the Code to be taxed with respect to the Restricted Stock as of the date of transfer of the Restricted Stock rather than as of the date or dates upon which such Participant would otherwise be taxable under Section 83(a) of the Code, such Participant shall be required to deliver a copy of such election to the Company promptly after filing such election with the Internal Revenue Service along with proof of the timely filing thereof.

6.3    Restricted Stock Units.

(a)    Settlement. The Administrator may provide that settlement of Restricted Stock Units will occur upon or as soon as reasonably practicable after the Restricted Stock Units vest or will instead be deferred, on a mandatory basis or at the Participant’s election, in a manner intended to comply with Section 409A.

 

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(b)    Stockholder Rights. A Participant will have no rights of a stockholder with respect to Shares subject to any Restricted Stock Unit unless and until the Shares are delivered in settlement of the Restricted Stock Unit.

(c)    Dividend Equivalents. If the Administrator provides, a grant of Restricted Stock Units may provide a Participant with the right to receive Dividend Equivalents. Dividend Equivalents may be paid currently or credited to an account for the Participant, settled in cash or Shares and subject to the same restrictions on transferability and forfeitability as the Restricted Stock Units with respect to which the Dividend Equivalents are granted and subject to other terms and conditions as set forth in the Award Agreement.

ARTICLE VII.

OTHER STOCK OR CASH BASED AWARDS

7.1    Other Stock or Cash Based Awards may be granted to Participants, including Awards entitling Participants to receive Shares to be delivered in the future and including annual or other periodic or long-term cash bonus awards (whether based on specified Performance Criteria or otherwise), in each case subject to any conditions and limitations in the Plan. Such Other Stock or Cash Based Awards will also be available as a payment form in the settlement of other Awards, as standalone payments and as payment in lieu of compensation to which a Participant is otherwise entitled. Other Stock or Cash Based Awards may be paid in Shares, cash or other property, as the Administrator determines. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Administrator will determine the terms and conditions of each Other Stock or Cash Based Award, including any purchase price, performance goal (which may be based on the Performance Criteria), transfer restrictions, and vesting conditions, which will be set forth in the applicable Award Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII.

ADJUSTMENTS FOR CHANGES IN COMMON STOCK

AND CERTAIN OTHER EVENTS

8.1    Equity Restructuring. In connection with any Equity Restructuring, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article VIII, the Administrator will equitably adjust each outstanding Award as it deems appropriate to reflect the Equity Restructuring, which may include adjusting the number and type of securities subject to each outstanding Award and/or the Award’s exercise price or grant price (if applicable), granting new Awards to Participants, and making a cash payment to Participants. The adjustments provided under this Section 8.1 will be nondiscretionary and final and binding on the affected Participant and the Company; provided that the Administrator will determine whether an adjustment is equitable.

8.2    Corporate Transactions. In the event of any dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, Common Stock, other securities, or other property), reorganization, merger, consolidation, combination, amalgamation, repurchase, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, or sale, transfer, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or sale or exchange of Common Stock or other securities of the Company, Change in Control, issuance of warrants or other rights to purchase Common Stock or other securities of the Company, other similar corporate transaction or event, other unusual or nonrecurring transaction or event affecting the Company or its financial statements or any change in any Applicable Laws or accounting principles, the Administrator, on such terms and conditions as it deems appropriate, either by the terms of the Award or by action taken prior to the occurrence of such transaction or event (except that action to give effect to a change in Applicable Law or accounting principles may be made within a reasonable period of time after such change) is hereby

 

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authorized to take any one or more of the following actions whenever the Administrator determines that such action is appropriate in order to (x) prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended by the Company to be made available under the Plan or with respect to any Award granted or issued under the Plan, (y) to facilitate such transaction or event or (z) give effect to such changes in Applicable Laws or accounting principles:

(a)    To provide for the cancellation of any such Award in exchange for either an amount of cash or other property with a value equal to the amount that could have been obtained upon the exercise or settlement of the vested portion of such Award or realization of the Participant’s rights under the vested portion of such Award, as applicable; provided that, if the amount that could have been obtained upon the exercise or settlement of the vested portion of such Award or realization of the Participant’s rights, in any case, is equal to or less than zero, then the Award may be terminated without payment;

(b)    To provide that such Award shall vest and, to the extent applicable, be exercisable as to all shares covered thereby, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or the provisions of such Award;

(c)    To provide that such Award be assumed by the successor or survivor corporation, or a parent or subsidiary thereof, or shall be substituted for by awards covering the stock of the successor or survivor corporation, or a parent or subsidiary thereof, with appropriate adjustments as to the number and kind of shares and/or applicable exercise or purchase price, in all cases, as determined by the Administrator;

(d)    To make adjustments in the number and type of shares of Common Stock (or other securities or property) subject to outstanding Awards and/or with respect to which Awards may be granted under the Plan (including, but not limited to, adjustments of the limitations in Article IV hereof on the maximum number and kind of shares which may be issued) and/or in the terms and conditions of (including the grant or exercise price or applicable performance goals), and the criteria included in, outstanding Awards;

(e)    To replace such Award with other rights or property selected by the Administrator; and/or

(f)    To provide that the Award will terminate and cannot vest, be exercised or become payable after the applicable event.

8.3    Administrative Stand Still. In the event of any pending stock dividend, stock split, combination or exchange of shares, merger, consolidation or other distribution (other than normal cash dividends) of Company assets to stockholders, or any other extraordinary transaction or change affecting the Shares or the share price of Common Stock, including any Equity Restructuring or any securities offering or other similar transaction, for administrative convenience, the Administrator may refuse to permit the exercise of any Award for up to sixty days before or after such transaction.

8.4    General. Except as expressly provided in the Plan or the Administrator’s action under the Plan, no Participant will have any rights due to any subdivision or consolidation of Shares of any class, dividend payment, increase or decrease in the number of Shares of any class or dissolution, liquidation, merger, or consolidation of the Company or other corporation. Except as expressly provided with respect to an Equity Restructuring under Section 8.1 above or the Administrator’s action under the Plan, no issuance by the Company of Shares of any class, or securities convertible into Shares of any class, will affect, and no adjustment will be made regarding, the number of Shares subject to an Award or the Award’s

 

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grant or exercise price. The existence of the Plan, any Award Agreements and the Awards granted hereunder will not affect or restrict in any way the Company’s right or power to make or authorize (i) any adjustment, recapitalization, reorganization or other change in the Company’s capital structure or its business, (ii) any merger, consolidation dissolution or liquidation of the Company or sale of Company assets or (iii) any sale or issuance of securities, including securities with rights superior to those of the Shares or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Shares. The Administrator may treat Participants and Awards (or portions thereof) differently under this Article VIII.

ARTICLE IX.

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO AWARDS

9.1    Transferability. Except as the Administrator may determine or provide in an Award Agreement or otherwise for Awards other than Incentive Stock Options, Awards may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise encumbered, either voluntarily or by operation of law, except by will or the laws of descent and distribution, or, subject to the Administrator’s consent, pursuant to a domestic relations order, and, during the life of the Participant, will be exercisable only by the Participant. References to a Participant, to the extent relevant in the context, will include references to a Participant’s authorized transferee that the Administrator specifically approves.

9.2    Documentation. Each Award will be evidenced in an Award Agreement, which may be written or electronic, as the Administrator determines. Each Award may contain terms and conditions in addition to those set forth in the Plan.

9.3    Discretion. Except as the Plan otherwise provides, each Award may be made alone or in addition or in relation to any other Award. The terms of each Award to a Participant need not be identical, and the Administrator need not treat Participants or Awards (or portions thereof) uniformly.

9.4    Termination of Service; Change in Status. The Administrator will determine, in its sole discretion, the effect of all matters and questions relating to any Termination of Service, including, without limitation, whether a Termination of Service has occurred, whether a Termination of Service resulted from a discharge for Cause and all questions of whether a particular leave of absence constitutes a Termination of Service or any other change or purported change in a Participant’s Service Provider status affects an Award and the extent to which, and the period during which, the Participant, the Participant’s legal representative, conservator, guardian or Designated Beneficiary may exercise rights under the Award, if applicable.

9.5    Withholding. Each Participant must pay the Company, or make provision satisfactory to the Administrator for payment of, any taxes required by Applicable Law to be withheld in connection with such Participant’s Awards by the date of the event creating the tax liability. The Company may deduct an amount sufficient to satisfy such tax obligations based on the applicable statutory withholding rates (or such other rate as may be determined by the Company after considering any accounting consequences or costs) from any payment of any kind otherwise due to a Participant. Subject to Section 10.8 and any Company insider trading policy (including blackout periods), Participants may satisfy such tax obligations (i) in cash, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, by check made payable to the order of the Company, provided that the Company may limit the use of one of the foregoing payment forms if one or more of the payment forms below is permitted, (ii) to the extent permitted by the Administrator, in whole or in part by delivery of Shares, including Shares retained from the Award creating the tax obligation, valued at their Fair Market Value, (iii) if there is a public market for Shares at the time the tax obligations are satisfied, unless the Company otherwise determines, (A) delivery (including electronically or telephonically to the extent permitted by the Company) of an irrevocable and unconditional undertaking by a broker acceptable

 

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to the Company to deliver promptly to the Company sufficient funds to satisfy the tax obligations, or (B) delivery by the Participant to the Company of a copy of irrevocable and unconditional instructions to a broker acceptable to the Company to deliver promptly to the Company cash or a check sufficient to satisfy the tax withholding; provided that such amount is paid to the Company at such time as may be required by the Administrator, or (iv) to the extent permitted by the Company, any combination of the foregoing payment forms approved by the Administrator. If any tax withholding obligation will be satisfied under clause (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence by the Company’s retention of Shares from the Award creating the tax obligation and there is a public market for Shares at the time the tax obligation is satisfied, the Company may elect to instruct any brokerage firm determined acceptable to the Company for such purpose to sell on the applicable Participant’s behalf some or all of the Shares retained and to remit the proceeds of the sale to the Company or its designee, and each Participant’s acceptance of an Award under the Plan will constitute the Participant’s authorization to the Company and instruction and authorization to such brokerage firm to complete the transactions described in this sentence.

9.6    Amendment of Award; Repricing. The Administrator may amend, modify or terminate any outstanding Award, including by substituting another Award of the same or a different type, changing the exercise or settlement date, and converting an Incentive Stock Option to a Non-Qualified Stock Option. The Participant’s consent to such action will be required unless (i) the action, taking into account any related action, does not materially and adversely affect the Participant’s rights under the Award, or (ii) the change is permitted under Article VIII or pursuant to Section 10.6. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything in the Plan to the contrary, the Administrator may, without the approval of the stockholders of the Company, reduce the exercise price per share of outstanding Options or Stock Appreciation Rights or cancel outstanding Options or Stock Appreciation Rights in exchange for cash, other Awards or Options or Stock Appreciation Rights with an exercise price per share that is less than the exercise price per share of the original Options or Stock Appreciation Rights.

9.7    Conditions on Delivery of Stock. The Company will not be obligated to deliver any Shares under the Plan or remove restrictions from Shares previously delivered under the Plan until (i) all Award conditions have been met or removed to the Company’s satisfaction, (ii) as determined by the Company, all other legal matters regarding the issuance and delivery of such Shares have been satisfied, including any applicable securities laws and stock exchange or stock market rules and regulations, and (iii) the Participant has executed and delivered to the Company such representations or agreements as the Administrator deems necessary or appropriate to satisfy any Applicable Laws. The Company’s inability to obtain authority from any regulatory body having jurisdiction, which the Administrator determines is necessary to the lawful issuance and sale of any securities, will relieve the Company of any liability for failing to issue or sell such Shares as to which such requisite authority has not been obtained.

9.8    Acceleration. The Administrator may at any time provide that any Award will become immediately vested and fully or partially exercisable, free of some or all restrictions or conditions, or otherwise fully or partially realizable.

9.9    Additional Terms of Incentive Stock Options. The Administrator may grant Incentive Stock Options only to employees of the Company, any of its present or future parent or subsidiary corporations, as defined in Sections 424(e) or (f) of the Code, respectively, and any other entities the employees of which are eligible to receive Incentive Stock Options under the Code. If an Incentive Stock Option is granted to a Greater Than 10% Stockholder, the exercise price will not be less than 110% of the Fair Market Value on the Option’s grant date, and the term of the Option will not exceed five years. All Incentive Stock Options will be subject to and construed consistently with Section 422 of the Code. By accepting an Incentive Stock Option, the Participant agrees if requested by the Company to give prompt notice to the Company of dispositions or other transfers (other than in connection with a Change in Control)

 

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of Shares acquired under the Option made within (i) two years from the grant date of the Option or (ii) one year after the transfer of such Shares to the Participant, specifying the date of the disposition or other transfer and the amount the Participant realized, in cash, other property, assumption of indebtedness or other consideration, in such disposition or other transfer. Neither the Company nor the Administrator will be liable to a Participant, or any other party, if an Incentive Stock Option fails or ceases to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Code. Any Incentive Stock Option or portion thereof that fails to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Code for any reason, including becoming exercisable with respect to Shares having a fair market value exceeding the $100,000 limitation under Treasury Regulation Section 1.422-4, will be a Non-Qualified Stock Option.

ARTICLE X.

MISCELLANEOUS

10.1    No Right to Employment or Other Status. No person will have any claim or right to be granted an Award, and the grant of an Award will not be construed as giving a Participant the right to continued employment or any other relationship with the Company. The Company expressly reserves the right at any time to dismiss or otherwise terminate its relationship with a Participant free from any liability or claim under the Plan or any Award, except as expressly provided in an Award Agreement.

10.2    No Rights as Stockholder; Certificates. Subject to the Award Agreement, no Participant or Designated Beneficiary will have any rights as a stockholder with respect to any Shares to be distributed under an Award until becoming the record holder of such Shares. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, unless the Administrator otherwise determines or Applicable Laws require, the Company will not be required to deliver to any Participant certificates evidencing Shares issued in connection with any Award and instead such Shares may be recorded in the books of the Company (or, as applicable, its transfer agent or stock plan administrator). The Company may place legends on stock certificates issued under the Plan that the Administrator deems necessary or appropriate to comply with Applicable Laws.

10.3    Effective Date and Term of Plan. The Plan will become effective on the Effective Date and, unless earlier terminated by the Board, will remain in effect until the earlier of (i) the earliest date as of which all Awards granted under the Plan have been satisfied in full or terminated and no Shares approved for issuance under the Plan remain available to be granted under new Awards or (ii) the tenth anniversary of the earlier of the date the Plan is approved by the Board or the date the Plan is approved by the Company’s stockholders, but Awards previously granted may extend beyond that date in accordance with the Plan. If the Plan is not approved by the Company’s stockholders, the Plan will not become effective and no Awards will be granted under the Plan.

10.4    Amendment of Plan. The Administrator may amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time; provided that no amendment, other than an increase to the Overall Share Limit, may materially and adversely affect any Award outstanding at the time of such amendment without the affected Participant’s consent. No Awards may be granted under the Plan during any suspension period or after Plan termination. Awards outstanding at the time of any Plan suspension or termination will continue to be governed by the Plan and the Award Agreement, as in effect before such suspension or termination. The Board will obtain stockholder approval of any Plan amendment to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Laws.

10.5    Provisions for Foreign Participants. The Administrator may modify Awards granted to Participants who are foreign nationals or employed outside the United States or establish subplans or procedures under the Plan to address differences in laws, rules, regulations or customs of such foreign jurisdictions with respect to tax, securities, currency, employee benefit or other matters.

 

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10.6    Section 409A.

(a)    General. The Company intends that all Awards be structured to comply with, or be exempt from, Section 409A, such that no adverse tax consequences, interest, or penalties under Section 409A apply. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan or any Award Agreement to the contrary, the Administrator may, without a Participant’s consent, amend this Plan or Awards, adopt policies and procedures, or take any other actions (including amendments, policies, procedures and retroactive actions) as are necessary or appropriate to preserve the intended tax treatment of Awards, including any such actions intended to (A) exempt this Plan or any Award from Section 409A, or (B) comply with Section 409A, including regulations, guidance, compliance programs and other interpretative authority that may be issued after an Award’s grant date. The Company makes no representations or warranties as to an Award’s tax treatment under Section 409A or otherwise. The Company will have no obligation under this Section 10.6 or otherwise to avoid the taxes, penalties or interest under Section 409A with respect to any Award and will have no liability to any Participant or any other person if any Award, compensation or other benefits under the Plan are determined to constitute noncompliant “nonqualified deferred compensation” subject to taxes, penalties or interest under Section 409A.

(b)    Separation from Service. If an Award constitutes “nonqualified deferred compensation” under Section 409A, any payment or settlement of such Award upon a termination of a Participant’s Service Provider relationship will, to the extent necessary to avoid taxes under Section 409A, be made only upon the Participant’s “separation from service” (within the meaning of Section 409A), whether such “separation from service” occurs upon or after the Termination of Service of a Participant. For purposes of this Plan or any Award Agreement relating to any such payments or benefits, references to a “termination,” “termination of employment,” Termination of Service or like terms means a “separation from service.”

(c)    Payments to Specified Employees. Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the Plan or any Award Agreement, any payment(s) of “nonqualified deferred compensation” required to be made under an Award to a “specified employee” (as defined under Section 409A and as the Administrator determines) due to his or her “separation from service” will, to the extent necessary to avoid taxes under Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code, be delayed for the six-month period immediately following such “separation from service” (or, if earlier, until the specified employee’s death) and will instead be paid (as set forth in the Award Agreement) on the day immediately following such six-month period or as soon as administratively practicable thereafter (without interest). Any payments of “nonqualified deferred compensation” under such Award payable more than six months following the Participant’s “separation from service” will be paid at the time or times the payments are otherwise scheduled to be made. Furthermore, notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Plan or any Award Agreement, any payment of “nonqualified deferred compensation” under the Plan that may be made in installments shall be treated as a right to receive a series of separate and distinct payments.

10.7    Limitations on Liability. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, no individual acting as a director, officer, other employee or agent of the Company or any Subsidiary will be liable to any Participant, former Participant, spouse, beneficiary, or any other person for any claim, loss, liability, or expense incurred in connection with the Plan or any Award, and such individual will not be personally liable with respect to the Plan because of any contract or other instrument executed in his or her capacity as an Administrator, director, officer, other employee or agent of the Company or any Subsidiary. The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each director, officer, other employee and agent of the Company or any Subsidiary that has been or will be granted or delegated any duty or power relating to the Plan’s administration or interpretation, against any cost or expense (including attorneys’ fees) or liability (including any sum paid in settlement of a claim with the Administrator’s approval) arising from any act or omission concerning this Plan unless arising from such person’s own fraud or bad faith.

 

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10.8    Lock-Up Period. The Company may, at the request of any underwriter representative or otherwise, in connection with registering the offering of any Company securities under the Securities Act, prohibit Participants from, directly or indirectly, selling or otherwise transferring any Shares or other Company securities during a period of up to one hundred eighty days following the effective date of a Company registration statement filed under the Securities Act, or such longer period as determined by the underwriter.

10.9    Data Privacy. As a condition for receiving any Award, each Participant explicitly and unambiguously consents to the collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of personal data as described in this section by and among the Company and its Subsidiaries and affiliates exclusively for implementing, administering and managing the Participant’s participation in the Plan. The Company and its Subsidiaries and affiliates may hold certain personal information about a Participant, including the Participant’s name, address and telephone number; birthdate; social security, insurance number or other identification number; salary; nationality; job title(s); any Shares held in the Company or its Subsidiaries and affiliates; and Award details, to implement, manage and administer the Plan and Awards (the “Data”). The Company and its Subsidiaries and affiliates may transfer the Data amongst themselves as necessary to implement, administer and manage a Participant’s participation in the Plan, and the Company and its Subsidiaries and affiliates may transfer the Data to third parties assisting the Company with Plan implementation, administration and management. These recipients may be located in the Participant’s country, or elsewhere, and the Participant’s country may have different data privacy laws and protections than the recipients’ country. By accepting an Award, each Participant authorizes such recipients to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, to implement, administer and manage the Participant’s participation in the Plan, including any required Data transfer to a broker or other third party with whom the Company or the Participant may elect to deposit any Shares. The Data related to a Participant will be held only as long as necessary to implement, administer, and manage the Participant’s participation in the Plan. A Participant may, at any time, view the Data that the Company holds regarding such Participant, request additional information about the storage and processing of the Data regarding such Participant, recommend any necessary corrections to the Data regarding the Participant or refuse or withdraw the consents in this Section 10.9 in writing, without cost, by contacting the local human resources representative. The Company may cancel Participant’s ability to participate in the Plan and, in the Administrator’s discretion, the Participant may forfeit any outstanding Awards if the Participant refuses or withdraws the consents in this Section 10.9. For more information on the consequences of refusing or withdrawing consent, Participants may contact their local human resources representative.

10.10    Severability. If any portion of the Plan or any action taken under it is held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity will not affect the remaining parts of the Plan, and the Plan will be construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid provisions had been excluded, and the illegal or invalid action will be null and void.

10.11    Governing Documents. If any contradiction occurs between the Plan and any Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and the Company (or any Subsidiary) that the Administrator has approved, the Plan will govern, unless it is expressly specified in such Award Agreement or other written document that a specific provision of the Plan will not apply.

10.12    Governing Law. The Plan and all Awards will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, disregarding any state’s choice-of-law principles requiring the application of a jurisdiction’s laws other than the State of Delaware.

 

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10.13    Claw-back Provisions. All Awards (including any proceeds, gains or other economic benefit the Participant actually or constructively receives upon receipt or exercise of any Award or the receipt or resale of any Shares underlying the Award) will be subject to any Company claw-back policy as in effect from time to time, including any claw-back policy adopted to comply with Applicable Laws (including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder).

10.14    Titles and Headings . The titles and headings in the Plan are for convenience of reference only and, if any conflict, the Plan’s text, rather than such titles or headings, will control.

10.15    Conformity to Securities Laws. Participant acknowledges that the Plan is intended to conform to the extent necessary with Applicable Laws. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Plan and all Awards will be administered only in conformance with Applicable Laws. To the extent Applicable Laws permit, the Plan and all Award Agreements will be deemed amended as necessary to conform to Applicable Laws.

10.16    Relationship to Other Benefits. No payment under the Plan will be taken into account in determining any benefits under any pension, retirement, savings, profit sharing, group insurance, welfare or other benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary except as expressly provided in writing in such other plan or an agreement thereunder.

10.17    Broker-Assisted Sales. In the event of a broker-assisted sale of Shares in connection with the payment of amounts owed by a Participant under or with respect to the Plan or Awards, including amounts to be paid under the final sentence of Section 9.5: (a) any Shares to be sold through the broker-assisted sale will be sold on the day the payment first becomes due, or as soon thereafter as practicable; (b) such Shares may be sold as part of a block trade with other Participants in the Plan in which all participants receive an average price; (c) the applicable Participant will be responsible for all broker’s fees and other costs of sale, and by accepting an Award, each Participant agrees to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from any losses, costs, damages, or expenses relating to any such sale; (d) to the extent the Company or its designee receives proceeds of such sale that exceed the amount owed, the Company will pay such excess in cash to the applicable Participant as soon as reasonably practicable; (e) the Company and its designees are under no obligation to arrange for such sale at any particular price; and (f) in the event the proceeds of such sale are insufficient to satisfy the Participant’s applicable obligation, the Participant may be required to pay immediately upon demand to the Company or its designee an amount in cash sufficient to satisfy any remaining portion of the Participant’s obligation.

ARTICLE XI.

DEFINITIONS

As used in the Plan, the following words and phrases will have the following meanings:

11.1    “Administrator” means the Board or a Committee to the extent that the Board’s powers or authority under the Plan have been delegated to such Committee.

11.2    “Agreement and Plan of Merger” mean that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, by and among Acquiror, Starry, Inc., Merger Sub and Company, dated as of October 6, 2021.

11.3    “Applicable Laws” means the requirements relating to the administration of equity incentive plans under U.S. federal and state securities, tax and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, the applicable rules of any stock exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted and the applicable laws and rules of any foreign country or other jurisdiction where Awards are granted.

 

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11.4    “Award” means, individually or collectively, a grant under the Plan of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Dividend Equivalents or Other Stock or Cash Based Awards.

11.5    “Award Agreement” means a written agreement evidencing an Award, which may be electronic, that contains such terms and conditions as the Administrator determines, consistent with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

11.6    “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

11.7    “Cause” means (i) if a Participant is a party to a written employment, severance or consulting agreement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or an Award Agreement in which the term “cause” is defined (a “Relevant Agreement”), “cause” as defined in the Relevant Agreement, and (ii) if no Relevant Agreement exists, (A) the Participant’s dishonest statements or acts with respect to the Company or any affiliate of the Company, or any of the Company’s current or prospective customers, suppliers, vendors or other third parties with which such entity does business; (B) the Participant’s commission of (1) a felony or (2) any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, deceit, dishonesty or fraud; (C) the Participant’s failure to perform his or her assigned duties and responsibilities to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company, which failure continues, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, after written notice given to the grantee by the Company; (D) the Participant’s gross negligence, willful misconduct or insubordination with respect to the Company or any affiliate of the Company; or (E) the Participant’s violation of any provision of any agreement(s) between the Participant and the Company relating to noncompetition, nondisclosure and/or assignment of inventions.

11.8    “Change in Control” means and includes each of the following:

(a)    A transaction or series of transactions (other than an offering of Common Stock to the general public through a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or a transaction or series of transactions that meets the requirements of clauses (i) and (ii) of subsection (c) below) whereby any “person” or related “group” of “persons” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) (other than the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, an employee benefit plan maintained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or a “person” that, prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the Company) directly or indirectly acquires beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of securities of the Company possessing more than 50 % of the total combined voting power of the Company’s securities outstanding immediately after such acquisition; or

(b)    During any period of two consecutive years, individuals who, at the beginning of such period, constitute the Board together with any new Director(s) (other than a Director designated by a person who shall have entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in subsections (a) or (c) whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the Directors then still in office who either were Directors at the beginning of the two-year period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority thereof; or

(c)    The consummation by the Company (whether directly involving the Company or indirectly involving the Company through one or more intermediaries) of (x) a merger, consolidation,

 

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reorganization, or business combination or (y) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in any single transaction or series of related transactions or (z) the acquisition of assets or stock of another entity, in each case other than a transaction:

(i)    which results in the Company’s voting securities outstanding immediately before the transaction continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the Company or the person that, as a result of the transaction, controls, directly or indirectly, the Company or owns, directly or indirectly, all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or otherwise succeeds to the business of the Company (the Company or such person, the “Successor Entity”)) directly or indirectly, at least a majority of the combined voting power of the Successor Entity’s outstanding voting securities immediately after the transaction, and

(ii)    after which no person or group beneficially owns voting securities representing 50% or more of the combined voting power of the Successor Entity; provided, however, that no person or group shall be treated for purposes of this clause (ii) as beneficially owning 50% or more of the combined voting power of the Successor Entity solely as a result of the voting power held in the Company prior to the consummation of the transaction.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) the conversion of shares of Class X Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock upon the following events (a) the date on which Chaitanya Kanojia is neither an employee of the Company nor a member of the Board or (b) Chaitanya Kanojia ceases to beneficially own at least 25% of the number of Company shares he holds immediately following the Closing (as defined in the Agreement and Plan of Merger) shall not constitute a Change in Control and (2) if a Change in Control constitutes a payment event with respect to any Award (or portion of any Award) that provides for the deferral of compensation that is subject to Section 409A, to the extent required to avoid the imposition of additional taxes under Section 409A, the transaction or event described in subsection (a), (b) or (c) with respect to such Award (or portion thereof) shall only constitute a Change in Control for purposes of the payment timing of such Award if such transaction also constitutes a “change in control event,” as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5).

The Administrator shall have full and final authority, which shall be exercised in its discretion, to determine conclusively whether a Change in Control has occurred pursuant to the above definition, the date of the occurrence of such Change in Control and any incidental matters relating thereto; provided that any exercise of authority in conjunction with a determination of whether a Change in Control is a “change in control event” as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5) shall be consistent with such regulation.

11.9    “Class A Common Stock” means the Class A common stock of the Company, par value of $0.001 per share.

11.10    “Class X Common Stock” means the Class X common stock of the Company, par value of $0.001 per share.

11.11    “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations issued thereunder.

11.12    “Committee” means one or more committees or subcommittees of the Board or otherwise consisting of one or more Company directors or executive officers, to the extent Applicable Laws permit. To the extent required to comply with the provisions of Rule 16b-3, it is intended that each member of the Committee will be, at the time the Committee takes any action with respect to an Award that is subject to

 

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Rule 16b-3, a “non-employee director” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3; however, a Committee member’s failure to qualify as a “non-employee director” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 will not invalidate any Award granted by the Committee that is otherwise validly granted under the Plan.

11.13    “Common Stock” means either the Class A Common Stock or the Class X Common Stock.

11.14    “Company” means Starry Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor.

11.15     “Consultant” means any person, including any adviser, engaged by the Company or its parent or Subsidiary to render services to such entity if the consultant or adviser: (i) renders bona fide services to the Company; (ii) renders services not in connection with the offer or sale of securities in a capital-raising transaction and does not directly or indirectly promote or maintain a market for the Company’s securities; and (iii) is a natural person.

11.16    “Designated Beneficiary” means the beneficiary or beneficiaries the Participant designates, in a manner the Administrator determines, to receive amounts due or exercise the Participant’s rights if the Participant dies or becomes incapacitated. Without a Participant’s effective designation, “Designated Beneficiary” will mean the Participant’s estate.

11.17    “Director” means a Board member.

11.18    “Disability” means “disability” within the meaning of Section 22(e)(3) of the Code.

11.19    “Dividend Equivalents” means a right granted to a Participant under the Plan to receive the equivalent value (in cash or Shares) of dividends paid on Shares.

11.20    “Effective Date” means the date on which the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger are consummated, provided that the Board has adopted the Plan prior to or on such date, subject to approval of the Plan by the Company’s stockholders.

11.21    “Employee” means any employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

11.22    “Equity Restructuring” means a nonreciprocal transaction between the Company and its stockholders, such as a stock dividend, stock split, spin-off or recapitalization through a large, nonrecurring cash dividend, that affects the number or kind of Shares (or other Company securities) or the share price of Common Stock (or other Company securities) and causes a change in the per share value of the Common Stock underlying outstanding Awards.

11.23    “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

11.24    “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of Common Stock determined as follows: (i) if the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange, its Fair Market Value will be the closing sales price for such Common Stock as quoted on such exchange for such date, or if no sale occurred on such date, the last day preceding such date during which a sale occurred, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or another source the Administrator deems reliable; (ii) if the Common Stock is not traded on a stock exchange but is quoted on a national market or other quotation system, the closing sales price on such date, or if no sales occurred on such date, then on the last date preceding such date during which a sale occurred, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or another source the Administrator deems reliable; or (iii) in any case the Administrator may determine the Fair Market Value in its discretion to the extent such determination does not constitute a “material revision” to the Plan under applicable stock exchange or stock market rules and regulations (or otherwise require stockholder approval).

 

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11.25    “Greater Than 10% Stockholder” means an individual then owning (within the meaning of Section 424(d) of the Code) more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or its parent or subsidiary corporation, as defined in Section 424(e) and (f) of the Code, respectively.

11.26    “Incentive Stock Option” means an Option intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” as defined in Section 422 of the Code.

11.27    “Non-Qualified Stock Option” means an Option not intended or not qualifying as an Incentive Stock Option.

11.28    “Option” means an option to purchase Shares.

11.29    “Other Stock or Cash Based Awards” means cash awards, awards of Shares, and other awards valued wholly or partially by referring to, or are otherwise based on, Shares or other property.

11.30    “Overall Share Limit” means the sum of (i) 22,775,288 Shares and (ii) an annual increase on the first day of each calendar year beginning January 1, 2023 and ending on and including January 1, 2031, equal to the lesser of (A) 5.0 % of the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class X Common Stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (B) such smaller number of Shares as is determined by the Board.

11.31     “Participant” means a Service Provider who has been granted an Award.

11.32    “Performance Criteria” mean the criteria (and adjustments) that the Administrator may select for an Award to establish performance goals for a performance period, which may include the following: net earnings or losses (either before or after one or more of interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and non-cash equity-based compensation expense); gross or net sales or revenue or sales or revenue growth; net income (either before or after taxes) or adjusted net income; profits (including but not limited to gross profits, net profits, profit growth, net operation profit or economic profit), profit return ratios or operating margin; budget or operating earnings (either before or after taxes or before or after allocation of corporate overhead and bonus); cash flow (including operating cash flow and free cash flow or cash flow return on capital); return on assets; return on capital or invested capital; cost of capital; return on stockholders’ equity; total stockholder return; return on sales; costs, reductions in costs and cost control measures; expenses; working capital; earnings or loss per share; adjusted earnings or loss per share; price per share or dividends per share (or appreciation in or maintenance of such price or dividends); regulatory achievements or compliance; implementation, completion or attainment of objectives relating to research, development, regulatory, commercial, or strategic milestones or developments; market share; economic value or economic value added models; division, group or corporate financial goals; customer satisfaction/growth; customer service; employee satisfaction; recruitment and maintenance of personnel; human resources management; supervision of litigation and other legal matters; strategic partnerships and transactions; financial ratios (including those measuring liquidity, activity, profitability or leverage); debt levels or reductions; sales-related goals; financing and other capital raising transactions; cash on hand; acquisition activity; investment sourcing activity; marketing initiatives; and other measures of performance selected by the Board or Committee whether or not listed herein, any of which may be measured in absolute terms or as compared to any incremental increase or decrease. Such performance goals also may be based solely by reference to the Company’s performance or the performance of a Subsidiary, division, business

 

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segment or business unit of the Company or a Subsidiary, or based upon performance relative to performance of other companies or upon comparisons of any of the indicators of performance relative to performance of other companies. The Committee may provide for exclusion of the impact of an event or occurrence which the Committee determines should appropriately be excluded, including (a) restructurings, discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and other unusual, infrequently occurring or non-recurring charges or events, (b) asset write-downs, (c) litigation or claim judgments or settlements, (d) acquisitions or divestitures, (e) reorganization or change in the corporate structure or capital structure of the Company, (f) an event either not directly related to the operations of the Company, Subsidiary, division, business segment or business unit or not within the reasonable control of management, (g) foreign exchange gains and losses, (h) a change in the fiscal year of the Company, (i) the refinancing or repurchase of bank loans or debt securities, (j) unbudgeted capital expenditures, (k) the issuance or repurchase of equity securities and other changes in the number of outstanding shares, (l) conversion of some or all of convertible securities to Common Stock, (m) any business interruption event (n) the cumulative effects of tax or accounting changes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or (o) the effect of changes in other laws or regulatory rules affecting reported results.

11.33    “Plan” means this 2022 Incentive Award Plan, as may be amended from time to time.

11.34     “Restricted Stock” means Shares awarded to a Participant under Article VI subject to certain vesting conditions and other restrictions.

11.35    “Restricted Stock Unit” means an unfunded, unsecured right to receive, on the applicable settlement date, one or more Shares or an amount in cash or other consideration determined by the Administrator to be of equal value as of such settlement date, subject to certain vesting conditions and other restrictions.

11.36    “Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

11.37    “Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code and all regulations, guidance, compliance programs and other interpretative authority thereunder.

11.38    “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

11.39    “Service Provider” means an Employee, Consultant or Director.

11.40    “Shares” means shares of Class A Common Stock.

11.41    “Stock Appreciation Right” means a stock appreciation right granted under Article V.

11.42    “Subsidiary” means any entity (other than the Company), whether domestic or foreign, in an unbroken chain of entities beginning with the Company if each of the entities other than the last entity in the unbroken chain beneficially owns, at the time of the determination, securities or interests representing at least 50% of the total combined voting power of all classes of securities or interests in one of the other entities in such chain.

11.43    “Substitute Awards” shall mean Awards granted or Shares issued by the Company in assumption of, or in substitution or exchange for, awards previously granted, or the right or obligation to make future awards, in each case by a company acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary or with which the Company or any Subsidiary combines.

 

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11.44    “Termination of Service” means the date the Participant ceases to be a Service Provider.

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Exhibit 10.21

Execution Version

 

STARRY HOLDINGS, INC.

2022 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

ARTICLE I.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this Plan is to assist Eligible Employees of the Company and its Designated Subsidiaries in acquiring a stock ownership interest in the Company.

The Plan consists of two components: (i) the Section 423 Component and (ii) the Non-Section 423 Component. The Section 423 Component is intended to qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code and shall be administered, interpreted and construed in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code. The Non-Section 423 Component authorizes the grant of rights which need not qualify as rights granted pursuant to an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code. Rights granted under the Non-Section 423 Component shall be granted pursuant to separate Offerings containing such sub-plans, appendices, rules or procedures as may be adopted by the Administrator and designed to achieve tax, securities laws or other objectives for Eligible Employees and Designated Subsidiaries but shall not be intended to qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code. Except as otherwise determined by the Administrator or provided herein, the Non-Section 423 Component will operate and be administered in the same manner as the Section 423 Component. Offerings intended to be made under the Non-Section 423 Component will be designated as such by the Administrator at or prior to the time of such Offering.

For purposes of this Plan, the Administrator may designate separate Offerings under the Plan in which Eligible Employees will participate. The terms of these Offerings need not be identical, even if the dates of the applicable Offering Period(s) in each such Offering are identical, provided that the terms of participation are the same within each separate Offering under the Section 423 Component (as determined under Section 423 of the Code). Solely by way of example and without limiting the foregoing, the Company could, but shall not be required to, provide for simultaneous Offerings under the Section 423 Component and the Non-Section 423 Component of the Plan.

ARTICLE II.

DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION

Wherever the following terms are used in the Plan they shall have the meanings specified below, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

2.1    “Administrator” means the entity that conducts the general administration of the Plan as provided in Article XI.

2.2    Agent” means the brokerage firm, bank or other financial institution, entity or person(s), if any, engaged, retained, appointed or authorized to act as the agent of the Company or an Employee with regard to the Plan.

2.3    Applicable Law” means the requirements relating to the administration of equity incentive plans under U.S. federal and state securities, tax and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, the applicable rules of any stock exchange or quotation system on which Shares are listed or quoted and the applicable laws and rules of any foreign country or other jurisdiction where rights under this Plan are granted.

2.4    “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.


2.5    “Class A Common Stock” means the Class A common stock of the Company, par value of $0.001 per share.

2.6    “Class X Common Stock” means the Class X common stock of the Company, par value of $0.001 per share.

2.7    “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations issued thereunder.

2.8    “Common Stock” means the Class A Common Stock and such other securities of the Company that may be substituted therefor pursuant to Article VIII.

2.9    “Company” means Starry Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor.

2.10    “Compensation” of an Eligible Employee means, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, the gross base compensation or wages received by such Eligible Employee as compensation for services to the Company or any Designated Subsidiary, excluding overtime payments, sales commissions, incentive compensation, bonuses, expense reimbursements, income received in connection with any compensatory equity awards, fringe benefits and other special payments.

2.11    “Designated Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary designated by the Administrator in accordance with Section 11.2(b), such designation to specify whether such participation is in the Section 423 Component or Non-Section 423 Component. A Designated Subsidiary may participate in either the Section 423 Component or Non-Section 423 Component, but not both; provided that a Subsidiary that, for U.S. tax purposes, is disregarded from the Company or any Subsidiary that participates in the Section 423 Component shall automatically constitute a Designated Subsidiary that participates in the Section 423 Component.

2.12    “Effective Date” means the date on which the transactions contemplated by that certain Merger Agreement, by and among the Company, FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation, Sirius Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC, and Starry, Inc., a Delaware corporation, dated as of October 6, 2021 as amended from time to time, are consummated, provided that the Board has adopted the Plan prior to or on such date, subject to approval of the Plan by the Company’s stockholders.

2.13    “Eligible Employee” means:

(a)    an Employee who does not, immediately after any rights under this Plan are granted, own (directly or through attribution) stock possessing 5% or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of Shares and other securities of the Company, a Parent or a Subsidiary (as determined under Section 423(b)(3) of the Code) (including Class X Common Stock). For purposes of the foregoing, the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code with regard to the attribution of stock ownership shall apply in determining the stock ownership of an individual, and stock that an Employee may purchase under outstanding options shall be treated as stock owned by the Employee.

(b)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator may provide in an Offering Document that an Employee shall not be eligible to participate in an Offering Period under the Section 423 Component if: (i) such Employee is a highly compensated employee within the meaning of Section 423(b)(4)(D) of the Code; (ii) such Employee has not met a service requirement designated by the Administrator pursuant to Section 423(b)(4)(A) of the Code (which service requirement may not exceed two years); (iii) such Employee’s customary employment is for twenty hours per week or less; (iv) such

 

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Employee’s customary employment is for less than five months in any calendar year; and/or (v) such Employee is a citizen or resident of a foreign jurisdiction and the grant of a right to purchase Shares under the Plan to such Employee would be prohibited under the laws of such foreign jurisdiction or the grant of a right to purchase Shares under the Plan to such Employee in compliance with the laws of such foreign jurisdiction would cause the Plan to violate the requirements of Section 423 of the Code, as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion; provided, further, that any exclusion in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) shall be applied in an identical manner under each Offering Period to all Employees, in accordance with Treasury Regulation Section 1.423-2(e).

(c)    Further notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to the Non-Section 423 Component, the first sentence in this definition shall apply in determining who is an “Eligible Employee,” except (i) the Administrator may limit eligibility further within the Company or a Designated Subsidiary so as to only designate some Employees of the Company or a Designated Subsidiary as Eligible Employees, and (ii) to the extent the restrictions in the first sentence in this definition are not consistent with applicable local laws, the applicable local laws shall control.

2.14    “Employee” means any individual who renders services to the Company or any Designated Subsidiary in the status of an employee, and, with respect to the Section 423 Component, a person who is an employee within the meaning of Section 3401(c) of the Code. For purposes of an individual’s participation in, or other rights under the Plan, all determinations by the Company shall be final, binding and conclusive, notwithstanding that any court of law or governmental agency subsequently makes a contrary determination. For purposes of the Plan, the employment relationship shall be treated as continuing intact while the individual is on sick leave or other leave of absence approved by the Company or Designated Subsidiary and meeting the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.421-1(h)(2). Where the period of leave exceeds three (3) months and the individual’s right to reemployment is not guaranteed either by statute or by contract, the employment relationship shall be deemed to have terminated on the first day immediately following such three (3)-month period.

2.15    “Enrollment Date” means the first Trading Day of each Offering Period.

2.16    “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of Shares determined as follows: (i) if the Shares are listed on any established stock exchange, its Fair Market Value will be the closing sales price for such Shares as quoted on such exchange for such date, or if no sale occurred on such date, the last day preceding such date during which a sale occurred, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or another source the Administrator deems reliable; (ii) if the Shares are not traded on a stock exchange but are quoted on a national market or other quotation system, the closing sales price on such date, or if no sales occurred on such date, then on the last date preceding such date during which a sale occurred, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or another source the Administrator deems reliable; or (iii) without an established market for the Shares, the Administrator will determine the Fair Market Value in its discretion.

2.17    “Non-Section 423 Component” means those Offerings under the Plan, together with the sub-plans, appendices, rules or procedures, if any, adopted by the Administrator as a part of this Plan, in each case, pursuant to which rights to purchase Shares during an Offering Period may be granted to Eligible Employees that need not satisfy the requirements for rights to purchase Shares granted pursuant to an “employee stock purchase plan” that are set forth under Section 423 of the Code.

2.18    “Offering” means an offer under the Plan of a right to purchase Shares that may be exercised during an Offering Period as further described in Article IV hereof. Unless otherwise specified by the Administrator, each Offering to the Eligible Employees of the Company or a Designated Subsidiary shall be deemed a separate Offering, even if the dates and other terms of the applicable Offering Periods of each such Offering are identical, and the provisions of the Plan will separately apply to each Offering. To

 

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the extent permitted by Treas. Reg. § 1.423-2(a)(1), the terms of each separate Offering under the Section 423 Component need not be identical, provided that the terms of the Section 423 Component and an Offering thereunder together satisfy Treas. Reg. § 1.423-2(a)(2) and (a)(3).

2.19    “Offering Document” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.1.

2.20    “Offering Period” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.1.

2.21    “Parent” means any corporation, other than the Company, in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company if, at the time of the determination, each of the corporations other than the Company owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain.

2.22    “Participant” means any Eligible Employee who has executed a subscription agreement and been granted rights to purchase Shares pursuant to the Plan.

2.23    “Payday” means the regular and recurring established day for payment of Compensation to an Employee of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary.

2.24    Plan” means this 2022 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, including both the Section 423 Component and Non-Section 423 Component and any other sub-plans or appendices hereto, as amended from time to time.

2.25    “Purchase Date” means the last Trading Day of each Purchase Period or such other date as determined by the Administrator and set forth in the Offering Document.

2.26    “Purchase Period” shall refer to one or more periods within an Offering Period, as designated in the applicable Offering Document; provided, however, that, in the event no purchase period is designated by the Administrator in the applicable Offering Document, the purchase period for each Offering Period covered by such Offering Document shall be the same as the applicable Offering Period.

2.27    “Purchase Price” means the purchase price designated by the Administrator in the applicable Offering Document (which purchase price, for purposes of the Section 423 Component, shall not be less than 85% of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Enrollment Date or on the Purchase Date, whichever is lower); provided, however, that, in the event no purchase price is designated by the Administrator in the applicable Offering Document, the purchase price for the Offering Periods covered by such Offering Document shall be 85% of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Enrollment Date or on the Purchase Date, whichever is lower; provided, further, that the Purchase Price may be adjusted by the Administrator pursuant to Article VIII and shall not be less than the par value of a Share.

2.28    “Section 423 Component” means those Offerings under the Plan, together with the sub-plans, appendices, rules or procedures, if any, adopted by the Administrator as a part of this Plan, in each case, pursuant to which rights to purchase Shares during an Offering Period may be granted to Eligible Employees that are intended to satisfy the requirements for rights to purchase Shares granted pursuant to an “employee stock purchase plan” that are set forth under Section 423 of the Code.

2.29     “Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

2.30    “Share” means a share of Class A Common Stock.

 

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2.31    “Subsidiary” means any corporation, other than the Company, in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company if, at the time of the determination, each of the corporations other than the last corporation in an unbroken chain owns stock possessing 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain; provided, however, that a limited liability company or partnership may be treated as a Subsidiary to the extent either (a) such entity is treated as a disregarded entity under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3(a) by reason of the Company or any other Subsidiary that is a corporation being the sole owner of such entity, or (b) such entity elects to be classified as a corporation under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3(a) and such entity would otherwise qualify as a Subsidiary. In addition, with respect to the Non-Section 423 Component, Subsidiary shall include any corporate or non-corporate entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect equity interest or significant business relationship.

2.32    “Trading Day” means a day on which national stock exchanges in the United States are open for trading.

2.33    “Treas. Reg.” means U.S. Department of the Treasury regulations.

ARTICLE III.

SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN

3.1    Number of Shares. Subject to Article VIII, the aggregate number of Shares that may be issued pursuant to rights granted under the Plan shall be 4,555,058 Shares. In addition to the foregoing, subject to Article VIII, on the first day of each calendar year beginning on January 1, 2023 and ending on and including January 1, 2031, the number of Shares available for issuance under the Plan shall be increased by that number of Shares equal to the lesser of (a) 1.0 % of the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class X Common Stock of the Company outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) such smaller number of Shares as determined by the Board. If any right granted under the Plan shall for any reason terminate without having been exercised, the Shares not purchased under such right shall again become available for issuance under the Plan. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3.1 to the contrary, the number of Shares that may be issued or transferred pursuant to the rights granted under the Section 423 Component of the Plan shall not exceed an aggregate of 45,550,580 Shares, subject to Article VIII.

3.2    Shares Distributed. Any Shares distributed pursuant to the Plan may consist, in whole or in part, of authorized and unissued Shares, treasury shares or Shares purchased on the open market.

ARTICLE IV.

OFFERING PERIODS; OFFERING DOCUMENTS; PURCHASE DATES

4.1    Offering Periods. The Administrator may from time to time grant or provide for the grant of rights to purchase Shares under the Plan to Eligible Employees during one or more periods (each, an “Offering Period”) selected by the Administrator. The terms and conditions applicable to each Offering Period shall be set forth in an “Offering Document” adopted by the Administrator, which Offering Document shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Administrator shall deem appropriate and shall be incorporated by reference into and made part of the Plan and shall be attached hereto as part of the Plan. The provisions of separate Offerings or Offering Periods under the Plan need not be identical.

4.2    Offering Documents. Each Offering Document with respect to an Offering Period shall specify (through incorporation of the provisions of this Plan by reference or otherwise):

(a)    the length of the Offering Period, which period shall not exceed twenty-seven months;

 

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(b)    the maximum number of Shares that may be purchased by any Eligible Employee during such Offering Period, which, in the absence of a contrary designation by the Administrator, shall be 15,000 Shares; and

(c)    such other provisions as the Administrator determines are appropriate, subject to the Plan.

ARTICLE V.

ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

5.1    Eligibility. Any Eligible Employee who shall be employed by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary on a given Enrollment Date for an Offering Period shall be eligible to participate in the Plan during such Offering Period, subject to the requirements of this Article V and, for the Section 423 Component, the limitations imposed by Section 423(b) of the Code.

5.2    Enrollment in Plan.

(a)    Except as otherwise set forth in an Offering Document or determined by the Administrator, an Eligible Employee may become a Participant in the Plan for an Offering Period by delivering a subscription agreement to the Company by such time prior to the Enrollment Date for such Offering Period (or such other date specified in the Offering Document) designated by the Administrator and in such form as the Company provides.

(b)    Each subscription agreement shall designate either (i) a whole percentage of such Eligible Employee’s Compensation or (ii) a fixed dollar amount, in either case, to be withheld by the Company or the Designated Subsidiary employing such Eligible Employee on each Payday during the Offering Period as payroll deductions under the Plan. In either event, the designated percentage or fixed dollar amount may not be less than one percent (1%) and may not be more than the maximum percentage specified by the Administrator in the applicable Offering Document (which percentage shall be twenty percent (20%) in the absence of any such designation) as payroll deductions. The payroll deductions made for each Participant shall be credited to an account for such Participant under the Plan and shall be deposited with the general funds of the Company.

(c)    A Participant may increase or decrease the percentage of Compensation or the fixed dollar amount designated in his or her subscription agreement, subject to the limits of this Section 5.2, or may suspend his or her payroll deductions, at any time during an Offering Period; provided, that the Administrator may limit the number of changes a Participant may make to his or her payroll deduction elections during each Offering Period in the applicable Offering Document (and in the absence of any specific designation by the Administrator, a Participant shall be allowed to decrease (but not increase) his or her payroll deduction elections one time during each Offering Period). Any such change or suspension of payroll deductions shall be effective with the first full payroll period following ten business days after the Company’s receipt of the new subscription agreement (or such shorter or longer period as may be specified by the Administrator in the applicable Offering Document). In the event a Participant suspends his or her payroll deductions, such Participant’s cumulative payroll deductions prior to the suspension shall remain in his or her account and shall be applied to the purchase of Shares on the next occurring Purchase Date and shall not be paid to such Participant unless he or she withdraws from participation in the Plan pursuant to Article VII.

 

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(d)    Except as otherwise set forth in an Offering Document or determined by the Administrator, a Participant may participate in the Plan only by means of payroll deduction and may not make contributions by lump sum payment for any Offering Period.

5.3    Payroll Deductions. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Offering Document, payroll deductions for a Participant shall commence on the first Payday following the Enrollment Date and shall end on the last Payday in the Offering Period to which the Participant’s authorization is applicable, unless sooner terminated by the Participant as provided in Article VII or suspended by the Participant or the Administrator as provided in Section 5.2 and Section 5.6, respectively. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan to the contrary, in non-U.S. jurisdictions where participation in the Plan through payroll deductions is prohibited, the Administrator may provide that an Eligible Employee may elect to participate through contributions to the Participant’s account under the Plan in a form acceptable to the Administrator in lieu of or in addition to payroll deductions; provided, that, for any Offering under the Section 423 Component, the Administrator shall take into consideration any limitations under Section 423 of the Code when applying an alternative method of contribution.

5.4    Effect of Enrollment. A Participant’s completion of a subscription agreement will enroll such Participant in the Plan for each subsequent Offering Period on the terms contained therein until the Participant either submits a new subscription agreement, withdraws from participation under the Plan as provided in Article VII or otherwise becomes ineligible to participate in the Plan.

5.5    Limitation on Purchase of Shares. An Eligible Employee may be granted rights under the Section 423 Component only if such rights, together with any other rights granted to such Eligible Employee under “employee stock purchase plans” of the Company, any Parent or any Subsidiary, as specified by Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, do not permit such employee’s rights to purchase stock of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary to accrue at a rate that exceeds $25,000 of the fair market value of such stock (determined as of the first day of the Offering Period during which such rights are granted) for each calendar year in which such rights are outstanding at any time. This limitation shall be applied in accordance with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code.

5.6    Suspension of Payroll Deductions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent necessary to comply with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code and Section 5.5 (with respect to the Section 423 Component) or the other limitations set forth in this Plan, a Participant’s payroll deductions may be suspended by the Administrator at any time during an Offering Period. The balance of the amount credited to the account of each Participant that has not been applied to the purchase of Shares by reason of Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, Section 5.5 or the other limitations set forth in this Plan shall be paid to such Participant in one lump sum in cash as soon as reasonably practicable after the Purchase Date.

5.7    Foreign Employees. In order to facilitate participation in the Plan, the Administrator may provide for such special terms applicable to Participants who are citizens or residents a foreign jurisdiction, or who are employed by a Designated Subsidiary outside of the United States, as the Administrator may consider necessary or appropriate to accommodate differences in local law, tax policy or custom. Except as permitted by Section 423 of the Code, with respect to the Section 423 Component, such special terms may not be more favorable than the terms of rights granted under the Section 423 Component to Eligible Employees who are residents of the United States. Such special terms may be set forth in an addendum to the Plan in the form of an appendix or sub-plan (which appendix or sub-plan may be designed to govern Offerings under the Section 423 Component or the Non-Section 423 Component, as determined by the Administrator). To the extent that the terms and conditions set forth in an appendix or sub-plan conflict with any provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the appendix or sub-plan shall govern. The adoption of any such appendix or sub-plan shall be pursuant to Section 11.2(g). Without limiting the foregoing, the Administrator is specifically authorized to adopt rules and procedures, with respect to Participants who are

 

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foreign nationals or employed in non-U.S. jurisdictions, regarding the exclusion of particular Subsidiaries from participation in the Plan, eligibility to participate, the definition of Compensation, handling of payroll deductions or other contributions by Participants, payment of interest, conversion of local currency, data privacy security, payroll tax, withholding procedures, establishment of bank or trust accounts to hold payroll deductions or contributions.

5.8    Leave of Absence. During leaves of absence approved by the Company meeting the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.421-1(h)(2) under the Code, a Participant may continue participation in the Plan by making cash payments to the Company on his or her normal Payday equal to the Participant’s authorized payroll deduction.

ARTICLE VI.

GRANT AND EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

6.1    Grant of Rights. On the Enrollment Date of each Offering Period, each Eligible Employee participating in such Offering Period shall be granted a right to purchase the maximum number of Shares specified under Section 4.2, subject to the limits in Section 5.5, and shall have the right to buy, on each Purchase Date during such Offering Period (at the applicable Purchase Price), such number of whole Shares as is determined by dividing (a) such Participant’s payroll deductions accumulated prior to such Purchase Date and retained in the Participant’s account as of the Purchase Date, by (b) the applicable Purchase Price (rounded down to the nearest Share). The right shall expire on the earliest of: (x) the last Purchase Date of the Offering Period, (y) the last day of the Offering Period, and (z) the date on which the Participant withdraws in accordance with Section 7.1 or Section 7.3.

6.2    Exercise of Rights. On each Purchase Date, each Participant’s accumulated payroll deductions and any other additional payments specifically provided for in the applicable Offering Document will be applied to the purchase of whole Shares, up to the maximum number of Shares permitted pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the applicable Offering Document, at the Purchase Price. No fractional Shares shall be issued upon the exercise of rights granted under the Plan, unless the Offering Document specifically provides otherwise. Any cash in lieu of fractional Shares remaining after the purchase of whole Shares upon exercise of a purchase right will be credited to a Participant’s account and carried forward and applied toward the purchase of whole Shares for the next following Offering Period. Shares issued pursuant to the Plan may be evidenced in such manner as the Administrator may determine and may be issued in certificated form or issued pursuant to book-entry procedures.

6.3    Pro Rata Allocation of Shares. If the Administrator determines that, on a given Purchase Date, the number of Shares with respect to which rights are to be exercised may exceed (a) the number of Shares that were available for issuance under the Plan on the Enrollment Date of the applicable Offering Period, or (b) the number of Shares available for issuance under the Plan on such Purchase Date, the Administrator may in its sole discretion provide that the Company shall make a pro rata allocation of the Shares available for purchase on such Enrollment Date or Purchase Date, as applicable, in as uniform a manner as shall be practicable and as it shall determine in its sole discretion to be equitable among all Participants for whom rights to purchase Shares are to be exercised pursuant to this Article VI on such Purchase Date, and shall either (i) continue all Offering Periods then in effect, or (ii) terminate any or all Offering Periods then in effect pursuant to Article IX. The Company may make pro rata allocation of the Shares available on the Enrollment Date of any applicable Offering Period pursuant to the preceding sentence, notwithstanding any authorization of additional Shares for issuance under the Plan by the Company’s stockholders subsequent to such Enrollment Date. The balance of the amount credited to the account of each Participant that has not been applied to the purchase of Shares shall be paid to such Participant in one lump sum in cash as soon as reasonably practicable after the Purchase Date or such earlier date as determined by the Administrator.

 

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6.4    Withholding. At the time a Participant’s rights under the Plan are exercised, in whole or in part, or at the time some or all of the Shares issued under the Plan is disposed of, the Participant must make adequate provision for the Company’s federal, state, or other tax withholding obligations, if any, that arise upon the exercise of the right or the disposition of the Shares. At any time, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, withhold from the Participant’s Compensation or Shares received pursuant to the Plan the amount necessary for the Company to meet applicable withholding obligations, including any withholding required to make available to the Company any tax deductions or benefits attributable to sale or early disposition of Shares by the Participant.

6.5    Conditions to Issuance of Shares. The Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any certificate or certificates for, or make any book entries evidencing, Shares purchased upon the exercise of rights under the Plan prior to fulfillment of all of the following conditions: (a) the admission of such Shares to listing on all stock exchanges, if any, on which the Shares are then listed; (b) the completion of any registration or other qualification of such Shares under any state or federal law or under the rulings or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other governmental regulatory body, that the Administrator shall, in its absolute discretion, deem necessary or advisable; (c) the obtaining of any approval or other clearance from any state or federal governmental agency that the Administrator shall, in its absolute discretion, determine to be necessary or advisable; (d) the payment to the Company of all amounts that it is required to withhold under federal, state or local law upon exercise of the rights, if any; and (e) the lapse of such reasonable period of time following the exercise of the rights as the Administrator may from time to time establish for reasons of administrative convenience.

ARTICLE VII.

WITHDRAWAL; CESSATION OF ELIGIBILITY

7.1    Withdrawal. A Participant may withdraw all but not less than all of the payroll deductions credited to his or her account and not yet used to exercise his or her rights under the Plan at any time by giving written notice to the Company in a form acceptable to the Company no later than one week prior to the end of the Offering Period (or such shorter or longer period as may be specified by the Administrator in the applicable Offering Document). All of the Participant’s payroll deductions credited to his or her account during an Offering Period shall be paid to such Participant as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of notice of withdrawal and such Participant’s rights for the Offering Period shall be automatically terminated, and no further payroll deductions for the purchase of Shares shall be made for such Offering Period. If a Participant withdraws from an Offering Period, payroll deductions shall not resume at the beginning of the next Offering Period unless the Participant timely delivers to the Company a new subscription agreement.

7.2    Future Participation. A Participant’s withdrawal from an Offering Period shall not have any effect upon his or her eligibility to participate in any similar plan that may hereafter be adopted by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary or in subsequent Offering Periods that commence after the termination of the Offering Period from which the Participant withdraws.

7.3    Cessation of Eligibility. Upon a Participant’s ceasing to be an Eligible Employee for any reason, he or she shall be deemed to have elected to withdraw from the Plan pursuant to this Article VII and the payroll deductions credited to such Participant’s account during the Offering Period shall be paid to such Participant or, in the case of his or her death, to the person or persons entitled thereto under Section 12.4, as soon as reasonably practicable, and such Participant’s rights for the Offering Period shall be automatically terminated. If a Participant transfers employment from the Company or any Designated Subsidiary participating in the Section 423 Component to any Designated Subsidiary participating in the Non-Section 423 Component, such transfer shall not be treated as a termination of employment, but the Participant shall immediately cease to participate in the Section 423 Component; however, any

 

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contributions made for the Offering Period in which such transfer occurs shall be transferred to the Non-Section 423 Component, and such Participant shall immediately join the then-current Offering under the Non-Section 423 Component upon the same terms and conditions in effect for the Participant’s participation in the Section 423 Component, except for such modifications otherwise applicable for Participants in such Offering. A Participant who transfers employment from any Designated Subsidiary participating in the Non-Section 423 Component to the Company or any Designated Subsidiary participating in the Section 423 Component shall not be treated as terminating the Participant’s employment and shall remain a Participant in the Non-Section 423 Component until the earlier of (i) the end of the current Offering Period under the Non-Section 423 Component or (ii) the Enrollment Date of the first Offering Period in which the Participant is eligible to participate following such transfer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator may establish different rules to govern transfers of employment between entities participating in the Section 423 Component and the Non-Section 423 Component, consistent with the applicable requirements of Section 423 of the Code.

ARTICLE VIII.

ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN SHARES

8.1    Changes in Capitalization. Subject to Section 8.3, in the event that the Administrator determines that any dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, Shares, other securities, or other property), change in control, reorganization, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, combination, repurchase, redemption, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, or sale, transfer, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or sale or exchange of Shares or other securities of the Company, issuance of warrants or other rights to purchase Shares or other securities of the Company, or other similar corporate transaction or event, as determined by the Administrator, affects the Shares such that an adjustment is determined by the Administrator to be appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended by the Company to be made available under the Plan or with respect to any outstanding purchase rights under the Plan, the Administrator shall make equitable adjustments, if any, to reflect such change with respect to (a) the aggregate number and type of Shares (or other securities or property) that may be issued under the Plan (including, but not limited to, adjustments of the limitations in Section 3.1 and the limitations established in each Offering Document pursuant to Section 4.2 on the maximum number of Shares that may be purchased); (b) the class(es) and number of Shares and price per Share subject to outstanding rights; and (c) the Purchase Price with respect to any outstanding rights.

8.2    Other Adjustments. Subject to Section 8.3, in the event of any transaction or event described in Section 8.1 or any unusual or nonrecurring transactions or events affecting the Company, any affiliate of the Company, or the financial statements of the Company or any affiliate (including without limitation, any change in control), or of changes in Applicable Law or accounting principles, the Administrator, in its discretion, and on such terms and conditions as it deems appropriate, is hereby authorized to take any one or more of the following actions whenever the Administrator determines that such action is appropriate in order to prevent the dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan or with respect to any right under the Plan, to facilitate such transactions or events or to give effect to such changes in laws, regulations or principles:

(a)    To provide for either (i) termination of any outstanding right in exchange for an amount of cash, if any, equal to the amount that would have been obtained upon the exercise of such right had such right been currently exercisable or (ii) the replacement of such outstanding right with other rights or property selected by the Administrator in its sole discretion;

(b)    To provide that the outstanding rights under the Plan shall be assumed by the successor or survivor corporation, or a Parent or Subsidiary thereof, or shall be substituted for by similar rights covering the stock of the successor or survivor corporation, or a Parent or Subsidiary thereof, with appropriate adjustments as to the number and kind of shares and prices;

 

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(c)    To make adjustments in the number and type of Shares (or other securities or property) subject to outstanding rights under the Plan and/or in the terms and conditions of outstanding rights and rights that may be granted in the future;

(d)    To provide that Participants’ accumulated payroll deductions may be used to purchase Shares prior to the next occurring Purchase Date on such date as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion and the Participants’ rights under the ongoing Offering Period(s) shall be terminated; and

(e)    To provide that all outstanding rights shall terminate without being exercised.

8.3    No Adjustment Under Certain Circumstances. Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, no adjustment or action described in this Article VIII or in any other provision of the Plan shall be authorized to the extent that such adjustment or action would cause the Section 423 Component of the Plan to fail to satisfy the requirements of Section 423 of the Code.

8.4    No Other Rights. Except as expressly provided in the Plan, no Participant shall have any rights by reason of any subdivision or consolidation of shares of stock of any class, the payment of any dividend, any increase or decrease in the number of shares of stock of any class or any dissolution, liquidation, merger, or consolidation of the Company or any other corporation. Except as expressly provided in the Plan or pursuant to action of the Administrator under the Plan, no issuance by the Company of shares of stock of any class, or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, shall affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number of Shares subject to outstanding rights under the Plan or the Purchase Price with respect to any outstanding rights.

ARTICLE IX.

AMENDMENT, MODIFICATION AND TERMINATION

9.1    Amendment, Modification and Termination. The Administrator may amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time and from time to time; provided, that approval of the Company’s stockholders shall be required to amend the Plan to: (a) increase the aggregate number, or change the type, of shares that may be sold pursuant to rights under the Plan under Section 3.1 (other than an adjustment as provided by Article VIII) or (b) change the corporations or classes of corporations whose employees may be granted rights under the Plan.

9.2    Certain Changes to Plan. Without stockholder consent and without regard to whether any Participant rights may be considered to have been adversely affected (and, with respect to the Section 423 Component of the Plan, after taking into account Section 423 of the Code), the Administrator shall be entitled to change or terminate the Offering Periods, add or revise Offering Period share limits, limit the frequency and/or number of changes in the amount withheld from Compensation during an Offering Period, establish the exchange ratio applicable to amounts withheld in a currency other than U.S. dollars, permit payroll withholding in excess of the amount designated by a Participant in order to adjust for delays or mistakes in the Company’s processing of payroll withholding elections, establish reasonable waiting and adjustment periods and/or accounting and crediting procedures to ensure that amounts applied toward the purchase of Shares for each Participant properly correspond with amounts withheld from the Participant’s Compensation, and establish such other limitations or procedures as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion to be advisable that are consistent with the Plan.

 

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9.3    Actions In the Event of Unfavorable Financial Accounting Consequences. In the event the Administrator determines that the ongoing operation of the Plan may result in unfavorable financial accounting consequences, the Administrator may, in its discretion and, to the extent necessary or desirable, modify or amend the Plan to reduce or eliminate such accounting consequence including, but not limited to:

(a)    altering the Purchase Price for any Offering Period including an Offering Period underway at the time of the change in Purchase Price;

(b)    shortening any Offering Period so that the Offering Period ends on a new Purchase Date, including an Offering Period underway at the time of the Administrator action; and

(c)    allocating Shares.

Such modifications or amendments shall not require stockholder approval or the consent of any Participant.

9.4    Payments Upon Termination of Plan. Upon termination of the Plan, the balance in each Participant’s Plan account shall be refunded as soon as practicable after such termination, without any interest thereon, or the Offering Period may be shortened so that the purchase of Shares occurs prior to the termination of the Plan.

ARTICLE X.

TERM OF PLAN

The Plan shall become effective on the Effective Date. The effectiveness of the Section 423 Component of the Plan shall be subject to approval of the Plan by the Company’s stockholders within twelve months following the date the Plan is first approved by the Board. No right may be granted under the Section 423 Component of the Plan prior to such stockholder approval. The Plan shall remain in effect until terminated under Section 9.1. No rights may be granted under the Plan during any period of suspension of the Plan or after termination of the Plan.

ARTICLE XI.

ADMINISTRATION

11.1    Administrator. Unless otherwise determined by the Board, the Administrator of the Plan shall be the Compensation Committee of the Board (or another committee or a subcommittee of the Board to which the Board delegates administration of the Plan). The Board may at any time vest in the Board any authority or duties for administration of the Plan. The Administrator may delegate administrative tasks under the Plan to the services of an Agent or Employees to assist in the administration of the Plan, including establishing and maintaining an individual securities account under the Plan for each Participant.

11.2    Authority of Administrator. The Administrator shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

(a)    To determine when and how rights to purchase Shares shall be granted and the provisions of each offering of such rights (which need not be identical).

(b)    To designate from time to time which Subsidiaries of the Company shall be Designated Subsidiaries, which designation may be made without the approval of the stockholders of the Company.

 

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(c)    To impose a mandatory holding period pursuant to which Employees may not dispose of or transfer Shares purchased under the Plan for a period of time determined by the Administrator in its discretion.

(d)    To construe and interpret the Plan and rights granted under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Administrator, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective.

(e)    To amend, suspend or terminate the Plan as provided in Article IX.

(f)    Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as the Administrator deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and its Subsidiaries and to carry out the intent that the Plan be treated as an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of Section 423 of the Code for the Section 423 Component.

(g)    The Administrator may adopt sub-plans applicable to particular Designated Subsidiaries or locations, which sub-plans may be designed to be outside the scope of Section 423 of the Code. The rules of such sub-plans may take precedence over other provisions of this Plan, with the exception of Section 3.1 hereof, but unless otherwise superseded by the terms of such sub-plan, the provisions of this Plan shall govern the operation of such sub-plan.

11.3    Decisions Binding. The Administrator’s interpretation of the Plan, any rights granted pursuant to the Plan, any subscription agreement and all decisions and determinations by the Administrator with respect to the Plan are final, binding, and conclusive on all parties.

ARTICLE XII.

MISCELLANEOUS

12.1    Restriction upon Assignment. A right granted under the Plan shall not be transferable other than by will or the applicable laws of descent and distribution, and is exercisable during the Participant’s lifetime only by the Participant. Except as provided in Section 12.4 hereof, a right under the Plan may not be exercised to any extent except by the Participant. The Company shall not recognize and shall be under no duty to recognize any assignment or alienation of the Participant’s interest in the Plan, the Participant’s rights under the Plan or any rights thereunder.

12.2    Rights as a Stockholder. With respect to Shares subject to a right granted under the Plan, a Participant shall not be deemed to be a stockholder of the Company, and the Participant shall not have any of the rights or privileges of a stockholder, until such Shares have been issued to the Participant or his or her nominee following exercise of the Participant’s rights under the Plan. No adjustments shall be made for dividends (ordinary or extraordinary, whether in cash securities, or other property) or distribution or other rights for which the record date occurs prior to the date of such issuance, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or as determined by the Administrator.

12.3    Interest. No interest shall accrue on the payroll deductions or contributions of a Participant under the Plan.

12.4    Designation of Beneficiary.

(a)    A Participant may, in the manner determined by the Administrator, file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any Shares and/or cash, if any, from the Participant’s account

 

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under the Plan in the event of such Participant’s death subsequent to a Purchase Date on which the Participant’s rights are exercised but prior to delivery to such Participant of such Shares and cash. In addition, a Participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any cash from the Participant’s account under the Plan in the event of such Participant’s death prior to exercise of the Participant’s rights under the Plan. If the Participant is married and resides in a community property state, a designation of a person other than the Participant’s spouse as his or her beneficiary shall not be effective without the prior written consent of the Participant’s spouse.

(b)    Such designation of beneficiary may be changed by the Participant at any time by written notice to the Company. In the event of the death of a Participant and in the absence of a beneficiary validly designated under the Plan who is living at the time of such Participant’s death, the Company shall deliver such Shares and/or cash to the executor or administrator of the estate of the Participant, or if no such executor or administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the Company, in its discretion, may deliver such Shares and/or cash to the spouse or to any one or more dependents or relatives of the Participant, or if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the Company, then to such other person as the Company may designate.

12.5    Notices. All notices or other communications by a Participant to the Company under or in connection with the Plan shall be deemed to have been duly given when received in the form specified by the Company at the location, or by the person, designated by the Company for the receipt thereof.

12.6    Equal Rights and Privileges. Subject to Section 5.7, all Eligible Employees will have equal rights and privileges under the Section 423 Component so that the Section 423 Component of this Plan qualifies as an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of Section 423 of the Code. Subject to Section 5.7, any provision of the Section 423 Component that is inconsistent with Section 423 of the Code will, without further act or amendment by the Company, the Board or the Administrator, be reformed to comply with the equal rights and privileges requirement of Section 423 of the Code. Eligible Employees participating in the Non-Section 423 Component need not have the same rights and privileges as other Eligible Employees participating in the Non-Section 423 Component or as Eligible Employees participating in the Section 423 Component.

12.7    Use of Funds. All payroll deductions received or held by the Company under the Plan may be used by the Company for any corporate purpose, and the Company shall not be obligated to segregate such payroll deductions.

12.8    No Employment Rights. Nothing in the Plan shall be construed to give any person (including any Eligible Employee or Participant) the right to remain in the employ of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary or affect the right of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary to terminate the employment of any person (including any Eligible Employee or Participant) at any time, with or without cause.

12.9    Notice of Disposition of Shares. Each Participant shall give prompt notice to the Company of any disposition or other transfer of any Shares purchased upon exercise of a right under the Section 423 Component of the Plan if such disposition or transfer is made: (a) within two years from the Enrollment Date of the Offering Period in which the Shares were purchased or (b) within one year after the Purchase Date on which such Shares were purchased. Such notice shall specify the date of such disposition or other transfer and the amount realized, in cash, other property, assumption of indebtedness or other consideration, by the Participant in such disposition or other transfer.

 

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12.10    Governing Law. The Plan and any agreements hereunder shall be administered, interpreted and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, disregarding any state’s choice of law principles requiring the application of a jurisdiction’s laws other than the State of Delaware.

12.11    Electronic Forms. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law and in the discretion of the Administrator, an Eligible Employee may submit any form or notice as set forth herein by means of an electronic form approved by the Administrator. Before the commencement of an Offering Period, the Administrator shall prescribe the time limits within which any such electronic form shall be submitted to the Administrator with respect to such Offering Period in order to be a valid election.

* * * * *

Exhibit 10.29

PROJECT DECIBEL, INC.

745 ATLANTIC AVENUE, SUITE 705

BOSTON, MA 02111

June 10, 2015

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Chaitanya Kanojia

141 Prince St.

Newton, MA 02465

ckanojia@gmail.com

Dear Chaitanya Kanojia:

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join Project Decibel, Inc. (the “Company”) as the Chief Executive Officer with a start date on or before June 11, 2015 as a full-time employee.

Your salary will be $300,000 per annum. In addition to your base salary, you will be eligible for an annual bonus based on Company and personal performance milestones, as defined by the Board of Directors. You will be paid in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices as established or modified from time to time. All forms of compensation referred to in this offer letter are subject to reduction to reflect applicable withholding and payroll taxes and other deductions required by law.

You will be eligible to participate in the benefits program subject to the same terms, conditions and limitations applicable to other employees of the Company of similar rank and tenure.

Your employment with the Company will be “at-will,” meaning that either you or the Company may terminate your employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without cause, and with or without prior notice. Similarly, the terms and conditions of your employment may be modified by the Company in its sole discretion.

Similarly, we respect the confidentiality and trade secrets of other companies, and prohibit you from using such information for our benefit. Our understanding is that you have not entered into any confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation or other agreements with previous employers or others that would in any way restrict your ability to be employed by the Company, and that your accepting employment with the Company does not breach any agreement entered into by you. If you have signed any such agreements, you are required to provide us with copies prior to your start date.


Please note that your initial or continued employment with the Company may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the results of a background check report, which may include but not be limited to a verification of your employment and education, criminal and credit history, DMV records, and other public records. You will be expected to sign any authorizations that the Company may require to allow the Company to obtain such report.

Moreover, as a condition of commencing employment, you will be required to provide, for purposes of completing the I-9 form, sufficient documentation to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the United States.

This letter sets forth the final terms of our offer of employment to you, and replaces any prior oral or written statements that may have been made to you regarding your employment relationship with us.

Please sign and return this offer letter to confirm your desire to accept employment. We truly look forward to working with you and building Project Decibel, Inc. into an outstanding company.

 

Sincerely,

/s/ Christopher Davies

Christopher Davies
Director, Finance & Administration

 

Offer Accepted by:

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Chaitanya Kanojia

 

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Exhibit 10.30

February 24, 2015

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Joseph Lipowski

27 Henry’s Lane

Norwell, MA 02061

jlipowski@projectdecibel.com

Dear Joseph Lipowski:

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join Project Decibel, Inc. (the “Company”) as Chief Technology Officer with a start date of March 2, 2015 as a full-time employee. Your duties and responsibilities may change over time at the Company’s discretion, depending on the Company’s needs.

Your salary will be $170,000 per annum. You will be paid in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices as established or modified from time to time. All forms of compensation referred to in this offer letter are subject to reduction to reflect applicable withholding and payroll taxes and other deductions required by law.

You will be eligible to participate in the benefits program subject to the same terms, conditions and limitations applicable to other employees of the Company of similar rank and tenure.

The first 120 days of your employment are considered an Introductory Period. Either before or shortly after the expiration of the Introductory Period, the Company will evaluate your performance and determine whether to continue your employment. Both before and after the Introductory Period, your employment with the Company will be “at-will,” meaning that either you or the Company may terminate your employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without cause, and with or without prior notice. Similarly, the terms and conditions of your employment may be modified by the Company is its sole discretion.

Similarly, we respect the confidentiality and trade secrets of other companies, and prohibit you from using such information for our benefit. Our understanding is that you have not entered into any confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation or other agreements with previous employers or others that would in any way restrict your ability to be employed by the Company, and that your accepting employment with the Company does not breach any agreement entered into by you. If you have signed any such agreements, you are required to provide us with copies prior to your start date.

Please note that your initial or continued employment with the Company may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the results of a background check report, which may include but not be limited to a verification of your employment and education, criminal and credit history, DMV records, and other public records. You will be expected to sign any authorizations that the Company may require to allow the Company to obtain such report.


Moreover, as a condition of commencing employment, you will be required to provide, for purposes of completing the I-9 form, sufficient documentation to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the United States.

This letter sets forth the final terms of our offer of employment to you, and replaces any prior oral or written statements that may have been made to you regarding your employment relationship with us.

Please contact me within five business days to confirm your desire to accept employment. We truly look forward to working with you and building Project Decibel, Inc. into an outstanding company.

 

Sincerely,

/s/ Matthew Calabro

Matthew Calabro
Director of Finance and HR

 

2

Exhibit 10.31

February 24, 2015

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Alex Moulle-Berteaux

505 17th St

Brooklyn, NY 11215

amb@projectdecibel.com

Dear Alex Moulle-Berteaux:

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join Project Decibel, Inc. (the “Company”) as the Head of Products and Marketing with a start date of March 2, 2015 as a full-time employee. Your duties and responsibilities may change over time at the Company’s discretion, depending on the Company’s needs.

Your base salary will be $250,000 per annum. In addition to your base salary, you will be eligible for an annual bonus up to $50,000 based on Company and personal performance milestones, as defined by the Company. You will be paid in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices as established or modified from time to time. All forms of compensation referred to in this offer letter are subject to reduction to reflect applicable withholding and payroll taxes and other deductions required by law.

You will be eligible to participate in the benefits program subject to the same terms, conditions and limitations applicable to other employees of the Company of similar rank and tenure.

The first 120 days of your employment are considered an Introductory Period. Either before or shortly after the expiration of the Introductory Period, the Company will evaluate your performance and determine whether to continue your employment. Both before and after the Introductory Period, your employment with the Company will be “at-will,” meaning that either you or the Company may terminate your employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without cause, and with or without prior notice. Similarly, the terms and conditions of your employment may be modified by the Company is its sole discretion.

Similarly, we respect the confidentiality and trade secrets of other companies, and prohibit you from using such information for our benefit. Our understanding is that you have not entered into any confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation or other agreements with previous employers or others that would in any way restrict your ability to be employed by the Company, and that your accepting employment with the Company does not breach any agreement entered into by you. If you have signed any such agreements, you are required to provide us with copies prior to your start date.

Please note that your initial or continued employment with the Company may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to the results of a background check report, which may include but not be limited to a verification of your employment and education, criminal and credit history, DMV records, and other public records. You will be expected to sign any authorizations that the Company may require to allow the Company to obtain such report.


Moreover, as a condition of commencing employment, you will be required to provide, for purposes of completing the I-9 form, sufficient documentation to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the United States.

This letter sets forth the final terms of our offer of employment to you, and replaces any prior oral or written statements that may have been made to you regarding your employment relationship with us.

Please contact me within five business days to confirm your desire to accept employment. We truly look forward to working with you and building Project Decibel, Inc. into an outstanding company.

 

Sincerely,

/s/ Matthew Calabro

Matthew Calabro
Director of Finance and HR

 

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Exhibit 10.32

 

LOGO     

Starry, Inc.

38 Chauncy Street

Suite 200

Boston, MA 02111

September 3, 2020

Via Hand Delivery - Personal and Confidential

Gregg Bien

3688 Waples Court

Oakton, VA 22124

Dear Gregg,

As discussed, your employment with Starry, Inc. (“Starry” or the “Company”) shall terminate effective September 21, 2020. This letter (the “Agreement”) summarizes the terms of your separation from employment and establishes an amicable arrangement under which you release the Company from any and all claims, and, in return, you receive severance pay and other benefits.

1. Final Payments; Benefits Cessation:

(a) Final Payments: Your employment from the Company will terminate on September 21, 2020 (the “Separation Date”). As of the Separation Date, your salary will cease and you no longer will be entitled to the payment of base salary, bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation, except as set forth in this Agreement. On the Separation Date, the Company shall pay to you all earned but unpaid base salary up to and through the Separation Date. In addition, the Company will reimburse you for all pre-approved and appropriately documented business expenses in accordance with Company policy, provided that you submit all documentation of any such expenses within 10 days of the Separation Date and in accordance with applicable Company policy. You will receive these payments regardless of whether you execute this Agreement.

(b) Benefits Cessation: As of the Separation Date, any entitlement you have or might have under a Company-provided benefit plan, program or practice shall terminate, except as required by law, as otherwise described below, or unless such benefits already have terminated in accordance with the applicable plan terms and conditions. You will receive under separate cover benefit continuation information pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (“COBRA”), as amended.

(c) Equity: Any vested equity grants shall be governed by the applicable agreement between you and the Company and the Company’s Stock Plan.

2. Consideration: In exchange for, and in consideration of your executing and complying with this Agreement and any other agreement with Starry that survives the termination of your employment and conditioned upon your continued professionalism in transitioning your duties in a timely and satisfactory manner, the Company will provide you with the following after the Effective Date (as defined in Section 11 below):


Gregg Bien

September 2, 2020

Page  2

 

(a) Severance Payments: The Company will pay you a lump sum payment of $75,000.00, minus all applicable state and federal taxes and other withholdings. This payment will be made to you on the first regularly scheduled payday that is on or after 30 days following the Effective Date as defined in Section 12, below. Neither the Company nor you shall have the right to accelerate or defer the delivery of such payment or any benefits provided hereunder except to the extent specifically permitted or required by Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended.

(b) Payment of COBRA Premiums: Subject to the terms and conditions provided for in COBRA, and provided you have timely and properly elected COBRA coverage in accordance with the Company’s COBRA election procedures and if you properly execute this Agreement, the Company will pay full COBRA premium until December 31, 2020 or such earlier time as you (i) obtain alternate medical insurance or (ii) become ineligible for COBRA benefits. You will be responsible for your COBRA premiums after December 31, 2020.

(c) Acknowledgement of Consideration to Support Agreement: You expressly acknowledge and agree that the payments and benefits provided to you under this Section 2 are benefits to which you are not otherwise entitled to receive and are being given to you solely in exchange for your promise to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.

3. Taxes: All payments set forth in this Agreement shall be subject to all applicable federal, state and/or local withholding and/or payroll taxes, and the Company may withhold from any amounts payable to you (including any amounts payable pursuant to this Agreement) in order to comply with such obligations.

4. General Release of Claims; Accord and Satisfaction:

(a) General Release: You hereby agree that by signing this Agreement and accepting the payments to be provided to you, and other good and valuable consideration provided for in this Agreement, the receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you, for yourself and on behalf of your representatives, agents, estate, heirs, successors and assigns (“You”), hereby release and waive your right to assert any form of legal claim against the Released Parties (defined in Section 4(e) below) whatsoever for any alleged action, inaction or circumstance, whether existing or contingent, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, existing or arising from the beginning of time through the Effective Date.

What this general release covers: Your waiver and release herein is intended to bar any form of legal claim, cause of action, lawsuit, charge, complaint or any other form of action (jointly referred to as “Claims”) against the Company seeking any form of relief including, without limitation, equitable relief (whether declaratory, injunctive or otherwise), the recovery of any damages or any other form of monetary recovery whatsoever (including, without limitation, back pay, front pay, compensatory damages, emotional distress damages, punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and any other costs) against the Company, for any alleged action, inaction or circumstance existing or arising through the Effective Date.


Gregg Bien

September 2, 2020

Page  3

 

Without limiting the foregoing general waiver and release, You specifically waive and release the Company from any Claim arising from or related to your employment relationship with the Company or the termination thereof, including, without limitation:

(i) Claims under any federal, state or local statute, regulation or executive order (as amended through the Effective Date) relating to employment, discrimination (including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sex harassment, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, alienage, handicap, disability, present or past history of mental disorders or physical disability, veteran’s status, candidacy for or activity in a general assembly or other public office, or constitutionally protected acts of speech), fair employment practices, retaliation or other terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq.), the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.), the Equal Pay Act (29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.), the Americans With Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.), the Immigration Reform and Control Act (8 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq.), as well as the specific state statutes noted in Exhibit A;

(ii) Claims under any federal, state or local statute, regulation or executive order (as amended through the Effective Date) relating to leaves of absence, layoffs or reductions-in-force, wages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.), the Family and Medical Leave Act (29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. § 1000 et seq.), COBRA (29 U.S.C. § 1161 et seq.), the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), as well as the specific state statutes noted in Exhibit A;

(iii) Claims under any federal or state common law theory, including, without limitation, wrongful discharge, breach of express or implied contract, promissory estoppel, unjust enrichment, breach of a covenant of good faith and fair dealing, violation of public policy, defamation, interference with contractual relations, intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, misrepresentation, deceit, fraud, negligence, or any claim to attorneys’ fees under any applicable statute or common law theory of recovery;

(iv) Claims under any federal, state or local statute, regulation or executive order (as amended through the Effective Date) relating to whistleblower protections, violation of public policy, or any other form of retaliation or wrongful termination, including but not limited to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, any similar federal, state or local statute, as well as the specific state statutes noted in Exhibit A;

(v) Claims under any Company compensation, benefit, stock option, incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock, and/or equity plan, program, policy, practice or agreement; or


Gregg Bien

September 2, 2020

Page  4

 

(vi) Any other Claim arising under other federal, state or local law.

(b) Interpretation; Collective/Class Action Waiver: The foregoing release-of-claims provision set forth in Section 4(a) shall be given the broadest possible interpretation permitted by law. The enumeration of specific claims therein shall not be interpreted to exclude any other claims not specifically enumerated therein. With respect to any claim released under this Agreement or any claim is not subject to release, to the extent permitted by law, you waive any right or ability to be a class or collective representative or to otherwise participate in any putative or certified class, collective or multi-party action or proceeding based on such a claim in which Starry or any of the Release Parties is a party.

(c) Exclusions from General Release: You and the Company acknowledge and agree that this Release Agreement shall not affect the rights and responsibilities of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”), the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Department of Justice “DOJ”), the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) or any similar federal or state agency to enforce applicable laws, and further acknowledge and agree that this Release Agreement shall not be used to justify interfering with your protected right to file a charge, make disclosures or participate in an investigation or proceedings conducted by the EEOC, SEC, DOJ, NLRB or similar federal or state agency. Accordingly, nothing in this Release Agreement shall preclude you from filing a charge with, making a protected disclosure to or participating in any manner in an investigation, hearing or proceeding conducted by the EEOC, SEC, DOJ, NLRB or similar federal or state agency, but, to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, you hereby waive any and all rights to recover any damages under, or by virtue of, any such investigation, hearing or proceeding. Nothing in this Release Agreement shall affect or be used to interfere with your protected right to contest in any court, under the Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act, or like statute or regulation, the validity of the waiver of rights under the ADEA set forth in this Release Agreement. Any right or claim that cannot be waived as a matter of law and your right to enforce this Agreement also are excluded from the release of claims set forth in Section 4(a). As such, you are not releasing your right to enforce the terms of this Agreement, your rights under the Company’s 401(k) plan, your right to apply for unemployment compensation, and/or or your right to challenge the validity or enforceability of your waiver of ADEA rights pursuant to this Agreement.

(d) Accord and Satisfaction: The payments in Sections 1 and 2 shall be complete and unconditional payment, settlement, accord and/or satisfaction with respect to all obligations and liabilities of the Released Parties to You including, without limitation, all claims for back wages, salary, vacation pay, sick pay, notice pay, bonuses, commissions or other incentive compensation, severance pay, all other forms of compensation or benefits, attorney’s fees, or other costs or sums.

(e) Definition of Released Parties: As used in this Agreement, “Released Parties” shall mean: Starry; (ii) all of Starry’s past, present, and future subsidiaries, parents, affiliates and divisions; (iii) all of Starry’s successors and/or assigns; (iv) all of Starry’s past, present, and future officers, directors, managers, employees, shareholders, owners, attorneys, agents, insurers, employee benefit plans (including such plans’ administrators, trustees, fiduciaries, record-keepers, insurers and reinsurers), and legal representatives (all both individually, in their capacity acting on Starry’s behalf and in their official capacities); and (v) all persons acting by, through, under, or in concert with any of the entities or persons listed in subsections (i)-(iv).


Gregg Bien

September 2, 2020

Page  5

 

5. Waiver of Rights and Claims Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967: Because you are 40 years of age or older, you are being informed that you have or may have specific rights and/or claims related to age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) and you agree that:

(a) in consideration for the amounts described in Section 2 of this Agreement, which you are not otherwise entitled to receive, you specifically and voluntarily waive such rights and/or claims under the ADEA you might have against the Releasees to the extent such rights and/or claims arose prior to the date this Agreement was executed;

(b) you understand that rights or claims under the ADEA which may arise after the date this Agreement is executed are not waived by you;

(c) you are advised to consult with or seek advice from an attorney of your choice or any other person of your choosing prior to executing this Agreement, that you have at least 21 days within which to consider the terms of this Agreement, and that such 21-day review period will not be affected or extended by any revisions, whether material or immaterial, that might be made to this Agreement;

(d) in entering into this Agreement you are not relying on any representation, promise or inducement made by the Company or its attorneys with the exception of those promises described in this document; and

(e) you may revoke this Agreement for a period of seven (7) days following your execution hereof and all rights and obligations of both parties under this Agreement shall not become effective or enforceable until the seven (7) day revocation period has expired.

6. Covenant Not to Sue: A “covenant not to sue” is a legal term that means you promise not to file a lawsuit in court. It is different from the release of claims in Sections 4(a) and 5(a) above. Besides waiving and releasing the claims covered by Sections 4(a) and 5(a), you further agree never to sue the Released Parties in any forum based on the claims, laws or theories covered by the release language in Sections 4(a) and 5(a). You represent and warrant that you have not filed any complaints, charges, or claims for relief against the Released Parties with any local, state or federal court or administrative agency, with the sole exception of your right to pursue a state unemployment claim. Notwithstanding this Covenant Not To Sue, you may bring a claim to enforce the terms of this Agreement, to pursue state unemployment benefits, or to challenge the validity of the ADEA waiver described in Section 5. Except as set forth in Section 4(c) or as permitted pursuant to this Section 6, in the event that you institute any other action, that claim shall be dismissed upon the presentation of this Agreement and you shall reimburse the Company for all legal fees and expenses incurred in defending such claim and obtaining its dismissal. Notwithstanding the foregoing, should you bring an action to challenge the validity of the release and waiver of ADEA claims described in Section 5, the Company acknowledges that it will not be entitled to recover costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in defense of the validity of the release and waiver of ADEA claims.


Gregg Bien

September 2, 2020

Page  6

 

7. Company Files, Documents and Other Property: You agree to return to the Company within seven days of the Separation Date, all Company property and materials (copies and originals), including but not limited to, all hardware, personal computers, laptops, CDs/DVDs, intangible information stored on CDs/DVDs, software programs and data compiled with the use of those programs, software passwords or codes, tangible copies of trade secrets and confidential information, cellular phones, smart phones, charge/credit cards, identification cards, building keys and passes, manuals, names and addresses of all Company customers, partners, and potential customers and partners, customer lists, customer files, customer contracts, sales information, memoranda, sales brochures, business or marketing plans, reports, projections, and any and all other information or property previously or currently held or used by you that is or was related to your employment with the Company (“Property”). You agree that if you discover any other Property, including any proprietary materials, in your possession after the Separation Date, you immediately will notify the Company and arrange for their prompt return. In addition, you must delete and finally purge any duplicates of files or documents that may contain Company information from any non-Company computer or other device that remains in your possession after the Separation Date.

8. No Liability or Wrongdoing: You understand and agree that this Agreement constitutes a final compromise of the claims released thereby, and is not an admission by the Released Parties that any such claims exist and/or of liability by the Released Parties with respect to such claims. Nothing in this Agreement, nor any of the proceedings connected with it, is to be construed as, offered as, received as, or deemed to be evidence of an admission by the Released Parties of any liability or unlawful conduct whatsoever, and each of the Released Parties expressly deny any such liability or wrongdoing.

9. Future Conduct:

(a) Existing Agreements: You confirm the existence and continued validity of the Employee Confidentiality and IP Assignment Agreement, which you signed in connection with your employment with the Company (the “Nondisclosure Agreement”). You agree that your obligations under the Nondisclosure Agreement expressly survive the cessation of your employment. If you fail to abide by your obligations under the Nondisclosure Agreement, the Company immediately may terminate all severance benefits in Section 2, or seek repayment of such amounts, in addition to seeking all other legal and equitable relief. For your reference, a copy of your Nondisclosure Agreement is enclosed with this letter.

(b) Non-disparagement: You agree not to take any action or make any statement, written or oral, which disparages or criticizes the Released Parties, their officers, directors, investors or employees, the Released Parties’ business practices, or which disrupts or impairs their normal operations, including actions that would (i) harm the Released Parties’ reputation with their current and prospective clients, business partners, or the public; or (ii) interfere with existing contracts or employment relationships with current and prospective clients, business partners or Released Parties’ employees. The Company agrees not to, and agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to cause its directors and officers not to, take any action or make any statement, written or oral, which disparages or criticizes you, including actions that harm your reputation with prospective clients, employers, business partners or the public.


Gregg Bien

September 2, 2020

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(c) Confidentiality of this Agreement: You shall maintain confidentiality concerning this Agreement, including the substance, terms, existence and/or any discussions relating to this Agreement. Except as required pursuant to legal process, you will not discuss the same with anyone except your immediate family and accountants or attorneys when such disclosure is necessary for them to render professional services. Nothing herein shall prohibit or bar you from providing truthful testimony in any legal proceeding or in communicating with any governmental agency or representative or from making any truthful disclosure required, authorized or permitted under law; provided however, that in providing such testimony or making such disclosures or communications, you will use your best efforts to ensure that this Section is complied with to the maximum extent possible.

(d) Advance Notice: Should you be called to testify about the terms of this Agreement and/or the Company’s confidential, proprietary and/or trade secret information, you agree to join the Company in seeking a confidentiality or protective order in the form sought by the Company. You agree to give reasonable notice to the Company of any and all attempts by third parties to compel disclosure of any confidential information (as referred to in your Nondisclosure Agreement), or the terms of this Agreement, or to require you to testify in any matter concerning the Company, this Agreement and/or the Released Parties. Please direct such notice to the Company’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, William Lundregan. You shall provide such reasonable notice in writing at least ten business days before compliance with any subpoena or order, but if the subpoena or order requires compliance within less than ten business days, you shall provide such written notice, or if impractical, shall provide telephonic notice, within five business days after receiving notice that an attempt will be or has been made to compel your testimony or your disclosure of the Company’s confidential, proprietary and/or trade secret information.

(e) Required Disclosure: You are hereby notified in accordance with the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 that you will not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or that is made in a complaint or other document that is filed under seal in a lawsuit or other proceeding. If you file a lawsuit for retaliation against the Company for reporting a suspected violation of law, you may disclose the Company’s trade secrets to your attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding if you file any document containing the trade secret under seal, and do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

(f) Breach; Remedies: If you breach this Agreement or the Nondisclosure Agreement, you agree that (i) the Company shall be relieved of its obligations to make the payments under Section 2, (ii) if such payment or payments already have been made, you agree to repay them to the Company, and (iii) the Company shall be entitled to recover its attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in enforcing its rights under this Agreement, to the extent such recovery is not prohibited by law. Such an action by the Company shall not affect the release provisions herein. This remedy shall be, in addition to, and not as an alternative to, any other remedies at law or in equity available to the Company.


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10. Representations and Governing Law:

(a) Integration: This Agreement sets forth the complete and sole agreement between the parties and supersedes any and all other agreements or understandings, whether oral or written, express or implied, except for the Nondisclosure Agreement and any written equity-related agreement, which remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms. This Agreement may not be changed or rescinded except upon the express written consent of both you and an authorized Company officer. Any waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of any other provision of this Agreement unless expressly so indicated otherwise. The language of all parts of this Agreement shall in all cases be construed as a whole according to its fair meaning and not strictly for or against any of the parties.

(b) Governing Law and Choice of Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial: This Agreement shall be deemed to be made and entered into in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This Agreement and any claims arising out of this Agreement (or any other claims arising out of the relationship between the parties) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and shall in all respects be interpreted, enforced and governed under the internal and domestic laws, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws of such Commonwealth. Any claims or legal actions by one party against the other shall be commenced and maintained in any state or federal court located in such Commonwealth, and you hereby submit to the jurisdiction and venue of any such court. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(c) Severability: If any provision of this Agreement, or part thereof, is held invalid, void or voidable as against public policy or otherwise, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions, or parts thereof, which may be given effect without the invalid provision or part. To this extent, the provisions, and parts thereof, of this Agreement are declared to be severable.

(d) Assignment: You shall not assign this Agreement. The Company may assign this Agreement. The benefits of this Agreement shall inure to the successors and assigns of the Company and the Released Parties and to your successors.

(e) Acknowledgment of Company’s Compliance with Applicable Law: You represent that:

(i) you have not been subject to any retaliation or any other form of adverse action by the Released Parties for any action taken by you as an employee or resulting from your exercise of, or attempt to exercise, any statutory rights recognized under federal, state or local law;


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(ii) the Released Parties have satisfied in full all obligations they ever had regarding leaves of absence and other time off of any kind (including, but not limited to, short-term disability leave, family medical leave, military leave, vacations, meal and rest periods, sick and personal days, and personal leave), and you have not suffered any adverse employment action as a result of seeking or taking any such leave of absence or time off; and

(iii) you have no known workplace injuries or occupational diseases, have not sustained any disabling injury and/or occupational disease that have resulted in a loss of wage earning capacity during your employment, and have no personal injury and/or occupational disease that has been contributed to, or aggravated or accelerated in a significant manner by, your employment or separation from employment.

11. Review Period; Effective Date: As set forth in Section 5, you will have the opportunity to review and consider this Agreement for up to twenty-one (21) days before signing it. In addition, you have the right to revoke your execution of this Agreement at any time during the seven (7) days immediately following the date on which you sign it. For such a revocation to be effective, it must be delivered so that the undersigned person receives it in-hand or via fax at the number below at or before the expiration of the seven (7) day revocation period. This Agreement shall become effective on the first day following the expiration of the seven (7) day revocation period (the “Effective Date”). Because this Agreement includes a waiver and release of your rights, the Company advises you to consult with an attorney prior to executing it.

If you wish to accept this Agreement, please sign and date the Agreement below and return it to my attention by E-Mail at ck@starry.com. Also, please forward the original, signed document to my attention at Starry, Inc., 38 Chauncy Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02111 within the time period described above. If you do not return a signed Agreement prior to the expiration of the 21-day review period, i.e., on or before September 24, 2020, then this offer of severance shall expire.

We wish you every success for the future.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Starry, Inc.
Chaitanya Kanojia
President
Enclosures


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PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY

YOUR EMPLOYMENT BY THE COMPANY WILL BE TERMINATING. SUCH TERMINATION WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OR FAILURE TO ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE PAYMENTS AND BENEFITS AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 2.

THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A RELEASE OF CERTAIN LEGAL RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE. YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONSULT WITH AN ATTORNEY REGARDING THIS AGREEMENT BEFORE SIGNING IT.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RELEASE AND WAIVER OF CLAIMS IN SECTIONS 4 AND 5 DO NOT EXTEND TO RIGHTS OR CLAIMS THAT ARISE AFTER THE DATE THE WAIVER IS EXECUTED.

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YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE READ THE FOREGOING AGREEMENT, FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND ARE VOLUNTARILY EXECUTING THE SAME.

IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, YOU DO NOT RELY ON ANY REPRESENTATION, PROMISE OR INDUCEMENT MADE BY THE RELEASED PARTIES WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CONSIDERATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.

 

ACCEPTED:    

/s/ Gregg Bien

    Date: September 3, 2020
Gregg Bien    

I agree and certify that this digital signature is an authorized and legally binding signature as though it was signed under seal.


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As referenced in Section 4, the General Release of Claims broadly applies to all state statutes generally relating to the claims identified and/or referenced in Section 4, which includes (without limitation) the following state statutes:

Massachusetts: any Massachusetts state or local laws, administrative rules or regulations respecting employment, including but not limited to, the Massachusetts Wage Payment Act (M.G.L. c. 149, § 148), the Massachusetts Minimum Fair Wages Act (M.G.L. c. 151 § 1 et. seq.), the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act (M.G.L. c. 151B), the Massachusetts Parental Leave Act (M.G.L. c. 149, § 105D), the Massachusetts Small Necessities Leave Act (M.G.L. c. 149, § 52D), the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law (M.G.L. c. 149, § 148C), the Massachusetts Domestic Violence Leave Act (M.G.L. c. 149, § 59E), the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act (M.G.L. c. 12, § 11H et seq.), the Massachusetts Equal Rights Act (M.G.L. c. 93, § 102 et seq.), the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act (M.G.L. c. 149, § 105A et seq.), the Massachusetts Law Against Sexual Harassment (M.G.L. c. 214, § 1C et seq.), and the Massachusetts Law Against Retaliation (M.G.L. c. 19C, § 11. et seq.), all as amended.

Virginia: any Virginia state or local laws, administrative rules or regulations respecting employment, including but not limited to, the Virginia Payment of Wage Law (VA Code Ann., § 40.1-29, et seq.), Virginia Minimum Wage Act (VA Code Ann., §§ 40.1-28.8 - 40.1-28.12), Virginia Right-to-Work Law (VA Code Ann., § 40.1-58 - 40.1-69), Virginia Prevention of Employment Law (VA Code Ann., § 40.1-27), Virginia Equal Pay Law (VA Code Ann., § 40.1-28.6); Virginia Human Rights Act (VA Code Ann., § 2.2-3900, et seq.) and the Virginians with Disabilities Act (VA Code Ann. § 51.5-41, et seq.), all as amended.

Please note that General Release of Claims specifically includes a waiver and release of Claims that you have or may have regarding payments or amounts covered by the Massachusetts Wage Act, Massachusetts Minimum Fair Wages Act, and all other applicable state minimum wage and wage payment laws (including, for instance, hourly wages, salary, overtime, minimum wages, commissions, vacation pay, holiday pay, sick leave pay, dismissal pay, bonus pay or severance pay), as well as Claims for retaliation under these Acts.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This list is not intended to an exhaustive list of all states covered by the General Release and/or all statutes in the above referenced states, to which the General Release applies.

Exhibit 14.1

Starry Code of Conduct and Ethics

 

Table of Contents:

  

Starry Code of Conduct and Ethics

     2  

Introduction

     2  

Who this Code of Conduct and Ethics Applies To

     2  

Employee Responsibilities

     2  

Starry’s Responsibilities

     3  

No Retaliation

     3  

Respect Each Other

     3  

We Promote Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Employment Opportunity

     3  

We Do Not Tolerate Harassment or Discrimination

     3  

We Prioritize Employee Health and Safety

     4  

We are Responsible with Alcohol and Drugs

     4  

We Take Violence Prevention Seriously

     5  

We Act Responsibly on Social Media

     5  

Be Personally Accountable

     5  

We Identify and Avoid Conflicts of Interest

     5  

Outside Employment, Advisory Roles, Board Seats, and Starting Your Own Business

     5  

Business Opportunities Found Through Work

     5  

Personal Investments

     5  

Loans or Other Financial Transactions

     6  

Significant Personal Relationships

     6  

Improper Personal Benefits and Gifts

     6  

We Disclose Potential Conflicts of Interest

     7  

Comply with the Law

     7  

We Do Not Engage in Insider Trading

     7  

We Act Appropriately When Interacting with the Government

     7  

We Never Engage in Bribery or Other Forms of Corruption

     7  

We Regulate Starry’s Political Contributions

     8  

We Comply with Antitrust Laws

     8  

We Comply with International Trade Laws

     9  

We Maintain Accurate and Reliable Business Records

     9  

We Make Accurate Disclosures

     9  

Preserve Confidentiality

     10  

We Protect Starry’s Confidential Information

     10  

We Respect our Partners’ Confidential Information and Intellectual Property

     10  

We Engage in Fair Competition

     11  

Speaking to the Press or Public

     11  

Protect Starry Property

     11  

We Only Use Starry Property for Starry’s Benefit

     11  

We Understand the Importance of Physical and Information Security

     11  

We Respect and Protect Privacy and Personal Information

     12  

Waivers

     12  

Final Note

     12  

 

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Starry Code of Conduct and Ethics

Introduction

This Starry Code of Conduct and Ethics is built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Starry will be, and should be, consistent with the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct.

Who this Code of Conduct and Ethics Applies To

This Code of Conduct and Ethics applies to all employees, officers, and directors of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries. In addition to this Code of Conduct and Ethics, we also have policies and guidelines that outline our responsibilities to each other. In several places, this Code of Conduct and Ethics refers to those specific policies. Everything we do is a reflection of Starry. The best way to safeguard our reputation and preserve our culture is to hold ourselves accountable.

Employee Responsibilities

We expect all employees to:

 

   

Comply with this Code of Conduct and Ethics. Every Starry employee is expected to understand and comply with the requirements described in this Code of Conduct and Ethics. We also expect you to be aware of and comply with the laws and regulations that apply to your area of responsibility. If you don’t understand a particular law or regulation or if you are not sure it applies to you, ask the Legal team for help. Consequences of violating this Code of Conduct and Ethics or another Starry policy will depend on the gravity of the violation and can result in discipline up to and including termination.

 

   

Use good judgment and ask questions. Before you make a work-related decision or take action, think about Starry’s Core Values and this Code of Conduct and Ethics. Ask yourself the following questions. If the answer to any of the questions below is “No” or “I don’t know,” your decision or action is probably inappropriate:

 

   

Is this action legal and ethical?

 

   

Is this action aligned with both the spirit and the letter of the Code of Conduct and Ethics?

 

   

Is this action aligned with Starry’s Core Values?

 

   

Will this action seem appropriate to others?

 

   

Would your coworkers be embarrassed or compromised if this action were to become known within Starry or publicly?

 

   

Speak up and report concerns. If you see or hear of any violation of this Code of Conduct and Ethics, another Starry policy, or any legal or regulatory requirements, you must notify your manager, the People team, or the Legal team. If you feel uncomfortable about a situation or have any doubts about whether conduct is consistent with this Code of Conduct and Ethics, we encourage you to speak to your manager, the People team, or the Legal team. You may reach out directly to any contact on either the People team or Legal team or use one of the following email addresses:

 

   

People team: ethics.peopleteam@starry.com

 

   

Legal team: ethics.legalteam@starry.com

Alternatively, employees can anonymously report their concerns via Integrity Counts (our ethics compliance hotline) as follows:

 

   

Toll free reporting hotline: 1-866-921-6714

 

   

Email: starry@integritycounts.ca

 

   

Web: https://www.integritycounts.ca/org/starry

 

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You are also required to fully cooperate in any Starry investigation, and keep any information shared with you confidential to safeguard the integrity of the investigation.

Starry’s Responsibilities

Starry will thoroughly, promptly, and impartially examine and address employee questions, concerns and reports of violations of this Code of Conduct and Ethics. We will take appropriate steps to maintain confidentiality to the greatest extent possible, though we cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality or anonymity. Employees are required to cooperate with investigations conducted by Starry by providing truthful and complete responses to investigators.

If you are accused of violating this Code of Conduct and Ethics, you will be given an opportunity to present your version of the events at issue prior to any determination of appropriate discipline. When claims are substantiated in whole or in part, we will take appropriate action, from training and coaching, to warnings, to employment termination or termination of any other business relationship. For a director, that may include a request that such director resign from the Board of Directors of Starry.

No Retaliation

It is a violation of this Code of Conduct and Ethics to retaliate against anyone because they reported a concern, they helped someone else report a concern, they participated in an investigation, they exercised a legal right or they acted according to a Starry policy. If you suspect retaliation or have any questions about retaliation, please let us know. Reach out to any manager, the People team, or the Legal team to report retaliation.

Respect Each Other

We Promote Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Employment Opportunity

We believe in and pursue equal opportunity employment practices in every aspect of our business. This means we give every applicant and employee equal opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, age (40 and above), qualified mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic carrier status, any veteran status, any military service, any application for any military service, or any other category or class protected by federal, state, or local laws.

We make employment-related decisions only on the basis of individual ability, performance, experience, and business requirements. Our employees should be free from discrimination in all aspects of the employment relationship — from recruitment and hiring, compensation, performance evaluations, project assignments, training opportunities, promotions, to the end of employment.

We Do Not Tolerate Harassment or Discrimination

We have a fundamental commitment to treating our employees with dignity and respect and will not tolerate harassment, discrimination, or inappropriate conduct of any kind. The support of equal employment opportunity includes the recognition that harassment of or discrimination towards employees on account of race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age (40 and above), qualified mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic carrier status, any veteran status, any military service, any application for military service, or membership in any other category or class protected under the law will not be tolerated.

Harassment may include, but is not limited to, offensive sexual flirtations, unwanted sexual advances or propositions, verbal abuse, sexually or racially degrading words, or the display in the workplace of sexually suggestive or racially degrading objects or pictures. All employees have the right to be free from slurs or any other verbal or physical conduct that constitutes such harassment.

 

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If you have any complaints about discrimination or harassment, report such conduct to your manager, the People team, or the Legal team. Alternatively, employees can anonymously report their concerns via Integrity Counts (our ethics compliance hotline) as follows:

 

   

Toll free reporting hotline: 1-866-921-6714

 

   

Email: starry@integritycounts.ca

 

   

Web: https://www.integritycounts.ca/org/starry

Any member of management who has reason to believe that an employee has been the victim of harassment or discrimination or who receives a report of alleged harassment or discrimination is required to report it to the People team or Legal team immediately.

All complaints will be treated with sensitivity and discretion. We will take appropriate steps to maintain confidentiality to the greatest extent possible, consistent with law and Starry’s need to investigate your concern, though we cannot guarantee absolute confidentiality or anonymity. Where our investigation uncovers harassment or discrimination, we will take prompt corrective action, which may include disciplinary action, up to and including, termination of employment. Starry strictly prohibits retaliation against an employee who, in good faith, files a complaint.

Please see Starry’s Freedom from Harassment Policy and Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy in our Employee Guide for further details regarding harassment and discrimination and Starry’s process for handling reports of such conduct.

We Prioritize Employee Health and Safety

Providing a safe and healthy working environment for our employees is a key consideration in every phase of our operations. Starry is committed to providing the tools, training, and resources necessary to manage, control, or eliminate all safety and health hazards for our employees. As part of our commitment to safety, Starry has also established written Health and Safety programs encompassing the following areas (collectively, the “Health and Safety Programs”). Starry employees must comply with all applicable environmental, health and safety laws, regulations, and Starry’s Health and Safety Programs.

If you have a concern about unsafe conditions or tasks that present a risk of injury to you, please report these concerns immediately to your manager, our Director of Employee Health and Safety, the People team, or the Legal team.

We are Responsible with Alcohol and Drugs

It is never acceptable to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol on Starry premises or while working such that your ability to safely and effectively perform your job or behave appropriately would be impaired. This prohibition applies to substances including certain legal and illegal drugs, inhalants and prescription or over-the-counter medications, whether prescribed for you or not. Likewise, you are prohibited from reporting for work, or driving a Starry vehicle or any vehicle on Starry business, while under the influence of alcohol or any illegal drug or controlled substance. No one is allowed to possess, sell, purchase or distribute illegal drugs on our premises or while conducting Starry business (including at any Starry- sponsored event or in Starry-provided transportation).

Drinking alcoholic beverages is prohibited while on duty or on the premises of Starry, except at specified Starry-sanctioned events or as otherwise authorized by management. Employees must be of a legal drinking age, behave responsibly, and follow office policies with respect to drinking alcohol at Starry offices and at Starry-sponsored events. It is never okay to offer a drink to anyone (guest, intern, or otherwise) who is not old enough to legally drink alcohol — whether in Starry offices or at Starry events. Whenever two or more co-workers gather, we expect you to treat it like a work setting, even after-hours or off-site. Work settings are not for excessive consumption of alcohol and we expect you to know your limits and treat each other with respect.

 

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We also expect employees to act professionally when hosting events with alcohol in a work setting. For instance, employees hosting work events should serve food, offer non-alcoholic beverages, and respect their colleagues’ decisions (like when they say they’ve had enough to drink). Please see the “Alcohol and Drugs” section of the Starry Employee Guide for additional information.

We Take Violence Prevention Seriously

The safety and security of Starry employees is vitally important. Starry will not tolerate violence or threats of violence in, or related to, the workplace. If you experience, witness, or otherwise become aware of a violent or potentially violent situation that occurs on Starry’s property or affects Starry’s business you must immediately report the situation to your manager, the People team, or the Legal team.

Starry does not permit any individual to have weapons of any kind on Starry property, in any Starry vehicle, in any personal vehicle being used in connection with your job, or off-site while on Starry business. This is true even if you have obtained legal permits to carry weapons. The only exception to this policy applies to security personnel who are specifically authorized by Starry to carry weapons.

We Act Responsibly on Social Media

Starry employees are accountable for what they do and say on social media and are encouraged to conduct themselves in a responsible, respectful, and honest manner at all times. The Starry Employee Guide contains Social Media Guidelines and is a resource for employees. Read it carefully and ensure you act consistent with it when engaging on social media.

Be Personally Accountable

We Identify and Avoid Conflicts of Interest

Employees, officers, and directors must act in the best interests of Starry. When you are in a situation in which competing loyalties could cause you to pursue a personal benefit for you, your friends, or your family at the expense of Starry or our subscribers, you may be faced with a conflict of interest. All of us should avoid conflicts of interest and circumstances that reasonably present the appearance of a conflict.

Identifying potential conflicts of interest may not always be clear-cut. If you are unsure about a potential conflict, talk to your manager, the People team, or the Legal team. Below, we provide guidance in six areas where conflicts of interest often arise:

Outside Employment, Advisory Roles, Board Seats, and Starting Your Own Business

Avoid accepting employment, advisory positions, or board seats with Starry competitors or business partners when your judgment could be, or could appear to be, influenced in a way that could harm Starry. Additionally, because board seats come with fiduciary obligations that can make them particularly tricky from a conflict of interest perspective, you should notify your manager before accepting a board seat with any outside company. Starry board members and employees who are Vice President and above should also notify the Legal team. Finally, do not start your own business if it will compete with Starry.

Business Opportunities Found Through Work

You have an obligation to advance Starry’s interests when the opportunity to do so arises. Business opportunities discovered or presented through your work at Starry belong first to Starry, unless otherwise agreed to by Starry. No employee or director may use corporate property, information, or their position with Starry for personal gain while employed by Starry or serving on our Board of Directors

Personal Investments

You should avoid investing in companies that are Starry competitors or business partners when the investment presents a conflict of interest or reasonably presents the appearance of a conflict. When determining whether a personal investment creates a conflict of interest, consider if you are in a position to influence transactions between Starry and a business in which you have invested. If a real or apparent conflict

 

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arises, disclose the conflict to your manager, the People team or the Legal team. The Legal team will help determine whether a conflict exists and, if appropriate, the best approach to eliminate the conflict. Investments in venture capital or other similar funds that invest in a broad cross-section of companies that may include Starry competitors or business partners generally do not create conflicts of interest. However, a conflict of interest may exist if you control the fund’s investment activity.

Loans or Other Financial Transactions

You should avoid obtaining loans or guarantees of personal obligations from, or entering into any other personal financial transaction with, any company that you know or suspect is a material customer, supplier, or competitor of Starry. This guideline does not prohibit arms-length transactions with banks, brokerage firms, or other financial institutions.

Significant Personal Relationships

Personal relationships in the workplace can present a real or perceived conflict of interest when one individual in the relationship makes or influences employment decisions regarding the other, including performance or compensation. Significant personal relationships include, but are not limited to, spouses, domestic partners, family members, dating or physical relationships, close friends, and business relationships outside of Starry. Do not conduct Starry business with family members or others with whom you have a significant personal relationship. Do not use your position at Starry to obtain favored treatment for yourself, family members, or others with whom you have a personal relationship. This applies to product purchases or sales, investment opportunities, hiring, promoting, selecting contractors or suppliers, and any other business matter. If you believe that you have a potential conflict involving a family member or other individual, disclose it to your manager, the People team, or the Legal team to review and work through any potential conflicts. You should not allow any relationship to disrupt the workplace or interfere with your work or judgment.

Improper Personal Benefits and Gifts

Gifts and entertainment should not compromise, or appear to compromise, your ability to make objective and fair business decisions on behalf of Starry. As a general rule, you may give or receive gifts or entertainment to or from partners, customers, or suppliers only if the gift or entertainment is reasonable in value, justified, proportionate, intended to further legitimate business goals, in compliance with applicable law, and provided the gift or entertainment would not be viewed as an inducement to or reward for any particular business decision. In any event, gifts must be less than $250 in value per gift and less than $1,000 per calendar year from or to any single third party or its affiliates or partners.

Giving or receiving gifts of cash and cash equivalents (such as gift cards or vouchers) to and/or from any third party with whom Starry does business are prohibited. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the giving of cash equivalents (such as gift cards and vouchers) are permitted as part of a formal Starry sales and marketing policy and the amount of such cash equivalents is tracked pursuant to Starry’s applicable financial reporting policies. All gifts and entertainment expenses should be properly accounted for on expense reports. If you have any questions about whether it is permissible to give or receive a gift or something else of value, contact your manager or the Legal team for guidance.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary above, gifts and entertainment may not be offered or exchanged under any circumstances to or with any employees of the U.S. government, any state or local government, any foreign government, or any agencies of any domestic or foreign government body. The giving and receiving of gifts is also subject to a variety of laws and regulations, including laws covering the marketing of products, bribery, and kickbacks. If you conduct business in a foreign country on behalf of Starry, you must be particularly careful that gifts and entertainment are not construed as bribes, kickbacks, or other improper payments. You are expected to understand and comply with all laws, rules, and regulations that apply to your job position. See the “We Never Engage in Bribery or Other Forms of Corruption” and “We Act Appropriately When Interacting with the Government” portions of this Code of Conduct and Ethics for more details. Please also refer to Starry’s Anti-bribery and Corruption Policy in Starry’s Employee Guide for additional information. This section of the Code of Conduct and Ethics will be interpreted in a manner that is consistent with such policy.

 

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We Disclose Potential Conflicts of Interest

Starry requires that employees and directors disclose any situation that reasonably would be expected to give rise to a conflict of interest. If you suspect that you have a situation that could give rise to a conflict of interest, or something that others could reasonably perceive as a conflict of interest, you must report it in writing to your supervisor or the Chief Legal Officer, or if you are a director or executive officer, to the Board of Directors. Starry’s Chief Legal Officer or the Board of Directors, as applicable, will work with you to determine whether you have a conflict of interest and, if so, how best to address it. All transactions that could give rise to a conflict of interest involving a director, executive officer or principal financial officer must be approved by the Board of Directors, and any such approval will not be considered a waiver of this Code of Conduct and Ethics.

Comply with the Law

Starry takes its responsibilities to comply with laws and regulations very seriously and all employees are expected to comply with applicable legal requirements and prohibitions. While it’s impossible for anyone to know all aspects of every applicable law, you should understand the major laws and regulations that apply to your work. Reach out to the Legal team if you have questions, but a few specific laws are easy to violate unintentionally and so are worth pointing out here:

We Do Not Engage in Insider Trading

Federal securities laws prohibit “insider trading.” Insider trading occurs when a person purchases or sells a security while in possession of material nonpublic information. Information is material if it would likely be considered important by an investor who is deciding whether to buy or sell a security, or if the information is likely to have a significant effect on the market price of the security. Both positive and negative information may be considered material.

Never buy or sell Starry securities, including Starry stock, if you are aware of information that has not been publicly announced and that could have a material effect on the value of the securities. It is illegal and against Starry policy to give anyone, including friends and family, tips on when to buy or sell securities when aware of material nonpublic information concerning that security.

As part of your work for Starry, you may receive information that has not been publicly announced and that could have a material effect on the value of publicly listed securities of one of our suppliers, manufacturers, vendors, or other partners. As a result, you may not buy or sell securities of any other company that Starry conducts business with when that information is obtained during the course of your employment with Starry. .

Please review our Insider Trading Policy for more information.

We Act Appropriately When Interacting with the Government

Starry may conduct business with the U.S. government, any state or local government, any foreign government, or any agency of any domestic or foreign government body. Starry is committed to conducting its business with all governments and government agencies with the highest standards of business ethics and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. If your job includes interacting with any government agency – including preparation, research, and other background activities that are done in support of lobbying communication – you are expected to understand and comply with the special laws, rules, and regulations that apply. If any doubt exists about whether a course of action is lawful, you should talk to your manager or the Legal team.

We Never Engage in Bribery or Other Forms of Corruption

Like all businesses, Starry is subject to laws, both U.S. and non-U.S., that prohibit bribery in virtually every kind of commercial setting.

A bribe is offering or giving anything of value, including cash, cash equivalents such as gift cards, gifts, meals, travel, and entertainment, to any person for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, or securing an improper advantage. Kickbacks are a type of bribery, and occur when a person is offered money or something of value in exchange for providing something, such as information, a discount, or a favor, to a third party.

 

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The rule for us at Starry is simple – don’t bribe anybody, anytime, for any reason and don’t accept bribes, kickbacks, or other improper inducements.

You need to know that offering gifts, entertainment, or other business courtesies that could be perceived as bribes becomes especially problematic if you’re dealing with a government official, which includes: any government employee; candidate for public office; or employee of government-owned or -controlled companies, public international organizations, or political parties. Several laws around the world, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act, specifically prohibit offering or giving anything of value to government officials to influence official action or to secure an improper advantage. This not only includes traditional gifts, but also things like meals, travel, political or charitable contributions, and job offers for government officials’ relatives. Never give gifts to thank government officials for doing their jobs.

By contrast, it can be permissible to make infrequent and moderate expenditures for gifts and business entertainment for government officials that are directly tied to promoting our products or services (e.g., providing a modest meal at a day-long demonstration of Starry products). Payment of such expenses can be acceptable (assuming they are permitted under local law) but may require pre-approval from the Legal team.

In sum, before offering any gifts or business courtesies to a U.S. or other government official, you should consult Starry’s Anti-Corruption and Bribery Policy in the Employee Guide. Carefully follow the limits and prohibitions described there, and obtain any required pre-approvals. If after consulting the Policy you aren’t sure what to do, ask the Legal team.

We Regulate Starry’s Political Contributions

Starry’s policy is that it does not make political contributions to individual candidates or political parties. Any corporate political contributions, whether monetary or in-kind (including lending or donating equipment or technical services), must be approved in advance by Starry’s Chief Legal Office to ensure compliance with all applicable laws. It is also illegal for Starry to reimburse an employee for a political contribution.

You are free to personally participate in political activities, including running for and serving in public positions, and supporting candidates and causes, as long as you comply with the points below:

 

   

Do not represent or give the impression that you are representing Starry during any political activities or in campaign materials.

 

   

Do not make public comments that could be misconstrued as being made on behalf of Starry, or give the impression that Starry is endorsing any particular legislation, position, or issue.

 

   

Do not use Starry work time, equipment, or resources for political or campaign activities.

 

   

If holding a public office, you may need to recuse yourself from any matters involving Starry.

Please contact Starry’s Chief Legal Officer if you have any questions about this policy.

We Comply with Antitrust Laws

Antitrust laws of the United States and other countries are designed to protect consumers and competitors against unfair business practices and to promote and preserve competition. Our policy is to compete vigorously and ethically while complying with all antitrust, monopoly, competition, or cartel laws where we conduct business.

Certain conduct is absolutely prohibited under these laws, and could result in your imprisonment, not to mention severe penalties for Starry. Examples of prohibited conduct include:

 

   

agreeing with competitors about prices

 

   

agreeing with competitors to rig bids or to allocate customers or markets

 

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agreeing with competitors to boycott a supplier or customer

Other activities can also be illegal, unfair, or create the appearance of impropriety. Such activities include:

 

   

sharing competitively sensitive information (e.g., prices, costs, market distribution, etc.) with competitors

 

   

entering into a business arrangement or pursuing a strategy with the sole purpose of harming a competitor

 

   

using Starry’s size or strength to gain an unfair competitive advantage

Although the spirit of these laws is straightforward, their application to particular situations can be quite complex, so please contact the Legal team if you have any questions about the antitrust laws and how they apply to you.

We Comply with International Trade Laws

U.S. and international trade laws control where Starry can send or receive its equipment, products, and/or services. These laws are complex and apply to:

 

   

imports and exports from or into the U.S.

 

   

imports and exports of equipment and products (including software) from or into other countries, with additional concerns when equipment or products contain components or technology of U.S. origin

 

   

exports of services or providing services to non-U.S. persons

 

   

exports of technical data, especially when the technical data is of U.S. origin

What constitutes an “import” or “export” under the law is pretty broad. The scope of these trade laws may also vary from country to country. In addition, Starry must comply with counter-terrorism requirements when engaging in international trade.

The bottom line: If you are in any way involved in sending or making available Starry products, services, software, equipment, or any form of technical data from one country to another, work with your manager to be absolutely sure that the transaction stays well within the bounds of applicable laws. If you or your manager are not sure, please contact the Legal team for guidance.

We Maintain Accurate and Reliable Business Records

Accurate and reliable records are crucial to our business. We follow legal and business rules that relate to written and electronic business records. We maintain accurate books and records and do not tolerate any employee fabricating books and records. We ensure that business records are stored in approved formats, systems, or locations and maintained in the ordinary course of our business. Additionally, no one may destroy or discard documents and information relevant to a lawsuit or legal action (in other words, subject to a “Legal Hold”). Contact the Legal team if you have questions about documents or information subject to a Legal Hold.

We Make Accurate Disclosures

We take actions necessary to ensure full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable disclosure in our reports and documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other public communications. Starry’s principal financial officers and other employees working in the finance department or those working with data or systems affecting financial reporting have a special responsibility to ensure that all of our financial disclosures are full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable. These employees must understand and strictly comply with generally accepted accounting principles and all standards, laws and regulations for accounting and financial reporting of transactions, estimates, and forecasts.

 

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Preserve Confidentiality

We Protect Starry’s Confidential Information

For our business to keep thriving, we must protect our intellectual property and confidential information. Confidential information includes all non-public information that might be of use to competitors, or, if disclosed, harmful to Starry or its collaborators, customers or suppliers. All employees should take all steps and precautions necessary to restrict access to and secure intellectual property or confidential information, including by:

 

   

Maintaining the confidentiality of Starry-related transactions

 

   

Conducting our business and social activities so as not to risk inadvertent disclosure of confidential information (e.g., review of confidential documents should not be conducted in public places unless appropriate precautions are taken to prevent access by unauthorized persons)

 

   

Restricting access to confidential and sensitive documents and files (including computer files), such as those containing material, non-public information, to individuals on a need-to-know basis (including maintaining control over the distribution of documents and drafts of documents)

 

   

Restricting access to areas, including offices, likely to contain confidential documents or material, non-public information

 

   

Promptly removing and cleaning up all confidential documents and materials from conference rooms following the conclusion of meetings

 

   

Disposing of confidential documents and other papers after there is no longer and business or other legally required need, through shredders when appropriate

 

   

Safeguarding laptops, mobile devices, tablets, and other items that contain confidential information, including by complying with Starry’s IT policies to prevent unauthorized access to devices and electronic information

 

   

Avoiding the discussion of material, non-public information in places where the information could be overheard by others, including in elevators, restrooms, hallways, restaurants, airplanes, and rideshares

Starry, not any one individual, owns the confidential information and intellectual property you help create during your employment. It is your responsibility to use it only for Starry’s benefit and not for any other purpose. Only share it with third parties if a non-disclosure agreement is in place. Unauthorized disclosure of confidential information is prohibited and could cause competitive harm to Starry or its collaborators, customers, or suppliers and could result in legal liability to you and Starry. An employee’s and director’s obligation to protect confidential information continues after they leave Starry. For more information on protecting confidential information and IP, please review the Employee Invention Assignment and Confidentiality Agreement you signed when you joined Starry.

We Respect our Partners’ Confidential Information and Intellectual Property

Partners, suppliers, and other third parties may disclose confidential information to Starry during the course of business. We are all responsible for protecting and maintaining the confidentiality of any information entrusted to us by our partners. Compromising that trust may damage relations with our partners and can also result in legal liability. You should also protect any intellectual property licensed from others with the same care used to protect Starry’s intellectual property. Any nonpublic information of our partners, licensors, suppliers and customers should be handled responsibly and in accordance with our agreements with them.

We have specific policies regarding the use of open source software at Starry. Consistent with our policy of respecting the valid intellectual property rights of others, we strictly comply with the license requirements under which open-source software is distributed. Failing to do so may lead to legal claims against Starry, as well as significant damage to Starry’s reputation and its standing in the open-source community. You should not incorporate any open source code into any Starry product, service, or internal project without first receiving permission. If you have any questions on Starry’s use and tracking of open source software, please refer to Starry’s Open Source Software policy or seek guidance from the Legal team.

 

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We Engage in Fair Competition

Fair competition and innovation are at the core of Starry’s business. We respect our competitors and want to compete with them fairly. But we don’t want their confidential information. The same goes for confidential information belonging to any Starry employee’s former employer(s). If an opportunity arises to take advantage of a competitor’s or former employer’s confidential information, don’t do it. Should you happen to come into possession of a competitor’s confidential information, contact the Legal team immediately. You should never seek to eliminate or reduce competition through illegal agreements with collaborators or competitors. You also should not take unfair advantage of anyone through manipulation, concealment, abuse of privileged information, misrepresentation of material facts, or any other unfair-dealing practice.

Speaking to the Press or Public

We place a high value on our credibility and reputation in the community. What is written or said about Starry in the news media and investment community directly impacts our reputation, positively or negatively. We are also required to comply with a rule under the federal securities laws referred to as Regulation FD (which stands for “fair disclosure”). Regulation FD provides that, when we disclose material nonpublic information about Starry to securities market professionals, such as analysts, institutional investors, and other investment advisors, or stockholders (where it is reasonably foreseeable that the stockholders will trade on the information), we must also disclose the information to the public.

Our policy is to provide timely, accurate, and complete information in response to public requests (from media, analysts, etc.), consistent with our obligations to maintain the confidentiality of competitive and proprietary information and to prevent selective disclosure of market-sensitive financial data. We have also designated certain individuals as “spokespersons” who are responsible for communicating with analysts, institutional investors, and representatives of the media. Any employee or director who is not a designated Starry spokesperson should not communicate any information about Starry to analysts, institutional investors, or representatives of the media.

For more information on Starry’s policies and procedures regarding public communications and Regulation FD, please review Starry’s Policy Statement – Guidelines for Corporate Disclosure and Regulation FD Policy or contact Starry’s Legal team with any questions you may have about disclosure matters.

Protect Starry Property

We Only Use Starry Property for Starry’s Benefit

Starry gives us the tools and equipment we need to do our jobs effectively but counts on us to be responsible and not wasteful with what we are given. It is your responsibility to use Starry’s property, equipment, other physical assets, and funds solely for Starry’s benefit and not for any personal gain or any other unlawful or improper purpose. Not sure if a certain use of company assets is okay? Please ask your manager or the People team.

Starry property also includes all information and communications in any form, such as email or on paper, that are created or received by you in the course of doing Starry’s business. You should have no expectation of privacy with respect to these communications and information. In addition, Starry may monitor, access, and disclose employee communications and other information on our corporate electronic facilities or on our premises where there is a business need to do so, such as protecting employees and users, maintaining the security of resources and property, or investigating suspected employee misconduct, subject to applicable law.

We Understand the Importance of Physical and Information Security

Starry’s communication facilities (which include our network and the hardware that uses it, like computers and mobile devices) are a critical aspect of our company’s property, both physical and intellectual. Be sure to follow all security policies. Always secure your laptop, important equipment, and your personal belongings, even while on Starry’s premises. Always wear your badge visibly while on site. Don’t tamper with or disable security and safety devices. If you see someone in a secure space without a badge or if you have any reason to believe that our network

 

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security has been violated – for example, you lose your laptop or smartphone or think that your network password may have been compromised – please promptly report the incident to the Information Technology and Facilities team. For more information, consult Starry’s Information Security Policy in the Employee Guide.

We Respect and Protect Privacy and Personal Information

As an Internet Service Provider, we understand and respect the privacy responsibility that comes along with our central role in our subscribers’ lives. We are committed to protecting that privacy by restricting access to personal information of subscribers to employees with a business reason to use it and by asking that our employees take steps to protect against unauthorized use or release of this information. For your protection and the privacy of our subscribers, don’t access or try to access personal information of subscribers unless you need it to do your job. For example, don’t use system access rights to check out a friend or celebrity’s account. We regularly monitor employee access and will not hesitate to terminate any employee who abuses their administrative access privileges.

Waivers

Any waiver of this Code of Conduct and Ethics for our directors, executive officers, or other principal financial officers may be made only by the disinterested members of our Board of Directors and will be disclosed to the public as required by law or the rules of the New York Stock Exchange, when applicable. Waivers of this Code of Conduct and Ethics for other employees may be made only by our Chief Legal Officer and will be reported to our Audit Committee.

Final Note

Our employees are the key to keeping this Code of Conduct and Ethics relevant and effective. If together we insist on respectful relationships and a safe and secure workplace, we will ensure that Starry remains a healthy and sustainable workplace for decades to come. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact your manager, the People team or the Legal team.

This Code of Conduct and Ethics, as applied to Starry’s principal financial officers, shall be our “code of ethics” within the meaning of Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules promulgated thereunder. This Code of Conduct and Ethics and the matters contained herein are neither a contract of employment nor a guarantee of continuing Starry policy. Starry reserves the right to amend, supplement or discontinue this Code of Conduct and Ethics and the matters it addresses, without prior notice, at any time.

Effective Date: March 28, 2022

 

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Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14(A) AND 15D-14(A)

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Chaitanya Kanojia, certify that:

 

1.

I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.;

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

 

  a.

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b.

[Omitted];

 

  c.

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  d.

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  a.

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  b.

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: March 31, 2022

 

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Chaitanya Kanojia
Chief Executive Officer

Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-14(A) AND 15D-14(A)

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Komal Misra, certify that:

 

1.

I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Starry Group Holdings, Inc.;

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

 

  a.

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b.

[Omitted];

 

  c.

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  d.

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  a.

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  b.

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: March 31, 2022

 

/s/ Komal Misra

Komal Misra
Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Annual Report of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I certify, in the capacity and on the date indicated below, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

1.

The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

2.

The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: March 31, 2022

 

/s/ Chaitanya Kanojia

Chaitanya Kanojia
Chief Executive Officer

 

Exhibit 32.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Annual Report of Starry Group Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2021, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I certify, in the capacity and on the date indicated below, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

1.

The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

2.

The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: March 31, 2022

 

/s/ Komal Misra

Komal Misra
Chief Financial Officer