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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549 

 

 

 

FORM 8-K 

 

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 12, 2021 

 

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) 

 

 

 

Delaware   001-39128   84-1905538
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission   (IRS Employer
of incorporation)   File Number)   Identification No.)

 

3901 N. First Street

San Jose, California 95134

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (650) 564-7820

 

Stable Road Acquisition Corp.

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol   Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, par value of $0.00001 per share   MNTS   The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Warrants, each exercisable for one share of Class A Common Stock for $10.00 per share   MNTSW   The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

 

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

 

Emerging growth company  

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introductory Note

 

Due to the large number of events reported under the specified items of Form 8-K, this Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed in two parts. An amendment to this Form 8-K is being submitted for filing on the same date to include additional matters under Items 5.03 and 5.05 of Form 8-K.

 

On August 12, 2021 (the “Closing Date”), Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation (f/k/a Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (“SRAC”)) (the “Company”), consummated the previously announced business combination (the “Business Combination”) pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 7, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), as amended on March 5, 2021, April 6, 2021 and June 29, 2021, by and among the Company (at such time named Stable Road Acquisition Corp.), Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc. (“First Merger Sub”), a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC (“Second Merger Sub”), a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and the pre-Business Combination Momentus Inc. (“Legacy Momentus”).

 

In connection with the consummation of the Business Combination (the “Closing”), the registrant changed its name from Stable Road Acquisition Corp. to Momentus Inc. Certain terms used in this Current Report on Form 8-K have the same meaning as set forth in the Company’s definitive proxy statement/definitive consent solicitation statement/final prospectus dated July 22, 2021 (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”), and filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on July 23, 2021. As a result of the Business Combination and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, First Merger Sub merged with and into Legacy Momentus, with Legacy Momentus continuing as the surviving corporation (the “First Merger”), and immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, Legacy Momentus merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing as the surviving entity as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Mergers”).

 

On October 7, 2020 and July 15, 2021, the Company entered into Subscription Agreements (as amended from time to time, the “Subscription Agreements”) with certain investors (the “PIPE Investors”) pursuant to which the investors agreed to purchase an aggregate of 11,000,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Stock (as defined below) in a private placement for $10.00 per share and the Company agreed to issue to each PIPE Investor warrants to purchase one share of the Company’s Class A Stock at a price of $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment as described in the warrant agreement) for each share of the Company’s Class A Stock purchased pursuant to such PIPE Investor’s Subscription Agreement (the “Private Placement”). The Private Placement was consummated at the Closing.

 

As a result of the First Merger, each share of outstanding capital stock of Legacy Momentus was cancelled and converted into the right to receive the merger consideration in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, with the Company owning 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Legacy Momentus as the surviving corporation of the First Merger (the “Surviving Corporation”). As a result of the Second Merger, the Company owns 100% of the outstanding interests in the surviving entity of the Second Merger (the “Surviving Entity”). Following the closing of the Business Combination, the Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the issued and outstanding equity interests in the Surviving Entity, and the stockholders of Legacy Momentus as of immediately prior to the effective time of the First Merger (the “Momentus Stockholders”) hold a portion of our Class A common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the “Class A Stock”).

 

Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K discusses the Closing and various other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and the information thereunder is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 1.01 Entry Into A Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement

 

In connection with the Closing, the Company, SRC-NI Holdings, LLC (the “Sponsor”), SRAC PIPE Partners LLC (“SRAC Partners”), and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (collectively, the “Existing Holders”), and Prime Movers Lab Fund I, L.P., Momentus PML SPV 1, L.P. and Momentus PML SPV 2 LP (collectively, the “Momentus Holders” and together with the Existing Holders and the Momentus Holders, the “Registration Rights Holders”) entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of August 12, 2021 (the “Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement”). Under the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, the Company is obligated to file a registration statement with the Commission to register the resale of certain shares of the Company’s Class A Stock held by the Registration Rights Holders, in addition to private placement warrants held by the Existing Holders and shares of the Company’s Class A Stock issuable upon the exercise of the private placement warrants.

 

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The Company agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to have the registration statement become effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof but in no event later than the earlier of (i) 60 days following the filing deadline (or 90 days after the filing deadline if the registration statement is reviewed by, and receives comments from, the Commission) and (ii) five business days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the registration statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review. In addition, pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement and subject to certain requirements and customary conditions, the Existing Holders are entitled to make up to three demands for registration in the aggregate and the Momentus Holders are entitled to make up to three demands for registration in the aggregate, that the Company register shares of Class A Stock held by these parties. The Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement also provides “piggy-back” registration rights to such stockholders and their permitted transferees, subject to certain requirements and customary conditions.

 

Additionally, the Amended Registration Rights Agreement contains certain restrictions on transfer with respect to the shares of Class A Stock held by the Existing Holders and Cantor immediately following the Closing (not including the shares of Class A Stock issued in the PIPE Investment pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreements), including (a) in the case of the Existing Holders a lock-up of shares of Class A Stock held by the Existing Holders as a result of the conversion of founder shares (“Founder Shares”) into Class A Stock immediately prior to the Closing, on the earlier of (i) six months after the Closing Date or (ii) the first date the closing price of the Class A Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing after Closing Date or (iii) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, securities or other property, and (b) in the case of certain Class A Stock and warrants to purchase Class A Stock held by the Sponsor and Cantor or their permitted transferees, the period ending 30 days after the Closing Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to SRAC Partners, only the 176,471 shares of Class A Stock held by SRAC PIPE Partners LLC that were converted from Founder Shares are subject to the lock-up.

 

The Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement amends and restates the registration rights agreement that was entered into by SRAC, the Sponsor and the other parties thereto in connection with SRAC’s initial public offering. The Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement will terminate on the earlier of (i) the 10th anniversary of the date of the Amended and Registration Rights Agreement, (ii) the date as of which all of the registrable securities have been sold pursuant to a registration statement or (iii) with respect to a particular Registration Rights Holder, the date as of which all registrable securities held by such holder have been sold pursuant to a registration statement or under Rule 144 or another exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

 

The foregoing description of the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Lock-Up Agreements

 

In connection with the Closing, Prime Movers Lab (“PML”) and certain affiliates of PML entered into a lock-up agreement containing certain restrictions on transfer with respect to the shares of Class A Stock held by them immediately following the Closing (not including the shares of Class A Stock issued in the PIPE Investment pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreements), including a lock-up of such shares ending on the earliest to occur of (a) six months after the closing date of the Mergers, (b) the first date the closing price of the Class A Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing after the closing date of the Mergers, and (c) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s securityholders having the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, securities or other property.

 

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Additionally, the Sponsor, Brian Kabot, James Norris, Juan Manuel Quiroga, Marc Lahmann, Kellen O’Keefe and James Hofmockel entered into a letter agreement dated November 7, 2019, as amended on October 7, 2020 (as amended, the “Insider Letter”) whereby shares of the Company’s Class A Stock that were converted from Founder Shares immediately prior to the Closing and which are held by them will be locked-up until the earlier of (a) six months after the completion of the Business Combination or (b) subsequent to the Business Combination, (x) if the last sale price of the Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period commencing after the Business Combination or (y) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of Common Stock for cash, securities or other property.

 

The foregoing descriptions of the lockup agreements and the Insider Letter do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the form of lockup agreement and Insider Letter, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.2 and 10.3 and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

In addition, the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement contains certain lock-up provisions as described above under “Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement.”

 

Indemnification Agreements

 

In connection with the Closing, the Company entered into indemnification agreements with Messrs. Rood, Kennedy, Kim, Hadfield, Kabot, Kugler and Mercado and Mses. Harms, Reed and Reiners, each of whom is a director and/or executive officer of the Company following the Business Combination. These indemnification agreements provide the directors and executive officers with contractual rights to indemnification and advancement for certain expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or executive officer in any action or proceeding arising out of their services as one of the Company’s directors or executive officers.

 

The foregoing description of the indemnification agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01. The material terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “The Business Combination and the Merger Agreement” beginning on page 109, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The Merger Agreement and the Business Combination were approved by the Company’s stockholders at a special meeting of the Company’s stockholders held on August 11, 2021 (the “Special Meeting”). On August 12, 2021, the parties to the Merger Agreement consummated the Mergers.

 

Prior to and in connection with the Special Meeting, holders of 3,535,081 shares of the Company’s Class A Stock sold in its initial public offering (“public shares”) exercised their right to redeem those shares for cash at a price of approximately $10.02 per share, for an aggregate of approximately $35.4 million. The per share redemption price of approximately $10.02 for public stockholders electing redemption was paid out of the Company’s Trust Account, which after taking into account the redemptions, had a balance immediately prior to the Closing of approximately $172.7 million.

 

As a result of the Business Combination, each share of Legacy Momentus common stock was converted into the right to receive approximately 0.24685 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (“Class A Stock”).

 

Additionally, shares of Class B common stock (“Founder Shares”) held by the Sponsor and SRAC Partners automatically converted to a total of 4,062,500 shares of Class A Stock (of which 1,437,500 shares are subject to vesting under certain conditions), after taking into account the forfeiture of 250,000 Founder Shares.

 

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Immediately after giving effect to the Mergers, the redemptions described above, the Private Placement and the conversion of all 4,062,500 outstanding Founder Shares into shares of Class A Stock on a one-for-one basis, there were 79,772,262 shares of Class A Stock outstanding. On August 13, 2021, the Company’s Class A Stock and the Company’s public warrants began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbols “MNTS” and “MNTSW,” respectively, and the Company’s public units automatically separated into their component securities and, as a result, no longer trade as a separate security and were delisted from Nasdaq.

 

FORM 10 INFORMATION

 

Item 2.01(f) of Form 8-K states that if the predecessor registrant was a “shell company” (as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), as the Company was immediately before the Business Combination, then the registrant must disclose the information that would be required if the registrant were filing a general form for registration of securities on Form 10. As a result of the consummation of the Business Combination, the Company has ceased to be a shell company. Accordingly, the Company is providing the information below that would be included in a Form 10 if the Company were to file a Form 10. Please note that the information provided below relates to the Company as the post-Business Combination company after the consummation of the Business Combination, unless otherwise specifically indicated or the context otherwise requires.

 

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

This Current Report on Form 8-K, or some of the information incorporated herein by reference, contains statements that are forward-looking and as such are not historical facts.

 

These forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s management’s current expectations, estimates, projections and beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions concerning future events, and are not guarantees of performance. Such statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. When used in this Current Report on Form 8-K, words such as “outlook,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words or phrases, may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and future events to differ materially from those set forth or contemplated in the forward-looking statements:

 

the ability of the Company to manage its growth following the Business Combination;

 

the ability of the Company to obtain licenses and government approvals for its missions, which are essential to its operations;

 

the ability of the Company to effectively market and sell satellite transport services and planned in-orbit services;

 

the ability of the Company to protect its intellectual property and trade secrets;

 

the development of markets for satellite transport and in-orbit services;

 

the ability of the Company to develop, test and validate its technology, including its water plasma propulsion technology;

 

delays or impediments that the Company may face in the development, manufacture and deployment of next generation satellite transport systems;

 

the ability of the Company to convert backlog or inbound inquiries into revenue;

 

changes in applicable laws or regulations and extensive and evolving government regulations that impact operations and business, including export control license requirements;

 

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the ability to attract or maintain a qualified workforce with the required security clearances and requisite skills;

 

level of product service or product or launch failures or delays that could lead customers to use competitors’ services;

 

investigations, claims, disputes, enforcement actions, litigation and/or other regulatory or legal proceedings;

 

the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business;

 

the Company’s ability to comply with the terms of the NSA and any related compliance measures instituted by a director who is approved by the CFIUS Monitoring Agencies (the “Security Director”);

 

the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and/or

 

other risks and uncertainties described in Proxy Statement/Prospectus, including those under the section titled “Risk Factors.”

 

While forward-looking statements reflect the Company’s good faith belief, they are not guarantees of future performance. Except to the extent required by applicable law, the Company is under no obligation (and expressly disclaims any such obligation) to update or revise forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. For a further discussion of these and other factors that could cause the Company’s future results, performance or transactions to differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, please see the section titled “Risk Factors” below. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are based only on information currently available to the Company (or to third parties making the forward-looking statements).

 

The forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K and in any document incorporated by reference are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on the Company. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting the Company will be those that the Company has anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond the Company’s control, or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Risk Factors,” which are incorporated herein by reference. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the Company’s assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K and in any document incorporated herein by reference should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any subsequent date, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

 

Business

 

The business of the Company is described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Information About Momentus” beginning on page 207 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Risk Factors

 

The risks associated with the Company’s business and operations and the Business Combination are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 46 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Financial Information

 

Unaudited Condensed Financial Statements

 

The unaudited condensed financial statements as of and for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 of Legacy Momentus set forth in Exhibit 99.1 hereto have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and pursuant to the regulations of the Commission. The condensed financial information reflects, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, considered necessary for a fair statement of Legacy Momentus’ financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods indicated. The results reported for the interim period presented are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the full year.

 

These unaudited condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the historical audited financial statements of Legacy Momentus as of and for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the related notes, included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which are incorporated by reference herein, the section titled “Momentus’ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included therein and the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included herein.

 

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and for the year ended December 31, 2020 is set forth in Exhibit 99.2 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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

 

Management’s discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operation of Legacy Momentus prior to the Business Combination is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Momentus’ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” beginning on page 231 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Management’s discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operation of Legacy Momentus as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2021 is set forth below.

 

The following discussion and analysis provide information which our management believes is relevant to an assessment and understanding of our results of operations and financial condition. This discussion and analysis should be read together with our audited financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and unaudited interim condensed financial statements as of and for the six month periods ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, and the related respective notes thereto, included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus incorporated by reference herein or included elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K. This discussion and analysis should also be read together with our pro forma financial information for the period ended and as of June 30, 2021 (in the section titled “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information”). In addition to historical financial information, this discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates, and beliefs that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. As a result of many factors, including, without limitation, those set forth under the “Risk Factors” in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus filed by SRAC on July 23, 2021 (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”) and “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K, our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

 

Certain figures, such as interest rates and other percentages, included in this section have been rounded for ease of presentation. Percentage figures included in this section have not in all cases been calculated on the basis of such rounded figures but on the basis of such amounts prior to rounding. For this reason, percentage amounts in this section may vary slightly from those obtained by performing the same calculations using the figures in our financial statements or in the associated text. Certain other amounts that appear in this section may similarly not sum due to rounding.

 

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Overview

 

Momentus plans to offer in-space infrastructure services, and if we achieve our business plans and goals, we believe that we can become an important provider of tools, infrastructure and services that will enable the commercialization of space. Momentus intends to utilize a multi-pronged approach to become a provider of three critical functions in the new space economy: Space Transportation, Satellite as a Service, and In-Orbit Servicing. Momentus is planning to create a hub and spoke space transportation model by offering last-mile delivery in partnership with leading providers of launch services on large and mid-size rockets, such as SpaceX. By combining the capabilities of low-cost launch vehicles from third party providers with our planned in-space transfer and service vehicles powered by water plasma propulsion technology, we believe we will be able to offer our customers significantly more affordable access to space. The cornerstone of our business plan is our water plasma propulsion technology, which is being designed in-house. We believe that this technology, once further developed, tested and validated, will have the potential to deliver fast, versatile, and cost-effective services to our clients. We believe that our highly experienced team of engineers, and operations managers puts us in a strong position to commercialize our technology in the future and become a market leader in the development of the new space economy. Since our founding in 2017, we have been working to develop our water plasma propulsion technology, signed contracts including firm orders and options with prepaid deposits (some of which have already been exercised by customers) representing approximately $66 million (as of August 13, 2021) in potential revenue, and have continued to develop, test and enhance our vehicles and supporting technologies. Our first launch with customers is currently anticipated to occur no earlier than June 2022, subject to receipt of licenses and other government approvals and availability of slots on our launch provider’s manifests. Prior planned launches were cancelled due to not receiving required licenses and other governmental approvals and other factors, and we can offer no assurances that our first launch will occur in June 2022 to include rigorous test and demonstrations.

 

Our services are made possible by the space industry’s rapid technological developments over the past two decades, driven predominantly by significant decreases in launch costs, as well as the advent of smaller, lower-cost satellites. This convergence of trends has resulted in substantial growth in the commercial space market, rooted in higher accessibility for companies entering the new space economy that aim to offer communication, earth observation and data collection services, and other satellite services. We anticipate the space transportation and small satellite market to be drivers of growth in the short-term as satellite technology drives smaller and cheaper satellites, and increasing numbers of satellite constellations continue to emerge.

 

We expect our expenses to increase substantially in connection with our ongoing activities, particularly as we continue to advance the development of our vehicles, build corporate infrastructure and enhance our sales and marketing functions. As we continue to develop our vehicle capabilities, expand our fleet of vehicles with the development of the Ardoride and Fervoride vehicles and expand our manufacturing footprint and capabilities, we estimate spending approximately $750 million in research and development and approximately $140 million in capital expenditures over the next seven years.

 

Services Overview

 

If our technology is fully developed and validated in the future, we currently plan to provide the following infrastructure services to the space economy:

 

Space Transportation. We are designing our space transportation service based on a hub and spoke model. When the time for launch approaches, our customers will send us their payload a few months in advance for integration onto our vehicle. Once their payload has been integrated, our vehicle will then be prepared for launch. We will then incorporate our vehicle, holding the customer’s payload fixture, into the payload of the rocket. The rocket will then transport our vehicle to the drop-off orbit. At this point, after separation from the rocket, we will initiate delivery to the customer’s final orbit. We are designing our water plasma thrusters to enable our vehicle to efficiently transport each customer payload to its respective orbit. We believe that this service will give our clients the accessibility that rocket providers cannot, as their drop-off points are limited. Initially, after delivering our customer payloads to their final orbits, our vehicles will de-orbit. However, our plan is to develop the capability for our vehicles to be reusable, such that, upon delivery of the payload, they will be capable of remaining in space to conduct additional missions.

 

Satellite as a Service (Hosted Payloads). In this model, we are developing our payloads such that once a customer payload is attached, our vehicles would be capable of moving to the desired orbit and remaining attached to the hosted payload to provide continuous power, orbit-maintenance, orientation, and communications to support telemetry, commanding, and downlinking of payload data, for the duration of the mission.

 

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In-Orbit Servicing. We believe in-orbit servicing of satellites is a quickly growing business opportunity. As the number of satellites in space increases, so does their need to be serviced. In addition to other services, we are also planning to design Momentus’ future reusable vehicles to be capable of performing in-orbit servicing and are pursuing development activities that support this objective, such as our plans to demonstrate robotic arm and rendezvous capabilities. Although we are still in the very preliminary stages for developing this technology, our aim is to equip future vehicles with robotic arms and an ability to maneuver in close proximity to other spacecraft and dock or berth with them. Once fully developed, we believe these capabilities could allow us to offer a suite of different in-orbit services, such as inspection, refueling, life extension, re-positioning, salvage missions, maintenance and repair, and de-orbiting.

 

Factors Affecting Our Performance

 

We believe that our performance and future success depend to a substantial extent on our ability to capitalize on the following opportunities, which in turn is subject to significant risks and challenges, including those discussed below and in the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus.

 

In-Space Transport and Service Vehicles and Related Technology Development

 

Our primary research and development objectives focus on the development of our existing and future in-space transfer and service vehicles and related water plasma propulsion technology:

 

  Vigoride is the first vehicle that Momentus is developing. We are developing Vigoride with the objective of carrying up to 750 kg of customer payload into Low Earth Orbit (“LEO”), and based on our current product roadmap, we estimate that we may, under certain circumstances, achieve this capability with our fourth generation Vigoride (Block 2.2), which we plan to use for our inaugural mission.

 

  Ardoride will be our next vehicle. We are developing it to be capable of reaching beyond High Earth Orbit (“HEO”) orbit into Lunar Orbit with customer payload capability of up to 4,000 kg if reusability is achieved. While the first several Ardoride vehicles may be expendable, we are working to develop technologies to achieve reusability in later flights.

 

  Fervoride will be our third vehicle. Our development objective is to make Fervoride capable of carrying up to 20,000 kg of customer payload anywhere from LEO to Deep Space, well beyond Lunar Orbit. We expect to incorporate reusability in our Fervoride vehicles as soon as practical. The technologies necessary to achieve reusability are still in development.

 

The successful development of our vehicles with water plasma propulsion technology involves uncertainties, including:

 

timing in finalizing systems design and specifications;

 

successful completion of test programs and demonstration missions;

 

whether we will receive, and the timing of receipt of, licenses and government approvals that will allow us to fly our vehicles in space and gather valuable data that will assist in further development of our vehicles;

 

meeting stated technological objectives and goals for the design on time, on budget and within target cost objectives;

 

our ability to obtain additional applicable approvals, licenses or certifications from regulatory agencies and maintaining current approvals, licenses or certifications;

 

our ability to secure slots on our launch providers’ manifests;

 

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performance of our manufacturing facility despite risks that disrupt productions, such as natural disasters;

 

performance of our third-party contractors that support our research and development activities;

 

performance of a limited number of suppliers for certain raw materials and supplied components and their willingness to do business with us;

 

our ability to protect our intellectual property critical to the design and function of our orbital transfer vehicles;

 

our ability to continue funding and maintaining our current research and development activities;

 

the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on us, our customers, suppliers and distributors, and the global economy; and

 

our ability to comply with the terms of the NSA and any related compliance measures instituted by the Security Director.

 

A change in the outcome of any of these variables could delay or inhibit the development of our vehicles which in turn could impact our business and results of operations.

 

Initial and Successive Launches

 

Our water plasma propulsion technology (that we are developing) is based on the use of microwave electrothermal or “MET,” thrusters, which we believe could ultimately provide safe, affordable, reliable, and regular in-space services, including Space Transportation, Satellite as a Service, and In-Orbit Servicing. We intend to accomplish this by implementing the following elements of our growth strategy:

 

Launch our commercial program for in-space transportation. We currently plan to fly our first two Vigoride vehicles on a SpaceX Transporter flight as early as June 2022, subject to receipt of licenses and other government approvals and availability of slots on our launch provider’s manifests, to include rigorous testing and demonstrations.

 

Launch our commercial program for Satellite as a Service. If in the future our vehicles are operationalized for their intended in-space transport uses, we plan to develop a modular approach to satellite systems through our Satellite as a Service model. For missions that require significant power for the payload and/or specific orbits, our objective is for Momentus to be able to provide a unique combination of a low-cost service model, in-orbit flexibility, and full electrical power generation.

 

Launch our commercial program for In-Orbit Servicing. If we develop reusability for our vehicles as currently contemplated, we believe we will be able to begin offering a suite of different in-orbit services to our clients. Although we have not yet developed these capabilities or the technology that would be required to provide these services, such services may include inspection, refueling, life extension, re-positioning, salvage missions, maintenance and repair, and de-orbiting. As the quantity of satellites sent into space continues to increase, we anticipate growing demand from such services.

 

The success of our in-space infrastructure services business will depend on our ability to successfully and regularly deliver customer satellites into custom orbits. Our initial mission planned for no earlier than June 2022 will be a demonstration mission in which our objective is for our vehicle to deliver client satellites into orbit for the first time. In this inaugural mission, we plan to demonstrate Vigoride’s ability to deploy satellites at the point at which Vigoride is dropped off by the launch vehicle and to perform certain maneuvers after deployment.

 

There can be no assurance that we will not experience operational or process failures and other problems during our inaugural mission or on any other mission. Any failures or setbacks, particularly on our inaugural mission, could harm our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operation.

 

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Customer Demand

 

Ahead of our first Vigoride launch, which is currently expected to occur no earlier than June 2022, we have received significant interest from across a range of satellite operators, satellite manufacturers, satellite aggregators, launch service providers, and others. While we have not recognized any revenue from completed commercial launches through June 30, 2021, we had collected approximately $3.1 million in customer deposits related to future launches. While our standard contracts do not contain refunds or recourse provisions that enable our customers to recover any non-refundable deposits that have been paid, we will issue refunds totaling approximately $1.5 million to customers in the third quarter ending September 31, 2021 due to cancelled launches for 2021 in order to foster future business relationships and customer goodwill.

 

As of August 13, 2021, we had signed contracts including firm orders and options (some of which have already been exercised by customers) representing approximately $66 million in potential revenue. The breadth of these signed contracts spans across 25 companies. These agreements also contain options, allowing customers to opt-in to launches on shorter notice without requiring a separate agreement. However, these contracts are cancellable by customers for convenience. If a customer cancels a contract before it is required to pay non-refundable deposits beginning nine months prior to launch, we may not receive revenue from these orders, except for an initial deposit which is paid at the time the contract is signed. In the first quarter of 2021 and fourth quarter of 2020, we recognized $130,000 and $365,000, respectively, of revenue related to customer cancelled contracts that were not refundable.

 

In addition, backlog is typically subject to large variations from quarter to quarter and comparisons of backlog from period to period are not necessarily indicative of future revenues. Furthermore, some contracts comprising the backlog are for services scheduled many years in the future, and the economic viability of customers with whom we have contracted is not guaranteed over time. As a result, the contracts comprising our backlog may not result in actual revenue in any particular period, or at all, and the actual revenue from such contracts may differ from our backlog estimates. The timing of receipt of revenues, if any, on projects included in the backlog could change because many factors affect the scheduling of missions and adjustments to contracts may also occur. The failure to realize some portion of our backlog could adversely affect our revenues and gross margins.

 

As of August 13, 2021, our pipeline consisted of approximately $1.7 billion in potential contracts in early discussions or in early negotiations. We consider our pipeline to be contracts which are in negotiations or early discussions, and we can offer no assurances that such negotiations or discussions will result in a signed contract or any revenue. Additionally, our backlog and pipeline mostly represent the initial test and demonstration flights of our customers’ satellite constellations. If we successfully deliver our services on our first several flights, we anticipate that our customers will continue to use us on the further rollout of their satellite constellations, and if we do not successfully deliver our services on our first several flights, we anticipate that our customers may not continue to use us on the further rollout of their satellite constellations. Our customers are not required to continue using our services under their contracts even if our first flights are successful.

 

COVID-19 Impact

 

While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our business and our timeline for our formerly planned launch in April 2020, to date, it has not impacted us in a way that we believe will materially affect our future growth outlook.

 

If we are able to secure FAA and other approvals and if there is availability of slots on our launch provider’s manifests, we are currently planning for our first commercial launch as early as June 2022, aboard a Falcon 9 and do not foresee any delays due to COVID-19. The same applies to launches scheduled for the remainder of 2022 and beyond.

 

We do not believe our contract pipeline has been materially adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, we have managed to grow our customer backlog by over 40% since the onset of the pandemic. Additionally, we have also had existing customers exercise their options to opt into launches for 2022. We do not anticipate that the COVID-19 pandemic will materially affect our customer backlog and ability to secure new contracts going forward.

 

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Our non-operations personnel began working from home in March 2020 as we reduced our in-person operations to prioritize the safety of our employees. We have begun to gradually bring essential personnel back to the office, while adhering to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, federal, and state protective standards. Subject to local regulations and the effectiveness of vaccination initiatives, we intend to gradually bring all employees back to the office; until then, we will continue to support working from home. While remote working arrangements have affected our manufacturing and development timelines, the overall impact of this arrangement has not materially adversely affected the timeline of future launches.

 

In May 2020, to strengthen our liquidity position, we received a Paycheck Protection Program loan (“PPP Loan”) in the amount of $970,000 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”); however, in September 2020, we repaid the PPP Loan in full.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business, results of operations and overall financial performance will ultimately depend on future developments, including the duration of the pandemic, possible recurrent outbreaks, the appearance of variants and the effectiveness of vaccines and other mitigation measures against variants, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to the Business and Industry of Momentus in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus for additional discussion of the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business.

 

Business Combination

 

We entered into the Merger Agreement with SRAC, a special purpose acquisition company, on October 7, 2020, which was amended on March 5, 2021, April 6, 2021, and June 29, 2021. On August 12, 2021, upon the closing of the Business Combination pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., merged with and into Momentus, with Momentus surviving such merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of SRAC, immediately followed by Momentus merging with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub surviving such merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of SRAC. Following the closing of the Business Combination, SRAC changed its name to Momentus Inc.

 

The Business Combination is accounted for as a reverse recapitalization in accordance with GAAP. Under this method of accounting, SRAC is treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes. We are deemed the accounting predecessor of the combined business, and Momentus, as the parent company of the combined business, is the successor SEC registrant, meaning that our financial statements for previous periods will be disclosed in the registrant’s future periodic reports filed with the SEC.

 

The Business Combination will have a significant impact on our future reported financial position and results as a consequence of the reverse recapitalization. The most significant changes in Momentus’s future reported financial position and results are an increase in cash (as compared to our consolidated balance sheet at June 30, 2021) of $247.3 million, offset by additional transaction costs for the Business Combination. The estimated transaction costs for the Business Combination are approximately $38.1 million. See “Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Information.”

 

As a result of the Business Combination, we became the successor to an SEC-registered and Nasdaq-listed company, which will 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.

 

Recent Developments

 

Loan and Security Agreement

 

On February 22, 2021, Momentus entered into a Loan and Security Agreement (the “LSA”) and related agreements with Venture Lending & Leasing IX, Inc. The LSA provides for an initial $25,000,000 growth capital term loan which Momentus fully borrowed on March 1, 2021. The LSA included an additional $15,000,000 which we forfeited as we did not meet the criteria to be able to draw on the additional funding by the June 30, 2021 deadline.

 

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The LSA provides for a 12% annual interest rate, monthly payment of interest only for the first 12 months, and payment in full of all outstanding principal and interest on March 1, 2022. At Momentus’ option prior to February 15, 2022, the repayment of the full principal amount outstanding and due on March 1, 2022 may be extended for either 12 or 24 months and amortized in equal monthly payments. The LSA grants the lender the first security priority lien on substantially all assets of Momentus (subject to certain exceptions, including that the lien on intellectual property will be a springing lien based on the occurrence of certain events) for all periods of time that Momentus is indebted to the lender.

 

In conjunction with the LSA, the lender received warrants for preferred stock equal to up to 1% of Momentus’ fully diluted capitalization (including allowance for conversion of all outstanding convertible notes, SAFE notes and such warrants). The warrants were earned and vested 80% upon signing of the agreement. The lender will not earn the additional 20% of the warrants as we did not meet the requirements for additional funding by the June 30, 2021 deadline. The exercise price of the warrants is an aggregate of $1,000. The warrants were exercised immediately prior to the Closing.

 

In addition, the lender will have certain rights to participate in future private equity offerings (including convertible notes or bridge financings) of Momentus.

 

SEC Settlement and CFIUS Review

 

We have incurred significant expenses in connection with the CFIUS review described below and have incurred and expect to incur significant expenses in connection with the implementation of the NSA described below. In the first six months of 2021 we also incurred significant expenses related to the now settled SEC matter discussed below. As of June 30, 2021, the Company had incurred legal expenses of approximately $7.4 million related to these matters.

 

SEC Settlement

 

On July 13, 2021, the Company agreed to a settlement with the SEC on a “neither admit nor deny” basis, in anticipation of cease-and-desist proceedings relating to certain violations of antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws alleged by the SEC. As a result of the settlement, the Company agreed to a civil penalty of $7 million, $2 million of which has already been paid and $5 million of which is payable within one year of the settlement order. See Note 14 in our condensed interim financial statements included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

CFIUS Review and NSA

 

In February 2021, Momentus and its co-founder Mikhail Kokorich, with support from Stable Road, submitted a joint notice to CFIUS for review of the historical acquisitions of interests in Momentus by Mr. Kokorich, his wife, and entities that they control in response to concerns of the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”) regarding Momentus’ foreign ownership and control. On June 8, 2021, the Company entered into a National Security Agreement with Mr. Kokorich, on behalf of himself and Nortrone Finance S.A. (an entity controlled by Mr. Kokorich), Lev Khasis and Olga Khasis, each in their respective individual capacities and on behalf of Brainyspace LLC (an entity controlled by Olga Khasis), and the U.S. government, represented by the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury (the “NSA”). In accordance with the NSA, Mr. Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A., Lev Khasis and his wife Olga Khasis, and Brainyspace LLC fully divested all the equity interests in Momentus owned or beneficially owned by them by selling such equity interests to the Company on June 8, 2021. The NSA also establishes various requirements and restrictions on the Company in order to protect national security, certain of which will require heavy investments by the Company and will impact our operating results due to uncertainty associated with and the cost of compliance with security measures, and limitations on our control over certain U.S. facilities, contracts, personnel, vendor selection and operations.

 

Co-Founder Divestment

 

In accordance with the NSA, Mr. Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A., Lev Khasis and his wife Olga Khasis, and Brainyspace LLC fully divested all the equity interests in Momentus owned or beneficially owned by them by selling such equity interests to Momentus pursuant to certain Repurchase Agreements entered into with Momentus, effective as of June 8, 2021. Under the Repurchase Agreements, each of Mr. Kokorich and related entities and Brainyspace LLC sold 100% of their respective equity interests in Momentus in exchange for the right to receive payments, out of funds legally available therefor, an aggregate of $50,000,000 to Mr. Kokorich, Nortone Finance S.A. and Brainyspace LLC, on a pro rata basis, as follows: (i) an aggregate of $40,000,000 to be paid out of funds legally available therefor, within 10 business days after the earlier of (A) a business combination or capital raising transaction or series of transactions (whether in the form of debt or equity) resulting in cash proceeds of no less than $100,000,000 and (B) the Business Combination (the “First Payment Date”); and (ii) an aggregate of $10,000,000 to be paid out of funds legally available therefor, within 10 business days after a business combination or capital raising transaction or series of transactions (whether in the form of debt or equity) resulting in cash proceeds of no less than $250,000,000 (determined without any reduction for the $100,000,000 previously received in respect of the First Payment Date).

 

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As the cash proceeds from the Business Combination were at least $100,000,000 but less than $250,000,000, the Company is required to pay, out of funds legally available therefor, an aggregate of $40 million to Mr. Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A. and Brainyspace LLC within 10 days following the completion of the Business Combination. Such $40 million payment will come from proceeds of the PIPE Investment and the SRAC Trust Account that was released upon the closing of the Business Combination, and therefore reduce the proceeds available to Momentus to fund its operations and capital expenditures going forward. See “Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Information.”

 

See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to the Business and Industry of Momentus — Following the completion of the Business Combination, including the PIPE Investment, we may still require substantial additional funding to finance our operations, but adequate additional financing may not be available when we need it, on acceptable terms or at all” in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, for additional information on the risks we will face with respect to funding our operations following the Business Combination.

 

Components of Results of Operations

 

Service Revenue

 

We enter into contracts for ‘last-mile’ satellite and cargo delivery, payload hosting and in-orbit servicing options with customers that are primarily in the aerospace industry. From inception to June 30, 2021, we have not yet completed a commercial launch of customer cargo. However, as of June 30, 2021 we have signed contracts with customers and have collected approximately $3.1 million in customer deposits, which are recorded as current and non-current contract liabilities in our balance sheet. Included in the collected amount as of June 30, 2021 are customer deposits which had been identified as pending customer refunds at period end, as discussed below, and $1.6 million of non-current deposits which related to performance obligations not expected to be completed for at least one year.

 

The Company will recognize revenue (along with any other fees that have been paid) upon the earlier of the satisfaction of our performance obligation or when the customer cancels the contract. While the Company’s standard contracts do not contain refund or recourse provisions that enable its customers to recover any non-refundable fees that have been paid, the Company may issue full or partial refunds to customers on a case-by-case basis as necessary to preserve and foster future business relationships and customer goodwill. As a result of the Company’s inability to complete any launches in 2021 (refer to Note 3 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K for additional information), the Company will issue customer refunds of approximately $1.5 million, presented as part of current contract liabilities, in the third quarter, ending September 30, 2021.

 

Cost of Revenue

 

Cost of revenue consists primarily of expenses associated with the cost of the orbital transfer vehicle and third-party launch costs. Until the orbital transfer vehicle design is completed and released for production, the cost of these orbital transfer vehicles is being expensed as research and development costs as materials and services are received. The current design and technology allow for a single use of the orbital transfer vehicle.

 

Research and Development

 

Research and development expenditures consist primarily of the cost for the following activities for developing existing and future technologies for our vehicles. Research and development activities include basic research, applied research, design, development, and related test program activities. Costs incurred for developing our vehicles primarily include equipment, material, and labor hours (both internal and subcontractors).

 

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As of June 30, 2021, we have expensed all research and development costs associated with developing and building our vehicles. After demonstrating technological feasibility and after we have released the design for volume production, we will capitalize the costs to construct any additional components for the vehicles. We expect to continue to see an increase in our research and development expenses as we develop our next generation of vehicles.

 

Selling, General and Administrative

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses consist of human capital related expenses for employees involved in general corporate functions, including executive management and administration, accounting, finance, tax, legal, information technology, sales, marketing, and human resources; depreciation expense and rent relating to facilities, and equipment; professional fees; and other general corporate costs. Headcount-related expenses primarily include salaries, bonuses, equity compensation expense and benefits. As we continue to grow as a company, we expect that our selling, general and administrative costs will increase on an absolute dollar basis.

 

We also expect to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including expenses necessary to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a national securities exchange and related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC as well as to comply with the National Security Agreement.

 

Interest Income

 

Interest income consists of interest earned on investment holdings in interest bearing bank accounts.

 

Interest Expense

 

Interest expense includes interest incurred related to our loan payables as well as the amortization of warrant discount and debt issuance costs.

 

Other Income/Expense

 

Other income/expense primarily relates to the change in the estimated fair value of our SAFE notes and warrants, and non-recurring fees incurred in conjunction with the SAFE and Term Loan financing, SEC settlement cost, and other miscellaneous expense.

 

Income Tax Provision

 

We are subject to income taxes in the United States. Our income tax provision consists of an estimate of federal and state income taxes based on enacted federal and state tax rates, as adjusted for allowable credits, deductions, uncertain tax positions, changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities, and changes in tax laws.

 

The effective tax rate may vary significantly from period to period and can be influenced by many factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, changes to the statutory rates in the jurisdictions where the Company has operations and changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities. The difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory rate of 21% primarily relates to certain nondeductible items, state and local income taxes and a full valuation allowance for deferred tax assets.

 

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Results of Operations

 

The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented. The period-to-period comparisons of financial results is not necessarily indicative of future results.

 

Comparison of Financial Results for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2020

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30,

 
    2021     2020     $ Change     % Change  
Service revenue   $     $     $       N/A  
Cost of revenue                       N/A  
Gross margin                       N/A  
                                 
Operating expenses:                                
Research and development expenses     20,794,056       3,963,236       16,830,820       425 %
Selling, general and administrative expenses     9,739,855       1,567,514       8,172,341       521 %
Operating loss     (30,533,911 )     (5,530,750 )     (25,003,161 )     452 %
                                 
Other income (expense):                                
Decrease (increase)  in fair value of SAFE notes     100,802,979       (3,586,605 )     104,389,584       Not meaningful  
Decrease in fair value of warrants     4,454,324       5,078       4,449,246       Not meaningful  
Realized loss on disposal of asset                            
Interest income     983       2,878       (1,895 )     -66 %
Interest expense     (3,389,040 )     (62,515 )     (3,326,525 )     5321 %
SEC settlement     (7,000,000 )           (7,000,000 )     N/A  
Other income (expense)     (7,381 )     20,491       (27,872 )     Not meaningful  
Income (loss) before income taxes     64,327,954       (9,151,423 )     73,479,377       (803 )%
Income tax expense     800       800             N/A  
Net income (loss)   $ 64,328,754     $ (9,150,623 )     73,479,377       (803 )%

 

Service revenue

 

There was no service revenue recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Cost of revenue

 

There was no cost of revenue recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Research and development expenses

 

Research and development expenses increased from $4.0 million to $20.8 million. The increase was primarily due to the impairment of prepaid launch deposits of $8.7 million, discussed in Note 3 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and increased costs incurred to develop our vehicles (including prototype and research material inputs, research and development subcontractors) and payroll expenses. Headcount related costs increased by $2.9 million (including $27,485 increase in non-cash share based compensation expense), as we increased our full time research and development employees from 40 to 89 to support the ramp up of research and development efforts. The ramp was also supported by increased components and materials spending of $2.1 million as well as increased subcontractor spending of $2.2 million.

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses

 

Selling, general, and administrative expenses increased from $1.6 million to $9.7 million. The increase was driven by an increase to legal expenses of $3.9 million, which was primarily related to the SEC settlement and CFIUS review discussed above, an increase to non-cash stock based compensation driven by a $2.2 million charge due to the departure and resulting modification of stock option awards of one of our former directors, described in Note 10 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, as well as higher corporate expenses as we continued to build out our corporate functions in relation to the Business Combination and the anticipated start of commercial operations. Non-stock based compensation headcount related costs increased by $0.9 million as we increased our corporate headcount from 23 to 30 full time employees. Costs related to non-legal consulting and professional services also increased by $0.7 million driven primarily by recruiting expenses.

 

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Decrease (increase) in fair value of SAFE notes

 

The decrease in the calculated fair value of SAFE notes during the three months ended June 30, 2021 compared to the same period in the prior year was primarily due to a decrease in the estimated fair value of the Company’s stock, which had a larger fair value impact due to additional SAFE funding received of $67.9 million in comparison to the same period in the prior year. Our SAFE notes are classified as marked-to-market liabilities pursuant to ASC 480 and gain or losses are recorded as other income or expense.

 

Decrease in fair value of warrants

 

The decrease in the calculated fair value of warrants, which are accounted for as a derivative liability, was primarily attributable to a decrease in the estimated fair value of the Company’s stock during the period, which had a larger mark-to-market impact due to the issuance of new warrants in connection with the Term Loan entered into in February 2021.

 

Interest income

 

Interest income was immaterial for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Interest expense

 

Interest expense of $3.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021 relates to interest incurred on the Term Loan entered into in February 2021 and the related debt discount amortization. Interest expense of $62,515 for the three months ended June 30, 2020 relates to interest incurred under the Equipment Loan entered into in March 2020 and interest expense related to debt discount amortization.

 

SEC Settlement

 

SEC settlement expense for the three months ended June 30, 2021 relates to $7.0 million payable to the SEC as a result of the settlement with the SEC described above.

 

Other income (expense)

 

Other expense for the three months ended June 30, 2021 was immaterial. Other income in the three months ended June 30, 2020 related primarily other miscellaneous income recorded during the quarter.

 

Income tax expense

 

Income tax expense was less than $1,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020. We have accumulated net operating losses at the federal and state level as we have not yet started commercial operations. We maintain a substantially full valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets. The income tax expenses incurred were primarily related to minimum state filing fees in the states where we have operations.

 

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Comparison of Financial Results for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2020

 

   

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 
    2021     2020     $ Change     % Change  
Service revenue   $ 130,000     $     $ 130,000       N/A  
Cost of revenue     48,400             48,400       N/A  
Gross margin     81,600             81,600       N/A  
                                 
Operating expenses:                                
Research and development expenses     30,700,331       8,380,801       22,319,530       266 %
Selling, general and administrative expenses     23,744,364       3,422,030       20,322,334       594 %
Operating loss     (54,363,095 )     (11,802,831 )     (42,560,264 )     361 %
                                 
Other income (expense):                                
Decrease (increase)  in fair value of SAFE notes     182,366,571       (3,587,989 )     185,954,560       Not meaningful  
Decrease in fair value of warrants     12,537,046       6,687       12,530,359       Not meaningful  
Realized loss on disposal of asset                            
Interest income     1,988       6,156       (4,168 )     -68 %
Interest expense     (4,357,133 )     (78,413 )     (4,278,720 )     5457 %
SEC settlement     (7,000,000 )           (7,000,000 )     N/A  
Other income (expense)     (186,619 )     50,322       (236,941 )     Not meaningful  
Income (loss) before income taxes     128,998,758       (15,406,068 )     144,404,826       (937 %)
Income tax expense     800       800             N/A  
Net income (loss)   $ 128,997,958     $ (15,406,868 )     144,404,826       (937 %)

 

Service revenue

 

The increase was due to revenue recognized related to a cancellation of a customer contract, resulting in the forfeiture of $130,000 of a customer deposit in the first quarter of 2021.

 

Cost of revenue

 

The increase was due to costs incurred related to the customer contract cancellation in the first quarter of 2021.

 

Research and development expenses

 

Research and development expenses increased from $8.4 million to $30.7 million. The increase was primarily due to the impairment of prepaid launch deposits of $9.5 million, driven by the impairment discussed in Note 3 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and increased costs incurred to develop our vehicles (including prototype and research material inputs, research and development subcontractors) and payroll expenses. Headcount related costs increased by $4.9 million (including $58,720 increase in non-cash share based compensation expense), as we increased our full time research and development employees from 40 to 89 to support the ramp up of research and development efforts. The ramp up was also supported by increased components and materials spending of $2.5 million as well as increased subcontractor spending of $3.7 million.

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased from $3.4 million to $23.7 million. The increase was driven by an increase to legal expenses of $8.4 million, which was primarily related to the SEC settlement and CFIUS review discussed above, an increase to non-cash stock based compensation of $7.8 million driven by the departure of our former CEO and one of our former directors, described in Note 10 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, as well as higher corporate expenses as we continued to build out our corporate functions in relation to the Business Combination and the anticipated start of commercial operations. Non-stock based compensation headcount related costs increased by $1.4 million as we increased our corporate headcount from 23 to 30 full time employees. Costs related to non-legal consulting and professional services also increased by $1.7 million driven by recruiting expenses and accounting and audit expenses.

 

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Decrease (increase) in fair value of SAFE notes

 

The decrease in the calculated fair value of SAFE notes during the six months ended June 30, 2021 compared to the same period in the prior year was primarily due to an decrease in the estimated fair value of the Company’s stock, which had a larger fair value impact due to additional SAFE funding received of $67.9 million in comparison to the same period in the prior year. Our SAFE notes are classified as marked-to-market liabilities pursuant to ASC 480 and gain or losses are recorded as other income or expense.

 

Decrease in fair value of warrants

 

The decrease in the calculated fair value of warrants, which are accounted for as a derivative liability, was primarily attributable to a decrease in the estimated fair value of the Company’s stock during the period, which had a larger mark-to-market impact due to the issuance of new warrants in connection with the Term Loan entered into in February 2021.

 

Interest income

 

Interest income was immaterial for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Interest expense

 

Interest expense of $4.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021 relates to interest incurred on the Term Loan entered into in February 2021 and the related debt discount amortization. Interest expense of $78,413 for the six months ended June 30, 2020 relates to interest incurred under the Equipment Loan entered into in March 2020 and interest expense related to debt discount amortization.

 

SEC settlement

 

SEC settlement expense for the six months ended June 30, 2021 relates to $7.0 million payable to the SEC as a result of the settlement with the SEC described above.

 

Other income (expense)

 

Other expense for the six months ended June 30, 2021 primarily relates to a commission fee of $175,000 paid to a third party to assist in obtaining the funds received from the Term Loan and SAFE notes issued during the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Other income in the six months ended June 30, 2020 related primarily other miscellaneous income recorded during the quarter.

 

Income tax expense

 

Income tax expense was less than $1,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020. We have accumulated net operating losses at the federal and state level as we have not yet started commercial operations. We maintain a substantially full valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets. The income tax expenses incurred were primarily related to minimum state filing fees in the states where we have operations.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Since inception, we have financed our operations primarily by issuing equity and debt, including convertible notes issued in 2017 and 2018 and SAFE notes issued in 2018 and 2019, which were later converted into preferred stock, and SAFE notes issued in 2020 and 2021. As of June 30, 2021, our principal sources of liquidity were our cash and cash equivalents in the amount of $31.2 million, which are primarily invested in highly liquid investments purchased with a remaining maturity of three months or less.

 

We expect that our principal sources of liquidity following the Business Combination and the Private Investment in Public Entity (“PIPE”) closings will be our cash and cash equivalents and any capital we may obtain through borrowings or additional sales of equity and debt securities.

 

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Historical Cash Flows

 

    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020  
Net cash provided by (used in)            
Operating activities   $ (44,076,824 )   $ (11,410,575 )
Investing activities     (2,187,457 )     (1,007,941 )
Financing activities     55,712,858       10,082,395  
Net change in cash and cash equivalents   $ 9,448,577     $ (2,336,121 )

 

Operating Activities

 

Net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2021 was $44.1 million, driven primarily by headcount costs, research and development activities, and legal expenses related to the SEC Matter and CFIUS review as well as increases to net cash used in operating assets and liabilities. Headcount related payroll costs, excluding accrued bonus and stock-based compensation, were $9.8 million. Research and development activity expenses, including materials, components, and subcontractor costs were $10.9 million. Legal expenses, as described in Note 11 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, were $8.6 million. Additionally, cash used in net working capital, excluding $7.0 million of accrued SEC settlement costs and a $1.4 million non-cash increase to deferred offering costs, was $7.9 million. The remaining operating costs, including office overheads and selling, general and administrative professional costs were $6.3 million.

 

Net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2020 was $11.4 million, driven primarily by headcount costs, research and development activities, and selling, general, and administrative costs. Headcount related payroll costs, excluding accrued bonus and stock-based compensation, were $4.2 million. Research and development activity expenses, including materials, components, and subcontractor costs were $4.6 million. The remaining operating costs, including office overheads and selling, general and administrative professional costs were $2.1 million

 

Investing Activities

 

Net cash used in investing activities was $2.2 million and $1.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021, and 2020, respectively, which primarily consisted of purchases of fixed assets and intangible assets.

 

Financing Activities

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $55.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021, consisting of proceeds from the issuance of SAFE notes and common stock and borrowing under the Term Loan, partially offset by payments of debt issuance costs.

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $10.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2020, primarily consisting of proceeds from the issuance of SAFE notes and the Equipment Loan.

 

Funding Requirements

 

We expect our expenses to increase substantially in connection with our ongoing activities, particularly as we continue to advance the development of our vehicles, build corporate infrastructure and enhance our sales and marketing functions. As we continue to develop our vehicle capabilities, expand our fleet of vehicles with the development of the Ardoride and Fervoride vehicles and expand our manufacturing footprint and capabilities, we estimate spending approximately $750 million in research and development and approximately $140 million in capital expenditures over the next seven years. In addition, we expect cost of revenue to increase significantly as we commence commercial operations.

 

Specifically, our operating expenses will increase as we:

 

scale up our corporate infrastructure, people, processes and systems;

 

enhance and scale our sales and marketing function;

 

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scale up our manufacturing capabilities increasing facility footprint, purchasing additional manufacturing equipment;

 

pursue further research and development related to developing our next generation vehicles;

 

seek regulatory approvals for changes or updates to our vehicles;

 

hire additional personnel;

 

implement measures required under the NSA and seek to comply with the NSA’s requirements;

 

maintain, expand and protect our intellectual property portfolio; and

 

comply with public company reporting requirements.

 

We expect that our current cash and cash equivalents, the additional cash and cash equivalents received upon the consummation of the Business Combination and the PIPE transaction, and our projected gross profit (revenue less cost of revenue), and additional funding from equity or debt financings will enable us to fund an anticipated $260 million of operating expenses, research and development expenses and capital expenditures during the period from 2021-2023. Beyond 2023, based on our current pipeline and profitability forecast, we believe that our revenue and cash flow from operations will be sufficient to fund ongoing expenses and development investments of the business. Additionally, we believe that the payments in the form of non-refundable deposits we receive from our customers prior to launch will provide sufficient funding and liquidity to support costs incurred related to that mission.

 

We have based these estimates on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could utilize our available capital resources sooner than we expect. For example, the research and development, volume production, launch and in orbit operation of our vehicles have unpredictable costs and are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our control that may affect the timing and magnitude of these anticipated expenditures. Some of these risks and uncertainties are described in more detail in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus filed on July 23, 2021, under the heading “Risk Factors — Risks Related to the Business and Industry of Momentus.”

 

Additionally, changing circumstances may cause us to expend capital significantly faster than we currently anticipate, or we may need to spend more money than currently expected because of circumstances beyond our control. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us, or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our business, results of operations, and financial condition would be adversely affected.

 

Commitments and Contingencies

 

The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2021.

 

          Payments Due by Period(1)  
    Total     <1 year    

1 – 3 years

   

3 – 5 years

    >5 years  
Operating lease obligations   $ 10,624,071     $ 622,375     $ 3,094,376     $ 3,207,250     $ 3,700,071  
Purchase obligations   $ 17,283,435     $ 8,283,435     $ 9,000,000                  
SEC Matter Settlement   $ 7,000,000     $ 2,000,000     $ 5,000,000                  
Total Obligations   $ 34,907,506     $ 10,905,810     $ 17,094,376     $ 3,207,250     $ 3,700,071  

 

We are a party to operating leases primarily for facilities (e.g., office buildings, warehouses and spaceport) under non-cancellable operating leases. These leases expire at various dates through 2028.

 

Purchase obligations include purchase orders and agreements to purchase goods or services that are enforceable, legally binding, and where the significant terms and minimum purchase obligations are stipulated.

 

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In addition, we enter into agreements in the normal course of business with vendors for research and development services and outsourced services, which are generally cancellable upon written notice. These payments are not included in this table of contractual obligations.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We do not engage in any off-balance sheet activities or have any arrangements or relationships with unconsolidated entities, such as variable interest, special purpose, and structured finance entities.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of our financial statements and related disclosures requires us to make estimates, assumptions and judgments as of the balance sheet date that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, costs and expenses and related disclosures. We believe that the estimates, assumptions and judgments involved in the accounting policies described below have the greatest potential impact on our financial statements and, therefore, we consider these to be our critical accounting policies. Accordingly, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions and conditions. There were no significant changes in critical accounting estimates during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

We enter into contracts for ‘last-mile’ satellite and cargo delivery, payload hosting and in-orbit servicing options with customers that are primarily in the aerospace industry. From inception to June 30, 2021, we have not completed a commercial launch of customer cargo and as a result, have not recognized revenue to date. However, as of June 30, 2021 we have signed contracts with customers and have collected approximately $3.1 million in customer deposits, which are recorded as current and non-current contract liabilities in our balance sheet. Included in the collected amount as of June 30, 2021 are customer deposits which had been identified as pending customer refunds at period end, as discussed below, and $1.6 million of non-current deposits which related to performance obligations not expected to be completed for at least one year.

 

The Company will recognize revenue (along with any other fess that have been paid) upon the earlier of the satisfaction of our performance obligation or when the customer cancels the contract. While the Company’s standard contracts do not contain refund or recourse provisions that enable its customers to recover any non-refundable fees that have been paid, the Company may issue full or partial refunds to customers on a case-by-case basis as necessary to preserve and foster future business relationships and customer goodwill. As a result of the Company’s inability to complete any launches in 2021 (refer to Note 3 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K for additional information), the Company will issue customer refunds of approximately $1.5 million, presented as part of current contract liabilities, in the third quarter, ending September 30, 2021.

 

We account for customer contracts in accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which includes the following five-step model:

 

Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer.

 

Identification of the performance obligations in the contract.

 

Determination of the transaction price.

 

Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract.

 

Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation.

 

Our contracts are cancellable for convenience by the customer and typically do not contain variable consideration. However, the full transaction price is collected in advance of the scheduled launch and all fees that are paid are non-refundable (and are not limited to deposits), regardless if the contract is cancelled by the customer or in the event a performance obligation is not satisfied by us.

 

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Our services are considered a single performance obligation, to transport the customer’s payload to a specified orbit in space. We recognize revenue at a point in time when control is transferred, which is considered to be upon the release of the customer’s payload into its specified orbit. We will calculate the weight distribution of each orbital transfer vehicle at the customer level, and we will estimate the delivery date for each customer’s payload based on the relative weight of payloads released to determine the point in time to recognize revenue for each payload release.

 

In periods in which we recognize revenue, we will disclose the amounts of revenue recognized that was included as a contract liability balance at the beginning of the reporting period in accordance with ASC 606-10-50-8(b).

 

Deferred Fulfillment and Prepaid Launch Costs

 

We prepay for certain launch costs to third party providers that will carry the orbital transfer vehicle to orbit. Prepaid costs allocated to the delivery of a customer’s payload are classified as deferred fulfillment costs and recognized as cost of revenue upon delivery of the customer’s payload. Prepaid costs allocated to our payload are classified as prepaid launch costs and are amortized to research and development expense upon the release of our payload. The allocation is determined based on the distribution between customer and our payload weight on each launch. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company determined that prepayments it had made toward launches in 2021 would not be recoverable due to the denied FAA application and related notice from SpaceX. As a result the Company impaired prepaid launch costs of $8.7 million. For additional information, see Note 3 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Contract Liabilities

 

Customer deposits collected prior to the release of the customer’s payload into its specified orbit are recorded as current and non-current contract liabilities in our balance sheet as the amounts received represent a prepayment for the satisfaction of a future performance obligation that has not yet commenced. Each non-refundable deposit is determined to be a contract liability upon cash collection. Prior to making this determination, we ensure that a valid contract is in place that meets the definition of the existence of a contract in accordance with ASC 606-10-25-1 and 2.

 

Stock-based Compensation

 

We have a stock incentive plan under which incentive and non-qualified stock options and restricted stock awards are granted to employees, directors, and consultants. All stock-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options are recognized in the financial statements based on their respective grant date fair values.

 

We recognize stock-based compensation expense using a fair value-based method for costs related to all stock-based payments. We estimate the fair value of stock-based payments on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. The model requires management to make a number of assumptions, including expected volatility of our stock, expected life of the option, risk-free interest rate, and expected dividends. The fair value of the stock is expensed over the related service period which is typically the vesting period. The stock-based compensation expense that is reported in our financial statements is based on awards that are expected to vest. We account for forfeitures as they occur.

 

Estimating the fair value of equity awards as of the grant date using valuation models, such as the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model, is affected by assumptions regarding a number of variables as disclosed above, and any changes in the assumptions can materially affect the fair value and ultimately how much stock-based compensation expense is recognized. These inputs are subjective and generally require significant analysis and judgment to develop. See Note 9 in our audited financial statements included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus for the specific assumptions we used in applying the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to determine the estimated fair value of our stock options and awards granted in the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and Note 10 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, and 2020 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

We expect our share-based compensation cost will increase to the extent that we grant additional stock option awards to employees and non-employees. If there are any modifications or cancellations 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 research and development expenses and selling, general, and administrative expenses.

 

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SAFE Notes

 

We issued SAFE notes to investors under which investors will receive certain shares of the Company’s capital stock upon an equity financing. We determined that the SAFE notes are not a legal form debt (i.e., no creditors’ rights). The SAFE notes include a provision allowing for cash redemption upon the consummation of a change of control, the occurrence of which is outside the control of the Company. Therefore, we classified SAFE notes as liabilities as they are redeemable upon a change of control event which is not within the control of the Company. SAFE notes are recorded at fair value, and subject to remeasurement through earnings at each balance sheet date until the date of their respective settlement and classified as marked-to-market liabilities pursuant to ASC 480.

 

We determined the estimated fair value of the SAFE notes by applying a Backsolve method within the Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing model. This methodology effectively allowed us to solve for the implied value of the business based on the terms of the SAFE investments (i.e. the value of the company, such that when allocated to the various securities, the value allocated to the SAFE investment equals the price the investor paid for such SAFE instrument). Significant judgment is required in estimating the fair value of the SAFE notes, and if the assumptions we used were to change, the estimated fair value of our SAFE notes could change significantly.

 

Income Taxes

 

We account for income taxes in accordance with authoritative guidance, which requires the use of the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred income tax assets and liabilities are determined based upon the difference between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rate expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which the differences are expected to be reversed.

 

Significant judgment is required in determining any valuation allowance recorded against deferred tax assets. In assessing the need for a valuation allowance, management considers all available evidence, including past operating results, estimates of future taxable income, and the feasibility of tax planning strategies.

 

In the event that management changes its determination as to the amount of deferred tax assets that can be realized, we will adjust our valuation allowance with a corresponding impact to the provision for income taxes in the period in which such determination is made.

 

We are required to evaluate the tax positions taken in the course of preparing our tax returns to determine whether tax positions are “more likely than not” of being sustained by the applicable tax authority. Tax benefits of positions not deemed to meet the “more likely than not” threshold would be recorded as a tax expense in the current year. The amount recognized is subject to estimate and management judgment with respect to the likely outcome of each uncertain tax position. The amount that is ultimately sustained for an individual uncertain tax position or for all uncertain tax positions in the aggregate could differ from the amount that is initially recognized.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by 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 upon adoption.

 

Please refer to Note 2 in our financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and Note 2 in our condensed interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K for a description of recently adopted accounting pronouncements and recently issued accounting pronouncements not yet adopted, the timing of their adoptions and our assessment, to the extent we have made one, of their potential impact on our financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

 

We are exposed to a variety of market and other risks, including the effects of changes in interest rates, inflation, and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as risks to the availability of funding sources, hazard events, and specific asset risks.

 

Interest Rate Risk

 

The market risk inherent in our financial instruments and our financial position represents the potential loss arising from adverse changes in interest rates. As of June 30, 2021, we had cash and cash equivalents of $31.2 million, which are primarily invested in highly liquid investments purchased with a remaining maturity of three months or less. However, due to the short-term maturities and the low-risk profile of our investments, an immediate 10% change in interest rates would not have a material effect on the fair market value of our cash and cash equivalents.

 

Foreign Currency Risk

 

There was no material foreign currency risk for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020. Currently, a significant portion of our cash receipts and expenses are generated in U.S. dollars.

 

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, that company’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

 

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

In connection with the audit of our financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019, we identified material weaknesses and significant deficiencies 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. A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with governance.

 

For 2019, the material weaknesses related to the lack of timely preparation of proper financial close and account reconciliation processes, missed accruals and improper accounting for stock issuance costs. The significant deficiencies related to inadequate evidence to properly support account balances. These material weaknesses and significant deficiencies could impact our ability to have a timely reporting process and result in errors in our reporting process.

 

We have mitigated many of the internal control deficiencies and remediated the 2019 material weaknesses by improving the timeliness of preparation of financial close and account reconciliation process by hiring additional experienced management and staff, identifying goods or services received as of the close of the accounting period that have not been invoiced and accruing for such items, and utilizing the use of specialists to determine the proper accounting for highly technical and complex transactions. We are continuously focused on designing and implementing effective internal controls measures to improve our internal control over financial reporting. Our efforts include a number of actions:

 

We continue to design and implement additional review procedures within our accounting and finance department to provide more robust and comprehensive internal controls over financial reporting that address the financial statement assertions and risks of material misstatement within our business processes, including implementing a comprehensive closing process checklist with additional layers of reviews.

 

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We have established and continue to improve a more formal process to review and ensure proper cut-off and classification of expenses, including those related to legal expenses incurred by the Company.

 

We implemented and are continuing to design a more formal process to properly review and document evidence to support account balances, including preparing analytical analysis of the financial statements and conducting periodic reviews of the results of operations with senior management.

 

We have recruited additional personnel, in addition to engaging and utilizing third party consultants and specialists to supplement our internal resources business processes involving highly technical and complex transactions.

 

While these actions and planned actions are subject to ongoing management evaluation and will require validation and testing of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over a sustained period of financial reporting cycles, we are committed to the continuous improvement of our internal control over financial reporting and will continue to diligently review our internal control over financial reporting.

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, and the year ended December 31, 2020, notwithstanding the material weaknesses and significant deficiencies identified in our 2019 audited financial statements, our management has concluded that the financial statements included elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K present fairly, in all material respects, our balance sheets, statement of operations, statements of stockholders’ equity, and statement of cash flows as of the dates, and for the periods presented, in conformity with GAAP.

 

 Properties

 

The Company’s headquarters are located at 3901 N. First Street, San Jose, California. The facilities of the Company are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Information About Momentus—Facilities” on page 229, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

 Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

 

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of shares of Class A Stock of the Company upon the Closing by:

 

each person known by the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Class A Stock of the Company upon the Closing;

 

each of the Company’s executive officers and directors; and

 

all executive officers and directors of the Company as a group upon the Closing.

 

Beneficial ownership is determined according to the rules of the Commission, 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. In computing the number of shares of Class A Stock beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership, the Company deemed outstanding shares of its Class A Stock subject to options and warrants held by that person that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of the Closing Date. The Company did not deem these shares outstanding, however, for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.

 

The percentage ownership of Class A Stock is based on 79,772,262 shares of Class A Stock outstanding as of the Closing Date.

 

Unless otherwise indicated and subject to applicable community property laws, the Company believes that all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of Class A Stock of the Company beneficially owned by them.

 

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Unless otherwise indicated below, the address of each beneficial owner listed in the table below is c/o Momentus Inc., 3901 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95134.

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

 

Name of Beneficial Owners   Number of
Shares of
Class A Common
Stock
Beneficially
Owned
    Percentage of
Outstanding
Class A Common Stock
 
5% Stockholders:            
SRC-NI Holdings, LLC(1)(2)     4,381,029       5.5 %
Juan Manuel Quiroga(1)(2)     4,381,029       5.5 %
Edward K. Freedman(1)(2)(3)     5,857,500       7.3 %
                 
Entities associated with Prime Movers Lab(7)     25,823,785       24.5 %
Directors and Named Executive Officers:                
Jikun Kim           %
Dawn Harms(8)     120,131       * %
Brian Kabot(1)(2)     4,381,029       5.5 %
Chris Hadfield           %
John C. Rood           %
Kimberly A. Reed           %
Mitchel B. Kugler           %
Linda J. Reiners           %
Victorino G. Mercado           %
Directors and executive officers as a group (10 individuals)(8)     4,501,160       5.7 %

 

 

 

* Less than one percent.

 

(1) The business address of each of these entities and individuals is c/o Stable Road Capital LLC, 1345 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice, California 90291.
(2) SRC-NI Holdings, LLC, SRAC’s sponsor (the “Sponsor”), is the record holder of 4,381,029 of the shares of Class A Stock reported hereby. [Mr. Kabot is a member of the Sponsor]. The business address of the Sponsor is 1345 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, California 90291. The Sponsor’s board of managers is comprised of Edward K. Freedman, Brian Kabot and Juan Manuel Quiroga. Consequently, each of these individuals may be deemed the beneficial owner of the shares held by the Sponsor and shares voting and dispositive control over such securities.
(3) Includes 1,176,471 shares of Class A Stock held by SRAC Partners and 300,000 shares of Class A Stock held by Stable Road Capital LLC. Stable Road Capital LLC is the managing member of SRAC Partners, and Edward Freedman is the sole member of Stable Road Capital LLC. As such, Mr. Freedman may be deemed to possess beneficial ownership of the securities held directly by SRAC Partners and Stable Road Capital LLC.
(4) According to Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2020 by HGC Investment Management Inc. HGC Investment Management Inc. serves as the investment manager to HGC Arbitrage Fund LP, an Ontario limited partnership (the “Fund”), with respect to the Class A common stock held by HGC Investment Management Inc. on behalf of the Fund. The business address of HGC Investment Management Inc. is 366 Adelaide, Suite 601, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1R9, Canada.
(5) According to a Schedule 13G/A filed with the SEC on February 16, 2021 by 683 Capital Management, LLC, 683 Capital Partners, LP and Ari Zweiman. The business address of each of the foregoing is 3 Columbus Circle, Suite 2205, New York, NY 10019.
(6) According to a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 16, 2021 by Susquehanna Securities, LLC. The business address of the foregoing is 401 E. City Avenue Suite 220, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
(7) Includes (i) 14,905,597 shares held by PML, (ii) 6,373,200 shares held of record by Momentus PML SPV 1 LP (“PML SPV 1”), (iii) 1,018,594 shares held of record by Momentus PML SPV 2 LP (“PML SPV 2”), and (iv) 2,526,394 shares held of record by Momentus PMS SPV3 LP (“PML SPV 3”). Prime Movers Lab GP I LLC (“PML GP”), is the general partner of PML, PML SPV 1, PML SPV 2 and PML SPV 3. Dakin Sloss is the manager of PML GP and may be deemed to have or share beneficial ownership of the shares held by PML, PML SPV 1, PML SPV 2 and PML SPV 3. The mailing address of PML, PML SPV 1, PML SPV 2 and PML SPV 3 is PO Box 12829, Jackson, WY 83002.
(8) Includes 120,131 shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding options exercisable within 60 days of August 12, 2021.

 

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Directors and Executive Officers

 

The following are directors and executive officers of the Company after the closing of the Business Combination:

 

Name   Age   Title
Executive Officers        
Dawn Harms   65   Chief Revenue Officer
Fred Kennedy   52   President
Jikun Kim   57   Chief Financial Officer
John C. Rood   52   Chief Executive Officer and Director
Non-Employee Directors        
Brian Kabot   43   Director
Chris Hadfield   61   Director
Mitchel B. Kugler   60   Director
Kimberly A. Reed   50   Director
Linda J. Reiners   61   Director
Victorino G. Mercado   60   Director

 

Additional information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination” beginning on page 261 and under “Management After the Business Combination” in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on August 6, 2021 (“Supplement to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus”) beginning on page 7, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Board Composition

 

On August 11, 2021, John C. Rood, Brian Kabot, Chris Hadfield, Mitchel B. Kugler, Kimberly A. Reed, Linda J. Reiners were elected to serve as directors effective immediately upon the Closing. Victorino G. Mercado was appointed as a director effective as of August 12, 2021.

 

In addition, Messrs. Kabot and Kugler and Ms. Reed were appointed to serve as Class I directors, with terms expiring at the Company’s first annual meeting of stockholders following the Closing; Messrs. Hadfield and Rood were appointed to serve as Class II directors, with terms expiring at the Company’s second annual meeting of stockholders following the Closing; and Ms. Reiners and Mr. Mercado were appointed to serve as a Class III directors, with terms expiring at the Company’s third annual meeting of stockholders following the Closing. The size of the Board is seven members. Biographical information for these individuals is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and Supplement to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, in each case in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination,” which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The Board has appointed Mr. Rood as Chairperson of the Board and Ms. Reiners as lead independent director.

 

Director Independence

 

The Board has determined that Messrs. Kabot, Hadfield, Kugler and Mercado and Mses. Reed and Reiners are independent as defined under the listing standards of Nasdaq.

 

Committees of the Board of Directors

 

Effective upon the Closing, the standing committees of the Board consist of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Security Committee and Disclosure Committee.

 

Mses. Reiners and Reed and Mr. Kugler have been appointed to serve on the Audit Committee, with Ms. Reiners as chair; Messrs. Kabot, Hadfield and Kugler have been appointed to serve on the Compensation Committee, with Mr. Kabot as chair; and Messrs. Mercado and Hadfield and Ms. Reed have been appointed to serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, with Mr. Mercado as chair. In addition, Mr. Mercado is the sole member of the Security Committee and Messrs. Kugler, Hadfield and Rood have been appointed to the Disclosure Committee, with Mr. Kugler as chair.

 

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Executive Officers

 

Effective as of the Closing, the Board appointed John C. Rood to serve as Chief Executive Officer, Fred Kennedy to serve as President, Jikun Kim to serve as Chief Financial Officer and Dawn Harms to serve as Chief Revenue Officer. Biographical information for these individuals is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and the Supplement to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, in each case in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination,” which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Director Compensation

 

The information regarding director compensation is set forth in the section of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus titled “Director Compensation” beginning on page 275, which information is incorporated herein by reference, and in sections of the Supplement to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus titled “Non-Employee Director Compensation” on page 2 and “Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy” beginning on page 5, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Executive Compensation

 

The compensation of the Company’s executive officers is described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the sections titled “Management After the Business Combination” and “Executive Compensation ― Executive Compensation Arrangements — Pre-Closing Agreements” and in the Supplement to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the sections titled “Executive Compensation Arrangements — Pre-Closing Agreements,” “Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control” and “Post-Closing Employment Agreements,” each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

 

The information included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the sections titled “Certain Momentus Relationships and Related Party Transactions” beginning on page 248 and “Certain SRAC Relationships and Related Party Transactions” beginning on page 259 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under “Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement” is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Legacy Momentus issued Simple Agreement for Future Equity (“SAFE”) notes totaling approximately $13.3 million and $20.5 million to affiliates of Prime Movers Lab Fund I LP (“Prime Movers”) in 2020 and 2021, respectively. The SAFE notes provided Prime Movers affiliates the right to certain shares of Legacy Momentus’ capital stock upon an equity financing. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, each SAFE note that was outstanding was automatically converted into the right to receive the aggregate Per Share Company Stock Consideration payable in accordance with the terms of such applicable SAFE note in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Each SAFE note so converted was immediately thereafter terminated in accordance with its terms. 

 

In addition, Prime Movers Growth Fund I LP, an affiliate of Prime Movers, purchased 1 million shares of the Company’s Class A Stock and received warrants to purchase 1 million shares of Class A Stock in the Private Placement which was consummated at the Closing.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

Reference is made to the disclosure regarding legal proceedings of the Company in the sections of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus titled “Information About Momentus—Legal Proceedings” beginning on page 229, “Information About SRAC—Legal Proceedings” beginning on page 252 and in the section of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 11, 2021, under the heading “Legal Proceedings,” each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

On July 15, 2021, a purported stockholder of SRAC filed a putative class action complaint against the Company, Sponsor, Brian Kabot, James Norris, Momentus, and Mikhail Kokorich in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in a case captioned Jensen v. Stable Road Acquisition Corp., et al., No. 2:21-cv-05744. The complaint alleges that the defendants omitted certain material information in their public statements and disclosures regarding the Proposed Transaction in violation of the securities laws, and seeks damages on behalf of a putative class of stockholders who purchased SRAC stock between October 7, 2020 and July 13, 2021. On July 22, 2021, a second purported stockholder filed a putative class action complaint in the same court, in a case captioned Hall v. Stable Road Acquisition Corp., et al. No. 2:21-cv-05943, asserting substantially similar claims and seeking substantially similar relief. Pursuant to statute, the Jensen and Hall actions will be consolidated into a single proceeding and a lead plaintiff and lead counsel appointed to represent the putative class. The Company believes that it has viable defenses to the claims asserted and intends to defend the case vigorously. Other, similar suits may follow.

 

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

 

Prior to the Closing, the Company’s publicly traded Class A Stock, public warrants and units were listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “SRAC,” “SRACW” and “SRACU,” respectively. Upon the Closing, the Class A Stock and public warrants were listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbols “MNTS” and “MNTSW,” respectively, and began trading on August 13, 2021. The Company’s publicly traded units automatically separated into their component securities upon the Closing and, as a result, no longer trade as a separate security and were delisted from Nasdaq.

 

The Company has not paid any cash dividends on shares of its Class A Stock to date. The payment of any cash dividends in the future will be dependent upon the Company’s revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition. The payment of any dividends will be within the discretion of the Board.

 

Description of Registrant’s Securities

 

The description of the Company’s securities is contained in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Description of Securities” beginning on page 278 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The shares and warrants issued in connection with the Private Placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

Information about indemnification of the Company’s directors and officers is set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Management After the Business Combination—Limitation on Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors,” which information is incorporated herein by reference. The disclosure set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the section titled “Indemnification Agreements” is incorporated by herein by reference.

 

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

The information set forth under Item 4.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

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

 

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The description of the Private Placement set forth above under “Introductory Note” of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference. The shares and warrants issued in connection with the Private Placement have not been registered under the Securities Act, in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

 

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

 

The disclosure set forth under Item 5.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 4.01 Change in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

 

On August 12, 2021, the Board approved the appointment of Armanino LLP (“Armanino”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2021. Armanino served as the independent registered public accounting firm of Legacy Momentus prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, WithumSmith+Brown, PC (“Withum”), the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm prior to the Business Combination, was informed that it would be dismissed as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. Withum reviewed the financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, which consisted only of the accounts of the pre-Business Combination special purpose acquisition company and which were contained in the quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed by the Company (f/k/a Stable Road Acquisition Corp.) on August 11, 2021.

 

The audit report of Withum on the Company’s financial statements as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, and for the year ended December 31, 2020 and for the period from May 28, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion, and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainties, audit scope or accounting principles.

 

During the period from May 28, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, and the subsequent interim period through June 30, 2021, there were no disagreements with Withum on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Withum, would have caused it to make a reference in connection with their opinion to the subject matter of the disagreement or reportable events as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

 

During the period from May 28, 2019 (inception) through December 31, 2019, and through June 30, 2021, neither the Company nor anyone on the Company’s behalf consulted with Armanino regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided to the Company by Armanino that Armanino concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement, as that term is described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K, or a reportable event, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

 

The Company provided Withum with a copy of the foregoing disclosures prior to the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K and requested that Withum furnish a letter addressed to the Commission, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 16.1, stating whether it agrees with such disclosures, and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree.

 

Item 5.01 Changes in Control of Registrant.

 

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above and in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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

 

The disclosure set forth in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the sections titled “Directors and Executive Officers,” “Director Compensation” and “Executive Compensation” is incorporated by herein by reference. The amended and restated offer letter of Dawn Harms and the employment agreement of John C. Rood are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.9 and 10.12 and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

2021 Equity Incentive Plan

 

As previously disclosed, at the Special Meeting, on August 11, 2021, the stockholders of the Company considered and approved the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan. The 2021 Equity Incentive Plan was previously approved, subject to stockholder approval, by the Board on August 11, 2021. The 2021 Equity Incentive Plan became effective immediately upon the Closing.

 

A description of the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Proposal No. 5—Approval of the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan Proposal,” which is incorporated herein by reference, and in the Supplement to the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “New Plan Benefits,” which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and the related forms of award agreements under the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan, which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

As previously disclosed, at the Special Meeting, on August 11, 2021, the stockholders of the Company considered and approved the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan was previously approved, subject to stockholder approval, by the Board on August 11, 2021. The 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan became effective immediately upon the Closing.

 

A description of the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan is included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section titled “Proposal No. 6—Approval of the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan Proposal,” which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.8 and incorporated herein by reference.

  

Item 5.06. Change in Shell Company Status.

 

As a result of the Business Combination, which fulfilled the definition of a “Business Combination” as required by the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Company, as in effect immediately prior to the Closing, the Company ceased to be a shell company upon the Closing. A description of the Business Combination and the terms of the Merger Agreement are included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the sections titled “Questions and Answers About the Business Combination,” “The Business Combination and The Merger Agreement” and “Proposal No. 1—The Business Combination Proposal,” which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(a) Financial statements of businesses acquired.

 

The consolidated financial statements of Legacy Momentus as of and for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus beginning on page F-73 are incorporated herein by reference.

 

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Legacy Momentus for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 are set forth in Exhibit 99.1 hereto and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

(b) Pro forma financial information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of the Company as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and for the year ended December 31, 2020 is set forth in Exhibit 99.2 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

(d)    List of Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
     
2.1*   Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 7, 2020, by and among Stable Road Acquisition Corp., Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC, and Momentus Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 7, 2020).
     
3.1   Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of  the Company.
     
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
     
4.1   Warrant Agreement, dated November 7, 2019, between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and SRAC (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 13, 2019).
     
4.2   Specimen Warrant Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-233980) filed on October 10, 2019).
     
10.1   Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of August 12, 2021, by and among the Company, Sponsor, and certain other parties.
     
10.2   Form of Lock-Up Agreement.
     
10.3   Form of Insider Letter (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-233980) filed on October 10, 2019).
     
10.4   Form of Indemnification Agreement.
     
10.5†   Momentus 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.
     
10.6†   Form of option award agreement under 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.
     
10.7†   Form of RSU award agreement under 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.
     
10.8†   Momentus 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
     
10.9†   Amended and restated offer letter by and between Momentus Inc. and Dawn Harms effective July 30, 2021.
     
10.10†   Offer Letter by and between Momentus Inc. and Fred Kennedy dated September 9, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-249787) filed on March 8, 2021).
     
10.11†   Offer Letter by and between Momentus Inc. and Jikun Kim dated September 6, 2020 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-249787) filed on June 29, 2021).

 

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10.12†   Employment Agreement of John C. Rood dated August 1, 2021.
     
10.13***   National Security Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-249787) filed on July 16, 2021)).
     
10.14   Form of Repurchase Agreement, dated as of June 8, 2021, between the Company and each of (i) Mikhail Kokorich and Dorsey & Whitney Trust Company LLC, as trustee of the Mikhail Kokorich 2021 Irrevocable Trust u/a/d March 1, 2021, (2) Mikhail Kokorich and Dorsey & Whitney Trust Company LLC, as trustee of the Momentus Inc. Voting Trust Agreement u/a/d March 1, 2021, and (3) Brainyspace LLC, Dorsey & Whitney Trust Company LLC, as trustee of the Olga Khasis 2021 Irrevocable Trust u/a/d March 1, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-249787) filed on June 29, 2021).
     
10.15†   Director Compensation Policy. 
     
16.1   Letter to the SEC from WithumSmith+Brown, PC dated August 18, 2021.
     
21.1   List of Subsidiaries.
     
99.1   Unaudited condensed financial statements of the Company for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.
     
99.2   Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated combined financial information for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, and for the year ended December 31, 2020.
     
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).

 

 

* The schedules to this Exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(b)(2). The Company agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedule to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request.
** Confidential portions of this exhibit were redacted pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K and will be furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.
Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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

 

  Momentus Inc.
   
Date: August 18, 2021 By: /s/ John C. Rood
  Name: John C. Rood
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

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Exhibit 3.1 

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
STABLE ROAD ACQUISITION CORP.

 

Stable Road Acquisition Corp., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify as follows:

 

A. The name of this corporation is Stable Road Acquisition Corp. Its original Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 28, 2019. This corporation filed an amended and restated certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on November 7, 2019 (the “First Amended and Restated Certificate”).

 

B. This Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (this “Second Amended and Restated Certificate”) was duly adopted by the Board of Directors of this corporation and by the stockholders in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

C. This Second Amended and Restated Certificate restates, integrates and amends the provisions of the First Amended and Restated Certificate. Certain capitalized terms used in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate are defined where appropriate herein.

 

D. The text of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

The name of this corporation is Momentus Inc. (the “Corporation”).

 

ARTICLE II

 

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

 

ARTICLE III

 

The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by 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 “General Corporation Law”).

 

ARTICLE IV

 

Section 1. Total Authorized

 

1.1 The total number of shares of all classes of stock that the Corporation has authority to issue is 274,312,500 shares, consisting of three (3) classes: 250,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Class A Common Stock”), 4,312,500 shares of Class B Common Stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Class B Common Stock” and together with the “Common Stock”), and 20,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, $0.00001 par value per share (“Preferred Stock”).

 

 

 

 

1.2 Following the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and immediately prior to the Corporation’s consummation of any business combination, each share of Class B Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate shall automatically be converted into one (1) share of Class A Common Stock without any action on the part of any person, including the Corporation, and concurrently with such conversion, the number of authorized shares of Class B Common Stock shall be reduced to zero. It is intended that the conversion of Class B Common Stock into Class A Common Stock will be treated as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(E) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

1.3 The number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of capital stock representing a majority of the voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the General Corporation Law, and no vote of the holders of the Class A Common Stock voting separately as a class shall be required therefor.

 

Section 2. The Corporation’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) is authorized, subject to any limitations prescribed by the law of the State of Delaware, by resolution or resolutions adopted from time to time, to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series, and, by filing a certificate of designation pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Delaware (the “Certificate of Designation”), to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, to fix the designation, vesting, powers (including voting powers), preferences and relative, participating, optional or other rights (and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof) of the shares of each such series and to increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any such series. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may also 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 voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, without a separate vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock or any series thereof, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the General Corporation Law, unless a vote of any such holders is required pursuant to the terms of any Certificate of Designation designating a series of Preferred Stock.

 

Section 3. Except as otherwise expressly provided in any Certificate of Designation designating any series of Preferred Stock pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Article IV, (i) any new series of Preferred Stock may be designated, fixed and determined as provided herein by the Board without approval of the holders of Common Stock or the holders of Preferred Stock, or any series thereof, and (ii) any such new series may have powers, preferences and rights, including, without limitation, voting rights, dividend rights, liquidation rights, redemption rights and conversion rights, senior to, junior to or pari passu with the rights of the Common Stock, the Preferred Stock or any future class or series of Preferred Stock or Common Stock.

 

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Section 4. Each outstanding share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote on each matter properly submitted to the stockholders of the Corporation for their vote; provided, however, that, except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together as a class with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock).

 

ARTICLE V

 

Section 1. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board, except as otherwise provided by law. In addition to the powers and authority expressly conferred upon them by statute or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws of the Corporation (the “Bylaws”), the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Corporation.

 

Section 2. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, the total number of directors constituting the Whole Board shall be fixed from time to time exclusively by resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board. For purposes of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate, the term “Whole Board” shall mean the total number of authorized directors whether or not there exist any vacancies in previously authorized directorships.

 

Section 3. Subject to the special rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, the directors shall be divided, with respect to the time for which they severally hold office, into three classes designated as Class I, Class II and Class III, respectively (the “Classified Board”). The Board is authorized to assign members of the Board already in office to such classes of the Classified Board, which assignments shall become effective at the same time the Classified Board becomes effective. Directors shall be assigned to each class in accordance with a resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board, with the number of directors in each class to be divided as nearly equal as reasonably possible. The initial term of office of the Class I directors shall expire at the Corporation’s first annual meeting of stockholders following the date of filing of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (the “Effectiveness Date”), the initial term of office of the Class II directors shall expire at the Corporation’s second annual meeting of stockholders following the Effectiveness Date and the initial term of office of the Class III directors shall expire at the Corporation’s third annual meeting of stockholders following the Effectiveness Date. At each annual meeting of stockholders following the Effectiveness Date, directors elected to succeed those directors of the class whose terms then expire shall be elected for a term of office to expire at the third succeeding annual meeting of stockholders after their election. In the event of any increase or decrease in the authorized number of directors (a) each director then serving as such shall nevertheless continue as a director of the class of which the director is a member and (b) the newly created or eliminated directorships resulting from such increase or decrease shall be apportioned by the Board among the three classes of directors so as to ensure that no one class has more than one director more than any other class. To the extent possible, consistent with the foregoing rule, any newly created directorships shall be added to those classes whose terms of office are to expire at the latest dates following such allocation, and any newly eliminated directorships shall be subtracted from those classes whose terms of office are to expire at the earliest dates following such allocation, unless otherwise provided from time to time by resolution adopted by the Board. No decrease in the authorized number of directors constituting the Board shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

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Section 4. Each director shall hold office until the annual meeting at which such director’s term expires and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. Any director may resign at any time upon notice to the Corporation given in writing or by any electronic transmission permitted by the Bylaws. Subject to Section 4.1 and the special rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, no director may be removed from the Board except for cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of the then-outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors voting together as a single class.

 

4.1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation), the following provisions shall be in effect at all times for as long as a Security Director (as defined below) is a member of the Board:

 

4.1.1. The Security Director shall not be removed except for cause and with the approval of (a) the CMAs (as defined in the NSA) and (b) at least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of the then-outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors voting together as a single class. As used in this Section 4, “Security Director” shall have the meaning set forth in the National Security Agreement, dated as of June 8, 2021 (the “NSA”), among Mikhail Kokorich, in his individual capacity and on behalf of Nortone Finance S.A., Lev Khasis and Olga Khasis, each in their respective individual capacities and on behalf of Brainyspace LLC, Momentus Inc., and the U.S. Government represented by the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury (the “CMAs”).

 

4.1.2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, this Section 4.1 shall not be amended except with the approval of the CMAs.

 

Section 5. Subject to the special rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, any vacancy occurring in the Board for any cause, and any newly created directorship resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors, shall, unless (a) the Board determines by resolution that any such vacancies or newly created directorships shall be filled by the stockholders or (b) as otherwise provided by law, be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and not by the stockholders; provided, however, that so long as there shall be a Security Director on the Board, any appointment of a Security Director shall be subject to the approval or non-objection of the CMAs. Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders at which the term of office of the class to which the director has been assigned expires or until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. No decrease in the authorized number of directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

Section 6. Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws shall so provide.

 

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ARTICLE VI

 

Section 1. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. Without limiting the effect of the preceding sentence, if the General Corporation Law is hereafter amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of a director, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law, as so amended.

 

Section 2. Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article VI, nor the adoption of any provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate inconsistent with this Article VI, shall eliminate, reduce or otherwise adversely affect any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such amendment, repeal or adoption of such an inconsistent provision.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

The Board shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws. Any adoption, amendment or repeal of the Bylaws by the Board shall require the approval of a majority of the Whole Board. The stockholders shall also have power to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation) or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser or no vote, but 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 Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock issued pursuant to any Certificate of Designation), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to adopt, amend or repeal any provision of the Bylaws; provided, further, that if two-thirds (2/3) of the Whole Board has approved such adoption, amendment or repeal of any provisions of the Bylaws, then only the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to adopt, amend or repeal any provision of the Bylaws; and provided, further, that so long as there shall be a Security Director on the Board, Section 2.2 of the Bylaws, shall not be amended except with the approval of the CMAs.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

Section 1. Subject to the rights of any series of Preferred Stock then outstanding, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.

 

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Section 2. Special meetings of stockholders of the Corporation may be called only by the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the Lead Independent Director (as defined in the Bylaws) or the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board, 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.

 

Section 3. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner and to the extent provided in the Bylaws.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

Section 1. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if and only if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware lacks subject matter jurisdiction, any state court located within the State of Delaware or, if and only if all such state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware) shall be the sole and exclusive forum for the following types of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law: (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation; (ii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by or any wrongdoing by any current or former director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or any stockholder to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders; (iii) any action or proceeding asserting a claim against the Corporation or any current or former director, officer or other employee of the Corporation or any stockholder in such stockholder’s capacity as such arising out of or pursuant to any provision of the General Corporation Law, this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws of the Corporation (as each may be amended from time to time); (iv) any action or proceeding to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws of the Corporation (including any right, obligation or remedy thereunder); (v) any action or proceeding as to which the General Corporation Law confers jurisdiction to the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware; and (vi) any action or proceeding asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in all cases to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the court’s having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants. This Article IX shall not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

 

Section 2. 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 of 1933, as amended.

 

Section 3. Any person or entity holding, owning 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 IX.

 

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ARTICLE X

 

If any provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then such provision shall nonetheless be enforced to the maximum extent possible consistent with such holding and the remaining provisions of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including without limitation, all portions of any section of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall remain in full force and effect.

 

ARTICLE XI

 

The Corporation reserves the right to amend or repeal any provision contained in this Second Amended and Restated Certificate in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware and all rights conferred upon stockholders are granted subject to this reservation; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation) or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, but in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of the stock of the Corporation required by law or by this Second Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Certificate of Designation), and subject to Section 1 and 2 of Article IV, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend or repeal or adopt any provision inconsistent with this Article XI, Section 2, 3 and 4 of Article IV, or Article V, Article VI, Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX or Article X (the “Specified Provisions”); provided, further, that if two-thirds (2/3) of the Whole Board has approved such amendment or repeal of, or any provision inconsistent with, the Specified Provisions, then only the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend or repeal, or adopt any provision inconsistent with, the Specified Provisions.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be executed by its duly authorized officer this 12th day of August, 2021.

 

  STABLE ROAD ACQUISITION CORP.
     
  By: /s/ Brian Kabot
  Name:  Brian Kabot
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

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Exhibit 3.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Momentus INC.

a Delaware corporation

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

 

As adopted on October 7, 2020
(Effective as of August 12, 2021)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Momentus InC.

a Delaware corporation

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

 

Table of Contents

 

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ARTICLE I: STOCKHOLDERS 1
Section 1.1: Annual Meetings. 1
Section 1.2: Special Meetings. 1
Section 1.3: Notice of Meetings. 1
Section 1.4: Adjournments. 1
Section 1.5: Quorum. 2
Section 1.6: Organization. 2
Section 1.7: Voting; Proxies. 2
Section 1.8: Fixing Date for Determination of Stockholders of Record. 3
Section 1.9: List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote. 3
Section 1.10: Inspectors of Elections. 4
Section 1.11: Notice of Stockholder Business; Nominations. 5
ARTICLE II: BOARD OF DIRECTORS 11
Section 2.1: Number; Qualifications. 11
Section 2.2: Election; Resignation; Removal; Vacancies. 12
Section 2.3: Regular Meetings. 12
Section 2.4: Special Meetings. 12
Section 2.5: Remote Meetings Permitted. 12
Section 2.6: Quorum; Vote Required for Action. 12
Section 2.7: Organization. 12
Section 2.8: Unanimous Action by Directors in Lieu of a Meeting. 13
Section 2.9: Powers. 13
Section 2.10: Compensation of Directors. 13
Section 2.11: Confidentiality. 13
ARTICLE III: COMMITTEES 13
Section 3.1: Committees. 13
Section 3.2: Committee Rules. 13
ARTICLE IV: OFFICERS; CHAIRPERSON; LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR 14
Section 4.1: Generally. 14
Section 4.2: Chief Executive Officer. 14
Section 4.3: Chairperson of the Board. 15
Section 4.4: Lead Independent Director.. 15
Section 4.5: President. 15
Section 4.6: Vice President. 15
Section 4.7: Chief Financial Officer. 15
Section 4.8: Treasurer. 15
Section 4.9: Secretary. 15
Section 4.10: Delegation of Authority. 16
Section 4.11: Removal. 16

 

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ARTICLE V: STOCK 16
Section 5.1: Certificates; Uncertificated Shares. 16
Section 5.2: Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Stock Certificates; Issuance of New Certificates or Uncertificated Shares. 16
Section 5.3: Other Regulations. 16
ARTICLE VI: INDEMNIFICATION 17
Section 6.1: Indemnification of Officers and Directors. 17
Section 6.2: Advance of Expenses. 17
Section 6.3: Non-Exclusivity of Rights. 17
Section 6.4: Indemnification Contracts. 17
Section 6.5: Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. 18
Section 6.6: Nature of Rights. 18
Section 6.7: Insurance. 18
ARTICLE VII: NOTICES 19
Section 7.1: Notice. 19
Section 7.2: Waiver of Notice. 19
ARTICLE VIII: INTERESTED DIRECTORS 19
Section 8.1: Interested Directors. 19
Section 8.2: Quorum. 20
ARTICLE IX: MISCELLANEOUS 20
Section 9.1: Fiscal Year. 20
Section 9.2: Seal. 20
Section 9.3: Form of Records. 20
Section 9.4: Reliance Upon Books and Records. 20
Section 9.5: Certificate of Incorporation Governs. 20
Section 9.6: Severability. 20
Section 9.7: Time Periods. 20
ARTICLE X: AMENDMENT 20

 

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Momentus Inc.

a Delaware corporation

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

 

As adopted on October 7, 2020
(Effective as of August 12, 2021)

 

ARTICLE I: STOCKHOLDERS

 

Section 1.1:  Annual Meetings. An annual meeting of stockholders shall be held for the election of directors at such date and time as the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Momentus Inc. (the “Corporation”) shall each year fix. The meeting may be held either at a place, within or without the State of Delaware as permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), or by means of remote communication as the Board in its sole discretion may determine. Any proper business may be transacted at the annual meeting.

 

Section 1.2:  Special Meetings. Special meetings of stockholders for any purpose or purposes shall be called in the manner set forth in the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time, the “Certificate of Incorporation”). The special meeting may be held either at a place, within or without the State of Delaware, or by means of remote communication as the Board in its sole discretion may determine. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of the meeting.

 

Section 1.3:  Notice of Meetings. Notice of all meetings of stockholders shall be given in writing or by electronic transmission in the manner provided by applicable law (including, without limitation, as set forth in Section 7.1.1 of these Bylaws) stating the date, time and place, if any, 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, and the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting. In the case of a special meeting, such notice shall also set forth the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. Unless otherwise required by applicable law or the Certificate of Incorporation, notice of any meeting of stockholders shall be given not less than ten (10), nor more than sixty (60), days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting.

 

Section 1.4:  Adjournments. The chairperson of the meeting shall have the power to adjourn the meeting to another time, date and place (if any). Any meeting of stockholders, annual or special, may be adjourned from time to time, and notice need not be given of any such adjourned meeting if the time, date and place (if any) thereof and 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 adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken; provided, however, that if the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. At the adjourned meeting the Corporation may transact any business that might have been transacted at the original meeting. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Board may postpone, reschedule or cancel any previously scheduled special or annual meeting of the stockholders before it is to be held, regardless of whether any notice or public disclosure with respect to any such meeting has been sent or made pursuant to Section 1.3 hereof or otherwise, in which case notice shall be provided to the stockholders of the new date, time and place, if any, of the meeting as provided in Section 1.3 above.

 

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Section 1.5:  Quorum. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, at each meeting of stockholders the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; provided, however, that where a separate vote by a class or classes or series of stock is required by applicable law or the Certificate of Incorporation, the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of such class or classes or series of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on such matter, present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to the vote on such matter. If a quorum shall fail to attend any meeting, the chairperson of the meeting or, if directed to be voted on by the chairperson of the meeting, the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote who are present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting may adjourn the meeting. Shares of the Corporation’s stock belonging to the Corporation (or to another corporation, if a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors of such other corporation are held, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation), shall neither be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum purposes; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not limit the right of the Corporation or any other corporation to vote any shares of the Corporation’s stock held by it in a fiduciary capacity and to count such shares for purposes of determining a quorum. A quorum, once established at a meeting, shall not be broken by the withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum.

 

Section 1.6:  Organization. Meetings of stockholders shall be presided over by (a) such person as the Board may designate, or (b) in such person’s absence, the Chairperson of the Board, or (c) in such person’s absence, the Lead Independent Director, or, (d) in such person’s absence, the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, or (e) in such person’s absence, the President of the Corporation, or (f) in such person’s absence, by a Vice President. Such person shall be chairperson of the meeting and, subject to Section 1.10 of these Bylaws, shall determine the order of business and the procedure at the meeting, including such regulation of the manner of voting and the conduct of discussion as seems to such person to be in order. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as secretary of the meeting, but in such person’s absence the chairperson of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

 

Section 1.7:  Voting; Proxies. Each stockholder of record entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy. Such a proxy may be prepared, transmitted and delivered in any manner permitted by applicable law. Except as may be required in the Certificate of Incorporation, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Unless otherwise provided by applicable law, rule or regulation applicable to the Corporation or its securities, the rules or regulations of any stock exchange applicable to the Corporation, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, every matter other than the election of directors shall be decided by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock entitled to vote on such matter that are present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and are voted for or against the matter (or if there are two or more classes or series of stock entitled to vote as separate classes, then in the case of each class or series, the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock of that class or series present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting voting for or against such matter).

 

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Section 1.8:  Fixing Date for Determination of Stockholders of Record. 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 sixty (60), nor less than ten (10), days before the date of such meeting. 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 at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at the adjourned meeting.

 

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

 

Section 1.9:   List of Stockholders Entitled to Vote. The Secretary shall prepare, at least ten (10) days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting (provided, however, if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than ten (10) days before the date of the meeting, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth (10th) day before the meeting date), arranged in alphabetical order and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting, (a) on a reasonably accessible electronic network as permitted by applicable law (provided, that the information required to gain access to the list is provided with the notice of the meeting), or (b) during ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the Corporation. If the meeting is held at a location where stockholders may attend in person, the list shall also 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 at the meeting. If the meeting is held solely by means of remote communication, then the list shall 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 the list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. Except as otherwise provided by law, the 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.

 

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Section 1.10:  Inspectors of Elections. 

 

1.10.1 Applicability. Unless otherwise required by the Certificate of Incorporation or by the DGCL, the following provisions of this Section 1.10 shall apply only if and when the Corporation has a class of voting stock that is: (a) listed on a national securities exchange; (b) authorized for quotation on an interdealer quotation system of a registered national securities association; or (c) held of record by more than two thousand (2,000) stockholders. In all other cases, observance of the provisions of this Section 1.10 shall be optional, and at the discretion of the Board.

 

1.10.2 Appointment. The Corporation shall, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors of election to act at the meeting 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 no inspector or alternate is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the person presiding at the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting.

 

1.10.3 Inspector’s Oath. Each inspector of election, before entering upon the discharge of such inspector’s duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of such inspector’s ability.

 

1.10.4 Duties of Inspectors. At a meeting of stockholders, the inspectors of election shall (a) ascertain the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each share, (b) determine the shares represented at a meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots, (c) count all votes and ballots, (d) determine and retain for a reasonable period of time a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspectors, and (e) certify their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting, and their count of all votes and ballots. The inspectors may appoint or retain other persons or entities to assist the inspectors in the performance of the duties of the inspectors.

 

1.10.5 Opening and Closing of Polls. 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 by the chairperson of the meeting at the meeting. No ballot, proxies or votes, nor any revocations thereof or changes thereto, shall be accepted by the inspectors after the closing of the polls unless the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, upon application by a stockholder, shall determine otherwise.

 

1.10.6 Determinations. In determining the validity and counting of proxies and ballots, the inspectors shall be limited to an examination of the proxies, any envelopes submitted with those proxies, any information provided in connection with proxies pursuant to Section 211(a)(2)b.(i) of the DGCL, or in accordance with Sections 211(e) or 212(c)(2) of the DGCL, ballots and the regular books and records of the Corporation, except that the inspectors may consider other reliable information for the limited purpose of reconciling proxies and ballots submitted by or on behalf of banks, brokers, their nominees or similar persons which represent more votes than the holder of a proxy is authorized by the record owner to cast or more votes than the stockholder holds of record. If the inspectors consider other reliable information for the limited purpose permitted herein, the inspectors at the time they make their certification of their determinations pursuant to this Section 1.10 shall specify the precise information considered by them, including the person or persons from whom they obtained the information, when the information was obtained, the means by which the information was obtained and the basis for the inspectors’ belief that such information is accurate and reliable.

 

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Section 1.11:  Notice of Stockholder Business; Nominations.

 

1.11.1 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

 

(a)  Nominations of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders only: (i) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of such meeting (or any supplement thereto), (ii) by or at the direction of the Board or any committee thereof or (iii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Section 1.11 (the “Record Stockholder”), who is entitled to vote at such meeting and who complies with the notice and other procedures set forth in this Section 1.11 in all applicable respects. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing clause (iii) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or propose business (other than business included in the Corporation’s proxy materials pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (such act, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Exchange Act”)), at an annual meeting of stockholders, and such stockholder must fully comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in this Section 1.11 to make such nominations or propose business before an annual meeting.

 

(b)  For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a Record Stockholder pursuant to Section 1.11.1(a) of these Bylaws:

 

(i) the Record Stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation and provide any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 1.11;

 

(ii) such other business (other than the nomination of persons for election to the Board) must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action;

 

(iii)  if the Proposing Person (as defined below) has provided the Corporation with a Solicitation Notice (as defined below), such Proposing Person must, in the case of a proposal other than the nomination of persons for election to the Board, have delivered a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s voting shares required under applicable law to carry any such proposal, or, in the case of a nomination or nominations, have delivered a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of a percentage of the Corporation’s voting shares reasonably believed by such Proposing Person to be sufficient to elect the nominee or nominees proposed to be nominated by such Record Stockholder, and must, in either case, have included in such materials the Solicitation Notice; and

 

(iv)  if no Solicitation Notice relating thereto has been timely provided pursuant to this Section 1.11, the Proposing Person proposing such business or nomination must not have solicited a number of proxies sufficient to have required the delivery of such a Solicitation Notice under this Section 1.11.

 

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To be timely, a Record Stockholder’s notice must be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day nor earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting); provided, however, that in the event that no annual meeting was held during the preceding year or the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before, or more than sixty (60) days after, such anniversary date, notice by the Record Stockholder to be timely must be so delivered (A) no earlier than the close of business on the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and (B) no later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which Public Announcement (as defined below) of the date of such meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting for which notice has been given commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for providing the Record Stockholder’s notice. Such Record Stockholder’s notice shall set forth:

 

(X) as to each person whom the Record Stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director:

 

(i) the name, age, business address and residence address of such person;

 

(ii) the principal occupation or employment of such nominee;

 

(iii) the class, series and number of any shares of stock of the Corporation that are beneficially owned or owned of record by such person or any Associated Person (as defined in Section 1.11.3(c));

 

(iv) the date or dates such shares were acquired and the investment intent of such acquisition;

 

(v) all other information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest (even if an election contest is not involved), or would be otherwise required, in each case pursuant to and in accordance with Section 14(a) (or any successor provision) under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee, to the public disclosure of information regarding or related to such person provided to the Corporation by such person or otherwise pursuant to this Section 1.11 and to serving as a director if elected); and

 

(vi) whether such person meets the independence requirements of the stock exchange upon which the Corporation’s Common Stock is primarily traded.

 

(Y)  as to any other business that the Record Stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, 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, the text of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such Proposing Person, including any anticipated benefit to any Proposing Person therefrom; and

 

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(Z)  as to the Proposing Person giving the notice:

 

(i) the current name and address of such Proposing Person, including, if applicable, their name and address as they appear on the Corporation’s stock ledger, if different;

 

(ii) the class or series and number of shares of stock of the Corporation that are directly or indirectly owned of record or beneficially owned by such Proposing Person, including any shares of any 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;

 

(iii) whether and the extent to which any derivative interest in the Corporation’s equity securities (including without limitation any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of shares of the Corporation or otherwise, and any cash-settled equity swap, total return swap, synthetic equity position or similar derivative arrangement, as well as any rights to dividends on the shares of any class or series of shares of the Corporation that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation) or any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Bylaw a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of the subject security, including through performance-related fees) is held directly or indirectly by or for the benefit of such Proposing Person, including without limitation whether and the extent to which any ongoing hedging or other transaction or series of transactions has been entered into by or on behalf of, or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding (including without limitation any short position or any borrowing or lending of shares) has been made, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to or manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or to increase or decrease the voting power of, such Proposing Person with respect to any share of stock of the Corporation;

 

(iv) any other material relationship between such Proposing Person, on the one hand, and the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation, on the other hand;

 

(v) any direct or indirect material interest in any material contract or agreement with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement);

 

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(vi) 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) (or any successor provision) under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (iv) through (vi) are referred to as “Disclosable Interests”). For purposes hereof “Disclosable Interests” shall not include any information 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;

 

(vii) such Proposing Person’s written consent to the public disclosure of information provided to the Corporation pursuant to this Section 1.11;

 

(viii) a complete written description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether oral or in writing) (including any knowledge that another person or entity is Acting in Concert (as defined in Section 1.11.3(c)) with such Proposing Person) between or among such Proposing Person, any of its respective affiliates or associates and any other person Acting in Concert with any of the foregoing persons;

 

(ix) as to each person whom such Proposing Person proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, any agreement, arrangement or understanding of such person with any other person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a director known to such Proposing Person after reasonable inquiry;

 

(x) a representation that the Record Stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination;

 

(xi) a representation whether such Proposing Person intends (or is part of a group that intends) to deliver a proxy statement or form of proxy to holders of, in the case of a proposal, at least the percentage of the Corporation’s voting shares required under applicable law to carry the proposal or, in the case of a nomination or nominations, a sufficient number of holders of the Corporation’s voting shares to elect such nominee or nominees (an affirmative statement of such intent being a “Solicitation Notice”); and

 

(xii) any proxy, contract, arrangement, or relationship pursuant to which the Proposing Person has a right to vote, directly or indirectly, any shares of any security of the Corporation.

 

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A stockholder providing written notice required by this Section 1.11 will update and supplement such notice in writing, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice is true and correct in all material respects as of (i) the record date for the meeting and (ii) the close of business on the fifth (5th) business day prior to the meeting and, in the event of any adjournment or postponement thereof, the close of business on the fifth (5th) business day prior to such adjourned or postponed meeting. In the case of an update and supplement pursuant to clause (i) of the foregoing sentence, such update and supplement will be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive office of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for the meeting, and in the case of an update and supplement pursuant to clause (ii) of the foregoing sentence, such update and supplement will be received by the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive office of the Corporation not later than two (2) business days prior to the date for the meeting, and, in the event of any adjournment or postponement thereof, two (2) business days prior to such adjourned or postponed meeting.

 

(c)  Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of Section 1.11.1(b) of these Bylaws to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board is increased and there is no Public Announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least ninety (90) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (or, if there was no annual meeting in the preceding year or the annual meeting is held more than thirty (30) days before or sixty (60) days after the anniversary date of the preceding year’s annual meeting, at least ninety (90) days prior to such annual meeting), a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 1.11 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive office of the Corporation no later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such Public Announcement is first made by the Corporation.

 

(d)  Notwithstanding anything in Section 1.11 or any other provision of the Bylaws to the contrary, any person who has been determined by a majority of the Whole Board to have violated Section 2.11 of these Bylaws or a Board Confidentiality Policy (as defined below) while serving as a director of the Corporation in the preceding five (5) years shall be ineligible to be nominated or serve as a member of the Board, absent a prior waiver for such nomination or service approved by two-thirds of the Whole Board.

 

1.11.2 Special Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of such meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of such meeting (a) by or at the direction of the Board or any committee thereof or (b) provided that the Board has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the Corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice of the special meeting, who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice and other procedures set forth in this Section 1.11 in all applicable respects. In the event the Corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board, any such stockholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to such position(s) as specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting, if the stockholder’s notice required by Section 1.11.1(b) of these Bylaws shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (i) no earlier than the one hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to such special meeting and (ii) no later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such special meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which Public Announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board to be elected at such meeting.

 

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1.11.3 General.

 

(a)  Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.11 shall be eligible to be elected at a meeting of stockholders and serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.11. Except as otherwise provided by law or these Bylaws, the chairperson of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any other business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.11 and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance herewith, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.11, unless otherwise required by law, if the stockholder (or a Qualified Representative of the stockholder (as defined below)) does not appear at the annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present a nomination or proposed business, such nomination shall be disregarded and such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation.

 

(b)  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.11, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein. Nothing in this Section 1.11 shall be deemed to affect any rights of (a) stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (b) the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors pursuant to any applicable provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

(c)  For purposes of this Section 1.11 the following definitions shall apply:

 

(i)  a person shall be deemed to be “Acting in Concert” with another person if such person knowingly acts (whether or not pursuant to an express agreement, arrangement or understanding) in concert with, or toward a common goal relating to the management, governance or control of the Corporation in substantial parallel with, such other person where (1) each person is conscious of the other person’s conduct or intent and this awareness is an element in their decision-making processes and (2) at least one additional factor suggests that such persons intend to act in concert or in substantial parallel, which such additional factors may include, without limitation, exchanging information (whether publicly or privately), attending meetings, conducting discussions or making or soliciting invitations to act in concert or in substantial parallel; provided, that a person shall not be deemed to be Acting in Concert with any other person solely as a result of the solicitation or receipt of revocable proxies or consents from such other person in response to a solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14(a) (or any successor provision) of the Exchange Act by way of a proxy or consent solicitation statement filed on Schedule 14A. A person Acting in Concert with another person shall be deemed to be Acting in Concert with any third party who is also Acting in Concert with such other person;

 

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(ii)  “Associated Person” shall mean with respect to any subject stockholder or other person (including any proposed nominee) (1) any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such stockholder or other person, (2) any beneficial owner of shares of stock of the Corporation owned of record or beneficially by such stockholder or other person, (3) any associate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended), of such stockholder or other person, and (4) any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control or Acting in Concert with any such Associated Person;

 

(iii)  “Proposing Person” shall mean (1) the stockholder providing the notice of business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting or nomination of persons for election to the Board at a stockholder meeting, (2) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners, if different, on whose behalf the notice of business proposed to be brought before the annual meeting or nomination of persons for election to the Board at a stockholder meeting is made, and (3) any Associated Person on whose behalf the notice of business proposed to be brought before the annual meeting or nomination of persons for election to the Board at a stockholder meeting is made;

 

(iv)  “Public Announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; and

 

(v)  to be considered a “Qualified Representative” of a stockholder, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such stockholder as a proxy at the meeting of stockholders and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction thereof, at the annual meeting; provided, however, that if the stockholder is (1) a general or limited partnership, any general partner or person who functions as a general partner of the general or limited partnership or who controls the general or limited partnership shall be deemed a Qualified Representative, (2) a corporation or a limited liability company, any officer or person who functions as the substantial equivalent of an officer of the corporation or limited liability company or any officer, director, general partner or person who functions as an officer, director or general partner of any entity ultimately in control of the corporation or limited liability company shall be deemed a Qualified Representative, or (3) a trust, any trustee of such trust shall be deemed a Qualified Representative. The Secretary of the Corporation, or any other person who shall be appointed to serve as secretary of the meeting, may require, on behalf of the Corporation, reasonable and appropriate documentation to verify the status of a person purporting to be a “Qualified Representative” for purposes hereof.

 

ARTICLE II: BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Section 2.1:  Number; Qualifications. The total number of directors constituting the Board (the “Whole Board”) shall be fixed from time to time in the manner set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation. No decrease in the authorized number of directors constituting the Whole Board shall shorten the term of any incumbent director. Directors need not be stockholders of the Corporation.

 

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Section 2.2:  Election; Resignation; Removal; Vacancies. Election of directors need not be by written ballot. Unless otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation and subject to the special rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, the Board shall be divided 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 Whole Board. Each director shall hold office until the annual meeting at which such director’s term expires and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, disqualification or removal. Any director may resign by delivering a resignation in writing or by electronic transmission to the Corporation at its principal office or to the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Secretary. Such resignation shall be effective upon delivery unless it is specified to be effective at a later time or upon the happening of an event. Subject to the special rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, directors may be removed only as provided by the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law. All vacancies occurring in the Board and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors shall be filled in the manner set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

Section 2.3:  Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board may be held at such places, within or without the State of Delaware, and at such times as the Board may from time to time determine. Notice of regular meetings need not be given if the date, times and places thereof are fixed by resolution of the Board.

 

Section 2.4:  Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Lead Independent Director or at least two (2) members of the Board then in office and may be held at any time, date or place, within or without the State of Delaware, as the person or persons calling the meeting shall fix. Notice of the time, date and place of such meeting shall be given, orally, in writing or by electronic transmission (including electronic mail), by the person or persons calling the meeting to all directors at least four (4) days before the meeting if the notice is mailed, or at least twenty-four (24) hours before the meeting if such notice is given by telephone, hand delivery, telegram, telex, mailgram, facsimile, electronic mail or other means of electronic transmission. Unless otherwise indicated in the notice, any and all business may be transacted at a special meeting.

 

Section 2.5:  Remote Meetings Permitted. Members of the Board, or any committee of the Board, may participate in a meeting of the Board or such committee by means of conference telephone or other remote communications by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to conference telephone or other remote communications shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

Section 2.6:  Quorum; Vote Required for Action. At all meetings of the Board, a majority of the Whole Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If a quorum shall fail to attend any meeting, a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting to another place, date or time without further notice thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Certificate of Incorporation, or required by law, the vote of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board.

 

Section 2.7:  Organization. Meetings of the Board shall be presided over by (a) the Chairperson of the Board, or (b) in such person’s absence, the Lead Independent Director, or (c) in such person’s absence, the Chief Executive Officer, or (d) in such person’s absence, a chairperson chosen by the Board at the meeting. The Secretary shall act as secretary of the meeting, but in such person’s absence the chairperson of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

 

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Section 2.8:  Unanimous Action by Directors in Lieu of a Meeting. 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 such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee, as applicable. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

 

Section 2.9:  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.

 

Section 2.10:  Compensation of Directors. Members of the Board, as such, may receive, pursuant to a resolution of the Board, fees and other compensation for their services as directors, including without limitation their services as members of committees of the Board.

 

Section 2.11:  Confidentiality. Each director shall maintain the confidentiality of, and shall not share with any third party person or entity (including third parties that originally sponsored, nominated or designated such director (the “Sponsoring Party”)), any non-public information learned in their capacities as directors, including communications among Board members in their capacities as directors. The Board may adopt a board confidentiality policy further implementing and interpreting this bylaw (a “Board Confidentiality Policy”). All directors are required to comply with this bylaw and any such Board Confidentiality Policy unless such director or the Sponsoring Party for such director has entered into a specific written agreement with the Corporation, in either case as approved by the Board, providing otherwise with respect to such confidential information.

 

ARTICLE III: COMMITTEES

 

Section 3.1:  Committees. 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 the committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting of such committee who are 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 place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in a resolution of the Board, 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 in reference to the following matters: (a) approving, adopting or recommending to the stockholders any action or matter (other than the election or removal of members of the Board) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval or (b) adopting, amending or repealing any bylaw of the Corporation.

 

Section 3.2:  Committee Rules. Each committee shall keep records of its proceedings and make such reports as the Board may from time to time request. Unless the Board otherwise provides, each committee designated by the Board may make, alter and repeal rules for the conduct of its business. In the absence of such rules each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board conducts its business pursuant to Article II of these Bylaws. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws or the resolution of the Board designating the committee, any committee may create one or more subcommittees, each subcommittee to consist of one or more members of the committee, and may delegate to any such subcommittee any or all of the powers and authority of the committee.

 

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ARTICLE IV: OFFICERS; Chairperson; LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

 

Section 4.1:  Generally. The officers of the Corporation shall consist of a Chief Executive Officer (who may be the Chairperson of the Board or the President), a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer and may consist of such other officers, including, without limitation, a Chief Financial Officer and one or more Vice Presidents, as may from time to time be appointed by the Board. All officers shall be elected by the Board; provided, however, that the Board may empower the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation to appoint any officer other than the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer or the Treasurer. Except as otherwise provided by law, by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, each officer shall hold office until such officer’s successor is duly elected and qualified or until such officer’s earlier resignation, death, disqualification or removal. Any number of offices may be held by the same person. Any officer may resign by delivering a resignation in writing or by electronic transmission to the Corporation at its principal office or to the Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary. Such resignation shall be effective upon delivery unless it is specified to be effective at some later time or upon the happening of some later event. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation by death, resignation, removal or otherwise may be filled by the Board and the Board may, in its discretion, leave unfilled, for such period as it may determine, any offices. Each such successor shall hold office for the unexpired term of such officer’s predecessor and until a successor is duly elected and qualified or until such officer’s earlier resignation, death, disqualification or removal.

 

Section 4.2:  Chief Executive Officer. Subject to the control of the Board and such supervisory powers, if any, as may be given by the Board, the powers and duties of the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation are:

 

(a)  to act as the general manager and, subject to the control of the Board, to have general supervision, direction and control of the business and affairs of the Corporation;

 

(b)  subject to Article I, Section 1.6 of these Bylaws, to preside at all meetings of the stockholders;

 

(c)  subject to Article I, Section 1.2 of these Bylaws, to call special meetings of the stockholders to be held at such times and, subject to the limitations prescribed by law or by these Bylaws, at such places as the Chief Executive Officer shall deem proper;

 

(d)  to affix the signature of the Corporation to all deeds, conveyances, mortgages, guarantees, leases, obligations, bonds, certificates and other papers and instruments in writing which have been authorized by the Board or which, in the judgment of the Chief Executive Officer, should be executed on behalf of the Corporation;

 

(e)  to sign certificates for shares of stock of the Corporation (if any); and

 

(f)  subject to the direction of the Board, to have general charge of the property of the Corporation and to supervise and control all officers, agents and employees of the Corporation.

 

The person holding the office of President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation unless the Board shall designate another officer to be the Chief Executive Officer.

 

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Section 4.3:  Chairperson of the Board. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.7 of these Bylaws, the Chairperson of the Board shall have the power to preside at all meetings of the Board and shall have such other powers and duties as provided in these Bylaws and as the Board may from time to time prescribe.

 

Section 4.4:  Lead Independent Director. The Board may, in its discretion, elect a lead independent director from among its members that are Independent Directors (as defined below) (such director, the “Lead Independent Director”). The Lead Independent Director shall preside at all meetings at which the Chairperson of the Board is not present and shall exercise such other powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to such person by the Board or as prescribed by these Bylaws. For purposes of these Bylaws, “Independent Director” has the meaning ascribed to such term under the rules of the exchange upon which the Corporation’s Class A Common Stock is primarily traded.

 

Section 4.5:  President. The person holding the office of Chief Executive Officer shall be the President of the Corporation unless the Board shall have designated one individual as the President and a different individual as the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. Subject to the provisions of these Bylaws and to the direction of the Board, and subject to the supervisory powers of the Chief Executive Officer (if the Chief Executive Officer is an officer other than the President), and subject to such supervisory powers and authority as may be given by the Board to the Chairperson of the Board, and/or to any other officer, the President shall have the responsibility for the general management and control of the business and affairs of the Corporation and the general supervision and direction of all of the officers, employees and agents of the Corporation (other than the Chief Executive Officer, if the Chief Executive Officer is an officer other than the President) and shall perform all duties and have all powers that are commonly incident to the office of President or that are delegated to the President by the Board.

 

Section 4.6:  Vice President. Each Vice President shall have all such powers and duties as are commonly incident to the office of Vice President or that are delegated to him or her by the Board or the Chief Executive Officer. A Vice President may be designated by the Board to perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Chief Executive Officer or President in the event of the Chief Executive Officer’s or President’s absence or disability.

 

Section 4.7:  Chief Financial Officer. The person holding the office of Chief Financial Officer shall be the Treasurer of the Corporation unless the Board shall have designated another officer as the Treasurer of the Corporation. Subject to the direction of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer shall perform all duties and have all powers that are commonly incident to the office of Chief Financial Officer, or as the Board may from time to time prescribe.

 

Section 4.8:  Treasurer. The person holding the office of Treasurer shall have custody of all monies and securities of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall make such disbursements of the funds of the Corporation as are authorized and shall render from time to time an account of all such transactions. The Treasurer shall also perform such other duties and have such other powers as are commonly incident to the office of Treasurer, or as the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time prescribe.

 

Section 4.9:  Secretary. The Secretary shall issue or cause to be issued all authorized notices for, and shall keep, or cause to be kept, minutes of all meetings of the stockholders and the Board. The Secretary shall have charge of the corporate minute books and similar records and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as are commonly incident to the office of Secretary, or as the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time prescribe.

 

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Section 4.10:  Delegation of Authority. The Board may from time to time delegate the powers or duties of any officer of the Corporation to any other officers or agents of the Corporation, notwithstanding any provision hereof.

 

Section 4.11:  Removal. Any officer of the Corporation shall serve at the pleasure of the Board and may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by the Board; provided that if the Board has empowered the Chief Executive Officer to appoint any officer of the Corporation, then such officer may also be removed by the Chief Executive Officer. Such removal shall be without prejudice to the contractual rights of such officer, if any, with the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE V: STOCK

 

Section 5.1:  Certificates; Uncertificated Shares. The shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be uncertificated shares; provided, however, that the resolution of the Board that the shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be uncertificated shares shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Corporation (or the transfer agent or registrar, as the case may be). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be certificated shares. Every holder of stock represented by certificates shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the Corporation, by the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Corporation, representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. 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 shall have 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 such person were an officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

 

Section 5.2:  Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Stock Certificates; Issuance of New Certificates or Uncertificated Shares. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate previously issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to agree to indemnify the Corporation and/or 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.

 

Section 5.3:  Other Regulations. Subject to applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation and these Bylaws, the issue, transfer, conversion and registration of shares represented by certificates and of uncertificated shares shall be governed by such other regulations as the Board may establish.

 

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ARTICLE VI: INDEMNIFICATION

 

Section 6.1:  Indemnification of Officers and Directors. Each person who was or is made a party to, or is threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, legislative or any other type whatsoever (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person (or a person of whom such person is the legal representative), is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee of another corporation, or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans (for purposes of this Article VI, an “Indemnitee”), shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expenses, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes and penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such Indemnitee in connection therewith, provided such Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner that the Indemnitee 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 the Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful. Such indemnification shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of such Indemnitees’ heirs, executors and administrators. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to Section 6.5 of these Bylaws, the Corporation shall indemnify any such Indemnitee seeking indemnity in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Indemnitee only if such Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board or such indemnification is authorized by an agreement approved by the Board.

 

Section 6.2:  Advance of Expenses. Except as otherwise provided in a written indemnification contract between the Corporation and an Indemnitee, the Corporation shall pay all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an Indemnitee in defending any Proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that if the DGCL then so requires, the advancement of such expenses shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such Indemnitee, to repay such amounts if it shall ultimately be determined that such Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article VI or otherwise.

 

Section 6.3:  Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights conferred on any person in this Article VI shall not be exclusive of any other right that such person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote or consent of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise. Additionally, nothing in this Article VI shall limit the ability of the Corporation, in its discretion, to indemnify or advance expenses to persons whom the Corporation is not obligated to indemnify or advance expenses pursuant to this Article VI.

 

Section 6.4:  Indemnification Contracts. The Board is authorized to cause the Corporation to enter into indemnification contracts with any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or any person serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including employee benefit plans, providing indemnification or advancement rights to such person. Such rights may be greater than those provided in this Article VI.

 

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Section 6.5:  Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. The following shall apply to the extent not in conflict with any indemnification contract provided for in Section 6.4 of these Bylaws.

 

6.5.1 Right to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 6.1 or 6.2 of these Bylaws is not paid in full by the Corporation within sixty (60) days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty (20) days, the Indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that the Indemnitee has not met any applicable standard of conduct which makes it permissible under the DGCL (or other applicable law) for the Corporation to indemnify the Indemnitee for the amount claimed.

 

6.5.2 Effect of Determination. Neither the absence of a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in applicable law, nor an actual determination that the Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the Indemnitee, be a defense to such suit.

 

6.5.3 Burden of Proof. In any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article VI, or otherwise, shall be on the Corporation.

 

Section 6.6:  Nature of Rights. The rights conferred upon Indemnitees in this Article VI shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer or trustee and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators. Any amendment, repeal or modification of any provision of this Article VI that adversely affects any right of an Indemnitee or an Indemnitee’s successors shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any right or protection conferred on a person pursuant to this Article VI with respect to any Proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place prior to such amendment, repeal or modification.

 

Section 6.7:  Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.

 

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ARTICLE VII: NOTICES

 

Section 7.1:  Notice. 

 

7.1.1 Form and Delivery. Except as otherwise specifically required in these Bylaws (including, without limitation, Section 7.1.2 of these Bylaws) or by applicable law, all notices required to be given pursuant to these Bylaws shall be in writing and may (a) in every instance in connection with any delivery to a member of the Board, be effectively given by hand delivery (including use of a delivery service), by depositing such notice in the mail, postage prepaid, or by sending such notice by overnight express courier, facsimile, electronic mail or other form of electronic transmission and (b) be effectively delivered to a stockholder when given by hand delivery, by depositing such notice in the mail, postage prepaid or, if specifically consented to by the stockholder as described in Section 7.1.2 of these Bylaws by sending such notice by facsimile, electronic mail or other form of electronic transmission. Any such notice shall be addressed to the person to whom notice is to be given at such person’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. The notice shall be deemed given: (a) in the case of hand delivery, when received by the person to whom notice is to be given or by any person accepting such notice on behalf of such person; (b) in the case of delivery by mail, upon deposit in the mail; (c) in the case of delivery by overnight express courier, when dispatched; and (d) in the case of delivery via facsimile, electronic mail or other form of electronic transmission, at the time provided in Section 7.1.2 of these Bylaws.

 

7.1.2 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 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 in accordance with Section 232 of the DGCL. Any such consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice to the Corporation. Any such consent shall be deemed revoked if (a) the Corporation is unable to deliver by electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the Corporation in accordance with such consent and (b) 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, that the inadvertent failure to treat such inability as a revocation shall not invalidate any meeting or other action. Notice given pursuant to this Section 7.1.2 shall be deemed given: (i) if by facsimile telecommunication, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice; (ii) if by electronic mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice; (iii) if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specific posting, upon the later of such posting and the giving of such separate notice; and (iv) if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder.

 

7.1.3 Affidavit of Giving Notice. 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 in writing or by a form of electronic transmission shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

Section 7.2:  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 of notice, signed by the person entitled to notice, or waiver by electronic transmission by such person, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall 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, directors or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any waiver of notice.

 

ARTICLE VIII: INTERESTED DIRECTORS

 

Section 8.1:  Interested Directors. No contract or transaction between the Corporation and one or more of its members of the Board or officers, or between the Corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association or other organization in which one or more of its directors or officers are members of the board of directors or officers, or have a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, or solely because the director or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the Board or committee thereof that authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because such director’s or officer’s votes are counted for such purpose, if: (a) the material facts as to such director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board or the committee, and the Board or committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum; (b) the material facts as to such director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the stockholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by vote of the stockholders; or (c) the contract or transaction is fair as to the Corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved or ratified by the Board, a committee thereof, or the stockholders.

 

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Section 8.2:  Quorum. Interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board or of a committee which authorizes the contract or transaction.

 

ARTICLE IX: MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 9.1:  Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be determined by resolution of the Board.

 

Section 9.2:  Seal. The Board may provide for a corporate seal, which may have the name of the Corporation inscribed thereon and shall otherwise be in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Board.

 

Section 9.3:  Form of Records. Any records maintained by 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 other information storage device or method, electronic or otherwise, provided, that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time. The Corporation shall so convert any records so kept upon the request of any person entitled to inspect such records pursuant to any provision of the DGCL.

 

Section 9.4:  Reliance Upon Books and Records. A member of the Board, or a member of any committee designated by the Board shall, in the performance of such person’s duties, be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the books and records of the Corporation and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Corporation by any of the Corporation’s officers or employees, or committees of the Board, or by any other person as to matters the member reasonably believes are within such other person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Corporation.

 

Section 9.5:  Certificate of Incorporation Governs. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation shall govern.

 

Section 9.6:  Severability. If any provision of these Bylaws shall be held to be invalid, illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, then such provision shall nonetheless be enforced to the maximum extent possible consistent with such holding and the remaining provisions of these Bylaws (including without limitation, all portions of any section of these Bylaws containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with the Certificate of Incorporation, that are not themselves invalid, illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with the Certificate of Incorporation) shall remain in full force and effect.

 

Section 9.7:  Time Periods. In applying any provision of these Bylaws which requires that an act be done or not be done a specified number of days prior to an event or that an act be done during a period of a specified number of days prior to an event, calendar days shall be used, the day of the doing of the act shall be excluded, and the day of the event shall be included.

 

ARTICLE X: AMENDMENT

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of these Bylaws, any alteration, amendment or repeal of these Bylaws, and any adoption of new Bylaws, shall require the approval of the Board or the stockholders of the Corporation as expressly provided in the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

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CERTIFICATION OF Amended and RESTATED BYLAWS
OF
MOMENTUS INC.

 

a Delaware corporation

 

I, Alexander Fishkin, certify that I am Secretary of Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), that I am duly authorized to make and deliver this certification, and that the attached Bylaws are a true and complete copy of the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation in effect as of the date of this certificate.

 

Dated:  August 12, 2021 /s/ Alexander Fishkin
  Alexander Fishkin, Secretary

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of August 12, 2021, is made and entered into by and among Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation, formerly known as Stable Road Acquisition Corp., a Delaware Corporation (the “Company”), SRC-NI Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), the undersigned parties listed as Existing Holders on the signature pages hereto (each such party, together with the Sponsor and any person or entity deemed an “Existing Holder” who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 of this Agreement, an “Existing Holder” and collectively the “Existing Holders”) and the undersigned parties listed as New Holders on the signature pages hereto (each such party, together with any person or entity deemed a “New Holder” who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 of this Agreement, a “New Holder” and collectively the “New Holders”). Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement (as defined below).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, on November 7, 2019, the Company, the Sponsor and Cantor entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement (the “Existing Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company granted the Existing Holders certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company;

 

WHEREAS, the Company has entered into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of October 7, 2020, by and among the Company, Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation;

 

WHEREAS, upon the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, the Existing Holders and New Holders will hold shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, of the Company (“Class A Common Stock”), in each case, in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as set forth in the Merger Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 5.5 of the Existing Registration Rights Agreement, the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth therein may be amended or modified upon the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority-in-interest of the “Registrable Securities” (as such term was defined in the Existing Registration Rights Agreement) at the time in question; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company and Sponsor desire to amend and restate the Existing Registration Rights Agreement in order to provide the Existing Holders and the New Holders certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company, as 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 or principal financial officer of the Company, 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, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.

 

Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any person or entity, any other person or entity who, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under direct or indirect common control with, such person or entity, and “control,” when used with respect to any specified person or entity, shall mean the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person or entity, directly or indirectly, whether through ownership of voting securities or partnership or other ownership interests, by contract or otherwise.

 

Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Block Trade” means an offering and/or sale of Registrable Securities by any Holder on a block trade or underwritten basis (whether firm commitment or otherwise) not involving a “road show” and without other substantial marketing efforts prior to pricing, including, without limitation, a same day trade, overnight trade or similar transaction.

 

Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

Cantor” shall mean Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

 

Cantor Private Placement Units” shall mean the units purchased by Cantor pursuant to that certain Unit Subscription Agreement, by and between the Company and Cantor, dated as of November 7, 2019, each unit consisting of one share of Class A Common Stock and one-half of one warrant to purchase one share of Class A Common Stock.

 

Class A Common Stock” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Class B Common Stock” shall mean Class B common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, of the Company.

 

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Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Company” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Company Shelf Takedown Notice” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

 

Demand Registration” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.1.

 

Demanding Holder” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.1.

 

Effectiveness Deadline” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

 

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

Existing Holders” shall have the meaning in the Preamble.

 

Existing Registration Rights Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

Form S-1 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

 

Form S-3 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

 

Founder Lock-Up Period” shall mean, with respect to the Founder Shares held by the Existing Holders or its Permitted Transferees, the period ending on the earlier of (A) six (6) months after the date hereof or (B) the first date the closing price of the Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any twenty (20) trading days within any thirty (30)-trading day period commencing after the date hereof or (C) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, securities or other property.

 

Founder Shares” shall mean all shares of Class B Common Stock that are issued and outstanding as of the date hereof and owned by the Sponsor or its Permitted Transferees (including SRAC PIPE Partners LLC), and all shares of Class A Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof.

 

Holders” shall mean the Existing Holders and the New Holders and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2.

 

Insider Letter” shall mean that certain letter agreement, dated as of November 7, 2019, by and among the Company, the Sponsor and each of the Company’s officers, directors and director nominees, as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time (including pursuant to that certain letter agreement, dated as of October 7, 2020, by and between the Sponsor, the Company and the other parties thereto).

 

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Lock-Up Period” shall mean the Founder Lock-Up Period and the Private Placement Lock-Up Period, as applicable.

 

Maximum Number of Securities” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.4.

 

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 light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

 

New Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Permitted Transferees” shall mean (a) with respect to an Existing Holder and its respective Permitted Transferees, any person or entity to whom a Holder of Registrable Securities is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities prior to the expiration of the Founder Lock-Up Period or the Private Placement Lock-Up Period, as the case may be, under the Insider Letter, this Agreement and any other applicable agreement between such Holder and the Company, and to any transferee thereafter, provided, that Permitted Transferees shall also include (i) any Affiliate of such Existing Holder or (ii) a trust for the benefit of such Existing Holder or the stockholders or general and limited partners of such Existing Holder, and (b) with respect to a New Holder and its respective Permitted Transferees, to any of such New Holder’s Affiliates or to any fund or investment account managed by such New Holder or the same management company that manages such New Holder, provided that such transferee to which a transfer is being made pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above, if not a Holder, enters into a written agreement with the Company agreeing to be bound by the restrictions herein and receive the rights granted to such Holder herein.

 

Piggyback Registration” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.3.1.

 

Private Placement Lock-Up Period” shall mean, with respect to Private Placement Units that are held by the initial purchasers of such Private Placement Units or their Permitted Transferees, and any of the securities underlying the Private Placement Units, including the Private Placement Shares, the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants and that are held by the initial purchasers of the Private Placement Units or their Permitted Transferees, the period ending thirty (30) days after the date hereof.

 

Private Placement Shares” shall mean the shares of Class A Common Stock comprising the Private Placement Units.

 

Private Placement Units” shall mean the Sponsor Private Placement Units and the Cantor Private Placement Units.

 

Private Placement Warrants” shall mean the warrants comprising the Private Placement Units.

 

Pro Rata” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.4.

 

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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) the shares of Class A Common Stock issued or issuable upon the conversion of any Founder Shares, (b) the Private Placement Units (including the Private Placement Shares, the Private Placement Warrants and the Class A Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of the Private Placement Warrants), (c) any issued and outstanding share of Class A Common Stock or any other equity security (including the shares of Class A Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of any other equity security) of the Company held by an Existing Holder as of the date of this Agreement, (d) any outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or any other equity security of the Company held by a New Holder (i) as of the date of this Agreement (including the shares of Class A Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of any such other equity security) or (ii) that are otherwise issued in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and (e) any other equity security of the Company issued or issuable with respect to any such share of Class A Common Stock described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (d) by way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or reorganization; provided, however, that, as to any particular Registrable Security, such securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when: (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; (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; or (D) such securities may be sold without registration pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission) (“Rule 144”) (but with no volume or other restrictions or limitations); provided, further, that any security that ceases to be a Registrable Security pursuant to clause (D) above shall again be treated as a Registrable Security if at any point such security may no longer be sold without registration pursuant to Rule 144 without any volume or other restrictions or limitations.

 

Registration” shall mean a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement 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.

 

Registration Expenses” shall mean the out-of-pocket 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 securities exchange on which the Class A Common Stock is then listed;

 

(B) fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities);

 

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(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; and

 

(F) reasonable fees and expenses of (i) one (1) legal counsel selected by the majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating a Demand Registration to be registered for offer and sale in the applicable Registration not to exceed $50,000 per Demand Registration and (ii) one (1) legal counsel selected by the Sponsor (if the Sponsor is participating in a Demand Registration but is not the majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holdings) for the purpose of delivering any required legal opinion on behalf of the Sponsor not to exceed $25,000 per Demand Registration, but only payable in the event legal opinion on behalf of Sponsor is required.

 

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement that covers the Registrable Securities required to be filed pursuant to Article II 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 Holder” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.1.

 

Restricted Shares” shall have the meaning given in subsection 3.6.1.

 

Rule 144” shall have the meaning given in the definition of “Registrable Securities.”

 

Rule 415” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

 

Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

 

Shelf Takedown Notice” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

 

Shelf Underwritten Offering” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

 

Sponsor” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

 

Sponsor Private Placement Units” shall mean the units purchased by the Sponsor pursuant to that certain Unit Subscription Agreement, by and between the Company and the Sponsor, dated as of November 7, 2019, each unit consisting of one share of Class A Common Stock and one-half of one warrant to purchase one share of Class A Common Stock.

 

Underwriter” shall mean a securities dealer who purchases any Registrable Securities as principal in an Underwritten Offering and not as part of such dealer’s market-making activities.

 

Underwritten Registration” or “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.

 

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Article II

REGISTRATIONS

 

2.1 Shelf Registration.

 

2.1.1 Initial Registration. The Company shall, as soon as practicable, but in any event within thirty (30) days after the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act to permit the public resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders from time to time as permitted by Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any successor or similar provision adopted by the Commission then in effect) (“Rule 415”) on the terms and conditions specified in this subsection 2.1.1 and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but in no event later than the earlier of (i) sixty (60) days following the filing deadline (or ninety (90) days after the filing deadline if the Registration Statement is reviewed by, and receives comments from, the Commission) and (ii) five (5) business days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (such earlier date, the “Effectiveness Deadline”). The Registration Statement filed with the Commission pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1 shall be a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (a “Form S-3 Shelf”) or, if Form S-3 is not then available to the Company, on Form S-1 (a “Form S-1 Shelf”) or such other form of registration statement as is then available to effect a registration for resale of such Registrable Securities, covering such Registrable Securities, and shall contain a Prospectus in such form as to permit any Holder to sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 at any time beginning on the effective date for such Registration Statement. A Registration Statement filed pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1 shall provide for the resale pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, the Holders. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1 to remain effective, and to be supplemented and amended to the extent necessary to ensure that such Registration Statement is available or, if not available, that another Registration Statement is available, for the resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders until all such Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities. As soon as practicable following the effective date of a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1, but in any event within five (5) business days of such date, the Company shall notify the Holders of the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. When effective, a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this subsection 2.1.1 (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) will comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of any Prospectus contained in such Registration Statement, in the light of the circumstances under which such statement is made).

 

2.1.2 Form S-3 Shelf. If the Company files a Form S-1 Shelf and thereafter the Company becomes eligible to use Form S-3 for secondary sales, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file a Form S-3 Shelf as promptly as practicable to replace the shelf registration statement that is a Form S-1 Shelf and have the Form S-3 Shelf declared effective as promptly as practicable and to cause such Form S-3 Shelf to remain effective, and to be supplemented and amended to the extent necessary to ensure that such Registration Statement is available or, if not available, that another Registration Statement is available, for the resale of all the Registrable Securities held by the Holders until all such Registrable Securities have ceased to be Registrable Securities.

 

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2.1.3 Shelf Takedown. At any time and from time to time following the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement required by subsection 2.1.1 or 2.1.2, any Holder may request to sell all or a portion of their Registrable Securities in an underwritten offering that is registered pursuant to such shelf registration statement, including a Block Trade if the Company files a Form S-3 Shelf and is eligible to use Form S-3 for secondary sales (a “Shelf Underwritten Offering”), provided, that such Holder(s) (a) reasonably expect aggregate gross proceeds from all Holders participating in such Shelf Underwritten Offering to exceed $10,000,000 or (b) reasonably expects to sell all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder in such Shelf Underwritten Offering. All requests for a Shelf Underwritten Offering shall be made by giving written notice to the Company (the “Shelf Takedown Notice”). Each Shelf Takedown Notice shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Shelf Underwritten Offering and the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of such Shelf Underwritten Offering. Except with respect to a Block Trade requested pursuant to Section 2.5, within two (2) business days after receipt of any Shelf Takedown Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested Shelf Underwritten Offering to all other Holders of Registrable Securities (the “Company Shelf Takedown Notice”) and, subject to the provisions of Section 2.2.4, shall include in such Shelf Underwritten Offering all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein, within four (4) days after sending the Company Shelf Takedown Notice. The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in a form as is customary in Underwritten Offerings of securities by the Company with the managing Underwriter or Underwriters selected by the Holders after consultation with the Company and shall take all such other reasonable actions as are requested by the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities. In connection with any Shelf Underwritten Offering contemplated by this subsection 2.1.3, subject to Section 3.3 and Article IV, the underwriting agreement into which each Holder and the Company shall enter shall contain such representations, covenants, indemnities and other rights and obligations of the Company and the selling stockholders as are customary in underwritten offerings of securities by the Company.

 

2.1.4 Holder Information Required for Participation in Shelf Registration. At least ten (10) business days prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement pursuant to this Article II, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to notify each Holder in writing (which may be by email) of the information reasonably necessary about the Holder to include such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, the Company shall not be obligated to include such Holder’s Registrable Securities to the extent the Company has not received such information, and received any other reasonably requested agreements or certificates, on or prior to the fifth (5th) business day prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement pursuant to this Article II.

 

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2.2 Demand Registration.

 

2.2.1 Request for Registration. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2.2.4 hereof and provided that the Company does not have an effective Registration Statement pursuant to subsection 2.1.1 outstanding covering Registrable Securities, following the expiration of the applicable Lock-Up Period, (a) the Existing Holders of at least a majority in interest of the then-outstanding number of Registrable Securities held by the Existing Holders or (b) the New Holders of at least a majority-in-interest of the then-outstanding number of Registrable Securities held by the New Holders (the “Demanding Holders”), in each case, may make a written demand for Registration of all or part of their Registrable Securities, which written demand shall describe the amount and type of securities to be included in such Registration and the intended method(s) of distribution thereof (such written demand a “Demand Registration”). The Company shall, within ten (10) days of the Company’s receipt of the Demand Registration, notify, in writing, all other Holders of Registrable Securities of such demand, and each Holder of Registrable Securities who thereafter wishes to include all or a portion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration (each such Holder that includes all or a portion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Registration, a “Requesting Holder”) shall so notify the Company, in writing, within five (5) days after the receipt by the Holder of the notice from the Company. Upon receipt by the Company of any such written notification from a Requesting Holder(s) to the Company, such Requesting Holder(s) shall be entitled to have their Registrable Securities included in a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration and the Company shall effect, as soon thereafter as practicable, but not more than sixty (60) days immediately after the Company’s receipt of the Demand Registration, the Registration of all Registrable Securities requested by the Demanding Holders and Requesting Holders pursuant to such Demand Registration. Under no circumstances shall the Company be obligated to effect more than (x) an aggregate of three (3) Registrations pursuant to a Demand Registration by the Existing Holders under this subsection 2.2.1 with respect to any or all Registrable Securities held by such Existing Holders and (y) an aggregate of three (3) Registrations pursuant to a Demand Registration by the New Holders under this subsection 2.2.1 with respect to any or all Registrable Securities held by such New Holders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Company shall not be required to give effect to a Demand Registration from a Demanding Holder if the Company has registered Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration from such Demanding Holder in the preceding one hundred and eighty (180) days, or (ii) the Company’s obligations with respect to any Demand Registration shall be deemed satisfied so long as the Registration Statement filed pursuant to subsection 2.1.1 includes all of such Demanding Holder’s Registrable Securities and is effective.

 

2.2.2 Effective Registration. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 2.2.1 above or any other part of this Agreement, a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration shall not count as a Registration unless and until (i) the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration has been declared effective by the Commission and (ii) the Company has complied with all of its obligations under this Agreement with respect thereto; provided, further, that if, after such Registration Statement has been declared effective, an offering of Registrable Securities in a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration is subsequently interfered with by any stop order or injunction of the Commission, federal or state court or any other governmental agency, the Registration Statement with respect to such Registration shall be deemed not to have been declared effective, unless and until, (i) such stop order or injunction is removed, rescinded or otherwise terminated, and (ii) a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating such Demand Registration thereafter affirmatively elect to continue with such Registration and accordingly notify the Company in writing, but in no event later than five (5) days, of such election; and provided, further, that the Company shall not be obligated or required to file another Registration Statement until the Registration Statement that has been previously filed with respect to a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration becomes effective or is subsequently terminated.

 

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2.2.3 Underwritten Offering. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2.2.4, if a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders so advise the Company as part of their Demand Registration that the offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration shall be in the form of an Underwritten Offering, then the right of such Demanding Holder or Requesting Holder (if any) to include its Registrable Securities in such Registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such Underwritten Offering and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Underwritten Offering to the extent provided herein. All such Holders proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through an Underwritten Offering under this subsection 2.2.3 shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering by the majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating the Demand Registration, which Underwriter(s) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company.

 

2.2.4 Reduction of Underwritten Offering. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration, in good faith, advises the Company, the Demanding Holders and 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 Class A Common Stock or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell and the Class A Common Stock, if any, as to which a Registration has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggy-back registration rights held by any other stockholders who desire to sell, 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 Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering, as follows: (i) first, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) (in each case pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that such Demanding Holder and Requesting Holder (if any) has requested be included in such Underwritten Registration and the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that such Demanding Holders and Requesting Holders have requested be included in such Underwritten Registration (such proportion is referred to herein as “Pro Rata”)) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (ii) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (i), the Class A Common Stock or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (iii) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), the Class A Common Stock or other equity securities of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to register in a Registration pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

 

2.2.5 Demand Registration Withdrawal. Any of the Demanding Holders initiating a Demand Registration or any of the Requesting Holders (if any), pursuant to a Registration under subsection 2.2.1, shall have the right to withdraw from a Registration pursuant to such Demand Registration or a Shelf Underwritten Offering pursuant to subsection 2.1.3 for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to the Registration of their Registrable Securities pursuant to such Demand Registration (or in the case of an Underwritten Registration pursuant to Rule 415, at least five (5) business days prior to the time of pricing of the applicable offering). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration or a Shelf Underwritten Offering prior to its withdrawal under this subsection 2.2.5.

 

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2.3 Piggyback Registration.

 

2.3.1 Piggyback Rights. If the Company proposes to file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act with respect to an offering 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, pursuant to subsection 2.1.1 or 2.1.2 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) for an exchange offer or offering of securities solely to the Company’s existing stockholders, (iii) for an offering of debt that is convertible into equity securities of the Company, (iv) for a dividend reinvestment plan or (v) a Block Trade, then the Company shall give written notice of such proposed filing to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities as soon as practicable but not less than ten (10) days before the anticipated filing date of such Registration Statement, 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 register the sale of such number of Registrable Securities as such Holders may request in writing within five (5) days after receipt of such written notice (such Registration a “Piggyback Registration”). The Company shall, in good faith, cause such Registrable Securities to be included in such Piggyback Registration and shall use its best efforts to cause the managing Underwriter or Underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering to permit the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to this subsection 2.3.1 to be included in a Piggyback Registration on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities of the Company included in such Registration and to permit the sale or other disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. All such Holders proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through an Underwritten Offering under this subsection 2.3.1 shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering by the Company.

 

2.3.2 Reduction of Piggyback Registration. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Registration 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 the Class A Common Stock that the Company desires to sell, taken together with (i) the Class A Common Stock, if any, as to which Registration 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 2.3 hereof, and (iii) the Class A Common Stock, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggyback registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, then:

 

(a) If the Registration is undertaken for the Company’s account, the Company shall include in any such Registration (A) first, the Class A 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 subsection 2.3.1 hereof, Pro Rata, 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 Class A Common Stock, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggyback registration rights of other stockholders of the Company, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities;

 

(b) If the Registration 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 (A) first, the Class A 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 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 subsection 2.3.1, Pro Rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Holder has requested be included in such Underwritten Registration and the aggregate number of Registrable Securities that the Holders have requested to be included in such Underwritten Registration, 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 Class A 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 Class A 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.

 

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2.3.3 Piggyback Registration Withdrawal. Any Holder of Registrable Securities 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 an Underwritten Registration pursuant to Rule 415, at least five (5) business days prior to the time of pricing of the applicable offering). 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 at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with the Piggyback Registration prior to its withdrawal under this subsection 2.3.3.

 

2.3.4 Unlimited Piggyback Registration Rights. For purposes of clarity, any Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof shall not be counted as a Registration pursuant to a Demand Registration effected under Section 2.2 hereof or a Shelf Underwritten Offering effected under subsection 2.1.3.

 

2.4 Restrictions on Registration Rights. If (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 has delivered written notice to the Holders prior to receipt of a Demand Registration pursuant to subsection 2.2.1 and it continues to actively employ, in good faith, all reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Registration Statement to become effective; (B) the Holders have requested an Underwritten Registration and the Company and the Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of an Underwriter or Underwriters to firmly underwrite the offer; or (C) in the good faith judgment of the Board such Registration would be seriously detrimental to the Company and the Board concludes as a result that it is essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement at such time, then in each case the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board stating that in the good faith judgment of the Board it would be seriously detrimental to the Company for such Registration Statement to be filed in the near future and that it is therefore essential to defer the filing of such Registration Statement. In such event, the Company shall have the right to defer such filing for a period of not more than sixty (60) days; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligation in this manner more than once in any twelve (12)-month period.

 

2.5 Block Trades.

 

2.5.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article II, but subject to Sections 2.4 and 3.4, at any time and from time to time when an effective Form S-3 Shelf is on file with the Commission, if one or more Demanding Holders desire to effect a Block Trade with a total offering price reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, either (x) $15,000,000 or (y) all remaining Registrable Securities held by such Demanding Holder(s), but in no event less than $10,000,000, then such Demanding Holder(s) shall provide written notice to the Company at least five (5) business days prior to the date such Block Trade will commence. As expeditiously as possible, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to facilitate such Block Trade. The Demanding Holders shall use reasonable best efforts to work with the Company and the Underwriter(s) (including by disclosing the maximum number of Registrable Securities proposed to be the subject of such Block Trade) prior to making such request in order to facilitate preparation of the Registration Statement, Prospectus and other offering documentation related to the Block Trade and any related due diligence and comfort procedures.

 

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2.5.2 Prior to the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used in connection with a Block Trade, a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating such Block Trade shall have the right to withdraw from such Block Trade upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Block Trade. 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 subsection 2.5.2.

 

2.5.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Section 2.3 shall not apply to a Block Trade initiated by a Demanding Holder pursuant to this Agreement.

 

2.5.4 The Demanding Holder(s) in a Block Trade shall have the right to select the Underwriter(s) for such Block Trade (which shall consist of one or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks).

 

2.5.5 A Holder in the aggregate may demand no more than four (4) Block Trades pursuant to this Section 2.5 in any twelve (12) month period.

 

Article III

COMPANY PROCEDURES

 

3.1 General Procedures. If the Company is required to effect the Registration of Registrable Securities, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect such Registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended plan of distribution thereof, 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 been sold;

 

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 a majority-in-interest of the Holders of 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;

 

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3.1.3 prior to filing a Registration Statement or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish without charge to the Underwriter(s), if any, and each Holder of Registrable Securities included in such Registration, and each such Holder’s 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 Underwriter(s) and each Holder 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, use its reasonable best efforts to (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 request 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 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 securities exchange or automated quotation system 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 three (3) days prior to the filing of any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document that is to be incorporated by reference into such Registration Statement or Prospectus, furnish a copy thereof to each seller of such Registrable Securities and its counsel, including, without limitation, providing copies promptly upon receipt of any comment letters received with respect to any such Registration Statement or Prospectus;

 

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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 (such representative to be selected by a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders), the Underwriter(s), if any, and any attorney or accountant retained by such Holders or Underwriter(s) 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 representative or Underwriter enters into a confidentiality agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, prior to the release or disclosure of any such information; and provided further, the Company may not include the name of any Holder or Underwriter or any information regarding any Holder or Underwriter in any Registration Statement or Prospectus, any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus, any document that is to be incorporated by reference into such Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any response to any comment letter, without the prior written consent of such Holder or Underwriter and providing each such Holder or Underwriter a reasonable amount of time to review and comment on such applicable document, which comments the Company shall include unless contrary to applicable law;

 

3.1.11 obtain a “comfort” letter from the Company’s independent registered public accountants in the event of an Underwritten Registration in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by “comfort” letters as the managing Underwriter(s) 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 and deliver to the Holders a copy of an opinion, dated such date, of counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such Registration, addressed to the placement agent or sales agent, if any, and the Underwriter(s), if any, covering such legal matters with respect to the Registration in respect of which such opinion is being given as the Underwriter(s) 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, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing Underwriter of such offering;

 

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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 (1st) 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 promulgated thereafter by the Commission);

 

3.1.15 if the Registration involves the Registration of Registrable Securities involving gross proceeds in excess of $50,000,000, 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(s) in any Underwritten Offering; and

 

3.1.16 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.

 

3.2 Registration Expenses. Except as otherwise provided herein, 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’ 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. No person may participate in any Underwritten 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 underwriting arrangements approved by the Company and (ii) completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, lock-up agreements (subject to subsection 3.6.3 hereof), underwriting agreements and other customary documents as may be reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

 

3.4 Suspension of Sales; Adverse Disclosure. 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. If the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement in respect of any Registration at any time would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or would require the inclusion in such Registration Statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, 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, but in no event more than sixty (60) consecutive days or one hundred-twenty (120) total days in any twelve (12)-month period, determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose; provided, however, that the Company shall not defer its obligations in this manner more than two times in any twelve (12)-month period. In the event the Company exercises its rights under the preceding sentence, 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. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders of the expiration of any period during which it exercised its rights under this Section 3.4.

 

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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 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. 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 shares of the Class A Common Stock held by such Holder without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144, including providing any legal opinions.

 

3.6 Transfer Restrictions.

 

3.6.1 Except with respect to a Transfer to a Permitted Transferee, during the applicable Lock-Up Periods, no Existing Holder shall, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of or distribute (“Transfer”) any (i) shares of Class A Common Stock or any other shares of the Company’s capital stock, (ii) options or warrants to purchase any shares of Class A Common Stock or any other shares of the Company’s capital stock or (iii) securities convertible into, exercisable for, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of Class A Common Stock or any other shares of the Company’s capital stock, in each case, whether now owned or hereinafter acquired, that are owned directly by such Existing Holder (including securities held as a custodian) or with respect to which such Existing Holder has beneficial ownership within the rules and regulations of the SEC (collectively, the “Restricted Shares”), or publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge, grant, disposition or transfer of the Restricted Shares. The foregoing restriction is expressly agreed to preclude each Existing Holder from engaging in any hedging or other transaction which is designed to or which reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of the Restricted Shares even if such Restricted Shares would be disposed of by someone other than such Existing Holder. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions include any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including any put or call option) with respect to any of the Restricted Shares of the applicable Existing Holder or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from such Restricted Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to SRAC PIPE Partners LLC, only the 176,471 Founder Shares held by SRAC PIPE Partners LLC shall be Restricted Shares, and this Section 3.6 shall not apply to any other shares of Class A Common Stock held by such entity.

 

3.6.2 Each Existing Holder hereby represents and warrants that it now has and, except as contemplated by this subsection 3.6.2 for the duration of the applicable Lock-Up Period, will have good and marketable title to its Restricted Shares, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, and claims that could impact the ability of such Existing Holder to comply with the foregoing restrictions. Each Existing Holder agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent against the transfer of any Restricted Shares during the applicable Lock-Up Period, except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

 

3.6.3 In connection with any Underwritten Offering (other than a Block Trade), the Company and each Holder proposing to distribute their Registrable Securities through such Underwritten Offering will agree (with respect to the Registrable Securities held by such Holder) to be bound by the underwriting agreement’s lock-up restrictions (which must apply in like manner to all such Holders) that are agreed to by (a) the Company, if a majority of the shares being sold in such Underwritten Offering are being sold for its account, and (b) Holders holding a majority of the shares being sold by all Holders, if a majority of the shares being sold in such Underwritten Offering are being sold by the Holders, provided that, in no event shall any lock-up restriction in accordance with this subsection 3.6.3 exceed a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the final Prospectus for any such Underwritten Offering, except with respect to the first Underwritten Offering following the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, if the managing Underwriter or Underwriters, in good faith, advise the Company in writing that a lock-up restriction of a period of forty-five (45) or fewer days would have a material adverse impact on such Underwritten Offering, then such lock-up restrictions shall be for the number of days such managing Underwriter or Underwriters so advise, not to exceed a period of ninety (90) days from the date of the final Prospectus for any such Underwritten Offering.

 

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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 and directors and each person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from 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, except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein. The Company shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers and 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 the indemnification of the Holder.

 

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 and, to the extent permitted by law, shall indemnify the Company, its directors and officers and agents and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any untrue statement of material fact contained in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any 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 in such offering giving rise to such liability. 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 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 (plus local 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.

 

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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.

 

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 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 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 and the benefits received by the such indemnifying party or indemnified party; provided, however, that the liability of any Holder under this subsection 4.1.5 shall be limited to the amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities 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 subsections 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 above, any legal or other fees, charges or 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 subsection 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 subsection 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 subsection 4.1.5 from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

Article V

MISCELLANEOUS

 

5.1 Notices. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be in writing and given by (i) deposit in the United States mail, addressed to the party to be notified, postage prepaid and registered or certified with return receipt requested, (ii) delivery in person or by courier service providing evidence of delivery, or (iii) transmission by hand delivery, electronic mail or facsimile. Each notice or communication that is mailed, delivered, or transmitted in the manner described above shall be deemed sufficiently given, served, sent, and received, in the case of mailed notices, on the third (3rd) business day following the date on which it is mailed and, in the case of notices delivered by courier service, hand delivery, electronic mail (provided no “bounce back” or notice of non-delivery is received) or facsimile, at such time as it is delivered to the addressee (except in the case of electronic mail, with the delivery receipt or the affidavit of messenger) or at such time as delivery is refused by the addressee upon presentation. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be addressed, if to the Company, to: Momentus Inc., 3901 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95134, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, and, if to any Holder, at such Holder’s address or contact information 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.

 

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5.2 Assignment; No Third Party Beneficiaries.

 

5.2.1 Subject to Section 5.2.3, this Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of the Company and the Holders of Registrable Shares, as the case may be, hereunder may not be assigned or delegated by the Company or the Holders of Registrable Securities, as the case may be, in whole or in part.

 

5.2.2 Prior to the expiration of the Founder Lock-Up Period or the Private Placement Lock-Up Period, as the case may be, no Existing Holder who is subject to any such Lock-Up Period may assign or delegate such Existing Holder’s rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, in violation of the applicable Lock-Up Period, except in connection with a transfer of Registrable Securities by such Existing Holder to a Permitted Transferee but only if such Permitted Transferee agrees to become bound by the transfer restrictions set forth in this Agreement.

 

5.2.3 This Agreement and the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties and its successors and the permitted assigns of the Holders, which shall include Permitted Transferees.

 

5.2.4 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 and Section 5.2 hereof.

 

5.2.5 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). Any transfer or assignment made other than as provided in this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.

 

5.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts (including facsimile or PDF counterparts), each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute the same instrument, but only one of which need be produced.

 

5.4 Governing Law; Venue. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE EXECUTED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT (I) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AS APPLIED TO AGREEMENTS AMONG NEW YORK RESIDENTS ENTERED INTO AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION AND (II) THE VENUE FOR ANY ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

5.5 Amendments and Modifications. Upon the written consent of the Company and the Holders of at least a majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities at the time in question, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants or conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects either the Existing Holders as a group or the New Holders as a group, respectively, in a manner that is materially adversely different from the Existing Holders or New Holders, as applicable, shall require the consent of at least a majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities held by such Existing Holders or New Holders, as applicable, at the time in question; provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects one Holder, solely in its capacity as a holder of the shares of capital stock of the Company, in a manner that is materially different from the other Holders (in such capacity) shall require the consent of the Holder so affected; provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment hereto or waiver hereof that has the effect of extending the Lock-Up Period applicable to any particular Holder shall be enforceable against, or effective with respect to, such Holder without such Holder’s written consent. 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.

 

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5.6 Other Registration Rights. The Company represents and warrants that, other than pursuant to (a) that certain Warrant Agreement, dated as of November 7, 2019, by and between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and the Company and (b) those certain Subscription Agreements, dated as of October 7, 2020 and July 15, 2021, as amended, by and between the Company and certain persons that have become stockholders of the Company as of the date hereof in connection with the issuance of shares of Class A Common Stock on the terms set forth therein, no person, other than a Holder of Registrable Securities, has any right to require the Company to register any securities of the Company for sale or to include such securities of the Company in any Registration filed by the Company for the sale of securities for its own account or for the account of any other person.

 

5.7 Further, the Company represents and warrants that this Agreement supersedes any other registration rights agreement or agreement with similar terms and conditions and in the event of a conflict between any such agreement or agreements and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail. The Company agrees that it will not, after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement which materially and adversely interferes with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof, including allowing any other holder of Class A Common Stock to have registration rights in the nature or substantially in the nature of those set forth in this Agreement that would have priority over or pari passu with the Registrable Securities with respect to the inclusion of such securities in any Registration Statement.

 

5.8 Term. This Agreement shall terminate upon the earlier of (a) the tenth anniversary of the date of this Agreement, (b) the date as of which all of the Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to a Registration Statement (but in no event prior to the applicable period referred to in Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission)) or (c) with respect to a particular Holder, the date as of which all Registrable Securities held by such Holder have been sold (x) pursuant to a Registration Statement (but in no event prior to the applicable period referred to in Section 4(a)(3) of the Securities Act and Rule 174 thereunder (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission)) or (y) under Rule 144 or another exemption from registration under the Securities Act; provided that, for purposes of this Section 5.7, securities constituting Registrable Securities shall be determined without regard and without giving effect to clause (D) contained in the definition of Registrable Securities. The provisions of Section 3.5 and Article IV shall survive any termination.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

  COMPANY:
   
  MOMENTUS INC.,
  a Delaware corporation
   
  By: /s/ John C. Rood
    Name:  John C. Rood
    Title: Chief Executive Officer
       
  NEW HOLDERS:
   
  PRIME MOVERS LAB FUND I LP,
  a Delaware limited partnership
   
  By: /s/ Jon Layman
    Name: Jon Layman
    Title: Partner and General Counsel
       
  MOMENTUS PML SPV 1 LP,
  a Delaware limited partnership
   
  By: /s/ Jon Layman
    Name: Jon Layman
    Title: Partner and General Counsel
       
  MOMENTUS PML SPV 2 LP,
  a Delaware limited partnership
   
  By: /s/ Jon Layman
    Name: Jon Layman
    Title: Partner and General Counsel

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

  EXISTING HOLDERS:
   
  SRC-NI HOLDINGS, LLC,
  a Delaware limited liability company
  By its Managing Members
     
  By: /s/ Edward K. Freedman
    Edward K. Freedman
     
  By: /s/ Brian Kabot
    Brian Kabot
     
  By: /s/ Juan Manuel Quiroga
    Juan Manuel Quiroga
     
  SRAC PIPE PARTNERS LLC,
  a Delaware limited liability company
     
  By: /s/ James Norris
    Name:  James Norris
    Title: Chief Financial Officer
     
  CANTOR FITZGERALD AND CO.
     
  By: /s/ Sage Kelly
    Sage Kelly

 

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

[●], 2021

 

Momentus Inc.

3050 Kenneth St.

Santa Clara, CA 95054

 

Re: Lock-Up Agreement

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This letter (this “Letter Agreement”) is being delivered to you in connection with the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 7, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), entered into by and among Stable Road Acquisition Corp, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“First Merger Sub”), Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Second Merger Sub”), and Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Momentus”), pursuant to which, among other things, First Merger Sub will merge with and into Momentus, with Momentus surviving as the surviving corporation and, immediately following such merger and as part of the same overall transaction, the surviving corporation will merge with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub surviving as the surviving company (together, the “Mergers”).

 

In order to induce the Company to proceed with the Mergers and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the undersigned (the “Securityholder”) hereby agrees with the Company as follows:

 

1. Subject to the exceptions set forth herein, the Securityholder agrees not to, without the prior written consent of the board of directors of the Company, (i) lend, sell, offer to sell, contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder, any shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (“Class A Common Stock”) held by the Securityholder immediately after the effective time of the Mergers or any shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options, warrants or other convertible securities to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Securityholder immediately after the effective time of the Mergers (“Lock-Up Shares”), (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any of such Lock-Up Shares, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise or (iii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i) or (ii) (the actions specified in clauses (i)-(iii), collectively, “Transfer”) for a period terminating upon the earliest to occur of (a) six months after the closing date of the Mergers, (b) the first date the closing price of the Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any twenty (20) trading days within any thirty (30)-trading day period commencing after the closing date of the Mergers and (c) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s securityholders having the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for cash, securities or other property (the “Lock-Up”).

 

 

 

 

2. The restrictions set forth in paragraph 1 shall not apply to:

 

(i) in the case of an entity, Transfers to a director, manager, officer, stockholder, partner, member or affiliate of such entity or an investment fund or other entity controlled or managed by such entity or any of its affiliates;

 

(ii) in the case of an individual, Transfers by gift to members of the individual’s immediate family (as defined below) or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of one of the individual’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization;

 

(iii) in the case of an individual, Transfers by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual;

 

(iv) in the case of an individual, Transfers pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order;

 

(v) in the case of an entity, Transfers by virtue of the laws of the state of the entity’s organization and the entity’s organizational documents upon dissolution of the entity;

 

(vi) the exercise of any options, warrants or other convertible securities to purchase Class A Common Stock (which exercises may be effected on a cashless basis to the extent the instruments representing such options or warrants permit exercises on a cashless basis); provided, that any Class A Common Stock issued upon such exercise shall be subject to the Lock-Up;

 

(vii) Transfers to the Company to satisfy tax withholding obligations pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive plans or arrangements;

 

(viii) Transfers to the Company pursuant to any contractual arrangement in effect at the effective time of the Mergers that provides for the repurchase by the Company or forfeiture of the Securityholder’s Class A Common Stock or options to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock in connection with the termination of the Securityholder’s service to the Company;

 

(ix) the entry, by the Securityholder, at any time after the effective time of the Mergers, of any trading plan providing for the sale of Class A Common Stock by the Securityholder, which trading plan meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that such plan does not provide for, or permit, the sale of any Class A Common Stock during the Lock-Up and no public announcement or filing is voluntarily made or required regarding such plan during the Lock-Up; or

 

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(x) the exercise of any piggyback registration rights pursuant to Section 2.3 of that certain Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, the Securityholder and the other parties thereto (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).

 

provided, however, that in the case of clauses (i) through (v), these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement, in substantially the form of this Letter Agreement (it being understood that any references to “immediate family” in the agreement executed by such transferee shall expressly refer only to the immediate family of the Securityholder and not to the immediate family of the transferee), agreeing to be bound by these Transfer restrictions. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” shall mean a spouse, domestic partner, child, grandchild or other lineal descendant (including by adoption), father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned; and “affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

3. This Letter Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties hereto, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way to the subject matter hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby. This Letter Agreement may not be changed, amended, modified or waived (other than to correct a typographical error) as to any particular provision, except by a written instrument executed by all parties hereto.

 

4. No party hereto may assign either this Letter Agreement or any of its rights, interests or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the other party. Any purported assignment in violation of this paragraph shall be void and ineffectual and shall not operate to transfer or assign any interest or title to the purported assignee. This Letter Agreement shall be binding on the Securityholder and each of its respective successors, heirs and assigns and permitted transferees.

 

5. This Letter Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The parties hereto (i) agree that any action, proceeding, claim or dispute arising out of, or relating in any way to, this Letter Agreement shall be brought and enforced in any Delaware Chancery Court, and irrevocably submit to such jurisdiction and venue, which jurisdiction and venue shall be exclusive and (ii) waive any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and venue or that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

 

6. This Letter Agreement shall terminate on the expiration of the Lock-Up.

 

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  Very truly yours,
   
  (Name of Securityholder – Please Print)
   
 
  (Signature)
   
   
  (Name of Signatory if Securityholder is an entity – Please Print)
   
   
  (Title of Signatory if Securityholder is an entity – Please Print)

 

  Address:  
     
     
     
     

 

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]

 

 

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Exhibit 10.4

 

mOMENTUS Inc.

 

Indemnification Agreement

 

This Indemnification Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made as of __________, by and between Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [NAME] (“Indemnitee”).

 

RECITALS

 

The Company and Indemnitee recognize the increasing difficulty in obtaining liability insurance for directors, officers and key employees, the significant increases in the cost of such insurance and the general reductions in the coverage of such insurance. The Company and Indemnitee further recognize the substantial increase in corporate litigation in general, subjecting directors, officers and key employees to expensive litigation risks at the same time as the availability and coverage of liability insurance has been severely limited. Indemnitee does not regard the current protection available as adequate under the present circumstances, and Indemnitee may not be willing to continue to serve in Indemnitee’s current capacity with the Company without additional protection. The Company desires to attract and retain the services of highly qualified individuals, such as Indemnitee, and to indemnify its directors, officers and key employees so as to provide them with the maximum protection permitted by law.

 

AGREEMENT

 

In consideration of the mutual promises made in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and Indemnitee hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Indemnification.

 

(a) Third-Party Proceedings. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, as such may be amended from time to time, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee, if Indemnitee was, is or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant (as a witness or otherwise) in any Proceeding (other than a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in the Company’s favor), against all Expenses, judgments, fines, losses, liabilities, penalties, and amounts paid in settlement (if such settlement is approved in advance by the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitee’s behalf in connection with such Proceeding 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 Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful.

 

(b) Proceedings By or in the Right of the Company. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee, if Indemnitee was, is or is threatened to be made a party to or a participant (as a witness or otherwise) in any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in the Company’s favor, against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding 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, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which Indemnitee shall have been finally adjudicated by court order or judgment to be liable to the Company unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such Proceeding is or was pending shall determine upon application that, in view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which such court shall deem proper.

 

 

 

 

(c) Success on the Merits. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and to the extent that Indemnitee has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any Proceeding referred to in Section 1(a) or Section 1(b) or the defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, in whole or in part, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection therewith. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if Indemnitee is successful on the merits or otherwise as to one or more but less than all claims, issues or matters in a Proceeding, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such successfully resolved claims, issues or matters to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. If any Proceeding is disposed of on the merits or otherwise (including a disposition without prejudice), without (i) the disposition being adverse to Indemnitee, (ii) an adjudication that Indemnitee was liable to the Company, (iii) a plea of guilty by Indemnitee, (iv) an adjudication that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and (v) with respect to any criminal Proceeding, an adjudication that Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful, Indemnitee shall be considered for the purposes hereof to have been wholly successful with respect thereto.

 

(d) Witness Expenses. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and to the extent that Indemnitee is a witness or otherwise asked to participate in any Proceeding to which Indemnitee is not a party, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding.

 

2. Indemnification Procedure.

 

(a) Advancement of Expenses. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall advance all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with a Proceeding within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of a statement requesting such advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of any Proceeding. Such advances shall be unsecured and interest free and shall be made 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. Indemnitee shall be entitled to continue to receive advancement of Expenses pursuant to this Section 2(a) unless and until the matter of Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification hereunder has been finally adjudicated by court order or judgment from which no further right of appeal exists. Indemnitee hereby undertakes to repay such amounts advanced only if, and to the extent that, it ultimately is determined that Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company under the other provisions of this Agreement. Indemnitee shall qualify for advances upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, which shall constitute the requisite undertaking with respect to repayment of advances made hereunder and no other form of undertaking shall be required to qualify for advances made hereunder other than the execution of this Agreement.

 

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(b) Notice and Cooperation by Indemnitee. Indemnitee shall promptly 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 for which indemnification will or could be sought under this Agreement. Such notice to the Company shall include a description of the nature of, and facts underlying, the Proceeding, shall be directed to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and shall be given in accordance with the provisions of Section 13(e) below. In addition, Indemnitee shall give the Company such additional information and cooperation as the Company may reasonably request. Indemnitee’s failure to so notify, provide information and otherwise cooperate with the Company shall not relieve the Company of any obligation that it may have to Indemnitee under this Agreement, except to the extent that the Company is adversely affected by such failure.

 

(c) Determination of Entitlement.

 

(i) Final Disposition. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, no determination as to entitlement to indemnification under this Agreement shall be required to be made prior to the final disposition of the Proceeding.

 

(ii) Determination and Payment. Subject to the foregoing, promptly after receipt of a statement requesting payment with respect to the indemnification rights set forth in Section 1, to the extent required by applicable law, the Company shall take the steps necessary to authorize such payment in the manner set forth in Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Company shall pay any claims made under this Agreement, under any statute, or under any provision of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws providing for indemnification or advancement of Expenses, within thirty (30) days after a written request for payment thereof has first been received by the Company, and if such claim is not paid in full within such thirty (30) day-period, Indemnitee may, but need not, at any time thereafter bring an action against the Company in the Delaware Court of Chancery to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, subject to Section 12, Indemnitee shall also be entitled to be paid for all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with bringing such action. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for advancement of Expenses under Section 2(a)) that Indemnitee has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under applicable law for the Company to indemnify Indemnitee for the amount claimed. In making a determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification hereunder, the person or persons or entity making such determination shall presume that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification under this Agreement and the Company shall have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption with clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. The termination of any Proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, 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, in the case of a criminal Proceeding, that Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee’s conduct was unlawful. In addition, it is the parties’ intention that if the Company contests Indemnitee’s right to indemnification, the question of Indemnitee’s right to indemnification shall be for the court to decide, and neither the failure of the Company (including its Board of Directors, any committee or subgroup of the Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination that indemnification of Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct required by applicable law, nor an actual determination by the Company (including its Board of Directors, any committee or subgroup of the Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that Indemnitee has or has not met the applicable standard of conduct. If any requested determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification hereunder has not been made within ninety (90) days after the final disposition of the Proceeding, the requisite determination that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification shall be deemed to have been made.

 

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(iii) Change of Control. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, if a Change of Control has occurred, any person or body appointed by the Board of Directors in accordance with applicable law to review the Company’s obligations hereunder and under applicable law shall be Independent Counsel selected by Indemnitee and approved by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld). Such counsel, among other things, will render its written opinion to the Company and Indemnitee as to whether and to what extent Indemnitee would be entitled to be indemnified hereunder under applicable law and the Company agrees to abide by such opinion. The Company agrees to pay the reasonable fees of the Independent Counsel referred to above and to indemnify fully such counsel against any and all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), claims, liabilities and damages arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its engagement pursuant hereto. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to pay Expenses of more than one Independent Counsel in connection with all matters concerning a single Indemnitee, and such Independent Counsel shall be the Independent Counsel for any or all other Indemnitees unless (a) the Company otherwise determines or (b) any Indemnitee shall provide a written statement setting forth in detail a reasonable objection to such Independent Counsel representing other indemnitees under agreements similar to this Agreement.

 

(d) Payment Directions. To the extent payments are required to be made hereunder, the Company shall, in accordance with Indemnitee’s request (but without duplication), (i) pay such Expenses on behalf of Indemnitee, (ii) advance to Indemnitee funds in an amount sufficient to pay such Expenses, or (iii) reimburse Indemnitee for such Expenses.

 

(e) Notice to Insurers. If, at the time of the receipt of a notice of a claim pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof, the Company has director and officer liability insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of the commencement of such Proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such Proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies. The Company shall provide to Indemnitee: (i) copies of all potentially applicable directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies, (ii) a copy of such notice delivered to the applicable insurers, and (iii) copies of all subsequent correspondence between the Company and such insurers regarding the Proceeding, in each case substantially concurrently with the delivery or receipt thereof by the Company.

 

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(f) Defense of Claim and Selection of Counsel. In the event the Company shall be obligated under Section 2(a) hereof to advance Expenses with respect to any Proceeding, the Company, if appropriate, shall be entitled to assume the defense of such Proceeding, with counsel reasonably acceptable to Indemnitee, upon the delivery to Indemnitee of written notice of its election so to do, and upon Indemnitee providing signed, written consent to such assumption, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. After delivery of such notice, approval of such counsel by Indemnitee and the retention of such counsel by the Company, the Company will not be liable to Indemnitee under this Agreement for any fees of counsel subsequently incurred by Indemnitee with respect to the same Proceeding, provided that (i) Indemnitee shall have the right to employ counsel in any such Proceeding at Indemnitee’s expense; and (ii) if (A) the employment of counsel by Indemnitee has been previously authorized by the Company, (B) Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and Indemnitee in the conduct of any such defense or (C) the Company shall not, in fact, have employed counsel to assume the defense of such Proceeding, then the fees and expenses of Indemnitee’s counsel shall be at the expense of the Company. In addition, if there exists a potential, but not an actual conflict of interest between the Company and Indemnitee, the actual and reasonable legal fees and expenses incurred by Indemnitee for separate counsel retained by Indemnitee to monitor the Proceeding (so that such counsel may assume Indemnitee’s defense if the conflict of interest between the Company and Indemnitee becomes an actual conflict of interest) shall be deemed to be Expenses that are subject to indemnification hereunder. The existence of an actual or potential conflict of interest, and whether such conflict may be waived, shall be determined pursuant to the rules of attorney professional conduct and applicable law. The Company shall not be required to obtain the consent of Indemnitee for the settlement of any Proceeding the Company has undertaken to defend if the Company assumes full and sole responsibility for each such settlement; provided, however, that the Company shall be required to obtain Indemnitee’s prior written approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, before entering into any settlement which (1) does not grant Indemnitee a complete release of liability, (2) would impose any penalty or limitation on Indemnitee, or (3) would admit any liability or misconduct by Indemnitee.

 

3. Additional Indemnification Rights.

 

(a) Scope. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company hereby agrees to indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by law, notwithstanding that such indemnification is not specifically authorized by the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, the Company’s Bylaws or by statute. In the event of any change, after the date of this Agreement, in any applicable law, statute, or rule which expands the right of a Delaware corporation to indemnify a member of its board of directors or an officer, such changes shall be deemed to be within the purview of Indemnitee’s rights and the Company’s obligations under this Agreement. In the event of any change in any applicable law, statute or rule which narrows the right of a Delaware corporation to indemnify a member of its board of directors or an officer, such changes, to the extent not otherwise required by such law, statute or rule to be applied to this Agreement shall have no effect on this Agreement or the parties’ rights and obligations hereunder.

 

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(b) Nonexclusivity. The indemnification provided by this Agreement shall not be deemed exclusive of any rights to which Indemnitee may be entitled under the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, its Bylaws, any agreement, any vote of stockholders or disinterested members of the Company’s Board of Directors, the Delaware General Corporation Law, or otherwise, both as to action in Indemnitee’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

 

(c) Interest on Unpaid Amounts. If any payment to be made by the Company to Indemnitee hereunder is delayed by more than ninety (90) days from the date the duly prepared request for such payment is received by the Company, interest shall be paid by the Company to Indemnitee at the legal rate under Delaware law for amounts which the Company indemnifies or is obligated to indemnify for the period commencing with the date on which Indemnitee actually incurs such Expense or pays such judgment, fine or amount in settlement and ending with the date on which such payment is made to Indemnitee by the Company.

 

(d) Third-Party Indemnification. The Company hereby acknowledges that Indemnitee has or may from time to time obtain certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by one or more third parties (collectively, the “Third-Party Indemnitors”). The Company hereby agrees that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to Indemnitee are primary and any obligation of the Third-Party Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by Indemnitee are secondary), and that the Company will not assert that the Indemnitee must seek expense advancement or reimbursement, or indemnification, from any Third-Party Indemnitor before the Company must perform its expense advancement and reimbursement, and indemnification obligations, under this Agreement. No advancement or payment by the Third-Party Indemnitors on behalf of Indemnitee with respect to any claim for which Indemnitee has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing. The Third-Party Indemnitors shall be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery which Indemnitee would have had against the Company if the Third-Party Indemnitors had not advanced or paid any amount to or on behalf of Indemnitee. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the Third-Party Indemnitors are not entitled to the subrogation rights described in the preceding sentence, the Third-Party Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution by the Company to the Third-Party Indemnitors with respect to any advance or payment by the Third-Party Indemnitors to or on behalf of the Indemnitee.

 

(e) Indemnification of Control Person. If (i) Indemnitee is or was affiliated with one or more of the Company’s current or former stockholders that may be deemed to be or to have been a controlling person of the Company (each a “Control Person”), (ii) a Control Person is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant (including as a witness) in any Proceeding, and (iii) the Control Person’s involvement in the Proceeding is related to Indemnitee’s service to the Company as a director of the Company, or arises from the Control Person’s status or alleged status as a controlling person of the Company resulting from such Control Person’s affiliation with Indemnitee, then the Control Person shall be entitled to all of the indemnification rights and remedies under this Agreement to the same extent as Indemnitee.

 

4. Partial Indemnification. If Indemnitee is entitled under any provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for some or a portion of the Expenses, judgments, fines or amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with a Proceeding, but not, however, for the total amount thereof, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee for the portion of such Expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement to which Indemnitee is entitled.

 

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5. Director and Officer Liability Insurance.

 

(a) D&O Policy. The Company shall, from time to time, make the good faith determination whether or not it is practicable for the Company to obtain and maintain a policy or policies of insurance with reputable insurance companies providing the directors and officers of the Company with coverage for losses from wrongful acts, or to ensure the Company’s performance of its indemnification obligations under this Agreement. Among other considerations, the Company will weigh the costs of obtaining such insurance coverage against the protection afforded by such coverage. In all policies of director and officer liability insurance, Indemnitee shall be named as an insured in such a manner as to provide Indemnitee the same rights and benefits as are accorded to the most favorably insured of the Company’s directors, if Indemnitee is a director; or of the Company’s officers, if Indemnitee is not a director of the Company but is an officer; or of the Company’s key employees, if Indemnitee is not an officer or director but is a key employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall have no obligation to obtain or maintain such insurance if the Company determines in good faith that such insurance is not reasonably available, if the premium costs for such insurance are disproportionate to the amount of coverage provided, if the coverage provided by such insurance is limited by exclusions so as to provide an insufficient benefit, or if Indemnitee is covered by similar insurance maintained by a parent or subsidiary of the Company.

 

(b) Tail Coverage. In the event of a Change of Control or the Company’s becoming insolvent (including being placed into receivership or entering the federal bankruptcy process and the like), the Company shall maintain in force any and all insurance policies then maintained by the Company in providing insurance (directors’ and officers’ liability, fiduciary, employment practices or otherwise) in respect of Indemnitee, for a period of six years thereafter.

 

6. Severability. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to require or shall be construed as requiring the Company to do or fail to do any act in violation of applicable law. The Company’s inability, pursuant to court order, to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement. If this Agreement or any portion hereof shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee to the full extent permitted by any applicable portion of this Agreement that shall not have been invalidated, and the balance of this Agreement not so invalidated shall be enforceable in accordance with its terms.

 

7. Exclusions. Any other provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall not be obligated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement:

 

(a) Claims Initiated by Indemnitee. To indemnify or advance Expenses to Indemnitee with respect to Proceedings initiated or brought voluntarily by Indemnitee and not by way of defense, except with respect to Proceedings brought to establish, enforce or interpret a right to indemnification under this Agreement or any other statute or law or otherwise as required under Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, but such indemnification or advancement of Expenses may be provided by the Company in specific cases if the Board of Directors finds it to be appropriate; provided, however, that the exclusion set forth in the first clause of this subsection shall not be deemed to apply to any investigation initiated or brought by Indemnitee to the extent reasonably necessary or advisable in support of Indemnitee’s defense of a Proceeding to which Indemnitee was, is or is threatened to be made, a party;

 

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(b) Lack of Good Faith. To indemnify Indemnitee for any Expenses incurred by Indemnitee with respect to any Proceeding instituted by Indemnitee to establish, enforce or interpret a right to indemnification under this Agreement or any other statute or law or otherwise as required under Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, if a court of competent jurisdiction determines that each of the material assertions made by Indemnitee in such proceeding was not made in good faith or was frivolous;

 

(c) Unlawful Payments. To indemnify Indemnitee for Expenses to the extent it is determined by a final court order or judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction, to which all rights of appeal have either lapsed or been exhausted, that such indemnification is unlawful;

 

(d) Certain Conduct. To indemnify Indemnitee for Expenses on account of Indemnitee’s conduct that is established by a final court order or judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction, to which all rights of appeal have either lapsed or been exhausted, as knowingly fraudulent;

 

(e) Insured Claims. To indemnify Indemnitee for Expenses to the extent such Expenses have been paid directly to Indemnitee by an insurance carrier under an insurance policy maintained by the Company; or

 

(f) Certain Exchange Act Claims. To indemnify Indemnitee in connection with any claim made against Indemnitee 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 any similar successor statute or any similar provisions of state statutory law or common law, or (ii) any reimbursement of the Company by Indemnitee of any bonus or other incentive-based or equity-based compensation or of any profits realized by 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 Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection 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); provided, however, that to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and to the extent Indemnitee is successful on the merits or otherwise with respect to any such Proceeding, the Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any such Proceeding shall be deemed to be Expenses that are subject to indemnification hereunder.

 

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8. Contribution Claims.

 

(a) If the indemnification provided in Section 1 is unavailable in whole or in part and may not be paid to Indemnitee for any reason other than those set forth in Section 7, then in respect to any Proceeding in which the Company is jointly liable with Indemnitee (or would be if joined in such Proceeding), to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company, in lieu of indemnifying Indemnitee, shall pay, in the first instance, the entire amount incurred by Indemnitee, whether for Expenses, judgments, fines, losses, liabilities, penalties, or amounts paid in settlement, in connection with any Proceeding without requiring Indemnitee to contribute to such payment, and the Company hereby waives and relinquishes any right of contribution it may have at any time against Indemnitee.

 

(b) Without diminishing or impairing the obligations of the Company set forth in the preceding Section 8(a), if, for any reason, Indemnitee shall elect or be required to pay all or any portion of any Expenses, judgments, fines, losses, liabilities, penalties and amounts paid in settlement in any Proceeding in which the Company is jointly liable with Indemnitee (or would be if joined in such Proceeding), the Company shall contribute to the amount of Expenses, judgments, fines, losses, liabilities, penalties and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred and paid or payable by Indemnitee in proportion to the relative benefits received by the Company and all officers, directors or employees of the Company, other than Indemnitee, who are jointly liable with Indemnitee (or would be if joined in such Proceeding), on the one hand, and Indemnitee, on the other hand, from the transaction or events from which such Proceeding arose; provided, however, that the proportion determined on the basis of relative benefit may, to the extent necessary to conform to law, be further adjusted by reference to the relative fault of the Company and all officers, directors or employees of the Company other than Indemnitee who are jointly liable with Indemnitee (or would be if joined in such Proceeding), on the one hand, and Indemnitee, on the other hand, in connection with the transaction or events that resulted in such Expenses, judgments, fines, losses, liabilities, penalties or settlement amounts, as well as any other equitable considerations which applicable law may require to be considered. The relative fault of the Company and all officers, directors or employees of the Company, other than Indemnitee, who are jointly liable with Indemnitee (or would be if joined in such Proceeding), on the one hand, and Indemnitee, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, the degree to which their actions were motivated by intent to gain personal profit or advantage, the degree to which their liability is primary or secondary and the degree to which their conduct is active or passive.

 

(c) With respect to a Proceeding brought against directors, officers, employees or agents of the Company (other than Indemnitee), to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee from any claims for contribution that may be brought by any such directors, officers, employees or agents of the Company (other than Indemnitee) who may be jointly liable with Indemnitee, to the same extent Indemnitee would have been entitled to such indemnification under this Agreement if such Proceeding had been brought against Indemnitee.

 

9. No Imputation. The knowledge and/or actions, or failure to act, of any director, officer, agent or employee of the Company or the Company itself shall not be imputed to Indemnitee for purposes of determining any rights under this Agreement.

 

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10. Determination of Good Faith. For purposes of any determination of good faith, Indemnitee shall be deemed to have acted in good faith if Indemnitee’s action is based on the records or books of account of the Enterprise, including financial statements, or on information supplied to Indemnitee by the officers of the Enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Enterprise or the Board of Directors of the Enterprise or any counsel selected by any committee of the Board of Directors of the Enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser, investment banker, compensation consultant, or other expert selected with reasonable care by the Enterprise or the Board of Directors of the Enterprise or any committee thereof. The provisions of this Section 10 shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to limit in any way the other circumstances in which the Indemnitee may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct. Whether or not the foregoing provisions of this Section are satisfied, it shall in any event be presumed that Indemnitee has at all times acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company.

 

11. Defined Terms and Phrases. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

(a) “Beneficial Owner” and “Beneficial Ownership” shall have the meanings set forth in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof.

 

(b) “Change of Control” shall be deemed to occur upon the earliest of any of the following events:

 

(i) Acquisition of Stock by Third Party. Any Person is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 20% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, unless (1) the change in the 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) such acquisition was approved in advance by the Continuing Directors and such acquisition would not constitute a Change of Control under part (iii) of this definition.

 

(ii) Change in Board of Directors. Individuals who, as of the date of this Agreement, constitute the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), and any new director 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 were directors on the date of this Agreement (collectively, the “Continuing Directors”), cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board.

 

(iii) Corporate Transaction. The effective date of a reorganization, merger, or consolidation of the Company (a “Business Combination”), in each case, unless, following such Business Combination: (1) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the Beneficial Owners of securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 51% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors resulting from such Business Combination (including a corporation which as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination, of the securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors and with the power to elect at least a majority of the Board or other governing body of the surviving entity; (2) no Person (excluding any corporation resulting from such Business Combination) is the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 15% or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of such corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination; and (3) at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were Continuing Directors at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board of Directors, providing for such Business Combination.

 

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(iv) Liquidation. The approval by the Company’s stockholders of a complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement or series of agreements for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, other than factoring the Company’s current receivables or escrows due (or, if such approval is not required, the decision by the Board to proceed with such a liquidation, sale or disposition in one transaction or a series of related transactions).

 

(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 or any similar schedule or form) promulgated under the Exchange Act whether or not the Company is then subject to such reporting requirement.

 

(c) “Company” 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, officers, and employees or agents, so that if Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, trustee, general partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other enterprise, Indemnitee shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as Indemnitee would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.

 

(d) “Enterprise” means the Company and any other enterprise that Indemnitee was or is serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, partner (general, limited or otherwise), member (managing or otherwise), trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent.

 

(e) “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(f) “Expenses” shall include all direct and indirect costs, fees and expenses of any type or nature whatsoever, including all attorneys’ fees and costs, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of experts, witness fees, travel expenses, fees of private investigators and professional advisors, 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 payment under this Agreement (including taxes that may be imposed upon the actual or deemed receipt of payments under this Agreement with respect to the imposition of federal, state, local or foreign taxes), fax transmission charges, secretarial services and all other disbursements, obligations or expenses in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be a witness in, settlement or appeal of, or otherwise participating in a Proceeding. Expenses also shall include any of the foregoing expenses incurred in connection with any appeal resulting from any Proceeding, including the principal, premium, security for, and other costs relating to any costs bond, supersedes bond, or other appeal bond or its equivalent. Expenses also shall include any interest, assessment or other charges imposed thereon and costs incurred in preparing statements in support of payment requests hereunder. Expenses, however, shall not include amounts paid in settlement by Indemnitee or the amount of judgments or fines against Indemnitee.

 

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(g) “Independent Counsel” means an attorney or firm of attorneys, selected in accordance with the provisions of Section 2(c)(iii), who will not have otherwise performed services for the Company or Indemnitee within the last three years (other than with respect to matters concerning the rights of Indemnitee under this Agreement, or of other indemnitees under similar indemnity agreements).

 

(h) “Person” shall have the meaning as set forth in Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof; provided, however, that “Person” shall exclude: (i) the Company; (ii) any direct or indirect majority owned subsidiaries of the Company; (iii) any employee benefit plan of the Company or any direct or indirect majority owned subsidiaries of the Company or of any corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company’s stockholders in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company (an “Employee Benefit Plan”); and (iv) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an Employee Benefit Plan.

 

(i) “Proceeding” shall include any actual, threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration, mediation, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, investigation, inquiry, administrative hearing, claim, or any other actual, threatened or completed proceeding, whether brought by a third party, a government agency, the Company or its Board of Directors or a committee thereof, whether in the right of the Company or otherwise and whether of a civil (including intentional or unintentional tort claims), criminal, administrative, legislative or investigative (formal or informal) nature, including any appeal therefrom, in which Indemnitee was, is, will or might be involved as a party, potential party, non-party witness or otherwise by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, by reason of any action (or failure to act) taken by Indemnitee or of any action (or failure to act) on Indemnitee’s part while acting as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, partner (general, limited or otherwise), member (managing or otherwise), trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other enterprise, 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.

 

(j) In addition, references to “other enterprise” shall include another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or any other enterprise; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on Indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan; references to “serving at the request of the Company” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by Indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan, Indemnitee shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Company” as referred to in this Agreement; references to “include” or “including” shall mean include or including, without limitation; and references to Sections, paragraphs or clauses are to Sections, paragraphs or clauses in this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

 

12. Attorneys’ Fees. In the event that any Proceeding is instituted by Indemnitee under this Agreement to enforce or interpret any of the terms hereof, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding, unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines that each of the material assertions made by Indemnitee as a basis for such Proceeding were not made in good faith or were frivolous. In the event of a Proceeding instituted by or in the name of the Company under this Agreement or to enforce or interpret any of the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding (including with respect to Indemnitee’s counterclaims and cross-claims made in such action), unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines that each of Indemnitee’s material defenses to such action were made in bad faith or were frivolous.

 

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13. Miscellaneous.

 

(a) Governing Law. The validity, interpretation, construction and performance of this Agreement, and all acts and transactions pursuant hereto and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed, construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the state of Delaware, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law.

 

(b) Entire Agreement; Binding Effect. Without limiting any of the rights of Indemnitee described in Section 3(b), this Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter herein and merges all prior discussions and supersedes any and all previous agreements between them covering the subject matter herein. The indemnification provided under this Agreement applies with respect to events occurring before or after the effective date of this Agreement, and shall continue to apply even after Indemnitee has ceased to serve the Company in any and all indemnified capacities.

 

(c) Amendments and Waivers. No modification of or amendment to this Agreement, nor any waiver of any rights under this Agreement, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the parties to this Agreement. No delay or failure to require performance of any provision of this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of that provision as to that or any other instance.

 

(d) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its successors (including any direct or indirect successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company) and assigns, and inure to the benefit of Indemnitee and Indemnitee’s heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives and assigns. The Company shall require and cause any successor (whether direct or indirect by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, by written agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Indemnitee, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform if no such succession had taken place.

 

(e) Notices. Any notice, demand or request required or permitted to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed sufficient when delivered personally or by overnight courier or sent by email, or 48 hours after being deposited in the U.S. mail as certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, addressed to the party to be notified at such party’s address as set forth on the signature page, as subsequently modified by written notice, or if no address is specified on the signature page, at the most recent address set forth in the Company’s books and records.

 

(f) Severability. If one or more provisions of this Agreement are held to be unenforceable under applicable law, the parties agree to renegotiate such provision in good faith. In the event that the parties cannot reach a mutually agreeable and enforceable replacement for such provision, then (i) such provision shall be excluded from this Agreement, (ii) the balance of the Agreement shall be interpreted as if such provision were so excluded and (iii) the balance of the Agreement shall be enforceable in accordance with its terms.

 

(g) Construction. This Agreement is the result of negotiations between and has been reviewed by each of the parties hereto and their respective counsel, if any; accordingly, this Agreement shall be deemed to be the product of all of the parties hereto, and no ambiguity shall be construed in favor of or against any one of the parties hereto.

 

(h) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Execution of a facsimile or scanned copy or by electronic means will have the same force and effect as execution of an original, and a facsimile, scanned or electronically generated signature will be deemed an original and valid signature.

 

(i) No Employment Rights. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to create in Indemnitee any right to continued employment.

 

(j) Company Position. The Company shall be precluded from asserting, in any Proceeding brought for purposes of establishing, enforcing or interpreting any right to indemnification under this Agreement, that the procedures and presumptions of this Agreement are not valid, binding and enforceable and shall stipulate in any such court that the Company is bound by all the provisions of this Agreement and is precluded from making any assertion to the contrary.

 

(k) Subrogation. Subject to Section 3(d), in the event of payment under this Agreement, the Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee, who shall execute all documents required and shall do all acts that may be necessary to secure such rights and to enable the Company to effectively bring suit to enforce such rights.

 

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The parties have executed this Indemnification Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

  the company:
     
  MOMENTUS Inc.
     
  By:  
    (Signature)
  Name:  
  Title:  
     
  Address:
   
   
  United States

 

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED:  
   
INDEMNITEE:  
   

(print name)

 
   
(Signature)  
   
Address:  
   
   
Email:                 

 

 

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Exhibit 10.5

 

Momentus Inc.

 

2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

1. Purposes of the Plan. The purposes of this Plan are (a) to attract and retain the best available personnel to ensure the Company’s success and accomplish the Company’s goals; (b) to incentivize Employees, Directors and Independent Contractors with long-term equity-based compensation to align their interests with the Company’s stockholders; and (c) to promote the success of the Company’s business.

 

The Plan permits the grant of Incentive Stock Options, Nonstatutory Stock Options, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Stock Appreciation Rights and Stock Bonuses.

 

2. Definitions. As used herein, the following definitions will apply:

 

(a) “Administrator” means the Board or any of its Committees as will be administering the Plan, in accordance with Section 4 of the Plan.

 

(b) “Affiliate” means a Parent, a Subsidiary or any corporation or other entity that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the Company.

 

(c) “Applicable Laws” means all applicable laws, rules, regulations and requirements, including, but not limited to, all applicable U.S. federal or state laws, rules and regulations, the rules and regulations of any stock exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted, and the applicable laws, rules and regulations of any other country or jurisdiction where Awards are, or will be, granted under the Plan or Participants reside or provide services to the Company or any Affiliate, as such laws, rules, and regulations shall be in effect from time to time.

 

(d) “Award” means, individually or collectively, a grant under the Plan of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Stock Bonuses.

 

(e) “Award Agreement” means the written or electronic agreement setting forth the terms and provisions applicable to each Award granted under the Plan. The Award Agreement is subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

(f) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

 

 

 

(g) “Cause” means, with respect to the termination of a Participant’s status as a Service Provider, except as otherwise defined in an Award Agreement, (i) in the case where there is no employment agreement, consulting agreement, change in control agreement or similar agreement in effect between the Company or an Affiliate of the Company and the Participant at the time of the grant of the Award (or where there is such an agreement but it does not define “cause” (or words of like import) or where it only applies upon the occurrence of a change in control and one has not yet taken place): (A) any material breach by Participant of any material written agreement between Participant and the Company; (B) any failure by Participant to comply with the Company’s material written policies or rules as they may be in effect from time to time; (C) neglect or persistent unsatisfactory performance of Participant’s duties; (D) Participant’s repeated failure to follow reasonable and lawful instructions from the Board or Chief Executive Officer; (E) Participant’s indictment for, conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendre to, any felony or crime that results in, or is reasonably expected to result in, a material adverse effect on the business or reputation of the Company; (F) Participant’s commission of or participation in an act of fraud against the Company; (G) Participant’s commission of or participation in an act that results in material damage to the Company’s business, property or reputation; or (H) Participant’s unauthorized use or disclosure of any proprietary information or trade secrets of the Company or any other party to whom the Participant owes an obligation of nondisclosure as a result of his or her relationship with the Company; or (ii) in the case where there is an employment agreement, consulting agreement, change in control agreement or similar agreement in effect between the Company or an Affiliate and the Participant at the time of the grant of the Award that defines “cause” (or words of like import), “cause” as defined under such agreement; provided, however, that with regard to any agreement under which the definition of “cause” only applies on occurrence of a change in control, such definition of “cause” shall not apply until a change in control actually takes place and then only with regard to a termination thereafter. For purposes of clarity, a termination without “Cause” does not include any termination that occurs solely as a result of Participant’s death or Disability. The determination as to whether a Participant’s status as a Service Provider for purposes of the Plan has been terminated for Cause shall be made in good faith by the Company and shall be final and binding on the Participant. The foregoing definition does not in any way limit the Company’s ability (or that of any Affiliate or any successor thereto, as appropriate) to terminate a Participant’s employment or consulting relationship at any time, subject to Applicable Laws.

 

(h) “Change in Control” except as may otherwise be provided in an Award Agreement or other applicable agreement, means the occurrence of any of the following:

 

(i) The consummation of a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or any other corporate reorganization, if the Company’s stockholders immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or reorganization cease to directly or indirectly own immediately after such merger, consolidation or reorganization at least a majority of the combined voting power of the continuing or surviving entity’s securities outstanding immediately after such merger, consolidation or reorganization;

 

(ii) The consummation of the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets (other than (x) to a corporation or other entity of which at least a majority of its combined voting power is owned directly or indirectly by the Company, (y) to a corporation or other entity owned directly or indirectly by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Common Stock of the Company or (z) to a continuing or surviving entity described in Section 2(h)(i) in connection with a merger, consolidation or reorganization which does not result in a Change in Control under Section 2(h)(i));

 

(iii) A change in the effective control of the Company which occurs on the date that a majority of members of the Board is replaced during any twelve (12) month period by Directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board prior to the date of the appointment or election; or

 

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(iv) The consummation of any transaction as a result of which any Person becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing at least fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the Company’s then outstanding voting securities. For purposes of this Section 2(h), the term “Person” shall have the same meaning as when used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act but shall exclude:

 

(1) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or an Affiliate;

 

(2) a corporation or other entity owned directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Common Stock of the Company;

 

(3) the Company; and

 

(4) a corporation or other entity of which at least a majority of its combined voting power is owned directly or indirectly by the Company.

 

A transaction shall not constitute a Change in Control if its sole purpose is to change the state of the Company’s incorporation or to create a holding company that will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Company’s securities immediately before such transactions. In addition, if any Person (as defined above) is considered to be in effective control of the Company, the acquisition of additional control of the Company by the same Person will not be considered to cause a Change in Control. If required for compliance with Section 409A of the Code, in no event will a Change in Control be deemed to have occurred if such transaction is not also a “change in the ownership or effective control of” the Company or “a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of” the Company as determined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5) (without regard to any alternative definition thereunder).

 

(i) “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Reference to a specific section of the Code or regulation thereunder shall include such section or regulation, any valid regulation promulgated under such section, and any comparable provision of any future legislation or regulation amending, supplementing or superseding such section or regulation.

 

(j) “Committee” means a committee of Directors or of other individuals satisfying Applicable Laws appointed by the Board in accordance with Section 4 hereof.

 

(k) “Common Stock” means the Class A common stock of the Company.

 

(l) “Company” means Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor thereto.

 

(m) “Determination Date” means any time when the achievement of the Performance Goals associated with the applicable Performance Period remains substantially uncertain; provided, however, that without limiting the foregoing, that if the Determination Date occurs on or before the date on which 25% of the Performance Period has elapsed, the achievement of such Performance Goals shall be deemed to be substantially uncertain.

 

(n) “Director” means a member of the Board.

 

(o) “Disability” means total and permanent disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code in the case of Incentive Stock Options, and for all other Awards, means as determined by the Social Security Administration or the long-term disability plan maintained by the Company; provided however, that if the Participant resides outside of the United States, “Disability” shall have such meaning as is required by Applicable Laws.

 

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(p) “Effective Date” means August 12, 2021.

 

(q) “Employee” means any person, including Officers and Directors, employed by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company. Neither service as a Director nor payment of a director’s fee by the Company will be sufficient to constitute “employment” by the Company.

 

(r) “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(s) “Exchange Program” means a program under which outstanding Awards are amended to provide for a lower exercise price or surrendered or cancelled in exchange for (i) Awards with a lower exercise price, (ii) a different type of Award or awards under a different equity incentive plan, (iii) cash, or (iv) a combination of (i), (ii) and/or (iii). Notwithstanding the preceding, the term Exchange Program does not include (i) any action described in Section 15 or any action taken in connection with a Change in Control transaction nor (ii) any transfer or other disposition permitted under Section 14. For the purpose of clarity, each of the actions described in the prior sentence, none of which constitute an Exchange Program, may be undertaken (or authorized) by the Administrator in its sole discretion without approval by the Company’s stockholders.

 

(t) “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 or a national market system, its Fair Market Value will be the closing sales price for such stock (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such exchange or system on the day of determination, as reported in such source as the Administrator deems reliable;

 

(ii) If the Common Stock is regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but selling prices are not reported, the Fair Market Value of a Share will be the mean between the high bid and low asked prices for the Common Stock on the day of determination, as reported in such source as the Administrator deems reliable; or

 

(iii) In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the Fair Market Value will be determined in good faith by the Administrator in compliance with Applicable Laws and regulations and in a manner that complies with Section 409A of the Code.

 

(u) “Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company.

 

(v) “Incentive Stock Option” means an Option that by its terms qualifies and is intended to qualify as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(w) “Independent Contractor” means any person, including an advisor, consultant or agent, engaged by the Company or an Affiliate to render services to such entity or who renders, or has rendered, services to the Company, or any Affiliate and is compensated for such services.

 

(x) “Inside Director” means a Director who is an Employee.

 

(y) “Insider” means an officer or director of the Company or any other person whose transactions in Common Stock are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

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(z) “Nonstatutory Stock Option” means an Option that by its terms does not qualify or is not intended to qualify as an Incentive Stock Option.

 

(aa) “Officer” means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(bb) “Option” means a stock option granted pursuant to the Plan.

 

(cc) “Outside Director” means a Director who is not an Employee.

 

(dd) “Parent” means any corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company if each of the corporations other than the Company owns stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain. A corporation that attains the status of a Parent on a date after the adoption of the Plan shall be considered a Parent commencing as of such date.

 

(ee) “Participant” means the holder of an outstanding Award.

 

(ff) “Performance Goal” means a formula or standard determined by the Administrator with respect to each Performance Period based on one or more of the following criteria and any adjustment(s) thereto established by the Administrator: (1) sales or non-sales revenue; (2) return on revenues; (3) operating income; (4) income or earnings including operating income; (5) income or earnings before or after taxes, interest, depreciation and/or amortization; (6) income or earnings from continuing operations; (7) net income; (8) pre-tax income or after-tax income; (9) net income excluding amortization of intangible assets, depreciation and impairment of goodwill and intangible assets and/or excluding charges attributable to the adoption of new accounting pronouncements; (10) raising of financing or fundraising; (11) project financing; (12) revenue backlog; (13) gross margin; (14) operating margin or profit margin; (15) capital expenditures, cost targets, reductions and savings and expense management; (16) return on assets (gross or net), return on investment, return on capital, or return on stockholder equity; (17) cash flow, free cash flow, cash flow return on investment (discounted or otherwise), net cash provided by operations, or cash flow in excess of cost of capital; (18) performance warranty and/or guarantee claims; (19) stock price or total stockholder return; (20) earnings or book value per share (basic or diluted); (21) economic value created; (22) pre-tax profit or after-tax profit; (23) strategic business criteria, consisting of one or more objectives based on meeting specified market penetration or market share, completion of strategic agreements such as licenses, joint ventures, acquisitions, and the like, geographic business expansion, objective customer satisfaction or information technology goals, intellectual property asset metrics; (24) objective goals relating to divestitures, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and similar transactions; (25) objective goals relating to staff management, results from staff attitude and/or opinion surveys, staff satisfaction scores, staff safety, staff accident and/or injury rates, compliance, headcount, performance management, completion of critical staff training initiatives; (26) objective goals relating to projects, including project completion, timing and/or achievement of milestones, project budget, technical progress against work plans; and (27) enterprise resource planning. Awards issued to Participants may take into account other criteria (including subjective criteria). Performance Goals may differ from Participant to Participant, Performance Period to Performance Period and from Award to Award. Any criteria used may be measured, as applicable, (i) in absolute terms, (ii) in relative terms (including, but not limited to, any increase (or decrease) over the passage of time and/or any measurement against other companies or financial or business or stock index metrics particular to the Company), (iii) on a per share and/or share per capita basis, (iv) against the performance of the Company as a whole or against any Affiliate(s), or a particular segment(s), a business unit(s) or a product(s) of the Company or individual project company, (v) on a pre-tax or after-tax basis, (vi) on a GAAP or non-GAAP basis, and/or (vii) using an actual foreign exchange rate or on a foreign exchange neutral basis.

 

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(gg) “Performance Period” means the time period during which the Performance Goals or other vesting provisions must be satisfied for Awards. Performance Periods may be of varying and overlapping duration, at the sole discretion of the Administrator.

 

(hh) “Period of Restriction” means the period during which the transfer of Shares of Restricted Stock is subject to restrictions and therefore, the Shares are subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. Such restrictions may be based on the passage of time, the achievement of target levels of performance, or the occurrence of other events as determined by the Administrator.

 

(ii) “Plan” means this 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

(jj)  “Restricted Stock” means Shares issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock award under Section 7 of the Plan.

 

(kk) “Restricted Stock Unit” means a bookkeeping entry representing an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of one Share, granted pursuant to Section 8. Each Restricted Stock Unit represents an unfunded and unsecured obligation of the Company.

 

(ll) “Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect when discretion is being exercised with respect to the Plan.

 

(mm) “Section 16(b)” means Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.

 

(nn) “Service Provider” means an Employee, Director or Independent Contractor.

 

(oo) “Share” means a share of the Common Stock, as adjusted in accordance with Section 15 of the Plan.

 

(pp) “Stock Appreciation Right” means an Award, granted alone or in connection with an Option, that pursuant to Section 9 is designated as a Stock Appreciation Right.

 

(qq) “Stock Bonus Award” means an Award granted pursuant to Section 10 of the Plan.

 

(rr) “Subsidiary” means any corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company if each of the corporations other than the last corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain. A corporation that attains the status of a Subsidiary on a date after the adoption of the Plan shall be considered a Subsidiary commencing as of such date.

 

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(ss) “Tax-Related Items” means income tax, social insurance or other social contributions, national insurance, social security, payroll tax, fringe benefits tax, payment on account or other tax-related items.

 

3. Stock Subject to the Plan.

 

(a) Stock Subject to the Plan. Subject to the provisions of Sections 3(b) and 15 of the Plan, the maximum aggregate number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan is will not exceed the sum of (i) 5,982,922 new Shares, plus (ii) the number of Shares subject to awards or issued under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2018 Stock Plan and Space Apprentices Enterprise Inc. 2018 Stock Plan (the “Existing Plans”) that otherwise would have been returned to the Existing Plans on or after the Effective Date on account of the expiration, cancellation, forfeiture or repurchase of awards granted thereunder. The Shares may be authorized, but unissued, or reacquired Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the provisions of Section 15 below, in no event shall the maximum aggregate number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan pursuant to Incentive Stock Options exceed the number set forth in this Section 3(a) plus, to the extent allowable under Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder, any Shares that again become available for issuance pursuant to Sections 3(b) and 3(c).

 

(b) Automatic Share Reserve Increase. The number of Shares available for issuance under the Plan will be increased on the first day of each Fiscal Year beginning with the 2022 Fiscal Year and ending on (and including) the first day of the 2031 Fiscal Year, in each case, in an amount equal to the lessor of (i)  three percent (3%) of the outstanding Shares on the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Year and (iii) such number of Shares determined by the Board.

 

(c) Lapsed Awards. To the extent an Award should expire or be forfeited or become unexercisable for any reason without having been exercised in full, or is surrendered pursuant to an Exchange Program, the unissued Shares that were subject thereto shall, unless the Plan shall have been terminated, continue to be available under the Plan for issuance pursuant to future Awards.  In addition, any Shares which are retained by the Company upon exercise of an Award in order to satisfy the exercise or purchase price for such Award or any withholding taxes due with respect to such Award shall be treated as not issued and shall continue to be available under the Plan for issuance pursuant to future Awards.  Shares issued under the Plan and later forfeited to the Company due to the failure to vest or repurchased by the Company at the original purchase price paid to the Company for the Shares (including, without limitation, upon forfeiture to or repurchase by the Company in connection with a Participant ceasing to be a Service Provider) shall again be available for future grant under the Plan. To the extent an Award under the Plan is paid out in cash rather than Shares, such cash payment will not result in reducing the number of Shares available for issuance under the Plan.

 

(d) Assumption or Substitution of Awards by the Company. The Administrator, from time to time, may determine to substitute or assume outstanding awards granted by another company, whether in connection with an acquisition of such other company or otherwise, by either: (a) assuming such award under this Plan or (b) granting an Award under this Plan in substitution of such other company’s award. Such assumption or substitution will be permissible if the holder of the substituted or assumed award would have been eligible to be granted an Award under this Plan if the other company had applied the rules of this Plan to such grant. In the event the Administrator elects to assume an award granted by another company, subject to the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, the purchase price or the exercise price, as the case may be, and the number and nature of Shares issuable upon exercise or settlement of any such Award will be adjusted appropriately. In the event the Administrator elects to grant a new Option in substitution rather than assuming an existing option, such new Option may be granted with a similarly adjusted exercise price. Any awards that are assumed or substituted under this Plan shall not reduce the number of Shares authorized for grant under the Plan or authorized for grant to a Participant in any fiscal year.

 

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4. Administration of the Plan.

 

(a) Procedure.

 

(i) Multiple Administrative Bodies. Different Committees with respect to different groups of Service Providers may administer the Plan.

 

(ii) Rule 16b-3. To the extent desirable to qualify transactions hereunder as exempt under Rule 16b-3, the transactions contemplated hereunder will be structured to satisfy the requirements for exemption under Rule 16b-3.

 

(iii) Other Administration. Other than as provided above, the Plan will be administered by (A) the Board or (B) a Committee, which committee will be constituted to satisfy Applicable Laws.

 

(b) Powers of the Administrator. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Administrator will have the authority, in its discretion:

 

(i) to determine the Fair Market Value in accordance with Section 2(t)(iii);

 

(ii) to select the Service Providers to whom Awards may be granted hereunder;

 

(iii) to determine the number of Shares to be covered by each Award granted hereunder;

 

(iv) to approve forms of Award Agreements for use under the Plan;

 

(v) to determine the terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan, of any Award granted hereunder; such terms and conditions include, but are not limited to, the exercise price, the time or times when Awards may be exercised (which may be based on Performance Goals), any vesting acceleration or waiver of forfeiture restrictions, and any restriction or limitation regarding any Award or the Shares relating thereto, based in each case on such factors as the Administrator will determine;

 

(vi) to institute and determine the terms and conditions of an Exchange Program; provided however, that the Administrator shall not implement an Exchange Program without the approval of the holders of a majority of the Shares that are present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at any annual or special meeting of the Company’s stockholders;

 

(vii) to construe and interpret the terms of the Plan and Awards granted pursuant to the Plan;

 

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(viii) correct any defect, supply any omission or reconcile any inconsistency in this Plan, any Award or any Award Agreement;

 

(ix) to prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to the Plan, including rules and regulations established for the purpose of satisfying non-U.S. Applicable Laws, for qualifying for favorable tax treatment under applicable non-U.S. Applicable Laws or facilitating compliance with non-U.S. Applicable Laws (sub-plans may be created for any of these purposes);

 

(x) to modify or amend each Award (subject to Section 22 of the Plan), including but not limited to the discretionary authority to extend the post-termination exercisability period of Awards, to accelerate vesting and to extend the maximum term of an Option (subject to Section 6(b) of the Plan regarding Incentive Stock Options);

 

(xi) adjust Performance Goals to take into account changes in Applicable Laws or in accounting or tax rules, or such other extraordinary, unforeseeable, nonrecurring or infrequently occurring events or circumstances as the Administrator deems necessary or appropriate to avoid windfalls or hardships;

 

(xii) to allow Participants to satisfy tax withholding obligations in such manner as prescribed in Section 16 of the Plan;

 

(xiii) to authorize any person to execute on behalf of the Company any instrument required to effect the grant of an Award previously granted by the Administrator;

 

(xiv) to allow a Participant to defer the receipt of the payment of cash or the delivery of Shares that would otherwise be due to such Participant under an Award; and

 

(xv) to make all other determinations deemed necessary or advisable for administering the Plan.

 

(c) Effect of Administrator’s Decision. The Administrator’s decisions, determinations and interpretations will be final and binding on all Participants and any other holders of Awards. Any dispute regarding the interpretation of the Plan or any Award Agreement shall be submitted by the Participant to the Company for review. Any Officer of the Company, including but not limited to Insiders, shall have the authority to review and resolve disputes with respect to Awards held by Participants who are not Insiders, and such resolution shall be final and binding on the Company and the Participant. Only the Committee shall have the authority to review and resolve disputes with respect to Awards held by Participants who are Insiders, and such resolution shall be final and binding on the Company and the Participant.

 

(d) Delegation. To the extent permitted by Applicable Laws, the Board or Committee, in its sole discretion and on such terms and conditions as it may provide, may delegate all or any part of its authority and powers under the Plan to one or more Directors or officers of the Company. To the extent permitted by Applicable Laws, the Board or Committee may delegate to one or more officers of the Company who may be (but are not required to be) Insiders (“Officers”), the authority to do any of the following (i) designate Employees who are not Insiders to be recipients of Awards, (ii) determine the number of Shares to be subject to such Awards granted to such designated Employees, and (iii) take any and all actions on behalf of the Board or Committee other than any actions that affect the amount or form of compensation of Insiders or have material tax, accounting, financial, human resource or legal consequences to the Company or its Affiliates; provided, however, that the Board or Committee resolutions regarding any delegation with respect to (i) and (ii) will specify the total number of Shares that may be subject to the Awards granted by such Officer and that such Officer may not grant an Award to himself or herself. Any Awards will be granted on the form of Award Agreement most recently approved for use by the Board or Committee, unless otherwise provided in the resolutions approving the delegation authority.

 

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(e) Administration of Awards Subject to Performance Goals. The Administrator will, in its sole discretion, determine the Performance Goals, if any, applicable to any Award (including any adjustment(s) thereto that will be applied in determining the achievement of such Performance Goals) on or prior to the Determination Date. The Performance Goals may differ from Participant to Participant and from Award to Award. The Administrator shall determine and approve the extent to which such Performance Goals have been timely achieved and the extent to which the Shares subject to such Award have thereby been earned.

 

(f) Section 16 of the Exchange Act. Awards granted to Participants who are Insiders must be approved by two or more “non-employee directors” of the Board (as defined in the regulations promulgated under Section 16 of the Exchange Act).

 

5. Award Eligibility. Nonstatutory Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units and Stock Bonuses may be granted to Service Providers. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees.

 

6. Stock Options.

 

(a) Limitations. Each Option will be designated in the Award Agreement as either an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option. However, notwithstanding such designation, to the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Shares with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by the Participant during any calendar year (under all plans of the Company and any Affiliate) exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), such Options will be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options. For purposes of this Section 6(a), Incentive Stock Options will be taken into account in the order in which they were granted. The Fair Market Value of the Shares will be determined as of the date the Option with respect to such Shares is granted. With respect to the Administrator’s authority in Section 4(b)(x), if, at the time of any such extension, the exercise price per Share of the Option is less than the Fair Market Value of a Share, the extension shall, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, be limited to the earlier of (1) the maximum term of the Option as set by its original terms, or (2) ten (10) years from the grant date. Unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, any extension of the term of an Option pursuant to this Section 6(a) shall comply with Section 409A of the Code to the extent necessary to avoid taxation thereunder.

 

(b) Term of Option. The term of each Option will be stated in the Award Agreement. In the case of an Incentive Stock Option, the term will be ten (10) years from the date of grant or such shorter term as may be provided in the Award Agreement. Moreover, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option granted to a Participant who, at the time the Incentive Stock Option is granted, owns stock representing more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Affiliate, the term of the Incentive Stock Option will be five (5) years from the date of grant or such shorter term as may be provided in the Award Agreement.

 

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(c) Option Exercise Price and Consideration.

 

(i) Exercise Price. The per share exercise price for the Shares to be issued pursuant to exercise of an Option will be determined by the Administrator, subject to the following:

 

(1) In the case of an Incentive Stock Option

 

(A) granted to an Employee who, at the time the Incentive Stock Option is granted, owns stock representing more than ten percent (10%) of the voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Affiliate, the per Share exercise price will be no less than one hundred ten percent (110%) of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant.

 

(B) granted to any Employee other than an Employee described in paragraph (A) immediately above, the per Share exercise price will be no less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant.

 

(2) In the case of a Nonstatutory Stock Option, the per Share exercise price will be no less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant.

 

(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Options may be granted with a per Share exercise price of less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant pursuant to a transaction described in, and in a manner consistent with, Section 424(a) of the Code.

 

(ii) Waiting Period and Exercise Dates. At the time an Option is granted, the Administrator will fix the period within which the Option may be exercised and will determine any conditions that must be satisfied before the Option may be exercised. An Option may become exercisable upon completion of a specified period of service with the Company or an Affiliate and/or based on the achievement of Performance Goals during a Performance Period as set out in advance in the Participant’s Award Agreement. If an Option is exercisable based on the satisfaction of Performance Goals, then the Administrator will: (x) determine the nature, length and starting date of any Performance Period for such Option; (y) select the Performance Goals to be used to measure the performance; and (z) determine what additional vesting conditions, if any, should apply.

 

(iii) Form of Consideration. The Administrator will determine the acceptable form of consideration for exercising an Option, including the method of payment. In the case of an Incentive Stock Option, the Administrator will determine the acceptable form of consideration at the time of grant. Such consideration for both types of Options may consist entirely of: (1) cash; (2) check; (3) promissory note, to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws, (4) other Shares, provided that such Shares have a Fair Market Value on the date of surrender equal to the aggregate exercise price of the Shares as to which such Option will be exercised and provided that accepting such Shares will not result in any adverse accounting consequences to the Company, as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion; (5) consideration received by the Company under a broker-assisted (or other) cashless exercise program (whether through a broker or otherwise) implemented by the Company in connection with the Plan; (6) by net exercise; (7) such other consideration and method of payment for the issuance of Shares to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws; or (8) any combination of the foregoing methods of payment.

 

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(d) Exercise of Option.

 

(i) Procedure for Exercise; Rights as a Stockholder. Any Option granted hereunder will be exercisable according to the terms of the Plan and at such times and under such conditions as determined by the Administrator and set forth in the Award Agreement. An Option may not be exercised for a fraction of a Share.

 

An Option will be deemed exercised when the Company receives: (i) a notice of exercise (in such form as the Administrator may specify from time to time) from the person entitled to exercise the Option, and (ii) full payment for the Shares with respect to which the Option is exercised (together with full payment of any applicable taxes or other amounts required to be withheld or deducted with respect to the Option). Full payment may consist of any consideration and method of payment authorized by the Administrator and permitted by the Award Agreement and the Plan. Shares issued upon exercise of an Option will be issued in the name of the Participant or, if requested by the Participant, in the name of the Participant and his or her spouse. Until the Shares are issued (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company), no right to vote or receive dividends or any other rights as a stockholder will exist with respect to the Shares subject to an Option, notwithstanding the exercise of the Option. The Company will issue (or cause to be issued) such Shares promptly after the Option is exercised. No adjustment will be made for a dividend or other right for which the record date is prior to the date the Shares are issued, except as provided in Section 15 of the Plan.

 

(ii) Termination of Relationship as a Service Provider. If a Participant ceases to be a Service Provider, other than upon the Participant’s termination as the result of the Participant’s death, Disability or Cause, the Participant may exercise his or her Option within such period of time as is specified in the Award Agreement to the extent that the Option is vested on the date of termination (but in no event later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Award Agreement). In the absence of a specified time in the Award Agreement, the Option will remain exercisable for three (3) months following the Participant’s termination. Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator, if on the date of termination the Participant is not vested as to his or her entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option will revert to the Plan. If after termination the Participant does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified by the Administrator, the Option will terminate, and the Shares covered by such Option will revert to the Plan.

 

(iii) Disability of Participant. If a Participant ceases to be a Service Provider as a result of the Participant’s Disability, the Participant may exercise his or her Option within such period of time as is specified in the Award Agreement to the extent the Option is vested on the date of termination (but in no event later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Award Agreement). In the absence of a specified time in the Award Agreement, the Option will remain exercisable for twelve (12) months following the Participant’s termination. Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator, if on the date of termination the Participant is not vested as to his or her entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option will revert to the Plan. If after termination the Participant does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified herein, the Option will terminate, and the Shares covered by such Option will revert to the Plan.

 

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(iv) Death of Participant. If a Participant dies while a Service Provider, the Option may be exercised following the Participant’s death within such period of time as is specified in the Award Agreement to the extent that the Option is vested on the date of death (but in no event may the Option be exercised later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Award Agreement), by the Participant’s designated beneficiary, provided such beneficiary has been designated prior to Participant’s death in a form acceptable to the Administrator. If no such beneficiary has been designated by the Participant, then such Option may be exercised by the personal representative of the Participant’s estate or by the person(s) to whom the Option is transferred pursuant to the Participant’s will or in accordance with the laws of descent and distribution. In the absence of a specified time in the Award Agreement, the Option will remain exercisable for twelve (12) months following Participant’s death. Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator, if on the date of termination the Participant is not vested as to his or her entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option will revert to the Plan. If the Option is not so exercised within the time specified herein, the Option will terminate, and the Shares covered by such Option will revert to the Plan.

 

(v) Termination for Cause. If a Participant ceases to be a Service Provider as a result of being terminated for Cause, any outstanding Option (including any vested portion thereof) held by such Participant shall immediately terminate in its entirety upon the Participant being first notified of his or her termination for Cause and the Participant will be prohibited from exercising his or her Option from and after the date of such termination. All the Participant’s rights under any Option, including the right to exercise the Option, may be suspended pending an investigation of whether Participant will be terminated for Cause.

 

7. Restricted Stock.

 

(a) Grant of Restricted Stock. Subject to the terms and provisions of the Plan, the Administrator, at any time and from time to time, may grant Shares of Restricted Stock to Service Providers in such amounts as the Administrator, in its sole discretion, will determine.

 

(b) Restricted Stock Agreement. Each Award of Restricted Stock will be evidenced by an Award Agreement that will specify the Period of Restriction, the number of Shares granted, and such other terms and conditions as the Administrator, in its sole discretion, will determine. Unless the Administrator determines otherwise, the Company as escrow agent will hold Shares of Restricted Stock until the restrictions on such Shares have lapsed. These restrictions may lapse upon the completion of a specified period of service with the Company or an Affiliate and/or based on the achievement of Performance Goals during a Performance Period as set out in advance in the Participant’s Award Agreement. If the unvested Shares of Restricted Stock are being earned upon the satisfaction of Performance Goals, then the Administrator will: (x) determine the nature, length and starting date of any Performance Period for each unvested Share; (y) select the Performance Goals to be used to measure the performance; and (z) determine what additional vesting conditions, if any, should apply.

 

(c) Transferability. Except as provided in this Section 7 or the Award Agreement, Shares of Restricted Stock may not be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated until the end of the applicable Period of Restriction.

 

(d) Other Restrictions. The Administrator, in its sole discretion, may impose such other restrictions on Shares of Restricted Stock as it may deem advisable or appropriate.

 

(e) Removal of Restrictions. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7, Shares of Restricted Stock covered by each Restricted Stock grant made under the Plan will be released from escrow as soon as practicable after the last day of the Period of Restriction or at such other time as the Administrator may determine. The Administrator, in its discretion, may accelerate the time at which any restrictions will lapse or be removed.

 

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(f) Voting Rights. During the Period of Restriction, Service Providers holding Shares of Restricted Stock granted hereunder may exercise full voting rights with respect to those Shares, unless the Administrator determines otherwise.

 

(g) Dividends and Other Distributions. During the Period of Restriction, Service Providers holding Shares of Restricted Stock will be entitled to receive all dividends and other distributions paid with respect to such Shares, unless the Administrator provides otherwise. If any such dividends or distributions are paid in Shares, the Shares will be subject to the same restrictions, including, without limitation, restrictions on transferability and forfeitability, as the Shares of Restricted Stock with respect to which they were paid. During the Period of Restriction, such dividends or other distributions shall be subject to the same restrictions and risk of forfeiture as the shares of Restricted Stock with respect to which the dividends accrue and shall not be paid or distributed unless and until such related Shares have vested and been earned.

 

(h) Return of Restricted Stock to Company. On the date set forth in the Award Agreement, the Restricted Stock for which restrictions have not lapsed will be cancelled and returned as unissued Shares to the Company and again will become available for grant under the Plan.

 

8. Restricted Stock Units.

 

(a) Grant. Restricted Stock Units may be granted at any time and from time to time as determined by the Administrator. After the Administrator determines that it will grant Restricted Stock Units under the Plan, it will advise the Participant in an Award Agreement of the terms, conditions, and restrictions (if any) related to the grant, including the number of Restricted Stock Units.

 

(b) Vesting Criteria and Other Terms. The Administrator will set vesting criteria in its discretion, which, depending on the extent to which the criteria are met, will determine the number of Restricted Stock Units that will be paid out to the Participant. A Restricted Stock Unit Award may vest upon completion of a specified period of service with the Company or an Affiliate and/or based on the achievement of Performance Goals during a Performance Period as set out in advance in the Participant’s Award Agreement. If Restricted Stock Units vest based upon satisfaction of Performance Goals, then the Administrator will: (x) determine the nature, length and starting date of any Performance Period for the Restricted Stock Units; (y) select the Performance Goals to be used to measure the performance; and (z) determine what additional vesting conditions, if any, should apply.

 

(c) Earning Restricted Stock Units. Upon meeting the applicable vesting criteria, the Participant will be entitled to receive a payout as determined by the Administrator. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time after the grant of Restricted Stock Units, the Administrator, in its sole discretion, may reduce or waive any vesting criteria that must be met to receive a payout.

 

(d) Dividend Equivalents. The Administrator may, in its sole discretion, award dividend equivalents in connection with the grant of Restricted Stock Units that may be settled in cash, in Shares of equivalent value, or in some combination thereof. Absent a contrary provision in an Award Agreement, such dividend equivalents shall be subject to the same restrictions and risk of forfeiture as the Restricted Stock Units with respect to which the dividends accrue and shall not be paid or settled unless and until the related Restricted Stock Units have vested and been earned.

 

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(e) Form and Timing of Payment. Payment of earned Restricted Stock Units will be made upon the date(s) determined by the Administrator and set forth in the Award Agreement. The Administrator, in its sole discretion, may only settle earned Restricted Stock Units in cash, Shares, or a combination of both.

 

(f) Cancellation. On the date set forth in the Award Agreement, all Shares underlying any unvested, unlapsed unearned Restricted Stock Units will be forfeited to the Company for future issuance.

 

9. Stock Appreciation Rights.

 

(a) Grant of Stock Appreciation Rights. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, a Stock Appreciation Right may be granted to Service Providers at any time and from time to time as will be determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion.

 

(b) Number of Shares. The Administrator will have complete discretion to determine the number of Stock Appreciation Rights granted to any Service Provider.

 

(c) Exercise Price and Other Terms. The per share exercise price for the Shares to be issued pursuant to exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right will be determined by the Administrator and will be no less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant. Otherwise, the Administrator, subject to the provisions of the Plan, will have complete discretion to determine the terms and conditions of Stock Appreciation Rights granted under the Plan.

 

(d) Stock Appreciation Right Agreement. Each Stock Appreciation Right grant will be evidenced by an Award Agreement that will specify the exercise price, the term of the Stock Appreciation Right, the conditions of exercise, and such other terms and conditions as the Administrator, in its sole discretion, will determine. A Stock Appreciation Right may become exercisable upon completion of a specified period of service with the Company or an Affiliate and/or based on the achievement of Performance Goals during a Performance Period as set out in advance in the Participant’s Award Agreement. If a Stock Appreciation Right is exercisable based on the satisfaction of Performance Goals, then the Administrator will: (x) determine the nature, length and starting date of any Performance Period for such Stock Appreciation Right; (y) select the Performance Goals to be used to measure the performance; and (z) determine what additional vesting conditions, if any, should apply.

 

(e) Expiration of Stock Appreciation Rights. A Stock Appreciation Right granted under the Plan will expire upon the date determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion, and set forth in the Award Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the rules of Section 6(b) relating to the maximum term and Section 6(d) relating to exercise also will apply to Stock Appreciation Rights.

 

(f) Payment of Stock Appreciation Right Amount. Upon exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right, a Participant will be entitled to receive payment from the Company in an amount determined by multiplying:

 

(i) The difference between the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of exercise over the exercise price; times

 

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(ii) The number of Shares with respect to which the Stock Appreciation Right is exercised.

 

At the discretion of the Administrator, the payment upon Stock Appreciation Right exercise may be in cash, in Shares of equivalent value, or in some combination thereof.

 

10. Stock Bonus Awards.

 

(a) Awards of Stock Bonuses. A Stock Bonus Award is an award of Shares to an eligible person without a purchase price that is not subject to any restrictions. All Stock Bonus Awards may but are not required to be made pursuant to an Award Agreement.

 

(b) Terms of Stock Bonus Awards. The Administrator will determine the number of Shares to be awarded to the Participant under a Stock Bonus Award.

 

(c) Form of Payment to Participant. Payment may be made in the form of cash, whole Shares, or a combination thereof, based on the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to the Stock Bonus Award on the date of payment, as determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator.

 

11. Outside Director Limitations. Stock awards granted during a single fiscal year under the Plan or otherwise, taken together with any cash fees paid during such fiscal year for services on the Board, shall not exceed (i) $1,000,000 in total value for any Outside Director serving as the lead director of the Board or chair of the Board (including with respect to the first year of service) and (ii) $500,000 in total value for any other Outside Director, except with respect to the first year of service in which case any stock awards granted and cash fees paid will not exceed $1,000,000 in total value (calculating the value of any such stock awards, in each case, based on the grant date fair value of such stock awards for financial reporting purposes). Such applicable limit shall include the value of any stock awards that are received in lieu of all or a portion of any annual committee cash retainers or other similar cash based payments. Stock awards granted to an individual while he or she was serving in the capacity as an Employee or while he or she was an Independent Contractor but not an Outside Director will not count for purposes of the limitations set forth in this Section 11.

 

12. Leaves of Absence/Transfer Between Locations. The Administrator shall have the discretion to determine at any time whether and to what extent the vesting of Awards shall be suspended during any leave of absence; provided, however, that in the absence of such determination, vesting of Awards shall continue during any paid leave and shall be suspended during any unpaid leave (unless otherwise required by Applicable Laws). A Participant will not cease to be an Employee in the case of (i) any leave of absence approved by the Participant’s employer or (ii) transfers between locations of the Company or between the Company or any Affiliate. If an Employee is holding an Incentive Stock Option and such leave exceeds three (3) months then, for purposes of Incentive Stock Option status only, such Employee’s service as an Employee shall be deemed terminated on the first (1st) day following such three (3) month period and the Incentive Stock Option shall thereafter automatically treated for tax purposes as a Nonstatutory Stock Option in accordance with Applicable Laws, unless reemployment upon the expiration of such leave is guaranteed by contract or statute, or unless provided otherwise pursuant to a written Company policy.

 

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13. Change in Time Commitment. In the event a Participant’s regular level of time commitment in the performance of his or her services for the Company or any Affiliates is reduced (for example, and without limitation, if the Participant is an Employee of the Company and the Employee has a change in status from full-time to part-time or takes an extended leave of absence) after the date of grant of any Award, the Committee or the Administrator, in that party’s sole discretion, may (x) make a corresponding reduction in the number of Shares or cash amount subject to any portion of such Award that is scheduled to vest or become payable after the date of such change in time commitment, and (y) in lieu of or in combination with such a reduction, extend the vesting schedule applicable to such Award (in accordance with Section 409A of the Code, as applicable). In the event of any such reduction, the Participant will have no right with respect to any portion of the Award that is so amended.

 

14. Transferability of Awards. Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, an Award may not be sold, pledged, assigned, hypothecated, transferred, or disposed of in any manner other than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution and may be exercised, during the lifetime of the Participant, only by the Participant. If the Administrator makes an Award transferable, such Award will contain such additional terms and conditions as the Administrator deems appropriate provided, however, that in no event may any Award be transferred for consideration to a third-party financial institution.

 

15. Adjustments; Dissolution or Liquidation; Merger or Change in Control.

 

(a) Adjustments. In the event of a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, combination, consolidation, recapitalization (including a recapitalization through a large nonrecurring cash dividend) or reclassification of the Shares, subdivision of the Shares, a rights offering, a reorganization, merger, spin-off, split-up, repurchase, or exchange of Common Stock or other securities of the Company or other significant corporate transaction, or other change affecting the Common Stock occurs, the Administrator, in order to prevent dilution, diminution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan, will, in such manner as it may deem equitable, adjust the number, kind and class of securities that may be delivered under the Plan and/or the number, class, kind and price of securities covered by each outstanding Award. Notwithstanding the forgoing, all adjustments under this Section 15 shall be made in a manner that does not result in taxation under Section 409A of the Code.

 

(b) Dissolution or Liquidation. In the event of the proposed winding up, dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Administrator will notify each Participant as soon as practicable prior to the effective date of such proposed transaction. To the extent it has not been previously exercised or settled, an Award will terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such proposed action.

 

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(c) Corporate Transaction. In the event of (i) a transfer of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, (ii) a merger, consolidation or other capital reorganization or business combination transaction of the Company with or into another corporation, entity or person, (iii) the consummation of a transaction, or series of related transactions, in which any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Company’s then outstanding capital stock, or (iv) a Change in Control (each, a “Corporate Transaction”), each outstanding Award (vested or unvested) will be treated as the Administrator determines, which determination may be made without the consent of any Participant and need not treat all outstanding Awards (or portion thereof) in an identical manner. Such determination, without the consent of any Participant, may provide (without limitation) for one or more of the following in the event of a Corporate Transaction: (A) the continuation of such outstanding Awards by the Company (if the Company is the surviving corporation); (B) the assumption of such outstanding Awards by the surviving corporation or its parent; (C) the substitution by the surviving corporation or its parent of new options or other equity awards for such Awards; (D) the cancellation of such Awards in exchange for a payment to the Participants equal to the excess of (1) the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to such Awards as of the closing date of such Corporate Transaction over (2) the exercise price or purchase price paid or to be paid (if any) for the Shares subject to the Awards; provided further, that at the discretion of the Administrator, such payment may be subject to the same conditions that apply to the consideration that will be paid to holders of Shares in connection with the transaction; provided, however, that any payout in connection with a terminated award shall comply with Section 409A of the Code to the extent necessary to avoid taxation thereunder; (E) the full or partial acceleration of exercisability or vesting and accelerated expiration of an outstanding Award and lapse of the Company’s right to repurchase or re-acquire Shares acquired under an Award or lapse of forfeiture rights with respect to Shares acquired under an Award; (F) the opportunity for Participants to exercise their Options prior to the occurrence of the Corporate Transaction and the termination (for no consideration) upon the consummation of such Corporate Transaction of any Options not exercised prior thereto; or (G) the cancellation of outstanding Awards in exchange for no consideration.

 

(d) Change in Control. An Award may be subject to additional acceleration of vesting and exercisability upon or after a Change in Control as may be provided in the Award Agreement for such Award or as may be provided in any other written agreement between the Company or any Affiliate and the Participant, but in the absence of such provision, no such acceleration will occur.

 

16. Tax.

 

(a) Withholding Requirements. Prior to the delivery of any Shares or cash pursuant to an Award (or exercise thereof) or prior to any time the Award or Shares are subject to taxation or other Tax-Related Items, the Company and/or the Participant’s employer will have the power and the right to deduct or withhold, or require a Participant to remit to the Company, an amount sufficient to satisfy any Tax-Related Items or other items that are required to be withheld or deducted or otherwise applicable with respect to such Award.

 

(b) Withholding Arrangements. The Administrator, in its sole discretion and pursuant to such procedures as it may specify from time to time, may permit a Participant to satisfy such withholding or deduction obligations or any other Tax-Related Items, in whole or in part by (without limitation) (a) paying cash, (b) electing to have the Company withhold otherwise deliverable cash or Shares, or (c) delivering to the Company already-owned Shares; provided that, unless specifically permitted by the Company, any proceeds derived from a cashless exercise must be an approved broker-assisted cashless exercise or the cash or Shares withheld or delivered must be limited to avoid financial accounting charges under applicable accounting guidance or Shares must have been previously held for the minimum duration required to avoid financial accounting charges under applicable accounting guidance. The Fair Market Value of the Shares to be withheld or delivered will be determined based on such methodology that the Company deems to be reasonable and in accordance with Applicable Laws.

 

(c) Compliance With Section 409A of the Code. Awards will be designed and operated in such a manner that they are either exempt from the application of, or comply with, the requirements of Section 409A of the Code such that the grant, payment, settlement or deferral will not be subject to the additional tax or interest applicable under Section 409A of the Code. The Plan and each Award Agreement under the Plan is intended to meet the requirements of Section 409A of the Code (or an exemption therefrom) and will be construed and interpreted in accordance with such intent, except as otherwise determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator. To the extent that an Award or payment, or the settlement or deferral thereof, is subject to Section 409A of the Code the Award will be granted, paid, settled or deferred in a manner that will meet the requirements of Section 409A of the Code (or an exemption therefrom), such that the grant, payment, settlement or deferral will not be subject to the additional tax or interest applicable under Section 409A of the Code. In no event will the Company be responsible for or reimburse a Participant for any taxes or other penalties incurred as a result of applicable of Section 409A of the Code.

 

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17. No Effect on Employment or Service. Neither the Plan nor any Award will confer upon a Participant any right with respect to continuing the Participant’s relationship as a Service Provider with the Company or any Affiliate, nor will they interfere in any way with the Participant’s right or the Company’s or any Affiliate’s right to terminate such relationship at any time, with or without cause, to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws.

 

18. Date of Grant. The date of grant of an Award will be, for all purposes, the date on which the Administrator makes the determination granting such Award, or such other later date as is determined by the Administrator. Notice of the determination will be provided to each Participant within a reasonable time after the date of such grant.

 

19. Corporate Records Control. In the event that the corporate records (e.g., Board consents, resolutions or minutes) documenting the corporate action constituting the grant contain terms (e.g., exercise price, vesting schedule or number of Shares) that are inconsistent with those in the Award Agreement or related grant documents as a result of a clerical error in the papering of the Award Agreement or related grant documents, the corporate records will control and the Participant will have no legally binding right to the incorrect term in the Award Agreement or related grant documents.

 

20. Clawback/Recovery. The Administrator may specify in an Award Agreement that the Participant’s rights, payments, and/or benefits with respect to an Award will be subject to reduction, cancellation, forfeiture, and/or recoupment upon the occurrence of certain specified events, in addition to any applicable vesting, performance or other conditions and restrictions of an Award. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary under this Plan, an Award granted under the Plan shall be subject to the Company’s clawback policy as may be established and/or amended from time to time. The Administrator may require a Participant to forfeit or return to and/or reimburse the Company for all or a portion of the Award and/or Shares issued under the Award, any amounts paid under the Award, and any payments or proceeds paid or provided upon disposition of the Shares issued under the Award, pursuant to the terms of such Company policy or as necessary or appropriate to comply with Applicable Laws.

 

21. Term of Plan. Subject to Section 25 of the Plan, the Plan will become effective as of the Effective Date. The Plan will continue in effect unless terminated earlier under Section 22 of the Plan. No Incentive Stock Options may be granted after August 11, 2031. No Awards may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.

 

22. Amendment and Termination of the Plan.

 

(a) Amendment and Termination. The Administrator may at any time amend, alter, suspend or terminate the Plan.

 

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(b) Stockholder Approval. The Company will obtain stockholder approval of any Plan amendment to the extent necessary and desirable to comply with Applicable Laws.

 

(c) Effect of Amendment or Termination. No amendment, alteration, suspension or termination of the Plan will materially impair the rights of any Participant, unless mutually agreed otherwise between the Participant and the Administrator, which agreement must be in writing and signed by the Participant and the Company. Termination of the Plan will not affect the Administrator’s ability to exercise the powers granted to it hereunder with respect to Awards granted under the Plan prior to the date of such termination.

 

23. Conditions Upon Issuance of Shares.

 

(a) Legal Compliance. Shares will not be issued pursuant to the exercise or vesting (as applicable) of an Award unless the exercise or vesting of such Award and the issuance and delivery of such Shares will comply with Applicable Laws and will be further subject to the approval of counsel for the Company with respect to such compliance.

 

(b) Investment Representations. As a condition to the exercise of an Award, the Company may require the person exercising such Award to represent and warrant at the time of any such exercise that the Shares are being purchased only for investment and without any present intention to sell or distribute such Shares if, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, such a representation is required.

 

24. Inability to Obtain Authority. The inability of the Company to obtain authority from any regulatory body having jurisdiction, which authority is deemed by the Company’s counsel to be necessary to the lawful issuance and sale of any Shares hereunder, will relieve the Company of any liability in respect of the failure to issue or sell such Shares as to which such requisite authority will not have been obtained.

 

25. Stockholder Approval. The Plan will be subject to approval by the stockholders of the Company within twelve (12) months after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board. Such stockholder approval will be obtained in the manner and to the degree required under Applicable Laws.

 

26. Governing Law. The Plan and all Awards hereunder shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, but without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

 

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Exhibit 10.6

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

NOTICE OF STOCK OPTION GRANT

 

Participant Name:

 

You have been granted an Option to purchase Common Stock, subject to the terms and conditions of this Notice of Stock Option Grant (the “Notice of Grant”), the Momentus Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and the attached Stock Option Agreement ([which includes the Country-Specific Addendum,] the “Award Agreement”), as set forth below. Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms used in this Notice of Grant shall have the meanings defined in the Plan.

 

Grant Number:    
     
Date of Grant:    
     
Vesting Commencement Date:    
     
Exercise Price per Share:   USD $  
       
Total Number of Shares:    
     
Total Exercise Price:   USD $  
       
Type of Option:     U.S. Incentive Stock Option
       
      Nonstatutory Stock Option
       
Term/Expiration Date:  
     
Vesting Schedule:      

 

Subject to Section 2 of the Award Agreement, this Option may be exercised, in whole or in part, in accordance with the following schedule:

 

 

 
 

 

Termination Period:   [This Option will be exercisable for three (3) months after Participant ceases to be a Service Provider, unless such termination is due to Participant’s death, Disability or Cause.  If Participant’s relationship as a Service Provider is terminated as a result of the Service Provider’s death or Disability, this Option will be exercisable for twelve (12) months after Participant ceases to be a Service Provider.  If Participant’s relationship as a Service Provider is terminated for Cause, this Option (including any vested portion thereof) shall immediately terminate in its entirety upon Participant being first notified of such termination for Cause and Participant will be prohibited from exercising this Option from and after the date of such termination.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may this Option be exercised after the Term/Expiration Date as provided above and may be subject to earlier termination as provided in Section 15 of the Plan.]

 

 

 

 

By accepting this Option (whether electronically or otherwise), Participant acknowledges and agrees to the following:

 

1. This Option is governed by the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement and the Plan. In the event of a conflict between the terms of the Plan and this Award Agreement, the terms of the Plan will prevail. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement and the Notice of Grant will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

 

2. Participant has received a copy of the Plan, the Award Agreement, the Plan prospectus, and the Insider Trading Policy and represents that Participant has read these documents and is familiar with their terms. Participant further agrees to accept as binding, conclusive, and final all decisions and interpretations of the Administrator (or its delegees) regarding any questions relating to this Option and the Plan.

 

3. Vesting of the Option is subject to Participant’s continuous status as a Service Provider, which is for an unspecified duration and may be terminated at any time, with or without Cause, and nothing in the Award Agreement or the Plan changes the nature of that relationship.

 

4. The Company is not providing any tax, legal, or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding participation in the Plan. Participant should consult with his or her own personal tax, legal, and financial advisors regarding participation in the Plan before taking any action related to the Plan.

 

5. Participant consents to electronic delivery and participation as set forth in the Plan and the Award Agreement.

 

PARTICIPANT:

  MOMENTUS INC.
     
     
Signature   By
     
     
Print Name   Title

 

 

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

 

1. Grant of Option. The Company hereby grants to the individual (the “Participant”) named in the Notice of Stock Option Grant (the “Notice of Grant”) an option (the “Option”) under the Momentus Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to purchase the number of Shares set forth in the Notice of Grant, at the exercise price per Share set forth in the Notice of Grant (the “Exercise Price”), subject to all of the terms and conditions set forth in the Notice of Grant, this Stock Option Agreement (the “Award Agreement”) and the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. [If there is a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan will prevail.]

 

If designated in the Notice of Grant as an Incentive Stock Option (“ISO”), this Option is intended to qualify as an ISO to the maximum extent permitted under Section 422 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). However, if this Option is intended to be an ISO, to the extent that it exceeds the USD $100,000 rule of Code Section 422(d) it will be treated as a Nonstatutory Stock Option (“NSO”). Further, if for any reason this Option (or portion thereof) will not qualify as an ISO, then, to the extent of such non-qualification, such Option (or portion thereof) shall be regarded as a NSO granted under the Plan. In no event will the Administrator, the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary or any of their respective employees or directors have any liability to Participant (or any other person) due to the failure of the Option to qualify for any reason as an ISO.

 

2. Vesting Schedule. Except as provided in Section 3, the Option awarded by this Award Agreement will vest in accordance with the vesting provisions set forth in the Notice of Grant. Options scheduled to vest on a certain date or upon the occurrence of a certain condition will not vest in accordance with any of the provisions of this Award Agreement, unless Participant will have been continuously a Service Provider from the Date of Grant until the date such vesting occurs. Service Provider status for purposes of this Award will end on the day that Participant is no longer actively providing services as an Employee, Director, or Independent Contractor and will not be extended by any notice period or “garden leave” that may be required contractually or under any Applicable Laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator (or any delegate) shall have the sole and absolute discretion to determine when Participant is no longer providing active service for purposes of Service Provider status and participation in the Plan.

 

3. Exercise of Option.

 

(a) Right to Exercise. This Option may be exercised only within the term set forth in the Notice of Grant and may be exercised during such term only in accordance with the Plan and the terms of this Award Agreement.

 

(b) Method of Exercise. This Option is exercisable by delivery of an exercise notice, in the form attached as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Notice”) or in a manner and pursuant to such procedures as the Administrator may determine, which will state the election to exercise the Option, the number of Shares in respect of which the Option is being exercised (the “Exercised Shares”), and such other representations and agreements as may be required by the Company pursuant to the provisions of the Plan. The Exercise Notice will be completed by Participant and delivered to the Company. The Exercise Notice will be accompanied by payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as to all Exercised Shares together with any Tax-Related Items (as defined below) required to be withheld, paid or provided pursuant to any Applicable Laws. This Option will be deemed to be exercised upon receipt by the Company of such fully executed Exercise Notice accompanied by such aggregate Exercise Price and any other requirements or restrictions that may be imposed by the Company to comply with Applicable Laws or facilitate administration of the Plan. Notwithstanding the above, Participant understands that the Applicable Laws of the country in which Participant is residing or working at the time of grant, vesting, and/or exercise of this Option (including any rules or regulations governing securities, foreign exchange, tax, labor or other matters) may restrict or prevent exercise of this Option, and neither the Company nor any Parent or Subsidiary assumes any liability in relation to this Option in such case.

 

 

4. Method of Payment. Payment of the aggregate Exercise Price will be by any of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of Participant unless otherwise specified by the Company in its sole discretion:

 

(a) cash (U.S. dollars); or

 

(b) check (denominated in U.S. dollars)[; or

 

(c) consideration received by the Company under a formal cashless exercise program adopted by the Company in connection with the Plan][; or

 

(d) if Participant is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, Participant may direct the Company to withhold Shares to be issued upon exercise of the Option to pay the aggregate Exercise Price.]

 

Participant understands and agrees that, unless otherwise permitted by the Company, any cross-border remittance made to exercise this Option or transfer proceeds received upon the sale of Shares must be made through a locally authorized financial institution or registered foreign exchange agency and may require the Participant to provide such entity with certain information regarding the transaction.

 

5. Tax Obligations.

 

(a) Withholding of Taxes. Regardless of any action the Company or Participant’s employer (the “Employer”) takes with respect to any or all applicable national, local, or other tax or social contribution, withholding, required deductions, or other payments, if any, that arise upon the grant, vesting, or exercise of this Option, the holding or subsequent sale of Shares, and the receipt of dividends, if any, or otherwise in connection with this Option or the Shares (“Tax-Related Items”), Participant acknowledges and agrees that the ultimate liability for all Tax-Related Items legally due by Participant is and remains Participant’s responsibility and may exceed any amount actually withheld by the Company or the Employer. Participant further acknowledges and agrees that Participant is solely responsible for filing all relevant documentation that may be required in relation to this Option or any Tax-Related Items (other than filings or documentation that is the specific obligation of the Company, an Affiliate or Employer pursuant to Applicable Laws) such as but not limited to personal income tax returns or reporting statements in relation to the grant, vesting or exercise of this Option, the holding of Shares or any bank or brokerage account, the subsequent sale of Shares, and the receipt of any dividends. Participant further acknowledges that the Company and the Employer (a) make no representations or undertakings regarding the treatment of any Tax-Related Items in connection with any aspect of the Option, including the grant, vesting, or exercise of the Option, the subsequent sale of Shares acquired under the Plan and the receipt of dividends, if any; and (b) does not commit to and is under no obligation to structure the terms of the Option or any aspect of the Option to reduce or eliminate Participant’s liability for Tax-Related Items, or achieve any particular tax result. Participant also understands that Applicable Laws may require varying Share or Option valuation methods for purposes of calculating Tax-Related Items, and the Company assumes no responsibility or liability in relation to any such valuation or for any calculation or reporting of income or Tax-Related Items that may be required of Participant under Applicable Laws. Further, if Participant has become subject to tax in more than one jurisdiction between the date of grant and the date of any relevant taxable event, Participant acknowledges that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for Tax-Related Items in more than one jurisdiction.

 

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(b) Satisfaction of Tax-Related Items. As a condition to the grant, vesting and exercise of this Option and as set forth in Section 16 of the Plan, Participant hereby agrees to make adequate provision for the satisfaction of (and will indemnify the Company and any Affiliate for) any Tax-Related Items. No payment will be made to Participant (or his or her estate or beneficiary) related to an Option, and no Shares will be issued pursuant to an Option, unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Company) have been made by Participant with respect to the payment of any Tax-Related Items obligations of the Company and/or any Parent, Subsidiary, or Employer with respect to the grant, vesting or exercise of the Option. [In this regard, Participant authorizes the Company and/or any Affiliate or Employer, or their respective agents, at their discretion, to satisfy the obligations with regard to all Tax-Related Items by one or a combination of the following:

 

(i) withholding from Participant’s wages or other cash compensation paid to Participant by the Company or the Employer[; or

 

(ii) withholding from proceeds of the sale of Shares acquired upon exercise of the Option, either through a voluntary sale or through a mandatory sale arranged by the Company (on Participant’s behalf pursuant to this authorization)][; or

 

(iii) withholding in Shares to be issued upon exercise of the Option].]

 

[Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Participant is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, Participant may direct the Company to withhold Shares to be issued upon exercise of the Option to satisfy Participant’s obligations with regard to all Tax-Related Items.]

 

If the obligation for Tax-Related Items is satisfied by withholding Shares, the Participant is deemed to have been issued the full number of Shares purchased for tax purposes, notwithstanding that a number of Shares is held back solely for the purpose of paying the Tax-Related Items due as a result of the Participant’s participation in the Plan. Participant shall pay to the Company or a Parent, Subsidiary, or Employer any amount of Tax-Related Items that the Company may be required to withhold, pay or otherwise provide for as a result of Participant’s participation in the Plan that cannot be satisfied by one or more of the means previously described in this Section 5. Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company may refuse to honor the exercise and refuse to issue or deliver the Shares or the proceeds of the sale of Shares if Participant fails to comply with his or her obligations in connection with the Tax-Related Items.

 

(c) Notice of Disqualifying Disposition of ISO Shares. If the Option granted to Participant herein is an ISO, and if Participant sells or otherwise disposes of any of the Shares acquired pursuant to the ISO on or before the later of (i) the date two (2) years after the Date of Grant, or (ii) the date one (1) year after the date of exercise, Participant will immediately notify the Company in writing of such disposition.

 

(d) Code Section 409A (Applicable Only to Participants Subject to U.S. Taxes). Under Code Section 409A, an option that is granted with a per Share exercise price that is determined by the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) to be less than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of grant (a “Discount Option”) may be considered “deferred compensation.” A Discount Option may result in (i) income recognition by Participant prior to the exercise of the option, (ii) an additional twenty percent (20%) federal income tax, and (iii) potential penalty and interest charges. The Discount Option may also result in additional state income, penalty and interest charges to the Participant. Participant acknowledges that the Company cannot and has not guaranteed that the IRS will agree that the per Share exercise price of this Option equals or exceeds the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Date of Grant in a later examination. Participant agrees that if the IRS determines that the Option was granted with a per Share exercise price that was less than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of grant, Participant will be solely responsible for Participant’s costs related to such a determination.

 

6. Rights as Stockholder. Neither Participant nor any person claiming under or through Participant will have any of the rights or privileges of a stockholder of the Company in respect of any Shares unless and until such Shares will have been issued (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). After such issuance, Participant will have all the rights of a stockholder of the Company with respect to voting such Shares and receipt of dividends and distributions on such Shares, but prior to such issuance, Participant will not have any rights to dividends and/or distributions on such Shares.

 

7. No Guarantee of Continued Service or Grants. PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF SHARES PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF SHALL OCCUR ONLY BY CONTINUING AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE EMPLOYER OR CONTRACTING ENTITY (AS APPLICABLE) AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED THE OPTION OR ACQUIRING SHARES HEREUNDER. PARTICIPANT FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AWARD AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT ALL, AND WILL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH PARTICIPANT’S RIGHT OR THE RIGHT OF THE EMPLOYER OR THE COMPANY (OR ANY AFFILIATE) TO TERMINATE PARTICIPANT’S RELATIONSHIP AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE (SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAWS).

 

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8. Nature of Grant. In accepting the Option, Participant acknowledges, understands and agrees that:

 

(a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time;

 

(b) the grant of the Option is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Options, or benefits in lieu of Options even if Options have been granted repeatedly in the past;

 

(c) all decisions with respect to future awards of Options, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company;

 

(d) Participant’s participation in the Plan is voluntary;

 

(e) the Option and the Shares subject to the Option are extraordinary items that do not constitute regular compensation for services rendered to the Company or the Employer, and that are outside the scope of Participant’s employment contract, if any;

 

(f) the Option and the Shares subject to the Option are not intended to replace any pension rights or compensation;

 

(g) the Option and the Shares subject to the Option are not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purposes, including, but not limited to, calculating any severance, resignation, termination, redundancy, dismissal, or end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement or welfare benefits or similar payments and in no event should be considered as compensation for, or relating in any way to, past services for the Company or the Employer, subject to Applicable Laws;

 

(h) the future value of the underlying Shares is unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty; further, if Participant exercises the Option and obtains Shares, the value of the Shares acquired upon exercise may increase or decrease in value, even below the Exercise Price;

 

(i) Participant also understands that neither the Company nor any Affiliate is responsible for any foreign exchange fluctuation between local currency and the United States Dollar or the selection by the Company or any Affiliate in its sole discretion of an applicable foreign currency exchange rate that may affect the value of the Option (or the calculation of income or Tax-Related Items thereunder);

 

(j) in consideration of the grant of the Option, no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the Option resulting from termination of employment by the Employer (for any reason whatsoever and whether or not in breach of Applicable Laws, including, without limitation, applicable local labor laws), and Participant irrevocably releases the Employer from any such claim that may arise; if, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such claim is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have arisen, Participant shall be deemed irrevocably to have waived his or her entitlement to pursue such claim; and

 

(k) the Option and the benefits under the Plan, if any, will not automatically transfer to another company in the case of a merger, take-over or transfer of liability.

 

9. No Advice Regarding Grant. The Company is not providing any tax, legal or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding Participant’s participation in the Plan, or Participant’s acquisition or sale of the underlying Shares. Participant is hereby advised to consult with his or her own personal tax, legal and financial advisors regarding Participant’s participation in the Plan before taking any action related to the Plan.

 

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10. Data Privacy. Participant hereby explicitly and unambiguously consents to the collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of Participant’s Personal Data (as described below) by and among, as applicable, the Company, any Affiliate or third parties as may be selected by the Company for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing Participant’s participation in the Plan. Participant understands that refusal or withdrawal of consent will affect Participant’s ability to participate in the Plan; without providing consent, Participant will not be able to participate in the Plan or realize benefits (if any) from the Option.

 

Participant understands that the Company and any Affiliate, or designated third parties may hold personal information about Participant, including, but not limited to, Participant’s name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any shares of stock or directorships held in the Company or any Affiliate details of all Options or any other entitlement to Shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, unvested or outstanding in Participant’s favor (“Personal Data”). Participant understands that Personal Data may be transferred to any Affiliate or third parties assisting in the implementation, administration and management of the Plan, that these recipients may be located in the United States, Participant’s country (if different than the United States), or elsewhere, and that the recipient’s country may have different data privacy laws and protections than Participant’s country. In particular, the Company may transfer Personal Data to the broker or stock plan administrator assisting with the Plan, to its legal counsel and tax/accounting advisor, and to the Affiliate or entity that is Participant’s employer and its payroll provider.

 

Participant should also refer to any data privacy policy implemented by the Company (which will be available to Participant separately and may be updated from time to time) for more information regarding the collection, use, storage, and transfer of Participant’s Personal Data.

 

11. Address for Notices. Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Award Agreement will be addressed to the Company, in care of its Secretary at Momentus Inc., 3901 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95134, or at such other address as the Company may hereafter designate in writing.

 

12. Non-Transferability of Option. This Option may not be transferred in any manner otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution and may be exercised during the lifetime of Participant only by Participant.

 

13. Binding Agreement. Subject to the limitation on the transferability of this Option contained herein, this Award Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, legatees, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

 

14. Additional Conditions to Issuance of Stock. If at any time the Company will determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration, qualification or compliance of the Shares upon or with any securities exchange or under any Applicable Laws, the tax code and related regulations or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory authority is necessary or desirable as a condition to the grant or vesting of the Option or purchase by, or issuance of Shares to, Participant (or his or her estate) hereunder, such purchase or issuance will not occur unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, compliance, consent or approval will have been completed, effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company. The Company will make all reasonable efforts to meet the requirements of any Applicable Laws. Assuming such compliance, for purposes of the Tax-Related Items, the Exercised Shares will be considered transferred to Participant on the date the Option is exercised with respect to such Exercised Shares. The Company shall not be obligated to issue any Shares pursuant to this Option at any time if the issuance of Shares, or the exercise of an Option by Participant, violates or is not in compliance with any Applicable Laws.

 

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15. Lock-Up Agreement. If so requested by the Company in connection with a transaction pursuant to which the securities of the Company will be exchanged for securities of a company (or any successor or parent thereof) registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), including, without limitation, through a transaction with a publicly-listed blank check company then registered under the Securities Act (a “SPAC Transaction”), Participant hereby agrees (i) not to offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any securities of the Company however and whenever acquired without the prior written consent of the Company for a period of 180 days from the date of the consummation of the transaction in which the securities of the Company became a Listed Security (as defined below), and (ii) to execute an agreement reflecting the foregoing. For purposes of this Section, “Listed Security” means any security of the Company that is listed or approved for listing on a national securities exchange (including, without limitation, pursuant to a SPAC Transaction) or designated or approved for designation as a national market system security on an interdealer quotation system by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (or any successor thereto).

 

16. Plan Governs. This Award Agreement is subject to all terms and provisions of the Plan. If there is a conflict between one or more provisions of this Award Agreement and one or more provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will govern. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement and in the Notice of Grant will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

 

17. Administrator Authority. The Administrator will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Award Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules (including, but not limited to, the determination regarding whether any Shares subject to the Option have vested). All actions taken, and all interpretations and determinations made, by the Administrator in good faith will be final and binding upon Participant, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Administrator will be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Award Agreement.

 

18. Electronic Delivery and Acceptance. By accepting this Option, Participant agrees to participate in the Plan through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party designated by the Company, and consents to the electronic delivery of the Award Agreement, the Plan, account statements, Plan prospectuses, and all other documents, communications, or information related to the Option and current or future participation in the Plan. Electronic delivery may include the delivery of a link to the Company intranet or the internet site of a third party involved in administering the Plan, the delivery of the document via e-mail, or such other delivery determined at the Company’s discretion. Participant may receive from the Company a paper copy of any documents delivered electronically at no cost if Participant contacts the Company by telephone, through a postal service, or electronic mail to Stock Administration.

 

19. Translation. If Participant has received this Award Agreement, including appendices, or any other document related to the Plan translated into a language other than English, and the meaning of the translated version is different than the English version, the English version will control.

 

20. Imposition of Other Requirements. The Company reserves the right to impose other requirements on Participant’s participation in the Plan, on the Option and on any Shares acquired under the Plan, to the extent the Company determines it is necessary or advisable in order to comply with any Applicable Laws or facilitate the administration of the Plan, and to require Participant to sign any additional agreements or undertakings that may be necessary to accomplish the foregoing. Furthermore, Participant understands that the Applicable Laws of the country in which he or she is resident at the time of grant, vesting, and/or exercise of this Option or the holding or disposition of Shares (including any rules or regulations governing securities, foreign exchange, tax, labor or other matters) may restrict or prevent exercise of this Option or may subject Participant to additional procedural or regulatory requirements he or she is solely responsible for and will have to independently fulfill in relation to this Option or the Shares. [Notwithstanding any provision herein, this Option and any Exercised Shares shall be subject to any special terms and conditions or disclosures as set forth in any addendum for Participant’s country (the “Country-Specific Addendum,” which forms part this Award Agreement).] Participant also understands and agrees that if he or she works, resides, moves to, or otherwise is or becomes subject to Applicable Laws or company policies of another jurisdiction at any time, certain country-specific notices, disclaimers and/or terms and conditions may apply to him or her as from the date of grant, unless otherwise determined by the Company in its sole discretion.

 

21. Captions. Captions provided herein are for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Award Agreement.

 

22. Agreement Severable. If any provision in this Award Agreement will be held invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be severable from, and such invalidity or unenforceability will not be construed to have any effect on, the remaining provisions of this Award Agreement.

 

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23. Modifications to the Award Agreement. This Award Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. Participant expressly warrants that he or she is not accepting this Award Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Award Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or this Award Agreement, the Company reserves the right to revise this Award Agreement as it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion and without the consent of Participant, to comply with Code Section 409A or to otherwise avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition under Code Section 409A in connection to this Option.

 

24. Amendment, Suspension or Termination of the Plan. By accepting this Award, Participant expressly warrants that he or she has received an Option under the Plan, and has received, read and understood a description of the Plan. Participant understands that the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time.

 

25. Governing Law and Venue. This Award Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof. For purposes of litigating any dispute that arises under this Award or this Award Agreement, the parties hereby submit to and consent to the jurisdiction of the State of Delaware and agree that such litigation will be conducted in the courts of New Castle County, Delaware, or the federal courts for the United States for the District of Delaware, and no other courts.

   

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[Country-Specific Addendum

 

This Addendum includes additional country-specific notices, disclaimers, and/or terms and conditions that apply to individuals who are working or residing in the countries listed below, if any, and that may be material to Participant’s participation in the Plan. Such notices, disclaimers, and/or terms and conditions may also apply, as from the date of grant, if Participant moves to or otherwise is or becomes subject to the Applicable Laws or company policies of any country listed below. However, because foreign exchange regulations and other local laws are subject to frequent change, Participant is advised to seek advice from his or her own personal legal and tax advisor prior to accepting or exercising an Option or holding or selling Shares acquired under the Plan. The Company is not providing any tax, legal or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding Participant’s acceptance of the Option or participation in the Plan. Unless otherwise noted below, capitalized terms shall have the same meaning assigned to them under the Plan, the Notice of Stock Option Grant and the Award Agreement. This Addendum forms part of the Award Agreement and should be read in conjunction with the Award Agreement and the Plan.

 

Securities Law Notice: Unless otherwise noted, neither the Company nor the Shares are registered with any local stock exchange or under the control of any local securities regulator outside the United States. The Award Agreement (of which this Addendum is a part), the Notice of Stock Option Grant, the Plan, and any other communications or materials that you may receive regarding participation in the Plan do not constitute advertising or an offering of securities outside the United States, and the issuance of securities described in any Plan-related documents is not intended for public offering or circulation in your jurisdiction.]

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

EXERCISE NOTICE

 

Momentus Inc.  
   
   
Attention:    

 

1. Exercise of Option. Effective as of today, _______________, _______, the undersigned (“Purchaser”) hereby elects to purchase, ______________, shares (the “Shares”) of the Common Stock of Momentus Inc. (the “Company”) under and pursuant to the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), the Notice of Stock Option Grant and the Stock Option Agreement dated _______________, ________ (the Award Agreement). The purchase price for the Shares will be USD $ __________, as required by the Award Agreement.

 

2. Delivery of Payment. Purchaser herewith delivers to the Company, or otherwise makes adequate arrangements satisfactory to the Company, the full purchase price of the Shares and any Tax-Related Items (as defined in the Award Agreement) to be paid in connection with the exercise of the Option.

 

3. Representations of Purchaser. Purchaser acknowledges that Purchaser has received, read and understood the Plan and the Award Agreement and agrees to abide by and be bound by their terms and conditions.

 

4. Rights as Stockholder. Until the issuance (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company) of the Shares, no right to vote or receive dividends or any other rights as a stockholder will exist with respect to the Shares subject to the Option, notwithstanding the exercise of the Option. The Shares so acquired will be issued to Purchaser as soon as practicable after exercise of the Option. No adjustment will be made for a dividend or other right for which the record date is prior to the date of issuance, except as provided in Section 15 of the Plan.

 

5. Tax Consultation. Purchaser understands that Purchaser may suffer adverse tax consequences as a result of Purchaser’s purchase or disposition of the Shares. Purchaser represents that Purchaser has consulted with any tax consultants Purchaser deems advisable in connection with the purchase or disposition of the Shares and that Purchaser is not relying on the Company for any tax advice.

 

6. Entire Agreement; Governing Law. The Plan and Award Agreement are incorporated herein by reference. This Exercise Notice, the Plan and the Award Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede in their entirety all prior undertakings and agreements of the Company and Purchaser with respect to the subject matter hereof, and may not be modified adversely to the Purchaser’s interest except by means of a writing signed by the Company and Purchaser. This agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws, but not the choice of law rules, of the State of Delaware.

 

Submitted by:

  Accepted by:
     
PURCHASER:   MOMENTUS INC.
     
     
Signature   By
     
     
Print Name   Title
     
     
    Date Received

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.7

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

NOTICE OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT GRANT

 

Participant Name:

 

You have been granted the right to receive an Award of Restricted Stock Units, subject to the terms and conditions of this Restricted Stock Unit Grant Notice (the “Notice of Grant”), the Momentus Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and the attached Restricted Stock Unit Agreement ([which includes the Country-Specific Addendum,] the “Award Agreement”), as set forth below. Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms used in this Notice of Grant shall have the meanings defined in the Plan.

 

  Grant Number:    
  Date of Grant:    
  Vesting Commencement Date:    
  Number of Restricted Stock Units:    
  Vesting Schedule:    

 

Subject to Section 3 of the Award Agreement, the Restricted Stock Units will vest in accordance with the following schedule:

 

 

 
 

 

[If Participant ceases to be a Service Provider for any or no reason before Participant vests in the Restricted Stock Units, the Restricted Stock Units and Participant’s right to acquire any Shares hereunder will terminate in accordance with Section 3 of the Award Agreement.]

 

By accepting this Award (whether electronically or otherwise), Participant acknowledges and agrees to the following:

 

1. This Award is governed by the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement and the Plan. In the event of a conflict between the terms of the Plan and this Award Agreement, the terms of the Plan will prevail. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement and the Notice of Grant will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

 

2. Participant has received a copy of the Plan, the Award Agreement, the Plan prospectus, and the Insider Trading Policy and represents that Participant has read these documents and is familiar with their terms. Participant further agrees to accept as binding, conclusive, and final all decisions and interpretations of the Administrator (or its delegees) regarding any questions relating to this Award and the Plan.

 

3. Vesting of the Award is subject to Participant’s continuous status as a Service Provider, which is for an unspecified duration and may be terminated at any time, with or without Cause, and nothing in the Award Agreement or the Plan changes the nature of that relationship.

 

4. The Company is not providing any tax, legal, or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding participation in the Plan. Participant should consult with his or her own personal tax, legal, and financial advisors regarding participation in the Plan before taking any action related to the Plan.

 

5. Participant consents to electronic delivery and participation as set forth in the Plan and the Award Agreement.

 

PARTICIPANT:   MOMENTUS INC.
     
     
Signature   By
     
     
Print Name   Title

 

 

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT

 

1. Grant. The Company hereby grants to the individual (the “Participant”) named in the Notice of Restricted Stock Unit Grant (the “Notice of Grant”) an Award of Restricted Stock Units under the Momentus Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), subject to all of the terms and conditions in the Notice of Grant, this Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (the “Award Agreement”) and the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. [If there is a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan will prevail.]

 

2. Company’s Obligation to Pay. Each Restricted Stock Unit represents the right to receive a Share on the date it vests. Unless and until the Restricted Stock Units will have vested in the manner set forth in Section 3, Participant will have no right to receive Shares pursuant to any such Restricted Stock Units. Prior to actual payment of any vested Restricted Stock Units, such Restricted Stock Units will represent an unsecured obligation of the Company. Any Restricted Stock Units that vest in accordance with Section 3 will be settled by delivery of whole Shares as set forth herein to Participant (or in the event of Participant’s death, to his or her estate), subject to Participant satisfying any Tax-Related Items as set forth in Section 7. Subject to the provisions of Section 4, such vested Restricted Stock Units will be settled by delivery of whole Shares as soon as practicable after vesting, but in each such case within the period ending no later than the date that is two and one-half (2½) months from the end of the Company’s tax year that includes the vesting date. In no event will Participant be permitted, directly or indirectly, to specify the taxable year in which Shares will be issued upon payment of any Restricted Stock Units under this Award Agreement.

 

3. Vesting Schedule. The Restricted Stock Units awarded by this Award Agreement will vest in accordance with the vesting provisions set forth in the Notice of Grant. [Restricted Stock Units scheduled to vest on a certain date or upon the occurrence of a certain condition will not vest in accordance with any of the provisions of this Award Agreement, unless Participant will have been continuously a Service Provider from the Date of Grant until the date such vesting occurs.] Service Provider status for purposes of this Award will end on the day that Participant is no longer actively providing services as an Employee, Director, or Independent Contractor and will not be extended by any notice period or “garden leave” that may be required contractually or under Applicable Laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator (or any delegate) shall have the sole and absolute discretion to determine when Participant is no longer providing active service for purposes of Service Provider status and participation in the Plan.

 

4. Administrator Discretion. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan or this Award Agreement to the contrary, if the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the balance, of the Restricted Stock Units is accelerated in connection with Participant’s termination as a Service Provider (provided that such termination is a “separation from service” within the meaning of Code Section 409A, as determined by the Company), other than due to death, and if (x) Participant is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Code Section 409A at the time of such termination as a Service Provider and (y) the payment of such accelerated Restricted Stock Units will result in the imposition of additional tax under Code Section 409A if paid to Participant on or within the six (6) month period following Participant’s termination as a Service Provider, then the payment of such accelerated Restricted Stock Units will not be made until the date six (6) months and one (1) day following the date of Participant’s termination as a Service Provider, unless the Participant dies following his or her termination as a Service Provider, in which case, the Restricted Stock Units will be settled in Shares to the Participant’s estate as soon as practicable following his or her death. It is the intent of this Award Agreement that it and all payments and benefits hereunder be exempt from, or comply with, the requirements of Code Section 409A so that none of the Restricted Stock Units provided under this Award Agreement or Shares issuable thereunder will be subject to the additional tax imposed under Code Section 409A, and any ambiguities herein will be interpreted to be so exempt or so comply. Each payment payable under this Award Agreement is intended to constitute a separate payment for purposes of U.S. Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-2(b)(2). For purposes of this Award Agreement, “Code Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code, and any final U.S. Treasury Regulations and U.S. Internal Revenue Service guidance thereunder, as each may be amended from time to time.

 

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5. Forfeiture upon Termination of Status as a Service Provider. Except as otherwise provided in the Notice of Grant, any Restricted Stock Units that have not vested will be forfeited and will return to the Plan on the date that is thirty (30) days following the termination of Participant’s status as a Service Provider.

 

6. Death of Participant. Any distribution or delivery to be made to Participant under this Award Agreement will, if Participant is then deceased, be made to Participant’s designated beneficiary, if so allowed by the Administrator in its sole discretion, or if no beneficiary survives Participant, the administrator or executor of Participant’s estate. Any such transferee must furnish the Company with (a) written notice of his or her status as transferee, and (b) evidence satisfactory to the Company to establish the validity of the transfer and compliance with any Applicable Laws or regulations pertaining to said transfer.

 

7. Withholding of Taxes. Regardless of any action the Company or Participant’s employer (the “Employer”) takes with respect to any or all applicable national, local, or other tax or social contribution, withholding, required deductions, or other payments, if any, that arise upon the grant or vesting of the Restricted Stock Units or the holding or subsequent sale of Shares, and the receipt of dividends, if any, or otherwise in connection with the Restricted Stock Units or the Shares (“Tax-Related Items”), Participant acknowledges and agrees that the ultimate liability for all Tax-Related Items legally due by Participant is and remains Participant’s responsibility and may exceed any amount actually withheld by the Company or the Employer. Participant further acknowledges and agrees that Participant is solely responsible for filing all relevant documentation that may be required in relation to the Restricted Stock Units or any Tax-Related Items (other than filings or documentation that is the specific obligation of the Company, an Affiliate or Employer pursuant to Applicable Laws) such as but not limited to personal income tax returns or reporting statements in relation to the grant, vesting or payment of the Restricted Stock Units, the holding of Shares or any bank or brokerage account, the subsequent sale of Shares, and the receipt of any dividends. Participant further acknowledges that the Company and the Employer (a) make no representations or undertakings regarding the treatment of any Tax-Related Items in connection with any aspect of the Restricted Stock Units, including the grant or vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, the subsequent sale of Shares acquired under the Plan, and the receipt of dividends, if any; and (b) do not commit to and are under no obligation to structure the terms of the Restricted Stock Units or any aspect of the Restricted Stock Units to reduce or eliminate Participant’s liability for Tax-Related Items, or achieve any particular tax result. Participant also understands that Applicable Laws may require varying Share or Restricted Stock Unit valuation methods for purposes of calculating Tax-Related Items, and the Company assumes no responsibility or liability in relation to any such valuation or for any calculation or reporting of income or Tax-Related Items that may be required of Participant under Applicable Laws. Further, if Participant has become subject to tax in more than one jurisdiction between the date of grant and the date of any relevant taxable event, Participant acknowledges that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for Tax-Related Items in more than one jurisdiction. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, no certificate representing the Shares will be issued to Participant, unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) will have been made by Participant with respect to the payment of any Tax-Related Items which the Company determines must be withheld with respect to such Shares.

 

As a condition to the grant and vesting of the Restricted Stock Units and as set forth in Section 16 of the Plan, Participant hereby agrees to make adequate provision for the satisfaction of (and will indemnify the Company and any Affiliate for) any Tax-Related Items. In this regard, Participant authorizes the Company and/or the Employer or their respective agents, at their discretion, to satisfy the obligations with regard to all Tax-Related Items by one or a combination of the following: (i) by receipt of a cash payment from Participant; (ii) by withholding from Participant’s wages or other cash compensation paid to Participant by the Company or the Employer; (iii) withholding Shares that otherwise would be issued to Participant upon payment of the vested Restricted Stock Units (provided that amounts withheld shall not exceed the amount necessary to satisfy the Company’s minimum tax withholding obligations); (iv) by withholding from proceeds of the sale of Shares acquired upon payment of the vested Restricted Stock Units through a voluntary sale or a mandatory sale arranged by the Company (on Participant’s behalf pursuant to this authorization), or (v) by any other arrangement approved by the Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Participant is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, Participant’s obligations with respect to all Tax-Related Items shall be satisfied by the Company withholding Shares that otherwise would be issued to Participant upon payment of the vested Restricted Stock Units; provided that amounts withheld shall not exceed the amount necessary to satisfy the Company’s minimum tax withholding obligations. Any Shares withheld pursuant to this Section 7 shall be valued based on the Fair Market Value as of the date the withholding obligations are satisfied. Furthermore, Participant agrees to pay the Company, any Affiliate or Employer any Tax-Related Items that cannot be satisfied by the foregoing methods.

 

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8. Rights as Stockholder. Neither Participant nor any person claiming under or through Participant will have any of the rights or privileges of a stockholder of the Company in respect of any Shares deliverable hereunder unless and until such Shares will have been issued (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). After such issuance, Participant will have all the rights of a stockholder of the Company with respect to voting such Shares and receipt of dividends and distributions on such Shares, but prior to such issuance, Participant will not have any rights to dividends and/or distributions on such Shares.

 

9. No Guarantee of Continued Service or Grants. PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF THE RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF SHALL OCCUR ONLY BY CONTINUING AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE EMPLOYER OR CONTRACTING ENTITY (AS APPLICABLE) AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED THIS AWARD OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS OR ACQUIRING SHARES HEREUNDER. PARTICIPANT FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AWARD AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT ALL, AND WILL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH PARTICIPANT’S RIGHT OR THE RIGHT OF THE EMPLOYER OR THE COMPANY (OR ANY AFFILIATE) TO TERMINATE PARTICIPANT’S RELATIONSHIP AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE, SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAWS.

 

Participant also acknowledges and agrees that: (a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time; (b) the grant of Restricted Stock Units is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Restricted Stock Units, or benefits in lieu of Restricted Stock Units even if Restricted Stock Units have been granted repeatedly in the past; (c) all decisions with respect to future awards of Restricted Stock Units, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company; (d) Participant’s participation in the Plan is voluntary; (e) the Restricted Stock Units and the Shares subject to the Restricted Stock Units are extraordinary items that do not constitute regular compensation for services rendered to the Company or the Employer, and that are outside the scope of Participant’s employment contract, if any; (f) the Restricted Stock Units and the Shares subject to the Restricted Stock Units are not intended to replace any pension rights or compensation; (g) the Restricted Stock Units and the Shares subject to the Restricted Stock Units are not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purposes, including, but not limited to, calculating any severance, resignation, termination, redundancy, dismissal, or end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement or welfare benefits or similar payments and in no event should be considered as compensation for, or relating in any way to, past services for the Company or the Employer, subject to Applicable Laws.

 

10. Address for Notices. Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Award Agreement will be addressed to the Company, in care of its Secretary at Momentus Inc., 3901 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95134, or at such other address as the Company may hereafter designate in writing.

 

11. Grant is Not Transferable. Except to the limited extent provided in Section 6, this grant and the rights and privileges conferred hereby may not be transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated in any way (whether by operation of Applicable Laws or otherwise) and may not be subject to sale under execution, attachment or similar process. Upon any attempt to transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of this grant, or any right or privilege conferred hereby, or upon any attempted sale under any execution, attachment or similar process, this grant and the rights and privileges conferred hereby immediately will become null and void.

 

12. Binding Agreement. Subject to the limitation on the transferability of this grant contained herein, this Award Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, legatees, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

 

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13. Additional Conditions to Issuance of Stock and Imposition of Other Requirements. If at any time the Company will determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration, qualification or compliance of the Shares upon or with any securities exchange or under any Applicable Laws, the tax code and related regulations or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory authority is necessary or desirable as a condition to the issuance of Shares to Participant (or his or her estate) hereunder, such issuance will not occur unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, compliance, consent or approval will have been completed, effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company. Where the Company determines that the delivery of any Shares will violate any state, federal or foreign securities or exchange laws or other Applicable Laws, the Company will defer delivery until the earliest date at which the Company reasonably anticipates that the delivery of Shares will no longer cause such violation. The Company will make all reasonable efforts to meet the requirements of any Applicable Laws or securities exchange and to obtain any such consent or approval of any such governmental authority or securities exchange. The Company shall not be obligated to issue any Shares pursuant to the Restricted Stock Units at any time if the issuance of Shares violates or is not in compliance with any Applicable Laws.

 

Furthermore, the Company reserves the right to impose other requirements on Participant’s participation in the Plan, on the Restricted Stock Units and on any Shares acquired under the Plan, to the extent the Company determines it is necessary or advisable in order to comply with any Applicable Laws or facilitate the administration of the Plan, and to require Participant to sign any additional agreements or undertakings that may be necessary to accomplish the foregoing. Furthermore, Participant understands that the Applicable Laws of the country in which he or she is resident at the time of grant or vesting of the Restricted Stock Units or the holding or disposition of Shares (including any rules or regulations governing securities, foreign exchange, tax, labor or other matters) may restrict or prevent the issuance of Shares or may subject Participant to additional procedural or regulatory requirements he or she is solely responsible for and will have to independently fulfill in relation to the Restricted Stock Units or the Shares. [Notwithstanding any provision herein, the Restricted Stock Units and any Shares shall be subject to any special terms and conditions or disclosures as set forth in any addendum for Participant’s country (the “Country-Specific Addendum,” which forms part this Award Agreement)]. Participant also understands and agrees that if he or she works, resides, moves to, or otherwise is or becomes subject to Applicable Laws or company policies of another jurisdiction at any time, certain country-specific notices, disclaimers and/or terms and conditions may apply to him or her as from the date of grant, unless otherwise determined by the Company in its sole discretion.

 

14. Lock-Up Agreement. If so requested by the Company in connection with a transaction pursuant to which the securities of the Company will be exchanged for securities of a company (or any successor or parent thereof) registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), including, without limitation, through a transaction with a publicly-listed blank check company then registered under the Securities Act (a “SPAC Transaction”), Participant hereby agrees (i) not to offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any securities of the Company however and whenever acquired without the prior written consent of the Company for a period of 180 days from the date of the consummation of the transaction in which the securities of the Company became a Listed Security (as defined below), and (ii) to execute an agreement reflecting the foregoing. For purposes of this Section, “Listed Security” means any security of the Company that is listed or approved for listing on a national securities exchange (including, without limitation, pursuant to a SPAC Transaction) or designated or approved for designation as a national market system security on an interdealer quotation system by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (or any successor thereto).

 

15. Plan Governs. This Award Agreement is subject to all terms and provisions of the Plan. If there is a conflict between one or more provisions of this Award Agreement and one or more provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will govern. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement and the Notice of Grant will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

 

16. Administrator Authority. The Administrator will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Award Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules (including, but not limited to, the determination regarding whether any Restricted Stock Units have vested). All actions taken, and all interpretations and determinations made, by the Administrator in good faith will be final and binding upon Participant, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Administrator will be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Award Agreement.

 

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17. Electronic Delivery and Acceptance. By accepting this Award, Participant agrees to participate in the Plan through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party designated by the Company, and consents to the electronic delivery of the Award Agreement, the Plan, account statements, Plan prospectuses, and all other documents, communications, or information related to the Award and current or future participation in the Plan. Electronic delivery may include the delivery of a link to the Company intranet or the internet site of a third party involved in administering the Plan, the delivery of the document via e-mail, or such other delivery determined at the Company’s discretion. Participant may receive from the Company a paper copy of any documents delivered electronically at no cost if Participant contacts the Company by telephone, through a postal service, or electronic mail to Stock Administration.

 

18. Translation. If Participant has received this Award Agreement, including appendices, or any other document related to the Plan translated into a language other than English, and the meaning of the translated version is different than the English version, the English version will control.

 

19. Captions. Captions provided herein are for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Award Agreement.

 

20. Agreement Severable. If any provision in this Award Agreement will be held invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be severable from, and such invalidity or unenforceability will not be construed to have any effect on, the remaining provisions of this Award Agreement.

 

21. Modifications to the Award Agreement. This Award Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. Participant expressly warrants that he or she is not accepting this Award Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Award Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or this Award Agreement, the Company reserves the right to revise this Award Agreement as it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion and without the consent of Participant, to comply with Code Section 409A or to otherwise avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition under Code Section 409A in connection to this Award of Restricted Stock Units.

 

22. Data Privacy. Participant hereby explicitly and unambiguously consents to the collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of Participant’s Personal Data (as described below) by and among, as applicable, the Company, any Affiliate or third parties as may be selected by the Company for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing Participant’s participation in the Plan. Participant understands that refusal or withdrawal of consent will affect Participant’s ability to participate in the Plan; without providing consent, Participant will not be able to participate in the Plan or realize benefits (if any) from the Restricted Stock Units.

 

Participant understands that the Company and any Affiliate or designated third parties may hold personal information about Participant, including, but not limited to, Participant’s name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any shares of stock or directorships held in the Company or any Affiliate, details of all Restricted Stock Units or any other entitlement to Shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, unvested or outstanding in Participant’s favor (“Personal Data”). Participant understands that Personal Data may be transferred to any Affiliate or third parties assisting in the implementation, administration and management of the Plan, that these recipients may be located in the United States, Participant’s country (if different than the United States), or elsewhere, and that the recipient’s country may have different data privacy laws and protections than Participant’s country. In particular, the Company may transfer Personal Data to the broker or stock plan administrator assisting with the Plan, to its legal counsel and tax/accounting advisor, and to the Affiliate or entity that is Participant’s employer and its payroll provider.

 

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Participant should also refer to any data privacy policy implemented by the Company (which will be available to Participant separately and may be updated from time to time) for more information regarding the collection, use, storage, and transfer of Participant’s Personal Data.

 

23. Foreign Exchange Fluctuations and Restrictions. Participant understands and agrees that the future value of the underlying Shares is unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty and may decrease. Participant also understands that neither the Company, nor any Affiliate is responsible for any foreign exchange fluctuation between local currency and the United States Dollar or the selection by the Company or any Affiliate in its sole discretion of an applicable foreign currency exchange rate that may affect the value of the Restricted Stock Units or Shares received (or the calculation of income or Tax-Related Items thereunder). Participant understands and agrees that any cross-border remittance made to transfer proceeds received upon the sale of Shares must be made through a locally authorized financial institution or registered foreign exchange agency and may require the Participant to provide such entity with certain information regarding the transaction.

 

24. Amendment, Suspension or Termination of the Plan. By accepting this Award, Participant expressly warrants that he or she has received an Award of Restricted Stock Units under the Plan, and has received, read and understood a description of the Plan. Participant understands that the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time.

 

25. Governing Law and Venue. This Award Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof. For purposes of litigating any dispute that arises under this Award of Restricted Stock Units or this Award Agreement, the parties hereby submit to and consent to the jurisdiction of the State of Delaware, and agree that such litigation will be conducted in the courts of New Castle County, Delaware, or the federal courts for the United States for the District of Delaware, and no other courts.

 

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[Country-Specific Addendum

 

This Addendum includes additional country-specific notices, disclaimers, and/or terms and conditions that apply to individuals who are working or residing in the countries listed below, if any, and that may be material to Participant’s participation in the Plan. Such notices, disclaimers, and/or terms and conditions may also apply, as from the date of grant, if Participant moves to or otherwise is or becomes subject to the Applicable Laws or company policies of any country listed below. However, because foreign exchange regulations and other local laws are subject to frequent change, Participant is advised to seek advice from his or her own personal legal and tax advisor prior to accepting the Restricted Stock Units or holding or selling Shares acquired under the Plan. The Company is not providing any tax, legal or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding Participant’s acceptance of the Restricted Stock Units or participation in the Plan. Unless otherwise noted below, capitalized terms shall have the same meaning assigned to them under the Plan, the Notice of Restricted Stock Unit Grant and the Award Agreement. This Addendum forms part of the Award Agreement and should be read in conjunction with the Award Agreement and the Plan.

 

Securities Law Notice: Unless otherwise noted, neither the Company nor the Shares are registered with any local stock exchange or under the control of any local securities regulator outside the United States. The Award Agreement (of which this Addendum is a part), the Notice of Restricted Stock Unit Grant, the Plan, and any other communications or materials that you may receive regarding participation in the Plan do not constitute advertising or an offering of securities outside the United States, and the issuance of securities described in any Plan-related documents is not intended for public offering or circulation in your jurisdiction.]

 

 

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Exhibit 10.8

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

2021 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

 

1. General; Purpose.

 

(a) Purpose. The Plan provides a means by which Eligible Employees and/or Eligible Service Providers of either the Company or a Designated Company may be given an opportunity to purchase shares of Common Stock. The Plan permits the Company to grant a series of Purchase Rights to Eligible Employees and/or Eligible Service Providers. The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain and assist its Related Corporations or Affiliates in retaining the services of such Eligible Employees and Eligible Service Providers, to secure and retain the services of new Eligible Employees and Eligible Service Providers and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and its Related Corporations and Affiliates.

 

(b) Qualified and Non-Qualified Offerings Permitted. The Plan includes two components: a 423 Component and a Non-423 Component. The Company intends (but makes no undertaking or representation to maintain) the 423 Component to qualify as an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The provisions of the 423 Component, accordingly, will be construed in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code, including without limitation, to extend and limit Plan participation in a uniform and non-discriminating basis. In addition, this Plan authorizes grants of Purchase Rights under the Non-423 Component that do not meet the requirements of an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan or determined by the Board, the Non-423 Component will operate and be administered in the same manner as the 423 Component. In addition, the Company may make separate Offerings which vary in terms (provided that such terms are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan or the requirements of an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, except in each case with respect to a Non-423 Component), and the Company will designate which Designated Company is participating in each separate Offering and if any Eligible Service Providers will be eligible to participate in a separate Offering. Eligible Employees will be able to participate in the 423 Component or Non-423 Component of the Plan. Eligible Service Providers will only be able to participate in the Non-423 Component of the Plan.

 

2. Administration.

 

(a) The Board will administer the Plan unless and until the Board delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, as provided in Section 2(c).

 

(b) The Board will have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

 

(i) To determine how and when Purchase Rights will be granted and the provisions of each Offering (which need not be identical).

 

(ii) To designate from time to time which Related Corporations will be eligible to participate in the Plan as Designated 423 Corporations or as Designated Non-423 Corporations, which Affiliates will be eligible to participate in the Plan as Designated Non-423 Corporations, and which Designated Companies will participate in each separate Offering (to the extent that the Company makes separate Offerings).

 

 

 

 

(iii) To designate from time to time which persons will be eligible to participate in the Non-423 Component of the Plan as Eligible Service Providers and which Eligible Service Providers will participate in each separate Offering (to the extent that the Company makes separate Offerings).

 

(iv) To construe and interpret the Plan and Purchase Rights, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a manner and to the extent it deems necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective.

 

(v) To settle all controversies regarding the Plan and Purchase Rights granted under the Plan.

 

(vi) To suspend or terminate the Plan at any time as provided in Section 12.

 

(vii) To amend the Plan at any time as provided in Section 12.

 

(viii) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as it deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company, its Related Corporations, and Affiliates and to carry out the intent that the 423 Component be treated as an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

 

(ix) To adopt such rules, procedures and sub-plans relating to the operation and administration of the Plan as are necessary or appropriate under Applicable Laws to permit or facilitate participation in the Plan by Employees or Eligible Service Providers who are foreign nationals or employed or providing services or located or otherwise subject to the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States. Without limiting the generality of, but consistent with, the foregoing, the Board specifically is authorized to adopt rules, procedures, and sub-plans, which, for purposes of the Non-423 Component, may be beyond the scope of Section 423 of the Code, regarding, without limitation, eligibility to participate in the Plan, handling and making of Contributions, establishment of bank or trust accounts to hold Contributions, payment of interest, conversion of local currency, obligations to pay payroll tax, determination of beneficiary designation requirements, withholding procedures and handling of share issuances, any of which may vary according to Applicable Laws.

 

(c) The Board may delegate some or all of the administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees. If administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee will have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board that have been delegated to the Committee, including the power to delegate to a subcommittee any of the administrative powers the Committee is authorized to exercise (and references in this Plan to the Board will thereafter be to the Committee or subcommittee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board and Applicable Laws. The Board may retain the authority to concurrently administer the Plan with the Committee and may, at any time, revest in the Board some or all of the powers previously delegated. Whether or not the Board has delegated administration of the Plan to a Committee, the Board will have the final power to determine all questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the administration of the Plan.

 

(d) All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the Board in good faith will not be subject to review by any person and will be final, binding and conclusive on all persons.

 

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3. Shares of Common Stock Subject to the Plan.

 

(a) Number of Shares Available; Automatic Increases. Subject to the provisions of Section 11(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued under the Plan will not exceed1,595,445 shares of Common Stock, plus the number of shares of Common Stock that are automatically added on the first day of each Fiscal Year beginning with the 2022 Fiscal Year and ending on (and including) the first day of the 2031 Fiscal Year, in each case, in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) half a percent (0.5%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the last day of the calendar month prior to the date of such automatic increase, and (ii) 1,595,445 shares of Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may act prior to the first day of any fiscal year to provide that there will be no increase in the share reserve for such fiscal year or that the increase in the share reserve for such fiscal year will be a lesser number of shares of Common Stock than would otherwise occur pursuant to the preceding sentence.

 

(b) Share Recycling. If any Purchase Right granted under the Plan terminates without having been exercised in full, the shares of Common Stock not purchased under such Purchase Right will again become available for issuance under the Plan.

 

(c) Source of Shares. The stock purchasable under the Plan will be shares of authorized but unissued or reacquired Common Stock, including shares repurchased by the Company on the open market.

 

4. Grant of Purchase Rights; Offering.

 

(a) Offerings. The Board may from time to time grant or provide for the grant of Purchase Rights to Eligible Employees and/or Eligible Service Providers under an Offering (consisting of one or more Purchase Periods) on an Offering Date or Offering Dates selected by the Board. Each Offering will be in such form and will contain such terms and conditions as the Board will deem appropriate, and, with respect to the 423 Component, will comply with the requirement of Section 423(b)(5) of the Code that all Employees granted Purchase Rights will have the same rights and privileges. The terms and conditions of an Offering will be incorporated by reference into the Plan and treated as part of the Plan. The provisions of separate Offerings need not be identical, but each Offering will include (through incorporation of the provisions of this Plan by reference in the Offering Document or otherwise) the period during which the Offering will be effective, which period will not exceed 27 months beginning with the Offering Date, and the substance of the provisions contained in Sections 5 through 8, inclusive.

 

(b) More than One Purchase Right. If a Participant has more than one Purchase Right outstanding under the Plan, unless he or she otherwise indicates in forms delivered to the Company: (i) each form will apply to all of his or her Purchase Rights under the Plan, and (ii) a Purchase Right with a lower exercise price (or an earlier-granted Purchase Right, if different Purchase Rights have identical exercise prices) will be exercised to the fullest possible extent before a Purchase Right with a higher exercise price (or a later-granted Purchase Right if different Purchase Rights have identical exercise prices) will be exercised.

 

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(c) Restart Provision Permitted. To the extent more than one Purchase Period is provided during an Offering, the Board will have the discretion to structure such Offering so that if the Fair Market Value of a Share on the first Trading Day of a new Purchase Period within that Offering is less than or equal to the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Offering Date for that Offering, then (i) that Offering will terminate as of the Purchase Date specified with respect to such Purchase Period, after giving effect to such purchase on the applicable Purchase Date, (ii) all Contribution amounts not applied to the purchase of Shares after giving effect to such purchase on the applicable Purchase Date shall be refunded to the applicable Participants and (iii) the Participants in such terminated Offering will be automatically enrolled in a new Offering beginning on the first Trading Day of such new Offering Period and Purchase Period.

 

5. Eligibility.

 

(a) General. Purchase Rights may be granted only to Employees of the Company or, as the Board may designate in accordance with Section 2(b), to Employees of a Related Corporation or, solely with respect to the Non-423 Component, Employees of an Affiliate or Eligible Service Providers.

 

(b) Grant of Purchase Rights in Ongoing Offering. The Board may provide that Employees will not be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights under the Plan if, on the Offering Date, the Employee (i) has not completed at least two (2) years of service since the Employee’s last hire date (or such lesser period of time as may be determined by the Board in its discretion), (ii) customarily works not more than twenty (20) hours per week (or such lesser period of time as may be determined by the Board in its discretion), (iii) customarily works not more than five (5) months per calendar year (or such lesser period of time as may be determined by the Board in its discretion), (iv) is a highly compensated employee within the meaning of Section 423(b)(4)(D) of the Code, or (v) has not satisfied such other criteria as the Board may determine consistent with Section 423 of the Code. Unless otherwise determined by the Board for any Offering Period, an Employee will not be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights unless, on the Offering Date, the Employee customarily works more than twenty (20) hours per week and more than five (5) months per calendar year.

 

(c) 5% Stockholders Excluded. No Employee will be eligible for the grant of any Purchase Rights if, immediately after any such Purchase Rights are granted, such Employee owns stock possessing five (5) percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Related Corporation. For purposes of this Section 5(c), the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code will apply in determining the stock ownership of any Employee, and stock which such Employee may purchase under all outstanding Purchase Rights and options will be treated as stock owned by such Employee.

 

(d) $25,000 Limit. As specified by Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, an Eligible Employee may be granted Purchase Rights only if such Purchase Rights, together with any other rights granted under all Employee Stock Purchase Plans of the Company and any Related Corporations, do not permit such Eligible Employee’s rights to purchase stock of the Company or any Related Corporation to accrue at a rate which, when aggregated, exceeds U.S. $25,000 of Fair Market Value of such stock (determined at the time such rights are granted, and which, with respect to the Plan, will be determined as of their respective Offering Dates) for each calendar year in which such rights are outstanding at any time.

 

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(e) Service Requirement. An Eligible Service Provider will not be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights unless the Eligible Service Provider is providing bonafide services to the Company or a Designated Company on the applicable Offering Date.

 

(f) Non-423 Component Offerings. Notwithstanding anything set forth herein except for Section 5(d) above, the Board may establish additional eligibility requirements, or fewer eligibility requirements, for Employees and/or Eligible Service Providers with respect to Offerings made under the Non-423 Component even if such requirements are not consistent with Section 423 of the Code.

 

6. Purchase Rights; Purchase Price.

 

(a) Grant and Maximum Contribution Rate. On each Offering Date, each Eligible Employee or Eligible Service Provider, pursuant to an Offering made under the Plan, will be granted a Purchase Right to purchase up to that number of shares of Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share) purchasable either with a percentage or with a maximum dollar amount, as designated by the Board; provided however, that in the case of Eligible Employees, such percentage or maximum dollar amount will in either case not exceed 15% of such Employee’s earnings (as defined by the Board in each Offering) during the period that begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board determines for a particular Offering) and ends on the date stated in the Offering, which date will be no later than the end of the Offering, unless otherwise provided for in an Offering.

 

(b) Purchase Dates. The Board will establish one or more Purchase Dates during an Offering on which Purchase Rights granted for that Offering will be exercised and shares of Common Stock will be purchased in accordance with such Offering.

 

(c) Other Purchase Limitations. In connection with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board may specify (i) a maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased by any Participant on any Purchase Date during such Offering, (ii) a maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased by all Participants pursuant to such Offering, and (iii) a maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased by all Participants on any Purchase Date under the Offering. If the aggregate purchase of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of Purchase Rights granted under the Offering would exceed any such maximum aggregate number, then, in the absence of any Board action otherwise, a pro rata (based on each Participant’s accumulated Contributions) allocation of the shares of Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share) available will be made in as nearly a uniform manner as will be practicable and equitable.

 

(d) Purchase Price. The purchase price of shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to Purchase Rights will be not less than the lesser of:

 

(i) an amount equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of the shares of Common Stock on the Offering Date; or

 

(ii) an amount equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of the shares of Common Stock on the applicable Purchase Date.

 

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7. Participation; Withdrawal; Termination.

 

(a) Enrollment. An Eligible Employee may elect to authorize payroll deductions as the means of making Contributions by completing and delivering to the Company, within the time specified by the Company, an enrollment form provided by the Company or any third party designated by the Company (each, a “Company Designee”). The enrollment form will specify the amount of Contributions not to exceed the maximum amount specified by the Board. Each Participant’s Contributions will be credited to a bookkeeping account for such Participant under the Plan and will be deposited with the general funds of the Company except where Applicable Laws require that Contributions be deposited with a Company Designee or otherwise be segregated.

 

(b) Contributions. If permitted in the Offering, a Participant may begin Contributions with the first payroll or payment date occurring on or after the Offering Date (or, in the case of a payroll date or payment date that occurs after the end of the prior Offering but before the Offering Date of the next new Offering, Contributions from such payroll or payment will be included in the new Offering) or on such other date as set forth in the Offering. If permitted in the Offering, a Participant may thereafter reduce (including to zero) or increase his or her Contributions. If required under Applicable Laws or if specifically provided in the Offering, in addition to or instead of making Contributions by payroll deductions, a Participant may make Contributions through a payment by cash, check, or wire transfer prior to a Purchase Date, in a manner directed by the Company or a Company Designee.

 

(c) Withdrawals. During an Offering, a Participant may cease making Contributions and withdraw from the Offering by delivering to the Company or a Company Designee a withdrawal form provided by the Company. The Company may impose a deadline before a Purchase Date for withdrawing. On such withdrawal, such Participant’s Purchase Right in that Offering will immediately terminate and the Company will distribute as soon as practicable to such Participant all of his or her accumulated but unused Contributions without interest and such Participant’s Purchase Right in that Offering will then terminate. A Participant’s withdrawal from that Offering will have no effect on his or her eligibility to participate in any other Offerings under the Plan, but such Participant will be required to deliver a new enrollment form to participate in subsequent Offerings.

 

(d) Termination of Eligibility. Purchase Rights granted pursuant to any Offering under the Plan will terminate immediately if the Participant either (i) is no longer an Eligible Employee or Eligible Service Provider for any reason or for no reason, or (ii) is otherwise no longer eligible to participate. The Company shall have the exclusive discretion to determine when Participant is no longer actively providing services and the date of the termination of employment or service for purposes of the Plan. As soon as practicable, the Company will distribute to such individual all of his or her accumulated but unused Contributions without interest.

 

(e) Leave of Absence. For purposes of this Section 7, an Employee will not be deemed to have terminated employment or failed to remain in the continuous employ of the Company or of a Designated Company in the case of sick leave, military leave, or any other leave of absence approved by the Company; provided that such leave is for a period of not more than three (3) months or reemployment upon the expiration of such leave is guaranteed by contract or statute. The Company will have sole discretion to determine whether a Participant has terminated employment and the effective date on which the Participant terminated employment, regardless of any notice period or garden leave required under local law.

 

(f) Transfers. Unless otherwise determined by the Board, a Participant whose employment (or in the case of Eligible Service Providers, service) transfers or whose employment (or in the case of Eligible Service Providers, service) terminates with an immediate rehire (or in the case of Eligible Service Providers, reengagement) with no break in employment (or in the case of Eligible Service Providers, service) by or between the Company and a Designated Company or between Designated Companies will not be treated as having terminated employment (or in the case of Eligible Service Providers, service) for purposes of participating in the Plan or an Offering; however, if a Participant transfers from an Offering under the 423 Component to an Offering under the Non-423 Component, the exercise of the Participant’s Purchase Right will be qualified under the 423 Component only to the extent such exercise complies with Section 423 of the Code. If a Participant transfers from an Offering under the Non-423 Component to an Offering under the 423 Component, the exercise of the Purchase Right will remain non-qualified under the Non-423 Component. In the event that a Participant’s Purchase Right is terminated under the Plan, the Company will distribute as soon as practicable to such individual all of his or her accumulated but unused Contributions.

 

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(g) No Transfers of Purchase Rights. During a Participant’s lifetime, Purchase Rights will be exercisable only by such Participant. Purchase Rights are not transferable by a Participant, except by will, by the laws of descent and distribution, or, if permitted by the Company, by a beneficiary designation as described in Section 10.

 

(h) No Interest. Unless otherwise specified in the Offering or required by Applicable Law, the Company will have no obligation to pay interest on Contributions.

 

8. Exercise of Purchase Rights.

 

(a) On each Purchase Date, each Participant’s accumulated Contributions will be applied to the purchase of shares of Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share), up to the maximum number of shares of Common Stock permitted by the Plan and the applicable Offering, at the purchase price specified in the Offering. No fractional shares will be issued unless specifically provided for in the Offering.

 

(b) Unless otherwise provided in the Offering, if any amount of accumulated Contributions remains in a Participant’s account after the purchase of shares of Common Stock on the final Purchase Date in an Offering, then such remaining amount will roll over to the next Offering.

 

(c) No Purchase Rights may be exercised to any extent unless the shares of Common Stock to be issued on such exercise under the Plan are covered by an effective registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act and the Plan is in material compliance with all Applicable Laws. If on a Purchase Date the shares of Common Stock are not so registered or the Plan is not in such compliance, no Purchase Rights will be exercised on such Purchase Date, and the Purchase Date will be delayed until the shares of Common Stock are subject to such an effective registration statement and the Plan is in material compliance, except that the Purchase Date will in no event be more than three (3) months from the original Purchase Date. If, on the Purchase Date, as delayed to the maximum extent permissible, the shares of Common Stock are not registered and the Plan is not in material compliance with all Applicable Laws, as determined by the Company in its sole discretion, no Purchase Rights will be exercised and all accumulated but unused Contributions will be distributed as soon as practicable to the Participants without interest.

 

9. Covenants of the Company. The Company will seek to obtain from each U.S. federal or state, foreign or other regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to grant Purchase Rights and issue and sell shares of Common Stock thereunder unless the Company determines, in its sole discretion, that doing so would cause the Company to incur costs that are unreasonable. If, after commercially reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain the authority that counsel for the Company deems necessary for the grant of Purchase Rights or the lawful issuance and sale of Common Stock under the Plan, and at a commercially reasonable cost, the Company will be relieved from any liability for failure to grant Purchase Rights or to issue and sell Common Stock on exercise of such Purchase Rights.

 

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10. Designation of Beneficiary.

 

(a) The Company may, but is not obligated to, permit a Participant to submit a form designating a beneficiary who will receive any shares of Common Stock or Contributions from the Participant’s account under the Plan if the Participant dies before such shares or Contributions are delivered to the Participant. The Company may, but is not obligated to, permit the Participant to change such designation of beneficiary. Any such designation or change must be on a form approved by the Company or as approved by the Company for use by a Company Designee.

 

(b) If a Participant dies, in the absence of a valid beneficiary designation, the Company will deliver any shares of Common Stock and Contributions to the executor or administrator of the estate of the Participant. If no executor or administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the Company, in its sole discretion, may deliver such shares of Common Stock and Contributions, without interest, to the Participant’s spouse, dependents or relatives, or if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the Company, then to such other person as the Company may designate.

 

11. Capitalization Adjustments; Dissolution or Liquidation; Corporate Transactions.

 

(a) Capitalization Adjustment. In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board will appropriately and proportionately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Plan pursuant to Section 3(a), (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities by which the share reserve is to increase automatically each year pursuant to Section 3(a), (iii) the class(es) and number of securities subject to, and the purchase price applicable to outstanding Offerings and Purchase Rights, and (iv) the class(es) and number of securities that are the subject of the purchase limits under each ongoing Offering. The Board will make these adjustments, and its determination will be final, binding, and conclusive.

 

(b) Dissolution or Liquidation. In the event of a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Board will shorten any Offering then in progress by setting a New Purchase Date prior to the consummation of such proposed dissolution or liquidation. The Board will notify each Participant in writing, prior to the New Purchase Date that the Purchase Date for the Participant’s Purchase Rights has been changed to the New Purchase Date and that such Purchase Rights will be automatically exercised on the New Purchase Date, unless prior to such date the Participant has withdrawn from the Offering as provided in Section 7.

 

(c) Corporate Transaction. In the event of a Corporate Transaction, then: (i) any surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporation’s parent company) may assume or continue outstanding Purchase Rights or may substitute similar rights (including a right to acquire the same consideration paid to the stockholders in the Corporate Transaction) for outstanding Purchase Rights, or (ii) if any surviving or acquiring corporation (or its parent company) does not assume or continue such Purchase Rights or does not substitute similar rights for such Purchase Rights, then the Participants’ accumulated Contributions will be used to purchase shares of Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share) prior to the Corporate Transaction under the outstanding Purchase Rights (with such actual date to be determined by the Board in its sole discretion), and the Purchase Rights will terminate immediately after such purchase. The Board will notify each Participant in writing, prior to the New Purchase Date that the Purchase Date for the Participant’s Purchase Rights has been changed to the New Purchase Date and that such Purchase Rights will be automatically exercised on the New Purchase Date, unless prior to such date the Participant has withdrawn from the Offering as provided in Section 7.

 

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(d) Spin-Off. In the event of a spin-off or similar transaction involving the Company, the Board may take actions deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with an ongoing Offering and subject to compliance with Applicable Laws (including the assumption of Purchase Rights under an ongoing Offering by the spun-off company, or shortening an Offering and scheduling a new Purchase Date prior to the closing of such transaction). In the absence of any such action by the Board, a Participant in an ongoing Offering whose employer ceases to qualify as a Related Corporation as of the closing of a spin-off or similar transaction will be treated in the same manner as if the Participant had terminated employment (as provided in Section 7(d)).

 

12. Amendment, Termination or Suspension of the Plan.

 

(a) Plan Amendment. The Board may amend the Plan at any time in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable. However, except as provided in Section 11(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, stockholder approval will be required for any amendment of the Plan for which stockholder approval is required by Applicable Laws, including any amendment that either (i) increases the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the Plan, (ii) expands the class of individuals eligible to become Participants and receive Purchase Rights, (iii) materially increases the benefits accruing to Participants under the Plan or reduces the price at which shares of Common Stock may be purchased under the Plan, (iv) extends the term of the Plan, or (v) expands the types of awards available for issuance under the Plan, but in each of (i) through (v) above only to the extent stockholder approval is required by Applicable Laws.

 

(b) Suspension or Termination. The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. No Purchase Rights may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.

 

(c) No Impairment of Rights. Any benefits, privileges, entitlements, and obligations under any outstanding Purchase Rights granted before an amendment, suspension, or termination of the Plan will not be materially impaired by any such amendment, suspension, or termination except (i) with the consent of the person to whom such Purchase Rights were granted, (ii) as necessary to comply with any laws, listing requirements, or governmental regulations (including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 423 of the Code and the regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder relating to Employee Stock Purchase Plans) including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued or amended after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, or (iii) as necessary to obtain or maintain any special tax, listing, or regulatory treatment. To be clear, the Board may amend outstanding Purchase Rights without a Participant’s consent if such amendment is necessary to ensure that the Purchase Right or the 423 Component complies with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code.

 

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(d) Corrections and Administrative Procedures. Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, the Board will be entitled to: (i) permit Contributions in excess of the amount designated by a Participant in order to adjust for mistakes in the Company’s processing of properly completed Contribution elections; (ii) establish reasonable waiting and adjustment periods and/or accounting and crediting procedures to ensure that amounts applied toward the purchase of Common Stock for each Participant properly correspond with amounts withheld from the Participant’s Contributions; (iii) amend any outstanding Purchase Rights or clarify any ambiguities regarding the terms of any Offering to enable the Purchase Rights to qualify under and/or comply with Section 423 of the Code; and (iv) establish other limitations or procedures as the Board determines in its sole discretion advisable that are consistent with the Plan. The actions of the Board pursuant to this paragraph will not be considered to alter or impair any Purchase Rights granted under an Offering as they are part of the initial terms of each Offering and the Purchase Rights granted under each Offering.

 

13. Tax Matters.

 

(a) Section 409A of the Code. Purchase Rights granted under the 423 Component are intended to be exempt from the application of Section 409A of the Code under U.S. Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(5)(ii). Purchase Rights granted under the Non-423 Component to U.S. taxpayers are intended to be exempt from the application of Section 409A of the Code under the short-term deferral exception and any ambiguities will be construed and interpreted in accordance with such intent. Subject to Section 13(b) below, Purchase Rights granted to U.S. taxpayers under the Non-423 Component will be subject to such terms and conditions that will permit such Purchase Rights to satisfy the requirements of the short-term deferral exception available under Section 409A of the Code, including the requirement that the shares subject to a Purchase Right be delivered within the short-term deferral period. Subject to Section 13(b) below, in the case of a Participant who would otherwise be subject to Section 409A of the Code, to the extent the Board determines that a Purchase Right or the exercise, payment, settlement, or deferral thereof is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Purchase Right will be granted, exercised, paid, settled, or deferred in a manner that will comply with Section 409A of the Code, including U.S. Department of Treasury regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder, including, without limitation, any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued after the adoption of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will have no liability to a Participant or any other party if the Purchase Right that is intended to be exempt from or compliant with Section 409A of the Code is not so exempt or compliant or for any action taken by the Board with respect thereto.

 

(b) No Guarantee of Tax Treatment. Although the Company may endeavor to (i) qualify a Purchase Right for special tax treatment under the laws of the United States or jurisdictions outside of the United States, or (ii) avoid adverse tax treatment (e.g., under Section 409A of the Code), the Company makes no representation to that effect and expressly disavows any covenant to maintain special or to avoid unfavorable tax treatment, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Plan, including Section 13(a) above. The Company will be unconstrained in its corporate activities without regard to the potential negative tax impact on Participants under the Plan.

 

14. Tax Withholding. The Participant will make adequate provision to satisfy the Tax-Related Items withholding obligations, if any, of the Company and/or the applicable Designated Company which arise with respect to Participant’s participation in the Plan or upon the disposition of the shares of the Common Stock. The Company and/or the Designated Company may, but will not be obligated to, withhold from the Participant’s compensation or any other payments due the Participant the amount necessary to meet such withholding obligations, withholding a sufficient whole number of shares of Common Stock issued following exercise having an aggregate value sufficient to pay the Tax-Related Items or withhold from the proceeds of the sale of shares of Common Stock, either through a voluntary sale or a mandatory sale arranged by the Company or any other method of withholding that the Company and/or the Designated Company deems appropriate. The Company and/or the Designated Company will have the right to take such other action as may be necessary in the opinion of the Company or a Designated Company to satisfy withholding and/or reporting obligations for such Tax-Related Items. The Company shall not be required to issue any shares of Common Stock under the Plan until such obligations are satisfied.

 

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15. Effective Date of Plan. The Plan will become effective on the Effective Date. No Purchase Rights will be exercised unless and until the Plan has been approved by the stockholders of the Company, which approval must be within 12 months before or after the date the Plan is adopted (or, if required under Section 12(a) above, amended) by the Board.

 

16. Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

(a) Proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock pursuant to Purchase Rights will constitute general funds of the Company.

 

(b) A Participant will not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, shares of Common Stock subject to Purchase Rights unless and until the Participant’s shares of Common Stock acquired on exercise of Purchase Rights are recorded in the books of the Company (or its transfer agent).

 

(c) The Plan and Offering do not constitute an employment or service contract. Nothing in the Plan or in the Offering will in any way alter the at-will nature of a Participant’s employment, if applicable, or be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on the part of any Participant to continue his or her employment or service relationship with the Company, a Related Corporation, or an Affiliate, or on the part of the Company, a Related Corporation, or an Affiliate to continue the employment or service of a Participant.

 

(d) The provisions of the Plan will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without resort to that state’s conflicts of laws rules. For purposes of litigating any dispute that may arise directly or indirectly from the Plan or any Offering, the parties hereby submit and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the State of Delaware and agree that any such litigation shall be conducted only in the courts of Delaware or the federal courts of the United States located in Delaware and no other courts.

 

(e) If any particular provision of the Plan is found to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, such provision will not affect the other provisions of the Plan, but the Plan will be construed in all respects as if such invalid provision were omitted.

 

(f) If any provision of the Plan does not comply with Applicable Laws, such provision will be construed in such a manner as to comply with Applicable Laws.

 

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17. Definitions. As used in the Plan, the following definitions will apply to the capitalized terms indicated below:

 

(a) “423 Component” means the part of the Plan, which excludes the Non-423 Component, pursuant to which Purchase Rights that satisfy the requirements for an Employee Stock Purchase Plan may be granted to Eligible Employees.

 

(b) “Affiliate” means any entity, other than a Related Corporation, in which the Company has an equity or other ownership interest or that is directly or indirectly controlled by, controls, or is under common control with the Company, in all cases, as determined by the Board, whether now or hereafter existing.

 

(c) “Applicable Laws” means all applicable laws, rules, regulations and requirements, including, but not limited to, all applicable U.S. federal or state laws, rules and regulations, the rules and regulations of any stock exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted, and the applicable laws, rules and regulations of any other country or jurisdiction where Purchase Rights are, or will be, granted under the Plan or Participants reside or provide services to the Company or any Related Corporation or Affiliate, as such laws, rules, and regulations shall be in effect from time to time.

 

(d) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

(e) “Capitalization Adjustment” means any change that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Common Stock subject to the Plan or subject to any Purchase Right after the Effective Date without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, stock dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or other similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion of any convertible securities of the Company will not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment.

 

(f) “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any applicable regulations and guidance thereunder.

 

(g) “Committee” means a committee of one or more members of the Board to whom authority has been delegated by the Board in accordance with Section 2(c).

 

(h) “Common Stock” means the Class A common stock of the Company.

 

(i) “Company” means Momentus Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

(j) “Contributions” means the payroll deductions or other payments specifically provided for in the Offering that a Participant contributes to fund the exercise of a Purchase Right. A Participant may make additional payments into his or her account if specifically provided for in the Offering, and then only if the Participant has not already contributed the maximum permitted amount of payroll deductions and other payments during the Offering.

 

(k) “Corporate Transaction” means the consummation, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events:

 

(i) a transfer of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets;

 

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(ii) a merger, consolidation or other capital reorganization or business combination transaction of the Company with or into another corporation, entity or person; or

 

(iii) the consummation of a transaction, or series of related transactions, in which any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Company’s then outstanding capital stock.

 

(l) “Designated 423 Corporation” means any Related Corporation selected by the Board as participating in the 423 Component.

 

(m) “Designated Company” means any Designated Non-423 Corporation or Designated 423 Corporation, provided, however, that at any given time, a Related Corporation participating in the 423 Component will not be a Related Corporation participating in the Non-423 Component.

 

(n) “Designated Non-423 Corporation” means any Related Corporation or Affiliate selected by the Board as participating in the Non-423 Component.

 

(o) “Director” means a member of the Board.

 

(p) “Effective Date” means August 12, 2021.

 

(q) “Eligible Employee” means an Employee who meets the requirements set forth in the document(s) governing the Offering for eligibility to participate in the Offering, provided that such Employee also meets the requirements for eligibility to participate set forth in the Plan. For purposes of the Plan, the employment relationship will be treated as continuing intact while the Employee is on sick leave or other leave of absence approved by the Company or a Related Corporation or Affiliate that directly employs the Employee. Where the period of leave exceeds three (3) months and the Employee’s right to reemployment is not guaranteed either by statute or by contract, the employment relationship will be deemed to have terminated three (3) months and one (1) day following the commencement of such leave.

 

(r) “Eligible Service Provider” means a natural person other than an Employee or Director who (i) is designated by the Committee to be an “Eligible Service Provider,” (ii) provides bonafide services to the Company or a Related Corporation, (iii) is not a U.S. taxpayer and (iv) meets the requirements set forth in the document(s) governing the Offering for eligibility to participate in the Offering, provided that such person also meets the requirements for eligibility to participate set forth in the Plan.

 

(s) “Employee” means any person, including an Officer or Director, who is treated as an employee in the records of the Company or a Related Corporation or Affiliate. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, will not cause a Director to be considered an “Employee” for purposes of the Plan.

 

(t) “Employee Stock Purchase Plan” means a plan that grants Purchase Rights intended to be options issued under an “employee stock purchase plan,” as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code.

 

(u) “Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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(v) “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of the Common Stock determined as follows:

 

(i) If the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or a national market system, its Fair Market Value will be the closing sales price for such stock (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such exchange or system on the date of determination, as reported in such source as the Board deems reliable;

 

(ii) If the Common Stock is regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but selling prices are not reported, its Fair Market Value will be the mean of the closing bid and asked prices for the Common Stock on the date of determination, as reported in such source as the Board deems reliable; or

 

(iii) In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the Fair Market Value will be determined in good faith by the Board in compliance with Applicable Laws and in a manner that complies with Sections 409A of the Code.

 

(w) “Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company.

 

(x) “New Purchase Date” means a new Purchase Date set by shortening any Offering then in progress.

 

(y) “Non-423 Component” means the part of the Plan, which excludes the 423 Component, pursuant to which Purchase Rights that are not intended to satisfy the requirements for an Employee Stock Purchase Plan may be granted to Eligible Employees and Eligible Service Providers.

 

(z) “Offering” means the grant to Eligible Employees or Eligible Service Providers of Purchase Rights, with the exercise of those Purchase Rights automatically occurring at the end of one or more Purchase Periods. The terms and conditions of an Offering will generally be set forth in the “Offering Document” approved by the Board for that Offering.

 

(aa) “Offering Date” means a date selected by the Board for an Offering to commence.

 

(bb) “Offering Period” means a period with respect to which the right to purchase Common Stock may be granted under the Plan, as determined by the Board pursuant to the Plan.

 

(cc) “Officer” means a person who is an officer of the Company or a Related Corporation or Affiliate within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

(dd) “Participant” means an Eligible Employee or Eligible Service Provider who holds an outstanding Purchase Right.

 

(ee) “Plan” means this Momentus Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, including both the 423 Component and the Non-423 Component, as amended from time to time.

 

(ff) “Purchase Date” means one or more dates during an Offering selected by the Board on which Purchase Rights will be exercised and on which purchases of shares of Common Stock will be carried out in accordance with such Offering.

 

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(gg)“Purchase Period” means a period of time specified within an Offering, generally beginning on the Offering Date or on the first Trading Day following a Purchase Date, and ending on a Purchase Date. An Offering may consist of one or more Purchase Periods.

 

(hh) “Purchase Right” means an option to purchase shares of Common Stock granted pursuant to the Plan.

 

(ii) “Related Corporation” means any “parent corporation” or “subsidiary corporation” of the Company whether now or subsequently established, as those terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Code.

 

(jj) “Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(kk) “Tax-Related Items” means any income tax, social insurance, payroll tax, fringe benefit tax, payment on account or other tax-related items arising in relation to a Participant’s participation in the Plan and legally applicable to a Participant.

 

(ll) “Trading Day” means any day on which the exchange or market on which shares of Common Stock are listed is open for trading.

 

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Exhibit 10.9

 

Momentus Inc.

 

July 29, 2021

 

Dawn Harms

 

Re: AMENDED AND RESTATED OFFER LETTER

 

Dear Dawn:

 

This Amended and Restated Offer Letter (the “Agreement”) between you (referred to hereinafter as the “Executive”) and Momentus Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, sets forth the terms and conditions that shall govern Executive’s employment (referred to hereinafter as “Employment” or the “Employment Period”) with the Company or Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (“Parent”), which will be renamed “Momentus Inc.” following the Closing of the Transactions (as those terms are defined in the Merger Agreement (as defined below), and such date of the Closing, the “Closing Date), and shall be effective immediately upon execution (the “Effective Date”). As used herein, the term “Company” will be interpreted to include Parent or any successor thereto, if appropriate.

 

1. Duties and Scope of Employment.

 

(a) At-Will Employment. Executive’s Employment with the Company is for no specified period and constitutes “at will” employment. Except as otherwise set forth herein, Executive is free to terminate Employment at any time, with or without advance notice, and for any reason or for no reason. Similarly, the Company is free to terminate Executive’s Employment at any time, with or without advance notice, and with or without “Cause” (as defined below). Furthermore, although terms and conditions of Executive’s Employment with the Company may change over time, nothing shall change the at-will nature of Executive’s Employment.

 

(b) Position and Responsibilities. During the Employment Period, the Company agrees to employ Executive will in the position of Interim Chief Executive Officer until a new Chief Executive Officer commences employment with the Company. While Executive serves in the position of Interim Chief Executive Officer, Executive will report to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) or to such other Person as the Board subsequently may determine (“Executive’s Supervisor”). After the Company hires a new Chief Executive Officer, Executive will serve in the position of Chief Revenue Officer and will report to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Executive will be working out of the Company’s headquarters (whether in Santa Clara, California, or elsewhere). Executive will perform the duties and have the responsibilities and authority customarily performed and held by an employee in Executive’s position or as otherwise may be assigned or delegated to Executive by Executive’s Supervisor.

 

(c) Obligations to the Company. During the Employment Period, Executive shall perform Executive’s duties faithfully and to the best of Executive’s ability and will devote Executive’s full business efforts and time to the Company. During the Employment Period, without the prior written approval of Executive’s Supervisor, Executive shall not render services in any capacity to any other Person and shall not act as a sole proprietor, advisor or partner of any other Person or own more than five percent (5%) of the stock of any other corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive may (i) serve on civic or charitable boards or committees, deliver lectures, fulfill speaking engagements, teach at educational institutions, or manage personal investments without advance written consent of Executive’s Supervisor and (ii) serve on the board of directors of ManSat Limited, an Isle of Man company; provided that such activities do not individually or in the aggregate interfere with the performance of Executive’s duties under this Agreement or create a potential business or fiduciary conflict. Executive shall comply with the Company’s policies and rules, as they may be in effect from time to time during Executive’s Employment.

 

 

 

 

(d) No Conflicting Obligations. Executive represents and warrants to the Company that Executive is under no obligations or commitments, whether contractual or otherwise, that are inconsistent with Executive’s obligations under this Agreement or that would otherwise prohibit Executive from performing Executive’s duties with the Company. In connection with Executive’s Employment, Executive shall not use or disclose any trade secrets or other proprietary information or intellectual property in which Executive or any other Person has any right, title or interest and Executive represents and warrants to the Company that Executive’s Employment will not infringe or violate the rights of any other Person. Executive represents and warrants to the Company that Executive has returned all property and confidential information belonging to any prior employer.

 

2. Cash and Incentive Compensation.

 

(a) Base Salary. The Company shall pay Executive, as compensation for Executive’s services, a base salary at a gross annual rate of $350,000, less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll procedures. The annual compensation specified in this Section 2(a), together with any modifications in such compensation that the Company may make from time to time, is referred to in this Agreement as the “Base Salary.” Executive’s Base Salary will be subject to review and adjustments that will be made based upon the Company’s normal performance review practices. For the remainder of the 2021 calendar year, Executive’s Base Salary shall not be decreased below $350,000, but may be increased, and if the base salaries of other senior executives are being increased (in general), Executive’s Base Salary shall be increased in the same proportion. Effective as of the date of any change to Executive’s Base Salary, the Base Salary as so changed shall be considered the new Base Salary for all purposes of this Agreement.

 

(b) One-Time Bonus. The Company shall pay Executive a one-time bonus of $57,778 (the “Special Bonus”) on the first regularly scheduled payroll date following Executive’s execution of this Agreement, less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, subject to Executive’s continued employment through the payment date. The Special Bonus is intended to equal the amount that Executive would have been paid if the new Base Salary of $350,000 had commenced on January 1, 2021.

 

(c) Cash Incentive Bonus. Executive will be eligible to be considered for an annual cash incentive bonus (the “Cash Bonus”) each calendar year during the Employment Period based upon the achievement of certain objective or subjective criteria (collectively, the “Performance Goals”). In compliance with all relevant legal requirements and based on Executive’s level within the Company, the Performance Goals for Executive’s Cash Bonus for a particular year will be established by, and in the sole discretion of, the Board or any Compensation Committee of the Board (the “Committee”). The determinations of the Board or the Committee, as applicable, with respect to any such Cash Bonus or the Target Bonus Percentage (as defined below) shall be final and binding. Executive shall not earn a Cash Bonus unless Executive is employed by the Company on the date when such Cash Bonus is actually paid by the Company.

 

(i) 2021 Interim Chief Executive Officer Cash Bonus. For 2021, Executive shall be eligible to receive a Cash Bonus with respect to Executive’s Employment as Interim Chief Executive Officer, at a guaranteed amount of $700,000 (the “2021 CEO Cash Bonus”), less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, which will be paid to Executive on the first regularly scheduled payroll date of January 2022, subject to Executive’s continued Employment through the date such 2021 CEO Cash Bonus is paid by the Company.

 

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(ii) 2021 Chief Revenue Officer Cash Bonus. In addition to the 2021 CEO Cash Bonus, for 2021 Executive shall also be eligible to receive a Cash Bonus with respect to Executive’s Employment as Chief Revenue Officer of 50% of Executive’s Base Salary (the “Target Bonus Percentage”) (the “2021 CRO Cash Bonus”), less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, which will be paid to Executive on the first regularly scheduled payroll date of January 2022, subject to Executive’s continued Employment through the date such 2021 CRO Cash Bonus is paid by the Company.

 

(iii) 2021 and Subsequent Cash Incentive Bonuses. Executive’s Cash Bonus or Target Bonus Percentage (A) for 2021, may be adjusted up, and if the amounts of the 2021 annual cash bonuses of other senior executives are increased (in general), Executive’s 2021 CRO Cash Bonus shall be increased in the same proportion, and (B) for any year subsequent year to 2021, may be adjusted up or down, as determined in the sole discretion of the Board or the Committee.

 

(d) Equity Awards.

 

(i) The Company previously granted Executive the following stock options to purchase shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock (collectively, the “Options”) pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2018 Stock Plan (the “Prior Plan”): (A) on February 22, 2020, an option to purchase 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock and (B) on June 15, 2020, an option to purchase 15,625 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock. The Options will continue to be governed by the terms of their respective stock option and exercise agreements and the Prior Plan.

 

(ii) Subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of Parent (the “Parent Board”) or the Compensation Committee of Parent Board (the “Parent Committee”) and the Closing of the Transactions (as defined in the Merger Agreement), Executive will be granted an equity award (the “Equity Award”) with respect to shares (each, a “Share”) of Parent Class A Common Stock with a grant date fair value of $1,625,000 (the “Award Value”). Such Equity Award may, in the sole discretion of Parent Board or Parent Committee, be in the form of an award of a number of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) or an award of a number of Shares of restricted stock (the “Restricted Shares”). The Equity Award will be granted as soon as reasonably practicable following Parent’s filing of a Form S-8 registration statement registering the Shares subject to the Equity Award (such date, the “Grant Date”), subject to Executive’s continued employment through the Grant Date. The number of RSUs or Restricted Shares will be equal to the Award Value divided by the closing sales price per Share on the Grant Date, rounded down to the nearest whole Share. Unless otherwise determined by Parent Board or Parent Committee, the Equity Award will be immediately vested as to 1/3rd of the total number of RSUs or Restricted Shares, as applicable, on the Grant Date, will vest as to 1/3rd of the total number of RSUs or Restricted Shares, as applicable, on December 31, 2021 (or on the Grant Date, if it is after December 31, 2021), and as to 1/3rd of the total number of RSUs or Restricted Shares, as applicable, on December 31, 2022, subject to Executive’s continued Employment through each such vesting date. The Equity Award will be subject to the settlement, if applicable, and other terms and conditions of the Company’s 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and the Company’s standard form of applicable award agreement under the Plan, which Executive will be required to sign. The purpose of the Equity Award is to compensate Executive for Executive’s Employment as Interim Chief Executive Officer and shall not negatively impact or prorate any proposed grants to Executive with respect to Executive’s Employment thereafter as Chief Revenue Officer.

 

(e) Anticipated Transition to Chief Revenue Officer. The terms of compensation in this Section 2 anticipate that Executive will return to Executive’s position of Chief Revenue Officer on or about August 1, 2021. If Executive’s tenure as Interim Chief Executive Officer is extended materially beyond July 31, 2021, the Company shall adjust the amount of the 2021 CEO Cash Bonus and the Award Value of the Equity Award proportionally.

 

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3. Employee Benefits. During the Employment Period, Executive shall be eligible to (a) receive paid time off (“PTO”) in accordance with the Company’s PTO policy, as it may be amended from time to time and (b) participate in the employee benefit plans maintained by the Company and generally available to similarly situated employees of the Company, subject in each case to the generally applicable terms and conditions of the plan or policy in question and to the determinations of any Person or committee administering such employee benefit plan or policy. The Company reserves the right to cancel or change the employee benefit plans, policies and programs it offers to its employees at any time.

 

4. Business Expenses. The Company will reimburse Executive for necessary and reasonable business expenses incurred in connection with Executive’s duties hereunder upon presentation of an itemized account and appropriate supporting documentation, all in accordance with the Company’s generally applicable expense reimbursement policies as in effect from to time.

 

5. Rights Upon Termination. Except as expressly provided in Section 6, upon the termination of Executive’s Employment, Executive shall only be entitled to: (a) any accrued but unpaid Base Salary and PTO, (b) all other benefits earned and expenses to be reimbursed as described in this Agreement or under any Company-provided plans, policies, and arrangements, each in accordance with the governing documents and policies of any such benefits, reimbursements, plans, policies and arrangements, (c) any payments of or with respect to equity awards of the Company or any affiliate in accordance with the terms of such awards, and (d) such other compensation or benefits from the Company as may be required by law (collectively, the “Accrued Benefits”). All Accrued Benefits shall be paid in accordance with applicable law and the terms of the applicable plan, program or agreement (if any) governing such payment or benefit.

 

6. Termination Benefits.

 

(a) Involuntary Termination. If Executive’s Termination Date (as defined below) occurs due to termination by the Company for a reason other than Cause, Executive becoming Disabled (as defined below) or Executive’s death (each, an “Involuntary Termination”), then, subject to Section 7 (other than with respect to the Accrued Benefits), Executive (or Executive’s estate, as the case may be) will be entitled to the following:

 

(i) Accrued Benefits. The Company will pay Executive all Accrued Benefits.

 

(ii) Special Bonus. If Executive’s Termination Date occurs prior to when the Special Bonus has been paid to Executive, Executive will receive the Special Bonus, less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, which shall be paid within 15 days of the Release Deadline.

 

(iii) 2021 Cash Bonuses. If Executive’s Termination Date occurs prior to when the 2021 CEO Cash Bonus and the 2021 CRO Cash Bonus have been paid to Executive, Executive will receive (A) the 2021 CEO Cash Bonus in full and (B) the 2021 CRO Cash Bonus paid out at 100% of target, prorated based on the days during the 2021 calendar year, starting with January 1, 2021, that Executive was Employed as Chief Revenue Officer; in each case less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, which shall be paid at the same time annual bonuses are paid by the Company to other executives of the Company for the 2021 calendar year, but no later than the first regularly scheduled payroll date of January 2022.

 

(iv) Equity. Each of Executive’s then unvested and outstanding equity awards that were granted prior to the Effective Date and the Equity Award to the extent it is then outstanding and unvested shall immediately vest and become exercisable in full as of the Termination Date.

 

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(b) Voluntary Resignation; Termination for Cause. If Executive’s Termination Date occurs due to (A) Executive’s voluntary resignation, or (B) the Company’s termination of Executive’s employment with the Company for Cause, then Executive will receive the Accrued Benefits, but will not be entitled to any other compensation or benefits from the Company.

 

(c) Exclusive Remedy. In the event of the termination of Executive’s Employment with the Company (or any affiliate or successor), the severance payments and benefits set forth in this Section 6 are intended to be and are exclusive and in lieu of any other rights or remedies to which Executive may otherwise be entitled, whether at law, tort or contract, in equity, or under this Agreement other than the Accrued Benefits.

 

(d) No Duty to Mitigate. Executive will not be required to mitigate the amount of any payment or benefit contemplated by this Agreement, nor will any earnings that Executive may receive from any other source reduce any such payment or benefit.

 

7. Conditions to Receipt of Termination Benefits.

 

(a) Release of Claims Agreement. The receipt of any severance payments or benefits pursuant to Section 6 of this Agreement (other than Accrued Benefits) is subject to Executive signing and not revoking a separation agreement and release of claims in a form acceptable to the Company (the “Release”), which must become effective no later than the sixtieth (60th) day following Executive’s Termination Date (the “Release Deadline”). If the Release is not effective by the Release Deadline, Executive will forfeit any right to severance payments or benefits under Section 6 of this Agreement (other than Accrued Benefits). Subject to the foregoing, to become effective, the Release must be executed by Executive (or Executive’s representative in the event of Executive’s death or Disability following the Termination Date) and any revocation periods (as required by statute, regulation, or otherwise) must have expired without Executive (or Executive’s representative, if applicable) having revoked the Release. If the Termination Date occurs at a time during the calendar year where the Release Deadline could occur in the calendar year following the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs, then any severance payments or benefits under this Agreement that would be considered Deferred Payments (as defined in Section 8(a)) will be paid on the first payroll date to occur during the calendar year following the calendar year in which such termination occurs, or such later time as required by (i) the payment schedule applicable to each payment or benefit as set forth in Section 6, (ii) the date the Release becomes effective, or (iii) Section 8(b); provided that the first payment shall include all amounts that would have been paid to Executive if payment had commenced on the date of Executive’s Termination Date. For the avoidance of doubt, Accrued Benefits are not subject to the provisions of this Section 7(a).

 

(b) Restrictive Covenants. The receipt of any severance payments or benefits pursuant to Section 6 will be subject to Executive not violating the provisions of Section 11. In the event Executive breaches the provisions of Section 11, all continuing payments and benefits to which Executive may otherwise be entitled pursuant to Section 6 will immediately cease.

 

(c) Employee Agreement. Executive’s receipt of any severance payments or benefits under Section 6 will be subject to Executive continuing to comply with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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8. Section 409A.

 

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no severance payment or benefit to be paid or provided to Executive, if any, pursuant to this Agreement that, when considered together with any other severance payments or separation benefits, are considered deferred compensation not exempt under Section 409A (as defined below) (each, a “Deferred Payment”) will be paid or otherwise provided until Executive has a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A and for purposes of this Agreement, any reference to “termination of employment,” “termination” or any similar term shall be construed to mean a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A.

 

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Executive is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Section 409A at the time of Executive’s termination of employment (other than due to death), then the Deferred Payments, if any, that are payable within the first six (6) months following Executive’s separation from service, will become payable on the first payroll date that occurs on or after the date six (6) months and one (1) day following the date of Executive’s separation from service. All subsequent Deferred Payments, if any, will be payable in accordance with the payment schedule applicable to each payment or benefit. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if Executive dies following Executive’s separation from service, but prior to the six (6) month anniversary of the separation from service, then any payments delayed in accordance with this paragraph will be payable in a lump sum as soon as administratively practicable after the date of Executive’s death and all other Deferred Payments will be payable in accordance with the payment schedule applicable to each payment or benefit. Each payment, installment and benefit payable under this Agreement is intended to constitute a separate payment for purposes of Section 1.409A-2(b)(2) of the Treasury Regulations.

 

(c) Without limitation, any amount paid under this Agreement that satisfies the requirements of the “short-term deferral” rule set forth in Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) of the Treasury Regulations is not intended to constitute a Deferred Payment for purposes of Section 8(a) above.

 

(d) Without limitation, any amount paid under this Agreement that qualifies as a payment made as a result of an involuntary separation from service pursuant to Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) of the Treasury Regulations that does not exceed the Section 409A Limit (as defined below) is not intended to constitute a Deferred Payment for purposes of Section 8(a) above. Any payment intended to qualify under this exemption must be made within the allowable time period specified in Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) of the Treasury Regulations. “Section 409A Limit” means two (2) times the lesser of: (i) Executive’s annualized compensation based upon the annual rate of pay paid to Executive during Executive’s taxable year preceding Executive’s taxable year of his or her separation from service as determined under Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii)(A)(1) and any Internal Revenue Service guidance issued with respect thereto; or (ii) the maximum amount that may be taken into account under a qualified plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(17) of the Code for the year in which Executive’s separation from service occurred.

 

(e) To the extent that reimbursements or in-kind benefits under this Agreement constitute non-exempt “nonqualified deferred compensation” for purposes of Section 409A, (A) all reimbursements hereunder shall be made on or prior to the last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the expense was incurred by Executive, (B) any right to reimbursement or in-kind benefits shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit, and (C) the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits provided in any calendar year shall not in any way affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other calendar year.

 

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(f) The payments and benefits provided under this Agreement are intended to be exempt from or comply with the requirements of Section 409A so that none of the payments or benefits to be provided hereunder will be subject to the additional tax imposed under Section 409A, and any ambiguities or ambiguous terms herein will be interpreted to be exempt or so comply. The Company and Executive agree to work together in good faith to consider amendments to this Agreement and to take such reasonable actions that are necessary, appropriate or desirable to avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition prior to actual payment to Executive under Section 409A.

 

9. Definition of Terms. The following terms referred to in this Agreement will have the following meanings:

 

(a) Cause. “Cause” means: (i) any material breach by Executive of any material written agreement between Executive and the Company; (ii) any failure by Executive to comply with the Company’s material written policies or rules as they may be in effect from time to time; (iii) neglect or persistent unsatisfactory performance of Executive’s duties; (iv) Executive’s repeated failure to follow reasonable and lawful instructions from the Board or Executive’s Supervisor; (v) Executive’s indictment for, conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any felony or crime that results in, or is reasonably expected to result in, a material adverse effect on the business or reputation of the Company; (vi) Executive’s commission of or participation in an act of fraud against the Company; (vii) Executive’s commission of or participation in an act that results in material damage to the Company’s business, property or reputation; (viii) Executive’s unauthorized use or disclosure of any proprietary information or trade secrets of the Company or any other party to whom Executive owes an obligation of nondisclosure as a result of his relationship with the Company; or (ix) Executive’s termination by the Company’s “Security Director,” a member of the Company’s Board who is serving the role of the “Security Director” as defined in that certain National Security Agreement by and among the Company, Mikhail Kokorich in his individual capacity and on behalf of Nortrone Finance S.A.; Lev Khasis and Olga Khasis, each in their individual capacity and on behalf of Brainyspace LLC; and the U.S. Government represented by the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury as the CFIUS Monitoring Agencies, dated June 8, 2021.

 

(b) Executive will not be terminated for Cause without the Company first providing Executive with written notice of the acts or omissions constituting the grounds for Cause within sixty (60) days of the initial existence of the grounds for Cause and, if capable of cure, a cure period of thirty (30) days following the date Executive receives such notice during which such condition must not have been cured.

 

(c) Code. “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

(d) Disability. “Disability” or “Disabled” means that Executive is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted, or can be expected to last, for a continuous period of not less than 1 year.

 

(e) Governmental Authority. “Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, foreign or other government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, or any private or public court or tribunal.

 

(f) Merger Agreement. “Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among the Company, Parent, Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC and Momentus Inc. dated as of October 7, 2020, as amended, of which Executive has a received copy and has reviewed.

 

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(g) Person. “Person” shall be construed in the broadest sense and means and includes any natural person, a partnership, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a limited liability company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and other entity or Governmental Authority.

 

(h) Section 409A. “Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code, and the final regulations and any guidance promulgated thereunder or any state law equivalent.

 

(i) Termination Date. “Termination Date” means the date on which Executive’s employment with the Company (or any successor) terminates for any reason. For purposes of the payment of severance payments and benefits pursuant to Section 6 hereof, the Termination Date shall also be required to constitute a “separation of service” from the Company (or any successor) within the meaning of Section 409A.

 

10. Golden Parachute.

 

(a) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, if any payment or benefit Executive would receive from the Company or otherwise (“Payment”) would (i) constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code; and (ii) but for this sentence, be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the “Excise Tax”), then such Payment shall be equal to the Reduced Amount. The “Reduced Amount shall be either (x) the largest portion of the Payment that would result in no portion of the Payment being subject to the Excise Tax; or (y) the largest portion, up to and including the total, of the Payment, whichever amount, after taking into account all applicable federal, state and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the Excise Tax (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rate), results in Executive’s receipt, on an after-tax basis, of the greater amount of the Payment. Any reduction made pursuant to this Section 10(a) shall be made in accordance with the following order of priority: (i) stock options whose exercise price exceeds the fair market value of the optioned stock (“Underwater Options”) (ii) Full Credit Payments (as defined below) that are payable in cash, (iii) non-cash Full Credit Payments that are taxable, (iv) non-cash Full Credit Payments that are not taxable (v) Partial Credit Payments (as defined below) and (vi) non-cash employee welfare benefits. In each case, reductions shall be made in reverse chronological order such that the payment or benefit owed on the latest date following the occurrence of the event triggering the excise tax will be the first payment or benefit to be reduced (with reductions made pro-rata in the event payments or benefits are owed at the same time). “Full Credit Payment” means a payment, distribution or benefit, whether paid or payable or distributed or distributable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or otherwise, that if reduced in value by one dollar reduces the amount of the parachute payment (as defined in Section 280G of the Code) by one dollar, determined as if such payment, distribution or benefit had been paid or distributed on the date of the event triggering the excise tax. “Partial Credit Payment” means any payment, distribution or benefit that is not a Full Credit Payment.

 

(b) A nationally recognized certified public accounting firm selected by the Company (the “Accounting Firm”) shall perform the foregoing calculations related to the Excise Tax. If a reduction is required pursuant to Section 10(a), the Accounting Firm shall administer the ordering of the reduction as set forth in Section 10(a). The Company shall bear all expenses with respect to the determinations by such accounting firm required to be made hereunder.

 

(c) The Accounting Firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder shall provide its calculations, together with detailed supporting documentation, to Executive and the Company within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date on which Executive’s right to a Payment is triggered. Any good faith determinations of the Accounting Firm made hereunder shall be final, binding, and conclusive upon Executive and the Company.

 

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11. Restrictive Covenants. The agreements and obligations of Executive in this Section 11 are in addition to and not in lieu the provisions of any other restrictive covenant agreement to which Executive is a party with the Company or its affiliates.

 

(a) Non-Solicitation. During the period beginning on Executive’s Termination Date and continuing until the first anniversary thereof, Executive or Executive’s affiliates shall not directly or indirectly, personally or through others, solicit, recruit or attempt to solicit or recruit (on Executive’s own behalf or on behalf of any other Person) either (i) any current employee or any consultant of the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates, (ii) any former employee or consultant of the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates who left the Company’s (or such affiliate’s) service within the preceding six (6) months, or (iii) the business of any customer, supplier, lender or investor of the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates on whom Executive called or with whom Executive became acquainted during Executive’s Employment; provided, however, that any advertisement or solicitation made in a trade or industry publication or otherwise made to the general public and not directed at or targeting any employee or key customer of the Company or any affiliate shall not constitute a violation of this Section 11(a). Executive represents that Executive is (A) familiar with the foregoing covenants not to solicit, and (B) fully aware of Executive’s obligations hereunder, including, without limitation, the reasonableness of the length of time, scope and geographic coverage of these covenants.

 

(b) Non-Disparagement. Executive shall not make any remarks disparaging the conduct or character of the Company, any of the Company’s affiliates, or any of the Company’s or any Company affiliates’ current or former employees, officers, directors, successors or assigns.

 

(c) Non-Disclosure. Except if required by law, Executive shall not disclose to others this Agreement or its terms, except that Executive may disclose such information to Executive’s spouse, and to Executive’s attorney or accountant in order for such individuals to render services to Executive.

 

12. Arbitration. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Executive and the Company agree that any and all disputes, demands, claims, or controversies (“claims”) relating to, arising from or regarding Executive’s employment, including claims by the Company, claims against the Company, and claims against any current or former parent, affiliate, subsidiary, successor or predecessor of the Company, and each of the Company’s and these entities’ respective officers, directors, agents or employees, shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration before a single arbitrator in San Jose, California (or another mutually agreeable location). This does not prevent either Executive or the Company from seeking and obtaining temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in court to prevent irreparable harm to Executive’s or its confidential information or trade secrets pending the conclusion of any arbitration. This arbitration agreement does not apply to any claims that have been expressly excluded from arbitration by a governing law not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and does not restrict or preclude Executive from communicating with, filing an administrative charge or claim with, or providing testimony to any governmental entity about any actual or potential violation of law or obtaining relief through a government agency process. The parties hereto agree that claims shall be resolved on an individual basis only, and not on a class, collective, or representative basis on behalf of other employees to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (“Class Waiver”). Any claim that all or part of the Class Waiver is invalid, unenforceable, or unconscionable may be determined only by a court. In no case may class, collective or representative claims proceed in arbitration on behalf of other employees.

 

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The parties agree that the arbitration shall be conducted by a single neutral arbitrator through JAMS in accordance with JAMS Employment Arbitration Rules and Procedures (available at www.jamsadr.com/rules-employment-arbitration). Except as to the Class Waiver, the arbitrator shall determine arbitrability. The Company will bear all JAMS arbitration fees and administrative costs in excess of the amount of administrative fees and costs that Executive otherwise would have been required to pay if the claims were litigated in court. The arbitrator shall apply the applicable substantive law in deciding the claims at issue. Claims will be governed by their applicable statute of limitations and failure to demand arbitration within the prescribed time period shall bar the claims as provided by law. The decision or award of the arbitrator shall be final and binding upon the parties. This arbitration agreement is enforceable under and governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. In the event that any portion of this arbitration agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, any such provision shall be severed, and the remainder of this arbitration agreement will be given full force and effect. By signing the offer letter, Executive acknowledges and agrees that Executive has read this arbitration agreement carefully, are bound by it and are WAIVING ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A TRIAL BEFORE A COURT OR JURY OF ANY AND ALL CLAIMS SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION UNDER THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT.

 

13. Confidentiality Agreements. The Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement entered into by and between Executive and the Company dated October 18, 2019 and the Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement entered into by and between Executive and the Company with an effective date of October 21, 2019 (together, the “Confidentiality Agreements”) remain in full force and effect.

 

14. Employment Conditions.

 

(a) Right to Work. For purposes of federal immigration law, Executive will be required, if Executive has not already, to provide to the Company documentary evidence of Executive’s identity and eligibility for employment in the United States. Such documentation must be provided to the Company within three (3) business days of the Effective Date, or our Employment relationship with Executive may be terminated.

 

(b) Verification of Information. This Agreement is also contingent upon the successful verification of the information Executive provided to the Company during Executive’s application process, as well as a general background check performed by the Company to confirm Executive’s suitability for Employment. By accepting this Agreement, Executive warrants that all information provided by Executive is true and correct to the best of Executive’s knowledge, Executive agrees to execute any and all documentation necessary for the Company to conduct a background check and Executive expressly releases the Company from any claim or cause of action arising out of the Company’s verification of such information.

 

15. Successors.

 

(a) Company’s Successors. This Agreement shall be binding upon any successor (whether direct or indirect and whether by purchase, lease, merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the Company’s business and/or assets. For all purposes under this Agreement, the term “Company” shall include any successor to the Company’s business or assets that become bound by this Agreement or any affiliate of any such successor that employs Executive.

 

(b) Executive’s Successors. This Agreement and all of Executive’s rights hereunder shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, Executive’s personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees.

 

16. Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

(a) Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify Executive to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and the Company’s Bylaws with respect to Executive’s service and Executive shall also be covered under a directors and officers liability insurance policy paid for by the Company to the extent that the Company maintains such a liability insurance policy now or in the future.

 

(b) Headings. All captions and section headings used in this Agreement are for convenient reference only and do not form a part of this Agreement.

 

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(c) Notice. Notices and all other communications contemplated by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or when mailed by U.S. registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid. In Executive’s case, mailed notices shall be addressed to Executive at the home address that Executive most recently communicated to the Company in writing. In the case of the Company, mailed notices shall be addressed to its corporate headquarters, and all notices shall be directed to the attention of its Secretary.

 

(d) Modifications and Waivers. No provision of this Agreement shall be modified, waived or discharged unless the modification, waiver or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed by Executive and by an authorized officer of the Company (other than Executive). No waiver by either party of any breach of, or of compliance with, any condition or provision of this Agreement by the other party shall be considered a waiver of any other condition or provision or of the same condition or provision at another time.

 

(e) Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the Confidentiality Agreements contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all other prior or contemporaneous discussions, understandings and agreements, whether oral or written, between them relating to the subject matter hereof, and as of the Effective Date, will supersede and replace in its entirety, the offer letter by and between Executive and the Company dated October 18, 2019.

 

(f) Withholding Taxes. All payments made under this Agreement shall be subject to reduction to reflect taxes or other deductions required to be withheld by law.

 

(g) Choice of Law and Severability. This Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California without giving effect to provisions governing the choice of law. If any provision of this Agreement becomes or is deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any applicable jurisdiction by reason of the scope, extent or duration of its coverage, then such provision shall be deemed amended to the minimum extent necessary to conform to applicable law so as to be valid and enforceable or, if such provision cannot be so amended without materially altering the intention of the parties, then such provision shall be stricken and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. If any provision of this Agreement is rendered illegal by any present or future statute, law, ordinance or regulation (collectively, the “Law”) then that provision shall be curtailed or limited only to the minimum extent necessary to bring the provision into compliance with the Law. All the other terms and provisions of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without impairment or limitation.

 

(h) No Assignment. This Agreement and all of Executive’s rights and obligations hereunder are personal to Executive and may not be transferred or assigned by Executive at any time. The Company may assign its rights under this Agreement to any entity that assumes the Company’s obligations hereunder in connection with any sale or transfer to such entity of all or a substantial portion of the Company’s assets.

 

(i) Acknowledgment. Executive acknowledges that Executive has had the opportunity to discuss this matter with and obtain advice from Executive’s personal attorney, has had sufficient time to, and has carefully read and fully understood all the provisions of this Agreement, and is knowingly and voluntarily entering into this Agreement.

 

(j) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Execution of a facsimile copy will have the same force and effect as execution of an original, and a facsimile signature will be deemed an original and valid signature.

 

(k) Electronic Delivery. The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents or notices related to this letter, securities of the Company or any of its affiliates or any other matter, including documents and/or notices required to be delivered to Executive by applicable securities law or any other law or the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws by email or any other electronic means. Executive hereby consents to (i) conduct business electronically, (ii) receive such documents and notices by such electronic delivery and (iii) sign documents electronically and agree to participate through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party designated by the Company.

 

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After you have had an opportunity to review this Agreement, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments. To indicate your acceptance of this Agreement, please sign and date this letter in the space provided below and return it to the Company.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  momentus inc.
   
  By: /s/ Jikun Kim
  (Signature)
   
  Name:   Jikun Kim
   
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:  
   
Dawn Harms  
   
/s/ Dawn Harms  
(Signature)  

 

 

 

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Exhibit 10.12

 

Momentus Inc.

 

June 24, 2021

 

John Rood

Re: EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

Dear John:

 

This Employment Agreement (the “Agreement”) between you (referred to hereinafter as the “Executive” or “you”) and Momentus Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, sets forth the terms and conditions that shall govern Executive’s employment (referred to hereinafter as “Employment” or the “Employment Period”) with the Company or Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (“Parent”), which will be renamed “Momentus Inc.” following the Closing of the Transactions (as those terms are defined in the Merger Agreement, and such date of the Closing, the “Closing Date”)), and shall be effective immediately (the “Effective Date”). As used herein, the term “Company” will be interpreted to include Parent or any successor thereto, if appropriate.

 

1. Duties and Scope of Employment.

 

(a) At-Will Employment. Executive’s Employment with the Company is for no specified period and constitutes “at will” employment. Except as otherwise set forth herein, Executive is free to terminate Employment at any time, with or without advance notice, and for any reason or for no reason. Similarly, the Company is free to terminate Executive’s Employment at any time, with or without advance notice, and with or without Cause (as defined below). Furthermore, although terms and conditions of Executive’s Employment with the Company may change over time, nothing shall change the at-will nature of Executive’s Employment.

 

(b) Position and Responsibilities. During the Employment Period, the Company agrees to employ Executive in the position of Chief Executive Officer. Executive will report to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) or to such other Person as the Board subsequently may determine (“Executive’s Supervisor”). Executive will be working out of the Company’s headquarters (whether in Santa Clara, California or elsewhere) as frequently as reasonably required to carry out Executive’s duties and responsibilities (which is anticipated to be at least 2 times per month). Executive will perform the duties and have the responsibilities and authority customarily performed and held by an employee in Executive’s position or as otherwise may be assigned or delegated to Executive by Executive’s Supervisor.

 

(c) Obligations to the Company. During the Employment Period, Executive shall perform Executive’s duties faithfully and to the best of Executive’s ability and will devote Executive’s full business efforts and time to the Company. During the Employment Period, without the prior written approval of Executive’s Supervisor, Executive shall not render services in any capacity to any other Person and shall not act as a sole proprietor, advisor or partner of any other Person or own more than five percent (5%) of the stock of any other corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive may (i) serve on civic, non-profit, or charitable boards or committees, deliver lectures, fulfill speaking engagements, teach at educational institutions, or manage personal investments without advance written consent of Executive’s Supervisor; provided that such activities do not individually or in the aggregate interfere with the performance of Executive’s duties under this Agreement or create a potential business or fiduciary conflict; (ii) may continue to serve as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors and/or Security Director of Radisson Hospitality, Inc.; and (iii) may serve on the Board of Directors of Hitachi Ventara Federal. Executive shall comply with the Company’s policies and rules, as they may be in effect from time to time during Executive’s Employment.

 

 

 

 

(d) No Conflicting Obligations. Executive represents and warrants to the Company that Executive is under no obligations or commitments, whether contractual or otherwise, that are inconsistent with Executive’s obligations under this Agreement or that would otherwise prohibit Executive from performing Executive’s duties with the Company. In connection with Executive’s Employment, Executive shall not use or disclose any trade secrets or other proprietary information or intellectual property in which Executive or any other Person has any right, title or interest and Executive represents and warrants to the Company that Executive’s Employment will not infringe or violate the rights of any other Person. Executive represents and warrants to the Company that Executive has returned all property and confidential information belonging to any prior employer.

 

2. Base Salary and Incentive Compensation.

 

(a) Base Salary. The Company shall pay Executive, as compensation for Executive’s services, a base salary at a gross annual rate of $800,000, less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions, in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll procedures. The annual compensation specified in this Section 2(a), together with any modifications in such compensation that the Company may make from time to time, is referred to in this Agreement as the “Base Salary.” Executive’s Base Salary will be subject to review and adjustments that will be made based upon the Company’s normal performance review practices. Effective as of the date of any change to Executive’s Base Salary, the Base Salary as so changed shall be considered the new Base Salary for all purposes of this Agreement.

 

(b) Cash Incentive Bonus. Executive will be eligible to be considered for an annual cash incentive bonus (the “Cash Bonus”) each calendar year during the Employment Period based upon the achievement of certain objective or subjective criteria (collectively, the “Performance Goals”). In compliance with all relevant legal requirements and based on Executive’s level within the Company, the Performance Goals for Executive’s Cash Bonus for a particular year will be established by, and in the sole discretion of, the Board or any Compensation Committee of the Board (the “Committee”). The initial target amount for any such Cash Bonus will be up to 100% of Executive’s Base Salary (the “Target Bonus Percentage”), less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions. The target amount of the Cash Bonus for 2021 will be prorated based on actual salary earned during 2021. Executive’s 2021 Cash Bonus will be paid at 100% of the target amount (subject to proration) if (i) the Closing Date occurs and (ii) the Federal Aviation Administration issues the Company licenses to launch, each on or before December 31, 2021. The determinations of the Board or the Committee, as applicable, with respect to such Cash Bonus or the Target Bonus Percentage shall be final and binding. Executive’s Cash Bonus or Target Bonus Percentage for any year subsequent to 2021 may be adjusted up or down, as determined in the sole discretion of the Board or the Committee. Executive shall not earn a Cash Bonus unless Executive is employed by the Company on the date when such Cash Bonus is actually paid by the Company.

 

(c) Equity Award. Subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of Parent (the “Parent Board”) or the Compensation Committee of the Parent Board (the “Parent Committee”), the Closing of the Transactions (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and Executive’s continuous Employment through the Grant Date (as defined below), Executive will be granted an award (a “RSU Award”) of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) denominated in shares of Parent Class A Common Stock (“Shares”) with a grant date fair value of $10,000,000 (the “Award Value”). The number of RSUs and Shares subject to the RSU Award will be equal to the Award Value divided by the closing price per Share on the Closing Date, rounded down to the nearest whole Share. The RSU Award will be granted as soon as reasonably practicable following Parent’s filing of a Form S-8 registration statement registering the Shares subject to the RSU Award (such date, the “Grant Date”). The RSU Award will be immediately vested as to 6.25% of the total number of RSUs on the Grant Date. The RSU Award will vest as to 18.75% of the total number of RSUs upon the first anniversary of the Effective Date and as to 25% of the total number of RSUs on each of the second, third and fourth anniversaries of the Effective Date, subject to Executive’s continued Employment through each such vesting date. The RSU Award will be subject to the settlement and other terms and conditions of the Company’s equity incentive plan under which it is granted (the “Plan”) and the Company’s standard form of RSU agreement under the Plan, which Executive will be required to sign. If the Closing of the Transactions does not occur, Executive will be eligible for a new hire equity award of such type and covering such number of shares as will be determined in the sole discretion of the Board or the Committee, as applicable.

 

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3. Employee Benefits. During the Employment Period, Executive shall be eligible to (a) receive paid time off (“PTO”) in accordance with the Company’s PTO policy, as it may be amended from time to time and (b) participate in the employee benefit plans maintained by the Company and generally available to similarly situated employees of the Company, subject in each case to the generally applicable terms and conditions of the plan or policy in question and to the determinations of any Person or committee administering such employee benefit plan or policy. The Company reserves the right to cancel or change the employee benefit plans, policies and programs it offers to its employees at any time.

 

4. Reimbursement of Expenses.

 

(a) General. The Company will reimburse Executive for necessary and reasonable business expenses incurred in connection with Executive’s duties hereunder upon presentation of an itemized account and appropriate supporting documentation, all in accordance with the Company’s generally applicable expense reimbursement policies as in effect from to time.

 

(b) Commuting and Temporary Housing. During the Employment Period until the fourth anniversary of the Effective Date, the Company will pay or reimburse Executive for the following expenses as reasonably required to carry out Executive’s duties and responsibilities: (i) round-trip first class tickets on a commercial airline of Executive’s choice between Executive’s primary residence and the Company’s headquarters, (ii) round-trip transportation by taxi, Uber or similar service to and from the respective airports in connection with such flights, (iii) rent or the lease for a 2-bedroom furnished apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area (or in the metropolitan area of the Company’s headquarters, wherever it may be) that Executive may use each month or partial month of Executive’s Employment and (iv) during the first month of Executive’s employment, any hotel expenses incurred as Executive transitions to residence in the apartment described in (iii), each subject to all applicable withholdings and other required deductions, if any; provided that if any benefit in this Section 4(b) is taxable to Executive, Executive will be further entitled to an additional payment equal to the amount of the tax withholding due on any such benefit and all tax withholding due on such additional payment. Any reimbursement of expenses under this Section 4 must be paid to Executive by March 15th of the calendar year following the year in which such expenses are incurred.

 

5. Rights Upon Termination. Except as expressly provided in Section 6, upon the termination of Executive’s Employment, Executive shall only be entitled to: (a) any accrued but unpaid Base Salary and PTO, (b) all other benefits earned and expenses to be reimbursed as described in this Agreement or under any Company-provided plans, policies, and arrangements, each in accordance with the governing documents and policies of any such benefits, reimbursements, plans, policies and arrangements, (c) any payments of or with respect to equity awards of the Company or any affiliate in accordance with the terms of such awards, and (d) such other compensation or benefits from the Company as may be required by law (collectively, the “Accrued Benefits”). All Accrued Benefits shall be paid in accordance with applicable law and the terms of the applicable plan, program or agreement (if any) governing such payment or benefit.

 

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6. Termination Benefits.

 

(a) Involuntary Termination Not Within Change in Control Protection Period. If, on or after the Closing Date (as defined above) but not during a Change in Control Protection Period (as defined below), Executive’s Termination Date (as defined below) occurs (i) due to termination by the Company for a reason other than Cause or (ii) due to resignation by Executive on account of Good Reason (as defined below) (each, an “Involuntary Termination”), then, subject to Section 7 (other than with respect to the Accrued Benefits), Executive will be entitled to the following:

 

(i) Accrued Benefits. The Company will pay Executive all Accrued Benefits.

 

(ii) Severance Payment. Executive will receive continuing payments of severance pay, which will total in the aggregate an amount equal to (A) 12 months of Executive’s Base Salary as in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date (without any reduction therein that constitutes Good Reason), plus (B) Executive’s annual Cash Bonus as in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date (without any reduction therein that constitutes Good Reason) paid at 100% of its target amount, and which will be payable over a period of 12 months from Executive’s Termination Date in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll procedures, less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions. Payments pursuant to this Section 6(a)(ii) shall commence on the Release Deadline (as defined in Section 7(a)) provided that the first payment shall include any amounts that would have been paid to Executive if payment had commenced on Executive’s Termination Date.

 

(iii) Current Year Prorated Cash Bonus. Executive will receive a prorated Cash Bonus for the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs equal to the Cash Bonus that Executive would have received based on actual performance for such calendar year if Executive had remained in Employment by Company for the entire calendar year (if any) in accordance with Section 2(b), but prorated based on the days elapsed in such calendar year through the Termination Date (the “Prorated Bonus”). The Prorated Bonus, if any, shall be paid at the same time annual bonuses are paid by the Company to other executives of the Company for the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs, but no later than March 15th of the calendar year following the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs.

 

(iv) Continued Employee Benefits. If Executive elects continuation coverage pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), for Executive and/or Executive’s eligible dependents, within the time period prescribed pursuant to COBRA, the Company will reimburse Executive for the COBRA premiums for such coverage (at the coverage levels in effect immediately prior to Executive’s Termination Date) until the earlier of (A) a period of 12 months from the Termination Date, or (B) the date upon which Executive and/or Executive’s eligible dependents become covered under similar plans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company is not subject to the requirements of COBRA, the COBRA reimbursements described in this Section 6(a)(iv) will be made to Executive as if Executive had been entitled to and elected COBRA coverage within the applicable time period. COBRA reimbursements will be made by the Company to Executive consistent with the Company’s normal expense reimbursement policy and will be taxable to the extent required to avoid adverse consequences to Executive or the Company under either Section 105(h) of the Code or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the “ACA”).

 

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(v) Equity. Any outstanding and unvested equity awards granted to Executive by the Company or any affiliate that are subject to time vesting shall vest as to that number of shares or units that would have vested had Executive remained in continuous Employment until the 12 month anniversary of the Termination Date.

 

(b) Involuntary Termination Within Change in Control Protection Period. If, on or after the Closing Date and within the Change in Control Protection Period, Executive’s Termination Date occurs due to an Involuntary Termination, then, subject to Section 7 (other than with respect to the Accrued Benefits), Executive will be entitled to the following (in lieu of the payments and benefits described in Section 6(a) above):

 

(i) Accrued Benefits. The Company will pay Executive all Accrued Benefits.

 

(ii) Severance Payment. Executive will receive a lump sum severance payment equal to (A) 18 months of Executive’s Base Salary as in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date (without any reduction therein that constitutes Good Reason), plus (B) Executive’s annual Cash Bonus as in effect immediately prior to the Termination Date (without any reduction therein that constitutes Good Reason) paid at 150% of its target amount, less all required tax withholdings and other applicable deductions.

 

(iii) Current Year 1.5x Prorated Cash Bonus. Executive will receive a prorated Cash Bonus for the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs equal to 150% of Cash Bonus (if any) that Executive would have received based on actual performance for such calendar year if Executive had remained in Employment by Company for the entire calendar year in accordance with Section 2(b), but prorated based on the days elapsed in such calendar year through the Termination Date (the “1.5x Prorated Bonus”). The 1.5x Prorated Bonus, if any, shall be paid at the same time annual bonuses are paid by the Company to other executives of the Company for the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs, but no later than March 15th of the calendar year following the calendar year in which Executive’s Termination Date occurs.

 

(iv) Continued Employee Benefits. If Executive elects continuation coverage pursuant to COBRA, for Executive and/or Executive’s eligible dependents, within the time period prescribed pursuant to COBRA, the Company will reimburse Executive for the COBRA premiums for such coverage (at the coverage levels in effect immediately prior to Executive’s Termination Date) until the earlier of (A) a period of 18 months from the Termination Date, or (B) the date upon which Executive and/or Executive’s eligible dependents become covered under similar plans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company is not subject to the requirements of COBRA, the COBRA reimbursements described in this Section 6(b)(iv) will be made to Executive as if Executive had been entitled to and elected COBRA coverage within the applicable time period. COBRA reimbursements will be made by the Company to Executive consistent with the Company’s normal expense reimbursement policy and will be taxable to the extent required to avoid adverse consequences to Executive or the Company under either Section 105(h) of the Code or the ACA.

 

(v) Equity. Any outstanding and unvested equity awards granted to Executive by the Company or any affiliate that are subject to time vesting shall vest in full; provided that if Executive remains in Employment through the consummation of the Change in Control and if the successor to the Company or any affiliate of such successor does not agree to assume, substitute or otherwise continue such equity awards at the time of the Change in Control, then Executive’s equity awards shall vest in full immediately prior to, and contingent upon, the consummation of such Change in Control.

 

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(c) Disability; Death. If Executive’s Termination Date occurs due to Executive becoming Disabled or Executive’s death, then Executive or Executive’s estate (as the case may be) will be entitled to:

 

(i) Accrued Benefits. The Company will pay Executive or Executive’s estate (as the case may be), all Accrued Benefits.

 

(ii) Equity. Any outstanding and unvested equity awards granted to Executive by the Company or any affiliate that are subject to time vesting shall vest shall vest as to that number of shares or units that would have vested had Executive remained in continuous Employment until the 12 month anniversary of the Termination Date.

 

(d) Voluntary Resignation; Termination for Cause; Involuntary Termination Prior to the Closing Date. If Executive’s Termination Date occurs due to (i) Executive’s voluntary resignation other than for Good Reason, (ii) the Company’s termination of Executive’s employment with the Company for Cause, or (iii) Executive’s Involuntary Termination prior to the Closing Date, then Executive will receive the Accrued Benefits, but will not be entitled to any other compensation or benefits from the Company.

 

(e) Exclusive Remedy. In the event of the termination of Executive’s Employment with the Company (or any affiliate or successor), the severance payments and benefits set forth in this Section 6 are intended to be and are exclusive and in lieu of any other rights or remedies to which Executive may otherwise be entitled, whether at law, tort or contract, in equity, or under this Agreement other than the Accrued Benefits.

 

(f) No Duty to Mitigate. Executive will not be required to mitigate the amount of any payment or benefit contemplated by this Agreement, nor will any earnings that Executive may receive from any other source reduce any such payment or benefit.

 

7. Conditions to Receipt of Termination Benefits.

 

(a) Release of Claims Agreement. The receipt of any severance payments or benefits pursuant to Section 6 of this Agreement (other than Accrued Benefits) is subject to Executive (or Executive’s representative, if applicable) signing and not revoking a separation agreement and release of claims in a form acceptable to the Company (the “Release”), which must become effective no later than the sixtieth (60th) day following Executive’s Termination Date (the “Release Deadline”). If the Release is not effective by the Release Deadline, Executive will forfeit any right to severance payments or benefits under Section 6 of this Agreement (other than Accrued Benefits). Subject to the foregoing, to become effective, the Release must be executed by Executive (or Executive’s representative in the event of Executive’s death or Disability) and any revocation periods (as required by statute, regulation, or otherwise) must have expired without Executive (or Executive’s representative, if applicable) having revoked the Release. Without regard to any special timing provisions set forth in Section 6 of this Agreement, any severance payments or benefits under Section 6 (other than Accrued Benefits) that are Deferred Payments (as defined in Section 8(a)) will be paid or commence on the first payroll date following the date on which the Release becomes effective unless the Release Deadline would have occurred in a subsequent calendar year to the date on which the Release becomes effective, in which case the severance payments and benefits that are Deferred Payments shall be paid or commence on the first payroll period of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Termination Date occurs. For the avoidance of doubt, Accrued Benefits are not subject to the provisions of this Section 7(a).

 

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(b) Restrictive Covenants. The receipt of any severance payments or benefits pursuant to Section 6 will be subject to Executive not violating the provisions of Section 11. In the event Executive breaches the provisions of Section 11, all continuing payments and benefits to which Executive may otherwise be entitled pursuant to Section 6 will immediately cease.

 

(c) Confidential Information Agreement. Executive’s receipt of any severance payments or benefits under Section 6 will be subject to Executive continuing to comply with the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement (as defined in Section 13 below).

 

8. Section 409A.

 

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no severance payment or benefit to be paid or provided to Executive, if any, pursuant to this Agreement that, when considered together with any other severance payments or separation benefits, are considered deferred compensation not exempt under Section 409A (as defined below) (each, a “Deferred Payment”) will be paid or otherwise provided until Executive has a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A and for purposes of this Agreement, any reference to “termination of employment,” “termination” or any similar term shall be construed to mean a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A.

 

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if Executive is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Section 409A at the time of Executive’s termination of employment (other than due to death), then the Deferred Payments, if any, that are payable within the first six (6) months following Executive’s separation from service, will become payable on the first payroll date that occurs on or after the date six (6) months and one (1) day following the date of Executive’s separation from service. All subsequent Deferred Payments, if any, will be payable in accordance with the payment schedule applicable to each payment or benefit. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if Executive dies following Executive’s separation from service, but prior to the six (6) month anniversary of the separation from service, then any payments delayed in accordance with this paragraph will be payable in a lump sum as soon as administratively practicable after the date of Executive’s death and all other Deferred Payments will be payable in accordance with the payment schedule applicable to each payment or benefit. Each payment, installment and benefit payable under this Agreement is intended to constitute a separate payment for purposes of Section 1.409A-2(b)(2) of the Treasury Regulations.

 

(c) Without limitation, any amount paid under this Agreement that satisfies the requirements of the “short-term deferral” rule set forth in Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) of the Treasury Regulations is not intended to constitute a Deferred Payment for purposes of Section 8(a) above.

 

(d) Without limitation, any amount paid under this Agreement that qualifies as a payment made as a result of an involuntary separation from service pursuant to Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) of the Treasury Regulations that does not exceed the Section 409A Limit (as defined below) is not intended to constitute a Deferred Payment for purposes of Section 8(a) above. Any payment intended to qualify under this exemption must be made within the allowable time period specified in Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) of the Treasury Regulations. “Section 409A Limit” means two (2) times the lesser of: (i) Executive’s annualized compensation based upon the annual rate of pay paid to Executive during Executive’s taxable year preceding Executive’s taxable year of his or her separation from service as determined under Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii)(A)(1) and any Internal Revenue Service guidance issued with respect thereto; or (ii) the maximum amount that may be taken into account under a qualified plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(17) of the Code for the year in which Executive’s separation from service occurred.

 

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(e) Notwithstanding the payment provisions of Section 6, in the event and to the extent that the form of the severance benefit or payment to be provided after a Change in Control is different than the form of such severance benefit or payment to be provided prior to a Change in Control and if the applicable severance benefit or payment is a Deferred Payment, then the form of post-Change in Control severance benefit or payment shall be given effect only to the extent permitted by Section 409A and if not so permitted, such post-Change in Control severance benefit or payment shall be provided in the same form that applies prior to the Change in Control.

 

(f) To the extent that reimbursements or in-kind benefits under this Agreement constitute non-exempt “nonqualified deferred compensation” for purposes of Section 409A, (i) all reimbursements hereunder shall be made on or prior to the last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the expense was incurred by Executive, (ii) any right to reimbursement or in-kind benefits shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit, and (iii) the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits provided in any calendar year shall not in any way affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other calendar year.

 

(g) The payments and benefits provided under this Agreement are intended to be exempt from or comply with the requirements of Section 409A so that none of the payments or benefits to be provided hereunder will be subject to the additional tax imposed under Section 409A, and any ambiguities or ambiguous terms herein will be interpreted to be exempt or so comply. The Company and Executive agree to work together in good faith to consider amendments to this Agreement and to take such reasonable actions that are necessary, appropriate or desirable to avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition prior to actual payment to Executive under Section 409A.

 

9. Definition of Terms. The following terms referred to in this Agreement will have the following meanings:

 

(a) Cause. “Cause” means: (i) any material breach by Executive of any material written agreement between Executive and the Company; (ii) any failure by Executive to comply with the Company’s material written policies or rules as they may be in effect from time to time; (iii) neglect or persistent unsatisfactory performance of Executive’s duties; (iv) Executive’s repeated failure to follow reasonable and lawful instructions from the Board or Executive’s Supervisor; (v) Executive’s indictment for, conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any felony or crime that results in, or is reasonably expected to result in, a material adverse effect on the business or reputation of the Company; (vi) Executive’s commission of or participation in an act of fraud against the Company; (vii) Executive’s commission of or participation in an act that results in material damage to the Company’s business, property or reputation; (viii) Executive’s unauthorized use or disclosure of any proprietary information or trade secrets of the Company or any other party to whom Executive owes an obligation of nondisclosure as a result of his relationship with the Company; or (ix) Executive’s termination by the Company’s “Security Director,” a member of the Company’s Board who is serving the role of the “Security Director” as defined in that certain National Security Agreement by and among the Company, Brainyspace LLC, Mikhail Kokorich, Liudmila Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A., Lev Khasis and Olga Khasis, and the U.S. Government represented by the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury as the CFIUS Monitoring Agencies, dated on or about the date hereof.

 

Executive will not be terminated for Cause without the Company first providing Executive with written notice of the acts or omissions constituting the grounds for Cause within sixty (60) days of the initial existence of the grounds for Cause and, if capable of cure, a cure period of thirty (30) days following the date Executive receives such notice during which such condition must not have been cured.

 

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(b) Change in Control. “Change in Control” means the occurrence of any of the following but shall exclude the Closing of the Transactions (as defined in the Merger Agreement):

 

(i) The consummation of a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or any other corporate reorganization, if the Company’s stockholders immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or reorganization cease to directly or indirectly own immediately after such merger, consolidation or reorganization at least a majority of the combined voting power of the continuing or surviving entity’s securities outstanding immediately after such merger, consolidation or reorganization;

 

(ii) The consummation of the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets (other than (A) to a corporation or other entity of which at least a majority of its combined voting power is owned directly or indirectly by the Company, (B) to a corporation or other entity owned directly or indirectly by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Common Stock of the Company or (C) to a continuing or surviving entity described in Section 9(b)(i) in connection with a merger, consolidation or reorganization which does not result in a Change in Control under Section 9(b)(i));

 

(iii) A change in the effective control of the Company which occurs on the date that a majority of members of the Board is replaced during any twelve (12) month period by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board prior to the date of the appointment or election; or

 

(iv) The consummation of any transaction as a result of which any “person” (as defined below) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing at least fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the Company’s then outstanding voting securities. For purposes of this Section 9(h), the term “person” shall have the same meaning as when used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act but shall exclude:

 

(1) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or an affiliate;

 

(2) a corporation or other entity owned directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Common Stock of the Company;

 

(3) the Company; and

 

(4) a corporation or other entity of which at least a majority of its combined voting power is owned directly or indirectly by the Company.

 

A transaction shall not constitute a Change in Control if its sole purpose is to change the state of the Company’s incorporation or to create a holding company that will be owned in substantially the same proportions by the persons who held the Company’s securities immediately before such transactions. In addition, if any person (as defined above) is considered to be in effective control of the Company, the acquisition of additional control of the Company by the same person will not be considered to cause a Change in Control. If required for compliance with Section 409A of the Code, in no event will a Change in Control be deemed to have occurred if such transaction is not also a “change in the ownership or effective control of” the Company or “a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of” the Company as determined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5) (without regard to any alternative definition thereunder).

 

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(c) Change in Control Protection Period. “Change in Control Protection Period” means the period beginning three (3) months prior to and ending twenty-four (24) months following the consummation of a Change in Control.

 

(d) Code. “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

(e) Disability. “Disability” or “Disabled” means that Executive is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted, or can be expected to last, for a continuous period of not less than 1 year.

 

(f) Good Reason. “Good Reason” means Executive’s termination of Employment within 30 days following the expiration of any cure period (discussed below) following the occurrence of one or more of the following, without Executive’s consent:

 

(i) A material reduction in Executive’s Base Salary (except where there is a reduction applicable to all similarly situated executive officers generally); provided, that a reduction of less than ten percent (10%) will not be considered a material reduction in Base Salary; or

 

(ii) Executive reporting to a Person other than the Board.

 

If the termination of Executive’s Employment occurs during the Change in Control Protection Period, then Good Reason will also include the occurrence of one of the following:

 

(iii) A material reduction of Executive’s duties, authority or responsibilities, relative to Executive’s duties, authority or responsibilities in effect immediately prior to such reduction; provided, however, that a reduction in duties, authority or responsibilities solely by virtue of the Company being acquired and made part of a larger entity (as, for example, when the CEO of the Company remains as such following a change in control but is not made the CEO of the acquiring corporation) will not constitute Good Reason; or

 

(iv) Executive being required to relocate Executive’s primary residence prior to the fourth anniversary of the Effective Date.

 

Executive will not resign for Good Reason without first providing the Company with written notice of the acts or omissions constituting the grounds for Good Reason within 60 days of the initial existence of the grounds for Good Reason and, if capable of cure, a cure period of 30 days following the date the Company receives such notice during which such condition must not have been cured.

 

(g) Governmental Authority. “Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, foreign or other government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, or any private or public court or tribunal.

 

(h) Merger Agreement. “Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among the Company, Parent, Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC and Momentus Inc. dated as of October 7, 2020, as amended, of which Executive has a received copy and has reviewed.

 

(i) Person. “Person” shall be construed in the broadest sense and means and includes any natural person, a partnership, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a limited liability company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and other entity or Governmental Authority.

 

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(j) Section 409A. “Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code, and the final regulations and any guidance promulgated thereunder or any state law equivalent.

 

(k) Termination Date.Termination Date” means the date on which Executive’s employment with the Company (or any successor) terminates for any reason. For purposes of the payment of severance payments and benefits pursuant to Section 6 hereof, the Termination Date shall also be required to constitute a “separation of service” from the Company (or any successor) within the meaning of Section 409A.

 

10. Golden Parachute.

 

(a) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, if any payment or benefit Executive would receive from the Company or otherwise (“Payment”) would (i) constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code; and (ii) but for this sentence, be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the “Excise Tax”), then such Payment shall be equal to the Reduced Amount. The “Reduced Amount shall be either (x) the largest portion of the Payment that would result in no portion of the Payment being subject to the Excise Tax; or (y) the largest portion, up to and including the total, of the Payment, whichever amount, after taking into account all applicable federal, state and local employment taxes, income taxes, and the Excise Tax (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rate), results in Executive’s receipt, on an after-tax basis, of the greater amount of the Payment. Any reduction made pursuant to this Section 10(a) shall be made in accordance with the following order of priority: (i) stock options whose exercise price exceeds the fair market value of the optioned stock (“Underwater Options”) (ii) Full Credit Payments (as defined below) that are payable in cash, (iii) non-cash Full Credit Payments that are taxable, (iv) non-cash Full Credit Payments that are not taxable (v) Partial Credit Payments (as defined below) and (vi) non-cash employee welfare benefits. In each case, reductions shall be made in reverse chronological order such that the payment or benefit owed on the latest date following the occurrence of the event triggering the excise tax will be the first payment or benefit to be reduced (with reductions made pro-rata in the event payments or benefits are owed at the same time). “Full Credit Payment” means a payment, distribution or benefit, whether paid or payable or distributed or distributable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or otherwise, that if reduced in value by one dollar reduces the amount of the parachute payment (as defined in Section 280G of the Code) by one dollar, determined as if such payment, distribution or benefit had been paid or distributed on the date of the event triggering the excise tax. “Partial Credit Payment” means any payment, distribution or benefit that is not a Full Credit Payment.

 

(b) A nationally recognized certified public accounting firm selected by the Company (the “Accounting Firm”) shall perform the foregoing calculations related to the Excise Tax. If a reduction is required pursuant to Section 10(a), the Accounting Firm shall administer the ordering of the reduction as set forth in Section 10(a). The Company shall bear all expenses with respect to the determinations by such accounting firm required to be made hereunder.

 

(c) The Accounting Firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder shall provide its calculations, together with detailed supporting documentation, to Executive and the Company within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date on which Executive’s right to a Payment is triggered. Any good faith determinations of the Accounting Firm made hereunder shall be final, binding, and conclusive upon Executive and the Company.

 

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11. Restrictive Covenants. The agreements and obligations of Executive in this Section 11 are in addition to and not in lieu the provisions of any other restrictive covenant agreement to which Executive is a party with the Company or its affiliates.

 

(a) Non-Solicitation. During the period beginning on Executive’s Termination Date and continuing until the first anniversary thereof, Executive or Executive’s affiliates shall not directly or indirectly, personally or through others, solicit, recruit or attempt to solicit or recruit (on Executive’s own behalf or on behalf of any other Person) either (i) any current employee or any consultant of the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates, (ii) any former employee or consultant of the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates who left the Company’s (or such affiliate’s) service within the preceding six (6) months, or (iii) the business of any customer, supplier, lender or investor of the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates on whom Executive called or with whom Executive became acquainted during Executive’s Employment; provided, however, that any advertisement or solicitation made in a trade or industry publication or otherwise made to the general public and not directed at or targeting any employee or key customer of the Company or any affiliate shall not constitute a violation of this Section 11(a). Executive represents that Executive is (A) familiar with the foregoing covenants not to solicit, and (B) fully aware of Executive’s obligations hereunder, including, without limitation, the reasonableness of the length of time, scope and geographic coverage of these covenants.

 

(b) Non-Disparagement. Executive shall not make any remarks disparaging the conduct or character of the Company, any of the Company’s affiliates, or any of the Company’s or any Company affiliates’ current or former employees, officers, directors, successors or assigns.

 

(c) Non-Disclosure. Except if required by law, Executive shall not disclose to others this Agreement or its terms, except that Executive may disclose such information to Executive’s spouse, and to Executive’s attorney or accountant in order for such individuals to render services to Executive.

 

12. Arbitration. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Executive and the Company agree that any and all disputes, demands, claims, or controversies (“claims”) relating to, arising from or regarding Executive’s employment, including claims by the Company, claims against the Company, and claims against any current or former parent, affiliate, subsidiary, successor or predecessor of the Company, and each of the Company’s and these entities’ respective officers, directors, agents or employees, shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration before a single arbitrator in San Jose, California (or another mutually agreeable location). This does not prevent either Executive or the Company from seeking and obtaining temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in court to prevent irreparable harm to Executive’s or its confidential information or trade secrets pending the conclusion of any arbitration. This arbitration agreement does not apply to any claims that have been expressly excluded from arbitration by a governing law not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and does not restrict or preclude Executive from communicating with, filing an administrative charge or claim with, or providing testimony to any governmental entity about any actual or potential violation of law or obtaining relief through a government agency process. The parties hereto agree that claims shall be resolved on an individual basis only, and not on a class, collective, or representative basis on behalf of other employees to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (“Class Waiver”). Any claim that all or part of the Class Waiver is invalid, unenforceable, or unconscionable may be determined only by a court. In no case may class, collective or representative claims proceed in arbitration on behalf of other employees.

 

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The parties agree that the arbitration shall be conducted by a single neutral arbitrator through JAMS in accordance with JAMS Employment Arbitration Rules and Procedures (available at www.jamsadr.com/rules-employment-arbitration). Except as to the Class Waiver, the arbitrator shall determine arbitrability. The Company will bear all JAMS arbitration fees and administrative costs in excess of the amount of administrative fees and costs that Executive otherwise would have been required to pay if the claims were litigated in court. The arbitrator shall apply the applicable substantive law in deciding the claims at issue. Claims will be governed by their applicable statute of limitations and failure to demand arbitration within the prescribed time period shall bar the claims as provided by law. The decision or award of the arbitrator shall be final and binding upon the parties. This arbitration agreement is enforceable under and governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. In the event that any portion of this arbitration agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, any such provision shall be severed, and the remainder of this arbitration agreement will be given full force and effect. By signing the offer letter, Executive acknowledges and agrees that Executive has read this arbitration agreement carefully, are bound by it and are WAIVING ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A TRIAL BEFORE A COURT OR JURY OF ANY AND ALL CLAIMS SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION UNDER THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT.

 

13. Confidentiality Agreement. Executive’s acceptance of this offer of Employment and Executive’s Employment with the Company is contingent upon the execution and delivery to an officer of the Company of the Company’s Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Attachment A for Executive’s review and execution (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), prior to or on the Effective Date.

 

14. Employment Conditions.

 

(a) Right to Work. For purposes of federal immigration law, Executive will be required, if Executive has not already, to provide to the Company documentary evidence of Executive’s identity and eligibility for employment in the United States. Such documentation must be provided to the Company within three (3) business days of the Effective Date, or our Employment relationship with Executive may be terminated.

 

(b) Verification of Information. This Agreement is also contingent upon the successful verification of the information Executive provided to the Company during Executive’s application process, as well as a general background check performed by the Company to confirm Executive’s suitability for Employment. By accepting this Agreement, Executive warrants that all information provided by Executive is true and correct to the best of Executive’s knowledge, Executive agrees to execute any and all documentation necessary for the Company to conduct a background check and Executive expressly releases the Company from any claim or cause of action arising out of the Company’s verification of such information.

 

15. Successors.

 

(a) Company’s Successors. This Agreement shall be binding upon any successor (whether direct or indirect and whether by purchase, lease, merger, consolidation, liquidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the Company’s business and/or assets. For all purposes under this Agreement, the term “Company” shall include any successor to the Company’s business or assets that become bound by this Agreement or any affiliate of any such successor that employs Executive.

 

(b) Executive’s Successors. This Agreement and all of Executive’s rights hereunder shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, Executive’s personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees.

 

16. Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

(a) Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify Executive to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and the Company’s Bylaws with respect to Executive’s service and Executive shall also be covered under a directors and officers liability insurance policy paid for by the Company to the extent that the Company maintains such a liability insurance policy now or in the future.

 

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(b) Headings. All captions and section headings used in this Agreement are for convenient reference only and do not form a part of this Agreement.

 

(c) Notice. Notices and all other communications contemplated by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or when mailed by U.S. registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid. In Executive’s case, mailed notices shall be addressed to Executive at the home address that Executive most recently communicated to the Company in writing. In the case of the Company, mailed notices shall be addressed to its corporate headquarters, and all notices shall be directed to the attention of its Secretary.

 

(d) Modifications and Waivers. No provision of this Agreement shall be modified, waived or discharged unless the modification, waiver or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed by Executive and by an authorized officer of the Company (other than Executive). No waiver by either party of any breach of, or of compliance with, any condition or provision of this Agreement by the other party shall be considered a waiver of any other condition or provision or of the same condition or provision at another time.

 

(e) Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the Confidentiality Agreement contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all other prior or contemporaneous discussions, understandings and agreements, whether oral or written, between them relating to the subject matter hereof.

 

(f) Withholding Taxes. All payments made under this Agreement shall be subject to reduction to reflect taxes or other deductions required to be withheld by law.

 

(g) Choice of Law and Severability. This Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California without giving effect to provisions governing the choice of law. If any provision of this Agreement becomes or is deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any applicable jurisdiction by reason of the scope, extent or duration of its coverage, then such provision shall be deemed amended to the minimum extent necessary to conform to applicable law so as to be valid and enforceable or, if such provision cannot be so amended without materially altering the intention of the parties, then such provision shall be stricken and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. If any provision of this Agreement is rendered illegal by any present or future statute, law, ordinance or regulation (collectively, the “Law”) then that provision shall be curtailed or limited only to the minimum extent necessary to bring the provision into compliance with the Law. All the other terms and provisions of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without impairment or limitation.

 

(h) No Assignment. This Agreement and all of Executive’s rights and obligations hereunder are personal to Executive and may not be transferred or assigned by Executive at any time. The Company may assign its rights under this Agreement to any entity that assumes the Company’s obligations hereunder in connection with any sale or transfer to such entity of all or a substantial portion of the Company’s assets.

 

(i) Acknowledgment. Executive acknowledges that Executive has had the opportunity to discuss this matter with and obtain advice from Executive’s personal attorney, has had sufficient time to, and has carefully read and fully understood all the provisions of this Agreement, and is knowingly and voluntarily entering into this Agreement.

 

(j) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Execution of a facsimile copy will have the same force and effect as execution of an original, and a facsimile signature will be deemed an original and valid signature.

 

(k) Electronic Delivery. The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents or notices related to this letter, securities of the Company or any of its affiliates or any other matter, including documents and/or notices required to be delivered to Executive by applicable securities law or any other law or the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws by email or any other electronic means. Executive hereby consents to (i) conduct business electronically, (ii) receive such documents and notices by such electronic delivery and (iii) sign documents electronically and to participate through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party designated by the Company.

 

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After you have had an opportunity to review this Agreement, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments. To indicate your acceptance of this Agreement, please sign and date this letter in the space provided below and return it to the Company.

 

  Very truly yours,
   
  momentus inc.
     
  By: /s/ Dawn Harms
    (Signature)
     
  Name: Dawn Harms
     
  Title: Interim Chief Executive Officer
     

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:  
   
John Rood  
   
/s/ John Rood  
(Signature)  

 

Attachment A: Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement

 

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ATTACHMENT A

 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND INVENTION ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 10.15

 

MOMENTUS INC.

 

DIRECTOR COMPENSATION POLICY

 

(Adopted and approved on August 12, 2021
and effective as of the consummation of the Company’s business combination)

 

Each member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Momentus Inc. (the “Company”) who is not an employee of the Company (each such member, an “Outside Director”) will receive the compensation described in this Outside Director Compensation Policy (the “Director Compensation Policy”) for his or her Board service following the date set forth above (the “Effective Date”). The compensation for our Security Director and for service on the Security Committee of the Board, so long as such positions exist, shall not be specified in this Director Compensation Policy.

 

The Director Compensation Policy will become effective upon the Effective Date. The Director Compensation Policy may be amended at any time in the sole discretion of the Board.

 

Annual Cash Compensation

 

Each Outside Director will receive the cash compensation set forth below for service on the Board.  The annual cash compensation amounts will be payable in arrears, in equal quarterly installments following the end of each fiscal quarter of the Company in which the service occurred. Any amount payable for a partial quarter of service will be pro-rated by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which will be the number of days of service that the Outside Director provided in such quarter and the denominator of which will be the number of days in such quarter inclusive. All annual cash fees are vested upon payment. For purposes of clarity, the first quarterly installment of the annual retainers set forth below shall be paid for the first quarter that ends on or after the Effective Date, with the amount of such payment equal to the full quarterly installment, pro-rated as applicable based on the days of service that the Outside Director provided in such quarter.

 

1. Annual Board Member Service Retainer:

 

a. All Outside Directors: $100,000.

 

b. Outside Director serving as Chairperson: $60,000 (in addition to above).

 

c. Outside Director serving as Lead Independent Director: $30,000 (in addition to above).

 

2. Annual Committee Member Service Retainer:

 

a. Member of the Audit Committee: $20,000.

 

b. Member of the Compensation Committee: $15,000.

 

c. Member of the Disclosure Committee: $15,000.

 

d. Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee: $10,000.

 

 

 

 

3. Annual Committee Chair Service Retainer (in lieu of Annual Committee Member Service Retainer):

 

a. Chairperson of the Audit Committee: $30,000.

 

b. Chairperson of the Compensation Committee: $22,500.

 

c. Chairperson of the Disclosure Committee: $22,500.

 

d. Chairperson of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee: $15,000.

 

Equity Compensation

 

Equity awards will be granted under the Company’s 2021 Equity Incentive Plan or any successor equity incentive plan adopted by the Board and the stockholders of the Company (the “Plan”).

 

1. Automatic Equity Grants. Annual and initial grants made on or after the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) during 2022 (the “2022 Annual Meeting”) shall be made as follows:

 

a. Annual Grant for Continuing Outside Directors. Without any further action of the Board, at the close of business on the date of each Annual Meeting beginning with the 2022 Annual Meeting, each continuing Outside Director shall be granted a restricted stock unit award (“RSU Award”) under the Plan covering shares (“Shares”) of the Company’s Common Stock (as defined in the Plan) having an RSU Value (as defined below) of $250,000 (a “Continuing Director Annual RSU Award”); provided that the number of Shares covered by each Continuing Director Annual RSU Award will be rounded down to the nearest whole Share. Each Continuing Director Annual RSU Award shall vest on the earlier of (i) the day before the next Annual Meeting or (ii) the one-year anniversary of the grant date, subject to the applicable Outside Director’s continued service as a member of the Board through such vesting date.

 

b. Annual Grant for New Outside Directors. Without any further action of the Board, each person who, on or after the 2022 Annual Meeting, is elected or appointed for the first time to be an Outside Director will automatically, upon the date of his or her initial election or appointment to be an Outside Director, be granted a RSU Award under the Plan covering Shares having an RSU Value of $250,000, pro-rated based on the number of full months that are expected to lapse between the Outside Director’s appointment to the Board and the next Annual Meeting (a “New Director Annual RSU Award”); provided that the number of Shares covered by each New Director Annual RSU Award will be rounded down to the nearest whole Share.  Each New Director Annual RSU Award shall vest in full on the day before the next Annual Meeting, subject to the Outside Director’s continued service as a member of the Board through such date.

 

c. Initial Grant for New Outside Directors. Without any further action of the Board, each person who, on or after the 2022 Annual Meeting, is elected or appointed for the first time to be an Outside Director will automatically, upon the date of his or her initial election or appointment to be an Outside Director, be granted, in addition to the New Director Annual RSU Award, a RSU Award under the Plan covering Shares having an RSU Value of $350,000 (a “New Director Initial RSU Award”); provided that the number of Shares covered by each New Director Initial RSU Award will be rounded down to the nearest whole Share. Each New Director Initial RSU Award shall vest in equal yearly installments over the 3-year period following the grant date, subject to the applicable Outside Director’s continued service as a member of the Board through each such vesting date.

 

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2. Transitional RSU Grants. Prior to the 2022 Annual Meeting, in lieu of the restricted stock unit awards provided in Section 1 above, there shall be transitional restricted stock unit awards (the “Transitional RSU Awards”) granted upon the following terms:

 

a. One-Time Transitional Initial Grant for Outside Directors. Outside Directors who serve on or after the Effective Date (but before the 2022 Annual Meeting) shall be granted a Transitional RSU Award under the Plan covering Shares having an RSU Value of $350,000 (a “Transitional Initial RSU Award”); provided that the number of Shares covered by each Transitional Initial RSU Award will be rounded down to the nearest whole Share. Each Transitional Initial RSU Award shall vest in equal yearly installments over the 3-year period from the date the Outside Director was initially elected or appointed, if initially elected or appointed on or after the Effective Date, or from the Effective Date, if initially elected or appointed prior to the Effective Date, subject to the Outside Director’s continued service as a member of the Board through each such vesting date.

 

b. One-Time Transitional Annual Grant for Outside Directors. All Outside Directors who serve on or after the Effective Date (but before the 2022 Annual Meeting) shall be granted a Transitional RSU Award under the Plan covering Shares having an RSU Value equal to approximately $250,000 x (the number of whole months from the later of (i) the Effective Date and (ii) the Outside Director’s election or appointment to the Board, until June 1, 2022, divided by 12) (a “Transitional Annual RSU Award”); provided that the number of Shares covered by each Transitional Annual RSU Award will be rounded down to the nearest whole Share. For example, if the Effective Date is in August 2021 (and after August 1, 2021) and an Outside Director is appointed on the Effective Date, the RSU Value would be $250,000 x 9/12 = $187,500. The Transitional Annual RSU Award shall vest on the earlier to occur of June 1, 2022 or the day before the 2022 Annual Meeting, subject to the applicable Outside Director’s continued service as a member of the Board through such vesting date.

 

c. Grant Date and Vesting Start Date. Without any further action on the Board, the Transitional RSU Awards shall be granted on the latest to occur of (i) the Outside Director’s election or appointment to the Board, (ii) the Effective Date, and (iii) the effectiveness of the Company’s registration statement for the Shares subject to the Plan. However, the Transitional RSU Awards shall vest on the schedules described in 2(a) and 2(b) above, regardless of when they are granted.

 

3. Change in Control. All vesting is subject to the Outside Director’s continued service as a member of the Board through each applicable vesting date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Outside Director remains in continuous service as a member of the Board until immediately prior to the: (a) the Outside Director’s death, (b) the Outside Director’s “Disability” (as defined in the Plan) or (c) the closing of a “Change in Control” (as defined in the Plan) (each an “Acceleration Event”), any unvested portion of any RSU Award granted in consideration of such Outside Director’s service as a member of the Board shall vest in full immediately prior to, and contingent upon, the applicable Acceleration Event.

 

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4. Calculation of RSU Value. The “RSU Value” of a RSU Award to be granted under this policy will equal the number of Shares subject to the restricted stock unit award multiplied by the closing price of a Share on the grant date, or if the grant date is not a trading day, the closing price of a Share on the trading day immediately prior to the grant date.

 

5. Remaining Terms. The remaining terms and conditions of each RSU Award granted under this policy will be as set forth in the Plan and the Company’s standard form of RSU Award agreement, as amended from time to time by the Board or the Compensation Committee of the Board, as applicable.

 

6. Option Grants in Lieu of RSU Awards. To avoid adverse tax consequences in the case of Outside Directors who do not reside in the United States, at the sole discretion of the Board, any RSU Award to be granted under this policy may instead be granted in the form of a non-statutory stock option under the Plan (an “Option Award”) covering such number of Shares that result in such Option Award having an Option Value equal to the RSU Value of the RSU Award that such Option Award is intended to replace. The Option Value of an Option Award will equal its grant date value calculated in accordance with the Black-Scholes option valuation methodology. Each Option Award will have a term of ten years from the date of grant and an exercise price per Share equal to the closing price of a Share on the grant date, or if the grant date is not a trading day, the closing price of a Share on the trading day immediately prior to the grant date. All other terms and conditions that apply to RSU Awards under this policy will apply to Option Awards.

 

Deferral of Cash Retainers and Equity Grants

 

Upon the approval of the Company, prior to a cash retainer being earned, upon election by an Outside Director in a form and within the timeframe prescribed by the Company, an Outside Director may elect to defer such cash retainer into fully-vested deferred stock units (“DSUs”) of the Company, which will be granted after such retainer is earned. DSUs are held as stock units, but are settled in Shares upon the earlier of: (1) the date chosen on the election form, and (2) the “separation from service” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(a)(1)) of the Outside Director. In addition, an Outside Director may elect in a form and within the timeframe prescribed by the Company to defer restricted stock units into DSUs with a settlement date that occurs at least three years after the restricted stock units have fully vested and up to the time the Outside Director has a “separation from service.” All deferral elections to DSUs must comply with Section 409A of the Code, the Treasury Regulations and other official guidance thereunder.

 

Expenses

 

The Company will reimburse each Outside Director for ordinary, necessary and reasonable out-of-pocket travel expenses to cover in-person attendance at, and participation in, Board and committee meetings, provided, that the Outside Director timely submits to the Company appropriate documentation substantiating such expenses in accordance with the Company’s travel and expense policy, as in effect from time to time.

 

 

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Exhibit 16.1

 

August 18, 2021

 

Office of the Chief Accountant

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, NE

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have read Momentus Inc. statements (formerly known as Stable Road Acquisition Corp.) included under Item 4.01 of its Form 8-K dated August 18, 2021. We agree with the statements concerning our Firm under Item 4.01, in which we were informed of our dismissal on August 12, 2021. We are not in a position to agree or disagree with other statements contained therein.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ WithumSmith+Brown, PC

 

New York, New York

 

Exhibit 21.1

 

Subsidiaries of Momentus Inc.

 

Name of Subsidiary   Jurisdiction of Organization
     
Momentus Space LLC   Delaware

 

 

Exhibit 99.1

 

MOMENTUS INC.

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS

 

    June 30,
2021
    December 31,
2020
 
    (unaudited)        
ASSETS            
Current assets:            
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 31,152,364     $ 23,004,546  
Restricted cash, current     1,400,000       100,000  
Prepaids and other current assets     5,741,542       4,508,284  
Total current assets     38,293,906       27,612,830  
Property, machinery and equipment, net     4,787,679       2,321,100  
Intangible assets, net     321,595       305,482  
Operating right of use asset     8,156,424       316,040  
Deferred offering costs     6,202,630       2,610,024  
Restricted cash, non-current     415,759       415,000  
Other non-current assets     2,265,000       2,740,000  
Total assets   $ 60,442,993     $ 36,320,476  
                 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT                
Accounts payable   $ 3,143,818     $ 1,862,667  
Accrued expenses     5,285,664       3,063,880  
Loan payable, current     15,534,593        
Contract liabilities, current     1,464,200       1,913,734  
Operating lease liability, current     1,009,827       254,197  
Share repurchase liability, current     22,000,001        
Other current liabilities     2,279,115       219,980  
Total current liabilities     50,717,218       7,314,458  
Contract liabilities, non-current     1,610,740       711,090  
Warrant liability     6,316,678       3,206,185  
SAFE notes     162,925,780       314,439,663  
Operating lease liability, non-current     7,767,283       71,961  
Other non-current liabilities     5,431,665       48,626  
Total liabilities     234,769,364       325,791,983  
                 
Stockholders’ deficit:                
Preferred stock                
Series Seed preferred stock     28       42  
Series Seed-1 preferred stock     3       3  
Series Seed-2 preferred stock     5       5  
Series A preferred stock     62       62  
Series A-1 preferred stock     32       32  
FF Preferred common stock           20  
Common stock     19       86  
Additional paid-in capital     48,013,423       39,866,244  
Treasury Stock     (21,999,900 )      
Accumulated deficit     (200,340,043 )     (329,338,001 )
Total stockholders’ deficit     (174,326,371 )     (289,471,507 )
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit   $ 60,442,993     $ 36,320,476  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

The balance sheet at December 31, 2020 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date

 

F-1

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(UNAUDITED)

 

    Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020     2021     2020  
Service revenue   $     $     $ 130,000     $  
Cost of revenue                 48,400        
Gross margin                 81,600        
Operating expenses:                                
Research and development expenses     20,794,056       3,963,236       30,700,331       8,380,801  
Selling, general and administrative expenses     9,739,855       1,567,514       23,744,364       3,422,030  
Total operating expenses     30,533,911       5,530,750       54,444,695       11,802,831  
Loss from operations     (30,533,911 )     (5,530,750 )     (54,363,095 )     (11,802,831 )
                                 
Other income (expense):                                
Decrease (increase) in fair value of SAFE notes     100,802,979       (3,586,605 )     182,366,571       (3,587,989 )
Decrease in fair value of warrants     4,454,324       5,078       12,537,046       6,687  
Interest income     983       2,878       1,988       6,156  
Interest expense     (3,389,040 )     (62,515 )     (4,357,133 )     (78,413 )
SEC settlement     (7,000,000 )           (7,000,000 )      
Other income (expense)     (7,381 )     20,491       (186,619 )     50,322  
Total other income (expense)     94,861,865       (3,620,673 )     183,361,853       (3,603,237 )
Income (loss) before income taxes     64,327,954       (9,151,423 )     128,998,758       (15,406,068 )
Income tax provision     800       800       800       800  
Net income (loss)   $ 64,327,154     $ (9,152,223 )   $ 128,997,958     $ (15,406,868 )
Net income (loss) per share, basic   $ 0.89     $ (0.11 )   $ 1.60     $ (0.17 )
Net loss per share, diluted   $ (0.15 )   $ (0.11 )   $ (0.23 )   $ (0.17 )
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic     71,901,904       86,222,804       80,593,815       90,717,435  
Weighted average shares outstanding, diluted     276,694,495       86,222,804       285,583,810       90,717,435  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

F-2

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)

(UNAUDITED)

 

    Three Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2020  
    Preferred stock     FF Preferred    

Common stock –

Class A

   

Common stock –

Class B

    Treasury Stock     Additional paid in     Accumulated     Total stockholders’
equity
 
  Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     capital     deficit     (deficit)  
Three Months Ended June 30, 2021                                                                              
Balance, March 31, 2021     144,875,941     $ 144       20,000,000     $ 20       19,494,628     $ 19       70,000,000     $ 70     $     $     $ 45,658,057     $ (264,667,197 )   $ (219,008,887 )
Stock option exercises                             160,149                                     11,212             11,212  
Stock-based compensation – Stock options and RSAs                                                                 2,344,154             2,344,154  
Share repurchase     (13,759,298 )     (14 )     (20,000,000 )     (20 )                 (70,000,000 )     (70 )     103,759,298       (21,999,900 )                   (22,000,004 )
Net income                                                                       64,327,154       64,327,154  
Balance, June 30, 2021     131,116,643     $ 130           $       19,654,777     $ 19           $       103,759,298     $ (21,999,900 )   $ 48,013,423     $ (200,340,043 )   $ (174,326,371 )

 

    Preferred stock     FF Preferred    

Common stock –

Class A

   

Common stock –

Class B

    Treasury Stock     Additional
paid in
    Accumulated     Total
stockholders’
(deficit)
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     capital     deficit     equity  
Three Months Ended June 30, 2020                                                                                                        
Balance, March 31, 2020     144,875,941     $ 144       20,000,000     $ 20       16,212,408     $ 16       70,000,000     $ 70           $     $ 37,112,710     $ (28,565,501 )   $ 8,547,459  
Stock option exercises                             72,775                                     5,095             5,095  
Stock-based compensation – Stock options and RSAs                                                                 167,133             167,133  
Net income                                                                       (9,152,223 )     (9,152,223 )
Balance, June 30, 2020     144,875,941     $ 144       20,000,000     $ 20       16,285,183     $ 16       70,000,000     $ 70           $     $ 37,284,938     $ (37,717,724 )   $ (432,536 )

 

F-3

 

 

    Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2020  
    Preferred stock     FF Preferred    

Common stock –

Class A

   

Common stock –

Class B

    Treasury Stock     Additional
paid in
    Accumulated     Total
stockholders’
equity
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     capital     deficit     (deficit)  
Six Months Ended June 30, 2021                                                                              
Balance, December 31, 2020     144,875,941     $ 144       20,000,000     $ 20       18,398,005     $ 18       70,000,000     $ 70           $     $ 39,866,244     $ (329,338,001 )   $ (289,471,505 )
Stock option exercises                             1,256,772       1                               35,175             35,176  
Stock-based compensation – Stock options and RSAs                                                                 8,112,004             8,112,004  
Share repurchase     (13,759,298 )     (14 )     (20,000,000 )     (20 )                 (70,000,000 )     (70 )     103,759,298       (21,999,900 )                 (22,000,004 )
Net income                                                                       128,997,958       128,997,958  
Balance, June 30, 2021     131,116,643     $ 130           $       19,654,777     $ 19           $       103,759,298     $ (21,999,900 )   $ 48,013,423     $ (200,340,043 )   $ (174,326,371 )

 

    Preferred stock     FF Preferred    

Common stock –

Class A

   

Common stock –

Class B

    Treasury Stock     Additional
paid in
    Accumulated     Total
stockholders’
(deficit)
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     capital     deficit     equity  
Six Months Ended June 30, 2020                                                                                                        
Balance, December 31, 2019     144,875,941     $ 144       20,000,000     $ 20       15,493,658     $ 15       80,000,000     $ 80           $     $ 37,003,971     $ (22,307,244 )   $ 14,696,986  
Stock option exercises                             791,525       1                               12,281             12,282  
Stock-based compensation – Stock options and RSAs                                                                 268,676             268,676  
Stock contribution from co-founder (Note 13)                                         (10,000,000 )     (10 )                 10              
ASC 842 lease accounting adoption                                                                       (3,612 )     (3,612 )
Net loss                                                                       (15,406,868 )     (15,406,868 )
Balance, June 30, 2020     144,875,941     $ 144       20,000,000     $ 20       16,285,183     $ 16       70,000,000     $ 70           $     $ 37,284,938     $ (37,717,724 )   $ (432,536 )

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

F-4

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

 

    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020  
Cash flows from operating activities:            
Net income (loss)   $ 128,997,958     $ (15,406,868 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:                
Depreciation and amortization     447,986       263,785  
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs     3,357,132       18,480  
Decrease in fair value of warrants     (12,537,046 )     (6,687 )
(Decrease) increase in fair value of SAFE notes     (182,366,571 )     3,587,989  
Impairment of prepaid launch costs     9,450,000        
Stock-based compensation expense     8,112,004       268,676  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                
Prepaids and other current assets     (10,683,257 )     (2,112,972 )
Other non-current assets     (2,108,320 )     377,500  
Accounts payable     2,695,977       288,447  
Accrued expenses     2,453,959       559,527  
Other current liabilities     2,042,670       1,302,108  
Contract liabilities     450,116       (550,600 )
Lease liability and right of use asset     610,568       41  
Other non-current liabilities     5,000,000        
Net cash used in operating activities     (44,076,824 )     (11,410,575 )
                 
Cash flows from investing activities:                
Purchase of property, machinery and equipment     (2,184,645 )     (940,984 )
Purchases of intangible assets     (2,812 )     (66,957 )
Net cash used in investing activities     (2,187,457 )     (1,007,941 )
                 
Cash flows from financing activities:                
Proceeds from issuance of SAFE notes     30,852,687       7,650,000  
Proceeds from issuance of term loan payable     25,000,000       2,457,772  
Payment of debt issuance costs     (143,705 )     (36,938 )
Payment of warrant issuance costs     (31,295 )     (721 )
Purchase of treasury stock     (3 )      
Proceeds from issuance of common stock     35,174       12,282  
Net cash provided by financing activities     55,712,858       10,082,395  
                 
Increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash     9,448,577       (2,336,121 )
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period     23,519,546       13,002,056  
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period   $ 32,968,123     $ 10,665,935  
                 
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities                
Deferred offering costs in accounts payable and accrued expenses at period end   $ 370,053     $  
Deferred offering costs in loan payable at period end   $ 1,500,000     $  
Operating lease right-of-use assets in exchange for lease obligations   $ 8,501,073     $  
                 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information                
Cash paid for income taxes   $ 800     $ 800  
Cash paid for interest   $ 1,000,000     $ 47,032  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

F-5

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 1. Nature of Operations

 

Company and Background

 

Momentus Inc. (“Momentus” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Delaware on May 16, 2017, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The Company plans to offer in-space infrastructure services that can be instrumental to enabling the commercialization of space. The Company plans to partner with launch providers and seeks to offer a range of in-space services, including transportation services, satellite-as-a-service and in-orbit services. The Company’s vehicles will be equipped with a propulsion system (microwave electrothermal thruster) which uses water as a propellant.

 

On October 7, 2020, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Merger Agreement”) with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (“SRAC”), a publicly listed special purpose acquisition company, Project Marvel First Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of SRAC (“First Merger Sub”), and Project Marvel Second Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of SRAC (“Second Merger Sub”), pursuant to which the First Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company with the Company as the surviving corporation of the First Merger Sub, and immediately following which the surviving corporation will merge with and into the Second Merger Sub, with the Second Merger Sub as the surviving entity (the “Business Combination”). Following the closing of the Business Combination, SRAC will be renamed Momentus Inc. and such combined operating company (the “Combined Company”) would continue to have its Class A common stock and public warrants listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) and trade under the ticker symbols “MNTS” and “MNTSW”, respectively. Prior to the signing of the Merger Agreement, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated were unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of the Company and SRAC. Closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are subject to the approval by the stockholders of the Company and the SRAC’s stockholders, among other closing conditions.

 

The Merger Agreement was further amended on March 5, 2021, April 6, 2021 and June 29, 2021, respectively, such that the aggregate merger consideration payable to the holders of Momentus equity interests (including convertible securities) will be paid in shares of the newly issued Combined Company Class A common stock (or securities exercisable for Combined Company Class A common stock) having a value equal to $566,600,000 subject to certain adjustments as set forth in the Merger Agreement as amended.

 

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Our significant accounting policies are detailed in “Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of our Annual Report presented in our S-4/A Registration Statement filed on July 21, 2021. There have been no significant changes to our accounting policies during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.

 

Unaudited Interim Financial Information

 

The accompanying interim condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. The balance sheet as of December 31, 2020 was derived from the Company’s audited financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP for audited financial statements. Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to the authoritative GAAP as found in the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) and Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”).

 

F-6

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont.)

 

The unaudited interim condensed financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the audited financial statements. In the opinion of the Company’s management, the accompanying unaudited interim condensed financial statements contain all adjustments that are necessary to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the net income/loss for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, the stockholders’ equity for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020. Such adjustments are of a normal and recurring nature. The results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results for the year ending December 31, 2021, or for any future period. These interim condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in SRAC’s proxy statement on July 21, 2021.

 

Reclassifications

 

Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior year’s financial statements to conform to the current year’s presentation. None of the reclassifications have changed the total assets, liabilities, stockholders’ deficit, income, expenses or net losses previously reported.

 

Going Concern

  

The Company has a history of operating losses and negative cash flows from operations. Management’s plans to continue as a going concern include raising additional financing, specifically through the Business Combination, and generating long term revenues through multi-year service agreements for its products and services. Prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, the Company will pursue additional debt and/or equity forms of bridge financing, as may be necessary. There can be no assurance that such plans will be successful and, as such, the Company’s management concluded that substantial doubt exists about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Further, the perception that the Company may not be able to continue as a going concern may also make it more difficult to operate its business due to concerns about its ability to meet its contractual obligations.

 

The Company may need to obtain additional funding whether through private or public equity or debt offerings or a combination thereof, and such additional funding may not be available on terms the Company finds acceptable. If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient capital to continue to advance its products and services, the Company would be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate its research and development programs and any future commercialization efforts. Accordingly, the Company has concluded there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date these financial statements are issued.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other factors it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Accordingly, actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates inherent in the preparation of the financial statements include, but are not limited to, accounting for useful lives of property, machinery and equipment, net, accrued liabilities, income taxes including deferred tax assets and liabilities, impairment valuation and stock-based awards.

 

COVID-19 Pandemic

 

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government and various states implemented quarantine requirements and travel restrictions. The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s financial statements will depend on future developments, including the duration of the outbreak, resurgences and emergence of variants, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. The potential impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s operations is inherently difficult to predict and could adversely impact the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations.

 

F-7

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont.)

 

Emerging Growth Company Status

 

Section 102(b)(1) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”) exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can choose not to take advantage of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies, and any such election to not take advantage of the extended transition period is irrevocable. The Company is an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and has elected to take advantage of the benefits of the extended transition period for new or revised financial accounting standards. The Company will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of (i) the last day of the fiscal year in which the market value of Common Stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the end of that year’s second fiscal quarter, (ii) the last day of the fiscal year in which the Post-Combination Company has total annual gross revenue of $1.07 billion or more during such fiscal year (as indexed for inflation), (iii) the date on which the Company has issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt in the prior three-year period or (iv) December 31, 2024, and the Company expects to continue to take advantage of the benefits of the extended transition period, although it may decide to early adopt such new or revised accounting standards to the extent permitted by such standards. This may make it difficult or impossible to compare the Company’s financial results with the financial results of another public company that is either not an emerging growth company or is an emerging growth company that has chosen not to take advantage of the extended transition period exemptions because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

 

Restricted Cash

 

Restricted cash primarily represents deposited cash that is restricted by financial institutions for three purposes. $515,000 is restricted as collateral for a letter of credit issued to the Company’s landlord in accordance with the terms of a lease agreement entered into in December 2020. A portion of this restricted cash ($100,000) is classified as a current asset as it will be returned to the Company upon the completion of the Business Combination with SRAC, while the remaining $415,000 is classified as a non-current asset as it will be returned to the Company upon the occurrence of future events which are expected to occur beyond at least one year from June 30, 2021. $1,000,000 is restricted for expenditures related to the National Security Agreement (“NSA” see Note 11). $300,000 is restricted, per the June 29, 2021 amendment to the Merger Agreement, for payment of legal fees incurred by SRAC in relation to the Merger Agreement.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

The Company enters into contracts for ‘last-mile’ satellite and cargo delivery, payload hosting and in-orbit servicing options with customers that are primarily in the aerospace industry. From inception to June 30, 2021, the Company has not completed a commercial launch of customer cargo and as a result, has not recognized revenue to date for services. However, as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company has signed contracts with customers including firm orders and options (some of which have already been exercised by customers) and has collected $3,074,940 and $2,624,824, respectively, in customer deposits, which are recorded as current and non-current contract liabilities in the Company’s balance sheet. Included in the collected amount as of June 30, 2021 are customer deposits which had been identified as pending customer refunds at period end, as discussed below, and $1,610,740 of non-current deposits which related to performance obligations not expected to be completed for at least one year.

 

The Company will recognize revenue (along with any other fees that have been paid) upon the earlier of the satisfaction of the Company’s performance obligation or when the customer cancels the contract. For the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recognized revenue related to a customer cancelled contract of $130,000, which was previously recorded as a contract liability and recorded $48,400 as a cost of revenue for costs incurred related to the cancelled contract.

 

While the Company’s standard contracts do not contain refund or recourse provisions that enable its customers to recover any non-refundable fees that have been paid, the Company may issue full or partial refunds to customers on a case-by-case basis as necessary to preserve and foster future business relationships and customer goodwill. As a result of the Company’s inability to complete any launches in 2021 (refer to Note 3 for additional information), the Company will issue customer refunds of approximately $1.5 million, presented as part of current contract liabilities, in the third quarter, ending September 30, 2021.

 

F-8

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont.)

 

Deferred Fulfillment and Prepaid Launch Costs

 

As of June 30, 2021, and December 31, 2020, the Company had $2,950,000 and $4,650,000, respectively, of deferred fulfillment and prepaid launch costs in the accompanying balance sheets. On May 21, 2021, the Company received notification from SpaceX that it was terminating two launch service agreements for flights scheduled during calendar year 2021 and that they considered the Company to be in default of prior payments totaling $8.7 million. The Company believes the prepayments will be non-recoverable as this was the third time the payload was rescheduled. As a result of the notification from SpaceX, the Company recorded an expense of $8.7 million of current prepaid launch costs during the three months ended June 30, 2021. See Note 3 for more information.

 

SAFE Notes

 

The Company issued Simple Agreement for Future Equity (“SAFE”) notes to investors during the three months ended March 31, 2021 and the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. The SAFE notes provide the investors the right to certain shares of the Company’s capital stock upon an equity financing. The Company determined that the SAFE notes are not a legal form debt (i.e., no creditors’ rights). The SAFE notes include a provision allowing for the investors to receive a portion of the proceeds upon a change of control equal to the greater of their investment amount or the amount payable based upon a number of shares of common stock equal to the investment amount divided by the liquidity price, the occurrence of which is outside the control of the Company. This provision requires the SAFE notes to be classified as marked-to-market liabilities pursuant to ASC 480. The SAFE notes are recorded as a long-term liability at their estimated fair value. See Note 8 for more information.

 

Advertising Expenses

 

Advertising is expensed as incurred. Advertising expense was $0 and $3,548 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and was $572 and $37,353 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.

 

Deferred Offering Costs

 

Offering costs consist of legal, accounting, underwriting fees and other costs incurred that are directly related to the Company’s planned Business Combination. As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company recorded $6,202,630 and $2,610,024, respectively, of offering costs as a non-current asset. As of June 30, 2021, $4,332,577 of offering costs have been paid and $1,870,053 have been recorded in accrued expenses, accounts payable, and loan payable. As of December 31, 2020, $2,104,241 of offering costs were paid and $505,783 was recorded in accrued expenses.

 

Basic and Diluted Income (Loss) Per Share

 

Net income (loss) per share is provided in accordance with FASB ASC 260-10, “Earnings per Share”. The Company’s preferred shares are participating securities as the holders of the preferred shares are entitled to participate in dividends with ordinary shares. Net losses are not allocated to the preferred shares as the holders of the preferred shares do not have a contractual obligation to share in any losses. Accordingly, basic net loss per share is computed by dividing losses available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted loss per share gives effect to all dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted loss per share excludes all potential common shares and SAFE notes if their effect is anti-dilutive. The table below excludes all potential common shares if their effect is anti-dilutive for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020. There were no anti-dilutive shares for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.

 

    Three and
Six Months
Ended
June 30,
2020
 
Series Seed preferred stock     42,298,151  
Series Seed-1 preferred stock     3,563,412  
Series Seed-2 preferred stock     4,751,218  
Series A preferred stock     61,962,132  
Series A-1 preferred stock     32,301,028  
FF preferred stock     20,000,000  
Options outstanding under stock incentive plan     35,538,222  
Options outstanding outside of stock incentive plan     545,454  
Common stock warrants     1,250,000  
Preferred stock warrants     774,527  
SAFE notes outstanding (shares not reserved)     19,489,239  
Total     222,473,383  

 

F-9

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont.)

 

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

 

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the accounting for income taxes, which simplifies the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles in income taxes. The amendments also improve consistent application of and simplify GAAP for other areas of Topic 740 by clarifying and amending existing guidance. The Company adopted this standard on January 1, 2021. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which simplifies the guidance on the issuer’s accounting for convertible debt instruments by removing the separation models for (1) convertible debt with a cash conversion feature and (2) convertible instruments with a beneficial conversion feature. As a result, entities will not separately present in equity an embedded conversion feature in such debt. Instead, they will account for a convertible debt instrument wholly as debt, unless certain other conditions are met. The elimination of these models will reduce reported interest expense and increase reported net income for entities that have issued a convertible instrument that was within the scope of those models before the adoption of ASU 2020-06. Also, ASU 2020-06 requires the application of the if-converted method for calculating diluted earnings per share and the treasury stock method will be no longer available. The provisions of ASU 2020-06 are applicable for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, with early adoption permitted no earlier than fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-06 on its financial statements.

 

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer's Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract. This standard requires capitalization of the implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software. Further, the standard also requires the Company to expense the capitalized implementation costs of a hosting arrangement over the term of the hosting arrangement. We adopted ASU 2018-15 on January 1, 2021. As of June 30, 2021, we have recorded $26,149 of capitalized implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). This guidance is intended to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about lease arrangements. The Company adopted the standard as of January 1, 2020, using the modified retrospective approach and has elected to use the optional transition method which allows the Company to apply the guidance of ASC 840, including disclosure requirements, in the comparative periods presented. In addition, the Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard, which among other things, allowed the Company to carry forward the historical lease classification related to agreements entered prior to adoption.

 

The adoption of the new standard resulted in recognition of operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities of $545,707 and $555,916, respectively, as of January 1, 2020. There was no material cumulative impact of transition to accumulated deficit as of the adoption date. The standard did not materially impact the accompanying statements of operations and had no impact on the accompanying statements of cash flows.

 

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MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 3. Prepaids and Other Current Assets

 

Prepaids and other current assets consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,
2021
    December 31,
2020
 
Prepaid launch costs, current   $ 800,000     $ 2,260,000  
Prepaid research and development     3,819,756       1,452,557  
Prepaid insurance and other assets     1,121,785       795,727  
Total   $ 5,741,542     $ 4,508,284  

 

As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the non-current portion of prepaid launch costs recorded in other non-current assets was $2,150,000 and $2,390,000, respectively.

 

FAA application

 

On May 10, 2021, the Company received a letter from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) denying the Company’s application for a payload review for the planned June 2021 launch based on the FAA’s finding that its launch would jeopardize U.S. national security. According to the letter, during an interagency consultation, the FAA was informed that the launch of the Company’s payload posed national security concerns associated with the Company’s then current corporate structure. The letter further stated that the FAA understood that the Company was undergoing a process that might resolve the national security concerns, and that the FAA could reconsider a payload application when that process was completed.

 

As a result of the FAA application denial, on May 21, 2021 the Company received notification from SpaceX that it was terminating two launch service agreements for flights scheduled during calendar year 2021 and that they considered the Company to be in default of prior payments totaling $8.7 million. The Company believes the prepayments will be non-recoverable as this was the third time the payload was rescheduled. As a result of the notification from SpaceX, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $8.7 million of prepaid launch costs during the three months ended June 30, 2021.

 

Note 4. Property, Machinery and Equipment, net

 

Property, machinery and equipment, net consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,
2021
    December 31,
2020
 
Computer equipment   $ 177,868     $ 177,868  
Furniture and fixtures     205,976       205,976  
Leasehold improvements     897,529       665,146  
Machinery and equipment     2,800,170       1,935,974  
Construction in-progress     1,913,308       117,655  
      5,994,851       3,102,619  
Less: accumulated depreciation     (1,207,172 )     (781,519 )
Property, machinery and equipment, net   $ 4,787,679     $ 2,321,100  

 

Depreciation expense related to property, machinery and equipment was $236,538 and $425,491 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and was $136,229 and $252,036 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.

 

F-11

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 5. Intangible Assets, net

 

Intangible assets, net consisted of the following as of June 30, 2021:

 

    Gross Value     Accumulated
Amortization
    Net Value     Weighted
average
remaining
amortization
period
(in years)
 
Patents/Intellectual Property   $ 395,499     $ (73,904 )   $ 321,595       7.49  

 

Intangible assets, net consisted of the following as of December 31, 2020:

 

    Gross Value     Accumulated
Amortization
    Net Value     Weighted
average
remaining
amortization
period
(in years)
 
Patents/Intellectual Property   $ 356,890     $ (51,408 )   $ 305,482       7.62  

 

Amortization expense related to intangible assets was $12,111 and $22,496 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and was $8,223 and $15,215 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.

 

As of June 30, 2021, the future estimated amortization expense related to intangible assets is as follows:

 

Year ending December 31,   Amount  
2021 (remainder)   $ 23,602  
2022     47,204  
2023     47,204  
2024     41,444  
2025     38,487  
Thereafter     123,654  
Total   $ 321,595  

 

There were no intangible asset impairments during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Note 6. Leases

 

In January 2021, the Company commenced a new lease at a new location in San Jose, California. The lease expires in February 2028. The Company is obligated to pay approximately $11 million over the term of the lease. The Company leases office space under non-cancellable operating leases with terms expiring from December 2021 through February 2028. The leases require monthly lease payments that are subject to annual increase throughout the lease term.

 

The Company adopted ASC 842 as of January 1, 2020, using the modified retrospective approach. Rent expense was $435,487 and $870,975 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and was $67,896 and $135,791 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.

 

The Company performed evaluations of its contracts and determined that each of its identified leases are classified as operating leases. The components of operating lease expense were as follows:

 

    Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020     2021     2020  
Operating lease cost   $ 435,487     $ 67,896     $ 870,975     $ 135,791  
Variable lease expense     147,412       6,508       294,825       12,215  
Short-term lease expense     2,965       1,847       6,236       2,380  
Total lease expense   $ 585,864     $ 76,251     $ 1,172,036     $ 150,386  

 

F-12

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 6. Leases (cont.)

 

Variable lease expense consists of the Company’s proportionate share of operating expenses, property taxes, and insurance.

 

The lease right of use assets and lease liabilities recognized in the balance sheets are as follows:

 

    As of
June 30,
2021
 
Right of use asset in other non-current assets   $ 8,156,424  
         
Other current liabilities   $ 1,009,827  
Other non-current liabilities     7,767,283  
Total lease liability   $ 8,777,110  

 

As of June 30, 2021, the maturities of the Company’s operating lease liabilities were as follows:

 

Remainder of 2021   $ 622,375  
2022     1,561,154  
2023     1,533,222  
2024     1,580,157  
2025     1,627,092  
Thereafter     3,700,071  
Total lease payments     10,624,071  
Less: Imputed interest     (1,846,961 )
Present value of lease liabilities   $ 8,777,110  

 

Note 7. Accrued Expenses

 

Accrued expenses consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,
2021
    December 31,
2020
 
Compensation expense   $ 1,329,206     $ 1,370,575  
Legal and other professional services     2,006,422       268,266  
Research and development projects     909,900       517,256  
Offering costs     359,558       505,783  
Payroll tax expense     327,809       327,734  
Other current expense     352,769       74,266  
Total   $ 5,285,664     $ 3,063,880  

 

Note 8. SAFE Notes

 

The Company has issued Simple Agreement for Future Equity (“SAFE”) notes to investors. For the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company issued SAFE notes to investors in exchange for aggregate proceeds of $30,852,687. The SAFE notes allow the investors to participate in future equity financings through a share-settled redemption of the amount invested at a discounted price to the price paid by other investors. That is, upon a future equity financing involving preferred shares, SAFE notes settle into a number of preferred shares equal to the invested amount of the SAFE note divided by a discounted price to the price investors pay to purchase preferred shares in the financing (with such discounted price calculated as a percentage of the price investors pay to purchase preferred shares in the financing or by reference to a valuation cap). Alternatively, upon the occurrence of a change of control or an initial public offering (other than a qualified financing), the investors shall have the option to receive either (i) cash payment equal to the invested amount under such SAFE note, or (ii) a number of shares of common stock equal to the invested amount divided by the liquidity price set forth in the applicable SAFE notes.

 

F-13

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 8. SAFE Notes (cont.)

 

The Company determined that the SAFE notes are not a legal form debt (i.e., no creditors’ rights). The SAFE notes include a provision allowing for cash redemption upon the occurrence of a change of control, the occurrence of which is outside the control of the Company. The provision requires the SAFE notes to be classified as marked-to-market liabilities pursuant to ASC 480. As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the estimated fair value of the SAFE notes was $162,925,780 and $314,439,663, respectively. The income (loss) reported from the decrease (increase) in the estimated fair value of the SAFE notes, including those issued during the period, was $100,802,979 and $182,366,571 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and was $(3,586,605) and $(3,587,989) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively, and is included in other income (expense) within the accompanying statements of operations.

 

There were no SAFE notes converted into shares of the Company’s preferred stock during the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020. SAFE notes with a principal amount totaling $78,002,687 and $47,150,000 remained outstanding as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

 

Conversion or Cash-out Events

 

In the event of an equity financing in which the Company issues and sells preferred stock for the purpose of raising capital, the SAFE notes will convert into a series of preferred stock of the Company. In the event of a sale of the Company or upon closing of the Business Combination, the SAFE notes will convert into common shares. The number of shares of preferred stock will be determined by the issuance price of the SAFE notes and the applicable discount on the conversion shares, or valuation cap. There was a 20% discount associated with the SAFE notes issued during the six months ended June 30, 2021 and their valuation cap was originally $1.2 billion but was subsequently amended on June 29, 2021, updating their valuation cap to $566.6 million.

 

In the event of a liquidity event (i.e., a change of control or initial public offering, including a Special Purpose Acquisition Company “SPAC” initial public offering), SAFE note holders will be treated as follows: (i) if in connection with the consummation of a SPAC involving SRAC, the price per share equal to the base value divided by the liquidity capitalization, and multiplied by the discount rate, or (ii) in all other cases, the SAFE note holders will receive the lesser of (x) the price per share equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time of the liquidity event, as determined by reference to the purchase price payable in connection with such liquidity event, multiplied by the discount rate or (y) the post-money valuation cap divided by the liquidity capitalization.

 

Preference Upon Dissolution

 

Should the Company dissolve or wind-up operations prior to a conversion or cash-out event, SAFE note holders will be treated like a holder of standard non-participating Preferred Stock.

 

Note 9. Loan Payable

 

Term Loan

 

On February 22, 2021, the Company entered into a Term Loan and Security Agreement (“Term Loan”) which provided the Company with up to $40,000,000 at an annual interest rate of 12%. $25,000,000 of the Term Loan was immediately available for borrowing by the Company at the inception of the agreement, the Company borrowed this amount on March 1, 2021. The remaining $15,000,000 is no longer available for borrowing as the Company did not achieve certain milestones needed by the June 30, 2021 deadline. The repayment terms of the Term Loan provides for interest-only payments beginning March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. The principal amount is due and payable on March 1, 2022. At the Company’s option, the principal amount of the Term Loan outstanding on March 1, 2022 may be repaid over one or two years beginning on March 1, 2022.

 

In conjunction with the Term Loan, warrants to purchase preferred stock up to 1% of the fully diluted capitalization (including allowance for conversion of all outstanding convertible notes, SAFE notes and such warrants) of the Company were granted to the lender exercisable at the lender’s option. 80% of the 1% of the warrants were earned by the lender at the completion of the agreement. The additional 20% of the warrants was forfeited as of June 30, 2021. The stock purchase warrant expires on June 30, 2031. The warrant’s original estimated fair value of $15,647,538 was recorded as a derivative liability under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, with the offset recorded as a debt discount. See also Note 10 for discussion on the valuation and recording of the warrants as of June 30, 2021.

 

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MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 9. Loan Payable (cont.)

 

Additionally, the Company incurred debt issuance costs of $143,705, which were recorded as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the Term Loan. The original issuance discount, warrant discount and debt issuance costs are being amortized as interest expense using the effective interest rate method through the term of the loan. Interest expense amortization was $2,633,820 and $3,350,491 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively.

 

The Company allocated the proceeds from the Term Loan agreement to the convertible note and warrants comprising the financing agreement based on the relative fair value of the individual securities on the February 22, 2021 closing date of the agreements. The discount attributable to the convertible note, an aggregate of $15,647,538, is amortized using the effective interest method over the one-year term of the note, maturing on March 1, 2022. Because the discount on the convertible note exceeds 63% of its initial face value, and because the discount is amortized over the period from issuance to maturity of one year, the calculated effective interest rate is 125.97%.

 

Equipment Loan

 

In March 2020, the Company entered into an equipment financing agreement to fund the acquisition of specific and eligible equipment (“Equipment Loan”). The Equipment Loan provided the Company access to borrow up to $4,500,000. Repayment of any amounts issued under the Equipment Loan occurs over 30 months. Interest under the Equipment Loan was fixed at 9.75% . The Company was also obligated to pay a final amount equivalent to 5 percent of the loan, and the final amount was expensed as interest expense over the term of the Equipment Loan using the effective interest rate. The borrowings were collateralized by all of the equipment financed by the lender. On March 9, 2020, the Company borrowed $1,536,772 under the Equipment Loan. The borrowings included an original issuance discount of $49,000. Pursuant to the terms of the Equipment Loan, the first six months of payments were interest only and monthly payments, including principal and interest of $57,929, began September 1, 2020 and were scheduled to end September 1, 2023.

 

In conjunction with the Equipment Loan, a stock purchase warrant was also issued to the lender, which allows for the purchase of Series A Preferred Stock or Preferred Stock in a subsequent round of financing in an amount of $225,000. Under the stock purchase warrant agreement, the lender is also provided the right to invest up to an additional $250,000 in the Company’s equity or convertible debt issued in future offerings. The lender exercised this right with the SAFE notes issued in February 2021. The stock purchase warrant expires on March 9, 2030. The warrant’s original estimated fair value of $29,415 was recorded as a derivative liability under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, with the offset recorded as a debt discount (See Note 10).

 

Additionally, the Company incurred debt issuance costs related to the Equipment Loan of $37,659, which were recorded as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the Equipment Loan. The original issuance discount, warrant discount and debt issuance costs were being amortized as interest expense using the effective interest rate method through the term of the loan. Interest expense amortization was $14,552 and $18,192 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively. In December 2020, all of the outstanding principal and accrued interest of $1,536,772 under the Equipment Loan was paid off and the Equipment Loan facility was terminated. The unamortized original issuance discount, warrant discount and debt issuance cost of $67,537 was fully expensed in December 2020. The warrant remains outstanding as of June 30, 2021.

 

Promissory Notes

 

On June 29, 2021, the Company and SRAC amended the Merger Agreement which, among other things, provided for the issuance by the Company of two second lien notes (“Promissory Notes”). The notes, in the amount of $1,500,000 each, are held by the Company’s outside counsel and SRAC’s counsel, and are for certain legal fees and expenses incurred by SRAC and the Company in relation to the Merger Agreement. There is no interest rate attached to Promissory Notes as of June 30, 2021, however, if the Company fails to comply with certain obligations of the agreements, a rate of Prime plus 2.00% will be applied. The notes are due and payable when called by each holder and may only be called after August 13, 2021.

 

F-15

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 9. Loan Payable (cont.)

 

The Company’s Term Loan payable consists of the following at June 30, 2021:

 

    June 30,
2021
 
Gross Term Loan   $ 25,000,000  
Less: Unamortized debt discount and issuance costs     (12,465,407 )
Promissory Notes   $ 3,000,000  
Net notes payable, (all current)   $ 15,534,593  

 

There are no principal payments due on the Term loan until March 1, 2022 when the entire loan is due and payable.

 

Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity and Stock-based Compensation

 

The Company has reserved shares of Class A Common Stock for issuance for the following purposes as of June 30, 2021:

 

Series Seed preferred stock     28,538,853  
Series Seed-1 preferred stock     3,563,412  
Series Seed-2 preferred stock     4,751,218  
Series A preferred stock     61,962,132  
Series A-1 preferred stock     32,301,028  
Options outstanding under stock incentive plan     21,060,965  
Options outstanding outside of stock incentive plan     545,454  
Option available for grant under stock incentive plan     21,284,453  
Common stock warrants     1,250,000  
Preferred stock warrants     2,596,303  
Total     177,853,818  

 

Co-Founder Divestment and Share Repurchase

 

In accordance with the NSA and pursuant to certain Repurchase Agreements entered into with the Company, effective as of June 8, 2021, each of Mr. Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A. and Brainyspace LLC (collectively “Co-Founders”) sold 100% of their respective equity interests in the Company on June 30, 2021. These equity interests consisted of Class B Common Stock (70,000,000 shares with par value of $70), FF Preferred Stock (20,000,000 shares with par value of $20), Series Seed Preferred Stock (13,759,298 shares with par value of $14), and Class A Common Stock Options (5,078,750 options). In exchange for these shares and options, the Company initially paid each entity $1, but will additionally pay up to an aggregate of $50,000,000, out of funds legally available therefor, to Mr. Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A. and Brainyspace LLC, on a pro rata basis, as follows: (i) an aggregate of $40,000,000 to be paid out of funds legally available therefor, within 10 business days after the earlier of (A) a business combination or capital raising transaction or series of transactions (whether in the form of debt or equity) resulting in cash proceeds of no less than $100,000,000 and (B) the Business Combination (the “First Payment Date”); and (ii) an aggregate of $10,000,000 to be paid out of funds legally available therefor, within 10 business days after a business combination or capital raising transaction or series of transactions (whether in the form of debt or equity) resulting in cash proceeds of no less than $250,000,000 (determined without any reduction for the $100,000,000 previously received in respect of the First Payment Date).

 

The Company recorded the initial consideration paid of $3 as treasury stock. Additionally, the Company evaluated the additional consideration to be paid as a liability under ASC 480 utilizing a probability-weighted approach to record the initial liability of $22,000,001 expected to be paid to the Co-Founders with a corresponding offset to treasury stock, as of June 30, 2021.

 

F-16

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity and Stock-based Compensation (cont.)

 

Stock Purchase Warrants

 

In February 2021, the Company entered into the Term Loan to provide the Company up to $40,000,000 of working capital. In conjunction with the Term Loan, warrants up to 1% of the fully diluted capitalization (including allowance for conversion of all outstanding convertible notes, SAFE notes and such warrants) of the Company were granted to the lender exercisable at the lender’s option. 80% of the 1% of the warrants were earned by the lender at the completion of the agreement. The remaining 20% of the warrants was forfeited as of June 30, 2021. The stock purchase warrant expires on June 30, 2031. The warrant’s original estimated fair value of $15,647,538 was recorded as a derivative liability under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, with the offset recorded as a debt discount. The Company recorded the decrease in the estimated fair value of the warrant of $(4,056,962) and $(11,057,697) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, to reflect the value of the warrant of $4,589,843 as of June 30, 2021. The change was included in other income within the accompanying statements of operations. Additionally, there was an immaterial amount of deferred issuance costs allocated to the warrants.

 

In March 2020, the Company entered into the Equipment Loan to fund the acquisition of specific and eligible equipment. The financing agreement provides the Company access to borrow up to $4,500,000. (See Note 9). In conjunction with the equipment financing agreement, a stock purchase warrant was also issued to the lender, which allows for the purchase of 774,527 shares of Series A Preferred Stock or Preferred Stock in a subsequent round of financing in an amount of $225,000. Under the stock purchase warrant agreement, the lender is also provided the right to invest up to an additional $250,000 in the Company’s equity or convertible debt issued in future offerings, which the lender exercised in March 2021 upon the issuance of SAFE notes by the Company. The stock purchase warrant expires on March 9, 2030. The warrant was accounted for at its estimated fair value as a derivative liability because its features did not meet criteria for equity classification under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging. The valuation of the warrant was determined through the use of a Black Scholes options model, which the Company believes approximates its estimated fair value. The Company determined that the estimated fair value of the warrant at the issuance date was $29,415. The Company recorded the decrease in the estimated fair value of the warrant of $(397,362) and $(1,479,349) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, to reflect the value of the warrant of $1,726,835 as of June 30, 2021. The change was included in other income within the accompanying statements of operations. Additionally, there was an immaterial amount of deferred issuance costs allocated to the warrants.

 

Stock Incentive Plan

 

In May 2018, the Board of Directors of Momentus Inc. approved the 2018 Stock Plan (the “Initial Plan”) that allowed for granting of incentive and non-qualified stock options and restricted stock awards (“RSAs”) to employees, directors, and consultants. In November 2018, the Board terminated the Initial Plan such that no additional awards may be granted under the Initial Plan, and adopted a new 2018 Stock Plan (the “New 2018 Stock Plan” and, together with the Initial Plan, the “Plans”). As of December 31, 2018, 30,975,958 shares of Class A common stock were reserved for issuance under the Plans. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the shares of Class A common stock reserved for issuance under the New 2018 Stock Plan was increased by 4,430,579. Vested options may be exercised in exchange for Class A common stock of the Company. All outstanding and unvested options and RSAs are forfeited in the event of employment termination.

 

In February and March 2020, the Board approved an amendment and restatement to the New 2018 Stock Plan (the “Amended Plan and Restated 2018 Stock Plan”), and further amendments thereto that increased the number of shares that may be issued thereunder to 37,006,537 plus any additional shares, capped at 11,650,000, subject to awards outstanding as of October 30, 2018 and issued under the Initial Plan that are forfeited or repurchased by the Company. The Amended and Restated 2018 Stock Plan expires on October 30, 2028, unless terminated earlier.

 

F-17

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity and Stock-based Compensation (cont.)

 

Options and RSAs Under Stock Plans

 

Options issued under the Plans generally vest based on continuous service provided by the option holder over a four-year period. Compensation expense related to these options is recognized on a straight-line basis over the four-year period based upon the fair value at the grant date. The following table sets forth the summary of options activity for the six months ended June 30, 2021:

 

    Shares
Available
for Option
Grants
Under Plan
    Options
Outstanding
Under Plan
    Non-Plan
Options
    Total
Options
    Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
    Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(in years)
    Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 
Outstanding as of December 31, 2020     14,243,904       29,358,286       545,454       29,903,740     $ 0.05          8.5     $ 130,563,848  
Vested exercised           (1,256,772 )           (1,256,772 )                        
Forfeitures     7,040,549       (7,040,549 )             (7,040,549 )                        
Outstanding as of June 30, 2021     21,284,453       21,060,965       545,454       21,606,419     $ 0.06       6.8     $ 52,835,067  
Exercisable as of June 30, 2021                             11,556,046     $ 0.06       5.9     $ 28,276,913  
Vested and expected to vest as of June 30, 2021                             21,606,419     $ 0.06       6.8     $ 52,835,067  

 

Stock-based compensation expense related to options issued under the Plans was recorded within the Company’s statements of operations as follows:

 

    Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020     2021     2020  
Research and development expenses   $ 65,783     $ 38,298     $ 133,688     $ 74,967  
Selling, general and administrative expenses     2,278,371       128,835       7,978,316       193,709  
    $ 2,344,154     $ 167,133     $ 8,112,004     $ 268,676  

 

The intrinsic value of options exercisable as of June 30, 2021 and 2020 was $28,276,913 and $345,987, respectively. As of June 30, 2021, there was a total of $1,180,467 in unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.16 years.

 

The assumptions used under the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model and weighted average fair value of options on the grant date are as follows:

 

    Six Months Ended
June 30,
    2021   2020
Expected term (in years)   N/A   5.12 – 6.07
Risk-free interest rate   N/A   0.34% – 1.35%
Expected volatility   N/A   34.00% – 45.68%
Dividend yield   N/A   0.00%
Fair value on grant date   N/A   $0.08 – $0.22

 

Restricted Stock Awards

 

RSAs issued under the Plans generally vest based on continuous service provided by the restricted stockholder over a four-year period. Compensation expense related to these RSAs is recognized on a straight-line basis over the four-year period based upon the fair value at the grant date.

 

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MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity and Stock-based Compensation (cont.)

 

The following table sets forth the summary of RSA activity for the six months ended June 30, 2021:

 

    Restricted
Shares
    Weighted-
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
Per Share
    Weighted
Average
Remaining
Vesting
Period
(in years)
 
Balance, December 31, 2020   $ 177,084     $ 0.01       0.70  
Vested   $ (62,500 )   $ 0.01          
Balance, June 30, 2021   $ 114,584     $ 0.01       0.84  

 

Common Stock purchased under the Plans are subject to certain restrictions and repurchase rights, including the right of first refusal by the Company for sale or transfer of shares to outside parties and other restrictions on transfers and secondary market transactions. As of June 30, 2021, 114,584 shares were subject to repurchase. Stock-based compensation expense related to RSAs issued under the Plans was recorded within the Company’s statements of operations as follows:

 

    Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020     2021     2020  
Research and development expenses   $ 104     $ 763     $ 417     $ 2,499  
Selling, general and administrative expenses           102             335  
    $ 104     $ 865     $ 417     $ 2,834  

 

As of June 30, 2021, there was a total of $1,042 in unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested RSAs, which is expected to vest over a weighted-average period of 0.84 years.

 

Stock Option Modifications

 

On May 22, 2021, in connection with the resignation of one of the Company’s former directors, the Company modified the outstanding awards, which resulted in the vesting of the options for 833,334 shares. The modified option award has an exercise price of $0.07 per share, expected term of one year, a risk-free rate of 0.04%, and expected volatility of 65.00% and no expected dividends. This Type III modification resulted in a remeasured fair value of $2.66 per share. The incremental compensation related to the accelerated options totaled $2,220,025.

 

On January 25, 2021, in connection with the resignation of the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), Mikhail Kokorich, the Company modified his outstanding awards, which resulted in the vesting of options for 1,058,074 shares. The modified option awards have exercise prices ranging from $0.01 to $0.07 per share, expected term of one year, a risk-free interest rate of 0.10%, an expected volatility of 78.00% and no expected dividends. This Type III modification resulted in a remeasured fair value of $5.16 per share. The incremental compensation related to the accelerated options totaled $5,448,107.

 

On March 25, 2020, the Company modified option awards for eight employees, which resulted in the forfeiture of options for 970,833 shares and the vesting acceleration of options for 189,167 shares. The modified option awards have an exercise price of $0.07 per share, expected term of one year, a risk-free interest rate of 0.19%, an expected volatility of 41.00%, and no expected dividends. This Type III modification resulted in a re-measured fair value per share of $0.09. Compensation expense reversed due to the forfeitures was $4,631, and incremental compensation expense related to the accelerated options totaled $16,742.

 

On June 15, 2020, the Company modified an option award for an employee, which resulted in the vesting acceleration of 78,125 shares underlying such option award. This Type I modification resulted in incremental compensation expense of $703.

 

Compensation expense related to the above modifications was recorded in the accompanying statements of operations. Compensation expense totaling $9,845 was recorded in research and development expenses, and compensation expense totaling $2,970 was recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses.

 

On August 7, 2020, the Company modified an option award for an employee to change the vesting commencement date by one month. The impact to compensation expense from this Type I modification was immaterial.

 

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MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 10. Stockholders’ Equity and Stock-based Compensation (cont.)

 

On September 24, 2020, the Company modified an option award for an employee, which resulted in the forfeiture of 4,000,000 shares underlying such option award, the vesting acceleration of 600,000 shares underlying such option award, and the continued vesting of 400,000 shares underlying such option award over a four-month period. This modified option award has an exercise price of $0.07 per share, expected term of approximately one year, a risk-free interest rate of 0.12%, an expected volatility of 57.00%, and no expected dividends. The Type III modifications resulted in a re-measured fair value per share of $1.959. Compensation expense reversed due to the forfeiture was $21,003. Incremental compensation expense related to the accelerated options that was recognized on the modification date totaled $1,175,450. Incremental compensation expense recognized over a four-month period from the modification date totaled $783,637.

 

On October 5, 2020, the Company modified a restricted stock award for a consultant, which resulted in the vesting acceleration of 197,917 shares underlying such option award. This Type III modification resulted in incremental compensation expense of $399,594.

 

Income (Loss) Per Share

 

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share:

 

Basic and Diluted Net Income (Loss) Per Share

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
    2021     2020     2021     2020  
Numerator:                        
Net income (loss)   $ 64,327,154     $ (9,152,223 )   $ 128,997,958     $ (15,406,868 )
Less:                                
Decrease in fair value of SAFE notes     (100,802,979 )           (182,366,571 )      
Decrease in fair value of warrants and warrant amortization     (4,447,683 )           (12,528,951 )      
Undistributed loss allocated to common stockholders for diluted net loss per share   $ (40,923,508 )   $ (9,152,223 )   $ (65,897,564 )   $ (15,406,868 )
Denominator:                                
Denominator for basic net income (loss) per share -weighted average shares outstanding     71,901,904       86,222,804       80,593,815       90,717,435  
Dilutive preferred shares outstanding     131,116,643             131,116,643        
Dilutive options and unvested stock units outstanding     20,634,514             20,813,808        
Dilutive warrants outstanding     2,514,905             2,533,015        
Dilutive SAFE notes outstanding (shares not reserved)     50,526,529             50,526,529        
Denominator for diluted net income (loss) per share - adjusted weighted average shares outstanding     276,694,495       86,222,804       285,583,810       90,717,435  
                                 
Net loss per share - diluted   $ (0.15 )   $ (0.11 )   $ (0.23 )   $ (0.17 )

 

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) for the period by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing undistributed earnings allocated to common stockholders for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, plus the dilutive effect of outstanding preferred shares, dilutive options and unvested stock units, and warrants outstanding pursuant to the treasury stock method.

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, zero and 222.5 million shares, respectively, of outstanding preferred shares, dilutive options and unvested stock units, and warrants were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share. The anti-dilutive stock options and shares of outstanding and unvested restricted stock were excluded from the computation of net loss per share for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 due to the Company incurring a net loss for the periods.

 

F-20

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 11. Commitments and Contingencies

 

Legal Proceedings

 

From time to time, we may be subject to various claims, lawsuits, and other legal and administrative proceedings that may arise in the ordinary course of business. Some of these claims, lawsuits, and other proceedings may range in complexity and result in substantial uncertainty; it is possible that they may result in damages, fines, penalties, non-monetary sanctions, or relief. However, we do not consider any such claims, lawsuits, or proceedings currently pending, individually or in the aggregate, to be material to our business or likely to result in a material adverse effect on our future operating results, financial condition, or cash flows.

 

On July 15, 2021, a putative class action complaint was filed against the Company, SRAC and certain affiliates. See Note 14 for more information.

 

SEC Investigation and CFIUS Review

 

On January 24, 2021, the Company received a subpoena from the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“Division of Enforcement”) requesting documents regarding the Registration Statement on Form S-4 and Amendment No. 1 thereto 1 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by SRAC in connection with the Business Combination. The Company entered into a settlement with the SEC on July 8, 2021. As a result of the settlement, in accordance with ASC 450, Contingencies, the Company recorded a contingency of $7.0 million. See Note 14 for additional information.

 

In February 2021, the Company and the Company’s co-founder Mikhail Kokorich, with support from SRAC, submitted a joint notice to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) for review of the historical acquisition of interests in the Company by Mr. Kokorich, his wife, and entities that they control in response to concerns of the U.S. Department of Defense regarding the Company’s foreign ownership and control.

 

On June 8, 2021, CFIUS’ review of the joint notice relating to the historical acquisition of interests in Momentus by Mr. Kokorich, his wife, and entities that they control concluded when the Company entered into a National Security Agreement with Mr. Kokorich, on behalf of himself and Nortrone Finance S.A. (an entity controlled by Mr. Kokorich), Lev Khasis and Olga Khasis, each in their respective individual capacities and on behalf of Brainyspace LLC (an entity controlled by Olga Khasis), and the U.S. government represented by the U.S. Departments of Defense and the Treasury (the “NSA”). In accordance with the NSA, Mr. Kokorich, Nortrone Finance S.A., Lev Khasis and his wife Olga Khasis, and Brainyspace LLC fully divested all the Company’s securities beneficially owned by them by selling the securities back to the Company on June 8, 2021. The NSA also establishes various requirements and restrictions on the Company in order to protect national security, certain of which may materially and adversely affect the Company’s operating results due to the cost of compliance with security measures, and limitations on the Company’s control over certain U.S. facilities, contracts, personnel, vendor selection and operations.

 

The Company had incurred legal expenses of approximately $3.5 million and $7.4 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and expects to continue to incur substantial legal expenses related to these matters in the future.

 

SRAC Indemnity

 

On June 29, 2021, Momentus entered into an amendment to the Merger Agreement which, among other things, provided that, should the Merger not occur for any reason, the Company would indemnify SRAC and its directors and officers (the “Indemnified Parties”) up to $10 million for certain losses, damages or liability actually incurred by the Indemnified Parties, excluding the payments made in relation to the SEC Settlement discussed in Note 14 - Subsequent Events. As of June 30, 2021, the Company did not record any contingency related to the indemnity agreement.

 

Co-Founder Divestment

 

The Company evaluated the additional consideration to be paid as a liability under ASC 480 utilizing a probability-weighted approach to record the initial liability of $22,000,001 expected to be paid to the Co-Founders as of June 30, 2021 as discussed in detail in Co-Founder Divestment and Share Repurchase section of Note 10.

 

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MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 12. Income Taxes

 

The Company’s effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 was zero percent. The effective tax rate may vary significantly from period to period and can be influenced by many factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, changes to the statutory rates in the jurisdictions where the Company has operations and changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities. The difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory rate of 21% primarily relates to certain nondeductible items, state and local income taxes and a full valuation allowance for deferred tax assets.

 

Note 13. Related Party Transactions

 

The Company entered into a consulting and technology development agreement with an entity in which the Company’s former CEO has a material interest. Payments made to the entity totaled $101,910 and $393,260 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively. There were no payments to the entity during the six months ended June 30, 2021.

 

In March 2020, Brainyspace LLC, an entity affiliated with Lev Khasis, a co-founder of the Company, contributed 10,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock back to the Company. In conjunction with the contribution, the Company agreed that if it re-hires Mr.Khasis within a specified time period, that he will receive an option to purchase 5,000,000 shares (on a pre-Business Combination basis), subject to the approval of the Board. The Company has determined it will not re-hire Mr. Khasis so it will not be obligated to issue the option.

 

Note 14. Subsequent Events

 

Management of the Company has evaluated the impact of subsequent events through August XX, 2021, the date the condensed financial statements were available for issuance.

 

SEC Settlement

 

On July 13, 2021, the SEC announced charges against SRAC, Momentus, and Momentus’ founder and former CEO, Mikhail Kokorich, for misleading claims about Momentus’ technology and about national security risks associated with Mr. Kokorich. The SEC’s order found that Momentus violated scienter-based antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and that SRAC violated negligence-based antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws as well as certain reporting and proxy solicitation provisions. The SEC also announced charges against the Sponsor and Brian Kabot. The order found that Mr. Kabot violated provisions of the federal securities laws related to proxy solicitations and that Mr. Kabot and the Sponsor caused SRAC’s violation of Section 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933. The SEC’s litigation is proceeding against Mr. Kokorich, against whom the SEC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. All parties except for Mr. Kokorich have settled with the SEC.

 

According to the SEC’s settled order Momentus and Mr. Kokorich misled SRAC investors, including PIPE investors in two respects. First, “Momentus and SRAC both claimed that in 2019, Momentus had ‘successfully tested’ in space its key technology, a microwave electro-thermal (“MET”) water plasma thruster, that Momentus claimed was designed to move a satellite into custom orbit after launch. In fact, that 2019 test failed to meet Momentus’s own public and internal pre-launch criteria for success, and was conducted on a prototype that was not designed to generate commercially significant amounts of thrust.” Second, the order found that Momentus and Mr. Kokorich also misrepresented the extent to which national security concerns involving Mr. Kokorich undermined Momentus’ ability to secure required governmental licenses essential to its operations. In addition, the order found that SRAC repeated Momentus’ misleading statements in public filings associated with the Business Combination and failed its due diligence obligations to investors. According to the order, while SRAC claimed to have conducted extensive due diligence of Momentus, it never reviewed the results of Momentus’ in-space test or received sufficient documents relevant to assessing the national security risks posed by Mr. Kokorich. The order finds that Mr. Kabot participated in SRAC’s inadequate due diligence and in filing its inaccurate registration statements and proxy solicitations. The SEC’s complaint against Mr. Kokorich includes factual allegations that are consistent with the findings in the order.

 

F-22

 

 

MOMENTUS INC.

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 14. Subsequent Events (cont.)

 

Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Momentus, SRAC, Mr. Kabot, and the Sponsor consented to an order requiring them to cease and desist from future violations. In the settlement with the SEC, Momentus will pay a civil penalty of $7.0 million, SRAC will pay a civil penalty of $1.0 million, and Mr. Kabot will pay a civil penalty of $40,000. In addition, the Sponsor has agreed to forfeit 250,000 founders’ shares it would otherwise have received upon consummation of the Business Combination; and Momentus has agreed to undertakings requiring enhancements to its disclosure controls, including the creation of an independent board committee and retention of an internal compliance consultant for a period of two years.

 

In addition, pursuant to the SEC’s settled order described above, which was announced on July 13, 2021, Momentus and SRAC agreed to provide the original investors in the private placement of the Combined Company’s Class A shares that were issued at the time of the Business Combination (the “PIPE Investors”) with the right to terminate their subscription agreements prior to the stockholder vote to approve the proposed Business Combination. Accordingly, Momentus and SRAC provided all PIPE Investors with the option to terminate their subscription agreements without any liability or obligation. In total, PIPE Investors representing $118.0 million of the original PIPE investment terminated their subscription agreements. The remaining PIPE Investors elected to continue with their subscription agreements, with certain PIPE Investors increasing or decreasing their commitment amounts pursuant to amendments to the subscription agreements, with such changes representing a net $5.3 million increase in commitments by such remaining PIPE Investors. In addition, six new PIPE Investors, including entities related Prime Movers Lab, an affiliate of the Company, entered into subscription agreements, representing approximately $47.75 million of new commitments. Affiliates of SRC-NI Holdings, LLC, the sponsor of SRAC, which had committed $15.0 million in the aggregate to the PIPE Investment, reaffirmed their commitment.

 

Putative Class Action Lawsuit

 

On July 15, 2021, a purported stockholder of SRAC filed a putative class action complaint against the Company, Sponsor, Brian Kabot, James Norris, Momentus, and Mikhail Kokorich in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in a case captioned Jensen v. Stable Road Acquisition Corp., et al., No. 2:21-cv-05744. The complaint alleges that the defendants omitted certain material information in their public statements and disclosures regarding the Proposed Transaction in violation of the securities laws, and seeks damages on behalf of a putative class of stockholders who purchased SRAC stock between October 7, 2020 and July 13, 2021. On July 22, 2021, a second purported stockholder filed a putative class action complaint in the same court, in a case captioned Hall v. Stable Road Acquisition Corp., et al. No. 2:21-cv-05943, asserting substantially similar claims and seeking substantially similar relief. Pursuant to statute, the Jensen and Hall actions will be consolidated into a single proceeding and a lead plaintiff and lead counsel appointed to represent the putative class. The Company believes that it has viable defenses to the claims asserted and intends to defend the case vigorously.  Other, similar suits may follow.

 

Business Combination Stockholder Vote

 

On August 11, 2021, SRAC stockholders approved the Business Combination and the proposed merger was completed on August 12, 2021. Approximately 3.5 million shares were submitted for redemption, resulting in approximately $35.4 million of returned funds and net cash proceeds of $247.3 million.

 

As the cash proceeds from the Business Combination were at least $100,000,000 but less than $250,000,000, the Combined Company is required to pay, out of funds legally available therefor, an aggregate of $40 million to the Co-Founders, within 10 days following the completion of the Business Combination, as described in Note 10. When paid, this amount will settle the contingency discussed in Note 11 and will increase the value recorded as Treasury Stock.

 

 

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Exhibit 99.2

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Defined terms included below have the same meaning as terms defined and included elsewhere in this proxy statement.

 

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements of SRAC and Momentus present the combination of the financial information of SRAC and Momentus adjusted to give effect to the Business Combination. The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X, Pro Forma Financial Information, as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses”, which is herein referred to as Article 11.

 

Release No. 33-10786 replaces the existing pro forma adjustment criteria with simplified requirements to depict the accounting for the transaction (“Transaction Accounting Adjustments”) and the option to present the reasonably estimable synergies and other transaction effects that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur (“Management’s Adjustments”). SRAC has elected not to present Management’s Adjustments and has only presented Transaction Accounting Adjustments in the following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 combines the historical balance sheet of SRAC and the historical balance sheet of Momentus on a pro forma basis as if the Business Combination had been consummated on June 30, 2021. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020 combine the historical statements of operations of SRAC and Momentus on a pro forma basis as if the Business Combination had been consummated on January 1, 2020, the beginning of the earliest period presented. The Business Combination is summarized below as:

 

the merger of First Merger Sub with and into Momentus, with Momentus surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SRAC (the “First Merger”);

 

immediately following the consummation of the First Merger, the merger of Momentus with Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of SRAC (the “Second Merger” and, together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”);

 

on the Closing Date, SRAC shall repay the outstanding loans payable;

 

immediately prior to the consummation of the Mergers, the issuance and sale of 11,000,000 shares of Combined Company Class A Common Stock and 11,000,000 “Post IPO Warrants” (as defined in the Warrant Agreement) (collectively, the “PIPE Units”) for a purchase price of $10.00 per PIPE Unit and an aggregate purchase price of $110.0 million in the PIPE Financing pursuant to the Subscription Agreements;

 

1,437,500 shares of SRAC Class B common stock owned by the Sponsor are subject to forfeiture immediately prior to the Closing if the amount in the Trust Account (for the avoidance of doubt, prior to giving effect to any redemptions by SRAC’s stockholders and the payment of any transaction costs by SRAC) less the aggregate amount of cash proceeds that are required to satisfy any redemptions by SRAC’s stockholder is less than $100,000,000. No pro forma adjustments have been made for the potential forfeiture as the remaining Trust Account less the aggregate amount of cash proceeds that are required to satisfy redemptions by SRAC’s stockholder exceeded $100,000,000 after giving effect to actual redemptions;

 

pursuant to the Repurchase Agreements, Momentus repurchased 70,000,000 shares of Momentus’ Class B common stock, 20,000,000 shares of Momentus’ FF Preferred Stock, and 13,759,298 shares of Momentus’ Series Seed Preferred Stock and the cancellation of stock options to purchase 5,078,750 shares of Momentus’ Class A common stock in exchange for $3 from certain shareholders. Upon the consummation of the Business Combination, the Repurchase Agreements require payment to former shareholders of $40.0 million if total aggregate cash proceeds are at least $100.0 million and an additional $10.0 million if total aggregate cash proceeds are at least $250.0 million. As total aggregate cash proceeds were less than $250.0 million, $40.0 million was paid to the former shareholders at Closing. ;

 

 

 

 

pursuant to the Mergers, (i) the conversion of all the outstanding shares of capital stock of Momentus (including any shares subject to reacquisition rights) and its outstanding SAFE notes into Combined Company Class A Common Stock, (ii) the conversion of all Momentus stock options (other than any non-plan options) and warrants that are outstanding and unexercised as of immediately prior to the Effective Time into stock options and warrants, respectively, to acquire an adjusted number of shares of Combined Company Class A common stock at an adjusted exercise price per share and (iii) the cancellation of each Momentus non-plan option that is outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time for no consideration, with the sum of (x) such Combined Company Class A common stock to be issued and (y) the Combined Company Class A common stock underlying such Rollover Options and Assumed Warrants, to totalled 55,902,776 shares (it being noted that such number is an estimate and subject to certain customary adjustments set forth in the Merger Agreement, as amended on June 29, 2021, and as a result of which, such number of shares will not be definitely known until the Closing);

 

At Closing, a Momentus $1.5 million note payable associated with transaction costs was repaid, with an associated $0.3 million of restricted cash released from its restrictions.

 

Notwithstanding the legal form of the Business Combination pursuant to the Merger Agreement as amended on June 29, 2021, 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, SRAC is treated as the acquired company and Momentus is treated as the acquirer for financial statement reporting purposes. Momentus has been determined to be the accounting acquirer based on evaluation of the following facts and circumstances that are expected to be in place when the closing of the Business Combination becomes effective:

 

Momentus’ existing stockholders will have the greater voting interest in the Combined Company with an estimated 63.2% voting interest under a No Redemption Scenario as of immediately following the Closing;

 

by virtue of such estimated voting interest upon the Closing, Momentus’ existing stockholders will have the ability to control decisions regarding the election and removal of directors and officers of the Combined Company following the Closing; and

 

Momentus’ senior management will be the senior management of the Combined Company.

 

Other factors were considered but they would not change the preponderance of factors indicating that Momentus was the accounting acquirer.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been developed from and should be read in conjunction with:

 

the accompanying notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements;

 

the historical audited consolidated financial statements (as restated) of SRAC as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the related notes, which are included elsewhere in the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on July 21, 2021 (the “Proxy Statement”) and is incorporated herein by reference;

 

the historical unaudited financial statements of SRAC as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the related notes, which are included on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 11, 2021 (“Form 10-Q”) and is incorporated herein by reference;

 

the historical audited financial statements of Momentus as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the related notes, which are included elsewhere in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference;

 

the historical unaudited financial statements of Momentus as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the related notes, which is attached as an Exhibit to this filing; and

 

other information relating to SRAC and Momentus contained in the Proxy Statement, including the Merger Agreement and the description of certain terms thereof set forth in the section titled “The Business Combination and the Merger Agreement” and the risk factors set forth under the section titled “Risk Factors” beginning on page [46] of the Proxy Statement.

 

2

 

 

Pursuant to SRAC’s existing charter, public stockholders were offered the opportunity to redeem, with such redemption to occur upon the Closing, shares of SRAC’s Class A common stock then held by them for cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount on deposit (as of two business days prior to the Closing) in the Trust Account. The amount of cash available is sufficient to satisfy the minimum cash condition of $250.0 million in the Business Combination Agreement after giving effect for actual redemptions.

 

In connection with the closing of the Business Combination, 1,437,500 shares of Combined Company Class A common stock to be owned by the Sponsor upon conversion of the founder shares will be subject to forfeiture for no consideration if certain post-Closing share price targets are not satisfied within a five year period post Business Combination. No pro forma adjustments have been made for the potential forfeiture as the forfeiture is contingent upon future events not tied to the Closing.

 

In connection with the settlement order issued by the SEC on July 13, 2021,

 

250,000 founder shares (which shares would have converted to shares of Combined Company Class A common stock upon consummation of the Business Combination) owned by the Sponsor were relinquished for no consideration in July 2021. No pro forma adjustments have been made for the relinquishment as it is not contingent on future events tied to the Closing. However, due to the fact that this relinquishment occurred as of the date of this filing, the weighted average outstanding shares reflects this relinquishment.

 

Civil penalties in the amount of $7.0 million and $1.0 million were assessed to Momentus and SRAC, respectively. No pro forma adjustments have been made for the civil penalties as the penalties are not contingent on future events tied to the Closing.

 

Assumptions and estimates underlying the unaudited pro forma adjustments set forth in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements are described in the accompanying notes. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been presented for illustrative purposes only and are not necessarily indicative of the operating results and financial position that would have been achieved had the Business Combination occurred on the dates indicated. Further, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements do not purport to project the future operating results or financial position of the Combined Company following the completion of the Business Combination. The unaudited pro forma adjustments represent management’s estimates based on information available as of the date of these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements and are subject to change as additional information becomes available and analyses are performed.

 

3

 

 

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEET
AS OF JUNE 30, 2021

  

    Stable Road     Momentus     Pro Forma
Adjustments
    Notes   Pro Forma
Combined
 
Assets                                    
                                     
Current assets:                                    
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 9,296     $ 31,152,364     $ (40,000,000 )   (1) b   $ 195,366,836  
                      172,749,491     (1) d        
                      (38,066,864 )   (1) e        
                      105,600,000     (1) f        
                      (643,000 )   (1) g        
                      (35,434,451 )   (1) i        
Restricted cash, current     -       1,400,000       (300,000 )   (1) e     1,100,000  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     43,922       5,741,542       -           5,785,464  
Prepaid income taxes     328,538       -       -           328,538  
                                     
Total current assets     381,756       38,293,906       163,905,176           202,580,838  
                                     
Property, machinery and equipment, net     -       4,787,679       -           4,787,679  
Intangible assets, net     -       321,595       -           321,595  
Operating right of use asset     -       8,156,424       -           8,156,424  
Deferred offering costs     -       6,202,630       (6,202,630 )   (1) e     -  
Other non-current assets     -       2,265,000       -           2,265,000  
Restricted cash, non-current     -       415,759       -           415,759  
Cash and marketable securities held in Trust Account     172,749,491       -       (172,749,491 )   (1) d     -  
                                     
Total assets   $ 173,131,247     $ 60,442,993     $ (15,046,945 )       $ 218,527,295  
                                     
Liabilities                                    
                                     
Accounts payable and accrued expenses     9,180,583       8,429,482       (9,550,636 )   (1) e     8,059,429  
Loan payable, current     643,000       15,534,593       (1,500,000 )   (1) e     14,034,593  
                      (643,000 )   (1) g        
Contract liabilities, current     -       1,464,200       -           1,464,200  
Operating lease liability, current     -       1,009,827       -           1,009,827  
Other current liabilities     -       2,279,115       -           2,279,115  
Share repurchase liability, current     -       22,000,001       (22,000,001 )   (1) b     -  
                                     
Total current liabilities     9,823,583       50,717,218       (33,693,637 )         26,847,164  
                                     
Deferred underwriting fee payable     6,900,000       -       (6,900,000 )   (1) e     -  
Contract liabilities, non-current     -       1,610,740       -           1,610,740  
Warrant liabilities     37,453,975       6,316,678       (6,316,678 )   (1) a     67,923,975  
                      30,470,000     (1) f        
SAFE notes     -       162,925,780       (162,925,780 )   (1) c     -  
Operating lease liability, non-current     -       7,767,283       -           7,767,283  
Other non-current liabilities     -       5,431,665       -           5,431,665  
                                     
Total liabilities     54,177,558       234,769,364       (179,366,095 )         109,580,827  

 

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEET — (continued)
AS OF JUNE 30, 2021

 

    Stable Road     Momentus     Pro Forma
Adjustments
    Notes   Pro Forma
Combined
 
                             
Commitments                                    
                                     
Class A common stock subject to possible redemption, 11,395,368 shares at $10.00 per share redemption value     113,953,680       -       (113,953,680 )   (1) i     -  
                                     
Stockholders’ equity (deficit)                                    
                                     
Preferred stock     -       130       259     (1) a     -  
                      (389 )   (1) c        
Class A common stock. $0.0001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 6,379,970 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 11,395,368 shares subject to possible redemption)     638       -       786     (1) i     -  
                      (1,424 )   (1) j        
Class B common stock. $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; 4,312,500 shares issued and outstanding     431       -       (431 )   (1) j     -  
Class A Common stock     -       19       4,541     (1) c     7,977  
                      1,100     (1) f        
                      1,855     (1) j        
                      462     (1) k        
Additional paid-in capital     42,535,328       48,013,423       6,316,419     (1) a     349,278,433  
                      162,921,628     (1) c        
                      (26,618,858 )   (1) e        
                      75,128,900     (1) f        
                      (37,536,388 )   (1) h        
                      78,518,443     (1) i        
                      (462 )   (1) k        
Treasury stock     -       (21,999,900 )     (17,999,999 )   (1) b     (39,999,899 )
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)     (37,536,388 )     (200,340,043 )     37,536,388     (1) h     (200,340,043 )
                                     
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)     5,000,009       (174,326,371 )     278,272,830           108,946,468  
                                     
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity   $ 173,131,247     $ 60,442,993     $ (15,046,945 )       $ 218,527,295  

 

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020

 

    Stable Road     Momentus     Pro Forma
Adjustments
    Notes   Pro Forma Combined  
                             
Net Sales   $ -     $ 365,000     $ -         $ 365,000  
Cost of revenues     -       367,622       -           367,622  
Gross profit (loss)     -       (2,622 )     -           (2,622 )
Operating Expenses                                    
Research and development expenses     -       (22,718,272 )     -           (22,718,272 )
Selling, general and administrative expenses     (3,720,975 )     (11,945,124 )     -           (15,666,099 )
Total operating expenses     (3,720,975 )     (34,663,396 )     -           (38,384,371 )
                                     
Loss from operations     (3,720,975 )     (34,666,018 )     -           (38,386,993 )
Other income (expense)                                    
Interest income     -       7,395       -           7,395  
Interest expense             (469,722 )     -           (469,722 )
Change in fair value of SAFE notes     -       (267,289,663 )     267,289,663     (2) a     -  
Change in fair value of warrants     (40,220,713 )     (3,176,770 )     3,176,770     (2) a     (40,220,713 )
Realized loss on disposal of asset     -       (482,204 )     -           (482,204 )
Other income (expense)     -       (949,363 )     -           (949,363 )
Investment income from investments held in Trust Account     1,134,391       -       (1,134,391 )   (2) b     -  
                                     
Total other income (expense)     (39,086,322 )     (272,360,327 )     269,332,042           (42,114,607 )
                                     
(Loss) income before income taxes     (42,807,297 )     (307,026,345 )     269,332,042           (80,501,600 )
                                     
(Provision) benefit for income taxes     (178,866 )     (800 )     317,629     (2) c     137,963  
                                     
Net (loss) income   $ (42,986,163 )   $ (307,027,145 )   $ 269,649,671         $ (80,363,637 )
                                     
Weighted average shares outstanding:                                    
Basic and diluted                     79,772,295     (2) d     79,772,295  
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders                                    
Basic and diluted                               $ (1.01 )

 

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2021

 

    Stable Road     Momentus     Pro Forma
Adjustments
    Notes   Pro Forma Combined  
                             
Net Sales   $ -     $ 130,000     $ -         $ 130,000  
Cost of revenues     -       48,400       -           48,400  
Gross profit (loss)     -       81,600       -           81,600  
Operating Expenses                                    
Research and development expenses     -       (30,700,331 )     -           (30,700,331 )
Selling, general and administrative expenses     (6,765,619 )     (23,744,364 )     -           (30,509,983 )
Total operating expenses     (6,765,619 )     (54,444,695 )     -           (61,210,314 )
                                     
Loss from operations     (6,765,619 )     (54,363,095 )     -           (61,128,714 )
Other income (expense)                                    
Interest income     -       1,988       -           1,988  
Interest expense     -       (4,357,133 )     -           (4,357,133 )
Change in fair value of SAFE notes     -       182,366,571       (182,366,571 )   (2) a     -  
Change in fair value of warrants     10,623,913       12,537,046       (12,537,046 )   (2) a     10,623,913  
Other income (expense)     -       (186,619 )     -           (186,619 )
SEC settlement     (1,000,000 )     (7,000,000 )     -           (8,000,000 )
Interest earned on marketable securities held in Trust Account     23,357       -       (23,357 )   (2) b     -  
                                     
Total other income (expense)     9,647,270       183,361,853       (194,926,974 )         (1,917,851 )
                                     
Income (loss) before income taxes     2,881,651       128,998,758       (194,926,974 )         (63,046,565 )
                                     
(Provision) benefit for income taxes     -       (800 )     -           (800 )
                                     
Net income (loss)   $ 2,881,651     $ 128,997,958     $ (194,926,974 )       $ (63,047,365 )
                                     
Weighted average shares outstanding:                                    
Basic and diluted                     79,772,295     (2) d     79,772,295  
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders                                    
Basic and diluted                               $ (0.79 )

 

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Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements

 

1. Basis of Presentation

 

The Business Combination is accounted for as a reverse recapitalization, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded, in accordance with GAAP. Under this method of accounting, SRAC is treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes. Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the Business Combination is treated as the equivalent of Momentus issuing stock for the net assets of SRAC, accompanied by a recapitalization. The net assets of SRAC are stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 gives pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it had been consummated on June 30, 2021. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020, give pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it had been consummated on January 1, 2020.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 has been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

 

SRAC’s unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 and the related notes, which is included in Form 10-Q and incorporated herein by reference; and

 

Momentus’ unaudited condensed balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 and the related notes, which is attached as an Exhibit to this filing and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020 has been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

 

SRAC’s audited consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the related notes, which is included elsewhere in the Proxy Statement and incorporated herein by reference; and

 

Momentus’ audited statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the related notes, which is included elsewhere in the Proxy Statement and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2021 has been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

 

SRAC’s unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2021 and the related notes, which is included in Form 10-Q and incorporated herein by reference; and

 

Momentus’ unaudited condensed statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2021 and the related notes, which is attached as an Exhibit to this filing.

 

Management has made significant estimates and assumptions in its determination of the pro forma adjustments. As the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared based on these preliminary estimates, the final amounts recorded may differ materially from the information presented.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information does not give effect to any anticipated synergies, operating efficiencies, tax savings or cost savings that may be associated with the Business Combination as the Company did not reflect any Management Adjustments under the new Article 11 pro forma rules and regulations. The pro forma adjustments reflecting the consummation of the Business Combination are based on certain currently available information and certain assumptions and methodologies that management believes are reasonable under the circumstances. The unaudited condensed pro forma adjustments, which are described in the accompanying notes, may be revised as additional information becomes available and is evaluated. Therefore, it is likely that the actual adjustments will differ from the pro forma adjustments and it is possible the difference may be material. Management believes that its assumptions and methodologies provide a reasonable basis for presenting all of the significant effects of the Business Combination based on information available to management at the time and that the pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions and are properly applied in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operations and financial position would have been had the Business Combination taken place on the dates indicated, nor are they indicative of the future consolidated results of operations or financial position of the post-combination company. They should be read in conjunction with the historical financial statements and notes thereto of SRAC and Momentus.

 

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2. Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

 

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared to illustrate the effect of the Business Combination and has been prepared for informational purposes only. The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses”. Release No. 33-10786 replaces the existing pro forma adjustment criteria with simplified requirements to depict the accounting for the transaction (“Transaction Accounting Adjustments”) and the option to present the reasonably estimable synergies and other transaction effects that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur (“Management’s Adjustments”). SRAC has elected not to present Management’s Adjustments and has only presented Transaction Accounting Adjustments in the following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information. SRAC and Momentus have not had any historical relationship prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate activities between the companies.

 

Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet

 

The adjustments included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2021 are as follows:

 

(1) Represents pro forma adjustments to the condensed combined balance sheet:

 

a. Reflects the pro forma adjustment to change the classification of the Momentus warrant from liability to equity resulting in the elimination of the Momentus warrant liability.

 

b. Reflects a pro forma adjustment for the repurchase of Momentus capital stock subject to the Repurchase Agreements for $40.0 million.

 

c. Reflects the exercise of all Momentus Series A warrants and the conversion of all Momentus capital stock and SAFE notes (utilizing the estimated fair value as of June 30, 2021) into Combined Company Class A common stock.

 

d. Reflects the reclassification of cash and investments held in the Trust Account that becomes available following the Business Combination.

 

e. Represents estimated transaction costs of approximately $38.4 million incurred in connection with the Business Combination, including approximately $6.9 million payable for deferred transactions costs related to the SRAC IPO payable at Closing, as well as $31.5 million payable in connection with the Closing. The deferred transaction costs related to the SRAC IPO did not require adjustment as the amount in the Trust Account less the aggregate amount of cash proceeds that are required to satisfy actual redemptions by SRAC’s stockholder exceeded $125.0 million. Transaction costs include legal, financial advisory and other professional fees related to the Business Combination. In connection with the reverse recapitalization treatment, these transaction costs are recorded as reductions to additional paid-in capital. This adjustment includes the reclassification of $6.2 million of deferred transaction costs incurred by Momentus, the payment of a $1.5 million Momentus note payable related to transaction costs, and the payment of $7.6 million of transaction costs accrued by SRAC, for advisory, banking, legal and accounting fees that are not able to be capitalized as part of the business combination transaction and are reflected as a reduction of additional paid-in capital since those amounts are direct and incremental costs associated with obtaining the capital infusion from SRAC. Additionally, $0.3 million was reclassified from restricted cash to cash and cash equivalents at Closing. The Company is currently estimating the allocation of transaction cost to liability classified instruments originated in the transaction. At this point the Company has recognized all transaction costs in additional paid in capital. The evaluation and finalization of accounting conclusions and related estimate regarding the classification are ongoing and subject to change.

 

f. Reflects the net proceeds of $105.6 million ($110.0 million gross less $4.4 million in fees) from the issuance and sale of 11,000,000 PIPE Units at $10.00 per PIPE Unit in the PIPE Financing pursuant to the Subscription Agreements.

 

g. Reflects a pro forma adjustment for the repayment of SRAC’s loans payable per the terms of the Promissory Notes.

 

h. Reflects the elimination of historical retained earnings of SRAC.

 

i. Reflects actual redemptions, in which 3,535,081 shares of SRAC’s Class A common stock subject to possible redemption were redeemed for an aggregate payment of approximately $35.4 million (based on the estimated per share redemption price of approximately $10.02366016 per share). The remaining 7,860,287 shares that were not redeemed were transferred to permanent equity.

 

j. Represents the conversion of all outstanding SRAC’s Class A and Class B common stock into Combined Company Class A common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement.
   
k. Reflects an adjustment to increase the par value of Momentus common stock that was exchanged for shares of the Combined Company’s Class A common stock to $0.0001 from the historical par value of Momentus common stock of $0.000001.

 

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Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statements of Operations

 

(2) The pro forma adjustments included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the six months ended June 30, 2021 are as follows:

 

a. Represents pro forma adjustment to eliminate the change in fair value of SAFE notes that would be converted into Combined Company Class A common stock and the change in fair value of the warrant as the classification would change from liability to equity that would not be incurred if the Business Combination was consummated on January 1, 2020.

 

b. Represents pro forma adjustment to eliminate investment income related to the investment held in the Trust Account of SRAC that would not be earned if the Business Combination was consummated on January 1, 2020.
   
c. Represents the elimination of income tax expense related to investment income held in the Trust Account because this income tax expense would not be incurred if the Business Combination was consummated on January 1, 2020.
   
d. Represents the weighted average shares outstanding due to the issuance of Combined Company Class A common stock (and redemptions in the Maximum Redemption Scenario) in connection with the Business Combination.

 

3. Loss per Share

 

Represents the net loss per share calculated using the historical weighted average shares outstanding, and the issuance of additional shares in connection with the Business Combination, assuming the shares were outstanding since January 1, 2020. As the Business Combination is being reflected as if it had occurred at the beginning of the periods presented, the calculation of weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net loss per share assumes that the shares issuable relating to the Business Combination have been outstanding for the entire periods presented.

 

Weighted average shares calculation, basic and diluted      
Public shares and Founder Shares     18,352,757  
Shares issued in Business Combination     50,419,538  
PIPE Shares     11,000,000  
Weighted average shares outstanding     79,772,295  

 

The following potential outstanding securities were excluded from the computation of pro forma net loss per share, basic and diluted, because their effect would have been anti-dilutive.

 

SRAC – public and private placement warrants     7,120,129  
SRAC – Post IPO Warrants (PIPE Warrants)     11,000,000  
Momentus – warrants     308,569  
Momentus – stock options     5,174,669  
      23,603,367  

 

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