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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 26, 2020
FASTLY, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
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Delaware
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001-38897
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27-5411834
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(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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(Commission File Number)
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(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
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475 Brannan Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94107
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
(844) 432-7859
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Not Applicable
(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 (see General Instructions A.2. below):
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Title of each class
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Trading
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Name of each exchange
on which registered
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Class A Common Stock, $0.00002 par value
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“FSLY”
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New York Stock Exchange
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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. ☐
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On August 26, 2020, Fastly, Inc. (“Fastly”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the “Merger Agreement”) with One Fish, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fastly (“One Fish”), Two Fish, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fastly (“Two Fish”), Signal Sciences Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Shareholder Representative Services LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, solely in its capacity as the representative of the Company securityholders.
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, One Fish will merge with and into the Company (the “First Merger”), and upon consummation of the First Merger, One Fish will cease to exist and the Company will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Fastly. As part of the same overall transaction, promptly after the First Merger, the surviving entity of the First Merger will merge with and into Two Fish (the “Second Merger”), and upon consummation of the Second Merger, the surviving entity of the First Merger will cease to exist and Two Fish will survive the Second Merger and continue to exist as a wholly owned subsidiary of Fastly.
Upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Closing”), all outstanding shares of Company capital stock, options to purchase Company capital stock and warrants to purchase Company capital stock will be cancelled in exchange for aggregate consideration of $775,000,000, subject to certain adjustments, consisting of up to $200,000,000 in cash and the balance in shares of Class A Common Stock of Fastly, par value $0.00002 per share (“Fastly Class A Common Stock”) (the “Stock Consideration”); provided, that (a) unvested options to purchase Company capital stock held by employees of the Company who remain or become employees of Fastly or any of its subsidiaries following the Closing will be assumed by Fastly or substituted with a corresponding stock option of Fastly to purchase shares of Fastly Class A Common Stock and (b) all unvested options to purchase Company Stock held by any former employees will be cancelled for no consideration. The number of shares issued in connection with the Stock Consideration will be calculated based on the volume-weighted average price of a share of Class A Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive trading day period ended on and including the third trading day immediately prior to the date of the Closing; provided, that for purposes of such determination, the parties agreed (i) upon a reference price of $83.3103, based on the volume-weighted average price of a share of Class A Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive trading day period ended on the trading day immediately prior to the date of the Merger Agreement, and (ii) in no event will the deemed price per share of Class A Common Stock for purposes of such calculation be less than eighty percent of such reference price (or $66.6482) or greater than one hundred and ten percent of such reference price (or $91.6413). In addition, Fastly will establish a retention pool in an aggregate amount of $50,000,000 in the form of restricted stock units covering shares of Fastly Class A Common Stock that will be granted to certain Company employees in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement.
The Merger Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants by Fastly and the Company. A portion of the aggregate consideration will be held in escrow to secure the indemnification obligations of the Company securityholders. The Closing is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to occur in 2020. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, Fastly has agreed to file a Resale Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the resale of the shares of Fastly Class A Common Stock to be issued to eligible Company securityholders (the “Resale Registration Statement”).
Either Fastly or the Company may terminate the Merger Agreement if the Closing has not occurred on or before November 24, 2020 (or January 23, 2021 if, as of November 24, 2020, all closing conditions have been completed except for the receipt of certain regulatory approvals).
Fastly intends to issue the shares of Fastly Class A Common Stock described herein in reliance upon the exemptions from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) and Rule 506 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
The foregoing summary of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby do not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Merger Agreement, which will be filed as an exhibit on the earlier to be filed following the Closing of (i) Fastly’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2020 and (ii) the Resale Registration Statement.
Forward Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the expected completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the time frame in which this will occur. Statements regarding future events are based on the parties’ current expectations and are necessarily subject to associated risks related to, among other things, regulatory approval of the acquisition of the Company or that other conditions to the Closing may not be satisfied, the potential
impact on the business of the Company due to the announcement of the acquisition, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement, and general economic conditions. Therefore, actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. For information regarding other related risks, see the “Risk Factors” section of Fastly’s most recent annual reports on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements included herein are made only as of the date hereof, and Fastly undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.
Item 8.01 Other Events.
On August 27, 2020, Fastly issued a press release announcing that it had entered into the Merger Agreement. The press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)Exhibits
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Exhibit
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Exhibit Description
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99.1
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104
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Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 1.01)
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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FASTLY, INC.
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Dated:
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August 27, 2020
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By:
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/s/ Adriel Lares
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Adriel Lares
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Chief Financial Officer
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Exhibit 99.1
Fastly Announces Agreement to Acquire Signal Sciences
Acquisition broadens Fastly’s security offering and accelerates Compute@Edge adoption;
Expected to be accretive to growth and gross margin
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, 2020 – Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), provider of an edge cloud platform, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signal Sciences (“Signal Sciences”), for approximately $775 million in cash and stock. The acquisition will expand Fastly’s robust security portfolio at a time when security at the edge has never been more critical. Signal Sciences' strong, developer-first web application and API protection solutions will bolster Fastly's existing security offerings to bring customers a unified edge security solution.
Signal Sciences’ technology combined with Fastly’s current solutions will form Fastly’s upcoming new security offering, Secure@Edge. Secure@Edge will be a modern, unified web application and API protection solution that will power and protect companies looking to further or begin their digital transformation. The acquisition supports Fastly’s mission to provide simplified, secure, and frictionless solutions at scale, and to transform the security landscape by offering an alternative to the existing array of opaque, fragmented and inflexible solutions needed to protect web applications and APIs.
Signal Sciences’ developer-friendly and fully programmable security solution delivers exceptional visibility, enabling businesses to make accurate and automated security decisions and providing efficient protection at scale. With Signal Sciences’ technology, Fastly’s enhanced web application and API protection solution will deliver increased agility, visibility, and protection as more code and applications move to the edge.
“Fastly was founded to meet developers’ need for greater visibility and control. Now, as the digital transformation movement continues to accelerate, DevOps teams are struggling with inadequate and inflexible security tools,” said Joshua Bixby, Chief Executive Officer of Fastly. “Together with Signal Sciences, we will give developers modern security tools designed for the way they work. This new solution will integrate with our Compute@Edge platform, accelerating the adoption of edge computing, while simultaneously solving for modern security challenges. We look forward to working with the talented team at Signal Sciences as we continue to innovate and deliver revolutionary security and edge-computing solutions together.”
“Our mission has always been to secure web applications and APIs through a developer-first approach. Together with Fastly, we will be able to offer enhanced protection to a broader set of customers across multiple verticals and geographies,” said Andrew Peterson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Signal Sciences. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with Fastly, an ideal partner who shares our values, deep technical knowledge, and commitment to extending the DevOps movement into the realm of security.”
Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Fastly will acquire Signal Sciences for $200 million in cash and approximately $575 million worth of Class A Common Stock, subject to customary adjustments for transactions of this nature. The per share portion of the stock consideration will be based, subject to a two-way price collar, on the volume-weighted average price of a share of Class A Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive trading day period ended on and including the third trading day immediately prior to the date of the Closing. Fastly will also establish a retention pool of $50 million worth of restricted stock units to be granted to Signal Sciences employees.
The transaction is subject to certain customary closing conditions, including receipt of required regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in 2020.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Union Square Advisors are acting as financial advisors to Fastly, and Cooley LLP is acting as its legal advisor with regard to the transaction. Qatalyst Partners is acting as financial advisor to Signal Sciences, while Goodwin Procter LLP is acting as its legal adviser.
Investor Conference Call
Fastly management will host a conference call to discuss the transaction today at 5:00 a.m. PT / 8:00 a.m. ET, and a presentation will be posted to the Investors Relations section of the company’s website at https://investors.fastly.com prior to the call.
When: Thursday, August 27, 2020
Time: 5:00 a.m. PT / 8:00 am ET
Conference ID: 1766205
Live Call: (833) 968-2077 (U.S./Canada) or (236) 714-2139 (International)
Webcast: https://investors.fastly.com
The webcast will be archived on the investor relations section of Fastly’s website following the call.
About Fastly
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
About Signal Sciences
Signal Sciences is the fastest growing web application security company in the world. With its award-winning next-gen WAF and RASP solution, Signal Sciences protects more than 40,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ patented architecture provides organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. The company works with some of the world’s most recognizable companies, as indicated on the company’s website, including Duo Security, DataDog, Under Armour, Twilio SendGrid, and Doordash. Signal Sciences is also named a Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startup and received the 451 Firestarter award, InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year, and Computing's DevOps Excellence Award for Best DevOps Security Tool. For more information, visit Signal Sciences website or follow @Signal Sciences.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us on the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, the anticipated timing of the closing of this transaction, if at all, the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approval, the anticipated benefits of the transaction and our ability to successfully integrate Signal Sciences into our business, the ability of Signal Sciences’ web application and API protection solution to bolster our existing security offerings to integrate with our Compute@Edge platform and bring customers a unified web application and API protection solution, and our ability to provide an agile, single security solution designed specifically for the edge, with increased visibility and protection for customers with Signal Sciences’ technology. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Please refer to the Form 8-K filed by Fastly on August 27, 2020 for additional information regarding the transaction. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports Fastly files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including in Fastly’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on Fastly’s website and are available from Fastly without charge.
Source: Fastly, Inc.
Contacts
Fastly
Investor Contact:
Maria Lukens
ir@fastly.com
Media Contact:
Elaine Greenberg
press@fastly.com