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): December 3, 2021

 

ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware		001-39613		83-2747826
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

3901 Midway Place NE

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(505) 881-7567

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

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

 

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Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class		Trading Symbol(s)		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.001 Par Value		ARRY		Nasdaq Global Market

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

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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 Agreement.

On December 3, 2021, Array Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”), completed its previously announced private offering of $375 million aggregate principal amount of 1.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated December 3, 2021 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.

The Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company and will mature on December 1, 2028, unless earlier converted redeemed or repurchased. The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 1.00% per year, payable semiannually in arrears on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2022.

At any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding June 1, 2028, the Notes are convertible at the option of the holders only under the following circumstances: (1) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on March 31, 2022 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the last reported sale price of our common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price on each applicable trading day; (2) during the five business day period after any ten consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in which the trading price (as defined in the Indenture) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock and the conversion rate for the Notes on each such trading day; (3) if the Company calls such Notes for redemption, at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the redemption date, but only with respect to the Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption; or (4) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events as described in the Indenture. On or after June 1, 2028 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, holders of the Notes may convert all or any portion of their Notes at any time regardless of the foregoing circumstances. Upon conversion of the Notes, the Company will pay cash up to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be converted and pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of cash and shares of the Company’s common stock, at the Company’s election, in respect of the remainder, if any, of the Company’s conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted.

The Company may redeem (an “Optional Redemption”) for cash all or any portion of the Notes, at its option, on or after December 6, 2025, if the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. If the Company redeems less than all the outstanding Notes, at least $100 million aggregate principal amount of Notes must be outstanding and not subject to redemption as of the date of the relevant notice of redemption. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.

The conversion rate for the Notes will initially be 41.9054 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $23.86 per share of common stock. The initial conversion price of the Notes represents a premium of approximately 32.5% to the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Global Market on November 30, 2021. The conversion rate for the Notes is subject to adjustment under certain circumstances in accordance with the terms of the Indenture. In addition, following certain corporate events that occur prior to the maturity date of the Notes or if the Company delivers a notice of redemption in respect of the Notes, the Company will, under certain circumstances, increase the conversion rate of the Notes for a holder who elects to convert its Notes (or any portion thereof) in connection with such a corporate event or convert its Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption during the related Redemption Period (as defined in the Indenture), as the case may be.

If the Company undergoes a Fundamental Change (as defined in the Indenture), holders may require, subject to certain conditions and exceptions, the Company to repurchase for cash all or any portion of their Notes at a Fundamental Change Repurchase Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (as defined in the Indenture).

The Indenture includes customary covenants and sets forth certain events of default after which the Notes may be declared immediately due and payable and sets forth certain types of bankruptcy or insolvency events of default involving the Company or its Significant Subsidiaries after which the Notes become automatically due and payable. The following events are considered “Events of Default” under the Indenture:

 

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default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable and the default continues for a period of 30 days;

 

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default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon an Optional Redemption, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

 

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failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with the Indenture upon exercise of a holder’s conversion right, and such failure continues for three business days;

 

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failure by the Company to give (i) a fundamental change notice or notice of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as defined in the Indenture), and such failure continues for two business days or (ii) notice of certain specified corporate events, and such failure continues for one business day;

 

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failure by the Company to comply with its obligations in respect of any consolidation, merger or sale of assets;

 

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failure by the Company to comply with any of the other agreements in the Indenture for 60 days after receipt of written notice of such failure from the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding;

 

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default by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries (as defined in the Indenture) with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $30,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent), in the aggregate of the Company and/or any of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries, whether such indebtedness existed at the time of the Indenture or shall thereafter be created, (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal of any such indebtedness when due and payable (after the expiration of all applicable grace periods) at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, and in the cases of clauses (i) and (ii), such acceleration is not rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay or default is not cured or waived, or such indebtedness is not paid or discharged, as the case may be, within 30 days after written notice to the Company by the trustee or to the Company and the trustee by holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding in accordance with the Indenture;

 

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certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries; and

 

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a final judgment or judgments for the payment of $30,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) or more (excluding any amounts covered by insurance) in the aggregate rendered against the Company or any of the Company’s significant subsidiaries, which judgment is not discharged, bonded, paid, waived or stayed within 60 days after (i) the date on which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished.

If certain bankruptcy or insolvency-related Events of Default occur, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, on, all of the then-outstanding Notes shall automatically become due and payable. If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes, other than certain bankruptcy and insolvency-related Events of Default, occurs and is continuing, the trustee, by notice to the Company, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Company and the trustee, may, and the trustee at the request of such holders shall, declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid additional interest, on, all the outstanding Notes to be due

and payable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture provides that, to the extent the Company so elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to certain failures by the Company to comply with certain reporting covenants in the Indenture will, for the first 365 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive additional interest on the Notes at a rate equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the first 180 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default and 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding from the 181st day to, and including, the 365th day following the occurrence of such Event of Default, as long as such Event of Default is continuing.

The Indenture provides that the Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of the consolidated properties and assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to, another person (other than any such sale, conveyance, transfer or lease to one or more of the Company’s direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries), unless: (i) the resulting, surviving or transferee person (if not the Company) is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and such corporation (if not the Company) expressly assumes by supplemental indenture all of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture; and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture.

A copy of the Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 (including the form of the Notes attached hereto as Exhibit 4.2) and is incorporated herein by reference (and this description is qualified in its entirety by reference to such documents).

The Company’s net proceeds from this offering were approximately $356.9 million after deducting the Initial Purchasers’ discounts and commissions, the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company and other expenses related to the STI Acquisition (as defined below). The Company intends to use a portion of the net proceeds of the offering, together with cash on hand and/or borrowings under its revolving credit facility and the issuance of up to $50.0 million of Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to the Company’s Series A preferred stock facility, to pay the cash consideration (the “STI Cash Consideration”) for its previously announced acquisition of Soluciones Técnicas Integrales Norland, S.L. (the “STI Acquisition”), to pay the cost of the capped call transactions described below and other fees and expenses related to the STI Acquisition.

The Company has also granted the Initial Purchasers (as defined below) of the Notes an option to purchase, within a 13-day period from, and including the date on which the Notes are first issued, up to an additional $50.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes. If the Initial Purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional Notes, the Company expects to use a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of the additional Notes to enter into additional capped call transactions with the Counterparties (as defined below). The Company intends to use the remainder of such net proceeds to pay a portion of the STI Cash Consideration and for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of a portion of the Company’s term loan.

On November 30, 2021, concurrently with the pricing of the Notes, the Company also entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions (the “Capped Calls”) with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Credit Suisse Capital LLC, through its agent, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., New York Branch (collectively, the “Counterparties”). The Capped Calls each have an initial strike price of $23.8633 per share, subject to certain adjustments, which corresponds to the initial conversion price of the Notes. The Capped Calls have initial cap prices of $36.0200 per share, subject to certain adjustments. The Capped Calls cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments, approximately 15.7 million shares of the Company’s common stock. The Capped Calls are expected generally to reduce potential dilution to the common stock upon conversion of any Notes and/or offset any cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap based on the cap price. The Company paid $46,650,000 from the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Notes to purchase the Capped Calls. The Capped Calls are subject to either adjustment or termination upon the occurrence of specified extraordinary events affecting the Company, including a merger event; a tender offer; and a nationalization, insolvency or delisting involving the Company. In addition, the Capped Calls are subject to certain specified additional disruption events that may give rise to terminations of the Capped Calls, including changes in law; failures to deliver; and hedging disruptions.

The summary of the foregoing transactions is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the Capped Calls, a form of which is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Certain Initial Purchasers under the Purchase Agreement (as defined below) and Counterparties under the confirmations entered into in connection with the Capped Calls, or their affiliates, have engaged in, and may in the future engage in, other commercial dealings with the Company or its affiliates in the ordinary course of business. They have received, or may in the future receive, customary fees and commissions for those transactions.

 

Item 2.03

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

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

 

Item 3.02

Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities.

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

The Company offered and sold the Notes to the Initial Purchasers in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and for resale by the Initial Purchasers to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) and Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Company relied on these exemptions from registration based in part on representations made by the Initial Purchasers in the purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) dated November 30, 2021, by and among the Company and the initial purchasers named therein (the “Initial Purchasers”).

The maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes (assuming the initial purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional Notes in full) is 23,597,998, subject to adjustment under certain circumstances in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

The Notes and the shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, if any, have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

To the extent that any shares of Company’s common stock are issued upon conversion of the Notes, they will be issued in transactions anticipated to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 3(a)(9) thereof because no commission or other remuneration is expected to be paid in connection with conversion of the Notes and any resulting issuance of shares of Company’s common stock.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)

Exhibits

 

SIGNATURES

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

 

				ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Date: December 7, 2021				By:		/s/ Tyson Hottinger
				Name:		Tyson Hottinger
				Title:		Chief Legal Officer