Item 1.01 Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Broadway Financial Corporation (the "Company") entered into stock purchase
agreements (the "Stock Purchase Agreements") with Ally Ventures, a business unit
of Ally Financial Inc., Banner Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Banner
Corporation, Citicorp Banking Corporation, First Republic Bank, J.P. Morgan
Chase Community Development Corporation ("JPM"), Texas Capital Community
Development Corporation, Gerald I. White, the Grace & White, Inc. Profit Sharing
Plan, The Lorraine Grace Will Trust, The Anne Grace Kelly Trust 99, The
Gwendolyn Grace Trust 99, The Lorraine L. Grace Trust 99, and The Ruth Grace
Jervis Millennium Trust (collectively, the "Investors"). Each of the Stock
Purchase Agreements with the Investors were entered into on February 19, 2021,
other than the Stock Purchase Agreement with JPM, which was entered into on
February 20, 2021. Pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreements, the Company has
agreed to sell and such Investors have severally agreed to purchase shares of
the Company's common stock in individual amounts that aggregate to 6,293,236
shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share ("Class
A Common Stock") and 5,056,179 shares of Class C Common Stock of the Company,
par value $0.01 per share ("Class C Common Stock", and together with the Class A
Common Stock, the "Common Stock"), in each case constituting non-controlling
equity investments, and subject to adjustment in certain circumstances, at a
price of $1.78 per share payable in cash at the closing of the sales of stock,
for an aggregate purchase price of $20,201,958.70.
The Company's existing classes of voting common stock and non-voting common
stock will be renamed as Class A Common Stock and Class C Common Stock,
respectively, in connection with the consummation of the merger of CFBanc
Corporation ("CFBanc") with and into the Company, in which the Company will be
the surviving corporation, pursuant to the previously reported Agreement and
Plan of Merger, dated August 25, 2020, entered into between the Company and
CFBanc (the "Merger").
The consummation of each of the sales of shares of Common Stock to the Investors
under the respective Stock Purchase Agreements is subject to the satisfaction of
certain closing conditions, including (i) the consummation of the Merger, which
is subject to the satisfactions of various conditions including stockholder
approval, among others, (ii) receipt of any stockholder approvals required under
applicable law or the NASDAQ Listing Rules, (iii) receipt of stockholder
approval of an increase in the number of authorized shares of the Company's
voting common stock, and (iv) certain other customary closing conditions. There
can be no assurance that all of such conditions will be satisfied. The
respective stock purchase obligations of the individual Investors are not
conditioned on the completion of sales of Common Stock to any other Investor.
The Stock Purchase Agreements contain customary representations and warranties
of the Company and the Investors. The Stock Purchase Agreements also contain
certain indemnification obligations of each party with respect to breaches of
representations, warranties and covenants and certain other specified matters.
The above description of the Stock Purchase Agreements has been included to
provide investors and security holders with information regarding the terms of
the Stock Purchase Agreements. It is not intended to provide any other factual
information about the Company, the Investors or their respective subsidiaries
and affiliates.
As previously disclosed, the Company entered into stock purchase agreements with
certain institutional investors (the "Initial Investors") pursuant to which the
Company agreed to sell a number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class C
Common Stock, respectively, to be determined based on specified percentages of
the number of shares of Class A Common Stock or all Common Stock outstanding
immediately following the consummation of such sales and all concurrent private
placements of Common Stock to other investors. As a result of the entry into
the Stock Purchase Agreements with the Investors reported herein, the number of
shares to be purchased by certain of the Initial Investors will increase
accordingly.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
As described in Item 1.01 above, on February 19, 2021 and February 20, 2021, the
Company entered into Stock Purchase Agreements with the Investors pursuant to
which the Company has agreed to sell and such Investors have severally agreed to
purchase 6,293,236 shares of Class A Common Stock and 5,056,179 shares of Class
C Common Stock, at a price of $1.78 per share, for an aggregate purchase price
of $20,201,958.70. Such Stock Purchase Agreements were individually negotiated
with the respective Investors and the sales of shares of Common Stock pursuant
thereto will be made in private placement transactions that are exempt from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to
Section 4(a)(2) thereof or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
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The Company expects to pay placement fees in an aggregate amount of
approximately $1.01 million to Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Keefe,
Bruyette & Woods, Inc. in connection with the sale of Common Stock pursuant to
the Stock Purchase Agreements for a total of $1.264 million in placement fees
payable to such placement agents when taken together with the placement agent
fees payable in connection with the sale of Common Stock to the Initial
Investors. The Class C Common Stock will be subject to restrictions on
transfer (summarized below) and will convert automatically into an equal number
of shares of Class A Common Stock in the event of permitted transfers in
accordance with the same terms that are applicable to the Company's currently
outstanding non-voting common stock, par value $0.01 per share, as set forth in
the Company's certificate of incorporation.
The Class C Common Stock will only be transferrable by an initial holder thereof
or an affiliate of the initial holder (i) to an affiliate of the initial holder,
(ii) to the Company, (iii) in a widespread public distribution, (iv) in a
transfer in which no transferee (or group of associated transferees) would
receive 2% or more of any class of voting securities of the Company, or (v) to a
transferee that would control more than 50% of the voting securities of the
Company without any transfer from the initial holder or any affiliate of the
initial holder. Pursuant to the Company's certificate of incorporation, the
Class C Common Stock may be made subject to additional restrictions on transfer
imposed by the Company if necessary to preserve the non-voting classification of
the Class C Common Stock for bank regulatory purposes.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
99.1 Press release dated February 23, 2021, announcing the entry into the Stock
Purchase Agreements with the Investors.
Additional Information and Where to Find it
This report does not constitute an offer to buy or sell or the solicitation of
an offer to buy or sell any securities or a solicitation of any vote or
approval. This report relates to a proposed business combination between the
Company and CFBanc, as well as related potential private placements of common
equity. In connection with the proposed Merger, the Company has filed with the
SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") that
includes a joint proxy statement of the Company and CFBanc and a prospectus of
the Company (the "Joint Proxy/Prospectus"). The Company also plans to file other
relevant documents with the SEC regarding the proposed transactions. No offering
of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the
requirements of Section 10 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
no offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy shall be made in any
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The
definitive Joint Proxy/Prospectus has been mailed or otherwise provided to
stockholders of the Company and CFBanc. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF THE
COMPANY AND CFBANC ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, JOINT
PROXY/PROSPECTUS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC, AS WELL AS
ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THOSE DOCUMENTS, CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR
ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED
TRANSACTIONS.
Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of these
documents and other documents containing important information about the Company
and CFBanc through the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
Copies of the documents filed with the SEC by the Company are also be available
free of charge on the Company's website at
https://www.broadwayfederalbank.com/financial-highlights. Copies of the
Registration Statement and the Joint Proxy/Prospectus can also be obtained free
of charge by directing a request to Broadway Financial Corporation, 5055
Wilshire Boulevard Suite 500, Los Angeles, California 90036, Attention: Investor
Relations, Telephone: (323) 556-3264, or by email to
investor.relations@broadwayfederalbank.com, or to CFBanc Corporation, 1432 U
Street, NW DC 20009, Attention: Audrey Phillips, Corporate Secretary, Telephone:
(202) 243-7141.
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Certain Information Concerning Participants
The Company, CFBanc and certain of their respective directors and executive
officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in
respect of the proposed transactions. Information about the directors and
executive officers of the Company is set forth in the Company's proxy statement
for its 2020 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on May
20, 2020. Information regarding all of the persons who may, under the rules of
the SEC, be deemed participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of
their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be
contained in the Joint Proxy/Prospectus and other relevant materials filed with
the SEC. These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources
indicated above. Securityholders and investors should read the Joint
Proxy/Prospectus carefully when it becomes available before making any voting or
investment decisions.
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