Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Agreement and Plan of Merger
On
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement,
The Merger Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the
Merger Agreement have been approved by the board of directors of
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Not more than 45 days after the date of the Merger Agreement,
The Merger Agreement contains customary representations and warranties of the Company, CrossingBridge, ENDI, Cohanzick and the merger subsidiaries, and certain of the parties to the Merger Agreement have agreed to customary covenants, including, among others, covenants relating to: (1) the conduct of their respective businesses during the interim period between the execution of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the Merger; (2) the use of reasonable best efforts to obtain governmental and regulatory approvals; and (3) obligations of the Company to convene a meeting of its stockholders to approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Merger.
Completion of the Merger is subject to various customary conditions, including,
among others, (1) approval of the Merger Agreement and the transactions
contemplated thereby, including the Merger, by
The Merger Agreement contains certain termination rights including upon: (1) the
mutual written agreement of the Company and CrossingBridge to terminate the
Merger Agreement, (2) the written notice of either
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, ENDI has agreed that at the Closing, it will enter into a registration rights agreement with certain stockholders of ENDI following the Closing that are deemed to be affiliates of ENDI immediately following the Closing, under which such stockholders' Class A Common Shares, including the Class A Common Shares underlying any warrants issued in connection with the Merger, will be registered for resale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In addition, ENDI has agreed that at the Closing, it will amend and restate its certificate of incorporation to provide for, among other things, the rights of the holders of the Class B Common Shares to designate certain members of ENDI's board of directors.
The amended and restated certificate of incorporation of ENDI will provide that so long as the holders of Class B Common Shares and their affiliates own at least 25% of the outstanding Common Shares, the holders of Class B Common Shares shall have the right to designate 60% of the authorized number of directors on ENDI's board of directors (rounded up or down to the nearest whole number as necessary in light of the actual number of members of the board of directors). So long as the holders of Class B Common Shares and their affiliates own at least 15% but less than 25% of the outstanding Common Shares, the holders of Class B Common Shares shall have the right to designate 40% of the authorized number of directors on ENDI's board of directors (rounded up or down to the nearest whole number as necessary in light of the actual number of members of the board of directors). So long as the holders of Class B Common Shares and their affiliates own at least 5% but less than 15% of the outstanding Common Shares, the holders of Class B Common Shares shall have the right to designate one (1) director on ENDI's board of directors. At the closing, the Class B Common Shares shall be entitled to designate 3 of the 5 members of ENDI's board of directors.
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ENDI has also agreed at the Closing, it will enter into a stockholder agreement
and separate voting agreement with Cohanzick and certain stockholders of ENDI
pursuant to which, among other provisions, from and after the date that the
holders of Class B Common Shares are no longer entitled to elect at least one
(1) director to ENDI's board of directors pursuant to the amended and restated
certificate of incorporation as described above, so long as
The Merger Agreement has been included as Exhibit 2.1 to this report to provide
security holders with information regarding its terms. The description of the
Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby included in this Item
1.01 is qualified in its entirety by reference to the content of the Merger
Agreement filed herewith as Exhibit 2.1, which is incorporated herein by
reference. It is not intended to provide factual information about the parties
or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Without limiting the
generality of the preceding sentence, the representations, warranties and
covenants of each party as set forth in the Merger Agreement are not intended to
form a basis for an investment decision or a decision about how a stockholder
might vote upon the Merger and the related transactions. These provisions are
solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, are subject to
limitations, qualifications and exceptions agreed upon by the parties, and may
have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the
parties to the Merger Agreement. Representations and warranties contained in the
Merger Agreement do not necessarily establish matters of fact, and in certain
circumstances are subject to standards of materiality that differ from those an
investor might deem relevant or material. Investors should not rely on the
representations, warranties, or covenants or any description thereof as
characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the parties or
any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information
concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties, and covenants
may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, and changes may not be fully
reflected in public disclosures by
The Merger Agreement should not be read alone, but should instead be read in
conjunction with the other information regarding the Merger Agreement, the
Merger, the Company, CrossingBridge and the other parties to the Merger
Agreement and their respective affiliates and their respective businesses, that
will be contained in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 that will include a proxy statement of
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Voting and Support Agreement
In connection with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, the Company and certain of
the Company's stockholders holding an aggregate of approximately 34% of the
issued and outstanding voting capital stock of the Company have entered into a
voting and support agreement (the "Support Agreement") pursuant to which such
stockholders of the Company have agreed to vote their shares of capital stock of
the Company in favor of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated
thereby, including the Merger, and against any action, agreement, transaction or
proposal that would result in a breach of any covenant or other provision of the
Merger Agreement or that would reasonably be expected to result in the
transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement from not being completed.
Pursuant to the Support Agreement, the stockholders party thereto have also
agreed to waive their dissenters rights under
Item 9.01 - Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits: Exhibit Index Exhibit No. Exhibit Description 2.1 Merger Agreement, datedDecember 29, 2021 , by and amongENDI Corp. ,Enterprise Diversified, Inc. , Zelda Merger Sub 1, Inc., Zelda Merger Sub 2, LLC,CrossingBridge Advisors, LLC andCohanzick Management, L.L.C. 2.2 Voting and Support Agreement, datedDecember 29, 2021 , by and betweenEnterprise Diversified, Inc. and the parties signatory thereto. 99.1Enterprise Diversified, Inc. Press Release, datedDecember 29, 2021 . 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)
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