Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

A&R Registration Rights Agreement

Concurrent with the Closing, Empower Sponsor Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Sponsor"), Holley and Holley Parent Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Holley Stockholder," and together with Sponsor and Holley, the "RRA Holders"), entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (the "A&R Registration Rights Agreement"), pursuant to which Holley agreed to register for resale, pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), certain shares of Common Stock and other equity securities of Holley that are held by the RRA Holders from time to time. Under the A&R Registration Rights Agreement, the Holley Stockholder and





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Sponsor are entitled within any twelve-month period to make four written shelf takedown requests that Holley register the resale of any or all of their Common Stock on Form S-3 (or Form S-1 if Holley is ineligible to use Form S-3), so long as such demand is for at least $30,000,000 in shares of Common Stock of all stockholders participating in such shelf takedown, or all registrable securities held by the requesting party. Subject to certain customary exceptions, if Holley proposes to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to its securities, Holley will give notice to the relevant security holders party to the A&R Registration Rights Agreement as to the proposed filing and offer such security holders an opportunity to register the resale of such number of their Common Stock as requested by such stockholders, subject to customary cutbacks in an underwritten offering. Any other stockholders of Holley with piggyback registration rights may also participate in any such registrations, subject to customary cutbacks in an underwritten offering.

The foregoing description of the A&R Registration Rights Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the A&R Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.5 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Stockholders' Agreement

Concurrent with the Closing, Sponsor, the Holley Stockholder, certain affiliates of Sponsor (the "Sponsor Investors"), Holley and certain affiliates of the Holley Stockholder (the "Sentinel Investors") entered into a Stockholders' Agreement (the "Stockholders' Agreement"), pursuant to which the Holley . . .

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

The disclosure set forth in the "Introductory Note" above is incorporated into this Item 2.01 by reference.

Each of the stockholder proposals included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus was approved by Empower's shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting of Empower's shareholders in lieu of Empower's 2021 annual meeting held on July 14, 2021 (the "Extraordinary Meeting").

In connection with the consummation of the Mergers, all of the 6,250,000 outstanding Class B ordinary share, par value $0.0001, of Empower (the "Founder Shares") were converted into shares of Common Stock on a one-for-one basis.





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Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the Closing, all outstanding shares of Holley Intermediate common stock as of immediately prior to the effective time of Merger I were cancelled and the Holley Stockholder received $264,717,627.49 in cash and 67,673,884 shares of Common Stock (at a deemed value of $10.00 per share). Adjustments to consideration paid to the Holley Stockholder are further described in the section entitled "Proposal No. 1-The Business Combination Proposal-The Merger Agreement" on page 104 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus.

As of the Closing Date, and immediately following the consummation of the Business Combination, Holley had the following issued and outstanding securities:





     •    117,993,139 shares of Common Stock (inclusive of the inclusive of
          2,187,500 Earn-Out Shares and issuances pursuant to the Merger Agreement,
          PIPE Financing and A&R FPA);




     •    10,000,000 public warrants, each exercisable for one share of Common
          Stock at a price of $11.50 per share (including the public warrants
          issued pursuant to the A&R FPA) (the "Public Warrants"); and




     •    4,666,667 private placement warrants, each exercisable for one share of
          Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share ("Private Warrants", together
          with Public Warrants, the "Warrants").

The Earn-Out Shares and the their vesting conditions and terms are described in the section entitled "Proposal No. 1-The Business Combination Proposal-Other Agreements-Sponsor Agreement" on page 118 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus.





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                              FORM 10 INFORMATION

Prior to the Closing, Empower was a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of . . .

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The description of the Subscription Agreements, the PIPE Financing, and the A&R FPA set forth above under "Introductory Note" of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

The information regarding unregistered sales of equity securities set forth under "Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets-Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities" in this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

On the Closing Date, Empower filed the Certificate of Incorporation of Holley (the "Certificate") with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. The material terms of the Certificate and the general effect upon the rights of holders of Holley's capital stock are described in the sections of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus entitled "Proposal No. 4-The Binding Charter Proposal" beginning on page 142 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which information is incorporated herein by reference. A copy of the Certificate is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

In addition, upon the Closing, pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, Holley adopted bylaws (the "Bylaws"). A copy of Holley's Bylaws is filed as Exhibit 3.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5.01 Changes in Control of the Registrant

The information set forth above under "Introductory Note" and in the section entitled "Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management" 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.

Incentive Plan

The information set forth under the heading "Incentive Plan" in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

Directors and Executive Officers

The information regarding Holley's directors and executive officers and the compensation that will be paid to them set forth under the headings "Information about Directors and Executive Officers" and "Executive Compensation" in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

In connection with the Closing, Graham Clempson, Krishnan Anand, Jeffrey Jones and Beth Kaplan resigned as directors of Empower and Matthew Rubel, Graham Clempson and Andrew Spring resigned as officers of Empower and its subsidiaries.

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

The information set forth in Item 3.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.





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Item 5.05 Amendments to the Registrant's Code of Ethics

On July 16, 2021, the board of directors of Holley adopted the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the "Code") applicable to all directors, officers and associates of Holley. Among other things, the Code establishes certain guidelines and principles relating to (i) compliance with laws and regulations, (ii) conflicts of interest, (iii) corporate opportunities, (iv) gifts, (v) confidentiality, (vi) protection and use of Holley assets, (vii) record keeping, (viii) environmental, health and safety, (ix) competition and fair dealing, (x) discrimination and harassment, (xi) prohibition against payments to government personnel, and (xii) insider information and securities trading, as well as establishes internal reporting and compliance procedures.

The foregoing description of the Code is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of Code, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 14.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5.06 Change in Shell Company Status

As a result of the Mergers, which fulfilled the definition of a business combination as required by the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of Empower, dated October 6, 2020, Holley ceased to be a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act) as of the Closing Date. The material terms of the Mergers are described in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus in the section entitled "Proposal No.1-The Business Combination Proposal-The Merger Agreement" beginning on page 104 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

On July 16, 2021, Holley issued a press release announcing the consummation of the business combination between Empower Ltd. and Holley Intermediate, which is included in this Report as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(a) Financial Statements of Business Acquired

The following historical financial statements of Holley Intermediate and the related notes beginning on page F-3 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus are incorporated herein by reference: (i) audited financial statements of Empower Ltd. as of December 31, 2020 and for the period from August 19, 2020 (inception) through December 31, 2020 and (ii) unaudited condensed financial statements as of March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 (Restated) and for the three months ended March 31, 2021.

The following historical financial statements of Holley Intermediate and the related notes beginning on page F-45 of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus are incorporated herein by reference: (i) audited consolidated financial statements of Holley Intermediate as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 and for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 and (ii) unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of March 28, 2021 and for the thirteen weeks ended March 28, 2021.

(b) Pro Forma Financial Information

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of March 31, 2021 and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020 is set forth in Exhibit 99.2 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

(d) Exhibits

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