12/11/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/11/2024 16:20
Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Series C Preferred
On December 10, 2024, Hyperscale Data, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement (the "Agreement") entered into with Ault & Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Purchaser") on November 6, 2023 (the "Execution Date"), sold 50 shares of Series C convertible preferred stock (the "Series C Convertible Preferred Stock"), and warrants (the "Series C Warrants") to purchase 422 shares (the "Warrant Shares") of the Company's common stock to the Purchaser, for a purchase price of $570,000. As of December 11, 2024, the Purchaser has purchased an aggregate of 47,600 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and Series C Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 402,069 Warrant Shares, for an aggregate purchase price of $47.6 million. The Agreement provides that the Purchaser may purchase up to $75 million of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and Series C Warrants in one or more closings.
The Purchaser is an affiliate of the Company. The material terms of the Agreement, Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and the Series C Warrants were described in the Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2023 and are incorporated herein by reference.
Forbearance Agreement and Note
As previously reported in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on July 18, 2024, the Company entered into a note purchase agreement with an institutional investor (the "Investor") pursuant to which the Investor agreed to acquire, and the Company agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering to the Investor, a $5,390,000 10% OID Convertible Promissory Note for $4,900,000 (the "Old Note"), which transaction closed on July 19, 2024. The Old Note had a maturity date of October 19, 2024.
On December 10, 2024, the Company and the Investor entered into a Forbearance Agreement (the "Forbearance Agreement") pursuant to which the Investor agreed to forebear through the close of business on December 31, 2024, from exercising the rights and remedies it is entitled to under the Old Note, and any and all transaction documents related thereto, in consideration for the Company's agreement to issue the Forbearance Note (as defined below).
Description of the Forbearance Note
The Company agreed to issue to the Investor a convertible promissory note in the amount of $853,067.93 (the "Forbearance Note"), consisting of a forbearance extension fee of $502,760.82, a true-up amount of $339,211.22 and forbearance interest of $11,095.89. Subject to the approval by the NYSE American LLC ("NYSE") and the Company's stockholders (the "Stockholder Approval"), the Forbearance Note shall be convertible into shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock") of the Company (the "Conversion Shares"), at a conversion price equal to $5.47 (the "Conversion Price"). The Forbearance Note will accrue interest at the rate of 18% per annum and mature on February 15, 2025.
The Forbearance Note is convertible at any time after NYSE approval of the Supplemental Listing Application and Stockholder Approval into shares of Common Stock at the Conversion Price, subject to adjustment. The Company may not issue Conversion Shares to the extent such issuances would be prohibited in accordance with the rules and regulations of the NYSE unless the Company first obtains Stockholder Approval.
The Forbearance Note contains standard and customary events of default including, but not limited to, failure to pay amounts due under the Forbearance Note when required, default in covenants, bankruptcy events and suspension or delisting from trading of our Common Stock on an eligible exchange.
The foregoing descriptions of the terms of the Forbearance Note and the Forbearance Agreement do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by reference to, the Form of Forbearance Note and Forbearance Agreement which are annexed here as Exhibits 4.1 and 10.1 and are incorporated herein by reference.