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10-Nov-2009
Other Events, Financial Statements and Exhibits
• Comcast will contribute $196.0 million to Clearwire Communications in exchange for approximately 26.7 million Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests and the same number of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests;
• Time Warner Cable will contribute $103.0 million to Clearwire Communications in exchange for approximately 14.1 million Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests and the same number of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests;
• Bright House Networks will contribute $19.0 million to Clearwire Communications in exchange for approximately 2.6 million Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests and the same number of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests;
• Intel will contribute $50.0 million to Clearwire Communications in exchange for approximately 6.8 million Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests and the same number of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests; and
• Eagle River will contribute $20.0 million to Clearwire Communications in exchange for approximately 2.7 million Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests and the same number of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests.
Immediately following the receipt by the Participating Equityholders of
Clearwire Communications Voting Interests and Clearwire Communications Class B
Common Interests, each of the Participating Equityholders will contribute to
Clearwire its Clearwire Communications Voting Interests in exchange for an equal
number of shares of Clearwire's Class B Common Stock.
The Participating Equityholders will purchase an aggregate of approximately
$1.057 billion of the Clearwire Communications Class B Common Interests and
Clearwire Communications Voting Interests, pro rata based on their respective
investment amounts set forth above, on or about November 13, 2009, assuming
satisfaction of the applicable closing conditions, which are customary. This is
the maximum amount permitted by the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market, which we
refer to as Nasdaq, prior to the effectiveness of the written consent to the
transactions executed by the Participating Equityholders, which are holders of
approximately 82.2% of the outstanding voting shares of Clearwire. We refer to
this closing as the First Investment Closing. Subsequently, an additional
approximately $440.3 million of Clearwire Communications Class B Common
Interests and Clearwire Communications Voting Interests will be purchased within
one business day following the date on which such purchase is permitted by
Nasdaq rules and applicable law, assuming satisfaction of the other applicable
closing conditions. We refer to the consummation of this purchase as the Second
Investment Closing. The remaining securities will be purchased within one
business day following the date on which an additional closing condition
regarding the delivery of certain financial information to Sprint by Clearwire
is satisfied in addition to the satisfaction of other applicable closing
conditions, which is expected to occur in Clearwire's first fiscal quarter of
2010. We refer to the consummation of this purchase as the Third Investment
Closing.
Under the Investment Agreement, in exchange for the purchase by Sprint,
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks of Clearwire Communications
Class B Common Interests and Clearwire Communications Class B Common Stock in
amounts exceeding their respective Percentage Interest, as defined in the
Equityholders' Agreement, dated as of November 28, 2008, by and among Clearwire
and certain affiliates of the Participating Equityholders and Google (determined
immediately prior to the First Investment Closing), Clearwire will pay a fee
equal to approximately $18.9 million to Sprint, approximately $3.1 million to
Comcast, approximately $1.7 to Time Warner Cable and approximately $0.3 million
to Bright House Networks on the terms described below. We refer to each of these
fees as an Over Allotment Fee. The fees will be paid in installments at each of
the Second Investment Closing and the Third Investment Closing. Clearwire will
deliver the applicable Over Allotment Fee to the applicable Participating
Equityholder, at the option of such Participating Equityholder, (i) in Clearwire
Communications Class B Common Interests and Clearwire Communications Voting
Interests at a per share price of $7.33 and an equal number of Clearwire
Communications Voting Interests, or (ii) in cash, by wire transfer of
immediately available funds. Immediately following the receipt by any
Participating Equityholder of Clearwire Communications Voting Interests in
payment of an Over Allotment Fee, each such Participating Equityholder will
contribute to Clearwire its Clearwire Communications Voting Interests in
exchange for an equal number of shares of Class B Common Stock.
The consummation of the Clearwire Private Placement at each investment
closing is conditioned upon (i) solely with respect to the Second Investment
Closing and Third Investment Closing, the actions described in the Participating
Equityholders' written consent being able to be effected under applicable law
and Nasdaq rules, including an amendment to Clearwire's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation to increase Clearwire's share capital, which we refer to as the
Charter Amendment, being effective, (ii) no applicable law prohibiting or
preventing, and no injunction, writ, preliminary restraining order or other
government order prohibiting, the consummation of the transactions described in
the Investment Agreement (including the Clearwire Equityholder Investments, the
Rights Offering and the Charter Amendment), (iii) Clearwire's Class A Common
Stock issued upon conversion of Clearwire's Class B Common Stock and Clearwire
Communications Class B Common Interests issued in the Clearwire Private
Placement will have been listed on Nasdaq, (iv) solely with respect to the First
Investment Closing and Second Investment Closing, (x) the representations and
warranties of Clearwire and Clearwire Communications shall be true and correct
other than, subject to certain limited exceptions, failures to be true and
correct which would
not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect, (y) Clearwire and
Clearwire Communications shall have performed in all material respects all of
their respective covenants and agreements and (z) Clearwire shall have amended
its change in control severance plan to provide that the transactions under the
Investment Agreement will not constitute a "change of control" under the plan
and Clearwire's Chief Executive Offer shall have consented to such amendment,
(v) each of Sprint, Comcast and Time Warner Cable shall have contemporaneously
made its investment pursuant to the Clearwire Private Placement, and (vi) solely
with respect to the Third Investment Closing, Sprint shall have received certain
specified financial information from Clearwire with respect to Clearwire's
fiscal year ending December 31, 2009, or Sprint shall have waived its right to
receive such information.
In addition to the Clearwire Private Placement, Clearwire Communications has
commenced an offering of Clearwire Notes. The Investment Agreement provides that
in the event Clearwire Communications issues senior secured notes or other first
lien indebtedness, which we collectively refer to with the senior secured notes
as Refinancing Debt, in an aggregate amount such that the net cash proceeds of
such issuance (inclusive of the Rollover Amounts described below) are
sufficient, and will be used, to pay in full all outstanding loans, together
with accrued and unpaid interest and fees, prepayment of premium (if any), and
all other amounts owing under Clearwire's senior term loan facility (including,
without limitation, all such amounts owing to Sprint and each of the other
Participating Equityholders that holds any indebtedness under Clearwire's senior
term loan facility (each of which we refer to as a Rollover Investor) in its
capacity as a lender under Clearwire's senior term loan facility (all such
amounts owing to such Rollover Investor being its respective "Rollover
Amount")), then each Rollover Investor agrees that it will purchase from
Clearwire Communications (or, if directed by Clearwire Communications, from the
initial purchasers of the Refinancing Debt) an amount of Refinancing Debt, the
gross proceeds of which will be sufficient to repay the Rollover Amount owed to
each Rollover Investor in their capacity as a lender under the senior term loan
facility, which we refer to as such lender's Rollover Amount. Clearwire's,
Clearwire Communications' and the Rollover Investors' obligations to consummate
the Rollover Transaction is not conditioned upon the closing of the other
transactions contemplated by the Investment Agreement.
Upon the consummation of a Clearwire Rollover Transaction, Clearwire will pay
to the applicable Rollover Investor a fee equal to 3% of such Rollover
Investor's Rollover Amount, which fee will be paid in cash by wire transfer of
immediately available funds.
The foregoing description of the Investment Agreement does not purport to be
complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such
agreement which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by
reference.
THIS CURRENT REPORT ON FORM 8-K SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE
SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY ANY SECURITIES.
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit No. Description
99.1 Investment Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2009, by and among Sprint
Nextel Corporation, Clearwire Corporation, Clearwire Communications LLC,
Intel Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Eagle
River Holdings, LLC, and Bright House Networks, LLC
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