Item 8.01 Other Events.
On September 27, 2012, Clearwire Corporation ("Clearwire" or "we") entered into
an underwriting agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with Credit Suisse
Securities (USA) LLC (the "Underwriter"), TWC Wireless Holdings I LLC ("TWC I"),
TWC Wireless Holdings II LLC ("TWC II") and TWC Wireless Holdings III LLC
(together with TWC I and TWC II, the "Selling Stockholders"). On October 3,
2012, under the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the
Underwriting Agreement, the Selling Stockholders sold to the Underwriter all of
the Selling Stockholders' 46,404,782 shares of our Class A Common Stock, $0.0001
par value per share ("Class A Common Stock"). The Underwriting Agreement
contains customary representations, warranties and covenants and includes the
terms and conditions for the sale of the Class A Common Stock by the Selling
Stockholders to the Underwriter, indemnification and contribution obligations
and other terms and conditions customary in agreements of this type.
The Selling Stockholders are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Time Warner Cable Inc.
and Time Warner Cable LLC. On September 13, 2012, the Selling Stockholders
exchanged their aggregate 46,404,782 shares of our Class B Common Stock, $0.0001
par value per share ("Class B Common Stock"), together with the related
Clearwire Communications LLC Class B Common Units ("Class B Common Units"), into
an equal number of shares of our Class A Common Stock. Following the sale by the
Selling Stockholders of the Class A Common Stock, the Selling Stockholders do
not own any shares of our Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, nor do
they own any Class B Common Units.
We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of our Class A Common Stock by
the Selling Stockholders.
Prior to the sale by the Selling Stockholders of their Class A Common Stock,
affiliates of Comcast Corporation, affiliates of Time Warner Cable Inc. and
affiliates of Bright House Networks, LLC (collectively, the "Strategic Investor
Group") had the right as a group to nominate two directors of Clearwire and the
Strategic Investor Group with Intel had the right as a group to nominate one
director of Clearwire to pursuant to the Equityholders' Agreement, dated
November 28, 2008, and amended on December 8, 2010, among Clearwire and certain
of our stockholders (the "Equityholders' Agreement").
Following the sale by the Selling Stockholders of their Class A Common Stock as
described above, the Strategic Investor Group has the right as a group to
nominate one director of Clearwire pursuant to the Equityholders' Agreement. At
this time, we do not expect to enact any changes to the composition of our Board
of Directors or any of its committees.
As of October 2, 2012, the number of shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding
was 682,759,360 and the number of shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding was
782,207,122.