Item 8.01. Other events
On December 8, 2023, the Board of Directors of Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. (the “Company”) unanimously approved a share repurchase program authorizing the Company to purchase up to an aggregate of $20 million of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, through the expiration of the program on December 8, 2026.
The Company may repurchase shares, under the program, from time to time through open market purchases, in privately negotiated transactions or by other means. Open market repurchases will be structured to occur in accordance with applicable federal securities law, including within the pricing and volume requirements of Rule 10b-18 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company may also, from time to time, enter into Rule 10b5-1 plans to facilitate repurchases of its shares under this authorization. The timing, amount, and manner of stock repurchases will be determined at the Company’s discretion, subject to business, economic and market conditions, corporate needs and regulatory requirements, prevailing stock prices and other considerations. The share repurchase program does not obligate the Company to acquire a specific number of shares of Class A common stock and may be suspended, terminated, or modified at any time without notice, at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K (“Form 8-K”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this Form 8-K that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding the amount, timing and sources of funding for the Company’s share repurchase program. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, risks relating to the fact that common stock repurchases may not be conducted in the timeframe or in the manner the Company expects, or at all, and the important factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, (the “SEC”) on March 21, 2023 and our other filings with the SEC. These factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this Form 8-K. Any such forward-looking statements represent management’s estimates as of the date of this Form 8-K. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.