Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Second Lien Credit Agreement Transactions
On January 20, 2023 (the “Closing Date”), Boxed, Inc. (the “Company”) and Boxed, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Borrower”), entered into and closed the Second Lien Credit Agreement (the “2L Term Loan Agreement”) with FFI Fund Ltd., FYI Ltd., and Olifant Fund, Ltd. (collectively, “the “2L Lenders”), as lenders, and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as administrative agent. The 2L Term Loan Agreement provides for the following term loans: (i) an initial term loan commitment in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $42.4 million, funded by $32.4 million exchanged for the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, of the Company’s existing 7.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 held by the 2L Lenders on a dollar-for-dollar basis and a $10.0 million new-money investment funded at closing; (ii) $5.0 million in additional term loan commitments that the Company may draw upon subject to satisfaction of certain conditions (including the achievement of certain specified sales milestones); and (iii) up to $5.0 million of additional term loans that may be extended by the 2L Lenders, subject to the execution of a definitive acquisition or purchase agreement by the Company pursuant to which a bona fide third party agrees to purchase more than 50% of the aggregate equity interests or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.
Borrowings under the 2L Term Loan Agreement bear interest, solely paid-in-kind and payable quarterly in arrears, at a rate per annum equal to 11.00%, or 13.00% while any event of default has occurred and remains outstanding. The 2L Term Loan Agreement features a guaranteed contractual minimum return (giving credit for cash proceeds received by the 2L Lenders on account of the Warrants (as defined below)) for the 2L Lenders in connection with certain trigger events such as the pre-payment or re-payment of the principal term loan balance, an acceleration of the term loans, or any bankruptcy or similar proceedings. The term loans mature on December 14, 2026, at which time all unpaid principal, accrued and unpaid interest, and any applicable contractual minimum return shall be due and payable in full.
In connection with the 2L Term Loan Agreement, the Company and its subsidiaries granted the 2L Lenders a second priority security interest in substantially all of their assets (ranking junior in priority to the security interests granted on such assets in favor of BlackRock under the Company’s existing credit facility). Like the Company’s existing credit facility, the 2L Term Loan Agreement contains financial covenants that require the Company to maintain (i) a minimum unrestricted cash balance of not less than $7.5 million, tested quarterly; (ii) minimum retail revenue, measured on a trailing four quarter basis; and (iii) a retail gross margin percentage of at least 6.4%, measured on a trailing four quarter basis. The 2L Term Loan Agreement includes customary conditions to borrowing, representations and warranties, and covenants, including affirmative covenants and negative covenants that restrict the Company’s ability to, among other things, incur indebtedness, grant liens, merge or consolidate, make acquisitions or other investments, dispose of assets, pay dividends or make distributions, repurchase stock and enter into certain transactions with affiliates, in each case subject to certain exceptions specified in the 2L Term Loan Agreement. The 2L Term Loan Agreement requires the achievement of certain milestones relating to a process for the potential sale of the Company and the timeframe for achieving such milestones, in each case as agreed upon between the Company and the 2L Lenders. Failure to achieve the milestones within such timeframes would constitute an event of default under the 2L Term Loan Agreement.
In connection with the Company’s entry into the 2L Term Loan Agreement, the Company also issued the 2L Lenders certain common stock purchase warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of 14,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an initial exercise price of $3.00 per share. The Warrants may be exercised by the holder thereof on or before December 15, 2026. Holders of the Warrants may exercise the Warrants by (i) paying the exercise price in cash; or (ii) cashless exercise (but only in certain circumstances). Upon the exercise of any Warrant, the Company will settle such exercise by delivering the requisite number of shares of common stock, together with cash in lieu of fractional shares, if any. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock for which the Warrants are exercisable are subject to adjustment pursuant to customary anti-dilution adjustment provisions.
The Company and the 2L Lenders also entered into a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to file a registration statement relating to the resale of the shares of common stock underlying the Warrants within 30 days of the Closing Date, and has agreed to provide the 2L Lenders with customary piggyback rights for any underwritten offering of the Company’s common stock.
The foregoing descriptions of the 2L Term Loan Agreement, the Warrants and the Registration Rights Agreement do not purport to be complete descriptions of such instruments and are subject to and qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of such instruments, copies of which are included as Exhibits 10.1, 4.1 and 10.2 hereto, respectively, and the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Amended Term Loan Agreement with BlackRock
In connection with the Company’s entry into the 2L Term Loan Agreement and related transactions described above, on the Closing Date, the Company amended its existing first lien credit facility with lenders affiliated with BlackRock by entering into the First Amendment to Credit Agreement (the “BlackRock Amended Term Loan Agreement”), by and among the Company and its subsidiaries, the BlackRock affiliated lenders thereunder and Alter Domus (US) LLC, as agent for the lenders. The BlackRock Amended Term Loan Agreement permits the transactions contemplated by the Bracebridge Term Loan Agreement and provides for, among other things, (i) the payment of a consent fee of $500,000, paid in kind and added to the principal amount of the outstanding loans under the first lien credit facility; (ii) the reduction of the minimum unrestricted cash balance requirement from $15.0 million to $10.0 million; and (iii) the waiver of the minimum retail revenue covenant for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2022. The BlackRock Amended Term Loan requires the achievement of certain milestones relating to a process for the potential sale of the Company and the timeframe for achieving such milestones, in each case as agreed upon between the Company and BlackRock. Failure to achieve the milestones within such timeframes would constitute an event of default under the BlackRock Amended Term Loan.
The foregoing description of the BlackRock Amended Term Loan Agreement does not purport to be a complete description of the BlackRock Amended Term Loan Agreement and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the BlackRock Amended Term Loan Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.3 hereto, and the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.
