Introductory Note
As previously disclosed, on July 9, 2024, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. (f/k/a Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“Solaris”) entered into a Contribution Agreement (the “Contribution Agreement”), with Solaris Energy Infrastructure, LLC (f/k/a Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, LLC), a Delaware limited liability company and a subsidiary of Solaris (“Solaris LLC”), John A. Johnson, an individual resident of the State of Florida, John Tuma, an individual resident of the State of Texas, J Turbines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“J Turbines”) and KTR Management Company, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“KTR” and together with J Turbines, the “Contributors”), pursuant to which the Contributors agreed to contribute (the “Contribution”) all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Mobile Energy Rentals LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“MER”), to Solaris LLC, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein.
As previously disclosed, on August 30, 2024, Solaris held a special meeting of its stockholders (the “Special Meeting”). At the Special Meeting, Solaris stockholders voted to approve, among other things, the issuance of 16,464,778 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.00 per share (“Class B Common Stock”), for the purposes of complying with the applicable provisions of Section 312.03 of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual, a second certificate of amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Solaris to effect the name change of Solaris from “Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, Inc.” to “Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc.” (the “Solaris Inc. Name Change”), and an amendment to the Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, Inc.’s Long Term Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of Solaris Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), issuable under such plan.
Item 1.01 |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Lock-Up Agreements
On September 11, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), pursuant to Section 2.3(a)(xii) of the Contribution Agreement, Solaris entered into Lock-Up Agreements (the “Lock-Up Agreements”), with each of Sean G. Johnson and C. Ross Bartley.
Each of J Turbines and KTR are also subject to a lock-up under the terms of the Contribution Agreement.
The foregoing description of the Lock-Up Agreements does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Lock-Up Agreements, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.
Term Loan Agreement
On the Closing Date, Solaris and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a senior secured term loan agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”) with Banco Santander, S.A. New York Branch, as administrative agent, Silver Point Finance, LLC, as collateral agent, and the lenders party thereto, pursuant to which the lenders provided term loans in an aggregate original principal amount of $325 million. Solaris used a portion of the proceeds to fund the consummation of its acquisition of MER pursuant to the terms of the Contribution Agreement and to pay transaction costs associated with the Term Loan Agreement and the Contribution Agreement, and expects to use the remaining proceeds to fund capital expenditures and for other corporate purposes.
Borrowings under the Term Loan Agreement bear interest, at Solaris’s option, at a rate equal to either (i) Term SOFR plus an applicable margin or (ii) the Base Rate (each as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) plus an applicable margin. The margin applicable to borrowings under the Term Loan Agreement is 5.00% for Base Rate loans and 6.00% for Term SOFR loans, with adjustments thereto if certain conditions are not met up to an additional 0.25% based on Solaris’s then-current leverage ratio.
The Term Loan Agreement contains certain covenants that Solaris considers customary, including, but not limited to, limitations on Solaris’s and its subsidiaries’ incurrence of additional debt, granting liens, and making dispositions, investments and restricted payments. The Term Loan Agreement also includes financial covenants that require Solaris to maintain, (i) a ratio of consolidated annualized EBITDA minus unfinanced capital expenditures and cash taxes to fixed charges (which include interest payments, principal repayments and the payments of certain dividends and distributions) of at least 1:25 to 1.00 as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, beginning with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2025, and (ii) a ratio of consolidated net debt (subject to cash netting limitations) to consolidated annualized EBITDA of not greater than 3.25:1.00 for the fiscal quarters ending September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2025, and not greater than 3.00:1.00 for each fiscal quarter thereafter, in each case, as of the last day of such fiscal quarter.