Further agreements executed in December 2020
Further agreements executed in December 2020
On 23 December 2020 SVF II Wyatt, SVF Wyatt and GCPL entered into an “Amendment Deed”, being the Amended $440m CLN.
The recitals to the Amended $440m CLN recorded that on 10 November 2020, GCPL had entered into the $440m CLN, and the Amendment Deed with SVF Wyatt (defined in the Amended $440m CLN as “Vision Fund I”).
Clause 2 provided:
“On and from the date of this Deed, paragraph (c) of Condition 3 of Schedule 2 of the November 2020 Convertible Loan Note Instrument shall be modified by deleting the words “86,713 new F Shares” and replacing them with the words “141,218 new F Class Shares”.
Clause 3 related to the Amendment Deed between GCPL and SVF Wyatt which had provided for an increase in the strike price of shares due to SVF Wyatt under a convertible loan note issued by GCPL in September 2019. Clause 3 provided for the amendment to Recital (C) of the Amendment Deed.
On 23 December 2020 the Amended Omnibus Deed was entered into by GCPL, GCUK, SBG, Mr Greensill and SVF II Holdings.
Recital (B) to the Amended Omnibus recorded that the parties had agreed to amend the Omnibus Deed entered into on 10 November 2020.
Under clause 2, the amendment to the Omnibus Deed was set out in Schedule 1, which contained an amended and re-stated copy of the Omnibus Deed.
The Amended Omnibus Deed included a change to clause 3, which now provided that:
“To the extent a Greensill Group Company, after 10 November 2020: (i) recovers any amounts to which it or any other Greensill Group Company is entitled under the Katerra Programme from any other party other than SoftBank Vision Fund LP, Vision Fund II or SoftBank; or (ii) receives as consideration any equity interest or instruments convertible into an equity interest in Katerra Inc., Greensill and Greensill UK shall procure that such Greensill Group Company promptly remits any such amounts, equity interest or instruments convertible into an equity interest to Vision Fund II.”
- Heading
- INTRODUCTION
- The claimants
- The defendants
- The Greensill Group and supply chain funding
- The SCF Funds
- The securitised funding arrangements
- The SoftBank Defendants’ relationships with the Greensill Group
- The Credit Enhancement Programme
- The Katerra Group companies
- The SoftBank Defendants’ investments in the Katerra Group companies
- 2019 discussions about revisions to the Credit Enhancement Programme
- The Fairymead Note Programme
- December 2019: further discussions about the CEP
- The issue of notes under the Fairymead Note Programme
- 2020: Financial stress in the Katerra Group
- SVF1 invested further in Katerra
- Katerra identified improper revenue recognition
- Appointment of new management and restructuring advisors
- Developments concerning the Greensill Group in 2020
- CSAM reduced concentration limits on Greensill Group investments
- GCPL planned a capital raise and Initial Public Offering
- Drafts of the $440 million CLN and the Omnibus Deed
- The 10 November 2020 agreements
- The $440m CLN
- The Omnibus Deed
- The SBIA Undertaking
- Use of the $440 million proceeds of the CLN
- Further developments in November 2020 concerning the Katerra Group
- SVF1’s bridge loan to the Katerra Group
- SVF1’s, SVF2’s and the Greensill Group’s approvals following the withdrawal of the New Money Consortium
- Documenting the agreements
- Signing of the CEA and TA and placing them in escrow
- Further agreements executed in December 2020
- The CEA
- The TA
- Further investments in Katerra Cayman by SVF1
- The Preferred Share Purchase Agreement
- The SVF Habitat Share Subscription
- The Vision Funds’ stake in the Katerra Group
- November to December 2020: developments concerning the Fairymead Note Programme
- December 2020 – March 2021: Financial position of the Greensill Group
- Discussions between Greensill and CSAM in December 2020 about exposure limits
- The 31 Dec/14 Jan Fairymead Trade – “the Secondary Trade”
- Publicity about the restructuring of the Katerra Group’s debts
- The cancellation of the Secondary Trade
- March – June 2021: Default on the Fairymead Notes and bankruptcy of the Greensill Group and Katerra Group
- WITNESSES
- FINDINGS ON CONTESTED FACTUAL AND EXPERT ISSUES
- SECTION 423 OF THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
- DETERMINATION OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE CLAIM
- Conclusions
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