Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Subsequent Events

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Subsequent Events
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events Subsequent Events
Second Amendment to Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement
On January 30, 2024, Nauticus Robotics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Second Amendment to Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of January 30, 2024 (the “Second Amendment”), by and among the Company, the guarantors (as defined in the Second Amendment) and the required lenders (as defined in the Second Amendment), which amended that certain Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of September 18, 2023 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “2023 Term Loan Agreement”), by and among the Company, Transocean Finance Limited (“Transocean Finance”), ATW Special Situations I LLC (“ATW I”), Material Impact Fund II, L.P. (“Material Impact”), and RCB Equities #1, LLC (“RCB”), as lenders (collectively, the “Initial Lenders”), and ATW Special Situations II LLC (“ATW II”), as collateral agent (as succeeded by Acquiom Agency Services LLC, the “Collateral Agent”).
In connection with the Second Amendment, the Company also entered into a Second Agreement Regarding Incremental Loans, dated as of January 30, 2024 (the “Second Agreement”), by and among the Company, the guarantors (as defined in the Second Agreement), and ATW II and Material Impact, as incremental lenders. The Second Agreement provides the Company with an incremental loan in the aggregate principal amount of $3,753,144 (the “January 2024 Incremental Loan”). The January 2024 Incremental Loan would be made on the same terms as the Additional Term Loans funded on the Closing Date and be deemed to be Additional Term Loans for all purposes under the 2023 Term Loan Agreement.
New Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement
On January 30, 2024, the Company also entered into a senior secured term loan agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”) with ATW Special Situations Management LLC (“ATW Management”), as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) and lender, and ATW Special Situations III LLC (“ATW III”), Material Impact, VHG Investments LLC (“VHG Investments”), ATW II LLC and ATW I LLC, as lenders (collectively, the “Lenders”).
The Term Loan Agreement provides the Company with an aggregate $9.55 million of secured term loans (the “Loans”). Any portion of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans is prepayable at the Company’s option pro rata to each Lender upon at least 5 days’ prior written notice to each Lender. The Term Loan Agreement also provides for up to an additional $6 million of secured term loans within 180 days of signing, $1 million of which has already been committed by ATW III or an affiliate.
The Loans bear interest at the rate of 15% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears on the first day of each calendar quarter commencing April 1, 2024. The Loans (other than the ATW Extended Maturity Term Loan) will mature on the earliest of: (a) the third anniversary of the date of the Term Loan Agreement, (b) the maturity of the Indebtedness under that certain Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement among the Company, the lenders party thereto and Acquiom Agency Services LLC, as collateral agent, dated September 18, 2023, as amended on December 31, 2023, and as further amended on January 30, 2024 (the “2023 Term Loan Agreement”), and (c) 91 days prior to the maturity of the 5% Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures, dated as of September 9, 2022 (the “Original Debentures”), issued by the Company pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2021, as amended on January 31, 2022, and as further amended on September 9, 2022, and as further amended on January 30, 2024 (the “SPA”). The ATW Extended Maturity Term Loan will mature on the earlier of the 30th anniversary of the date of the Term Loan Agreement or such earlier date as is required or permitted to be repaid under the Term Loan Agreement.
The proceeds of the Loans are to be used by the Company solely for general administrative costs and working capital or other payments for the business operations of the Company and its subsidiaries; provided that the proceeds must be used in accordance with the initial budget of the Company produced in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent. Together with the January 2024 Incremental Loan, the total gross proceeds to the Company were approximately $13.3 million.
The Term Loan Agreement contains customary negative and affirmative covenants, subject to certain exceptions, as well as events of default customary for transactions of this nature, including with respect to (subject in certain cases to cure periods, thresholds and other qualifiers, as applicable), among other things, non-payment of principal, interest and other amounts contemplated by the Obligations, material inaccuracy of representations and warranties, covenant noncompliance, cross-defaults triggered by certain indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency, monetary judgments, change of control, failure to comply with certain financial covenants and other fundamental transactions and failure to deliver shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Loans in accordance with the Term Loan Agreement. Subject to certain applicable cure periods, the occurrence of an event of default will result in the acceleration of the Obligations (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement). Commencing five business days after any event of default, the interest rate on the Obligations shall accrue at an interest rate equal to the lesser of 18% per annum or the maximum rate permitted under applicable law. The Term Loan Agreement also provided for liquidated damages (and not as a penalty) in the event of late delivery of the conversion shares, late or failure to remove restrictive legends from the conversion shares or the delay in or reduction of Lender’s ability to sell the conversion shares due to the Company’s failure to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144.

Termination of Merger Agreement with 3D at Depth

On April 4, 2024, the Company and 3D at Depth, Inc. mutually agreed to terminate the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 2, 2023, by and among the Company, 3D Merger Sub, Inc., and 3D at Depth, Inc., which was previously
disclosed on the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 6, 2023. Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, 3D Merger Sub, Inc. would have merged with and into 3D at Depth, Inc., with 3D at Depth, Inc. surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Under the terminated Agreement and Plan of Merger, the “base equity value” at signing was $34 million. The consideration in the transaction would have been shares of the Company’s common stock.