Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Warrants

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Warrants
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
Warrants [Abstract]  
Warrants

12. Warrants

 

Public Warrants – We assumed 8,624,991 Public Warrants in the Business Combination which remained outstanding as of September 30, 2023. Each whole Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50, subject to adjustment. However, no Public Warrants will be exercisable for cash unless we have an effective and current registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to such shares of Common Stock. During any period when we shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, warrant holders may exercise, subject to the terms of the governing warrant agreement, Public Warrants on a cashless basis pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act. The Public Warrants expire on the fifth anniversary of our completion of the Business Combination, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. Our Public Warrants are listed on Nasdaq under the symbol “KITTW”.

 

We may redeem the outstanding Public Warrants, in whole and not in part, at a price of $0.01 per warrant:

 

  at any time after the Public Warrants become exercisable,

 

  upon not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption to each warrant holder,

 

  if, and only if, the reported last sale price of the shares of Common Stock equals or exceeds $16.50 per share (subject to adjustment for splits, dividends, recapitalizations and other similar events), for any 20 trading days within a 30-day trading period ending on the third business day prior to the notice of redemption to warrant holders, and

 

  if, and only if, there is a current registration statement in effect with respect to the shares of Common Stock underlying such warrants at the time of redemption and for the entire 30-day trading period referred to above and continuing each day thereafter until the date of redemption.

 

If we call the Public Warrants for redemption as described above, we have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise warrants to do so on a “cashless basis.”

 

The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of the Public Warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a share dividend, extraordinary dividend or our recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation.

 

The Public Warrants, which are accounted for as liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheets, were valued as of September 30, 2023, at $1,897,500 based on their publicly-traded price. The change in the value of the Public Warrants during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, totaled $(24,150) and $378,638, respectively, and was reported with other (income) expense in our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

Private Warrants – We assumed 7,175,000 Private Warrants in the Business Combination, which remained outstanding as of September 30, 2023. Each whole Private Warrant is exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 and is identical in all material respects to the Public Warrants except that the Private Warrants are exercisable for cash (even if a registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants is not effective) or on a cashless basis, at the holder’s option, and will not be redeemable by us, in each case so long as the initial purchasers or their affiliates still hold them. The Private Warrants purchased by CleanTech Investments, LLC are not exercisable after July14, 2026, as long as Chardan Capital Markets, LLC or any of its related persons beneficially own these Private Warrants.

 

The Private Warrants, which are accounted for as liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheets, were valued as of September 30, 2023, at $1,636,052 based on their using a Black-Scholes model. The fair value of the Private Warrants was estimated using a Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions: stock price of $1.77, no assumed dividends, a risk-free rate of 4.59%, and implied volatility of 67.0%. The change in the value of the Private Warrants during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, totaled $40,973 and $298,536, respectively, and was reported with other (income) expense in our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

SPA Warrants – Substantially concurrent with the Closing and pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, we issued an aggregate 2,922,425 Original SPA Warrants to the SPA Parties. Upon issuance, each whole Original SPA Warrant was exercisable over its 10-year term for one share of Common Stock at a price of $20.00 per share, subject to certain adjustments including full ratchet anti-dilution price protections.

 

In connection with the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company and the SPA Parties entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of September 9, 2022 (the “RRA”), pursuant to which the Company and the SPA Parties agreed to certain requirements and conditions covering the resale by the SPA Parties of the shares of Common Stock underlying the Debentures and Original SPA Warrants. Under the terms of the RRA, the Company was required to (i) file a registration statement (the “Initial Registration Statement”) covering such underlying shares within 15 business days of the Closing and (ii) use its best efforts to cause the Initial Registration Statement to be declared effective as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date (as defined in the RRA) (the “Registration Requirements”). The RRA additionally provided for liquidated damages if the Registration Requirements were not met.

 

On June 22, 2023, the Company and the SPA Parties entered into the first amendment to the RRA (the “RRA Amendment”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to deliver to the SPA Parties an aggregate 1,890,066 shares of Common Stock at an agreed upon price of $2.286 (the “RRA Amendment Shares”) in exchange for the waiver and release by the SPA Parties of any and all claims, remedies, causes of action and any other Initial Effectiveness Date Claims (as defined in the RRA Amendment) under any of the Transaction Documents (as defined in the RRA), including all past and future claims for liquidated damages under the RRA with respect to, and any other amounts that may be payable by reason of or otherwise relating to, the Effectiveness Date (as defined in the RRA) of the Initial Registration Statement.

 

During the third quarter of 2023, the Company issued 1,890,066 shares of Common Stock as payment for liquidated damages and interest of $4,320,690, and the damages and interest are recorded under interest expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. The settlement date of the liquidated damages occurred August 3, 2023, with a closing price of $1.95, with the change in the agreed upon price of $2.286 to settlement resulting in a gain of $635,061, which is also included in interest expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

Pursuant to the RRA Amendment, the Company also agreed to file a registration statement on Form S-3 (or other appropriate form) for the registration and resale of the RRA Amendment Shares by the SPA Parties and to cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as practicable thereafter in accordance with the terms of the RRA, as amended by the RRA Amendment.

 

On June 22, 2023, we entered into the Letter Agreements with the SPA Parties (the “Letter Agreements”), pursuant to which the SPA Parties (also being the holders of the Original SPA Warrants) agreed to amend the exercise price of the Original SPA Warrants, which, since issuance, had been exercisable to purchase an aggregate 2,922,425 shares of Common Stock, in exchange for the Company’s agreement to (i) lower the exercise price of the Original SPA Warrants to a weighted average of $3.28 per share, with multiple tranches priced between $2.04 and $4.64 per share, and (ii) upon the SPA Parties’ exercise of the Amended SPA Warrants, issue New SPA Warrants to the SPA Parties to purchase, in the aggregate, up to 2,922,425 shares of Common Stock.

 

The Letter Agreements will terminate in accordance with their terms on March 1, 2024 (the “Letter Agreement Termination Date”). Upon the Letter Agreement Termination Date, any Amended SPA Warrants then-outstanding will revert to having the terms associated with the Original SPA Warrants, as described herein.

 

During any period when we shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Amended SPA Warrants, the registered holder may exercise its Amended SPA Warrants on a cashless basis pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act.

 

On June 23, 2023, pursuant to its Letter Agreement with the Company, ATW exercised 165,713 Amended SPA Warrants, pursuant to which 165,713 shares of Common Stock and 165,713 New SPA Warrants were issued to ATW by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Letter Agreement. The Company received proceeds of $338,055 from the warrants exercised by ATW.

 

On September 18, 2023, the Company entered into a convertible senior secured term loan agreement convertible at $6.00 per share. Based on the letter agreement, SPA warrants holders who exchange through March 1. 2024, the exercise price was reset from $20.00 to $6.00 a warrant pursuant to the full-ratchet provision. The exchange warrants were reset to $6.00 with a factor of 3.3333, increasing the number of warrants to 552,377.

 

The New SPA Warrants will be (and, with respect to those already issued, are) substantially in the form of the Amended SPA Warrants as described above except that the New SPA Warrants (i) have an exercise price of $20.00 per share (including, for purposes of clarification, full-ratchet anti-dilution on the exercise price and number of underlying shares issuable based on the aggregate exercise price using $20.00 as the base exercise price), (ii) are immediately exercisable upon issuance, and (iii) are exercisable until September 9, 2032.

 

If a registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the New SPA Warrants is not effective 60 days after March 1, 2024 (or, in the event of a “full review” by the SEC, 120 days after March 1, 2024), upon the registered holder’s election to exercise its New SPA Warrants, the registered holder may, until such time as there is an effective registration statement and during any period when we shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, exercise its New SPA Warrants on a cashless basis pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act.

 

As indicated in Note 1 above, unless context otherwise requires, the term “SPA Warrants” means (i) before the entry into the Letter Agreements, the Original SPA Warrants, and (ii) upon and following the entry into the Letter Agreements, (a) the Amended SPA Warrants, and (b) the New SPA Warrants.

 

The SPA Warrants, which are accounted for as liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheets, were valued as of September 30, 2023, at $10,969,897 and were estimated using a Monte Carlo valuation model incorporating future projections of the various potential outcomes and any exercise price adjustments based on future financing events. Management’s future assumptions to raise enough debt capital in the near term to become cash-flow positive have eliminated reset events and have affected the valuation’s variability from the prior quarter. The change in the value of the SPA Warrants during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, totaled $(8,721,515) and $18,097,987, respectively, and was reported with other (income) expense in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. Due to entering into the Letter Agreements, the warrants were accounted for and treated as warrant repricing, resulting in a loss of $590,266, which was reported with other (income) expense in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. Proceeds from the exercise of SPA Warrants for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, were $338,055.