AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION
Exhibit 2.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION
This AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of September 29, 2015, by and among Solar Power, Inc., a California corporation (“SPI”), SPI Energy Co., Ltd., an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and a wholly owned subsidiary of SPI (“SPI Energy”), and SPI Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of SPI Energy (“SPI Merger Sub”).
1. The Boards of Directors of each of SPI, SPI Energy and SPI Merger Sub have unanimously determined that it is advisable and in the best interests of their respective shareholders or stockholders to reorganize so that SPI Energy will become the parent of SPI Merger Sub as a result of the merger of SPI with and into SPI Merger Sub (the “Merger”) in which SPI Merger Sub will survive and change its name to Solar Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation;
2. The respective Boards of Directors of SPI, SPI Energy and SPI Merger Sub have each unanimously approved the Merger, this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other transactions described herein, pursuant to which SPI Merger Sub will be the surviving corporation of the Merger and will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of SPI Energy, all upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, and whereby each issued and outstanding share of common stock, par value US$0.0001 per share, of SPI (“SPI common stock”) shall be converted into the right to receive one ordinary share, par value US$0.00001 per share, of SPI Energy (a “SPI Energy ordinary share”);
3. The Merger requires, among other things, the approval of this Agreement by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of SPI common stock; and
4. The parties intend that the Merger qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and that this Agreement shall be, and is hereby, adopted as a “plan of reorganization” for purposes of Section 368(a) of the Code or, alternatively, that the contribution of shares of SPI to SPI Merger Sub by shareholders of SPI will qualify as a tax-free exchange within the meaning of Section 351 of the Code.
ARTICLE I
Section 1.1. The Merger. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and in accordance with the California General Corporation Law (the “CGCL”) and Delaware General Corporate Law (the “DGCL”), at the Effective Time (as defined in Section 1.2), SPI shall be merged with and into SPI Merger Sub in accordance with this Agreement, and the separate corporate existence of SPI shall thereupon cease. Pursuant to and simultaneously upon the consummation of the Merger at the Effective Time, in accordance with the CGCL and DGCL, (i) SPI Merger Sub shall continue as the surviving corporation in the Merger (sometimes hereinafter referred to as the “Surviving Corporation”), remaining a wholly owned subsidiary of SPI Energy, (ii) the corporate identity, existence, powers, rights and immunities of SPI Merger Sub as the Surviving Corporation shall continue unimpaired by the Merger, and (iii) SPI Merger Sub shall succeed to and shall possess all the assets, properties, rights, privileges, powers, franchises, immunities and purposes, and be subject to all the debts, liabilities, obligations, restrictions and duties of SPI, all without further act or deed.
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Section 1.2. Filing Certificate of Merger; Effective Time. As soon as practicable following the satisfaction or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waiver of the conditions set forth in Article V, if this Agreement shall not have been terminated prior thereto as provided in Section 6.1, SPI Merger Sub and SPI shall cause a certificate of merger (the “Certificate of Merger”) meeting the requirements of Section 252(c) of the DGCL to be properly executed and filed in accordance with such section and otherwise make all other filings or recordings as required by the DGCL and CGCL in connection with the Merger. The Merger shall become effective at such time that the parties hereto shall have agreed upon and designated in the Certificate of Merger as the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”).
ARTICLE II
CHARTER DOCUMENTS, DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF
SURVIVING CORPORATION AND UTS HOLDINGS,
AND CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS
Section 2.1. Name of Surviving Corporation. The name of the Surviving Corporation shall be “Solar Power, Inc.”
Section 2.2. Certificate of Incorporation of Surviving Corporation. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation shall be amended as of the Effective Time so as to provide that the name of the Surviving Corporation shall be “Solar Power, Inc.” Such Certificate of Incorporation, as so amended, shall continue to be the Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until amended as provided therein and under the DGCL.
Section 2.3. Bylaws of Surviving Corporation. From and after the Effective Time, the Bylaws of SPI Merger Sub in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the Bylaws of the Surviving Corporation, until duly amended in accordance with applicable law.
Section 2.4. Directors of Surviving Corporation. From and after the Effective Time, the directors of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the directors of the Surviving Corporation, each such director to serve in such capacity until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal or until his or her successor is duly elected or appointed.
Section 2.5. Officers of Surviving Corporation. From and after the Effective Time, the officers of SPI Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the officers of the Surviving Corporation, each such officer to serve in such capacity until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal or until his or her successor is duly elected or appointed.
Section 2.6. Directors and Officers of SPI Energy, Co., Ltd. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, SPI, in its capacity as the sole shareholder of SPI Energy, agrees to take or cause to be taken all such actions as are necessary to cause at least those persons serving as the directors and officers of SPI immediately prior to the Effective Time to be elected or appointed as the directors and officers of SPI Energy (to the extent the officers and directors of SPI Energy and SPI are not already identical), each such person to have the same office(s) with SPI Energy (and the same class designations and committee memberships in the case of directors) as he or she held with SPI, with the directors to serve until the earlier of the next meeting of the SPI Energy shareholders at which an election of directors is required or until their successors are elected or appointed (or their earlier death, disability or retirement).
Section 2.7. Representation of SPI Energy. SPI Energy hereby represents and warrants that it is the owner of all of the outstanding capital stock of SPI Merger Sub, free and clear of any adverse claims.
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ARTICLE III
CONVERSION, ISSUANCE AND REPURCHASE OF SHARES
(a) Conversion of SPI Share; Issuance of SPI Energy Ordinary Share. Each issued and outstanding share of SPI common stock (other than any shares of SPI common stock that are “Dissenting Shares” as defined in Section 3.3) shall be automatically converted into the right to receive one validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable SPI Energy ordinary share.
(b) Issuance of American Depository Share. In lieu of issuing SPI Energy ordinary shares, American Depository Shares (“ADSs”) will be issued, with each one ADS representing ten SPI Energy ordinary shares. No fraction of an ADS shall be issued by virtue of the Merger, but in lieu thereof each holder of shares of SPI common stock who would otherwise be entitled to a fraction of an ADS in connection with the Merger (after aggregating all fractional ADS to be received by such holder) shall receive from the exchange agent the net proceeds the exchange agent will receive from sale of the aggregate of those fractional ADSs. Holders of ADSs will have the rights set forth in accordance with the deposit agreement.
(d) Repurchase of SPI Energy Share. SPI Energy will repurchase the one SPI Energy ordinary share that was held by SPI prior to the Merger at a purchase price of U.S. $0.00001, which share shall be cancelled.
Section 3.2. Exchange of SPI Energy Shares.
(c) Shareholder Rights at Effective Time. Other that Dissenters’ rights pursuant to Section 3.3 below, at the Effective Time, holders of SPI common stock will cease to be, and will have no rights as, shareholders of SPI, other than the right to receive: (i) any dividend or other distribution with a record date prior to the Effective Time that may have been declared or made by SPI on such shares of SPI common stock in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or prior to the date of this Agreement and that remain unpaid at the Effective Time, and (ii) the ADSs pursuant to Section 3.1(b). After the Effective Time, there shall be no further registration of transfers on the stock transfer books of the Surviving Corporation of the shares of SPI common stock that were outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time. Upon and after the Effective Time, registered shareholders in SPI Energy’s register of members will have and be entitled to exercise any voting and other rights with respect to and to receive any dividend and other distributions upon SPI Energy ordinary shares registered in their respective names in the register of members.
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ARTICLE IV
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT AND COMPENSATION PLANS AND AGREEMENTS; OTHER CONTRACTS
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ARTICLE V
The respective obligations of each party to effect the Merger are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions:
(c) Effective Registration Statement. The registration statement on Form F-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by SPI Energy in connection with the offer and issuance of the ADSs representing SPI Energy ordinary shares to be issued pursuant to the Merger shall have become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and no stop order with respect thereto shall be in effect.
(d) Consents and Authorizations. Other than the filing of the Certificate of Merger provided for under Article I, all material consents and authorizations of, filings or registrations with, and notices to, any governmental or regulatory authority required of SPI, SPI Energy, or any of their respective subsidiaries to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, any filings required under (i) applicable U.S. state securities and “Blue Sky” laws, and (ii) applicable Cayman Islands securities laws, shall have been obtained or made.
(f) Dissenter’s Right. The number of Dissenting Shares, as defined in the California General Corporate Law, shall not exceed 1.0% of the outstanding shares of common stock as of the Effective Time.
ARTICLE VI
TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
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ARTICLE VII
Section 7.1. Rule 16b-3 Approval. SPI, SPI Energy, and SPI Merger Sub shall take all such steps as may reasonably be required to cause the transactions contemplated by Section 3.1 and any other dispositions of SPI equity securities (including derivative securities) or acquisitions of SPI Energy equity securities (including derivative securities) in connection with this Agreement by each individual who (i) is a director or officer of SPI, or (ii) at the Effective Time, is or will become a director or officer of SPI Energy, to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
ARTICLE VIII
Section 8.3. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California without regard to its rules of conflict of laws.
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Solar Power, Inc., a California Corporation | SPI Energy Co., Ltd., a Cayman Islands company | |||||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxx Xxx |
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxx Xxx | |||||
Xxx Xxxx Xxx, Chief Financial Officer | Xxx Xxxx Xxx, Director | |||||||
SPI Merger Sub, Inc. Delaware Corporation | ||||||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxx Xxx |
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Xxx Xxxx Xxx, President |
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