Examples of Preferred Equity Units in a sentence
On December 22, 2022, AMC entered into an agreement (the “ Antara Agreement”) with Antara Capital, LP (“Antara”) to raise $110 million of new equity capital through the sale of AMC Preferred Equity Units to Antara.
The Proposals would allow for the full conversion of all outstanding AMC Preferred Equity Units into shares of Common Stock (the “Conversion”).
Also on March 14, 2023, AMC convened the Special Meeting, whereat the Proposals were approved by a majority of Common Stock and Preferred Stock, including Preferred Stock shares corresponding to uninstructed AMC Preferred Equity Units, voting together as a class.
Plaintiffs and Class Counsel believe that the claims asserted in the Action have merit but acknowledge that Defendants had potential defenses thereto, including that the AMC board of directors purportedly had a compelling justification for (i) issuing AMC Preferred Equity Units and (ii) taking steps to convert AMC Preferred Equity Units into shares of Common Stock.
Background of the Charter Amendment Proposals; Reasons for Seeking Stockholder Approval Issuance of AMC Preferred Equity Units On August 4, 2022, the Company announced that its Board declared a special dividend of one APE for each share of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on August 15, 2022, and on August 19, 2022, the Company issued on a pro rata basis 516,820,595 APEs to holders of Common Stocks (the “Special Dividend”).
Under the circumstances, we caution you against investing in our AMC Preferred Equity Units, unless you are prepared to incur the risk of losing all or a substantial portion of your investment.
Under the terms of the AntaraAgreement, Antara agreed to vote its AMC Preferred Equity Units in favor of the Proposals at the Special Meeting.
Specifically, the Deposit Agreement provided in relevant part as follows: In the absence of specific instructions from Holders of Receipts, the Depositary will vote the Preferred Stock represented by the AMC Preferred Equity Units evidenced by the Receipts of such Holders proportionately with votes cast pursuant to instructions received from the other Holders.
In tabulating votes corresponding to AMC Preferred Equity Units (“APEs”), AMC shall separately tabulate those abstentions and votes affirmatively cast pursuant to instructions received from holders of APEs and those abstentions and votes cast on a mirrored basis pursuant to the Deposit Agreement entered into by AMC and Computershare Inc.
Effective as of the Effective Date, the existing Interests of Luminent shall be cancelled and Luminent shall issue both the Reorganized Equity Units and the Reorganized Preferred Equity Units and Luminent shall take such steps as are necessary to memorialize the conversion from a public to a private company.