Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc.

01/28/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/28/2025 16:12

Material Agreement (Form 8-K)

Item 1.01 - Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On January 24, 2025, Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. (the "Company") and certain entities controlled by Atlas Capital Resources GP LLC (collectively, "Atlas") entered into an Equity Interest Payment Agreement (the "Payment Agreement"), pursuant to which Atlas agreed to provide continuing credit support to the Company by maintaining certain letters of credit payable to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Empire Pipeline Incorporated ("Empire") to guarantee the current value of the Company's landfill environmental trust liability and contractual obligations related to the pipeline interconnection project the Company has entered into with Empire, respectively. Absent Atlas' agreement to maintain each letter of credit until its respective renewal date of April 1 and May 3, 2025, Atlas would have the contractual right to require the Company to replace such letters of credit.
The Payment Agreement provides that Atlas shall continue to maintain such letters of credit for a specified period in exchange for, among other things, the Company's agreeing to make an L/C Extension Payment in an amount equal to $1,369,990 and to pay interest on the outstanding amount of such letters of credit for each quarterly period during the term of the Payment Agreement, in each case, subject to the limitations set forth in the Payment Agreement, with such payments to be made in the form of shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Class A Common Stock"), of the Company based on the price formulas set forth in the Payment Agreement. The Company is obligated to make the L/C Extension Payment within seven (7) business days of entering into the Payment Agreement. Commencing on the signing of the Payment Agreement, the Company will make the interest payments on a calendar quarter basis in arrears.
Pursuant to the terms of the Payment Agreement, upon request of Atlas, the Company also agreed to enter into a customary registration rights agreement with Atlas providing Atlas with certain demand and piggyback registration rights in respect of all shares of Class A Common Stock (or other equity securities convertible into shares of Class A Common Stock) held by Atlas.
All capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined in this Current Report on Form 8-K shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Payment Agreement. The foregoing does not purport to be a complete description of the terms of the Payment Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by the text of the Payment Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.