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Related Party Transactions
 3 Months Ended
Jun. 28, 2024
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

14. Related Party Transactions

Transactions involving Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. (“Sanken”)

As of June 28, 2024, Sanken held approximately 50.8% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. On July 23, 2024, the Company entered into a share repurchase agreement with Sanken. See Note 15, “Subsequent Events” for further details related to this agreement.

Although certain costs are shared or allocated, cost of goods sold and gross margins attributable to related party sales are consistent with those of third-party customers. There were no trade accounts receivables, net, from Sanken as of June 28, 2024 or March 29, 2024. Other accounts receivable from Sanken totaled $160 as of March 29, 2024. There were no other accounts receivable from Sanken as of June 28, 2024. Accounts payable to Sanken totaled $3 as of June 28, 2024. There were no accounts payable as of March 29, 2024.

Transactions involving Polar Semiconductor, LLC (“PSL”)

The Company purchases in-process products from PSL, an entity that is 70% owned by Sanken and 30% owned by the Company.

Purchases of various products from PSL totaled $14,956 and $16,102 for the three-month periods ended June 28, 2024, and June 30, 2023, respectively. Accounts payable to PSL included in amounts due to related party totaled $4,892 and $1,621 as of June 28, 2024 and March 29, 2024, respectively.

On April 25, 2024, the Company, Sanken, PSL and PS Investment Aggregator, L.P. (“Subscriber”) entered into a Sale and Subscription Agreement pursuant to which Subscriber and an affiliate of Subscriber will make capital contributions to PSL of, in the aggregate, $175,000 in exchange for equity interest in PSL (the “PSL Transaction”). The PSL Transaction is subject to a number of conditions to closing, including the contribution of outstanding PSL indebtedness held by each of the Company (the PSL Promissory Notes described below) and Sanken in exchange for new PSL equity units to recapitalize PSL prior to Closing and PSL receiving confirmation from the United States Department of Commerce, the United States Department of the Treasury and/or the State of Minnesota that it or they have awarded at least $310,700 in aggregate direct funding and tax credits pursuant to the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act of 2022 or other grant-based funding program on terms and conditions acceptable to the Subscriber as well as other customary closing conditions. The PSL Agreement also contemplates that following closing, the Company, Sanken and Subscriber shall engage in a series of reorganization transactions after which the Company will no longer directly own PSL and will instead own approximately 10.2% of PSL’s ultimate parent entity (“Polar Parent”). In connection with this reorganization, it is contemplated that the Company, Sanken and Subscriber shall enter into a new partnership agreement for Polar Parent to account for the reorganization into a limited partnership structure.

Notes Receivable from PSL

On December 2, 2021, Allegro MicroSystems, LLC (“AML”) entered into a loan agreement with PSL wherein PSL provided an initial promissory note to AML for a principal amount of $7,500 (the “Initial PSL Loan”). The Initial PSL Loan will be repaid in equal installments, comprising principal and interest accrued at 1.26% per annum, over a term of four years, with payments due on the first day of each calendar year quarter (April 1, July 1, October 1, and January 1). On July 1, 2022, PSL borrowed an additional $7,500 under the same terms of the PSL Loan (the “Secondary PSL Loan” and, together with the Initial PSL Loan, the “PSL Promissory Notes”). The Secondary PSL Loan will be repaid in equal installments, comprising of principal and interest accrued at 2.99% per annum, over a term of four years, with payments due on the first day of each calendar year quarter (April 1, July 1, October 1, and January 1). The loan funds were used by PSL to procure a deep ultraviolet scanner and other associated manufacturing tools necessary to increase wafer fabrication capacity in support of the Company’s increasing wafer demand. As of June 28, 2024, the outstanding balance of the PSL Promissory Notes was $7,500. During the three-month period ended June 28, 2024, PSL made required quarterly payments to AML totaling $984, which included $46 of interest.