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Related Party Transaction
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transaction Related Party Transactions
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company purchased approximately $0.5 million of inventory from a company owned by Luther King Capital Management Corporation (“LKCM”) at fair market value. The entire value of the purchase was prepaid per the terms of the purchase agreement. Approximately $0.2 million of the inventory was received by the end of the first quarter 2022, with the remaining amount scheduled to be received in the second quarter 2022. No liabilities exist with respect to this transaction as of March 31, 2022. The Company believes that this transaction is on terms comparable to those that the Company could reasonably expect in an arm’s length transaction with an unrelated third party.

TestEquity and Gexpro Services Mergers

As of April 1, 2022, the Closing Date of the TestEquity Merger and Gexpro Services Merger, entities affiliated with Luther King Capital Management Corporation (“LKCM”) and J. Bryan King (the Chairman of the Lawson board of directors), including private investment partnerships for which LKCM serves as investment manager, beneficially owned a majority of the ownership interests in the TestEquity Equityholder (which in turn owned all of the outstanding equity interests of TestEquity as of immediately prior to the completion of the TestEquity Merger). As of the Closing Date, Mr. King was a director of the TestEquity Equityholder. In addition, as of the Closing Date, Mark F. Moon (a member of the Lawson board of directors) was a director of, and held a direct or indirect equity interest in, the TestEquity Equityholder.

As of the Closing Date of the Mergers, entities affiliated with LKCM and Mr. King, including private investment partnerships for which LKCM serves as investment manager, beneficially owned a majority of the ownership interests in the Gexpro Services Stockholder (which in turn owned all of the outstanding stock of Gexpro Services as of immediately prior to the completion of the Gexpro Services Merger).

As of the day immediately preceding the Closing Date, entities affiliated with LKCM and Mr. King beneficially owned approximately 48% of the shares of Lawson common stock outstanding as of the day immediately preceding the Closing Date.

As a result of and after the consummation of the Mergers, entities affiliated with LKCM and J. Bryan King (the Chairman of the Lawson board of directors) beneficially owned in the aggregate approximately 14,640,000 shares of Lawson common stock as of the Closing Date, which shares represented approximately 75% of the shares of Lawson common stock outstanding as of the Closing Date after giving effect to the issuance of shares as of the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the Mergers. Such aggregate share amount does not include any of the up to 700,000 additional shares of Lawson common stock or any of the up to 1,000,000 additional shares of Lawson common stock potentially issuable to the TestEquity Equityholder and the Gexpro Services Stockholder, respectively, in accordance with the earnout provisions of the TestEquity Merger Agreement and the Gexpro Services Merger Agreement, respectively, summarized in Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Other Information.