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Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

NOTE 15. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Litigation

The Company is party to various legal proceedings from time to time. A liability is accrued when a loss is both probable and can be reasonably estimated. Management believes that the probability of a material loss with respect to any currently pending legal proceeding is remote. As such, the Company did not record a reserve for litigation as of September 30, 2024 or December 31, 2023.

Steamfitters Complaint

On March 21, 2024, Plaintiff Steamfitters Local 449 Pension Fund (“Plaintiff”) filed a putative class action complaint (the “Steamfitters Complaint”) captioned Steamfitters Local 449 Pension Fund v. Dril-Quip, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 2024-0284-LWW (Del. Ch.) (the “Action”). The Action challenged the following provisions of a Stockholders Agreement that Amberjack Capital Partners, L.P. (“Amberjack”), Legacy Innovex’s largest equity holder, had agreed to enter into with the Company in connection with the Merger (the “Stockholders Agreement”): (i) a provision requiring Amberjack to vote in favor of the Board of Director’s nominees at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Voting Requirement”) and (ii) a provision prohibiting certain transfers from Amberjack directly to an “Activist Investor” (as defined in the Stockholders Agreement) not through public market sales so long as Amberjack owned at least 10% of the Company’s outstanding common stock (the “Activist Transfer Restriction”). On May 8, 2024, the Company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing that the Company and Amberjack had agreed to amend the Stockholders Agreement to eliminate the Voting Requirement and the Activist Transfer Restriction. On May 21, 2024, the Court entered a stipulated Order dismissing the Action as moot and retaining jurisdiction to determine Plaintiff’s counsel’s application for an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses (the “Dismissal Order”). The Dismissal Order was entered by the Court without a finding of wrongdoing by the Company, its directors, or anyone else.

Following entry of the Dismissal Order, the parties engaged in arm’s-length negotiations, pursuant to which the Company and/or its insurer(s) have agreed to pay Plaintiff’s counsel, on behalf of all defendants in the Action, $540,000 in attorneys’ fees (inclusive of expenses) (the “Mootness Fee”) in full settlement for any claim by Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s counsel for an award of fees, costs, and expenses in connection with this Action. The Court has not and will not pass judgment on the Mootness Fee.


Contingent Purchase Consideration

The acquisition of 1185641 B.C. LTD (d/b/a Great North Wellhead and Frac, “Great North”) by Dril-Quip in the third quarter of 2023 included a contingent consideration arrangement that requires additional consideration to be paid by the Company to the sellers of Great North based on the future revenues of Great North for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The revenue targets were not met for fiscal year 2024, and no payout was made. At September 30, 2024, the remaining undiscounted amounts Innovex could pay under the contingent consideration agreement ranges between zero and $11.1 million. Based on management’s estimate of revenue for fiscal year 2025, the probability of successfully achieving the minimum earn-out target is less than probable. As such, the Company did not record a liability for the contingent purchase consideration as of September 30, 2024.