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Subsequent Events
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events Subsequent Event
Strategic Merger Agreement with CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc.
On November 4, 2025, the Company, SSL Sparti LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Holdco”), Sparti Merger Sub, Inc., a Maryland corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Holdco (“SNDA Merger Sub”), CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc., a Maryland corporation (“CHP”), and CHP Merger Corp., a Maryland corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of CHP (“CHP Merger Sub”) entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger (the “Merger Agreement”). The Merger Agreement provides for a business combination of the Company and CHP, through a series of steps ending with a merger of CHP and SNDA Merger Sub, with SNDA Merger Sub surviving the merger (the “CHP Merger”), as a result of which the Company will have indirectly acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of CHP.
Each share of common stock of CHP, par value $0.01, will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive (i) $2.32 in cash and (ii) the number of shares of common stock of Sonida, par value $0.01 (“Sonida Common Stock”), equal to $4.58, divided by the volume weighted average trading price of Sonida Common Stock during a measurement period prior to the closing date, subject to a collar of 15% below the transaction reference price for the Sonida Common Stock of $26.74 (the “Transaction Reference Price”) and 30% above the Transaction Reference Price.
In connection with the issuance of Sonida Common Stock to the former CHP shareholders and certain equity financing transactions described below that will require that the Company issue additional shares of Sonida Common Stock, and subject to Sonida shareholder approval, Sonida intends to amend its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, immediately prior to the effective time of the transactions to increase the authorized number of shares of Sonida Common Stock.

The Merger Agreement contains certain termination rights for Sonida and CHP. If the Merger Agreement is terminated by CHP to enter into a definitive agreement providing for the implementation of a superior proposal in accordance with the “fiduciary out” provisions of the Merger Agreement, CHP will be required to pay to Sonida a termination fee of $30.0 million (the “CHP Termination Fee”), provided that Sonida must first be given an opportunity to match the superior proposal. The CHP Termination Fee will also be payable by CHP to Sonida if the Merger Agreement is terminated under certain circumstances and, prior to the date that is 12 months after the date of such termination, an acquisition proposal is consummated or CHP enters into an alternative acquisition agreement that is later consummated. Sonida may terminate the Merger Agreement if the Board of Directors of CHP has withdrawn its recommendation in support of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and CHP will be required to pay the CHP Termination Fee.
CHP may terminate the Merger Agreement if, prior to obtaining the Sonida shareholder approval in accordance with the Merger Agreement, the Board has withdrawn the Board Recommendation, in which case Sonida must pay to CHP a termination fee of $30.0 million (“Sonida Termination Fee”).

The Merger Agreement may be terminated by either party if (i) the other party materially breaches the Merger Agreement (including by failing to consummate the closing when required under the terms and subject to the conditions in the Merger Agreement), in which case the breaching party is required to pay the CHP Termination Fee or the Sonida Termination Fee, as applicable (which termination fee serves as a cap on such party’s damages); (ii) the closing is not consummated by May 29, 2026 (or such later date as agreed to by the parties, the “Outside Date”); (iii) a permanent injunction is issued by a governmental authority prohibiting the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; or (iv) the Sonida shareholder approval under the Merger Agreement shall not have been obtained, in which case Sonida must pay the Sonida Termination Fee to CHP, or the CHP shareholder approval under the Merger Agreement shall not have been obtained, in which case CHP must reimburse Sonida for up to $10.0 million of its transaction expenses.
On November 5, 2025, the Company provided an irrevocable standby letter of credit in the amount of $15.0 million to CHP in partial support of the Sonida Termination Fee if needed.
Financing of the Merger Transaction
In order to fund a portion of the cash consideration required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, certain shareholders of Sonida, including entities affiliated with Conversant Capital LLC (“Conversant”) and Silk Partners, L.P. (“Silk”), two of Sonida’s largest shareholders, have committed to fund an aggregate amount of $110.0 million in exchange for the issuance of 4,113,688 shares of Sonida Common Stock in a private placement pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), at a price per share equal to the Transaction Reference Price, in accordance with certain Investment Agreements (as defined below) as further described below (the transactions contemplated by the Investment Agreements, the “Equity Financing”).

In addition, in order to fund a portion of the cash consideration required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Sonida has obtained a debt commitment letter in an aggregate amount of $900.0 million for a 364-day senior secured bridge loan and an increase in Sonida’s revolver facility from $150.0 million to $300.0 million. The amount of the bridge loan will be reduced by the amount of permanent term loan financing and agency financing that Sonida raises before the second closing date under the Merger Agreement. Sonida’s receipt of the debt financing is not a condition to closing the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. CHP will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with Sonida to obtain the debt financing, including any property-level financing.
Investment Agreements
On November 4, 2025, in connection with the Equity Financing, Sonida entered into (i) an investment agreement (the “Conversant Investment Agreement”) with certain affiliates of Conversant (the “Conversant Investors”), pursuant to which the Conversant Investors have agreed to fund an aggregate amount of $100.0 million in exchange for the issuance of 3,739,716 shares of Sonida Common Stock in a private placement pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act at the Transaction Reference Price per share, immediately prior to the CHP Merger, and (ii) an investment agreement (the “Silk Investment Agreement” and, together with the Conversant Investment Agreement, collectively, the “Investment Agreements”) with Silk (the Conversant Investors and Silk, together, the “Equity Investors”) pursuant to which Silk has agreed to fund an aggregate amount of $10.0 million in exchange for the issuance of 373,972 shares of Sonida Common Stock in a private placement at a price of the Transaction Reference Price per share on substantially the same terms as in the Conversant Investment Agreement. Sonida will use the proceeds from the Equity Financing pursuant to the Investment Agreements to fund a portion of the cash consideration required for the consummation of the transactions under the Merger Agreement. Under the Investment Agreements, Sonida provides to the Equity Investors representations and warranties substantially similar to those under the Merger Agreement, and the Equity Investors provide to Sonida customary representations and warranties for a private financing of this type. The Equity Investors and Sonida are subject to compliance with customary covenants under the Investment Agreements, including Sonida’s compliance with interim operating covenants, subject to the Equity Investors’ consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). The Investment Agreements are subject to termination (a) upon the parties’ mutual agreement, (b) by either party after the Outside Date, (c) by either party upon termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms or (d) by either party if any governmental entity issues any final and unappealable injunction or other ruling prohibiting the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Investment Agreements and the ancillary documents related thereto, as applicable. The parties have provided mutual indemnities for breach of certain representation and warranties and post-closing covenants capped at the applicable purchase price paid by each of the Equity Investors. Under the
Investment Agreements, Sonida is responsible for the Equity Investors’ reasonable and documented legal and other out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the Equity Financing (not to exceed,$2.0 million with respect to the Conversant Investors and $0.2 million with respect to Silk). Additionally, the Conversant Investors and Silk will be entitled to 15% and 1.5% of the CHP Termination Fee, respectively, in the event Sonida receives the CHP Termination Fee under the Merger Agreement. None of the Equity Investors is entitled to any commitment fee under the Investment Agreements.
In connection with the closing of the Equity Financing under the Investment Agreements, (i) Conversant and certain other entities affiliated with Conversant that are current Sonida shareholders, Silk and Sonida will enter into an amended and restated investor rights agreement, and (ii) the Conversant Parties, Silk, PF Investors, LLC and Sonida will enter into an amended and restated registration rights agreement, each in the substantially final forms attached to each of the Investment Agreements.