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Note 16 - Warrants | 12 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements |
Warrants [Text Block] | (16) Warrants In connection with the formation of the Company and subsequent acquisitions of Software Luxembourg Holding S.A. and Albert DE Holdings Inc., warrants to purchase common stock were issued to investors, sellers of Albert DE Holdings Inc. and an executive of the Company. Warrants that are not subject to ASC 718, Compensation - Stock Compensation and (i) contain features that could cause the warrant to be puttable to the Company for cash or (ii) had terms that prevented the conversion of the warrant from being fixed in all circumstances, are classified as a liability on the Company’s balance sheet and measured at fair value, with changes in fair value being recorded in the income statement, whereas all other warrants meet the equity scope exception and are classified as equity and not remeasured. A summary of outstanding liability-classified warrants is as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):
|  | Underlying |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Fair Value |
|  | Common |  |  | Strike |  | Redemption |  | Expiration |  | as of January 31, |
Type |  | Shares |  |  | Price |  | Price |  | Date |  | 2025 |
Private placement warrants – Sponsor |  |  | 792 |  |  | $ | 230 |  | None |  | 6/11/2026 |  | $ | — |
Simultaneously with the closing of the Company's initial public offering, Churchill Capital Corp II (the “Sponsor”) purchased an aggregate of 15,800,000 private placement warrants. An additional 1,500,000 of private placement warrants were issued to the Sponsor at the closing of the business combination with Software Luxembourg Holding S.A. on June 11, 2021 in connection with the repayment of a promissory note due to the Sponsor. One million of the private placement warrants held by the Sponsor were transferred to the then-incoming and now former CEO as described below. The private placement warrants issued to the Sponsor include conditions that provide for potential changes to the settlement amounts on redemptions and were dependent upon the characteristics of the holder of the warrant. As of January 31, 2025, 453,596 private placement warrants held by the Sponsor had been transferred to public holders (included in "Public warrants" in the table below). Because the holder of the instrument is not an input into the pricing of a fixed-for-fixed option on equity shares, the warrants are precluded from being indexed to the entity’s stock and are classified as a liability measured at fair value, with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings. A summary of outstanding equity classified warrants is as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):
|  | Underlying |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Common |  |  | Strike |  |  | Redemption |  | Expiration
Type |  | Shares |  |  | Price |  |  | Price |  | Date
Public warrants |  |  | 1,173 |  |  | $ | 230 |  |  | $ | 360 |  | 6/11/2026
Private placement warrants (PIPE) |  |  | 833 |  |  |  | 230 |  |  |  | 360 |  | 6/11/2026
Private placement warrants (Global Knowledge) |  |  | 250 |  |  |  | 230 |  |  | None |  | 10/12/2025
Private placement warrants (former CEO) |  |  | 50 |  |  |  | 230 |  |  | None |  | 6/11/2026
Total |  |  | 2,306 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
A description of each category of warrants issued and outstanding is as follows:
| ● | Public warrants – Pursuant to its initial public offering, the Company sold units that consisted of one share of Class A common stock and one-third of one redeemable warrant (“public warrants”), resulting in the issuance of 23,000,000 public warrants. Prior to the business combination with Software Luxembourg Holding S.A. on June 11, 2021 (the “Skillsoft Merger"), Churchill Capital Corp II (our predecessor) had classified these warrants as liabilities due to tender offer provisions which state that in the event of a tender or exchange offer made to and accepted by holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares of a single class of common stock, all holders of the warrants would be entitled to receive cash for their warrants. Accordingly, there were potential scenarios outside the control of the Company (which had more than one class of outstanding common stock prior to the Skillsoft Merger), where all warrant holders would be entitled to cash, while only certain holders of the underlying shares of common stock would be entitled to cash, requiring the warrants to be classified as a liability measured at fair value, with changes in fair value reported each period in earnings. Upon the completion of the Skillsoft Merger on June 11, 2021, when only one class of voting shares remained outstanding, the warrants met equity classification criteria as net cash settlement can only be triggered in circumstances in which the holders of the shares underlying the contract also would receive cash in the event of a fundamental change in the ownership of the Company, such as a change in control. Accordingly, the fair value of the warrants was transferred to equity and cumulative losses recognized from changes in fair value remain in the Company’s accumulated deficit balance. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, there was no activity related to the private placement warrants (described below) or public warrants.
| ● | Private placement warrants (PIPE) – In connection with the second step investment made by the anchor PIPE investor, 16,666,667 warrants were issued to a PIPE investor to purchase Class A common stock. The PIPE private placement warrants are issued in the same form as the public warrants.
| ● | Private placement warrants (Global Knowledge) – Upon completion of the acquisition of Albert DE Holdings Inc. (the "Global Knowledge Merger") 5,000,000 warrants were issued to the former owner of the company. These warrants are similar to the private placement warrants except the warrants are not subject to the redemption provisions described above if transferred.
| ● | Private placement warrants (Former CEO) - Effective at the closing of the Skillsoft Merger and Global Knowledge Merger, the Sponsor transferred 1,000,000 fully vested private placement warrants to the former CEO pursuant to his employment agreement with the Company.
Public warrants and PIPE private placement warrants (hereinafter referred to as “redeemable warrants”) are currently exercisable and may only be exercised for 1/20th of a whole number of shares for each warrant. The Company may redeem these warrants:
| ● | in whole and not in part;
| ● | at a price of $0.20 per warrant;
| ● | upon not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption;
| ● | if, and only if, the reported last sale price of the Company’s common stock equals or exceeds $360.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30‑trading day period ending on the third business day prior to the notice of redemption to the warrant holders; and
| ● | if, and only if, there is a current registration statement in effect with respect to the shares of common stock underlying the warrants.
If and when the redeemable warrants become redeemable by the Company, the Company may exercise its redemption right even if it is unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws. If the Company calls the redeemable warrants for redemption, management will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise the public warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement. The exercise price and number of shares of Class A common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. However, the warrants will not be adjusted for issuance of Class A common stock at a price below their exercise price. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the warrants. The Sponsor and former CEO private placement warrants have the same terms as the public warrants, except they will be exercisable on a cashless basis and be non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. If the Sponsor private placement warrants are transferred to someone other than the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees, they will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the public warrants. The Global Knowledge private placement warrants are not redeemable, even upon a transfer in ownership.

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