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Related-Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related-Party Transactions

14. Related-Party Transactions

 

The Company had various transactions with entities or individuals which are considered related parties.

 

Coliseum Capital Management LLC

 

Immediately following the Business Combination, Adam Gray was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Gray is a manager of Coliseum Capital, LLC, which is the general partner of CCP and CDF, and he is also a managing partner of Coliseum Capital Management, LLC (“CCM”), which is the investment manager of Blackwell. Mr. Gray has voting and dispositive control over securities held by CCP, CDF and Blackwell which were also the Lenders under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement. In 2018, the Lenders agreed to make the Original Loan in an aggregate principal amount of $25.0 million pursuant to the 2018 Credit Agreement entered into as part of the Business Combination. In conjunction with the 2018 Credit Agreement, the Sponsor agreed to assign to the Lenders an aggregate of 2.5 million warrants to purchase 1.3 million shares of its Class A Stock. In 2019, the Incremental Lenders agreed to provide the $10.0 million Incremental Loan. In accordance with the First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, the Company did not make any cash interest payments to the Lenders during the first and second quarters of 2020. On September 3, 2020, the Company paid $45.0 million to retire, in full, all indebtedness related to Purple LLC’s 2018 Credit Agreement. The payment included the $25.0 million Original Loan, the $10.0 Incremental Loan, $6.6 million of paid-in-kind interest, $2.5 million in a prepayment fee and $0.9 million in accrued interest (See Note 10 — Debt).

 

In February 2018, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company entered into a subscription agreement with CCP and Blackwell, pursuant to which CCP and Blackwell agreed to purchase from the Company an aggregate of 4.0 million shares of Class A Stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share (the “Coliseum Private Placement”). In connection with the Coliseum Private Placement, the Sponsor assigned (i) an aggregate of 1.3 million additional shares of Class A Stock to CCP and Blackwell and (ii) an aggregate of 3.3 million warrants to purchase 1.6 million shares of Class A Stock to CCP, Blackwell, and CDF. The subscription agreement provides CCP and Blackwell with preemptive rights with respect to future sales of the Company’s securities. It also provides them with a right of first refusal with respect to certain debt and preferred equity financings by the Company. The Company also entered into a registration rights agreement with CCP, Blackwell, and CDF, providing for the registration of the shares of Class A Stock issued and assigned to CCP and Blackwell in the Coliseum Private Placement, as well as the shares of Class A Stock underlying the warrants received by CCP, Blackwell and CDF. The Company has filed a registration statement with respect to such securities.

 

As part of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, CCP and Blackwell were also granted 2.6 million warrants to purchase 2.6 million shares of the Company’s Class A Stock at a price of $5.74 per share, subject to certain adjustments. In May 2020, pursuant to the terms of the warrant agreement upon the condition that Tony Pearce or Terry Pearce individually or together ceased to beneficially own at least 50% of the voting securities of the Company, the exercise price of the warrants was adjusted to zero. On November 9, 2020, the Company issued 2.6 million shares of Class A common stock in exchange for the Incremental Loan Warrants held by the Incremental Lenders. The Company determined the fair value of the Incremental Loan Warrants to be $81.0 million at the time of the exchange. The fair value of the Incremental Loan Warrants was $21.6 million at December 31, 2019. The Company recorded losses of $59.4 million and $16.8 million related to increases in the fair value of the Incremental Loan Warrants for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively (See Note 11 — Warrant Liabilities).

 

Purple Founder Entities

 

TNT Holdings, LLC (herein “TNT Holdings”), EdiZONE, (wholly owned by TNT Holdings) and InnoHold (the “Purple Founder Entities”) were entities under common control with Purple LLC prior to the Business Combination. TNT Holdings and InnoHold are majority owned and controlled by Terry Pearce and Tony Pearce (the “Purple Founders”), who were appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors following the Business Combination. InnoHold was a majority shareholder of the Company until it sold a portion of its interests in a secondary public offering in May 2020 and the remainder of its interests in a secondary public offering in September 2020. The Purple Founders also resigned as employees of the Company and retired from the Board in August 2020.

 

TNT Holdings owns the Alpine facility Purple LLC has been leasing since 2010. Effective as of October 31, 2017, Purple LLC entered into an Amended and Restated Lease Agreement with TNT Holdings. The Company determined that TNT Holdings is not a VIE as neither the Company nor Purple LLC hold any explicit or implicit variable interest in TNT Holdings and do not have a controlling financial interest in TNT Holdings. The Company incurred $0.9 million and $1.0 million in rent expense to TNT Holdings for the building lease of the Alpine facility for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company continues to lease the Alpine facility that was formerly the Company headquarters, for use in production, research and development and video production.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2020, 30.9 million Paired Securities have been exchanged for Class A Stock by InnoHold and certain current and former employees of the Company who received distributions of such Paired Securities from InnoHold.

 

On November 9, 2018, Purple LLC and EdiZONE executed the Second Amended and Restated Confidential Assignment and License Back Agreement (the “Revised License Agreement”), pursuant to which EdiZONE assigned all of its comfort and cushioning intellectual property to Purple LLC and further limited the subset of such intellectual property licensed back to EdiZONE to only those uses that enabled EdiZONE to comply with its obligations under previously existing contracts, agreements and licenses. On August 14, 2020, Purple LLC entered into a separate agreement whereby EdiZONE, for consideration of $8.5 million, assigned a license agreement with Advanced Comfort Technologies, Inc. (“ACTI”), and related royalties payable thereunder, to Purple LLC, along with the trademarks GEL MATRIX and INTELLIPILLOW. In connection with such assignment, the Company agreed to indemnify EdiZONE against claims by ACTI relating to EdiZONE’s breach under the agreement.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2020, Purple LLC paid InnoHold either directly or through withholding payments directly to various states, an aggregate of $4.6 million in required tax distributions pursuant to the Second Purple LLC Agreement.