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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Agreements
Janice Y. Lederman
Presented to Insight Information’s “Negotiating and Drafting Major Business Agreements”
Winnipeg, Manitoba May 18, 2010
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Scope of Presentation
• Deal structure• Essential elements of a term sheet• Due diligence –how much is enough?• Equity purchase agreements and terms• Warrants: when to include
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Scope of Presentation
• Management equity• Down-road financing issues• Exit issues• Sample clauses
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What is Private Equity?
• Purchase of securities not qualified by prospectus • Angel investors a type of private equity capital• PE funds most often private pools of capital, structured as
limited partnerships• Some PE funds are public companies (Onex Capital)
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What is Private Equity
• An experienced PE manager as GP, with pension funds, other institutional investors and high net worth individuals as LP’s
• Funds tend to specialize - seed, start-up, growth, mezzanine, leveraged or non-leveraged buyouts, turnarounds and distressed company funds
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What is Private Equity?
• Angel and venture capital are types of private equity • Angel investments tend to range between $250,000 and
$1.5 million • VC investments typically run from $1.5 million and up,
increasingly in later stage companies • PE typically larger, later- stage investments
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Deal Structure
Factors influencing deal structure include:• stage of development of target company• involvement of Founder / Entrepreneur• professional management / management participation• number of existing shareholders• number of prior rounds• stock or asset deal• valuation issues• risk management
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Deal Structure
“Isolate the biggest risk in the deal and structure the initial investment so the money is used to eliminate that risk.”
Anthony Perkins, VC Investor
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Deal Structure
PE / VC investors will structure hedging strategies to minimize downside risk and co-investment strategies to share risk
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Deal Structure
Areas of risk
• Management• Product • Market• Operations• Financial
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Deal Structure
Financial tools for managing risk:• Share attributes
– Common or convertible preferred equity– If convertible,
• either at a fixed number of shares or a percentage of shares outstanding at a future date
• normally includes a fixed dividend
• gives preference over commons (Founders) in the event of liquidation or merger
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Deal Structure
• Convertible debt• Debt financing with equity kicker• Options and warrants• Staged (milestone) investment
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Deal Structure
Non-financial tools for managing risk:• Right to board seat or observer status• Contractual right to company information• Retraction rights• Anti-dilution rights• Pre-emptive rights• Carry-along / tag-along rights
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Term Sheet Essentials
• A self-contained summary of the deal• Level of detail always open to debate, but a
term sheet should be:– a useful road map for the drafters; and– a reliable reference source for the principals (assuming deal
doesn’t change on closing)
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Term Sheet Essentials
• Key Issues
– Financial terms• price (valuation methodology)• pre-money valuation• capitalization table (especially if warrants outstanding)• dividends / interest coupon• warrants / options
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Term Sheet Essentials
– Security attributes• dividend rights• voting rights• liquidation preference• conversion terms• redemption rights• retraction rights
- Anti-dilution protection
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Term Sheet Essentials
– Pay-to-play provisions
– Resale restrictions• carry-along / tag-along rights• rights of first refusal• co-sale agreement
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Term Sheet Essentials
– Prohibition on certain conduct– Access for due diligence– Information rights– Voting rights / blocking rights– Proprietary information– Payment of expenses– No shop / exclusivity
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Term Sheet Essentials
– Founders’ activities – Key employee lock-ups– IPO share purchase– Indemnification– Assignment– Walk-away rights– Confidentiality
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Term Sheet Essentials
• Deal non-binding, but certain provisions should be made binding
• Must be explicit about what is binding
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Term Sheet Essentials
Binding provisions:– expense reimbursement / break-up fee (if there is
one)– No-shop / exclusivity clause– prohibition on certain conduct (ordinary course activity
/ no long-term commitments)– due diligence access / disclosure – confidentiality
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Term Sheet Essentials
• Walk-away rights should be explicit
• Don’t rely on the due diligence condition for walk-away rights, such as board approval or debt financing
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Due Diligence
• A process to identify business and legal investment risk
• Business due diligence can identify areas of concern for legal due diligence
• Seller’s own due diligence– preferably before negotiations commence– to identify and manage risk – basis for limiting or qualifying representations in
agreement
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Due Diligence
– qualifications will limit Seller’s /Founder’s exposure to post-closing claims
– issues not identified by Seller/Founder early in negotiations may either scare off investor or be used by investor to renegotiate price and terms
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Due Diligence
• Due diligence is time consuming and expensive
• Pressure to reduce due diligence – to minimize costs– to make the process less adversarial– to get to signing/closing more quickly
• On the other hand, issues that arise late in the process can be more difficult or expensive to resolve than at DD phase
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Due Diligence
• Key due diligence issues:– third-party consents and approvals– existing debt/equity arrangements– provisions in Articles / share rights– existing shareholder/investor agreements– material contracts– affiliate issues– liens and encumbrances
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Due Diligence
– environmental concerns– litigation– intellectual property issues– special regulatory issues– change of control issues
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Cap Table• all securities, warrants, options & terms including vesting
periods & strike prices
• Multiple Investors• lead investors • ‘majority in interest’ investors• which are deal critical? / who determines investor
interests?
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Termination Rights• especially where multiple investors
• Decision-Making & Control• right to board seats• when, if ever, can investors take control?• contractual right to receive continuous disclosure of
material information
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Reps & warranties• negotiation of qualifiers, such as knowledge or
materiality• survival period
• Deal specific reps & warranties• For example, IP or financial statement disclosure
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Indemnities• negotiation of limitations on quantum, duration and types
of damages exposure• caps, baskets, exclusions
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Remedies• reps > tort damages• warranties > breach of contract; rescission• limit rescission rights?• indemnity as exclusive remedy absent bad faith or fraud• liquidated damages?
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Length of time between sign and close• provisions related to conduct• ordinary course / no material changes (MAC clause)• assistance with obtaining third party consents• good faith efforts to complete closing
• VC investments• expense reimbursement
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Equity Purchase Agreements & Terms
• Other provisions• expense reimbursement• company use of proceeds• add-on investments
– if milestones met, pricing and terms of milestone funding is fixed to avoid duplication of costs
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Collateral Agreements
• Investor Rights Agreements• Indemnification Agreements• Employment Agreements• Confidentiality / Non-Disclosure Agreements• Non-Compete / Non-Solicitation Agreements• Voting / Control Agreements• Unanimous Shareholder Agreements• Stock Option Plans
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Warrants
• In VC deals, can be used to bridge valuation gap between Founder and Investor
• A sweetener/ kicker if targets met• Can be used as incentive to Investor to use
its strategic leverage to hasten growth• Can be useful where investor bridging into
subsequent equity round
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Management Equity
• Typically a key difference between a PE and VC deal
• Management in PE deal unlikely to carry more than 20%
• Restriction on transfer of shares, except for estate planning purposes
• Requires buy-back provisions
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Management Equity
• VC Investor may want stock option plan for management /employees as a form of non-cash compensation to align interests – there will be a vesting period within which the
options cannot be exercised– if employees leave, lose unvested options, out-of-
money options and must exercise in-money options
– options (and underlying stock) not transferable
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Down-Road Financing Issues
• VC Deal– often provide for next round financing– may pre-arrange co-investment upon satisfaction
of milestones
• Negotiated terms regarding right of refusal for funding/blocking rights, etc. can be complicated and may have to be unwound on next round financing
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Exit Issues
• Exit strategies– strategic sale
– IPO
– partial sale
– employee / management buyout
– retraction rights
• Investor non-compete / non-disclosure
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Sample Clauses
[See separate handout]