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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On May 16, 2024, Signing Day Sports, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a securities purchase agreement, dated as of May 16, 2024 (the “FirstFire Purchase Agreement”), with FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC (the “Investor”) pursuant to which the Company is required to issue the Investor a senior secured convertible promissory note with principal of $412,500 (the “Note”), 187,500 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“common stock”), as a commitment fee (the “FF Commitment Shares”), a warrant to purchase up to 1,375,000 shares of common stock (the “First FF Warrant”) and a second warrant, to purchase up to 250,000 shares of common stock (the “Second FF Warrant,” and together with the First FF Warrant, the “FF Warrants”).
The Company also entered into a Security Agreement with the Investor (the “Security Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company will grant the Investor a security interest in certain property of the Company to secure the Company’s obligations under the FF Note.
The closing of the transaction under the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, including payment to the Company by the Investor of the purchase price of $375,000, remains subject to certain conditions.
Under the Company’s engagement letter agreement with Boustead Securities, LLC, a registered broker-dealer (“Boustead”), Boustead is acting as the placement agent in connection with the transactions contemplated by the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, for which the Company will pay to Boustead cash in the amount of 8.0% of the amount paid by the Investor to the Company pursuant to the FirstFire Purchase Agreement; shares of common stock in an amount equal to 7.0% of the FF Commitment Shares; and placement agent warrants to purchase up to the number of shares equal to 7.0% of the shares of common stock issuable to the Investor pursuant to conversion of the FF Note, exercise of the First FF Warrant, and exercise of the Second FF Warrant, with an exercise price equal to the applicable conversion price or exercise price per share, with the exercisability of the placement agent warrants issuable with respect to with the Second FF Warrant subject to the same conditions for exercise as the Second FF Warrant. The placement agent warrants that are required to be issued to Boustead will be exercisable for a period of five years from the date of issuance and contain cashless exercise provisions. Boustead also has certain registration rights with respect to these warrants.
FirstFire Purchase Agreement
Under the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, until the FF Note has been fully converted or repaid, the Investor will have participation and rights of first refusal on any offers of the Company’s securities other than offerings already disclosed in the Company’s reports filed with the SEC or pursuant to an Excluded Issuance (as defined in the FirstFire Purchase Agreement), and most favored nation rights on any offers of the Company’s securities other than for an Excluded Issuance. The Company will also be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement involving a Variable Rate Transaction, as defined in the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, other than pursuant to an “at-the-market” agreement with a registered broker-dealer, whereby such registered broker-dealer is acting as principal in the purchase of common stock from the Company or an Equity Line of Credit (as defined in the FF Note), without the consent of the Investor, which may not be unreasonably withheld. In addition, the Company may not issue, agree, propose, or offer to issue any shares of common stock or securities with underlying common stock prior to the 30th calendar day after the date of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement.
The FirstFire Purchase Agreement (as well as the FF Note and the FF Warrants) provides that the maximum amount of shares of common stock issuable under the FF Note and the FF Warrants is limited to no more than 19.99% of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Company as of the date of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement (as well as the FF Note and the FF Warrants) provides that the maximum amount of shares of common stock issuable, or 3,074,792 shares of Common Stock, which number of shares shall be reduced, on a share-for-share basis, by the number of shares of Common Stock issued or issuable pursuant to any transaction or series of transactions that may be aggregated with the transactions contemplated by the FirstFire Purchase Agreement under applicable rules of the NYSE American LLC (the “NYSE American” and such limitation, the “FF Exchange Limitation”), until the Company obtains stockholder approval to issue shares in excess of that amount for all shares issuable pursuant to the terms of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement (the “FF Stockholder Approval”). The Company must hold a meeting of stockholders on or before the date that is six months after the date of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, for the purpose of obtaining the FF Stockholder Approval, with the recommendation of the Company’s board of directors that such proposal be approved, the Company must solicit proxies from its stockholders in connection with the proposal in the same manner as all other management proposals in such proxy statement, and all management-appointed proxyholders shall vote their proxies in favor of such proposal. In addition, all members of the Company’s board of directors and all of the Company’s executive officers must vote in favor of such proposal, for purposes of obtaining the FF Stockholder Approval, with respect to all securities of the Company then held by such persons, and the Company must generally use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the FF Stockholder Approval. If the Company does not obtain the FF Stockholder Approval at the first meeting at which the proposal is voted upon, the Company shall call a stockholder meeting as often as possible thereafter to seek the FF Stockholder Approval until the FF Stockholder Approval is obtained.
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In addition, the FirstFire Purchase Agreement provides that the Investor will pay an additional amount of at least an additional $175,000 to the Company subject to the same terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents, including additional aggregate principal of at least $198,611, based on the 10% original issuance discount under the FF Note, and the other terms and conditions of the FF Note (the “Second Tranche”), if, within six calendar months of the date of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, the Company obtains the FF Stockholder Approval and such FF Stockholder Approval applies to the Second Tranche, the Registration Statement (as defined below) is effective, any additional registration statement required to cover the shares of common stock issuable following the occurrence of the Second Tranche is effective, the Company is listed on the NYSE American, and no Event of Default (as defined in the FF Note) has occurred.
The FirstFire Purchase Agreement also has a most favored nations provision with respect to the issuance of any securities of the Company other than with respect to an Excluded Issuance.
FirstFire Registration Rights Agreement
In connection with the transaction, the Company and the Investor entered into a registration rights agreement, dated as of May 16, 2024 (the “FirstFire Registration Rights Agreement” and together with the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, the Security Agreement, the FF Notes and the FF Warrants, the “FirstFire Transaction Documents”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to register the shares of common stock underlying the FF Note and the FF Warrants and the FF Commitment Shares under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for resale pursuant to a registration statement (the “FF Registration Statement”). The Company agreed to file the FF Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) within 90 calendar days from the date of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement and to have the Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC within 120 days from the date of the FirstFire Purchase Agreement. The Company also granted the Investor certain piggyback registration rights pursuant to the FirstFire Purchase Agreement.
FF Note
The principal amount of the FF Note will bear interest at the rate of 10% per annum on a 365-day basis. The interest will be guaranteed, which requires that all interest that would accrue through the latest date of maturity be paid. The FF Note will mature on the earlier of the 12-month anniversary date of the issuance date, or May 16, 2025, and the date of the consummation of a sale, conveyance or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or the consolidation, merger or other business combination of the Company with or into any other entity when the Company is not the survivor.
Any outstanding principal amount or interest on the FF Note that is not paid when due will bear interest at the rate of the lesser of (i) 15% per annum and (ii) the maximum amount permitted by law from the due date thereof until the same is paid. Under the FF Note, the Company is required to make monthly amortization payments of $56,715 commencing September 16, 2024. The Company may prepay the FF Note any time prior to an Event of Default on 15 trading days’ prior written notice for an amount equal to 110% of the principal amount then outstanding and 110% of the accrued and unpaid interest outstanding.
Under the FF Note, the holder of the FF Note may at any time and from time to time, subject to beneficial ownership limitations and the FF Exchange Limitation, convert the outstanding principal amount and accrued interest under the FF Note into shares of common stock at an initial conversion price of $0.30 per share, subject to adjustment, including adjustments under full-ratchet anti-dilution provisions for any issuances of securities at a lower price per share or per underlying share of common stock to match the price of such lower-priced securities, other than for an Excluded Issuance (the “Fixed Conversion Price”). If the Company fails to make an amortization payment when due under the FF Note, the balance remaining under the FF Note will become convertible, and the conversion price will become the lower of the then-applicable Fixed Conversion Price and 80% of the lowest closing price of the common stock during the ten trading days prior to the conversion date. If an Event of Default occurs under the FF Note, then the balance remaining under the FF Note will become convertible at the lower of the Fixed Conversion Price, the closing price of the common stock on the date of the Event of Default (or the next trading day if such date is not on a trading day), and $0.195 per share, subject to adjustment. The number of shares issuable upon the conversion of the FF Note and the conversion price of the FF Note are subject to any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination, rights offerings, reclassification, or similar transaction.
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If, at any time prior to the full repayment or full conversion of all amounts owed under the FF Note, the Company receives cash proceeds from any source or series of related or unrelated sources on or after the date of the FF Note, including but not limited to, from payments from customers, the issuance of equity or debt, the incurrence of Indebtedness (as defined in the FF Note), a merchant cash advance, sale of receivables or similar transaction, the exercise of outstanding warrants of the Company, the issuance of securities pursuant to an Equity Line of Credit (as defined in the FF Note) of the Company or the Company’s offering of securities under Regulation A under the Securities Act, or the sale of assets (including but not limited to real property) by the Company, the Company shall, within one (1) business day of Company’s receipt of such proceeds, inform the holder of the FF Note of or publicly disclose such receipt, following which the holder of the FF Note shall have the right in its sole discretion to require the Company to immediately apply up to 100% of such proceeds to repay all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount and interest (including any default interest) then due under the FF Note.
The FF Note will be a senior secured obligation of the Company, with priority over all existing and future indebtedness of the Company, except that the FF Note will be junior in priority to the Company’s promissory note issued to Commerce Bank of Arizona (“CBAZ”) on or around December 23, 2023 pursuant to the Business Loan Agreement, dated as of December 11, 2023, between the Company and the CBAZ in the amount of $2 million, and which is secured by a certificate of deposit of the Company with CBAZ having a balance of approximately $2.1 million (the “Prior Secured Note”). The Company may not incur any Indebtedness that is senior to or pari passu with the obligations under the FF Note. The Company may not declare any dividends or other distributions except in the form of shares of common stock except for distributions pursuant to a stockholders’ rights plan approved by a majority of the Company’s disinterested directors. The Company also may not repurchase any capital stock or repay any indebtedness other than the FF Note and the Prior Secured Note.
The FF Note will have a most favored nations provision with respect to the issuance of any debt securities of the Company.
FF Warrants
First FF Warrant
The First FF Warrant will be exercisable for up to 1,375,000 shares of common stock from the date of issuance until the fifth anniversary of the date of issuance. The holder may exercise the First FF Warrant by a “cashless” exercise if the Market Price (as defined below) is less than the exercise price then in effect and there is no effective registration statement for the resale of the shares. The “Market Price” is defined as the highest traded price of the common stock during the 30 trading days before the date of the cashless exercise. The number of shares issuable upon cashless exercise will equal (i) the product of (a) the number of shares of common stock that the holder elects to purchase under the First FF Warrant, times (b) the Market Price less the exercise price, divided by (ii) the Market Price.
Under the First FF Warrant, the holder of the First FF Warrant may at any time and from time to time, subject to beneficial ownership limitations and the FF Exchange Limitation, exercise the First FF Warrant to purchase shares of common stock at an initial conversion price of $0.30 per share, subject to adjustment, including adjustments under full-ratchet anti-dilution provisions for any issuances of securities at a lower price per share or per underlying share of common stock other than for an Excluded Issuance, or for any issuances of securities at a price which varies or may vary with the market price of the common stock, to match the price of such lower-priced or variable price securities, or for other dilution events. Simultaneous with any adjustment to the exercise price as a result of an anti-dilution adjustment, the number of shares underlying the First FF Warrant will be adjusted proportionately so that after such adjustment the aggregate exercise price payable under the First FF Warrant for the adjusted number of shares underlying the First FF Warrant will be the same as the aggregate exercise price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment (without regard to any limitations on exercise). The First FF Warrant will also contain rights to any rights to purchase securities of the Company distributed pro rata to the stockholders of the Company.
Second FF Warrant
The Second FF Warrant will be exercisable for up to 250,000 shares of Common Stock for an initial exercise price of $0.01 per share from the date of an Event of Default under the FF Note until the fifth anniversary of the date of an Event of Default under the FF Note. The Second FF Warrant will be automatically canceled if the FF Note is fully extinguished (by repayment in cash and/or conversion into common stock) on or prior to the maturity date of the FF Note. The Second FF Warrant otherwise has the same terms and conditions as the First FF Warrant.
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General
The Transaction Documents contain certain other agreements and obligations of the parties.
The foregoing summary of the terms and conditions of the FF Note, the First FF Warrant, the Second FF Warrant, the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, the Security Agreement, and the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the FF Note, the First FF Warrant, the Second FF Warrant, the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, the Security Agreement, and the Registration Rights Agreement, copies or forms of which are filed as Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2, Exhibit 4.3, Exhibit 10.1, Exhibit 10.2, and Exhibit 10.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.
As previously disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on January 8, 2024, the Company entered into a Common Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 5, 2024 (the “Tumim Purchase Agreement”), and a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 5, 2024 (the “Tumim Registration Rights Agreement”), with Tumim Stone Capital LLC (“Tumim”), pursuant to which Tumim had committed to purchase, upon the terms and conditions specified in the Tumim Purchase Agreement and the Tumim Registration Rights Agreement, up to $25 million of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share.
On May 16, 2024, the Company and Tumim agreed by mutual written consent and pursuant to its terms to terminate the Tumim Purchase Agreement, effective immediately.
In connection with this termination, Tumim also waived the prohibition under the Purchase Agreement on the Company entering into a Variable Rate Transaction (as defined in the Tumim Purchase Agreement) which otherwise would have survived termination of the Tumim Purchase Agreement for a six-month period.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated hereby reference.
The securities that may be issued by the Company to the Investor under the FirstFire Purchase Agreement are being offered and sold by the Company to the Investor in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D thereunder. In the FirstFire Purchase Agreement, the Investor represented to the Company, among other things, that it is an “accredited investor” (as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act). Accordingly, the offer and sale by the Company of the securities that may be issued and sold to the Investor under the FirstFire Purchase Agreement have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws and, therefore, such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws.
The securities that may be issued by the Company to Boustead under the Company’s engagement letter agreement with Boustead are being offered and sold by the Company to Boustead in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506(b) of Regulation D thereunder. Accordingly, the offer and sale by the Company of the securities that may be issued and sold to Boustead under its engagement letter agreement have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws and, therefore, such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws.
This Current Report on Form 8-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Company, nor shall there be any sale of any securities of the Company in any state or other jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
The information set forth under Item 1.01, Item 1.02 and Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 4.1 | Form of Senior Secured Promissory Note | |
| 4.2 | Form of First Common Stock Purchase Warrant | |
| 4.3 | Form of Second Common Stock Purchase Warrant | |
| 10.1 | Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 16, 2024, between Signing Day Sports, Inc. and FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC | |
| 10.2 | Security Agreement, dated May 16, 2024, between Signing Day Sports, Inc. and FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC | |
| 10.3 | Registration Rights Agreement, dated May 16, 2024, between Signing Day Sports, Inc. and FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with the Inline XBRL document). |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: May 17, 2024 | SIGNING DAY SPORTS, INC. | |
| /s/ Daniel D. Nelson | ||
| Name: | Daniel D. Nelson | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
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