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Warrants and Forward Purchase Share Agreements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Other Liabilities Disclosure [Abstract]  
Warrants and Forward Purchase Share Agreements

NOTE 12 — Warrants and Forward Share Purchase Agreements

Warrants

Public Warrants

At December 31, 2023 and 2022, there were 7,105,772 and 7,027,821 warrants outstanding to purchase an aggregate of 355,288 and 351,391, respectively, shares of common stock that had been included in the units issued in Merida’s initial public offering (the “Public Warrants”). Each Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $230.00 per whole share. Public Warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of shares. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the Public Warrants. The Public Warrants became exercisable 30 days after the closing of the Business Combination. The Public Warrants may not be exercisable for cash unless the Company has an effective and current registration statement covering the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrants and a current prospectus relating to such shares of common stock.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, during any period when the Company shall have failed to maintain an effective registration statement, warrant holders may exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis pursuant to the exemption provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act, provided that such exemption is available. If that exemption, or another exemption, is not available, holders will not be able to exercise their Public Warrants on a cashless basis. The Public Warrants will expire five years after the Closing of the Business Combination or earlier upon redemption or liquidation.

The Company may redeem the Public 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 commencing after the warrants became exercisable and 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 the Company calls the Public 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.

Private Warrants

At December 31, 2023 and 2022, there were 3,345,215 and 3,423,166 warrants outstanding to purchase an aggregate of 167,260 and 171,158, respectively, shares of common stock that Merida had sold to the Sponsor and EarlyBirdCapital in a private placement that took place simultaneously with Merida’s initial public offering (the “Private Warrants”). The Private Warrants are identical to the Public Warrants, except that the Private Warrants and the shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Private Warrants were not transferable, assignable or salable until after the closing of the Business Combination, subject to certain limited exceptions. Additionally, the Private Warrants are exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, at the holder’s option, and are non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. If the Private Warrants are held by someone other than the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees, the Private Warrants are redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the Public Warrants. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. However, the Private Warrants will not be adjusted for issuance of common stock at a price below its exercise price. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the Private Warrants. During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, Private Warrant holders converted 77,951 and 527,145, respectively, Private Warrants to Public Warrants.

The Company accounts for the Private Warrants as derivative liabilities, remeasured to fair value on a recurring basis, with changes in the fair value recorded to earnings. See Note 15 for additional information.

Forward Share Purchase Agreements

In December 2021 and January 2022, the Company entered into four separate FPAs with the FPA Holders. The FPAs allowed the FPA Holders to sell and transfer common stock held by such holders, not to exceed a total of 200,000 shares in aggregate, to the Company in exchange for cash. The price to be paid by the Company was initially $203.20 per share for up to 130,000 shares and $200.20 per share for up to 70,000 shares. As required by the FPAs, $39,032 of cash was placed into escrow upon closing of the Business Combination, to be used for the share purchases. If the FPAs were not exercised by the FPA Holders within their terms of three months post-Business Combination closing, the associated funds were to be released from escrow

to the Company. We account for the FPAs as derivative liabilities, remeasured to fair value on a recurring basis, with changes in the fair value recorded to earnings.

On May 3, 2022, Leafly and the FPA Holders entered into amendments to the FPAs (the “Amended FPAs”). The Amended FPAs modified the price at which the applicable FPA Holder has the right, but not the obligation, to have Leafly repurchase certain shares held by the applicable FPA Holder as of the closing of the Business Combination and not later sold into the market at a price of $203.20 per share (with respect to 34,308 of the shares subject to the Amended FPAs) and $206.20 per share (with respect to 120,199 of the shares subject to the Amended FPAs). The Amended FPAs also modified the date by which such FPA Holders could elect to have Leafly repurchase their shares to August 1, 2022. In connection with the Amended FPAs, certain amendments were also made to the escrow agreements in respect of the escrow accounts.

During 2022, a total of $8,089 was released from the escrow accounts due to certain FPA Holders selling shares in the open market, which was accordingly reclassified on the Company’s balance sheet from restricted cash to cash.

Effective August 1, 2022, the FPA Holders elected to have Leafly repurchase their remaining 154,055 shares covered by the FPAs for an aggregate repurchase price of $31,663. As a result, the shares repurchased have been removed from Leafly’s outstanding shares effective as of the date of purchase and placed into treasury. The FPA Holders elected to have all but $360 disbursed from the escrow account and were able to claim the remainder any time until August 1, 2023. On July 11, 2023, Leafly returned $360 of restricted cash to the FPA Holders pursuant to the terms of the FPAs (Note 3). Also, in connection with the settlement, 1,298 shares of the Company’s common stock held by the Sponsor were canceled, according to an agreement between the Company and the Sponsor entered into upon execution of the FPAs.