Item 1.01 |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Effective as of October 8, 2024, Innovex International, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Contract Extension Agreement (the “Contract Extension Agreement”) with Kyle McClure, the former Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, which extends the term of that certain letter agreement between the parties, dated as of September 8, 2024 (the “Letter Agreement”), to November 8, 2024. The original termination date of the Letter Agreement was October 8, 2024.
The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Contract Extension Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1, and is incorporated herein by reference.
Stockholder Litigation
As previously reported, on September 6, 2024, the Company (formerly named Dril-Quip, Inc.) completed its business combination with Innovex Downhole Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Pre-Merger Innovex”), pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 18, 2024, as amended by the First Amendment to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 12, 2024 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Pre-Merger Innovex, Ironman Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and DQ Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”).
In connection with the Merger, Amberjack Capital Partners, L.P. (“Amberjack”), Pre-Merger Innovex’s largest equityholder, agreed to enter into a Stockholders Agreement with the Company (the “Stockholders Agreement”) upon closing of the Merger that, among other things, would have: (i) required Amberjack to vote in favor of the Company’s Board of Directors’ nominees at the Company’s 2025 annual stockholder meeting (the “Voting Requirement”); and (ii) prohibited Amberjack from transferring Company shares directly to an “Activist Investor” (as defined in the Stockholders Agreement) not through public market sales so long as Amberjack owned at least 10% of the Company’s outstanding common stock (the “Activist Transfer Restriction”).
On March 21, 2024, Plaintiff Steamfitters Local 449 Pension Fund (“Plaintiff”) filed a putative class action complaint (“Complaint”) in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”), styled Steamfitters Local 449 Pension Fund v. Dril-Quip, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 2024-0284-LWW (the “Action”). Among other things, the Complaint challenged the Voting Requirement and the Activist Transfer Restriction. On May 8, 2024, the Company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing that the Company and Amberjack had agreed to amend the Stockholders Agreement to eliminate the Voting Requirement and the Activist Transfer Restriction. On May 21, 2024, the Court entered a stipulated Order dismissing the Action as moot and retaining jurisdiction to determine Plaintiff’s counsel’s application for an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses (the “Dismissal Order”). The Dismissal Order was entered by the Court without a finding of wrongdoing by the Company, its directors, or anyone else.