Item 3.03
Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.
In connection with the previously announced 1-for-20 reverse stock split (the
Reverse Stock Split
) of shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (
Class A Shares
), of Jones Energy, Inc. (the
Company
) and Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share (
Class B Shares
together with the Class A Shares, the
Common Stock
), of the Company, the Company has filed an amendment to its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the
Amendment
). The Amendment, effective as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 7, 2018, converted each 20 issued and outstanding Class A Shares into one Class A Share and each 20 issued and outstanding Class B Shares into one Class B Share. A Certificate of Correction to the Amendment (the
Certificate of Correction
) correcting the cash payout process for fractional shares resulting from the Reverse Stock Split was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 10, 2018. Pursuant to the Certificate of Correction, any fraction of a share of Common Stock that would otherwise have resulted from the Reverse Stock Split shall be settled by cash payment, equal to the fraction of one share of Common Stock multiplied by the average of the high and low trading prices of the Class A Shares on the New York Stock Exchange (
NYSE
) during regular trading hours for the five trading days immediately preceding September 7, 2018.
The Reverse Stock Split affected all record holders of Common Stock uniformly and did not affect any record holders percentage ownership interest in the Company, except for de minimis changes as a result of the elimination of fractional shares. The Reverse Stock Split reduced the number of Class A Shares outstanding from 98,039,826 (excluding treasury shares) to 4,901,986 and the number of Class B Shares outstanding from 4,825,038 to 241,251. The Reverse Stock Split will not affect the authorized number of shares for the Common Stock.
The Class A Shares began trading on a reverse split-adjusted basis on the NYSE at the opening of trading on September 10, 2018. The Class A Shares will continue trading on the NYSE under the symbol JONE with a new CUSIP number (48019R 306). The holders of Common Stock who hold in street name in their brokerage accounts do not have to take any action as a result of the Reverse Stock Split. Their accounts will be automatically adjusted to reflect the number of shares owned.
All outstanding equity awards, pursuant to the various instruments governing them, will be adjusted immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split by dividing the number of shares of Common Stock into which such equity awards are exercisable or convertible by 20. In connection with such proportionate adjustments, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise or conversion of outstanding equity awards will be rounded down to the nearest whole share.
The Reverse Stock Split did not affect the number of authorized or outstanding shares of the Companys 8.0% Series A Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock (the
Series A Preferred Stock
) or the dividend rate per share of any outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock. In accordance with the Certificate of Designations governing the Series A Preferred Stock, the conversion rate of the Series A Preferred Stock has been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split and is currently equal to 0.8534.
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The Reverse Stock Split followed (i) the approval by the Companys stockholders at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 22, 2018 (the
Annual Meeting
) of a grant of discretionary authority to the Board of Directors of the Company (the
Board
) to effect an amendment to the Companys Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of the Common Stock, at a ratio between 1-for-5 and 1-for-20, with such ratio to be determined by the Board in its sole discretion and (ii) the approval by the Board of the specific 1-for-20 reverse stock split ratio on August 17, 2018. The voting results from the Annual Meeting and the stockholder approval of the Reverse Stock Split proposal were disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 23, 2018.
The foregoing descriptions of the Amendment and the Certificate of Correction do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the complete Amendment and Certificate of Correction, copies of which are filed as Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference herein.
Item 5.03
Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
To the extent required by Item 5.03 of Form 8-K, the information contained in Item 3.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9.01
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits
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