UNITED STATES
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FORM
(Amendment No. 1)
CURRENT REPORT
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
| Item 1.01. | Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
License Agreement with Stryten
On July 29, 2024, Dragonfly Energy Corp. (“DFE”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp. (the “Company”) and Battle Born Battery Products, LLC (“Battle Born LLC”), a newly formed wholly-owned subsidiary of DFE, entered into a License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Stryten Energy LLC (“Stryten”). Pursuant to the License Agreement, Battle Born LLC granted Stryten an exclusive, worldwide license to use certain trademarks relating to the Company’s lithium-ion battery brand, Battle Born Batteries® (the “Licensed Trademarks”) for business-to-business sales of batteries to customers within the following markets: (i) automative, (ii) marine, (iii) powersports, (iv) lawn and garden, (v) golf cart, and (vi) military and defense (such industries, the “Stryten Market”). In exchange for the licensing rights, Stryten agreed to pay Battle Born LLC an initial licensing fee of five million dollars ($5,000,000) (the “Initial Licensing Fee”). The License Agreement provides for mid-single digit royalty payments based on net sales using the Licensed Trademarks, with a tiered structure reaching up to twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), at which point Stryten will be required to pay a nominal annual license fee. Additional fees will apply for battery design and contract manufacturing services outside of the License Agreement.
The License Agreement is perpetual in term, unless terminated by: (i) Battle Born LLC if Stryten fails to pay the royalty payments required by the License Agreement and such royalty payments remain unpaid thirty (30) days after notice of such overdue payments (provided that Battle Born LLC uses reasonable efforts to discuss such overdue payments with Stryten), or (ii) either party (x) if the other party materially breaches the License Agreement and fails to cure such material breach within thirty (30) days of notice of such breach, (y) upon the occurrence of certain bankruptcy-related events, or (z) under certain circumstances, if the aggregate royalty payments received by Battle Born LLC under the License Agreement are less than fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) after five (5) years.
The License Agreement also contains customary representations, warranties and covenants, as well as customary provisions relating to indemnification, confidentiality and other matters.
Prior to and in connection with the License Agreement, on July 29, 2024, pursuant to a trademark transfer and license back agreement (the “Trademark Transfer Agreement”), DFE transferred all of its intellectual property rights in the Licensed Trademarks to Battle Born LLC and DFE licensed back from Battle Born LLC all rights in and to the Licensed Trademarks worldwide outside of the Stryten Market.
Term Loan Agreement Limited Waiver and Second Amendment
In connection with the License Agreement, on July 29, 2024, the Company, DFE and Battle Born LLC entered into a Limited Waiver, Consent and Second Amendment to Term Loan, Guarantee and Security Agreement (the “Amendment”) with the lenders (the “Lenders”) under the Company’s Term Loan, Guarantee and Security Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2022 (the “Loan Agreement”), and Alter Domus (US) LLC, as the agent to the Lenders (the “Agent”).
Pursuant to the Amendment, the Lenders (i) consented to the transactions contemplated by the License Agreement and the Trademark Transfer Agreement and (ii) agreed to waive the mandatory prepayment under the Loan Agreement that would have been due to the Lenders under the Loan Agreement upon Battle Born LLC’s receipt of the Initial Licensing Fee.
In connection with the Amendment, Battle Born LLC entered into a Joinder Agreement with the Lenders (the “Joinder”) whereby Battle Born LLC became a guarantor and credit party to the Loan Agreement.
The foregoing descriptions of the License Agreement, the Trademark Transfer Agreement, the Amendment and the Joinder are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full texts of the License Agreement, Trademark Transfer Agreement, the Amendment and the Joinder, copies of which are filed herewith as Exhibit 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K/A and are incorporated by reference herein.
| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure |
On July 30, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing the License Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
The information in this Current Report on Form 8-K under Item 7.01, including the information contained in Exhibit 99.1, is being furnished to the SEC, and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by a specific reference in such filing.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| DRAGONFLY ENERGY HOLDINGS CORP. | ||
| Date: August 1, 2024 | By: | /s/ Denis Phares |
| Name: | Denis Phares | |
| Title: | President, Chief Executive Officer and interim Chief Financial Officer | |