Note 14 - Related Party Transactions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]

14. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Immediately prior to the closing of the MacDermid Acquisition, each Retaining Holder executed a RHSA with the Company pursuant to which they agreed to exchange their respective interests in MacDermid Holdings for PDH Common Stock of Platform’s subsidiary PDH, at an exchange rate of $11.00 per share plus, with respect to the common, class A and class B unit equity interests of MacDermid Holdings held by the Retaining Holder (i) a proportionate share of a contingent interest in certain pending litigation, and (ii) a proportionate share of up to $100 million of contingent purchase price payable upon the attainment of certain EBITDA and stock trading price performance metrics during the seven-year period following the closing of the MacDermid Acquisition as discussed further in Note 2 – “Acquisitions of Businesses”. Immediately prior to the closing of the MacDermid Acquisition, members of MacDermid management and certain affiliates, including certain officers of MacDermid, contributed all or a portion of their MacDermid Holdings interests to Tartan Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Tartan”), and Tartan agreed to receive the PDH Common Stock in exchange for such MacDermid Holdings equity interests. The resulting noncontrolling interest percentage for the Retaining Holders was 6.76%.

Pursuant to an Advisory Services Agreement between the Company and Mariposa Capital, LLC, an affiliate of one of our Founders, (“Mariposa”), advisory fees paid to Mariposa, for the Successor Quarterly and Nine Month Periods were $500 and $1,500, respectively.

On November 7, 2013, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. (“Pershing Square”), the beneficial owner of approximately 25.8% of the Company’s outstanding shares as of November 7, 2014. Those shares were acquired by Pershing Square in the initial public offering and the Warrant Exchange Offer. Pursuant to the agreement, for so long as any of the included funds managed by Pershing Square holds any Platform shares, the Company agreed to cooperate with such holders’ reasonable requests to facilitate any proposed sale of shares by the requesting holder(s) in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144 or any successor rule (“Rule 144”) promulgated under the Securities Act, including, without limitation, by complying with the current public information requirements of Rule 144 and providing opinions of counsel, to the extent required. Additionally, the Company agreed that promptly after becoming eligible to utilize a Form S-3 registration statement, the Company will file with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-3 registering (among other securities) the resale of the Company shares held by the holders and use its commercially reasonable efforts to have such registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable after its filing. The Company’s obligations under the registration rights agreement shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the date on which all of a holder’s shares have been sold, and (ii) the date on which all of a holder’s shares may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without volume or other restrictions.