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Subsequent Events
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023
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Subsequent Events

14. Subsequent Events

The Company has evaluated all events that occurred after the balance sheet date through the date when these condensed consolidated financial statements were issued to determine if they must be reported.

Special Voting Preferred Stock

On October 9, 2023, the Company entered into the Subscription, Voting and Redemption Agreement with GP-HGM LLC (“GP-HGM”), an entity controlled by our Executive Chairman, pursuant to which GP-HGM purchased 1,000,000 shares of a new class of preferred stock designated as “Special Voting Stock” for an aggregate purchase price of $100 and agreed to vote all of the shares of Special Voting Stock at the annual meeting of stockholders, scheduled for December 5, 2023 (the “Annual Meeting"), in proportion to the votes cast at the Annual Meeting. Each share of Special Voting Stock is entitled to 20,000 votes per share. The Company has further agreed to redeem the shares of Special Voting Stock for an aggregate price of $100 on the first business day following the date on which the voting on the Amendment to Series B Certificate of Designations Proposal has concluded.

At the Annual Meeting, stockholders will be asked to approve an amendment to the Certificate of Designations of the Company’s Series B Preferred Stock to allow the Company to have the ability to (a) pay dividends in shares of Common Stock, (b) pay less than all of the accrued dividends, and (c) pay dividends on any date designated by the Company’s board of directors for the payment of dividends.

Completion of the Merger

On November 29, 2023, the Company completed the merger of its European business with CFFE. The combined company now operates as XBP Europe and, beginning on November 30, 2023, XBP Europe shares started trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “XBP” and its warrants started trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “XBPEW”.

The business combination will be accounted for as a reverse capitalization in accordance with FASB’s ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations (“ASC 805”). Under this method of accounting, CFFE will be treated as the “acquired” company for financial reporting purposes with XBP Europe surviving as a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of CFFE.

Insurance Claim

The Company received an insurance claim settlement amount of $10.0 million in December 2023 under the business interruption claim filed for the cyber security incident which occurred during the second half of 2022.