Note 14 - Mezzanine Equity and Stockholders' Equity

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

Notes to Financial Statements

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14. Mezzanine Equity and Stockholders’ Equity

The Company has one class of capital stock: common stock. The following summarizes the terms of the Company’s capital stock.

Common Stock

Pursuant to the Company’s restated Articles of Incorporation, the Company is authorized to issue up to 1,000,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.0001 par value. There were 194,070,512 and 184,652,402 shares issued and outstanding as of  December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote. The holders of common stock are also entitled to receive dividends whenever funds are legally available and when declared by the Company’s Board of Directors. The Company’s Board of Directors has not declared common stock dividends since inception. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company repurchased and retired 3,262,065 shares. The shares were returned to the status of authorized but unissued shares. As a result, common stock amount, additional paid-in capital, and accumulated deficit in the consolidated balance sheet were reduced by $0.0 million, $12.2 million, and $20.9 million, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company repurchased 6,719,032 shares and retired 10,908,782 shares. The shares were returned to the status of authorized but unissued shares. As a result, common stock amount, additional paid-in capital, and accumulated deficit in the consolidated balance sheet were reduced by $0.0 million, $38.9 million, and $21.8 million, respectively.

Share Repurchase Program

On March 17, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors authorized a new share repurchase program (the “Share Repurchase Program”) for the Company to buy back shares of its common stock. Under the Share Repurchase Program, the Company has the authority to buy up to $150 million of common stock via acquisitions in the open market or privately negotiated transactions. The Share Repurchase Program will remain open for a period of three years from the date of authorization and may be suspended or discontinued at any time. The Company is not obligated to make purchases of, nor is it obligated to acquire any particular amount of, common stock under the Share Repurchase Program. During the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company purchased 3,262,065, 6,719,032 and 4,046,186 shares, respectively, at an average price of $10.13, $5.81, and $4.92 per share, respectively.

Sponsor Earn-Out Shares

On July 1, 2021 the Company modified the terms of 2,916,700 shares of common stock (“Sponsor Earn-Out Shares”) then held by Apex’s sponsor, such that such shares will be subject to the following vesting provisions:

■ 100% of the Sponsor Earn-Out Shares shall vest and be released if at any time through July 1, 2028, AvePoint’s stock price is greater than or equal to $15.00 (as adjusted for share splits, share capitalization, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) over any 20 trading days within any 30-day trading period; and

■ 100% of the remaining Sponsor Earn-Out Shares that have not previously vested shall vest and be released if at any time through July 1, 2028, the Company consummates a subsequent transaction.

The Sponsor Earn-Out Shares are currently outstanding and receive treatment as outstanding common shares except that they were held in escrow and restricted from transfer until the vesting conditions described above were met. Consequently, the shares are classified as equity. 

In December 2024, the vesting conditions were satisfied and the shares were released from escrow.

Public Warrants to Acquire Common Stock

On July 1, 2021, the Company issued 17,500,000 public warrants with an exercise price of $11.50. Each warrant entitles the registered holder to purchase one share of AvePoint’s common stock and the warrants are exercisable from the date of issuance through July 1, 2026. The public warrants are equity classified and their fair value, based on the publicly traded warrants, was $59.3 million on July 1, 2021, and included in the additional paid-in capital on the consolidated balance sheets. 

On August 27, 2024, the Company announced the commencement of an offer to purchase all of its outstanding public warrants at a price of $2.50 per warrant in cash, with an expiration date of September 26, 2024 (the “Offer”). On September 26, 2024, the Company announced that 1,596,314 warrants had been validly tendered and purchased, representing approximately 9.1% of the outstanding warrants, for a total amount of $4.0 million. During the year ended December 31, 2024, 1,494,127 warrants were exercised, with a total cash received of $17.2 million. As of December 31, 2024, 14,485,809 warrants remained outstanding. Subsequent to December 31, 2024, and through February 21, 2025, holders of the Company’s outstanding warrants exercised a total of 7,595,099 warrants, resulting in the issuance of 7,595,099 shares of common stock. The Company received aggregate cash proceeds of approximately $87.3 million from these exercises. 

Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest

AEPL PTE. LTD. (“AEPL”), an unaffiliated investor

As part of AEPL’s investment in MaivenPoint Pte. Ltd. (“MaivenPoint”), the Company granted AEPL a put option which grants AEPL the right to require the Company to repurchase AEPL’s investment in MaivenPoint at any time between December 24, 2022, and December 24, 2023, at a price equal to AEPL’s initial investment of approximately $8.3 million. The Company recorded AEPL’s investment in MaivenPoint as redeemable noncontrolling interest as mezzanine equity in its consolidated balance sheets. On December 24, 2023, the put option expired. The redeemable noncontrolling interest owned by AEPL was reclassified to permanent equity and is presented in the stockholders’ equity section of the consolidated balance sheets for the year ended December 31, 2023.

I-Access Solutions Pte. Ltd. (“I-Access”)

On February 18, 2022, (the “I-Access Closing Date”), MaivenPoint consummated its acquisition of all of the ordinary shares of I-Access, a Singapore limited company. As a result, I-Access became a wholly owned subsidiary of MaivenPoint. The acquisition was made pursuant to a share purchase agreement, dated as of January 31, 2022, (the “Share Purchase Agreement”), by and among MaivenPoint and the former I-Access shareholders (the “Former Shareholders”). As part of the transaction price, MaivenPoint granted I-Access a put option which allows I-Access to cause MaivenPoint to repurchase its shares on February 18, 2024, at a price equal to approximately $5.9 million. The Company recorded I-Access investment in MaivenPoint as redeemable noncontrolling interest as mezzanine equity in its consolidated balance sheets.

During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Former Shareholders exercised the put option of approximately $6.1 million. As a result of the exercise, AvePoint’s ownership in MaivenPoint was 76.1%, with the remaining ownership interest held by AEPL as of December 31, 2024. Due to the exercise of the put option, the Company adjusted the carrying amount of the noncontrolling interest by multiplying the adjusted net assets of MaivenPoint AEPL’s new ownership percentage, resulting in a reduction to noncontrolling interest and increase in additional paid-in capital of $6.4 million, respectively, within the consolidated balance sheets. 

There were no put options held by MaivenPoint’s remaining noncontrolling interest shareholders, and therefore, there was no redeemable noncontrolling interest in MaivenPoint as of December 31, 2024.

As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, AvePoint owned 76.1% and 73.8%, respectively, interest in MaivenPoint.