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Subsequent Event
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2021
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Event Subsequent Event
On July 15, 2021, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Learning Technologies Group plc, a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales (“LTG”), Learning Technologies Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of LTG (“US Holdco”), and Gravity Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of US Holdco (“Merger Sub”). The Merger Agreement provides, subject to its terms and conditions, for the acquisition of the Company by LTG at a price of $20.85 in cash for each share of the Company’s common stock (each, a “Share”), without interest thereon and subject to deduction for any required withholding tax (the “Merger Consideration”), through the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of LTG (the “Surviving Corporation”).

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”):

•each Share that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than (i) Shares held in the treasury of the Company or owned by the Company, any subsidiary of the Company, LTG, US Holdco, Merger Sub or any other subsidiary of LTG immediately prior to the Effective Time, all of which will be canceled, and (ii) Shares held by stockholders who do not vote in favor of the Merger and who properly exercise their appraisal rights under, and comply in all respects with applicable provisions of, Delaware law) will be automatically cancelled and converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration;

•each restricted stock unit granted by the Company that is subject only to time-based vesting conditions and is outstanding and unvested at the Effective Time will automatically be cancelled and converted into the right to receive from the Surviving Corporation an amount of cash equal to the product of (a) the number of Shares then underlying such restricted stock unit, multiplied by (b) the Merger Consideration; and

•each restricted stock unit granted by the Company that is subject to performance-based vesting conditions and is outstanding and unvested at the Effective Time will automatically be cancelled and converted into the right to receive from the Surviving Corporation an amount of cash equal to the product of (a) the number of Shares that vest upon a “Sale of the Company” (as defined in the GP Strategies Corporation 2021 Long-Term Incentive Program) pursuant to the terms of the grant of such restricted stock unit, multiplied by (b) the Merger Consideration.
•Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the GP Strategies Corporation 2011 Stock Incentive Plan will be terminated immediately prior the Effective Time, and participants in the GP Strategies Corporation 2011 Stock Incentive Plan will not have any rights thereunder following the Effective Time, except for the right to receive the payments described above.

Completion of the Merger is subject to customary closing conditions, including (i) adoption of the Merger Agreement by the Company’s stockholders (the “Stockholder Approval”), (ii) the absence of governmental orders, stays, decrees, judgments or injunctions, and of statutes, rules or regulations, prohibiting the Merger, (iii) the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), and (iv) clearance of the Merger by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. In addition, the obligation of each of the Company and LTG to consummate the Merger is conditioned upon, among other things, the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the other (subject to certain materiality exceptions), and material compliance by the other with its covenants under the Merger Agreement. LTG’s obligation to consummate the Merger is also conditioned upon there not occurring after the date of the Merger Agreement any effect, development, circumstance or change that has, or would reasonably be expected to have, a “Company Material Adverse Effect” (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and upon the admission of the new ordinary shares of LTG to be issued in connection with the Share Issue (as hereinafter defined) to trading on the Alternative Investment Market operated by the London Stock Exchange.

The Merger Agreement contains representations and warranties and covenants of the parties customary for a transaction of this nature. Until the earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement and the Effective Time, the Company has agreed to operate its business in the ordinary course of business and has agreed to certain other operating covenants and to not take certain specified actions prior to the consummation of the Merger, as set forth more fully in the Merger Agreement. The Company has also agreed to convene and hold a meeting of its stockholders for the purpose of obtaining the Stockholder Approval. In addition, the Merger Agreement requires that, subject to certain exceptions, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) recommend that the Company’s stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement.
The Merger Agreement contains certain termination rights for the Company and LTG, including, among others, the right of (i) the Company to terminate the Merger Agreement prior to receipt of the Stockholder Approval, if the Company receives an alternative acquisition proposal that constitutes a “Superior Proposal” (as defined in the Merger Agreement), the Company complies with it covenants in the Merger Agreement relating to such proposal, and, substantially concurrently with termination, the Company pays a termination fee to LTG and enters into a definitive agreement to consummate such proposal and (ii) LTG to terminate the Merger Agreement if the Board changes its recommendation with respect to the Merger Agreement.

The Merger Agreement also provides that under specified circumstances, the Company may be required to pay LTG a termination fee of $12,000,000 or reimburse LTG for its expenses incurred in connection with the merger agreement and the merger up to a maximum of $1,200,000, or LTG may be obligated to pay GP Strategies a termination fee of $12,000,000 plus reimbursement of GP Strategies’ expenses incurred during fiscal year 2021 in connection with the merger agreement, up to $5,000,000 (or, if lower, the difference of 1% of LTG’s market capitalization as of the date of termination minus $12,000,000).