Noncontrolling Interests

6 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

On December 4, 2023, Silicon Carbide LLC (“Silicon Carbide”), one of the Company’s subsidiaries, completed (i) the sale of 16,666,667 Class A Common Units to Denso Corporation (“Denso”) for $500,000,000 pursuant to an Investment Agreement, dated as of October 10, 2023, by and between Silicon Carbide and Denso and (ii) the sale of 16,666,667 Class A Common Units to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (“MELCO”) for $500,000,000 pursuant to an Investment Agreement, dated as of October 10, 2023, by and between Silicon Carbide and MELCO (collectively, the “Equity Investments”).

As a consequence of the Equity Investments, the Company’s ownership interest in the Class A Common Units of Silicon Carbide LLC was reduced to approximately 75%. Denso and MELCO each, individually, own approximately 12.5% of the Class A Common Units of Silicon Carbide LLC.

The Equity Investments in Silicon Carbide will enable Coherent to increase its available free cash flow to provide greater financial and operational flexibility to execute its capital allocation priorities, as the aggregate $1 billion investment, net of transaction costs, will be used to fund future capital expansion of Silicon Carbide.

The following table presents the activity in noncontrolling interests in the Company's Silicon Carbide subsidiary, as discussed above ($000s).


	Six Months Ended December 31,
	2023		2022
Beginning balance	$	—	$	—
Sale of shares to noncontrolling interests	373,573		—
Share of foreign currency translation adjustments	1,065		—
Net loss	(1,484)		—
Ending balance	$	373,154	$	—