Recent Transactions and Events

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Business Combinations [Abstract]

Recent Transactions And Events

Recent Transactions and Events

Seneca, South Carolina Facility Tornado

On April 13, 2020, a tornado struck the Seneca Plant causing damage to the Company’s assets. The Seneca Plant, which is one of the Company's largest Drivetrain plants, was not in operation at the time. The Company expects its insurance policies to cover the full repair or replacement of the Company's assets that incurred loss or damage. As of June 30, 2020, the Company received $85 million in cash proceeds from insurance carriers related to this event, substantially all of which have been applied to losses and expenses incurred. For the three months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded a net gain on insurance proceeds of $6 million related to the damage of assets (net of deductible expense of $1 million). In addition, all clean-up and repair costs incurred through June 30, 2020 have been fully recovered through these insurance proceeds. The Company expects its insurance policies to provide coverage for interruption to its business, including lost profits, and reimbursement for other expenses and costs that will be incurred relating to the damages and losses sustained. The Seneca Plant has resumed operations; however, the Company has not yet determined the full impact to its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows, including the timing of those impacts.

Proposed Acquisition of Delphi Technologies PLC

On January 28, 2020, the Company entered into a definitive agreement (the "Transaction Agreement") to acquire Delphi Technologies in an all-stock transaction. The transaction, which is expected to close in 2020, is subject to the receipt of regulatory approvals and satisfaction or waiver of other closing conditions.

On March 30, 2020, Delphi Technologies provided notice to the lenders pursuant to its credit agreement, dated September 7, 2017, as amended, to draw the full available amount under the revolving facility thereunder (the “Revolver Draw”), resulting in a total of $500 million outstanding under the revolving facility. Following the Revolver Draw, on March 30, 2020, the Company sent a written notice to Delphi Technologies asserting that Delphi Technologies materially breached the Transaction Agreement as a result of Delphi Technologies effecting the Revolver Draw without the Company’s prior written consent and asserting that, if such breach was not cured within 30 days, the Company had the right to terminate the Transaction Agreement. The Company received a response letter from Delphi Technologies on that date disputing the Company’s breach assertion on the basis that the Company unreasonably withheld and conditioned its consent to the Revolver Draw, in material breach of the Transaction Agreement.

On May 6, 2020, the Company and Delphi Technologies entered into an Amendment and Consent Agreement (the “Amendment”) pursuant to which, among other things, the Company consented to the Revolver Draw subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Amendment. The Amendment also amended the Transaction Agreement to include the following additional conditions to the Company's obligations to close the transaction (the “Closing”): (a) as of 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the date immediately prior to the Closing, (i) the net amount of the revolver borrowings outstanding under the credit agreement (net of cash balances) cannot exceed $115 million, and (ii) the total amount of revolver borrowings outstanding under the credit agreement cannot exceed $225 million, and (b) Delphi Technologies has satisfied a specified net-debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio. In addition, the Company and Delphi Technologies agreed to reduce the exchange ratio for the transaction such that, pursuant to the terms of the Transaction Agreement, the Company will issue, in exchange for each Delphi Technologies share, 0.4307 shares of BorgWarner common stock.

Upon closing of the transaction, current BorgWarner stockholders are expected to own approximately 85% of the combined company, while current Delphi Technologies shareholders are expected to own approximately 15%.

BorgWarner Morse TEC LLC

Like many other industrial companies that have historically operated in the United States, the Company, or parties that the Company was obligated to indemnify, had been named as one of many defendants in asbestos-related personal injury actions. On October 30, 2019, the Company entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with Enstar Holdings (US) LLC ("Enstar"). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company transferred 100% of the equity interests of BorgWarner Morse TEC LLC ("Morse TEC") to Enstar. As Morse TEC was the obligor for the Company's asbestos-related liabilities and policyholder of the related insurance assets, the rights and obligations related to these items transferred upon the sale, and pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Morse TEC has indemnified the Company and its affiliates for asbestos-related liabilities as more specifically described in the Purchase Agreement. This indemnification obligation with respect to Asbestos-Related Liabilities (as such term is defined in the Purchase Agreement) is not subject to any cap or time limitation. Following the completion of this transfer, the Company has no obligation with respect to previously recorded asbestos-related liabilities. In accordance with ASC Topic 810, "Consolidation," this subsidiary was derecognized as the Company ceased to control the entity, and the Company removed the associated assets and liabilities from the consolidated balance sheet.

Romeo Systems, Inc.

In May 2019, the Company invested $50 million in exchange for a 20% equity interest in Romeo, a technology-leading battery module and pack supplier. The Company accounts for this investment in Series A-1 Preferred Stock of Romeo under the measurement alternative in ASC Topic 321, "Investments - Equity Securities" for equity investments without a readily determinable fair value. Such investments are measured at cost, less any impairment, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for an identical or similar investment of the same issuer. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, after completing a qualitative assessment which indicated the Company's equity investment in Romeo may have been impaired, the Company recorded a $9 million asset impairment cost to record this investment at its fair value of $41 million. The estimated fair value of Romeo was determined using unobservable inputs including quantitative information from lower valuations in recently completed or proposed financings and the liquidation preferences included in the Romeo stock agreements. These unobservable inputs are considered Level 3.

In September 2019, the Company and Romeo contributed total equity of $10 million and formed a new joint venture, BorgWarner Romeo Power LLC (the "Romeo JV"), in which the Company owns a 60% interest.

Rinehart Motion Systems LLC and AM Racing LLC

On January 2, 2019, the Company acquired Rinehart Motion Systems LLC and AM Racing LLC, two established companies in the specialty electric and hybrid propulsion market, for approximately $15 million, of which $10 million was paid during the first three months of 2019, $2 million was paid during the first three months of 2020 and the remaining $3 million will be paid upon satisfaction of certain conditions.

The Company created Cascadia Motion LLC ("Cascadia Motion") to combine assets and operations of these two acquired companies. Based in Oregon, Cascadia Motion specializes in design, development and production of hybrid and electric propulsion solutions for prototype and low-volume production applications. It allows the Company to offer design, development and production of full electric and hybrid propulsion systems for niche and low-volume manufacturing applications.