Item 1.01
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
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As previously reported, on November 11, 2015, Clean
Energy Fuels Corp. (the Company) entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the Original Sales Agreement) with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (Citigroup) as sales agent and/or principal. Pursuant to
the Original Sales Agreement, the Company was entitled to issue and sell, from time to time, through or to Citigroup shares of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the Common Stock), having an aggregate offering price of
up to $75,000,000. Subsequently, on September 9, 2016, the Company and Citigroup entered into an Amended and Restated Equity Distribution Agreement (the First Amended Sales Agreement), which amended, restated and replaced the
Original Sales Agreement in its entirety for the primary purpose of increasing from $75,000,000 to $110,000,000 the aggregate offering price of shares of Common Stock available for issuance and sale thereunder.
On December 21, 2016, the Company and Citigroup entered into a Second Amended and Restated Equity Distribution Agreement (the Second Amended
Sales Agreement), which amends, restates and replaces the Original Sales Agreement, as amended by the First Amended Sales Agreement, in its entirety, for the primary purpose of increasing from $110,000,000 to $200,000,000 the aggregate
offering price of shares of Common Stock available for issuance and sale thereunder (such shares sold pursuant to the Original Sales Agreement and the First Amended Sales Agreement or to be sold pursuant to the Second Amended Sales Agreement,
collectively, the Shares). As of the date of this Current Report on
Form 8-K,
the Company has sold approximately 32.5 million Shares for an aggregate offering price of approximately
$110.0 million under the Original Sales Agreement and the First Amended Sales Agreement and, as a result, Shares having an aggregate offering price of approximately $90.0 million remain available for issuance and sale pursuant to the
Second Amended Sales Agreement.
Pursuant to the terms of the Second Amended Sales Agreement, Citigroup will act as the sole sales agent in connection
with any offerings of Shares. The Company may also sell Shares to Citigroup as principal for its own account, at a price and discount to be agreed upon at the time of sale pursuant to a separate terms agreement. The sales, if any, of the Shares
under the Second Amended Sales Agreement will be made in at the market offerings as defined in Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including sales made by means of ordinary brokers transactions on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market, or otherwise at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices or as otherwise agreed to by the Company and Citigroup. The Company is not obligated to sell any Shares under the
Second Amended Sales Agreement.
The Company will pay Citigroup a commission not to exceed two percent (2%) of the gross sales price of the Shares sold
through it as sales agent under the Second Amended Sales Agreement and will reimburse Citigroup for certain customary expenses incurred in connection with its services under the Second Amended Sales Agreement. The Company intends to use any net
proceeds from future sales of the Shares for general corporate purposes, which may include, without limitation, retiring a portion of its outstanding indebtedness.
The Shares will be issued pursuant to the Companys effective shelf registration statement on
Form S-3,
as
amended (File
No. 333-206121),
which was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and became effective on November 3, 2015, and a related prospectus supplement
filed with the SEC on December 21, 2016. Such prospectus supplement includes the Shares offered pursuant to the Original Sales Agreement and the Companys related prospectus supplement dated November 11, 2015 and the First Amended
Sales Agreement and the Companys related prospectus supplement dated September 9, 2016, and updates and restates in its entirety such November 11, 2015 and September 9, 2016 prospectus supplements. This Current Report on
Form 8-K
shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
The foregoing description of the Second Amended Sales
Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Second Amended Sales Agreement, which is being filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on
Form 8-K
and is incorporated herein by reference. A copy of the opinion of Morrison & Foerster LLP relating to the legality of the Shares to be issued and sold pursuant to the Second Amended
Sales Agreement is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on
Form 8-K.