Orbital Infrastructure Group Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Bankruptcy or Receivership, Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant, Financial Statements and Exhibits

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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 1, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (832) 467-1420

 

 

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

 

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As previously disclosed, on August 23, 2023, Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. (the “Company”) and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company Parties”) filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (the “Bankruptcy Court”).

 

 

On November 28, 2023, the Bankruptcy Court entered its order (the “Confirmation Order”) confirming the Second Amended Combined Disclosure Statement and Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Liquidation of Orbital Infrastructure Group, Inc. et al. (the “Confirmed Plan”). The Confirmed Plan contemplates, among other things, an orderly wind-down and liquidation of the Company Parties’ businesses and the vesting of the assets of the Company Parties’ bankruptcy estates in a liquidating trust. The holders of equity interests in the Company will receive no recovery pursuant to the Confirmed Plan. The Confirmed Plan became effective on December 6, 2023 (the “Effective Date”). The Company Parties are deemed dissolved upon the Effective Date without any further action or notice as set forth in the Confirmation Order.

 

The foregoing description of the Confirmation Order and the Confirmed Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Confirmation Order and Confirmed Plan, attached thereto as Exhibit A. A copy of the Confirmation Order is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Form 8-K and incorporated by reference into this Item 1.03.

 

Cautionary Note to Holders of the Company’s Common Stock

 

Pursuant to the Confirmed Plan, all of the Company’s equity interests, consisting of outstanding shares of common stock and related rights to receive or purchase shares of common stock, were cancelled on the Effective Date without consideration and have no value.

 

No shares of the Company’s common stock will be reserved for future issuance in respect of claims and interests filed and allowed under the Confirmed Plan or pursuant to the exercise of any rights, options or other obligations of the Company to issue its common stock.

 

The Company intends to file a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to deregister the Company’s common stock pursuant to Rule 12g-4(a)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”). Upon filing the Form 15, the Company intends to immediately cease filing any further periodic or current reports under the Exchange Act.

 

 

The Confirmed Plan provides that on the Effective Date, except as otherwise specifically provided for in the Confirmed Plan, (i) the obligations of the Company Parties under any certificate, share, note, bond, indenture, purchase right, or other instrument or document, directly or indirectly evidencing or creating any indebtedness or obligation of or ownership interest, equity, or portfolio interest in the Company Parties or any warrants, options, or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into, debt, equity, ownership, or profits interests in the Company Parties giving rise to any claim or interest shall be cancelled and deemed surrendered as to the Company Parties and the Company Parties shall not have any continuing obligations thereunder; and (ii) the obligations of the Company Parties pursuant, relating, or pertaining to any agreements, indentures, certificates of designation, bylaws, or certificates or articles of incorporation or similar documents governing the shares, certificates, notes, bonds, indenture, purchase rights, options, warrants, or other instruments or documents evidencing or creating any indebtedness or obligation of the Company Parties shall be fully released, settled, and compromised.

 

The certificates, shares and ownership interests and related agreements, purchase rights, options and warrants to be cancelled on the Effective Date include all of the Company’s common stock and related rights to purchase or receive shares of common stock.

 

Item 4.01.              Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

 

As of December 1, 2023, PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) was dismissed as the Company’s independent registered accounting firm and will no longer provide audit services to the Company and its subsidiaries.  There is no dispute between the Company and PwC. PwC’s report on the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022 did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or audit principles, except that PwC’s opinion with respect to the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022 included an explanatory paragraph related to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

 

 

In connection with the audit of the Company during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 and the subsequent period until December 1, 2023, there were no (1) disagreements between the Company and PwC on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements if not resolved to their satisfaction would have caused them to make reference in connection with their opinion to the subject matter of the disagreement, or (2) reportable events as set forth in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K. The Company has provided PwC with a copy of this Form 8-K and requested that PwC provide the Company with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether PwC agrees with the statements related to them made by the Company in this report. A letter from PwC is attached as Exhibit 16.1 of this Form 8-K.

 

 

 

The Confirmed Plan provides that on the Effective Date, all directors, managers, members, officers and employees of the Company will be deemed to have resigned without any further action. Each of the Company’s directors, William J. Clough, James F. O’Neil III, C. Stephen Cochennet, Corey A. Lambrecht, Sarah Tucker, Paul T. Addison, Jerry Sue Thornton and La Forrest V. Williams, and the Company’s remaining officers, including William J. Clough, General Counsel, James F. O’Neil III, Chief Executive Officer and Nick Grindstaff, Chief Financial Officer, ceased to be directors and officers of the Company, as applicable, on the Effective Date.

 

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

 

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.