Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): March 30, 2022
National CineMedia, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
001-33296
20-5665602
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
(Commission File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
6300 S. Syracuse Way
Suite 300
Centennial
Colorado
80111
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
(303) 792-3600
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
NCMI
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
(Title of each class)
(Trading symbol)
(Name of each exchange on which registered)
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Item 3.02Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
2021 Common Unit Adjustment
National CineMedia, Inc. (“NCM, Inc.”), as sole manager of National CineMedia, LLC (“NCM LLC”), provided written notices effective as of March 30, 2022 setting forth the determination of common membership units due to/from the members of NCM LLC as shown in the table below, in accordance with the Common Unit Adjustment Agreement dated as of February 13, 2007, by and among NCM, Inc., NCM LLC, Regal CineMedia Holdings, LLC (“Regal”), American Multi-Cinema, Inc. (“AMC”) and Cinemark Media, Inc. (“Cinemark”). Regal, AMC and Cinemark are referred to collectively as the “Founding Members.” The common membership units are expected to be issued on April 13, 2022, the settlement date.
The Common Unit Adjustment Agreement provides a mechanism for adjusting membership units held by the Founding Members, based on increases or decreases in attendance associated with new theater construction or acquisitions and dispositions or closures by each Founding Member. The adjustment of membership units pursuant to the Common Unit Adjustment Agreement is conducted annually, except that an earlier adjustment will occur for a Founding Member if its acquisition or disposition of theaters, in a single transaction or cumulatively since the most recent adjustment, will cause a change of two percent or more in the total annual attendance.
Following is a summary of the beneficial ownership of NCM LLC units that will result from this most recent common unit adjustment for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2021:
Founding Member Group
Number of Units Owned Prior to Adjustment (1)
Number of Units Issued per 2021 Adjustment
Total Number of Units Owned Post Adjustment
AMC
—
5,954,646
5,954,646
Cinemark
43,161,550
529,247
43,690,797
Regal
43,026,794
(2,342,997)
(2)
40,683,797
NCM, Inc.
81,403,872
—
81,403,872
Total
167,592,216
4,140,896
171,733,112
(1) The units reflected are as of March 30, 2022.
(2) The 2021 Common Unit Adjustment calculated for Regal is negative 2,342,997 units, which will be satisfied by returning units to NCM LLC or paying to NCM LLC an amount calculated pursuant to the Common Unit Adjustment Agreement.
Following the issuance and return of these common membership units pursuant to the Common Unit Adjustment Agreement for fiscal 2021, each Founding Member’s beneficial ownership interest in NCM LLC will change as follows:
Founding Member Group
Ownership Interest Prior to Adjustment
Ownership Interest Post Adjustment
Change
AMC
0.0%
3.5%
+3.5
Cinemark
25.7%
25.4%
-0.3
Regal
25.7%
23.7%
-2.0
NCM, Inc.
48.6%
47.4%
-1.2
Pursuant to NCM, Inc.’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and NCM LLC’s Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement, as amended, members of NCM LLC, other than NCM, Inc., may choose to have common membership units redeemed, and NCM, Inc. may elect to issue cash or shares of its Common Stock on a one-for-one basis. Therefore, the NCM LLC units issued to the Founding Members may be redeemable for an equal number of shares of NCM, Inc.’s Common Stock.
Neither NCM, Inc. nor NCM LLC will receive any cash consideration in exchange for the issuance of the units. The units will be issued in reliance upon the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof for transactions not involving a public offering. Appropriate legends will be affixed to the securities issued in this transaction. The Founding Members had adequate access, through business or other relationships, to information about NCM, Inc. and NCM LLC.
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SIGNATURES
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.
