Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
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| Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
Management of Local Bounti is responsible for the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in this document, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). The Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in the statements herein.
The Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements do not include all of the disclosures required by GAAP for annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2022 (the "Annual Financial Statements") as filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023. In the opinion of the Company, the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Financial Statements contain all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to fairly present its financial position as of September 30, 2023, its results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, its cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, and its stockholders' equity for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. Results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2023 or any future period. The Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 2022 was derived from the Annual Financial Statements but does not contain all of the footnote disclosures from the Annual Financial Statements.
Liquidity
The Company has incurred losses and generated negative cash flows from operations since its inception. At September 30, 2023, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $237.8 million and cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash of $18.3 million.
Cargill Financial expects to provide the Company with $10 million of working capital subject to certain terms and conditions precedent. The Company anticipates closing this transaction in the fourth quarter of this year. The Company has also executed conditional commitment letters from a commercial finance lender for total potential financing of up to approximately $230 million at a floating interest rate of Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR") plus a margin of 345 basis points per annum (equivalent to approximately 8.8% as of the filing date of this 10-Q Report) in order to fund its 2024 greenfield build and facility expansions. The Company expects to execute definitive documents for such financings in the first quarter of 2024, subject to negotiation of final terms and underwriting commitments.
The Company believes that the additional $10 million of working capital from Cargill Financial, the $230 million from a commercial finance lender, the Company's current cash position, cash generated from product sales, and anticipated cash interest payment deferrals under the Company's credit facilities with Cargill Financial will be adequate to fund the Company’s planned operations over the next 12 months from the issuance of these Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Company also believes additional cash can be secured through other debt or equity financings, if necessary. However, there can be no assurance that equity or debt financing will be available to the Company should it need it or, if available, that the terms will be satisfactory to the Company and not dilutive to existing shareholders. The Company's failure to raise capital as and when needed could have significant negative consequences for its business, financial condition and results of consolidated operations.
Reverse Stock Split Stockholder Approval
On April 3, 2023, the Company's board of directors (the "Board") authorized an amendment to the Company's Certificate of Incorporation to, at the discretion of the Board, effect a reverse stock split of the shares of Local Bounti's common stock, at any time prior to June 30, 2024, at a ratio within a range of 1-for-2 to 1-for-25, with the exact ratio and effective time of the reverse stock split to be determined at the discretion of the Board without further approval or
authorization of the Company's stockholders. The amendment was approved by stockholders at a special meeting of stockholders held on April 26, 2023. On June 4, 2023, the Board approved a 1-for-13 reverse stock split (the "Reverse Stock Split") of the Company's issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share. Trading of the Company's common stock on the NYSE commenced on a split-adjusted basis on June 15, 2023.
As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, every 13 shares of common stock issued and outstanding were automatically reclassified into one new share of common stock without any action on the part of the holders. The Company paid cash in lieu of fractional shares resulting from the Reverse Stock Split. Proportionate adjustments were made to the exercise prices and the number of shares underlying the Company’s outstanding equity awards, as applicable, and warrants exercisable for shares of Common Stock, as well as to the number of shares issuable under the Company’s equity incentive plans and certain existing agreements. Also, for the Company’s outstanding warrants to purchase up to 81,139,179 shares of common stock, every 13 shares issuable under warrants became exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $149.50 per share of common stock for the Company's publicly traded warrants and $13.00 per share of common stock for the March 2023 Cargill Warrant. See Note 9, Stock-Based Compensation, and Note 10, Net Loss Per Share, for more information. The common stock issued pursuant to the Reverse Stock Split will remain fully paid and non-assessable. The Reverse Stock Split did not affect the number of authorized shares of common stock or the par value of the common stock.
All share and per share amounts presented herein with respect to common stock have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split for all periods presented.
There have been no material changes or updates to the Company's significant accounting policies from those described in the Annual Financial Statements except for the updates noted below.
Derivatives
Equity instruments issued in connection with debt and other equity instruments are required to be evaluated for derivative liability accounting treatment in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 815, Derivatives and Hedging. Unless certain exception criteria are met, the freestanding financial instrument or embedded feature must be recognized as a separate liability and subsequently measured on the balance sheet at fair value in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement.
The Company has evaluated the terms and features of its debt and equity instruments and identified a freestanding equity instrument (the March 2023 Cargill Warrant) issued in connection with the Sixth Amendment that did not meet the criteria necessary to qualify for the derivative scope exception. See Note 6, Debt, and Note 8, Fair Value Measurements, for more information related to the Sixth Amendment and the March 2023 Cargill Warrant, respectively. Due to certain provisions that could result in the issuance of additional shares upon settlement, the warrant instrument did not meet the fixed-for-fixed criteria necessary for the instrument to be classified and recorded within equity. As a result, the warrant is accounted for at fair value until settled through exercise or expiration and is classified as a derivative liability in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at September 30, 2023. The initial $25.7 million fair value of the March 2023 Cargill Warrant was recorded as additional debt discount to the Facilities (as defined below) and a derivative liability in the "Warrant Liability" line item of the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The change in fair value of the warrant will be remeasured each quarter until the instrument is settled or expires with changes in fair value recorded in "Change in fair value of warrant liability" in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The fair value of the warrant liability is determined using a Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. See Note 6, Debt, for more information.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326), which amends the guidance on reporting credit losses for assets held at amortized cost and available for sale debt securities. For assets held at amortized cost, the amendment eliminates the probable initial recognition threshold in current GAAP and, instead, requires an entity to reflect its current estimate of all expected credit losses. The allowance for credit losses is a valuation account that is deducted from the amortized cost of the financial assets to present the net amount expected to be collected. The Company adopted this guidance on January 1, 2023 using the modified retrospective method. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company's Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity's Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which simplifies the accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics of liability and equity, including convertible instruments and contracts on an entity’s own equity. The standard reduces the number of models used to account for convertible instruments, removes certain settlement conditions that are required for equity contracts to qualify for the derivative scope exception, and requires the if-converted method for calculation of diluted earnings per share for all convertible instruments. The standard is effective for the Company for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2023. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard on its Consolidated Financial Statements.
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