Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. - 10-Q filing on 2018-08-13

Organization and Nature of Business

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2018

1. Organization and Nature of Business

Victory Capital Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, collectively referred to as “the Company”) was formed on February 13, 2013 for the purpose of acquiring Victory Capital Management Inc. (“VCM”) and Victory Capital Advisers, Inc. (“VCA”), which occurred on August 1, 2013.

VCM is a registered investment adviser managing assets through open-end mutual funds, separately managed accounts, unified management accounts, ETFs, collective trust funds, wrap separate account programs and UCITs. VCM also provides mutual fund administrative services for the Victory Portfolios, Victory Variable Insurance Funds, Victory Institutional Funds and the mutual fund series of the Victory Portfolios II (collectively, “the Victory Funds”), a family of open-end mutual funds, and the VictoryShares (the Company’s ETF brand). VCM additionally employs all of the Company’s U.S. investment professionals across its Franchises and Solutions Platform, which are not separate legal entities. VCA is registered with the SEC as an introducing broker-dealer and serves as distributor and underwriter for the Victory Funds.

Changes in Capital Structure

On February 12, 2018, the Company completed the initial public offering (“IPO”) of its Class A common stock, which trades on NASDAQ under the symbol “VCTR”. The Company issued 11,700,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $13.00 per share at the closing of the IPO. On March 13, 2018, the Company issued an additional 1,110,860 shares of Class A common stock pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of their option. The net proceeds totaled $156.5 million: $143.0 million received at the closing of the IPO and $13.5 million received at the subsequent closing of the underwriters’ exercise of their option, after deducting in each case underwriting discounts.

In connection with the IPO, the following transactions were completed:

The Company’s certificate of incorporation was amended and restated to, among other things, provide for Class A common stock and Class B common stock, specify voting rights for the Class A common stock and Class B common stock, establish a classified board of directors and adopt the 2018 Stock Incentive Plan and 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

All shares of common stock outstanding prior to the IPO were immediately converted into Class B common stock at a one-to-one ratio.

A substantial majority of the Company’s employee stockholders entered into an Employee Shareholders’ Agreement, pursuant to which they granted an irrevocable voting proxy with respect to the shares of the Company’s common stock they acquired from the Company, and any shares they may acquire from the Company in the future, to the Employee Shareholders Committee. The current members of the Employee Shareholders Committee are the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer and the President, Investment Franchises.

On February 12, 2018, concurrently with the closing of the IPO, the Company entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) under which the Company received seven-year term loans in an original aggregate principal amount of $360.0 million and established a five-year revolving credit facility (which was unfunded as of closing) with original aggregate commitments of $50.0 million.

Net proceeds received from the IPO and the Credit Agreement together with cash on hand were used to repay all indebtedness outstanding under the credit agreement dated as of October 31, 2014 (as amended) (the “2014 Credit Agreement”) on February 12, 2018.

On May 3, 2018, the Credit Agreement was amended to increase aggregate commitments for the revolving credit facility from $50.0 million to $100.0 million. See Note 7 for more information on the Company’s current debt structure.