UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  September 9, 2016

 

CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

(949) 437-1000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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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Item 1.01                                           Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

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.

 

On September 9, 2016, the Company and Citigroup entered into an Amended and Restated Equity Distribution Agreement (the “Amended Sales Agreement”), which amends, restates and replaces 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 (such shares sold pursuant to the Original Sales Agreement or to be sold pursuant to the Amended Sales Agreement, the “Shares”). As of September 8, 2016, the Company had sold approximately 21.7 million Shares for an aggregate offering price of approximately $71.1 million under the Original Sales Agreement. As a result, as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, Shares having an aggregate offering price of approximately $38.9 million remain available for issuance and sale pursuant to the Amended Sales Agreement

 

Pursuant to the terms of the 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 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 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 Amended Sales Agreement and will reimburse Citigroup for certain customary expenses incurred in connection with its services under the 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 Company’s 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 September 9, 2016. Such prospectus supplement includes the Shares offered pursuant to the Original Sales Agreement and the Company’s related prospectus supplement dated November 11, 2015, and updates and restates in its entirety such November 11, 2015 prospectus supplement. 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 Amended Sales Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the 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 Amended Sales Agreement is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01                                           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)                                 Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
Number		Description
1.1		Amended and Restated Equity Distribution Agreement, dated September 9, 2016, by and between the Company and Citigroup
5.1		Opinion of Morrison & Foerster LLP regarding the legality of the Shares
23.1		Consent of Morrison & Foerster LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

 

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SIGNATURES

 

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

 

Date: September 9, 2016		CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
	By:	/s/ Andrew J. Littlefair
		Name:	Andrew J. Littlefair
		Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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