Form of Subscription Agreement

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EX-10.1 3 d125571dex101.htm EX-10.1 EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

Ermenegildo Zegna Holditalia S.p.A.

Via Roma 99/100

Valdilana (Biella)

Italy

Investindustrial Acquisition Corp.

Suite 1, 3rd Floor, 11-12 St James’s Square

London SW1Y 4LB

United Kingdom

This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into as of the date set forth on the signature page hereto, by and among Investindustrial Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“IIAC”), Ermenegildo Zegna Holditalia S.p.A., a joint stock company incorporated under Italian law (“Company”) and the undersigned (“Subscriber”).

WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement, IIAC and the Company have entered into a Business Combination Agreement (as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Business Combination Agreement”), by and among the Company, IIAC and EZ Cayman, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Company Merger Sub”), pursuant to which, among other things, Company Merger Sub will merge with and into IIAC, with IIAC as the surviving company in the merger and, after giving effect to such merger, IIAC will become a subsidiary of the Company, on the terms and subject to the conditions therein (such transaction and the other transactions consummated pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, the “Transaction”);

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Subscription Agreement, Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Company, simultaneous with the closing of the Transaction, the number of ordinary shares of the Company (the “Common Shares”) set forth on the signature page hereto (such Common Shares, the “Acquired Shares”) for a purchase price of $10.00 per share (the “Share Purchase Price”), or the aggregate purchase price set forth on the signature page hereto (the “Purchase Price”), and the Company desires to issue and sell the Acquired Shares to Subscriber in a private placement in consideration of the payment of the Purchase Price by or on behalf of Subscriber to the Company at or prior to the Closing Date (as defined herein);

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, certain other “accredited investors” (as such term is defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and collectively, such “accredited investors”, the “Other Subscribers” and together with the Subscriber, the “Subscribers”) that may include institutional investors, post-Closing directors of the Company, existing directors of Thom Browne, Inc. and/or their respective affiliates, have entered into subscription agreements with the Company substantially similar to this Subscription Agreement, pursuant to which such Other Subscribers have agreed to subscribe for and purchase, and the Company has agreed to issue and sell to such Other Subscribers, on the Closing Date, Common Shares at the Share Purchase Price (the “Other Subscription Agreements”); and

WHEREAS, the Subscribers have agreed to subscribe for and purchase, and the Company has agreed to issue and sell to such Subscribers, on the Closing Date, an aggregate amount of up to 25,000,000 Common Shares at the Share Purchase Price.

 

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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

1.    Subscription. The Subscriber hereby irrevocably subscribes for and agrees to purchase from the Company such number of Common Shares as is set forth on the signature page of this Subscription Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions provided for herein. The Subscriber understands and agrees that the Company reserves the right to accept or reject the Subscriber’s subscription for the Common Shares for any reason or for no reason, in whole or in part, at any time prior to its acceptance by the Company, and the same shall be deemed to be accepted by the Company only when this Subscription Agreement is signed by a duly authorized person on behalf of the Company; the Company may do so in counterpart form. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary in Section 7 below, in the event that (i) the Company does not accept the subscription or (ii) the Closing Date shall not have occurred by April 18, 2022, this Subscription Agreement shall be void and of no further effect and any monies paid by the Subscriber to the Company in connection herewith shall immediately be returned to the Subscriber. The Subscriber understands that the subscribed Common Shares that will be issued pursuant to this Subscription Agreement will be ordinary shares of the Company, which will be converted to a Dutch public limited liability company (naamloze vennootschap) at or prior to Closing (as defined below).

2.    Closing.

(a)    Subject to the satisfaction or waiver (in writing) of the conditions set forth in Section 2(d), (e) and (f), the closing of the Subscription contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) is contingent upon the substantially concurrent consummation of the Transaction and shall occur on the date of, and substantially concurrently with and conditioned upon the effectiveness of, the Transaction (such date, the “Closing Date”). Not less than five (5) business days prior to the date on which the Company reasonably expects the Closing to occur (the “Scheduled Closing Date”), the Company shall provide written notice (which may be via email) to Subscriber (the “Closing Notice”) of the Scheduled Closing Date, which Closing Notice shall contain the Company’s wire instructions for an escrow account established by the Company to the purpose of collecting funds in advance of the Closing.

(b)    At least three (3) business days prior to the Scheduled Closing Date, Subscriber shall deliver to the escrow account referenced above the Purchase Price for the Acquired Shares subscribed by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds. Upon the Closing, the Company shall provide instructions to the escrow agent for the escrow account to release the funds in the escrow account to the Company against delivery to Subscriber of the Acquired Shares, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions whatsoever (other than those arising under state or federal securities laws), in book-entry form. If this Subscription Agreement is terminated prior to the Closing or the Closing does not occur within ten (10) business days following the Scheduled Closing Date and any funds have already been sent by Subscriber to the escrow account, then promptly (but in no event longer than one (1) business days thereafter) after such termination or failure of closing, the Company will instruct the escrow agent to promptly (but in no event longer than one (1) business days thereafter) return such funds to Subscriber. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “business day” shall mean a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by law to close.

(c)    On the Closing Date, subject to the satisfaction or waiver (in writing) of the conditions set forth in Section 2(d), (e) and (f) (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at or prior to Closing, but without affecting the requirement that such conditions be satisfied or waived at or prior to Closing), assuming that Subscriber shall have delivered to the Company on the Closing Date the Purchase Price for the Acquired Shares by wire transfer of U.S. dollars in immediately available funds to the escrow account specified by the Company in the Closing Notice, the Company shall deliver to Subscriber the Acquired Shares in book-entry form, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions whatsoever (other than those arising under state or federal securities laws), in the name of Subscriber (or its nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions) or to a

 

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custodian designated by Subscriber, as applicable. Each book entry for the Acquired Shares shall contain a notation, and each certificate (if any) evidencing the Acquired Shares shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend, in substantially the following form:

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM.

(d)    The Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction on the Closing Date, or the waiver (in writing) by each of the parties hereto, of each of the following conditions:

(i)    no applicable governmental authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any judgment, order, law, rule or regulation (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is then in effect and has the effect of making the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby illegal or otherwise restraining or prohibiting consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; and

(ii)    (A) all conditions precedent to the closing of the Transaction contained in the Business Combination Agreement shall have been satisfied (as determined by the parties to the Business Combination Agreement and other than those conditions under the Business Combination Agreement which, by their nature, are to be fulfilled at the closing of the Transaction, including to the extent that any such condition is dependent upon the consummation of the purchase and sale of the Acquired Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement) or waived according to the terms of the Business Combination Agreement and (B) the closing of the Transaction shall be scheduled to occur concurrently with or on the same date as the Closing.

(e)    The obligation of the Company to consummate the issuance and sale of the Acquired Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement shall be subject to the conditions that (i) all representations and warranties of the Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement are true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality, which representations and warranties shall be true in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date, and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by the Subscriber of each of the representations and warranties of the Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date; and (ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Subscriber required to be performed by it at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed in all material respects.

(f)    The obligation of the Subscriber to consummate the purchase of the Acquired Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement shall be subject to the conditions that (i) all representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined herein), which representations and warranties shall be true in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date, and consummation of the Closing shall constitute a reaffirmation by the Company of each of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement as of the Closing Date and (ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required by the Subscription Agreement to be performed by it at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed in all material respects.

3.    Company Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to the Subscriber that:

(a)    The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation under the laws of Italy (and will be converted to a Dutch public limited liability company (naamloze vennootschap) prior to Closing), in good standing under its jurisdiction of incorporation (to the extent such concept exists in such jurisdiction), with corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as presently conducted and to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

 

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(b)    As of the Closing Date, the Acquired Shares will be duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to Subscriber against full payment for the Acquired Shares in accordance with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, the Acquired Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any statutory or contractual preemptive or similar rights.

(c)    This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming that this Subscription Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of Subscriber, this Subscription Agreement is enforceable against the Company in accordance with its respective terms, except as may be limited or otherwise affected by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, or (ii) principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

(d)    The issuance and sale of the Acquired Shares and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, which would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition, shareholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Company Material Adverse Effect”) or materially affect the validity of the Acquired Shares or the legal authority of the Company to timely comply in all material respects with the terms of this Subscription Agreement; (ii) result in a violation of the provisions of the organizational documents of the Company; or (iii) result in any violation of any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect or materially affect the validity of the Acquired Shares or the legal authority of the Company to comply in all material respects with this Subscription Agreement.

(e)    The Company is not in default or violation of any term, condition or provision of (i) the organizational documents of the Company, (ii) any loan or credit agreement, note, bond, mortgage, indenture, lease or other agreement, permit, franchise or license to which the Company is now a party or by which the Company’s properties or assets are bound or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), for defaults or violations that have not had and would not be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect.

(f)    Assuming the accuracy of Subscriber’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 5, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Acquired Shares by the Company to Subscriber hereunder. The Acquired Shares (i) were not offered by any form of general solicitation or general advertising and (ii) are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act, or any state securities laws.

(g)    As of the date hereof, the authorized share capital of the Company consists of 4,300,000 number of Common Shares, of which 4,049,449 are issued and outstanding.

4.    IIAC Representations and Warranties. IIAC represents and warrants to the Subscriber that:

(a)    IIAC has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as an exempted company under the laws of the Cayman Islands, in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands (to the extent such concept exists in such jurisdiction), with corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as presently conducted and to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

 

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(b)    This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by IIAC and is enforceable against IIAC in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited or otherwise affected by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, or (ii) principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

(c)    As of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of IIAC consists of (i) 500,000,000 of IIAC’s Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Shares”), (ii) 50,000,000 of IIAC’s Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Shares”), and (iii) 5,000,000 of IIAC’s preference shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Preference Shares”). As of the date hereof: (i) 40,250,000 Class A Shares are issued and outstanding, (ii) 10,062,500 Class B Shares are issued and outstanding, (iii) no Preference Shares are issued and outstanding, and (iv) 20,116,667 warrants, each entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A Share at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, are issued and outstanding. As of the date hereof and as of the Closing, IIAC had and will have no outstanding long-term indebtedness (other than deferred underwriting fees and expenses deferred from its initial public offering).

(d)    A copy of each form, report, statement, schedule, prospectus, proxy, registration statement and other document filed by IIAC on or prior to the Closing Date (the “IIAC SEC Documents”) is available to Subscriber (including via the SEC’s EDGAR system). As of their respective filing dates, to the best of IIAC’s knowledge, all IIAC SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act applicable to the IIAC SEC Documents and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the IIAC SEC Documents. None of the IIAC SEC Documents filed under the Exchange Act (except to the extent that information contained in any IIAC SEC Document has been superseded by a later timely filed IIAC SEC Document) contained, when filed or, if amended, as of the date of such amendment with respect to those disclosures that are amended, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. There are no material outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters from the staff of the SEC with respect to any of the IIAC SEC Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, any restatement of the financial statements of IIAC and any amendments to previously filed IIAC SEC Documents or delays in filing IIAC SEC Documents, in connection with any guidance from the SEC following the date of this Agreement, shall not be deemed to constitute a breach of this Section 4(d). Additionally, for avoidance of doubt, any amendment or modification of any IIAC SEC Document (or any agreement filed as an exhibit to any IIAC SEC Document) from its initial filing date in a subsequent filing shall not be deemed to constitute a breach of this Section 4(d).

5.    Subscriber Representations and Warranties. Subscriber represents and warrants to the Company and IIAC that:

(a)    Subscriber has been duly formed or incorporated and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, with the requisite entity power and authority to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

(b)    This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Subscriber. This Subscription Agreement is enforceable against Subscriber in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited or otherwise affected by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, or (ii) principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

(c)    Subscriber (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3), (7), (8), (9), (12) or (13) of Regulation D under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Schedule A, (ii) is acquiring the Acquired Shares only for his, her or its own account and not for the account of others, or if Subscriber is subscribing for the Acquired Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor

 

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accounts, each owner of such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” or “accredited investor” (each as defined above) and Subscriber has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account and (iii) is not acquiring the Acquired Shares with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act. Subscriber has completed Schedule A following the signature page hereto and the information contained therein is accurate and complete. Subscriber is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Acquired Shares and is an “institutional account” as defined by FINRA Rule 4512(c).

(d)    Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Acquired Shares are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the Acquired Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act. The Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Acquired Shares may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by Subscriber absent an effective registration statement under the Securities Act except (i) to Company or a subsidiary thereof, (ii) to non-U.S. persons pursuant to offers and sales that occur outside the United States within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act or (iii) pursuant to another applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and in each of clauses (ii) and (iii) in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the states and other jurisdictions of the United States, and that any certificates representing the Acquired Shares shall contain a restrictive legend to such effect. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Acquired Shares will be subject to transfer restrictions and, as a result of these transfer restrictions, Subscriber may not be able to readily offer, resell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Acquired Shares and may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the Acquired Shares for an indefinite period of time. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Acquired Shares will not be eligible for offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) until at least one year from the Closing Date. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that it has been advised to consult legal counsel and tax and accounting advisors prior to making any offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition of any of the Acquired Shares.

(e)    Subscriber understands and agrees that Subscriber is purchasing the Acquired Shares directly from the Company. Subscriber further acknowledges that there have been no representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made to Subscriber by or on behalf of the Company, IIAC or any of their respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing or any other person or entity, expressly or by implication, other than those representations, warranties, covenants and agreements included in this Subscription Agreement.

(f)    Subscriber’s acquisition and holding of the Acquired Shares will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any applicable similar law.

(g)    In making its decision to subscribe for and purchase the Acquired Shares, Subscriber represents that it has relied solely upon its own independent analysis and investigation. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Subscriber has not relied on any statements, representations, warranty or other information provided by IIAC, or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities PLC and/or UBS Securities LLC (collectively, the “Placement Agents”) or any of their affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing concerning the Company or the Acquired Shares or the offer and sale of the Acquired Shares. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Subscriber has received such information as Subscriber deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the Acquired Shares, including with respect to the Company and the Transaction. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Subscriber acknowledges that he, she or it has reviewed IIAC’s filings with the SEC. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, have had the full opportunity to ask such questions, receive such answers and obtain such information as Subscriber and such Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the Acquired Shares, including but not limited to access

 

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to marketing materials and a virtual data room containing information about the Company and its financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient, in the Subscriber’s judgment, to enable the Subscriber to evaluate its investment. Subscriber acknowledges that certain information provided by the Company was based on projections, and such projections were prepared based on assumptions and estimates that are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the projections. Subscriber further acknowledges that he, she or it has reviewed all disclosure documents provided to such Subscriber in the offering of the Acquired Shares and no statement or printed material which is contrary to such disclosure documents has been made or given to the Subscriber by or on behalf of the Company or IIAC.

(h)    Subscriber became aware of this offering of the Acquired Shares solely by means of direct contact between Subscriber and the Company, IIAC, the Placement Agents or a representative of the Company, IIAC or the Placement Agents, and the Acquired Shares were offered to Subscriber solely by direct contact between Subscriber and the Company or the Placement Agents. Subscriber did not become aware of this offering of the Acquired Shares, nor were the Acquired Shares offered to Subscriber, by any other means and none of the Company, the Placement Agents, IIAC or their respective representatives or any person acting on behalf of any of them acted as investment advisor, broker or dealer to Subscriber. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company represents and warrants that the Acquired Shares (i) were not offered by any form of general solicitation or general advertising and (ii) are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act, or any state securities laws.

(i)    Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the purchase and ownership of the Acquired Shares, including but not limited to those set forth in the Company’s and IIAC’s filings with the SEC. Subscriber has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Acquired Shares, and Subscriber has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice as Subscriber has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. Subscriber has made its own assessment and has satisfied itself concerning relevant tax and other economic considerations relative to its purchase of the Acquired Shares. Subscriber will not look to the Placement Agents or any of their affiliates or representatives for all or part of any such loss or losses Subscriber may suffer and is able to sustain a complete loss on its investment in the Acquired Shares.

(j)    Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that neither the Placement Agents nor any affiliate or representative of the Placement Agents has provided Subscriber with any information or advice with respect to the Acquired Shares nor is such information or advice necessary or desired. Subscriber acknowledges that the Placement Agents and their affiliates and representatives (i) have not made any representation as to the Company or the quality of the Acquired Shares, (ii) may have acquired non-public information with respect to the Company which Subscriber agrees need not be provided to it, (iii) have made no independent investigation with respect to the Company or the Acquired Shares or the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of any information supplied to Subscriber by the Company, (iv) have not acted as Subscriber’s financial advisor or fiduciary in connection with the issue and purchase of the Acquired Shares and (v) have not prepared a disclosure or offering document in connection with the offer and sale of the Acquired Shares. Subscriber further acknowledges that the Placement Agents may have existing or future business relationships with IIAC and the Company, including, but not limited to, acting as financial advisors for the Transaction.

(k)    Alone, or together with any professional advisor(s), Subscriber represents and acknowledges that Subscriber has adequately analyzed and fully considered the risks of an investment in the Acquired Shares and determined that the Acquired Shares are a suitable investment for Subscriber and that Subscriber is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of Subscriber’s investment in the Company. Subscriber acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

(l)    Subscriber understands and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Acquired Shares or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of an investment in the Acquired Shares.

 

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(m)    Subscriber is not (i) a person or entity named on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, the Executive Order 13599 List, the Foreign Sanctions Evaders List, or the Sectoral Sanctions Identification List, each of which is administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) (collectively “OFAC Lists”), (ii) owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person, that is named on an OFAC List, (iii) organized, incorporated, established, located, resident or born in, or a citizen, national, or the government, including any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, of, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, or any other country or territory embargoed or subject to substantial trade restrictions by the United States, (iv) a Designated National as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515 or (v) a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services indirectly to a non-U.S. shell bank (each, a “Prohibited Investor”). Subscriber represents that if it is a financial institution subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. section 5311 et seq.) (the “BSA”), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “PATRIOT Act”), and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “BSA/PATRIOT Act”), that Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with applicable obligations under the BSA/PATRIOT Act. Subscriber also represents that, to the extent required, it maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance with OFAC-administered sanctions programs, including for the screening of its investors against the OFAC Lists. Subscriber further represents and warrants that, to the extent required, it maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that the funds held by Subscriber and used to purchase the Acquired Shares were legally derived and were not obtained, directly or indirectly, from a Prohibited Investor.

(n)    Subscriber has or has commitments to have and, when required to deliver payment to the Company pursuant to Section 2 above, will have sufficient funds to pay the Purchase Price and consummate the purchase and sale of the Acquired Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement.

(o)    Subscriber understands that Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC will receive deferred underwriting commissions as disclosed in IIAC’s prospectus, dated November 18, 2020, upon consummation of the Transaction.

(p)    As of the date hereof, Subscriber does not have, and during the thirty (30) day period immediately prior to the date hereof Subscriber has not entered into, any “put equivalent position” as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act or short sale positions with respect to the securities of the Company.

(q)    Subscriber is not currently (and at all times through Closing will refrain from being or becoming) a member of a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision) acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of equity securities of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act).

6.    Registration Rights.

(a)    In the event that the Acquired Shares are not registered in connection with the consummation of the Transaction, the Company agrees that, as soon as practicable (but in any case no later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the consummation of the Transaction) (the “Filing Deadline”), it will file with the SEC (at its sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale of the Acquired Shares (the “Registration Statement”), and it shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earlier of (i) ninety (90) calendar days after the filing thereof (or one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after the filing thereof if the SEC notifies the Company that it will “review” the Registration Statement) and (ii) ten (10) business days after the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the SEC that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (the “Effectiveness Deadline”). In connection with the foregoing, the Subscriber shall not be required to execute any lock-up or similar agreement or otherwise be subject to any contractual restriction on the ability to transfer the Acquired Shares.

(b)    The Company agrees to cause such Registration Statement, or another shelf registration statement that includes the Acquired Shares to be sold pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, to remain effective until

 

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the earliest of (i) the third anniversary of the Closing, (ii) the date on which Subscriber ceases to hold any Acquired Shares issued pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, or (iii) on the first date on which Subscriber is able to sell all of its Acquired Shares issued pursuant to this Subscription Agreement (or shares received in exchange therefor) under Rule 144 within 90 days without the public information, volume or manner of sale limitations of such rule (such date, the “End Date”). Prior to the End Date, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to qualify the Acquired Shares for listing on the applicable stock exchange. Subscriber agrees to disclose its ownership to the Company upon request to assist it in making the determination with respect to Rule 144 described in clause (iii) above. The Company may amend the Registration Statement so as to convert the Registration Statement to a Registration Statement on Form F-3 at such time after the Company becomes eligible to use such Form F-3.

(c)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Subscription Agreement, Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Company may suspend the use of any such Registration Statement if it determines that in order for such Registration Statement not to contain a material misstatement or omission, an amendment thereto would be needed to include information that would at that time not otherwise be required in a current or annual report under the Exchange Act; and (ii) the Company shall be entitled to delay or postpone the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and from time to time to require any Subscriber not to sell under the Registration Statement or to suspend the effectiveness thereof, (A) if any information (e.g., compensation data) is not readily available and the non-disclosure of which in the Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, upon the advice of legal counsel, to cause the Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements, (B) at any time the Company is required to file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement and the SEC has not declared such amendment effective or (C) if the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by the Company or its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event, the Company’s board of directors reasonably believes, upon the advice of legal counsel, would require additional disclosure by the Company in the Registration Statement of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, upon the advice of legal counsel, to cause the Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”) provided, that (I) the Company shall not so delay filing or so suspend the use of the Registration Statement for a period of more than ninety (90) consecutive days or more than a total of one hundred-twenty (120) calendar days in any three hundred sixty (360)-day period, (II) in case of clause (i) above, the Company shall have a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public and (III) the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make such Registration Statement available for the sale by Subscriber of such securities as soon as practicable thereafter.

(d)    The Company’s obligations to include the Acquired Shares issued pursuant to this Subscription Agreement (or shares issued in exchange therefor) for resale in the Registration Statement are contingent upon Subscriber furnishing in writing to the Company such information regarding Subscriber, the securities of the Company held by Subscriber and the intended method of disposition of such Acquired Shares, which shall be limited to non-underwritten public offerings, as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of such Acquired Shares, and shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling shareholder in similar situations; provided, however, that Subscriber shall not in connection with the foregoing be required to execute any lock-up or similar agreement or otherwise be subject to any contractual restriction on the ability to transfer the Acquired Shares.

7.    Termination. This Subscription Agreement shall terminate and be void and of no further force and effect, and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall terminate without any further liability on the part of any party in respect thereof, upon the earlier to occur of (a) such date and time as the Business Combination Agreement is terminated in accordance with the terms therein, (b) upon the mutual written agreement of each of the parties hereto to terminate this Subscription Agreement, (c) April 18, 2022 if the Closing has not occurred by such date other than as a result of a breach of Subscriber’s obligations hereunder, or

 

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(d) if any of the conditions to Closing set forth in Section 2 of this Subscription Agreement are (i) not satisfied or waived prior to the Closing or (ii) not capable of being satisfied on the Closing and, in each case of (i) and (ii), as a result thereof, the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement will not be and are not consummated at the Closing (the termination events described in clauses (a) – (d) above, collectively, the Termination Events”); provided that nothing herein will relieve any party from liability for any willful breach hereof prior to the time of termination, and each party will be entitled to any remedies at law or in equity to recover losses, liabilities or damages arising from any such willful breach. The Company shall notify Subscriber in writing of the termination of the Business Combination Agreement promptly after the termination of such agreement. Upon the occurrence of any Termination Event, this Subscription Agreement shall be void and of no further effect and any monies paid by Subscriber to the Company in connection herewith shall promptly (and in any event within one (1) business day) following the Termination Event be returned to Subscriber.

8.    Trust Account Waiver. Subscriber acknowledges that IIAC is a blank check company with the powers and privileges to effect a merger, asset acquisition, reorganization or similar business combination involving the Company and one or more businesses or assets. Subscriber further acknowledges that, as described in IIAC’s prospectus relating to its initial public offering dated November 18, 2020 (the Prospectus”), available at www.sec.gov, substantially all of IIAC’s assets consist of the cash proceeds of IIAC’s initial public offering and a private placement of its securities, and substantially all of those proceeds have been deposited in a trust account (the “Trust Account”) for the benefit of IIAC, its public shareholders and the underwriters of IIAC’s initial public offering. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to IIAC to pay its tax obligations, if any, the cash in the Trust Account may be disbursed only for the purposes set forth in the Prospectus. For and in consideration of IIAC entering into this Subscription Agreement, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Subscriber, on behalf of itself and its representatives, hereby irrevocable waives any and all right, title and interest, or any claim of any kind they have or may have in the future arising out of this Subscription Agreement, in or to any monies held in the Trust Account, and agrees not to seek recourse against the Trust Account as a result of, or arising out of, this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 8 shall be deemed to limit any Subscriber’s right, title, interest or claim to the Trust Account by virtue of such Subscriber’s record or beneficial ownership of securities of IIAC acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, including but not limited to any redemption right with respect to any such securities of the Company.

9.    Miscellaneous.

(a)    Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to the parties hereunder (other than the Acquired Shares hereunder, if any) may be transferred or assigned without the prior written consent of each of the other parties hereto; provided that (i) this Subscription Agreement and any of Subscriber’s rights and obligations hereunder may be assigned to any fund or account managed by the same investment manager as Subscriber or by an affiliate (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act) of such investment manager without the prior consent of the Company and IIAC and (ii) Subscriber’s rights under Section 6 may be assigned to an assignee or transferee of the Acquired Shares; provided further that prior to such assignment any such assignee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms hereof; provided, that no assignment pursuant to clause (i) of this Section 9 shall relieve Subscriber of its obligations hereunder.

(b)    Subscriber acknowledges that the Company, IIAC, the Placement Agents (with the Placement Agents separately as express third-party beneficiaries to this Subscription Agreement, with a right to enforce Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, Section 9, Section 10 and Section 12) and others will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties contained in this Subscription Agreement, including Schedule A hereto. Prior to the Closing, Subscriber agrees to promptly notify the Company, IIAC and the Placement Agents in writing (including, for the avoidance of doubt, by email) if any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties made by Subscriber as set forth herein are no longer accurate in any material respect (other than those acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties qualified by materiality, in which case Subscriber shall notify the

 

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Company, IIAC and the Placement Agents if they are no longer accurate in any respect). Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that each purchase by Subscriber of Acquired Shares from the Company will constitute a reaffirmation of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties herein (as modified by any such notice) by Subscriber as of the time of such purchase.

(c)    The Company, IIAC and the Placement Agents (each as a third-party beneficiary with a right of enforcement) are each entitled to rely upon this Subscription Agreement and each is irrevocably authorized to produce this Subscription Agreement or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby; provided, however, that the foregoing clause of this Section 9(c) shall not give the Company or the Placement Agents any rights other than those expressly set forth herein and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing and for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Company be entitled to rely on any of the representations and warranties of IIAC set forth in this Subscription Agreement.

(d)    All the agreements, representations and warranties made by each party hereto in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing until the expiration of any statute of limitations under applicable law.

(e)    The Company and IIAC may request from Subscriber such additional information as the Company and IIAC may reasonably deem necessary to register the resale of the Acquired Shares and evaluate the eligibility of Subscriber to acquire the Acquired Shares, and Subscriber shall provide such information as may be reasonably requested, to the extent readily available and to the extent consistent with its internal policies and procedures; provided, that the Company and IIAC agree to keep any such information provided by Subscriber confidential except (i) as necessary to include in any registration statement the Company is required to file hereunder, (ii) as required by the federal securities law or pursuant to other routine proceedings of regulatory authorities or (iii) to the extent such disclosure is required by law, at the request of the staff of the SEC or regulatory agency or under the regulations of any national securities exchange on which the Company’s securities are listed for trading. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that if it does not provide the Company with such requested information, the Company may not be able to register Subscriber’s Acquired Shares for resale pursuant to Section 6 hereof. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company and IIAC may file a copy of this Subscription Agreement (or a form of this Subscription Agreement) with the SEC as an exhibit to a periodic report or a registration statement of the Company or IIAC.

(f)    This Subscription Agreement may not be modified, waived or terminated (other than pursuant to the terms of Section 7 above) except by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties hereto, provided, however, that no modification or waiver by the Company or IIAC of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall be effective without the prior written consent of the Company and IIAC (other than modifications or waivers that are solely ministerial in nature or otherwise immaterial and do not affect any economic or any other material term of this Subscription Agreement). No failure or delay of any party in exercising any right or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such right or power, or any course of conduct, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the parties and third-party beneficiaries hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have hereunder.

(g)    This Subscription Agreement (including the schedule hereto) constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

(h)    Except as otherwise provided herein, this Subscription Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns, and the agreements, representations, warranties, covenants and acknowledgments contained herein shall be deemed to be made by, and be binding upon, such heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives and permitted assigns.

 

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(i)    If any provision of this Subscription Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall continue in full force and effect.

(j)    This Subscription Agreement may be executed and delivered in one (1) or more counterparts (including by electronic means, such as facsimile, in .pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000) and by different parties in separate counterparts, with the same effect as if all parties hereto had signed the same document. All counterparts so executed and delivered shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.

(k)    Each party shall pay all of its own expenses in connection with this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein.

(l)    At any time, the Company or IIAC may (a) extend the time for the performance of any obligation or other act of Subscriber, (b) waive any inaccuracy in the representations and warranties of Subscriber contained herein or in any document delivered by Subscriber pursuant hereto and (c) waive compliance with any agreement of Subscriber or any condition to its own obligations contained herein. At any time, Subscriber may (a) extend the time for the performance of any obligation or other act of the Company or IIAC, (b) waive any inaccuracy in the representations and warranties of the Company or IIAC contained herein or in any document delivered by the Company or IIAC pursuant hereto and (c) waive compliance with any agreement of the Company or IIAC or any condition to its own obligations contained herein. Any such extension or waiver shall only be valid if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by the party or parties to be bound thereby.

(m)    Notices. Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and either delivered personally, emailed or telecopied, sent by overnight mail via a reputable overnight carrier, or sent by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, and shall be deemed to be given and received (a) when so delivered personally, (b) upon receipt of an appropriate electronic answerback or confirmation when so delivered by telecopy (to such number specified below or another number or numbers as such person may subsequently designate by notice given hereunder), (c) when sent, with no mail undeliverable or other rejection notice, if sent by email, or (d) three (3) business days after the date of mailing to the address below or to such other address or addresses as such person may hereafter designate by notice given hereunder:

(i)    if to Subscriber, to such address or addresses set forth on the signature page hereto;

(ii)    if to IIAC, to:

Investindustrial Acquisition Corp.

Suite 1, 3rd Floor, 11-12 St James’s Square

London SW1Y 4LB

United Kingdom

Attn: Roberto Ardagna

Chief Executive Officer

Email: ***@***

with a required copy to (which copy shall not constitute notice):

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Attn:     Christian O. Nagler

    Wayne Williams

Email:    ***@***

     ***@***

 

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and

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

30 St Mary Axe

London EC3A 8AF

United Kingdom

Attention: Cedric Van den Borren

Email:        ***@***

(iii)    if to the Company, to

Ermenegildo Zegna Holditalia S.p.A

Via Roma 99/100

Valdilana (Biella)

Italy

Attn: Gianluca Ambrogio Tagliabue

Email: ***@***

with a required copy to (which copy shall not constitute notice):

Sullivan & Cromwell

125 Broad Street

New York, NY 10004

Attn: Scott D. Miller

Email: ***@***

(n)    This Subscription Agreement, and any claim or cause of action hereunder based upon, arising out of or related to this Subscription Agreement (whether based on law, in equity, in contract, in tort or any other theory) or the negotiation, execution, performance or enforcement of this Subscription Agreement, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law thereof.

THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE FEDERAL COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LOCATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK SOLELY IN RESPECT OF THE INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND THE DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND IN RESPECT OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, AND HEREBY WAIVE, AND AGREE NOT TO ASSERT, AS A DEFENSE IN ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING FOR INTERPRETATION OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF OR ANY SUCH DOCUMENT THAT IS NOT SUBJECT THERETO OR THAT SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING MAY NOT BE BROUGHT OR IS NOT MAINTAINABLE IN SAID COURTS OR THAT VENUE THEREOF MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE OR THAT THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR ANY SUCH DOCUMENT MAY NOT BE ENFORCED IN OR BY SUCH COURTS, AND THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE HEARD AND DETERMINED BY SUCH A NEW YORK STATE OR FEDERAL COURT. THE PARTIES HEREBY CONSENT TO AND GRANT ANY SUCH COURT JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSON OF SUCH PARTIES AND OVER THE SUBJECT MATTER OF SUCH DISPUTE AND AGREE THAT MAILING OF PROCESS OR OTHER PAPERS IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING IN THE MANNER PROVIDED IN SECTION 9(m) OR IN SUCH OTHER MANNER AS MAY BE PERMITTED BY LAW SHALL BE VALID AND SUFFICIENT SERVICE THEREOF.

EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IS

 

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LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER; (II) SUCH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FOREGOING WAIVER; (III) SUCH PARTY MAKES THE FOREGOING WAIVER VOLUNTARILY AND (IV) SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVER AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 9(n).

10.    Non-Reliance and Exculpation. Subscriber acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, the Placement Agents, any of their respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing), other than the statements, representations and warranties of the Company and IIAC expressly contained in Section 3 and Section 4, respectively of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that none of (i) any Other Subscriber pursuant to this Subscription Agreement or any Other Subscription Agreement related to the private placement of the Acquired Shares (including such Other Subscriber’s respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing) or (ii) the Placement Agents, their respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing, shall have any liability to Subscriber, or to any Other Subscriber, pursuant to, arising out of or relating to this Subscription Agreement or any Other Subscription Agreement related to the private placement of the Acquired Shares, the negotiation hereof or thereof or its subject matter, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, including, without limitation, with respect to any action heretofore or hereafter taken or omitted to be taken by any of them in connection with the purchase of the Acquired Shares or with respect to any claim (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) for breach of this Subscription Agreement or in respect of any written or oral representations made or alleged to be made in connection herewith, as expressly provided herein, or for any actual or alleged inaccuracies, misstatements or omissions with respect to any information or materials of any kind furnished by the Company, IIAC, the Placement Agents or any Non-Party Affiliate concerning the Company, IIAC, the Placement Agents, any of their controlled affiliates, this Subscription Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “Non-Party Affiliates” means each former, current or future officer, director, employee, partner, member, manager, direct or indirect equityholder or affiliate of the Company, IIAC, any Placement Agent or any of the Company’s, IIAC’s or any Placement Agent’s controlled affiliates or any family member of the foregoing.

11.     No Hedging. The Subscriber agrees that, from the date of this Subscription Agreement, none of the Subscriber or any person or entity acting on behalf of the Subscriber or pursuant to any understanding with the Subscriber will engage in any hedging or other transactions or arrangements (including, without limitation, any short sale or the purchase or sale of, or entry into, any put or call option, or combination thereof, forward, swap or any other derivative transaction or similar instrument, including without limitation equity repurchase agreements and securities lending arrangements, however described or defined) designed or intended, or which could reasonably be expected to lead to or result in, a sale, loan, pledge or other disposition or transfer (whether by the Subscriber or any other person) of any economic consequences of ownership (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any consequences resulting solely from foreign exchange fluctuations), in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, physically or synthetically, of any Acquired Shares, any securities of IIAC or any instrument exchangeable for or convertible into any securities of the Company prior to the Closing, whether any such transaction or arrangement (or instrument provided for thereunder) would be settled by delivery of securities of the Company, in cash or otherwise, or to publicly disclose the intention to undertake any of the foregoing;

 

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provided, however, that the provisions of this Section 11 shall not apply to long sales (including sales of securities held by the Subscriber prior to the date of this Subscription Agreement and securities purchased by the Subscriber in the open market after the date of this Subscription Agreement) other than those effectuated through derivative transactions and similar instruments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 11 (i) shall prohibit any entities under common management with the Subscriber that have no knowledge (constructive or otherwise) of this Subscription Agreement or of Subscriber’s participation in the transactions contemplated hereby from entering into any such transactions; and (ii) in the case of a Subscriber that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Subscriber’s assets and the portfolio managers have no knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Subscriber’s assets, this Section 11 shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Acquired Shares hereunder.

12.    Disclosure. IIAC shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first (1st) business day immediately following the date of this Subscription Agreement, issue one or more press releases or file with the SEC a Current Report on Form 8-K (collectively, the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing all material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Other Subscription Agreements, the Transaction and any other material, nonpublic information that IIAC has provided to Subscriber at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document. Upon the issuance of the Disclosure Document, to the reasonable knowledge of IIAC, Subscriber shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information received from IIAC or any of its officers, directors, or employees or agents, and Subscriber shall no longer be subject to any confidentiality or similar obligations under any current agreement, whether written or oral, with IIAC or any of its affiliates, relating to the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this Subscription Agreement to the contrary, IIAC shall not publicly disclose the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers, or include the name of Subscriber or any of its affiliates or advisers in any press release or in any filing with the SEC or any regulatory agency or trading market, without the prior written consent of Subscriber, except (i) as required by the federal securities law or pursuant to other routine proceedings of regulatory authorities, (ii) to the extent such disclosure is required by law, at the request of the staff of the SEC or regulatory agency or under the regulations of any national securities exchange on which IIAC’s securities are listed for trading or (iii) to the extent such announcements or other communications contain only information previously disclosed in a public statement, press release or other communication previously approved in accordance with this Section 12.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Subscriber has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date set forth below.

 

Name of Subscriber:     State/Country of Formation or Domicile:
By:                                                                                                          
Name:                                                                                                    
Title:                                                                                                       
Name in which Acquired Shares are to be registered (if different):     Date:                     , 2021
Subscriber’s EIN:    
Business Address-Street:     Mailing Address-Street (if different):
City, State, Zip:     City, State, Zip:
Attn:                                                                                                      Attn:                                                                                                   
Telephone No.:     Telephone No.:
Facsimile No.:     Facsimile No.:
Number of Shares subscribed for:     Price Per Share: $10.00
Purchase Price: $    

You must pay the Purchase Price by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company in the Closing Notice.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Company and IIAC has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date set forth below.

 

ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA HOLDITALIA

S.p.A.

By:                                                                                                     
Name: Ermenegildo Zegna Di Monte Rubello
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

Date:                     , 2021

 

INVESTINDUSTRIAL ACQUISITION CORP.
By:                                                                                                     
Name: Roberto Ardagna
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

Date:                     , 2021

 

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SCHEDULE A

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBSCRIBER

This Schedule must be completed by Subscriber and forms a part of the Subscription Agreement to which it is attached. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Schedule have the meanings given to them in the Subscription Agreement. Subscriber must check the applicable box in either Part A or Part B, and Part C below.

 

A.

QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS

 

 

(Please check the applicable subparagraphs):

 

 

We are a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a “QIB”)).

** OR **

 

B.

INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS

 

 

(Please check the applicable subparagraphs):

 

  1.    ☐

We are an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act), and have marked and initialed the appropriate box on the following page indicating the provision under which we qualify as an “accredited investor.”

 

  2.    ☐

We are not a natural person.

** AND **

 

C.

AFFILIATE STATUS

(Please check the applicable box) SUBSCRIBER:

 

 

is:

 

 

is not:

an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company or acting on behalf of an affiliate of the Company.

 

This page should be completed by Subscriber

and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.


Rule 501(a), under the Securities Act, in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. Subscriber has indicated, by marking and initialing the appropriate box below, the provision(s) below which apply to Subscriber and under which Subscriber accordingly qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

Any bank, registered broker or dealer, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, or small business investment company;

 

Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

Any employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, if a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

Any organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, corporation, similar business trust, or partnership, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

Any director, executive officer, or general partner of the issuer of the securities being offered or sold, or any director, executive officer, or general partner of a general partner of that issuer;

 

Any natural person whose individual net worth, or joint net worth with that person’s spouse, exceeds $1,000,000. For purposes of calculating a natural person’s net worth: (a) the person’s primary residence shall not be included as an asset; (b) indebtedness that is secured by the person’s primary residence, up to the estimated fair market value of the primary residence at the time of the sale of securities, shall not be included as a liability (except that if the amount of such indebtedness outstanding at the time of sale of securities exceeds the amount outstanding sixty (60) days before such time, other than as a result of the acquisition of the primary residence, the amount of such excess shall be included as a liability); and (c) indebtedness that is secured by the person’s primary residence in excess of the estimated fair market value of the primary residence at the time of the sale of securities shall be included as a liability;

 

Any natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with that person’s spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years and has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year;

 

Any natural person holding in good standing one or more professional certifications or designations or credentials from an accredited educational institution that the SEC has designated as qualifying an individual for accredited investor status, such as a General Securities Representative license (Series 7), a Private Securities Offerings Representative license (Series 82) and an Investment Adviser Representative license (Series 65);

 

Any trust with assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed to acquire the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person; or

 

Any entity in which all of the equity owners are accredited investors meeting one or more of the above tests.

 

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