DIGITAL MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC.
4800 140th Avenue N., Suite 101
Clearwater, Florida 33762
INFORMATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(C)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
This Information Statement has been filed Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and is being furnished pursuant to Section 14C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), to notify our stockholders that on April 28, 2023, stockholders (the “Majority Stockholders”) holding at least a majority of our outstanding voting capital stock, including our Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”), Class B Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Class B Common Stock,” and together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”), Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and Series B Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock,” and together with the Series A Preferred Stock, the “Preferred Stock”), approved by written consent resolutions authorizing (i) the issuance and sale of up to 80,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and 60,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, at a purchase price of $100.00 per share of Preferred Stock, and warrants to purchase 14,444,444 shares of Class A Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.6453 per share (the “Warrants”), pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of March 29, 2023 among the Company and the purchasers party thereto (the “SPA”) and the issuance of Class A Common Stock in connection with the conversion of the shares of Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants, including amounts in excess of the aggregate number of shares of Class A Common Stock permitted under the rules or regulations of the New York Stock Exchange (collectively, the “Issuance”); and (ii) the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) to approve and elect to adopt an amendment (the “Amendment,” and together with the Issuance, the “Actions”) to our restated certificate of incorporation (as amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to effect a reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of our Common Stock at a ratio to be determined by the Board prior to the effective time of the Amendment of not less than 1-for-2 and not more than 1-for-30.
This Information Statement is being furnished to holders of our outstanding Common Stock and Preferred Stock as of the close of business on April 28, 2023 (the “Record Date”), pursuant to Section 228 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) and Article Fourth of our Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”). This Information Statement is first being mailed on or about May 16, 2023 to stockholders of record as of the Record Date.
Vote Required
Approval of the Issuance. Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange, stockholders holding a majority of the outstanding voting power of the Company must approve the Issuance. As of the Record Date, there were (i) 40,037,076 shares of Class A Common Stock, (ii) 25,699,464 shares of Class B Common Stock, (iii) 80,000 shares of Class A Preferred Stock and (iv) 60,000 shares of Class B Preferred Stock. Each share of our outstanding Common Stock was entitled to one vote on the Amendment. Holders of the outstanding shares of Preferred Stock were entitled to an aggregate 24,081,822 votes on the Amendment. Accordingly, as of the Record Date, we had outstanding Common Stock and Preferred Stock representing an aggregate 89,818,362 votes. On April 28, 2023, the Majority Stockholders, representing stockholders holding Common Stock and Preferred Stock representing approximately 70% of the voting power of our outstanding Common Stock and Preferred Stock (or approximately 83% of the voting power of our outstanding Common Stock immediately prior to the issuance of the Preferred Stock), executed the written consent approving the Amendment.
Approval of the Amendment. Under the DGCL, our Certificate of Incorporation and bylaws (the “Bylaws”), approval of stockholders holding a majority of our outstanding Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class,