Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Business Combination Agreement and Plan of Reorganization

On December 29, 2021, Novus Capital Corporation II, a Delaware corporation (the "Company") entered into a subscription agreement (the "Subscription Agreement") with an accredited investor (the "Subscriber"), pursuant to which the Subscriber agreed to purchase, and the Company agreed to sell to the Subscriber, 5,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Additional PIPE Shares"), for a purchase price of $10.00 per share and an aggregate purchase price of $50,000,000 in a private placement. Pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, the Additional PIPE Shares will be sold upon the same terms and conditions as those set forth in those certain Subscription Agreements entered into between the Company and certain other investors on September 8, 2021 in connection with the execution of that certain business combination agreement and plan of reorganization (the "Business Combination Agreement"), on September 8, 2021, by and among the Company, NCCII Merger Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company ("Merger Sub"), and Energy Vault, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Energy Vault"), pursuant to which Energy Vault will be merged with and into Merger Sub (the "Merger," together with the other transactions related thereto, the "Proposed Transactions"), with Energy Vault surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

The closing of the sale of the Additional PIPE Shares pursuant to the Subscription Agreement is contingent upon, among other customary closing conditions, the concurrent consummation of the Proposed Transactions. The purpose of the sale of the Additional PIPE Shares is to raise additional capital for use by the combined company following the closing of the Proposed Transactions.

The foregoing description of the Subscription Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of the Subscription Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 9, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The disclosure set forth above in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein. The securities of the Company that may be issued in connection with the Subscription Agreement will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

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