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Boardroom battle could wreck Uber's bid to land another round of funding

Updated: 2017-08-18 10:04
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A driver uses Uber's ride-hailing service app on a smartphone in Singapore. BLOOMBERG

Uber Technologies Inc is in exclusive talks to line up funding from four major investors.

But a deal, which could involve as much as $12 billion, hangs on the outcome of a courtroom brawl between two board members.

Funding would come from Japan's SoftBank Group Corp and Chinese ride-hailing juggernaut Didi Chuxing, along with the United States-based equity firms Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic, according to people familiar with the matter.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is advising Uber on the potential transaction. China's Tencent Holdings Ltd has also explored contributing funds to this latest investment round.

It is expected to raise $1 billion to $1.5 billion for Uber, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

A second component of the deal would allow a swath of shareholders to cash out at a lower price than the current valuation.

Investors could spend $2 billion to $10 billion buying out shareholders' stock, a wide range that depends on demand from sellers, said one source.

Uber, SoftBank, Didi, General Atlantic and Goldman Sachs declined to comment. Dragoneer and Tencent did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Bloomberg first reported SoftBank's intentions to buy Uber shares last month, and the New York Times reported other major investors in the possible deal this week.

The exclusivity agreement, which temporarily bars other investors from swooping in, has not been previously revealed.

But the transaction hangs on Uber's ability to resolve an ongoing fight between two of the company's largest shareholders and most influential board members, the sources said.

Venture capital firm Benchmark is suing Travis Kalanick, the former chief executive officer who was forced out in June.

Benchmark claims Kalanick defrauded investors and withheld information from directors when he sought to create three board seats last year, according to the complaint.

Kalanick denied the allegations in a statement and said he was "disappointed and baffled by Benchmark's hostile actions."

New investors may be given the power to appoint as many as two representatives to Uber's board, the sources said. But the lawsuit poses major complications.

An outstanding question is whether Kalanick would relinquish his seat or the two empty ones under his control, which is the focus of Benchmark's suit, or whether new seats would be created.

Two people said Kalanick is supportive of an investment involving SoftBank, which has a mega fund of nearly $100 billion to spend on technology deals.

A group of three smaller Uber stockholders, led by Kalanick's friend Shervin Pishevar, came to the former CEO's defense last week. They want to buy most of Benchmark's stock and take its board seat.

Pishevar is looking to secure a loan for investors to finance the purchase of shares independent of the main deal, a person familiar with the matter said.

The San Francisco-based company sees such an agreement as unlikely because it would not approve transactions that prioritize certain shareholders over others, people familiar with the matter said. A spokeswoman for Pishevar declined to comment.

If Uber's directors can resolve their dispute quickly, the two-pronged deal would allow the company to retain its valuation of about $70 billion on paper, while also giving panicked shareholders a way out.

The four would-be investors in the new funding round are in the due-diligence period, and terms of the deal are still being discussed. The amount spent on shareholders' equity and the price for their stock will depend on seller interest, sources said.

SoftBank is a major backer of ride-hailing companies in India, Southeast Asia and China.

Didi and Uber agreed to a cease-fire in China a year ago and became mutual shareholders in each other's businesses.

Uber remains in a fierce, money-losing fight with India's Ola and Southeast Asia's Grab. A truce with either company is not an immediate condition regarding SoftBank's investment, the people said.

The largest investor in Soft-Bank's $93 billion Vision Fund is Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, which is already a major Uber backer.

That has added pressure to keep the value of the direct investment in Uber at the same level as the last round, even though the bulk of the transaction will be at a lower stock price.

SoftBank and Didi are expected to contribute the majority of Uber's planned financing, one of the people said.

The search for a CEO to replace Kalanick continues in parallel with negotiations over the funding. A 14-person management committee is running the business, though one member, Ryan Graves, plans to leave in a month.

Meanwhile, a subcommittee of Uber's board led by media mogul Arianna Huffington is overseeing the hunt for a new CEO. General Electric Co-Chairman Jeffrey Immelt remains a serious candidate, people with knowledge of the process said.

The company is also considering at least three other people, whose names have yet to be revealed.

Kalanick recently told colleagues he does not intend to come back as CEO anytime soon, but he may want to join the company in an advisory role, working with the next chief, two people said.

Uber still hopes to name a new boss by early next month, an aggressive deadline given the prolonged turmoil surrounding the company.

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