Sec Form 13D Filing - Coliseum Capital Management LLC filing for PURPLE INNOVATION INC (PRPL) - 2023-02-21

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D/A

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. 27)*

PURPLE INNOVATION, INC.

(Name of Issuer)

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share

(Title of Class of Securities)

74640Y 106

(CUSIP Number)

Christopher Shackelton/Adam Gray

105 Rowayton Avenue

Rowayton, CT 06853

with a copy to:

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Attention: William D. Regner, Esq.

66 Hudson Boulevard

New York, NY 10001

(212) 909-6000

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

February 21, 2023

(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §240.13d-1(e), §240.13d-1(f) or §240.13d-1(g), check the following box.  ☐

The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see Notes).

Explanatory Note: This Amendment No. 27 (this “Amendment”) to the Schedule 13D (the “Initial 13D”), filed by the Reporting Persons with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 12, 2018 and as amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1 to the Initial 13D filed on May 23, 2018, Amendment No. 2 to the Initial 13D filed on June 12, 2018, Amendment No. 3 to the Initial 13D filed on March 1, 2019, Amendment No. 4 to the Initial 13D filed on November 19, 2019, Amendment No. 5 to the Initial 13D filed on May 22, 2020, Amendment No. 6 to the Initial 13D filed on July 8, 2020, Amendment No. 7 to the Initial 13D filed on August 24, 2020, Amendment No. 8 to the Initial 13D filed on September 14, 2020, Amendment No. 9 to the Initial 13D filed on November 23, 2020, Amendment No. 10 to the Initial 13D filed on November 24, 2020, Amendment No. 11 to the Initial 13D filed on March 9, 2021, Amendment No. 12 to the Initial 13D filed on May 25, 2021, Amendment No. 13 to the Initial 13D filed on December 20, 2021, Amendment No. 14 to the Initial 13D filed on December 22, 2021, Amendment No. 15 to the Initial 13D filed on December 29, 2021, Amendment No. 16 to the Initial 13D filed on March 7, 2022, Amendment No. 17 to the Initial 13D filed on March 8, 2022, Amendment No. 18 to the Initial 13D filed on March 29, 2022, Amendment No. 19 to the Initial 13D filed on May 16, 2022, Amendment No. 20 to the Initial 13D filed on May 18, 2022, Amendment No. 21 to the Initial 13D filed on May 20, 2022, Amendment No. 22 to the Initial 13D filed on May 24, 2022, Amendment No. 23 to the Initial 13D filed on September 19, 2022, Amendment No. 24 to the Initial 13D filed on January 17, 2023, Amendment No. 25 to the Initial 13D filed on February 13, 2023, and Amendment No. 26 to the Initial 13D filed on February 14, 2023, amends and supplements certain of the items set forth therein.

As used in this Amendment, the term “Reporting Persons” collectively refers to:

Coliseum Capital Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CCM”);

Coliseum Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CC”);

Coliseum Capital Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“CCP”);

Coliseum Capital Co-Invest III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“CCC III”);

Adam Gray (“Gray”), a director of Purple Innovation, Inc. (the “Issuer”); and

Christopher Shackelton (“Shackelton”).

The items identified below, or the particular paragraphs of such items which are identified below, are amended as set forth below. Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Initial 13D.

Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.

Item 4 is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

On February 21, 2023, CCM issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing that it, together with its managed funds and accounts (“Coliseum”), filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery to, among other things, invalidate the Issuer’s recently issued “Proportional Representation Preferred Linked Stock,” which Coliseum believes deprives the Issuer’s stockholders of a fair and democratic election of directors at the 2023 annual meeting of the stockholders of the Issuer. The foregoing description of the Press Release does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of such document, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.

Paragraphs (a)-(b) is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

(a)-(b) The information relating to the beneficial ownership of Class A Stock by each of the Reporting Persons set forth in Rows 7 through 13 of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference herein. The percentages set forth in Row 13 for all cover pages filed herewith are calculated based upon 104,777,695 shares of Class A Stock outstanding following the completion of the Public Offering, as disclosed in the Issuer’s Prospectus Supplement filed on February 10, 2023 pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5). When including the Issuer’s Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Stock” and, together with the Class A Stock, the “Common Stock”), the Reporting Persons beneficially own 44.5% of the Common Stock.

Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.