CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Relationship with the Selling Security Holders
Except as disclosed below, none of the selling security holders has had any material relationships with the Company within the past three
years.
On September 20, 2020, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries (together with the Company, the Debtors)
filed voluntary petitions seeking relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Bankruptcy Court), to pursue a Chapter 11
plan of reorganization, which were jointly administered under the caption In re Garrett Motion Inc., 20-12212 (the Chapter 11 cases). On April 26, 2021, the Debtors filed the proposed Amended Joint Plan of
Reorganization (as amended, modified, or supplemented from time to time, the Plan), which was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court on April 26, 2021, and on April 30, 2021 (the Effective Date), the Plan became
effective in accordance with its terms and the Debtors emerged from the Chapter 11 cases.
Pursuant to the Plan and the Amended and
Restated Plan Support Agreement, dated as of March 9, 2021, by and among the Company and the other parties thereto (PSA), the Investor Rights Agreement (as defined below) and the Certificate of Designations for the Companys
previously-outstanding mandatorily redeemable series B preferred stock of the Company (the Series B Preferred Stock), following the Effective Date, each of the Centerbridge Investors and the Oaktree Investors (each as defined
below) had the right to appoint three directors to the Board, and Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), as holder of the Series B Preferred Stock, had the right to appoint one director to the Board. Accordingly, immediately
following the Effective Date, the Board was comprised of (i) Steven Silver (who serves as Senior Managing Director of Centerbridge Partners, L.P.), Julia Steyn and Robert Shanks, each of whom was designated by Centerbridge, (ii) Steven Tesoriere
(who serves as Co-Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.), Daniel Ninivaggi and Daun Norman, each of whom was designated by Oaktree, (iii) John Petry (who founded Sessa Capital IM, L.P. (Sessa
Capital) in 2012 and currently serves as its Managing Principal), who was designated by the Additional Investors (as defined in the PSA), and (iv) Darius Adamczyk (who then served as CEO of Honeywell), who was designated by Honeywell
International Inc. (Honeywell). On September 30, 2021, Tina Pierce, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Honeywells Performance Materials and Technologies segment, replaced Mr. Adamczyk as Honeywells designee
on the Board, and on June 28, 2022, Honeywell ceased to have the right to nominate a director to the Board upon the completion by the Company of the redemption of the Series B Preferred Stock. On January 22, 2023, Kevin Mahony, Managing Director at
Centerbridge Partners L.P., replaced Mr. Silver as one of Centerbridges designees on the Board. On January 9, 2024, Mr. Petry resigned from the Board. Furthermore, following the execution of the Transaction Agreements (as defined
below), each of Centerbridge and Oaktree have the right to designate only one member of the Board (such designees currently being Messrs. Tesoriere and Mahony, respectively), and no other person has the right to designate any members of our Board.
Except as set forth above, the selling security holders are not directors, officers or employees of ours or affiliates of such persons.
Related Party
Transactions
Second Amended and Restated Plan Support Agreement
On March 9, 2021, we entered into the PSA with Centerbridge, Oaktree, Honeywell and certain other investors and parties, which, on
aggregate, held (at the time of the transactions in question) more than 5% of our registered securities, pursuant to which the Company agreed to reimburse such parties for their professional fees and expenses, subject to an interim cap on certain
expenses of $25 million prior to the Companys emergence from bankruptcy. Pursuant to the PSA, the Company reimbursed such investors and parties, who on aggregate beneficially owned 264,350,147 shares of our Common Stock and
225,464,670 shares of the Series A cumulative convertible preferred stock of the Company (the Series A Preferred Stock) as of the Effective Date. As described below, there were no shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding
following the completion of the
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