{"url_path":"/sec/tem/8-k/2026-05-13/item-1-01","section_key":"item-1-01","section_title":"Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Agreement.","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-05-13","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717115/0001193125-26-220115-index.html","accession_number":"0001193125-26-220115","cik":"0001717115","ticker":"TEM","issuer_name":"Tempus AI, Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717115/0001193125-26-220115-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001717115","primary_entity_name":"Tempus AI, Inc."},"word_count":2149,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Agreement.\n\nIndenture and Notes\n\nOn May 12, 2026, Tempus AI, Inc. (the “Company”) completed its previously announced private offering (the “Offering”) of $460.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Notes”), including the exercise in full of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase up to an additional $60.0 million principal amount of the Notes. The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated May 12, 2026 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee.\n\nThe Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company and will mature on May 15, 2032, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased. The Notes will not bear regular interest, and the principal amount of the Notes will not accrete. Special interest will accrue on the Notes in the circumstances and at the rates described in the Indenture. The Notes are convertible at the option of the holders at any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding February 15, 2032, only upon satisfaction of one or more of the following conditions: (1) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on September 30, 2026 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the last reported sale price of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price for the Notes on each applicable trading day; (2) during the five business day period after any ten consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in which the trading price (as defined in the Indenture) per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of the Common Stock and the conversion rate for the Notes on each such trading day; (3) if the Company calls such Notes for redemption, at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the redemption date, but only with respect to the Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption; or (4) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events as set forth in the Indenture. On or after February 15, 2032, until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, holders may convert all or any portion of their Notes at their option at any time, regardless of the foregoing conditions. Upon conversion, the Company will pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, at the Company’s election, in the manner and subject to the terms and conditions provided in the Indenture.\n\nThe conversion rate for the Notes will initially be 14.4388 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $69.26 per share of Common Stock. The initial conversion price of the Notes represents a premium of approximately 40% to the last reported sale price of the Common Stock on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on May 7, 2026. The conversion rate for the Notes is subject to adjustment under certain circumstances in accordance with the terms of the Indenture but will not be adjusted for any accrued and unpaid special interest. In addition, following certain corporate events that occur prior to the maturity date or if the Company delivers a notice of redemption in respect of the Notes, the Company will, in certain circumstances, increase the conversion rate of the Notes for a holder who elects to convert its Notes in connection with such a corporate event or convert its Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption during the related redemption period (as defined in the Indenture), as the case may be.\n\nThe Company may not redeem the Notes prior to May 21, 2029. The Company may redeem for cash all or any portion of the Notes (subject to the partial redemption limitation set forth in the Indenture), at its option, on a redemption date on or after May 21, 2029, if the last reported sale price of the Common Stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price for the Notes then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid special interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date. If the Company redeems less than all the outstanding Notes, at least $75.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes must be outstanding and not subject to redemption as of, and after giving effect to, delivery of the relevant notice of redemption. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.\n\nIf the Company undergoes a fundamental change (as defined in the Indenture), then, subject to certain conditions and except as set forth in the Indenture, holders may require the Company to repurchase for cash all or any portion of\n\n \n\n \n\n2\n\ntheir Notes at a fundamental change repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid special interest, if any, to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date.\n\nThe Indenture includes customary covenants and sets forth certain events of default. The following events are considered “events of default” under the Indenture:\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\ndefault in any payment of special interest on any Note when due and payable and the default continues for a period of 30 days;\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\ndefault in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon any optional redemption, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\nfailure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with the Indenture upon exercise of a holder’s conversion right and such failure continues for three business days;\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\nfailure by the Company to give (i) a fundamental change notice or notice of a make-whole fundamental change (each as described in the Indenture), in either case when due and such failure continues for two business days, or (ii) notice of a specified corporate transaction (as described in the Indenture) when due and such failure continues for one business day;\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\nfailure by the Company to comply with its obligations in respect of any consolidation, merger or sale of assets;\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\nfailure by the Company to comply with any of the Company’s other agreements in the Notes or the Indenture for 60 days after receipt of written notice of such failure from the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding;\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\ndefault by the Company or any of its significant subsidiaries (as defined in the Indenture) with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed with a principal amount in excess of $75,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent), in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such significant subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal of any such indebtedness when due and payable (after the expiration of all applicable grace periods) at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, and in the cases of clauses (i) and (ii), such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay or default shall not have been cured or waived, or such indebtedness is not paid or discharged, as the case may be, within 45 days after written notice to the Company by the trustee or to the Company and the trustee by holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding in accordance with the Indenture; and\n\n \n\n \n•\n \n\ncertain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any of the Company’s significant subsidiaries.\n\nIf certain bankruptcy and insolvency-related events of default occur with respect to the Company, the principal of, and accrued and unpaid special interest, if any, on, all of the then outstanding Notes shall automatically become due and payable. If an event of default, other than certain bankruptcy and insolvency-related events of default with respect to the Company, occurs and is continuing, the trustee, by notice to the Company, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Company and the trustee, may declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid special interest, if any, on all the outstanding Notes to be due and payable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture provides that, to the extent the Company so elects, the sole remedy for an event of default relating to certain failures by the Company to comply with certain reporting covenants in the Indenture will, for the first 365 days after the occurrence of such an event of default, consist exclusively of the right to receive special interest on the Notes.\n\n \n\n \n\n3\n\nThe Indenture provides that the Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of the consolidated properties and assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to, another person (other than any such sale, conveyance, transfer or lease to one or more of the Company’s direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries), unless: (i) the resulting, surviving or transferee person (if not the Company) is a qualified successor entity (as defined in the Indenture) (such qualified successor entity, the “successor entity”) organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and such successor entity (if not the Company) expressly assumes by supplemental indenture all of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture; and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture.\n\nA copy of the Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 (including the form of the Notes attached hereto as Exhibit 4.2) and is incorporated herein by reference (and this description is qualified in its entirety by reference to such document).\n\nCapped Call Transactions\n\nOn May 7, 2026, in connection with the pricing of the Notes, and on May 8, 2026, in connection with the exercise in full by the initial purchasers of their option to purchase additional Notes, the Company entered into capped call transactions with one of the initial purchasers or its affiliate and other financial institutions, pursuant to capped call confirmations in substantially the form filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, which is incorporated herein by reference (and this description is qualified in its entirety by reference to such document). The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to the Common Stock upon any conversion of the Notes and/or offset any cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap based on a cap price initially equal to $98.9400 per share (which represents a premium of 100% over the last reported sale price of the Common Stock on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on May 7, 2026), and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the capped call transactions.\n\nProceeds\n\nThe Company’s net proceeds from the Offering were approximately $441.9 million, after deducting the initial purchasers’ discounts and commissions and the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company used the net proceeds from the Offering to (i) repay in full $307.7 million of outstanding loans under the Company’s senior secured credit facilities under the Credit Agreement (as defined below), plus accrued and unpaid interest and other fees, and (ii) pay the approximately $31.2 million cost of the capped call transactions described above. The Company expects to use the remaining net proceeds from the Offering for general corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions or strategic investments in complementary businesses or technologies, working capital, operating expenses, capital expenditures and repayment of additional indebtedness."}