Joby Aviation Inc

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Our business, prospects, financial condition, operating results and the price of our common stock may be affected by a number of factors, whether currently known or unknown, including but not limited to those described as risk factors, any one or more of which could, directly or indirectly, cause our actual operating results and financial condition to vary materially from past, or anticipated future, operating results and financial condition. For a more comprehensive discussion of the risks and uncertainties that could impact the Companys business, please see the section entitled Risk Factors in the Companys annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on February 27, 2024. Any of these factors, in whole or in part, as well as other risks not currently known to us or that we currently consider material, could materially and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, operating results and the price of our common stock.

The Toyota Investment is subject to closing conditions, including conditions beyond our control, and no assurance can be given that closing will take place on the timeline currently anticipated or at all. Any failure to close one or both of the tranches of the Toyota Investment could adversely impact our future liquidity and our financial condition.

On October 1, 2024, we entered into the Stock Purchase Agreement with Toyota providing for the potential issuance and sale of up to an aggregate of 99,403,579 shares of our common stock to Toyota (the Toyota Investment). The Toyota Investment is structured in two equal tranches of $250.0 million each. The closing of each tranche is subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement. The first tranche is subject to conditions including, but not limited to: (i) the satisfaction of certain regulatory approvals or clearances, including with respect to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and under the United States Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; (ii) the adoption of certain changes to the provisions of our amended and restated bylaws concerning the Foreign Ownership Requirement; (iii) the authorization by our board of directors of the Charter Amendment, subject to approval by our stockholders at our annual meeting in 2025; (iv) the execution of an amendment and restatement of the Amended and Restated Collaboration Agreement, dated August 30, 2019, between us and Toyota; (v) the execution of a services agreement by us and Toyota; and (vi) certain other customary closing conditions. The second tranche is subject to conditions including, but not limited to: (i) the execution of a strategic alliance agreement relating to, among other things, manufacturing arrangements, by us and Toyota; (ii) the approval of the Charter Amendment by our stockholders at our annual meeting in 2025; and (iii) certain other customary closing conditions. The agreements to be entered into in connection with such conditions are subject to the receipt of regulatory approvals, the parties negotiating and entering into definitive agreements and the conditions included within the applicable definitive documents.

We may experience delays and difficulties in satisfying the conditions for closing on either or both of the tranches of the Toyota Investment, and no assurance can be given that closing will take place on the timeline currently anticipated or at all. Some of the conditions to closing are outside of our control and it is possible that not all of the closing conditions to the Toyota Investment will be satisfied or that we will not receive the entire amount of expected proceeds on the timeline currently anticipated or at all. For example, the Toyota Investment is subject to, among others, certain regulatory approvals and clearances and the approval of the Charter Amendment by our stockholders at our annual meeting in 2025. In addition, certain closing conditions require us and Toyota to successfully negotiate and enter into definitive agreements. The final terms of such definitive agreements are not yet established and the negotiation and execution of such agreements may take longer than expected or may not be possible to accomplish on terms acceptable to us, or at all. No assurance can be given that any agreement we may reach will achieve our goals or be on terms that prove to be economically or strategically beneficial to us. Such adverse developments, including any failure to close one or both of the tranches of the Toyota Investment, could adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

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