Hello, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the video conference of Sequoia Logística, with reference to the results of the Q1 of 2024. With us today, Armando Marchesan, CEO, and Senhor Leopoldo Bruggen, CFO and Director of Relations with Investors. We would like to inform you that this is being recorded and translated. The translation is available in the interpretation button. For those who are listening through the video conference in English, the option silence original audio and mute original audio. During the presentation of the company, all participants will have their microphones turned off. After that, we'll start the question and answer session. To make any questions, please click on the Q&A icon and mention your name and company. We will give you a solicitation to turn on your microphone.
At that point, you can turn on your microphone and make your questions. We clarify that any declarations which may be made during this teleconference are relative to the perspectives of business of Sequoia, operational goals and financial goals, which constitute projections of the directors of the company, and which may or may not happen. Investors should understand that political factors, macroeconomic, and other factors, operational factors may affect the future of the company and bring us to results which are materially different than those expressed in these future considerations. To open the video conference of the Q1 of 2024, I would now like to pass it over to Armando Marquesan, who will start the presentation. Senhor Armando, please go ahead.
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. We announce today our results for the Q1 of 2024. We're gonna start with page four, bringing the principal highlights of the quarter. As we mentioned in our recent presentation on the 28th of March 2024, we concluded the transaction with Grupo MOVE3, and we have already started the integration between the two companies. Together with an outside consultancy, we have mapped out all the synergies that we will detail going forward in this presentation. These synergies mapped out are above BRL 100 million in savings annually. But beyond identifying the synergies that we have already structured in our chronogram for the execution, well-defined execution program, it will also be possible to capture these economies, these savings, in the Q3 of this year.
The third highlight, as we mentioned at the end of last year, we concluded in May 2024, a restructuring plan with our financial creditors, and we will give you more details as we go forward. Finally, we have the pleasure of announcing the new—the initiation of a new mega sorter Damon, one of the biggest in Latin America, which will make it possible to have us more agility and speed in deliveries to our clients, with more capacity of more than 1 million packages per day. Going on to slide 5. I'm gonna pass the word over to our CFO, Leopoldo Bruggen, who will give us more details about the restructuring of our financial creditors. Leo?
Thank you, Armando. On slide 6, we bring a summary of all the restructuring of the creditors, financial creditors, which started in October 2023, and which was finished in May, with the integralization of BRL 341 million of debts and debentures into convertible debentures and stock convertible debentures. To recapitulate what happened in October 2023, we renegotiated and elongated our debentures with the third emission. With the debentures, and 80% of these debentures were converted in the fourth emission, which will now be convertible into stock to shares. Beyond the entrance of BRL 100 million of additional new money for working capital. Of these conversions, we reduced our debt by BRL 241 million. We also did a fifth emission of debentures, which captured another BRL 16 million for working capital.
Finally, after the signing of the global accord with the principal financial creditors in December 2023, we concluded in May the sixth emission of debentures with a conversion of BRL 341 million of debt, bank debt, in into convertible debentures. Beyond this, we also elongated BRL 170 million in loans with two banks at a rate of CDI + 2%, with a 3-year grace period for interest and 5 years for principal. In summarizing, the company captured BRL 582 million reais in debt, lengthened payment terms for more than BRL 172 million in debt, and was able to inject BRL 116 million in cash for working capital.
With this, the company gained wind to be able to focus on the implementation of these synergies that have been mapped out and the restructuring with our creditors, our non-financial creditors. Passing on to Slide 7. I'm gonna pass it back over to Armando, who will bring you the principal points of the integration of Sequoia and MOVE3.
Thank you, Leo. On Slide 8, we bring the principal indicators of the combination of the two great logistic operators in the market. We count on the presence, a commercial presence, with a coverage of more than 5,000 cities, a vast and diversified base of clients combined, which are more than 4,500 clients, and an area of storage above 74 million square meters, similar 1,000 square meters.
The new company will attend 20 of the largest players in e-commerce, Brazilian e-commerce, passing to become the leader in their categories. Looking at slide nine, we show you the new mega sorter, Damon. Damon mega sorter, which will start its activities at the end of this month of July. We've invested BRL 70 million, considering the expenses with infrastructure, installation, and electrical networks, physical installations. This sorter is one of the biggest and most modern in Latin America, and will bring more agility and speed for the deliveries, guaranteeing excellent in SLA, so giving services to our clients.
The new sorter has a capacity to route 34,000 objects per hour, has a great deal of flexibility working in accordance with the demand, and adjusting to different types of operations and volumes of, which can be processed on this equipment. On slide 10, we bring our execution plan with the synergies which have been mapped out, as we mentioned previously, with an annualized economy of BRL 100 million after these movements have all been put into place. As we mentioned in item one, we have already done, in our first week of July, a reduction of 20% in the headcount of the company, which will generate monthly savings of BRL 4 million.
Beyond this initiative, we have mapped out what's happening in the Q3 , a consolidation and return of 1 distribution center, along with the renegotiation on the price tables, and improvement of renegotiation of contracts which impact directly on our costs. On the Q4 , we will also have the optimization of 5 transfer routes and other adjustments, which depend on the implementation of technology and also the administrative area, which will add an additional economy of BRL 11 million per year. On the next slide, on number 11, we'd like to point out the principal initiatives for the recovery of growth in the second half of the year, with a total focus on operational excellence and profitability. As we said previously, we're gonna focus on Sequoia, MOVE3.
Together, these will be one of the biggest players in e-commerce, Brazilian e-commerce. We work on electronics, telephones, and other segments. As part of our strategy and focus on profitability, we are prioritizing these units, the business units, with the biggest margin and the highest level of profitability, also delivering a higher level of service to our clients. In relation to our structure of pricing, we're gonna revise the current contracts, and using a new approach, which will guarantee a structure that's more competitive and aligned with the, the needs of the market. Beyond doing that, will give us focus on our commercial, focus of our clients, and guarantee excellence in SLA and the quality of delivery services. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we're confident that with the plan we have laid out, we'll be able to comply with this schedule.
Now, I'm gonna pass it back over to Leo, who will present the results for the Q1 .
Thank you, Armando. On slide 13, we bring the results, the combined results, pro forma for the Q1 of 2024. As was highlighted in the release, with the transaction between the company happened at the end of March, the financial statements do not yet reflect the results of the two companies, the combined results of the two companies. But considering the results of MOVE3, MOVE3, together with Sequoia, we had an EBITDA, the combined pro forma EBITDA of BRL -15.7 million, negative 1,507. Going on to slide 14, we presented a balance sheet of the two companies combined, combined. This combination has been revised by independent auditors.
In this balance, we have not presenting the conversions of the renegotiation of the debts with the financial creditors of the company. Once that the integration will happen in May, happened in May of 2024, we have a lot of work ahead of us to guarantee the results, stronger results. Looking on the next slide, number 15, we present with more detail, the new members of our board, board of directors of the company, and the new directors who were elected in the first half of this year. In the upper left-hand corner of the slide, we have the members of the board of directors, and on the right-hand side, the biographies of the new members elected in the last assembly. Senhor Ian Charles Bird and Andre Pereira bring lots of experience and various valuable contributions to the company.
Companies, professional companies working with with great companies such as Nestlé, Google, Waze, and other considerable challenges. Additionally, on the occasion of the announcement of the closing of the operation with the MOVE3, we announced two new members, MOVE3. Antonio Juliani, who founded the company in 1992, and will add great experience to our board of directors. And Guilherme Juliani, who occupies a position as a director, a board member, and brings a great deal of knowledge of innovation and technology, and has the mission of helping us in integration of the two companies. Finally, at the end of May, the company joined as a new CFO, the Director of Relations with Investors, to lead this process of restructuring and recovery of growth. With total focus on the generation of operational positive cash, positive cash, operating cash.
We consider the final months of the restructuring, financial restructuring with the acquisition of MOVE3, MOVE3. In the lower left-hand corner, presenting a graph which shows our stockholder base in a pro forma way. The debenture which is issued, and those delivered to the Juliani family, as was mentioned, is in a relevant fact on the 20th of the month of March. And we brought these informations as conditions of the transaction. Passing to slide 16. I'm gonna pass the word back to Armando, who's gonna present the principal challenges for 2024.
Thank you, Leo. On slide 17, we summarize the final—the principal challenges we have ahead of us. We're confident that with a lot of work that we have done with our board members, our experienced board members in each one of their sectors, and our entire integrated team, together with our partners, clients, and suppliers, we will overcome these challenges in the short term. The first point is exactly the integration of Sequoia and MOVE3, with the implementation of the synergies already mapped out, as we mentioned previously, which would generate a great deal of important value for the company. The second point, in relation to non-financial creditors and the liabilities, tax liabilities, which will guarantee the necessary space to take care of these initiatives and give us a good communication with our clients and stakeholders.
Finally, the focus on principle, on the delivery of our positive cashflow, and in this way guarantee better of our credit rating and the recovery of the value, the market value of the company. I'd like to now thank you all for your participation in our call, earnings call, and now open it up for any questions you may have. Thank you.
Thank you. We'll now begin the question and answer session. Remembering that to make a question, click on the Q&A icon, type your name and company, and we will announce a solicitation for you to open your microphone on your screen, and you will then be invited to make your question. Please wait while we put together the questions. Thank you. Remembering once again, to make a question, please type your name and company in the Q&A field, and please await while we compile the questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from Leandro Lanza, from Universo Business. Leandro, your microphone is open. Leandro, please turn on your microphone.
I would like to know. Good morning. I'd like to know: How does this fit together, the generation of cash in the current moment? And if over the second half of the year, the combined company will continue generating losses, or if it's already generating positive results, profits?
Good morning, Leandro. Leo speaking. We have captured BRL 20 million, which was recently published, and with this BRL 20 million, we are doing the firings, which will bring a return of BRL 4 million per month. The firing of, which involves a lot of synergies between Sequoia and MOVE3, MOVE3. So in terms of cash flow, we made a recent fundraising to invest in the capture of these synergies. This has to do with your second question. Once we start to capture these synergies, we will start to present positive results, more positive results.
Secondly, in the second half of this year, the second quarter. There was no time to capture these synergies in the first half, but we'll see these in their combined results starting in the third quarter. So we'll have a Q2 , which is pro forma, without big capture of synergies, and we'll start to see these numbers improve, these synergy captures starting in the third quarter. I think with that, I have answered your question about our cash flow and results, future results. Thank you.
Our next question comes from Lucas Marquiori from BTG.
Good morning. What are your expectations for the next semester?
Leandro, our expectation for the next half is aligned with what we just mentioned. Once we start to invest and capture these synergies between Sequoia and MOVE3, we will start to present the combined results more consistent and more solid due to these savings and gains in scale.
Reminding you once again, to make a question, please use the Q&A button, and please await while we compile more questions. Our next question comes from Luis Siqueira of Leblon Equities .
The total number of 133 million shares after the conversion is already in the base of the 20x1, or under the old rationale. Thank you.
Good morning, Luis. The answer is yes. The grouping of 20 times is being considered in this pro forma graph. Remembering that this picture brings all of the future conversions and deliveries. Looking at the current picture, it's different because it is pro forma, and we are designating all the future income to demonstrate what will be the future stockholders situation of Sequoia MOVE3. Sequoia Move Three.
Remembering once again, to make a question, please use the button, Q&A button. Please await while we compile any other questions. Our next question comes from Leandro Lanza.
What is the amount of the accumulated losses that may be able to take advantage of in the profits of coming quarters? Is there any estimate for the effect on taxation?
It represents approximately BRL 1.08 billion of losses. Approximately 1 billion também also, as well as being able to, at some time, being able to absorb these losses to be able to release the profits of future dividends. What is relevant, and which is part of your question, the opportunity to take advantage of these tax losses. We've seen in the press that the tax attributes of companies , where the companies have been able to compensate losses, fiscal tax losses against their tax payments.
There is this line of payment today, this line of thinking in a work that is being developed, so that we are be able to utilize more quickly than the tax, the accumulated tax losses in this plan. So the expectation, our expectation, is that in the future, we'll be able to not only take advantage of the, the tax losses existing, as well as work in the compensation of these accumulated losses with the liberation of profit by the company for the distribution of dividends. However, this is still something which is for the medium to long term. The, the, the combination of the two companies through the capture of synergies and, and the conquest of new clients.
Remembering once again, to make any questions, please utilize the Q&A button, and, and please wait while we compile any other questions. Our next question comes from Reinaldo Barreto.
Good morning. The second series of the sixth emission was to capture BRL 100 million. How much were you able to capture? Has this amount already entered the company's cash position?
Yes, Reinaldo. Bon dia, Reinaldo. Good morning. The second series had an authorization of BRL 100 million. This is still open, and we have captured BRL 55 million and BRL 50 million for cash, for operation, and BRL 50 million for the operation of MOVE3.
Please remember once again, to ask any questions, use the Q&A button, and please await while we compile any other questions. Our next question comes from Matheus Duarte, from Vista Asset Management.
What is the timeline for the renegotiation with the PGFN, the Procuradoria-Geral da Fazenda Nacional, the tax people?
Good morning, Matheus. Any project requiring the promoters, a checking of information, and this is a previous work. This work is being done. And what we've seen within the system of the promoters, that the payment capacity of Sequoia is very high today, which does not fit with the generation of cash results. So the first step is to prepare information and reports that will show the capacity of payment, to demonstrate the real capacity of payment of Sequoia. And once that's done, we'll be able to have more clarity in relation to the next steps. Today, there is no definite timeline.
There's nothing formal communicated with the work that has to be done in these studies, previous studies, and I think that is true of many companies here in Brazil, to be able to take advantage of this moment in time, which is the opportunity which exists, to be able to sit down with these prosecutors and look at the tax liabilities and try to negotiate these amounts. There's no timeline, but there is, yes, a work that is being developed together with these prosecutors, and in the next quarters, we will be able to bring more clarity as far as that theme is concerned.
Remembering once again, please use the button Q&A, and please wait while we compile more questions. The question and answer session is now closed. I'd like to pass the microphone back to Senhor Armando for his final comments.
Armando, please go ahead. Thank you again. Thank you all for your participation in our call. As Leo mentioned, the next quarters, we're gonna be updating both important steps of the integration with Move3, Move3, and the next steps in the reestablishment and growth of the services provided by the company, together with the market and our clients. Once again, thank you all, and we wish you all a wonderful day. Sequoia conference is now closed. In case you have any questions, please send your questions to the investor relations team through the email, ri@sequoialog.com.br. We thank you for your participation, and please have a great day.