Pursuant to the Tender and Support Agreements, the Supporting Stockholders have agreed (i) to vote all of the Subject Shares against (i) any action or agreement that would reasonably be expected to result in the failure of any condition to the Offer to be satisfied, (ii) any proposal or offer (including any amendment or modification to any existing proposal or offer) from any person or “group” (as defined in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act), other than Parent or any of its affiliates, for (x) a merger, consolidation or business combination representing 20% or more of the consolidated assets of Issuer and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (y) a sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, of 20% or more of the consolidated assets of Issuer and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (z) a purchase or sale of shares of capital stock or other securities, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, representing 20% or more of the voting power of the capital stock of Issuer, including by way of a tender offer or exchange offer (such proposal or offer, a “Takeover Proposal”) and (iii) any other action, agreement or transaction involving Issuer that is intended, or would reasonably be expected, to impede, interfere with or prevent the consummation of the Offer or the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.
Each Supporting Stockholder has also agreed to revoke any and all previous proxies granted with respect to the outstanding Subject Shares beneficially owned by such Supporting Stockholder which are inconsistent with such Supporting Stockholder’s obligations outlined above. Each Supporting Stockholder has agreed to grant a proxy appointing Parent as such Stockholder’sattorney-in-fact and proxy, with full power of substitution, for and in such Stockholder’s name, to vote or execute or withhold consent in the manner outlined above.
Each Supporting Stockholder has also agreed not to, directly or indirectly, subject to certain exceptions (i) encumber or permit to be encumbered such Stockholder’s Subject Shares, (ii) transfer, sell, assign, gift, hedge, distribute, pledge or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any derivative arrangement with respect to (collectively, “Transfer”), such Stockholder’s Subject Shares, or any right or interest therein, or (iii) enter into any contract with respect to any Transfer of such Stockholder’s Subject Shares or any legal or beneficial interest therein. Furthermore, each Supporting Stockholder has agreed that it will not engage in certain activities with respect to Takeover Proposals including, among other things, (i) soliciting, initiating, knowingly facilitating or knowingly encouraging the making of any Takeover Proposal, (ii) entering into or participating in discussion with any person regarding a Takeover Proposal or any potential Takeover Proposal or (iii) executing or entering into any contract providing for a Takeover Proposal ((i), (ii) and (iii) collectively, the “Restricted Activities”). If however, Issuer or the Board of Directors of Issuer determines that it can participate in such Restricted Activities in accordance with the Merger Agreement, the Supporting Stockholder will be entitled to participate in such activities.
The Tender and Support Agreement is subject to termination with respect to a Supporting Stockholder automatically, without any notice or other action by any party to the Tender and Support Agreement, upon the first to occur of: (i) the Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement); (ii) the valid termination of the Merger Agreement; (iii) the entry without the prior written consent of such Supporting Stockholder into any amendment, waiver or modification to the Merger Agreement or the terms of, or conditions to, the Offer, affecting certain rights of such Supporting Stockholder or (iv) the mutual written consent of Parent and such Supporting Stockholder.
The foregoing description of the Tender and Support Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Tender and Support Agreements, which are attached as Exhibit 2 and Exhibit 3 respectively, and incorporated herein by reference. Schedule B lists the names and number of Shares that are beneficially held by each Supporting Stockholder and subject to this Schedule 13D.
The purpose of the Offer and the Merger is for Parent to acquire control of, and the entire equity interest in, Issuer. The Offer, as the first step in the acquisition of Issuer, is intended to facilitate the acquisition of all of the Shares. The purpose of the Merger is to acquire all capital stock of Issuer not purchased pursuant to the Offer or otherwise and to cause Issuer to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.