Washington, D.C. 20549
information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)
This Form 6-K is incorporated by reference into the Company’s Registration Statements on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 4, 2002 (Registration No. 333-101652), September 5, 2006 (Registration No. 333-137102), September 11, 2008 (Registration No. 333-153419), August 17, 2015 (Registration No. 333-206420), November 12, 2015 (Registration No. 333-207946), March 14, 2016 (Registration No. 333-210151) and on December 27, 2017 (Registration No. 333-222294), November 21, 2018 (Registration No. 333-228502)
English Translation-for convenience only
The Hebrew version shall be the binding version
January 6, 2020
Partner Communications Company Ltd.
(hereinafter: “the Company” or “Partner”)
Shelf Offering Memorandum
Pursuant to the Company’s shelf prospectus of June 13, 2018 (hereinafter: “the Shelf Prospectus” or “the Prospectus”), (reference no.: 2018-02-057361 ), and pursuant to the provisions of the Israel Securities Regulations (Shelf Offering of Securities), 5766 – 2005 (hereinafter: “Shelf Offering Regulations”), the Company is pleased to publish herewith a shelf offering memorandum for the issue and listing of the Offered Securities, as defined hereunder (hereinafter: “the Shelf Offering Memorandum” or “the Offering Memorandum” or “the Memorandum”) for trading on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd. (hereinafter: “the TASE”):
American Depositary Shares (hereinafter: “ADS”) of the Company (with each ADS representing one share of the Company), which are listed for trading on the NASDAQ Global Select under the ticker “PTNR.” Additionally, shares of the Company are listed for trading on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd. (hereinafter: “the TASE”) under the ticker “Partner,” pursuant to a listing document by virtue of the provisions regarding dual listing in Chapter E.3. of the Israel Securities Law, 5728 – 1968 (hereinafter: “Securities Law”) and the regulations instituted by virtue thereof. The Company’s current reports are in accordance with the law in the United States and are in English, and are in accordance with the dual listing rules prescribed in Chapter E.3. of the Securities Law and the regulations instituted by virtue thereof. The Company shall also continue to report according to the dual listing rules subsequent to the issuance pursuant to This Shelf Offering Memorandum.
The Memorandum includes supplementary information (either in the Memorandum or by way of referral) about material developments in the Company since the date of the Shelf Prospectus, and additional information that is required pursuant to the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time (hereinafter: “Securities Act”) and the rules and regulations of the United States Securities Exchange Commission that would have applied, had the offering of securities as stated been registered pursuant to the Securities Act using the Form F-3 listing form, including updated financial information based on the rules and requirements of the United States Securities Exchange Commission in clause 8 of Form 20-F, and this, in addition to the details required pursuant to the Shelf Offering Regulations. In accordance with the opinion that the Company received from a US law firm (hereinafter: "the US Lawyer"), the Memorandum together with its accompanying documents and the Shelf Prospectus together with its accompanying documents appropriately comply in a material manner with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the United States Securities Exchange Commission, that would have applied if it would have been filed with the United States Securities Exchange Commission as part of a Form F-3 registration document with respect to a public offering in the United States of the offered securities (defined below) according to the Securities Act, apart from the sections of the Offering Memorandum that are in Hebrew, and apart from the fact that particular clauses and appendices would have been included in Form F-3 that are not included in the Offering Memorandum and that are technical in nature and are immaterial to the matter of offering securities to the public in Israel.
The offering of the offered securities by the Company within the scope of this Shelf Offering Memorandum (hereinafter: “the Offered Securities”) shall be done solely in Israel and shall not be done in the United States and/or to U.S. Persons, as this term is defined in Regulation S, which was instituted by virtue of the Securities Act, as amended from time to time (hereinafter: “Regulation S”), and this, according to the conditions of the exemption from the listing requirements pursuant to Category 1 of Regulation S.
The Offered Securities may be sold by resale based on section 904 of Regulation S, whereby, the Offered Securities may be resold on the TASE by any person (excluding resales by the Company, a distributor, or a related party related to any of them (except an office holder that is a "related party" by virtue solely of their position, or a person acting on behalf of any of them), without imposing any blocking period or other restriction, provided that: (1) the offering is not made to a person in the United States; (2) the seller and anyone acting on its behalf did not know that the transaction has been organized in advance with a purchaser in the United States; and (3) No Directed Selling Efforts, as this term is defined in Regulation S, shall be done in the United States by the seller, a related party or by any person acting on its behalf.
The Company has provided the TASE with an opinion of the U.S. lawyer according to which, based on the assumptions, reservations and limitations in the opinion, the offering in accordance with the Shelf Offering Memorandum is exempt from listing requirements pursuant to the Securities Act in accordance with Category 1 of Regulation S and that in accordance with Regulation S the securities that are offered according to This Offering Memorandum will be eligible for resale on the TASE by any person (except as and subject to that detailed above).
Any purchaser of the Offered Securities pursuant to the Memorandum shall be deemed as a party who declared: (i) that it is not located in the United States and that it is not a U.S. Person; (ii) that it is not purchasing the Offered Securities for or on behalf of a U.S. Person or any person located in the United States; (iii) that it was not staying in the United States when it submitted an application to purchase or when it purchased the Offered Securities; and (iv) that it is not purchasing the Offered Securities with an intention to carry out a “distribution” of the Offered Securities in the United States (as this term is defined in the U.S. securities laws).
Pursuant to that stated above, all of the distributors (as this term is defined in clause 13 below) have undertaken that they shall offer the Offered Securities solely in Israel and only to persons that are not a U.S. Person and that they did not and shall not perform any action or publish any advertisement in the United States pertaining to the promotion of the sale of the Offered Securities.
Solely the laws of the State of Israel shall apply to this Memorandum and no other laws whatsoever shall apply; solely the competent courts in Israel and they alone shall have sole jurisdiction in relation to any matter pertaining to the said matters; and the offerees, by consenting to purchase the Offered Securities, are accepting this sole jurisdiction and this choice of law.
The Shelf Prospectus and the Shelf Offering Memorandum were not filed with the United States Securities Exchange Commission. The Offered Securities shall not be listed pursuant to the Securities Act in the United States, and any person purchasing Securities pursuant to this Shelf Memorandum shall be allowed to offer, sell, pledge or transfer the said Offered Securities in any other way solely: (i) pursuant to Regulation S; (ii) pursuant to a listing document pursuant to the Securities Act; or (iii) pursuant to an exemption from the listing requirements pursuant to the Securities Act. The Company is not undertaking to list the Offered Securities for the purpose of an offering or sale in the United States pursuant to the Securities Act.
A decision to purchase the Offered Securities should be reached solely relying on the information contained (including by way of referral) in the Shelf Prospectus and in the Shelf Offering Memorandum. The Company did not allow any person or other body to furnish information that differs from that specified in the Shelf Prospectus or in this Memorandum. The Shelf Prospectus and This Memorandum do not constitute an offering of Securities in any other country apart from in the State of Israel.
The terms used in This Shelf Offering Memorandum shall have the definitions ascribed to them in the Shelf Prospectus, unless otherwise stated.
| 1.1 | Up to 21,950,000 registered ordinary shares of the Company of NIS 0.01 each (hereinafter: “the Offered Shares” or “the Shares”). |
| 1.2 | Notwithstanding clause 1.1 above, if and to the extent that as part of the tender (as defined in clause 2.1 below), the quantity of orders for the purchase of shares (hereinafter "the Accepted Quantity") shall be in a quantity exceeding 19,500,000 shares (hereinafter: "the Maximum Issued Quantity"), then the following provisions shall apply: (a) The Company shall specify in the report on the results of the offering the quantity that the Company intends to issue and the total excess above the Maximum Issued Quantity (hereinafter: "the Excess Quantity"); (b) the issuance of the units to the public in the Excess Quantity (only) shall not be effected and no funds will be collected for the Excess Quantity (only); (c) The allotment to subscribers whose offers have been accepted as part of tender to the public in accordance with the provisions of section 2.10 below, shall be carried out according to the ratio (pro rata) between the Maximum Issued Quantity and the quantity offered in accordance with the Shelf Offering Memorandum or the Accepted Quantity., the lower of them, |
For example, if, in the context of the tender to the public, subscriber offers of 20,000,000 shares were accepted, then, in view of the Maximum Issued Quantity, which is 19,500,000 shares, each subscriber, whose offer will be accepted in accordance with the results of the tender that will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of section 2.10 below, a rate of 97.5% from the quantity of shares for which his offer was accepted will be allotted to such subscriber, a rate which is the result of the following ratio:
the Maximum Issued Quantity / the Accepted Quantity.
19,500,000/20,000,000.
| 1.3 | The Offered Shares shall have equal rights to the ordinary shares existing in the Company’s share capital, and shall entitle the owners thereof to the full cash dividends and to any other distribution. For a description of the rights attached to the ordinary shares, see clause 8 hereunder. |
2. | Details of the Offering (Tender No: [1151760]) |
| 2.1 | The Offered Shares are being offered to the public in 219,500 units (hereinafter: "the Units"), by way of a uniform offering, as stated in the Israel Securities Regulations (Mode of Offering of Securities to the Public), 5767 – 2007 (hereinafter: “the Mode of Offering Regulations”) by way of a tender on the price per unit (hereinafter: "the Tender"), at a total price per unit that shall not be less than a total of NIS 1,500 per unit (hereinafter: “the Minimum Price” or " the Minimum Price per Unit"), with the composition of each unit being as follows: |
| The Price |
100 ordinary Shares at a Minimum Price of NIS 15.00 per share | NIS 1,500 |
The total Minimum Price per Unit | NIS 1,500 |
The closing price of the Company’s Shares on the TASE on January 5, 2020 was 1,460 agorot.
| 2.2 | Any subscriber must specify in its order the number of Units that it wishes to purchase and the price per unit that it is bidding, which shall not be less than the Minimum Price. An order for the purchase of Units that shall be submitted within the scope of the tender that shall bid a price that is lower than the Minimum Price, or that did not specify a price per unit, shall be nullified and shall be deemed as if not submitted. |
| 2.3 | Any subscriber may submit up to three (3) orders at different prices per unit (which, as stated, shall not be less than the Minimum Price), provided that the prices per unit being bid by it shall be quoted at increments of NIS 1; i.e., it shall be possible to tender bids at prices of NIS 1,500, NIS 1,501, NIS 1,502 and NIS 1,503, and so forth. Any order of Units that tenders a bid not quoted in increments of NIS 1 shall be downwardly rounded to the next increment. |
| 2.4 | Orders may be submitted for the purchase of whole Units only. Any order that shall be submitted for any fraction of a unit shall be deemed an order being submitted solely for the number of whole Units specified therein, and the fraction of a unit specified in the order shall be deemed as if not specified therein ab initio. |
| 2.5 | Subject to any law, the orders for the purchase of the Offered Units are irrevocable. Every order shall be deemed an irrevocable undertaking on the part of the subscriber to accept the Shares that shall be allotted to it as a result of full or partial acceptance of its order, and to pay the full price of the Shares that it is entitled to receive pursuant to the terms of the Shelf Prospectus and the Shelf Offering Memorandum, through the Issue Coordinator (as this term is defined hereunder) pursuant to the terms of the Shelf Prospectus and the Shelf Offering Memorandum. |
| 2.6 | The offering of the Offered Securities pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum is not secured by underwriting. |
In this regard, “Subscriber” or “Applicant” – including a family member residing with the subscriber, and a Classified Investor that is ordering Shares pursuant to clause 4 of the Memorandum.
| 2.7 | The timeframe for submitting orders |
The period for submitting orders for the purchase of the Offered Units to the public shall be opened on January 6, 2020 (hereinafter: “the Day of the Tender” or “the Submission Date of the Applications”), at 09:30 a.m. (hereinafter: “Opening Time of the Subscription List”) and shall be closed on the same day at 16:30 p.m. (hereinafter: “Closing Time of the Subscription List”), provided that the Closing Time of the Subscription List shall not be before seven (7) hours have elapsed, at least five (5) of which are hours of trading, since the publication time of the Offering Memorandum. Until the signature list is closed, the Company may cancel the offering without entitling the investors to any claim and/or right in this regard. In such case, all orders made in connection with the offering will be considered void.
| 2.8.1 | Orders for the purchase of the Units must be submitted to the Company using the customary forms for this purpose, through Israel Discount Bank at 38 Yehuda Halevy St, Tel Aviv-Jaffa (hereinafter: “the Issue Coordinator”"), or through banks or other TASE members (hereinafter: “the Authorized Order Recipients”), by no later than the Closing Time of the Subscription List. The Authorized Order Recipients shall be responsible and liable to the Company and to the Issue Coordinator for the payment of the full consideration that shall be due to the Company in respect of orders submitted through them and that were fully or partially accepted. |
| 2.8.2 | Any order that shall be submitted to an Authorized Order Recipient on the Day of the Tender shall be deemed as submitted on that day if it shall be received by the Authorized Order Recipient by the Closing Time of the Subscription List, provided that the Authorized Order Recipient shall forward it to the Issue Coordinator and the Issue Coordinator shall receive it by one hour after the Closing Time of the Subscription Ltd; i.e., by 17:30 on the Day of the Tender (hereinafter: “the Deadline for Submissions to the Coordinator”). |
| 2.8.3 | The Authorized Order Recipients shall forward the orders to the Issue Coordinator on the Day of the Tender through broadcast of the requests to a digital vault or by sealed envelopes that shall remain sealed until the Deadline for Submissions to the Coordinator, and shall be inserted into a closed box, together with the orders that were submitted directly to the Issue Coordinator. |
| 2.9 | The tender proceedings, publication of the results and payment of the consideration |
| 2.9.1 | On the Day of the Tender, after the Deadline for Submissions to the Coordinator, the box shall be opened and the envelopes shall be opened, including the requests that were transmitted through the digital vault, in the presence of a representative of the Company, a representative of the Issue Coordinator and an accountant, who shall supervise the proper conduct of the tender proceedings. |
| 2.9.2 | By 10:00 a.m. on the morning of the first trading day after the Day of the Tender, the Issue Coordinator shall deliver notice to the subscribers, through the Authorized Order Recipients through which the orders were submitted, about the extent of the acceptance of their orders. The notice shall specify the price per unit determined in the tender, the number of Units that shall be allotted to the subscriber and the consideration that it must pay for them. Upon receipt of the notice, and by 12:30 p.m. on that same afternoon, the subscribers whose orders for Units were fully or partially accepted, must transfer the consideration that must be paid for the Units in their orders that were accepted, to the Issue Coordinator, through the Authorized Order Recipients. |
| 2.9.3 | On the first day of trading after the Day of the Tender, the Company shall announce the results of the tender in an immediate report to the Israel Securities Authority and to the TASE. |
| 2.9.4 | The Company deems the deposit of the consideration of the issue in the Special Account, as this term is defined hereunder in clause 2.11 of the Memorandum, as a transfer of the consideration to the Company, and the Company shall apply to the TASE to list the Shares for trading on the basis of this. |
| 2.10 | Mode of determining the price per Units and the allotment to the subscribers |
All of the Units for which purchase orders shall be accepted, shall be issued at a uniform price per unit that shall be determined according to the results of the tender (hereinafter: “the Uniform Price per Unit”), and the method for allotting the Units shall be as follows:
| 2.10.1 | If the inclusive number of Units included in the orders (including Units in purchase orders that were received from Classified Investors that engaged in an early commitment with the Company, as stated in clause 4 of the Memorandum) that shall be accepted shall be less than the inclusive number of Units being offered pursuant to the Offering Memorandum, then all of the orders shall be accepted in their entirety and, in such instance, the Uniform Price per Unit shall be the Minimum Price specified in the Offering Memorandum. The balance of the Units, for which orders shall not be accepted, shall not be issued. |
| 2.10.2 | If the inclusive number of Units included in the orders (including Units in purchase orders that were received from Classified Investors that engaged in an early commitment with the Company, as stated in clause 4 of the Memorandum) that shall be accepted shall be equal to or higher than the inclusive number of Units being offered to the public, then the Uniform Price per Unit shall be equal to the highest price per unit at which orders were submitted for the purchase of all of the Units being offered pursuant to This Offering Memorandum (including orders submitted by Classified Investors) pursuant to the Offering Memorandum. |
In such instance, the Units being offered shall be allotted as follows:
| (a) | Orders quoting a price per unit lower than the Uniform Price per Unit – shall not be accepted; |
| (b) | Orders quoting a price per unit higher than the Uniform Price per Unit – shall be accepted in their entirety; |
| (c) | Orders (not including orders submitted by Classified Investors that engaged in an early commitment with the Company, as stated in clause 4 of the Memorandum) quoting a price per unit that is equal to the Uniform Price per Unit – shall be accepted on a pro rata basis, so that each subscriber shall receive, out of the total of the offered Units that shall remain for distribution after accepting orders quoting a price per unit that is higher than the Uniform Price per Unit (and after accepting the orders of the Classified Investors that engaged in an early commitment with the Company, which shall order at the Uniform Price per Unit, as stated in clause 4 of the Memorandum), a portion that is equal to the ratio between the number of Units that it ordered in an order quoting the Uniform Price per Unit and the inclusive number of Units included in all orders submitted to the Company that quoted the Uniform Price per Unit (after deducting the shares of the Classified Investors that engaged in an early commitment with the Company, as stated in clause 4 of the Memorandum); |
| (d) | The allotment to Classified Investors shall be done as specified in clause 4 of the Memorandum. |
| 2.10.3 | If fractional Units shall be created as a result of the allotment of the Units according to the response to the tender as stated above, they shall be rounded, to the extent possible, to the closest whole unit. Surplus Units that might remain as a result of rounding as stated shall be purchased by the Issue Coordinator at the price per unit specified in the Offering Memorandum. |
| 2.10.4 | Each subscriber shall be deemed as if it committed in its order to purchase all of the Units that shall be allotted to it as a result of a partial or full acceptance of its order, according to the rules specified above in this clause 2. |
| 2.10.5 | If according to the results of the Tender, the quantity for which requests to purchase were received is above the Maximum Issued Quantity, the allotment will be made according to the proportional part as specified in clause 1.2 above. |
| 2.11.1 | Shortly before the Day of the Tender, the Issue Coordinator shall open a special income-bearing trust account under the Company’s name in a banking corporation (hereinafter: “the Special Account”) and shall disclose the details of the Special Account to the Authorized Order Recipients. The Special Account shall be used for monies that shall be received. |
| 2.11.2 | The Special Account shall be managed exclusively by the Issue Coordinator for and on behalf of the Company pursuant to the provisions of section 28 of the Securities Law. The monies that shall be paid in respect of the orders that were fully or partially accepted by the Company shall be deposited in the Special Account. The Issue Coordinator shall invest the monies that shall accumulate in the Special Account in liquid, unlinked deposits bearing interest on a daily basis, to the extent that this shall be possible. |
| 2.11.3 | By no later than 12:00 p.m. on the second trading day after the Day of the Tender, the Issue Coordinator shall transfer the balance of the monies that shall remain in the Special Account to the Company, including the profits that accumulated in respect thereof, and this, against the transfer of certificates in respect of the Shares to Mizrahi Tfahot Nominee Company Ltd. (hereinafter: “the Nominee Company”) and crediting of the TASE member pursuant to the instructions of the Issue Coordinator. In the event of cancellation of the tender, the Offered Shares shall not be issued within the scope of the tender, they shall not be listed for trading on the TASE, and no monies shall be collected from the investors in connection with those Shares. |
The Company shall not execute an additional allotment as defined in the manner of voting regulations pursuant to this Shelf Offering Memorandum.
Out of the Units being offered to the public as stated in This Shelf Offering Memorandum, early commitments for the purchase of 183,929 Shares were given by Classified Investors1, as defined in Regulation 1 of the Mode of Offering Regulations (hereinafter: “the Classified Investors”), whereby, the Classified Investors shall submit orders in the tender for the purchase of Units constituting approximately 83.79% of the total Units being offered pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum, as specified hereunder in this clause 4.
The early commitments from Classified Investors were received according to the principles prescribed in the Mode of Offering Regulations.
In this clause 4, “oversubscription” is the ratio between the quantity of offered Units for which orders were submitted at the price per unit that shall be determined in the tender, and the quantity remaining for distribution (as defined below), provided that it exceeds one;
1 ”A Classified Investor" –one of the following: (1) a portfolio manager as its meaning in section 8(b) of the Advice Law, that purchases at its discretion for the account of a client; (2) a corporation that is wholly owned by a classified investor, one or more, that purchases for itself or for another classified investor; (3) an investor as set forth in section 15A(b)(2) of the Securities Law 5728-1968 (hereinafter: "the Law"); (4) an investor as set forth in sections (1) through (9) or (11) of the First Appendix to the Law, that purchases for itself. In addition, a Classified Investor must undertake to purchase securities in an amount of no less that NIS 800,000.
“The quantity remaining for distribution” is the quantity of offered Units that were offered to the public, after deducting from it that quantity of offered Units that were ordered at a price per unit that is higher than the price per unit that shall be determined in the tender.
Pursuant to the Mode of Offering Regulations, in the event of oversubscription, the allotment to Classified Investors shall be as follows:
| (a) | if the oversubscription was up to five times higher than the quantity of Units offered to the public, then each Classified Investor shall be allotted 100% of the quantity that it committed to purchase; |
| (b) | if the oversubscription was more than five times higher than the quantity of Units offered to the public, then each Classified Investor shall be allotted 50% of the quantity that it committed to purchase. |
If the quantity of the Units remaining for distribution is insufficient for an allotment as stated above, then the quantity remaining for distribution shall be allotted to the Classified Investors according to the pro rata of each early commitment out of the total early commitments submitted at the same price per unit.
The allotment to Classified Investors shall be at the price per unit that shall be determined in the tender.
Orders from the Classified Investors shall be submitted within the scope of the tender and shall be deemed orders submitted by the public for the purpose of determining the price per unit, and this, subject to that stated above with regard to the distribution of the Units in the event of an oversubscription. It is clarified that, if there is no oversubscription, then the orders from the Classified Investors within the scope of the tender shall be deemed orders submitted by the public for the purpose of distributing the Units to the subscribers.
Early commitments received from Classified Investors:
Each of the Classified Investors specified hereunder committed, within the scope of an early commitment, to submit orders to purchase Units at a quantity that shall not be less than the quantity detailed below and a price per unit that shall not be less than the price specified below alongside its name:
| Name of the Classified Investor | The price per unit | The number of Units |
1 | Hazavim Long LP | 1590 | 555 |
2 | A to Z Finance Ltd. (*) | 1700 | 2850 |
3 | Operato Securities Distribution Ltd. | 1550 | 1340 |
4 | Orcom Strategies Ltd. | 1550 | 1700 |
5 | Orcom Strategies Ltd. | 1520 | 2000 |
6 | Orcom Strategies Ltd. | 1505 | 1200 |
7 | I.B.I Investment House Ltd. | 1500 | 1700 |
8 | Alumot Mutual Fund Management Ltd. | 1600 | 1650 |
9 | Altshuler Shaham Netz LP | 1511 | 600 |
10 | Alpha Opportunities LP | 1543 | 1940 |
11 | Emetrin 2 LP (*) | 1650 | 6337 |
12 | Emetrin 2 LP (*) | 1590 | 920 |
13 | Emetrin 2 LP (*) | 1502 | 1450 |
14 | Emetrin LP (*) | 1650 | 552 |
15 | Emetrin LP (*) | 1590 | 3998 |
16 | Emetrin LP (*) | 1502 | 1166 |
17 | Best Alternative Portfolio Management Ltd. | 1526 | 610 |
18 | Barak Capital Investments 2006 Ltd. (*)_ | 1650 | 2500 |
19 | Barak Capital Investments 2006 Ltd. (*)_ | 1590 | 980 |
20 | Genos Ltd. | 1600 | 1000 |
21 | Hachshara Insurance Company Ltd. | 1632 | 3236 |
22 | Haphoenix Insurance Company Ltd.-Nostro (**) | 1600 | 1650 |
23 | Varden Investment House Ltd. | 1650 | 3400 |
24 | Hazavim LP | 1590 | 555 |
25 | I.A.Z Investments & Assets Ltd. | 1610 | 2000 |
26 | I.A.Z Investments & Assets Ltd. | 1521 | 2000 |
| Name of the Classified Investor | The price per unit | The number of Units |
27 | Yalin-Lapidot Mutual Fund Management Ltd. | 1581 | 4897 |
28 | Yalin-Lapidot Gemel Fund Management Ltd. | 1520 | 10000 |
29 | Yalin-Lapidot Investment Portfolio Management Ltd.-for managed customers | 1560 | 4788 |
30 | Meitav Tachlit Mutual Funds Ltd. (**) | 1520 | 3540 |
31 | Meitav Tachlit Mutual Funds Ltd. (**) | 1510 | 953 |
32 | Menora Mivtachim Tradable Shares in Israel (**) | 1501 | 13000 |
33 | Israel Tradable Shares for Investors | 1505 | 26578 |
34 | Inbar Derivatives Ltd. | 1700 | 902 |
35 | Fidelity Venture Capital Ltd. | 1530 | 575 |
36 | Final Capital Ltd. | 1500 | 1638 |
37 | Flotus Investments LP | 1700 | 1500 |
38 | Psagot Gemel & Pension Ltd. (**) | 1564 | 13333 |
39 | Psagot Gemel & Pension Ltd. (**) | 1548 | 5735 |
40 | Psagot Mutual Funds Ltd. (**) | 1551 | 8429 |
41 | Proxima Investment Management Ltd. | 1700 | 3762 |
42 | Priority Asset Management Ltd. | 1561 | 1000 |
43 | Priority Asset Management Ltd. | 1509 | 700 |
44 | K.S.M Financial Trade Instruments Ltd. (**) | 1520 | 670 |
45 | Optimus Fund LP | 1580 | 1266 |
46 | Monbaz Fund LP | 1600 | 4500 |
47 | R.I.L Spirit Management & Investments Ltd. | 1561 | 1000 |
48 | R.I.L Spirit Management & Investments Ltd. | 1511 | 600 |
49 | Partnership-Israel Shares-Haphoenix Amitim (**) | 1600 | 12250 |
| Name of the Classified Investor | The price per unit | The number of Units |
50 | Stock Exchange Services & Investments in Israel I.B.I Ltd. (*) | 1500 | 2500 |
51 | Shekef Investments in Maof Ltd. | 1610 | 5354 |
52 | Shekef Investments in Maof Ltd. | 1521 | 2970 |
53 | Tachlit Complex Instruments Ltd. (**) | 1600 | 1200 |
54 | Tachlit Complex Instruments Ltd. (**) | 1510 | 1300 |
55 | Tachlit Financial Instruments Ltd. (**) | 1600 | 1100 |
Total | | 183,929 |
(*) A Classified Investor that is an underwriter or distributor in the .
The total amount of Units ordered by said investors- 28,715 Units.
(**) An interested party in the Company or parties related to an interested party in the Company.
The Classified Investors shall be entitled to an early commitment fee at the rate of 2.5% of the inclusive immediate consideration in respect of the Units for which the Classified Investors committed to submit orders, computed according to the Minimum Price per Unit (and not according to the price per Unit that shall be determined in the tender).
On the Day of the Tender, a Classified Investor shall be permitted to raise the price per unit over the price per unit that it had quoted in its aforesaid early commitment (at increments of NIS 1), by delivering written notice to the Issue Coordinator, which must be received by the Issue Coordinator by the Closing Time of the Subscription List.
The consideration that shall be paid by the Classified Investors shall be transferred to the Issue Coordinator through the TASE members, on the first trading day after the Day of the Tender, by 12:30 p.m., and shall be deposited by it in the Special Account, as defined above in clause 2.11 of the Memorandum.
It is clarified that the Classified Investors shall be able to order Units at a quantity that exceeds that specified in their early commitments, however, any extra Units that shall be ordered shall not be deemed orders from Classified Investors for the purposes of This Shelf Offering Memorandum, but rather, for all intents and purposes, as orders submitted by the public.
5. | Engagements for the purchase of securities |
Pursuant to the terms of the license for the provision of Mobile Radio Telephone (MRT) service via the cellular method that the Company received from the Ministry of Communications, as updated on August 27, 2019 (hereinafter: “the License”), 5% of its total issued share capital and of each of the means of control over the Company must be held by “Israeli Parties” (as this term is defined in the License) and particular transfer restrictions shall apply to them as prescribed in the License. For the purpose of complying with this requirement, the Company engaged in an agreement with Poalim I.B.I.- Underwriting and Issuing Ltd. (hereinafter: "Poalim IBI")for the execution of a private issue of Shares that shall be considered as Shares being held by “Israeli Parties” for the purpose of the License requirements (hereinafter: “the Issuance to Poalim IBI”), which will constitute approximately 0.52% of the issued and outstanding capital of the Company (including dormant shares) after the public issue, and the execution of the Issue to Poalim IBI2, and at a price that reflects a 25% discount off the effective price per share (i.e., the price determined in the institutional tender, after deducting an early commitment fee)3. The agreement further specifies that, insofar as Poalim IBI shall sell all or a portion of the Shares issued to it, the Company shall be entitled to 50% of any profit that Poalim IBI shall gain from such a sale (but clarifies that, if Poalim IBI shall sell the Shares at a loss, the Company shall not bear all or a portion of the loss. The Shares that shall be issued in the Issuance to Poalim IBI shall be registered for trade however they will not be deposited with the nominee company, will not be traded on TASE, and any transfer of the Shares to a third party shall be subject to the approval of the buyer to assume particular undertakings pursuant to the License and the approval of the Ministry of Communications. The TASE has given their consent to register the allocated shares to Poalim IBI for trade. It is further emphasized that, in accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, until the receipt of the Ministry of Communications’ confirmation that Poalim IBI is an “Israeli Party,” the Shares that shall be issued in the Issue to Poalim IBI shall be deemed Dormant shares (as this term is defined in section 308 of the Companies Law, 5759 – 1999) and shall not vest any rights. See clause 16.2 hereunder regarding a risk factor pertaining to the Issuance to Poalim IBI.
2 These shares, together with the shares held on the date of the Shelf Offering Memorandum by Israeli Parties, will constitute more than 5% of the issued and outstanding capital of the Company (less the dormant shares)after the issue to the public and to Poalim IBI; if all of the shares being offered to the public are issued, (as defined in clause 1.2 above) Poalim IBI will be issued 996,778 shares.
3 The price in the issuance to Poalim IBI will be NIS 10.97 per share.
6. | Details about the Company’s issued and outstanding share capital |
| 6.1 | Following are details about the quantity of Shares in the Company’s registered share capital and in the issued and outstanding share capital (quantity of ordinary shares of NIS 0.01 each of the Company), correct to January 5, 2020: |
Registered share capital | Issued and paid-up share capital4 | Fully diluted issued and paid-up share capital5 |
235,000,000 | 171,191,827 | 180,212,516 |
| 6.2 | Subsequent to the issue, assuming that the full Maximum Issued Quantity is purchased pursuant to This Shelf Offering Memorandum ( assuming that entire amount of the shares will be issued to Poalim IBI), the Shares issued pursuant to This Shelf Offering and the shares that will be issued to Poalim IBI shall constitute 11.1% of the voting rights (excluding the dormant shares) and 10.7% of the of the Company’s issued and paid-up share capital subsequent to the issue6 (including dormant shares) , and 10.6% of the voting rights (excluding dormant shares) and 10.2% of the Company’s issued and paid-up share capital (including dormant shares) subsequent to the issuance, on a fully diluted basis |
4 This figure also includes 7,028,254 dormant shares and restricted shares that were allotted by the Company to employees and officers, but not including options that were allotted by the Company to employees and officers, which are in effect correct to the date of the Memorandum and not yet been exercised for shares.
5 In this regard, “fully diluted” – assuming that all of the Company’s securities that are exercisable for shares of the Company shall be exercised (i.e., unregistered options allotted by the Company to employees and officers, which are in effect correct to the date of the Memorandum and not yet exercised for shares and restricted shares). It should be noted in this regard that the options allotted to employees and to officers are exercisable according to a cashless mechanism however for the purpose of the calculation, full exercise without the cashless mechanism was assumed ; therefore, the quantity of shares that shall actually be issued following an option exercise may be lower than the quantity of allotted options.
6 The dormant shares are a quantity of 7,028,254, and include restricted shares that were allotted by the Company to employees and officers, but does not include options allotted by the Company to employees and officers, that are in effect correct to the date of the Shelf Offering Memorandum and not yet exercised for shares.
After the issuance, assuming that the Maximum Issued Quantity is purchased pursuant to this Shelf Offer Memorandum (excluding the amount of shares that will be issued to Poalim IBI), the shares issued pursuant to this Shelf Offer Memorandum shall constitute approximately 10.6% of the voting rights (excluding dormant shares) and approximately 10.2 %of the issued and paid-up capital of the Company after the issuance (including dormant shares), and approximately 10.1% of the voting rights (excluding dormant shares) and approximately 9.8% of the issued and paid-up capital of the Company (including dormant shares) after the issuance on a fully diluted basis.
| 6.3 | The Offered Shares pursuant to This Offering Memorandum shall be listed under the name of the Nominee Company. |
7. | Details about the prices of the Company’s share on the TASE |
Following are details about the highest and lowest closing price (adjusted) of the Company’s share on the TASE in 2018 and 2019 and during 2020 (up until just prior to the publication date of the Offering Memorandum (in agorot):
| 2018 | 2019 | From January 1, 2020 until just prior to the date of the Offering Memorandum7 |
| Price | Date | Price | Date | Price | Date |
High price | 2,267 | 7.1 | 1,840 | 1.1 | 1,497 | 1.1 |
Low price | 1,278 | 18.6 | 1,251 | 7.8 | 1,460 | 5.1 |
7 Up until January 2, 2020.
8. | Terms of the Offered Securities |
| 8.1 | The ordinary Shares of the Company being offered pursuant to This Memorandum shall have equal rights to the rights of the existing ordinary Shares of the Company on the date of their issue. |
| 8.2 | Each ordinary Share grants the holder thereof the right to receive notices, to participate and to vote during the Company’s General Meetings. Each ordinary Share has one vote during voting by the General Meeting. |
| 8.3 | Furthermore, each ordinary Share entitles the holder thereof to the right to receive a dividend, bonus shares and any other distribution, return on equity and participation in a distribution of the Company’s surplus assets in the event of liquidation. |
As is customary when making decisions about financial investments, the tax implications should be considered that relate to an investment in the Securities being offered in This Offering Memorandum.
Pursuant to the law currently in effect, the tax arrangements briefly described hereunder apply to the Securities being offered to the public pursuant to This Offering Memorandum:
| 9.1 | Capital gain from a sale of the Offered Securities |
Pursuant to section 91 of the Israel Income Tax Ordinance [New Version], 5721 – 1961 (hereinafter: “the Ordinance”), a real8 capital gain from a sale of Securities by an individual resident of Israel is taxable at the individual’s marginal tax rate pursuant to section 121 of the Ordinance, but at a rate that shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%), and the capital gain shall be deemed the highest rung in its taxable income bracket. This, except in relation to a sale of Securities by an individual who is a “material shareholder” of the Company – i.e., a holder, whether directly or indirectly, whether alone or jointly with another party,9 of at least ten percent (10%) of one or more of any means of control10 over the Company – on the date of sale of the Securities or on any date during the 12 months preceding the sale as stated, for which the tax rate on a real capital gain by the holder shall be at a rate that shall not exceed thirty percent (30%). Notwithstanding that stated above, an individual who claimed less real interest expenses and linkage differentials on account of the Securities shall be taxed for the capital gain from a sale of the Securities at the tax rate of thirty percent (30%), up until provisions and conditions are prescribed for deducting real interest expenses and linkage differences pursuant to section 101A.(a)(9) and 101a(b) of the Ordinance. The reduced tax rate as stated shall not apply to an individual whose income generated from a sale of the Securities is within the scope of income from a “business,” or from a "profession", pursuant to the provisions of section 2(1) of the Ordinance. in which case he will be liable for a marginal tax as provided for in section 121 of the Ordinance as well as an excess tax insofar as it will apply.
In addition, under section 121b (a), an individual whose taxable income in the 2019 tax year exceeded NIS 649,560, will be liable to pay an additional tax of 3% on the portion of his taxable income in excess of the said amount (the said amount as of 2019).A body of persons shall be taxed for a real capital gain from a sale of Securities at the corporate tax rate prescribed in section 126(a) of the Ordinance (23% as of the 2018 tax year).
Pursuant to the provisions of section 94b of the Ordinance, upon the sale of shares that are traded on the TASE by a share seller who is a "material shareholder" at the date of sale or during the preceding 12 months, the amount of real capital gain arising from the sale will be reduced by an amount equal to a portion of the distributable earnings accrued in the company from the end of the tax year that preceded the share purchase year or from January 1, 2006 onwards, the later, in a company whose shares are sold, in proportion to the seller's share of the right to earnings in the company.
8 As this term is defined in section 88 of the Ordinance.
9 As this term is defined in section 88 of the Ordinance.
10 As this term is defined in section 88 of the Ordinance.
Exempt mutual funds and provident funds and tax-exempt bodies pursuant to section 9(2) of the Ordinance are exempt from tax in respect of capital gains from a sale of Securities as stated, subject to the conditions prescribed in the said section. Pursuant to the provisions of section 129.C of the Ordinance, the tax rates applicable to a taxable mutual fund’s income from a sale of Securities shall be the tax rates that would have applied had the seller been an individual when the income does not constitute income from a “business” or a “profession,” unless otherwise expressly provided. If no particular tax rate has been defined for income, the income shall be taxed at the maximum rate prescribed in section 121 of the Ordinance.
As a rule, capital losses arising from the sale of the Offered Securities will only be offset in cases where if capital gains were created they would have been taxed by their recipient.
According to the principles set out in section 92 of the Ordinance, capital losses from the sale of such securities may be offset against real capital gain and real estate appreciation arising from the sale of any property, whether in Israel or abroad (except for the amount of inflation which will be offset by a ratio of 1 to 3.5).
A capital loss from the sale of securities may also be offset in the same tax year in which it is also generated against interest and dividend income received for the same offered security or for other securities (provided that the applicable tax rate that applies to the said interest or dividend did not exceed the rate of corporation tax provided for in section 126(a) of the Ordinance if he is a body of persons and the rate set forth in sections 125b(1) or 125c(b) of the Ordinance, as applicable, if he is an individual.
A loss that cannot be offset, in whole or in part, in a particular tax year, as stated above, may be offset only against real capital gain and real estate appreciation as provided in section 92 (b) of the Ordinance in subsequent tax years, one after the other, for the same year in which the loss occurred, provided that a tax report was filed for the tax year in which the loss occurred.
Pursuant to the Income Tax Regulations (Deduction from a Consideration, from a Payment or from a Capital Gain from a Sale of a Security, from the Sale of a Unit in a Mutual Fund or from a Future Transaction), 5763 – 2002 (hereinafter: “Deduction from Capital Gains Regulations”), when calculating the capital gain for the purpose of deducting the tax at source from a sale of traded securities, mutual fund units and future transactions (hereinafter: “Tradable Securities”), the taxpayer (as this term is defined in the Deduction from Capital Gains Regulations) shall offset the capital loss created from a sale of Tradable Securities that were under its management by deducting at source, provided that the gain was generated during that same tax year in which the loss was created, whether before the loss was created or after the said date.
In accordance with section 94c, when a group of persons sells a Share, the sum of a dividend received in respect of that Share during the 24 months preceding the sale shall be deducted from the sum of the capital loss created by the sale of the Share, apart from a dividend on which tax was paid (apart from tax paid outside of Israel) at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) or more, but not more than the sum of the loss.
Regarding tax deduction at source from the real capital gain from a sale of the Offered Securities, pursuant to the Deduction from Capital Gains Regulations, the taxpayer (as this term is defined in the Deduction from Capital Gains Regulations) that is paying a consideration to a seller in a sale of the Securities shall deduct tax at the rate of twenty-five percent (25%) from the real capital gain when the seller is an individual, and at the corporate tax rate prescribed in section 126(A) of the Ordinance (23% as of 2018) from the real capital gain or from the payment, as the case may be, when the seller is a body of persons.
Furthermore, tax at source shall not be deducted in relation to provident funds, mutual funds and other bodies that are exempt from tax deductions at source by law, after they had furnished suitable exemption certificates in advance.
It should be noted that, if, on the date of the sale, the full tax at source has not been deducted from the real capital gain, the provisions of section 91(d) of the Ordinance and the provisions by virtue thereof shall apply regarding reporting and paying of tax advances by the seller in respect of a sale as stated on July 31 and on January 31 of each tax year, for the sale of securities in the six months that preceded the month in which the reporting day occurred.
Insofar as the Offered Securities pursuant to This Offering Memorandum shall be delisted from trading on the TASE, the rate of the deduction at source that shall be deducted at the time of their sale (after delisting) shall be thirty percent (30%) of the consideration, as long as the tax assessor has not issued a certificate ordering a different rate for deducting tax at source (including an exemption from deducting tax at source).
As a rule, foreign residents (individuals and companies, as defined in the Ordinance) are exempt from capital gains tax in a sale of securities traded on a stock exchange in Israel, if the capital gain is not attributed to their permanent enterprise in Israel, and they comply with the conditions and restrictions specified in section 97(B) of the Ordinance. That stated above shall not apply to a group of foreign resident persons if residents of Israel are controlling shareholders11 therein or are beneficiaries of or are entitled to 25% or more of the income or profits of the group of foreign resident persons, whether directly or indirectly, pursuant to that prescribed in section 68A. of the Ordinance. In the event that an exemption as stated does not apply, then, as a rule, the provisions of the relevant double taxation treaty (if any) between Israel and the foreign resident’s country of domicile may apply, subject to the furnishing in advance of a suitable certificate from the tax authority.
In addition, Deductions from Capital Gains Regulations will not apply to a debtor who is a financial institution that pays to a seller who is a foreign resident, consideration or other payment due to an exempt capital gain, if the foreign resident filed with the financial institution, within 14 days of opening the account and once every 3 years, if he was in Israel, he or his attorney, a statement on Form 2402 of his being a foreign resident and his eligibility for exemption.
11 'Controlling Shareholder"-shareholders, that hold, directly or indirectly, alone or with others, or together with another Israeli resident, one or more of the means of control that exceeds 25%
9.2 The tax rate that shall apply to dividend income originating from Shares of the Company
As a rule, individual residents of Israel shall be taxed for a dividend originating from Shares of the Company at the rate of twenty-five percent (25%), except in relation to an individual who is a material shareholder12 of the Company on the date of receipt of the dividend or on any date during the 12 months preceding its receipt, who shall be taxed at the rate of thirty percent (30%).
Regarding a dividend of Israeli resident companies, section 126 (b) of the Ordinance provides that, in calculating the taxable income of a group of people, income from profit distribution or from dividends that are from income (for tax purposes) that were derived or originated in Israel, directly or indirectly from another group of people that are liable for corporate tax, shall not be included and income for which a special tax rate was determined shall also not be included.
Pursuant to the Israel Income Tax Regulations (Deduction from Interest, Dividend or Particular Profits), 5766 – 2005 (hereinafter: “the Deduction from Dividends Regulations”), the tax rate that must be deducted at source on a dividend to an individual and to a foreign resident in respect of Shares of the Company, whose shares are registered and held by the Nominee Company, shall be at the rate of 25%.
In accordance with the Deduction from Dividends Regulations, if a dividend is paid to an Israeli resident for whom a limited tax rate was determined by any law, the tax will be deducted at the prescribed rate.
In relation to a foreign resident, the rate of the tax deduction at source shall be subject to the provisions of a double tax treaty signed between the country of domicile of the Company and the foreign resident’s country of domicile (if any) and subject to the prior delivery of a tax exemption or reduction from the tax withholding at source from the tax authorities.
12 As this term in defined in section 88 of the Ordinance.
Tax at source will not be deducted for payments to provident funds, mutual funds and other entities that are exempt from the tax withholding at source by law.
Pursuant to section 121B. of the Ordinance, an individual whose taxable income in the 2019 tax year shall exceed NIS 649,560 (a sum that is adjusted annually), shall be liable for tax on that portion of his taxable income that exceeds the said sum, at an additional rate of 3%. The provisions of this clause apply, inter alia, to capital gains from securities, apart from on the inflationary capital gain component, and on income from dividends and interest.
It is clarified that that stated above reflects the provisions of law and rulings described therein as are in effect on the date of This Offering Memorandum, to the best of the Company’s understanding, and they might be amended and lead to different outcomes. It is also emphasized that that stated above does not purport to constitute an agreed interpretation of the provisions of the law referred to in This Offering Memorandum;
The above is solely a general description and does not purport to constitute a substitute for individual tax counseling by experts, considering the unique circumstances of each investor. It is recommended that anyone considering a purchase of Securities pursuant to This Offering Memorandum should seek professional counseling in order to clarify the tax repercussions that might apply to it, considering the unique circumstances of the investor and of the Offered Securities.
10. | Refraining from arrangements |
| 10.1 | The Company and the directors, by signing the Shelf Offering Memorandum, are undertaking to refrain from making any arrangements that are not specified in the Shelf Prospectus and in the Shelf Offering Memorandum in relation to the offering of the Securities that shall be offered pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum, the distribution and dispersion thereof among the public, and are undertaking to refrain from granting a right to purchasers of the Securities that shall be offered pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum to sell the Securities that they purchased, and all, beyond that specified in the Shelf Prospectus and/or in the Shelf Offering Memorandum. |
| 10.2 | The Company and the directors, by signing the Shelf Offering Memorandum, are undertaking to notify the Israel Securities Authority about any arrangement known to them with a third party in relation to the registration and offering of the Securities that shall be offered pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum, the distribution and dispersion thereof among the public, that contradicts the undertaking as stated above in clause 10.1. |
| 10.3 | The Company and the directors, by signing the Shelf Offering Memorandum, are undertaking to refrain from engaging with any third party in relation to the registration and offering of the Securities that shall be offered pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum, the distribution and dispersion thereof among the public, who, to the best of their knowledge, made arrangements contrary to that stated above in clause 10.1. |
11. | Permits and confirmations |
| 11.1 | The TASE issued its approval to list the Shares being offered to the public pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum for trading on the TASE. |
| 11.2 | The TASE’s said approval is not to be construed as a confirmation of the details presented in the Shelf Offering Memorandum, or of the reliability or completeness thereof, and it should not be construed as expressing any opinion about the Company or about the quality of the Securities being offered in the Shelf Offering Memorandum or about the price at which they are being offered. |
| 11.3 | The trading of the Offered Securities pursuant to This Offering Memorandum shall begin shortly after they are listed for trading. |
Pursuant to the provisions of Regulation 4.A of the Israel Securities Regulations (Application Fee for the Granting of a Permit to Publish a Prospectus), 5755 – 1995, the Company shall pay the Israel Securities Authority the additional fee for the Securities being offered within the scope of the Shelf Offering Memorandum.
| 13.1 | The immediate proceeds that the Company anticipates from the issue pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum, assuming that the entire Maximum Issued Quantity (as defined in section 1.2 above) shall be purchased at the Minimum Price, after deducting the expenses involved in the issue pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum, shall be as specified hereunder: |
The anticipated immediate proceeds (gross) | ~ NIS 292.5 million |
Less early commitment, coordination and distribution fees | ~ NIS 9.3 million |
Less other expenses (estimated) | |
Total anticipated proceeds, (net) | ~ NIS 282.6 million |
In addition, there is additional net consideration from the issuance to Poalim IBI in the amount of approximately NIS 10.9 million (net).
Hence, assuming that the entire Maximum Issued Quantity (as defined in section 1.2 above) will be purchased at the Minimum Price, (less the expenses involved in the issuance according to the Shelf Offer Memorandum), and together with the proceeds of the private issuance to Poalim IBI, the net proceeds will be NIS 293.5 million.
| 13.2 | Since the issue pursuant to This Shelf Offering Memorandum is not secured by underwriting, there is no assurance that all of the Shares being offered shall be purchased. |
| 13.3 | Regarding the designated use of the proceeds of the issue, see clause 16.5 hereunder. |
| 13.4 | Until the issue proceeds are used, the Company shall deposit and invest these monies as it shall deem fit, provided that every such investment shall be in solid channels. |
In this clause, “solid channels” – including, but not limited to, an interest-bearing cash deposit, deposit in foreign currency, bonds assigned a rating of at least “AA,” etc. For the purpose of that stated above, an investment in shares or in ETFs, when their underlying asset is shares or share indices or Maof options, or a purchasing or writing of derivative positions, shall not be deemed an investment in solid channels.
| 13.5 | No minimum sum for achievement was defined in this issue. |
| 13.6 | Discount Capital Underwriting Ltd., Poalim IBI (hereinafter: "the Main Distributors") and Epsilon Underwriting and Issuing Ltd., Barak Capital Underwriting Ltd., Leumi Partners Underwriting Ltd. and Alpha Beta Issuing Ltd. (hereinafter: "the Sub-Distributors") will serve as distributors for the purpose of the shares offered under this Shelf Offering Memorandum. For their services, the Main Distributors and Sub-Distributors will be entitled to a distribution fee at a rate of 0.82% of the immediate proceeds actually received for the shares offered under the Shelf Offering Memorandum and for the shares that will be allotted as part of the private allocation to Poalim IBI as noted in clause 5 above, plus duly required VAT, as described below. The fees will be divided between the Main Distributors and Sub-Distributors in accordance with the joint discretion of the Main Distributors. With regard to an agreement between the Company and Poalim IBI, for the allocation of ordinary shares of the Company, see section 5 above. In addition, the Issue Coordinator will be entitled to an Issue Coordinator fee of NIS 25,000. |
| 13.7 | For details regarding an early commitment fee to be paid to the classified investors for the shares in respect of which the classified investors undertook to submit orders, see clause 4 of the Shelf Offer Memorandum. |
14. | Updates to the Shelf Prospectus |
In accordance with Regulation 4 of the Shelf Offer Regulations, all reports submitted by the Company after the publication of the Shelf Prospectus are included in this Shelf Offering Memorandum by way of referral. The full version of the Company's reports are available on the Israel Securities Authority site at www.magna.isa.gov.il and the stock exchange's website at www.maya.tase.co.il.
A letter of consent of the Company’s independent auditor is attached to This Shelf Offering Memorandum, which includes its consent that its opinion of the Company’s financial statements shall be included, by way of referral, in This Shelf Offering Memorandum, all in the version of the attached consent letter and subject thereto.
16. | Information about the Offering and the Company |
| 16.1 | Summary Terms of the Offer |
Issuer | Partner Communications Company Ltd. (the “Company”) |
Securities Offered | 21,950,000 ordinary shares, nominal value NIS 0.01 per share (the “Shares” or “Sale Shares”). |
Denomination
| The Shares will be issued in units, each consisting of [100] Shares (each a "Unit") |
Offering Price | NIS 15.00 per Sale Share (i.e. NIS 1,500 per Unit). |
Listing | Application will be made to list the Sale Shares for trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (the “TASE”). |
Use of Proceeds | We intend to use the proceeds from the issuance of shares for general corporate purposes, including, among others, new investments, executing the Company's growth strategies, competing in the upcoming MoC's frequencies tender and other possible investment opportunities, insofar as there may be. |
THE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “U.S. SECURITIES ACT”) AND WILL NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES, OTHER THAN TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF EXISTING SHAREHOLDERS IN COMPLIANCE WITH AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT.
Each purchaser of the shares offered pursuant to this shelf offering document shall be deemed to have represented and agreed that (i) the shares offered hereby have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or with any securities regulatory authority of any state of the United States; (ii) it is not located in the United States and that it is not purchasing the shares on behalf of any person located in the United States; and (iii) it was not in the United States at the time that it submitted an application to purchase or when it purchased the shares.
Investing in our Company involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” in Section 3.5 of the shelf prospectus filed with the Israel Securities Authority (“ISA”) on June 13, 2018 (the “Shelf Prospectus”) and in Item 3.D of our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the ISA on March 27, 2019 (the “2018 20-F”).
We believe that the occurrence of any one or some combination of the following factors could have a material adverse effect on shares offered by this shelf offering report.
| 16.2.1 | Risks Related to the Shares and the Offering |
Our mobile telephone license imposes certain obligations on our shareholders and restrictions on who can own our shares. In order to comply with these obligations, the Company has agreed to sell 5% of the shares offered hereby to Poalim I.B.I. - Underwriting & Issuing Ltd., subject to regulatory approval. If these obligations or restrictions are not complied with, we could be faced with monetary sanctions which could jeopardize our license.
As with other companies engaged in the telecommunications business in Israel, our mobile radio telephone license (the “License”) requires that a minimum economic and voting interest in, and other defined means of control of our Company be held by Israeli entities (Israeli citizens and residents or entities under their control). If this requirement is not complied with, we could be found to be in breach of our License, even though ensuring compliance with this restriction may be beyond our control.
Our License requires that our "founding shareholders or their approved substitutes", as defined in the License, hold at least 26% of the means of control in the Company, including 5% which must be held by Israeli founding shareholders and Israeli entities (Israeli citizens and residents), who were approved as such by the Minister of Communications (“MoC”). Notwithstanding the aforesaid, following the sale of the controlling stake of the Phoenix Group (one of the Company's approved Israeli founding shareholders) to foreign entities, on November 12, 2019, the MoC issued a temporary order (ending on November 1, 2020) amending the above holding requirement in our License and reducing the percentage that the approved Israeli entities are required to hold from 5% down to 3.82% of the means of control in the Company.
The current holdings of Israeli entities (as defined in the License) are approximately 5.2% (including approximately 1.2% held by the Phoenix Group), and any equity offering to the public, including the offering contemplated hereby, requires a pro-rata equity offering of shares to Israeli entities, in a manner in which the total Israeli entities founding shareholders' holdings will not be less than 5% of the total issued share capital. In order to comply with this requirement, the Company has entered into an agreement with Poalim I.B.I. - Underwriting & Issuing Ltd. (“IBI”), a co-distributor (together with other third parties) of this shelf offering report, for a private placement of shares in an amount equal to 5% of the total amount of shares offered hereby (including the offering to IBI) and at a price that will reflect a 25% discount on the effective price that will be determined in the institutional bid (meaning-the price that will be determined in the institutional bid less the early commitment fee).
In addition, according to our License, no transfer or acquisition of 10% or more of any of such means of control, or the acquisition of control of our Company, may be made without the consent of the MoC. Nevertheless, under certain Licenses granted, directly or indirectly, to Partner, approval of, or notice to, the MoC may be required for holding of 5% or more of Partner's means of control. The contemplated acquisition of our shares by IBI in a private placement concurrent with this offering is subject to consent of the MoC and the Company has approached the MoC regarding this matter. As of the date of this shelf report, such consent is yet to be obtained. Shareholdings in breach of these restrictions relating to transfers or acquisitions of means of control or control of Partner could result in the following consequences: the shares will be converted into "dormant" shares as defined in the Israeli Companies Law, 1999, with no rights other than the right to receive dividends or other distributions to shareholders and to participate in rights offerings until such time as the consent of the MoC has been obtained and our License may be revoked or we may be subject to monetary sanctions. In addition, under certain Licenses of the Company's subsidiaries, approval of, or notice to, the MoC may be required for holding of less than 5% of means of control. Because of this lack of consistency, Partner may be in breach of its Licenses in this regard.
Our share price may be volatile, and you may lose all or part of your investment
The offering price may not reflect the market price of our shares following this offering and the price of our shares may decline. In addition, the market price of our shares could be highly volatile and may fluctuate substantially as a result of many factors, including:
| • | actual or anticipated variations in our and/or our competitors’ results of operations and financial condition; |
| • | variance in our financial performance from the expectations of market analysts; |
| • | announcements by us or our competitors of significant business developments, changes in service provider relationships, acquisitions or expansion plans; |
| • | changes in the prices of our products and services; |
| • | our involvement in litigation; |
| • | our sale of shares or other securities in the future; |
| • | market conditions in our industry; |
| • | changes in key personnel; |
| • | the trading volume of our shares; and |
| • | general economic and market conditions. |
In addition, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations. Broad market and industry factors may materially harm the market price of our shares, regardless of our operating performance. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against that company. If we were involved in any similar litigation we could incur substantial costs and our management’s attention and resources could be diverted.
Future sales of our shares could reduce the market price of our shares.
Sales of our shares in the public market, particularly the shares held by S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. and its affiliates (currently all rights related to these shares are vested in a permanent receiver-for more information see section 16.3.3 below), could reduce the market price of our shares significantly. The perception in the public market that our shareholders might sell our shares could also depress the market price of our shares and could impair our future ability to obtain capital, especially through an offering of equity securities. The market price of our shares may drop significantly when the restrictions on resale by our existing shareholders lapse and these shareholders are able to sell our shares into the market. In addition, a sale by us of additional shares or similar securities in order to raise capital might have a similar negative impact on the share price of our shares. A decline in the price of our shares might impede our ability to raise capital through the issuance of additional shares or other equity securities, and may cause you to lose part or all of your investment in our shares.
We have broad discretion as to the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may not use them effectively.
Although we are planning on using the net proceeds resulting from this offering for general corporate purposes, including, among others, new investments, executing the Company’s growth strategies, competing in the upcoming MoC's frequencies tender and other possible investment opportunities, insofar as there may be, our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds. Our shareholders may not agree with the manner in which our management chooses to allocate the net proceeds from this offering. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Pending our use of the net proceeds from this offering, we may invest the proceeds in a manner that does not produce income. See “Use of Proceeds” below.
| 16.2.2 | Risks Relating to the Regulation of Our Industry |
The Ministry of Communications might require us to terminate the use of certain spectrum ranges which have been allocated to us, limit our use of such spectrum or fail to respond to our demands for the allocation of additional spectrum. Such eventualities may adversely affect our business and results of operations.
The Ministry of Communications ("MoC") might prevent us from using some of our existing spectrum, may limit our ability to use such spectrum (whether by demanding we share such use with others or placing other limits on such use) or may fail to respond to our demands for the allocation of additional spectrum or for the refarming of our existing spectrum (the conversion of existing frequencies to a different technology). Certain spectrum that have been temporarily allocated to us are part of the current frequency tender. See tender risk factor below. Such actions may interfere with our ability to effectively manage our licensed spectrum, reduce our ability to adequately provide services to our subscribers and place us at a competitive disadvantage. These possible eventualities may adversely affect our business and results of operations.
The conditions and method chosen to conduct the frequencies tender published by the MoC may prevent us from participating in the tender, lead to significant inflation in the final payments for the frequencies and affect the quality of the frequencies that we are awarded. Such eventualities may affect our ability to compete and adversely affect our business and results of operations
On July 15, 2019, the MoC published a tender for the award of frequencies, including frequencies intended for 5G services (the "Tender").
The Tender includes 2x30 MHz in the 700 MHz Band, 2x60 MHz in the 2,600MHz band and 300 MHz in the 3,500-3,800 MHz band. The frequencies in the 700 MHz band will be awarded for a period of 15 years and the rest of the frequencies offered in the Tender will be awarded for a period of 10 years.
The Tender committee has chosen to conduct the tender using the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) method. After reviewing the proposed method and based on expert advice, we believe that this method may lead to strategic bidding practices by some contenders which may lead to significant inflation in the final payments for the frequencies.
Mobile network operators ("MNOs") sharing a network are required to bid jointly in this Tender via a joint bid agreement which is to be pre-approved by the Tender committee. We are yet to agree with our network sharing partner (Hot Mobile) on a joint bid agreement. Failure to reach a joint bid agreement, or failing to secure regulatory approval for such agreement, may prevent us from participating in the frequency Tender, thereby adversely affecting our ability to compete.
The Tender includes limits on the amount of frequencies that a single network can be awarded in each band. We believe these limits have been set too high, thereby increasing the risk of excessive demand for the frequencies and inflating the final payments for such frequencies. Furthermore, since the Tender mechanism does not include a specific band allocation within each of the frequency ranges, even if we are awarded a specific band, we cannot guarantee full utilization of such band allocation if such an allocation is of an inferior quality. In the event that the spectrum allocated to us is insufficient to provide quality 4G and or 5G services, this could have a material adverse effect on our operations, profitability and capital expenses. In addition, our ability to migrate to next generation technologies would be harmed, which would place us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors.
According to the terms of the Tender, only existing MNOs will be allowed to compete for most of the frequencies tendered. Other contenders may compete with the existing MNOs for only 100 MHz in the 3,500-3,600 MHz band. Entry of new facilities-based operators into the cellular market may adversely affect our results of operations.
The Tender includes deployment-based incentives and reductions in spectral fees which also depend on the speed of deployment and adoption of new technologies.
However, the deployment and operation of new antennas require various consents and permits from all relevant authorities. If we encounter difficulties in obtaining such consents or permits, this may prevent us from meeting the deployment requirements set out in the Tender thereby reducing our chances of obtaining the substantial incentives included in the Tender.
The Company is studying the Tender documents while examining the feasibility of its participation in the Tender and cannot estimate, at this time, the implications of the Tender on the activities of the Company and its financial consequences.
Since we have yet to agree with our network sharing partner (Hot Mobile) on a joint bid agreement, and since we cannot anticipate what would be the minimum bids set by the Tender committee, nor what would be the results of the Tender, we cannot fully evaluate the implications of the Tender on our results of operations.
| 16.2.3 | Risks Relating to Our Business Operations |
Largely as a result of substantial and continuing changes in our regulatory and business environment, our operating results and profitability have decreased significantly in the past five year period, including a loss we recorded in 2015. For the nine month period ended September 30, 2019, we earned profits of NIS 12 million, a decrease of 68% compared with profit for the nine month period ended September 30, 2018. Under the assumption that existing trends and the current business environment continue, our operating results are likely to continue to decline in the future, which is likely to adversely affect our financial condition.
Our revenues for the nine month period ended September 30, 2019, were NIS 2,400 million, a decrease of 2% from NIS 2,445 million for the nine month period ended September 30, 2018. The Company recorded a profit for the nine month period ended September 30, 2019 of NIS 12 million, compared with a profit for the nine month period ended September 30, 2018 of NIS 37 million. The principal factor leading to the overall decline in operating results over the past several years has been the intense competition resulting largely from regulatory developments intended to enhance competition in the Israeli communications market. These developments have caused, over the past several years, (i) significant price erosion in cellular services due to heightened competition from new entrants in the Israeli cellular market, (ii) a decrease in our cellular subscriber base and market share, and (iii) a decrease in gross profits from equipment sales.
Under the assumption that existing trends and the current business environment continue, these factors are likely to continue to negatively impact our business in the future. As a result, our financial condition is likely to be adversely affected, thereby increasing the risk of a substantial impairment in the value of our telecommunications assets. See also Item 5D.2 Outlook in the 2018 20-F.
Our level of indebtedness could adversely affect our business, profits and liquidity. Furthermore, difficulties in generating sustainable cash flow may impair our ability to repay our debt and reduce the level of indebtedness.
As of September 30, 2019, total borrowings and notes payables amounted to NIS 1,586 million, compared to NIS 1,366 million as of December 31, 2018. In addition, options to issue series G notes are financial liability at fair value of NIS 37 million as of September 30, 2019. See also Item 5B.4 Total net financial debt in the 2018 20-F. The terms of the Company’s borrowings and notes payable require the Company to comply with financial covenants and other stipulations for existing borrowings. The existing borrowing agreements allow the lenders to demand an immediate repayment of the borrowings in certain events (events of default), including, among others, a material adverse change in the Company’s business and non-compliance with the financial covenants set in those agreements. These events of default include non-compliance with the financial covenants, as well as other customary terms. See Item 5B.2 Long-Term Borrowings in the 2018 20-F.
In addition, our need for cash to service our substantial existing debt may in the future restrict our ability to continue offering long-term installment plans to promote sales of equipment. As a result, our ability to continue benefiting from one of the current contributors to total Company profits may be limited. (See also Item 5 -Operating and financial review and prospects and specifically Item 5D.2 Outlook in the 2018 20-F);
Our indebtedness could also adversely affect our financial condition and profitability by, among other things:
| • | requiring us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to service our debt, thereby reducing the funds available for financing ongoing operating expenses and future business development; |
| • | limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our industry and business as well as in the economy generally; |
| • | increasing the likelihood of a downgrade in the rating of our notes by the rating company; |
| • | increasing the risk of a substantial impairment in the value of our telecommunications assets; and |
| • | limiting our ability to obtain the additional financing we may need to serve our debt, operate, develop and expand our business on acceptable terms or at all. |
If our financial condition is affected to such an extent that our future cash flows are not sufficient to allow us to pay principal and interest on our debt, we might not be able to satisfy our financial and other covenants, and may be required to refinance all or part of our existing debt, use existing cash balances or issue additional equity or other securities. We cannot be sure that we will be able to do so on commercially reasonable terms, if at all.
| 16.3.1 | Inter-Ministerial recommendations on Bezeq’s FTTH/B Universal Service obligations |
On November 5, 2019, an Inter-Ministerial team (with representatives from the MoC, Ministry of Finance and the Competition Authority) published a hearing regarding the universal service obligations applicable to Bezeq with regards to Fiber Optic infrastructure (FTTH/B) deployment. The recommendations of the Inter-Ministerial team included the following:
Bezeq will be allowed to decide for itself in which areas it will roll out its fiber-optic network. Within such areas, Bezeq will be required to connect 100% of households to its fiber-optic network within five years;
In the areas where Bezeq decides not to lay a fiber-optic network, another operator will be chosen (by a reverse tender process) to deploy a fiber-optic network to all households in the area. Such operator will receive an incentive for such deployment from a universal service fund and will enjoy exclusivity in deploying a fiber optic network in this area (but will be obliged to provide other operators with a wholesale Bit Stream Access (BSA) service provided over their its optic network);
The universal service fund incentive plan will be financed by a tax on all telecommunications licensees (including Bezeq and Partner) whose annual revenues exceed NIS 10 million, beginning in the year 2022. The tax rate will be set at 0.5% of all annual income. We strongly oppose such a tax on income and have argued for alternative sources of finance, and at the least, a tax on profits instead of income. If our position on this issue will be rejected, this may adversely affect our results of operations;
In the areas where Bezeq decides not to lay a fiber-optic network, it (and its subsidiaries) will not be allowed to deploy a fiber-optic network for 3 years from the date of completion of each area tender. However, Bezeq may expand its deployment obligation by up to 10% to areas that have not been auctioned.
Hot Telecom's universal fiber-optic deployment obligations are still under consideration by the Inter-Ministerial team.
| 16.3.2 | MOC's consultations regarding its overall fiber optic strategy |
Further to the description in Item 4B.12e-iii of the 2018 20-F regarding Policy principles for the deployment of fiber-optic infrastructure in Israel ("Call for Public Comments Document"), on July 24, 2019, the MoC published two hearings (1) a hearing with respect to setting a maximum tariff for ultra-broadband access managed over the Bezeq fiber optic network and (2) a hearing with respect to changing the "reverse bundle" marketing format by Bezeq. On August 4, 2019, the MoC published an additional hearing regarding the determination of a uniform tariff for fiber-optic based internet access services.
Based on the content of these hearings (the "Hearings"), the Hearings form part of the overall fiber optic strategy which the MoC is formulating these days. The main provisions proposed in the Hearings are as follows:
A recommendation regarding the maximum tariff that Bezeq will be allowed to charge for ultra-broadband access managed over its fiber optic network - as proposed in the hearing, for a line with a speed of up to 400 Mbps the proposed maximum tariff will be NIS 71 per month (excluding VAT) and for a line with a speed of up to 1,000 Mbps the suggested maximum tariff will be NIS 85 per month (excluding VAT). The proposed rates include installation and fault repairs. These wholesale prices are not based on Bezeq's costs but rather on a benchmark of existing retail prices for fiber optic access services in Israel. Since such retail prices include various inputs which are not to be provided by Bezeq (such as customer service, user end equipment etc.) we believe that the suggested wholesale tariffs has been set too high and should be lowered considerably. As stated in the Hearing documents, the suggested maximum tariff is temporary and the MoC intends to complete a process for setting fixed tariffs for these services in accordance with the principles set out in this regard in the Call for Public Comments Document.
A recommendation regarding change in Bezeq's "reverse bundle" marketing format - as proposed in the hearing, the MoC is considering changing the format that was presented in the hearing regarding the reverse bundle in March 2019, and determining that Bezeq will not be obligated to market in its "reverse bundle" service providers which have accumulated 100,000 or more wholesale Bit Stream Access ("BSA") customers, or more, on the Bezeq network and have access to 100,000 households, or more, with their independent fiber optic infrastructure using Bezeq's physical infrastructure. All existing "reverse bundle" subscribers on the date this format becomes effective, will continue with the same package and with the same service provider (even those who are not obliged to be marketed as stated above). It is proposed that this format will become effective after the launch of Bezeq's fiber project and with at least two months' prior notice to the service providers, and given the reasonable possibility of purchasing BSA service over the fiber network. We believe that there is no justification for these recommendations and have filed our detailed position on this matter with the MoC. If the MoC goes forward with its recommendations as proposed, this may negatively affect our results of operations.
A recommendation regarding setting a uniform tariff for fiber-optic internet services - as proposed at the hearing, the infrastructure owners (Bezeq and Hot Telecom) and the service providers will be required to set a uniform price (throughout the country) for each fiber-based service (FTTP), whether it is a service provided on the network belonging to said licensee or whether it is provided through another licensee's network. Such discrimination in fiber service prices would be prohibited, whether by providing different tariffs or by providing value. Since a uniform pricing would preclude us from charging higher retail prices for services which have higher costs. This limited flexibility would also make it easier for the infrastructure owners (Bezeq and Hot Telecom) to squeeze the margins of our retail services since they have costs which are lower than the wholesale price. Such margin squeeze may limit our ability to compete and can adversely affect our results of operations.
| 16.3.3 | Event of Default and appointment of permanent receiver of the Company's shares of S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. and its affiliates |
The ordinary shares of the Company held by S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. had been pledged to Advent Investments Pte. Ltd. under the Loan Documents (the “Pledged Shares”). On November 8, 2019, S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. delivered an Event of Default Notice (the “Default Notice”) pursuant to Section 4(g)(i) of the Amended and Restated Terms and Conditions dated January 29, 2013 (the “Note Terms”) that it did not expect to have the ability to repay the debt on the final maturity date, January 29, 2020. Accordingly, S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. acknowledged that the Default Notice constituted an Event of Default pursuant to Section 9(c)(i) of the Note Terms and notified The Ministry of Communications of Israel that such Default Notice could result in the filing of an application to appoint a receiver over the Pledged Shares (in light of the occurrence of an Event of Default).
On November 12, 2019, the District Court of Tel Aviv appointed Advocate Ehud Sol as a permanent receiver in relation to the Pledged Shares and issued an order vesting with the permanent receiver all rights related to the Pledged Shares, including the right to participate in the Company's shareholders’ meetings, the right to vote on the Pledged Shares, the right to receive dividends, and any contractual right related to the Pledged Shares (the “Receiver Appointment”). Upon the Receiver Appointment, and according to S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. Schedule 13D/A filed on November 12, 2019, as of that date, S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. and its affiliates ceased to beneficially own any ordinary shares of the Company, which rights are vested in the permanent receiver.
Further, as a result of the Receiver Appointment, on November 17, 2019, the Company received resignation notices from Mr. Adam Chesnoff (who served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company) and Mr. Elon Shalev, Mr. Sumeet Jaisinghani, Mr. Arie Saban, Mr. Yoav Rubinstein, Mr. Barak Pridor and Mr. Tomer Bar-Zeev (who served as members of the Board of Directors of the Company).
On November 21, 2019, the Company appointed Ms. Osnat Ronen as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company.
On December 9, 2019, the Ministry of Communications granted, within its powers, a permit to the permanent receiver to exercise means of control of the Company by himself ("the Permit"). The Permit clarifies that its provision does not derogate from the permanent receiver's obligation to receive approval to perform an action which requires approval under the Company's licenses or under any law.
| 16.4 | Capitalization and Indebtedness |
The following tables set forth our capitalization and indebtedness (i) as of September 30, 2019 and (ii) as adjusted to reflect subsequent transaction in principal of debts through December 21, 2019 and the sale of shares offered hereby. The information in this table should be read in conjunction with and is qualified by reference to the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and other financial information incorporated by reference into this shelf offering report.
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| | Actual (As of September 30, 2019) | | | Notes Series G issued November 2019 due to options exercised | | | Notes Series F issued November 2019 | | | Bank loans repayments
December 2019 | | | Notes series D repayments
December 2019 | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Short term deposit | | | 156 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 156 | |
Debt | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Notes payable series D, less deferred costs, including current maturities | | | 327 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (109 | ) | | | | | | | 218 | |
Notes payable series F, less deferred costs, including current maturities | | | 796 | | | | | | | | 230 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1,026 | |
Notes payable series G, less deferred costs, including current maturities | | | 260 | | | | 86 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 346 | |
Borrowings from banks | | | 203 | | | | | | | | | | | | (13 | ) | | | | | | | | | | | 190 | |
Financial liability at fair value | | | 37 | | | | (10 | ) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 27 | |
Total debt | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Share Capital | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | |
Capital surplus | | | 1,077 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 294 | | | | 1,371 | |
Accumulated retained earnings | | | 567 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 567 | |
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The net proceeds from the offering, after deduction of the arranger’s fees and other expenses and commissions of the offering, will be approximately NIS 282.6 million and net proceeds of NIS 10.9 million from the private issuance to Poalim I.B.I. together NIS 293.5 million.
We intend to use the net proceeds from the offering for for general corporate purposes, including, among others, new investments, executing the Company's growth strategies, competing in the upcoming MoC's frequencies tender and other possible investment opportunities, insofar as there may.
| 16.6 | Expenses of the Offering |
The aggregate amount that we will pay for arrangement fees and our other commissions and expenses in connection with this offering is approximately NIS 10 million excluding the private issuance to Poalim IBI.
| 16.7 | Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference |
We are allowed to incorporate by reference into this shelf offering report the information that we file with the SEC and the ISA, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring to those filings. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this offering report. We are incorporating by reference in this shelf offering report the documents listed below, the documents listed in Section 3.14 of the Shelf Prospectus and any future filings we may make with the SEC and ISA on Form 20-F or on Form 6-K (to the extent that such Form 6-K indicates that it is intended to be incorporated by reference herein) prior to the termination of this offering:
| • | Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the SEC and the ISA on March 27, 2019; |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC on March 27, 2019 (relating to fourth quarter and annual 2018 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on April 2, 2019 (relating to the interest rate for the series D notes); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on April 17, 2019 (relating to a private issuance in Israel of untradeable option warrants exercisable for the Company's debentures (Series G)); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on May 1, 2019 (relating to a supplementary report regarding a private issuance in Israel of untradeable option warrants exercisable for the Company's debentures (Series G)); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on May 6, 2019 (relating to the Company receiving a lawsuit and a motion for the recognition of this lawsuit as a class action); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on May 12, 2019 and with the SEC on May 13, 2019 (relating to Company’s announcement of the release of first quarter 2019 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on May 30, 2019 (relating to the Company’s first quarter 2019 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on July 1, 2019 (relating to the issuance of company debentures (Series G) following exercise of option warrants (Series A)); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on July 2, 2019 (relating to the interest rate for the series D notes); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on July 17, 2019 (relating to a frequency tender published by the Ministry of Communications); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on August 5, 2019 (relating to S&P rating); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with SEC and with the ISA on August 7, 2019 (relating to Company’s announcement of the release of second quarter 2019 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on August 27, 2019 (relating to the Company’s second quarter 2019 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on August 28, 2019 (relating to materials for the annual general meeting of shareholders); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on October 3, 2019 (relating to the interest rate for the series D notes); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on October 29, 2019 (relating to results of the annual general meeting of shareholders); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with SEC and with the ISA on November 6, 2019 (relating to Company’s announcement of the release of third quarter 2019 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on November 10, 2019 and with the SEC on November 12, 2019 (relating to a Schedule 13D report filed by S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd.); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on November 13, 2019 (relating to a the appointment of a permanent receiver of the Company's shares held by S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd. and the Schedule 13D report filed by S.B. Israel Telecom Ltd.); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on November 17, 2019 and with the SEC on November 18, 2019 (relating to changes to the Company's Board of Directors); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on November 17, 2019 and with the SEC on November 18, 2019 (relating to further changes to the Company's Board of Directors); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on November 21, 2019 (relating to the appointment of Ms. Osnat Ronen as the chairman of the Board of Directors); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on November 24, 2019 and with the SEC on November 25, 2019 (relating to the Company receiving a lawsuit and a motion for recognition of the lawsuit as a class action); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on November 24, 2019 and with the SEC on November 25, 2019 (relating to S&P rating); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on November 26, 2019 (relating to the Company’s third quarter 2019 results); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on November 28, 2019 and with the SEC on November 29, 2019 (relating to the issuance of Company debentures (Series G) following exercise of option warrants (Series A)); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the ISA on December 1, 2019 and with the SEC on December 2, 2019 (relating to the announcement of a uniform weighted discount rate for Series F debentures); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on December 10, 2019 (relating to the Ministry of Communications' grant of a permit to exercise means of control of the Company to Adv. Ehud Sol by himself); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on December 31, 2019 (relating to a possible share offering in Israel); |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on January 2, 2020 (relating to interest rate for the Series D notes for the period commencing on December 31, 2019 and ending on March 30, 2020); and |
| • | Form 6-K filed with the SEC and with the ISA on January 3, 2020 (relating to the tender results for Classified Investors). |
As you read the above documents, you may find inconsistencies in information from one document to another. If you find inconsistencies between the documents and this shelf offering report, you should rely on the statements made in the most recent document.
We will provide to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom this shelf offering report is delivered, a copy of these filings, at no cost, upon written or oral request to us at: 8 Amal Street, Afek Industrial Park, Rosh Ha’ayin 48103, Israel, Attn.: Corporate Secretary, telephone number: 972-54-7814-888. Copies of these filings may also be accessed on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, the ISA’s website at www.magna.isa.gov.il and our website at www.partner.co.il. Except for such filings, information contained on such websites is not part of this shelf offering report.
Certain legal matters with respect to the offering of the Shares are being passed upon for us by Agmon & Co., Rosenberg, Hacohen & Co. of Tel Aviv, Israel and by Shearman & Sterling (London) LLP of London, United Kingdom.
The Company received the following opinion:
January 5, 2020
Partner Communications Company Ltd.
8 Amal Street
Afek Industrial Park
Rosh Ha-Ayin
Dear Mr./Ms.,
Re: Partner Communications Company Ltd. (hereinafter: “the Company”) –
Shelf Offering Memorandum of January 6, 2020
(hereinafter: “the Shelf Offering Memorandum”)
With reference to the Company’s Shelf Prospectus dated June 13, 2018 (hereinafter: “the Shelf Prospectus”) and to the Shelf Offering Memorandum that is being published by virtue thereof, we hereby issue our opinion as follows:
1. | In our opinion, the rights attached to the securities being offered pursuant to the Shelf Offering Memorandum have been correctly described in the Shelf Offering Memorandum. |
2. | In our opinion, the Company has the authority to issue the Securities being offered in the Shelf Offering Memorandum in the manner described in the Shelf Offering Memorandum. |
3. | In our opinion, the Company’s directors have been duly appointed and their names are included in the Shelf Offering Memorandum. |
We hereby agree to the inclusion of this opinion in the Shelf Offering Memorandum.
Sincerely,
Amir Goddard, Adv. Matan Daskal, Adv.
Agmon & Co. Rosenberg Hacohen & Co.
18. | Letter of consent of the Company’s independent auditor |
January 5, 2020
The Board of Directors of Partner Communications Ltd.
Dear Mr./Ms.,
We are agreeing to the inclusion, by way of referral, in the Shelf Offering Memorandum (hereinafter – “the Offering Memorandum”) of Partner Communications Company Ltd. (hereinafter – “the Company”), of the auditors’ opinion that we signed on March 26, 2019, which relates to the Company’s consolidated financial statements and to the effectiveness of internal control components on the Company’s financial reporting as on December 31, 2018, which were submitted by the Company to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and to the Israel Securities Authority within the scope of the 20-F Report for 2018, on March 27, 2019, as well as to the inclusion of our name under the title “experts” in the Offering Memorandum, as the term “expert” is defined in the Securities Act of 1933.
This letter is being issued at the request of the Company and is designated solely for inclusion in the Company’s Offering Memorandum, which is planned to be published in January 2020. Furthermore, since the securities being offered within the scope of the Offering Memorandum were not and shall not be listed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, we did not submit this letter of consent under the Securities Act of 1933.
Sincerely,
Kesselman & Kesselman
Accountants
PwC Israel
Kesselman & Kesselman, Trade Tower, 25 Hamered Street, Tel-Aviv 6812508, Israel, POB 50005, Tel-Aviv 6150001
Telephone: +972-3-7954555, fax: +972-3-7954556, www.pwc.com/il
Kesselman & Kesselman is a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each member firm of which is a separate legal entity
Signatures
The Company: | |
| Partner Communications Company Ltd. |
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The Directors: | |
| Osnat Ronen |
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| Barry Ben-Zeev |
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| Richard Hunter |
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| Jonathan Kolodny |
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| Yossi Shachak |
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| Arie (Arik) Steinberg |
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| Ori Yaron |
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| Yehuda Saban |
Annexes
Annex A- Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Approval
Annex B- Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Information at September 30, 2019
Annex A- Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Approval
January 5, 2020
359969
Partner Communications Company Ltd.
POB 435
Rosh Ha’Ayin 481032
Dear Mr./Ms.,
Re: Approval to list securities for trading on the TASE pursuant to a shelf offering memorandum
1. | Further to our approval in principle of 4.6.18, reference no. 325708, approval is hereby issued for the listing for trading of up to NIS 19,500,000 shares of par value NIS 0.01, being issued to the public. |
2. | The validity of this approval is contingent upon the shares being listed for trading within 60 days of 5.1.20. |
3. | This approval is being issued based on the shelf prospectus of 13.6.18, on the opinion of the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP of 5.1.20, on the draft shelf offering memorandum of 31.12.19 and the correction sheets up until 5.1.2020, which you furnished to us. This approval is subject to the requisite approvals pursuant to any law, subject to the payment of the TASE listing fee and subject to the fulfillment of all of the other conditions specified in the TASE regulations. |
4. | This approval of the TASE should not be deemed confirmation of the details presented in the shelf offering memorandum or of their reliability or completeness, nor should it be deemed as expressing any opinion about the company or about the quality of the securities being offered in the shelf offering memorandum or about the price at which they are being offered. |
5. | The shares being offered to the public must be registered in the company's shareholder registry in the name of the nominee's company. |
| a. | mark any changes between the draft shelf offering memorandum that you issued to us and the final shelf offering memorandum; |
| b. | submit for our approval any amendment that you make to the shelf offering memorandum; |
| c. | upon allotment of the shares, please contact us for the purpose of listing them for trading on the TASE. |
7. | We call your attention to the attached letter. When completing the report form to “Magna” through which you are publishing the shelf offering memorandum, please complete the sheet accompanying the form (xml sheet) and include the tender number as specified hereunder: |
| Identification name | Tender identification number |
Tender for shares | Partner Tender 2 | 1151760 |
Sincerely,
The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Current Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.