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A copy of a letter sent by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft to certain of its employees is attached hereto.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION:
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Mentor Graphics Corporation has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a Current Report on Form 8-K, which contains, among other things, a copy of the merger agreement. In connection with the proposed merger, Mentor Graphics Corporation will prepare a proxy statement to be filed with the SEC that will provide additional important information concerning the proposed merger. When completed, a definitive proxy statement will be mailed to the stockholders of Mentor Graphics Corporation. Mentor Graphics Corporation and its respective directors, officers and employees and Siemens and its managing board, officers and employees may be deemed, under SEC rules, to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Mentor Graphics Corporation stockholders in connection with the proposed merger. Mentor Graphics Corporation stockholders may obtain more detailed information regarding such persons by reading the proxy statement and other relevant materials filed with the SEC and, with respect to Siemens, certain relevant materials prepared in accordance with the German Commercial Code. MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION STOCKHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, INCLUDING MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION’S PROXY STATEMENT, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. Mentor Graphics Corporation’s stockholders will be able to obtain, without charge, a copy of the proxy statement (when available) and other relevant documents filed with the SEC from the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Mentor Graphics Corporation’s stockholders will also be able to obtain, without charge, a copy of the proxy statement and other documents relating to the proposed merger (when available) at www.mentor.com.
Dear employees,
SiemenstoexpanditsdigitalindustrialleadershipwithacquisitionofMentorGraphics
Letter from Klaus Helmrich and Jan Mrosik
November 14, 2016
We would like to inform you today about our intention to acquire the industrial software provider Mentor Graphics, headquartered in Wilsonville,U.S. Mentor Graphics is a pioneer and leader in design automation software ranging from Integrated Circuit (IC) and System-on-Chip (SoC) design to automotive electronics solutions. Mentor’s products greatly complement our existing offering in mechanics and software – thus further strengthening our leading Digital Enterprise portfolio.
What is the background of this transaction? Highly complex electrical and electronic systems are a core element of countless connected smart products and machines today – from mobile phones to wearables to vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems to aircraft. Mentor Graphics provides a broad set of solutions to efficiently create and optimize hardware components like chips, boards and wiring in a completely virtual environment. The company’s productsalsoenabletheagiledesignofsoftwarecomponentslikeembeddedoperatingsystems, applications and drivers that control the related products’ operation.
Adding Mentor’s technologies to our leading portfolio of Product Lifecycle Management technologies brings together for the first time mechanical, thermal, electrical, electronic and embedded software design capabilities on our single integrated collaboration platform Teamcenter. This will further extend our unique ability to create a precise digital twin of any smart product, smart machine and production line. Customers will benefit from increased quality, efficiency, flexibility, safety and higher speed across technical domains and throughout a product’s entire lifecycle.
In the future, customers can design and optimize a product’s structure and mechanics closely together with its electric and electronic heart, using sophisticated and integrated technologies from one hand. They can simulate the product’s behavior under specific conditions like heat or vibrations, as well as the entire production process. This dramatically accelerates innovation cycles, drives production efficiency and optimizes the operation of products in the field.
Mentor Graphics has 5,700 employees 32 countries worldwide and will be integrated into our Product Lifecycle Management (DF PL) software business. Mentor serves a large, diverse customer base of marquee systems companies and IC/semiconductors companies with over 14,000 global accounts across communications, computer, consumer electronics, semiconductor, networking, aerospace, multimedia, and transportation industries. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected in the second quarter of calendar year 2017.
The acquisition of Mentor Graphics will further strengthen our position as the leading company in industrial automation and digitalization. Overall, it will greatly contribute to the success of our corporate Siemens Vision 2020.
Additional information about the acquisition is available in the SiemensWorld. We will, of course, keep you updated about the further progress of this transaction.
With best regards,
Klaus Helmrich
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Gerhard Cromme; Managing Board: Joe Kaeser,Chairman,Presidentand ChiefExecutiveOfficer;Roland Busch,Lisa Davis,KlausHelmrich, Janina Kugel, Siegfried Russwurm, Ralf P. Thomas; Registered offices: Berlin and Munich, Germany; Commercial registries: Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 12300, Munich, HRB 6684; WEEE-Reg.-No. DE 23691322
Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG
Siemens AG
Jan Mrosik
Communications
CEO Digital Factory Division
df.cg@siemens.com