EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
This Amendment No. 29 to Schedule 13D (“Amendment No. 29”) relates to Common Shares, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Shares”) of Atlas Corp., a corporation organized and existing under the Republic of the Marshall Islands (“Atlas” or the “Issuer”), formerly, Seaspan Corporation. This Amendment No. 29 is being filed on behalf of the following persons (collectively, the “Reporting Persons”): Deep Water Holdings, LLC (“Deep Water”), Washington Investments, LLC, The Roy Dennis Washington Trust (the “Dennis Washington Trust”), Mr. Dennis R. Washington, the Kyle Roy Washington 2014 Trust (the “Kyle Washington 2014 Trust”), the Kyle Roy Washington 2005 Irrevocable Trust created under agreement dated July 15, 2005, including all subsequent amendments, modifications and restatements (the “Kyle Washington 2005 Trust”), the Kevin Lee Washington 2014 Trust (the “Kevin Washington 2014 Trust”), and Copper Lion, Inc.
This Amendment No. 29 amends and supplements the Schedule 13D previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2009, as amended on May 15, 2009 and as subsequently amended on May 27, 2009, August 20, 2009, August 31, 2009, September 11, 2009, October 6, 2009, May 28, 2010, June 23, 2010, March 18, 2011, April 19, 2011, December 13, 2011, January 31, 2012, March 13, 2012, March 28, 2012, August 2, 2012, August 23, 2012, January 8, 2013, February 7, 2014, November 12, 2014, January 13, 2015, February 22, 2016, May 19, 2016, May 27, 2016, April 10, 2017, August 10, 2017, March 20, 2018, August 23, 2021 and September 22, 2021 (the “Schedule 13D”).
Unless otherwise noted, capitalized terms used herein without definitions shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Schedule 13D. Except as specifically set forth in this Amendment No. 29, the Schedule 13D remains unmodified.
Item 3. | Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration |
Not Applicable
Item 4. | Purpose of Transaction |
Item 4 of this Schedule 13D is hereby amended and supplemented by adding the following text to the end of Item 4.
On August 4, 2022, Poseidon Acquisition Corp., an Marshall Islands entity (“Bidco”) formed by David L. Sokol (“DS”), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atlas, together with Deep Water, The Kyle Roy Washington 2014 Trust, Kyle Roy Washington 2005 Trust, and The Kevin Lee Washington 2014 Trust (collectively with Deep Water, “Washington Family Holdings”), certain affiliates of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (“Fairfax”) and Ocean Network Express Pte. (“ONE”) and certain of their respective affiliates (the “Consortium”), delivered a non-binding proposal (the “Proposal”) to the Board of Directors of Atlas (the “Board”) in respect of a potential offer by the Consortium to acquire all of the outstanding Common Shares of Atlas not presently owned by the Reporting Persons, Fairfax, DS and certain executive management at a price per Common Share equal to $14.45 (the “Proposed Transaction”). The Consortium also issued a press release publicly disclosing the Proposal. The Consortium has not proposed any specific structure for the Proposed Transaction nor has it received any feedback from Atlas.
The Proposal is non-binding in nature and does not obligate in any way the Consortium, the members thereof, or Atlas to negotiate or enter into definitive documentation with respect to a transaction or otherwise complete the Proposed Transaction. The Proposal states that the members of the Consortium are only interested in acquiring the outstanding Common Shares that they do not already own, and are not interested in selling their Common Shares to another party. In addition, the Consortium has stated that any transaction, once structured and agreed upon, would be conditioned upon, among other things, the (x) approval of the transaction by a properly constituted special committee of independent directors of Atlas, authorized and empowered to retain its own independent legal and financial advisors and (y) approval of the holders of a majority of the Common Shares not held by members of the Consortium or their affiliates. As the Reporting Persons, DS, and Fairfax hold on an aggregated basis own or control approximately 68% of the Common Shares on a fully-diluted basis, the Proposal would not result in a change of control of Atlas.
The foregoing description of the Proposal does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Proposal, which is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference. The press release issued by the Consortium publicly disclosing the Proposal is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.2.
The disclosure in Item 6 regarding the Joint Bidding Agreement (as defined below) and Equity Commitment Letters (as defined below) is incorporated by reference herein.